Re: [gentoo-user] playing mms with totem
can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both do.
On Tue, September 4, 2007 2:43 am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
When I fed mit-arvind-tribute-dennis-220k.asx to totem, a popup
appeared saying
No URI handler implemented for mms
Is there a plugin I need or an extra use flag?
thanks,
allan
ajglap gottlieb # eix totem
[I] media-video/totem
Available versions: 2.16.5 2.18.2 2.18.3 {a52 dbus debug dvd ffmpeg
firefox flac gnome hal lirc mad mpeg nsplugin nvtv ogg seamonkey
theora vorbis xine xulrunner xv}
Installed versions: 2.18.3(07:45:14 08/30/07)(-a52 -debug dvd
-ffmpeg -flac gnome -hal -lirc -mad -mpeg nsplugin -nvtv ogg
-seamonkey -theora vorbis -xulrunner -xv)
Homepage:http://gnome.org/projects/totem/
Description: Media player for GNOME
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[gentoo-user] Can't compile eix
I have a much abused gentoo system on which I was trying to update eix. I get quite a few errors and i am not sure how far back up the output to go. Heres the last bits anyway. Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix that? ../../src/search/redundancy.h:37: error: syntax error before `,' token ../../src/search/redundancy.h:43: error: declaration does not declare anything ../../src/search/redundancy.h:50: error: missing ';' before right brace ../../src/search/redundancy.h:34: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ` RedAtom' with no type In file included from ../../src/global.h:32, from utils.cc:33: ../../src/eixrc/eixrc.h:70: error: no type `Redundant' in `Keywords' ../../src/eixrc/eixrc.h:70: error: syntax error before `,' token ../../src/eixrc/eixrc.h:80: error: no type `Redundant' in `Keywords' ../../src/eixrc/eixrc.h:80: error: syntax error before `,' token In file included from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/ios:48, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/ostream:45, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/iostream:45, from ../../src/eixTk/exceptions.h:31, from utils.cc:35: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:58: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:62: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:66: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:70: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:74: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:78: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:82: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:86: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:90: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:94: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:98: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:102: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:106: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:112: error: ` ctype' is not a template /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:114: error: ` ctype' is not a template /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:124: error: ` codecvt' is not a template /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:126: error: ` codecvt' is not a template /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:132: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:134: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:147: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:149: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:151: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:153: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:158: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:160: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:176: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:176: error: too many template parameter lists in declaration of `const _Facet std::use_facet(...)' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:180: error: syntax error before `' token /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/localefwd.h:180: error: too many template parameter lists in declaration of `bool std::has_facet(...)' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include/g++-v3/bits/locale_classes.h:51: confused by earlier errors, bailing out make[3]: *** [utils.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs mv -f .deps/levenshtein.Tpo
Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?
On Mon, April 16, 2007 11:48 pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: To install gentoo, the minimum you require is a running kernel, a network connection and a shell session. From there you chroot into the directory that is going to become your /, unpack a portage tree and binaries copies of some important apps, then emerge the rest. You don't have to use a gentoo CD for that, I've done it from a Red Hat rescue disk, a Knoppix disk and from a working Mandrake install. The gentoo CD does make life easier though if you run into trouble, as everything you will need will be on the disk and you don't have to hunt for stuff. You do need a working chroot, which can be a problem on some rescue floppies (if you are reduced to floppies). -- Nick Rout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] avidemux?
I have installed the berkano overlay and now have avidemux installed and appearing to work. of course as an svn ebuild, tomorrow's version may not work at all. On Thu, April 5, 2007 1:42 pm, Nick Rout wrote: w avidemux svn, I'll try that tonight and see what happens. In fact I could log in from work I suppose, will report back later ;-) On Thu, April 5, 2007 10:15 am, Robert Walter wrote: hi try http://berkano.net/bits/2006/09/20/gentoo-overlay best regards robert On Wednesday 04 April 2007 21:55, Nick Rout wrote: Can anyone point me to an overlay or other reliable source of an ebuild for avidemux that isn't hard masked and that just works? -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] avidemux?
Can anyone point me to an overlay or other reliable source of an ebuild for avidemux that isn't hard masked and that just works? -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] avidemux?
w avidemux svn, I'll try that tonight and see what happens. In fact I could log in from work I suppose, will report back later ;-) On Thu, April 5, 2007 10:15 am, Robert Walter wrote: hi try http://berkano.net/bits/2006/09/20/gentoo-overlay best regards robert On Wednesday 04 April 2007 21:55, Nick Rout wrote: Can anyone point me to an overlay or other reliable source of an ebuild for avidemux that isn't hard masked and that just works? -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples and/or a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the Gentoo team can only do so much and carefully test each package before putting it in the official tree. There are just some pieces of software that I want that are not even in the testing tree. The devmanual is a good place to start. If you use IRC then #gentoo-dev-help at freenode is a good place to get more help... Also, search Bugzilla and the forums, someone may have already created ebuilds for these programs. Also look at ebuilds for similar programs. Write an ebuild, its not that difficult in a simple case. With an ebuild, it is much easier to uninstall and upgrade packages. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} courier-imap folders
Grant wrote: Can anyone tell me what these folders are for in my .maildir folder? courierimapuiddb courierimapsubscribed courierimapkeywords courierimaphieracl I'm wondering if they're for the courier webmail client I'm not using. - Grant They are used internally by your courier imap server -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd and routes
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:20, Dave Oxley wrote:
I have a Gentoo server that is running Cisco VPN software to connect to
my companies VPN. I have setup the server as a NAT for the specific
subnet required for the VPN and the rest of my traffic goes through my
router (192.168.1.1). I currently have to manually run the following
command to setup the route:
route add -net 10.4.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.200
On my Gentoo server I run dhcpd to allocate IP addresses for machines on
my LAN. The current configuration is:
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.199;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
}
So the question is how can I setup dhcpd to automatically setup the
route command for all clients using the dhcpd?
Cheers,
Dave.
You are suggesting that each client needs the route command. Not so, set it on
the gateway. that way each client accessing the VPN will be routed via the
gateway back to 192.168.1.200 and thnce to the VPN.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:27:28 -0500 Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3 kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system damage. (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006 if you're curious about gory details). What I was wondering was whether a similar misfortune has befallen gentoo's 2.6.18 kernel, or whether gentoo's kernel developers have just left the 2.6.19 patches in 2.6.19. Maybe I'm being silly asking about this, but I have become paranoid about severe file system damage. -- hendrik there are a number of kernels you can install in gentoo - see inside the directory /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You can also see what patches have been applied by looking at the ebuilds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and deny clients
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:39:14 +0800 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a gentoo server and a laptop both running dhcp (server) at home. the server serves clients at home. the laptop, serves client at NON-home places. when I plug my laptop into the home, clients will get to my laptop's dhcp server instead of the home server's dhcp. is there a directive which can be used such that I can deny a (specific) list of mac addresses from requesting addresses?? 2 options afaict: 1. have 2 different runlevels, one starts the server, the other doesn't. Boot the relevant one in each situation. Or if you don't reboot, simply change runlevels as you go in and out of the house. 2. Get one of those nifty programs that discovers what network you are attached to and configures your laptop accordingly. I cannot remember what any of them are called sorry. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding my modem
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:18:24 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody give me any advice as to setting this up? I went to http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Modem-HOWTO/#s2 and have been trying to follow it, but it's not going well. I downloaded the scanModem script, and it's created several files, but it keeps griping because I don't have the snd-intel8x0m module... What DID the file called modemData.txt produced by scanModem actually say? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] turning off irrelevant mplayer error
What output device is gmplayer set to use? Try explicitly setting it to alsa. for the command line look at /etc/mplayer.conf (system wide) or per user ~/.mplayer/config I think those setting also affect gmplayer, alsthough gmplayer also has a place to set such things within its gui - which may possibly be stored in ~/.mplayer/gui.conf I think if its not set to anything it may try all of its output drivers. Cheers. On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:04:42 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, When I try to use gmplayer to play audio I get this ugly error message on my desktop: [A0 0SS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Doesn't stop gmplayer from working. It uses alsa OK. Got this on the command line too but it wasn't so in your face. Anybody know how to stop it? Using 'artsdsp' keeps audacity from complaining but it doesn't seem to work in this instance. -Maxim Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Media Player
xine-ui is good at playing dvd's, complete with the full menu experience. Make sure you enable a number of use flags for xine-lib, including a52,dvd,xv. On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 12:59:07 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Im relatively new to the whole gentoo system but im looking for a basic easy to use dvd player program something that isn't too touchy basically. Any reccomendations or opinions on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Kelly Stewart Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] imaginary nvidia-glx blocking qt
on emerge -uDpv world I get: === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -uDpv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy media-video/nvidia-glx. (dependency required by x11-libs/qt-4.1.4-r2 [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for app-arch/rpm !!! Depgraph creation failed. === Trouble is I do not have nvidia-glx installed. I have nvidia-driver installed. Other things: 1. yes it is a while since I emerged world 2. profile is x86/2006.1/desktop 3. nvidia-glx WAS in /var/lib/portage/world, but I commented it out, with no change 4. qt has a dependency: opengl? ( virtual/opengl virtual/glu ) - I suspect this of complicity in the problem. 5. This immediately follows an emerge -sync today, only thing I have done since then is emerge portage. Can anyone cast any more light? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] imaginary nvidia-glx blocking qt
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:58:31 -0800 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: on emerge -uDpv world I get: === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -uDpv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy media-video/nvidia-glx. (dependency required by x11-libs/qt-4.1.4-r2 [ebuild]) You're experiencing bug #154223 [1], which is fixed in the latest ~arch versions of portage. If you want to work around the problem, you can use `find /var/db/pkg -name PROVIDE | xargs grep virtual/opengl` to find the old-style virtuals that are preventing the new-style virtuals from working correctly. You should simply remove any PROVIDE file that contains virtual/opengl. Zac [1] http://bugstest.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154223 Thank you -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:42:33 -0500 Troy Curtis Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always wondered (but never asked - That's the dumb part) how Gentoo manages to update a package that happens to be running at the time. Given that the old version (the one running) is deleted, how does it manage to keep standing if you just cut its legs off? I've never seen this discussed anywhere which probably means everyone else already knows and are probably thinking to themselves, Dumb question. Tony which leads top the point that if you update a daemon like sshd, yopu need to restart it, or else you are still running the old daemon. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 17:56:36 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:36:10 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data but not the key. That's not true. The CSS key is in the standard filesystem data, not in some subtrack data. You're right. I read this information some years ago in a normally reliable source, and saw no reason to doubt it as it made sense. bit I've just tried a dd copy and it worked. It failed on the first attempt, but after running lsdvd, it worked for the whole disc, and mplayer played it. What is happenning here is that lsdvd is cracking the css keys via libdvdcss and caching the keys in ~/.dvdcss. If you move the image to another computer, or try to read it as another user, the keys will neeed to be cracked again. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as he connected at 300 bps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
On 10/8/2006, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dvdbackup doesn't work on The Life of Mammals (and surely others) and dd means bad portability. Are there any other options for a full backup? perhaps there is some newfangled encryption on it. What version of libdvdcss do you have? Perhaps upgrading to a later version? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Annoying Bounces - myvietnam.org
Whenever I post to this list I get a slew of annoying bounce messages like the following: === This is the Postfix program at host myvietnam.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: can't create user output file == Although some are directed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and some at chau. Can someone remove these people from the list. It has beeen going on for some time now. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
On Saturday 07 October 2006 06:50, Grant wrote: I think I'll stick with: dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data but not the key. Instead, use vobcopy followed by growisofs. What about this (it's what I've been doing): lsdvd dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd Is there any advantage to creating an ISO filesystem out of the image if you aren't going to burn it? yes. ease of transfer, keping everyting togther. still playable with xine dvd://path/to.iso why are you naming it image.dvd instead of image.iso? Also, is there any way to compress the image without doing any kind of transcoding or that type of reprocessing? the mpeg streams on the dvd ARE compressed. thats what the mpeg codec does. You can try the usual suspects - zip, bzip etc, but you won't get far. programs that reduce the size of DVD9 so that they will fit on a DVD5 usually requantise the stream, I am not sure what that means, but it is much quicker than transcoding to another codec like xvid. xvid will, of course, give you a much smaller avi file. the analogy with flac is not really appropriate. flac is a lossless compression, you start with an uncompressed wav file and end up with a losslessly compressed audio file. A DVD is already lossy compressed to mpeg2, so it is not logical to make an analogy with flac. As I said, you can requantise, but of course you lose something... - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:43:50 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. ease of transfer, keping everyting togther. still playable with xine dvd://path/to.iso why are you naming it image.dvd instead of image.iso? dd doesn't actually create an ISO filesystem does it? - Grant dd copies bit for bit. you copy an ISO filesystem to another place, you get an ISO file system. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?
On 10/2/2006, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/06, Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerge app-admin/sudo Edit /etc/sudoers and add: username ALL= NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/ner.wlan0 Where username is his login. To run it: sudo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart dcm Thanks guys. I should have thought of sudo myself. I don't use it much. With your help I'm now able to do what I needed to do. Thanks, Mark I wonder if this could be avoided by using the madwifi[-ng] driver and avoiding the windows thing altogether? I found it worked well, as does the freebsd kernel driver. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards
On 10/3/2006, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is it gentoo-friendly. I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17 LCD with a digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the picture quality quite poor. Have they improved much since then? -Maxim What is your TV source? Digital satellite? (DVB-S) Digital terrestial? (DVB-T), analogue terrestial? Cable? What country are you in? If you are after an analogue card I recommend a hauppauge PVR 150 or 250 or 350 or 500. The ivtv drivers can be flaky, but are improving all the time. The cards have a hardware mpeg-2 encoder, meaning you can get encoded video without using much cpu time. Also most stuff based on the bt878 chipset will work via the bttv driver. If it is DVB stuff you are afdter, look to the linuxtv.org website. You'll also get a lot of help on the mythtv mailing lists. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD
the file is /etc/resolv.conf (without the e in resolv !) On 9/25/2006, Harm Geerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 September 2006 02:05, Lord Sauron wrote: I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this exactly... Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated? yes I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the DHCP host gives are wrong and are very slow!) and I have some replacement ones. I think that by setting the DNS servers in the /var/lib/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info file might change that, however, the file looks machine-generated to me. It doesn't, that file only shows what the dhcp server told dhcpcd to use. It is not used by your system for dns information. /etc/resolv.conf lists the dns servers your system uses. (nameserver) I looked through the wiki to fix this problem but I didn't find anything that looked like it'd help. Some assistance here would be great. The two DNS servers I need are 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2. Configure dhcpcd to run with -R so resolve.conf is not replaced with the resolve directives recieved from the dhcp server. In /etc/conf.d/net: config_eth0=(dhcp) dhcpcd_eth0=-R Now you can add/replace your own dns servers in /etc/resolve.conf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:26:16 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 September 2006 00:48, Mark Knecht wrote: At this point I believe I'm supposed to set up IPP printing on the remote machines but everything I've tried there results in messages about the printer not being found, not responding, not existing, etc. I'm telling CUPS that it's an IPP printer and trying addresses like: ipp://lightning/ipp ipp://lightning/ipp/port1 etc. I had this problem some time back and could not get it to work on two counts. Name resolution would not work (so you may want to change lightning with the IP address of your server); and the syntax given in the gui example was wrong. So, after some good advice from this list I changed mine to: http://192.168.0.3:631/printers/Compaq-HP where, 192.168.0.3:631 is the IP address and port where the server is listening at; Compaq-HP is the name I have given to the server; printers is . . . err, . . . not sure, I assume it is the list of printers set up on the server. Anyway, also don't forget to allow connections from your client(s) on your server and your server's firewall. If after setting it as suggested you still can't find your way through, please post back and I'll look deeper into it. I have never got ipp:// to work, but http://server:631/printers/printername usually works for me. Incidentally here is a howto I wrote with printing from windows in mind, but it deals with permissions and the url to use: *nick searches for the url: Bugger, its on the server http://clug.org.nz, which is down right now. Go there tomorrow and search for wincups -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:03:58 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My son, all of thirteen years old, the master of all he surveys, the supreme keeper of all knowledge of the known and unknown universes, the pinultimate ruler of mankind... Has asked me to put Linux on his desktop computer... It seems he has become weary of maintaining/re-installed his beloved XP... Life is good. Cheers, Jerry P.S. the next to be converted beneath my humble roof is my wife... Stay tuned. There must be something in the air. My 10 year old son Miles and I have an ongoing friendly banter about the relative merits of windows and linux. He has windows software at school and games to play after all. Anyway last night he was reading a section in the latest APC magazine about the latest innovations in linux desktops, and comparing linux to vista. He suddenly asked if he could obtain SuSE 10.1. I said I think its on the cover DVD. He said Can I install it then?. Knowing that there was an unused 35G partition on the hard drive awaiting a linux install I said go for it. So I looked over his shoulder and made sure he didn't junk the windows partition. I advised him on the choice between kde and gnome, and assured that the other would still be available to install later. Other than that he did the whole thing. By the time he went to bed it was running and he'd been on the net using firefox and checked that runescape (online java game) worked. By the time I got up this morning he was setting up his RSS feeds in kontact and configuring various other bits. Pretty good I thought. Not sure whether it says something about Miles, or about SuSE's ease of installation (probably both). He has used linux before, and is pretty computer literate (gaining a High Distinction in an international exam, batting against kids 2 years older), but neither those exams nor school do much to prepare you for installing a different OS. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT
On 11:03 am 09/06/06 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7) Note that this doesn't seem to be nearly as bad when I configure the machines to use the CRT output. I'm going to investigatge buying some sort of VGA-S-Video or Composite video converter. That may work better and not require all this crazy work. Check this out: http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/9a60.asp I'm going to get one of those. - Grant Yikes - At $129 it costs half of what this Myth frontend box ran me! Too expensive for my application, but thanks. I'm a penny-pincher these days but I've decided to spring for this thing. I've done a side-by-side comparison and the image quality through a component connection is *a lot* nicer than through an s-video connection. This is how I'll view DVDs, cable TV, and all the UI stuff. Plus, there is zero driver hassle. It's $112 through the link above. The only thing better than this, as far as image quality, would be a straight VGA connection to an HDTV. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I am very pleased to have bought a hi def flat screen LCD TV with a VGA input connector. It works just like a big monitor. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 09:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/4/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7) Note that this doesn't seem to be nearly as bad when I configure the machines to use the CRT output. I'm going to investigatge buying some sort of VGA-S-Video or Composite video converter. That may work better and not require all this crazy work. Check this out: http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/9a60.asp I'm going to get one of those. - Grant Yikes - At $129 it costs half of what this Myth frontend box ran me! Too expensive for my application, but thanks. NOTE: I used my machines last night and this morning with the 8.28.8 ati-driver. Tearing wasn't nearly as bad as with the 8.27 series. However this driver also seems to be giving very low frame rates. Not much fun to watch MythTV anymore. :-( Cheers, Mark Frequent updating of myth machines is a mistake in my humble experience. get it right, then stop! For this reason i moved from gentoo to knoppmyth for my myth box. Never been happier. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:01:59 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks to me quite funny. It seems continue endlessly. boot was symlink to . that is perfectly normal. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
On 10:54 am 09/04/06 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:48:01 -0500, Dale wrote: I wish I could get mine to see it as a drive. Then I could put pictures on it as well as take them off. I have read where some even put files on them too. Some cameras, including Canons, cannot be mounted as a drive, but that doesn't stop you copying pictures to them. gphoto2 allows for upload as well as download. You don't necessarily need libptp2 either, despite previous comments, my EOS 20D works in PTP mode without libptp2. It's not listed in gphoto2 --list-cameras, but that doesn't matter for PTP. -- Neil Bothwick It's not a bug, it's tradition! By the look of this you may be able to mount a gphoto2 compatible camera soon: http://www.gphoto.org/proj/gphotofs/ FUSE seems to be making a file system of everything. I expect to be mkdiring, ls'ing and rm'ing on my lawnmower soon. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:06:50 +0200 sdoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't know how ld your camera is . and I REALLY don't have clue why thi hick we nd for all and everything an super truper hyper speciaal toool. ;) Why not set up your camera to act as a USB disk? I do it this way and use the very special tools like ``mount'', ``ls'' and ``cp'' ;o) ... well to view and retuche the pics The Gimp, Imagemagick, XV . Just my 0,02$ Frank please note that this is an english language list. If you cannot even make an attempt to speak english then go away. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting into kdm but not using kde
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:46:55 +0200 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meino Christian Cramer wrote: My current (not working) settings are: etc/inittab: # Default runlevel. id:5:initdefault: [...] l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc X11 Why did you change default to X11 here? /sbin/rc doesn't know about runlevel X11. Better put back default and do as Richard says. Benno why not simply choose icewm in the kdm login screen (look for sessions in the menu) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:38:39 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/2/06, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please note that this is an english language list. If you cannot even make an attempt to speak english then go away. That's the dumbest, sickest, most worthless comment I've seen on a list in a long time. You should truly be ashamed. so next we will have people speaking txt spch and so on too. Come on a message that reads I don't know how ld your camera is . and I REALLY don't have clue why thi hick we nd for all and everything an super truper hyper speciaal toool. ;) just really isn't on IMHO. We are not a haven for teen silliness, nor SHOUTING. If the guy has a stuck keyboard, then I apologise (but still ask him to fix it). Nick. PS I only just noticed the poster has a .cz domain as part of his email address. It was not a tilt at his origins, but the reptitive llltttrs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:37:46 -0700 Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. This would be my first attempt at getting photos from a digital camera with my Gentoo system. I am using a Kodak EasyShare C533. With USBViewr I can see that the system sees the camera. That part of things seems to be working. However, I've not really a clue what software to use. GPhoto2 does not list this camera as a supported model. I see there is a program called camera but it is masked. Any other suggestions? As always, my thanks. Adrian Does the manual say anything about PTP or how it works with windows? Most cameras are either usb-storage devices, OR support PTP, and PTP is generally well supported by libgphoto2 (and hence gphoto2, gtkam etc). Your camera is not listed as supported by libgphoto, but that doesn't mean it won't be supported soon. I would try asking the gphoto2 list http://www.gphoto.org/mailinglists/ or looking at their cvs/svn repository (assuming they allow access to it). OTOH If usb-storage was going to work, it should work pretty easily. googling about this camera doesn't reveal much in the way of linux info. There is a third option of course - that it it isn't standards compliant enough to work with linux at all, in which case a card reader is your best bet (unless it has built in memory that you can't put into a card reader, in which case you may be sool :-( -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] backup tool for my Windows 98 desktop?
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 21:15:28 -0500 Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 September 2006 8:41 pm, Zhang Weiwu wrote: am tired of re-installing Windows 98, and then complete with other software (filezilla, 7-zip, extra editors..., OOO). I think perhaps it's easier after I re-installed everything I make a backup of the Windows partition onto a CDROM and later use that CDROM to restore the partition. The partition is 5GB but actual data on it is smaller then 600MB right after Win98 and complementary software installed. First I thought using gentoo live CD, use dd(1) to copy the partition to a file and burn it on the live CD. However the file must be too big to fit on CDR (en I think perhaps I can compress it), and yet how do I add it to the live CD iso image so that cdrecord(1) can burn it? I think perhaps I should first try borrow experience on gentoo user list. How do you think is the best approach? Partimage was made for this... http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page Use http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page if you don't want to install it locally. There's also a static version which is what I use. -jm or g4u -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting idea
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:30:48 -0700
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greylisting seems to be the most effective way of eliminating unwanted
email. The problem is that it also has the potential to eliminate a
legitimate email. Couldn't a feature be added to greylisting software
that dispatches an email to the sender of any email that is
temporarily rejected and doesn't retry within a certain amount of
time? The email could say something like, Your message of {date} was
rejected as possible spam. Please call us at {phone_number}.
- Grant
No, thats just silly. That would send a reply to every email that is a spam.
Most spam has non-existent (or forged) from address, which means the mail
will just bounce or go to someone whose address has been forged.
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:35:41 -0600 Collins Richey wrote: On 8/27/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old. I don't like gmplayer either. Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the command line to play DVDs? See the listing of front ends at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design3/projects.html I delved into that once and I just remember getting nowhere. Does anyone use one they like? Preferrably one with an ebuild and not dependent on K stuff. I like kmplayer, but in reality I prefer no gui for mplayer. give me a command line. sorry kmplayer does probably need some k stuff You could write yourself a little frontend with zenity (or similar) to feed the right parameters to mplayer. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is distcc working?
did you follow the advice that flashes past at the end of the ebuild (too fast to read) that says to run the monitor as follows: DISTCC_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/.distcc distccmon-gnome or DISTCC_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/.distcc distccmon-text N another way to tell is by setting a log file then tail -f logfile Also the output of top on a machine will allow you to tell if it is running gcc - if its not emerging something itself, its a good bet the gcc processes are as a result of slave compilation. On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:51:15 -0500 Michael Sullivan wrote: I set up my network to use distcc earlier this afternoon following the Gentoo guide. I'm not sure it's working though. I've been emerging stuff on all three machines all afternoon, but when I run the distccmon-gui application, nothing is listed. Should it be? What am I doing wrong? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:37:52 +0200 (CEST) Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, I've installed Gentoo in another computer, but this time is just for programming, emacs (maravellous !!), gcc, gdb, valgrind... you know. I've no X.org and no graphical support. For that reason I'd like to know how to make *ALL* terminals console terminals, because at this time they end at Ctrl + Alt + F6, and Ctrl + Alt + F7 has no login petition. I've googled and had no results. I know that something important should be find in runlevels (my system starts number 3). Thank you !! See the other answers, but also note that screen is a great tool for use on a console -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to create a LiveCD with madwifi and wpa_supplicant support?
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:02:01 +0200 Johan Tibell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to create a custom LiveCD which is identical to the x86 2006.0 one but includes the latest madwifi (madwifi-ng?) and wpa_supplicant ebuilds so my WLAN works out-of-the-box when I boot using it. What would be the simplest way to achieve this? lspci reports that my WLAN card is a: :02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 03) Thanks in advance, Johan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Check out catalyst, it is the tool the devs use to build a cd. The .spec (config) files are in gentoo's cvs, and probably elsewhere as well. It takes a while to build a cd as it installs a system image and then builds the cd from that. You'll need to change the .spec file to get it to build the packages you want. You should emerge catalyst with the dos USE flag to get the samples. There are easier ways to make a custom boot cd, slax springs to mind: http://www.slax.org/ However that will not get you the gentoo install packages onto the cd. It should get you a bootable cd from which you can do the usual gentoo install from. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Greylisting vs. reject_rbl_client
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:28:16 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be OK to remove the following aliases since I never use them: # Well-known aliases -- these should be filled in! root: grant operator: grant # Standard RFC2142 aliases abuse: grant ftp:grant hostmaster: grant news: grant noc:grant security: grant usenet: grant uucp: grant webmaster: grant www:grant Don't remove the root one, some packages send emails to their owner, and if they are (for example) privileged daemons the message will go to root. It needs to be pointed elsewhere. The others, I am not sure. You probably should have an abuse address and a postmaster address, other than that I am not sure what the custom is or what the rfc's say about what email accounts are expected in a domain. Don't forget that your web server (if you have one) may deliver pages that say to contact a certain mail address in the event of problems, obviously that address should be available. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here
I have taken the liberty of emailing Holly directly to ask where she has got to, cos the guys are missing her. I'll let you know if she replies... On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:49:20 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 22 August 2006 19:29, John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March this year. You're right, my eyes are obviously deceiving me! Hehehe. ... and I always felt tempted to call her Holy Bostik. ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:16:01 -0700 Richard Fish wrote: On 8/20/06, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem. Either: a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel. You said you configured them...are they built in (=y) or as modules (=m)? b. You did not configure the drivers for your IDE chipset or IDE hard drive into the kernel. Here again, they should be =y in the .config file. The outputs of lspci and grep '=[ym]' /usr/src/linux/.config may be helpful for us to look at if you can't find the answer. Or he used genkernel but has not given grub the appropriate options for initrd and ramfs. here is a sample from the install manual: title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r10 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 (because of email wrapping I have put a space between separate lines, the section starting kernel and ending udev is all one line.) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:00:11 -0500 Roy Wright wrote: filezilla on sourceforge can do sftp. Used it a lot before switching workstation to gentoo 1.5 years ago. http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ Have fun, Roy frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong with samba. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is available besides samba
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:08:48 -0500 reader wrote: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong with samba. Yes, that was the conclusion I came to (I'm the OP) as well and have now gotten it working. It was a simple matter of redoing the passwords with smbpasswd after and update. Didn't seem so simple at first since it had been working with no worries for mnths then suddenly no workee. However I would add that samba is a very complex program. Chances are good it will just work with little fiddling but if it doesn't it appears a giant undertaking to understand and debug it. (For a common numbskull at any rate) In my case, fortunately I didn't have to. Because as you pointed out, it is stable and mostly just works. I just happend to think of redoing the passwds and didn't really get even as far as going thru the gentoo howto on samba or even looking thru man pages. Reminds me of that nursery rhyme When she was good she was very very good, but when she was bad she was rotten I too confess to not understanding samba, and I will put the redo the smbpasswds into my mental notebook of things to check. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:22:56 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 August 2006 21:26, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a LAN session with the same game running on some Windows machines I got a message about not having a network provider. Since it can get to the Internet to download the updates I know it's not a hard networking failure. What is it? In the past I've heard that some of these games use UDP instead of TCP. I was wondering where I configure a Gentoo machine to allow UDP traffic, preferably only on my local network if possible so that I could just see if this was the problem. As long as you don't have a firewall running, UDP is enabled. In case you do run a firewall, that is the place to allow UDP on the used ports. Uwe tcpdump or ethereal will allow you to see what is happening on the network before the error message appears. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing boot up messages
has baselayout recently been updated? If so etc-update (or one of its clones) should fix things. On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:42:21 -0700 gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just ran an update today, and after rebooting, I get a bunch of odd errors when all of the services are starting. I wasn't able to capture the exact warnings, and I couldn't find a log that contained them. But it was something to the effect of WARNING: foo service was scheduled to start after net.eth0. It builds as services are started, so that by the time I get to the login prompt, there's 6-10 service that I'm getting warned about. Once I login, I'm able to manually start gdm, and login to KDE. Everything *appears* normal. I have the right IP for eth0, /some/ of the services that I was warned about were started and some were not. The only package that I can think of that might have been even remotely related was sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r2. What gives? - -- gentux echo hfouvyyAhnbjm/dpn | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 5495 0388 67FF 0B89 1239 D840 4CF0 39E2 18D3 4A9E -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE3+MMTPA54hjTSp4RAhm/AJ4oiXVcf1IQcGOpQbbIUyFwYnBqVwCg3Ewl cmHkvzqhGww+YfZHDaT0tAw= =f0pW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xawtv/Scantv refuses cooperation
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:47:24 +0200 Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, Am Donnerstag, 03. Aug 2006, 00:48:25 +0200 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 23:37, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Mittwoch, 02. Aug 2006, 00:04:52 +0200 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 31 July 2006 21:07, Bertram Scharpf wrote: # scantv [...] vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument # dd if=/dev/vbi bs=8 count=1 | od -x 1+0 records in and what are the rights on /dev/vbi / /dev/vbi0 ? And where does it point (I bet, it is just a symlink ;) ) It definitely is; I created it myself. it is a symlink? and does it point to the right device? I never created anything - I let udev do it for me... Another time to prevent any further link, symlink or access rights discussion: $ su - Password: # ls -la /dev/v4l/vbi0 crw-rw 1 root video 81, 224 1. Aug 19:50 /dev/v4l/vbi0 # mknod /tmp/myvbi c 81 224 # chmod a+rwx /tmp/myvbi # ls -la /tmp/myvbi crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81, 224 3. Aug 20:36 /tmp/myvbi # scantv -n PAL -f europe-west -C /tmp/myvbi [...] vbi: open failed [/tmp/myvbi] open /tmp/myvbi: Invalid argument # dd if=/tmp/myvbi bs=8 count=1 2/dev/null | wc -c 8 # AleVT works without complaint. Bertram What exactly is scantv scanning for when it scans the vbi device? Does it find the teletext channels or something? If you are looking to scan for tv channels then i think you want the video device, not the vbi device, like scantv -n PAL -f europe-west -c /dev/video0 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a cataloging software
On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:39:16 +0200 Helge Kaltenbach wrote: hi everybody, i've been searching for a nice little file cataloging software for two days straight now, but somehow i can't really find what i'm looking for. the situation: i have about 230 pdf files, essays, comments, press articles etc. what i want: i want to index all of these pdfs, and i want to add notes. i'm not looking for something to search through these pdfs! the most comfortable thing i can think of right now would look like this: i open the program, there is some sort of add function and i can select a file to add to my catalog/index...and i need to be able to add and search for notes. these notes consist of name of newspaper/magazine the article appeared in, date it appeared, name of the author, general notes (e.g. related topics etc, what i think of the article etc) then i dream of a search function to look for either author, date, one of the general notes etc.. i tried mylibary http://www.people.virginia.edu/~yc2w/MyLibrary/ the functions are fine, but it keeps crashing on me and it has a buggy mouse function etc...i added about 30 articles a few days ago, then it crashed - all notes and information i made to all of these 30 articles were gone any ideas? thanks in advance You could try tellico, it is in portage and the home page is here: http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/ There is an article in linux journal here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8028 I am not sure if it will meet your needs, but its all I can think of :) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:40:48 +0200 Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:54:44AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:18:02 -0700, Grant wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. sylpheed-claws Does sylpheed-claws work with mail folders in the mbox format? If so, can sylpheed-claws and mutt be used to read the same mbox mail format? I mean, when in text mode I want to use mutt. But in a graphical environment I would use sylpheed-claws. But I wouldn't use both at the same time. Can one see the marked as read messages from the other? Should work, but I'd suggest to switch to Maildir format. There's no risk in accessing the same mail folder at the same time with numerous clients. Both mutt and sylpheed support Maildir. Alexander Skwar My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring a USB headset
I think you need to get into the murky world of alsa configuration files, specifically your asoundrc file. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_%28includes_dmix%29 for some basics. On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:40:24 -0400 Andrew wrote: Great, I have it working (sorta), if I run cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp I hear static through the speakers, if i send it to /dev/dsp1 I hear it in the headphones. I'm just stuck on getting sound to go to both at the same time so I can just turn the volume down on one or the other to switch between them. Any advice? On 8/6/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll need to use the usb-audio driver either from the alsa-drivers package or the kernel you're running. For complete instructions including how to set up your system for multiple sound devices, visit http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_%28includes_dmix%29 Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Start printer automatically
rc-update add cupsd default On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:15:20 -0700 Grant wrote: How can I keep from having to manually start my printer in CUPS every so often? - Grant Do you mean start after you reboot or because of it not seeing the printer? Dale I didn't think I had rebooted the last time it stopped, but I could be wrong. How do I make CUPS start the printer on boot up? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] harmful Reply-To Munging on Gentoo mailing lists
It has been discussed before and IMHO should not change. Please if you want to discuss go somewhere else like IRC. On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:10:48 -0400 Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: It has come to my attention that Reply-To Munging is not a good idea to have on mailing lists: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . For example, in my gmail account I see something like this in the (prettified) header of each message from Gentoo's mailing lists: From: Marco Fabbri [EMAIL PROTECTED]Mailed-By: gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org and when I click Reply (Reply to all option does not exist for Gentoo mailing lists) it automatically replies to the list rather than the author of the thread. Who is in charge of the mailing lists and would be the best person to suggest this to? Should I send this to a different gentoo-* list? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge doesn't download stuff
there is something wrong with your name resolution: distfiles.gentoo.org does not have IP address 1.0.0.0 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:55:55 +0200 Marco Fabbri wrote: Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org...1.0.0.0 Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Missing /sbin/mount.cifs
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what package I would need to emerge to so that mount can recognize a cifs volume? Or do I need to compile additional cifs / smb kernel modules? When I strace the mount -t cifs . it shows the following error: stat64(/sbin/mount.cifs, 0xbfc758e0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Mount displays the following error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //Mmosrv01/eng/, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so System log shows: CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 If my problem isn't related to missing mount.cifs, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction? its from samba [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qfile /usr/bin/mount.cifs net-fs/samba (/usr/bin/mount.cifs) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] avidemux
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:47:09 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. permanently or temporarily? I can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home and presumebly under my home directory but find . -size +1G -print in my home directory didn't reveal anything. were you trancoding to another format? That can create quite large files, sorry dunno where they are though. It must have eaten about 30GB, but where? Anybody? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] editing MPEG2
Generally I find that I want to cut at a major transition - eg the adverts coming on. At a major transition there is usually an I-Frame. On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:35:02 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: is there a light-weight MPEG2 editor (preferable in portage)? I don't need anything fancy, just something to cut off a bit at the begin and the end of a file.And no, kino doesn't like MPEG2. If you don't care about the quality of the cutted scenes projectx, is what i reccommend. But projectx and many other editors are only capable of cutting on a I-Frame The video cut theory is explained at http://www.radonmaster.de/robernd/tMPEG.html unfortunatly it is in german anyone know of an equivalnet page in English? If you want to cut frame accurate (cut on B- and P-Frames too) i think ttcut is the better choice, here you can enable encoding mode so it uses mencoder (and you don't have to read the immense man page for mencoder) to recode the video. Not the whole video is encoded, only a maximum of 14 pictures (i think 15 pictures is the standard GOP lenght for MPEG video) around the cut mark depending on where exactly you want to cut i don't know if kino or avidemux can handle this now, if anyone knows better please tell me! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd [solved]
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:10:42 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 26 July 2006 00:54, Nick Rout wrote: There is a current scratchy noise problem with PVR-150 drivers. AFTER you have started playing/recording the stream execute ivtvctl -qX where X is the audio input you are using. This fixes it for me and a number of other mythtv users. Some have even set up a cron script to execute that command every 10 seconds. I'll try that, weird as it is. ;-) To get as close as possible to a DVD compatible stream use ivtvctl -c stream_type=X where X is the stream type you want from : /* Stream types */ #define IVTV_STREAM_PS 0 #define IVTV_STREAM_TS 1 #define IVTV_STREAM_MPEG1 2 #define IVTV_STREAM_PES_AV 3 #define IVTV_STREAM_PES_V 5 #define IVTV_STREAM_PES_A 7 #define IVTV_STREAM_DVD 10 #define IVTV_STREAM_VCD 11 #define IVTV_STREAM_SVCD12 #define IVTV_STREAM_DVD_S1 13 #define IVTV_STREAM_DVD_S2 14 I cannot for the life of me remember whether you want 10,13 or 14. Interesting. is there actually any comprehensive documentation about ivtv? I only found scratches and pieces. Uwe Only what comes with it I think. The doc directory in the source is worth a look. This is also worth a look: http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page The driver has been in such a rapid state of development that any documentation would quickly be out of date. It is considerably more mature lately. The mythtv mailing list archives are also a very good source of knowledge. I would say that a very big percentage of people using these cards under linux do so in a mythtv box. The archives are very good and appear here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ simply running ivtvctl | less gives you a good idea of what you can control. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] editing MPEG2
avidemux On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:47:43 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:03:01 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: is there a light-weight MPEG2 editor (preferable in portage)? I don't need anything fancy, just something to cut off a bit at the begin and the end of a file.And no, kino doesn't like MPEG2. Kino 0.8+ should be able to import anything that ffmpeg can handle, but I've found that this doesn't always work. There was a thread on this a couple of weeks ago, after which I started using projectx for this. -- Neil Bothwick Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] editing MPEG2
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:43:41 +1000 Alan E. Davis wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:03:01 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: is there a light-weight MPEG2 editor (preferable in portage)? I don't need anything fancy, just something to cut off a bit at the begin and the end of a file.And no, kino doesn't like MPEG2. My experience too has been that avidemux works well. However, only the latest version; an earlier version didn't work well. My installed version is: 22000-r2, from an overlay: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-382903.html Kino didn't work for me either. Alan Davis avidemux has improved immensely in recent versions. I didn't realise until this thread that kino now supports ffmpeg compatible streams. I must try that. kino will do fancier transitions etc - avidemux is more for cutting the odd bit out and transcoding the result. if you are happy to may money then main actor does a reasonable job of editing/transitioning and transcoding. gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd [solved]
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:11:50 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 25 July 2006 01:37, Nick Rout wrote: Audio is now working with PVR-150. Thanks, Nick, for all your input. Problem is, I don't know why and I hate it when magic is part of IT. ;-) The whole difference between yesterday and today is that I tried to compile the new kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 (as compared to r3). That compilation failed. Since I hadn't time to investigate, I just left it like that. Nothing installed, no reboot, noting. All of a sudden audio is coming out of that bugger at a decent volume. :-( Audio quality is still poor, high noise level and it doesn't sound like 50Hz noise. So maybe, it's that VCR - have to check that by plugging the VCR directly into a TV. Anyway, forward to the next step of creating a video DVD from that MPEG2 stream! Uwe There is a current scratchy noise problem with PVR-150 drivers. AFTER you have started playing/recording the stream execute ivtvctl -qX where X is the audio input you are using. This fixes it for me and a number of other mythtv users. Some have even set up a cron script to execute that command every 10 seconds. To get as close as possible to a DVD compatible stream use ivtvctl -c stream_type=X where X is the stream type you want from : /* Stream types */ #define IVTV_STREAM_PS 0 #define IVTV_STREAM_TS 1 #define IVTV_STREAM_MPEG1 2 #define IVTV_STREAM_PES_AV 3 #define IVTV_STREAM_PES_V 5 #define IVTV_STREAM_PES_A 7 #define IVTV_STREAM_DVD 10 #define IVTV_STREAM_VCD 11 #define IVTV_STREAM_SVCD12 #define IVTV_STREAM_DVD_S1 13 #define IVTV_STREAM_DVD_S2 14 I cannot for the life of me remember whether you want 10,13 or 14. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:31:01 +0100 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 July 2006 00:52, Nick Rout wrote: ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.4.4 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-chw-2 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (cx23416 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:14.0[A] - Link [LNKB] - GSI 10 (level, low) - IRQ 10 ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) **cx25840 0-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (14264 bytes) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] tveeprom 0-0050: The eeprom says no radio is present, but the tuner type tveeprom 0-0050: indicates otherwise. I will assume that radio is present. tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 26559, rev C260, serial# 2945285 tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is LG S001D MK3 (idx 60, type 38) tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/K) (eeprom 0x74) tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37) tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30) tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has no IR remote *ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 161 x 12960 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 80 x 26208 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream tuner 0-0061: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0 ivtv: END INIT IVTV Mine looks pretty much the same except that it detects the remote. Firmware gets loaded, all drivers get loaded, no errors. Meanwhile I do have audio but very very faint if i raise everything to maximum (mixer, speaker amplifier, ivtvctl). I don't know. Maybe the hardware is fried. Uwe The guy on the mythtv list thought his was OK too until someone else spotted the error - I'm not saying you cannot read a log file, but y'know it happens to the best of us :-( As far as i recall you have been trying so far with composite/line in. Is it worth trying the tuner? What sort of input does your line-in have? Mine is two RCA plugs, but I have heard of them having the 2.5mm stereo plugs too (like a headphone socket on a walkman). If so, make sure the plug is the right one. Not sure where else to go from here, except back to the vendor. -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. I love that quote! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:43:05 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 24 July 2006 12:30, Nick Rout wrote: The guy on the mythtv list thought his was OK too until someone else spotted the error - I'm not saying you cannot read a log file, but y'know it happens to the best of us :-( Alright, here is my log: ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r3 SMP preempt mod_unload PENTIUM4 Very recent ivtv, more so than mine. the website says it is only for 2.6.17, but you seem to fit the criteria. Looking at the ivtv website did say this: http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting Use the recommended firmware * In particular, if you are experiencing sound problems then first make sure you are using the correct audio firmware. It is a known problem with older versions that the audio standard is detected but remains muted. It seems to be fixed with the latest firmware. How you tell whether the firmware you have is correct ? There are some checksums here: http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware#Firmware_Checksums (Although I just checked mine, they do not match whats on the website, but they work fine??) [snip] As far as i recall you have been trying so far with composite/line in. Is it worth trying the tuner? Well, I am not interested in watching TV. Even if the tuner works that doesn't necessarily mean that the hardware dealing with composite and Line IN is working properly. I may give it a try later but I don't even have an arial because I never watch TV. ;-) It was only a suggestion to eliminate the possibilty of the cable or plugs being faulty. Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. I love that quote! When I read it, I almost instantaneously fell in love with it. ;-) Uwe Of course most people these days don't even know what a declension is! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:18:48 +0100 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 July 2006 03:45, Nick Rout wrote: When using composite in the sound should be coming in the line in However your driver may need to be switched to the right device, use ivtvctl ivtvctl -A - lists the audio inputs ivtvctl -Q - tells which one it is switched to now ivtvctl -qn - switches to input n Hm... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ivtvctl -A ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO Input : 0 Name: Tuner 1 Input : 1 Name: Line In 1 Input : 2 Name: Line In 2 There is only one Line IN socket. Anyway, I tried both with iivtvctl -qn. Still no sound when doing mplayer /dev/video0, and mplayer tv:// gives me that damn ioctl error (see my other mail). Uwe well I just learned something new: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ ivtvctl -Y ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL Brightness = 383 Contrast = 63 Saturation = 63 Hue = 0 Volume = 58880 Mute = 0 So there are volume and mute controls that are configurable from ivtvctl, like this: ivtvctl -y mute=1 (will mute the output - set -0 to unmute) ivtvctl -y volume=integer. The volume allegedly has a range of 0-65535 Check them out, the vol may be zeroed, or the mute set. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Access DVD drive
It is probably /dev/sda, but you are right, its hard to tell on that information! If so playing the dvd is something like: xine dvd://dev/sda On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:47:11 +0200 Steffen Mazanek wrote: Hello, I have an external usb dvd drive. dmesg returns Vendor: BENQ Model: DVD DD EW164B Rev: BEFB Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 usb-storage: device scan complete How can I play a dvd with it? What is the name of this device to give as a parameter to the dvd player software (I use ogle)? Best regards, Steffen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:19:46 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 23 July 2006 02:38, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:18:48 +0100 I find that tv:// doesn't work at all when using composite in, but /dev/video0 does. So far, I have to agree. My device also has one physical line in (two plugs, red=right, white=left), but ivtvctl -A shows four line-ins! I find that all of -q1, -q2, -q3 work with the line-in. -q0 is the tuner and -q4 is static. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ivtvctl -A ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO Input : 0 Name: Tuner Audio In Input : 1 Name: Audio Line 1 Input : 2 Name: Audio Line 2 Input : 3 Name: Audio Line 3 Input : 4 Name: Audio Line 4 Are you really sure that there is an audio signal coming out the line thats plugged into the line-in? (Obvious I know!) Yes. If I plug that line into Line IN of my soundcard I get audio. I actually tried to feed composite into the TV card and audio into my soundcard. Used mplayer /dev/video0 and it kind of worked. But it isn't a solution for two reasons: 1. Audio and video are far out of sync that way. 2. My goal isn't to watch tapes but to burn old tapes to DVDs. For that, I need the MPEG2 stream coming out of /dev/video0 to be combined video and audio. Uwe Yes, exactly. There is a delay for buffering or processing or something inherent in the pvr card. There is no such delay through the sound card. I suppose the card could be broken. Sometimes they are. Any chance of taking it back to the shop and asking for another one? Or *cough* trying it in windows? I also wonder whether you should try either the mythtv-users list or the ivtv-dev mailing lists. Probably the first thing they will ask for is the log information from dmesg between these two lines: ivtv: START INIT IVTV necessary info ivtv: END INIT IVTV Just looking at this I see mine contains: tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37) tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30) Also I note via lsmod that I have a cx25840 module loaded. Presumably that takes care of the sound. It may pay to look at your output - there are many variations of chipsets on these cards, particularly between PAL and NTSC models. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network is not starting
what does ls -l /etc/init.d/net* tell you? On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:28:37 +0300 Adrian Vraciu wrote: On Sunday 23 July 2006 19:19, Randy Barlow wrote: nothing interesting there :( Adrian Vraciu wrote: On Sunday 23 July 2006 17:41, Zinn, Stefan wrote: did you saw some interesting hints? i can't find one, right now i'm very frustrated about this issue. I think he meant to check /var/log/messages - anything interesting in there? R -- Best Regards, Adrian Vraciu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:18:18 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr Me too. I know there's a Gentoo project for the VDR application. But basically I think the OP was reffering to a software rather than a project and wants a comparision. I'm running VDR, but not the Gentoo ebuild but rather compiled directly from source (all dependencies done by Gentoo, though). differences AFAIK: 1. VDR is for DVB only Yes. But there are plugins to make it work with analog tv, too. See all those plugins in media-plugins/vdr-*, I think at least the analogtv and pvr* plugins are made for this. 2. VDR is very Euro-centric - thats not a criticism, just worth knowing as european tv has many differences to, eg, USA tv in terms of technical format. That's true. And I think there are still some minor glitches w/ regard to PAL/NTSC (PAL is default). 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR. http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page is probably the most comprehensive documentation in english language. Thank you for your informative post. We are PAL here too in New Zealand. We are about to get a DVB-T and DVB-S freeview digital tv network (sometime in the next year). I will be carefully evaluating VDR, but it might take a bit to move me off mythtv. Cheers. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggested network fs for small lan ?
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:41:51 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout schrieb: I wasted days getting NFS to not work. I switched to CIFS. It is working very well. Is file locking working over CIFS? I don't know and I really don't need it, I am basically storing multmedia files and playing them over the network. How about permissions and ownership? seems to work fine, this has improved markedly with the cifs unix extensions. Working as well and easy as it does on NFS? What kind of problems did you have with NFS - I'm asking, as I can't think about anything easier than NFS on *nix. I cannot recall now, and it may have been operator error. It is so long ago that I can't recall the details. Alexander Skwar -- I know how to do SPECIAL EFFECTS!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:40:07 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: how would I be able to record video *and* audio from the TV card into an MPEG2 file? Hello Uwe, In my experienes, you need to build a 'mixing studio' or at least a very simple A/V mixing system. There are too many A/V tools to use. I'd first look at the MoBo book and see what onboard hardware you have plus 'lspci' -v and 'lshw'. Using the core mobo chips is usually the most straightforward. Also look at what sound cards you have. Then 'eix keyword' using mixer, audio, jack, alsa etc to discover the various packages and try them out. Also use google to search for keywords + audio chips where audio chips are the actual chips you find on your hardware. 'kmix' is a quick and simple mixer that often provides control over the various audio chips. You'll also have to rebuild your kernel many times to find the right combo of drivers to compile in and/or load as modules. Often the various audio chip drivers conflict at the kernel, udev or application level. There is no 'silver bullet' to build a mixer/mux for A/V, in my experience. It all depends on what you need. Moving over old movies, one of your greatest challenges will be keeping the audio and video synchronized over the duration of the recorded stream. hth, James this is all completely irrelevant to the question. The PVR-150 muxes the audio and video into an mpeg stream. When using composite in the sound should be coming in the line in However your driver may need to be switched to the right device, use ivtvctl ivtvctl -A - lists the audio inputs ivtvctl -Q - tells which one it is switched to now ivtvctl -qn - switches to input n -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:50:24 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr differences AFAIK: 1. VDR is for DVB only 2. VDR is very Euro-centric - thats not a criticism, just worth knowing as european tv has many differences to, eg, USA tv in terms of technical format. 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggested network fs for small lan ?
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:08:51 -0700 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Enrico Weigelt schrieb: what network filesystem would you suggest for an small LAN ? NFS. If Windows systems need to access the resources, I'd think about installing MS SFU on those boxes. I spent a week fighting with SFU on 2003 last month. While I'm sure I missed a number of things and did a few things wrong it was far simpler to run NFS for the Linux boxes and Samba for the Windows boxes on the main storage head rather than trying to get Windows to play nicely with NFS. YMMV. On the original question a dedicated NFS server sounds like a solution rather than chaining NFS through multiple machines. I wasted days getting NFS to not work. I switched to CIFS. It is working very well. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:32:28 -0400 PaulNM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, The latest Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060717-newsletter.xml Has info about The Gentoo Video Disk Recorder (VDR) project, with a link: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/ The second link lists an irc channel as well. HTH, PaulNM I take it all back! thanks for the link! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] video capture
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:50:04 -0400 gentoo wrote: I have tryed the cat command all I get in the .mpg is snow . I tryes to use composit video and still get snow. Do I have to tell the tuner to tune to line in port rob use ivtvctl -n to get a list of inputs mine shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ivtvctl -n ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT Input : 0 Name: Tuner Type: 0x0001 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x00FF ( PAL ) Status : 0 Input : 1 Name: Composite 0 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F7FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 2 Name: Composite 1 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F7FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 3 Name: S-Video 0 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F7FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Input : 4 Name: S-Video 1 Type: 0x0002 Audioset: 0x0003 Tuner : 0x Standard: 0x007F7FFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM ) Status : 0 Then use ivtvctl -p X to set the input to X - egi want to set input 1 for composite 0 so I do: ivtvctl -p 1 you can check what it is set to with ivtvctl -P [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ivtvctl -P ioctl VIDIOC_G_INPUT ok Video input = 1 On Sunday 16 July 2006 20:00, Nick Rout wrote: You have a pvr-150 which has onboard mpeg2 encoding. Most standard v4l software will not play tv from such a card, because it expects a different format from the card. For example the tvtime supported cards list says: The ivtv driver supports cards that provide high quality MPEG2 encoded video. This cards are ideal for PVR systems. However, tvtime has no MPEG2 decoding capabilities or audio playback code, and therefore cannot be used to watch live TV from these cards. Try cat /dev/video0 test.mpeg ctrl-c to stop mplayer test.mpeg or just: mplayer /dev/video you can tune the card and adjust the inputs etc with the tools provided by ivtv. Mine is permanently set to the composite inputs as it used for the output from a set top box. I have never used the tuner. getting an external composite video signal like a set top box output a VHS player is a good way to test. Move onto the tuner once you are sure you can get composite to work. On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:53:29 -0400 rob wrote: On Saturday 15 July 2006 14:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 15 July 2006 18:25, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/15/06, rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerged most of the stuff in media-tv but I can't get anyone of thease to show TV most say device not configured. Evan the ones that I know point to /dev/video0 I think I did everything right. pleas help or tell me of a better card to use. Are you sure this is a card problem, and not a permissions issue? It looks like udev makes most of the device nodes in the video group. Is your user account a member of that group? Well I emerged gentoo-sources with ~86 gave me linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r3. Now the tuner comes up and using the ivtv test it now captures only snow but it is a start. I have tryed to change channel but it doesn't work. Even line in gives me the same thing. Any other seguestions rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal
Are you running a framebuffer console? Some cards (nvidia notably) don't come back well to a framebuffer console after X has been running. Try booting to a regular console by adding vga=normal to your boot line in grub. On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:35:05 -0700 Donnie Berkholz wrote: Richard Broersma Jr wrote: I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this problem. I am testing various settings in the xorg.conf file. Some settings change the performance of X, others break X all together. Some setting not only break X but also corrupt all of the command line terminals. The only way I am able to restore the terminals is by rebooting the computer. Is there a way to fix corrupted command line terminals once corrupted other than rebooting. You could try 'reset' but that will usually just fix up corruption from e.g. catting a binary file. Once the framebuffer's corrupted, it's tough to fix. You could try fixing the X settings to ones known to work and restarting X, that may fix whatever was screwed up. Thanks, Donnie -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] video capture
You have a pvr-150 which has onboard mpeg2 encoding. Most standard v4l software will not play tv from such a card, because it expects a different format from the card. For example the tvtime supported cards list says: The ivtv driver supports cards that provide high quality MPEG2 encoded video. This cards are ideal for PVR systems. However, tvtime has no MPEG2 decoding capabilities or audio playback code, and therefore cannot be used to watch live TV from these cards. Try cat /dev/video0 test.mpeg ctrl-c to stop mplayer test.mpeg or just: mplayer /dev/video you can tune the card and adjust the inputs etc with the tools provided by ivtv. Mine is permanently set to the composite inputs as it used for the output from a set top box. I have never used the tuner. getting an external composite video signal like a set top box output a VHS player is a good way to test. Move onto the tuner once you are sure you can get composite to work. On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:53:29 -0400 rob wrote: On Saturday 15 July 2006 14:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 15 July 2006 18:25, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/15/06, rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerged most of the stuff in media-tv but I can't get anyone of thease to show TV most say device not configured. Evan the ones that I know point to /dev/video0 I think I did everything right. pleas help or tell me of a better card to use. Are you sure this is a card problem, and not a permissions issue? It looks like udev makes most of the device nodes in the video group. Is your user account a member of that group? Well I emerged gentoo-sources with ~86 gave me linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r3. Now the tuner comes up and using the ivtv test it now captures only snow but it is a start. I have tryed to change channel but it doesn't work. Even line in gives me the same thing. Any other seguestions rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] World-file and comments
# works On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0200 (CEST) Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to remove some files from the /var/lib/portage/World-file. Do I have to _remove_ the according entry or is it sufficient to comment it out with # or // or Thank you very much for any help in advance ! Keep hacking and have a nice weekend! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] auto login
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:14:00 -0400 gentoo wrote: On Tuesday 04 July 2006 07:21, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:49:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I auto login and start a single X11 related program EX oxine. I have it all configured to run but I still have to login and startx for it to work. Can Anyone help rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all the help I got it to work. and thanks for the pointer to oxine. Interesting app. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] auto login
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:49:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I auto login and start a single X11 related program EX oxine. I have it all configured to run but I still have to login and startx for it to work. Can Anyone help rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you only want one X program running, and therefore do not need a window manager etc, then run startx from /etc/init.d/local that script is run by root so you will want to use su to switch to the user you want to run as and then run startx, something like su - username startx forget all that autologin with kdm bollocks, it is not needed if you have described your problem accurately (ie you want to run one program only) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:45:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges gnome which first emerges X11 back again. Except i this example you are likely to install GNOME before removing KDE, otherwise you'd be left with no desktop. This isn't so bad with a binary distro if the packages are on a CD, but on gentoo it's murder. If you have the disk space to spare, set FEATURES=buildpkg. Then reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro. The further complication there is that in this hypothetical situation you are also likely to be changing some USE flags, and the prebuilt buildpkg packages may need in fact to be built again against a new set of libraries. All of which is why I am glad I don't have to maintain portage and its associated tools :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] File manager via Web Browser
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:58:16 -0300 Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi list, Does someone can tell me a good tool to install on my server which permit a user (local user) to manager him file via a web browser? Such as remove, create, upload and so on. I don't want to give ssh access to all users, just the basic operations over their files. Thank you, Leandro Install ssh on the server (I guess it already is!) and then access it with konqueror via either the fish or sftp kio_plugins. eg to access machine server.mydom.net with user leo yiu type: fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] or sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the address bar of konqueror, you will be prompted for a password. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable MythTV removed from portage?
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:05:30 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/2/06, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is so stable and you have it on 5 machines then why are you wanting to install it again? I don't. I just don't want messages about things being installed for which there is no atom, or whatever the message is. Then follow the advice given and add it to an overlay More importantly (to me) is that when looking at a distro like this what are the issues with leaving an older revision in portage? I don't see what the maintainance issues are. It's been a working ebuild for a long time. Why remove it. Just leave it there. How far back should it go? Should we leave beta versions of firefox in portage? How about kde 1? How bloody big do you want the portage tree to be? How about when some dependency is no longer compatible with myth 0.18 ? I suppose files could move and then the ebuild would need an update Volunteering are you? but other than that how much work is being saved for one person vs. a decision by that one person to force lots of people to upgrade? (All rhetorical) - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0100 Graham Murray wrote: W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless you keep an independent record of every package installed. I was pissed because modular didnt work and I couldnt uninstall it! Eventually updates caught up with and fixed the problem, but in the meantime I had an unusable system. I realised the problem when I coulnt even downgrade from 7.1 to 7.0 - this loss of control is a major pita with modular X. Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages which it caused to be installed. u think about this. new system, no gui installed. I install kde-meta, which installs xorg-x11 as a dependency. I decide I want gnome, I install gnome which doesn't install xorg, because it is already installed. I decide I do not want kde because i prefer gnome. I unsinstall kde-meta. Under your scheme it would also uninstall xorg-x11. But that is not what you want! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange messages at boot
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:24:19 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:08:27 +, Mick wrote: When Knoppix starts up and does not find an iface running, because say I have not yet switched on the router, it 'backgrounds' the net.eth0 script and carries on with the boot process. How can I set my Gentoo up so that it does the same? emerge ifplugd. that's it, you don't need to configure it or add it to a runlevel, in fact you should not do so. The Gentoo net scripts detect the presence of ifplugd and use it to do what you want. They do? I emerged it a while ago now and then took net.ethx out of all runlevels and replaced it with ifplugd. Should i undo that? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:05:19 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: yes I hit it too - back before it hit stable. It seemed that going xorg modular is a one way trip as you cant remove modular xorg easily unless you keep an independent record of every package installed. Wouldn't genlop give you that information? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable MythTV removed from portage?
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:51:24 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/2/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:30, Mark Knecht wrote: Again, it seems to make little sense to me. You don't want to upgrade because mythtv is a pain in the butt to upgrade. Now imagine what it's like to maintain it... ;) I don't know more than you do about this but I could imagine they wanted to lower the number of ebuilds that they have to maintain... -- Bo Andresen Yeah, I understand, and you are probably right. But mythtv-0.18.1 hasn't been changing. I don't do software so I don't understand the word 'maintain'. I'm sure it's a drag and this is easier on them. I just wish the devs would have a bit more compassion for those of use out here wiht families we're trying to keep happy with these toys! ;-) Anyway, I just brought down the 0.18 ebuild and built a digest but it's complaining about missing patches so I'll see if I can't figure that out. If this is painful enough I guess they'll force me to upgrade anyway, won't they? ;-) Cheers, Mark If it is so stable and you have it on 5 machines then why are you wanting to install it again? Actually 0.19 has quite a lot of improvements. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:04:45 -0500 Jeremy Olexa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:30:26 +0530 Aniruddha Shankar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: Personally speaking, I suggest you emerge 'ufed'. I moved from ufed to profuse, it's slightly better with multiple display interfaces (dialog/ncurses/gtk) cheers, funnily enough I dislike the gtk interface and usually start it with DISPLAY= profuse to fool it into thinking X is not available, so it runs in my konsole Speaking of USE flags this is a PERFECT example of when to enable/disable a USE flag. If I was Nick and PREFERRED to start profuse without gtk support (aka ncurses) then I would re-emerge profuse WITHOUT the gtk USE flag. Thanks for giving some people an example of when to enable/disable USE flags, Nick. DISCLAIMER: I don't use profuse but I assume that the gtk USE flag does exactly what I have explained. ;) You are right and I did think that as i was typing the email! However there are times when i like the gtk interface, its more a mood thing, so I am happy to leave the gtk flag for that ebuild :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's good old inetd ?
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:33:22 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip anyway, why use old inetd at all? xinetd is way more powerful and secure! well, I've already been using it for over 10 years, I never had serious problems with it, and has all I need. So why should I now switch to xinetd ? It's more modern. Ah. Interesting argument. Because it's quite modern (for the kids) to wear overwide pants, there's no need to produce tight ones anylonger ? Great. No the more correct analagy is that they now make cars with seat belts and airbags. You can look for a new car that has no safety features but you probably wouldn't. xinetd was designed as a SECURE and MODULAR replacement for inetd. Perhaps you log into your servers over the internet using telnet too. We ain't gonna stop you, but don't be surprised if people counsel you against it. Wouldn't it make more sense to let inetd be an virtual package which can be configured by some useflag to get either classic inetd or xinet in, maybe xinet as default ? Why? The current way is quite fine, IMO. You can easily select which package to install, why depend on some USE flag? Following you line of argumentation, the virtual package inetd should be dropped, since people can directly choose xinetd. sounds like a good idea :) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:30:26 +0530 Aniruddha Shankar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: Personally speaking, I suggest you emerge 'ufed'. I moved from ufed to profuse, it's slightly better with multiple display interfaces (dialog/ncurses/gtk) cheers, funnily enough I dislike the gtk interface and usually start it with DISPLAY= profuse to fool it into thinking X is not available, so it runs in my konsole -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:13:39 +1200 (NZST) Jamie wrote: On 6/25/2006, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a good webmail which I can use Courier IMAP/POP3 and QMail. I know Horde IMP, but does someone know others which is better? Squirrelmail is good, but I find it a little slow so have switched to ilohamail which is substantially faster. Both of these are in portage. Cannot find ilohamail in my portage, is that a mis spell? (can't find alohamail either, not sure what other spellings to try) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:02:18 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:03, Nick Rout wrote: dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. It looked that way to me, however in every test I tried, after ripping it always said only X out of a total of Y frames were ripped, and it was always somewhere around 20 - 30% less. Did that on two systems. In short, it looked good to me but I gave up on it after fighting with it for a week. ahhh yes I picked up that thread now... k3b has a dvd ripping front end too, just looking into that! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:28:32 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:02:18 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:03, Nick Rout wrote: dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. It looked that way to me, however in every test I tried, after ripping it always said only X out of a total of Y frames were ripped, and it was always somewhere around 20 - 30% less. Did that on two systems. In short, it looked good to me but I gave up on it after fighting with it for a week. ahhh yes I picked up that thread now... k3b has a dvd ripping front end too, just looking into that! hmmm I get this message DVD Ripping in K3b is currently unmaintained. Depending on the version of transcode K3b may freeze and pollute ~/.xsession-errors or stdin if you started K3b from a console. If you are interested in maintaining the DVD Ripping part of K3b please contact the project's maintainer Sebastian Trueg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto
dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:48:34 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Try the script provided on my company's web site (http://www.SysEx.com.na) under Linux tips and tricks. It's tip #5. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip: significant frame loss during rip
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:29:26 -0400 fire-eyes wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 04:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: I see this error, but usually near the start of the rip. I get rid of it by setting Grab subtitle preview images to No. Hm. I always see it at the end, and it makes no difference what I have the grab subtitle setting at. Thanks for the reply :) Try here: http://www.exit1.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=dvdrip-usersrestrict=exclude=words=%22It+seems+that+transcode+ripping+stopped+short.%22method=andformat=builtin-longsort=score -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - More Mythtv problems
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:09:59 -0500 Michael Sullivan wrote: Thirdly, what happened to the buffering aspect when watching LiveTV? I don't want LiveTV I watch to stick around forever taking up space, and I don't want to have to delete the programs I watch in LiveTV manually inside the interface, or outside in the shell. Is there a way I can get the old behaviour back? 0.19 completely changed live tv handling. I suggest you look at the mythtv-users mailing list archives, or join that list. The archives are here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ (Warning, it IS a higher volume list than even gentoo-user) The live tv recordings are set to be deleted fairly soon after the event, their deletion priority is pretty high. I cannot remember the details now. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:45:43 +0200 Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. If you want a telnet client, emerge either netkit-telnetd or telnet-bsd. Thanks for all the replies. I had not emerged telnet so far because of potential security reasons. Is netcat better in that respect? I actually know of no security problems with telnet. To which are you referring (note: telnet, not telnetd)? Alexander Skwar I think this thread needs clarification (not specifically you Aleaxander) The problem with the telnet is mainly plain text passwords - your login to a telnet server is plain text and easily snooped. But using telnet to connect to a smtp server or web server for testing purposes poses no threats. If you have to pass plain text credentials via telnet (eg to log in to a pop or imap server) then the risk is exactly the same as when your email client passes a plain text password to the imap or pop server. In both cases it can be snooped. If the service you want to log into is protected with an ssl wrapper then tuse the openssl program to log in. For example to connect to my imap server (from the same machine) openssl s_client -host localhost -port 993 openssl responds with a whole lot of info about the certificate and so on then you can type away just like a telnet session (but encrypted) eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ openssl s_client -host localhost -port 993 (openssl spews out a whole lot of stuff about the certificate) Then the imap server's opening greeting: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE AUTH=PLAIN ACL ACL2=UNION] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. Then I type (responses are marked for clarity: 1 login nick 1 OK LOGIN Ok. 2 logout * BYE Courier-IMAP server shutting down 2 OK LOGOUT completed This is exactly the exchange I get if I telnet to the non ssl port 143, except telnet to port 143: 1. doesn't do a key exchange etc 2. is plain text and snoopable. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Video conversion
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:01:15 -0700 Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: n Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:24 +0800, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:22 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Try these. Should be a simple --target DVD * media-video/tovid [ Masked ] It seems to be removed... or did you use an overlay? Yeah.. Sorry, its an overlay (though i believe the site has a gentoo ebuild) The tovid site has a pointer to the ebuild thread that is in gentoo bugzilla. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Video conversion
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:24:09 +0800 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:22 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Try these. Should be a simple --target DVD * media-video/tovid [ Masked ] It seems to be removed... or did you use an overlay? $ emerge -S tovid Searching... [ Results for search key : tovid ] [ Applications found : 0 ] $ ls /usr/portage/media-video/tovid ls: /usr/portage/media-video/tovid: No such file or directory any2vob and any2dvd are excellent tools. They are not in the official portage tree, but there are ebuilds on the author's site. any2vob makes any video file into a dvd compliant vob file. any2dvd leverages any2vob and goes further to make a full dvd iso with menus and chaptering (at predefined intervals). any2vob will even upmix a 5.1 ac3 soundtrack so you get a 5.1 soundtrack from stereo source. Highly recommended, but watch your hard drive space, there are very large temp files created. http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/any2vob/ http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/ebuilds/ There is also a very good long running thread on this software on forums.gentoo.org, just search the forums on any2vob and you will find it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
