Re: [gentoo-user] DMA while booting

2004-01-02 Thread Arthur Britto
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 01:41, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: > Is it possible to enable DMA before this check so that I can scan my > partitions faster? You can force hdparm to run before checkroot: echo "hdparm checkroot hostname modules checkfs localmount" > /etc/runlevels/boot/.critical -Arthur -

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find out what's using a device?

2003-12-13 Thread Arthur Britto
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 21:30, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > How do I find out what's using a particular device? My /dev/dsp is > locked, and I can't figure out why... > > Thanks in advance emerge lsof lsof /dev/dsp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DMA

2003-12-01 Thread Arthur Britto
n. You can force hdparm to run before checkroot: echo "hdparm checkroot hostname modules checkfs localmount" > /etc/runlevels/boot/.critical -- Copyright (c) 2003 Arthur Britto, All Rights Reserved, Redistribution of this message requires written permission. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree doesn't use -j or ccache

2003-07-10 Thread Arthur Britto
58, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On 10 Jul 2003 10:09:36 -0700 > Arthur Britto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a particular reason why emerge xfree doesn't use -j or > > ccache? > > > Doesnt it? a look inside the xfree ebuild t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree doesn't use -j or ccache

2003-07-10 Thread Arthur Britto
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 13:30, brett holcomb wrote: > Do you have the -j and cache options in make.conf? Yes, both options are in a working configuration. The problem has been clearly visible to me during my last few installs as other packages successfully use -j and ccache. -Arthur -- [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfree doesn't use -j or ccache

2003-07-10 Thread Arthur Britto
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:25, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Arthur Britto wrote: > > Is there a particular reason why emerge xfree doesn't use -j or ccache? > > Two possible reasons. > > (1) Some packages just don't compile in parallel using distcc/ccache. > (2)

[gentoo-user] emerge xfree doesn't use -j or ccache

2003-07-10 Thread Arthur Britto
Is there a particular reason why emerge xfree doesn't use -j or ccache? -Arthur -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec

2003-07-08 Thread Arthur Britto
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 10:38, Rex Walters wrote: > I'm still completely puzzled by this problem. I wish I could reproduce > it without having to reboot! Try a vmware demo or perhaps UML to avoid real rebooting. -Arthur -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim colours

2003-07-07 Thread Arthur Britto
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 07:35, daniel wrote: > i'm rather fond of vim, but there's one thing that just kills me, and that's > the colour scheme used when i'm running konsole in kde. since i use the > semi-transparent background, the dark blue used in comments is virtually > unreadable and i'd lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Need to stop gdm changing ownership of/dev/v4l/* on login.

2003-06-17 Thread Arthur Britto
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:28, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.06.17 19:01, Arthur Britto wrote: > > How can I stop gdm from changing the ownership of /dev/v4l/* on login? > Look in /etc/devfsd.conf for entries containing "v4l". This specifies how the entries are set by devfs. Wha

[gentoo-user] Need to stop gdm changing ownership of /dev/v4l/* on login.

2003-06-17 Thread Arthur Britto
Hi, How can I stop gdm from changing the ownership of /dev/v4l/* on login? Thanks in advance, -Arthur -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] TV tuner

2003-06-13 Thread Arthur Britto
You need a tuner for each source, so you would need 2 tuners. Also, if the tuner doesn't capture audio you need an audio card for each tuner. The WinTV-PVR 250 and 350 have hardware MPEG2 encoding with audio capture and multicard support. Ideal for PVR and picture in picture, although TV out doe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-12 Thread Arthur Britto
-www/mozilla-1.3_beta * net-www/galeon-1.3.3 * x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 * Is this the same as your working configuration? Did you try to view RealPlayer video at news.com? Thanks again, -Arthur On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 10:33, Arthur Britto wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 09:53, Richard Revis wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-12 Thread Arthur Britto
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 09:53, Richard Revis wrote: > Arthur Britto wrote: > > > I thought maybe the problem was with plugger overriding things, so I > > pulled out plugger. I already have rpnp.so symbolically linked to > > /opt/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so. > > In the rea

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-12 Thread Arthur Britto
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 06:07, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:52, Arthur Britto wrote: > > > ebuild /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-0.90_rc4.ebuild > > ebuild /usr/portage/net-www/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-0.40.ebuild > > Now I realize w

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-12 Thread Arthur Britto
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 01:19, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 01:43, Arthur Britto wrote: > > > My score so far: > > evolution launched from mailto:yes > > How did you do that? I suppose something in prefs.js. Under Gnome the following works fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-11 Thread Arthur Britto
button is disabled, right clicking brings up menu but Play does not work. Both browsers show rpnp.so in: about:plugins Thanks again, -Arthur On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 22:39, Richard Revis wrote: > Arthur Britto wrote: > > > realplayer fails > > The r

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and Java (Again)

2003-03-11 Thread Arthur Britto
EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >> > >> > >> > > > >I belive you are supposed to use a symbolic link > > > > > > > That is a link, actually, to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Thanks though! > > Don > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Copyright (c) 2003 Arthur Britto, All Rights Reserved, Redistribution of this message requires written permission. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Symmetrical Vs Asymmetrical GPG Encryption

2003-02-19 Thread Arthur Britto
A correction: You could use /dev/urandom to add 1K of random data to the start of your archive as follows: head -c 1024 /dev/urandom > NEW cat ORIGINAL >> NEW On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 14:18, Arthur Britto wrote: > Here is an example command to use symmetrical encrypt

Re: [gentoo-user] Symmetrical Vs Asymmetrical GPG Encryption

2003-02-19 Thread Arthur Britto
Here is an example command to use symmetrical encryption with gpg: cat passphrase.txt | gpg -c --no-secmem-warning --cipher-algo RIJNDAEL256 --command-fd 0 --yes -o OUTPUT INPUT If you choose a pass phrase you can remember, you need never worry about loosing a floppy or piece of paper with a