Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for xli?

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 04:25:57 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Is there any smallsized replacement for media-gfx/xli for loading pictures to the desktop background? xli breaks my update since it wants jpeg-6b-r8 (yes, I have jpeg-compat installed) -- may be hardcoded?

[gentoo-user] vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm

2009-09-07 Thread Xi Shen
Hi, i have vmware-server 2.0 running on gentoo amd64, the guest os is windows xp. on another gentoo amd64 machine, i emerged vmware-server-console, and tried to connect to the guest os, but without luck. a vmware-server-console window popup, but with nothing in it. i am using awesome 3. --

[gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm

2009-09-07 Thread Xi Shen
btw, the 'vmware-server-console' program requires a -P (port) argument, but i do not understand what kind of port number should i give. i remember while installing the server, a port 902 is opened by default for accessing the guest os. is it the port that the program expected? anyway, i tried with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote: I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. I suggest you fetch the latest stable binary package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3. Comparisons with KDE-3 are going result in

[gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild

2009-09-07 Thread Xi Shen
Hi, when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many mirrors around the world, the results are the same. i think there's some wrong on the

[gentoo-user] Merge svnroots

2009-09-07 Thread Song Zhiwei
Hi all, Is there any way to merge a svnroot to another one? There are independent before. Regards, Zhiwei

Re: [gentoo-user] Merge svnroots

2009-09-07 Thread Mickaël Bucas
2009/9/7 Song Zhiwei son...@gmail.com Hi all, Is there any way to merge a svnroot to another one? There are independent before. Regards, Zhiwei Hi I've done this using the procedure describe in SVN manual http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.5 The steps are :

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild

2009-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has special mean in http/ftp, i cannot d/l the file. i have check many mirrors

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm

2009-09-07 Thread David Snider
On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote: give. i remember while installing the server, a port 902 is opened by default for accessing the guest os. is it the port that the program expected? anyway, i tried with this port without luck. VMWare Server 2 did away with the console. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild

2009-09-07 Thread Massimo Gengarelli
No problems here, I've just installed and used dmg2img successfully. On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has special

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild

2009-09-07 Thread Arttu V.
On 9/7/09, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename trying to d/l is 'download?dmg2img-1.6.tar.gz'. since th '?' mark has special mean in http/ftp,

Re: [gentoo-user] Merge svnroots

2009-09-07 Thread Song Zhiwei
Thanks 2009/9/7 Mickaël Bucas mbu...@gmail.com 2009/9/7 Song Zhiwei son...@gmail.com Hi all, Is there any way to merge a svnroot to another one? There are independent before. Regards, Zhiwei Hi I've done this using the procedure describe in SVN manual

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg problems: Intel 945GM (Gigabyte Motherboard onboard video)

2009-09-07 Thread Yoav Luft
I had a similar with the intel video driver, it took me some time to get it all working smoothly. First, read this wiki page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA, and follow to the latter, including the specific versions of everything, and parameters that need to be passed to the kernel (yes,

[gentoo-user] Re: After yrs of silence... I need sound

2009-09-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: [...] Hoping some kind sole will take the time to provide a brief outline off the top of there head... how to get started and cut right to the chase in an hour or two. [...] Thanks too: Arttu V., Dale, Mick, Joshua Murphy That alsaconf is way

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot d/l dmg2img ebuild

2009-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 04:53:05PM +0300, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: On 9/7/09, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:19:09PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: when i am trying to d/l the dmg2img ebuild, i found that the filename trying to d/l is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trim for ssds

2009-09-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Sep 2009, at 00:07, walt wrote: On 09/06/2009 02:21 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29 ...How effective that is for extending the life of a SSD, I have no clue. Uh, extending the life of the SSD isn't the purpose.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm

2009-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 September 2009 15:20:50 David Snider wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote: give. i remember while installing the server, a port 902 is opened by default for accessing the guest os. is it the port that the program expected? anyway, i tried with this port without

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-07 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm

2009-09-07 Thread David Snider
On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: VMWare Server 2 did away with the console. Oh no. Please tell me it isn't so. -- It's so, buut you can vnc in to all your machines to watch them boot, yadda yadd by adding the below text to the .vmx files...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 September 2009 17:39:06 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: Um, dude grub selects a kernel. Or an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-07 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 07 September 2009 17:39:06 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/06/2009 03:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/06/2009 02:23 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 06 September 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 September

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 September 2009 21:58:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I don't even know why I keep talking to you. You don't seem to want to understand. It's not about special drivers. Or specialized audio processing. It's about my 3D desktop cube getting skippy sometimes while video is

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-07 Thread walt
On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote: I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. I suggest

[gentoo-user] Re: trim for ssds

2009-09-07 Thread walt
On 09/07/2009 08:00 AM, Stroller wrote: On 7 Sep 2009, at 00:07, walt wrote: On 09/06/2009 02:21 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29 ...How effective that is for extending the life of a SSD, I have no clue. Uh, extending the life of the SSD isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-07 Thread Arttu V.
On 9/7/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK. It finished recompiling boost and Scribus. Both hearts and mp3splt-gtk still fail with the same error as before. Any ideas? Ok, let's first take back the hearts compiles on amd64. It compiled. Once. On the absolutely-minimal, stable-only amd64

[gentoo-user] hal and keyboard layout switching

2009-09-07 Thread Pat
Hello, I want to setup hal to enable me switching between two keyboard layouts. My original configuration in xorg.conf is: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us,cz Option

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-07 Thread Dale
Arttu V. wrote: On 9/7/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: OK. It finished recompiling boost and Scribus. Both hearts and mp3splt-gtk still fail with the same error as before. Any ideas? Ok, let's first take back the hearts compiles on amd64. It compiled. Once. On the

[gentoo-user] Re: Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-09-07 Thread Grant
I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection.  I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($).  I've installed ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? - Grant Can anyone offer

[gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP write error...?

2009-09-07 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:12:21PM +0200, Jarry wrote: I'm just checking /var/log/messages and I have found a few entries like this: 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix sSMTP[7233]: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfn83HUEom007670 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): Permission denied

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: sSMTP write error...?

2009-09-07 Thread Adam Carter
2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix sSMTP[7233]: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfn83HUEom007670 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=209): Permission denied 2009-09-03T17:30:15+00:00 obelix ) I suppose it comes from mail-mta/ssmtp, but I do not understand. Some persmission problem? Where does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm

2009-09-07 Thread Xi Shen
yeah, i can connect to the web; but if i cannot connect to the vms through the console, i cannot see how they boot. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:20 PM, David Sniderdsni...@thesniderpad.com wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote: give. i remember while installing the server, a port 902

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-server-console cannot connect to vm

2009-09-07 Thread Xi Shen
i was just thinking that if i cannot get the console work, i will turn to use vnc. thanks for your tips ;) On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:36 AM, David Sniderdsni...@thesniderpad.com wrote: On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: VMWare Server 2 did away with the console. Oh no. Please

[gentoo-user] mythtv w/ winTV 1600 (ATSC support)

2009-09-07 Thread Neal Hogan
I posted the stuff below on the mythtvtalk forum and it's been a few days and I've heard nothing. I've also searched for answers elsewhere, but no go. Since I'm running my setup under gentoo, I thought I try this list. I hope you don't mind. I recently acquired a new Hauppauge WinTV 1600 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-09-07 Thread Stroller
On 8 Sep 2009, at 01:00, Grant wrote: ... Has anyone tried trojita (in portage)? Someone here must be trying it! The official screenshot shows messages from this list: http://trojita.flaska.net/screenshots.html Stroller.