Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

2010-02-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 February 2010 00:34:42 CJoeB wrote: Hi everyone, I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I am having trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

2010-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:34:42 -0500, CJoeB wrote: I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I am having trouble with the

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 14 February 2010 15:27:45 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: snipped And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single

[gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net tries to do too much

2010-02-15 Thread Grant
I configured my laptop as a wireless AP with hostapd. It works great as long as I 'ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.1'. I can have /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 started automatically with hostapd, but I can't come up with an /etc/conf.d/net config that will work. It always fails by saying it can't set master

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
J. Roeleveld wrote: And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single status update to be written to the filesystem. And with minimal

[gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread walt
Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1? 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what options I give it, including no options. Strace shows that nfs.mount is passing a weird-looking IP address string to the 'mount' system call (man 2 mount),

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/15/2010 2:20 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single status update to be written

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 15 February 2010 21:23:54 walt wrote: Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1? 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what options I give it, including no options. Strace shows that nfs.mount is passing a weird-looking IP

[gentoo-user] pdfimages

2010-02-15 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I could not find poppler-utils package which has pdfimages command. Does anyone know which package I should install to have pdfimages installed? Thanks in advance Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] pdfimages

2010-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:09:22 Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I could not find poppler-utils package which has pdfimages command. Does anyone know which package I should install to have pdfimages installed? Thanks in advance Hung It's part of poppler now, and things have been

Re: [gentoo-user] pdfimages

2010-02-15 Thread Boris Fersing
Hi, emerge app-text/poppler regards, Boris On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 22:09, Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I could not find poppler-utils package which has pdfimages command. Does anyone know which package I should install to have pdfimages installed? Thanks in advance Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] pdfimages

2010-02-15 Thread Hung Dang
Hi Boris and Alan, Thanks a lot for your quick reply. I have installed poppler and I could be able to use pdfimages now. Regards, Hung On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Boris Fersing kernelsen...@gentoo.orgwrote: Hi, emerge app-text/poppler regards, Boris On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 22:09,

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:28:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The USE flag changed at 1.1.6-r1 from nonfsv4 to nfsv4 so if you did not change USE you will get the exact opposite support between the earliest and most recent version in portage. pet hate Don't you just hate negative USE flags on

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Sorry if I reheat a topic that some already consider closed. I used the weekend to experiment on that stuff and need to report my results. Because they startle me a little.

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 15 Februar 2010, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/15/2010 2:20 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks)

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote: I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is flagged as bootable. The first

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical sector size is? Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no relevance

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread walt
On 02/15/2010 12:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 21:23:54 walt wrote: Anyone else having problems mounting nfs shares with nfs-utils-1.2.1? 'mount.nfs' complains I'm passing it a bad nfs option no matter what options I give it, including no options. Strace shows that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils broken on ~amd64?

2010-02-15 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 02/15, walt wrote: === The next step is to build a new kernel with nfs4 support and unset the 'nonfsv4' flag, but at the moment I'm running a ver-r-r-y long partition resize with gparted so that I can add more space to my experimental lvm2 volumes. (Working great so far.) I think

[gentoo-user] Which packages did I unmerge?

2010-02-15 Thread Grant
Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging them. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Which packages did I unmerge?

2010-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 09:20:15 Grant wrote: Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging them. - Grant app-portage/genlop --