[gentoo-user] Combining multiple pointer devices into one

2011-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all other mouse devices. On the console I want to use gpm to get a pointer, but gpm can only take one MOUSEDEV entry at a time (as far as I know), so

Re: [gentoo-user] the same hard-drives, different number of sectors...

2011-10-31 Thread James Broadhead
On 27 October 2011 20:35, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, perhaps someone could explain this to me: I have bouth two the same hard-drives. The same model (Hitachi HUA722050CLA330), the same firmware (JP20A3EA), the

Re: [gentoo-user] Calls compiler directly, and strange parameters passed. Is this a bug?

2011-10-31 Thread James Broadhead
On 29 October 2011 01:03, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Is this incorrect? Does it qualify as a bug? Yes. The ebuild should respect your CFLAGS unless there is a USE flag to enable/disable them. The counter to this is when a package won't build without specific flags, then disregarding

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-31 Thread James Broadhead
On 27 October 2011 09:15, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I'm wanting to get a hard drive that is pretty good size.  I'm looking for about 1 to 2TBs or so.  Thing is, a lot of them seem to be 5900 or even 5400 rpm drives.  I realize that the data on there is packed pretty tight so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-31 Thread James Broadhead
On 30 October 2011 15:29, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 30 Oct 2011 13:32:26 James Broadhead wrote: I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet I have ... Oops, sorry! I was reading the thread on my phone, and must have missed it. JB

Re: [gentoo-user] Combining multiple pointer devices into one

2011-10-31 Thread James Broadhead
On 31 October 2011 09:13, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all other mouse devices. On the console I want to use gpm to get a pointer, but gpm can

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-31 Thread Dale
James Broadhead wrote: On 27 October 2011 09:15, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I'm wanting to get a hard drive that is pretty good size. I'm looking for about 1 to 2TBs or so. Thing is, a lot of them seem to be 5900 or even 5400 rpm drives. I realize that the data on there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-31 Thread James Broadhead
On 31 October 2011 10:58, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James Broadhead wrote: # Use 8MB input cache by default. cache = 131072 I have the same here too.  Like minds maybe?  o_O I _think_ that it's the highest power-of-two that mplayer will allow ... so maybe not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: My point is that the numbers aren't what mattered here. My point is that SAMSUNG sold me a shoddy product, replaced it with another instance of the the same shoddy product, wouldn't replace it again, and never addressed a detailed technical report of a systemic problem in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: My point is that the numbers aren't what mattered here. My point is that SAMSUNG sold me a shoddy product, replaced it with another instance of the the same shoddy product, wouldn't replace it

[gentoo-user] serious kernel bug in 3.1.0 : RAID10

2011-10-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Ok, not gentoo-specific, but I think you forgive this OT-posting if it helps at least one gentoo-user to keep his data safe: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1209036 Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Combining multiple pointer devices into one

2011-10-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:57:10AM +, James Broadhead wrote: On 31 October 2011 09:13, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1, mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all other mouse devices.

[gentoo-user] Error using safely remove for every USB DEVICE.

2011-10-31 Thread Carlos Sura
Hello Mates, I'm getting this error: http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5359/usberror.jpg Everytime I try to use: Safely Remove option, in every USB device, I'm not losing data -I guess- because I have not noticed, but, I really don't know why is this happening, and well.. I would like to know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-30, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'd like to see about reducing the file size a bit if possible. At the same time the native resolution of the Fire is 1024x600 so I'm wondering about

Re: [gentoo-user] Error using safely remove for every USB DEVICE.

2011-10-31 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Hello Carlos, this error is just telling you that udisks did not succeed in powering down the USB device, but actually it was unmounted cleanly (so no data will be lost). The reason is most likely a missing kernel option: USB runtime power management (autosuspend) and wakeup in Device Drivers -

Re: [gentoo-user] Error using safely remove for every USB DEVICE.

2011-10-31 Thread Carlos Sura
On 31 October 2011 19:30, Felix Kuperjans fe...@desaster-games.com wrote: Hello Carlos, this error is just telling you that udisks did not succeed in powering down the USB device, but actually it was unmounted cleanly (so no data will be lost). The reason is most likely a missing kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-01, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Grant Edwards If you mean you want the files encoded at a resolution of 1024x600, you can tell handbrake what output resolution you want. ??You'll get far better results by encoding to the desired

[gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-10-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v of course, one has to remove the -p and -v flags after checking the putput of the