[gentoo-user] [OT] firmware update for an external (USB) hard drive

2012-10-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, googling didn't help me. I've just got an Intenso Memory Center. According to smartctl it contains a Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001-9YN166 hard disk. And smartctl reminds me to check for a firmware update, and indeed, there is one. But how can I update the firmware for hard disk

[gentoo-user] Handbook: AMD ARM

2012-10-31 Thread James
Hello, Well many folks were doubtful, but look here: The first ARM technology-based AMD Opteron™ processor is targeted for production in 2014 and will integrate the AMD SeaMicro Freedom™ supercompute fabric, the industry's premier high-performance fabric. Just look at AMD's press releases for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] firmware update for an external (USB) hard drive

2012-10-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, googling didn't help me. I've just got an Intenso Memory Center. According to smartctl it contains a Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001-9YN166 hard disk. And smartctl reminds me to check for a firmware

[gentoo-user] Re: wireless dropping connections

2012-10-31 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: b. I hate phones and usually pretend to myself they don't exist Ah, There is your debug semantic. Just unplug the phone for a while and see if the wireless issues go away. It so, you've fingerd the culprit. If not, you can ponder your

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. Has it always done this? If not, did anything change around the time the problem

[gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-10-31 Thread Mick
Hi All, An old Pentium 4 machine which is refusing to die, is getting problematic running the full KDE desktop. I was thinking of using razor-qt which has a broadly similar look so as to not alienate the users (they mostly use KDE apps). Have any of you tried it out on a stable Gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:01:26 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several times a day, this thing just drops

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wireless dropping connections

2012-10-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:39:46 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: b. I hate phones and usually pretend to myself they don't exist Ah, There is your debug semantic. Just unplug the phone for a while and see if the wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Questions about building from source tarball

2012-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
Thanks for the pointer. It got me going... sort of. Now I know why we don't have the latest seamonkey in the Gentoo tree. It requires =dev-libs/nspr-4.9.3 and the highest ebuild of nspr in the tree is 4.9.2, even though I did an emerge sync today. So I'd have to build nspr and nss locally

[gentoo-user] Samsung NC10 Mic

2012-10-31 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, i can not run the Mic, i has search in net with Gentoo and NC10, i have the kernel config changed, but the mic want not run. Has someone a idea? /var/log/messages input: HDA Intel Mic as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9 input: HDA Intel Headphone as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wireless dropping connections

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 01 November 2012 00:07:36 Alan McKinnon wrote: that phone is the master base station for the other two slave handsets. Unplug it, and the house phone stops working; this will upset missus/daughter mightily as they can't speak to granny 10 time a day anymore. [ don't ask, please

Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-10-31 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:46 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, An old Pentium 4 machine which is refusing to die, is getting problematic running the full KDE desktop. I was thinking of using razor-qt which has a broadly similar look so as to not alienate the users (they mostly use KDE apps).

Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-10-31 Thread Philip Webb
121101 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:46 +, Mick wrote: I was thinking of using razor-qt From the Oct 20 automated package removal email you might want to investigate why before moving to it. x11-wm/razorqt 2012-10-22 10:00:01 yngwin

Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-10-31 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 23:12 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 121101 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:46 +, Mick wrote: I was thinking of using razor-qt From the Oct 20 automated package removal email you might want to investigate why before moving to it. x11-wm/razorqt

[gentoo-user] Hibernation an mousewheel

2012-10-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, for my PC-mouse I am using imwheel to map the wheel and some buttons. When the PC woke up from hibernation however these mapping are partially lost: When hover the mouse over a window and than using the wheel let me jump through all virtual desktops instead scrolling the windows contents.