Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg.conf for Mac G4 mini

2009-07-20 Thread David Friedlander
Hello, Joe and JR: Thank to both of you for your help; it took me until now to find the time to once again find time to fiddle with this problem. The symptom is that the monitor gives a message that there's no signal and goes away. Terminating X with some combination :-) of shift keys and

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg.conf for Mac G4 mini

2009-07-20 Thread David Friedlander
Hello, Joe, The server doesn't start; stderr shows the following (captured with xterm 2 test.log This is regardless of the setting of UseFBDev Following this is the generated xorg.conf. I see a strange modeline entry for 720x400 -- could that be the problem? I believe that in the past

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg.conf for Mac G4 mini

2009-07-20 Thread David Friedlander
Further to the last; I modified the xorg.conf to include a modeline for 1024x768, and changed the screen display sections to reference it. I believe the server gets a little further now, but still no soap. Attached, the new xorg.conf and the error log (as before) xorg.conf:

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg.conf for Mac G4 mini

2009-07-20 Thread Joseph Jezak
SubSection Display Depth8 Virtual640 400 Modes640x400 720x400 640x480 640x480 EndSubSection These modes are picked by xac (and probably the X server as well) because if you look at the EDID reported by your monitor, these are the modes it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openoffice fails on qt_plugins_3.3rc

2009-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:51:34 + (UTC), james wrote: There is also another possibility: root and you are just different users, and the problem may lie in your ~/.oo3/ directory. To test this idea just rename ~/.oo3 to something else and let OO make a new one. If that test fails then

[gentoo-user] mp3/stream player?

2009-07-20 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am looking for a mp3 and stream player (playing mp3 streams and m3u directly) as a standalone player and for combination with streamtuner. Ideal would be a player which itsself can scan for internet radio stations, tune in, play and record in different files as streamripper so I can skip

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/stream player?

2009-07-20 Thread Saphirus Sage
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a mp3 and stream player (playing mp3 streams and m3u directly) as a standalone player and for combination with streamtuner. Ideal would be a player which itsself can scan for internet radio stations, tune in, play and record in different files

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/stream player?

2009-07-20 Thread meino . cramer
Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com [09-07-20 09:51]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a mp3 and stream player (playing mp3 streams and m3u directly) as a standalone player and for combination with streamtuner. Ideal would be a player which itsself can scan for internet

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/stream player?

2009-07-20 Thread Saphirus Sage
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com [09-07-20 09:51]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a mp3 and stream player (playing mp3 streams and m3u directly) as a standalone player and for combination with streamtuner. Ideal would be a player

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} AMD Barcelona vs. Intel Harpertown (also 10k vs 15k RPM)

2009-07-20 Thread Grant
I'm trying to decide between an AMD Barcelona or an Intel Harpertown quad-core CPU for a web/database server.  The Intel would have a 5% lower clock speed.  I've read that Harpertown outperforms Barcelona (by 20%?), but that the quad-core implementation isn't as good on the Harpertown.  It's

[gentoo-user] Re: mp3/stream player?

2009-07-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-07-20, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am looking for a mp3 and stream player (playing mp3 streams and m3u directly) as a standalone player and for combination with streamtuner. After futzing around with various other programs over the years, I finally settled on

[gentoo-user] Gentoo server profile

2009-07-20 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi everyone I'm busy installing Gentoo on a local server. I'm using default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server as the profile. I noticed that I get a nice little warning every time I emerge a package saying that the profile is untested. My main concern for using the current server profile is to get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo server profile

2009-07-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 20 July 2009 17:49:00 Dirk Uys wrote: Hi everyone I'm busy installing Gentoo on a local server. I'm using default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server as the profile. I noticed that I get a nice little warning every time I emerge a package saying that the profile is untested. My main

[gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded

2009-07-20 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm working on my 80 year old mother's machine remotely and cannot see the screen. I have a few question about this new Open Source Radeon driver. 1) I'm seeing both radeon and radeonfb in memory. Is this OK, or does it imply a problem of some sort? Can xorg-server use radeon while the console is

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-20 Thread Simon
What did you recompile? There may still be a library using the sse2 flag. Have you tried using the --newuse or --reinstall changed-use emerge flags? Well, since all my problem were related to the use of ssh, i did a full: emerge -e openssh (took a 2 days on that super old pc, while shutdown

[gentoo-user] Email Virus Scanner

2009-07-20 Thread John
Please can you recommend a email virus scanner. I am a little unsure about all the combinations available. I wish to scan incoming email on my home desktop. I currently use Claws Mail and was looking for the simplest option. Many Thanks -- John D Maunder j...@articwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-20 Thread Simon
I'm running memtest86 on that pc at the moment, i will Went through 1 pass with zero errors, I'll try some more passes in case later... look more into the flags (i havent checked in the /etc/portage/packages.use, there might be some sse in there too that i missed). Checked all make.conf and

Re: [gentoo-user] Email Virus Scanner

2009-07-20 Thread Jacob Todd
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:15:41PM +0100, John wrote: Please can you recommend a email virus scanner. I am a little unsure about all the combinations available. I wish to scan incoming email on my home desktop. I currently use Claws Mail and was looking for the simplest option. Many

[gentoo-user] OT - mozilla-thunderbird; how do I get rid of pgp?

2009-07-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife uses thunderbird as her email client. Every time she tries to send an email, she is asked to input a passphrase to encrypt the mail. Because of this, she rarely sends email. I wish to get rid of it. I tried unchecking the Use OpenPGP box and clicking okay, but it still asks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mozilla-thunderbird; how do I get rid of pgp?

2009-07-20 Thread Hung Dang
Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife uses thunderbird as her email client. Every time she tries to send an email, she is asked to input a passphrase to encrypt the mail. Because of this, she rarely sends email. I wish to get rid of it. I tried unchecking the Use OpenPGP box and clicking okay,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mozilla-thunderbird; how do I get rid of pgp? [SOLVED]

2009-07-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 19:35 -0600, Hung Dang wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife uses thunderbird as her email client. Every time she tries to send an email, she is asked to input a passphrase to encrypt the mail. Because of this, she rarely sends email. I wish to get rid of it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless client will not shutdown.

2009-07-20 Thread Harley Peters
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:31:45 -0500 Harley Peters har...@thepetersclan.net wrote: I am running a diskless Mythtv frontend client. Everything is working great accept it will not shutdown. It goes through all the steps of shutting down successfully including remounting any remaining file systems

[gentoo-user] KDM problem

2009-07-20 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, For some reason I could not start kde4 on my laptop. Everything is fine and when I try to log into my account using the kdm log in window it will log in for a second then get back to kdm window. Here is the content of ~/.xsession-errors Warning: Cannot convert string 12x24 to type

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem

2009-07-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 21 Juli 2009, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, For some reason I could not start kde4 on my laptop. Everything is fine and when I try to log into my account using the kdm log in window it will log in for a second then get back to kdm window. Here is the content of ~/.xsession-errors

[gentoo-user] Convince Kaffeine to use opengl ???

2009-07-20 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, How can I convince Kaffeine to use the opengl video interface? MPlayer does not have a problem with it, so I think the X11/Hardware settings are ok so far... Thank you very much in advance for any help! :) Kind regards, Meino Cramer -- Please don't send me any Word- or