Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:09:04 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I've got hal and dbus masked out (pam too), so wicd and networkmanager are out of the question. Wicd doesn't need hal, but dbus is so useful you are crippling your system by blocking it. On a multitasking system, programs need a way of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It is a different prob;em than before. First time I got this error. I'm going to install the version of cdrtools that was working and see if it works. Will post the result later today. I got to drive a tractor for a little while. If I did understand

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-14 Thread Hinko Kocevar
On 04/12/10 18:17, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I tried a older version of k3b and different versions of cdrtools with no change. Also tkdvd doesn't work either. Slightly different error but still doesn't burn. Posted on kde mailing list to see if this is some known issues with k3b. Maybe hardware?

Re: [gentoo-user] xine problem

2010-04-14 Thread mischdele
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 16:53:45 James wrote: Hello, Xine has worked for me in the past. It has been a few months since I used it. Now it give these popup error messages: - xine engine error There is no input plugin available to handle dvd:/ Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to unstable

2010-04-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 16:49:44 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 13 Apr, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 12 April 2010 16:55:38 Paul Hartman wrote: I've been using portage unmasked for a very long time and don't remember having any portage-related problems. I'm sure there must be some (or else

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-14 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:57 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i followed the instructions on http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM_with_VDE to configure my system. the kvm and tun modules loaded fine. but when i run vde_switch --numports 4 --hub --mod 777 --group users --tap tap0, it will not return

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-14 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I tried a older version of k3b and different versions of cdrtools with no change. Also tkdvd doesn't work either. Slightly different error but still doesn't burn. Posted on kde mailing list to see if this is some known issues with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well whether k3b knows it or not, there is 320Gbs of space left. I did some more testing and the drive really doesn't do anything now. Even hdparm can't read all the info so I ordered a drive about 12 hours ago. I have had this brand before so maybe it

[gentoo-user] Bug

2010-04-14 Thread dan blum
I run KDE on my system and my clock is wrong. I corrected several times from KDE, which sets the time to next boot, when it reverts to the old setting. This looks like slight bug. --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:46 AM, dan blum dan_...@yahoo.com wrote: I run KDE on my system and my clock is wrong. I corrected several times from KDE, which sets the time to next boot, when it reverts to the old setting. This looks like slight bug. Check this option in your file

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-14 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well whether k3b knows it or not, there is 320Gbs of space left. I did some more testing and the drive really doesn't do anything now. Even hdparm can't read all the info so I ordered a drive about 12 hours ago. I have had this

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug

2010-04-14 Thread Dale
dan blum wrote: I run KDE on my system and my clock is wrong. I corrected several times from KDE, which sets the time to next boot, when it reverts to the old setting. This looks like slight bug. Since mailing list users generally use threaded messages, please start a new message

[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-14 Thread Matt Harrison
Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some

[gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-14 Thread Matt Harrison
I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-14 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: I read this document, and it seems to be doing basically what you get with libvirt, except libvirt does all that for you (but uses brctl instead of vde (I'm not sure what the differences are)). Anyway it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-14 Thread Xi Shen
BTW, the issue i had have been resolved. the document did not mention that i should add '-d' option to let the vde_switch run in daemon mode. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

[gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-14 Thread Tony Miller
Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Miller mcfiredr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-14 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Millermcfiredr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-14 Thread Tony Miller
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:00:41PM -0500, Dale wrote: I see the music bars in almost all the slides. I see the little keyboard on the right in a couple of them. I didn't ever see any text except for the letters that correspond to the notes. I'm assuming that the text would be almost to