Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-30 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, August 30, 2009 23:26, Alex Schuster wrote: > Jesús Guerrero writes: > > >> Then they wonder why the heck >> the file is not where it should be. I guess they never heard of cached >> writes. >> >> The correct thing to do is of course to umount it before, >> and then unplug it or whatever.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cannot start net.eth0

2009-08-30 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
According to this bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/148090 there was a problem with my hardware, which was addressed patching the module r8169. Manuel Fiorelli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cannot start net.eth0

2009-08-30 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/8/31 Neal Hogan : > rc-update? My "/etc/conf.d/net" is config_eth0=("dhcp") and the output of `rc-update show default` is local | default net.eth0 | default netmount | default I can execute "ifconfig eth0 up" with success, but nothing seems to wok :-( Manuel Fiorelli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cannot start net.eth0

2009-08-30 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Manuel Fiorelli wrote: > 2009/8/31 Manuel Fiorelli : >> I installed Gentoo from a minimal CD on a HP Pavillion dv6. I chose to >> use genkernel to automatically configure the kernel. > > I forgot to say that I have installed the kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r4. rc-update?

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot start net.eth0

2009-08-30 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/8/31 Manuel Fiorelli : > I installed Gentoo from a minimal CD on a HP Pavillion dv6. I chose to > use genkernel to automatically configure the kernel. I forgot to say that I have installed the kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r4. Manuel Fiorelli

[gentoo-user] Cannot start net.eth0

2009-08-30 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
I installed Gentoo from a minimal CD on a HP Pavillion dv6. I chose to use genkernel to automatically configure the kernel. Unfortunately, during the boot, it seems that the dhcp client isn't able to contact the DHCP server. Running lspci, I can detect the network adapter: 03:00.0 Ethernet Contro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Aug 2009, at 17:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... mplayer support for realplayer was a right royal cockup. The only thing it could ever have meant was that mplayer could play Real videos. But the way it was documented, users couldn't figure out if this would install the binary realplayer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Aug 2009, at 18:23, Harry Putnam wrote: ... "USE=" is supposed to add *support* for , not necessarily *install* something called . Whatever means in the context of a specific ebuild depends on what the ebuild is for, and different ebuilds with the same USE flag may have entirely differen

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Jesús Guerrero writes: > On Sun, August 30, 2009 21:38, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 19:29:39 schrieb Alex Schuster: > >> I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then it works. But what > >> about unmounting? Is is possible to have it unmounted after I pull the > >> memor

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-30 Thread Dale
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Sun, August 30, 2009 21:38, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 19:29:39 schrieb Alex Schuster: >> >> >> >>> I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then it works. But what >>> about unmounting? Is is possible to have it unmounted after I pull

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-30 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, August 30, 2009 21:38, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 19:29:39 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > >> I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then it works. But what >> about unmounting? Is is possible to have it unmounted after I pull the >> memory stick? > > How do want to u

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files They play fine here.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle quicktime videos. FWIW, out of security considerations I run FF in a chroot jail with as little "other stuff" in the jail as possible So using an extension called "unplug"

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 30 August 2009 19:29:39 schrieb Alex Schuster: > I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then it works. But what about > unmounting? Is is possible to have it unmounted after I pull the memory > stick? How do want to umount something that's not there anymore? You have to umount _be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Jesús Guerrero
> It has to be something done with javascript to intercept the event of > pressing and disabling or redirecting it. > > There are dozens of routines in javascript and AJAX that intercept > keyboard and mouse events... and use them to display something helpful like > a preview of the page the hyper

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesús Guerrero writes: > On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:52, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Jesús Guerrero writes: >> >> >> [...] >> >> will navigate to next and to previous link and I see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a mouse click does to hyperlinks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:52, Harry Putnam wrote: > Jesús Guerrero writes: > > > [...] > > >>> will navigate to next and to previous link and I >>> see they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does >>> whatever a mouse click does to hyperlinks...[/quote] >> >> That entirely dep

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesús Guerrero writes: [...] >> will navigate to next and to previous link and I see >> they are selected... but I find no keyboard action that does whatever a >> mouse click does to hyperlinks...[/quote] > > That entirely depends on the browser you use. But usually it's enter > once you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:23, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > >> You have it wrong. >> > > A not unusual state of affairs for me, I'll admit. > > > After several yrs on gentoo... I still don't understand fully the use > of the USE flags. > >> "USE=" is supposed to add *support* f

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set udev rule?

2009-08-30 Thread Alex Schuster
David Relson writes: > Don't know if the following will help, but it's a rule that I > successfully use to mount a USB memory stick: > > BUS=="usb", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="STECH", SYMLINK+="STECH", > run+="/bin/mount -a" I have to change the bus from usb to scsi, then it works. But what about un

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > You have it wrong. A not unusual state of affairs for me, I'll admit. After several yrs on gentoo... I still don't understand fully the use of the USE flags. > "USE=" is supposed to add *support* for , not > necessarily *install* something called . Whatever > means in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, August 30, 2009 19:20, Harry Putnam wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger writes: > > >> Am Sonntag, 30. August 2009 schrieb Harry Putnam: >> >> >>> Now I want to paste whats on the clipboard into an Xterm cmd line, >>> without going to the mouse. >>> >>> I'm running recent Xfce4 desktop... but not

[gentoo-user] Re: keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Frank Steinmetzger writes: > Am Sonntag, 30. August 2009 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> Now I want to paste whats on the clipboard into an Xterm cmd line, >> without going to the mouse. >> >> I'm running recent Xfce4 desktop... but not finding a way to do this. >> >> Can I just steal whatever events

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 August 2009 18:09:08 Harry Putnam wrote: > Stroller writes: > > Actually, I think there used to be an mplayer USE flag that behaved in > > exactly this way - it was associated with RealPlayer &/or their > > codecs. > > > > However I would assume this to be the exception rather than th

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 30. August 2009 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Now I want to paste whats on the clipboard into an Xterm cmd line, > without going to the mouse. > > I'm running recent Xfce4 desktop... but not finding a way to do this. > > Can I just steal whatever events happen when middle click on three > bu

[gentoo-user] keyboard copy paste

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I copy and paste with the keybard between application windows. I think I remember knowing how to do this at some time in the past but now just coming up blank as to how. I want to copy something in Emacs... ok .. no problem.. there are many ways with keyboard inside emacs. Now I want to p

[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > Actually, I think there used to be an mplayer USE flag that behaved in > exactly this way - it was associated with RealPlayer &/or their > codecs. > > However I would assume this to be the exception rather than the rule, > and one would generally assume that USE="x y z" adds su

[gentoo-user] libXfont 1.4.0 fails to emerge

2009-08-30 Thread Simon Hunt
I need libXfont-1.4.0 because xf86-video-intel-2.7.99.902-r1 depends on xorg-server-1.6.3 which depends on libXfont-1.4.0. But libXfont fails to emerge. Here is the end of the libXfont build.log: libtool: link: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared .libs/dummy.o -Wl,--whole-archive fontfile/.libs/libf

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] DOSEMU 1.4.0.0 won't run as ordinary user anymore

2009-08-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/30/2009 06:47 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: After spending some more time in Google, and trying various search terms, I finally stumbled over the following... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dosemu/+bug/216398 Summary... * temporary workaround; as root, issue the command...

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] DOSEMU 1.4.0.0 won't run as ordinary user anymore

2009-08-30 Thread Drew
The changes to vm.mmap_min_addr were put in place to protect against a number of null pointer deference attacks. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie