Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Justin
On 20/04/10 09:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to ck-sources? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/4/19 ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com: Recompiled hplip for use with C5180 with new use flag: scanner.  Now scanning works, printing does not.  Recompiled with new-hpcups use flag. Still not working.  Output from cups web interface: /usr/libexec/cups/backend/hp failed Is it connected

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Apr, Justin wrote: On 20/04/10 09:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On 20 April 2010 02:27, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I think the proper country code is GB not UK, maybe that's why it didn't work. With iw try: iw reg set GB or in your wpa_supplicant config: country=GB Thanks Paul, good pointer. It seems that the UK also has GB

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
Hello Daniel The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are installed: net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 Thanks ubiquitous1...@gmail.com On 20/04/10 16:59, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/4/19 ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com: Recompiled hplip

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On 19 April 2010 15:43, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea what the 'wifi' USE flag actually does in www-client/mozilla-firefox?  Is it merely to know when the machine is on/off line and therefore

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
additional thoughts: Am 20.04.2010 14:01, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I thought maybe the NIC has a problem? Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) but as it doesn't lose its IP and config I think that is not the case here? I noticed that

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

2010-04-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Used versions --- mkisofs: 2.1.1a77 growisofs: 7.1 growisofs command: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=4gms

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to ck-sources?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. Now understand, that I am easily the dullest knife in the drawer on this list even though by unix/linux standards I'm fairly long in the tooth having started my computing skills in 1996 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread deface
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Grant wrote: did etc-update over write xorg.conf ? I actually don't use an xorg.conf at all. - Grant I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware? Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old broadcom driver didn't support channels 12 and 13 for some reason with certain hardware. However, it

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I didn't find which patches and why these

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

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 This part jumps out at me. Is /dev/hdd your new DVD burner? Is it really IDE and not SATA? And isn't /dev/fd/0 a floppy device? Are you burning from a floppy to an IDE drive?

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:58 AM, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Daniel The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are installed: net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 Try to blacklist rmmod the usblp module. I had to do that for my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

2010-04-20 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote: After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown script, et cetera. The battery properties

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then let m4 sort out sendmail.cf. IOW, sendmail has a

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc...

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then let m4 sort out sendmail.cf. IOW, sendmail has a configuration file so incomprehensible that the

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up in your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so: merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp/merge Read more details here:

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

2010-04-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 This part jumps out at me. Is /dev/hdd your new DVD burner? Is it really IDE and not SATA? And isn't /dev/fd/0 a floppy device? Are

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

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 This part jumps out at me. Is /dev/hdd

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

2010-04-20 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/20/2010 11:01 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 And isn't /dev/fd/0 a floppy device? Are you burning from a floppy to an IDE drive? /dev/fd0 is a floppy. /dev/fd/0 is file descriptor 0 for

[gentoo-user] sci-physics/root slotting?

2010-04-20 Thread daid kahl
Hello, For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting would be an extremely useful feature. Anyone who doesn't use or know root, but has experience or opinions on how or when slots should be used, your

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Paul Hartman schrieb am 20.04.2010 17:03: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:58 AM, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Daniel The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are installed: net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 Try to blacklist

[gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-20 Thread Jarry
Hi, $SUBJECT says it all: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I tried to figure it out looking into /etc/init.d scripts, but there are a lot of depend/need/use/before statements, so I quicky

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-19, pon o godzinie 20:24 -0500, deface pisze: ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-20 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-20, wto o godzinie 19:47 +0200, Jarry pisze: Hi, $SUBJECT says it all: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I tried to figure it out looking into /etc/init.d scripts, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Grant
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so) Exactly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-20, wto o godzinie 11:51 -0700, Grant pisze: ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf,

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/20/2010 05:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But

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

2010-04-20 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Used versions --- mkisofs: 2.1.1a77 growisofs: 7.1 growisofs command: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=4gms

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:47:55 +0200, Jarry wrote: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? You could turn on boot logging in rc.conf and look at /var/log/rc.log. -- Neil Bothwick Experience is

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

2010-04-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=4gms -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2295193 -speed=4 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m Well, if your problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:30:18 Harry Putnam wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up in your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so: merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp/merge

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

2010-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:45:27AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: /dev/fd/0 is /dev/stdin I learned something new, thanks :) To complete your education :) fd stands for file descriptor. fd/0 = stdin fd/1 = stdout fd/2 = stderr You can create your own file descriptors and use them to

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

2010-04-20 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=4gms -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2295193 -speed=4 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:25:14 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware? Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old broadcom driver didn't support channels 12 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/20/2010 05:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 22:24:41 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:25:14 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware? Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 14:53, Harry Putnam wrote: I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. ... Unless, I'm terribly misinformed, sendmail is still the most commonly used mta in the unix world of servers. I would be surprised if it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 19 Apr 2010, at 22:50, Mick wrote: ... The problem is that you'll spend an hour or two setting it all up, it'll work, you'll never touch it again. Then, two years later something will require you to reconfigure it and there will be no way on this earth that you will remember what you

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: ... One of my customers runs an old P3 as a mail-gateway and samba-server (yeah, I know ...) behind his firewall ... They simply don't want to swap hardware, they are happy ... until the following started to happen every week or so: You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 19 Apr 2010, at 23:03, Mick wrote: ... There might be an option to change the region of your wifi NIC. Channels 12 13 are legal in Europe, IIRC, but not in the USA. You should be able to change the channel of the AP - typically they have a drop-down which will choose either auto or a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 09:02, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to ck-sources? They did not get applied to ck-sources. ck-sources *is* the patches. Hmmm this seems to be an issue of semantics. When one runs `emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:17, Mick wrote: ... Introduced in Gecko 1.9.1: Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges can monitor the list of available WiFi access points to obtain information about them including their SSID, MAC address, and signal strength. This capability was introduced primarily to

[gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread john
Hello, After updating my machine which included upgrading xorg-server-1.7.6. I was left with a none working mouse and keyboard. After an hour or so of checking I decided to re-emerge xorg-server again to discover a message to rebuild x11-drivers. I rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, john j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hello,        After updating my machine which included upgrading        xorg-server-1.7.6. I was left with a none working mouse and        keyboard. After an hour or so of checking I decided to        re-emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 20:28:42 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:47:55 +0200, Jarry wrote: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? You could turn on boot logging in rc.conf and

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 00:33:19 Mark Knecht wrote: Check out module-rebuild. You put a list of packages in it How and where does one do that? -- Rgds Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: I think you did not read the link properly. You are meant to copy the relevant .fdi file from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and then modify the last paragraph: Yes, I did misread apparently...

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread walt
On 04/20/2010 04:05 PM, john wrote: Linux/Gentoo appaers to be moving away from xorg.conf and towards hal/policices... That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8 specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions, so we

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread dan blum
I also upgraded the drivers after a xorg upgrade. The correct drivers need to be emerged: ie. x11-drivers/XF86-input_mouse x11-drivers/XF86-input_keyboard + the video drivers. If you are not sure what drivers you need, just execute qlist /media-video. --- On Tue, 4/20/10, Peter Humphrey

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Graham Murray
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8 specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions, so we should all start looking beyond hal. Don't spend a lot of effort now learning about hal because it's on