[gentoo-user] Virtualbox USB w/o usbfs

2010-07-13 Thread SpaceCake
Hi, I have a problem with accessing usb devices from virtualbox after some kernel/system update. Previously it was ok after I've added the following line to the fstab usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1017,devmode=664 0 0 but now, there is no /proc/bus/usb how can I enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Róbert Čerňanský
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:11:17 + (UTC) Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting either DejaVu or bitstream vera. I guess I can install more fonts, but I was hoping I

[gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people! After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. How do I get the mouse and keyboard to run. I followed the steps from the

[gentoo-user] Display gone

2010-07-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Just reinstalled Gentoo. Boot thru kdm. Works fine, but a lot of X kde apps can't find the display and return No protocol specified No protocol specified xprop: unable to open display ':0' Did I forget to configure something ? -- ~adj~

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. How do I get the mouse and

[gentoo-user] how can I make emerge --sync less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Jarry
Hi, subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast it saturates my connection. How can I make emerge --sync somehow less verbose? I know, I can use --quiet, but then I do not see anyting. Maybe something like status-bar,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote:  Hi people! After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. How

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Hung Dang
uOn 07/13/10 10:45, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:57:14 +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. What happens if you use the old

[gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world Calculating dependencies... done! Fetching (1 of 1) gnome-base/gvfs-1.4.3-r1 * gvfs-1.4.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer Am 13.07.2010 18:45, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Tamer Higazi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world Calculating dependencies... done! Fetching (1 of 1) gnome-base/gvfs-1.4.3-r1 * gvfs-1.4.3.tar.bz2 RMD160

Re: [gentoo-user] Display gone

2010-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
alain.didierj...@free.fr writes: Just reinstalled Gentoo. Boot thru kdm. Works fine, but a lot of X kde apps can't find the display and return No protocol specified No protocol specified xprop: unable to open display ':0' Did I forget to configure something ? Perhaps these apps are

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer Glad it worked.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world Calculating dependencies... done! Fetching (1 of 1)

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazith9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world Calculating dependencies...

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/13/2010 08:01 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Portage tells you to do exactly that after updating xorg-server.

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-13 Thread Stroller
On 12 Jul 2010, at 22:59, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332? ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1278964492sr=8-6 ... In my

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazith9...@googlemail.com  wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I

Re: [gentoo-user] Display gone

2010-07-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu: alain.didierj...@free.fr writes: Just reinstalled Gentoo. Boot thru kdm. Works fine, but a lot of X kde apps can't find the display and return No protocol specified No protocol specified xprop: unable to open display ':0' Did I forget to

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make emerge --sync less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/13/2010 09:48 AM, Jarry wrote: Hi, subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast it saturates my connection. How can I make emerge --sync somehow less verbose? I know, I can use --quiet, but then I do not see

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Right. I misspoke. New use flags, not new a package. However the outcome is consistent. It says it's 'fetching' because it's responding to the idea that there's a new use flag, but then fetches nothing because the file is already here and builds nothing because it's already

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/13/2010 08:01 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Portage tells you to do exactly that

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: 2. The name you give Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like -unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Right. I misspoke. New use flags, not new a package. However the outcome is consistent. It says it's 'fetching' because it's responding to the idea that there's a new use flag, but then fetches nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-13 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jul 2010, at 02:50, Allan Gottlieb wrote: How should I view .m4v files with totem. Is there a gst-plugin or a use flag for gst-plugins-meta? I have used the following, which works, but the video quality is bad ffmpeg -i file.m4v file.avi totem file.avi Hi there, I was been reluctant

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-13, R?bert ?er?ansk? hslis...@zoznam.sk wrote: You can. I'm not sure why is that but it seems that your emacs is not able to find variable pitch font - About emacs screen and tooltips are using such font; normal edit buffers uses a fixed width font. To be more precise, they are

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Right. I misspoke. New use flags, not new a package. However the outcome is consistent. It says it's 'fetching' because it's responding to the idea that there's a new use flag,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/13/10, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a big deal. The machine is fine. Everything is consistent as far as I know. However some portion of the download logic in emerge is confused. I've seen this sort of thing a few times in the past but it's always cleared up in a day

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: 2. The name you give Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like -unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal You don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/13/10, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a big deal. The machine is fine. Everything is consistent as far as I know. However some portion of the download logic in emerge is confused. I've seen this sort

[gentoo-user] Device not accepting address, error -110 and others

2010-07-13 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi list,    since I updated to some of new linux kernels versions, I started to experimenting many problems with my usb devices / hub, which makes my computer works in a very strange manner. Researching on this direction on the web, I noticed that many people have the same/similar problem as mine,

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 9 Jul 2010, at 02:50, Allan Gottlieb wrote: How should I view .m4v files with totem. Is there a gst-plugin or a use flag for gst-plugins-meta? I have used the following, which works, but the video quality is bad ffmpeg -i file.m4v file.avi

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-13, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: 2. The name you give Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like -unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-07-13, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: 2. The name you give Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like -unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal You don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works

2010-07-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote: Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to Unknown. For a long time it has always been set to Evdev managed keyboard but that isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 12 July 2010 22:59:59 Paul Hartman wrote: In my experience, the small PS/2 to USB mouse adapters like that do not contain a controller chip and only work on USB-compatible PS/2 mice. Those mice typically came with

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make emerge --sync less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast it saturates my connection. How can I make emerge --sync somehow less verbose? I know, I can use

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make emerge --sync less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast it saturates my

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-13 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 July 2010 22:59:59 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this adaptor: http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB-

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 19:00:27 Stroller wrote: On 12 Jul 2010, at 22:59, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332?

[gentoo-user] kdeplasma-addons-4.4.4 fails

2010-07-13 Thread James
Hello, I've manage to update several system (amd64 kde 4.4.4) but one is just giving me fits. I've rebuilt libpng per flameyes blog post: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update. I've emerge -e system and used revdep-rebuild many times (clean now). Still

[gentoo-user] Camera App

2010-07-13 Thread sean
Is anyone able to recommend an application that can snap a picture using a webcam? I would prefer one not really tied to Gnome or KDE, but if it is a must, I would choose KDE. Being in portage is a nice plus as well. Thanks, Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks and put it all back together again so that

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works

2010-07-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:11 +0100, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote: Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to Unknown. For a long time it has always

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks and put it all back together again so that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks

[gentoo-user] [OT] Any centralized documentation on qemu-kvm?

2010-07-13 Thread Walter Dnes
Before anybody asks... 1) VirtualBox manages to do a hard locup on my Intel I3 2) qemu depends on softmmu, which requires gcc 3.x So I installed qemu-kvm (different from qemu). The documentation that I've found via Google is out-of-date/irrelavant. I know that there is a kvm command, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: SNIP So emerge -evp is useful to get those last inconsistencies out of the system. -- Valmor You can add this option to help with those:  --with-bdeps y  I consider it -D on steroids.  I actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: SNIP So emerge -evp is useful to get those last inconsistencies out of the system. -- Valmor You can add this option to help with those: --with-bdeps y I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Dale wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari