Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 02.01.2013 06:25, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: On 01.01.2013 16:13, Florian Philipp wrote: With that, fullscreen applications work for me. Some still deactivate the second display or change the resolution but otherwise it works just fine. I tried it and it does not help at all, nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-01 7:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Probably the old

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV to remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows what I want to happen with each chunk of it. A chunk (my term) in this context is a directory and

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:40:29 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog USE=suid has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do not enable it, you will not be able to run startx as a regular user. xdm and other X login

[gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. Does anyone know which font to install? These are the fonts presently installed on my machine - media-fonts/corefonts media-fonts/freefont-ttf

[gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, This has been bugging me for a while... I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this question... Lots of references to the Mangle table, but nothing that really explains what this table is or does, and when or why I would want/need it. Currently, I have this in

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:04:50 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV to remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows what I want to happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013, 15:38:01 schrieb Alan McKinnon: AFAIK, Oracle included encryption in ZFS v30 but this has not been released as opensource. The last OSS version released was 28. What this means to me is that devs could include disk-encryption but they probably won't have a

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Philip Webb wrote: 130102 Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: If you're the only user of your computer, you could also just unmask the version in Portage. The bug is that any user in the games

[gentoo-user] Re: Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. Does anyone know which font to install? These are the fonts presently installed on my machine -

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:08:57 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ecryptfs looks easy to use with zfs: http://pthree.org/2012/08/21/encrypted-zfs-filesystems-on-linux/ I found that one on subsequent googling. I had hoped that it would be included in ZFS, meaning I could replace four layers;

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. Does anyone know which font to install? These are the fonts

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 08:15:45 PM IST, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install.

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: SNIP Turns out that it's a character in CJK. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 Installed bitstream-cyberbit. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com Glad it worked. PLEASE - trim your

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-01-01 7:55 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-02 10:24 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I once had an onboard NIC go bad, and the PCI NIC I substituted for it wouldn't work unless the onboard NIC was disabled. So disabling onboard hardware may or may not be a net positive. ? That was confusing - unless you actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-01-02 10:24 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I once had an onboard NIC go bad, and the PCI NIC I substituted for it wouldn't work unless the onboard NIC was disabled. So disabling onboard hardware may

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:31:36PM +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Turns out that it's a character in CJK. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 Installed bitstream-cyberbit. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com Try media-fonts/wqy-zenhei for great display of CJK

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-02 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/1/1 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2013-01-01, Stroller wrote: On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: ... The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say chances are

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 02.01.2013 11:55, Florian Philipp wrote: Hello, Make sure all direct and indirect dependencies have USE=xinerama. Specifically: x11-libs/qt-gui x11-libs/gtk+ media-libs/libsdl app-emulation/wine xinerama is enabled global in make.conf so everything and the kitchensink should be build

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: SNIP... I don't think I have this problem here but I'd need to emerge a specific game that runs full screen to test. Could you please provide the name of something easy to emerge and test. I ran a game called 0ad a

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/02/13 08:38, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, This has been bugging me for a while... I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this question... Lots of references to the Mangle table, but nothing that really explains what this table is or does, and when or why I would

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 Jan 2013 13:38:27 Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, This has been bugging me for a while... I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this question... Lots of references to the Mangle table, but nothing that really explains what this table is or does, and when

[gentoo-user] Re: Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:56:33 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. Does anyone know which font to install? Try media-fonts/symbola

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-01-02 2:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: If you have a look at 'man iptables-extensions' it gives some examples of using -t mangle. I haven't looked in Google recently, but there should be some examples there too. Oh, ok - so, if I don't have any rules that use the

[gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread james
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free up udev to do more of what you suspect. Yep, I did this to see if udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:57:07PM +, james wrote: Well is all works automatically, but udev did not create the files I thought it would upon reboot: rules.d # ls -alg total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 192 Jan 2 14:37 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root 152 Dec 9 23:26 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1896 Sep

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-02 Thread Stroller
On 1 January 2013, at 15:22, Francisco Ares wrote: ... I've heard (or read) that before, to me it seems quite strange that one of the main products from MS to be so outdated in this area. AVI has been around a long time. It is inevitably prone to bitrot, then. AIUI the AVI specification

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:57 PM, james wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Todd Goodman
* james wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [130102 16:02]: [..] Well is all works automatically, but udev did not create the files I thought it would upon reboot: rules.d # ls -alg total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 192 Jan 2 14:37 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root 152 Dec 9 23:26 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1896 Sep

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/30/12 22:21, Walter Dnes wrote: OK, here is version 2. I had an excellent adventure along the way. I'm doing the upgrade on our servers right now, and there's another possible gotcha: the newer iptables (requiring conntrack) requires NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNTRACK support in the kernel.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Stroller wrote: On 1 January 2013, at 15:22, Francisco Ares wrote: ... I've heard (or read) that before, to me it seems quite strange that one of the main products from MS to be so outdated in this area. AVI has been around a long time. It is inevitably prone to bitrot,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, james wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 03/01/13 06:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, james wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: ... Also check /lib/udev/rules.d/ BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 Jan 2013 19:47:11 Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-01-02 2:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: If you have a look at 'man iptables-extensions' it gives some examples of using -t mangle. I haven't looked in Google recently, but there should be some examples there too.

[gentoo-user] Breakage from recent updates to gnome-3.6 on ~amd64

2013-01-02 Thread walt
I use mostly the cinnamon fork of gnome-shell but I also give gnome-shell a try occasionally just to annoy myself :) The gnome updates from Jan 1-2 caused me a bit of trouble, but I'm making progress that might help some of you: First, the addition of gstreamer-1.0 is now installed along side

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 08:52 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: SNIP Turns out that it's a character in CJK. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 Installed bitstream-cyberbit. -- Nilesh Govindarajan

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables - Mangle table - when/why do I need it (or do I need it)?

2013-01-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 3, 2013 1:57 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/13 08:38, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, This has been bugging me for a while... I've googled, and can't seem to find a definitive answer to this question... Lots of references to the Mangle table, but

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 3, 2013 4:40 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 12/30/12 22:21, Walter Dnes wrote: OK, here is version 2. I had an excellent adventure along the way. I'm doing the upgrade on our servers right now, and there's another possible gotcha: the newer iptables

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/30/2012 10:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: [0:0] -A FECESBOOK -j LOG --log-prefix FECESBOOK: --log-level 6 [0:0] -A FECESBOOK -j DROP [0:0] -A INPUT -s 192.168.123.248/29 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -s 169.254.0.0/16 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -m