Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Searching for a solution to a logical problem...

2011-11-06 Thread meino . cramer
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com [11-11-06 12:32]: If I am understanding the problem, maybe what you should do is to choose a window manager that can disable a given binding when the focus is at a given window (blender, in this case). I think fvwm can do this, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-11-01 Thread meino . cramer
Urs Schutz u.sch...@bluewin.ch [11-11-01 18:04]: On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:45:25 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean

[gentoo-user] Consistency checking

2011-10-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I know of three commands to check the consistency of a Gentoo system: eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world emerge -p -v --depclean revdep-rebuild --ignore -p -v of course, one has to remove the -p and -v flags after checking the putput of the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread meino . cramer
Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [11-10-27 17:10]: Am 27.10.2011 06:34, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Oct 27, 2011 9:50 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de mailto:meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com [11-10-26 20:40]: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, By the way: There is an old CPM 2.2 manual available. Unfortunately in AMIPRO-format. I tried to load it with libreoffice from the commandline with no success. What can I do to load and convert this manual to a normal format? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-27 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-10-27 18:36]: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, By the way: There is an old CPM 2.2 manual available. Unfortunately in AMIPRO-format. I tried to load it with libreoffice from the commandline with no

[gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-26 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, On www.archive.org I found videos of the series Computer Chronicle with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the founder of Intergalactical Digital Research, later known as Digital Research or short DR). Totally amazed by the things which were brandnew those days

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

2011-10-26 Thread meino . cramer
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [11-10-26 20:40]: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, On www.archive.org I found videos of the series Computer Chronicle with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the founder of Intergalactical Digital

[gentoo-user] asfrecord

2011-10-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to install asfrecord. It is not installed in a different version right now. eix asfrecord gives me this: * media-video/asfrecorder Available versions: *1.1 Homepage:http://sourceforge.net/projects/asfrecorder/ Description: ASFRecorder - Download

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error on poppler

2011-10-19 Thread meino . cramer
Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net [11-10-19 17:05]: Am 19.10.2011 04:28, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, this morning I got this (after update poppler and xorgserver had to be updated): /var/tmp/portage/app-text/poppler-0.16.7/work/poppler-0.16.7/glib/poppler-private.h:125: syntax

[gentoo-user] Build error on poppler

2011-10-18 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, this morning I got this (after update poppler and xorgserver had to be updated): /var/tmp/portage/app-text/poppler-0.16.7/work/poppler-0.16.7/glib/poppler-private.h:125: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting ',' or ';' in ' time_t *gdate);' at ')' g-ir-scanner: compile: gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error on poppler

2011-10-18 Thread meino . cramer
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-10-19 04:40]: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this morning I got this (after update poppler and xorgserver had to be updated): SNIP It seems poppler wants a library which version is not available for gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error on poppler

2011-10-18 Thread meino . cramer
meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [11-10-19 04:48]: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-10-19 04:40]: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this morning I got this (after update poppler and xorgserver had to be updated): SNIP It seems poppler

Re: [gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-17 Thread meino . cramer
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [11-10-17 18:40]: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk and graphicsmagick exhibit build failures: I got similar errors for some other package on my wife's

[gentoo-user] libpng15: fltk graphicsmagick failed to build

2011-10-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, after updating to lipng15 and rebuilding all needed stuff, fltk and graphicsmagick exhibit build failures: === FLTK === Compiling FileIcon2.cxx... Compiling Fl_Guess_Image.cxx... Compiling fl_jpeg.cxx... Compiling fl_png.cxx... fl_png.cxx: In member function ‘virtual bool

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-15 Thread meino . cramer
Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net [11-10-15 19:16]: Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:47:07 +0300 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On 10/15/2011 03:26 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: On 15/10/2011 12:33, luis jure wrote: I have spent the last few hours trying to explain his work to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread meino . cramer
Lavender 448463...@qq.com [11-10-13 15:48]: I want to download it . I have searched in the distfiles directory on the mirorrs , but I don't know where to get it . Anyone can tell me ? Hi, try eix gentoo-sources and than (as superuser) emerge gentoo-sources HTH! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/[ and coreutils

2011-10-11 Thread meino . cramer
William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au [11-10-12 07:40]: I have been checking my system for some deep seated problems and in the process, ran across the fact that equery files sys-apps/coreutils-8.7 shows a file included called /usr/bin/[ - thats right, left square bracket! Is that a bug or

[gentoo-user] transferring contents of /etc/conf.d to the config files

2011-10-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have read several docs to figure out this...all docs do changes in /etc/conf.d but I found no hint how to transfer that settings to the real configuration files of the according programs. env-update etc-update do not help... What tool do I have to call to acchieve this? Thank you very

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: transferring contents of /etc/conf.d to the config files

2011-10-10 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-10-10 19:52]: On 10/10/2011 08:33 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have read several docs to figure out this...all docs do changes in /etc/conf.d but I found no hint how to transfer that settings to the real configuration files of the according

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: transferring contents of /etc/conf.d to the config files

2011-10-10 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-10-10 20:56]: On 10/10/2011 09:45 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de [11-10-10 19:52]: On 10/10/2011 08:33 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have read several docs to figure out this...all docs do changes in /etc/conf.d

[gentoo-user] DVB-T and Teletext

2011-10-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, (sorry if this may only apply to german television...) Kaffeine/vlc are installed for watching DVB-T broadcast, but I cannot access Teletext. How can I access Teletext on DVB-T ??? Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?

2011-10-09 Thread meino . cramer
Lavender 448463...@qq.com [11-10-09 03:07]: It seems that no matter I build gentoo manually or with genkernel I can't have a fine-working kernel finally. Obviously I must solve it by myself , so I determined to build entire kernel all manually , it requests a lot of linux knowlege . All for

Re: [gentoo-user] DVB-T and Teletext

2011-10-09 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [11-10-09 19:00]: Am Sonntag 09 Oktober 2011, 08:47:09 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, (sorry if this may only apply to german television...) Kaffeine/vlc are installed for watching DVB-T broadcast, but I cannot access Teletext.

[gentoo-user] TMux bindkey with -

2011-10-07 Thread meino . cramer
Hi here http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/06/28/tmux-the-terminal-multiplexer/ I found the hint to do the following key binding: unbind % bind | split-window -h bind – split-window -v But doing so results in the following message on the console, when starting tmux

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Searching for information aboyt a VFD/flourescenz display

2011-10-03 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am looking for informations about a VFD (Flourescenz Display) module. Its product number is DS M202-MD-07g-2, where DS stands for Display Systems, which was part of the Hegener Glaser company. The rest of the product number uses the same numbering scheme as FUTABA uses for its VFDs but I

[gentoo-user] pstree for modules ?

2011-09-27 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, ist there a tool, which displays the dependencies of loaded modules as a tree like pstree does for tasks? Thank you very much for any help in advance! :) Best regards mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] pstree for modules ?

2011-09-27 Thread meino . cramer
Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [11-09-28 04:05]: Am 27.09.2011 20:24, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, ist there a tool, which displays the dependencies of loaded modules as a tree like pstree does for tasks? Thank you very much for any help in advance! :) Best regards

[gentoo-user] ftp.kernel.org is dead...long lives...what?

2011-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, for a longer time now ftp.kernel.org is not reachable and it seems it is not in the DNS anymore. What is another main server of the kernel sources and not a mirror of the now dead one ftp.kernel.org? Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] TMux urxvt and Unicode

2011-09-16 Thread meino . cramer
Scott Stevenson sc...@scottstvnsn.com [11-09-16 17:27]: On 16/09/11 at 04:54 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: How can I make pstree make work in tmux with the above mentioned options? Adding the following line to ~/.tmux.conf should do it: setw -g utf8 on -- Scott Stevenson Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] TMux urxvt and Unicode

2011-09-16 Thread meino . cramer
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info [11-09-16 17:26]: On Sep 16, 2011 9:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am using urxvt in conjunction with the terminus font without problems. When I call pstree -G -p everything is fine. Now I start tmux inside urxvt and do the

[gentoo-user] TMux urxvt and Unicode

2011-09-15 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am using urxvt in conjunction with the terminus font without problems. When I call pstree -G -p everything is fine. Now I start tmux inside urxvt and do the same pstree -G -p and now all horizontal and vertical lines are no existing any more. Crosspoints are drawn as '+'.

[gentoo-user] Keyboard hangs after wake up from hinernation

2011-09-12 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I run my IBM model M keyboard (1987 :) via a Belkin USB-PS2 converter. This results in a problem Sometimes after wakeup from supsend to disk (supend to RAM is not check yet) the keyboard hangs: All LEDs are flashing and not key is accepted. Power cycling via USB plug helps. I am

[gentoo-user] Compose key and UTF8

2011-09-12 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am using the US layout for my keyboard in the altgr-intlk variant. UTF8 is activated. Furthermore I use CAPS LOCK as compose key. I tried compose key sequences from /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose and many do work. So I think the basic mechanism is ok. But some came out as

[gentoo-user] X keyboard model insists of being pc104

2011-09-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, when doing a setxkbmap -v -query I get: Trying to build keymap using the following components: keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty) types: complete compat: complete symbols:pc+us(altgr-intl)+inet(evdev)+capslock(none) geometry: pc(pc104)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X keyboard model insists of being pc104

2011-09-11 Thread meino . cramer
walt w41...@gmail.com [11-09-12 04:34]: On 09/11/2011 04:29 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... I copied /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf to /etc/X11/xorg-conf.d/99-evdev.conf and edited it The relevant part of xorg.conf says: ... I may be misreading your post (of course :) but

[gentoo-user] ALTGR-INTL keymapping for the Linux console?

2011-09-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is it possible to use an pc101,us,altgr-intl keymapping for the linux console as I use it under X-Windows without mapping each special key manually? Under /usr/share/keymaps I didn't find anything named that way... Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekend! Best

Re: [gentoo-user] ALTGR-INTL keymapping for the Linux console?

2011-09-09 Thread meino . cramer
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com [11-09-10 07:28]: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:01 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it possible to use an pc101,us,altgr-intl keymapping for the linux console as I use it under X-Windows without mapping each special key manually? Under

[gentoo-user] USB-reset after hibernate?

2011-09-08 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am using a IBM Model M (139031) with my Linux Box and a Belkin PS2/USB/converter (active) To connect the PS2 cord to my PC (Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter). As long as I am booting the PC everything is fine. But if I wake the PC from hibernate, the keyboard get

[gentoo-user] altgr-intl keyboard layout

2011-09-07 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, from here I learned the altgr-intl keyboard layout: http://dry.sailingissues.com/us-international-keyboard-layout.html which I will try. It seems to be a good choice for daily programming and writing (I need german Umlauts...;) Instead of altgr-intl: Is there a windows equivalent, for which

[gentoo-user] OT: Keyboard LEDs driven by what?

2011-09-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, short question: Are the LEDs of a PC-keyboard driven by the keyboard processor itsself or do they react on signals send back from the system when recogizing a - for example -- Caps Lock event ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Keyboard LEDs driven by what?

2011-09-06 Thread meino . cramer
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [11-09-06 23:55]: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:43 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, short question: Are the LEDs of a PC-keyboard driven by the keyboard processor itsself or do they react on signals send back from the system when recogizing a - for example

[gentoo-user] Correct way to modify keymaps for X console

2011-09-03 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to modify some of the keymappings of my keyboard. The last time (some ages ago ;) ) I did this with the help of xkeycaps, xmodmap and an appropiate .xmodmap file at $HOME. And time passes by... Now I have: /etc/X11/xorg.conf with its Options for the Input Device class

[gentoo-user] My keyboards works, when not exspected ?!?

2011-09-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, this posting is somehow the opposite of an error report: My keyboard works and I dont know why... The board is a PS2 one, connected via a Belkin PS2-USB converter (active) to an USB port. Exept of a few and seldom stuck CTRL-key situations it works fine. BUT! When starting xkeycaps,

[gentoo-user] xorg.xonf, Input_class keyboard

2011-09-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, in my xorg.conf I have set this: Section InputClass Identifier keyboard-all Driver evdev # Option XkbOptions ctrl:nocaps,compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,caps:super MatchIsKeyboard on EndSection

Re: [gentoo-user] Important package blocked by another important package

2011-08-31 Thread meino . cramer
Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de [11-08-30 18:01]: Am 30.08.2011 09:15, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Personally, I'd put '=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r99 ~amd64 ~x86' in that file. I have the conviction that versions with greater '-r' would be better, since it's a revision to the same

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt kesyms

2011-08-30 Thread meino . cramer
Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de [11-08-30 18:01]: Am Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:05:19 +0200 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, Hi, I want to remap the create new tab, next tab and previous tab keybindings to the keycombo I used to use with my previous mrxvt. Urxvt has keysym support with a

[gentoo-user] Important package blocked by another important package

2011-08-29 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, How can I get out of this: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] sys-apps/util-linux-2.20 [2.19.1-r1] USE=cramfs crypt ncurses nls perl unicode -loop-aes -old-linux (-selinux) -slang -static-libs% (-uclibc) 4,507 kB [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r3

[gentoo-user] urxvt kesyms

2011-08-29 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to remap the create new tab, next tab and previous tab keybindings to the keycombo I used to use with my previous mrxvt. Urxvt has keysym support with a somehow complicate syntax. What is the spelling/nameing of the commands I want to remap? Or more generally: Where can I get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Important package blocked by another important package

2011-08-29 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is it normal/ok, that an unmasked package pulls in a masked one? Best regards, mcc Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info [11-08-30 04:56]: Your sysvinit is 2.88-r1. Try upgrading it to 2.88-r3, as wanted by util-linux. You may have to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords

[gentoo-user] Question regarding UTF-8 settings

2011-08-28 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml Doing a locale -a | grep de_DE | grep utf I got: de_DE.utf8 . Then I created the file /etc/init.d/02locale with the contents: LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 . As root I did a rc-update , which runs without

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding UTF-8 settings

2011-08-28 Thread meino . cramer
Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net [11-08-28 12:08]: rc-update You meant env-update, right? . The output was -- despite of what the guide exspected -- The guide shows the output from setting LANG. You set LC_CTYPE, so unless I'm missing something obvious your result is perfectly normal.

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding UTF-8 settings

2011-08-28 Thread meino . cramer
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [11-08-28 13:08]: On Sunday 28 Aug 2011 09:51:36 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml Doing a locale -a | grep de_DE | grep utf I got: de_DE.utf8 . Then I created

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding UTF-8 settings

2011-08-28 Thread meino . cramer
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [11-08-28 18:08]: On Sunday 28 Aug 2011 12:41:54 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [11-08-28 13:08]: On Sunday 28 Aug 2011 09:51:36 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, following this guide:

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM caused crashes

2011-08-21 Thread meino . cramer
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [11-08-21 12:32]: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Reset of USB when switching to console and back to X?

2011-08-17 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-08-17 18:02]: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:01 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have attached an old keyboard (PS/2-connector) via an USB-PS/2-adaptor to my PC. When typing too fast (...) the three LEDs of the keyboard flashes and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Reset of USB when switching to console and back to X?

2011-08-17 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-08-17 21:08]: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:42 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-08-17 18:02]: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:01 PM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have attached an old keyboard

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Reset of USB when switching to console and back to X?

2011-08-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have attached an old keyboard (PS/2-connector) via an USB-PS/2-adaptor to my PC. When typing too fast (...) the three LEDs of the keyboard flashes and everything typed then is typed as if the CTRL-Key constantly locked (I am using the X-window-system with openbox as windowmanager. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, I had * experiments with jack and nothing works... Sometimes there was no connection at all, sometimes after a short time rosegarden crashes and/or reports taht the connection has gone, and so on May be I has simply combined the wrong things... I have no midi hardware in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, Thank you for your help ! :) Here are the versions: media-sound/rosegarden 11.02 media-sound/zynaddsubfx 2.4.1 media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit 0.118.0 I did a aconnect -lio, which says: client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] 0 'Timer ' 1 'Announce'

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, I will try (again) to be a friend of Jack (NOT Daniels ;) )... What I dont understand: Why all this hassle with Jack if Rosegarden has the ability to connect directly to Zynaddsubfx without any other gadget (see Studio-Manage Midi Devices, start Zynaddsubfx first)??? And if

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-11 Thread meino . cramer
pk pete...@coolmail.se [11-08-11 20:12]: On 2011-08-11 13:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: snip How can I prevent to scratch my skin by the roses of this garden over and over again.? Quick question, have you tried this?: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK Disclaimer: I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Michael, thank you for your info ! :) What do I need for a midi connection (sorry, I am at the very beginning of exploring these kind of tools and jack is everywhere... ;) ) Best regards, mcc Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de [11-08-11 02:45]: Hi Meino, Am Dienstag, 9. August

Re: [gentoo-user] IOMMU and other oddities...

2011-08-09 Thread meino . cramer
Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com [11-08-09 08:04]: The dmesg says I should switch on IOMMU, which I did. But that does not impress the kernel that much since it still recommends to switch on IOMMU. Did you remember to copy the new kernel over to boot etc :) Yepp! (...and I not only

Re: [gentoo-user] IOMMU and other oddities...

2011-08-09 Thread meino . cramer
pk pete...@coolmail.se [11-08-09 13:11]: On 2011-08-09 07:32, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Why does it look for an AGP-bridge??? Not that it helps but, I also have an AMD system (AM3+, FX990/SB950) and I get the No AGP bridge found message too... The dmesg says I should switch on IOMMU,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

2011-08-09 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-08-08 20:56]: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there a tool, which can display the place on earth, where is given IP-address is located ? Vidalia has this abilitity for sites of the tor network, but for

[gentoo-user] Zynaddsubfx connected to Rosegarden WITHOUT Jack?

2011-08-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, may be this is a RDQ(tm) (real dumb question), but Is it possible to connect rosegarden and ZynAddSubFX without using jack ??? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Network Topology Diagrams

2011-08-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, lanmap2's github -- what it seems the only source for the source of it -- points to a 404 Error page. Is there any other, valid link to it? Best regards, mcc James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [11-08-10 03:00]: Yohan Pereira yohan.pereira at gmail.com writes: Zenmap - part of

[gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

2011-08-08 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is there a tool, which can display the place on earth, where is given IP-address is located ? Vidalia has this abilitity for sites of the tor network, but for other sites/IP-addresses??? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc

[gentoo-user] IOMMU and other oddities...

2011-08-08 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, my PC consists -- beside other things -- of a AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, a ASUS Crossfire Formula IV and a NVidia GeForce GT 430 by MSI (PCIe). Furthermore I am using the vanilla Linux kernel 3.0.1. . I browsed through the output of dmesg and found these lines: Checking aperture... No

[gentoo-user] [OT] Looking for a different way to rsync (or similiar)

2011-08-01 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have to old (technical identical) harddisks formerly used for backup purposes. They contain each a different set of files -- the partitioning is identical. Both disks are nearly filled. The harddisk in my PC has more free space (they contain a totally different system than the old disks!)

Re: [gentoo-user] glew/glewmx or what?

2011-08-01 Thread meino . cramer
Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de [11-07-31 21:04]: Hi, Am Sonntag, 31. Juli 2011, 17:09:08 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, to compile the Mitsuba renderer I need glewmx (whatever this means). Postings on the net let me believe, that glewmx is a part of glew, which in turn is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Looking for a different way to rsync (or similiar)

2011-08-01 Thread meino . cramer
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com [11-08-01 15:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi, I have to old (technical identical) harddisks formerly used for backup purposes. They contain each a different set of files -- the partitioning is identical. Both disks are nearly filled. The

[gentoo-user] glew/glewmx or what?

2011-07-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, to compile the Mitsuba renderer I need glewmx (whatever this means). Postings on the net let me believe, that glewmx is a part of glew, which in turn is a gentoo package. But I found no USE-flags telling the package to build glew with glewmx...or I misunderstood the whole thing ... Can

[gentoo-user] [OT]: grep -Z not working ???

2011-07-18 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, the manual page of grep mentioned the following: -Z, --null Output a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of the character that normally follows a file name. For example, grep -lZ outputs a zero byte after each file name instead of the usual

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Converting flv to what?

2011-07-15 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, As a Blender-fan over the time my harddisk has been filled (by me ;) ) with lots of video-tutorials in the flv (flash video)-format. Now I need some space to store more *.blend files ... So I think I need to convert the flvs into another format... What is the most recommended format to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati nvidia-drivers

2011-07-13 Thread meino . cramer
Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca [11-07-13 18:12]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi Grant, another shot into an even much deeper dark ;) May be you have a problem here, which it is called Brummschleife in german...sorry dont know the English equivalent...may be something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati nvidia-drivers

2011-07-13 Thread meino . cramer
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-13 19:20]: When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers.  xf86-video-nouveau didn't have the same problem.  Now I've switched to an ATI video card and unfortunately I have the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati nvidia-drivers

2011-07-12 Thread meino . cramer
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-13 03:13]: When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers.  xf86-video-nouveau didn't have the same problem.  Now I've switched to an ATI video card and unfortunately I have the same problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-07-10 08:12]: On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: Help. I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing havoc behind my screen. Small black mites have taken over

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread meino . cramer
john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk [11-07-10 12:08]: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:25:42 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-07-10 08:12]: On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: Help. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xf86-video-ati nvidia-drivers

2011-07-09 Thread meino . cramer
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-10 01:42]: When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers. xf86-video-nouveau didn't have the same problem. Now I've switched to an ATI video card and unfortunately I have the same problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Difficulties to use scripts from openbox menu.xml

2011-07-03 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [11-07-04 03:03]: On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 07:13:16 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I have a script, which cd into a certain directory and starts a program from there with ./program. This scripts works fine from the commandline. But when I use the

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the hardened USE flag?

2011-07-03 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-07-04 04:08]: After syncing, some heavy packages wanted to rebuild because of the hardened USE flag. (I don't use the hardened profile, but they wanted to rebuild anyway.) Really heavy stuff including libreoffice and firefox-5. It took a few hours.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 07:12]: Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which are at positions, where the aspect-ratio changes?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 09:04]: Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 07:12]: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame

Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding /etc/cron.dail and such into ?

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [11-07-02 23:57]: Meino, I don't know fcron but I just put cron lines in a file and do crontab filename Hi Bill, sorry for the confusion, Bill, my English screws the things up. Problem has solved itsself... Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-03 01:12]: The most important thing is reliability and Linux compatibility but I also need HDMI and I figure USB 3.0 is a good idea.  The system is for playing music and movies, no gaming whatsoever.  If you're familiar with the current hardware scene,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [11-07-03 03:08]: Grant wrote: Is Nvidia still the way to go instead of ATI? I use the nouveau drivers with my onboard Nvidia chipset now and they've been fine for the most part. I use a threaded ffmpeg to decode HD video instead of VDPAU so I don't bother with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
JD jd1...@gmail.com [11-07-03 05:57]: On 07/02/2011 06:26 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Grantemailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-03 01:12]: The most important thing is reliability and Linux compatibility but I also need HDMI and I figure USB 3.0 is a good idea. The system is for playing music

[gentoo-user] [OT] Difficulties to use scripts from openbox menu.xml

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, a weird problem hit me... ;) I have a script, which cd into a certain directory and starts a program from there with ./program. This scripts works fine from the commandline. But when I use the same script inside the ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml, I does not work: No program start. My setup:

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-01 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which are at positions, where the aspect-ratio changes? Best regards, mcc

[gentoo-user] Feeding /etc/cron.dail and such into ?

2011-07-01 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, what mechanism is responsible for feeding the contents of /etc/cron.* into the fcron which is installed on this system instead of cron? Best regards, mcc

[gentoo-user] VLC: Blackouts...

2011-06-27 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, wgen watching television (DVB-T) with vlc it ofen happens, that vlc forgets that there is something to display. For example: When screen aspect changes if the commercials ends and the program is proceeded. Or between scene changes or sometimes when there seems no reason at all... Soetime the

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???

2011-06-23 Thread meino . cramer
Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [11-06-23 17:52]: On Thursday 23 June 2011 04:49:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box. I did a qfile for this and nothing was found. What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems?

[gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???

2011-06-22 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box. I did a qfile for this and nothing was found. What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems? Best regards, mcc

[gentoo-user] hal?

2011-06-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, this morning I got a block while updateing: upower and hal cannot be installed at the same time: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4, installed) pulled in by sys-apps/hal required

[gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...

2011-06-20 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a USB to IDE converter, which makes my old dvd burner accessible via my SATA only PC. I thought... When I connect everything as described, insert an empty DVD and start k3b, an error message is displayed saying that there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...

2011-06-20 Thread meino . cramer
Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com [11-06-21 01:24]: On 06/20/11 13:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a USB to IDE converter, which makes my old dvd burner accessible via my SATA only PC. I thought... When I

[gentoo-user] to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion

2011-06-14 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, When the story begins I had installed util-linux-2.18-r1. Then emerge told me, that it wants to downgrade to util-linux-2.12, because I hade set USE=loop-aes for that. Util-linux-2.19.something was on the road too... After some inverstigation I thought USE=crypt had replced USE=loop-aes, I

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