Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi autodisable on lan

2012-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:48:09 +0200, Samuraiii wrote: I'm trying to autodisable wifi when lan cable is plugged in. I found rfkill ebuild which look like something I need but I'm clueless where to get state of the ethernet card. You could do this with ifplugd, but the easiest way is with Wicd,

[gentoo-user] /etc/pm/sleep.d/ problem

2012-04-07 Thread Grant
My Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook goes to maximum brightness whenever I close the top and I have to execute the following command in order to control the brightness again: echo 0 /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness The following script in /etc/pm/sleep.d/ is said to fix the problem:

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Carlos Sura
On 5 April 2012 15:42, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:59:42 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: I have a similar thing on my ~x86, but the difference is that I know why I get it. I have successfully be able to create an initramfs that does a vgscan, vgchange

Re: [gentoo-user] FFTOOLS flags?

2012-04-07 Thread Stroller
On 6 April 2012, at 13:42, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: … So my question still stands, does anyone know where there FFTOOLS flags are documented? some are - here : http://wiki.multimedia.cx and for others: there is always google… LOL. Because you'd be having a laugh if you were

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 02:47:41 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: The problem is that it is trying to write to /var/lock, which is on / at this point, rather than /run/lock, which is on a writeable tmpfs. I got this error, and saw a bugfile on Gentoo, just downgrade to your previous working version

[gentoo-user] multiple bluetooth devices

2012-04-07 Thread wdk@moriah
I am using a single BT usb dongle to communicate over rfcomm with two BT Arduino based devices. Individually they work fine but if one is connected (to rfcomm1), but any attempt to use the other (rfcomm0) fails and knocks the first into limbo requiring recovery. The BT spec implies up to 8

[gentoo-user] libmp4v2-1.9.1_p479 (was problems with digikam)

2012-04-07 Thread luis jure
i realized my problems trying to rebuild digikam-2.5.0 were related to the latest version of media-libs/libmp4v2 (1.9.1_p479), that i had upgraded a couple of days ago. after masking it and downgrading to libmp4v2-1.9.1, i could compile digikam again. problems that i was having compiling other

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 11:38:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 02:47:41 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: The problem is that it is trying to write to /var/lock, which is on / at this point, rather than /run/lock, which is on a writeable tmpfs. I got this

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 Apr 2012 16:28:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 11:38:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 02:47:41 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: The problem is that it is trying to write to /var/lock, which is on / at this point, rather than

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Wifi autodisable on lan

2012-04-07 Thread Samuraiii
I've come across this http://johanlouwers.blogspot.com/2011/03/linux-check-interface-status.html But this isn't helping me: right now I'm on wifi only but when I run ifconfig I get this for eth0 (my lan card) eth0  Link

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm failed to start

2012-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 17:28:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That bug report also showed the correct solution. There's no need to downgrade, just change the locking_dir location from /var/lock to /run/lock. Not only is this simpler and faster, it means another update can't cause the same