Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Martin
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Aaron Clark wrote: > >> Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> >>> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >>> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >>> scale the desktop and "remember" connections. Also, it's ver

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Philip Webb
090210 Roy Wright wrote: > The ubuntus are targeted at disgruntled windows users while gentoo is > targeted at unix users. The former are used to complaining and getting no > response while the later know it's their responsibility to help make it > better... In my commonplace book ... (smile)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM, James wrote: >> Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>> I also have Vonage and use Seamonkey and everything is working okay >>> for me. I'm using the gecko-mediaplayer plugin, but opening with >>> gmplaye

[gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > > I use to listen to my voice mail, via mplayer and seamonkey. > > I would have thought that mplayer is a bit of an overkill for playing .wav, > have you tried /usr/bin/aplay? True but it always worked. Aplay works on command line, but not from Seamonkey James

[gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread James
Willie Wong Princeton.EDU> writes: > > Have you tried aplay with manually specified format options? > > aplay -f MU_LAW -c1 -r8000 -t wav voice-message.wav Well that's weird. Only one out of 30 is in that format. It does not play (corrupt) but the other 29 play, just fine with mplayer, aplay,

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Joshua D Doll
Roy Wright wrote: Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream... Good find, I

[gentoo-user] Re: The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Roy Wright wrote: [...] The ubuntus are targeted at disgruntled windows users while gentoo is targeted at unix users. The former are used to complaining and getting no response while the later know it's their responsibility to help make it better... "Works for me." ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream... Good find, I actually didn't k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA config problem

2009-02-10 Thread Roy Wright
Mick wrote: On Monday 09 February 2009, James wrote: Roy Wright wright.org> writes: On my new install using 2.6.28-gentoo-r1, alsa kernel, sound as modules (recommended), [snip...] * enable alsa in the kernel * enable as modules device drivers/sound card support/... [snip...] I apprec

Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf

2009-02-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 18:46 +, Mick wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller: > > > I don't "like" initrd and the longer kernel > > > lines in grub.conf that they require. > > > > Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf?

Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 February 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller: > > I don't "like" initrd and the longer kernel   > > lines in grub.conf that they require. > > Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf? > > Here's mine, as an example: > > title=Gentoo Linux >

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, James wrote: > Hello, > > I use to listen to my voice mail, via mplayer and seamonkey. I would have thought that mplayer is a bit of an overkill for playing .wav, have you tried /usr/bin/aplay? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: > Saphirus Sage wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 > >> > >> I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the > >> amount of patches contributed upstream... > > > > Good find, I ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA config problem

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 February 2009, James wrote: > Roy Wright wright.org> writes: > > On my new install using 2.6.28-gentoo-r1, alsa kernel, sound as modules > > (recommended), [snip...] > > * enable alsa in the kernel > > * enable as modules device drivers/sound card support/... [snip...] > I apprec

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:31:41AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > file voice-message.wav > voice-message.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, > ITU G.711 mu-law, mono 8000 Hz > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:34:06PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > and some don't, like my voice

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

2009-02-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: > > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? > > Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed > me :-) > > I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, > sometimes is

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA config problem

2009-02-10 Thread Naga
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 07:02:16 Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Naga (nagat...@gmail.com) [09.02.09 19:35]: > > In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27 > > series kernel or use a live alsa ebuild. > > Why can I listen to music and watch DVD with my hda-intel, if it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > > >> I also have Vonage and use Seamonkey and everything is working okay >> for me. I'm using the gecko-mediaplayer plugin, but opening with >> gmplayer or something works too. > > Well here's my 'helper applicatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf

2009-02-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 23:26:46 schrieb Stroller: > Am I not correct in thinking that initramfs used to be / can be / was > originally a separate file which goes in /boot and is described with > an extra boot parameter? Yes, you are. There are several ways nowadays. I use the easy one: Popula

[gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > I also have Vonage and use Seamonkey and everything is working okay > for me. I'm using the gecko-mediaplayer plugin, but opening with > gmplayer or something works too. Well here's my 'helper applications' entry Maybe a syntax error? Helper Applications "vo

Re: [gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient -- SOLVED

2009-02-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On > Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect > without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do > the same on a Gentoo client. > > I've Googled and found t

[gentoo-user] Help With pptpclient

2009-02-10 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm trying to connect to a Cisco 3650 VPN Concentrator at work. On Windows clients, I use the included dialup networking client and connect without issue using pptp. This is not a L2TP/IPSEC VPN. I want to do the same on a Gentoo client. I've Googled and found that pptpclient should do what I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Segfaulting cryptsetup in init

2009-02-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Johan Blåbäck schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, I'm setting up this old computer of mine and why not encrypt it. I have done this on several computers before, but never have I gotten these kind of errors. When booting, cryptsetup segfaults. I can find no obvious reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sandbox Violation

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Kahle
On 17:16 Tue 10 Feb , Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Thomas Kahle wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> recently I killed a running merge of app-emacs/auctex with C-c in the >> shell. Now after that I am not able to install the package anymore. I >> get a sandbox when kpathsea is run. > > Just a shot in the d

Re: [gentoo-user] How to check a terminal session remotely

2009-02-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:29:38 -0500, James Stull wrote: > Here's my problem, lets say last night I start a rather long emerge in > an xterm window or in a separate session like Ctrl+Alt+F2 or whatever. > The next day I'm at work or a friends house and I ssh into my desktop > so I can check on the s

[gentoo-user] How to check a terminal session remotely

2009-02-10 Thread James Stull
Here's my problem, lets say last night I start a rather long emerge in an xterm window or in a separate session like Ctrl+Alt+F2 or whatever. The next day I'm at work or a friends house and I ssh into my desktop so I can check on the status of that emerge. Is their a way for me to take over a sessi

[gentoo-user] Re: Sandbox Violation

2009-02-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi everyone, recently I killed a running merge of app-emacs/auctex with C-c in the shell. Now after that I am not able to install the package anymore. I get a sandbox when kpathsea is run. Just a shot in the dark, but try this as root: rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* and the

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:31 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I use to listen to my voice mail, via mplayer and seamonkey. > I setup mplayer to play voice-message.wav and it (use to) > worked beautifully. > > Now I cannot get it to work. Any suggestion as to a simple app. > I can set up as a helper ap

[gentoo-user] Sandbox Violation

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi everyone, recently I killed a running merge of app-emacs/auctex with C-c in the shell. Now after that I am not able to install the package anymore. I get a sandbox when kpathsea is run. Hints anybody ? Thanks. Here's a snippet of the build log: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 6

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Feb 2009, at 04:59, Saphirus Sage wrote: ... I don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of one of them. Canonical is Ubuntu. Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dirk Uys wrote: But when I try to start KDE4.2 (using kdm), the screen blanks out a few times while kde is loading (the spash screen being displayed) and then I briefly see a malformed desktop (the bottom of the taskbar wraps around to the top of the screen) and then just a black screen. In /var

Re: [gentoo-user] Segfaulting cryptsetup in init

2009-02-10 Thread Johan Blåbäck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:50:04 +0100 > Johan Blåbäck wrote: > >> I had noticed this problem w/ my laptop where some usbdevices dont show >> up until a few seconds later than when the init is running. So I added a >> 'sleep 10' t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-10 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Montag 09 Februar 2009 14:15:35 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Heiko Wundram wrote: > > Am Montag 09 Februar 2009 13:37:31 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > >> Stroller wrote: > >>> I install sudo, give my user wide sudo rights and then set > >>> "PermitRootLogin no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. > >>> (Cri