[gentoo-user] Re: Building a test system

2009-04-24 Thread james
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Where was this wisdom, when I was a young lad? > You ignored it because you knew everything at that age :) For you to know that, I must have not been alone James

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman >> >> >> >> wr

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman > >> > >> wrote: > >> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman >> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> > >> > wrote: >> >> On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman > > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > > > wrote: > >> On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelib

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and > >> all of my qt-related themes, but apparen

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and >>> all of my qt-related themes, but appare

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and >> all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something >> because there are still "holes":

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I > >> began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message > >> tellimg me I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building a test system

2009-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:21:52 + (UTC), James wrote: > Where was this wisdom, when I was a young lad? You ignored it because you knew everything at that age :) -- Neil Bothwick Reality is for people who can't handle Star Trek signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread CJoeB
Chuck Robey wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I > >> began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message > >> tellimg me I had to read an eselect message

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I >> began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message >> tellimg me I had to read

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I > began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message > tellimg me I had to read an eselect message from "gentoo", but no matter > how I play with it, I can't ge

[gentoo-user] eselect usage

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message tellimg me I had to read an eselect message from "gentoo", but no matter how I play with it, I can't get esel

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Chris Frederick
Daniel Troeder wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 18:40 +, Marco wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: >>> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:00 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: >> [...] >>> While all that is correct, I would also consider it "bad network >>> behavior" (no offense in

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Apr 2009, at 19:38, Michael Higgins wrote: > >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 >> Stroller wrote: >> >> [...] >>> If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line >>> then you can use an X100P card which

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Apr 2009, at 19:38, Michael Higgins wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 Stroller wrote: [...] If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line then you can use an X100P card which you can buy for c £17. AIUI this is basically a modem based on a certain chipset tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 18:40 +, Marco wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:00 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > [...] > > While all that is correct, I would also consider it "bad network > > behavior" (no offense intended). > > So you consi

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

2009-04-24 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Grant wrote: > X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I > get: > > Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not > generated > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > Xli

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Marco
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:00 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: [...] > While all that is correct, I would also consider it "bad network > behavior" (no offense intended). So you consider my 'reject-with' settings to be good practice? > It feels

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:48 +0100 Stroller wrote: [...] > If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line > then you can use an X100P card which you can buy for c £17. AIUI this > is basically a modem based on a certain chipset that Digium have > written drivers for. They have

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Marco
Hello again, I took your considerations into account and changes my setting. Could you please have look again to the output of 'iptables -L -v' (in the attachment for better formating)? Thanks a lot! -- Best regards, Marco Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Marco
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > Just a thought: > > http://www.fwbuilder.org/ I've seen fwbuilder already. I thought since I only need a simple firewall, I probably make the thing worse if I don't really know how to use the tool. And learning iptables is a good t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Marco
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Chris Frederick wrote: > Marco wrote: [...] > Your firewall looks good, but I would change a few things. > > First off, change your FORWARD chain to DROP.  Unless you are doing > routing on your laptop, there's no reason to have it. My thought here was to be abl

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Marco
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Eric Martin wrote: > Marco wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services >> reachable from outside) using iptables. Since I am new to the topic, >> could you please verify if the output of 'iptables -L -v' is >> conside

Re: [gentoo-user] Support of Radeon graphics cards

2009-04-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 11:02 +0200, "Maximilian Bräutigam" wrote: > Hi all, > > i would like to buy a new computer, but i need (of course) to use gentoo. > furthermore i would buy a Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 4870. How are these > cards supported by gentoo and does everything work fine according

Re: [gentoo-user] Building a test system

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 24 April 2009 12:04:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:14:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would > > have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:00 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > I would also get rid of the REJECT targets. It's better to DROP > instead. If someone is scanning the network, and you start sending icmp > rejections back, they will know you are there and may try other > techniques to break through you

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
Just a thought: http://www.fwbuilder.org/ I like how it looks "a lot" like checkpoint's policy manager. HTH, Hazen. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Chris Frederick wrote: > Marco wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services > > reachable from

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Chris Frederick
Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services > reachable from outside) using iptables. Since I am new to the topic, > could you please verify if the output of 'iptables -L -v' is > considered to be a safe firewall? Thanks! > Hi Marco, Your firew

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Martin
Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services > reachable from outside) using iptables. Since I am new to the topic, > could you please verify if the output of 'iptables -L -v' is > considered to be a safe firewall? Thanks! > > Chain INPUT (policy DR

[gentoo-user] Is this firewall safe?

2009-04-24 Thread Marco
Hi all, I set up my first firewall on my notebook (not running any services reachable from outside) using iptables. Since I am new to the topic, could you please verify if the output of 'iptables -L -v' is considered to be a safe firewall? Thanks! Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkt

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and >>> all of my qt-related themes, but appare

[gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

2009-04-24 Thread Grant
X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I get: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server Xlib: Inva

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and >> all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something >> because there are still "holes":

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and >> all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something >> because there are still "holes":

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and > all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something > because there are still "holes": outlines of buttons or windows with > no content. The most important

[gentoo-user] Re: telephony

2009-04-24 Thread James
Simon gmail.com> writes: > i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. Hardware farts like myself, like to cheat. Sure you can do it all in software, if you have the time. Here's a very easy way to cheat, but, you'll need to use a (soldering) iron. http://www.tjnet.com/ Go on, expan

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: . > > Also, is there a command that can scan my system and tell me which > programs need to be rebuild after a Qt update? I seem to go through > this every time. :) Perhaps qlist -I -C or equery list | grep just guessing hth, James

[gentoo-user] Re: Building a test system

2009-04-24 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: Friday's Humorous! > This is nonsense as once you start > going unstable there is no going back, > or at least no easy way to go back. Where was this wisdom, when I was a young lad? lol, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-24 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Florian Philipp < li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > Try to increase the timeout. Add the following line to /etc/make.conf > > PORTAGE_RSYNC_INITIAL_TIMEOUT=60 > > Oh come on, seriously? I'm rolling over here; it never occurred to me that the whacked-out QoS w

Re: [gentoo-user] Building a test system

2009-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:14:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would > have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in > installing, or build an amd64 s

Re: [gentoo-user] Building a test system

2009-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 24 April 2009 12:14:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would have > KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - > whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in installing, or build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 24 April 2009 01:59:59 walt wrote: > Whenever I have the same problem it's because I've done a 'make clean' or > equivalent in /usr/src/linux, or more likely because a newer version of > the kernel sources has been installed but I haven't yet built the newer > kernel. > > It's possible t

[gentoo-user] Building a test system

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in installing, or build an amd64 system and only then add ~amd64 to make.conf. Which

[gentoo-user] Support of Radeon graphics cards

2009-04-24 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hi all, i would like to buy a new computer, but i need (of course) to use gentoo. furthermore i would buy a Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 4870. How are these cards supported by gentoo and does everything work fine according to ati-drivers ebuild? i need the 3d support due to some molecular modeli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound over HDMI with SB600, 9800GT

2009-04-24 Thread Leon Feng
2009/4/22 Strake : > Thanks, but the video works flawlessly, and the TV works fine with > audio and video over HDMI from cable boxen, PS3s, etc. Do you use Gnome ? It has a sound test utility which can test HDMI audio output. If there is sound in test utility. Try to upgrade mplayer, it had a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Wyatt Epp schrieb: > Evening, > > Lately, for at least a few months, actually, I've been completely unable > to sync normally. I'll get the following sort of thing three times from > three different servers. [...] > receiving incremental file list > timed out > rsync error: received SIGINT, SIG

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS error when printing from GTK+ print dialog

2009-04-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Morten Holt writes: > When I try to print from a program using the GTK+ print dialog, e.g. > Firefox og Evince, i get the following line: > > Request from "localhost" using invalid Host: field "::1" [...] > The problem seems to have startet after a recent upgrade of CUPS. > > I hope anybody has an