Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:40:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time > > > unless I run some program or other. > > > > So without a program to do flash updates (or at least som

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: >> >>> i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. >>> >> I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. >> > > > becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:37:55 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, wrote: > However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what > is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Dale
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, wrote: > > > However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what > > > is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. > > [snip] > > > Perhaps eque

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:39:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time > > unless I run some program or other. > > So without a program to do flash updates (or at least some code > somewhere that might not be in .exe or ELF format) how

[gentoo-user] Re: cupsd does not start at boot

2010-01-20 Thread walt
On 01/19/2010 09:04 AM, Joseph wrote: > ... When I open a firefox with one of the tab pointing to: localhost:631 (cups) the cups is being shut down by: "cupsdAcceptClient: 11" D [19/Jan/2010:09:39:59 -0700] cupsdAcceptClient: 11 from localhost:631 (IPv4) D [19/Jan/2010:09:39:59 -0700] cupsdReadC

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, wrote: > However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what > is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. emerge gentoolkit equery d arts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:19:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. > > > > > > because without them we couldn't flash stuff? > > > > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to updat

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:45:09 Zeerak Waseem wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, wrote: > > However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what > > is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. [snip] > Perhaps equery belongs arts could help? You mean "

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-20 Thread walt
On 01/19/2010 10:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote: On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote: Here is what I see on both machines: $su Password: <= I type Ctrl-d here Segmentation fault I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed to retur

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Grant wrote: > I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility > is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in > other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a > Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, wrote: However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. When I am trying to do an emer

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an > > upgrade,

Re: [gentoo-user] [CLOSED] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Stroller wrote: [snip] > > I would try running fsck on a copy of the image. > I did try and thought I would post here some final info just for the record. I proceeeded with the command r...@sysresccd /root % ddrescue -r 1 /dev/sda /dev/sdc rescued.log which took ~50 hours to finish with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. > > > because without them we couldn't flash stuff? > Don't tell my motherboard that or it will refuse to update next time unless I run some program or other. -- Neil Bothwick te

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:04:41 + (UTC), james wrote: > If I use the old org.conf file, it boot but the kdm login manager > app never starts and It does not allow login on console. It is > a dell laptop. I think the xorg.conf file needs work, but, > it's only a guess. That sounds a good guess, w

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:41:54 +0100, wrote: Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an upgrade, I just get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/a

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an > upgrade, I just get the following: > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there a

[gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread covici
Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an upgrade, I just get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/arts:3.5". I tried a -t, but it didn't give me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > > i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. > > I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. because without them we couldn't flash stuff? -- alan dot mcki

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:01:47 pk wrote: > BRM wrote: > > The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless > > you are debugging the UI or the program itself. > > > > While a UI is important; a good UI is key. > > And a plain text editor is, imo, a good UI; everybody k

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly [SOLVED]

2010-01-20 Thread Jim Cunning
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 02:57:30 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > For Konqueror, you turn it of in the Web Browsing section of the > > settings, the last item. I don't use KMail but I expect this will affect > > KMail too, or KMail will have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-20 Thread pk
BRM wrote: > The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you > are debugging the UI or the program itself. > > While a UI is important; a good UI is key. And a plain text editor is, imo, a good UI; everybody knows how to use it. Why bring in another extra (translation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all. -- Neil Bothwick If man ruled the world: Daisy Duke shorts would never go out of fashion. signature.asc Description: PGP signat

[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-20 Thread james
ubiquitous1980 gmail.com> writes: > I know I'm coming in half way here, but have you logged in using kdm or > just straight in via the cli? The kdm display manager will let me log in and start kde4. I can ssh in or kill off xdm and log in on console just fine. If I use the old org.conf file,

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-20 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Alan McKinnon > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:36:45 BRM wrote: > > > Or a pretty GUI with clicky boxes to change the settings while never > > > letting the user see the contents of the XML. > > Once the user interface is in place it doesn't matter whether it is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 23:58:24 schrieb Grant: > I should be able to use flashrom to flash my motherboard's BIOS? Do I > need to check compatibility, or do I just go for it? This exercise is left to the interested reader ;) Seriously, of course you should check compatibility before you use i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 20 Januar 2010 12:53:23 schrieb Xi Shen: > i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux. Who says we don't? Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:51:22 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Because of that I have to replace > emerge @preserved-rebuild > > by something which just updates all packages > depending on media-libs/jpeg . > Here, > equery -qC depends media-libs/jpeg > > or probably > > equery -qC depend

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in KDE-4

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
This is weird. On Wednesday 20 January 2010 04:40:04 Xi Shen wrote: > did you compile your sound drivers into the kernel, or as a module. i > had a similar issue before on my thinkpad t61. i compiled all the > intel-hd related sound drivers into the kernel, but the sound system > does not work. b

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM, David Relson wrote: > I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work > project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and > guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see > below).  Can these extra device m

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Joseph
On 01/20/10 21:24, Adam wrote: On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID match squid ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
Fernando Antunes wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson > mailto:rel...@osagesoftware.com>> wrote: > > I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work > project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between > host and > guest operating

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Fernando Antunes: > Guess, are you using the open source of virtualboxes ? I think there are > difference in the usb usability betweek binary and open source version. In that the OSS version does not support USB at all. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' "Do not ha

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2010 01:53 PM, Xi Shen wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by boot

Re: [gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Jan, Crístian Viana wrote: > maybe this works: > > equery -q d jpeg | sed -e "s/^/=/" | xargs emerge -j 4 -1 > > I don't know how do to that using only portage utilities, but sed and xargs > are always allowed, I guess :) Thanks this works! (One just cannot use the --ask option to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Crístian Viana
maybe this works: equery -q d jpeg | sed -e "s/^/=/" | xargs emerge -j 4 -1 I don't know how do to that using only portage utilities, but sed and xargs are always allowed, I guess :) On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch < jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > again, I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: >> >> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility >> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in >> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > For Konqueror, you turn it of in the Web Browsing section of the > settings, the last item. I don't use KMail but I expect this will affect > KMail too, or KMail will have a similar setting. I guess that’s because - similar to Outl**k using th

[gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

2010-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, again, I have to work around a broken Gentoo system. (I cannot re-install kde-base/step) Because of that I have to replace emerge @preserved-rebuild by something which just updates all packages depending on media-libs/jpeg . Here, equery -qC depends media-libs/jpeg or probably equery -qC

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-20 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 AM, David Relson wrote: > I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work > project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and > guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see > below). Can these extra device m

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried run

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:48:33 -0800, Jim Cunning wrote: > > I had the same problem turning it off on KDE3. It's a system setting, > > Konqueror does the same. ISTR it's in the Accessibility section of > > systemsettings. > Firefox does not exhibit this behavior, Of course not, it's not a KDE app.

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Adam
On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: > I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not > working (using iptable + squid) > iptable: > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp > dpt:http owner UID match squid > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-20 Thread Adam
On 01/20/10 16:53, Joseph wrote: > I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not > working (using iptable + squid) > iptable: > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp > dpt:http owner UID match squid > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 07:48:33 Jim Cunning wrote: > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:50:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail. > > > IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctr

Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

2010-01-20 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Crístian Viana > wrote: >> so you set VIDEO_CARDS="vesa"? just that? and INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard >> mouse"? I'm using "virtualbox" on both variables and it's not working. I'll >> try that as you said. >> >> On Mon