[gentoo-user] password rules

2009-05-26 Thread Raul Gonzales
Hi all, I would like to set some rules for user passwords like minimum length, password must contain a digit, special character, upper and lower letters, etc. but have not found a way yet how to do it. Do I need some special addon or is this configurable in base system? Thanks, Raul

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mounting USB drive?

2009-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 May 2009 05:35:46 +0100, Stroller wrote: > Mark: yes, I don't see any reason NOT to address by label (e2label or > whatever XFS / Reiser use) these days. The only thing I can think of > is that your USB drivers or the kernel module that does USB mass- > storage is not loaded in tim

Re: [gentoo-user] password rules

2009-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 09:22:44 Raul Gonzales wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to set some rules for user passwords like minimum length, > password must contain a digit, special character, upper and lower letters, > etc. but have not found a way yet how to do it. Do I need some special > addon or

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 May 2009, at 07:27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... I did think that. But with other instructions adopted by the other manufacturer (eg. Intel adopted the amd64 architecture, I think?) it seemed odd that a set of instructions would be ignored so long. because 3dnow is/was very unimportan

[gentoo-user] Seeing USE flag descriptions for a package

2009-05-26 Thread Stroller
Hi there, When I install a new package I run `emerge -pv foo` to look at the USEs it supports. In the past I have looked these up just by grepping, e.g.: $ grep foo /usr/portage/profiles/use.* /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:foomaticdb - Adds support for the foomatic printing driver d

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeing USE flag descriptions for a package

2009-05-26 Thread Justin
Stroller schrieb: > Hi there, > > When I install a new package I run `emerge -pv foo` to look at the USEs > it supports. In the past I have looked these up just by grepping, e.g.: > > $ grep foo /usr/portage/profiles/use.* > /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:foomaticdb - Adds support for the >

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'? there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11. xorg-x11 is selected. That means you have not removed ati-drivers. It might be they interfere with X. First, unload them: modprobe -r fglrx Then uninstall them: e

[gentoo-user] Synaptics and HAL Device Information Files

2009-05-26 Thread Redouane Boumghar
Hello All ! I have tried many things to make my touchpad work with the new xorg and HAL but in vain... Fortunatly my video is allright (xorg.conf), my keyboard is also good (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi and /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi) and my usb mouse works but I strictly have no

[gentoo-user] Re: Seeing USE flag descriptions for a package

2009-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: Hi there, When I install a new package I run `emerge -pv foo` to look at the USEs it supports. In the past I have looked these up just by grepping, e.g.: $ grep foo /usr/portage/profiles/use.* /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:foomaticdb - Adds support for the foomatic prin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seeing USE flag descriptions for a package

2009-05-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 May 2009, at 10:57, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Stroller wrote: Hi there, When I install a new package I run `emerge -pv foo` to look at the USEs it supports. In the past I have looked these up just by grepping, e.g.: $ grep foo /usr/portage/profiles/use.* /usr/portage/profiles/use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying patches without needing overlays and modifying ebuilds

2009-05-26 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Does anyone think that a mechanism of applying patches to a package without > the need to modify the ebuild of that package would be a useful feature? > > media-video/smplayer j-random-hack.patch i have written script (not at my hand atm) with alike syntax using post_src_unpack pre_src_comp

[gentoo-user] CUPS and Lexmark x7675

2009-05-26 Thread dhk
I have a Lexmark x7675 printer connected to my network. When trying to add a printer through the cups interface, Lexmark doesn't appear in the list of manufactures. Will this printer work with CUPS/Gentoo (amd64)? How can it be set up? Thanks, dhk

[gentoo-user] Re: USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread James
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > I'm always rather reluctant to enable any of these, being unsure > whether my ageing PentiumPro or Pentium 4 CPUs support such features > as 3DNow! (originally an AMD technology) or the advanced SE3. I run this on dozens of amd64 laptops an

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and Lexmark x7675

2009-05-26 Thread Dale
dhk wrote: > I have a Lexmark x7675 printer connected to my network. When trying > to add a printer through the cups interface, Lexmark doesn't appear in > the list of manufactures. Will this printer work with CUPS/Gentoo > (amd64)? How can it be set up? > > Thanks, > > dhk > > According to the

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 26 May 2009 06:00:10 +0100 Stroller wrote: > Looks like `echo media-video/mplayer mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow > 3dnowext >> /etc/portage/package.use` unless someone else is able to > be more informative. > > Stroller. > Yes, just add "cpudetection" to those or put it in in

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics and HAL Device Information Files

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 5/26/2009 5:58 AM, Redouane Boumghar wrote: First of all where can I find information about the file names of FDI ? NUMBER-NAME-NAME.fdi Where are the specification of the nomenclature ? I have found different names possible : 11-x11-synaptics.fdi 99-x11-synaptics.fdi > Why the donkey woul

[gentoo-user] MAILPATH stopped working after update to Bash 4.0

2009-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I have: MAILPATH="/home/me/.maildir/new?You have new mail." MAILCHECK=60 Bash 3.2 was correctly telling me about new mail arriving. However, after I updated to Bash 4.0, I constantly get a "You have new mail" message every minute even though I actually don't have new mail. Has the mail

Re: [gentoo-user] was paludis and make.conf - reply to DH

2009-05-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 26. Mai 2009 01:16:48 schrieb maxim wexler: > You mean it actually says what it is not uninstalling; Yes, there's some keyword in [] before each file it (un-)installs. I think for config protected files it prints "[cfg]" or something similar. Bye... Dirk signature.asc De

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to install www-misc/rekonq-9999 (kde-testing) because of git error

2009-05-26 Thread Tomas Linhart
2009/5/26 Nick Cunningham : > Its been a while since ive used paludis, but do you have the folder > permissions set correctly? Normally paludis will (or it used to anyway) > complain loudly when the permissions werent set correctly. > > If they are set correctly what happens when you try to pull th

[gentoo-user] rb-libtorrent emerge fails

2009-05-26 Thread Johannes Renoth
Ahoi, when trying the following: emerge -av qbittorrent These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] net-libs/rb_libtorrent-0.13 USE="-debug" 0 kB [ebuild N] net-p2p/qbittorrent-1.0.0 0 kB i always get the following error messa

Re: [gentoo-user] rb-libtorrent emerge fails

2009-05-26 Thread Justin
Johannes Renoth wrote: > Ahoi, > > when trying the following: > > emerge -av qbittorrent > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N] net-libs/rb_libtorrent-0.13 USE="-debug" 0 kB > [ebuild N] net-p2p/qbittorrent-1.0.0

Re: [gentoo-user] rb-libtorrent emerge fails

2009-05-26 Thread Johannes Renoth
thanks for the info! will keep that in mind for the future. Justin wrote: > Johannes Renoth wrote: > >> Ahoi, >> >> when trying the following: >> >> emerge -av qbittorrent >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> [ebuild N] net

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 May 2009, at 15:31, Daniel Iliev wrote: Looks like `echo media-video/mplayer mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext >> /etc/portage/package.use` unless someone else is able to be more informative. Yes, just add "cpudetection" to those or put it in in make.conf. Apparently not! I

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread KH
Hi, so I temporarily disable all USE flags in my make.conf by adding the "#" to the line. Some with package.use. The I run : USE="cpudetection" emerge -pv mplayer See output below. So what changes for me: oss is added. That's nothing for hardware and I use alsa, so I don't need it, do I? -aalib

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread KH
KH schrieb: > Hi, > > so I temporarily disable all USE flags in my make.conf by adding the "#" > to the line. Some with package.use. > The I run : > > USE="cpudetection" emerge -pv mplayer > > > Is this a valid way of approache? > >From Stroller: Apparently not! I rebuilt using that flag

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:20:50 KH wrote: > Hi, > > so I temporarily disable all USE flags in my make.conf by adding the "#" > to the line. Some with package.use. > The I run : > > USE="cpudetection" emerge -pv mplayer > > See output below. > > So what changes for me: oss is added. That's nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mounting USB drive?

2009-05-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2009 05:35:46 +0100, Stroller wrote: > >> Mark: yes, I don't see any reason NOT to address by label (e2label or >> whatever XFS / Reiser use) these days. The only thing I can think of >> is that your USB drivers or the kernel

[gentoo-user] Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread KH
Hi, so inspired by [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" I again thougt about my USE flags. Now I want to put them in an order which is better fitting my need than the alphabetical order. I remember I saw something ordering it for hardware and software, but I can't remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:52:21 KH wrote: > Hi, > > so inspired by [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow > 3dnowext" I again thougt about my USE flags. > > Now I want to put them in an order which is better fitting my need than > the alphabetical order. I remember I saw something ord

[gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
KH wrote: Hi, so inspired by [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" I again thougt about my USE flags. Now I want to put them in an order which is better fitting my need than the alphabetical order. I remember I saw something ordering it for hardware and software, but I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:52:21 KH wrote: >> Hi, >> >> so inspired by [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow >> 3dnowext" I again thougt about my USE flags. >> >> Now I want to put them in an order which is better fitting my need than >> the alphabetical order

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread KH
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: > KH wrote: >> Hi, >> >> so inspired by [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow >> 3dnowext" I again thougt about my USE flags. >> >> Now I want to put them in an order which is better fitting my need than >> the alphabetical order. I remember I saw something o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Keith Dart
On May 26, 2009, at 4:07 PM, KH wrote: You can do whatever you wish as long as USE contains all you need in the end. Example: USE_FOO="this n that" USE_BAR="some more flags" BLAH="whatever else there might be" USE="${USE_FOO} ${USE_BAR} ${BLAH}" Thank's. That is exactly what I was lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:33:12 Keith Dart wrote: > But that will likely break, or render useless, the ufed tool. > > If you don't use that, you probably should. Why? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Keith Dart
On May 26, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:33:12 Keith Dart wrote: But that will likely break, or render useless, the ufed tool. If you don't use that, you probably should. Why? Makes it easy to change USE flags. You see the flag name, current settin

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 26 May 2009 22:07:10 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 26 May 2009, at 15:31, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > >> Looks like `echo media-video/mplayer mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 > >> 3dnow 3dnowext >> /etc/portage/package.use` unless someone else is > >> able to be more informative. > >> > > > > Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 01:02:17 Keith Dart wrote: > On May 26, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:33:12 Keith Dart wrote: > >> But that will likely break, or render useless, the ufed tool. > >> > >> If you don't use that, you probably should. > > > > Why? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 01:02:17 Keith Dart wrote: > >> On May 26, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:33:12 Keith Dart wrote: >>> But that will likely break, or render useless, the ufed tool. If you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Keith Dart
On May 26, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Changing USE flags is easy enough already, isn't it? I don't think I want any program meddling in my make.conf, thanks. No, I have not yet memorized all of them, and they change frequently. But suit yourself, I like ufed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Dale
Keith Dart wrote: > On May 26, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Changing USE flags is easy enough already, isn't it? I don't think I >> want >> any program meddling in my make.conf, thanks. > > No, I have not yet memorized all of them, and they change frequently. > But suit yourself, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Keith Dart
On May 26, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Dale wrote: Memorized all of what? Open a text editor and edit make.conf. What do you need to memorize? If you use KDE, you can edit them with kwrite which is about as easy as it gets. Heck, I been using Gentoo for years and I don't recall ever using ufed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> >>> Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'? >>> >> >> there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11.  xorg-x11 is selected. > > That means you have not removed ati-drivers.  It might be they interfere >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> > DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers -> Graphics -> >> Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the >> correct ATI support under that. >> >> That's always been there, as modules.  If I modprobe for r128, it gets >> loaded

[gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process

2009-05-26 Thread Dale
I know the subject is a bit lacking but here goes. I'm thinking about trying this xorg-server upgrade again. I been thinking about a way to do this and not have to pull the plug on my rig if it fails, which I bet it does. This is the command I am thinking about trying. /etc/init.d/xdm start &&

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process

2009-05-26 Thread Hung Dang
I often use Ctrl+F1 to F6 to back to the command line and if your X is fine you can back the X screen using Ctrl+F7. Or if you want to kill your X then Ctrl+Alt+Backspace may be helpful. Hung Dale wrote: I know the subject is a bit lacking but here goes. I'm thinking about trying this xorg-