[gentoo-user] Virtualbox USB w/o usbfs

2010-07-13 Thread SpaceCake
Hi, I have a problem with accessing usb devices from virtualbox after some kernel/system update. Previously it was ok after I've added the following line to the fstab usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1017,devmode=664 0 0 but now, there is no /proc/bus/usb how can I enable USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Róbert Čerňanský
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:11:17 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > > You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting either > > DejaVu or bitstream vera. > > I guess I can install more fonts, but I was hoping I could point emacs > at one of the r

[gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people! After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. How do I get the mouse and keyboard to run. I followed the steps from the offic

Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-07-13 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote: > But still, pppd call does not work. The system seems to be > dialing, I see familiar messages, but that's it, no more messages at > all. > > When I just tried that again, the system even hung, I could not

[gentoo-user] Display gone

2010-07-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Just reinstalled Gentoo. Boot thru kdm. Works fine, but a lot of X & kde apps can't find the display and return No protocol specified No protocol specified xprop: unable to open display ':0' Did I forget to configure something ? -- ~adj~

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: > After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I > regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown > proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. > > How do I get the mouse

[gentoo-user] how can I make "emerge --sync" less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Jarry
Hi, subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast it saturates my connection. How can I make "emerge --sync" somehow less verbose? I know, I can use "--quiet", but then I do not see anyting. Maybe something like status-ba

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: >  Hi people! > After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I regenrated > the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown proparly with > everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. > > How do I get the mo

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Hung Dang
uOn 07/13/10 10:45, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: >> After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I >> regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown >> proparly with everything around it but I don't have a m

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

2010-07-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:57:14 +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: > After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I > regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown > proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard. What happens if you use the old

[gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Fetching (1 of 1) gnome-base/gvfs-1.4.3-r1 * gvfs-1.4.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer Am 13.07.2010 18:45, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world Calculating dependencies... done! Fetching (1 of 1) gnome-base/gvfs-1.4.3-r1 * gvfs-1.4.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1

Re: [gentoo-user] Display gone

2010-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
alain.didierj...@free.fr writes: > Just reinstalled Gentoo. Boot thru kdm. Works fine, but a lot of X & kde apps > can't find the display and return > > No protocol specified > No protocol specified > xprop: unable to open display ':0' > > Did I forget to configure something ? Perhaps these apps

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi Mark! > you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. > > There three packages I remerged: > > xf86-input-mouse > xf86-input-keyboard > xf86-input-evdev > > and the problem was gone. > > > Tamer Glad it worked. Investigate

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the >> same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: >> >> c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> >> > > Fetching (1

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer Gl

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world Calculating dependencies... done! Fetch

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/13/2010 08:01 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Portage tells you to do exactly that after updating xorg-server.

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-13 Thread Stroller
On 12 Jul 2010, at 22:59, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mick wrote: http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332? ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1278964492&sr=8-6 ... In my experience, the small PS/2 to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dale  wrote: >> >>> >>> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Strange little problem. emerge keeps fetching (not downloading) the same file but doesn't seem to need to build it: c2s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazi >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mark! >>> you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. >>> >>> There three packages I remerged: >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Display gone

2010-07-13 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Allan Gottlieb : > alain.didierj...@free.fr writes: > > > Just reinstalled Gentoo. Boot thru kdm. Works fine, but a lot of X & kde > apps > > can't find the display and return > > > > No protocol specified > > No protocol specified > > xprop: unable to open display ':0' > > > > Did I forget

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make "emerge --sync" less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/13/2010 09:48 AM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, > and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast > it saturates my connection. How can I make "emerge --sync" > somehow less verbose? > > I know, I can use "--quiet", but then I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Right. I misspoke. New use flags, not new a package. However the outcome is consistent. It says it's 'fetching' because it's responding to the idea that there's a new use flag, but then fetches nothing because the file is already here and builds nothing because it's already be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/13/2010 08:01 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Portage tells you to do exactly that af

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > 2. The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1" > looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like > "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...". You don't need to have DejaVu, > but I would advise getting either DejaV

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Right. I misspoke. New use flags, not new a package. >> >> However the outcome is consistent. It says it's 'fetching' because >> it's responding to the idea that there's a new use flag, but then >> fetches nothing because the

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-13 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jul 2010, at 02:50, Allan Gottlieb wrote: How should I view .m4v files with totem. Is there a gst-plugin or a use flag for gst-plugins-meta? I have used the following, which "works", but the video quality is bad ffmpeg -i file.m4v file.avi totem file.avi Hi there, I was been reluctant

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-13, R?bert ?er?ansk? wrote: > You can. I'm not sure why is that but it seems that your emacs is not > able to find variable pitch font - "About emacs" screen and tooltips > are using such font; normal edit buffers uses a fixed width font. To > be more precise, they are using 'variabl

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Right. I misspoke. New use flags, not new a package. However the outcome is consistent. It says it's 'fetching' because it's responding to the idea that there's a new use flag, but then fetches nothi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/13/10, Mark Knecht wrote: > It's not a big deal. The machine is fine. Everything is consistent as > far as I know. However some portion of the download logic in emerge is > confused. > > I've seen this sort of thing a few times in the past but it's always > cleared up in a day or two. This on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Grant Edwards writes: > On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> 2. The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1" >> looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like >> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...". You don't need to have DejaVu, >> but I wo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge keeps 'fetching' gvfs-1.4.3-r1

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 7/13/10, Mark Knecht wrote: >> It's not a big deal. The machine is fine. Everything is consistent as >> far as I know. However some portion of the download logic in emerge is >> confused. >> >> I've seen this sort of thing a few times in the

[gentoo-user] Device not accepting address, error -110 and others

2010-07-13 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi list,    since I updated to some of new linux kernels versions, I started to experimenting many problems with my usb devices / hub, which makes my computer works in a very strange manner. Researching on this direction on the web, I noticed that many people have the same/similar problem as mine,

Re: [gentoo-user] viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Stroller writes: > On 9 Jul 2010, at 02:50, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> How should I view .m4v files with totem. >> Is there a gst-plugin or a use flag for gst-plugins-meta? >> >> I have used the following, which "works", but the video quality is bad >> ffmpeg -i file.m4v file.avi >> totem file.av

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-13, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> 2. The name you give >>> "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1" >>> looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like >>> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...". You don't need to have DejaVu, >>> but I would advise getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem

2010-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Grant Edwards writes: > On 2010-07-13, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > 2. The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1" looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...". You don't need to have DejaVu, >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works

2010-07-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote: > Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into > gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to > "Unknown". For a long time it has always been set to "Evdev managed > keyboard" but that is

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010 22:59:59 Paul Hartman wrote: >> In my experience, the small PS/2 to USB mouse adapters like that do >> not contain a controller chip and only work on USB-compatible PS/2 >> mice. Those mice typically came with a USB adapter in t

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make "emerge --sync" less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, > and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast > it saturates my connection. How can I make "emerge --sync" > somehow less verbose? > > I know, I can use "--quiet", b

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make "emerge --sync" less verbose?

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jarry wrote: >> Hi, >> subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, >> and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast >> it saturates my connection. How can I make "emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-13 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 July 2010 22:59:59 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this > > adaptor: > > > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- > > Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor

2010-07-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 19:00:27 Stroller wrote: > On 12 Jul 2010, at 22:59, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mick > > > > wrote: > >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- > >> Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332? > >> ie=UTF8&s=elec

[gentoo-user] kdeplasma-addons-4.4.4 fails

2010-07-13 Thread James
Hello, I've manage to update several system (amd64 kde 4.4.4) but one is just giving me fits. I've rebuilt libpng per flameyes blog post: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update. I've emerge -e system and used revdep-rebuild many times (clean now). Still kdeplasma-add

[gentoo-user] Camera App

2010-07-13 Thread sean
Is anyone able to recommend an application that can snap a picture using a webcam? I would prefer one not really tied to Gnome or KDE, but if it is a must, I would choose KDE. Being in portage is a nice plus as well. Thanks, Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks and >>> put it all back together again so that not even the factory can notice...

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works

2010-07-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 02:04:32 Albert Hopkins wrote: > > Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into > > gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to > > "Unknown". For a long time it has al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks and >>> put it all back together again so that not even the factory can notice...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks and put it all back together again so that not eve

[gentoo-user] [OT] Any centralized documentation on qemu-kvm?

2010-07-13 Thread Walter Dnes
Before anybody asks... 1) VirtualBox manages to do a hard locup on my Intel I3 2) qemu depends on softmmu, which requires gcc 3.x So I installed qemu-kvm (different from qemu). The documentation that I've found via Google is out-of-date/irrelavant. I know that there is a "kvm" command, and t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Dale wrote: > Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> So emerge -evp is useful to get those last inconsistencies out of the >> system. >> >> -- >> Valmor >> >> > > You can add this option to help with those:  --with-bdeps y  I consider it > -D on steroids.  I actually adde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Dale wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: So emerge -evp is useful to get those last inconsistencies out of the system. -- Valmor You can add this option to help with those: --with-bdeps y I consider it -D on steroids

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Dale wrote: > Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks