Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for pdftk

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: > Any suggestions for a good command line tool to manage PDFs like pdftk (split > (burst) a PDF, combine two or more PDFs, Rotate PDFs and so on)? > http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/26/pdf-linux Liviu

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce: unable to perform shutdown

On 1/4/10, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system > does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then > the XFCE session is closed. > > Unable to perform shutdown > error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not de

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

You might be interseted in rezound; it is graphical, however. Liviu On 1/24/08, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that > will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and > the like. > > Prefer command line/ncurses. > -- gen

[gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

Dear Gentoo Community, I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set temporary options to grub. I am on a dual-boot setup with Gentoo Linux being the first choice in grub's config file. When I perform a restart, most of the times it is in order to subsequently boot Windows. W

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

On 2/3/08, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with > either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 > partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want > something for my trip to the dark side I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

On 2/8/08, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS > (for me it's just there in case I forget how bored with games I am) Well, other than games, Windows can at times prove a useful companion. What's good about it is that afte

[gentoo-user] (OT) Freezing: does encryption become useless?

Dear Gentoo users, http://iht.com/articles/2008/02/22/technology/chip.php I'm curious if anyone has any ideas/comments on this (e.g. is this data recovery method realistic, can it be worked around, etc). Regards, Liviu PS And this is for the curious (way OT): http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

Hello Iain and Johan, On 3/12/08, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok. Are you sure it's a synaptics touchpad? Otherwise I'm out of > ideas, sorry... I didn't want to hijack the thread, so I waited till this moment. I can report a similar problem on my laptop. The symptoms are prett

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown

Hello Gal', On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running the display manager slim and I would like to know if it > is possible to get a reboot/shutdown button instead of typing 'halt' > as the login and the root password. Perhaps with a custom theme ? >

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for you reply Liviu. I am going to ask to the dev team :) > I myself much hope that they react. :) Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root > > password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log > > in there fine. Can I recover the root password? > > If you could passwords were us

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or disable booting from the optical drive (or remove it completely) and > set a password in the BIOS. This is one of the few areas in which a > laptop has an advantage, you can't just pope the side off the case and > f

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish > > should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). > > > > Since I wanted to shutdown instead of reboot, it would be ALT + SysRq + S + > U + O then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X (i810) won't start with undefined symbol

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry to bother everybody again but this is really crucial for me. > Does anyone have any ideas whatsoever? Do I have a permanently > Xorgless installation? > Might be worth to try the following: emerge -tva -D x11-base/x

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 1:26 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I use something else to author my diagrams? > You might try Dia or grace. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

Hello everyone, Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, I am looking for "best" fonts, and would much appreciate your sharing of personal choices. This Wiki article [1] has some insight, but not sufficient to satisfy my quest. For best printed output I have settled for e

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

Hello Johan, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Johan Blåbäck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what I suggest could be the problem is that I got my kernel wrong, > since it seem to emulate Logitech instead of synaptics. But I don't > know if that is the problem, or how I fix it. (I have all the ker

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo-wiki.com

On 4/26/08, Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it only me or does someone else have problems with gentoo-wiki.com today? > On 4/15/08, ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a fine page to bookmark: > http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ > Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.g

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

On 4/27/08, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My > son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can > anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less > a single step? Direct

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?

On 5/7/08, Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Hilt wrote: > > On Tue, 6 May 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > > >> I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this > >> file belongs to? I googled around without luck > > > > "equery b scrbook.cls" returns > > dev-

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

On 5/5/08, Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 > and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded > flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt > konqueror a

Re: [gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: > No need to look online, the comments in the file seem to contain the > information you want: > I am asking for the case where my tree is *not* yet synced with the most current available official tree. How can one find this file/information wit

[gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox

Dear all, I'm using x11-misc/slim as a login manager, and I have troubles with loading any DE other than Xfce. I've followed the wiki entry [1], but I must still be doing something wrong: it fails to load Fluxbox whether I select Fluxbox or Xfce with F1. It's actually quite funny: selecting Fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: >> li...@localhost ~ $ cat .xinitrc >> #SLiM session call >> DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 >                  ^^ > This sets DEFAULT_SESSION to dbus-launch and then executes startxfce4. That > would explain why you ha

[gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

Guys, Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to opening all images in an image viewer (say, mirage), and switching from one image to an

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: > Hello. > Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: > 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting > parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is. > > There are: media-sound/s

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > You can use "convert" from imagemagick to resize to thumbnail size and > save as a different file format. > I knew about "convert", but I was looking for smth batch, and it's imagemagick's mogrify [1]. For personal use, I defined in emelFM2's

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: > Audacity doesn't support .wav file format. I mean it doesn't convert .wav to > mp3, ogg, etc... Soundconverter strange programm. I tried to convert my wav > files to mp3 with it and size of files that I get was 20 Mb and more (same > with wav

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: > Thanks. But audacity writes to me that it doesn't recognize my wav format. > Maybe I have really different form of this format? How can I get informatin > about format of my files? > `file music.wav' -- Do you know how to read? http://www.

[gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

Hello all, I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see below). I suspect I started having these messages after Gentoo crashed once, but I couldn't recall the actual circumstances. The problem is that, for e

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> This is almost certainly disk corruption. Boot from a CD and do an fsck >> on all disk volumes > > And maybe do a backup first, in case fsck messes up things worse than > before. > Luckily this wasn't needed. I did the checks using Gparted

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Vasya Volkov wrote: > Here: > 01.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, MPEG Layer 3, stereo 48000 Hz > An idea: try to convert it with soundcoverter (or sox, or whatever) to .wav, and try to load the new .wav in audacity. Liviu -- Do you know how to read?

[gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

Dear all, Today I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of Linux. Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly old) Gentoo needs around two minutes from power button to DE idle. Are there any developments in Gentoo concerning this? Thanks, Liviu [1] http://lw

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009/4/20 Sebastián Magrí : > There are a few tweaks one can do to speed up things... > Such as.. -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

[gentoo-user] generic command monitor

Dear all, I'm looking for a command-line alternative to xfce4-genmon [1]. The latter takes a command (executable), executes it every specified period and displays the output in Xfce's panel. I'm looking for a small utility (script) that can do this in the console: take a command, re-run it regularl

Re: [gentoo-user] generic command monitor

On 6/8/09, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > watch(1) (part of sys-process/procps) > Perfect. Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Busted

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Beau Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As of late ( past couple of weeks ), I've been having trouble with flash. > Nothing seems to work. Youtube, google video, lastfm doesn't have the little > What version of flash are you using? Here net-www/netscape-flash-10

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

There is media-sound/mp3splt-gtk [1], but it's for splitting only: "a GTK+ based utility to split mp3 and ogg files without decoding." Never managed to get it working, though. I would suggest that you raise the question on a more specialised ML, for example the Audacity ML. Perhaps they'd suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about the gnome-volume-manager? (If you use Gnome)... > Or thunar-volman? (If you use Xfce)... -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.n

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

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Grant wrote: > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does > There's also wpa_gui. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.ht

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge R

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > draws charts, graphs, applies coloration, interesting stuff. I may end > up using RapidMiner - also Open Source but I think it's not in portage > - as it's more of a GUI environment vs R which is sort of command line > driven. > Although clear

Re: [gentoo-user] perfect IDE

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:51 AM, David Relson wrote: >> ide for c/c++ code writing. I've been through vim/vim + plugins/emacs >> + different modes/anjuta/kdevelop/codeblocks/eclipse/netbeans ... >> > I've heard some good things about komodo, though it's not open > source and I've not used it. > Ko

Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Dale wrote: > I use Kbackup and then k3b to burn them.  Works well so far.  Just > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. > Are there GUIs not depending on KDE? -- Do you know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:24 AM, gigli wrote: > kmyfirewall and others, didn't really like them. Something like ufw > would be nice. > The other day I filed a bug report for gufw [1], but there's no ebuild sofar. Liviu [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264912 -- Do you know how to re

[gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages

Dear all, Where can I find on-line information about masked packages, basically the current /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask? It seems no such info is either here [1], here [2] or here [3]. I'd like to know why the package is masked prior to syncing Portage. Thanks, Liviu [1] http://packages.gen

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

On 8/8/07, Chuanwen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,guys! > I need tools to detect the details of my hardware. Take a look here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Detecting_your_Hardware -- Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

Hello everyone, I'm trying to synchronize the system time with the help of rdate (openNTPD is on the list in case of failure). I have one problem, though: I connect to the Internet through a proxy server. I have set up the necessary environment, but I doubt that rdate listens to it: localhost ini

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

On 8/27/07, Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys: > > I wouldn't like, but i have to say that all current available linux > desktop search engines are rubbish. Keep reading, and you'll know why. Personally, I find the find plugin of emelFM2 very nice and attractiv

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

Thank you both for the quick replies. The answer to my problem is htpdate. I was searching for such an utility for quite some time. I still have one problem, though. When installing Gentoo, I probably chose the USA as my location. However, I'm located in CET (that is, GMT+1). From htpdate, I recei

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

On 9/3/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:00:05 -0500, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > This setting is only used when emerging timezone-data, to copy the > correct file to /etc/localtime. Either re-emerge timesone-data or > cp /usr/share/zonein

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

Thread wikified: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Synchronize_time:_simple_and_lightweight_solutions On 9/3/07, Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/3/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:00:05 -0500, Liviu Andronic wrote: > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?

On 9/1/07, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well... since the demise of openMosix... What similar cluster software are > gentoo users using? Anyone? I am trully no specialist in the domain, but browsing these links might be of help: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:HOWTO#Build_a_Gentoo_Hig

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard layout

Hello, I use x11-base/xorg-server [1.1.1-r3]. In my xorg.conf, I have the following: Driver "keyboard" ..and.. Option "XkbLayout" "gb,fr,ru,ro" Try to change "uk" to "gb". Regards, Liviu On 9/10/07, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a few problems with an update of Xo

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard layout

On 9/10/07, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Already tried changing it to "gb" but it didn't change anything Did you try to change the driver? My xorg.conf uses this: Driver "keyboard" Just for reference, here's the relevant part of my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Ide

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with Xorg 7.2 and i810

On 9/14/07, J.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly the same is happening to me, but I am using Compiz-Fusion... Well, I didn't yet run into these problems, but I do intend to upgrade my Xorg to 7.3 these days and give a try to compiz. Will post here if everything is OK. -- Liviu -- [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] font corruption ???

Hello, On 9/27/07, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have never encountered this problem and have no solution. But may be > it's possible to work around this problem by exporting to PDF and > printing from a PDF viewer. > Thought of a similar solution. You could also try PostScript

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

On 9/22/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I wonder if anyone knows of a GUI app that can display the > hierarchy in a large zip file - maybe hundreds of directories, tens of > thousands of files and a couple of gigs of zip - without actually > unzipping the archive and using up

Re: [gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

On 10/4/07, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using ntfs-3g w/o issues. I'm not using in-kernel fuse modules > though. I'm compiling it from the version in portage Same here, and it works OK so far. -- Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild

On 10/4/07, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have done so. The revdep-rebuild for libssl found nothing, but the > one for libcrypto rebuilt openssl. However rerunning the command > again again rebuilt openssh. I have just survived to a huge (one year, I think) emerge -tva -DNu world

[gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

Hello security gurus, this one's for you: After shutdown, is it possible to recover the data stored on the Random Access Memory? Be it an ancient mounted ramdisk, a tmpfs mount point or normal data kept in memory by programs. In many ressources on the net (the Gentoo Wiki and Forums, other Securi

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

Hello, I was also playing with ivman for a long time till accidentally I stumbled upon this: http://foo-projects.org/~benny/projects/thunar-volman/index.html. Here's the minimalistic Wikipedia entry (copy and paste) that I've made: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_thunar-volman. This is a light-weigh

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On 10/4/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in practice, the ram has to refreshed every few cycles (on reason why it is > slow) because it is loosing its load so fast. > > In practice, after power is cut, everything in ram is lost. > > But not the stuff in swap Considering th

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On 10/4/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Considering that swap is encrypted, is it realistic for this "lost" > > RAM data to be recovered? Again, take the case of a well funded > > organization. > > that depends on the encryption. Some algorithms are easy to break. Some are >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On 10/4/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: >> [..] > > However, it makes sense to clean up memory after having > > critical data in it -- e.g. a reboot doesn't necessarily clean up > > RAM. >> [..] > > Yes, this is very true BUT

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On 10/5/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the "lost" RAM data to be > > recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still > > physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology > > and know-how recover i

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

Hello, On 10/5/07, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is an option in baselayout's rc file to erase the swap at > shutdown. Take a look at /etc/conf.d/rc under RC_SWAP_ERASE. As far as I understand, this is far from secure. You want at least some degree of security, you need cryp

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive > does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Desktop settings > Behaviour > Desktop Icons > Choose "File/launcher icons" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this normal?

On 10/11/07, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * man page to learn how to update config files. The http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Maintain_Gentoo_-_%22Best_Practices%22#dispatch-conf suggests the use of dispatch-conf over etc-update. Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio/Mpeg

On 10/11/07, sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firefox is complaining that a plugin is not available for audio/mpeg > support. > Any recommendations on getting support? Not sure if it helps: emerge mplayerplug-in and recently (by the same author(s)) emerge gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On 10/9/07, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > according to the speaker, most of the RAM may even survives for as long as > 30 seconds after powering off! At least on a ThinkPad T30 notebook (stated [..] > Another thing is Firewire, or hot-pluggable PCI cards (and everything else > which ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean question

On 10/16/07, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after > several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now > it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about: > > gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1

[gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

Hello everyone, I understand that this topic is not exactly Gentoo related. It does relate, however, to a Gentoo-ish way to solve the "issue". This year I enjoyed much to follow the Formula 1 season, and I have one problem with it: I have a TV set (actually I borrow it for the day), but I have no

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

Hello and thanks for answering, On 10/18/07, Wayn0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would imagine that this is IP based :-( Is there a way to make my computer identify on the net with a different, tweaked IP address? Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

Hello, On 10/18/07, Novensiles divi Flamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I doubt anything about their verification happens from the browser, it would > all be IP based. So bounce through a proxy in the UK. I am already required to connect to the Internet through a transparent proxy (educational en

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

Hello Renat, On 10/18/07, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's determined based on your IP address. You can try it yourself at > http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip I used the service, and the service determines my location with the utmost precision. I tried the following trick:

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding fonts in LaTeX (app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)

Hello, On 10/29/07, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me the correct place to add fonts to TeTeX so that > they'll be accessible for all users, please? I think that the way I > have done this in the past may be "unofficial" - I think I've added > my local fonts to the master li

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding fonts in LaTeX (app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)

On 10/30/07, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll get on the case with this this evening, but in the meantime, any > idea how to add fonts to TeXLive, in case I need to? I could only suggest to look at the installation instructions found in cm-super, or some other well maintained font. Liv

Re: [gentoo-user] A week of struggle

On 10/30/07, econti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2 (this is really incredible) fonts disappeared on the Realplayer > window! Instead of chars . . . boxes. i.e. file = 4 boxes, settings > = 7 boxes, etc ?? > Realplayer works fine but it is the only one app with this problem. This may not be

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Video encoder

On 11/3/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for an easy way to encode the video files I acquire into a > single format and level of quality. It would also be nice to be able > to easily burn a DVD of the resultant file that will play on a home > DVD player. I'm sure there are at le

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Video encoder

On 11/4/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a article that may help you make video's quickly: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9005 On the articles note, check this Wiki entry [1]. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DVD_to_Matroska Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

On 11/7/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thoughts? I'm no expert in the field, but since dmstat was mentioned, this might be useful: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Detecting_your_Hardware#dstat_.2F_vmstat_.2F_free Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox mplayerplug-in problem

On 12/7/07, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions? You could always try emerge gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer Apparently, the gnome-mplayer and mplayerplug-in share the same author, and he works actively on the former. Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

On 5/8/08, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope, Opera-9.50_beta2 seems to have problems playing flash (e.g. on bbc > iplayer). I haven't tried yet 9.50_beta2_p1951. > -- It should work OK if you set the paths correctly. Here I have this, in "Plugin options": /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins:/opt/Ad

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

On 6/7/08, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, I seem to have these set up: > > > /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins:/opt/netscape/plugins:/opt/mozilla/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins > > Is the order in which they are listed important? > Don't think so. On my system, in

[gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

Dear Gentoo users, I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508 yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot use the left-hand shift (the latter is the annoying part). Here's what i have: /etc/X11/xorg.c

[gentoo-user] Re: hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

the X server Liviu On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Gentoo users, > > I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508 > yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it > was previously

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

Thank you a lot, Sascha. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put the following line in Section "ServerFlags" in the xorg.conf: >Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" > This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile xorg-server with -hal?

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile >> xorg-server with -hal? > It would, but I find runtime-tuning much easier and transparent. > input-hotplugging really is a fine thing, if you get a littl

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for FPM

Dear all, On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:02 AM, Xavier-Francois Roblot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can someone point me to a viable replacement for it? I need something >> that can: 1) store passwords (obviously); 2) generate passwords; 3) have >> launchers as FPM does. The possibility to import FPM

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]

Dear all, === Short version: If you upgrade to xorg-x11-7.4, xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810-2.4.2-r1, and X does not start, change Section "Device" Driver "i810" to "intel" in your xorg.conf. Would have been nice if Portage had informed us of this. If nothing else works, revert to "vesa"

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]

On 9/14/08, Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since the driver was renamed from i810 to intel in upstream, I vote for > Gentoo to rename the package as well, from xf86-video-i810 to > xf86-video-intel. > Second this. Liviu

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]

On 9/14/08, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > glxgears won't start for me any longer (Error: couldn't get an RGB, > Double-buffered visual). Not that I would really need that one, nor any [..] > Have you seen this error too? > Not this particular one, but I still get an error wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard > drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd > really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad >

[gentoo-user] Password strength checker

Dear everyone, I'm looking for a Linux password strength checker, and so far I found this GPLed Java-Script-based solution [1]. Could you please suggest other utilities to test the strength of passwords? Regards, Liviu PS I'm curious whether such a JS password strength checker can be ebuilt and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play audio cds!

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my > CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd > As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The one progra

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Продажа квартир.Скидки становятся меньше...

On 10/9/08, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:31:32 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > How do you say "wtf?" in Russian? > As in "WTF are you reposting this entire spam to the list"? > Well, one way to express the "wtf" feeling would be: "С какой херовой стати?". (T

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

Hello, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, > get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the > root console instead of getting a new login scree

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

On 10/15/08, Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this actually a bug or intended behaviour? If it's a bug, is there a > version that works properly? > The bug would relate more to /etc/init.d/xdm than to SLiM. Liviu

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