Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:08:18 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:18 +0000, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:09:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Gdm itself has a config option to disallow root logins > > > > Ahh, unfortunately I can o

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 November 2009 07:01:19 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:08:18 Iain Buchanan wrote: > >> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:18 +, Mick wrote: > >> > On Thursday 12 November 200

Re: [gentoo-user] strange cron messages...

2009-11-15 Thread Mick
l > file? I guess the 'compytruncate' is misspelled and should be > 'copytruncate'. And 'endscript' is used after using 'prerotate' or > 'postrotate', which you probably do not have. > > Something like that, I never used logrot

[gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-15 Thread Mick
/radeonhd%3Aexperimental_3D Does anyone have experience with this driver, or better yet, this laptop? Shall I buy or shall I shy away from it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

2009-11-16 Thread Mick
;s why backups are so handy). I assume that you ran fsck from a LiveCD? May want to use the same to rebuild your toolchain. Have a look here: <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing- portage.xml> in case it helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] smime files opened with kmail

2009-11-17 Thread Mick
is there a manual way of decrypting and reading a SSL signed and encrypted message? PS. I've also tried using openssl smime -decrypt and it fails with some indecipherable errors. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Mick
ot;1" config_wlan0=( "dhcp" ) fallback_wlan0=( "192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) fallback_route_wlan0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" ) in case there is a dhcp problem with how the router releases IP address leases. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues

2009-11-19 Thread Mick
lted from an > > upgrade. > > Sorry, I am looking at /var/log/emerge.log now. Have a look at app-portage/genlop You can just ask it to show you what you emerged in the last 1, or 2 days only. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-20 Thread Mick
2009/11/20 J. Roeleveld : > On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote: >> I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo >>  Wiki which shows relatively good hardware compatibility, except for the >>  radeon card which is now an older offering: &

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:38:22 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 18/11/09 Mick said: > > I don't think that there bugs in conf.d/net just a matter of preference. > > Alan suggested that wicd is a simpler way to have your wireless > > configured and it does not nee

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-21 Thread Mick
ery power than the single drive Dell. Unfortunately, this Asus model is not yet available in the UK and I bet that when they release it here it will be quite expensive. Other than that the choice comes down to Nvidia for Asus Vs ATI for Dell. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

2009-11-22 Thread Mick
worked. > I went from over 300 packages down to 32. Would you mind sharing what these flags were. I have been trying to get rid of akonadi in vane and have run out of flags to take out. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-22 Thread Mick
previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with mplayerplug-in). Is there a better alternative, more akin to the mplayerplug-in? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for > > gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also > > access the stream/file in /tmp/

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:47:57 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 November 2009 14:06:57 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:47:57 Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: > >>>> Mick wrote: > >>>>> Hi All, > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

2009-11-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:28:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:33:41 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 03:41:35 sean wrote: > > > Dale wrote: > > > > I would also add, watch the USE flags. You may be able to > > turn some &

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:27:26 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 14:48: > > http://www.amd.com/us- > > en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv > > Works fine with gecko-mediaplayer and download-helper. Yes, thank you. I'

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

2009-11-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:29:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:37:19 Mick wrote: > > I don't mean to hijack the OP's thread, but why would it be > > that although I > > have switched the darned thing off, it still keeps popping

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-23 Thread Mick
2009/11/20 Mick : > On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:38:22 Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> On 18/11/09 Mick said: >> > I don't think that there bugs in conf.d/net just a matter of preference. >> > Alan suggested that wicd is a simpler way to have your wireless >

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Mick
2009/11/22 Daniel Pielmeier : > Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 20:02: >> On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:27:26 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >>> Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 14:48: >>>> http://www.amd.com/us- >>>> en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Mick
2009/11/23 Helmut Jarausch : > On 23 Nov, Mick wrote: >> 2009/11/22 Daniel Pielmeier : >>> I am not able to play the Apple Trailers by clicking at the link to the >>> movie (maybe a problem with the java script popup). When I open the link >>> in a new wi

Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?

2009-11-24 Thread Mick
gt; > Is there any way to find out what is hogging my X server? > > Many thanks for a hint, I'll be stating the obvious, like ps axf and lsof perhaps? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after suspend to ram + resume...

2009-11-25 Thread Mick
Any help would be very > much appreciated. Check the various hybernation/acpi config files. There should be the option somewhere in there to stop alsasound when it hybernates and start it again on resume. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after suspend to ram + resume...

2009-11-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 November 2009 00:46:48 Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 11/25/2009 5:10 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 November 2009 19:29:43 Marcus Wanner wrote: > >> I just set up suspend to ram on my old Dell Dimension 8200. It has a > >> "Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22

Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-26 Thread Mick
metas which I have marked with "<--Yes" I'm not sure I need the rest. Shall I blow them away? > emerge -C && emerge -a --depclean > -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Opera 10.10 says I've got Java?

2009-11-26 Thread Mick
? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera 10.10 says I've got Java?

2009-11-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 November 2009 23:25:56 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Mick skrev: > > Version information > > > > Version 10.10 > > Build 4742 > > Platform Linux > > System i686, 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 > > Qt library 4.5.3 > > Java Java Runtime Environment

Re: [gentoo-user] OO thesaurus

2009-11-27 Thread Mick
2009/11/27 Kirill Lipatov : > got the same thing with english spell-checking. Can't get it to work What I find odd is that there is no English-UK dictionary available as an extension? http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/dictionary -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-27 Thread Mick
? kde-base/kweather selected: 4.3.1 protected: none omitted: none kde-base/kate selected: 4.3.1 protected: none omitted: none kde-base/kfloppy selected: 4.3.1 protected: none omitted: none -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 November 2009 15:53:41 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 17:27:30 James wrote: > > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > Hmm, I thought that kweather, kate and kfloppy were brought in by some > > > meta or other. It seems that I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 November 2009 13:22:14 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 02:01:22 Mick wrote: > > > To find out what depends on kate, kweather and kfloppy, use the correct > > > portage tool: > > > > > > a...@nazgul ~ $ equery depe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal

2009-11-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 November 2009 19:42:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 21:32:28 Mick wrote: > > > I suppose one could make several useful -meta packages DEPEND on kate, > > > as many users want kate and do not want the entire kdesdk package. But > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Mick
t? Correct, assuming you have installed GRUB correctly in the first instance - which makes me ask: What is your exact error message? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:52:35 BRM wrote: > - Original Message > > From: Mick > > > 2009/12/2 BRM : > > > I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to > > > try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compi

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-03 Thread Mick
Please ignore previous message ... I should have gone to bed by now because evidently I am too tired to think clearly! O_O I will try to boot up with a 64bit OS next. On Thursday 03 December 2009 22:14:36 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RA

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM

2009-12-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 December 2009 22:45:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 04 December 2009 00:14:36 Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a Knoppix DVD > > and only 3G of RAM is visible. Why would that be so? Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Mick
up a user account and passwd then login as a plain user over ssh and then su to root? Alternatively, check /etc/ssh/sshd_config to see if root logins are disabled as a default. While you're there you may also/first want to disable pam for ssh just in case it interferes with the root login. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 December 2009 20:23:39 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick, > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:28:10PM +0000, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 06 December 2009 14:48:36 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread Mick
or the gentoo handbook. The suggested change should not (I think) cause any side effects on a conventional install, so it should be accepted. Just my 2c's. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-11 Thread Mick
Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard === Any idea what is causing this problem and how I can overcome it? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-12 Thread Mick
2009/12/11 dhk : > Is evdev complied into your kernel?  It should be. > Yes, it is, I have INPUT_EVDEV = y -- Regards, Mick

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-12 Thread Mick
2009/12/11 Mick : > Hi All, > > I emerged xorg-server-1.6.5-r1, as well as > x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0,  xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0, > xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0 and xf86-input-evdev-2.3.1 and now I can't get > past the xdm login screen.  It is worth noting that I a

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-12 Thread Mick
2009/12/12 Mick : > 2009/12/11 Mick : >> Hi All, >> >> I emerged xorg-server-1.6.5-r1, as well as >> x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0,  xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0, >> xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0 and xf86-input-evdev-2.3.1 and now I can't get >> past the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-12 Thread Mick
On 12/12/2009, walt wrote: > On 12/12/2009 12:55 AM, Mick wrote: >> ... >> Not sure if it is related but I am getting this: >> >>>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >> /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3 is not a symbolic link >> >> What

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-12 Thread Mick
On 12/12/2009, walt wrote: > On 12/12/2009 03:14 PM, Mick wrote: > >> ... >> I have had mouse, keyboard and synaptics along with evdev in my >> INPUT_DEVICES and have emerged relative drivers. I am now going to >> remove them and see what gives. > > I know no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
2009/12/13 walt : > On 12/12/2009 04:20 PM, Mick wrote: >> >> ... >> I tried the startx trick.  I recall that this would launch my WM >> (fluxbox), but now all I get is an X session with twm!  Has something >> changed with /etc/rc.conf?  Where should I specify flu

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
but in OOo-bin in Linux I can right-click on the image and select 'Save graphics' when the image is jpeg/png/etc. Not sure if this works with MS embedded images/files from e.g. Powerpoint. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 December 2009 12:12:46 Stroller wrote: > On 13 Dec 2009, at 10:50, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 13 December 2009 08:46:05 Stroller wrote: > If I open the file(s) I have the interest in, the first 4 entries in the > context-menu are the same, but after the first separato

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
n the internal > > data handling of the gentoo package manager to have an idea > > what is going wrong here. > > > > What can I do to fix this problem ? > > > > Kind regards and have a nice weekend! > > mcc > > fsck your partition containing /var. and also check that you have not run out of disk space. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:29:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:37:19 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:28:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:33:41 Mick wrote: > > > > I have been trying to get > >

[gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
that /etc/init.d/xdm stop/zap won't kill slim or the X session that it starts. I need to manually run kill -9 to make it give up. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 December 2009 20:22:03 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I got mixed up with the various .fdi files in a previous thread, thinking > > that this is what killed my X GUI. However, it seems that the problem is > > most likely related to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
e trick. Thanks Mike, most helpful! What happens if you want to switch between different sessions at/from the Display Manager stage? Do you place them all in /etc/env.d/90xsession ? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
2009/12/13 Neil Bothwick : > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:43:41 +0000, Mick wrote: > >> The /etc/conf.d/xdm file, which arrived after the /etc/rc.conf days, is >> indeed used to set up the Display Manager, but not the Window >> Manager/Display Environment X session.  The lat

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
Module: "evdev" > > > > tux ~ # lsmod > > Module                  Size  Used by > test_nx                 1824  0 > psmouse                37980  0 > nvidia               9574140  0 > > > What is wrong ??? Have a look at this previous thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/224058 I suspect that you were using /etc/rc.conf to define a DE/WM to handle your Xsession and this configuration file is no longer used by Gentoo. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 December 2009 12:22:42 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:18:56 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > The DE/WM to use is specified by whatever display manager you use. > > > Setting it in a global configuration file is pointless on a multi-user > > > syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 December 2009 22:45:54 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 12/14/2009 3:50 PM, Mick wrote: > > When I am looking for my XSESSION I get nothing: > > > > $ echo $SESSION > > > > > > How do I set this up, other than Mike's suggestion of > > '

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
es as a png/jpeg file. Coming to think of it, you may also be able to copy and paste the image after you convert the file into pdf ... but I am not sure if this is going to help with your problem. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 16:29:58 Stroller wrote: > On 15 Dec 2009, at 14:00, Mick wrote: > > ... > > I'm guessing that the OOo HTML converter will probably turn images > > into PNGs. If you want to see what the original format is then open > > the .doc file u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
'm assuming that only one is needed. On my laptop (different card) the sound is always muted unless I increase the volume with e.g. mplayer/alsamixer, or push one of the physical hardware buttons on the laptop that increase/lower the volume. That seems to unmute it. I have to repeat after every reboot. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
od your problem is that an update in baselayout broke your startup script - the /etc/rc.conf file is no longer sourced. Check the previous thread that I gave you for solutions, or just set up your ~/.xinitrc file by copying your normal Window Manager start up script from /etc/X11/Sessions/ to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-16 Thread Mick
artition tables, but I would probably not bother. Now, there may be more modern tools to do all this with a single button, but I haven't looked into it in any detail. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I restore special keys in X?

2009-12-16 Thread Mick
quot; > EndSection > > MagicSysReq and the modified ctrl_alt_del both work from a text > console, but not from X. What do I have to do to enable them? BTW, I > am not running HAL or DBUS. Option "DontZap" "false" Option "VTSysReq" "true&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:24:51 Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/16/2009 2:24 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote: > >> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and > >> install any flavor of Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-17 Thread Mick
erefore you may need to point it to the files in question for it to work. I suspect that if you point it to a device alone it just shreds the file representing the device on the Linux fs in question. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:47:23 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:42 +0000, Mick wrote: > > shred ... shreds files. Therefore you may need to point it to the > > files in question for it to work. > No. This is horribly wrong. Please don't tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [lame logrotate Q]

2009-12-26 Thread Mick
k is reached the file will be rotated (by whichever condition is met first). Keep an eye on it and play with the file size to confirm that it works for you. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] The current correct way to start kde 4

2009-12-28 Thread Mick
set XSESSION=openbox, or fluxbox, or xface, etc. Since you just want KDE and the kdm Display Manager knows where to find your KDE4 Display Environment and load it, setting up the XSESSION variable is not necessary - although it would cause no harm. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc De

[gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-28 Thread Mick
ideas? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 20:49:08 Stroller wrote: > On 28 Dec 2009, at 13:16, Mick wrote: > > ... > > I remember that when I hovered my mouse over links in web pages on > > Konq 3.5, > > it would show at the bottom of the window the URL that the link in > > ques

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-30 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 10:19:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 11:13:46 Mick wrote: > > In KDE3.5 when I hovered over files I used to get a preview of their > > contents in a thumbnail. This was particularly useful with > > configuration, scr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-31 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 21:49:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 21:33:39 Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 10:19:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 11:13:46 Mick wrote: > > > > In KDE3.5 when I hove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?

2010-01-03 Thread Mick
t list of known phishing and malware sites" > > Yeah, they actually sell phone-home as "privacy". > Is there an option to build without that crap ? Isn't it just a matter of switching off 'Block reported attack sites/web forgeries' under preferences? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)

2010-01-04 Thread Mick
my machine (using Konqueror) it wouldn't work. I think hal complained, but can't recall off hand. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-04 Thread Mick
t; anticipatory: 1m44.348s > deadline: 1m36.804s > > So, the winner is deadline. CFQ doesn't make it to the podium. :) Hmmm ... reading at the help files I thought that CFQ was the default/best option for a desktop. Is there such a thing as a best fit here? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]

2010-01-05 Thread Mick
2010/1/5 Alan McKinnon : > On Tuesday 05 January 2010 10:15:00 Stroller wrote: >> On 5 Jan 2010, at 06:21, Mick wrote: >> >> ... >> >> Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower >> >> than the others, for whatever reason. >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)

2010-01-05 Thread Mick
not set up any fancy USB rules for this drive. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Mick
is! In your friend's case you can force a chkdsk by right-clicking on the drive in Windows Explorer/Properties/Tools/Error-checking. Other than that I think we're into a file recovery mode involving tools like photorec and dd_rescue. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Virtual video card memory disabled

2010-01-09 Thread Mick
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0 bus info: p...@:01:00.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=radeonfb latency=66 mingnt=8 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Mick
nnected from the OS, could be the partition boot record. In this case running fixboot with a WinXP installation CD would restore the partition record and you will be able to access it and run chkdisk with the MSWindows OS. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox not starting after login with SLIM

2010-01-11 Thread Mick
to login again. Maybe it helps. I think that the OP's problem was caused by rc.conf not being sourced by the latest baselayout. Have a look at this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/224058 -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox - I'm lost

2010-01-11 Thread Mick
ither) What do you get when you run /usr/bin/firefox from a terminal? Probably not relevant, but is the bindist USE flag necessary? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mozilla-firefox - I'm lost

2010-01-11 Thread Mick
and space if > you > intend to use other mozilla products like thunderbird, but it shouldn't be > necessary. > > Do you see any messages if you start firefox from a command prompt? Try this: /usr/bin/firefox -console -no-remote Otherwise I am not sure how to get it into some sort of a debug mode ... -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] exaile + XFCE + global shortcuts

2010-01-15 Thread Mick
lains that there is a HTTP protocol missing: "A HTTP protocol source plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed." Which one is that? The shoutcast plugin is in there and enabled. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] exaile + XFCE + global shortcuts

2010-01-15 Thread Mick
d." > > Which one is that? The shoutcast plugin is in there and enabled. I may have found what determines the plugins: I think that you need to install the corresponding gst-plugins. There seems to be one already installed on my system called gnomemmkeys (you can find this when you click Edit/Plugins/Install plugins and it takes you to /usr/share/exaile/plugins to choose from). HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2010-01-17 Thread Mick
s you can read in the thread I mention above there are other ways of making sure that the correct display manager is called. You could try one of those if things do not work out as expected. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2010-01-18 Thread Mick
On Monday 18 January 2010 15:09:39 James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > I suspect that you probably have fallen victim to the great conspiracy of > > baselayout doing away with rc.conf and not screaming it LOUD ENOUGH to > > make sure that we set up the XSESS

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

2010-01-18 Thread Mick
r the suggested fix. Have a look and if you can't find them then I will try to dig them out. BTW, does: revdep-rebuild -p -i --library libc.so.6 also end up in a loop? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

2010-01-21 Thread Mick
also run good ol' lshw. It'll show you what it has negotiated with the switch: configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver= [snip ...] multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] [OT] iBox UPS (by iDowell) driver for Gentoo

2010-01-22 Thread Mick
de to work with nut? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel 4965 doesn't work with 2.6.32?

2010-01-23 Thread Mick
nformation (22). Jan 18 15:16:54 orpheus NetworkManager: > constructor(): (wlan0): Device unsupported, ignoring. > > and the same in dmesg. Are you sure that the driver recognises the wireless NIC as wlan0? Does ifconfig -a show it as wlan0? If yes then this looks like a driver problem. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Problem with manifests for xulrunner

2010-01-23 Thread Mick
-1.8.1.19-glibc-2.10-support.patch' I've resync'd twice so far. Is there something wrong with the maintenance of the manifest files? I looked quickly at the open bugs but couldn't see this one. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver switch keyboard settins by random

2010-01-23 Thread Mick
guess which buttons I should click on. I just changed the keyboard settings again in system configuration. Let's see if they stick this time. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with manifests for xulrunner

2010-01-23 Thread Mick
On Saturday 23 January 2010 16:36:14 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 15:09 +, Neil Walker wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Just ran revdep-rebuild and came across this problem: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Mick
aps udev-tools or whichever package that command belonged to has changed? Can you run: blkid and see what you get? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where oh where has my vol_id gone

2010-01-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 January 2010 14:31:40 Stroller wrote: > ls -lG /dev/disk/by-uuid/ Yes, this works fine if all you want is the UUIDs, but the blkid command shows other useful stuff too, like mount points, fs type, label names, etc. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digita

Re: [gentoo-user] Which IPSEC to go?

2010-01-24 Thread Mick
u sizes to get it to work without fragmentation. If you use ssh I would recommend using public keys and remove passwd authentication. However, if you succeed in setting up a VPN connection for road warrior usage please write a HOWTO! I will happily try it to see if it will work with m

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread Mick
I'm wondering if there's an easy way out of this? Unless your atimes were wildly out I think that it should at some point settle down and stop complaining. Have you rebooted since? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Thrashing a drive to flush out problems..

2010-01-25 Thread Mick
montools and the tests that you can run with it may reveal something meaningful if the disk is seriously bad. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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