Re: [gentoo-user] OT : DSL modems changing ISP
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:51:51 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Webb wrote: (2) IIRC I'm signed up for Gentoo lists as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', so it looks as if I will need to resubscribe under the new ISP (I have a reply-to header pointing to my UoT address, but I delete it from e-mails to lists, as it caused problems in the past). Has anyone had other problems in this area I should know about (smile) ? When I changed ISPs a good while back, I did it this way. Get my new ISP and everything working as far as the connection and making sure email works. Once that is done, subscribe to the mailing list and confirm the subscription. After a little while you should start getting emails from the list. After you are sure that you will be getting list emails to the new email account, you can unsubscribe from the old list. I have done this a couple times and it has always worked well for me. Hope that helps. Or just run your own email server... It makes life so much easier. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] OT : DSL modems changing ISP
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 08:06:38 Robert Bridge wrote: I have done this a couple times and it has always worked well for me. Hope that helps. Or just run your own email server... It makes life so much easier. :) Or just get a gmail address for mailing lists, then there's no maintenance at all :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] How to disable the display power save mode
2008/8/25 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 25 August 2008, Zhou Rui wrote: 2008/8/25 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or if you want to save the planet you could just press Alt every time you want to wake up the console screen - it works over here. You know, I'm testing some application would crash the system, so I need get the last output on console. If sometimes it turned blank, I have no chance to wake it up... I understand. Did you try pressing the 'Alt' key, it wakes my console screen up alright. -- Regards, Mick Yep, this works. I think this is the normal Press any key to wake up the monitor mode, only defference is an 'Alt' key does not display any junk, it's a clean waking. Usually I use the 'down' key for this job. -- BR, Zhou Rui
[gentoo-user] [OT] stretching AVI in time
Hi! I have a very short (probably one or few frames) avi file (display geometry test image). How to stretch the avi in time to long period (say, minutes)? Software? Steps?
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues
Can anyone suggest how to revert to my xorg.conf configuration, and to make left shift a proper modifier key, again? Thank you, Liviu The easiest way probably is to disable input hotplugging: Put the following line in Section ServerFlags in the xorg.conf: Option AutoAddDevices false - Sascha signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] stretching AVI in time
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:34:00PM +0400, Penguin Lover Andrew Gaydenko squawked: I have a very short (probably one or few frames) avi file (display geometry test image). How to stretch the avi in time to long period (say, minutes)? Software? Steps? If you worry just about display, look at the -fps option in mplayer, it lets you dictate the frame rate at which the movie is played. (Though on this box here it doesn't let you stretch to ftime more than 1 sec) A possibly better way is to (assuming your video file has really few frames) mplayer -vo jpeg videofile beware that if your video file has more than a few seconds, the number of frames can really pile up and give you a whole bunch of files. Then you can reencode the avi thus mencoder mf://000*jpg -mf fps=insert frame rate -o outputfile.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 (you can, of course, encode in the codec of your choosing). The files 000*jpg are the default filenames for the output of the first command. If you specified output file names in the first command, you need to change the input filenames for the second. For fps insert a number corresponding to what you want: for example, say you have 5 frames and want to stretch it to 2 minutes, then set fps=5/120 (number of frames divided by the amount of total run time). Hope this helps, W -- Marten: That's like rule number one of dating-if the lady tells you she wants to wait, you wait. Even if it means you get blueballed so hard your nuts travel into the future due to relativistic effects. Dora: Ah, the Hawking Libido Dilation Effect. Bane of frustrated young men and physicists alike. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 627 days, 12:37
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] stretching AVI in time
=== On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Willie Wong wrote: === On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:34:00PM +0400, Penguin Lover Andrew Gaydenko squawked: I have a very short (probably one or few frames) avi file (display geometry test image). How to stretch the avi in time to long period (say, minutes)? Software? Steps? If you worry just about display, look at the -fps option in mplayer, it lets you dictate the frame rate at which the movie is played. (Though on this box here it doesn't let you stretch to ftime more than 1 sec) A possibly better way is to (assuming your video file has really few frames) mplayer -vo jpeg videofile beware that if your video file has more than a few seconds, the number of frames can really pile up and give you a whole bunch of files. Done, there was a single frame. Then you can reencode the avi thus mencoder mf://000*jpg -mf fps=insert frame rate -o outputfile.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 (you can, of course, encode in the codec of your choosing). The files 000*jpg are the default filenames for the output of the first command. If you specified output file names in the first command, you need to change the input filenames for the second. For fps insert a number corresponding to what you want: for example, say you have 5 frames and want to stretch it to 2 minutes, then set fps=5/120 (number of frames divided by the amount of total run time). Hope this helps, W Have got: videocodec: libavcodec (720x576 fourcc=34504d46 [FMP4]) [mpeg4 @ 0x11004b0]bitrate tolerance too small for bitrate Sorry, my initial message wasn't clear: the final goal is to prepare DVD to adjust a geometry of a TV with CRT. P.S. Oh, this mencoder magic... :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: OT : DSL modems changing ISP
On 2008-08-26, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2008 08:06:38 Robert Bridge wrote: I have done this a couple times and it has always worked well for me. Hope that helps. Or just run your own email server... It makes life so much easier. :) Or just get a gmail address for mailing lists, then there's no maintenance at all :-) Due to spammage problems, there are some lists/forums/whatever that no longer allow gmail addresses to join. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I didn't order any at WOO-WOO ... Maybe a YUBBA visi.com... But no WOO-WOO!
[gentoo-user] Re: building kde-meta
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Is is OK (a good idea) to place -nsl into the make.conf settings? Gut feel tells me to leave well enough alone in this case. Well, I did it anyway and all is fine. I intend to add -nls, to servers, firewalls, routers, GNAP and such, but not workstations (you never know what you'll need). To me, the more you remove from a server (that is not needed) the better (more stable/secure/faster/etc) the machine will be. Many servers are challenged for disk space anyway, particular the ones that run on CompactFlash drives. Thanks to all for the input. James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT : DSL modems changing ISP
080826 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-08-25, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've decided to change my ISP from Sympatico to Uniserve need to check a couple of things re which others may have advice. (1) the best option seems to be to buy a DSL modem: Uniserve offers Zoom x4 ADSL : = 8 Mbit/s (up 1 Mbit/s ) www.zoom.com/products/adsl_overview.html#5651 : works w Linux My understanding is that the kernel talks to the ethernet chip on the mobo, which in turn talks to the DSL modem, so there is no problem of having a DSL modem which Linux cannot work with. Am I correct ? The Zoom x4 DSL modem is an IP NAT/firewall/router. It contains a DHCP server, and Linux will work with it just fine. Thanks to the other respondents as well (big smile). I'm being very careful to minimise downtime or gotchas, as the Internet has become 3rd in life after breathing beer ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] prelink on AMD64 with no --conserve-memory
(I originally posted this on gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64, but even though GMane authorized me to post there, my posts don't get through. So I'm reposting it here.) Usually, when prelinking a system, it's recommended to use prelink's -m (or --conserve-memory) option: When assigning addresses to libraries, allow overlap of address space slots provided that the two libraries are not present together in any of the binaries or libraries. This results in a smaller virtual address space range used for libraries. On the other hand, if prelink sees a binary during incremental prelinking which puts together two libraries which were not present together in any other binary and were given the same virtual address space slots, then the binary cannot be prelinked. Without this option, each library is assigned a unique virtual address space slot. But on AMD64, virtual address space is virtually unlimited (or at least very huge). Are there any drawbacks in not using -m on AMD64?
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? Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues
Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 20:06:57 schrieb Liviu Andronic: 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? It would, but I find runtime-tuning much easier and transparent. input-hotplugging really is a fine thing, if you get a little time to configure it. - Sascha signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] prelink on AMD64 with no --conserve-memory
On Dienstag, 26. August 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: (I originally posted this on gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64, but even though GMane authorized me to post there, my posts don't get through. So I'm reposting it here.) Usually, when prelinking a system, it's recommended to use prelink's -m (or --conserve-memory) option: When assigning addresses to libraries, allow overlap of address space slots provided that the two libraries are not present together in any of the binaries or libraries. This results in a smaller virtual address space range used for libraries. On the other hand, if prelink sees a binary during incremental prelinking which puts together two libraries which were not present together in any other binary and were given the same virtual address space slots, then the binary cannot be prelinked. Without this option, each library is assigned a unique virtual address space slot. But on AMD64, virtual address space is virtually unlimited (or at least very huge). Are there any drawbacks in not using -m on AMD64? I have nerver used -m on amd64 and so far haven't suffered from problems.
[gentoo-user] dev-python/PyQt4
Hello, It fails to build on one particular system: Traceback (most recent call last): File configure.py, line 30, in module import sipconfig ImportError: No module named sipconfig make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. * ERROR: dev-python/PyQt4-4.3.3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2892: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die emake failed I see the lines about configure.py and sipconfig, but have no idea what to do about those issues. equery depends PyQt4 shows noting depends on this package Any suggestions as to unmerging it, fixing it, or just wait a few days, sync up and see if it is fixed? Ideas? James
[gentoo-user] solved: dev-python/PyQt4
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: OOPS, Further goolgling led me to bug 218874: reemerging dev-python/sip fixed this bug for me. fixed and closed. James
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 little time to configure it. If readily available, could you please point to some example fdi files (or appropriate documentation)? Thank you, Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues
Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 23:09:37 schrieb Liviu Andronic: 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 little time to configure it. If readily available, could you please point to some example fdi files (or appropriate documentation)? I suggest you leave the fdi file /usr/share/hal/... as it is and provide changes locally in /etc. Attached is my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi file that I use to make it all German. Should be easily tweaked to your needs. But don't touch Model and Rules, since that needs to be evdev specific. You need to reload/restart hal after changing that file. And make sure that the keyboard layout in xfce/gnome/kde is set to evdev, NOT pc105, since that breaks the mapping again. Good luck, Sascha ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? !-- -*- SGML -*- -- deviceinfo version=0.2 device match key=info.capabilities contains=input.keys merge key=input.xkb.rules type=stringbase/merge merge key=input.xkb.model type=stringevdev/merge merge key=input.xkb.layout type=stringde/merge merge key=input.xkb.variant type=stringnodeadkeys/merge /match /device /deviceinfo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB
All, I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. So using fdisk I deleted partition 4 and recreated it from the same position which expanded the partition to 1.99TB. I later realised that it should have expanded to 2.24TB so I did some googling and found that you can't create a partition 2TB with fdisk. I found a page that suggested using GNU parted to create partitions of this size but it didn't mention whether this would work to expand a partition. So basically does anyone have any experience moving from an fdisk partition table to a GNU parted partition table without losing filesystems, data, etc? Cheers, Dave.
