Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Apr 2010, at 12:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno domini etc.). Assuming it is an LCD / TFT or otherwise not-a-big-glass-tube monitor, this will make the display LESS sharp. You should make the icons fonts *themselves*

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have a machine that's a MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours it wastes electricity. To make more use of the hardware my wife and son use it at

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hardening SSL without rejecting users

2010-04-27 Thread Eray Aslan
On 27.04.2010 05:19, Grant wrote: I've been advised to harden my SSL in the following ways: 1. disable SSL 2.0 Agreed. There is no need to support SSL 2.0 anymore. 2. disable use of SSL ciphers which offer either weak or no encryption For maximum compatibility, support AES, RC4 and 3DES

Re: [gentoo-user] msfonts

2010-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 07:45:23 Stroller wrote: On 26 Apr 2010, at 20:10, Paul Hartman wrote: 2010/4/26 fajfu...@wp.pl: Hello I'm looking for the following fonts. Could you give me some indications of what packages contain the following fonts. Some from corefonts, others

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 26 Apr 2010, at 14:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have a machine that's a MythTV backend server. It sits quietly in our living room doing it's job, but it only does that roughly 4 hours per day so for 20 hours

[gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Denis
I have an optical out on my on-board Intel Hi Def audio controller (also an Intel motherboard) and wanted to route the optical output to my receiver, so I could play internet radio on my home audio system. I got everything plugged in, but the receiver didn't pick up any signal (I made sure all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 April 2010 18:59:26 Dale wrote: Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Computers are a big portion of the bill around here and learning how to reduce power is high on my priorities for the next few months. I'm not sure how to handle a multi-use box like this. It's an 8-thread i7 processor.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: I have an optical out on my on-board Intel Hi Def audio controller (also an Intel motherboard) and wanted to route the optical output to my receiver, so I could play internet radio on my home audio system. I got everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: I have an optical out on my on-board Intel Hi Def audio controller (also an Intel motherboard) and wanted to route the optical output to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

2010-04-27 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 18:59:26 Dale wrote: Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm running this in a Konsole,

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 00:18:19 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, Because it isn't pertinent to what I asked. but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run it on its native resolution, or else your display will ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Denis
Also, the digital output may show up as a different playback device in ALSA, so you may need to specify this in whatever program you're using Thanks, Paul, I will check that out. I am mostly interested in streaming audio from browser, stuff like Pandora radio and what have you. Otherwise, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-26, pon o godzinie 19:10 -0700, Grant pisze: Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Grant
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts.  Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there is extra one in

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Computers are a big portion of the bill around here and learning how to reduce power is high on my priorities for the next few months. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Denis
I also had: aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0:

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-27, wto o godzinie 10:37 -0700, Grant pisze: Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes

2010-04-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 03:02:54 Grant wrote: I am not familiar with the modem in question, but if you are using your own router the modem should be set up in fully bridged mode and the PPPoE authentication will be managed by your Gentoo router. Thanks Mick. The Westell does have an

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 17:06:07 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2010 00:18:19 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, Because it isn't pertinent to what I asked. but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: I also had: aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1:

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Denis
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Great! Glad you got it going. I've never tried the digital port. It's pretty cool! I never thought I'd use it until I got a receiver that got optical in, and it's a nice solution for routing internet and

[gentoo-user] two version of the same lib at the same time...possible?

2010-04-27 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, for haveing both useable I need to have two different versions of x264 on my system. Is this possible in any way? Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See

[gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can replace it with the external disk and continue straight away. Since I go to weird locations with unreliable power and sometimes drop my laptop I

[gentoo-user] Re: two version of the same lib at the same time...possible?

2010-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/28/2010 04:35 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for haveing both useable I need to have two different versions of x264 on my system. Is this possible in any way? Not with Portage (it allow you to customize --prefix). You can have an infinite number of them though if you install

[gentoo-user] hibernate to ram gives me double vision!

2010-04-27 Thread Mick
This laptop has problems when waking up from hibernate-ram. If in a console, the screen remains blank. If in X the screen wakes up but there seem to be two images of everything, the second displaced to the right of the original position by a millimetre or so. The problem remains if I exit X

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

2010-04-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:02:53PM +0100, Mick wrote anything else but native resolution makes images and characters blurred. There is one exception to that general rule. If you divide the X and/or Y dimensions by a whole number, the result may be blocky fonts, but at least there is no