[gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown

2010-01-04 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
Hello. 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 determine whether caller is privileged org.freedeskt

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

2010-01-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

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

2010-01-04 Thread Alan E. Davis
Recently, I have had to reboot in order to recover the function of automatic mounting of USB Flash drives, after some activity, such as mounting and umounting. This is happening on two AMD64 systems. I am often able to unmount manually (# umount /media/KINGSTON , for example). All of my flash

[gentoo-user] aria2 cannot d/l torrent file

2010-01-04 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i emerged aria2-1.6.3, and according to the man page, i can use it to d/l bittorrent file. but when i use " aria2c myfile.torrent " it says unrecognized protocol. i have the bittorrent use flag set for it. do i miss any thing? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ ht

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-04 Thread Joshua Murphy
2010/1/3 Thanasis : > on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: >> Thanasis writes: >> >> >>> Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? >>> >> This "EMBEDDED" just means "don't touch these unless you really know >> what you're doing". >> >> BTW I r

[gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

2010-01-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. There is a /dev/hdd device and dmesg is telling me about an IOMEGA ZIP drive, but trying to fdisk /dev/hdd or even mount it, seems to make the kernel hang (at least these commands never fin

[gentoo-user] Kopete isn't storing my contact list changes

2010-01-04 Thread Crístian Viana
Hi! I'm using kde-base/kopete-4.3.3 (which is Kopete 0.80.2) and it's not storing anything I do to the next time I run the program. For example, I merge some contacts into meta-contacts, associate some of them to a KAddressBook entry, change my nickname (ok, that may be unrelated), but when I rest

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: > 2010/1/3 Thanasis : > >> on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: >> >>> Thanasis writes: >>> >>> >>> Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: > 2010/1/3 Thanasis : >> on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: >>> Thanasis writes: >>> >>> Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? >>> This "EMBEDDED" just means "don't touc

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete isn't storing my contact list changes

2010-01-04 Thread Dale
Crístian Viana wrote: Hi! I'm using kde-base/kopete-4.3.3 (which is Kopete 0.80.2) and it's not storing anything I do to the next time I run the program. For example, I merge some contacts into meta-contacts, associate some of them to a KAddressBook entry, change my nickname (ok, that may be

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 07:51 PM Thanasis wrote the following: > on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: >> 2010/1/3 Thanasis : >> >>> on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: >>> Thanasis writes: > Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suit

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

2010-01-04 Thread Kyle Bader
Any change in kernel configuration or did you copy your old config and run make oldconfig? On 1/4/10, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. > Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. > > There is a /dev/hdd device and dmesg is telling me ab

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2010-01-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 25.12.2009 11:37, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > What I still wonder: > > * I copied my gentoo over while the ssd still was on firmware 02HA, I > upgraded to 02HD (latest Intel-firmware for the X25-M G2) with the os > already on the drive. Does that somehow make a difference to data > written

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

2010-01-04 Thread dhk
José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Hello. > > 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 determ

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

2010-01-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 January 2010 12:55:34 Alan E. Davis wrote: > Recently, I have had to reboot in order to recover the function of > automatic mounting of USB Flash drives, after some activity, such as > mounting and umounting. This is happening on two AMD64 systems. > > I am often able to unmount m

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto

2010-01-04 Thread walt
On 01/04/2010 08:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. There is a /dev/hdd device and dmesg is telling me about an IOMEGA ZIP drive, but trying to fdisk /dev/hdd or even mount it, seems to make t

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

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I got a Nokia N900 linux internet tablet/phone a few days ago, and > when I connect it in USB Mass Storage mode to a Windows Vista computer > I can write at 17MB/sec, but when I connect it to my Gentoo box my > writes are really slow,

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

2010-01-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 05:26:32 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Paul Hartman > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I got a Nokia N900 linux internet tablet/phone a few days ago, and > > when I connect it in USB Mass Storage mode to a Windows Vista computer > > I can write at 17MB/

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

2010-01-04 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for taking the trouble to answer. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Mick wrote: > > > All I can say (I don't use Gnome and Nautilus to be more helpful with the > specifics) is that there is a difference between mounting a device via hal > and > mounting it manually. I recall that you ca