Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Justin
On 20/04/10 09:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? > I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those > of gentoo-sources). > But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to > ck-sources? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/4/19 ubiquitous1980 : > Recompiled hplip for use with C5180 with new use flag: scanner.  Now > scanning works, printing does not.  Recompiled with new-hpcups use flag. > Still not working.  Output from cups web interface: > "/usr/libexec/cups/backend/hp failed" Is it connected via network or

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Apr, Justin wrote: > On 20/04/10 09:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? >> I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those >> of gentoo-sources). >> But I didn't find which patches and why these have only be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On 20 April 2010 02:27, Paul Hartman wrote: > I think the proper country code is GB not UK, maybe that's why it didn't work. > > With iw try: > > iw reg set GB > > or in your wpa_supplicant config: > > country=GB > > Thanks Paul, good pointer. It seems that the UK also has GB as well 'UK' as its

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
Hello Daniel The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are installed: net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 Thanks ubiquitous1...@gmail.com On 20/04/10 16:59, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2010/4/19 ubiquitous1980 : > >> Recompiled hplip for use with C518

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On 19 April 2010 15:43, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Mick wrote: >> Any idea what the 'wifi' USE flag actually does in >> www-client/mozilla-firefox?  Is it merely to know when the machine is >> on/off line and therefore try to connect to the Internet? > > It enables Nec

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
additional thoughts: Am 20.04.2010 14:01, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I thought maybe the NIC has a problem? > > Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) > > but as it doesn't lose its IP and config I think that is not the case here? I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale wrote: > Used versions > --- > mkisofs: 2.1.1a77 > growisofs: 7.1 > > growisofs command: > --- > /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray > -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=4gms > -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:22

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? > I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those > of gentoo-sources). > But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to > ck-source

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. Now understand, that I am easily the dullest knife in the drawer on this list even though by unix/linux standards I'm fairly long in the tooth having started my computing skills in 1996 and bro

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread deface
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Grant wrote: >> did etc-update over write xorg.conf ? > > I actually don't use an xorg.conf at all. > > - Grant >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick wrote: > Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware? Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old broadcom driver didn't support channels 12 and 13 for some reason with certain hardware. However, it appears b43 is the "old" driver

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? >> I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those >> of gentoo-sources). >> But I didn't find which patches and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale wrote: > /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 This part jumps out at me. Is /dev/hdd your new DVD burner? Is it really IDE and not SATA? And isn't /dev/fd/0 a floppy device? Are you burning from a floppy to an IDE drive?

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:58 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Hello Daniel > > The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are > installed: > > net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 > net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 Try to blacklist & rmmod the usblp module. I had to do that for my HP USB printe

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)

2010-04-20 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote: > After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped > providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect > the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown > script, et cetera. The battery properti

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Grant Edwards writes: > On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you >> are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then >> let m4 sort out sendmail.cf. > > IOW, sendmail has a configuration file so incomprehensi

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? > >> I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam wrote: > Grant Edwards writes: > >> On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you >>> are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then >>> let m4 sort out sendmail.cf. >> >> IOW, send

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-20, Harry Putnam wrote: > About all the snipes concerning hacking sendmail.cf... I'm sure you > are all aware that any hacking needs to happen in sendmail.mc... then > let m4 sort out sendmail.cf. IOW, sendmail has a configuration file so incomprehensible that the configuration file n

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: > The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up in > your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so: > > terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp > > Read more details here: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml I am running hal

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale wrote: > > /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 > > This part jumps out at me. > > Is /dev/hdd your new DVD burner? Is it really IDE and not SATA? > > And isn't /dev/fd/0 a floppy device? Are you burning from a floppy to > an IDE dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale wrote: >> > /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 >> >> This part jumps out at me. >> >> Is /dev/hdd your new DVD burner? Is it really IDE and not SATA? >> >> And isn't /d

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/20/2010 11:01 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale wrote: >> /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 > And isn't /dev/fd/0 a floppy device? Are you burning from a floppy to > an IDE drive? /dev/fd0 is a floppy. /dev/fd/0 is file descriptor 0 for the current proc

[gentoo-user] sci-physics/root slotting?

2010-04-20 Thread daid kahl
Hello, For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting would be an extremely useful feature. Anyone who doesn't use or know root, but has experience or opinions on how or when slots should be used, your fe

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Paul Hartman schrieb am 20.04.2010 17:03: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:58 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> Hello Daniel >> >> The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are >> installed: >> >> net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 >> net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1 > > Try to blacklist & rmmod

[gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-20 Thread Jarry
Hi, $SUBJECT says it all: Is there any way to find out in which order services are started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up screen and making notes)? I tried to figure it out looking into /etc/init.d scripts, but there are a lot of depend/need/use/before statements, so I quicky lost

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-19, pon o godzinie 20:24 -0500, deface pisze: > ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got > bad performance. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml > > - > deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, more

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-20 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-20, wto o godzinie 19:47 +0200, Jarry pisze: > Hi, > $SUBJECT says it all: > > Is there any way to find out in which order services are > started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up > screen and making notes)? > > I tried to figure it out looking into /etc/init.d scripts, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Grant
>> ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got >> bad performance. >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml >> >> - >> deface > But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, > moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-20, wto o godzinie 11:51 -0700, Grant pisze: > >> ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got > >> bad performance. > >> > >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml > >> > >> - > >> deface > > But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont reall

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/20/2010 05:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale wrote: Used versions --- mkisofs: 2.1.1a77 growisofs: 7.1 growisofs command: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=4gms -use-the-force-luke=tra

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:47:55 +0200, Jarry wrote: > Is there any way to find out in which order services are > started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up > screen and making notes)? You could turn on boot logging in rc.conf and look at /var/log/rc.log. -- Neil Bothwick Experience is

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale wrote: > >> --- > >> /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray > >> -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=4gms > >> -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2295193 -speed=4 > >> -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m > >> > > Well, if your problems ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:30:18 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mick writes: > > The 'new' way of setting it up without a xorg.conf file is to set it up > > in your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so: > > > > > type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp > > > > Read more details here: > > > > http://w

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:45:27AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > /dev/fd/0 is /dev/stdin > > I learned something new, thanks :) To complete your education :) fd stands for file descriptor. fd/0 = stdin fd/1 = stdout fd/2 = stderr You can create your own file descriptors and use them to manipu

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-20 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale wrote: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=4gms -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:2295193 -speed=4 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m Well, if your problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:25:14 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick wrote: > > Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware? > > Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old > broadcom driver didn't support channels 12 and 13 for some reason wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/20/2010 05:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? > >>> I could on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 22:24:41 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:25:14 Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick wrote: > > > Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware? > > > > Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old > > broadcom dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 14:53, Harry Putnam wrote: I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented than any of the other pretenders. ... Unless, I'm terribly misinformed, sendmail is still the most commonly used mta in the unix world of servers. I would be surprised if it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 19 Apr 2010, at 22:50, Mick wrote: ... The problem is that you'll spend an hour or two setting it all up, it'll work, you'll never touch it again. Then, two years later something will require you to reconfigure it and there will be no way on this earth that you will remember what you di

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:01, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: ... One of my customers runs an old P3 as a mail-gateway and samba-server (yeah, I know ...) behind his firewall ... They simply don't want to swap hardware, they are happy ... until the following started to happen every week or so: You em

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where's my wireless AP?

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 19 Apr 2010, at 23:03, Mick wrote: ... There might be an option to change the region of your wifi NIC. Channels 12 & 13 are legal in Europe, IIRC, but not in the USA. You should be able to change the channel of the AP - typically they have a drop-down which will choose either "auto" or a spe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 09:02, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to ck-sources? They did not get "applied to ck-sources." ck-sources *is* the patches. Hmmm this seems to be an issue of semantics. When one runs `emerge ck-s

Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:17, Mick wrote: ... "Introduced in Gecko 1.9.1: Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges can monitor the list of available WiFi access points to obtain information about them including their SSID, MAC address, and signal strength. This capability was introduced primarily to

[gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread john
Hello, After updating my machine which included upgrading xorg-server-1.7.6. I was left with a none working mouse and keyboard. After an hour or so of checking I decided to re-emerge xorg-server again to discover a message to rebuild x11-drivers. I rebuilt x1

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:05 PM, john wrote: > Hello, >        After updating my machine which included upgrading >        xorg-server-1.7.6. I was left with a none working mouse and >        keyboard. After an hour or so of checking I decided to >        re-emerge xorg-server again to discover a

Re: [gentoo-user] In which order services are started?

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 20:28:42 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:47:55 +0200, Jarry wrote: > > Is there any way to find out in which order services are > > started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up > > screen and making notes)? > > You could turn on boot logging in rc.co

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 00:33:19 Mark Knecht wrote: > Check out module-rebuild. You put a list of packages in it How and where does one do that? -- Rgds Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: > I think you did not read the link properly. You are meant to copy > the relevant .fdi file from > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and then modify the last > paragraph: Yes, I did misread apparently... it doesn't say that a

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread walt
On 04/20/2010 04:05 PM, john wrote: Linux/Gentoo appaers to be moving away from xorg.conf and towards hal/policices... That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8 specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions, so we s

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread dan blum
I also upgraded the drivers after a xorg upgrade. The correct drivers need to be emerged: ie. x11-drivers/XF86-input_mouse x11-drivers/XF86-input_keyboard + the video drivers. If you are not sure what drivers you need, just execute qlist /media-video. --- On Tue, 4/20/10, Peter Humphrey wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrade

2010-04-20 Thread Graham Murray
walt writes: > That was true in the past, but no longer. The recent release of xorg 1.8 > specifically says that hal will not be supported in any future xorg versions, > so we should all start looking beyond hal. Don't spend a lot of effort now > learning about hal because it's on the way out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 01:44:15 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mick writes: > > I think you did not read the link properly. You are meant to copy > > the relevant .fdi file from > > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to > > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and then modify the last > >