[gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-22 Thread Dale
I been doing a little testing here. I notice something weird here. Did I do this somehow? Why are these part of the system set? root@fireball / # emerge -ep system | grep kde [ebuild R ~] kde-base/kde-env-4.6.0 [ebuild R ~] kde-base/oxygen-icons-4.6.0 [ebuild R ~] kde-base/kdelibs

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got my Acer Aspire 4551 notebook 100% functional

2011-02-22 Thread walt
On 02/22/2011 09:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: I finally got my Acer 4551 100% functional under 64-bit Gentoo linux. Congratulations :) Thanks to various people on various linux forums who spelled out the answers, and also to "Mr. Google" for helping me find them. There are several tweaks tha

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple propossal: a gentoo users meeting in Göteborg

2011-02-22 Thread klondike
El 22/02/11 18:55, pk escribió: > On 2011-02-22 03:02, klondike wrote: >> Hi, > Hej, Hej, > (antar att du pratar svenska...) I don't speak swedish but I can read it > Jag bor inte i Göteborg men inte så våldsamt långt därifrån > (Trollhättan, c:a 8 mil norröver). Är kanske intresserad beroende på >

[gentoo-user] Finally got my Acer Aspire 4551 notebook 100% functional

2011-02-22 Thread Walter Dnes
I finally got my Acer 4551 100% functional under 64-bit Gentoo linux. Thanks to various people on various linux forums who spelled out the answers, and also to "Mr. Google" for helping me find them. There are sevaral tweaks that are required to get things working. I'll concentrate on the stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Player / Firefox trouble

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:35 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and > may other parts. Maybe try to set WindowlessDisable=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control?

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Ah, if that makes a difference is a Asus G73JW. Assuming I enable that > kernel option is there a user space app that will allow my 83 year old > gaming mom to turn the lights off and on? I don't have an Asus but maybe these links will help:

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-22, Adam Carter wrote: > IIRC typical speeds on 100Mbps LANs are 4 or 5 MBps. There's many > factors that can affect speed tho. If you're using full-duplex switches, you should easily be able to get 11-12MBps on a 100MBps LAN. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYo

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-22 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:09:27 + (UTC) schrieb James : > Ok, > > so I have this card in pretty much equal AMD64 systems: > ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4350]. I have an RV730 (Radeon HD 4650). [...] > > I think I munge up the /lib/radeon part of setting up > the kernel (kms) for loa

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-22 Thread Mick
On 22 February 2011 14:19, wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Mick >> There was a change in the default ssh encryption algorithm. You may >> want to check if that is causing the problem. > How would I do that? By examining your config files? Previously your keys would be in ~/.ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:32:23 +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > I myself use KDE and there I can specify if I want a USB-drive mounted > or not. I believe I can also specify some USB-drives to auto-mount when > I plug them in. But I do prefer to be able to decide each time as > sometimes I just plug

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-22 Thread dhkuhl
- Original Message -From: Mick Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:11 amSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problemTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> On 22 February 2011 13:24, dhk  wrote:> > On 02/22/2011 07:37 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:> >> On Tuesday 22 February 2011 06:43:33 dhk wrote:> >>> A

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-22 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 22 February 2011 07:33:45 David Relson wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:37:06 + > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:01:25 -0500, David Relson wrote: > > > > pmount is supposed to be run as a user and it mounts the > > > > filesystem owned by the user running it. If yo

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-22 Thread Mick
On 22 February 2011 13:24, dhk wrote: > On 02/22/2011 07:37 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Tuesday 22 February 2011 06:43:33 dhk wrote: >>> After a recent upgrade to ssh I can no longer log into my Gentoo box >>> (amd64) from another Gentoo box (x86) that has also had a recent upgrade >>> to ssh.

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-22 Thread dhk
On 02/22/2011 07:37 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 22 February 2011 06:43:33 dhk wrote: >> After a recent upgrade to ssh I can no longer log into my Gentoo box >> (amd64) from another Gentoo box (x86) that has also had a recent upgrade >> to ssh. However, I can log in to it from Suse and Re

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:33:45 -0500, David Relson wrote: > I've seen that Ubuntu with Gnome automounts USB sticks. That seems > pleasantly convenient and is done without any rules (such as I > presently have) in /etc/udev/rules.d. Do you know what they're doing? It's using the GNOME automounter,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-22 Thread Thanasis
on 02/22/2011 01:27 PM Mick wrote the following: > 2011/2/22 Thanasis : > >> How do we know which firmware file to load for which graphics card? >> (I have a Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5) >> > > I suspect it requires the JUNIPER_rlc.bin > > Check your dmesg/lspci/lshw for info on the chipset. > a sec

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 22 February 2011 06:43:33 dhk wrote: > After a recent upgrade to ssh I can no longer log into my Gentoo box > (amd64) from another Gentoo box (x86) that has also had a recent upgrade > to ssh. However, I can log in to it from Suse and Redhat boxes. > > Any ideas? None whatsoever. Sup

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-22 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:37:06 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:01:25 -0500, David Relson wrote: > > > > pmount is supposed to be run as a user and it mounts the > > > filesystem owned by the user running it. If you only have a > > > single user, you could call pmount with su. If

[gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-22 Thread dhk
After a recent upgrade to ssh I can no longer log into my Gentoo box (amd64) from another Gentoo box (x86) that has also had a recent upgrade to ssh. However, I can log in to it from Suse and Redhat boxes. Any ideas? Thanks dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

2011-02-22 Thread covici
walt wrote: > On 02/21/2011 11:48 AM, Jarry wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big. > > That's interesting. I have no such logfile. Did you change something > in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? > > Oh, wait, I'm running openssh-5.8-p1, and my config file says

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-22 Thread covici
Dale wrote: > walt wrote: > > On 02/20/2011 11:44 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > >> Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I > >> lost my keyboard -- > > > > Whenever you install a new (up or down) Xorg server version you must also > > rebuild *all* of the

Re: [gentoo-user] pmount question

2011-02-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:01:25 -0500, David Relson wrote: > > pmount is supposed to be run as a user and it mounts the filesystem > > owned by the user running it. If you only have a single user, you > > could call pmount with su. If you have multiple users, you should be > > letting a desktop tool

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark

2011-02-22 Thread Thanasis
on 02/21/2011 02:16 PM Mick wrote the following: > On 21 February 2011 04:27, James wrote: >> James tampabay.rr.com> writes: >> >> >>> In the kernel, under the Generic section, I first tried: >>> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y >>> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y >>> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon" >>> CONFIG_EXTR