[gentoo-user] Libreoffice and X-Forwarding

2012-02-02 Thread William Kenworthy
I am having problems setting up X-forwarding for libreoffice (gentoo) over ssh to an ipad (iSSH client). X-forwarding is working fine for xterms, fluxbox and simple apps but libreoffice fails even when using the -display localhost:10.0 argument. The $DISPLAY is also correctly set inside the ssh se

Re: [gentoo-user] Convincing portage...

2012-02-02 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I treid the jack-audio-connection as supported by portage and had no > success at all with my hardware. I didn't find the reason, why it > alwasys killed itself after a short time. > > With JACK 1.9.8 (jack2) installed from source it works. > > I had to emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Convincing portage...

2012-02-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 3, 2012 11:15 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 2012 10:03 AM, wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I treid the jack-audio-connection as supported by portage and had no > > success at all with my hardware. I didn't find the reason, why it > > alwasys killed itself after a short time. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Convincing portage...

2012-02-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 3, 2012 10:03 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > I treid the jack-audio-connection as supported by portage and had no > success at all with my hardware. I didn't find the reason, why it > alwasys killed itself after a short time. > > With JACK 1.9.8 (jack2) installed from source it works. > > I had to

[gentoo-user] Convincing portage...

2012-02-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I treid the jack-audio-connection as supported by portage and had no success at all with my hardware. I didn't find the reason, why it alwasys killed itself after a short time. With JACK 1.9.8 (jack2) installed from source it works. I had to emerge -C jack-audio-connection for that. Now em

Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

2012-02-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02.02.2012 23:03, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, pat wrote: [ >> Humongous snip ] >> >>> Still the same :-| >> >> Seems really weird. I can only t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I got a neighbour that has a computer issue. First, the hard drive went >> out. We ordered a new one and installed it. Then he realized he didn't >> have the restore discs. We ordered those from Gateway. I went

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:31:58 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > > I have a WZR-HP-G300NH with firmware DD-WRT v24SP2-EU-US (08/19/10) > > std - build 14998 and can't recall the last time I lost a wireless > > connection. > > Would you mind checking your wireless config and let me know what > transmit

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread wdk@moriah
On 03/02/2012, at 5:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I also have WZR-HP-G300NH and wifi suffered constant disconnects and >> poor performance. > > I have a WZR-HP-G300NH with firmware DD-WRT v24SP2-EU-US (08/19/10) std - > build 14998 and

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3: undefined symbol: __guard

2012-02-02 Thread Grant
> I get this when emerging python on a system I'm bringing up to date > after 3 years of non-use: > > *** WARNING: renaming "dbm" since importing it failed: > /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3: undefined symbol: __guard > > The compile eventually fails with: > > Failed to find the necessary bits to buil

Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

2012-02-02 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02.02.2012 23:03, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, pat wrote: [ > Humongous snip ] > >> Still the same :-| > > Seems really weird. I can only think the following options: > > 1. Something is messing up with NetworkMa

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I also have WZR-HP-G300NH and wifi suffered constant disconnects and >> poor performance. > > I have a WZR-HP-G300NH with firmware DD-WRT v24SP2-EU-US (08/19/10) std - > build 14998 a

Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

2012-02-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, pat wrote: [ Humongous snip ] > Still the same :-| Seems really weird. I can only think the following options: 1. Something is messing up with NetworkManager. 1.a. Can be possible that the /etc/init.d/net.* scripts are running alongside NetworkManager? I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > I also have WZR-HP-G300NH and wifi suffered constant disconnects and > poor performance. I have a WZR-HP-G300NH with firmware DD-WRT v24SP2-EU-US (08/19/10) std - build 14998 and can't recall the last time I lost a wireless connection. --

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:55:24 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > This sounds good. Thanks to all responders. One question. I found the > buffalo manual online. I don't see how I can assign fixed IP addresses > on its 192.168.11.x network. That is I want the LAN connection to my > laptop ajglap to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:01:16AM -0600, Dale wrote: > This whole thread is off topic as it gets. Fire away. Heck, talk about > the weather. It could be more on topic than a Linux list talking about > fixing a windoze install. ROFL You started it. :-P Perhaps we should found a gentoo-user-r

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:35:03 +1100, Gregory Shearman wrote: > >> I can second the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. I run it with Openwrt rather >> than ddwrt and I find it runs flawlessly, though I only run it with a >> few wireless laptops and a wired

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:35:03 +1100, Gregory Shearman wrote: > I can second the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. I run it with Openwrt rather > than ddwrt and I find it runs flawlessly, though I only run it with a > few wireless laptops and a wired server. What are the advantages of Openwrt? I have one of th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Dale wrote: > James Broadhead wrote: >> On 2 February 2012 15:34, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale wrote: Your reply made me think of something.  I had a XP reinstall once that required a number from MS because of the new mob

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale wrote: >> Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that >> required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They >> said it recognized the change in the serial numbers. When I ran into >> that be

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Dale
James Broadhead wrote: > On 2 February 2012 15:34, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that >>> required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They >>> said it recognized the c

Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

2012-02-02 Thread pat
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:28:34 +0100, pat wrote > On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:56:59 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02.02.2012 10:20, pat wrote: > > > On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:30:42 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote On > > > 01.02.2012 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > You should've tried installing MS Office back then... > 45 (Or there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a > random order. With some of those being asked several times... > > The guy asking for it paid a lot for it, so it wasn

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread James Broadhead
On 2 February 2012 15:34, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale wrote: >> Your reply made me think of something.  I had a XP reinstall once that >> required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive.  They >> said it recognized the change in the serial numbers.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale wrote: > Your reply made me think of something.  I had a XP reinstall once that > required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive.  They > said it recognized the change in the serial numbers.  When I ran into > that before tho, it installed fin

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Feb 02 2012, Gregory Shearman wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: >> >> On 02/02/2012, at 11:02, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> >>> I am asking for a recommendation of a router/wap. I know the >>> wired/wireless tradeoffs. >>> >>> thanks, allan >>> >> >> Sorry, read it as wired or wi

[gentoo-user] Re: recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Allan Gottlieb writes: > I have a linksys wrt54G that is acting a little funny. > > Since my new laptop supports 1Gig wired ethernet and the wrt is 100Meg, > I should upgrade even if the "funny" turns out to be just a config error > on my laptop. If you talking 100Meg at the internet port... You

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > > On 02/02/2012, at 11:02, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> I am asking for a recommendation of a router/wap. I know the >> wired/wireless tradeoffs. >> >> thanks, allan >> > > Sorry, read it as wired or wireless. > > Check out the buffalo routers -I have a G300NH

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:31:13PM -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> > From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com] >> > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:06 PM >> >> >> > Your reply made me think of something.  I had a XP reinstall once th

Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

2012-02-02 Thread pat
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:56:59 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02.02.2012 10:20, pat wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:30:42 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote On > > 01.02.2012 21:33, pat wrote: > On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:16:18 +0100,

Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

2012-02-02 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02.02.2012 10:20, pat wrote: > On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:30:42 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote On > 01.02.2012 21:33, pat wrote: On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:16:18 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote On 01.02.2012 00:34, pat wrote: >>> On S

Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

2012-02-02 Thread pat
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:30:42 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01.02.2012 21:33, pat wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:16:18 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote On > > 01.02.2012 00:34, pat wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:34:36 +0100,

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-02 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02.02.2012 08:54, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote