Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi, >>> My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > pk writes: > >> Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are >>> custom settings regarding the X session done? >> >> Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old >> xorg.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote: >> +1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed? >>> >>> XML allows you to gener

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Grant wrote: > I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility > is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in > other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a > Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, wrote: > However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what > is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts. emerge gentoolkit equery d arts

Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies - one more mystery novel

2010-01-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Upgrading to media-libs/jpeg-8 > poses a new level of difficulty (to me). > > I cannot use emerge @preserved-rebuild since I still > have kde-3 packages and still have problems with the > kde-sunset overlay which I have to resolve lateron.

Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion

2010-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). > Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? > > Thanks, definitely one of the NX or NX-derived products. The performance is lightyea

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > KDE 4.3.95 has been put in the kde overlay three days ago. However, > fetching still fails even after three days. > > Any place I can get the tarballs? The manifests have checksums in them for > all the tarballs, suggesting that they're

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/22/2010 10:12 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras >> wrote: >>> >>> KDE 4.3.95 has been put in the kde overlay three days ago. However, >>

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:19 AM, luis jure wrote: > > hello list, > > i purchased recently an external usb disk (HP SimpleSave, 1.5 TB). > > i re-formatted it with an ext4 file system, but i can't get rid of the > "virtual cd" created by the manufacturer with some backup software. I don't think i

Re: [gentoo-user] POT (partly offtopic): Firefox + Polipo + Tor switching advice needed...

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > I successfully configured firefox to work with tor over polipo. > And I successfully configured firefox to work with polipo without > tor. > > But anything I tried to conveniently switch firefox to either use > tor or not to tor ended up i

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot: amd64, thunderbird 3.0.1: lightning ?

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I am looking for a working version of the lightning-addon for > thunderbird 3.0.1 on gentoo amd64 ... > > The version in portage doesn't work, the mozilla-overlay does not > contain a more recent release and my googling also lead me

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot: amd64, thunderbird 3.0.1: lightning ?

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 27.01.2010 20:30, schrieb Paul Hartman: > >> Enable the "lightning" USE flag on Thunderbird. No need to manually >> emerge the separate package. > > oh my ... must have been blind ... I really l

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird segfaults

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Hinko Kocevar wrote: > Hi, > > I've just made my Mozilla Thunderbird segfault everytime before it is fully > started. > > hi...@pc-hinkok ~/Desktop $ thunderbird > No running windows found > Registering Enigmail account manager extension. > Enigmail account manager

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Mick wrote: > As the title says. I can print text files and html, but I cannot print pdf. > BTW I can print an html page from Konqueror to a pdf file, but then can't > print that file. Have you come across this problem in KDE4? I am able to print PDF from Okular

Re: [gentoo-user] krita - missing install target (STRANGE)

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I've just emerged app-office/krita on an AMD64 machine without problems. > But on an older i686 machine it fails strangely > Install krita-2.1.0 into /var/tmp/portage/app-office/krita-2.1.0/image/ category app-office

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dlna & Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:14 AM, James wrote: > I was hoping to avoid this, with an integrated, Gentoo controllable > amp/receiver unit. Nobody has found such hardware ? Surely > there is an integrated product that feature embedded linux on > a uP and user friendly with browser other than IExplod

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and laptop cpu frequency scaling

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> >> I switched from madwifi-ng to ath5k when I switched from kernel 2.6.28 >> to 2.6.29 and my wifi speed is unusably slow when the CPU speed i

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > I try to use vncviewer to access a OSX box with 10.5.6 and 'screen sharing' > enabled. I have no problems with another mac that has another vnc server > running but I thought, let's try the one, that comes with the OS. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Dale wrote: > Momesso Andrea wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:35:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>> Wyatt Epp wrote: >>> Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't figure out why emerage wants to build xscreensaver

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting > to install xscreensaver even though I've got -xscreensaver in my > USE variable in make.conf. Everytime I update, xscreensaver > gets reinstalled, and I have to manually "emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> walt wrote: >>> [...] >>> HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself >>> is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. >> >> Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the pa

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs recompile required but not recognized

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:52 PM, wrote: > I am probably missing something really basic here.  I get quite a few > emerge failures like this: > >    checking if UIC has KDE plugins available... no >    configure: error: >    you need to install kdelibs first. > >    If you did install kdelibs, the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: > For fun i plugged a second usb mouse, and then i got one mouse for left > hand and another one for the right hand :-) . It is fun to plug multiple keyboards and then press NumLock or CapsLock and watch the lights on all of them change in u

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > I got KDE 4.2.1 installed with only a couple of bugs along the way. > I'm not impressed: there's some eye-candy, but usability is reduced. > There's a very limited choice of desktop backgrounds: > I like the 'No picture, pavement' choice in 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Dale wrote: >> Justin wrote: >>> Peter Ruskin schrieb: >>> Well, I did the upgrade at last, with -hal and my proven xorg-config, and the result is unusable. I use kde-3.5.9 and the mouse doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I also didn't mention that Kmahjongg 4.2.1 doesn't allow you > to edit the layout & its "traditional" tiles are ugly. Oh, I forgot about the games... Kolf is really really ugly now on KDE4... they changed the colors for no apparent reason.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > The only app I am really disappointed with is Amarok 2. I really liked > Amarok 1 and they started over for Amarok 2 and I dislike just about > everything they've done to it. The tree-view collection list is > awful!!

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update add hald default or boot?

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I've wondered for a while whether the design intention of hald was > to be run at boot time or as a default level process? I have had mine at "default" forever and it seems to work fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There's a few keywords to start a search with - nepomuk, sematic desktop Maybe I just don't "get it" but all of the descriptions of this stuff flies way over my head. Admittedly, as soon as I see the word "social" being applied to my persona

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > There's a few keywords to start a search with - nepomuk, sematic desktop >> >> Mayb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:09:38 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > On Dienstag 14 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On T

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at my system and I'm surprised to find dbus running, since I put > -dbus -hal in my /etc/make.conf. unmerge and see which programs fail :)

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 14/04/09 Paul Hartman said: > >> unmerge and see which programs fail :) > > That scares me. :) Do you use KDE? I think dbus is required.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kolourpaint segaults (KDE 4.2.1 & 4.2.2)

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jochen Becker wrote: > kolourpaint allways crashes if I try to start it. When I add a new User > Profile Kolourpaint will run only one time. The Second start results in > a crash again. I have never run that program. I just tried it in an NX session and not only

Re: [gentoo-user] Kolourpaint segaults (KDE 4.2.1 & 4.2.2)

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jochen Becker wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Hartman schrieb: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jochen Becker >> wrote: >>> kolourpaint allways crashes if I try to start it. When I add a new

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon woes

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> I already have the hal USE flag set. I added evdev to INPUT_DEVICES, and >> tried again with and without existing xorg.conf. No real change - X starts, >> but the mouse does not move, and nothing els

Re: [gentoo-user] Kolourpaint segaults (KDE 4.2.1 & 4.2.2)

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jochen Becker wrote: > kolourpaint allways crashes if I try to start it. When I add a new User > Profile Kolourpaint will run only one time. The Second start results in > a crash again. Is this bug about the same thing? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18385

Re: [gentoo-user] Kolourpaint segaults (KDE 4.2.1 & 4.2.2)

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jochen Becker > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Paul Hartman schrieb: >>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jochen Becker >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > I am having problems with some webpages in FireFox as well as Eclipse. > Fonts are totally garbled. It looks like they were written with chalk > and then somebody wiped over them. A redraw fixes is sometimes but > then it gets

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Dale wrote: > pk wrote: >> Dale wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a Canon PowerShot A95 camera that until today worked fine. Gtkam >>> could see it and download my pictures. I'm on the same old kernel but >>> did upgrade some stuff recently. >>> >> >> UDEV? >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 breaks X, How to downgrade?

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Grant wrote: > Upgrading to xorg-server-1.5 went relatively smoothly on 2 laptops, > but my first attempt on a desktop has been a failure. I get: > > Backtrace: > Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 260: dl_open_worker: > Assertion

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} HD makes weird noise, smartmontools says OK

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Grant wrote: > A desktop Seagate 320GB hard drive of mine sometimes makes a buzzing > noise. I ran 'smartctl -t long /dev/sda' and I get: > > Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining > LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error > # 1 Extended offline

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Dale wrote: >> pk wrote: >>> Dale wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a Canon PowerShot A95 camera that until today worked fine. Gtkam >>

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> Thanks. I'm not sure if this is part of the xorg-server update and I >>> missed downgrading something or if it is something else. I know I >>> downloaded pics just before

Re: [gentoo-user] Has RgbPath gone away in new xorg?

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have just emerged the new xorg after reading many of the posts here, > which were quite helpful. > > I have USE=-hal and left my xorg.conf alone > (except for adding Option "AutoAddDevices" "false") > > I received an error msg stating tha

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 breaks X, How to downgrade?

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Upgrading to xorg-server-1.5 went relatively smoothly on 2 laptops, >>> but my first attempt on a desktop has been a failure. I get: >>> >>> Backtrace: >>> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 260: dl_open_worker: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} HD makes weird noise, smartmontools says OK

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Grant wrote: >>> A desktop Seagate 320GB hard drive of mine sometimes makes a buzzing >>> noise. I ran 'smartctl -t long /dev/sda' and I get: >>> >>> Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining >>> LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error >>> # 1 Extend

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> I just tried it, works fine. I plugged it in and KDE4 popped up a "new >> device plugged in" box showing USB Imaging Interface. I clicked it and >> Digikam popped up and showed me

Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It > used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, > it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out > with as much as 10-11% lef

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale wrote: > Also, how does one "restart" udev? Does going to "rc single" then back > to "rc default" restart udev? Surely a person doesn't have to reboot to > do this. /etc/init.d/udev restart is what i would try :)

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dale wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> Also, how does one "restart" udev? Does going to "rc single

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale wrote: > Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to > use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is not listed > anywhere. I have a FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram I think. I'm just > curious cause I have trouble when

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Also, how does one "restart" udev? Does going to "rc single" then back >>> to "rc default" resta

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>>> >>>>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts garbled with Xorg 1.5

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Somewhat on topic. How does one know what version of nvidia-drivers to >>> use for their card? I went to the nvidia site and my card is n

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo/GMail/download to Evolution

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > He has just started switching from Time-Warner's Roadrunner cable > modem service to Verizon's FIOS. His new link is up and his speed is > very nice. (20Mb/S downlaod, 5Mb/S upload using Speakeasy.net to > test.) The issue he is running int

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph wrote: > Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn > HD video MPEG4 to DVD? > I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to reduce the quality. > > Do I need Blue-Ray dvd recorder to be able to play HD recording? Can

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph wrote: >> Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to burn >> HD video MPEG4 to DVD? >> I want to be able to play HD on TV and I don't want to redu

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/17/09 15:03, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph wrote: >>> >>> Does anybody have any links, instructions, information etc. on how to >>> burn >>> HD video M

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing. > mythfrontend is segfaulting for me also, but my problem has spread to > pretty much any application that tries to display video - mplayer, > xine and Myth all crash with similar er

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing. >>> mythfrontend is segfault

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/17/09 16:04, Paul Hartman wrote: > [snip] >> >> Well if you just want to play it on the computer then the format >> doesn't matter (as long as the mplayer or whatever you use can play >> it). It's ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing. >>> mythfrontend is segfault

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 14/04/09 ABCD said: > >> What is the output of `/etc/init.d/dbus needsme` and `/etc/init.d/dbus >> usesme`, and are any of the listed services started? > > Cool, I didn't know that one. > > Nothing listed though. > > Mike To see whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 17/04/09 Paul Hartman said: > >> To see which package(s) pulled in dbus in your setup you can use >> depclean, like on mine I get this: >> >> $ sudo emerge --depclean dbus -pv > > msoul...@anto

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/17/09 19:41, Joseph wrote: >> >> For current usage I just convert them to standard DVD: >> >> ffmpeg -i foobar.mpg4 -target ntsc-dvd foobar.mpg # convert to mpeg2 >> dvdauthor -t -o foobar foobar.mpg # author the file >> dvdauthor -T -o foobar

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph wrote: > Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a > avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially for those huge resolutions). I think mp4a is AAC. So for tra

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph wrote: >>> >>> Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: >>> mp4a >>> avc1

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from > portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had > higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with > konqueror-3

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/18/09 11:19, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Hmm, I'm not sure... is this file (or one like it) available online >> anywhere that I could see if it works on my machine? > > Paul, I've sent you a link to that v

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Guys, > Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs > in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is > that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to > opening all images in

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Denis wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of > molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic > sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored > in a header file wit

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all, > Today I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of > Linux. Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly > old) Gentoo needs around two minutes from power button to DE idle. > Are there any de

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Liviu Andronic > wrote: >> Dear all, >> Today I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of >> Linux. Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (sligh

[gentoo-user] denyhosts shows "crashed" status in rc-status, but seems to work fine

2009-04-20 Thread Paul Hartman
Does any RC expert know why denyhosts is showing "Crashed" status despite the fact that it seems to be running and operating normally? Is anyone else running denyhosts and has this same symptom? Thanks, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong keyboard map in Fluxbox

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a fresh installation of gentoo with fluxbox. I added "exec > startfluxbox" to my ~/.xinitrc and set the DISPLAYMANAGER variable in > /etcconf.d/xdm to use slim. > > When I start my machine now, when slim starts a wrong keymap is s

Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdio I think that one should do it.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've read the post backwards and forwards, and I've had kmail search > case-insensitively for "skin", and it isn't there. It wasn't there when I > sent it, anyway, and grep says it isn't in the files I've attached this > time either. As a t

Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdio > > I think that one should do it. > Also, according to http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html there is

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few > months of single monitor suffering. But now when KDM start I get half a > screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right > half of th

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Ausmus wrote: > Hello All- > > I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several > different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several > different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), > everything appe

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Ausmus wrote: > Hello All- > > I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several > different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several > different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), > everything appe

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, James Ausmus wrote: > >> Be sure you're using the "xcomposite" USE flag, and perhaps you need >> "opengl" as well. > > Output of "emerge -pv kwin": > > [ebuild R ] kde-base/kwin-4.2.2 USE="captury opengl xcomposite > xinerama -debug -kdeprefix" 0 kB > > So, a

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/phasex

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Kelly Hirai wrote: > this package appears to be a porn site now. what do we do? Looks like the domain expired a few days ago... and according to cached copies, he used that domain for his e-mail address as well. I guess you hope someone else has a copy of the arch

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Roy Wright wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright wrote: > But now when KDM start I get half a >>> screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right >>> half of the right mo

[gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something because there are still "holes": outlines of buttons or windows with no content. The most important of which is the Kicker menu. I can change it to "classic"

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and >> all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something &

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and >> all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something &

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and >> all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something &

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> On Freitag 24 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Paul Hartman >> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> > >> > wro

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt [Oops - NOT SOLVED]

2009-04-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> wrote: >> > On Samstag 25 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On

Re: [gentoo-user] Domain name registration

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for suggestions to use for DNS registrars. I've been using namecheap for years (they are a reseller for eNom). It's cheap and you get what you're looking for. I've got a few domains, and been able to set them up for DKIM, Goog

Re: [gentoo-user] Domain name registration

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking for suggestions to use for DNS registrars. > > I've been using namecheap for years (they are a reseller for eNom). > It

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID vs "Fake" RAID

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Simon wrote: > I would recommend software raid. Because it's made by some great > folks in the linux community and it is a project in development (so > you can get lots of support and updates, though it is very stable and > is used in many prod systems). I'm usin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Domain name registration

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Paul Hartman >> gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James tampabay.rr.com> >> > wrote: >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] voice or touch data entry apps

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:55 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for special types of applications that allow > for data entry, via voice commands or using the touch screen > on a touch screen enabled laptop. Don't know how accurate it is, but I found this article: http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Schrodi ist außer Ha us.

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Hartman
2009/4/28 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen : > His autoreply spams everytime a message is sent to this list... Including his own, apparently... Martin, go have a seat in the corner. :)

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