Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2008 17:36:39 Paul Hartman wrote: >> I can't remember the exact reasoning, but I do recall being told "it's >> normal" and that it varies from one system to another, even with

Re: [gentoo-user] file collision media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2009, Robert Bridge wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:02:15 + >> >> Mick wrote: >> > I do not have collision-protect in my make.conf. >> > >> > Emerging media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 gives me: >> > =

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server update: Keyboard and mouse dead

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2009 16:37:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> >> Are you using evdev and hal? >> hal is the important one for autodetect to work. > > > BTW, is evdev usable already? Some time ago I have tried it, but have not > found (or did

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone not working

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:19 PM, damian wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Grant wrote: The microphone on my laptop isn't working and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it. I've tried using it in twinkle and arecord but it doesn't work in either. The headset works fine on a di

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files in /sys/

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Momesso Andrea wrote: > I'd like to make the file /sys/class/backlight/asus-laptop/brightness > writeable for users, so that I don't need to be root anymore to change > the brightness. > > Of course I can chown or chmod ot in local.start but I'm asking if there > is

Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Grant wrote: > I'd like to restrict the websites one of the computers on my network > can access in Firefox. It only needs to access 2 different domain > names and I don't want it to be able to access any others. I can > restrict it at the router if necessary beca

[gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a password? Basically if I put the key in my SSH client at work, I don't want a co-worker to be able to login

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH login with both key AND password?

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read >> about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that >> way. Is t

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: >> Hi, >> >> Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read >> about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that >> way. I

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read >>> about gen

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >>> Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Normally

Re: [gentoo-user] Oops when mounting (some) XFS volumes

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Eric Martin wrote: > I'm at the end of my rope with this problem and I'm hoping that people > here can help. I have a few boxes that are Oops'ing on startup due to > mounting some xfs volumes. I created a machine with the 2008.0 live > cd and the stage3-i686-hard

[gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

Hi, I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in other words "emerge --update --deep --verbose --newuse @world"). Right now, it tells me this: Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB I also --depclean on a regular basis to remove any unneeded packages. Right now, it tells me this: No packages

[gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in other words "emerge > --update --deep --verbose --newuse @world"). Right now, it tells me > this: > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB &g

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009 17:44:37 Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in other words "emerge >> --update --deep --verbose --newuse @world"). Right now, it

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:52:05 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> read the man page. >> >> Especially the bit about bdeps - these are usually not included >> in 'emerge -uND world' but will be included when you use -e > > I'd also suggest che

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On Tuesday 13 January 2009 17:44:37 Paul Hartman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in other words &quo

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > Hum, I seem to have made an erroneous assumption. > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:38:05AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: >> The problem with this last one is not --deep. It is --update. > > Nevermind, I looked at the changelogs for openoffice and >

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:10:44AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Willie Wong wrote: >> > Hum, I seem to have made an erroneous assumption. >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge question: What's with the @?

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nick Cunningham wrote: >> >> >> 2009/1/13 Chris Lieb mailto:chris.l...@gmail.com>> >> >> I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using >> package sets, such as

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in other words "emerge >> --update --deep --verbose --newuse @world"). Right now, it tells me >> this: >> >> T

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge -e world' question

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM, b.n. wrote: > Paul Hartman ha scritto: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in other words "emerge >>> --update -

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently running kernel 2.6.25 and I have no issues with it so I don't > really want to upgrade it just yet. I just picked up > sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2, so I thought I'd mask out anything above > 2.6.25 for now

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, I noticed this on an emerge > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > www-client/mozilla-firefox:0 > > ('ebuild', '/', 'www-cl

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Furthermore yesterday I had a total lockup when I came to work at the > morning --- could not login at kdm, kdm would ignore all keyboard > input etc. I had to do a hard restart with the "Magic SysRQ" key > (remount ro, hard reboot). Do y

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:30 PM, David Relson wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:24:55 -0500 > Dan Cowsill wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Matt Harrison >> wrote: >> > Thanks for the detailed information. I have some news, but it >> > requires me to put on my embarrassed face. >> >> No

[gentoo-user] uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

Hi, Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the instructions to install uvesafb from this page: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ However, it does not work. Is it required to use initrd in order to use uvesafb? (because I don't use it...) the 80x25 looks absolutely horrible and I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the instructions to install >> uvesafb from this page: >> >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale wrote: > Wolfgang Liebich wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Wolfgang Liebich >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Furthermore yesterday I had

[gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the instructions to install > uvesafb from this page: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ > > However, it does not work. Is it required to use initrd i

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc, two problems

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > I use ~amd64. > > 1. Just after synching I have: > > emerge -pvDuN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-4.2.4-r1 [4.2.4] USE="fortran

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Wolfgang Liebich wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Dale wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> Wolfgang Liebich wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message in Xorg.log for intel xorg driver

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>>> >>>>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:33 PM, wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> I'm ashamed to admit I made the most basic mistake. I compiled uvesafb >> as a module. Oops! Compiled it as "Y" instead of "M" and now I have a >> pair of Tux sitting atop

Re: [gentoo-user] Build failure hwinfo both stable and testing

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:04 PM, wrote: > I tried to install hwinfo today and failed with the latest > ~hwinfo-14.19. I couldn't make anything usefull of the failure > message so backed off to the stable version 13.28. I got the same > failure so wondering if anyone can make sense of the (parti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, »Q« wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:42:30 -0600 > Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2009 19:27:53 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Now I just need to find a good consolefont that doesn't look >> "squished" in 16:9 aspect ratio. Right now I'm using ter-112n (from >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, »Q« wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:42:30 -0600 >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Paul Hartman >>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't > compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some > blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags. >

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver version in gentoo-sources

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > How to determine? cat /usr/src/linux/include/sound/version.h (replace "linux" with specific version if not your current) Also you can see the currently running version with: cat /proc/asound/version

Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, KH wrote: >> >>> Mark Knecht schrieb: >>> Hi, I'm not used to seeing all the additional messages below the blockage indication. Can someone possibly help me understand how to >>

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. > > I've tried vmware-workstation 6.5.0 and 6.5.1. Either one crashes when > clicking the "Create a new virtual machine" button. It gives no error > nothing it just quits the program.

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware-Workstation 6.5.0, 6.5.1 problem

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM, John Smith wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, John Smith wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I can't get vmware-workstation to work properly. >>> >>> I've tried vmware

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2009, at 20:36, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2009-01-19, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>> I would favor the original (with Alan McKinnon's change). It is >>> somewhat wordy but this issue has caused several users grief and the >>> (admit

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >> machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron >> Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI >> F

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Nick Cunningham wrote: > > > 2009/1/20 Alejandro >> >> >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann >>> >>> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >>> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz C

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote: >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >> > > machine. It's an old HP Pav

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash only works once

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Grant wrote: > Flash used to work perfectly, but now it only works once between > netscape-flash emerges. When I emerge netscape-flash, open firefox, > and visit youtube.com, it works. But if I then close firefox, re-open > it, and visit youtube.com, flash doesn

[gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

Hi, As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB suspend, which I do, but it keeps telling me constantly. How can I tell if: A) USB suspend is actually on or not B) powertop is doing anything when I press "U"

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, b.n. wrote: > Mark Knecht ha scritto: > >>The one thing I would respectfully suggest is that you carefully >> build your own portage overlay. My experience with Gentoo over the >> last few years is that there is a _anxiousness_ in the portage >> maintainer area

[gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

Hi, After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. However, it doesn't seem to ever stop them. I'm using sshd with this setting: MaxAuthTries 3 in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config So, why does it allow unlimited faile

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to >> port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices >> (keyboard/mouse) are active 100% of the time and to enable USB >> suspend, which I do, but it keeps

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-21, Dale wrote: > >> It's funny, I have read a lot of people complain that the binary is the >> same way but compiling from source works. Interesting. The reason I >> was told I should compile my own is because it was more stabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-21, Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> (I believe my OOo emerge >>> just passed hour 31). It would be interesting to know how much >>> further it's got to go >> >> Latest OOo 3.0 sourc

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving blocks from sets

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >>> >>> wrote: >>> > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;) >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> I'm using the online denyhosts synchronization database, I think that >> may negatively affect how often it blocks hosts locally, because it >> waits until it does a remote sync

[gentoo-user] Better way than ifplugd?

Hi, For years I've been using ifplugd for hotplugging of ethernet cables. However, in powertop I see eth0 showing tons of wakeups when these are not plugged in. Is there a newer/better way to do automatic enable/disable of an interface when the cable is plugged in or unplugged? I think the never-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras >> wrote: >>> >>> The shared list of attackers doesn't have anything to do with it. >>> Denyhosts >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to >>> my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin wrote: >>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> As the subject line says, powertop constantly tells me my USB devices

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Grant wrote: > I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit > firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer > works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for > java to work? Which java are you using? Sun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras >> wrote: >>> >>> Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of >>> attempts took

Re: [gentoo-user] Powertop constantly tells me to enable USB suspend, but it is already enabled

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Eric Martin wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Eric Martin wrote: >>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Eric Martin wrote: >>>>> Paul Hartman wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

d blocking repeated failed login > attempts? > > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras > wrote: >>> Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of >>> attempts took place? Also, what's the ti

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Grant wrote: >>> I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit >>> firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer >>> works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for >>> java to work? >> >> Which java are

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Grant wrote: > Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set "WindowlessDisable = 1" and see if that helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, James Homuth wrote: > For almost a year now I've had PAM, not by choice really, on my server. > Mostly because I've been pretty much told if it came with, it's better not > to remove it. But to be blunt, I'm getting more than a little irritated with > its attempts

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? >> >> Edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and set "WindowlessDisable = 1" and see if that >> helps. > > Unfortunately that didn't fix it. I researched my error: > > $ firefox > LoadPlugin: fa

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.28-gentoo sources quite sluggish on Dell Inspiron 8100 / 1GHz PIII

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> >>>> On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote: >>>> >>>> >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Grant wrote: > Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has > changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any > more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to > change this behavior? I don't reme

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} firefox-3.0 double-click-to-highlight behavior

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Grant wrote: > Since upgrading to firefox-3.0, double-click-to-highlight behavior has > changed. Double-clicking a word doesn't highlight the entire word any > more, it stops at dashes and underscores. Does anyone know how to > change this behavior? Found it for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote: >>> >>> On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use a Linux swap partition for swap

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to > port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. > However, it doesn't seem to ever stop them. I'm using sshd with this &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 22:22:17 Paul Hartman wrote: >> I essentially want it to work the other way around. Deny access by >> default unless there is an allow rule. I don't think I can do that, >> though. If I pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> ... >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834 >> >> There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at >> shutdown. What

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After setting up public key authentication i changed my sshd back to >> port 22 and got the expected bombardment of connection attempts. >&

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> After setting up public key authentication i changed my

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Grant wrote: > What do you guys think of this? Do you know of a good cruft removal > script? > Yep, there's quite good one in gentoo itself. Basically, you'll need to write a short config for it, consisting of lines like "cruft na

[gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Paul Hartman >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Writing an ebuild is best, but sometimes you just want to give a >>> program a try without writing an ebuild (like everyone else running >>> Linux does) and a scruft script enables you to do that without making >>> a mess of your system. >> >> Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Grant wrote: >>>> Writing an ebuild is best, but sometimes you just want to give a >>>> program a try without writing an ebuild (like everyone else running >>>> Linux d

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Other than Office 2007 is there any software out there that can >> *write* .docx? >> >> Work requires me to use this format sometimes (it's not >> negotiable) and I can get aroun

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Nick Cunningham wrote: > > > 2009/1/26 Paul Hartman >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin >> wrote: >> > On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Damian wrote: > Hello, > > What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to > mask the package? > > The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I > cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it using > ~x86 e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> > These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are >>> > based on my own preferences. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1691 (89728-89777)

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dale wrote: > Robert Pitkin wrote: >> unsubscribe > > Didn't work did it? Try gentoo-user+unsubscr...@gentoo.org and follow > the instructions it sends you back. Or read the headers. Specifically: List-Post: List-Help:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 15:16, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>>> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant E

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok only masked with ~x86 keyword

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Damian wrote: > Thanks Paul and Alan for your advices. > > OT: > For me it's hard to drop amarok because I cannot find all of its > funtionality in one player. For now I'm using mpd+sonata. They're > great, but it's just not the same. I guess eventually I'll make m

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Grant wrote: >> If you are installing a package by hand and wants to revert back to >> the previous state, best is to : >> >> - when you ./configure it, use the various --prefix directives (do a >> ./configure --help for information on that) >> - when you want to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his > Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off > the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort > of a mess so I'm looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his >>> Gnome desktop. He was thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:30:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't know how to >> get portage to give me the list of all packages that have to be >> unmasked. > > emerge autounmask. seconde

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Nick Cunningham wrote: > > > 2009/1/27 Mark Knecht >> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht >> > wrote: >> >> My dad is interested

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 promiscuous mode

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Grant wrote: > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > on my network in wireshark? wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor Something like that. Not s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Grant wrote: >>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >>> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >>> > on my network in wireshark? >>> >>> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>> >>> But at least tcpdump puts the int

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding questions

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 14:25 -0800 schrieb Grant: >> Using -C, gimp is about 10x more responsive than if I don't. I was >> surprised too. My laptop and the "remote" system are 15 feet away >> from each other on the same wireless netw

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