[gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
"Joshua Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well... (pulling from http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbpager/ ) > in ~/.fluxbox/fbpager set: > fbpager.icons: true > fbpager.changeWorkspaceButton: 1 > > and in the case of bbpager (which doesn't support icons), > in ~/.bbtools/bbpager.bb and ~/.bbtool

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-12-01 Thread Mick
On Monday 01 December 2008, Mick wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > > What did you use to generate the key? Also, what does the client / > > server say for the key fail? > > I used something like: ssh-keygen -v -t rsa -b 2048. I have even generated > a second key pair and t

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for Godot & uevents

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
081201 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My back-up box has an irritating problem, which was discussed here >> in a thread which ended 080731 (msg 73690) apparently unresolved. >> At boot, it says "populating /dev with existing devices

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-12-01 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I dont want to install MTP firmware on my T60. I have solved my little problem with a tool called "fatsort". Thanks for the support. Kind regards, Meino Cramer b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-12-02 04:03]: > Daniel Pielmeier ha scritto: > > > And you are right the order is controlled by th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unable to download Imagemagick

2008-12-01 Thread ert256
[ 01.12.2008 13:16 ], Nikos Chantziaras : > ert256 wrote: >> Hello >> Since last week, i'm unable to download new imagemagick sources. This is >> what i get from emerge : >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -vu imagemagick >> >> [...] >> When i'm trying to download it manually i get : >> No such f

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-12-01 Thread b.n.
Daniel Pielmeier ha scritto: > And you are right the order is controlled by the order they are saved to > the filesystem. It seems this is only true for the usb driver and not > the mtp driver which is afaik only usable on windows. I know almost nothing about the iRiver, but the MTP protocol is s

[gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-01 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
I have finally reached the point where I use enough USB media (external hard drives and flash drives) that I would like to set up a system to automount the media devices for me. I have read in the past about hal + ivman and a bit of googling has brought up AutoFS as well. I was just wondering what

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for Godot & uevents

2008-12-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My back-up box has an irritating problem, which was discussed here > in a thread which ended 080731 (msg 73690) apparently unresolved. > > At boot, it says "populating /dev with existing devices thro' uevents ... ". > On this

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. That has crossed my mind too, but I can't figure out if there's > anything I alone can do about it. It would taint the results in a very bad > way, because it is impossible to catch by increasing the number of > repetiti

Re: [gentoo-user] [Even More OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Anthony Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ignoring the MS/*nix argument for a moment. > > How does fragmentation work on hardware RAID? > > The normal argument of more fragmentation = more seeks = worse > performance would seem to be eliminated by a controller

[gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

2008-12-01 Thread John Blinka
I recently switched to at&t from another isp. At that other isp, my ssmtp setup worked perfectly. With at&t, a similar ssmtp setup (modified appropriately to point to at&t's smtp server) does not work at all. AT&T told me to use the server smtp.att.yahoo.com and port 465. So my ssmtp.conf file

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:40:11 -0500 "Joshua Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: = > One thing that comes to mind... if one of those files is primarily > closer to the start of the disk than the other, and the drive tapers > down on speed as bad as some... well, that's one variable you can't > easily

Re: [gentoo-user] [Even More OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Ignoring the MS/*nix argument for a moment. How does fragmentation work on hardware RAID? The normal argument of more fragmentation = more seeks = worse performance would seem to be eliminated by a controller with a large cache and lots of drives (say a Dell/Equallogic PS5000E in RAID 10.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:27:22 +0200 > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [-snip-] > >> >> You are the one making them claims! You do the test! > > > Me? No, my dear. It is you who claims that fragmentation only matte

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:27:22 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [-snip-] > > You are the one making them claims! You do the test! Me? No, my dear. It is you who claims that fragmentation only matters on MS file systems while Linux FS remain unaffected w/o providing any proof. The co

Re: [gentoo-user] Conditional TMOUT variable

2008-12-01 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:48:15 +, Mick wrote: > > I've exported TMOUT=1200 to make sure an absent minded colleague does > > not leave his console logged in as root and walk away. > > > > This has the desired effect - except that when I am su'd in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-12-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodrigo Lazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > >> http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbpager/ > > Yeah, I knew about that one and have tried it but its no more aware > than bbpager (blackbox). > > By that I mean, clicking i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-12-01 Thread brigante
Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rodrigo Lazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> [...] >> >> >>> http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbpager/ >>> >> Yeah, I knew about that one and have tried it but its no more aware >> tha

Re: [gentoo-user] audacious 1.5 not playing

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Michael George schrieb am 30.11.2008 11:33: > I updated audacious and audacious-plugins from 1.4.6 and .5 to 1.4.1-r1 and > r3, > respectively. It comes up and seems to operate fine, but it won't play > my ogg files. It doesn't even seem to try. I downgraded to 1.4.6/5 and > it plays fine. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] audacious 1.5 not playing

2008-12-01 Thread Sandro Hannemann
Hi, Maybe you could provide more detail about the error and your specific setup? What does "emerge --info" say? Do you get any error output when you try to play ogg-files? Just in case: I do use audacious once in a while and have been using the 1.5.1 versions for some time now. mp3 and ogg files

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-bin spellchecker not working

2008-12-01 Thread Fernando Antunes
2008/12/1 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Any ideas how to fix? > > ispell, hunspell, aspell, myspell-en and aspell-en are > all installed. > > James, ooo 3 use extensions to install dictionaries. > > > James > > > > >

[gentoo-user] FiXeD: Re: Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-12-01 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > ati-drivers will not compile, any version. Here is the > errors from 8.552-r2 : I finally got 8.552-r2 installed and working using the latest information from bug 246672. This is the 3rd posting to the list (via Gmane) so appologies in advance if anyone get's

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
081201 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:10:00 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> in /etc/fstab I have : >> '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' >> I reformat USB sticks to a Linux fs, as 'fat' seems to reduce capacity. > You didn't mention that before: it was reasonable to assu

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice-bin spellchecker not working

2008-12-01 Thread James
Any ideas how to fix? ispell, hunspell, aspell, myspell-en and aspell-en are all installed. James

[gentoo-user] waiting for Godot & uevents

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
My back-up box has an irritating problem, which was discussed here in a thread which ended 080731 (msg 73690) apparently unresolved. At boot, it says "populating /dev with existing devices thro' uevents ... ". On this my everyday machine, it all goes successfully & very quickly, but on the other i

Re: [gentoo-user]Unable to download Imagemagick

2008-12-01 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Monday 01 December 2008 13:03:11 ert256 wrote: > Hello > Since last week, i'm unable to download new imagemagick sources. This is > what i get from emerge : > [snip] > No such file `ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2'. > > Thank You for Your help ? Hi You could try adding some more mirrors with mirror

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:10:00 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > >> in /etc/fstab I have : '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto > >> noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' (I never use > 1 USB device at a time, > >> so this is ok). > > > You can include the mountoption uid= gid= . > > According to 'man mount', they are

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to download Imagemagick

2008-12-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
ert256 wrote: Hello Since last week, i'm unable to download new imagemagick sources. This is what i get from emerge : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -vu imagemagick [...] When i'm trying to download it manually i get : No such file `ImageMagick-6.4.4-6.tar.bz2'. Try this mirror: http://ftp

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
081201 Justin wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> Something keeps resetting the permission for /mnt/usb to 755 , >> which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user. / sb 'writing' >> My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:haldaemon,purslow'; >> in /etc/fstab I

[gentoo-user]Unable to download Imagemagick

2008-12-01 Thread ert256
Hello Since last week, i'm unable to download new imagemagick sources. This is what i get from emerge : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -vu imagemagick These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.4.6 [6.4.0.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-12-01 Thread john stampe
Oops, a slight typo in the last message the boot option should be fbcon=font: John From: john stampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 6:11:47 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-12-01 Thread john stampe
Not sure if this will answer your question, but you can adjust which font is used by the kernel framebuffer either in the kernel: Device Drivers --> Graphics Support --> Console Display Driver Support --> [] Select compiled-in fonts or by adding fbcon=font as a boot option

[gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Rodrigo Lazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbpager/ Yeah, I knew about that one and have tried it but its no more aware than bbpager (blackbox). By that I mean, clicking inside the pager does not transport you to that desktop. At least I did not see that h

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Justin
Philip Webb schrieb: > Something keeps resetting the permission for /mnt/usb to 755 , > which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user. > My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:haldaemon,purslow'; > in /etc/fstab I have : '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' > (I never

[gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
Something keeps resetting the permission for /mnt/usb to 755 , which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user. My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:haldaemon,purslow'; in /etc/fstab I have : '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' (I never use > 1 USB device at a time

[gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Samstag, 29. November 2008 18:32:34 schrieb Rodrigo Lazo: > >> I think he mean a pager like this: >> >> http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbpager/ > > Aargh, stupid me. Yes, there's two meanings of "pager". He he... caught you in a dumb move... since y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-12-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:21:44 pm Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> Speaking of md5sum/shasum, do you know some tool that adds data >> redundancy? I heard dvddistaster does this, but I guess it is limited >> to DVDs. It w