[gentoo-user] Re: xine problem

2010-04-15 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvd1 -> hda > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvdrw1 -> hda > Looking at the files you listed I guess /dev/dvd doesn't exist on your system. > You should probably try /dev/dvd1 or /dev/hda... OK, I Noticed that too.

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-15 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Stroller wrote: > > How are you connecting to the net? > yes, i connect to the net through a router. and i share the router with my roommates. > Are you sure this isn't the router? Have you tried switching it off and back > on again? (seriously) > i do not think

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-15 Thread Matt Harrison
On 15/04/2010 09:20, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You probably don't want to hear this, but: > > vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's > weird behaviours. > > Use a different cron daemon. > I don't mind hearing this :) I only use vixie-cron as that is what I start

[gentoo-user] monitor identification question (Gnome)

2010-04-15 Thread David Relson
I just retired my Viewsonic 19" CRT in favor of a Viewsonic VX2433WM. Looking in Xorg.0.log it's obviously recognized (as the following lines indicate): (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: R4F100901594 (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 24 H max: 82 kHz, PixClock max 210 MHz (II) RADEO

Re: [gentoo-user] USe rsync to backup RAID0 to RAID1?

2010-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:30:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >I would like to back up a mounted RAID0 to a mounted RAID1. The RAID makes no difference, because rsync works at the filesystem level. >Would the following command be appropriate to backup /virdata on > RAID0 to /backups on RAID1? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:52 PM, walt wrote: > On 04/15/2010 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> ...I decompiled the flash on that page... > > Wait a minute. Am I the only one here who wants to know how to decompile > a flash app? I don't believe that, so please give us a hint :) There are nume

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-15 Thread Warp_7
Am Montag, 12. April 2010 schrieb Hinko Kocevar: > Hi, > > I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. > Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot > feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes"), things get > done about 9 se

[gentoo-user] Re: no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread walt
On 04/15/2010 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: ...I decompiled the flash on that page... Wait a minute. Am I the only one here who wants to know how to decompile a flash app? I don't believe that, so please give us a hint :)

[gentoo-user] USe rsync to backup RAID0 to RAID1?

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I would like to back up a mounted RAID0 to a mounted RAID1. I've not used rsync before but it seems very well suited for this task. The contents of the RAID0 are currently very simple - just some iso images and two VMWare Windows XP installs. I don't see any links in there. However my iso di

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome bluetooth in Gentoo

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:46, Damian wrote: > Did anybody could manage to get gnome-bluetooth working? First I had > problems with permissions, so I added some udev rules and the > permissions in rfkill. But now, if I launch the applet I just get a big > button that says "turn on bluetooth". I d

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that >> installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the >> generic "_sans" font, which should let it use any sa

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that >>> installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that >> installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the >> generic "_sans" font, which should let it use any sa

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that > installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the > generic "_sans" font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on > your system. Maybe it can only use TTF font

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Apr 2010, at 12:48, Xi Shen wrote: ... if you system is up for many days, sometimes i will not be able to browser web site. but the BT download still works. i can also ping the web site. i really have no idea how to troubleshoot this. even 'curl' cannot get the web page. it feels like all

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 4/15/2010 12:28 AM, Dale wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Miller >>> wrote: >>> Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://music

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables - do I need the nat table?

2010-04-15 Thread Mick
On Monday 12 April 2010 13:31:09 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-04-11 9:20 AM, Graham Murray wrote: > > Tanstaafl writes: > >> I'm a bit clueless when it comes to firewalls, and have no idea what > >> these numbers mean/do: > >> > >> *raw > >> > >> :PREROUTING ACCEPT [4911:886011] > >> :OUTPUT ACCEPT

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't find bluetooth device (BCM2046)

2010-04-15 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 April 2010 00:43:52 you wrote: > My lsusb shows as much: > > Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part > of BCM2046 Bluetooth) > > dmesg: > > Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 > NET: Registered protocol family 31 > Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manag

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 15 April 2010 05:12:29 Paul Hartman wrote: > Works for me using 64-bit adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r1 in every browser I > tried. I'm using the same flash program with Firefox 3.6.3 and I don't see any of the text you mention. I also don't get any sound, though I don't know whether I'm s

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/15/2010 12:28 AM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Miller >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text >>> on this page. >>> >>> http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html >>> >>> There is supposed

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 4/14/2010 11:38 PM, Tony Miller wrote: >> Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text >> on this page. >> >> http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html >> >> There is supposed to be different text each tim

Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app

2010-04-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/14/2010 11:38 PM, Tony Miller wrote: > Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text > on this page. > > http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html > > There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' > slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks beca

Re: [gentoo-user] cpufreqd cannot start

2010-04-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 15 April 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i used to be able to start the cpufreqd service. but recently, it > fails to start. and the error message is: > " > * Caching service dependencies ... > [ ok ] > * cpufreqd requires the kernel to be configured with CONFIG_

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-15 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I get something like this, but just logging off and on again seems to fix > it.  For me, anyway. >   it's 2x Xeon, Kde 4 > any idea what is the cause? this is really a annoying bug. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidsh

[gentoo-user] cpufreqd cannot start

2010-04-15 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i used to be able to start the cpufreqd service. but recently, it fails to start. and the error message is: " * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * cpufreqd requires the kernel to be configured with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ * Make sure that the appropiate kernel drivers for

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I get something like this, but just logging off and on again seems to fix it. For me, anyway. it's 2x Xeon, Kde 4 On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > if you system is up for many days, sometimes i will not be able to > browser web site. but the BT download still works. i

[gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-15 Thread Xi Shen
hi, if you system is up for many days, sometimes i will not be able to browser web site. but the BT download still works. i can also ping the web site. i really have no idea how to troubleshoot this. even 'curl' cannot get the web page. it feels like all tcp connections are blocked. my system is

Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap

2010-04-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:53 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > bridge allow your vm to connect to the internet directly. the vm will > connect to the dhcp server as your host machine do. > > vde creates a vlan on your host, and your vms connect to that vlan. > and your host machine will act like a gateway to

[gentoo-user] Gnome bluetooth in Gentoo

2010-04-15 Thread Damian
Did anybody could manage to get gnome-bluetooth working? First I had problems with permissions, so I added some udev rules and the permissions in rfkill. But now, if I launch the applet I just get a big button that says "turn on bluetooth". I did that but nothing happened. With blueman every worke

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly > first time, not even on the archives. > > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but > every so often (anything between a week or an h

Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:36:38 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, > but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just > stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. Try running it from a terminal

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to unstable

2010-04-15 Thread Damian
Alex Schuster writes: > Damian writes: > >> Thus, I'm thinking about switching all of my system to the unstable >> branch. But first I want to be sure that this is reasonable given the >> problems I described before. >> >> Can you provide me some useful advice according to your experience? > > I