Re: [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-10 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > I'm always replying to gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org and I'm not aware I ever > used > one of the addresses you mentioned below. I'm rather new to this forum, so > it's > entirely possible I did something wrong somewhere, so please tell me w

[gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?

2012-05-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello list, I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement Active Directory authentication on Gentoo? I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running daemons/services. *Ideally*, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I can live without that. Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:20 -0400, Norman Invasion wrote: > On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my > > videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing > > these "green" drives that are made by ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 11 May 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:53:27 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On my HDDs, I cannot disable APM but I can disable spindown by >> changing the power-saving level to 254. I have a script in >> /etc/local.d/ which calls: > >You don't need a script, add th

Re: [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-10 Thread Michael Scherer
I'm always replying to gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org and I'm not aware I ever used one of the addresses you mentioned below. I'm rather new to this forum, so it's entirely possible I did something wrong somewhere, so please tell me where else I should post my replies. And if you feel the urge to c

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:53:27 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On my HDDs, I cannot disable APM but I can disable spindown by > changing the power-saving level to 254. I have a script in > /etc/local.d/ which calls: You don't need a script, add the options you need to /etc/conf.d/hdparm and add hdparm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > > > On 09/05/12 14:31, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > When you pause mplayer2 playing any kind of video, does its process > > > also use 100% of one of your cores? > > > > Nope. > > Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about this: > htt

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > I realize this thread is bigger than an encyclopedia by now, so I > apologize if this has already been suggested. :) Well, I'm happy for any input on this :) This problem is really annoying. > I'm curious if you look at /proc/interrupts if the disk with I/O > problems is

[gentoo-user] Re: quick question on ALSA_CARDS

2012-05-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/12 02:01, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:46:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote You can simply delete ALSA_CARDS from make.conf. What about ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS ? This is for embedded systems that need to strip parts of alsa-lib. It controls USE flags for media-libs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quick question on ALSA_CARDS

2012-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:46:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > You can simply delete ALSA_CARDS from make.conf. What about ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS ? -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:55 AM, wrote: > > hum hum! > I know that Windows does this by default (it annoys me so I disable it) > but does linux disable or stop running the disks if they're inactive? > I'm assuming there's an option somewhere - maybe just `unmount`! Some drives cannot have this s

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > >> On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: >> >> > I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one, >> > including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I >> > fin

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, > which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; > I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. > Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. > > Ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What to use for Flash?

2012-05-10 Thread Dale
James wrote: > Dale gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Hi, >> >> There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. > > USE the chrome browser? > > http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=108086 > > Many of the newest chipsets will support running multiple > OS's concurrentl

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Mick
On Thursday 10 May 2012 00:58:47 Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > >>> My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore. > >>> Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the box. S

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: > I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, > which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; > I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. > Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Dale
nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:38:34AM -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> The default is to keep them all running and to not spin them down. I >> have never had a Linux OS to spin down a drive unless I set/told it to. >> You can do this tho. The command and option is: >> >> hdpa

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 May 2012 21:36:46 +0200, David Haller wrote: > Basically: they run a 5400 min^-1, the "normal" ones at 7200 min^-1 > and the green use less power. Some green drives run at 5900rpm. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 01E: Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. signature.as

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 10 May 2012 21:38:20 +0200 David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 09 May 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >One thing we have noticed is that Samsung's recent model are not very > >"green", they spin up slowly, use lots of power and make a racket > >when spinning. But they do work. > > Whi

Re: [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 May 2012, at 15:20, Michael Scherer wrote: > > References: <4faa2f0d.8080...@gmail.com> > <4faa595a.4040...@libertytrek.org> > > > > after downloading the 3.2.12-sources everything went fine > for a couple of weeks, I compiled them a couple of times, > but suddenl

[gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
I have a lot of images scanned from old negatives of non-standard sizes, which I had to split up into halves or quarters to process; I was careful to use the same settings for each of the sub-parts. Now I want to reassemble them into the original whole pictures. There are several apps which might

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my > videos on, eventually. Hi Dale, One thing I wanted to point out about the task you have in front of you. There is a problem in your work statement here and it really co

Re: [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-10 Thread Michael Scherer
my /usr-partition is at 17% and all other ebuilds, like a new install of netbeans 7.1, run just fine, so I doubt this could be the reason, but I'll check anyway. thanks michael -- Michael Scherer Univ.klinik f. Psychiatrie email: michael.sche...@meduniwien.ac.at phone: +43 6991 941 22 54 --

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 09 May 2012, Dale wrote: >While on the thread. Has anyone had any sort of luck with the >recertified drives? Avoid them. -dnh -- Well I wish you'd just tell me rather than try to engage my enthusiasm. -- Marvin

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 09 May 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: >One thing we have noticed is that Samsung's recent model are not very >"green", they spin up slowly, use lots of power and make a racket when >spinning. But they do work. Which ones? I've got one of all Models of the last years, and to none applie

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 09 May 2012, Dale wrote: >As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my >videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing >these "green" drives that are made by just about every company nowadays. > When comparing them to a non "green" dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 10 May 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: >On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion > wrote: >> They have an ugly tendency to nod off at 6 second intervals. >> This runs up "193 Load_Cycle_Count" unacceptably: as many >> as a few hundred thousand in a year & a million cycles is >> get

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Norman Invasion wrote: > On 10 May 2012 14:01, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion >> wrote: >>> On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale wrote: Hi, As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Norman Invasion
On 10 May 2012 14:01, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion > wrote: >> On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my >>> videos on, eventually.  The prices are coming down now.  I keep seein

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion wrote: > On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my >> videos on, eventually.  The prices are coming down now.  I keep seeing >> these "green" drives that are made by just abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Norman Invasion
On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my > videos on, eventually.  The prices are coming down now.  I keep seeing > these "green" drives that are made by just about every company nowadays. >  When comparing them to a non "gree

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quick question on ALSA_CARDS

2012-05-10 Thread Doug Hunley
now that's excellent news. thanks! On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > You can simply delete ALSA_CARDS from make.conf. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd                                               Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/

Re: [gentoo-user] make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 10, 2012 9:27 PM, "Michael Scherer" wrote: > > Hi all, > > after downloading the 3.2.12-sources everything went fine > for a couple of weeks, I compiled them a couple of times, > but suddenly, maybe because of some world-updates, errors > started to accumulate, first it could do make but no

[gentoo-user] Re: What to use for Flash?

2012-05-10 Thread James
Dale gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. USE the chrome browser? http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=108086 Many of the newest chipsets will support running multiple OS's concurrently. Not in a chroot, or rebooting

[gentoo-user] Re: ssh stalls - please help

2012-05-10 Thread James
Helmut Jarausch igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > probably since I've emerged openssh-6.0_p1 and/or git-sources-3.4_rc? I > have problems with ssh. Well, I have a new problem with ssh too. I'm curious if my problem is related to Helmut's; thus posting in his thread. When I set up a new Adtran

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread napalm
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:38:34AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > The default is to keep them all running and to not spin them down. I > have never had a Linux OS to spin down a drive unless I set/told it to. > You can do this tho. The command and option is: > > hdparm -S /dev/sdX > > X would be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Todd Goodman
* Dale [120509 19:54]: [..] > Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for > electronics life. The failure rate is high at the beginning, especially > for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after > several years it goes back up again. At the beginnin

Re: [gentoo-user] why is it using OpenDNS?

2012-05-10 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Grant wrote: >> Try appending this into your /etc/conf.d/net >> >>    dns_servers_wlan0=208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 >> >> with or without quotes and brackets I am not really sure. >> >>    dns_servers_wlan0=( "208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220" ) >> >> Hope this help

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Dale
nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:58:47PM -0500, Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> > My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore. > Like cars[1], they're all go

[gentoo-user] bluetooth-test-network: connection refused

2012-05-10 Thread Steffen Becker
Hi everyone, I have a problem to connect two bluetooth devices: I have two gentoo-PCs with a Bluetooth3.0-Dongle at each PC. I tried to use the bluetooth-test-network to connect them, but connection was refused and I don't know how to fix it. Down below you find the # bluez-test-network # monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread napalm
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:58:47PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > >>> My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore. > >>> Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the bo

[gentoo-user] What to use for Flash?

2012-05-10 Thread Dale
Hi, There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. Well, I let mine upgrade and now it crashes, badly. I unmerged adobe-flash then tried lightspark and gnash. Neither of those work on sites I tried, which is sites I go to a good bit. Since Adobe is dropping Linux flash, that's what I

Re: [gentoo-user] why is it using OpenDNS?

2012-05-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.05.2012 10:20, schrieb Grant: >> Try appending this into your /etc/conf.d/net >> > >> >dns_servers_wlan0=208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 >> > >> > with or without quotes and brackets I am not really sure. >> > >> >dns_servers_wlan0=( "208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220" ) >> > >> > Hope th

Re: [gentoo-user] why is it using OpenDNS?

2012-05-10 Thread Grant
> Try appending this into your /etc/conf.d/net > >    dns_servers_wlan0=208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 > > with or without quotes and brackets I am not really sure. > >    dns_servers_wlan0=( "208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220" ) > > Hope this helps! Thanks, but I'm actually trying to figure out why th

[gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-10 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 08:33 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video > card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia > driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I > switched to 295.20-r1 and everyth

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.05.2012 05:59, schrieb Adam Carter: >> There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not >> be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can >> use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out >> yet what this is, it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-10 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: >> Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related >> to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower >> than ram. >> >> I have always wondered how to find this out myself. > > Well the OS uses swap, i dont know if its possible to the