Re: [gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm

2012-07-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 10:53:22 AM IST, Alecks Gates wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So yeah, the question is clear. How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile firefox without webm support? Or there's some other way around? -- Ni

Re: [gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm

2012-07-21 Thread Alecks Gates
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > So yeah, the question is clear. > How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile > firefox without webm support? > > Or there's some other way around? > > -- > Nilesh Govindrajan > http://nileshgr.com > Go

[gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm

2012-07-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
So yeah, the question is clear. How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile firefox without webm support? Or there's some other way around? -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-21 Thread Thanasis
on 07/21/2012 08:58 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote the following: > Evening, Experts! > > My printer isn't printing. > > More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find > the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with > "Available Printers - No Printers Found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread Alecks Gates
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 20/07/12 10:24, Philip Webb wrote: >> >> I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: >> it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as price. >> >> A quick look at what was available in April suggested >> a

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> Evening, Experts! >>> >>> My printer isn't printing. >>> >>> More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fai

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Evening, Experts! >> >> My printer isn't printing. >> >> More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find >> the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it c

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread Alecks Gates
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:55 AM, wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:49:32PM -0500, Alecks Gates wrote > >> I'd pick AMD, and very likely one of their APUs if you don't need >> intense graphics, as they seem to be able to handle most things well >> and even some light gaming. > > How do AMD's

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Evening, Experts! > > My printer isn't printing. > > More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find > the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with > "Available Printers - No Printers Found.". >

[gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with "Available Printers - No Printers Found.". My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to ude

Re: [gentoo-user] Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

2012-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: > I know there are a few lvm2 experts lurking here :) > > I have a 500gig disk that is split roughly in half between two volume > groups, each containing four physical volumes, and each vg is formatted > into an ext4 filesystem of roughly 250GB. > > What I plan to do is merge the tw

[gentoo-user] Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

2012-07-21 Thread walt
I know there are a few lvm2 experts lurking here :) I have a 500gig disk that is split roughly in half between two volume groups, each containing four physical volumes, and each vg is formatted into an ext4 filesystem of roughly 250GB. What I plan to do is merge the two volume groups into one, co

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot set an icon theme for the kde apps

2012-07-21 Thread ivan ivanov
usr/share/kde4/services/settings-icon-view.desktop exists? dbus is running? ya@shvabra ~ $ ls -l /usr/share/kde4/services/settings-icon-view.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7836 Apr 30 01:05 /usr/share/kde4/services/settings-icon-view.desktop ya@shvabra ~ $ /etc/init.d/dbus status * status

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot set an icon theme for the kde apps

2012-07-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2012, 16:59:11 schrieb ivan ivanov: > Hello, list. I just installed gentoo for the first time. I am using > openbox wm and some kde apps within it (krusader, for example). I > installed the systemsettings package(4.8.3) to configure the kde apps. > The problem is that i cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2012, 15:33:05 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 20/07/12 10:24, Philip Webb wrote: > > I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: > > it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as price. > > > A quick look at what was available in April suggested

[gentoo-user] cannot set an icon theme for the kde apps

2012-07-21 Thread ivan ivanov
Hello, list. I just installed gentoo for the first time. I am using openbox wm and some kde apps within it (krusader, for example). I installed the systemsettings package(4.8.3) to configure the kde apps. The problem is that i cannot set an icon theme for the kde apps. There is no entry for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread microcai
2012/7/21 Nikos Chantziaras : > On 20/07/12 10:24, Philip Webb wrote: >> >> I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: >> it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as price. >> >> A quick look at what was available in April suggested >> an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 ( 22 nm

[gentoo-user] Re: new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/07/12 10:24, Philip Webb wrote: I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as price. A quick look at what was available in April suggested an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 ( 22 nm ) ; Phoronix said it works with Kernel 3.2 + a

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:44:11 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 21.07.2012 07:55, schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:49:32PM -0500, Alecks Gates wrote > > > >> I'd pick AMD, and very likely one of their APUs if you don't need > >> intense graphics, as they see

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 21.07.2012 07:55, schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:49:32PM -0500, Alecks Gates wrote > >> I'd pick AMD, and very likely one of their APUs if you don't need >> intense graphics, as they seem to be able to handle most things well >> and even some light gaming. > > Ho