Re: [gentoo-user] xorg, mtrack on a macbook air

2012-12-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 13:59 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, I have a mouse issue with the trackpad on a late 2012 macbook air. > > In X I am seeing multiple mouse clicks similar to two drivers for the > same event. i.e., mtrack is set to 3 zones for the pad but a right click > shows (in xev) mo

[gentoo-user] xorg, mtrack on a macbook air

2012-12-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I have a mouse issue with the trackpad on a late 2012 macbook air. In X I am seeing multiple mouse clicks similar to two drivers for the same event. i.e., mtrack is set to 3 zones for the pad but a right click shows (in xev) mouse button 3 down, then 1 down, then 1 up and finally 3 up which de

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE wallet manager

2012-12-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2012 13:59:49 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hope this helps, > > Certainly does - thank you Mark. I now have the service running with a > wallet I can use (I hope). I'll try it again in the morning after a > fresh start. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE wallet manager

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 03 December 2012 13:59:49 Mark Knecht wrote: > There is a KDE-Users list where this stuff gets addressed. However I > asked the same questions the other day so I'll respond here in hopes > what I'm doing helps you. Ah. I hadn't thought of that. I'll look into it; thanks. > > I'm trying

[gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The broadcom-sta package works fine for me with several kernels up to 3.5.x. But with 3.6.x it fails. This seems to be a known problem, gentoo bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437898 437898 contains some patches and various comments, but I am surprised that the current ebuild does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:36:09 -0800, walt wrote: > I notice that there is a ppp useflag. Do you have it set? I've found > that sometimes (for random values of sometimes) I need to do more than > just remove a useflag before portage will pay attention -- I may have to > use a "-ppp" (for example)

[gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird (~17.0) good idea?

2012-12-03 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > v10 ESR has been replaced by v17 ESR so I see no reason not to upgrade > to v17. There should be no danger in upgrading in-place over your > existing data, but I always make a backup before a major version > upgrade just in case. OK, Thanks for all the input,

Re: [gentoo-user] intel HD graphics 4000 and viewing DVDs

2012-12-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Dec 02 2012, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 04:10:30PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote >> I am getting a new laptop. (likely dell 6430). >> The two graphics options are intel HD 4000 and nvidia NVS 5200M. >> Dell is as expected suggesting the 5200M. >> >> I do not need 3D or fas

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

2012-12-03 Thread yegle
git-shell is a good choice. And it's well tested. You just set user's login shell to git-shell, then put some script or binary executable at user's $HOME/git-shell-commands/ directory. -- yegle http://about.me/yegle On Monday, December 3, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi Gentoo-users, >

[gentoo-user] lxc

2012-12-03 Thread jdm
Hello, I have recently been trying lxc and after a recent upgrade I get the following message: lxc-execute: No such file or directory - failed to create symlink for kmsg lxc-execute: failed to setup kmsg for 'jack' lxc-execute: failed to setup the container lxc-execute: invalid sequence number

[gentoo-user] Re: new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-03 Thread walt
On 12/02/2012 09:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote: Also, I have PPP installed (2.4.5-r3): do I still need this with DHCP ? >>-- I suspect it's left over from pre-router days. any advice ? I notice that there is a ppp useflag. Do you have it set? I've found that sometimes (for random values of some

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird (~17.0) good idea?

2012-12-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:19 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have thunderbird-10.0.11, and it works OK. > It has simple things missing, like the ability > to set what app to handle .ppt files > > > Anyone tryied thunderbird (~17.0) ? I use it every day, it works for me. > commnet? I used te

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

2012-12-03 Thread Remy Blank
Jarry wrote: > Or is there maybe some other way how to create very restricted > account where user could not do anything else but call shutdown? - Create a local account for the user. - Disable local login (passwd -l). - Set up SSH public key authentication for the account. - In ~/.ssh/authori

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird (~17.0) good idea?

2012-12-03 Thread Randy Barlow
James wrote: Anyone tryied thunderbird (~17.0) ? I'm still on Thunderbird 10 with my Gentoo system, but I do occasionally use Thunderbird 17 in Fedora at work. It works just fine, but take into consideration that I haven't tried that version in Gentoo specifically. -- R

[gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird (~17.0) good idea?

2012-12-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/12/12 00:19, James wrote: Hello, I have thunderbird-10.0.11, and it works OK. It has simple things missing, like the ability to set what app to handle .ppt files Anyone tryied thunderbird (~17.0) ? commnet? I used testing packages but, not much tolerance for hacking at the mail re

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

2012-12-03 Thread Randy Barlow
Randy Barlow wrote: Could you create a simple webapp that requires authentication and has a big Shutdown button? Something like that would be fairly easy to make with Django, or something simpler like Pylons. Alternatively, you could write your own shell that only has the shutdown command and

[gentoo-user] thunderbird (~17.0) good idea?

2012-12-03 Thread James
Hello, I have thunderbird-10.0.11, and it works OK. It has simple things missing, like the ability to set what app to handle .ppt files Anyone tryied thunderbird (~17.0) ? commnet? I used testing packages but, not much tolerance for hacking at the mail reader I'm dependant upon. But,

[gentoo-user] python 3.1 removed

2012-12-03 Thread James
Python 2.7 is my default setting. I also had python 3.1 and 3.2 both installed. I read about how I should get rid of 3.1 and force those apps that need/want python 3 to use python 3.2. (makes sense but I did not fully research it). So I did these steps: emerge -C python:3.1 eselect python upd

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE wallet manager

2012-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2012, 21:31:05 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > kwalletmanager(3054)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been > disabled > > On the other hand: > > $ ps ax | grep wallet > 3054 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/kwalletmanager well, kwalletd is missing ps ax | grep wallet 30

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE wallet manager

2012-12-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Sorry for going off-topic, but I can't see the answer on the KDE site and > google hasn't helped. > There is a KDE-Users list where this stuff gets addressed. However I asked the same questions the other day so I'll respond h

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

2012-12-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:36:01 +0100 Jarry wrote: > Hi Gentoo-users, > > I'm facing this problem: I *have to* allow one non-root user > to shutdown my server remotely (ssh). I know I could create > account for him and add his login into /etc/shutdown.allow but > I do not want to grant him full she

[gentoo-user] [OT] KDE wallet manager

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Sorry for going off-topic, but I can't see the answer on the KDE site and google hasn't helped. I'm trying to run the KDE wallet manager but I get this in .xsession- errors: kwalletmanager(3054)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been disabled On the other hand: $ ps ax | g

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

2012-12-03 Thread Randy Barlow
Jarry wrote: I'm facing this problem: I *have to* allow one non-root user to shutdown my server remotely (ssh). I know I could create account for him and add his login into /etc/shutdown.allow but I do not want to grant him full shell access. I thought about adding "/sbin/shutdown -a h now" as h

[gentoo-user] How to set-up "shutdown-only" user?

2012-12-03 Thread Jarry
Hi Gentoo-users, I'm facing this problem: I *have to* allow one non-root user to shutdown my server remotely (ssh). I know I could create account for him and add his login into /etc/shutdown.allow but I do not want to grant him full shell access. I thought about adding "/sbin/shutdown -a h now"

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: >>> Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports? >>> In the second case you might look at [1] >> >> Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in >> enabling and disabling functionality. Rather

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up system files

2012-12-03 Thread felix
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:29:58PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > My recently-built machine has an SSD for everyday storage > + an HDD for less often used stuff + back-ups (in dir /y ). > To avoid having to re-install the system if the SSD collapses one day, > I wanted to make a simple back-up copy o

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Trausch
I would recommend reading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization docs. They are the best overview of libvirtd and friends. Then use the Web site to read the fine-grained documentation for things like the network, domain and storage XML formats so that you can easily configure those things dir

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
>> Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports? >> In the second case you might look at [1] > > Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in > enabling and disabling functionality. Rather than actively examining > the compile-time factors, I was hop

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: >> So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with >> VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a >> wrapper around other virt models. >> >> Starting from scr

[gentoo-user] Gentoo guest audio on Virtualbox

2012-12-03 Thread Markos Chandras
Hi, I have a host (centos6) running Gentoo as a guest on Virtualbox-4.2.4. However, I am not able to get audio working on the Gentoo guest. The configuration is the following: == Host settings for Guest VM == Alsa Audio Driver Intel HD Audio == Gentoo VM == Linux-3.6.8 lsmod|grep snd snd_hda_co

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 December 2012 16:54:05 John Campbell wrote: > gstreamer consists of a dozen or so ebuilds. They tried to mask it > out until all the files were up, but it looks like they missed > something. > > Everything is up now, so it should work fine...at least it did for me > (the second time

Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:39:47AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote > >> Also, I have PPP installed (2.4.5-r3): do I still need this with > >> DHCP ? -- I suspect it's left over from pre-router days. > > any advice ? Do you have a backup dialup account like me? That's why I have pppconfig, which pul

Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:39:47 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > but I don't want DHCP running as a daemon. The client runs as a daemon in order to be able to renew DHCP leases as they expire, otherwise you could lose your connection. Even though it is running as a daemon, is still a client, the server is

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up system files

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 02.12.2012 21:29, schrieb Philip Webb: > My recently-built machine has an SSD for everyday storage > + an HDD for less often used stuff + back-ups (in dir /y ). > To avoid having to re-install the system if the SSD collapses one day, > I wanted to make a simple back-up copy of vital files on th

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: > So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with > VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a > wrapper around other virt models. > > Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool > formats it su