Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 01.01.2013 16:13, Florian Philipp wrote: > With that, fullscreen applications work for me. Some still deactivate > the second display or change the resolution but otherwise it works just > fine. I tried it and it does not help at all, nothing changed. The games still stretch over both screens

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2013-01-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/12/12 15:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:35:36 +0800 > William Kenworthy wrote: > >>> If your intent is to learn something by all means proceed (you will >>> learn, and lots of it :-). But if you are looking for something to >>> use that works, it's probably only fair you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
130102 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: >> Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: > If you're the only user of your computer, you could also just unmask > the version in Portage. The bug is that any user in the games group > can edit all save files, s

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, James wrote: > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3? > Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That should free up udev to do more of what you suspect. HTH, Mark mark@c2stable ~ $ l

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > Background: > I have a gentoo system with a fried ethernet (interface) > on an older motherboard. I installed a pci ethernet > card that works fine for years. Lately, udev and the > myriad of related upgrades, have made it so services > (ss

[gentoo-user] Ethernet Machination

2013-01-01 Thread James
Hello, Background: I have a gentoo system with a fried ethernet (interface) on an older motherboard. I installed a pci ethernet card that works fine for years. Lately, udev and the myriad of related upgrades, have made it so services (sshd, cupsd, etc) are wigged out now. So I rebuilt the 3.4.9 k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > On 2013-01-01, Stroller wrote: > >> On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >>> ... >>> The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say >>> chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't say for s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:16:25 -0200 Francisco Ares wrote: > I don't think so. Most of them are very basic level users, and they > just have to have the same software, and it's gotta be from M$ - > nothing out of main stream. > > But what is your point? Boot an OS with office that works and as lon

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:01:52 +0800 > Analuin Abyssbeholder wrote: > >> Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: >> >> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: >> #required by nethack (argument) >> # /usr/portage/profiles/packag

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-01, Stroller wrote: > On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> ... >> The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say >> chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't say for sure. > > But h264 in an AVI is invalid. > > AVI is dated and

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-31, Francisco Ares wrote: > 2012/12/30 Nuno J. Silva > >> On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: [...] >> Keep in mind that the support for videos in powerpoint presentations >> will vary greatly across different powerpoint versions, windows versions >> and even across different installs

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 28.12.2012 00:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > >> No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with the >> /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, but >> now it's gone. I don't know if anyo

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2013-01-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 28.12.2012 00:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > >> No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with the >> /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, but >> now it's gone. I don't know if anyo

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2013-01-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.12.2012 00:45, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > No, it works that way. You could changed in previous versions with the > /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier key in gconftool-2, but > now it's gone. I don't know if anyone is working on bring it back. found this: https://twitter.com/s

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:01:52 +0800 Analuin Abyssbeholder wrote: > Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: > > The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: > #required by nethack (argument) > # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Tavis Ormandy (21 Mar 2006) > # ma

[gentoo-user] gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Analuin Abyssbeholder
I'm sorry for the last email. My gmail made a mistake by sending an incomplete draft. Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tavis Ormandy (21 Mar 200

[gentoo-user] gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Analuin Abyssbeholder
Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tavis Ormandy (21 Mar 2006) # masked pending unresolved security issues #125902 =games-roguelike/nethack-3.4.3-

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2013-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > The other wiki has a page[1] about building an initramfs that includes a > section on writing a linuxrc script to support exactly that. I have since > switched to Genkernel, but I used to have a hand-built initramfs containing > very littl

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2013-01-01 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/31/2012 17:10, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic OK, thanks. Yes, in the last post of that thread Nilesh states "Since I use grub2-mkconfig to generate the configuration, it's there with UUID, but it works with LAB

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Francisco Ares
2012/12/31 Stroller > > On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > > ... > > The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say > > chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't say for sure. > > But h264 in an AVI is invalid. > > AVI is dated and just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Francisco Ares
2012/12/31 Kevin Chadwick > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:35:52 -0200 > Francisco Ares wrote: > > > If my colleagues would at least be kind enough to have OpenOffice > > installed on their machines also... > > Will they let you boot a usb? > > I don't think so. Most of them are very basic level users,

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 01.01.2013 13:21, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: > Hi, > > I got a second monitor and have KDE running in xinerama big screen mode > without problems. Most everything works great but every game that I > tried was streched over both screens when in fullscreen and gets so > unplayable for me. > > Xin

[gentoo-user] Multi monitor and fullscreen games

2013-01-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Hi, I got a second monitor and have KDE running in xinerama big screen mode without problems. Most everything works great but every game that I tried was streched over both screens when in fullscreen and gets so unplayable for me. Xinerama useflag is set and xinerama is loaded by X without error.