[gentoo-user] Re: Little OT: Real transparency of terminal windows ?

2006-08-24 Thread Marco Costa
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL Regards, Marco signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: inotify problem - SOLVED

2006-08-22 Thread Marco Costa
Marco Costa wrote: > Hi. > > I am trying to use inotify but something is not correct. > I am using gentoo 2006.0. > kernel: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 > inotify is compiled in. > glibc 2.3.6-r4 > > What happens: > I initialize inotify, it returns the file descriptor (fd). O

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning up multiple man pages (how?)

2006-08-18 Thread Marco Costa
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've noticed that the whereis(1) command gives multiple results for some queries. For instance, "whereis lilo" gives me [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ whatis lilo lilo (8) - install boot loader lilo.conf [lilo] (5) - configuration file for lilo lilo

[gentoo-user] inotify problem

2006-08-18 Thread Marco Costa
Hi. I am trying to use inotify but something is not correct. I am using gentoo 2006.0. kernel: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 inotify is compiled in. glibc 2.3.6-r4 What happens: I initialize inotify, it returns the file descriptor (fd). OK I add a directory to watch with all flags. It returns the watch des

[gentoo-user] Re: VHS->digital: Best application ?

2006-08-07 Thread Marco Costa
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to digitize my old VHS tapes. I have a DVB-T card with analogous TV input (Bt878 based). What application is best to capture the video to my HD (200GB free)? Try: mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=3:width=720:height=640:als

[gentoo-user] Re: strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Marco Costa
Arnau Bria wrote: > I've seen a file named "[" in my /usr/bin ... > ... > does any one know what could it be?¿ > thanks in advance. It is the test application/tool. Try 'info test'. Regards, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-24 Thread Marco Costa
est buffers failed: Invalid argument > v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. It seems that the format is not understood ( duh! ;) ) by mplayer. I don't have this card, my card is an old analog card. So maybe you have the stream alread in mpeg format. I believe I can

[gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-21 Thread Marco Costa
Hi, Actually, that is what I _have_ to do with my old TV card. It doesn't have a input for audio and no internal mixer, so I have to record the sound directly from the soundcard. I use menconder to do just that: mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=3:width=640:height=480:al

[gentoo-user] Re: System bell

2006-03-31 Thread Marco Costa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . and an enrge --newuse world the system bell keeps on not working. With System bell I mean: KDE Control Center -> Sound & Miltimedia -> System bell I controlled the volume levels on kmix and aumix. I do not know which other atte

[gentoo-user] Re: cron fetchnews

2006-03-29 Thread Marco Costa
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat -n /etc/cron.hourly/fetchnews 1 #!/bin/sh 2 # 3 # Uncomment the following if you want to regularly 4 # fetch new messages from your news server. 5 # 6 # 7 # This is part of the leafnode package. 8 #