Thanks a lot for all recommendation. I will try some cheap USB gamepads for starters.

If they just want to control Mario, what about getting a Nintendo, Playstation, or Xbox controller?

(I am not a gamer) Would these work out of the box with linux? Can I buy them easily without the consoles?

I am planning to buy a Wii within a year (we do not have tv box, where we are here so we ...

Hi there,

I am not quite a gamer myself, but my kids are getting more and more heavy on my laptop. Can you recommend a simple joystick for small kids (2-6 years old) for playing games like SMC, supertux and alike? It should of course work in linux!

When I google on the web I find gazillion of ...

PaulBredbury wrote:Use /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Thanks a lot. It works!

I would still like to understand what is going on. Is that udev loading these? What is the difference between udev and hotplug?

I am trying to optimize the power usage of my laptop using giudelines from powertop. In the meantime I managed to observe that:

1. my system always loads the modem modules (snd_intel8x0m)
2. my system always loads and starts net.eth0 (tg3 module) and net.eth1 (ipw2100)

These cost quite a lot of ...

same here, so this is reproducible (also on x86 stable)

Had the same problem today and I DON'T use any exotic use flags or cflag,...

Doing a simple ln -s /usr/lib/libexif.so.12 /usr/lib/libexif.so.10 solves the problem.

I still thing it was better to revdep-rebuild as others suggested. This is asking for trouble. Have you checked that these libraries ...

I have seen the linking problem for eog (eye of gnome) and gphoto2, too. Funny enough remerging ghoto2 did not help (I did help for eog).

I am using hibernate script to hibernate to disk and I have configured it to use fbsplash. Is it normal that I do not get the splash image while the pages are saved to disk and then while they are restored? (I do see the splashscreen during stoping/starting services).

Hi,

have you made any progress on that?

My dual head setup ceased to work several weeks ago, with a similar error message. But I do not even get clone. One of the screens is always blank.

EDIT: actually there is a bug already tracked: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178927

EDIT ...

ppurka wrote:Perhaps if you do not use xft fonts, you will have a slightly faster urxvt.

I am sure that would help, but I am not willing to compromise here. After all xterm works with the same fonts and is faster.

I have seen that others see the same problem elsewhere: http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2006q4/000364.html

It seems that precisely the combination of screen and the new urxvt is slow.

I am using rxvt-unicode 8.1, but upgrading to current testing 8.2 helps only slightly :( (so it ...

Can you be slightly more specific? I am not a gentoo developr, so I do not even know what eclass is. Note that this thing I am compiling is not an ebuild even. I have tried to run the command that you suggested, but it seems just to report lots of ebuild that do eautoreconf, and I do not even know ...

Check out the autotools eclass, and its eautoreconf command. Examples:
find /usr/portage/ -name \*.ebuild | xargs grep -H eautoreconf

Can you be slightly more specific? I am not a gentoo developr, so I do not even know what eclass is. Note that this thing I am compiling is not an ebuild even. I ...

I am compiling a project from source (not in portage) on a gentoo machine. I face the following problem:

...
checking for correct ltmain.sh version... no
configure: error:

*** [Gentoo] sanity check failed! ***
*** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! ***
*** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.22 ...

Recently app-misc/screen inside urxvt-unicode has become very slow. I can see how it is redrawing ncurses applications line by line. If I run the same applications without screen then they redraw fast. If run them inside screen that is inside xterm, they also redraw fast. It seems that the ...

Hallo?... is there any body out there running WPA with an Atmel based NIC? Give me at least a bit of hope ...

EDIT: just a remark that I did not have time to work on that problem recently, but I am still interested in solving it. I do not want it to disappear from egosearch thread list.

Ok. Perhaps it is not fully smooth, but I can at least connect from my ipw2100 nic. My other machine has a PCMCIA Atmel based nic, and I still have no success with it.

zieleniec ~ # wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -Datmel
Initializing interface 'eth1' conf '/etc ...

You should be using -Dwext for the ipw2x00 stuff. Post the errors using -Dwext.

When you say you "can't find any APs", do you see your AP with `iwlist eth1 scan` ? Even with wpa_supplicant not started, you should at least see your AP.
This is a good point. Normally I can see the APs around, but ...

Can anybody guide me on configuring wpa_supplicant? I have spent many hours on this, have read through many posts and cannot see what am I doing wrong. wpa_supplicant continues to find no accesspoints.

My NIC is "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100". I am trying to get wpa_supplicant to connect ...

I have managed to debug my problem. The last call in the above strace was made by liboil (so the bug is actually in liboil). Here is a Debian bug report and a patch (more of a workaround, actually):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410859

I have applied it to 0.3.10-r1 and ...

Or if you do not really need this small upgrade just append "=app-text/acroread-7.0.9" to /etc/portage/package.mask and let portage downgrade to acroread-7.0.8, so that it works as it used to. I find this a cleaner and safer solution, if you do not insist on this upgrade (which is minor anyway ...

UncleTom wrote:Maybe the same solution works, too? Do you have an idea what that was?

Was there any solution? I could not see it in the thread.

For me, the problem is not only that the acroread plugin is not working.

acroread file.pdf

from the shell also starts acroread but does not open the file. The problem starts with the
upgrade to 7.0.9[/i]

I confirm the same issue. Acrobat no longer opens files from command line with this ...

I have been also seeing random freezes recently. Initially I suspected hibernation, but now they even happen on clean reboots. The system typically freezes when I use skype, or firefox. Then it dies completely. Often with keyboard leds blinking. I have not checked whether it still responds to ping ...