Randy Barlow wrote:
> Something funny that happened on my laptop with this was that somehow
> net.eth0 (wired network) tries to start at the boot run level every time
> and will just sit and wait for an IP. This never happened before I
> upgraded, and doesn't happen on my other machine. It's
On 8/26/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and
> > it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will
> > pop up saying "failed to play DVD" but sometimes not. Does anyone
> > know how to troubleshoot mpla
> I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and
> it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will
> pop up saying "failed to play DVD" but sometimes not. Does anyone
> know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm
> emerging gxine now
On 8/26/06, Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard
> chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should
> be marked as bootable?
AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like
"grub-in
quoth the Grant:
> I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and
> it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will
> pop up saying "failed to play DVD" but sometimes not. Does anyone
> know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm
> em
On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 02:10 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
> > 2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard
> > chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should
> > be marked as bootable?
>
> AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything li
Grant wrote:
Is anyone else having trouble with the new baselayout-1.12.* ? It's
causing all kinds of strange problems on my systems.
Something funny that happened on my laptop with this was that somehow
net.eth0 (wired network) tries to start at the boot run level every time
and will just s
I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and
it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will
pop up saying "failed to play DVD" but sometimes not. Does anyone
know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm
emerging gxine now. I know
> 2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard
> chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should
> be marked as bootable?
AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like
"grub-install /dev/hda1" just will not work. Only something l
For last year or so, I've been using Gmail with Firefox, all in browser, and have wanted to move to a local email client (using Thunderbird or Sylpheed-Claws).Unfortunately, the only time I have had any success with this was with the Windows port of Thunderbird. Otherwise, it only grabs about a hun
On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:10, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Thanks Mick,
>I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and
> somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to
> boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up
> using Linux a
Keith Kastorff wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:37 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
I tried this before...it does not help. gcc 3.4.4 is still referenced
by the cdk build process (or what else...)
Try "emerge --oneshot libtool".
Hi,
I'm not the opener, but I had the same problem with g
Thanks Mick,
I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and
somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to
boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up
using Linux at all.
I'll check it out. I found this page:
http://jaeger.
On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:16, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong
> to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF.
Please don't! It'll wipe out the Windoze partition boot sector and he won't
be able to boot WinXP again (not without runnin
Hi,
A friend asked about trying out Linux. After doing a bit of reading
and looking at the Gentoo site he wanted to try Gentoo so I said I'd
help install it o his Windows box. The situation that I've not faced
in a long time, if ever, is that he has an existing Windows
installation on the first
Hello,
I'm having issues with the login dialog of KDE's screensaver and SCIM. The
dialog crashes every single time. I've compiled everything with -O3 CFLAGS and
CXXFLAGS, but have compiled scim, skim, scim-qtimm, and kdesktop with -O2.
This only happens when I enable the password-protected sc
Hi Robert,
Tks for your advice.
> What about a perl script that just copies all files in /home/user to
> the
> device once it is plugged in?
I'm not a programmer nor very acknowledgeable on perl. Could you
please shed me some guide how to start. What I need is on saving a new
file or edited f
Grant wrote:
> Is anyone else having trouble with the new baselayout-1.12.* ? It's
> causing all kinds of strange problems on my systems.
You'll have to be a lot more specific on the list, so tell us specifics :)
Definately make sure you have done an etc-update or dispatch-conf
though. There hav
Is anyone else having trouble with the new baselayout-1.12.* ? It's
causing all kinds of strange problems on my systems.
- Grant
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Hi All,
Two different boxen.
One has splash added to the boot runlevel - it shows up the framebuffer
image on the console, towards the end of the boot sequence. If I
rc-update -d splash boot, there is no framebuffer background image shown.
This all
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:49:23 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote:
I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a
duplicate copy will be saved automatically on
/mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to
replication/mirroring. Thus the U
Hi, I have installed openldap on my gentoo-linux . My purpose is to use LDAP server for login authentication using PAM. slapd is running fine. ldapsearch command is also running fine. But the problem is, it takes too much time to authenticate the user. My local system is server as well as th
Neil Bothwick schrieb:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early
moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils?
Yes, because the splash stuff runs before udevstart, so you need a static
device nod
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early
> moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils?
Yes, because the splash stuff runs before udevstart, so you need a static
device node for anything required
On Saturday 26 August 2006 10:10, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:30:44 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > KDEbluetooth finds the Razr without any problems, just select "Find
> > > device" in the Razr's menu and click the bluetooth icon in the
> > > panel.
> >
> > yeah, it find
A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i
deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work.
So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After
installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my
case /dev/tty1.
Here is
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:49:23 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote:
> I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a
> duplicate copy will be saved automatically on
> /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to
> replication/mirroring. Thus the USB enclosure can
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:53:31 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > carcharias rjf # emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT
> > CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
> > /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind"
> > CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:30:44 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > KDEbluetooth finds the Razr without any problems, just select "Find
> > device" in the Razr's menu and click the bluetooth icon in the
> > panel.
>
> yeah, it finds it. But it does not 'find' any services, like obex file
> tr
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