[gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?

2009-07-25 Thread Xianwen Chen
Hello all, I've been unable to access gentoo-wiki.com for days. Does anyone know what the problem is? Sincerely, Wen -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition

2009-07-25 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Sorry for being offtopic. In the meanwhile -- while trying to get my webcam working I got that many contradictionary and partly outdated informations from the web that I did not know anymore what I know or not... I searched a lot of stuff and found a lot of stuff but the sources are often of

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread Al
> > Hi, > > To watch some birds I have bought a Logitech QuickCam Pro For > Notebooks WebCam. > > I have configurted the kernel for UVC and compiled a driver > as modulem which is stated to support my Cam. > > ...the only thing I need is an application to make > the video visible and which all

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I'm backing up xorg-server to pre 1.6.1.902 to see it that does any > good but have a hunch it will involve more reinstalls than that. Seems to have cured the problem... now able to start multiple X sessions on different displays

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting > as my regular user? > > It must be something else causing the error? I'm not understanding > why one user can startx but not another on the same hardware and same > .initrc file. Whooops ... I mislead

[gentoo-user] Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I've had X running and running xfce4 desktop for mnths. This is a single user machine on a home lan uptodate gentoo. Today I decided to create a new user and start an x session for that user. I moved to a virtual terminal Ctrl-alt-F2 Then copied the .xinitrc file I use to start xfce from my nor

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok will not emerge - solved

2009-07-25 Thread Skippy
Found out the problem and fixed it. See the forum for details: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-781796.html I needed to prune old versions of gcc. Thanks y'all. Skippy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-25 Thread Simon
>> ...I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak... > > I recently learned that flash drives wear out after about > 10,000 write operations, which came as an unpleasant surprise. > > Just be aware that you are drastically shortening the life of > a flash drive by writing to it frequently. (or

Re: [gentoo-user] File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-25 Thread Simon
> I'm the last you would want to give advice about this question, but even > though I am not a programmer, I have been using git to sync on three > different systems. I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak. I > followed some tips from the Emacs org-mode mailing list to get this going. >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Justin writes: > > Along time I used tkdiff and it worked really fine, since yesterday I > swapped to the new package diffuse, which is actually the same in gtk. Now that does look usefull. Too bad I see no way to ignore differences in dates of the various entries. That seems to occur in many

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread meino . cramer
bn [09-07-25 15:46]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de ha scritto: > > Thank you for the hint. The programm says "unable to capture image". > > Executing it as root does the same. > > Very strange. > > > ffmpeg could capture a video stream from my webcam, so the cam is not > > the problem... > > Have you

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright writes: > kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running > on my macbook). > Thanks.. I'm pretty sure that would involve installing some part of kde which I'm not interested in doing. Just too much grind time when updating and not that much in return.

[gentoo-user] Re: File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-25 Thread walt
On 07/24/2009 07:43 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: ...I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak... I recently learned that flash drives wear out after about 10,000 write operations, which came as an unpleasant surprise. Just be aware that you are drastically shortening the life of a flash dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread bn
meino.cra...@gmx.de ha scritto: > Thank you for the hint. The programm says "unable to capture image". > Executing it as root does the same. Very strange. > ffmpeg could capture a video stream from my webcam, so the cam is not > the problem... Have you tried good old mplayer ? It can play the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread meino . cramer
Manuel Fiorelli [09-07-25 13:51]: > 2009/7/25 : > > I installed cheese without complains of the compile process. > > But starting cheese produces: > > > >    solfire:/home/mccramer>cheese > >    cheese: error while loading shared libraries: libplc4.so.7: cannot open > > shared object file: No su

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/7/25 : > I installed cheese without complains of the compile process. > But starting cheese produces: > >    solfire:/home/mccramer>cheese >    cheese: error while loading shared libraries: libplc4.so.7: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > And ldd /usr/bin/cheese

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 25 Juli 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Manuel Fiorelli [09-07-25 12:16]: > > 2009/7/25 : > > > ...the only thing I need is an application to make > > > the video visible and which allows me to save the > > > video and an application to control the > > > cameras features. > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread meino . cramer
bn [09-07-25 12:21]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de ha scritto: > > > > Hi, > > > > To watch some birds I have bought a Logitech QuickCam Pro For > > Notebooks WebCam. > > > > I have configurted the kernel for UVC and compiled a driver > > as modulem which is stated to support my Cam. > > > > ...the

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread meino . cramer
Manuel Fiorelli [09-07-25 12:16]: > 2009/7/25 : > > ...the only thing I need is an application to make > > the video visible and which allows me to save the > > video and an application to control the > > cameras features. > > I use "cheese", which let you take photos and videos. Under the menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread bn
meino.cra...@gmx.de ha scritto: > > Hi, > > To watch some birds I have bought a Logitech QuickCam Pro For > Notebooks WebCam. > > I have configurted the kernel for UVC and compiled a driver > as modulem which is stated to support my Cam. > > ...the only thing I need is an application to make

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/7/25 : > ...the only thing I need is an application to make > the video visible and which allows me to save the > video and an application to control the > cameras features. I use "cheese", which let you take photos and videos. Under the menu "Edit/Preferences" I can customize the resolution

[gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, To watch some birds I have bought a Logitech QuickCam Pro For Notebooks WebCam. I have configurted the kernel for UVC and compiled a driver as modulem which is stated to support my Cam. ...the only thing I need is an application to make the video visible and which allows me to save the