[gentoo-user] Any small and fast desktop search app for GNOME?

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas Yao
I dislike gnome-do and I use synapse on ubuntu with another PC So I'm wondering is there any other good desktop search applications? Or how can I install synapse on gentoo? Thank you! -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 Facebook.com/ghosThomas Mechanism, not policy

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > I'm having trouble with this again. I get: > > # ls -l /var/cache/revdep-rebuild > total 424 > -rwx-- 1 root portage699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr > -rwx-- 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr > -rwx-- 1 root portage 34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr > -rwx-

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Grant
>>> I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: >>> >>> foo*.txt >>> >>> but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out >>> how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right >>> direction? >>> >>> - Grant >>> >>> >> >> Try locate "*/

Re: [gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

2011-02-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/28/2011 03:48 PM, Nils Holland wrote: > On 15:24 Sat 26 Feb , Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is anyone using the uml290 modem? I've never used one and recently >> acquired this model. What other kernel support is needed in addition >> to usb modem? and what package is needed to

Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-28 Thread Matt Harrison
On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-28 Thread Hamilton Silva
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a > USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and > running on some old hardware. > > Now I've been tasked with finding something s

Re: [gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

2011-02-28 Thread Nils Holland
On 15:24 Sat 26 Feb , Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone using the uml290 modem? I've never used one and recently > acquired this model. What other kernel support is needed in addition > to usb modem? and what package is needed to connect the modem > (currently I use wicd for wire

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro [solved]

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Cahn
> I tried again and I hope you'llhave now the complete dmesg. A friend found how to solve the problem. He changed some settings in Device Drivers, specially in Serial ATA and Paralell ATA drivers, and somewhere else. Now I have cdrom and sr0 in /dev and the player works. Thank you for your help.

[gentoo-user] Re: Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-28 Thread James
Mark Shields gmail.com> writes: > Saw that you linked to the "creating an updated ebuild" from gentoo-wiki, so what I say may overlay quite a bit, but hear me out: > Attachment (jffnms-0.8.5.ebuild): application/octet-stream, 2207 bytes Mark, I appreciate your answer very much. I'm looking at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:08:23PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any > > color when it has no color ink, but do grayscale printers apply some > > conversion internally, to make sure that e.g. plain cyan is still > > visible (ins

Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off automounting usb drives

2011-02-28 Thread Dale
luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 17:08 Dale wrote: Don't worry, when you understand it really well, something new will come along. Then you get to rinse and repeat. :/ yep, i know what you mean... a bit frustrating, sometimes, isn't it? Sometimes. Then again, sometimes th

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-27, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Michael Orlitzky writes: > >> On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >>> Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert >>> a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? >> >> A laserjet? =) > > That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I e

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread Mick
On 28 February 2011 13:11, dhk wrote: > Alright, I found a couple thing in Grub that I had wrong.  1) The > (hd0,0) for the splash should have been (hd0,2).  That fixed the problem > with no Grub menu.  2) The Windows menu option was (hd0,1) and should > have been (hd0,0) for the Windows boot par

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread Mick
On 28 February 2011 12:25, dhk wrote: > I did everything in Grub and haven't touched the MS Windows partitions > since the initial install. > > The problem looks like Grub and some other stuff.  Can't boot to Windows > or Linux.  It looks like the Grub menu never comes up.  However, it > seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread dhk
On 02/28/2011 07:25 AM, dhk wrote: > On 02/28/2011 06:39 AM, Mick wrote: >> On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk wrote: >> >>> Thanks for all the input. It helped clear up a lot of questions. I >>> spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it >>> almost worked. I think the p

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread dhk
On 02/28/2011 06:39 AM, Mick wrote: > On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk wrote: > >> Thanks for all the input. It helped clear up a lot of questions. I >> spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it >> almost worked. I think the problem is in the Grub setup, so it should

Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off automounting usb drives

2011-02-28 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 17:08 Dale wrote: >Don't worry, when you understand it really well, something new will come >along. Then you get to rinse and repeat. :/ yep, i know what you mean... a bit frustrating, sometimes, isn't it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread Mick
On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk wrote: > Thanks for all the input.  It helped clear up a lot of questions.  I > spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it > almost worked.  I think the problem is in the Grub setup, so it should > be repairable once I find the mistake.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread dhk
On 02/27/2011 02:39 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 27 February 2011 18:04:26 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 27.02.2011 17:02, schrieb Petri Rosenström: >>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, dhk wrote: > First, the observations. I tried to partition my disk with fdisk the way I wanted. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Cahn
> 497 lines. Could you please: increase the buffer and turn off usb debugging? Hi Volker, I tried again and I hope you'llhave now the complete dmesg. Here is the adress: > http://dl.free.fr/qUJf6qr39

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro [solved]

2011-02-28 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 27/02/2011 18:38, Mike Gilbert a écrit : > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Jacques Montier > wrote: >> My kernel configuration : >> >> # SCSI device support >> CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=y >> CONFIG_SCSI=y >> CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y >> CONFIG_SCSI_TGT=y >> CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK=y >> CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y >> # SC