On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but it's not
> my PC and not my decision)
>
> I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I can spare
> the licence). The PC is an older AMD64 wit
Howdy,
This is just a FYI, after upgrading my kernel to 2.6.20, my firewall
was broken. I was using firestarter but had the same problem
trying to use guarddog. Traced it down to missing the iptables
state module. There could have been other modules missing,
but I just enabled building them al
Hi,
I am running Gentoo ~amd64 and I recently upgraded MySQL from
5.0.26 to 5.0.26-r1 and things are not working anymore (for example mythtv).
After spending a great deal of time looking at logs, changing
configuration files (namely, my.cnf), installing and de-installing
MySQL, I still cannot g
Hi,
I have been experiencing very slow https communication in both of my
~amd64 home Gentoo systems. No matter what browser I use (Opera,
firefox, firefox-bin, nautilus, konqueror) attempting to access a
secure site takes a very, very long time.
I do have "ssl" in my USE flags, maybe there is an
Hi,
1\ have you install sys-libs/pam.
2\ have you the flag "pam" inside the USE variable.
Hi,
I have considered this, but I am hesitant because I remember reading
something in this group about pam not playing nice with gentoo:
something about permissions on devices. My system has been built with
2. Whilst I appreciate the courtesy (!), posts are more likely to stand out,
and therefore be read, if they have a more "on-topic" subject line than
"hello", or some such. For example, a better one for this thread might be
"how to unmask packages?" or even just "amd64?".
Well, and elegantly said
Up until now, to remedy this when I want to attempt to use one of these
packages, I simply edit the ebuild, regenerate the digest, and do the
installation. I feel sure there is an easier way around this - I've
read somewhere of being able to tell the system that I am not worried
about packages th
With modular Xorg, do you still need to re-build your video drivers
after every time you re-compile a kernel?
You have to rebuild those drivers that have been obtained outside the
"standard" kernel source tree. This applies to all types of drivers,
not only video drivers, for example:
ati-driv
and you have tried a different PSU? A quality one (ie not fortron, not antec,
but enermax)?
--
huh?
PSU? Does this stand for "Power Supply Unit"?
If it does, then the answer is no. Because my box is an HP media
center to which I only added the Nvidia graphics card. (PCIe)
But... this is somet
On 9/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen
with AMD64 systems using Gentoo (the AMD 64-bit binaries)? How about
the majority of ports in the portage tree?
I realize this question will solicit relatively subje
So, I assume that eth1 would be replaced by wlan0 in the commands above,
correct?
Yes, that is true. Therefore if you create a bash script with those
commands it would look like the following (I understand that you do
not use encryption, so I omitted the "key" setting)
#!/bin/bash
iwcon
So, my question is, once I install ndiswrapper and the driver, do I then
follow the wiki for either wireless-tools or (preferred)
wpa-supplicant? Is there anything else I have to do or install?
Regards,
Colleen
Hello,
May I suggest that you try first with wireless-tools?
Things you need t
Very nice! However, where does one find some sort of matix listing of screen
screen sizes, aspect ratios and the corresponding dimentions in mm ?
James
I do not know that...
I had to actually measure my monitor!! :-)
But I think a better solution has been mentioned in one of the
responses ab
After re-emerging that, I restarted xdm/kdm and when I logged in I found all
fonts to be quite
smaller... to the level of thinking I had a bigger resolution :P (I use
1024x768 maximum).
Any idea?
What information can I provide?
Hi,
I used to have the same problems every time I upgraded xorg
> > Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an
> > updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is
> > finished printed fine, or if one is lucky as you, ends with dead process
> > logged.
> ...
> Thanks. I had the same problem, which has be
Are your using HP printers, and if so, have you recently switched from
using hpoj+hpijs to using the newer hplip package which is supposed to
replace the old combination?
If this is the case, we're having the same problem, which seems to be
with hplip-0.9.7-r3. I haven't found a solution to the
Hi,
I am having a problem with CUPS. (I think)
I have Gentoo on my laptop and I was able to print just fine to any of
the network printers here at work, but all of a sudden this is not
working anymore.
When I try to print, it looks like the job is being sent to the
printer, but nothing comes out
On 2/1/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/1/06, A. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As for the HTML, I could not find in the Gmail settings a way to turn this
> > off. The only thing that I changed that is remotely similar, was the UTF-8
> > e
On 1/31/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A. R. wrote:> > > I've been having some problems with kmail.> > > When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank:> > > The original message and my response are both blank.
What exactly do y
screensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib linguas_en
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
On 1/30/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A. R. wrote:> I've been having some problems with kmail.> When I rep
Hi,
I've been having some problems with kmail.
When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The
original message and my response are both blank.
Does anybody know what could be causing this?
Thank you in advance for your help.
- AR
--
The absence of war does not mean peace.
--
Hi,
For me it is more about which one of the video players I am able to properly configure.
Right now I prefer gxine and kaffeine (xine-lib based).
Those two pretty much can play anything.
Regards,
- AROn 11/15/05, Peper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,what's the best video player in your opini
Hi,
I run Gentoo on an IBM ThinkPad T41p.
This is a very nice laptop and very Linux-friendly.
HTH,
- AR
On 10/26/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll beputting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very s
Hello,
I am not sure if you have already tried the following:
replace
--device ATA:1,0,0
with:
--device /dev/
For some reason that I do not understand, when I try --device ATA: etc.
cdrdao does not work for me, but when I use --device /dev/hdc it does
work.
Maybe it will work for you to
On 8/9/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(snip)
> XFS is good for a laptop as it is less likely to suffer a sudden failure
> than a desktop, the battery acts as a UPS. As long as you run some sort
> of battery monitor that shuts the computer down cleanly when battery
> levels become cr
Hi there,
The only thing that I can imagine that may be causing something like this is
the portage profile that you are using...
Now, I am assuming that your Gentoo installation is based on an older
"release", and
based upon that assumption, the question is: Have you updated to a
more recent pr
Nothing wrong at all with creating a toc file.
I may be missing something here, but the idea of running a command to
"clone" a cd in one shot kind of makes sense, doesn't it? :-)
toc file it is then...
Thank you,
- AR
On 7/21/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Don't you have to create a toc file when using read-cd?
I remember that there was a "clone" cd program in Linux, I am just not
sure if it is cdrdao or not.
Thank you. I'll try cdrdao with different options.
Regards,
- AR
On 7/21/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi all,
Sorry for being off topic, but, does anybody know how to copy a mixed
media CD (music + files)?
And I am talking about a 1:1 low level (exact?) copy, without creating
a toc file to be used by cdrdao.
I have looked at the cdrdao man page, but I guess I may not be
understanding everything s
Oh,
so then the subject of your original post should have read
"Determining the current softlevel".
- AR
On 7/20/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:26:13 -0400, A. R. wrote:
>
> > try the command "runlevel" as root.
&
Hi there,
try the command "runlevel" as root.
HTH
- AR
On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, YoYo Siska wrote:
>
> > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:21:25 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> # cat /var/lib/init.d/softlevel
> >>>
Hi,
I do not know if this would be of any help, but my alsa dmix configuration is
located in /etc/asound.conf and it is pretty similar to your
.asoundrc, here it is:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
Hello,
Did you set the right permissions?
something like "chmod 1777 "
Of course, as long as you are linking to a directory in the other disk,
however, I don't really know what needs to be done if you are using
the whole partition in the other disk as the target for /var/tmp ...
Maybe the permi
That was a great post Holly,
very informative,
I also run wine (every day at work) because I need to run Lotus Notes.
And I was wondering about games under wine as well.
Thank you very much.
- AR
On 5/24/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
> > Thank you f
When you enabled your card in the ALSA kernel config, did you select
it as a module?
Can you find the module files in the following directory?
/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r9/kernel/sound
(I has happened to me that add support for my card(s) as kernel
built-ins, and suddenly
ALSA does not work)
Hello,
There is a Gentoo Linux ALSA guide at:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
With regards to your card, the kernel that you are using
(Which happens to be the same I use)
Has the module for your card under:
-> Device Drivers
-> Sound
-> Advanced Linux Sound A
My sentiments exactly! :-)
cheers,
-AR
On 5/19/05, Julien Cayzac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think I'm an elite.
> I regard sys admins running RedHat with great respect, since this
> distro is mush more difficult to maintain than Gentoo :-) They must be
> some king of gurus :p
>
> On
At the place where I work, there are a couple of blokes that use linux
too, when I told them that I use Gentoo and even that it is by far the best
distro I have used IMHO, they immediately said something like this:
"What? you use Gentoo? Oh, so you use it just because you want to
compile the kern
Sorry, I pressed the "send" button too quickly,
What I meant to ask was that the library you mentioned did not get built.
I wonder why, since I have the svg USE flag...
Anyway I am going to emerge this library just in case...
Thank you,
-AR
On 5/16/05, A. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I just ran
emerge -v libsvg -p
and this is what I got:
[ebuild N] media-libs/libsvg-0.1.2 254 kB
Total size of downloads: 254 kB
On 5/16/05, JC Júnior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> your libsvg was ok???
>
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 16:42:13 -0400
> "A. R.&quo
Ha!
you got me there! :-)
cheers,
-AR
On 5/16/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:56:53 -0400 "A. R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Yeah, I find this a little bit of an annoyance too ;-)
> | I find myself doing "cat /var/
Yeah, I find this a little bit of an annoyance too ;-)
I find myself doing "cat /var/lib/portage/world | sort" very often just to
see the contents of the file.
But then again it is just a very minor thing.
Regards,
-AR
On 5/16/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/16/05, Ciaran McC
27;ll have to probably re-do it.
Try that with the same command as before and look for the errors again.
Let's see if that works,
Hope this helps,
- AR
On 5/16/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A. R. wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Would you plea
Hello,
Would you please provide more details about the actual error?
One good way to do that is to launch nautilus from a terminal with the
following command IIRC:
nautilus --no-desktop --file-browser
and take a look at the ouput when it crashes.
I used to use gnome, and I can say that naut
Hello,
My xfce4 installation does not seem to be able to display SVG images.
Has anybody experienced something similar?
When an application has an icon that is an SVG, the xfce menus display blank,
and the launchers display the generic Xfce icon...
I have the USE flag "svg" enabled in my make.con
Hi,
It is my understanding that even if you disable those flags
(-kde -qt) and you try to emerge a package that depends
on kde and qt libraries, those will be compiled as well.
As an example, I am running xfce4 (gtk2) and my use flags have
-kde -qt, if I try to emerge k3b, it shows that it want
Thank you,
I will add it to the "keywords" file and use gcc-config.
Regards,
-AR
On 5/10/05, Eugene Rosenzweig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A. R. wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am currently using GCC 3.3.5-20050130, but I would like to give
> >GCC 3
> But gcc is probably something special, and I never dared to touch it...
Thanks.
This is exaclty what I was trying to ask: if gcc should be treated
differently than
any other package when it comes to using a newer (unstable) version.
My guess is that unmasking gcc is not the only thing needed her
Hello,
I am currently using GCC 3.3.5-20050130, but I would like to give
GCC 3.4.3.20050110-r2 a try, it is currently masked by keyword "~x86".
Is it enough to add gcc to the /etc/portage/package.keywords file
and then emerge it?
Is there a Gentoo-related guide to this somewhere?
Thanks in adv
Hello,
I have experienced the exact same situations as you have described.
But, for some very odd reason, I have not seen an error while mounting
a cdrom ever since I changed my fstab line from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc.
I am clueless as to why this is the case... heck.
Regards,
-AR
On 5/4/05,
Hi,
I do not know if this can be of any help at all, but I am currently
running Gentoo on
an IBM ThinkPad T41p without any problems.
I think that you could try to re-compile the kernel with some
different combination
of the ACPI options enabled.
I am using kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 and I am not doin
That was exactly my reasoning behind selecting XFS as the main
filesystem for my Laptop (IBM ThinkPad T41p), which I use as
my everyday desktop/workstation.
Previously, in an IBM ThinkPad A31p I used Reiserfs, and I never had
any problems, the thing ran really well, I just wanted to try XFS becaus
Hello,
Have you done the following?
1. Boot with the live cd.
2. Mount your "/" partition somewhere (/mnt/gentoo) most likely.
3. Run "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash"
4. Run passwd to change the password of the root account.
5. Reboot (without the livecd).
FWIW, Whenever I forget the root password
Regards,
-AR
On 4/18/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:52:55 -0400, A. R. wrote:
>
> > Currently I am using XFS on a laptop and so far so good (I has only
> > been 4 months).
> > XFS seems to be very, very fast.
>
> XFS i
Hello,
I have had experience with reiserfs in the past (When I used to use
Slackware) And I
never had any problems with it.
Currently I am using XFS on a laptop and so far so good (I has only
been 4 months).
XFS seems to be very, very fast.
IMHO you cannot go wrong with either reiserfs or XFS.
H
Hi,
Just my 2 cents,
I have never had any problems pointing to /dev/input/mice,
I run Gentoo on a ThinkPad T41p which effectively has three different
"mice": trackpoint, touchpad and a USB connected wheel mouse.
Hope this helps.
-AR
On 4/15/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I go
Hi!
If what you mean is that you want to control the locales built when
compiling glibc, all
you have to do is the following:
1. Edit the file " /etc/portage/package.use "
(If the file does not exist, create it)
add (or modify) the following line:
sys-libs/glibc userlocales
(This
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