Re: [gentoo-user] skype again

2007-06-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated > Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory to something else. This database error sometimes occur when Skype does not shutdown cleanly. -- Regards, Ab

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 10:50:22 pm Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > What am I missing? > Try logging out of KDE and get into a virtual console session. From there try to play a sound file using alsaplayer or play command may be? That will clear out any doubts of aRts playing spoil sport. If you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdesktop fails

2007-06-18 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 17 Jun 2007 4:06:05 pm dexter wrote: > > I was advised to upgrade to newest gcc - I did, and I also have the > latest binutils avaluable in the portage. None of those thing helped. > I'm quite stuck - I've installed gentoo on several other machines, but > never had such a problem. > You u

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 30 Apr 2007 10:57:08 pm Roy Wright wrote: > > Is this clashing of menu structures normal between window managers? > If so, any tools for backing up the menu structure? Or a way to tell gnome > to use kde menu structure? > I can't help much as I don't run GNOME along with KDE but this men

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 Apr 2007 8:56:57 pm James wrote: > > amd64 > > > You have installed firefox-bin or you have compiled firefox yourself? > > www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin > Available versions: 2.0.0.3 > Installed versions: 2.0.0.3 > In order to use 32 bit plugins (like flash) on 64 bit bro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 Apr 2007 1:52:14 am James wrote: > > Will this work on Gentoo, as is, or are there further modifications. > I failed to mention, that the system is running on an AMD 64 bit cpu, > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ > Didn't see this post of yours earlier.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007 11:27:58 pm James wrote: > > Now make a symlink from what to what? > You need to make symlinks to these files in ~/.mozilla/plugins /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-24 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 24 Apr 2007 6:04:19 am James wrote: > Abhay Kedia gmail.com> writes: > > > What did I miss? > > > > Do you have flash plugin mentioned under "about:plugins" page? > > NO, > That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey kn

Re: [gentoo-user] flash with seamonkey

2007-04-23 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 23 Apr 2007 11:44:45 pm James wrote: > > What did I miss? > Do you have flash plugin mentioned under "about:plugins" page? Also did you try starting seamonkey from a terminal window to see if it throws any errors at you? -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

2007-03-25 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 25 Mar 2007 7:06:33 pm Dale wrote: > > That said, I don't like using Konqueror as a web browser. How do I get > Seamonkey to either not ID itself or something so this will work? I > looked in preferences and I can't find anything in there to change. > You can always try installing user

Re: [gentoo-user] spca5xx

2007-03-10 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 10 Mar 2007 11:55:16 am Ted Ozolins wrote: > Searching Google I take it that the "spca5xx" under kernel > 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 is still a no go? Anyone know of a work-around? > You can try unmasking gspcav1, which is the new branch of spca5xx * media-video/gspcav1 Available versions

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer2, where is it?

2007-03-10 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 10 Mar 2007 2:44:40 am Dale wrote: > > > Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.h:10:25: error: nsISupports.h: No > > such file or directory > > In file included from Source/plugin.h:54, > > from Source/plugin-support.cpp:1: > > Source/nsScriptablePeer.h:49:26: error: nsIClassInfo.h: No such

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:32, Philip Webb wrote: > > BTW my problem is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: > does anyone else experience this & does anyone have a solution ? > Have you tried reducing "scaling" in view settings. You can also over-ride system wide font settings by using OOo def

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Intel 82865g

2006-05-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:37, Fernando Ferrari wrote: > Hi, I'm use a Xorg version 7.0.0 and the video card Intel 82865G, and Xorg > don't work with vesa or fbdev, Any ideas? > Use it with i810 driver? I had a 865GV board and it worked fine with i810 driver. What is the compulsion behind using v

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG Trouble - Found Problem, Need Solution

2006-04-24 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 23 April 2006 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > through KGPG. The problem is that the GnuPG agent in the x86 area is > version 1.4.2.2, yet KMail demands verison 1.9 > The main problem is that gpg-agent has been "Package Masked" in favour of gnupg-1.9.20-r1. So KMail demands next best a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:13, maxim wexler wrote: > > checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: > XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool > Did you upgrade expat to v2.0? If yes then have a look here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-450797-highlight-expat.html -- Regards, Abhay

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) > Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! -- Regards, Abhay pgpfaDBRCih4g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
> > So kdepasswd is probably what you are looking for. > Ah...thanks a lot man. What a fine way to troubleshoot :) Thanks to everyone else as well who replied. -- Regards, Abhay pgp94js4y0nKz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin > * kde-base/kdeadmin > Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 > Installed: none > Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE administr

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 21 April 2006 10:34, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > > i would say you should emerge kdm > > mar martins # slocate default3.png > /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/default3.png > mar martins # equery belongs default3.png > [ Searching for file(s) default3.png in *... ] > kde-base/kdm-3.5

[gentoo-user] KControl: Password & User Account settings

2006-04-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello All, I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png When I check for the same under kcontrol on my system (KDE 3.5.2), I am unable to find it. Can some please help me in finding the package needed, in

Re: [gentoo-user] xml2 USE flag description should not have "deprecated"

2006-03-14 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:08, Aniruddha Shankar wrote: > > Until I realised that OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 does not have the ability to > save files as odt or sxw anymore. > Wow!!! That sucks. I also compiled everything according to the new profile last night but don't know what all has been damaged.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: > > Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is > using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. > -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums http://forums.gentoo.org/vi

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:04, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Not sure why sometimes lines get wrapped when they shouldn't be, but it > does happen (even in nano, where it shouldn't, and certainly in GUI > editors, if you set it that way without thinking), and it can have > unexpected consequences (lik

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing mozilla with mplayer plug-in

2006-03-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 09 March 2006 19:56, pat wrote: > > I have Mozilla with MPlayer plug-in. Each time I play something with the > plug-in the Mozilla freez with next operation. What's wrong ??? > Did you check to see if you are getting any error by launching mozilla from a terminal? -- Regards, Abhay

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 23 February 2006 19:25, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > End of rant. > I think you should read this article http://rudd-o.com/archives/2006/01/11/why-swap-is-good-even-with-tons-of-ram/ I don't know about you but since I started using an archck kernel, I have always seen my system actually using

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 20 February 2006 22:50, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts > here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? > If you are in KDE, then right clicking on the file should give you a "Open with..." option in t

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:29, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > No, they are not. That's OSS stuff and not present on my box since I don't > use OSS. > I have this in my /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules which is related to ALSA # alsa devices SUBSYSTEM=="sound", GROUP="audio" KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*",

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problems

2006-02-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 February 2006 01:39, Statux wrote: > anyone have any ideas or similar experiences? Also, is there a different > plugin that does the same thing? I've only known there to be mplayer's > version. > I like to use mozplugger for these tasks. http://mozplugger.mozdev.org/ It makes netscape

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 12 February 2006 00:59, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and rightly so. > All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are a couple of > devices under /dev/snd: > The devices of interest are under /dev/sound and not under /dev/snd #

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 11 February 2006 16:38, b.n. wrote: > > Why a bad idea? I find it made things easier. If you install SANE for > example it is almost obvious you have installed a scanner and you > probably need the "scanner" use flag. So use.defaults did. Of course you > can disable it if you don't appe

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-03 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 04 February 2006 07:05, Willie Wong wrote: > > For firefox, I just found the following tidbit: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/svg-developers@yahoogroups.com/msg07375.html > > basically, svgz should be gzip'd svg files. For some reason, Firefox > cannot deal with local svgz files, but c

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-02 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 03 February 2006 12:01, Willie Wong wrote: > > For konquerer and kview, did you install ksvg? > No but now I did and it works great in KDE related things. Thanks a lot for this :) > > Which version of eog do you have? 2.12.2 should have support for > image/svg+xml > > Since you have pro

[gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-02 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I have downloaded SVG/SVGZ wallpapers from kde-look.org but when I try to view SVG/SVGZ in konqueror, firefox or such programs, I get weird output. When I try to open SVGZ files in Konqueror, I get XML Parsing Error while Firefox shows a pop-up to save the file some where. On us

Re: [gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool

2006-02-01 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 08:04, Tom Eastman wrote: > > I'm looking for a utility that could be used for indexing the contents > of the dozens and hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs that I've amassed over the > years. I was kind of thinking just a heap of text files with the > contents of 'tree' or 'l

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: > > unmask all of the packages > im building in package.keywords. > You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. -- Regards, Abhay pgpDBsUMAdkF2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 28 January 2006 20:38, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > See man hwclock, the section on "The Adjust Function". > Thanks for the explanation and the tip. It certainly makes sense now :-) Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? I disabled it recently when I was trying to get to the root of

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
> > with 'hwclock --set --date=', then throw away the > /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting > feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full hour per hour > (that is: ticks away two hours in one). > Stupid me!!! Totally forgot to do the most important thing i.e. to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
> > Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do > the job. > How can I know what is the TZ in my environment? Just curious. Thanks for the reply -- Regards, Abhay pgpP73ADHTiTa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: > > But the quick fix is probably rc-update del clock. I don't know if > that's a Bad Thing To Do (TM), but nobody screamed when I asked about > it in #gentoo. > Though the problem is solved now but it is still worth mentioning that removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > If it is ticking , then set the hardware clock to the correct time > with 'hwclock --set --date=', then throw away the > /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting > feature that thinks your clock is drifting a ful

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: > > That deserves looking into: I'd start with the kernel config. Maybe > something about /dev/rtc? > Here are the outputs --- genbox abhay # ls -l /dev/rtc ls: /dev/rtc: No such file or directory gen

[gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is happening. I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Captive will not acquire?

2006-01-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 04:35, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > # /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire > bash: /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire: No such file or directory > # captive-install-acquire > bash: captive-install-acquire: command not found > Did you enable gtk USE flag? -- Regards, Abhay

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness on a fresh install

2006-01-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:19, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > > checking for C compiler default output...configure: error: C compiler > cannot create executables > See config.log for more details. > What is the output of "emerge --info" -- Regards, Abhay pgpJvcqj12cz6.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the GRP discs?

2006-01-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It's been almost a year since I last installed Gentoo. Now I > need to do it again, and I can't find the GRP package CDs on any of the > mirrors I've tried. Anyone know where I can find 2005.1 GRP ISOs? > Never tried GRP install but is it al

Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

2006-01-24 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 23 January 2006 22:29, maxim wexler wrote: > > Yes > Try printing a test page directly from CUPS Admin panel so that any problems with printer configuration is ruled out. -- Regards, Abhay pgpIjuPoO2JdK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 23 January 2006 07:02, maxim wexler wrote: > > In the cups/error_log > Did you set LogLevel to debug2 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? If not try it and then see what errors you get. Also double check whether you set atleast one printer as default. -- Regards, Abhay pgpEjcE1ilOqr.pgp Descrip

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:52, Dale wrote: > > Still wish I had etcat though. :-( > It is located here on my system. /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre2/deprecated/etcat/etcat If you like the script so much then just copy the script to somewhere safe, where portage cannot take it away from yo

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --buildpkgonly world" won't go: kde metapackage problem?

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 22 January 2006 23:51, Robert Persson wrote: > > The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a > kde upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop, > but could kde in fact be the very source of the problem? Is emerge getting > confused by

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 22 January 2006 17:38, Derek Tracy wrote: > > wish that Amarok handled Podcasts with more flexibility and allowed me > to create playlists and such automaticlaly on my iPod (problem solved > by not using Amarok and using bashpodder / gnupod). > Check back with amaroK 1.4 and you will have

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:52, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi, > > Welcome to my leaner, stripped-to-the-basics, > I-can't-setup-my-printer thread. Come in, make > yourself at home. Much roomier here, as you can see. > Oops!!! Looks like I missed your more obese thread about this same problem. Can y

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:52, maxim wexler wrote: > > Ok, so you click on 'Do Administrative Tasks' at that > place of mystery http://localhost:631/ and it asks > you for your username and password and you give it > your username and password and it asks you again and > again...and as often a

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 21 January 2006 05:36, Holly Bostick wrote: > > That may be true, but it assumes that I want a "Desktop Environment" in > the first place, which I don't, particularly. > Ermm...if you don't want a "Desktop Environment" then why install K "Desktop Environment" in the first place and the

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE? [OT]

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:01, darren kirby wrote: > > Unscientific: > Google for: > "kde rules" --> 40,900 > "kde sucks" --> 9,660 > "gnome rules" --> 554 > "gnome sucks" --> 10,500 > > Draw your own conclusions. ..or we could always use googlefight ;) http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=e

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 21:08, Alexander Kirillov wrote: > > and better integrated with other open source projects out there. > That is not a quality of Gnome but GTK. Gnome uses GTK while KDE uses QT. Since (earlier) QT had a non-acceptable license for most of the developers of FLOSS, they cho

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 19:59, Holly Bostick wrote: > more comfortable with a more Windows-like environment, and Windows-like > assumptions about what a user wants/needs from their desktop, KDE may be > just the thing; that is, after all, what it's designed to do to a great > extent. That stateme

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:02, Richard Fish wrote: > > But since ALSA now has the dmix plugin that works pretty well for > those cards that do not provide hardware mixing, the only reason to > continue to use a sound server is if you have trouble configuring > dmix. The use of dmix is not autom

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: > > Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume > aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this > out at the moment) > It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a depend

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 18:59, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > man, it wasn´t work how wold be the command line exactly ?? > First check whether you have gif use flag enabled for imlib2 or not by using this command # emerge -pv imlib2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculatin

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: > > So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds > in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I > have done it before but I can not seem to get it working now. A google > search seems to get me now

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 17:57, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > > grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libungif.la' is not a valid libtool archive > Re-emerge imlib2 with gif use flag. -- Re

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 23:58, Zac Medico wrote: > > Apparently the new kernel does not include the necessary drivers or > modules. You may get a clue from /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Depending on your > hardware, you may be able to get it working temporarily with either the > vesa or fbdev drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 14 January 2006 00:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Why don't you just do a separate 64 bit install using stage 3 and GRP > packages? You'll have it working in far less time than you have spent on > this hybrid 32/64 bit setup. > You are probably right that I should do an install with GRP p

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with firefox + netscape-flash

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 04:04, Giulio wrote: > > compiled version. I checked with the binary version and there's > no problem at all, so... it's my fault. > you are using amd64 or x86 arch? -- Regards, Abhay pgp31HAjcw8GT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 22:59, John Jolet wrote: > > emerge Xorg? or emerge kde-meta > Xorg and KDE both are emerged and I am using this kernel on already existing system. If you are saying that I should reemerge them, then wouldn't I bork my already working 32bit system? -- Regards, Abhay -

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 02:04, Zac Medico wrote: > > You can boot off of the cd and build a kernel immediately or you can copy > the cd's kernel. When booted from the cd, the kernel is found at > /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo-em64t and corresponding modules are in > /lib/modules. The install cd an

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 03:24, Dale Kirkley wrote: > > " An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 > Relaying denied. Please > verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try > again." > Do you use SMTP Authentication? If not, enable it. Lo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:04, Zac Medico wrote: > > Well, you can't convert the 32 bit userland directly to 64 bit. However, > you can run the 32 bit userland with a 64 bit kernel. For example, you can > borrow the kernel from the amd64 minimal install cd. The 64 bit kernel > behaves essent

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Do a stage 3 install plus GRP packages. You'll have a fully working 64 > bit desktop in around an hour. Then edit make.conf and /etc/portage/* to > suit your needs, emerge --sync and emerge -e world while using the system. > Thanks for the

[gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I have a EM64T enabled processor but currently running x86 install. Now I would like to install 64bit Gentoo on this system but since this is the only PC that I have, it is indispensable for me. I can't put it in command line mode or run it on a live CD for 3-4 days and allow it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:44, Willie Wong wrote: > > [01:09 PM]wwong ~ $ mplayer X-Mod_radio_x-level.mpc > MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team > Ah...thanks a lot. That struck a cord :) I did a major mistake. While searching for mplayer and musepack, I had an idea that CVS v

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:46, Willie Wong wrote: > > The documentation for mplayer, however, suggests that with xmms > support it can play musepack files. So you probably should make sure > you compiled mplayer with the xmms flag, and emerge xmms-musepack. > Presumably that would work. > Actu

[gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-10 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I am trying to play mpc files in mplayer but get the following error while doing so == Requested audio codec family [musepack] (afm=mpcdec) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec for audio

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome

2006-01-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 00:11, David Meyer wrote: > > /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoxft-render.h:95: error: parse error > before "XftGlyphSpec" keyboard-drawing.c: In function > `xkb_state_notify_event_filter': > I somehow missed this post. Replied to a similar post b Jamie. Anyways, sync

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:48, Mike Williams wrote: > > You know, you could all just use: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb > ...and if we face any problems we will be flamed by purist Gentooers? Reading that wiki entry made me remember the people who use --oh-so-fast CFLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues trying to get emerge -uD world to work

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 08:17, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Please excuse the messy cut and paste but I've been having problems with > the mailing list from one of my email accounts and had to move back to > this one). > Sync and re-emerge. Known bug, now resolved. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:28, Trenton Adams wrote: > > Who says they know they have a fear of computers? You can be doing > something that you don't even know you're afraid of. Obviously if it > was total fear, they would know about it. > LOL!!! Unknown fear? I have heard about "Fear of unknow

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:05, Christian Floeter wrote: > > my Canon LiDE 25 scanner is only recognized by scanimage when logged in > as root. > A shot in the dark. Could this be the solution? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_USB_scanner#UDEV Regards, Abhay pgpt0CTQ0IVPW.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error)

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 23:51, Marco Calviani wrote: > > # /usr/sbin/opengl-update --get-implementation > ati > Change it to xorg-x11 by doing a "opengl-update xorg-x11". It will make your system to use xorg driver for opengl purpose. Yes it will remove the 3D acceleration but it is only for th

Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error)

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 19:04, Marco Calviani wrote: > > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive > What does "opengl-update --get-implementation" tell you? Regards, Abhay pgp0lQXby91bw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:27, Marc Schlienger wrote: > > [ebuild R ] kde-base/arts-3.4.3 +alsa +arts +artswrappersuid -debug > -esd -hardened -jack -kdeenablefinal +mp3 -nas -vorbis -xinerama 0 kB > There is your problem. All KDE system sounds are ogg files thus you need +vorbis USE flag w

Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:02, Marc Schlienger wrote: > Hi, > I've installed kde3.4.3 with arts on my amd64 machine. Alsa is working > fine. But arts works only partially. All notification sound doesn't work. > Also I don't get sound when logging in. But, for example, amarok works with > the arts

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:33, Trenton Adams wrote: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ > Looks great to me. Just didn't see any discussion on gentoo-dev or may be I missed it. So now what do you want then? You have a graphical based install and once you have a working system, you

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:57, Trenton Adams wrote: > > > Menu of what? How will a Gentoo developer know what you want to install? > > If you are starting from Stage 3, you just need to choose what to install > > and thats it. How will a menu help you in that? As far as graphics based > > Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 06:36, Trenton Adams wrote: > > Here we go again, who says that you have to limit it to a menu? Give > a menu, but allow a graphical shell during install for those that want > to do extra packages, or whatever. Or, even provide a dynamically > extendable menu that can gr

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 03:25, Trenton Adams wrote: > > So, there's documentation that specifically explains that packages can > be split, and this can cause a conflict? I tried to find that, after > What? How is packages being split even comes in question and why does it need "specific" docume

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
Just on a side note, etc-update will soon be deprecated. Try dispatch-conf. This will be the tool to use in future for config updates. Regards, Abhay pgpscWY8J76WR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 22:00, Trenton Adams wrote: > > I'm just of the mind that we really should encourage it's use, while > encouraging people to also understand what's happening under the > hood. > ...and how do you suggest that should be done? There is tons of documentation available fo

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: > > I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over > to Yahoo to post this and the window's still OK. So, > thankfully it's not permanent ;) > > Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what's happening > here. Can anybody duplicate it? > I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Holly Bostick wrote: > > What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? Some > cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. > afaik etc-update does not reinitialize anything. All it looks for are files that have been named in a specific way

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:47, Holly Bostick wrote: > > So from this I deduce that > > 1) xorg 6.8.99 was *really* broken/incomplete or did something radically > different that etc-update and cfg-update cannot deal with, since these > files were never updated or offered to update while I when I

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:43, Trenton Adams wrote: > > which is what I mentioned in another post that I made. When I > originally started with gentoo linux, I read the part about why gentoo > linux came about. Basically it was all about doing things the way you > want. Well, I like the flex

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 06 January 2006 19:24, Petteri Räty wrote: > > You can always file a bug in bugs.kde.org to request this to be > configurable. As usual first check that the bug does not already exist. > While filing the bug I found a related bug and the fix is said to be committed to svn. Here it is htt

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE/CUPS and toner density

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 15:53, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > The problem is: I have Xerox Phaser 3120 printer (which, I think, is the > same as Samsung ML-1710). I have tried to play with 'toner density' driver > property under the 'Printer Manager' - 'printer context menu' - > 'Configure'. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:53, Tom Eastman wrote: > I have a two-screen setup with X. > > Also, in addition to my usual keyboard and mouse, I have a cordless > keyboard and mouse combo thingee. At the moment both keyboards work > fine, and both mouses control the same pointer. > > It occurred

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-05 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 06 January 2006 06:44, Zac Medico wrote: > > version _after_ the new version has been merged into place. One possible > solution would be to have a special feature that, when enabled, allows > portage to automatically unmerge an old version _before_ the new one is > installed (with prote

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus will not complete compile.

2006-01-05 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 05 January 2006 23:40, Dale wrote: > > -I../../../../gcj/org/freedesktop/dbus -march=athlon-xp -O2 > > -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe > > -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1 -c natMessage.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o > > .libs/natMessage.o > > natMessage.cc:8:21: Messa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts fell apart

2006-01-05 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:17, Grant wrote: > > I was experimenting with kde and now my xfce4 fonts look terrible. > > Does that ring a bell for anyone? What could be causing this? > > > > - Grant > Did you try deleting directories related to .kde. Also try deleting .fonts.conf and .Xresources.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-04 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I set the text/plain file type to call this with only %U as an argument, > and it works without annoying messages. > Thanks for looking into this :) This works but why is it so slow in launching? The first instance loads instantaneously

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