Re: [gentoo-user] do we have gst-plugins-really-bad or equivalent?

2010-03-25 Thread John H. Moe
On 26/03/10 01:49, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i have some .m4a files. and i want to play them in rhythmbox. when i > import them into rhythmbox, it says it needs plugin to play mpeg-4 acc > file. i searched the network, and people from ubuntu says a > gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package would do

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-08 Thread John H. Moe
On 08/03/10 16:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I >> have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit >> editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-01 Thread John H. Moe
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not > having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel > module. > >As a starting point I'm following this guide: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml > >My nvidia device

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandbox violation emerging media-gfx/dcraw-8.73

2010-02-22 Thread John H. Moe
Arttu V. wrote: > On 2/22/10, John H. Moe wrote: > >> From the looks of things, it's trying to install a file directly to the >> filesystem outside the /var/tmp sandbox. I believe this is a bug that >> needs reporting, but before I did that, I thought I&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't unsubscribe from gentoo-user

2010-02-21 Thread John H. Moe
Adam Van Ymeren wrote: > I've sent two emails to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org over > the last week , but I continue to receive emails from the list. > > Not that I don't love the gentoo-user mailing list :-) > > Any advice? > -Adam > > Do you get any response from the list? Any reas

[gentoo-user] Sandbox violation emerging media-gfx/dcraw-8.73

2010-02-21 Thread John H. Moe
When trying to emerge the Thunar thumbnailer plugin, it pulls in dcraw. However, after successfully compiling dcraw, I get the following error when make gets to the install phase: ** >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: media-gfx/dcra

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread John H. Moe
Shoka wrote: > On 07.02.2010 20:29, Zeerak Waseem wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:21:20 +0100, Shoka wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device >>> running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried >>> several configuration opt

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 2.0.0.23: Incorrect date format.

2010-01-31 Thread John H. Moe
Neil Walker wrote: > ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >> I am trying to get Thunderbird to correctly display the date format in >> my locale: EN_AU >> >> Does anyone have any tips? >> > > Setting LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale works for me. > > > Be lucky, > > Neil > http://www.the-workathome.com >

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in Emerge

2010-01-28 Thread John H. Moe
Crístian Viana wrote: > pastebin can also hold the file forever :) > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:12:15 +0300, wins mallow wrote: >> >> >>> Please place full log to pastebin. >>> maybe, you missed cc profile, gcc not found, etc ? >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?

2010-01-26 Thread John H. Moe
Mick wrote: > This is confusing me ... > > I have skype-2.0.0.72 installed for some time now. eix -l skype shows: > > [I] net-im/skype > Available versions: > 2.0.0.72!m!s "amd64 x86" [qt-static] > ~ 2.1.0.81+i!m!s "~amd64 ~x86" [qt-static] >

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

2010-01-18 Thread John H. Moe
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2010/1/18 walt : > >> Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your >> results? >> >> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you >> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. >> >> What do you see? (I'm rul

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD

2010-01-15 Thread John H. Moe
John H. Moe wrote: > pk wrote: > >> John H. Moe wrote: >> >> >> >>> play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and >>> AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem: >>> >>> libdvdread: Ca

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD

2010-01-15 Thread John H. Moe
pk wrote: > John H. Moe wrote: > > >> play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and >> AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem: >> >> libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902 >> libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VT

[gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD

2010-01-13 Thread John H. Moe
Hello all, I've just gotten Scrubs Season 8 on DVD (as well as House Season 5 and a Dylan Moran DVD), and have found, to my chagrin, that I can't seem to play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem: libdvdread: Can't seek

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

2009-12-27 Thread John H. Moe
tter.com/davidshen84/ >> http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/ >> >> > > > why i cannot find the file you mentioned? it looks like i do not have > it installed. how can i install it? > > > It should get installed with nvidia-drivers: j...@jhb5970 ~ $ equery belongs /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2 [ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2 in *... ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36 (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2) You may have to substitute your nvidia-drivers version number for the 185.18.36 in my path, or the 190.53 in Alan's path? John H. Moe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread John H. Moe
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:31:31 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > >> If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) >> rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD >> is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictab

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread John H. Moe
Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> >> >>> You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and >>> software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it >>> >>> >> It's also u

Re: [gentoo-user] sun-jre-bin end-of-life - what now?

2009-11-09 Thread John H. Moe
> > > For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge > man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > > DesertFlower ~ # > > Thanks, > Mark > > > Did you read the bug it referenced? It sounds like they're removing JRE 1.4 only, not all JRE. Also, the message you pasted shows that only the 1.4.2.19 is masked by package.mask, which is where that message came from. The rest of the versions are masked by dlj-1.1 license (and a few by ~x86 keyword as well), not by package.mask. John H. Moe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: > "John H. Moe" writes: > > >> I stopped using that option in my systems, as there is now a AHCI SATA >> option to use instead. It appears CONFIG_ATA_SFF (which CONFIG_ATA_PIIX >> requires) is deprecated. From the help on it: &

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always > been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in > 10+ yrs.. > > Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. > > So I'm back in the soup. > [I hope what I try to layou

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel iwl3945 problem

2009-10-15 Thread John H. Moe
John Moe wrote: daid kahl wrote: I've recently rebuilt my laptop, and am having trouble getting the wireless to work correctly. My wireless is making an association with my AP, but TCP/IP traffic doesn't seem to want to transmit over it; I can't even ping my AP. TCP/IP wor

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound with Intel HDA card in Gateway m6888u laptop (2.6.30-r4, amd64)

2009-09-17 Thread John H. Moe
Jesse Taylor wrote: > Hello -- > > I've been trying to get my sound working for nearly a month now with > no luck. > > * I've followed the Gentoo ALSA Guide *several times*, and it's not > working for me. > > * I've already unmuted my card in alsamixer and raised the volume to > 100% > > * There is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-12 Thread John H. Moe
Lars Gustäbel wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with what windowmanagers. Hi! I've been using fvwm2 (http://fvwm.org) for years now and am quite happy with it. Althou

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-10 Thread John H. Moe
Stroller wrote: > > On 11 Sep 2009, at 05:17, John H. Moe wrote: >> Stroller wrote: >>> On 11 Sep 2009, at 03:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >>> >>>> Hi. I had a strange problem when I emerge dhcpcd 5.1 I get a timeout >>>> when trying

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-10 Thread John H. Moe
Stroller wrote: > > On 11 Sep 2009, at 03:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >> Hi. I had a strange problem when I emerge dhcpcd 5.1 I get a timeout >> when trying to get a lease -- it says broadcasting for a lease and times >> out, however when I go back to 4.0.13 everything is fine. I even tried

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-19 Thread John H. Moe
Alex Schuster wrote: > Roy Wright writes: > > >> kde-4.3 is now unmasked for ~x86. Whop! >> > > I'm also happy, and I want to upgrade soon. I hope many of those little > annoyances I experience will be fixed. > > >> But it is looking like a non-trivial upgrade. :( >> > > Yeah