Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-04 Thread Ric de France
through and updated. I would not recommend this for most users. ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) --> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <-- --> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <--

Re: [gentoo-user] PS3-slim

2009-11-05 Thread Ric de France
7;ve heard from several sources that running Linux is not possible on >> the new slim PS3s. >> > > What he said. > -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <== ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <==

Re: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Ric de France
mory, /etc/make.profile I think is a symbolic link to another file that contains all the default make flags. One way to determine the flags is running: $ emerge --info It should list the USE-flags on your system, allowing you to find out any extras that may have been set that you may want to "

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Ric de France
rom all my mail lists... ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <== ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <== -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Call for feature requests for 2008.0

2008-01-24 Thread Ric de France
'm guess sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do that, or am I look at the wrong list? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <== ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <== -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion

2007-12-31 Thread Ric de France
unload the v4l module for X.org, otherwise it crash X; but > that's the only issue. > > Also, I recommend to grab the fusion-icon package from the xeffects overlay. Just out of curiosity... can anyone say why are the packages still masked? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +6141

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Ric de France
entoo. So does our Web-server. So does our Backup server. So does our > datacenter. By "our" I mean the laboratory I work at (check signature). I > see no major issue on running Gentoo on servers. -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) =

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc with other distro (Debian)

2007-08-02 Thread Ric de France
nning Gentoo. There may be a gotcha of glibc (or other) incompatibilities / inconsistencies between Gentoo and Debian, but I'm sure others on this list can advise you better. HTH (sorta), ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh...

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups blockers . . .

2007-06-07 Thread Ric de France
t; and the problem is no longer there. Cups is no longer asking for an upgrade. Like Bo Ørsted Andresen said, probably a bad add to the main tree...? Dunno... ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <=

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-31 Thread Ric de France
;--prune" up with a "-DNuva world" as well as a "revdep-rebuild". ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <== ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Ric de France
a better way to do things. Also be sure to follow up a prune with a "deep world" emerge, ie.: # emerge -DNuva world It'll make sure if you prune something like automake that isn't back / forth - compatible will be restored to your system. HTH, Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +614

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo in Hong Kong office

2007-03-12 Thread Ric de France
or policy. I am looking for a guy who can help me in doing an installation on our server. Does any of you have expertise in Gentoo and is available for this work? Please write me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or contact me on skype: spiff1281. Regards. -- Marco -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (i

[gentoo-user] how do I remove evolution from gnome?

2007-02-20 Thread Ric de France
ke.conf to make it more permanent than just doing it before the emerge world command... It's just that I'm having a hard time from figuring out which USE flags (if any) to remove to get rid of evolution... Any suggestions? TIA, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international)

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

2007-02-14 Thread Ric de France
1 as their "main" compiler? Switched over late last year. Nothing to report that's out of the ordinary. All servers (4) and the desktop have been totally recompiled with 4.1. HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> D

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Ric de France
genkernel command. Anyone know? (Guess I could see for myself, but I'm not in front of my Linux box at the moment) ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <== ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Ric de France
onf $ ls -al /usr/src and then post the outputs to this list? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <== ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread Ric de France
I couldn't be more helpful, but perhaps this will help point the way towards what the problem is. In the meantime, may I suggest using xine to play DVDs? It's the best I've used (haven't used Ogle or Mplayer to play DVDs, though). Doug > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]:Evolution/OpenOffice spell checking not working

2006-12-21 Thread Ric de France
s provided by Gnome or is it driven by each application? Any config options I should go looking for? Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <

[gentoo-user] Fwd: connect-debounce failed and USB mouse has stopped working

2006-12-02 Thread Ric de France
Hi all, Please ignore what I wrote... it appears that plugging in another USB mouse has solved the problem. Somewhere during a reboot, the original USB mouse must have somehow "fried" itself... Sorry for wasting your time... ...Ric -- Forwarded message ------ From: Ric

[gentoo-user] connect-debounce failed and USB mouse has stopped working

2006-12-02 Thread Ric de France
annoying... USB printing (via CUPS to HP8200), and USB memory keys still seem to be OK when plugged in... Is this a problem with the new kernel, or is it due to me not rebooting my system after several "emerge worlds"? Any suggestions to go forward? TIA, ...Ric -- Ric de France

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Ric de France
way: emerge --unmerge xmms (and xmms-plugins and accesoires) Can I slide in a "emerge --depclean" in here? emerge --newuse --deep world emerge playerofchoice ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Ric de France
. It appears that the ebuild has been deleted off the portage tree... What would be the "safe" way to remove this and to move to another player? Does "emerge -C xmms" still work? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

2006-10-14 Thread Ric de France
= AO: [oss] 8000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... ...Boring stuff removed HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <== ==> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml <== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

2006-10-14 Thread Ric de France
s xv -a52 -aac -aalib (-altivec) -arts -debug -directfb -dts -dxr3 -fbcon -flac -libcaca -mng -modplug -samba -speex -theora -v4l -vcd -vidix -xinerama -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -i810 -via" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554

Re: [gentoo-user] How to create my own linux distribution

2006-07-18 Thread Ric de France
Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) ==> Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! <

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: video problem

2006-07-09 Thread Ric de France
evice" Identifier "** NVIDIA (generic) [nv]" Driver "nv" #VideoRam131072 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection HTH, ...Ric On 10/07/06, Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what package do i emerge to install it? -- Ric de Fran

Re: [gentoo-user] Mediawiki

2006-04-23 Thread Ric de France
n... it seemed to make it work... c) Check: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Running_MediaWiki_on_Gentoo_Linux - this page is a little out of date. If you use PHP5, you don't need mod_php (well I didn't)... HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 emerge fails.

2005-11-27 Thread Ric de France
e[2]: *** No rule to make target `Makefiles'. Stop. > make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6/work/xc/doc' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6/work/xc' > if [ -z "1" ]; then make -f xmakefile -I > /opt/qnx630/

Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel

2005-10-11 Thread Ric de France
l/config/file --udev all or my preference would be: $ genkernel --kernel-config=/location/of/kernel/config/file --udev -menuconfig all With a manual config, you'll have to find your old config file, and copy it into your new /usr/src/linux directory as .config. HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France

[gentoo-user] Looking for info of Gentoo on zSeries or S/390

2005-09-05 Thread Ric de France
oo from an already existing Linux installation. Wondering if anyone has heard of how you'd do it from scratch. I'm just curious on this topic... it's not like I have access to a mainframe to do it (yet). :-) Thanks in advance, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international)

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix [SOLVED]

2005-09-03 Thread Ric de France
Thanks for the help... read more into the bug and applied the fix, and totem compiled as usual. Thanks to Alex, Holly and the Gentoo mailing list... ...Ric On 8/31/05, Ric de France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/05, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Ric de France
On 8/31/05, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:59, Ric de France wrote: > > Anything else you could suggest, or do I just track the bug and see > > wait for when the fix gets implemented? > > Do you use 2.4 or 2.6 linux-headers?

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Ric de France
On 8/30/05, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 29 August 2005 13:09, Ric de France wrote: > > What is the bug suggesting to do to fix it: > > a) Wait for the fix to be sync'ed into portage? > > b) Emerge "gst-plugins-flac"? > > It

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
for the fix to be sync'ed into portage? b) Emerge "gst-plugins-flac"? I guess I need a little help in interpreting the text in the bug. ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
a round guess that what ails me if ailing the guy who made the post... > Well, that's one possible solution eliminated, at least. But what are > your current CFLAGS, and what arch are you running on? x86 - Pentium4 with SMP Thanks for your look in on this... ...Ric -- Ric de France

[gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
the forum post suggests, or can this be solved (with totem 1.0.4 being compiled and installed via emerge)? I've also tried setting down my compilation settings to: CFLAGS="-O2" but that does no good. Any suggestions on what could be the problem? Any comments greatly appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] "Access Violation" emerge error

2005-06-06 Thread Ric de France
understanding of looking at the bug and the forums recently, > > you should be able to sync in and it will be fixed... > > > > I haven't tried it, so I've got a 50% upgraded Gnome desktop > > (somewhere between 2.8 and 2.10)... but I'll do it when I get home

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-06 Thread Ric de France
ed it. Have you restarted Gnome since the upgrade? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "Access Violation" emerge error

2005-06-06 Thread Ric de France
bug.cgi?id=92920 >From my understanding of looking at the bug and the forums recently, you should be able to sync in and it will be fixed... I haven't tried it, so I've got a 50% upgraded Gnome desktop (somewhere between 2.8 and 2.10)... but I'll do it when I get home later today.

Re: [gentoo-user] package.* mess!

2005-05-26 Thread Ric de France
set up a one line cron job to sync your portage tree and fetch packages only, thus allowing you sometime to decide if you want to intall them or not. Something along the lines of: $ emerge --sync && emerge -DNuvf world HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international)

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software

2005-05-23 Thread Ric de France
fficult. The editor comes with some buttons above the text entry box that markup the code that you highlight. Give it a go sometime. You can always edit a page on gentoo-wiki or wikipedia, and click on the preview button as many times as you like without it actually commiting to the database. HTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software

2005-05-23 Thread Ric de France
e them. Mediawiki also powers the following: http://gentoo-wiki.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/ HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver-demo locks up laptop

2005-05-10 Thread Ric de France
aver package with lower optimisations, you don't get lockups... I don't know how to debug this to prove it to you... I'm just telling you my experiences... I found that it was most reliable just to run the compilation with: CFLAGS="-O2" HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you get OpenOffice to run?

2005-05-08 Thread Ric de France
er and not root) and typed in: $ ooffice ?? Mine will just start up a basic openoffice.org window what error messages do you get? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Internal Modem not recognised

2005-04-28 Thread Ric de France
work. I may try again in the future... 2 other links I can also suggest (that sorta point you in the right direction) are: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/Linmodem-howto.html http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/resources.html Good luck... I don't envy you... :-) ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-13 Thread Ric de France
ect6 HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list