RE: [gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

2009-01-17 Thread Richard Watson
I'm sorry about the delay in closing this. I finally figured out if I remove "-pipe" from my /etc/make.conf CFLAGS that all my compile errors go away. Looking at the reference on the subject this option tells GCC not to create temporary files when compiling but to turn this off if low on RAM. Not s

RE: [gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Watson
Hi, Avahi keeps failing with what looks like a Python gtk module error that I can't seem to figure out. I've done the obvious by re-emerging python (with running python-updater) and pygtk but it still fails. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Richard The configure failure message is: check

[gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

2008-11-15 Thread Richard Watson
Hi, Avahi keeps failing with what looks like a Python gtk module error that I can't seem to figure out. I've done the obvious by re-emerging python (with running python-updater) and pygtk but it still fails. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Richard

[gentoo-user] ipw in kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r9

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - Can anyone give me pointers on how to get ipw2100-firmware working with kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r9? It works fine with kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 where it's compiled in the kernel but the same set-up fails in kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r9. When I run emerge ipw210

[gentoo-user] No /etc/resolv.conf with dhcpcd

2007-05-26 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - For a while now when I run # dhcpcd eth1 I get an IP address OK but no DNS. I've established that a /etc/resolv.conf file is not being created when the command is being run. There's a script invoked at some stage called /etc/resolvconf/update.d/libc. This is creating a file with all the D

[gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from a floppy and then chroot to finish install on old PC

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've got an old PC at home I want to use as a samba server. It doesn't have a CD drive and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to create bootable gentoo floppy. I've been using Toms linux to wget and re-install the stage and portage files but the kernel is to old and fails on chroot.

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't get a /etc/resolv.conf on dhcpcd ethx - Get /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv instead which doesn't work unless copy to /etc/resolv.conf

2007-05-05 Thread Richard Watson
> you _are_ using dhcpcd, right? I decided to emerge dhcpcd again to see what I get. It reports an error at the end of the compilation. * QA Notice: USE Flag 'kernel_linux' not in IUSE for net-misc/dhcpcd-2.0.5-r1 * * dhcpcd requires kernel support for Packet Socket (CONFIG_PACKET). However it

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't get a /etc/resolv.conf on dhcpcd ethx - Get /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv instead which doesn't work unless copy to /etc/resolv.conf

2007-04-23 Thread Richard Watson
> you _are_ using dhcpcd, right? I decided to emerge dhcpcd again to see what I get. It reports an error at the end of the compilation. * QA Notice: USE Flag 'kernel_linux' not in IUSE for net-misc/dhcpcd-2.0.5-r1 * * dhcpcd requires kernel support for Packet Socket (CONFIG_PACKET). However it

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't get a /etc/resolv.conf on dhcpcd ethx - Get /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv instead which doesn't work unless copy to /etc/resolv.conf

2007-03-10 Thread Richard Watson
> `man dhcpcd` >-R Prevents dhcpcd from replacing existing > /resolv.conf file. > > I'm not sure whether that will help at all. It may preserve the data > in resolv.conf. Why this data isn't being correctly updated, I can't > say. > > you _are_ using dhcpcd, righ

[gentoo-user] Don't get a /etc/resolv.conf on dhcpcd ethx - Get /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv instead which doesn't work unless copy to /etc/resolv.conf

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've been having problems with DNS. When I start my wireless interface (or any other for that matter) I don't get a /etc/resolv.conf file generated. Instead I get one called /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv (or whatever for the appropriate interface). I can ping IP addresses but not DNS (i.e. ping ww

Re: [gentoo-user] configurtion error

2007-03-04 Thread Richard Watson
I've run etc-update after my last emerge --sync and world update but I still get "configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator)" when I su or log in as Root. Anybody got any ideas on how I can fix this. Thanks, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

2007-02-24 Thread Richard Watson
Yes it's pointing to the correct kernel source - Thanks I recompiled my kernel and modprobe rt61 worked. I now have an interface that come up called ra0. The following worked for me: Added rt61 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 # ln -s net.lo net.ra0 I edited /etc/conf.d/net modules=

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

2007-02-22 Thread Richard Watson
# modprobe rt61 FATAL: Module rt61 not found Is 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 the kernel you are currently running? It sounds like /usr/src/linux is pointing to the wrong kernel source. # ls -la /usr/src/linux /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 Yes it's pointing to the correct kernel source - Thanks

[gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

2007-02-22 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm trying to get a D-Link PCI network card running on my desktop PC. I've installed it and it runs under Windows XP (I dual boot). # lspci reports :01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 net-wireless/ralink-rt61 was masked so I added to /etc/portage/package.keywo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

2007-02-17 Thread Richard Watson
What http or ftp address goes to the package area where I can download? Thanks, Richard Stupid question ... One of the mirrors of course (sorry). Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

2007-02-17 Thread Richard Watson
That will work just fine. Just copy it there and then emerge will see it and do its thing. What http or ftp address goes to the package area where I can download? Thanks, Richard

[gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

2007-02-17 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've just installed a wireless card and think I need to install ralink-rt61 drivers (that's what lspci shows). I'm a dual boot system (XP/Gentoo) and wireless works fine in XP at the moment. I thought I would download the package with XP (FTP / HTTP?)and then copy it into /usr/portage/dist

Re: [gentoo-user] Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-03 Thread Richard Watson
Do you have your dns configuration correct? please check you /etc/resolv.conf file. Does your DHCP server send nameserver to the client? Thanks for your reply. When the interface is up /etc/resolv.conf has a name change to /etc/resolve.conf-eth2.sv and contains the following: # Generated by

[gentoo-user] Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - After a last emerge --sync I've been having trouble accessing the internet. My network interface comes up OK. I receive an address for the DHCP server (i.e. "eth1 received address 192.168.0.7/24") and I can see and access my Intranet webpage on 192.168.0.xx and copy files to and from variou

[gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.

2007-01-08 Thread Richard Watson
Hi, I recently upgraded my system with emerge -uDN world. Afterwards I found that net.eth0 was grabbing my firewire port (ieee1394) and I needed to create net.eth2 for my NIC as net.eth1 was being assigned to my wireless. My problem is that although "rc-update show" indicates all my interfaces a

[gentoo-user] libglade-WARNING with Kino

2006-09-16 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - For some reason Kino will not run since my last emerge -uDN world. It loads with a blank screen and generates the following errors. Can anyone tell me what's gone wrong? Thanks, Richard (kino:21107): libglade-WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'on_publish_project_activate'.

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw200 wireless config problem

2006-08-19 Thread Richard Watson
> I would really suggest installing the ipw2200 drivers separately from > the kernel, i.e. emerge net-wireless/ipw2200. To do so you should > reconfigure your kernel so that it has basic Wireless Lan support, but > with ieee80211 and ipw2200 turned off. The ipw2200 ebuild would bring > in an out

[gentoo-user] ipw200 wireless config problem

2006-08-18 Thread Richard Watson
Hi can anyone help me resolve this problem. I'm running kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-gentoo-r9. I've built in support for the ipw2200 driver and installed fimrware image ipw2200-firmware-2.4 as the forums say the latest firmware image is not supported with my kernel version. I've got problems

[gentoo-user] No sound after kernel upgrade

2006-08-16 Thread Richard Watson
I used to have sound running with no problems but since I've updated my kernel and re emerging Alsa I'm getting the following errors in dmesg. Can anyone tell me what it means ... Thanks, Richard ndler snd_vx222: Unknown symbol snd_vx_create snd_vx222: Unknown symbol snd_vx_suspe

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm a genkernel user ... Is it OK to manually edit /usr/src/linux/.config with nano?

2006-08-13 Thread Richard Watson
> Yes. > Make sure next time you run genkernel on that kernel source you > specify --no-clean and --no-mrproper, or copy the .config > to /etc/kernels/kernel-config-version, otherwise it will wipe out your > changes. > > p.s. Don't reply to an old mail just to keep the To:. > Thanks Mike -- g

[gentoo-user] I'm a genkernel user ... Is it OK to manually edit /usr/src/linux/.config with nano?

2006-08-13 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm a genkernel user ... Is it OK to manually edit /usr/src/linux/.config with nano? It's quicker than going through he --menuconfig menu sets at times. Thanks, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide

2006-08-11 Thread Richard Watson
Hi Tobias $cpufreq-set -u 80 worked great but I finally settled on $cpufreq-set -g ondemand. Good tip, thanks Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Throttling State won't change from command in Gentoo Power Management Guide

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've been setting my laptop for power management by following the Power Management Guide and have successfully got cpufreqd running. However the CPU still gets hot on large compiles. I thought maybe changing the throttling state would cool things off but when I run the command from the

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC Upgrade Problems - Why does emerge --sync not work

2006-08-05 Thread Richard Watson
Well I've wasted everybodt's timeon this ... sorry. It was a kernel problem. I had created a new one when configuring for cpufreqd and used the wrong processor type. Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC Upgrade Problems - Why does emerge --sync not work

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Watson
Starting retry 3 of 3 with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage > Checking server timestamp ... > >> rsync: failed to connect to 140.211.166.165: Connection refused (111) >> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(107) >> [receiver=2.6.8] >> > > The ser

[gentoo-user] GCC Upgrade Problems - Why does emerge --sync not work

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Watson
Hi there, I've been trying to upgrade my Gentoo Laptop to 3.4.6 with the upgrade guide.. Everything seemed to go OK except now when I issue emerge --sync I get the message Starting retry 3 of 3 with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage Checking server timestamp ... rsync: failed to connect to

[gentoo-user] My CPU seems to run hotter with Gentoo as opposed to Windows XP

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Watson
Hi all, I've loaded Gentoo on a Compaq nx 6150 notebook which reports a Intel (R) Pentium (R) M Processor 1.73GHz Stepping 08 CPU at dmesg. For some reason the CPU seems to run very hot with a lot of fan activity compared to when I boot XP, plus overall performance seems slow in comparisom to XP w

Re: [gentoo-user] xine compile failed

2006-06-23 Thread Richard Watson
I'm running 3.4.6-r1 and I still have the problem. I've emerge --sync again with no luck. Anything else I might check? Thanks. The suggestion was to upgrade to gcc 3.4. That's what the bug report says. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xine compile failed

2006-06-16 Thread Richard Watson
Hi ... I've got exactly the same problem with after syncing. I've tried resyncing a few times. Any help would be great. Thanks, Richard. My output is: === cc1: error: unrecognized option `-fvisibility=hidden' make[3]: *** [xineplug_ao_out_none_la-audio_none_out.lo] Error 1 make[3]:

[gentoo-user] cannot login after emerge --update --deep --newuse world crashed

2006-06-05 Thread Richard Watson
Hi all - I was running emerge --update --deep --newuse world over the weekend when I had a power outage and my computer crashed. For some reason ever since then I cannot login. If I enter Root at the login prompt the computer thinks about it and then just returns to the login prompt. Obviously som

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I create /dev/ieee1394/dv/host0/PAL/out so I can write back to tape with Kino

2006-05-15 Thread Richard Watson
m 666 /dev/ieee1394/dv/host0/PAL/out c 171 35 -- -Original Message- From: Richard Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 7 May 2006 2:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] How do I create /dev/ieee1394/dv/host0/PAL/out so I can write back to tape with Kin

[gentoo-user] How do I create /dev/ieee1394/dv/host0/PAL/out so I can write back to tape with Kino

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Watson
Hi – Can anyone tell me how to create /dev/ieee1394/dv/host0/PAL/out so I can write back to DV tape on my video camera with Kino? I assume it’s some form of mknod command but I don’t really understand the syntax. It's not currently listed in my /dev. -- Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this o

[gentoo-user] Wireless woes after upgrading kernel from kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gent

2006-03-18 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - my original kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 runs wireless fine with ipw2200 and ipw2200-firmware. After upgrading to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r5 I was experiencing conflicts as in order to continue using these tools I had to disable the IEEE802.11 subsystem and rebuild my kerne

[gentoo-user] Wireless with genkernel

2006-03-05 Thread Richard Watson
Hello All, I've just upgraded my Kernel with Genkernel to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 from kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r5. With my previous kernel I had installed net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.9 and net-wireless/ipw2200-1.0.10. Does my new kernel support wireless directly or should I

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with cracking keys with libdvdcss

2006-01-06 Thread Richard Watson
I think it was a Use flag issue. I'm not really sure which one as I took them all from another machine I run Gentoo on and everything is fine now. -- Thanks, Richard -- Hi – I’m just wondering under what circumstances libdvdcss will not work correctly when trying to back up a movie DVD. I’m ru

[gentoo-user] Problem with cracking keys with libdvdcss

2006-01-04 Thread Richard Watson
Hi – I’m just wondering under what circumstances libdvdcss will not work correctly when trying to back up a movie DVD. I’m running 1.2.8 on my desktop unit at home fine but 1.2.9 on my laptop keeps returning the error. libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x00293bd4 libdvdread: Error

Re: [gentoo-user] Bit puzzled over Kernel Upgrade with Genkernel - No Sound or Wireless Connectivity

2005-11-23 Thread Richard Watson
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:20:10AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > > Hi - I just upgraded my kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 to > > kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2. So far I have no sound (Alsa) or > > wireless connectivity (ipw2100). Do I need to re-emerge the

[gentoo-user] Bit puzzled over Kernel Upgrade with Genkernel - No Sound or Wireless Connectivity

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I just upgraded my kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2. So far I have no sound (Alsa) or wireless connectivity (ipw2100). Do I need to re-emerge the relevant packages? And if I do will this remove the functionality from the old kernel. I can boot the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Watson
> --newuse doesn't take CFLAGS into account. If you really want to > rebuild your whole system, the standard way is: > > emerge -e world > > But I don't think it is really necessary. These flags can cause build > failures, but not really any runtime problems, AFAIK. > > -Richard Thank you ve

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Watson
> You didn't post the output of emerge --info, but it looks like you may > have -mmx, -msse2, and -mfpmath in your CFLAGS. If so, take them out, > and it should compile just fine. > > -Richard Hi Richard, thanks very much for your reply. Yes I do have -mmx -mmse2 and -mfpmath. I'll try your sugg

[gentoo-user] emerge avifile -0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - can anyone tell from the attached why media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 failed? I'm a bit stuck at the moment. I'm trying to emerge kino and this is one of the required packages. I'm not good enough to diagnose the problem so any help would be great. -- Thanks, Richard I. -I

[gentoo-user] emerge kino problem

2005-11-08 Thread Richard Watson
Hi, I'm trying to emerge Kino. One of the packages required media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1 is failing with the attached error. I'm a bit stuck at the moment ... Can anyone help? -- Thanks, Richard make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1/work/avifile-0.7-0.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I restore Evolution Mail?

2005-11-07 Thread Richard Watson
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 06:50 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2005, 13:24 +1000 schrieb Richard Watson: > > Hi, > > > > I need to migrate my Gnome Evolution mail to a new PC I've just got. I > > tried copying everything from the .evolution

[gentoo-user] How do I restore Evolution Mail?

2005-11-07 Thread Richard Watson
Hi, I need to migrate my Gnome Evolution mail to a new PC I've just got. I tried copying everything from the .evolution folder into the new machine .evolution folder but the results are very eratic with only some of my mail recovering. Plus none of the addresses come across at all. Am I missing so

Re: [gentoo-user] Using tar to backup my system

2005-11-03 Thread Richard Watson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:41 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote: > I guess really what I'm saying is no, it is not a good idea. There's plenty > of other backup solutions out there that would work better than this scheme. > If you have a server and space for the file, rsync would even be a better > sol

[gentoo-user] Using tar to backup my system

2005-11-03 Thread Richard Watson
Hi ... I've just spent ages compiling my laptop. I'm really happy with the result ... So fast ... What I want to is create a directory called /backup and then create a tarball using the command # tar -zcvf /backup/mylaptop.tar /[all directories] except /backup (as I don't want to go in circles).

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-29 Thread Richard Watson
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 02:36 +, Stroller wrote: > On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:52 pm, A. Khattri wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote: > > > >> Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD > >> drive is attached to a PCMC

[gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-29 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error "The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected " and then I'm offerred to either shell or s

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08

2005-10-22 Thread Richard Watson
I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS="-02 -mcpu=pentium -pipe" -- Thanks, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

[gentoo-user] How do I use the PACKAGE CD contents

2005-10-15 Thread Richard Watson
I'm trying to use the contents of the 2005.1 packages CD. This may be a silly question but do I simply copy the files I want to use into the directory /usr/portage/distfiles or is there a emerge command that allows me to take them directly off the CD? Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgo

RE: [gentoo-user] X will NOT run in framebuffer mode

2005-10-15 Thread Richard Watson
>Knowing what video chip is involved, what kernel module you're trying to >use with it, and what settings you have in Xorg (the contents of >/etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be good here), would be >useful info to have in order to attempt to help; we are not psychic >(this week, as

[gentoo-user] X will NOT run in framebuffer mode

2005-10-13 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - When trying to run X I'm getting the message "Fatal server error: Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specifiy bus IDs for all framebuffer devices". I'm running an IBM pentium 2 laptop, with the genkernel from 2005.1 stage 3 install. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks, Richard --

RE: [gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ...

2005-10-07 Thread Richard Watson
OK ... You're a genius thanks ...!!! The following worked ... # emerge -s 2100 returned net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2100-firmware # emerge -av ipw2100 ipw2100-firmware I rebooted .. then after turning encryption back on and then: # iwconfig returned new interface eth2 # iwconfig ess

RE: [gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ...

2005-10-07 Thread Richard Watson
what is the output of # lspci :02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) Subsystem: Intel Corporation MIM2000/Centrino Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 11 Memory at 9000 (32-bit, non-prefetc

[gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ...

2005-10-07 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - Can anyone explain to a complete idiot (me) simply how to get my internal wireless adaptor going. I know it works as I've got it running off the Livecd and XP on an unsecured network. I went through creating: # ln -s net.lo net.eth0 (Wirelesss card - reports wireless extensions not found) # l

RE: [gentoo-user] What's happened to gnome ... I'm very frustrated

2005-10-05 Thread Richard Watson
Thanks for everybody's input. I'm going to back my data up and do a complete re-install. It's probably cleaner in the long run. Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: 30/09/2005 -- gentoo-user

RE: [gentoo-user] What's happened to gnome ... I'm very frustrated

2005-10-04 Thread Richard Watson
I'm not having any problems and I just rebuilt xorg-x11. Are you x86 or ~x86? I'm running X86 - Thanks for replying. How would I force a Gnoe re-install? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: 30/09

[gentoo-user] What's happened to gnome ... I'm very frustrated

2005-10-04 Thread Richard Watson
I recently ran: # emerge --synce # emerge --update --deep --newuse world # emerge --depclean # revdep-rebuild Afterwards whenever I log into Gnome that's fine, but when I log out the screen goes blank and I have to power cycle the machine. Other symtoms are Gnome apps (such as evolution) freezing

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9

2005-10-02 Thread Richard Watson
> You should run revdep-rebuild after updates. It's also a good idea to run > "emerge -a depclean" before revdep-rebuild and add depclean packages to > /var/lib/portage/world if you want to keep them. > > Zac Thanks ... good advice. I reinstalled ffmpeg and the problem dissapeared so your adv

[gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9

2005-10-01 Thread Richard Watson
I'm trying to run a script to convert avi files to vob. I'm getting an error I can't track down. I know the script works as I have another Gentoo box that runs it fine. The error is: "ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file

RE: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-28 Thread Richard Watson
Hi again. I installed slmodem but it's looking for /dev/ttySL0. Presumably I need to create this manually. Can anyone tell me what command I should use to create this. Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11

RE: [gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-27 Thread Richard Watson
Thanks to everyone for their feedback on this. Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.7/112 - Release Date: 26/09/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What /devTTY? is the modem normally under?

2005-09-27 Thread Richard Watson
Hi, I have an internal modem on my laptop (Compaq nx7000). I was wondering if anyone can tell what the /dev/tty is likely to be under udev. Thanks, Alan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.7/112 - Release Date: 26/09/2005

RE: [gentoo-user] Correct CHOST setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz stepping 02

2005-08-05 Thread Richard Watson
Colin ... I never thanked you on this ... thanks, -- Regards, Richard --- This is definitely a case of flaky hardware or insufficient cooling. Don't bother recompiling your system, work on finding the culprit. I recommend a thorough dusting, inside and out, followed by a couple pa

RE: [gentoo-user] Correct CHOST setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz stepping 02

2005-08-03 Thread Richard Watson
> Hi - I'm installing Gentoo on a Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz > stepping > 02. Can anyone advise me as to the correct CHOST setting. I'm a bit > confused > on this .. >> Pentium II and newer processors (and other i686-compatibles) simply >> use "i686-pc-linux-gnu". Why this is, I don'

[gentoo-user] Correct CHOST setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz stepping 02

2005-08-03 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm installing Gentoo on a Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz stepping 02. Can anyone advise me as to the correct CHOST setting. I'm a bit confused on this .. -- Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10

[gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

2005-07-27 Thread Richard Watson
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to move (or copy) the complete contents of /boot located on /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2. If so would anyone know the correct command so I pick up any hidden files ,etc. -- Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Versio

[gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ...

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as opposed to hdb (slave). Basically when my root partition mounts (/dev/hdb) I'm warned that DMA is off, yet hdparm -i shows udma as active. Basically /dev/hdb performance sucks ... I've bought both drives in the last few months

RE: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-12 Thread Richard Watson
> At this stage I'm doing > # emerge --update --ask --deep --verbose --newuse --tree world > as setting alsa on is asking quite few items to want to recompile. >>OK, stop where you are. Hands off the 'Enter' key ;-) Hi Holly - To late ... I'd already hit enter ... When I looked at my system aft

RE: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Watson
>> Have you loaded the newly-compiled alsa driver modules for your sound >> card, run alsaconf and unmuted the mixer via alsamixer? >> Holly Hi again - I tried # emerge -s alsa and got loads of output. Would you know what the correct emerge command is for the alsa driver modules? Does alsaconf co

[gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've just finished compiling Gnome and have no sound whatsoever. Looking at my USE flags I noticed I had inadvertently set -alsa as a flag. At this stage I've changed the flag to alsa and re-run genkernel. But still no sound. Do I have to recompile everything from scratch or have I made an in

[gentoo-user] Totem will not start - gives /dev/dsb does not exist error

2005-07-10 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I just installed Totem as part of a Gnome install. I'm getting an error /dev/dsb does not exist when trying to start the programme. Totem then quits. Can anyone offer any suggestions. -- Many thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0

[gentoo-user] Lilo "L 80" Boot Error

2005-06-29 Thread Richard Watson
I've been struggling for days now to get my genkernel image to boot. Lilo is reporting an error of "L 80" which is a disk timeout message. After reading the documentation I thought the problem was solveable with: disk = /dev/hdb bios = 0x80 It's not ... I still get "L 80". Detailed below is my /

RE: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Watson
>>I'm not a LILO kinda guy, but a 200 MB drive was more than likely made >> before LBA was invented. In the BIOS, switch it over to CHS mode >> (usually "Normal") and see if that does anything. My mistake ... the drive is 200GB ... Sorry ... Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing messag

RE: [gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-28 Thread Richard Watson
Hi Holly, thanks for your reply >>> Basically my question here is why exactly did you install the bootloader >>> to hdb instead of hda? I installed to hdb as I only have 1 NTFS partition on /dev/hda and don't want to muck around with my XP install as my family will kill me if I muck it up ... >

[gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-25 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I have Windows XP installed on /dev/hda1. This drive is jumpered as the master. I installed Gentoo on /dev/hdb (which is jumpered as slave) with the standard partitioning scheme from the Gentoo Handbook. I'm using LILO. I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev/hdb1. It seemed to work (loaded my im

RE: [gentoo-user] Application to capture Digital Video

2005-06-15 Thread Richard Watson
Thank you for the information on Kino. Looks like what I need. Dvgrab also looks useful for what I need. -- Regards, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.5/18 - Release Date: 15/06/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.

[gentoo-user] Application to capture Digital Video

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I have a PC with an IE13944 interface. Can anyone recommend an application to capture and edit Digital Video from a Sony Digital camcorder? -- Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.3/15 - Release Date:

RE: [gentoo-user] Perl Upgrade Problem

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Watson
Hi Holly, thanks again for your support. I finally solved this with: # emerge -Dupv =perl-core/File-Spec-0.87 (this recognised it in portage ... maybe?) # emerge -C File-Spec # emerge -D perl (which interestingly enough does not want to re-install File-Spec ... I wonder what it's needed for) Th

RE: [gentoo-user] Perl Upgrade Problem

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Watson
I believe that you are mistaken about what is blocking the Perl upgrade (no fault of your own, block messages are hard to read). I think that the blocking (currently installed) package is perl-core/File-Spec-0.87 not Perl 5.8.5 whatever. So that is what I would unmerge, not Perl, then try the emer

[gentoo-user] Configuring /etc/cups/cupsd.conf for external client printing

2005-06-01 Thread Richard Watson
This is for any newbies out there like me ... I spent days trying to figure out how to get a Gentoo linux laptop to print to a Gentoo server through Cups. I was consistently getting "connection refused" messages from the print server. In order for the Cups server to accept incoming requests it is

[gentoo-user] Perl Upgrade Problem

2005-06-01 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm trying to upgrade portage. My existing version of perl comes up as a block. When I tried to remove the package I received a warning about damaging the system. Can anyone tell me if it's OK to proceed. Output below. Thanks a lot, Alan ==> #

[gentoo-user] foomatic-configure problems

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Watson
I've been able to print to a Gentoo Samba server (running a HP510) for ages from Windows workstations (98 and XP), and still can from Windows. I have an old laptop that I recently installed Gentoo and Gnome on as a workstation. When I try and use foomatic-configure to set up cups to the same prin

[gentoo-user] Trouble connecting Samba Server printer with Samba from Gentoo laptop

2005-05-15 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I would really appreciate some help ... I'm getting an error when trying to set-up my Gentoo laptop to print to a Gentoo Samba server with a connected printer. If I run the command: [EMAIL PROTECTED] foomatic-configure -s cups -p HP-DeskJet_510 -c smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -n hp510 -d gimp-pri

[gentoo-user] Printing to shared Windows XP printer

2005-05-12 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm trying to get my Gentoo machine to print to a hp1210 psc printer using Samba. The printer is connected and shared from a Windows XP box. I followed the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_print_winserver and I'm fairly sure I've followed the instructions correctly. I keep getting

[gentoo-user] Why won't X work anymore

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've just done a emerge -Dup world after emerge sync(ing) a LiveCD I bought last year. X is now complaining it won't work plus xf86cfg, XF86Setup return file not found. Presumably I'm running a different version of X (maybe..). Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this going. So

[gentoo-user] Why won't X work anymore

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've just done a emerge -Dup world after emerge sync(ing) a LiveCD I bought last year. X is now complaining it won't work plus xf86cfg, XF86Setup return file not found. Presumably I'm running a different version of X (maybe..). Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this going. Sor

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Watson
did you try to use only emerge automake Hi - Yes I did. Afterwards # ls /usr/bin/automak* /usr/bin/automake /usr/bin/automake-1.9 If I then rerun # emerge gtk+ I get the same error. It seems I must have automake-1.7 to continue. I'm really stuck at the moment so any help would be really

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-01 Thread Richard Watson
did you try to use only emerge automake Hi - Yes I did. Afterwards # ls /usr/bin/automak* /usr/bin/automake /usr/bin/automake-1.9 If I then rerun # emerge gtk+ I get the same error. It seems I must have automake-1.7 to continue. I'm really stuck at the moment so any help would be really

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-01 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - emerge gnome is now giving me the following error am-wrapper: /usr/bin/automake-1.7 is missing or not executable please try emerging the correct version I checked /usr/bin and automake-1.7 is not present. 1.5 and 1.9 are but when I ... # emerge sys-dev/automake-1.7 Calculating dependencies

[gentoo-user] Problem with blocked package on Gnome upgrade - [blocks B]

2005-05-01 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - can anyone help how I can clear this block. I'm trying to upgrade Gnome. # emerge -p gnome (edited) [blocks B] >> unmerge: No packages selected for removal. Thanks, Richard === Full Output below # emerge -p gnome These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculatin

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type "slotmove" not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
On Saturday 30 April 2005 22:18, Richard Watson wrote: > Failed to write to mtimedb: 'module' object has no attribute > 'HIGHEST_PROTOCOL' That would be due to running python-2.2. Although, the portage-2.0.51.19 ebuild is meant to detect the use of python-2.2 and patch

[gentoo-user] "error exiting GDM" on system halt

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I get "error exiting GDM" when shutting down my computer. I have xdm running at default level with the display manager set to gdm. Anyone any ideas. It's not a serious matter but it would be nice to know. Regards, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Vi

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type "slotmove" not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
In either case, relink /etc/make.profile to /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-2004.2. Then ignore the deprecation notice and above slotmove error until you've upgraded portage to 2.0.51. Regards, Jason Stubbs Hi Jason - thanks. I did what you suggested and it sort of fixed the problem. However

[gentoo-user] emerge sync - portage: Update type "slotmove" not recognized. - !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

2005-04-30 Thread Richard Watson
I just tried to emerge sync an install I did off a stage 3 LiveCD I bought during 2004. I'm getting some strange results. Can anyone tell me what the output below is telling me. I tried running fixpackages but that did not fix it. Now when I try and emerge any package portage keeps trying to sync

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