Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

2023-10-06 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 11:36 AM Peter Böhm wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2023, 05:42:17 CEST schrieb Valmor F. de Almeida: > > > -> cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > > processor : 0 > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > cpu family : 6 > > model : 158 > > model name : Intel(R)

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.460.0-r1

2021-12-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, On a recent portage update: * ERROR: dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.460.0-r1::gentoo failed (install phase): * Something went badly wrong, can't find Expat.so. Please file a bug. * There is a bug filed for this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/827966 Just wondering whether anyone has seen this error

[gentoo-user] jupyter notebook 500 : Internal Server Error

2020-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I had to enable ~amd64 to emerge jupyter so I know this is bound for problems. However, anyone there able to use jupyter notebooks in gentoo? No matter what notebook I try to open, I get the internal server error. Thank you. -- Valmor

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

2020-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 11:52 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > > > > On 2020-06-25, at 13:40, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:43 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > >> > >> On 25/06/2020 04:59, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >>> H

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

2020-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:43 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > > On 25/06/2020 04:59, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to fix Thunderbird UI fonts on a HiDPI > > Gentoo/OpenBox system with no desktop? > > A similar problem exists with Firefox b

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

2020-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 3:42 AM Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 25 June 2020 09:59:46 BST Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to fix Thunderbird UI fonts on a HiDPI > > Gentoo/OpenBox system with no desktop? > > A similar problem exists wi

[gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

2020-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Does anyone know how to fix Thunderbird UI fonts on a HiDPI Gentoo/OpenBox system with no desktop? A similar problem exists with Firefox but it can be fixed using a CSS file (userChrome.css). However I can't get Thunderbird to work using a similar fix. The UI fonts are so small that the app

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:

2020-01-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:46 PM Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 1/16/20 10:40 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello list, > > I have been trying for a while getting firefox emerged; no luck. > > Inputs appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -- > > Valmor > > >

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:

2020-01-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello list, I have been trying for a while getting firefox emerged; no luck. Inputs appreciated. Thanks, -- Valmor >>> Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-68.4.1/temp/build.log' * Messages for package sys-devel/llvm-8.0.1: * You can

Re: [gentoo-user] inputs on Gentoo emulation on a Mac OSX

2017-02-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:35 AM, naveen wrote: [snip] > Hi Valmor, > > I am presently running gentoo as a VM(virtualbox) on macos seirra. > I have app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32:0 and > x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32:0 installed and running. Hi Naveen, What kernel are y

Re: [gentoo-user] inputs on Gentoo emulation on a Mac OSX

2017-02-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:06 AM, John Covici wrote: [snip] > > I have it working fine under vmware fusion and I have updated since > the install. I don't ust X on that box, so you may have a different > result. Thanks for the input. Yeah I will need X running on the guest. -- Valmor > > The only

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32::gentoo failed (compile phase): emake failed

2017-02-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 06/02/2017 23:45, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Any idea on how to fix this on a gentoo virtualbox guest? >&g

[gentoo-user] inputs on Gentoo emulation on a Mac OSX

2017-02-07 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I would appreciate inputs on emulation of Gentoo on a Mac OSX. For many years I have been using VirtualBox on the Mac as a host and a Gentoo guest. It seems it is becoming difficult to get the virtualbox-guest-additions package to compile and install on the Gentoo guest. I don't know wheth

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32::gentoo failed (compile phase): emake failed

2017-02-06 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/02/2017 23:45, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Any idea on how to fix this on a gentoo virtualbox guest? >> Virtualbox-guest-additions will not emerge. The xf86-video build fails: >> &g

[gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32::gentoo failed (compile phase): emake failed

2017-02-06 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Any idea on how to fix this on a gentoo virtualbox guest? Virtualbox-guest-additions will not emerge. The xf86-video build fails: [snip] if (static_branch_unlikely(&mcsafe_key)) /lib/modules/4.9.6-gentoo-r1/build/include/linux/jump_label.h:297:48: expected primary-expression before

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest verification failed:

2016-04-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 19:56:34 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > > >I have done several > > > >emerge --sync > > > >today but the digest verification problem below does not go away. > > > >Any thoughts? > > > >Thank y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest verification failed:

2016-04-07 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:14 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Use webrsync or webrsync-gpg and see if the problem persists. > Waited for a few hours and tried both emerge --sync and emerge-webrsync still problematic. Thanks for the replies. -- Valmor

[gentoo-user] Digest verification failed:

2016-04-07 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have done several emerge --sync today but the digest verification problem below does not go away. Any thoughts? Thank you. -- Valmor >>> Fetching (165 of 221) media-libs/mesa-11.0.6::gentoo !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/media-libs/mesa/mesa-.ebuild !!! Reason:

Re: [gentoo-user] help with dependency conflict:

2015-06-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
.3.1= required by (dev-haskell/blaze-html-0.6.1.2:0/0.6.1.2::gentoo, installed) Nothing to merge; quitting. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Fri, 12 Jun 2015 02:09:11 -0400 > schrieb Valmor de Almeida : > > > Hello, &g

[gentoo-user] help with dependency conflict:

2015-06-11 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, After a recent portage update I get the list of conflicts below. Inputs on how to resolve them would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Valmor -> USE='-dso perl dbus xetex' emerge -vp --update --newuse --tree --deep --with-bdeps=y @world These are the packages that would be merged, i

[gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: Failed to emerge dev-python/pytables-3.0.0

2014-10-14 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > On a recent portage update, I tried to emerge pytables-3.0.0 and the error: > > * python3_3: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile > * python2_7: running distutils-r1_r

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge dev-python/pytables-3.0.0

2014-10-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, On a recent portage update, I tried to emerge pytables-3.0.0 and the error: * python3_3: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile * python2_7: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile /usr/bin/python3.3 setup.py build /usr/bin/python2.7 setup.py build *

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

2013-11-24 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Pavel Volkov wrote: > >> On Sunday 24 November 2013 02:19:05 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> > No I have not touched any of the grub files. On my kernel boot line >> above I >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

2013-11-24 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Pavel Volkov wrote: > On Sunday 24 November 2013 02:19:05 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > No I have not touched any of the grub files. On my kernel boot line > above I > > do use dolvm. Will check on that though. > > Of course it won't

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

2013-11-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:05 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 24/11/13 10:06, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been searching the web for help on this but no luck. > > I have just upgraded from grub legacy to grub2. Followed the gentoo docs > > and grub2

[gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

2013-11-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have been searching the web for help on this but no luck. I have just upgraded from grub legacy to grub2. Followed the gentoo docs and grub2 will not boot. It hangs in the beginning with the messages: Loading Linux 3.10.17-gentoo ... Loading initial ramdisk ... Here is the section I try

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-03-06 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/03/2013 01:21, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would appreciate help with this multiple-packages-in-a-single slot >> problem. In the past I have unistalled packages and reinstalled on a >>

[gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-03-05 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I would appreciate help with this multiple-packages-in-a-single slot problem. In the past I have unistalled packages and reinstalled on a case-by-case basis and dealt with the fall out manually. I wonder whether there is a more efficient way of doing it. Thanks, -- Valmor -> USE="libkms

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: does texlive-2012 have the media9 macro?

2012-12-22 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 22/12/12 19:32, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have texlive-2011 installed into my gentoo version at the moment >> (recent portage updated) and the latex media9 macro is not there. I &

[gentoo-user] does texlive-2012 have the media9 macro?

2012-12-22 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have texlive-2011 installed into my gentoo version at the moment (recent portage updated) and the latex media9 macro is not there. I could use the ~amd64 keyword to get the unstable version 2012 of texlive emerged but before I try that I am wondering how do I find out whether media9 is in

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video

2012-09-24 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 9/24/12 3:40 PM, Yohan Pereira wrote: On 24/09/12 at 11:24am, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Do you think I need to reemerge libreoffice after emerging gst-plugins-meta? Nope. Gstreamer detects plug-ins on the fly. You can run revdep-rebuild to make sure. I emerged gst-plugins-meta with

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video

2012-09-24 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 9/24/12 3:17 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote: On 23/09/12 at 09:20pm, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Has anyone been able to insert and play movies in libreoffice? Hi, I have libreoffice-bin installed and I can insert video files into presentations. I tried a few random files that were lying arround

[gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video

2012-09-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have emerged libreoffice with the USE flags below and still the Insert->Movie and Sounds does not import any movies I tried (formats): avi, mpg, ogg. Every movie I tried plays fine with vlc on my machine. Has anyone been able to insert and play movies in libreoffice? Thanks, -- Valmor

SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

2012-06-26 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 6/25/12 6:01 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:20:42 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: udev persistent rules strike again The contents of /var/log/wicd/wicd.log below do indicate a mess up with eth1 and eth0. Any idea on how to fix this? Yep. All I needed to do was to change

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

2012-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 6/24/12 7:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:04:25 -0400 >> Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am having a hard time getting wicd to work

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

2012-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 6/24/12 7:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:04:25 -0400 > Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought >> that it was a simple matter of emerge and run wicd-client

[gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

2012-06-24 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought that it was a simple matter of emerge and run wicd-client -n to configure. I have compiled the correct ethernet driver in the kernel (at least I think so). Does anyone have some experience with this or could point m

Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive encryption

2012-03-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 03/11/2012 02:29 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 11.03.2012 16:38, schrieb Valmor de Almeida: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have not looked at encryption before and find myself in a situation >> that I have to encrypt my hard drive. I keep /, /boot, and swap outside >

[gentoo-user] hard drive encryption

2012-03-11 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have not looked at encryption before and find myself in a situation that I have to encrypt my hard drive. I keep /, /boot, and swap outside LVM, everything else is under LVM. I think all I need to do is to encrypt /home which is under LVM. I use reiserfs. I would appreciate suggestion a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 10/23/2011 06:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:35:45 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> I don't have net.eth0 (I deleted it per wicd installation instructions). >> My other machines that use wicd do not have it either and they all work. >> Don&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 10/23/2011 05:19 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 23 Oct 2011 21:01:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>>> for this particular install. The ethernet card is Br

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme >> BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the >> kernel. All w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-22 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 10/22/2011 02:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:13:53 -0400 > Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> On 10/22/2011 02:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 10/22/2011 08:08 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-22 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 10/22/2011 02:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/22/2011 08:08 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On a recent gentoo install using wicd for network configuration, no >> connection is established during boot. After logging in, I need to is

[gentoo-user] why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-21 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, On a recent gentoo install using wicd for network configuration, no connection is established during boot. After logging in, I need to issue dhcpcd eth0 to obtain an IP address and access the internet via ethernet. I thought wicd would take care of that. I did not emerge dhcpcd, it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cblas libraries

2011-08-27 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 08/26/2011 08:12 AM, denis cohen wrote: > Hello, > > I recently removed some packages like blas-reference, cblas-reference, > and lapack-reference to get emerge to run (some blocking issues). > Not sure that was a good idea because now, even if I've reinstalled > these packages, > I am having s

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

2011-08-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Valmor de Almeida > wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stroller >> wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> You're fundamentally right, although I would go for &

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

2011-08-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stroller > wrote: > [snip] >> >> You're fundamentally right, although I would go for "install linux Mac" >> myself. The results may refer to installing o

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

2011-08-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stroller wrote: [snip] > > You're fundamentally right, although I would go for "install linux Mac" > myself. The results may refer to installing other distros, such as Ubuntu, > but it's surely just a matter of adapting the instructions to get partitions > and a

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

2011-08-24 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Nick Gotsinas wrote: >> I'm going to state the obvious and say did you try to hold ALT during boot? >> > Yes. > >> I made a systermrescue on USB stick and it works just

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

2011-08-24 Thread Valmor de Almeida
; I also have Gentoo installed with Bootcamp and had no issues. Just make sure > you partition with Guid Thanks, -- Valmor > > On 2011-08-24, at 5:36 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem t

[gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

2011-08-24 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem to get past step 0, namely, booting from a gentoo usb stick (systemrescuecd). The Mac does not recognize the usb stick. I don't know much about Macs and searching the web has not been fruitful. In other computers without a Mac

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall

2011-08-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 08/17/2011 02:45 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 17.08.2011 18:27, schrieb Valmor de Almeida: >> Hello, >> >> At work, I typically use emerge-webrsync to sync the portage tree. >> But I don't know how to sync the layman tree. >> This >> >>

[gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall

2011-08-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, At work, I typically use emerge-webrsync to sync the portage tree. But I don't know how to sync the layman tree. This layman --sync ALL does not work. I guess because git pull does not work across the firewall. Is there a solution to this besides requesting a firewall exception? Than

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

2011-05-31 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/31/2011 01:31 PM, James wrote: > Anyone having any problems with VirtualBox and kernel panics? > > I've tried vbox 3 and 4, both with the same behavior. Installing > Windows 7 as a guest and either (a) my system will completely freeze > (I'm assuming the kernel panicked), or (b) I'm thinking

[UNSOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-27 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/26/2011 01:53 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 05/25/2011 07:45 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> [snip] >>>> >>>> For the record. >>>> >>>> Tried and it is very nice. The 4.0.6 vers

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-26 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Mick wrote: [snip] >> >> You should still delete it. > > I assume you mean just the haldaemon, not the group cdrw, right? > > Then I leave the cdrw empty with no users, correct? > -- > Regards, > Mick > This is what I did. -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/25/2011 07:45 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > [snip] >>> >>> For the record. >>> >>> Tried and it is very nice. The 4.0.6 version with extpack uses the GPL >>> vbox (source). >>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/25/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida > wrote: >> Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or >> something else still needs it? > > I think you should do it by hand. > > In genera

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] >> >> For the record. >> >> Tried and it is very nice. The 4.0.6 version with extpack uses the GPL >> vbox (source). >> >> All usb devices on the gentoo host are visible on a Windows7 guest. The >> problem I am facing now is that the Windows7 virtua

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/25/2011 12:15 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > [snip] >> >> Valmor, >> Take a look at the Extension Pack. It might give you more of what >> you need. It does seem to be in portage but I

[gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have eliminated hal long ago and noted recently in my group list that I have a haldaemon group haldaemon:x:104:haldaemon and a user haldaemon:x:102:104:added by portage for hal:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or something else

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] > > Valmor, >   Take a look at the Extension Pack. It might give you more of what > you need. It does seem to be in portage but I've not used it myself. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads > > HTH, > Mark > > Mark, I see it in p

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011 10:53:26 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Is the usb support the main difference between the bin versus >> non-bin packages? > > Yes. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > "We

[gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am interested in usb support within virtualbox guests. The version I am currently using does not offer it: virtualbox-3.2.12-r4 would the bin package virtualbox-bin- 3.2.12-r1 has it? Is the usb support the main difference between the bin versus non-bin packages? Thanks, -- Va

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/19/2011 01:38 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 05/18/2011 09:50 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/19/2011 05:17 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 05/19/2011 04:12:24 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has >> not >> been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other sugge

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-18 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/18/2011 09:50 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a >> laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X >>

[gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-18 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/17/2011 11:51 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Valmor de Almeida > mailto:val.gen...@gmail.com>> wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > Hello, > > > > What controls the screen output to an external mo

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/17/2011 11:20 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Valmor de Almeida <mailto:val.gen...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > Hello, > > What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a > laptop during boot or w

[gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X server running? Before a recent update the output would just automatically go to an external monitor when one is connected. Now it does not; not sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/16/2011 08:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:11 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Valmor de > Almeida did opine thusly: > [snip] > > In other words, what you have is exactly what you should have and things as > working as designed. To remove anythi

[gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

2011-05-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, After a recent sync, I ended up with these two modules /lib64/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vboxdrv.ko /lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r4/misc/vboxdrv.ko and others too. I expected the directory for the older kernel to be removed. Is this the case? Virtualbox was re-emerged after the sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 03/30/2011 02:46 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote: >>I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone >>else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware >>worked out of the box with

Re: [CLOSED] Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

2011-03-29 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 03/29/2011 05:56 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 29 March 2011 17:06:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> I went back to a previous windows 7 VM backup and re-emerged VB without >> the pulseaudio flag. All worked. I also installed AC'97 codecs driver in >> the windo

[CLOSED] Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

2011-03-29 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 03/29/2011 09:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida >> wrote: [snip] >> >> A couple of questions: >> >> 1) Is the machine on a RAID partition or some other

Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

2011-03-29 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux >> virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound

[gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

2011-03-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on the guest but it works on the host. Recently I decided to re-emerge virtualbox with the USE flag pulseaudio to try to get sound working. After the e

Re: [gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

2011-02-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/28/2011 03:48 PM, Nils Holland wrote: > On 15:24 Sat 26 Feb , Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is anyone using the uml290 modem? I've never used one and recently >> acquired this model. What other kernel support is needed in addition >> to us

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/08/2011 08:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert > a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? > > Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills > (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big file unle

[gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

2011-02-26 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Is anyone using the uml290 modem? I've never used one and recently acquired this model. What other kernel support is needed in addition to usb modem? and what package is needed to connect the modem (currently I use wicd for wired and wireless connection on a laptop where I intend to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 10:03 AM, Mick wrote: [snip] > > Have you had a look at: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Yes. Got some info there. > > Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it >> exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and >> wired inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] > > On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and > second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics > and > keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it doesn't hurt I > guess). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 03:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I >>> do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's issue, but I >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 01:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] >> >> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" >> >> Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE >> line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. > > You only need "evdev". "keyboard" and "mouse"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/19/2011 01:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] >>> emerge --depclean -vp >>> Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to >>> the f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> [...] >> I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in >> this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level).  

[gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy configurations. I have just updated xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit xulrunner version?

2011-02-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/10/2011 09:52 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:32 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way to install a 32bit version of xulrunner? >> >> An application I am using on top of eclipse apparently needs a 32bit &

[gentoo-user] 32bit xulrunner version?

2011-02-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Is there a way to install a 32bit version of xulrunner? An application I am using on top of eclipse apparently needs a 32bit version. Don't know exactly why... Currently I have: /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-devel-1.9.2 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/LICENSE /usr/lib64/xulr

[gentoo-user] aircard suggestion

2011-02-03 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am interested in trying an aircard with gentoo and I would appreciate suggestions; hardware and provider service. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/15/2011 06:03 AM, doherty pete wrote: > yeah!it can work,now,this is my configure: > /etc/conf.d/net > > config_eth0=("null") > > modules="wpa_supplicant" > > wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext" > > config_wlan0="192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > routes_wlan0="default gw 192.168.1.1" >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to forbid dhcp for eth0

2011-01-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/14/2011 10:39 AM, Kostya Sha. wrote: > > On 14.01.2011, at 12:41, Norman Rieß wrote: > >> Am 01/14/11 06:33, schrieb doherty pete: >>> when i start the kernel, it wait long time to dhcp for eth0: >>> eth0:dhcped 4.0.15 starting >>> eth0:waiting for carrier >>> >>> i want to forbid dhcp,how

Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/13/2011 09:58 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 01/12/2011 07:25 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> On 01/12/2011 10:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> If not BIOS then I'd look at

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/12/2011 10:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> If not BIOS then I'd look at kernel config next. >> >> - Mark >> > > If it helps here's my 2.6.36-r6 .config. > > Cheers, > Mark Thanks for the posting. I have CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y CONFIG_VIR

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/12/2011 05:39 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:27:00 kashani wrote: >> On 1/12/2011 12:04 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>> System uname: >>> linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-_i7_cpu_l_6...@_2.13ghz-w >>> ith-gento

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/12/2011 02:48 AM, kashani wrote: > On 1/11/2011 11:04 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to build a windows 7 guest using virtualbox-ose-3.1.8. When >> starting the virtual machine to install the OS, I get the warning: >> >> &qu

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

2010-12-13 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 12/13/2010 09:02 AM, Mick wrote: > On 13 December 2010 09:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:26:22 +, Mick wrote: >> >>> Interesting! Can wicd manage encryption WPA/WPA2 without wpa_supplicant? >> >> No, wpa_supplicant is a dependency of wicd. > > Right, I thought as much,

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