To me this looks like a simple case of not being in X when trying to run
an X-based application.
Trying starting X (most likely you run gnome) then try to run gthumb.
>> uh, what version?
>>
>> Upon which you usually follow up with, when did it stop working/when
>> was
>> your last sync/have you
Allan
Lots of good material at
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314633.html
and
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
(I followed this some time ago to get bootsplash working successfully)
HTH
Jamie
>
> Does someone knows how to patch the 2.6.11-r9 kernel to use boot splash ?
> Thanks. A
The module (saa7134) is loaded and has the correct board type and tuner
but no matter what application I use (I have tried xawtv, kdetv and
tvtime) I cannot get any picture or sound.
I've tried the instructions found at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134 but they haven't helped at all.
The car
I've been working on this for several days but do not seem to make any
progress.
I have a Pinnacle PCTV Stereo card which is based on the Philips saa7134
chip. I have recomipled my kernel (2.6.12-gentoo-r6) to include the
saa7134 module and i2c support as a module.
lsmod output :
Module
t to me and I do get an
error that /dev/video0 is not accessible when trying to run xawtv as any
user other than root)
> does xawtv -c /dev/video/video0 give any output?
I will try this later tonight when I get home.
>
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:48 +1200 (NZST)
> Jamie Dobbs wrote:
&g
the full args as I only have ssh access at work)
BillK
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 16:49 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG,
mythtv, now here.
True, and I always appreciate the help you offer :-)
You seem to have all th
v4l: open /dev/video0: Permission denied
no video grabber device available
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:48 +1200 (NZST)
Jamie Dobbs wrote:
I've been working on this for several days but do not seem to make any
progress.
I have a Pinnacle PCTV Stereo card which is based on the Philips
> The latest news.
> After taking the cover off; the temp. of the CPU went down by 3C to 37C
> and Motherboard down by 3C as well to 26C. but that still didn't prevent
> the the kernel panic message:
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler.
>
> So my next solution is to get an
I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but
find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of
customization that I can do with it.
However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release
(there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? There
Perhaps try an external keyboard?
> Hi,
>
> After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, I
> rebooted, and I found this dreaded message:
>
> /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>
> And it asks me my root password, or c
After a year or so away from Gentoo I'm looking at setting up a server
machine at home with Gentoo on it.
I now see that there are more regularly released CD images to install from.
I take it that the 'old' install documentation covered in the Handbook at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/ sti
Thanks! Just want to make sure I start off right :-)
Hi
I am having as issue with 2 x NTFS drives that are in my Gentoo box that I
am trying to share by AFP. EXT2/EXT3 shared drives work fine but not NTFS,
it just returns and error when trying to mount on the Mac that the volume
could not be mounted.
Here are the relevant sections of the config fi
Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few
posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists.
I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent days,
could this be due to a general email slow down due to an increase in spam
email traffi
Please excuse the messy cut and paste but I've been having problems with
the mailing list from one of my email accounts and had to move back to
this one).
I'm still having the same error and cannot work out any way to fix it
without removing gnome - which I do not want to do if I can avoid it.
Can
Abhay Kedia wrote:
On Monday 09 January 2006 08:17, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
Please excuse the messy cut and paste but I've been having problems with
the mailing list from one of my email accounts and had to move back to
this one).
Sync and re-emerge. Known bug, now resolved.
I recently emerged KDE-3.4.0 using the command
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde-meta
and so far so good, a few little errors such as juk crashing from time to
time and k3b not working, but nothing I can't live through at the moment.
The issue I now have is how can I apply any necessary updates
>From the prompt enter :
du -x -h | more
and then page through the displayed screens (using the space bar) where
you wil be shown the size of each directory which may help you find the
culprit.
> Hi,
>I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is
> rapidly approaching 100% a
Richard Fish wrote:
Jamie Dobbs wrote:
At the moment if I do an emerge -uDpv world I can see it wanting to
downgrade a huge amount of packages whihc I obviously do not want to do.
Add any packages that you want the ~x86 keyword accepted for to
/etc/portage
Try
rc-update del xdm default
rc-update add gdm default
This will change your logon manager to gdm
Richard Watson wrote:
Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how
to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot.
To explain when I set "rc-update add xdm default" the lo
I am trying to get Dual Head working using x.org 6.8.2 and the xorg ATI
driver on Gentoo.
My xorg.conf can be seen at http://drgnfire.orcon.net.nz/xorg.conf.DUAL-HEAD
In particular I am trying to get Monitor 0 to be running at 1600x1200
and Monitor 1 at 1024x768 but I've looked at how-to's, searc
By adding the lines:
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
In the ServerLayout section.
I now have Dual head working.
- Thanks -
Jamie Dobbs wrote:
>I am trying to get Dual Head working using x.org 6.8.2 and the xorg ATI
>dr
I don't have that problem, but I only seem to have command line access to
mplayer and no gui - there something that I haven't emerged, or some USE
flag I haven't turned on that will give me a pretty gui?
> I have the same problem..
> But I don't know what to do...
>
> Is anybody can help us?
>
> O
I am running Gentoo with kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 and want to add an SATA
controller and drive(s) to my PC (as I am out of IDE interfaces!).
The SATA controller I am looking at is the Sunix SATA2000, which uses a
Silicon Image Sil3112a chipset (Silicon Image SataLink Sil3112CT144
according to http:
After any reboot, when I try to make a PPP connection to my workplace I
get the following error:
/usr/sbin/pppd: pppd is unable to open the /dev/ppp device.
You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by
executing the following command as root:
mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
I enter the mknod co
I'd like to scope out the interest that New Zealand based Gentoo users
would have to to establishment of a Gentoo Users Group specifically for NZ
based users.
The items to be established are:
1/ Is there sufficient interest?
2/ Is there anything to stop us using the term "Gentoo Users New Zealan
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:53:38 -0400 Craig Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | >DO you really think Gentoo should be the first Distro people new to
> | >Linux should turn to?
> | >
> | >
> | In one word... YES!. If you're going to learn your way around Linux
> | well, why not start with somet
I am trying to build Xorg on a newly installed 2005.1 system and get the
following output:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib
XLOCALEDIR=../../../exports/lib/locale ../../../exports/bin/mkfontscale
-b -s -l .
/usr/bin/fc-cache .
make[5]: *** [fonts.cache] Illegal instruction
make[5]: Leavin
Given the responses so far I think I might have to try a fresh install,
this time using 2005.0 as this bug may well be limited to 2005.1
> On 8/17/05, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> > Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot
>> > of
> yes absolutely.
>
> However be aware that to update firmware windows may be required.
>
> Like CD writers they are fundamentally ATAPI devices that plug straight
> into the ide bus and the power supply.
>
> I recently bought an LG and it works fine.
I too would heartily recommend LG drives, I ha
The apparent solution to this, according to Bugzilla bug #48895
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48895 is to "Try rebuilding freetype with
-fno-strict-aliasing" - how do I go about doing this?
Thanks
Jamie
Jamie Dobbs wrote:
I am trying to build Xorg on a newly instal
I've been setting up a connection to my work places MS vpn server using
the guide on the forums
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-298267-highlight-.html but have run
into the problem that there does not appear to be a kernel patch for mppe
support for this kernel version.
Does anyone know when/i
I have been trying to install Gentoo 2005.1 on an SATA drive connected to
a Silicon Image chipset controller. The SATA interface and drive are found
at boot, I then create 3 parititions:
/dev/sda1 32M /boot
/dev/sda2 512M
/dev/sda3 40GB /
Then I go through the usual process of untarring a stage3
>
> To me this sounds more like some driver having trouble after the
> chroot command. My machines are ATI and Via chipsets with SATA built
> in. You are using the Silicon Image chips. Maybe that driver has some
> issues?
>
> This is the kernel on the 2005.1 CD, correct? That's a pretty new kernel
> are you mixing a 32 bit install cd with a 64 bit stage 3?
I don't believe so, but will double check tonight
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:56:02 +1200 (NZST)
> Jamie Dobbs wrote:
>
>> The issue occurs when I try to chroot into the new environment when
>> issuing the co
While executing an emerge gnome I get the following error:
>>> Unpacking apmd_3.2.1-4.diff.gz to /var/tmp/portage/apmd-3.2.1_p4/work
* Applying apmd_3.2.1-4.diff ...
[ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
libtool --quiet --mode=compile gcc -c -O -g -Wall -pipe -I.
-I
Most likely you need to get hold of a copy of the "Comaq SmartStart" CDs
for this machine to set it up to boot from an IDE drive, this will also
contain the Compaq Array Controller software which will enable you to
set up the 'BIOS' on the smart controller card to tun the array in the
way which
Currently have an Althon XP 2000 and looking to upgrade to the following:
Athlon 64 3000+ 800FSB
Albatron K8NF4U socket 939 mobo
Albatron TC6200 128MB DDR video card
1GB PC-3200 RAM
485W PSU
...and use my exisiting 3R Santafe Case, trasferring the old
mobo/CPU/memory to another case for use as a
I built myself an AMD64 based system a week ago using the following
components:
Albatron K8NF4U motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 939)
1GB DDR Memory
Albatron TC6200 video card
Motherboard sensors indicate that the CPU core is running at a constant
65 degrees Celcius and this figure does
please read the post which have told you the correct method to do this
unsubscription:
send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and do NOT sent
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This information was given to you on a number of occassions including
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b.n. wrote:
pclouds wrote:
Hi all,
We've got a map of Gentoo users here: http://www.frappr.com/gentoo
It's currently 95 users but I don't think Gentoo community is that
small. If you don't mind, please add yourself to the map :)
Cheers,
Cool...It seems Poland is a bit overcrowded...
I'm th
On 12/8/2005, "Neil Bothwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:30:10 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I'm about to install gentoo on an athlon64. Is there enough 64 bit
>> software and other good reasons to use the 64 bit version?
>
>Almost everything has 64 bit versions, and tho
Having just reinstalled Gentoo (AMD64) on my PC and setting up sound
according to the ALSA How To I can play audio files, in this case MP3's,
fine in XMMS but when I try them in either Amarok or Juk they are choppy
and unlistenable.
Can anyone suggest how I might go about diagnosing and fixing the
>
> You people need to remove me from you mailing lists all together. Iam so
> pissed off with getting 80 email of a bunch of other peoples bullshit,
> that iam ready to start getting nasty. fucking remove me from your
> emailing list.
Only you are capable of removing yourself from the list - no-o
> On Tue, 30 May 2006 18:56:33 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:
>
>> >And then you see that Daniel, your second candidate for the job hit the
>> >send button 5 times...
>> >
>> >;) couldn't resist.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I noticed that too. What's up with that? LOL
>
> Possibly a gmail glitch, as all five
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