Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
Mark wrote: I have a TDK indi DVD. It works perfectly. I would also add that I have excellent results with LG products as others have mentioned. I have had a TDK and now a SONY dual-layer. Both work excellent. Sony on newegg.com for 89.00. -- Edward A Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux! Registered Linux User#225662 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] It's baaaaack...! (Python 2.4.1)
downgraded to a version that should be (or was previously) fine with 2.3.5, and b) does not seem to specifically require 2.4.1; if Python is mentioned in the dependencies of one of them-- and the only one that does mention it is dbus, and that only with the USE flag set-- the requirement is a = , not an =2.4.1. It seems to me that installing Python 2.4.1 to a new slot is just going to cause me yet more trouble atm, given that there are so many other things that need to be set up before it can successfully do whatever it wants or needs to do (still assuming this is related to hal/dbus/ivman). Since my only working DE atm is KDE (haven't had time to set up Openbox), I really need to upgrade to 3.4.1, as 3.4.0 is annoyingly unstable. That means that the whole gentopia ivman business has to be put on hold anyway since KDE doesn't work with it, and I do not want to go into an [U] == [D] == [U] loop for no reason (if I can get GNOME fixed, it would be OK temporarily until I got rid of KDE). Anyway, does this twisted tale make any sense to anybody and 1) am I panicking over nothing 2) if I am not panicking over nothing, how do I stop this juggernaut before it lands me in the soup again? Thanks for any help, Holly Holly, have you tried /usr/portage/package.mask? I'm coming in on this a little late, but I did read some of your other posts-always a good read! As for the other (hal, dbus, kde) have you put in USE flags for these and run emerge -p world --newuse? That has fixed some problems I've had. -- Edward A Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux! Registered Linux User#225662 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't load GNOME as user
Holly Bostick wrote: Hi, I can't stand it anymore, so I thought I'd fish here for ideas. The long and the short of it is that I cannot load the GNOME desktop as a user (works fine as root). The splash screen comes up, but only 2 icons show in the progress bar before the splash disappears-- Sessions, and Window manager, iirc. Already not good (no Nautilus, no Metacity, no gnome-panel...). Then the panel tries to come up, the panel backgrounds (currently set as the default top and bottom panels) display (empty), then disappear. This happens about 5 or 6 times (I suspect related to how many panel applets are attempting to load). No desktop appears, no panels load, right-click on the desktop produces no menu (since Nautilus isn't running, presumably) and since I don't know the GNOME shortcut key to open a Run Box, I pretty much have to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace out to GDM and load another WM. This happens with both the regular GNOME entry and the Failsafe GNOME entry. I have deleted ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd, ~/.gnome, ~/.gnome2, ~/.gnome2_private, and ~/.gnome_private and allowed my login attempt to regenerate them (supposedly), but this had no effect. Since GNOME loads fine when root logs in, GNOME itself is presumably not broken, but rather the user is. What's left to delete and regenerate? Does anybody know what I might do to fix this (short of creating a new user, which I'm not going to do :) )? Thanks for any help, Holly, hanging out in IceWM while KDE 3.4.1 compiles. I had the same problem with GnomeLite and the only thing I could do was create a new user. For some reason (unknown to me) Gnome did not like what was in my /home/user file. -- Edward A Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux! Registered Linux User#225662 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination
Grant wrote: Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough out there to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like these people are conservatives unwilling to roll with the changes to me. - Grant Like a lot of the fellow repliers, I tried Suse, Red Hat, and used Mandrake for a long time. What really gets my goat is the implied connection with users coming from Mandrake to Gentoo. Some folks out in the wild think that mostly ex-Drakers are Gentoo-ricers. How did that connection start? Like a fellow Gentooer said, I switched because I could finally get my programs to compile and work as the devs intended, not fooled with idiotic distro-specific patches that always broke stuff. Lastly, although I run a ~x86 machine and sometime things break, I love portage and think that is the best way to manage a Linux system period. -- Edward A Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux! Registered Linux User#225662 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL modem + Web Server + Home Box
david wrote: Thanks for the reply.I'm new to this so your explanation really helps.The dsl modem's set-up page is at 192.168.1.254.It is also the default gateway.Here is resolv.conf; domain no-ip.info nameserver 192.168.1.254 nameserver 192.168.1.254 search launchmodem.com I have a static address. 2. It appears to me odd that your DSL MODEM has an IP address, but you're running a server behind it. Usually, I see the DSL MODEM acting transparently. So the setup looks more like: I tried setting the gateway to my static address but that didn't work.When I set it at 192.168.1.254 it connects me to the WAN. I would not be surprised that I,m going about this in the wrong way,because all I do is search google and I'm sure I make mistakes. On the modems set-up page is the pppoe user name and password for bell south my isp.The box at 192.168.1.96 is this box that I use all the time and I am also serving web pages(apache2,php4,mysql) etc.I did two things in the modems.I opened port 80 and forwarded it to 192.168.1.96.This took me a while to figure out. I have a dlink router here but when I try to access the configuration page 192.168.0.1 I get a connection refused.again thanks I think (because I tried alot of the same things you've tried) that Bellsouth-the ISP doesn't like people running personal webservers. What problems I had was trying to resolve DNS issues so that they could find my server-they were being routed through Bellsouth's DNS nameservers and I found out that you probably will want to use dynds? (outside DNS nameservers) to resolve the DNS problem. If you get this working you will have done something I couldn't, so keep trying! Although like the other fellow said, it's going to be difficult. Regards, -- Edward A Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux! Registered Linux User#225662 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL modem + Web Server + Home Box
Josh Hunholz wrote: Edward A Mihalow Jr wrote: david wrote: Thanks for the reply.I'm new to this so your explanation really helps.The dsl modem's set-up page is at 192.168.1.254.It is also the default gateway.Here is resolv.conf; domain no-ip.info nameserver 192.168.1.254 nameserver 192.168.1.254 search launchmodem.com I have a static address. What is the static IP address that you were assigned? It seems like your DSL modem is acting somewhat like a router as well, since it is assigning an internal network IP address rather than an external one. 2. It appears to me odd that your DSL MODEM has an IP address, but you're running a server behind it. Usually, I see the DSL MODEM acting transparently. So the setup looks more like: I tried setting the gateway to my static address but that didn't work.When I set it at 192.168.1.254 it connects me to the WAN. I would not be surprised that I,m going about this in the wrong way,because all I do is search google and I'm sure I make mistakes. On the modems set-up page is the pppoe user name and password for bell south my isp.The box at 192.168.1.96 is this box that I use all the time and I am also serving web pages(apache2,php4,mysql) etc.I did two things in the modems.I opened port 80 and forwarded it to 192.168.1.96.This took me a while to figure out. I have a dlink router here but when I try to access the configuration page 192.168.0.1 I get a connection refused.again thanks I think (because I tried alot of the same things you've tried) that Bellsouth-the ISP doesn't like people running personal webservers. What problems I had was trying to resolve DNS issues so that they could find my server-they were being routed through Bellsouth's DNS nameservers and I found out that you probably will want to use dynds? (outside DNS nameservers) to resolve the DNS problem. If you get this working you will have done something I couldn't, so keep trying! Although like the other fellow said, it's going to be difficult. Regards, I have a static IP from Bellsouth-(DSL Xtreme pkg)-65.5.209.106. The modem is connected to a Netgear FR114P router to a Cisco 3550 switch then to my comps (3). I just noticed that on the Netgear that I have the choice of DNS servers-(Dynamic from ISP or Use these servers). I didn't have this choice on my older Linksys router. The Cisco switch is a used unit that I am learning on- I know it's overkill for what I have, but what the heck, I got it so why not use it! -- Edward A Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux! Registered Linux User#225662 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
