Re: [gentoo-user] scpa5XX and "CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT" not listed

2007-06-22 Thread sean
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: sean schrieb: Trying to emerge spca5xx but during the build process it is stated that "CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT" needs to be set in the kernel. That is fine, but I do not see this option anywhere in menuconfig. From what I read it should be located under device drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] scpa5XX and "CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT" not listed

2007-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sean schrieb: Trying to emerge spca5xx but during the build process it is stated that "CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT" needs to be set in the kernel. That is fine, but I do not see this option anywhere in menuconfig. From what I read it should be located under device drivers multimedia devices, but

Re: [gentoo-user] scpa5XX and "CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT" not listed

2007-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sean schrieb: Trying to emerge spca5xx but during the build process it is stated that "CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT" needs to be set in the kernel. That is fine, but I do not see this option anywhere in menuconfig. From what I read it should be located under device drivers multimedia devices, but

[gentoo-user] scpa5XX and "CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT" not listed

2007-06-22 Thread sean
Trying to emerge spca5xx but during the build process it is stated that "CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT" needs to be set in the kernel. That is fine, but I do not see this option anywhere in menuconfig. From what I read it should be located under device drivers multimedia devices, but the option is n

Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > 070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, > > both with kprint system and cups-pdf. > > Why don't you use Open Office ? Create a .pdf , then print from Kpdf. > There's a .bin , if you don't want to compile OO ( 5 hr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hacking an ebuild

2007-06-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 22 June 2007 22:42:33 James wrote: > > > > What? Why? Just add 'net-analyzer/jffnms ~x86' > > > > > > On amd64? > > > > Yes. > > Well after using alan's suggestion and getting JFFNMS to compile > I just had to try this out. It worked too! > > Can you explain why using ~x86 on an amd64 mac

Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-22 Thread Philip Webb
070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, > both with kprint system and cups-pdf. Why don't you use Open Office ? Create a .pdf , then print from Kpdf. There's a .bin , if you don't want to compile OO ( 5 hr here). -- ,,===

[gentoo-user] Re: hacking an ebuild

2007-06-22 Thread James
Bo Ørsted Andresen zlin.dk> writes: > > > What? Why? Just add 'net-analyzer/jffnms ~x86' > > On amd64? > Yes. Well after using alan's suggestion and getting JFFNMS to compile I just had to try this out. It worked too! Can you explain why using ~x86 on an amd64 machine works in the /etc/portage/

[gentoo-user] Re: hacking an ebuild

2007-06-22 Thread James
Alan McKinnon linuxholdings.co.za> writes: > > Not sure what you are saying here. Can you give me the explicit line > > to add to the /etc/portage/package.keywords > / * ~* ** Hello Alan, That is a very cool bit of detail you have provided. Most excellent! Now that I have that trick, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:19:25 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007 14:46, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> The only problem on the gentoo end is that the ppd files are not put >> where hp-setup wants them. > > I've noticed this too and it's rather annoying. > >> At this point I h

RE: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-22 Thread Wenqi Chen
Try to see if there's any options in cups-pdf for embedding fonts; apparently no font has been embedded in the pdf file you sent; Btw did u print to ps also using cups by ticking off the print-to-file box? -Original Message- From: Matthew R. Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 June

[gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-22 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system and cups-pdf. The fonts are a right mess, see attached example. Now I know one work-around is to print to postscript than do a ps2ps followed by ps2pdf, but this is a less than perfect solution, though the only one I've come acro

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 June 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > don't have kmail open for days? > > I'd love to, but don't get a chance to try - I manage about 8 hours max > at a stretch ??? I usually have kmail open for days or even weeks without any problems. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Dale
Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007 21:43, Mick wrote: > > >> BTW, a couple of weeks ago I *did* have problems accessing Gmail, which >> I attributed to the gmail pop server. It only lasted a couple of days >> and since then popping Gmail has been trouble free. >> > > I had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 22 June 2007 21:43, Mick wrote: > BTW, a couple of weeks ago I *did* have problems accessing Gmail, which > I attributed to the gmail pop server. It only lasted a couple of days > and since then popping Gmail has been trouble free. I had a similar problem about a month or so ago. Kmail

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

2007-06-22 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
Well, finally, the trouble was the file system. Now I have changed it from reiserfs to ext2. No troubles at all, as you said. Thanks for helping me with this newbie mistake =) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 June 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My patience with kmail is rapidly coming to an end. All those who > > wish kmail to survive another week on my machine are asked to voice > > their objections now. > > > > I us

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 16:38:35 Mick wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007 15:06, Dale wrote: > > If it wants to play more than one sound, it only plays one. One way I > > noticed this is if I put my mouse on the bottom where the desktop > > selection thing is then move the wheel, it only plays one soun

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Sabyasachi Ghosh
I usually disable the kde sound system and use a command line player (like aplay or mplayer) for the event notifications..seems to work fine with me.. On 6/19/07, Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I've managed to emerge the gentoo base, X and KDE and all are running fine. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > My patience with kmail is rapidly coming to an end. All those who wish > kmail to survive another week on my machine are asked to voice their > objections now. > > I use it within kontact, and every second day or so I can no longer > acc

Re: [gentoo-user] Fan Speed

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 15:40, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Freitag 22 Juni 2007 15:53 schrieb Mick: > > On Friday 22 June 2007 14:00, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I've searched for it for quiet some time and found nothing so I guess > > > my chances are pretty bad. > > > > > > Anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Friday 22 June 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Alan McKinnon writes: > > > It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. > > > That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires > > > arts. > > > > I also have kdemultimedia installed,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fan Speed

2007-06-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 22 Juni 2007 15:53 schrieb Mick: > On Friday 22 June 2007 14:00, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've searched for it for quiet some time and found nothing so I guess my > > chances are pretty bad. > > > > Anyway, is there a tool that is comparable to SpeedFan for Windows? > > Som

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 15:06, Dale wrote: > If it wants to play more than one sound, it only plays one. One way I > noticed this is if I put my mouse on the bottom where the desktop > selection thing is then move the wheel, it only plays one sound, the > first one then it can't play anymore for a

Re: [gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 14:46, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:56:12 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, but since your device is networked and you want the full > > functionality this will definitely require the snmp flag AND the scanner > > flag. > > > > Hope this helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Zsitvai János
Hello, This may sound like overkill, but I've found that the most reliable set-up is to simply configure fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, dovecot and postfix properly, and just use whatever client you prefer as an IMAP reader. I used to move between a couple of clients, but now I'm pretty mu

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007 13:20, Dale wrote: > > >> OK. That was already done as well. However, I killed the process and >> went there to hit the test sound button. I went back and artsd was >> running again plus a new one. >> >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ps aux | grep arts >>

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 June 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. > > That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires > > arts. > > I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 June 2007, Mick wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007 14:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, [snip] > > I use it within kontact, and every second day or so I can no longer > > access my gmail account using pop3. 'killall kio_pop3' tends to fix > > this so I assume it's some kind of locking

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 15:38:49 Alex Schuster wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. > > That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires > > arts. > > I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun. > > [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] Fan Speed

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 14:00, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I've searched for it for quiet some time and found nothing so I guess my > chances are pretty bad. > > Anyway, is there a tool that is comparable to SpeedFan for Windows? > Something that lets me control the speed of my CPU fan? > > Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:56:12 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, but since your device is networked and you want the full functionality > this will definitely require the snmp flag AND the scanner flag. > > Hope this helps. Indeed the comments on this group and the hplip list have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 14:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > My patience with kmail is rapidly coming to an end. All those who wish > kmail to survive another week on my machine are asked to voice their > objections now. > > I use it within kontact, and every second day or so I can no longer >

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > It would appear that you have installed the kdemultimedia package. > That's a monlithic one, and it WILL install noatun, which requires > arts. I also have kdemultimedia installed, but not noatun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ --> eix -I kdemultimedia [I] kde-base/kdemultimedia

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo fail to start

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 14:17, Xihong Yin wrote: > Hi, > > I emerged pcmciautils, but the kernel fails when I reboot the computer. It > freezes at > > loading ath_pci > > Does anybody knows how to fix it? Recompile the kernel with ath_pci as a module. Then manually modprobe -v ath_pci after the m

[gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, My patience with kmail is rapidly coming to an end. All those who wish kmail to survive another week on my machine are asked to voice their objections now. I use it within kontact, and every second day or so I can no longer access my gmail account using pop3. 'killall kio_pop3' tends

[gentoo-user] gentoo fail to start

2007-06-22 Thread Xihong Yin
Hi, I emerged pcmciautils, but the kernel fails when I reboot the computer. It freezes at loading ath_pci Does anybody knows how to fix it? Thanks, Zhengtao -- Get a free email account with anti spam protection. http://www.bl

[gentoo-user] Fan Speed

2007-06-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've searched for it for quiet some time and found nothing so I guess my chances are pretty bad. Anyway, is there a tool that is comparable to SpeedFan for Windows? Something that lets me control the speed of my CPU fan? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp pgp2WTGSNO5j8.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 22 June 2007, Dale wrote: > I'm not using noatun, it appears that that is what KDE is using or > > something.  See this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends kdemultimedia > > [ Searching for packages depending on kdemultimedia... ] > > kde-base/noatun-plugins-3.5.7 (~kde-base/kdemult

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 13:20, Dale wrote: > OK. That was already done as well. However, I killed the process and > went there to hit the test sound button. I went back and artsd was > running again plus a new one. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ps aux | grep arts > > dale 15246 2.2 1.3 2877

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Elias Probst wrote: > > Go to: > > -> KDE Controlcenter > > -> Sound & Multimedia > > -> Sound-System > > Uncheck the box "[x] Enable the sound system" > > > > If artsd is still running, kill the process. > > OK. That was already done as well. However, I killed the process and > w

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-22 Thread Dale
Elias Probst wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007 04:53:36 Dale wrote: > >> Well, I read through the how to, I had all that done already, I just >> never had removed the arts USE flag. The sounds works but it is slow to >> respond and sometimes it just doesn't catch up at all. This is mostly >> whi

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

2007-06-22 Thread Benno Schulenberg
> tux boot # df -T /boot >Type 1K Blocks UsedAvailable Use% > Mounted in /dev/hdc1 reiserfs 40120 40120 0 > 100% /boot > > That isn't the literal output, I had to translate it, There's no need to translate it. When posting output of a comman

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build glib.

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:54, Mike Diehl wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2007 01:45:12 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Dienstag, 19. Juni 2007, Mike Diehl wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > > > I'm still having difficulty getting my new laptop to build kde. I > > > can't believe how much trouble I

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 02:38, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Freitag, 22. Juni 2007, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: > > 2007/6/21, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I don't think that you need to investigate more. Just be carefull when > > > nuking the fs - you have to setup grub after

Re: [gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 June 2007 03:19, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Thanks; you are right. I eventually found it too. I now see where I > got into trouble. I didn't set the snmp use flag and hence hplip > didn't bring in net-analyzer/net-snmp. > > Is this a bug? That is, should hplip unconditionally depend

Re: [gentoo-user] 1st time framebuffer setup

2007-06-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 21 Juni 2007 20:09 schrieb Hans-Werner Hilse: > Hi, > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:44:00 -0700 > > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The Gentoo Wiki page lists two different entries for doing > > framebuffer setup. I've never used framebuffers and wanted to check it > > out.

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] strange MySQL issue

2007-06-22 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Hi Daevid, Friday, June 22, 2007, 12:36:05 AM, you wrote: > Just to verify that you're not insane, I too have seen this many times, > but like you said, since mySQL is running, I left it alone as there are > a million other things in Linux to fight with. ;-) :) The main problem is MySQL does no

[gentoo-user] Re: /boot without space.

2007-06-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't use ext3 for /boot - there's just no need for a journal on > /boot, as you'll VERY rarely write to it. For boot, the journal > is just a waste - a waste of 32m, to be exact. Combined with > your ~7Mb, this gives 40m. I was wrong. ext3 does not us