RE: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista

2008-05-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:12 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista I'm hoping some of you here have run gentoo on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated ebuild; bypassing manifest check

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current ebuild is 2.0.0.12. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild Everything worked fine until I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello Gentoo users, I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to install a very similarly named package to do this). But unfortunately doing

Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I searched for NROFF in /etc/man-conf and found a note saying to add | -c if something had a specific version. I tried that and it works | now. There may be otehr fixesm but that works for me. Just edit it | and look for

Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-05-02 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008, 15:48, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: I've setup chap-secrets and peer and when I'm doing #pon my_vpn I'm getting following: using channel 32 Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 --

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those answers somewhere so

Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-05-02 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Vladimir Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, kernel module was not loaded and mppe was not enabled in options.pptp. Thank you. Another problem: the tunnel is now up, but I'm not able to ping or telnet router ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Brandon Mintern
ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Wolf Canis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Hello, ccache does caching, I use it and

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that ccache cached parts of the configuration too. That's what

Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 2 May 2008, 10:50, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Vladimir Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, kernel module was not loaded and mppe was not enabled in options.pptp. Thank you. Another problem: the tunnel is now up, but I'm not able to ping or

Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-05-02 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 2 May 2008, 10:50, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Vladimir Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, kernel module was not loaded and mppe was not enabled in options.pptp.

Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 2 May 2008, 11:39, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: You have several network connections. You probably need to add some static route(s). What's the IP address of the router? Yes, network structure is (host 192.168.1.3) --ethernet-- (US Robotics ADSL 192.168.1.1, dynamic wan ip, default

Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader

2008-05-02 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Well thanks. :) lapitopi gyuszk # emerge -pv kdebase These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] sys-apps/xinetd-2.3.14 USE=perl tcpd 295 kB [ebuild N] net-fs/samba-3.0.28 USE=acl cups ipv6 pam python readline -ads -async

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 02 May 2008 11:25:41 +0200 Wolf Canis wrote: Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that

Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-05-02 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 2 May 2008, 11:39, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: You have several network connections. You probably need to add some static route(s). What's the IP address of the router? Yes, network structure is (host

Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 2 May 2008, 13:33, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: But the tunnel is between ppp0 in your box and the D-link router, or between ppp0 in your box and some internal box in the office network? What's the network address of the office network? It's between my box and d-link. The office

[gentoo-user] Re: New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused

2008-05-02 Thread reader
Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do this; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop - verify the interface is down, if its not maybe just 'ifconfig eth0 down' it /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start A reboot cured the problem... It now works like one would expect. --

[gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some stuff. The machine is an Asus

[gentoo-user] Re: Updated ebuild; bypassing manifest check

2008-05-02 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current ebuild is 2.0.0.12. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild Everything worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:41 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE

[gentoo-user] Re: Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread reader
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enterprise WPA or whatever it's called. I haven't been able to log in, but a workmate of mine installed a fresh copy of Hardy Heron and it worked the first time. I haven't really had the time/interest to figure out why it wasn't working on my Gentoo

[gentoo-user] webcam

2008-05-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi Sorry about this. lsusb sees my logptech 5000 webcam. I've configured according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_webcam but there's no light on. Can anypne help pls? g -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:41 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-05-02 Thread Max
Hi, If you mean a logitech 5000, this page may helps you: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ I don't know the cam, but had no problem with old quickcams or spca5xx chipset based ones on gentoo. Just make sure you have V4L enables in your kernel config. cu Max On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:03 +0100,

[gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/-MERGING-pam

2008-05-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm just about done cleaning up a machine that I haven't touched in a while. For the first time I used eix-test-obsolete to look for inconsistencies in the portage config files. It worked wel. The machine is clean in terms of emerge -DuN world;emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 2 May 2008, 18:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? Yes. XP will blow away the MBR and replace it with its own MBR, so, to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Sandro Hannemann
Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Cheers, Sandro -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: I presume I'll use grub root(hd0,4) to point at my root and still use That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is sda2. grub setup (hd0) to get grub installed into the MBR? That's correct. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: I presume I'll use grub root(hd0,4) to point at my root and still use That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is sda2.

[gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Higgins
(Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub that's it? '-) Cheers, -- |\ /|| |

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-05-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Danis Petkakis wrote: well i did boot with windows cd did a fixmbr, then reinstalled lilo in mbr and now it seems to work...when i choose windows the entry of the ntldr shows up and then i choose to boot to windows without any problems...could i somehow put an

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP: sda1 - /boot = 50MB sda2 - swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 - /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 - / balance

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Sandro Hannemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Cheers, Sandro I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. However that's not on the 2007.0

[gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation? At this moment I'm doing the tar xjf

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Brandon Mintern ha scritto: I had thought the same thing myself some time ago, and I discovered that there had been work on a FEATURE called confcache. I believe it was abandoned, though, due to major difficulties. This is merely a guess, but I think some of the problems arise in that some of

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about NetworkManager and WPA around the web. The fact is, I found many people

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox libSDL segfault

2008-05-02 Thread Grant
When trying to install an XP guest on a Gentoo Linux host I get the following in dmesg: VirtualBox[31849]: segfault at 2d5b4ae0 ip 7fd12ddb9cf6 sp 7fff37a9ac60 error 4 in libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.0[7fd12dda4000+64000] also: VirtualBox[13373]: segfault at 2759ae0 ip 7ffa02f5ee56 sp 7fff0cc3fe00 error

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
Well, I tried downgrading to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant but it didn't help with the situation. The error logs show a time-out communicating with the AP. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation?

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Sandro Hannemann wrote: Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Not quite. It's not ntfs-ng, it's the same old ntfs write support that's been there for ages, and it's *partial*

Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install

2008-05-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 02 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:22 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about

Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2

Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation?

[gentoo-user] Kernel hangs on Enabling IO-APIC IRQs

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm bringing up this dual core laptop. The kernel hangs with these messages: Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1 CPU1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TK-53 stepping 01 Total of 2 processors activated (6834.25 BogoMIPS). ENABLING

[gentoo-user] Problem with autoconf when building samba (x86_64/AMD64, as stable and experimental packages)...

2008-05-02 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwiński
# emerge -v samba These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] net-fs/samba-3.0.28a USE=acl ads async cups fam ipv6 ldap pam python readline syslog winbind -automount -caps -doc -examples -quotas (-selinux) -swat LINGUAS=pl -ja 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: I'll try removing the config for the whole thing and see how it works, but NetworkManager has problems launching wpa_supplicant (or controlling it at least) using DBUS, and that has not been solved yet, so I won't bet on it. I'm not with my EEE right now, so, as soon

[gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Sorry about all the noise today. I guess it goes with building a new architecture for the first time. I am going to run 32-bit Gentoo on an AMD64 dual processor laptop. Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf? CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe I

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:48 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: I'll try removing the config for the whole thing and see how it works, but NetworkManager has problems launching wpa_supplicant (or controlling it at least) using DBUS, and that has not been solved

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-02 Thread Neil Walker
Mark Knecht wrote: Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf? CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe That's what I would be using on my single, dual and quad cores if I weren't using -march=native. ;) Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf? CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe That's what I would be using on my single, dual and quad cores if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... You can say so, but WICD and

[gentoo-user] Re: Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-02 Thread James
Michael Higgins linux at evolone.org writes: I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub that's it? '-) The easiest thing to do is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-02 Thread deface
Some OEM disks give you no alternative but to format all. Such as a recovery partition. Always XP first. deface On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:27 +, James wrote: Michael Higgins linux at evolone.org writes: I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM

[gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user

2008-05-02 Thread John covici
Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root, but if I try as a normal user I get the following errors: /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user

2008-05-02 Thread deface
can you verify the user is in the video group? grep video /etc/group deface On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 23:06 -0400, John covici wrote: Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root, but if I try as a normal user I get the following errors: /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some OEM disks give you no alternative but to format all. Such as a recovery partition. Always XP first. deface On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:27 +, James wrote: Michael Higgins linux at evolone.org writes: I

[gentoo-user] [OT]converting usb mp3 player to linux

2008-05-02 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I have a USB MP3 flash player and I was wondering if there was some way to install a linux based operating system or what ever it takes to play files. Maxim Be a better friend, newshound, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user

2008-05-02 Thread John covici
on Friday 05/02/2008 deface([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote can you verify the user is in the video group? grep video /etc/group deface Yep, the user is in the video group. On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 23:06 -0400, John covici wrote: Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root, but if

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]converting usb mp3 player to linux

2008-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I have a USB MP3 flash player and I was wondering if there was some way to install a linux based operating system or what ever it takes to play files. maybe. depends on the player. Also there is one really good project - 'rockbox' -