[gentoo-user] Quake 2

2010-03-23 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hi. Please, What's the right way for play the unforgettable game Quake II with ours Gentoo systems. Is there a package?. I tried the Windows demo version 3.14 with Wine, but i got a Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx on start up. Thanks you very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. -- Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Quake 2

2010-03-23 Thread roundyz
Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: Hi. Please, What's the right way for play the unforgettable game Quake II with ours Gentoo systems. Is there a package?. I tried the Windows demo version 3.14 with Wine, but i got a Couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx on start up. Thanks you very much,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Dommett
On Friday 19 March 2010 19:14:21 Mick wrote: I also tried /usr/bin/oocalc, but it didn't work. :-( Try: oocalc -no-oosplash :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:47:57 -0500, Dale wrote: If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. You sig was sort of ironic considering the subject discussed. That thing have ESP or something? It does seem like it at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-23 Thread KH
Am 23.03.2010 01:51, schrieb walt: On 03/22/2010 04:21 PM, KH wrote: ... There even is a tool you can download from Microsoft to change your key - like you once hat a pirated version with a cracked key and now you want to turn legal again. Download the tool, enter the code you bought,

[gentoo-user] Problems with thunderbird

2010-03-23 Thread KH
Hi, I just updated thunderbird. Now I have two problems: The rss feed only shows the title. It used to show the whole everything. How can I change that? I want to read the complete rss article. Then I tried to set firefox as default for opening http://www.stuff.whatever . This does not

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.6 cannot open folder from the d/l dialog box

2010-03-23 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4, ff 3.6. after i finished d/l a file i want to open the folder where the file is saved. but when i do so, firefox says it cannot find an application to open that link. i am not trying to open/launch it. how can i fix this? -- Best Regards, David Shen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-23 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:21:06AM +0100, KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 23:51, schrieb Mick: In Germany you are still free to sell the software to a third person who is insane enough to buy Windows ;-) But how can you sell it - I think that it is an OEM license which will only run in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with thunderbird

2010-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/23/2010 01:43 PM, KH wrote: Hi, I just updated thunderbird. Now I have two problems: The rss feed only shows the title. It used to show the whole everything. How can I change that? I want to read the complete rss article. Not sure. Here they show OK. I'm using the show article

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 10:18:59 Steve Dommett wrote: On Friday 19 March 2010 19:14:21 Mick wrote: I also tried /usr/bin/oocalc, but it didn't work. :-( Try: oocalc -no-oosplash :-) Yes! That fixed it. :-) Thank you very much. I saw this option but never thought that it would make

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

2010-03-23 Thread YoYo siska
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:30:49PM +, Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 19:18:48 Christian Schulze wrote: Hi, I installed www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer version 0.9.9.2 (masked with keywords ~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86) recently and this works great with the Apple

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Dommett
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 16:04:04 Mick wrote: Do you know why it behaves differently with -no- oosplash, when the binary installation does not seem to be bothered either way? It seems the binary package doesn't install the optional oosplash.bin program. The code responsible for the differing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with thunderbird

2010-03-23 Thread KH
Am 23.03.2010 16:40, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 03/23/2010 01:43 PM, KH wrote: [...] Then I tried to set firefox as default for opening http://www.stuff.whatever . This does not work. Where in about:config can I change that, again? You don't need to mess with about:config. The setting is

[gentoo-user] linux-uvc

2010-03-23 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, I've an caer TravelMate 5720 and I'd like to use my webcam (Suyin). I've read some docs and say that I should use uvc driver from kernel and not linux-uvc driver from portage. But portage package also contains user-space tools for USB cameras, so, if I use kernel driver, How may I get

[gentoo-user] wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Bruns
Hello NGs, when connect my usb-wlan-stick i get this message: usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0df6, idProduct=0040 usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-5:

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Bruns
Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 19:39:32 schrieb Thomas Bruns: Hello NGs, when connect my usb-wlan-stick i get this message: usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0df6, idProduct=0040 usb 1-5:

[gentoo-user] gnome fails to install with error 2

2010-03-23 Thread David Mehler
Hello, I'm running gentoo and am trying to install gnome 2.26 i believe is the version. I get considerably far in to the process then the install dies with an error 2 at gnome-extras/gnome-user-docs-gnome-accessibility guide and as i say error 2. I'd like to correct this, suggestions appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: That's interesting ... which Xresources is xterm reading?  I have this in my ~/.Xresources: aterm*loginShell:true aterm*saveLines:32767 aterm*transparent:true aterm*transpscrollbar:true aterm*shading:40

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 22:30:16 Robert Bridge wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: That's interesting ... which Xresources is xterm reading? I have this in my ~/.Xresources: aterm*loginShell:true aterm*saveLines:32767 aterm*transparent:true

[gentoo-user] Re: wlan

2010-03-23 Thread walt
On 03/23/2010 11:42 AM, Thomas Bruns wrote: Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 19:39:32 schrieb Thomas Bruns: Hello NGs, when connect my usb-wlan-stick i get this message: usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-5: New USB device found,

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.6 won't install

2010-03-23 Thread David Mehler
Hello, This is an add-on to my previous post on gnome 2.6 and gentoo. To recap i am trying to get gnome 2.6 going. The compilation is failing at gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs-2.6.2 and specifically on the accessibility guide i'm getting an error 2. At the end of the output i was told for support a

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome fails to install with error 2

2010-03-23 Thread walt
On 03/23/2010 02:13 PM, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I'm running gentoo and am trying to install gnome 2.26 i believe is the version. I get considerably far in to the process then the install dies with an error 2 at gnome-extras/gnome-user-docs-gnome-accessibility guide and as i say error 2. I'd