Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro [solved]

2011-02-28 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 27/02/2011 18:38, Mike Gilbert a écrit : On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr wrote: My kernel configuration : # SCSI device support CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y CONFIG_SCSI_TGT=y CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK=y

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Cahn
497 lines. Could you please: increase the buffer and turn off usb debugging? Hi Volker, I tried again and I hope you'llhave now the complete dmesg. Here is the adress: http://dl.free.fr/qUJf6qr39

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread dhk
On 02/27/2011 02:39 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2011 18:04:26 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 27.02.2011 17:02, schrieb Petri Rosenström: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: First, the observations. I tried to partition my disk with fdisk the way I wanted.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread Mick
On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Thanks for all the input.  It helped clear up a lot of questions.  I spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it almost worked.  I think the problem is in the Grub setup, so it should be repairable once I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off automounting usb drives

2011-02-28 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-27 at 17:08 Dale wrote: Don't worry, when you understand it really well, something new will come along. Then you get to rinse and repeat. :/ yep, i know what you mean... a bit frustrating, sometimes, isn't it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread dhk
On 02/28/2011 06:39 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Thanks for all the input. It helped clear up a lot of questions. I spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it almost worked. I think the problem is in the Grub setup,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread dhk
On 02/28/2011 07:25 AM, dhk wrote: On 02/28/2011 06:39 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 February 2011 11:26, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Thanks for all the input. It helped clear up a lot of questions. I spent the weekend installing to Operating Systems and it looks like it almost worked. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread Mick
On 28 February 2011 12:25, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: I did everything in Grub and haven't touched the MS Windows partitions since the initial install. The problem looks like Grub and some other stuff.  Can't boot to Windows or Linux.  It looks like the Grub menu never comes up.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions

2011-02-28 Thread Mick
On 28 February 2011 13:11, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Alright, I found a couple thing in Grub that I had wrong.  1) The (hd0,0) for the splash should have been (hd0,2).  That fixed the problem with no Grub menu.  2) The Windows menu option was (hd0,1) and should have been (hd0,0) for the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-27, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com writes: On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? A laserjet? =) That makes me

Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off automounting usb drives

2011-02-28 Thread Dale
luis jure wrote: on 2011-02-27 at 17:08 Dale wrote: Don't worry, when you understand it really well, something new will come along. Then you get to rinse and repeat. :/ yep, i know what you mean... a bit frustrating, sometimes, isn't it? Sometimes. Then again, sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:08:23PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any color when it has no color ink, but do grayscale printers apply some conversion internally, to make sure that e.g. plain cyan is still visible (instead of

[gentoo-user] Re: Ebuild hacking howto

2011-02-28 Thread James
Mark Shields laebshade at gmail.com writes: Saw that you linked to the creating an updated ebuild from gentoo-wiki, so what I say may overlay quite a bit, but hear me out: Attachment (jffnms-0.8.5.ebuild): application/octet-stream, 2207 bytes Mark, I appreciate your answer very much. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro [solved]

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Cahn
I tried again and I hope you'llhave now the complete dmesg. A friend found how to solve the problem. He changed some settings in Device Drivers, specially in Serial ATA and Paralell ATA drivers, and somewhere else. Now I have cdrom and sr0 in /dev and the player works. Thank you for your help.

Re: [gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

2011-02-28 Thread Nils Holland
On 15:24 Sat 26 Feb , Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is anyone using the uml290 modem? I've never used one and recently acquired this model. What other kernel support is needed in addition to usb modem? and what package is needed to connect the modem (currently I use wicd for wired and

Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-28 Thread Hamilton Silva
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked

Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?

2011-02-28 Thread Matt Harrison
On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrisoniwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some

Re: [gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

2011-02-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 02/28/2011 03:48 PM, Nils Holland wrote: On 15:24 Sat 26 Feb , Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is anyone using the uml290 modem? I've never used one and recently acquired this model. What other kernel support is needed in addition to usb modem? and what package is needed to connect

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Grant
I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant Try locate */foo*.txt. mlocate seems to match

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I'm having trouble with this again. I get: # ls -l /var/cache/revdep-rebuild total 424 -rwx-- 1 root portage699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr -rwx-- 1

[gentoo-user] Any small and fast desktop search app for GNOME?

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas Yao
I dislike gnome-do and I use synapse on ubuntu with another PC So I'm wondering is there any other good desktop search applications? Or how can I install synapse on gentoo? Thank you! -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 Facebook.com/ghosThomas Mechanism, not policy