Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 08:36:07 András Csányi wrote: > Thank you very much! I'm going to do this way. > If I make a file under /etc/portage/env/ directory, for example Amarok > than in this file Under /etc/portage/env/ you need to make a directory with the category name and in that directory a fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread András Csányi
On 24 October 2011 07:57, Yohan Pereira wrote: > Also if you dont want to do thos globbaly for all your packages you can make > use of /etc/portage/env/. > > For example this is what i have for amarok in > > /etc/portage/env/media-sound/amarok > > CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O1 -g" > > CXXFLAGS="${CFLA

[gentoo-user] /etc/portage files and dirs?

2011-10-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
Anyone knows of an exhaustive documentation (with examples) for the files and directories under /etc/portage ? Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 00:06:21 Alex Schuster wrote: > András Csányi writes: > > I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I > > decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile > > Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me > > what i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't enable effects in kde

2011-10-23 Thread Vishnupradeep
Mother Board : ASUS M2A-MX Graphics Card: ATI 4350 Sound card: using on board audio Help needed On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/20/2011 12:20 PM, Vishnupradeep wrote: > >> I am new to gentoo. >> Installed kde in gentoo. But i am unable to enable effects like.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 10/23/2011 06:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:35:45 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> I don't have net.eth0 (I deleted it per wicd installation instructions). >> My other machines that use wicd do not have it either and they all work. >> Don't seem to find the difference

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2 [SOLVED]

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw >>> >>> Is this file present in /lib/firmware? > >> Nope: > > It should be obvious that this

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed

2011-10-23 Thread Hartmut Figge
Albert W. Hopkins: >You should be able to delete /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011 (or >edit the file and fix it... it's pretty straighforward) and continue >from there. Done the edit. Works. Thanks. Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync failed

2011-10-23 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 01:40 +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Greetings, > > emerge --sync was successfull till 'Performing Global Updates' which > leaded to an error. After waiting for perhaps 1 to 2 hours i tried > another 'emerge --sync' in the hope that would fix the issue. No luck. > > -

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync failed

2011-10-23 Thread Hartmut Figge
Greetings, emerge --sync was successfull till 'Performing Global Updates' which leaded to an error. After waiting for perhaps 1 to 2 hours i tried another 'emerge --sync' in the hope that would fix the issue. No luck. --- i5 hafi # emerge --sync Performing Global Updates: (Could take

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw >>> >>> Is this file present in /lib/firmware? > >> Nope: > > It should be obvious that this

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file > >> v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw > > > > Is this file present in /lib/firmware? > Nope: It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything else. > How

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 10/23/11 17:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:36:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file >> v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw > > Is this file present in /lib/firmware? > > Nope: michael@carter ~ $ ls /lib/firmware 3com

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:36:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file > v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw Is this file present in /lib/firmware? -- Neil Bothwick UNILINGUAL: American. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Is there an overlay that offers AVG or bitdefender? I found these: root@fireball / # eix avast * app-antivirus/avast4workstation Available versions: ~1.3.0-r2!m[1] ~1.3.0-r2!m[2] Homepage: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-linux-workstation.html Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:35:45 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > I don't have net.eth0 (I deleted it per wicd installation instructions). > My other machines that use wicd do not have it either and they all work. > Don't seem to find the difference between what I have working and this > MacBook Pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 10/23/11 16:52, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan: >> Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. >> I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed >> the steps found at >> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hau

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 10/23/11 16:52, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan: >> Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. >> I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed >> the steps found at >> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hau

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
András Csányi writes: > I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I > decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile > Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me > what is needed more? No, I think the debug USE flag has another pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

2011-10-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan: > Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. > I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed > the steps found at > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly, > but I'm still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 10/23/2011 05:19 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 23 Oct 2011 21:01:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Giga

[gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed the steps found at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly, but I'm still getting errors. When I plug the TV card into the USB sl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 Oct 2011 21:01:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme > >> BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right dri

[gentoo-user]

2011-10-23 Thread Vishnupradeep
Mother Board : ASUS M2A-MX Graphics Card: ATI 4350 Sound card: using on board audio Help needed On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/20/2011 12:20 PM, Vishnupradeep wrote: >> >> I am new to gentoo. >> Installed kde in gentoo. But i am unable to enable effects like.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme >> BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the >> kernel. All works but as I said, wicd d

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 15:09, András Csányi wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I > decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile > Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me > what is needed more? By

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme > BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the > kernel. All works but as I said, wicd does work from boot. After logging > in I need to get

[gentoo-user] Amarok segfault

2011-10-23 Thread András Csányi
Dear All, I'm an average Amarok user and experiencing a random segfault I decided that I would like to report it. I know I have to recompile Amarok with debug flag but I'm not sure it is enough. Can you tell me what is needed more? By the way, these reports should be send for the Amarok developers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to install music player without graphic ?

2011-10-23 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
You really need to find out what you need/want. If you want a nice GUI media player then you either need X or some kind of solution that works on framebuffer (they exist, but they are not straightforward to get working). Some web based players exist as well. Secondly, mplayer does work on command

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: gtk-doc-1.18 build failure...

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/23/2011 10:28 AM, pk wrote: > Hi, > > If anyone encounters issues with building gtk-doc-1.18 (needed for gimp > "doc" USE flag, amongst others) you need to have the "python" flag > enabled for the libxml2 package in order to build gtk-doc (the gtk-doc > fails to build due to not finding libx

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: gtk-doc-1.18 build failure...

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:28 AM, pk wrote: > Hi, > > If anyone encounters issues with building gtk-doc-1.18 (needed for gimp > "doc" USE flag, amongst others) you need to have the "python" flag > enabled for the libxml2 package in order to build gtk-doc (the gtk-doc > fails to build due to not fi

[gentoo-user] Heads up: gtk-doc-1.18 build failure...

2011-10-23 Thread pk
Hi, If anyone encounters issues with building gtk-doc-1.18 (needed for gimp "doc" USE flag, amongst others) you need to have the "python" flag enabled for the libxml2 package in order to build gtk-doc (the gtk-doc fails to build due to not finding libxml2 module [which I assume is a python one]).

Re: [gentoo-user] TCP Advanced Congestion Control -- any difference?

2011-10-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 23, 2011 7:07 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: > > Am 20.10.2011 18:11, schrieb Florian Philipp: > > Am 20.10.2011 15:10, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > >> Like the subject said: I am wondering if using a non-default TCP > >> Advanced Congestion Control makes any difference. > >> > >> (The default is

Re: [gentoo-user] TCP Advanced Congestion Control -- any difference?

2011-10-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.10.2011 18:11, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am 20.10.2011 15:10, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> Like the subject said: I am wondering if using a non-default TCP >> Advanced Congestion Control makes any difference. >> >> (The default is "cubic", but there are alternatives such as "htcp", >> "hybla", a

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Balky mounting of external devices

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:38:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:21:50PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > This came up recently with a different subject. Your device does not > > have a partition table, instead the filesystem occupies the whole > > device (sometimes referred to

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 19:46:59 schrieb Mick: > On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 18:27:02 Dale wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I > > > have > > > never used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows > > > a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.10.2011 09:49, schrieb Mick: > On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 22:30:45 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 18:14:32 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >>> On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > there aren't any Linux viruses, Except for the ones listed on the page

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 23, 2011 2:23 PM, "du yang" wrote: > > On Sunday 10/23/11 03:17:10 CST, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > I prefer Avast to AVG. It has versions for both Windows and Linux. Here's the > > link for the Linux version: > > > > http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab1 > > > > overlay gentoo-zh offer

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?

2011-10-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 23, 2011 6:59 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Grant wrote: >>> >>> Cheapest laser you can find at Office Depot tends to be a Brother. I've got >>> two...an HL-2040 and an HL-2140. Both work perfectly with CUPS. >> >> +1. Every Brother laser printer I've tried works perfectly. I don't >> even bothe

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't play music?

2011-10-23 Thread Lavender
>First use modules. This post [1] from the forum is about the mic but >it walks you through the process of setting up sound pretty well. >HTH David > >[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-869451-start-0.html > Thanks , I hope I can listen music when I finish reading this article.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't play music?

2011-10-23 Thread David Abbott
2011/10/23 Lavender : [snip] > The sound card driver I have built into kernel . When I used lspci, > I can see that "hda_intel" is the driver for sound card. > So what's wrong with it ? > > First use modules. This post [1] from the forum is about the mic but it walks you through the process of sett

[gentoo-user] Why I can't play music?

2011-10-23 Thread Lavender
When I modifed USE to USE="-X -gnome -kde -gtk" , I finally successed in installing mplayer without graphical desktop. But I got another problem. # mplayer christmas\ in\ my\ heart.mp3 It printed some error messages though mplayer could played mp3 file without sound. Error Message: [AO_ALSA]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 22:30:45 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Samstag 22 Oktober 2011, 18:14:32 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > > On 10/22/2011 05:07 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > >> there aren't any Linux viruses, > > > > > > Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably > > > inc

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-23 Thread du yang
On Sunday 10/23/11 03:17:10 CST, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I prefer Avast to AVG. It has versions for both Windows and Linux. Here's the > link for the Linux version: > > http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab1 > overlay gentoo-zh offer it. app-antivirus/avast4workstation -- Best Regads du