[gentoo-user] ALSA issue

2006-02-01 Thread Franta
Hi, I'm back again and immediately have some issues. ALSA stopped working after some emerge -u world. Maybe something has changed with ALSA. While booting I get: Loading ALSA modules ... Loading snd-seq-oss ... [OK] Loading snd-pcm-oss ... [OK] Restoring mixer levels ...

[gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-01 Thread Franta
Hi, that's me onesmore. Again the things changed were some emerge -u world. There are no USB disks coming up anymore. Dunno when this issue came up. I have a digital camera which I connected to my PC. It came up as /dev/sdaX and due to my USB settings as /dev/psmart. I have an USB key, which

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-01 Thread Franta
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Feb 1 23:36:08 frankies usb-storage: device scan complete Seems the hardware is OK. But ... frankies ~ # ls /dev/sd* ls: /dev/sd*: No such file or directory frankies ~ # On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:25 +0100, Franta wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-01 Thread Franta
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:06 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/1/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, that's me onesmore. Again the things changed were some emerge -u world. There are no USB disks coming up anymore. Dunno when this issue came up. I have a digital camera which I

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-02 Thread Franta
this. This way we'll never become an accepted (and supported) distro. Just an IMHO Frank On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:07 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/1/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/1/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been a _lot_ of changes in udev, and most likely

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
# ... a hotplug issue? On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:25 +0100, Franta wrote: Hi, that's me onesmore. Again the things changed were some emerge -u world. There are no USB disks coming up anymore. Dunno when this issue came up. I have a digital camera which I connected to my PC. It came up as /dev/sdaX

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
+0100, Franta wrote: So O.K. I'll probably have to do this from scratch. I've removed my customisations from /etc/udev/rules.d frankies ~ # cd /etc/udev/rules.d/ frankies rules.d # ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 346 Jan 23 22:14 05-udev-early.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11612

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:40 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: Sound was working - at least mpeg files were with sound. This started with an update world somewhen during november last year. check /etc/modules.d/alsa, that's where your soundcard configuration lives. If it doesn't contain a

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA issue

2006-02-03 Thread Franta
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:44 +0100, Franta wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 23:40 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: Sound was working - at least mpeg files were with sound. This started with an update world somewhen during november last year. check /etc/modules.d/alsa, that's where your

[gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Franta
Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. Well. nothing changes. I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Franta
-04 at 04:11 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: On Saturday 04 February 2006 04:02 am, Franta wrote: Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

2006-02-05 Thread Franta
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 19:26 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote: But a sysadmin of 20 yrs will not have too much trouble getting lined out again. Must be one of thise old school Slowaris or HP-SUX admins... Yes, and AIX, Tru64,SCO and Linux and BSD of course

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K. -- help or point!

2006-02-05 Thread Franta
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 10:08 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All this was here ones again :( I posted this to your other thread, but you either didn't see it or didn't respond. Try cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug. In your case, it should say /sbin

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K. -- help or point!

2006-02-06 Thread Franta
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frankies ~ # #with stick frankies ~ # frankies ~ # ls /dev/ds* ls: /dev/ds*: No such file or directory Oh, and you typo'd here... -Richard :-D yepp -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-12 Thread Franta
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:04 -0200, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/4/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. I know, I'll need to do some work to get things running

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice / Evolution display settings

2006-02-12 Thread Franta
Hi all I got OpenOffice2 installed last week. I use Evolution as my default mail frontend. Openoffice has now display settings for a (nearly) blind person. The icons in the taskbar aren't big. They are huge. I'd like to change some font settings in Evolution too. If I remember right this is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread Franta
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:03 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash? I don't want to run any extra

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice / Evolution display settings

2006-02-12 Thread Franta
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 00:17 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Franta schreef: Hi all snip Openoffice has now display settings for a (nearly) blind person. The icons in the taskbar aren't big. They are huge. I'd like to change some font settings in Evolution too. . Can anyone tell me

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing to a 256MB Rom

2006-03-01 Thread Franta
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 15:00 -0500, Ryan Holt wrote: Hey, Little bit of an odd question here. But Say I wanted to write to an imbedded 256MB Rom Drive. Specifically, I'd like to install a minimalistic Linux install onto a mini-server that contains only a ROM storage space How could I

[gentoo-user] env-update problem

2006-03-04 Thread Franta
Hi, I'm trying to install ORACLE on my box following the HOWTO on gentoo-wiki. After creating this /etc/env.d/99oracle: ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0.3 ORACLE_SID=''MyDB'' ORACLE_TERM=xterm ORACLE_OWNER=oracle TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin

Re: [gentoo-user] env-update problem

2006-03-05 Thread Franta
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 15:19 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Franta wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install ORACLE on my box following the HOWTO on gentoo-wiki. After creating this /etc/env.d/99oracle: ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle ORACLE_HOME

[gentoo-user] Weird bash behavior

2006-03-05 Thread Franta
Hi, from $for AA in [0-9][0-9]; do echo $AA; done I'd await to get: 00 01 02 .. 98 99 but I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyDB $ for AA in [0-9][0-9] ; do echo $AA; done [0-9][0-9] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyDB $ Is this fixed somehow? Thanks in advance Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird bash behavior

2006-03-05 Thread Franta
On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 17:48 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:50:36PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: Franta wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyDB $ for AA in [0-9][0-9] ; do echo $AA; done [0-9][0-9] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyDB $ Is this fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-21 Thread Franta
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:43 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Hi, Oops, lost the thread turning off dhcp end. Thanks to Neil. Both boxen can ping each other. Now to clear up a few loose ends: Why on the fresh(2.6.15) install does net.eth0 start automatically and the older(2.6.12) have to be

[gentoo-user] OT: terminal with horizontal scrollbar

2006-03-26 Thread Franta
Hi, does anyone of you know about an X-terminal with an horizontal scrollbar? I use to set linewidth in ORACLE's SQL*Plus to something like 1000 or 2000. If I run a select in SQL most of the columns will be lost beyond the right border of the terminal. Well, I could use a ''text'' widget of