[gentoo-user] recipe for managing multiple network/system settings

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Re: [gentoo-user] recipe for managing multiple network/system settings

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:15:42 -0500, Jeff wrote: I know that baselayout can handle certain services, but how do I combine that with the need for various host files, resolve.conf files, gateway, hostname, domainname, ESSID, etc. Even default printers would be nice. I need

Re: [gentoo-user] lighter xscreensaver ?

http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlockmore.html # emerge xlockmore :-) Grant wrote: Is there a program like xscreensaver that is lighter weight? All I want to do is blank and lock the screen after a little bit (or on command). I use xfce. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lighter xscreensaver ?

Heya. In your ~/.xinitrc, or ~/.xsession, you can start the xscreensaver daemon with a simple: xscreensaver -nosplash Works like a charm, especially with fluxbox and other lightweight goodies. :-) Grant wrote: Is there a program like xscreensaver that is lighter weight? All I want to do is

[gentoo-user] Desktop Environment - KDE 3.5 creating some yucky looking windows...

of what might cause this? Thanks all, Gentoo is the shizz!!! -Jeff -- C-3PO: Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop Environment - KDE 3.5 creating some yucky looking windows... [SOLVED]

Dude, you are the MAN! Worked like a charm. Thanks much. Merry, uh, Happy uh... uhm Well, you get the drift... Luis Ortiz wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey all. KDE 3.5 - amazing. Really really nice job. Sometimes, though, I get these funky looking chunky black lines in my apps - including

[gentoo-user] [OT] World Of Warcraft - Works like MAGIC on Gentoo

Just to let you guys know, not that it means anything special, but WoW works like a DREAM on Gentoo. Now, the bad, I've been reading up on this 'mouse pointer' problem, and damn.. it's getting the best of me. I've been Google'ing all day for a patch/fix, but the mouse thingy still eludes me.

Re: [gentoo-user] i'm new of list

Whaddup! Welcome to the list. :-) jangar wrote: hi -- Darth Vader: Commander, tear this ship apart until you've found those plans. And bring me the passengers, I want them alive! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness...

Ok... emerge -uDNp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) [ebuild N] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9 [ebuild N] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf + KDE + emerge whackiness... [SOLVED]

Worked as planned guys. Thanks much. How I did it: # emerge -C poppler xpdf ; emerge -vat poppler Then, add app-text/xpdf to /etc/portage/package.keywords Thanks much. :-) Daniel Heemann wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 21:04, Jeff wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative Window Managers

Fluxbox is tight. Really slick, clean, fast, and yet, still very manageable/configurable. I think you'd love it... just my opinion... http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/fluxbox-config.xml ;-) Bill Roberts wrote: On 03:18 Fri 30 Dec , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 fails to compile

-updater was the answer. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

Yeah man. I have mine at my desktop working just fine. In your kernel compile, you need to peek at the low-level SCSI drivers section, and see that your drive might appear in there, as well as, pay attention to the naming convention that Linux uses in /etc/fstab for SATA devices - for

[gentoo-user] KDE/fluxbox/misc emerges dying with strange compile errors.

Ok guys. The list seems just as active as the Gentoo forums - so I'm going to try here. I've been working on upgrading gcc/system/world on a particular box. For reasons unknown, there seems to be a whole bunch of broken stuff lying around, and now, I can't for the life of me get KDE or

[gentoo-user] NIS/NFS

Hey all. Wondering - is there a command that will let you see all exports/mount points available on a network? Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] tar over ssh

Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz' So that, the data is

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

Tom you big jerk. LOL! jk man... Well, I would call it, piping through a tunnel? Tunneling through a pipe? The concept seems very *nix-like to me. *shrug* Thanks to all... wish me luck! Tom Smith wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

. :-) -Jeff Francesco Riosa wrote: Jeff wrote: Hey guys. I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure what the command would be. Something to the effect of: # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face... Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to digest this, yes? Should I be worried? Thanks again all. Jeff wrote: This example that Francesco illustrates seems to work pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

It brings me great joy to know that my original post has spawned such madness. :-) John Jolet wrote: I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only

[gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to make my 'clone'? Thanks all. -- Darth

[gentoo-user] version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

I'm seeing this pop up a few times since upgrading to gcc-3.4 - what the heck did I break? ARGH! I love Gentoo... -- Han Solo: Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using it to 'optimize' their gcc/system. Anyone care to comment? -- Luke can't levitate his X-Wing out of the bog. Luke

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags - Why use ntpl/ntplonly in make.conf?

Ooop... my apologies... it's NPTL! Duh me!!! http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL fire-eyes wrote: Jeff wrote: Just wondering - how would my system benefit from using ntpl/ntplonly? I don't see very much 'official' documentation of these USE flags, but Googling, I see a lot of people using

[gentoo-user] One host, two NIC's...

Hey all. Linux question - I have this nice big dual Xeon server, with two NIC's. Where, how, when, why, can I configure this beast, not as a router, but just as a host with two ways to get in. eth0 is 192.168.0.39 eth1 is 192.168.1.139 I would like to be able to associate both NIC's to the

[gentoo-user] How to keep nvidia-settings?

! -Jeff -- Han Solo: Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out

Hey guys. I've been running the same kernel now for about a month, and today is the first time I saw this message. In fact, it hosed my sysinit, and it's not apparent to me how to fix this. Any ideas? Thanks! -- Emperor Palpatine: Take your Jedi weapon! Use it. Strike me down with all

[gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?

Hey all. Want to make ogg's out of my CD's, but don't want to have to download a zillion GUI's/libraries ala KDE or GNOME. I love fluxbox, so something that works in console would even be great! What's your fave? -- Princess Leia: Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?

abcde works like a charm. Thanks all for your input. :-) Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 13 février à 17:39:13 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: Hey all. Want to make ogg's out of my CD's, but don't want to have to download a zillion GUI's/libraries ala KDE or GNOME. I love fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System Clock Problems

Hey Mark. I'd also like to pitch in here. Since about two weeks ago, my machines are no longer keeping time as well. I'm getting errors when my systems boot during sysinit - the clock script fails miserably, and some systems it forces me into console to try and correct the problem. I'm not sure

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-security] AMD64 + Hard Drive weirdness...

, that would ultimately be most helpful! Off to work I go... Thanks all on the list(s). Robert Larson wrote: Hello Jeff, I've had 3 machines exhibit this kind of behaviour in the last few months. On the first machine, it was an intermitten IDE controller failure (probably related to heat

[gentoo-user] Unusual DVD-RW behavior?

Hey all. I'm curious as to why a handful of /dev/ entries seem to be pointing to the same device - notably, to hdc, which is my DVD burner. See here: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrom - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrw - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS

Hey guys. Just my two cents - I'm having trouble configuring the Epson C86, which is odd, because I've used this printer with Gentoo/CUPS before, and never had any problems. It's odd that gimp-print is installed, and I don't see the drivers popping up in the web interface. I'll keep you posted!

[gentoo-user] Resolving hostnames with OpenVPN/TUN device?

Hey all. I've got OpenVPN installed, and it runs great. Only thing - I've noticed between the Windows and Linux version - the Windows version seems to auto-magically assign the proper nameserver addresses to the TUN device once connected, hence I can just enter hostnames and ping or PuTTY with no

Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS [SOLVED]

: On 2/19/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys. Just my two cents - I'm having trouble configuring the Epson C86, which is odd, because I've used this printer with Gentoo/CUPS before, and never had any problems. It's odd that gimp-print is installed, and I don't see the drivers popping up

[gentoo-user] NFS LDAP client can't see directory.

Hey guys. I'm still pretty much a n00b in the arena of NFS LDAP so bear with me. Server info: # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /dir1 192.168.0.0/24(rw) 192.168.1.0/24(rw) Client info: The

[gentoo-user] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1438)

Hey guys. The subject is the lovely error message I'm seeing after trying to get the nVidia drivers up and running on this card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel,

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia vs. 2.6.15r1

What kind of card you using? I would dump that old driver - it's given me nothing but headaches! Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, is it possible that these two are not compatible? I am running 2.6.15-r1 and nvidia-kernel-1.0-6629-r5. If I start X the kernel oopses and I have to reboot.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] program to create buttons and graphic text

http://gimp.org/ :-) Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like to know which program can be suited to create buttons and graphic text to be used, for example, in web pages. Many thanks, MC -- Princess Leia gets her first look at the Millennium Falcon. Princess Leia: You

[gentoo-user] USE flags

Hey all. Just a quick one - where can I find the USE flag compendium? Thanks! -Jeff -- R2-D2 and Chewbacca are playing the holographic game aboard the Millennium Falcon. Chewbacca: Aaaarrrgh C-3PO: He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you. Han Solo

[gentoo-user] What USE flags would make for the ideal home KDE box?

I would like to see what USE flags you use to make the 'ideal' KDE Gentoo box. I'm just trying to narrow down my choices, and yet, still remain somewhat flexible, and/or secure. Thanks to all who participate in my little 'Quest for the Holy Flag'. -- Darth Vader: Commander, tear this

Re: [gentoo-user] What USE flags would make for the ideal home KDE box?

Twink, get off ICQ/AIM, start using my jabber server: http://www.binaryfreedom.info/ :-) Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:41, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] What USE flags would make for the ideal home KDE box?': I would like to see what USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

On Friday 09 December 2005 16:55, Harry Putnam wrote: Check out Kubuntu dude. It's probably right up your alley. This is *not* an anti-Gentoo email. I 100% love Gentoo, and will continue to use it! (Puts asbestos suit back in the drawer...) I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here

[gentoo-user] NIC works fine with Gentoo Live CD, not so good without.

Ok gang, this one absolutely boggles me. My system: AMD64 w/1.5G RAM, 200G HD, Audigy2, Realtek NIC, nVidia 6800GS. So, here's my NIC as it appears in lspci (both with the Live CD, and my current install): 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC works fine with Gentoo Live CD, not so good without.

*sigh* I hit 'reply' instead of 'compose' DAMMIT! Sorry... Jeff wrote: Ok gang, this one absolutely boggles me. My system: AMD64 w/1.5G RAM, 200G HD, Audigy2, Realtek NIC, nVidia 6800GS. So, here's my NIC as it appears in lspci (both with the Live CD, and my current install): 02

[gentoo-user] NIC works fine with Gentoo Live CD, not so good without.

Ok gang, this one absolutely boggles me. My system: AMD64 w/1.5G RAM, 200G HD, Audigy2, Realtek NIC, nVidia 6800GS. So, here's my NIC as it appears in lspci (both with the Live CD, and my current install): 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev

[gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

Hey all. Have a look at the *bottom* of this Google screen shot: http://home.comcast.net/~jmg_071769/images/borkedcharacters.jpg How do I get those Asian characters to appear? TIA! -Jeff -- Jabba the Hutt: Bring me Solo and the Wookiee! They will all suffer for this outrage

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value From the list, you can see that my video is nVidia. HTH! -Jeff Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife has the same problem

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

As root: X -configure This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video, monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify xorg.conf.new to take advantage of your particular hardware

[gentoo-user] VMWare (Gentoo) Linux

under VMWare, are you able to scan the host operating system's file system in any way? I haven't used VMWare for a very long time. Just wanted to get some input. Thanks much! -Jeff -- Han Solo: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could

[gentoo-user] MP3 conversion tool?

Hey all. Wondering, is there a neat command-line tool that can convert MP3 into other formats? Cheers! -Jeff -- Han Solo: Afraid I was gonna leave without giving you a goodbye kiss? Princess Leia: I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee! Han Solo: I can arrange

[gentoo-user] Acroread and a few other apps starting in other languages?

Hey all. This one puzzles me - Firefox and Acrobat Reader, both start up in completely different languages. Firefox in Norwegian (wtf?) and Acrobat Reader in Spanish (). I have no problem expanding my horizons learning other languages, but today is not the day. Any idears? Thanks! -Jeff

[gentoo-user] ctags exuberant ctags conflict?

hosing his system? See here: # find /usr/bin/ | grep ctag /usr/bin/exuberant-ctags /usr/bin/ctags I'm not making a lot of sense right now, sorry - only 4 hours of sleep, again. I love kids. :-) -Jeff -- Darth Vader: Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-wan has taught you well. You

[gentoo-user] Gentoo USB CD-ROM 'root block device is unspecified'

with a kernel panic. Any [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! -Jeff -- Luke Skywalker: What a piece of junk! Han Solo: She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USB CD-ROM 'root block device is unspecified'

The machine in question is a Dell Blade 1855. By passing the argument: gentoo-nofb dobladecenter By doing so, my USB CD-ROM didn't get 'lost' after booting up! All is well! Thank you awesome Gentoo devs! ;-) Jeff wrote: Hey all. I have these big fatty Dell blade servers, and the only way

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_USB_Mass_Storage_Device Sláinte! -Jeff Frédéric Grosshans wrote: I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . When I try to access /dev/sda, I've the following errors : sanduleak ~ # fdisk /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

1) CUPS is kaka. :-) J/K!!! 2) Modify your /etc/cupsd.conf, and allow machines on your network to print via CUPS http/ipp: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#Allow HTH!!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)

I'm seeing this a lot during init. Any idears? * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... Thanks all. -Jeff -- Governor Tarkin: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council

[gentoo-user] [OT] (Linux) surveillance system?

tons to spend. We'd like the design discreet and simple for the time being, until we can afford something huge. Just wondering. :-) -Jeff -- Emperor Palpatine: Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

, as you may want to change it to your liking. Works great for me anyway, YMMV! -Jeff Rumen Yotov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Jolet wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Question (Not working Wheel)

to restart X by logging out of Gnome, and at gdm (or greeter of choice), do CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE and long back in. Should work for you! Slainte. :-) -Jeff Christopher E wrote: Hello all, I am wondering what I need to do to get my wheel (scroll) to work inside of gnome? In my xorg I have auto

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

New for 2006! http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz :-) Teresa and Dale wrote: Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hi, I want to know which is the best file system for a high performance Linux? I'm presently a encrypted ext3 file system for my Gentoo Desktop machine.. I've heard that ReiserFS

[gentoo-user] KDE blocking itself?

kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1) [ebuild N] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.2-r1 [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-3.5.2 What am I doing wrong here? Most puzzling. Any help, greatly appreciated! -Jeff -- Darth Vader: Your powers are weak, old man. Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: You can't win, Darth

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE blocking itself?

That's what I was thinking! GAH! Excuse me while I go beat the *USER* who used root to do EVIL! Bad user... bad, naughty user... Thanks for the tip Fish. Richard Fish wrote: On 5/12/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. Check this out: emerge kde -p These are the packages that I

[gentoo-user] Spell package for nano?

Hey all. Captain Obvious here didn't realize that nano has spell checking (duh). However, when trying to invoke it, it yells at me: [ Spell checking failed: Error invoking spell ] What package supplies this? I see a lot of 'emerge -s spell' stuff, but I'd like to use the most

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

Good Lord man... why would you want to compile OO from source? emerge openoffice-bin :-) Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I tried to build OpenOffice from source. After hours of copmiling it fails with: Cleaning /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-2.0.2-r1/image//usr/lib/openoffice

[gentoo-user] emerge rxvt nearly caused my system to die today...

Emerging rxvt almost killed my box today - I watched gawk inside 'top' eating 100% CPU and even 100% RAM/swap. Anyone ever see this before? DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 1 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 cpu 1 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 DMA32

[gentoo-user] Printing Cyrillic fonts using Gentoo Linux?

Hey all. I think this might be a dupe of a topic I've already submitted, but here goes anyway. To make it short, I want to be able to *print* Cyrillic fonts - I can see them in console, emacs, etc - but now I want to print them, and I'm having a hell of a time getting them to show up on my HP

[gentoo-user] X not working after update

-version - will start startkde (look in /etc/X11/Sessions/) # Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps XSESSION=kde-3.5 In the /etc/X11/Sessions directory, there are two files, Xsession and kde-3.5 Thanks in advance Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X not working after update

Thanks Bo. That did the trick. The DISPLAYMANAGER variable used to be in rc.conf, but the last update removed it from there. Jeff On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 00:17 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 09 November 2006 23:59, jeff wrote: I just updated X, and now I no longer have

[gentoo-user] Wierd ALSA sound problem

goes silent, and the only way to correct it is to shut down the application using the sound card, then re-run alsaconf. Has anyone else experienced similar issues? Thanks Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone. Jeff -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

This PC is a 32 bit OS. It does have flash - all youtube videos work OK. Jeff -Original Message- From: Ian Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 10, 2008 1:04 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo Ian Lee wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

Ah - it appears that if I copy the weblink, then open it in Realplayer, I can successfully view the videos. The question is, how do I get firefox to launch realplayer as the standalone player instead of mplayerplug-in? Jeff -Original Message- From: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride I can use realplayer aswell, I use it to stream BBC radio, though it works better if you click launch as a stand-alone player, the embeded version tends to skip a bit How do I get firefox to use realplayer for bbc audio and video files instead of

[gentoo-user] Printing to an HPD7400 Series Printer

the error /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed. I'm using the HP PhotoSmart D7400 Foomatic/hpijs driver. Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks Jeff -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/temp/build.log'. Can anyone suggest a workaround? Thanks Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

0x Unfortunately, sane can no longer find my scanner, even after restarting hotplug. Any assistance gratefully received. Thanks Jeff On Friday 16 November 2007 08:33:14 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: The scanner is an HP PSC-750xi SANE_BACKENDS is set to hpaio in make.conf. What should

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

The scanner is an HP PSC-750xi SANE_BACKENDS is set to hpaio in make.conf. What should it be set to? Jeff On Friday 16 November 2007 04:44:54 am Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:36:46 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I do not seem to be able to update a lot of my system, because

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

Success. I updated hplip, which replaced the /etc/sane.d/dll/conf hpoj line with hpaio. Now all is working once more :-) Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Neil Jeff On Friday 16 November 2007 09:00:06 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: Progress kind of :-/ I set SANE_BACKENDS to hp

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

in the direction of why the new kernel will not boot, while the old one boots fine? Thanks Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

On Sunday 18 November 2007 03:42:53 pm b.n. wrote: Jeff Cranmer ha scritto: I have just tried to install the latest 2.6.22-r9 kernel I copied the config file across from the present 2.6.17.r8 installed kernel, then recompiled. [...] Can anyone point me in the direction of why the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

Well, I tried this, and didn't see any additional options which would explain the error. After copying the newly compiled kernel into the boot directory and re-running grub-install, I still get the same kernel panic error. I wonder what else could be going on which could explain this? Jeff

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

On Monday 19 November 2007 12:35:14 am Billy Holmes wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown block (0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option. Here are the available partitions run make menuconfig in your new kernel dir. check to ensure ext3 is compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems

On Monday 19 November 2007 11:46:39 pm Billy Holmes wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote: The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive

[gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

in the kernel. Unfortunately, CONFIG_NET_RADIO does not exist in this kernel, and hence I'm presently a little stuck. When I type lsusb, I get Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. I'd like to connect up to my Belkin Router using WPA/PSK if possible. Thanks in advance Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still barfing out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. I'll check and confirm this tonight. Jeff -Original Message- From: Jacek Szpot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 11, 2007 7:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo

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-7409 laptop. Can anyone offer me any guidance as to which kernel options to engage, whether to use modules or compiled-in, etc. Thanks Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still barfing out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. I'll check and confirm this tonight. Also check bugzilla. I remember reporting

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and net.eth0 Jeff On Sunday 16 December 2007 05:50:49 am Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I believe that I have this enabled, however

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suggests that this may be the case: http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/ Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and perhaps perform a similar modification? Thanks Jeff On Monday 17 December 2007 06:26:41 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: I have

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wpa_supplicant has been emerged. Jeff On Sunday 16 December 2007 12:14:42 pm Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: All I get for iwconfig is lo no wireless extensions eth0no wireless extensions. This means that the driver has not been loaded yet

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', but at least now I have an interface showing up It appears that it cannot find an access point. The access point is active, as I can connect my work laptop to it, but so far, the laptop can't see it. Any further advice gratefully received. Jeff On Wednesday 19 December 2007 06:09:50 pm Jeff Cranmer

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Final piece of info for the day. When I ran dhcpcd wlan0, I get Error, wlan0: timed out Error, wlan0: lease information file '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-wlan0.info' does not exist Any assistance gratefully received Jeff On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:47:55 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: I made

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On Thursday 20 December 2007 03:40:07 am Mick wrote: Hi Jeff, On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were uninstalled. I think that the problem I have may be more basic. The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I

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On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:00:36 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, I cannot really go into details, but maybe I'm competent enough to make some notes on this: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:47:55 -0500 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I manually edited the file /usr/src/linux/drivers

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On Friday 21 December 2007 09:21:03 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is part of the problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not support

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be the ultimate goal. Is ndiswrapper meant to work with the 2.6.23 kernel? I don't want to have to step down to an earlier kernel, as that causes problems with changing Xorg configurations, but I could go through the pain of this if it were strictly necessary. Thanks Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

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-Original Message- From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 22, 2007 2:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup On Saturday 22 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote

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other players. Has anyone had similar problems or can offer a potential solution? Thanks Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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