[gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
: Feb 10, 2008 1:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo On Sunday 10 February 2008 12:48:44 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I

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

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2008-06-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Can anyone help me with the correct CUPs settings to print to an HP D7400 series printer over a wireless network? I can access the printer's home page via the IP address, but when I set up CUPS with the printer option socket://192.168.2.4, the job fails, and the printer screen returns the

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

2007-11-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Can anyone help me with an update issue? I do not seem to be able to update a lot of my system, because sane-backends fails to compile. This is the error I get make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/work/sane-backends-1.0.18/backend' make[1]: *** No

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

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2007-11-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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. The grub line which works for the 2.6.17-r8 kernel is: # For booting GNU/Linux title Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 root (hd0,4) kernel

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

2007-11-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2007-11-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 18 November 2007 05:00:12 pm »Q« wrote: Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

2007-12-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Can anyone point me to a resource for configuration of a realtek 8197 wireless card on a Toshiba laptop? I am running the 2.6.22-suspend2-r2 kernel, and have installed ndiswrapper. Unfortunately, when I try to install ieee80211, I get an error because CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not configured in the

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

2007-12-11 Thread Jeff Cranmer
-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 23:09 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Can anyone point me to a resource for configuration of a realtek 8197 wireless card on a Toshiba laptop? I am running the 2.6.22-suspend2-r2 kernel, and have installed ndiswrapper. Unfortunately

[gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message reports that the ide-cdrom on hda is the only drive present. The computer is a Toshiba

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

2007-12-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

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

2007-12-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

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

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

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

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

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

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
', 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

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

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

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

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

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

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

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

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
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

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

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I think I'm getting closer now. I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. Now, when I run

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

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
-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

[gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-05 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have a new Sansa Sandisk MP3 player. When I plug it in, I get the following dmesg output usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: port 1 reset error -110 hub 2-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32) I have been able to successfully mount several

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-06 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Try rmmod ehci-hcd, then modprobe ohci-hcd and see what happens. Also, include from /var/log/messages everything printed from when ohci-hcd is modprobed to then end of actually plugging in the Sansa. And again when trying ehci-hcd. -- ohci was not included in my kernel. I recompiled with

[gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-12 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am getting an error when I try to update sun-jdK /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11/distdir/jdk-6u11-dlj-linux-i586.bin: line 821: ./install.sfx.14482: No such file or directory Failed to extract the files. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of the Installation Instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the download page was. On Saturday 13 December 2008 07:25:36 am Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:03:43 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Failed to extract the files. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of the Installation Instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
errors resulting from the original (I believe invalid) variable? Any suggestions gratefully received. Jeff On Saturday 13 December 2008 06:43:24 pm Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: 2008/12/13 Jeff Cranmer jcranme...@earthlink.net Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the download page

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
this will fix my problems. I wonder if this latent error is not about to cost me a whole bunch more though. Is there anything I should do with the emerge command or any other command in order to correct this profile problem? Thanks Jeff On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:17:22 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
It looks like fixing the /etc/make.profile symlink fixed my problem. I'm still a little nervous about whether I need to run any other commands in order to prevent my system going wrong after making this correction. Jeff On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:48:47 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: Progress

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 15 December 2008 03:40:00 am Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:48:47 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at the x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile. I'm attempting a recompile now

[gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have a problem with my gentoo system I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check error on a number of packages. After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is to recompile glibc and gcc. Unfortunately, when I try to compile glibc, I

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:52:11 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote: Jeff Cranmer schrieb: I have a problem with my gentoo system I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check error on a number of packages

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile binary packages[1]. Or, why not just use a stage tarball? HTH. Joe [1]

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 12:43:58 pm Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeff Cranmer squawked: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 01:49:41 pm Justin wrote: Jeff Cranmer schrieb: Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile binary

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Perhaps you should go back to a lower glib version. Latest versions of such important packages might always have issues. What is the approved way to do this? There is no approved way to downgrade glibc. The output message from the error you posted tells you why the devs will not

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote: However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you have attempted to downgrade glibc? My fault missed the c. @Jeff Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps this will protect you from some

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
line in there, it simply adds to the list of keywords, rather than replacing the amd64 with ~amd64 Jeff On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:49:46 pm Justin wrote: Jeff Cranmer schrieb: On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote: However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/temp/environment'. * On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:03:59 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, and it is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:15:41 pm Justin wrote: Jeff Cranmer schrieb: First avoid top posting OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, and it is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the hard drive, how do I reinstall everything

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: Jeff Cranmer schrieb: I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept keywords reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort than

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote: Jeff Cranmer schrieb: On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: Jeff Cranmer schrieb: I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept keywords reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many

[gentoo-user] communications issue with ptal-init setup

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi all, I am setting up a gentoo box for a friend of mine, and I'm having problems communicating with the printer. The printer is a parallel port HP deskjet 712C. After enabling the parallel port in the bios, I was able to detect the device from ptal-init as a deskjet-710C, but failed to

[gentoo-user] Re: communications issue with ptal-init setup

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Problem solved - I emerged pnm2ppa, then created a ppd specific to the Deskjet 712C file from the web, and now it prints. Deep joy!g On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:52 +, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi all, I am setting up a gentoo box for a friend of mine, and I'm having problems

[gentoo-user] Setting up an HP-3200C scanner

2005-05-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am trying to set up an HP-3200C scanner (this is apparently the same as a UMAX 1220P parallel port flatbed scanner). I have followed the instructions at http://umax1220p.sourceforge.net/, but I'm running into a little difficulty. The instructions point to a command line utility, umax_pp in

[gentoo-user] Trying to install a cable modem connection

2005-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
working? Thanks in advance Jeff Cranmer

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to install a cable modem connection.

2005-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I figured out what the problem was. I hadn't changed the interfaces file in shorewall to point to eth1 instead of ppp0 (the old adsl connection). Shorewall was blocking the connection. Once I corrected this, I was up and running Thanks On 2005-10-29 20:26 +, [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Openoffice 2 Install problems

2005-12-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I've just upgraded to the latest version of openoffice It seems to be broken. When I start openoffice writer, I get the error /usr/lib/openoffice/program/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libuno_sal.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line. Looking at Xorg.0.log, I have the following warnings and errors

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
-Original Message- From: Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2006 1:47 PM To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Subject: Grub problems I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual core

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual core processor. I have a serial ATA 250GB hard drive which I am attempting to install my OS into. The hard drive maps in the bios to SATA4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:05 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6 [snip] My grub.conf file is as follows: default=0 timeout=30

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
PS: The /boot/grub/devices.map presently contains (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/hde (hd2) /dev/hdh Jeff -Original Message- From: Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:55 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems Hi Richard, The full

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
to the shop :-/ Jeff -Original Message- From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2006 6:27 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Richard, The full output from running your suggested command

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 29 October 2006 6:49 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I'm going to borrow a Windows 2000 or XP OS and see if that will install. �If that fails, or unless someone comes up with any other solutions, I'll take the computer back to the shop :-/ It seems to me that bios and grub have different ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
: Oct 29, 2006 10:48 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, no prompt appears. It just hangs at the boot-up screen, repeatedly adding 'GRUB' to the top line of text. Hmm, GRUB isn't very

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems - Success

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Jeff Cranmer wrote: The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is top of the hard drive order list, and I'm stumped. Jeff Perhaps simplifying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems On Sunday 29 October 2006 20:11, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:56 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Try running grub, then at the grub command line: root (hd2,5) setup /dev/sda quit Try setup (hd2)...also

[gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-03 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I seem to have some network issues with my gentoo install I have /etc/init.0/net.eth0 configured to run at the default runlevel. It appears to startup ok. No firewall has been installed yet. The network appears to startup eth0 correctly, obtaining a dhcp address from my cable provider via the

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
having? Thanks Jeff -Original Message- From: Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 3, 2006 10:15 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:57, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I seem to have some network issues

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
with installing kde :-) The results of ifconfig and route -n are unchanged. Jeff -Original Message- From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 4, 2006 8:29 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems On Saturday 04 November 2006 12:24, Jeff Cranmer wrote

[gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

2005-07-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I run a dual-boot linux system. One is kernel 2.4 (in order to use Win4Lin 4) and the other is kernel 2.6 I have an emerge problem with my 2.4 kernel. After emerge sync, when I perform an emerge -up world, I do not see any packages requiring update. When I start checking individual

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

2005-07-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
/lib/portage/world) Cheers, Mark On 7/17/05, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run a dual-boot linux system. One is kernel 2.4 (in order to use Win4Lin 4) and the other is kernel 2.6 I have an emerge problem with my 2.4 kernel. After emerge sync, when I perform

[gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have recently updated shorewall on my 2.4 gentoo OS I now get the following error: /usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 254: exists_:_frwd=Yes: command not found Warning: wierd character in interface `$' (No aliases, :, ! or *). iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall failure following upgrade

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 16:17 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Works OK on a 2.6 system, too. It depends only on: iptables, iproute2 and virtual/libc (glibc). Some suggestions: 1.try revdep-rebuild -pv later w/o p to check if something needs to be rebuild (suspect 'iptables' here); 2.Check for

[gentoo-user] Quanta setup for cervisia?

2005-08-28 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to recover almost all my work after a crash). I would like to import the project into

[gentoo-user] Re: Quanta setup for cervisia?

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to recover almost all my work after a crash). I would like to import the project into

[gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-12 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver. I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log file, and the results of the lspci command. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:06 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Forgot one last thing. After you do what I described in my other post, make sure to execute: eselect opengl set ati Hi Nikos, Thanks for the advice. I think that the instructions that you're providing, however, are for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You mentioned that you used fglrxinfo in your post, which assumes you're using the closed source driver :-/ Another hint was that you're using an HD5000 series card, which is not supported correctly by the open source drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
on this? Thanks Jeff On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:11 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You mentioned that you used fglrxinfo in your post, which assumes you're using the closed source driver :-/ Another hint was that you're using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 22:24 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again. First, get rid of the open source ati drivers emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx then running

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ EndSection Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ EndSection

[gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi all, After cleaning off my Opensuse O.S. and installing Gentoo, I'm having trouble getting my 3-disk nvidia SATA raid5 array back on line. The gentoo OS is on a separate non-raid IDE disk, and I can see the three individual disks which make up the raid array (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc).

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 22:29 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Make sure your kernel supports RAID, and RAID5 (they're separate options). Then emerge mdadm. Once you get it up and running once, you can dump the current config to /etc/mdadm.conf so you don't have to assemble it again. Then add

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here. So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, if I run the command mdadm --assemble --scan

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:43 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here

[gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi All, I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating. Is this a known issue? Any simple fixes? Thanks in advance Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi All, I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating. Is this a known issue? Any

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

2011-07-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:39 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi All, I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I can't start X and keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and adding ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array? Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and adding ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-08-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:55 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the superblock on /dev/sda, at least. Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do anything at

[gentoo-user] Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade kde from 4.4 to 4.6, and I've run into a problem. Plasma-runtime-4.6.3 is failing. The error appears to be redefinition of 'struct QMetaTypeIDPlasma::Service*' Has anyone encountered this problem, and is there an easy fix? Thanks Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:16 -0700, walt wrote: On 08/10/2011 03:04 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 14:40:31 schrieb walt: On 08/09/2011 08:34 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to upgrade kde from 4.4 to 4.6, and I've run into a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-23 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 11:55 -0700, walt wrote: On 08/20/2011 12:21 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: /usr/include/KDE/Plasma/../../plasma/service.h:321: error: previous definition of 'struct QMetaTypeIdPlasma::Service*' Hm, well purely a wild guess, but perhaps /usr/include/plasma/service.h is left

[gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I'm getting an error when trying to emerge phonon-gstreamer on my amdfam10 system. The compilation error is 'undefined reference to 'typeinfo for Phonon::StreamInterface' Has anyone else seem this error? I'm trying to clear out all remaining items in an emerge -NDuav world prior to

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 09:59 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi, I'm getting an error when trying to emerge phonon-gstreamer on my amdfam10 system. The compilation error is 'undefined reference to 'typeinfo for Phonon::StreamInterface' Has anyone else seem this error? I'm trying to clear out

[gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I'm attempting to bring up a new system. Processor is AMD Phenom 1055, running on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. Graphics card is an NVIDIA GEForce GTX550Ti. If I start X with twm, the xserver connection is made, and TWM comes up correctly with three Xterm windows. I note that I get two

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 10:50 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: --tree Sorry - please could you be a little more verbose? :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 11:47 -0600, Dale wrote: Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: Maybe some use flag inconsistency? Try adding --newuse or -N to your emerge. Try this: emerge -uavDN world. If this still just pulls phonon-gstreamer, then there should be some problem in the package

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730 Dale :-) :-) Thanks for the link. I tried changing the use flags for phonon to -gstreamer vlc, but for some reason I'm still getting gstreamer pulled in as use flag requirement, though it adds vlc. Same error as

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 14:52 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730 Dale :-) :-) Thanks for the link. I tried changing the use flags for phonon

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