Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread creighto
Depends what yardstick you are comparing against - if you've never had to maintain RH boxes for instance you wouldn't know how much easier Gentoo really is. Amen to that. That goes double for old hardware. Creighton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-28 Thread creighto
Are there any tools to help me set up my printer (Hp Deskjet 722c)? The gentoo docs don't seem to work for my and I can't understand why. The computer thinks that its sending the jobs, reports that the printer is active and idle, but the jobs seem to vanish into /dev/null and the printer never

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-28 Thread creighto
I have done all of these things, or tried anyway. Creighton Take a walk over to http://www.linuxprinting.org/ it will answer every question you have... I am feeling helpful this evening so here: 1. Your printer should work perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-30 Thread creighto
It no longer tells me that it cannot find tux but it still says that port 631 is aready in use and dies. Creighton I [30/May/2005:13:49:41 -0400] Listening to 7f01:631 I [30/May/2005:13:49:41 -0400] Listening to 0:631 I [30/May/2005:13:49:41 -0400] Loaded configuration file

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-05-30 Thread creighto
I can't, cupsd dies quickly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: It no longer tells me that it cannot find tux but it still says that port 631 is aready in use and dies. Creighton I would first open the CUPS administration web interface (http://localhost:631 in your web browser) and see if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-01 Thread creighto
bash-2.05b# cupsd cupsd: Child exited with status 98! I happens after about 5 seconds. What I am doing doesn't sem to matter. I can't, cupsd dies quickly. Well, that's a problem. At what point does it die (what are you doing when it dies), and what does it say with its dying breath

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-02 Thread creighto
I re-emerged cups, got cupsd to hold, setup my deskjet 722c as parralel port 0, It said everything was good, but the test page will not print! Did you try emerging CUPS again? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/06/01 Wed PM 10:17:16 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-04 Thread creighto
I restarted cupsd with debug2 and produced way too much data, the following seems to be the inportant part. It would appear that the wise poster was correct that Ghostscript is the breaking point. Should I just emerge Ghostscript? Creighton D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:30 -0400] [Job 6] Starting

[gentoo-user] 2.4 - 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-05 Thread creighto
Trying to Migrate to 2.6. But when I reboot into my new genkerneled system, I cannot use X.org anymore, it complains about agpgart not working. Even If I modprobe the kernel mod or even compile it in directly it rejects it. Any Ideas on how to proceed? Creighton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 - 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread creighto
Okay, let's start over. I have only posted the first post of this thread, but I would say that all off the noise may imply that I am not alone here. -I have a working setup in 2.4, less so now than before, but xorg does still work. -in 2.6, xorg will break and complain that /dev/agpgart does

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 - 2.6 wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread creighto
-modprobe agpgart will result in an error What is the error? Module doesn't exist? Module is already loaded? Symbol errors? module not found -genkernel --udev --menuconfig all will not show me an option that refers to AGP anything, is this a bus? Yes, it's a speeded-up, dedicated

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4 - 2.6 wierdness, solved!

2005-07-07 Thread creighto
I checked all of the following and found them matching perfectly, in the end it was a simple change of the intel-agp module's name that had my system in fits. Thanks for all of your help everyone. Now on to setting up the new sound system... Check /etc/udev/50-udev.rules. You should have a

[gentoo-user] alsa issues

2005-07-08 Thread creighto
trouble loading snd-intel8x0 for soundcard modprobe snd-intel8x0 results in ... FATAL: Module snd_intel8x0 not found yet it exists as... /lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r4/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko Could this be a bad alias in modprobe.conf? If so how do I fix it? Creighton --

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa issues

2005-07-09 Thread creighto
Are you sure that you're currently running kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r4? Is your /usr/src/linux symlink correct? Yes, I am. I feel a little silly about my post, as I forgot to unmute my alsamixer settings. Creighton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list