Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 10:50:22 pm Thierry de Coulon wrote: What am I missing? Try logging out of KDE and get into a virtual console session. From there try to play a sound file using alsaplayer or play command may be? That will clear out any doubts of aRts playing spoil sport. If you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] skype again

2007-06-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory to something else. This database error sometimes occur when Skype does not shutdown cleanly. -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdesktop fails

2007-06-18 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 17 Jun 2007 4:06:05 pm dexter wrote: I was advised to upgrade to newest gcc - I did, and I also have the latest binutils avaluable in the portage. None of those thing helped. I'm quite stuck - I've installed gentoo on several other machines, but never had such a problem. You

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 30 Apr 2007 10:57:08 pm Roy Wright wrote: Is this clashing of menu structures normal between window managers? If so, any tools for backing up the menu structure? Or a way to tell gnome to use kde menu structure? I can't help much as I don't run GNOME along with KDE but this menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 Apr 2007 8:56:57 pm James wrote: amd64 You have installed firefox-bin or you have compiled firefox yourself? www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin Available versions: 2.0.0.3 Installed versions: 2.0.0.3 In order to use 32 bit plugins (like flash) on 64 bit browsers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007 11:27:58 pm James wrote: Now make a symlink from what to what? You need to make symlinks to these files in ~/.mozilla/plugins /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 Apr 2007 1:52:14 am James wrote: Will this work on Gentoo, as is, or are there further modifications. I failed to mention, that the system is running on an AMD 64 bit cpu, model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Didn't see this post of yours earlier.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey

2007-04-24 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 24 Apr 2007 6:04:19 am James wrote: Abhay Kedia abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes: What did I miss? Do you have flash plugin mentioned under about:plugins page? NO, That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about your flash plugin. Try to make soft

Re: [gentoo-user] flash with seamonkey

2007-04-23 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 23 Apr 2007 11:44:45 pm James wrote: What did I miss? Do you have flash plugin mentioned under about:plugins page? Also did you try starting seamonkey from a terminal window to see if it throws any errors at you? -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

2007-03-25 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 25 Mar 2007 7:06:33 pm Dale wrote: That said, I don't like using Konqueror as a web browser. How do I get Seamonkey to either not ID itself or something so this will work? I looked in preferences and I can't find anything in there to change. You can always try installing user

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer2, where is it?

2007-03-10 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 10 Mar 2007 2:44:40 am Dale wrote: Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.h:10:25: error: nsISupports.h: No such file or directory In file included from Source/plugin.h:54, from Source/plugin-support.cpp:1: Source/nsScriptablePeer.h:49:26: error: nsIClassInfo.h: No such file or

Re: [gentoo-user] spca5xx

2007-03-10 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 10 Mar 2007 11:55:16 am Ted Ozolins wrote: Searching Google I take it that the spca5xx under kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 is still a no go? Anyone know of a work-around? You can try unmasking gspcav1, which is the new branch of spca5xx * media-video/gspcav1 Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:32, Philip Webb wrote: BTW my problem is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: does anyone else experience this does anyone have a solution ? Have you tried reducing scaling in view settings. You can also over-ride system wide font settings by using OOo default

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Intel 82865g

2006-05-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:37, Fernando Ferrari wrote: Hi, I'm use a Xorg version 7.0.0 and the video card Intel 82865G, and Xorg don't work with vesa or fbdev, Any ideas? Use it with i810 driver? I had a 865GV board and it worked fine with i810 driver. What is the compulsion behind using

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG Trouble - Found Problem, Need Solution

2006-04-24 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 23 April 2006 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: through KGPG. The problem is that the GnuPG agent in the x86 area is version 1.4.2.2, yet KMail demands verison 1.9 The main problem is that gpg-agent has been Package Masked in favour of gnupg-1.9.20-r1. So KMail demands next best

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
So kdepasswd is probably what you are looking for. Ah...thanks a lot man. What a fine way to troubleshoot :) Thanks to everyone else as well who replied. -- Regards, Abhay pgp94js4y0nKz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! -- Regards, Abhay pgpfaDBRCih4g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues

2006-04-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:13, maxim wexler wrote: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool Did you upgrade expat to v2.0? If yes then have a look here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-450797-highlight-expat.html -- Regards, Abhay

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 21 April 2006 10:34, Martins Steinbergs wrote: i would say you should emerge kdm mar martins # slocate default3.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/default3.png mar martins # equery belongs default3.png [ Searching for file(s) default3.png in *... ] kde-base/kdm-3.5.2

Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin * kde-base/kdeadmin Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE administration

[gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings

2006-04-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello All, I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png When I check for the same under kcontrol on my system (KDE 3.5.2), I am unable to find it. Can some please help me in finding the package needed,

Re: [gentoo-user] xml2 USE flag description should not have deprecated

2006-03-14 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:08, Aniruddha Shankar wrote: Until I realised that OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 does not have the ability to save files as odt or sxw anymore. Wow!!! That sucks. I also compiled everything according to the new profile last night but don't know what all has been damaged.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk

2006-03-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing mozilla with mplayer plug-in

2006-03-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 09 March 2006 19:56, pat wrote: I have Mozilla with MPlayer plug-in. Each time I play something with the plug-in the Mozilla freez with next operation. What's wrong ??? Did you check to see if you are getting any error by launching mozilla from a terminal? -- Regards, Abhay

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:04, Holly Bostick wrote: Not sure why sometimes lines get wrapped when they shouldn't be, but it does happen (even in nano, where it shouldn't, and certainly in GUI editors, if you set it that way without thinking), and it can have unexpected consequences (like

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 23 February 2006 19:25, Uwe Thiem wrote: End of rant. I think you should read this article http://rudd-o.com/archives/2006/01/11/why-swap-is-good-even-with-tons-of-ram/ I don't know about you but since I started using an archck kernel, I have always seen my system actually using

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 20 February 2006 22:50, Uwe Thiem wrote: So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? If you are in KDE, then right clicking on the file should give you a Open with... option in the

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problems

2006-02-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 February 2006 01:39, Statux wrote: anyone have any ideas or similar experiences? Also, is there a different plugin that does the same thing? I've only known there to be mplayer's version. I like to use mozplugger for these tasks. http://mozplugger.mozdev.org/ It makes netscape

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:29, Uwe Thiem wrote: No, they are not. That's OSS stuff and not present on my box since I don't use OSS. I have this in my /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules which is related to ALSA # alsa devices SUBSYSTEM==sound, GROUP=audio KERNEL==controlC[0-9]*,

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 11 February 2006 16:38, b.n. wrote: Why a bad idea? I find it made things easier. If you install SANE for example it is almost obvious you have installed a scanner and you probably need the scanner use flag. So use.defaults did. Of course you can disable it if you don't appear to

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 12 February 2006 00:59, Uwe Thiem wrote: Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and rightly so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are a couple of devices under /dev/snd: The devices of interest are under /dev/sound and not under /dev/snd # ls

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-03 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 04 February 2006 07:05, Willie Wong wrote: For firefox, I just found the following tidbit: http://www.mail-archive.com/svg-developers@yahoogroups.com/msg07375.html basically, svgz should be gzip'd svg files. For some reason, Firefox cannot deal with local svgz files, but can

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.

2006-02-02 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 03 February 2006 12:01, Willie Wong wrote: For konquerer and kview, did you install ksvg? No but now I did and it works great in KDE related things. Thanks a lot for this :) Which version of eog do you have? 2.12.2 should have support for image/svg+xml Since you have problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. -- Regards, Abhay pgpDBsUMAdkF2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 28 January 2006 20:38, Benno Schulenberg wrote: See man hwclock, the section on The Adjust Function. Thanks for the explanation and the tip. It certainly makes sense now :-) Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? I disabled it recently when I was trying to get to the root of this

[gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is happening. I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: That deserves looking into: I'd start with the kernel config. Maybe something about /dev/rtc? Here are the outputs --- genbox abhay # ls -l /dev/rtc ls: /dev/rtc: No such file or directory genbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: If it is ticking , then set the hardware clock to the correct time with 'hwclock --set --date=thistime', then throw away the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: But the quick fix is probably rc-update del clock. I don't know if that's a Bad Thing To Do (TM), but nobody screamed when I asked about it in #gentoo. Though the problem is solved now but it is still worth mentioning that removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
with 'hwclock --set --date=thistime', then throw away the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). Stupid me!!! Totally forgot to do the most important thing i.e. to

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the GRP discs?

2006-01-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: It's been almost a year since I last installed Gentoo. Now I need to do it again, and I can't find the GRP package CDs on any of the mirrors I've tried. Anyone know where I can find 2005.1 GRP ISOs? Never tried GRP install but is it also

Re: [gentoo-user] Captive will not acquire?

2006-01-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 04:35, Michael Kintzios wrote: # /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire bash: /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire: No such file or directory # captive-install-acquire bash: captive-install-acquire: command not found Did you enable gtk USE flag? -- Regards, Abhay

Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

2006-01-24 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 23 January 2006 22:29, maxim wexler wrote: Yes Try printing a test page directly from CUPS Admin panel so that any problems with printer configuration is ruled out. -- Regards, Abhay pgpIjuPoO2JdK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 22 January 2006 17:38, Derek Tracy wrote: wish that Amarok handled Podcasts with more flexibility and allowed me to create playlists and such automaticlaly on my iPod (problem solved by not using Amarok and using bashpodder / gnupod). Check back with amaroK 1.4 and you will have

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --buildpkgonly world won't go: kde metapackage problem?

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 22 January 2006 23:51, Robert Persson wrote: The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a kde upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop, but could kde in fact be the very source of the problem? Is emerge getting confused by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:52, Dale wrote: Still wish I had etcat though. :-( It is located here on my system. /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre2/deprecated/etcat/etcat If you like the script so much then just copy the script to somewhere safe, where portage cannot take it away from you.

Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

2006-01-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 23 January 2006 07:02, maxim wexler wrote: In the cups/error_log Did you set LogLevel to debug2 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? If not try it and then see what errors you get. Also double check whether you set atleast one printer as default. -- Regards, Abhay pgpEjcE1ilOqr.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 21 January 2006 05:36, Holly Bostick wrote: That may be true, but it assumes that I want a Desktop Environment in the first place, which I don't, particularly. Ermm...if you don't want a Desktop Environment then why install K Desktop Environment in the first place and then why get

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:52, maxim wexler wrote: Ok, so you click on 'Do Administrative Tasks' at that place of mystery http://localhost:631/ and it asks you for your username and password and you give it your username and password and it asks you again and again...and as often as it

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products

2006-01-21 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:52, maxim wexler wrote: Hi, Welcome to my leaner, stripped-to-the-basics, I-can't-setup-my-printer thread. Come in, make yourself at home. Much roomier here, as you can see. Oops!!! Looks like I missed your more obese thread about this same problem. Can you

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 19:59, Holly Bostick wrote: more comfortable with a more Windows-like environment, and Windows-like assumptions about what a user wants/needs from their desktop, KDE may be just the thing; that is, after all, what it's designed to do to a great extent. That statement

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 21:08, Alexander Kirillov wrote: and better integrated with other open source projects out there. That is not a quality of Gnome but GTK. Gnome uses GTK while KDE uses QT. Since (earlier) QT had a non-acceptable license for most of the developers of FLOSS, they chose

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE? [OT]

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:01, darren kirby wrote: Unscientific: Google for: kde rules -- 40,900 kde sucks -- 9,660 gnome rules -- 554 gnome sucks -- 10,500 Draw your own conclusions. ..or we could always use googlefight ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:02, Richard Fish wrote: But since ALSA now has the dmix plugin that works pretty well for those cards that do not provide hardware mixing, the only reason to continue to use a sound server is if you have trouble configuring dmix. The use of dmix is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 17:57, Thiago Lüttig wrote: grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libungif.la' is not a valid libtool archive Re-emerge imlib2 with gif use flag. --

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I have done it before but I can not seem to get it working now. A google search seems to get me

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 18:59, Thiago Lüttig wrote: man, it wasn´t work how wold be the command line exactly ?? First check whether you have gif use flag enabled for imlib2 or not by using this command # emerge -pv imlib2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this out at the moment) It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 02:04, Zac Medico wrote: You can boot off of the cd and build a kernel immediately or you can copy the cd's kernel. When booted from the cd, the kernel is found at /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo-em64t and corresponding modules are in /lib/modules. The install cd and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 22:59, John Jolet wrote: emerge Xorg? or emerge kde-meta Xorg and KDE both are emerged and I am using this kernel on already existing system. If you are saying that I should reemerge them, then wouldn't I bork my already working 32bit system? -- Regards, Abhay --

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with firefox + netscape-flash

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 04:04, Giulio wrote: compiled version. I checked with the binary version and there's no problem at all, so... it's my fault. you are using amd64 or x86 arch? -- Regards, Abhay pgp31HAjcw8GT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 14 January 2006 00:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: Why don't you just do a separate 64 bit install using stage 3 and GRP packages? You'll have it working in far less time than you have spent on this hybrid 32/64 bit setup. You are probably right that I should do an install with GRP

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 23:58, Zac Medico wrote: Apparently the new kernel does not include the necessary drivers or modules. You may get a clue from /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Depending on your hardware, you may be able to get it working temporarily with either the vesa or fbdev drivers. In

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:04, Zac Medico wrote: Well, you can't convert the 32 bit userland directly to 64 bit. However, you can run the 32 bit userland with a 64 bit kernel. For example, you can borrow the kernel from the amd64 minimal install cd. The 64 bit kernel behaves

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 13 January 2006 03:24, Dale Kirkley wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 whatever email address I am trying to send to Relaying denied. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try again. Do you use SMTP

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:46, Willie Wong wrote: The documentation for mplayer, however, suggests that with xmms support it can play musepack files. So you probably should make sure you compiled mplayer with the xmms flag, and emerge xmms-musepack. Presumably that would work. Actually

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:44, Willie Wong wrote: [01:09 PM]wwong ~ $ mplayer X-Mod_radio_x-level.mpc MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team Ah...thanks a lot. That struck a cord :) I did a major mistake. While searching for mplayer and musepack, I had an idea that CVS

[gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I have a EM64T enabled processor but currently running x86 install. Now I would like to install 64bit Gentoo on this system but since this is the only PC that I have, it is indispensable for me. I can't put it in command line mode or run it on a live CD for 3-4 days and allow

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: Do a stage 3 install plus GRP packages. You'll have a fully working 64 bit desktop in around an hour. Then edit make.conf and /etc/portage/* to suit your needs, emerge --sync and emerge -e world while using the system. Thanks for the

[gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-10 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I am trying to play mpc files in mplayer but get the following error while doing so == Requested audio codec family [musepack] (afm=mpcdec) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec for

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:48, Mike Williams wrote: You know, you could all just use: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb ...and if we face any problems we will be flamed by purist Gentooers? Reading that wiki entry made me remember the people who use --oh-so-fast CFLAGS

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome

2006-01-09 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 00:11, David Meyer wrote: /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoxft-render.h:95: error: parse error before XftGlyphSpec keyboard-drawing.c: In function `xkb_state_notify_event_filter': I somehow missed this post. Replied to a similar post b Jamie. Anyways, sync and

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 03:25, Trenton Adams wrote: So, there's documentation that specifically explains that packages can be split, and this can cause a conflict? I tried to find that, after What? How is packages being split even comes in question and why does it need specific

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 06:36, Trenton Adams wrote: Here we go again, who says that you have to limit it to a menu? Give a menu, but allow a graphical shell during install for those that want to do extra packages, or whatever. Or, even provide a dynamically extendable menu that can grab

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:57, Trenton Adams wrote: Menu of what? How will a Gentoo developer know what you want to install? If you are starting from Stage 3, you just need to choose what to install and thats it. How will a menu help you in that? As far as graphics based Gentoo install

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:33, Trenton Adams wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ Looks great to me. Just didn't see any discussion on gentoo-dev or may be I missed it. So now what do you want then? You have a graphical based install and once you have a working system, you

Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:02, Marc Schlienger wrote: Hi, I've installed kde3.4.3 with arts on my amd64 machine. Alsa is working fine. But arts works only partially. All notification sound doesn't work. Also I don't get sound when logging in. But, for example, amarok works with the arts

Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:27, Marc Schlienger wrote: [ebuild R ] kde-base/arts-3.4.3 +alsa +arts +artswrappersuid -debug -esd -hardened -jack -kdeenablefinal +mp3 -nas -vorbis -xinerama 0 kB There is your problem. All KDE system sounds are ogg files thus you need +vorbis USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error)

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 19:04, Marco Calviani wrote: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive What does opengl-update --get-implementation tell you? Regards, Abhay pgp0lQXby91bw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error)

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 23:51, Marco Calviani wrote: # /usr/sbin/opengl-update --get-implementation ati Change it to xorg-x11 by doing a opengl-update xorg-x11. It will make your system to use xorg driver for opengl purpose. Yes it will remove the 3D acceleration but it is only for the

Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:05, Christian Floeter wrote: my Canon LiDE 25 scanner is only recognized by scanimage when logged in as root. A shot in the dark. Could this be the solution? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_USB_scanner#UDEV Regards, Abhay pgpt0CTQ0IVPW.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:28, Trenton Adams wrote: Who says they know they have a fear of computers? You can be doing something that you don't even know you're afraid of. Obviously if it was total fear, they would know about it. LOL!!! Unknown fear? I have heard about Fear of unknown but

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues trying to get emerge -uD world to work

2006-01-08 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 09 January 2006 08:17, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Please excuse the messy cut and paste but I've been having problems with the mailing list from one of my email accounts and had to move back to this one). Sync and re-emerge. Known bug, now resolved.

Re: [gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:53, Tom Eastman wrote: I have a two-screen setup with X. Also, in addition to my usual keyboard and mouse, I have a cordless keyboard and mouse combo thingee. At the moment both keyboards work fine, and both mouses control the same pointer. It occurred to me

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE/CUPS and toner density

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 15:53, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: The problem is: I have Xerox Phaser 3120 printer (which, I think, is the same as Samsung ML-1710). I have tried to play with 'toner density' driver property under the 'Printer Manager' - 'printer context menu' - 'Configure'. I have not

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 06 January 2006 19:24, Petteri Räty wrote: You can always file a bug in bugs.kde.org to request this to be configurable. As usual first check that the bug does not already exist. While filing the bug I found a related bug and the fix is said to be committed to svn. Here it is

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:43, Trenton Adams wrote: which is what I mentioned in another post that I made. When I originally started with gentoo linux, I read the part about why gentoo linux came about. Basically it was all about doing things the way you want. Well, I like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:47, Holly Bostick wrote: So from this I deduce that 1) xorg 6.8.99 was *really* broken/incomplete or did something radically different that etc-update and cfg-update cannot deal with, since these files were never updated or offered to update while I when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Holly Bostick wrote: What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. afaik etc-update does not reinitialize anything. All it looks for are files that have been named in a specific way.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over to Yahoo to post this and the window's still OK. So, thankfully it's not permanent ;) Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what's happening here. Can anybody duplicate it? I went to

Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 07 January 2006 22:00, Trenton Adams wrote: I'm just of the mind that we really should encourage it's use, while encouraging people to also understand what's happening under the hood. ...and how do you suggest that should be done? There is tons of documentation available for

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread Abhay Kedia
Just on a side note, etc-update will soon be deprecated. Try dispatch-conf. This will be the tool to use in future for config updates. Regards, Abhay pgpscWY8J76WR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts fell apart

2006-01-05 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:17, Grant wrote: I was experimenting with kde and now my xfce4 fonts look terrible. Does that ring a bell for anyone? What could be causing this? - Grant Did you try deleting directories related to .kde. Also try deleting .fonts.conf and .Xresources. I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus will not complete compile.

2006-01-05 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 05 January 2006 23:40, Dale wrote: -I../../../../gcj/org/freedesktop/dbus -march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1 -c natMessage.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/natMessage.o natMessage.cc:8:21: Message.h: No

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-04 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 11:20, Roy Wright wrote: Try kate -u filename kate --help shows this option: -u, --use Use a already running kate instance (if possible) I have this same problem. Earlier on opening a file from konqueror or any where else the kate used to open

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-04 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 15:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: call Kate. Go to the Control Centre - KDE components - File associations and select text/plain. Select Kate, press Edit, go to the Application tab and change the command from kate %U to kate --use %U. That doesn't work :( It shows error

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-04 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 16:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: I've just tried it on another box, and I do get that error when opening a second file, but checking kate shows that it does have both files loaded. Ah...you are right. The files did get opened but that error pop (and that too twice) is

Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-04 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: I set the text/plain file type to call this with only %U as an argument, and it works without annoying messages. Thanks for looking into this :) This works but why is it so slow in launching? The first instance loads instantaneously but

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE without aRts?

2006-01-03 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 19:46, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: Then in kcontrol you may wish to disable arts too, and use external player option. Thus artsd remains in your system but it'll be never used. That is exactly what I am doing :) I have disabled aRts and using alsaplayer to play the

Re: [gentoo-user] TIFFs in FireFox?

2006-01-03 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 07:58, Justin Hart wrote: How do I incorporate TIFF functionality into FireFox? There do not appear to be any USE flags on firefox that apply to this. You need to use plugin for TIFF images. Just like what you do with Flash and JAVA. You can either use Plugger or

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