Re: [gentoo-user] Moonlight on Gentoo

2008-08-08 Thread Alexander Meinke
Hi Willie, I have had no experience with moonlight yet, but google brought me to this [1]. More useful would be this [2]. At [2] you can just download an firefox 2 plugin in .xpi format. It seems that there is no ebuild atm. Please report your experience to this thread. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-ati-6.8.0-r1 problems

2008-07-17 Thread Alexander Meinke
Hi, I think this problem is not *-ati (driver) related. Since the module needed for drm has the same name as the driver has, but resides in another directory. I would suggest you to check whether x11-base/x11-drm or to the kernel module is build for drm. Since I am using the package

Re: [gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?

2008-06-01 Thread Alexander Meinke
Grant wrote: Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub? Hi Grant, if you upgrade grub via emerge, /boot should be mounted. As stage1, stage2 etc. will be upgraded in /boot/grub and also in /lib/grub/i386-pc. You should also check if /etc/mtab is available, because grub-install require this

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot problem

2008-05-31 Thread Alexander Meinke
Wolf Canis wrote: # mount -tproc proc /mnt/rescue/proc # mount -obind /dev /mnt/rescue/dev Ooops, I overlooked your cd command. Therefore the mount command is of course correct. :-[ Hi, I think this is, although the 'cd' command is executed, necessary as the mount command looks at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread Alexander Meinke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little confused .. the question (that you quoted in your reply) asks how to set use flags separately for layman overlay. So your answer doesn't appear to make sense... but maybe I'm missing something here. Hi, the subject is How to set package.use for layman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-17 Thread Alexander Meinke
So again, if one wanted to set some use flags differently for layman packages ... where and how would that be done? I think that you should use package.use. Yes. According to Strollers post this is done by an package.use file in /usr/portage/layman I think. Regards, acm. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-26 Thread Alexander Meinke
Ian Lee wrote: i always thought vga= was only used by the old vesafb driver i use video=uvesafb:1024x768-32 i cant get any wide screen modes to work at all, anybody else know how?? Did you tried to find out what resolutions are supported by your graphic card (e.g. hwinfo --framebuffer)? I

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Meinke
Hi. Try to determine possible resolutions by typing hwinfo --framebuffer. Use the hex code 0x... and put it as kernel parameter in your grub.conf. For 1400x1050 with kernel 2.6.24-r3 I am using the following lines: title Gentoo GNU/Linux (gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r3) root (hd0,1) kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Meinke
Ale wrote: 2008/3/25, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: * * Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa Yes I am using gentoo-sources. I think since kernel 2.6.23 (or maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Alexander Meinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. AMD has had better engineers than Intel all the time. Intel just had the money. A few years ago the CIO from Intel advised engineers to be more creative. So AMD will stay ahead of the pack and if they find the right way (actually they're going

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Alexander Meinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dani, your configuration file looks ok. To prior one ap more than another Iam using the priority=int option in my wpa_supplicant.conf. The second problem, that you're not able to connect to your wpa secured ap, could be triggered by not compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] XML editor

2008-02-23 Thread Alexander Meinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ralf, what's about Amaya? This is an editor for not only XML, but it maybe suites your needs. Here is a link http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ . Regards, acm. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest verification failed

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Meinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Stockdale IV wrote: | * checking firefox-2.0.0.11-source.tar.bz2 ;-) | ... | [ !! ] | | !!! Digest verification failed: | !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/firefox-2.0.0.11-source.tar.bz2 | !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size | !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchpad no longer working

2008-02-16 Thread Alexander Meinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael J. Barillier wrote: | , | | Section InputDevice | | Identifier TouchPad | | Driver synaptics | | Option SendCoreEvents true | | Option Protocol auto-dev | | Option SHMConfig on | | EndSection Hi