Happy Holidays, Everyone,
To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an
issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop).
Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the
monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the
On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote:
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com
mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Happy Holidays, Everyone,
To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know
about an
issue I've been having with my
On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote:
Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my
KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or
anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer
booted okay and gave me my login
On 12/25/11 14:27, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Happy Holidays, Everyone,
To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an
issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop).
Every once
On 12/25/11 15:08, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:20:56 Michael Hampicke wrote:
Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my
KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or
anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The
On 10/16/11 05:59, Stroller wrote:
On 16 October 2011, at 00:05, CJoeB wrote:
...
However, when I boot, eth0 does not start. I can start it manually by
doing 'modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then 'modprobe
broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3'
However, I would like to have my
On 10/16/11 06:43, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 00:05:01 CJoeB wrote:
Hi everyone,
However, now I have a networking issue.
In past, when I booted to the install CD and my ethernet connection was
not active, I typed net-setup eth0 and was able to set it up. This
time, when I booted
On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote:
Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved.
On 15 October 2011 23:44, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
(...)
If this is your first install, is FrameBuffer (pretty consoles) really
a vital component of getting your machine up
On 10/16/11 08:59, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 16.10.2011 12:43, schrieb Mick:
On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 00:05:01 CJoeB wrote:
Hi everyone,
Well, thanks to the help I got from the list, I finally have Gentoo
installed on my new desktop and booting to a command prompt.
However, now I have
On 10/16/11 11:29, Matthew Finkel wrote:
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com
mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Also: Are the modules actually loaded before you unload them? Use
`modprobe -vr broadcom tg3`. If there is no output, the module
On 10/16/11 13:37, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 17:08:45 CJoeB wrote:
On 10/16/11 11:29, Matthew Finkel wrote:
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com
mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Also: Are the modules actually loaded before you unload them? Use
On 10/16/11 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:14:45 -0500
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
CJoeB wrote:
On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote:
Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved.
On 15 October 2011 23:44, CJoeBcolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote
On 10/16/11 17:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Colleen's been here longer than I have :-)
You shouldn't make such statements about a lady :P
That gave me a huge laugh! Good considering the trials and tribulations
I've gone through with my
On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote:
As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the
modules and dependencies are loaded.
Would building one modules into the kernel and the other as a module
solve (well, kludge) the loading
On 10/16/11 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:14:45 -0500
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
CJoeB wrote:
On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote:
Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved.
On 15 October 2011 23:44, CJoeBcolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote
On 10/16/11 18:23, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 23:04:00 CJoeB wrote:
On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote:
As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the
modules and dependencies are loaded.
Would building one modules
On 10/16/11 20:38, Adam Carter wrote:
BTW, I had forgotten to run 'eselect opengl set ati' which I've always
done when configuring X. However, when I do this, it returns
'Unrecognized option: ati'
You all are probably thinking I'm nuts now, but I thought this my solve
the issue as stated
Hi guys,
I'm still struggling with this. Gave up last weekend and haven't had
time until now. Thought I had it going when I got a command prompt and
then, networking wasn't working. Anyway, more details .
On 10/10/11 16:43, David Abbott wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:31 PM, CJoeB
On 10/15/11 16:21, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Documentation for my monitor states that the max resolution is
1920x1080@60 Hz
To get this resolution that early you need kms.
Check your kernel-config:
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
#
Hi everyone,
Well, thanks to the help I got from the list, I finally have Gentoo
installed on my new desktop and booting to a command prompt.
However, now I have a networking issue.
In past, when I booted to the install CD and my ethernet connection was
not active, I typed net-setup eth0 and
Hi Everyone,
I hope someone will be able to lead me by the nose here.
For a number of weeks now, I have been trying to install Gentoo on my
new desktop. I kept running into issues and due to time constraints
when I was installing, I put off trying to resolve them.
Today, I went through the
On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but
was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to
boot into my new system. I got the boot
On 10/10/11 17:05, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Colleen
I'll try this, but I REALLY want those cute little penguins that appear
when the computer is booting! :-)
Make sure this is configured in your kernel. The config option ought to
be called CONFIG_BOOTUP_TUX, but it isn't - it's called
On 07/22/11 23:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the
warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about
leaving the status quo
On 07/23/11 18:24, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 23 July 2011 16:11:20 Mick did opine thusly:
So, if I choose the amd64 iso and Stage 3, it doesn't have to be
on an AMD machine?
Correct, you will use this iso (or systemrescueCD or Knoppix) and a
Staqe 3 equivalent to build a system on an
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS.
Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere
near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using
Gentoo since 2004 and the reason I do, is for the control that I have
over my system.
Because
Hi everyone,
Today, I ordered a new desktop from Dell (offer too good to pass up!).
The system is a Dell XPS 8300 with an Intel Core i7 processor. I was
reading the Gentoo wiki about safe CFLAGS and it said that march=native
is recommended if I use gcc = 4.2.3.
I looked at processor specific
Hi all.
Okay, colour me so stupid, but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install,
there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled for
this, but haven't found anything relevant. Can someone please help?
Regards,
On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote:
Hi all.
Okay, colour me so stupid, but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install,
there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled
Hi all,
For the longest time, it has driven me nuts that when you are doing an
emerge in a terminal window (kwin) in KDE, it doesn't display the
progress - i.e. emerge 1 of 5).
With my new and fresh installation of gentoo and kde, I figured out that
by right-clicking on the tab at the bottom of
Hi All,
See output below. I understand what this is telling me. However, the
issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages
about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86 keyword. And this
goes on continuously.
If I do emerge --pretend --update --deep
On 03/27/11 21:54, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrote:
You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge --update --deep world
That will update every package to the latest ~x86 version, and cause them
all to downgrade again
On 03/27/11 19:21, Roman Zilka wrote:
According to my local portage mirror, kipi-plugins-1.9.0 is currently
~x86. There's probably a stray line in
your /etc/portage/package.keywords which unmasks kipi-plugins-1.9.0.
The latest stable is kipi-plugins-1.2.0-r3 which is happy with
On 03/27/11 22:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 27 March 2011 18:50:36 CJoeB wrote:
Hi All,
See output below. I understand what this is telling me. However, the
issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages
about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86
On 11/02/10 07:27, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
2010/11/2 CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com:
Hi,
The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous post was
about not being able to use xsane as a normal user, it would only work
as root. Since posting that, I've done upgrades to my
Hi,
Before someone asks Haven't you posted this before?, I'll respond,
Sort of, but not really!
Anyway, I've reread all the previous posts. Mostly, they were related
to the printer portion of the device. The printer works fine.
The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous post
On 08/17/10 08:36, David Abbott wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help.
I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts
depending on the version of baselayout /openrc you have
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis
On 08/18/10 01:12, Jake Moe wrote:
On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
Things were so much
Hi,
I'm getting better recently updated to KDE 4.4 - 200+ packages that
needed to be updated (including those that weren't KDE apps) and I had a
bit of jumping through hoops to get everything installed - build
failures, blocks, etc. but managed to do everything by myself with a
little help
On 06/18/10 19:21, Alex Schuster wrote:
Colleen Beamer writes:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
The can of worms comes from doing revdep-rebuild. However, the actual
revdep-rebuild bombs and I get told that there are no e-builds to
Hi,
First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed
to help.
The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but
some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up.
Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the
folders on my hard
On 05/27/10 15:33, Dale wrote:
CJoeB wrote:
Hi,
First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed
to help.
The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but
some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up.
Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes
Hi,
I had wireless working just fine back when I was using the
2.6.27-gentoo-r8 kernel. Since upgrading to the 2.6.30 series of
kernels, I haven't been able to get it working. I was using the ipw3945
driver, but this driver needs TKIP and something else (don't remember
what) set in the
On 05/03/10 10:10, Dale wrote:
I think there is a interactive mode or something too. It is done by
hitting the I key during the first part of the boot up. Just say No
to xdm or whatever starts your GUI.
Lots of options here. lol
Dale
Thanks, Dale, for the figurative whack in the head!
Hi,
I have been doing a bit of cleaning on my system - namely, removing kde
3.5 packages according to directions given via Gentoo documentation.
After doing this, I ran revdep-rebuild (with --pretend) and found that
there were a lot of broken packages. One of the problem packages was
krecipes.
Hi,
First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really
helped.
The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked
by lzma-utils.
One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package of
eix and another one, but neither of these are
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote:
CJoeB wrote:
Hi,
I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing
working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane
when logged in as root.
I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote:
CJoeB wrote:
Hi,
I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing
working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane
when logged in as root.
I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system
Hi,
I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing
working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane
when logged in as root.
I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and
the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get
Hi,
I have an Intel 3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop. I have always used
the ipw3945 driver in gentoo because I have never had any luck with the
iwl3945 driver.
I currently am running the 2.6.30-r10 linux kernel and previous to that
I ran 2.6.30-r6. For the last 2 kernel builds that I have
Hi everyone,
I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and
copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the
unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I
am having trouble with the scanner. I again have installed unstable
Hi,
For the last little while (not sure when it started), Firefox will not
load .pdf files (also files with a .aspx extention) - it downloads them
and won't even display them if I try opening the pdf after download. I
have nppdf.so as a plugin. Opera displays these files just fine - I
have
Chuck Robey wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote:
I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I
began with an emerge --sync and then updated system. I got a message
tellimg me I had to read an eselect message from gentoo,
Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 4/13/2009 12:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com
wrote:
There's a lot of us voting 1 today I think.
How do things like this go stable when they aren't stable, tested and
AllenJB wrote:
CJoeB wrote:
Hi everyone,
I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments:
It's not a bug. It's a valid blocker. They happen.
Yes, I know that, but I seem to remember this issue before and so, did a
google and the solution I found was in a bug report, so
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:22:31 -0500, CJoeB wrote:
* Package 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9' NOT merged due to file collisions.
* If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of
the
* above message.
e2fsprogs-1.40 included the libraries
Hi everyone,
I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments:
1. emerge -NuDav --fetchonly world
2. emerge -C ss com_err e2fsprogs
3. emerge -NuDav --nodeps e2fsprogs-libs e2fsprogs
4. echo sys-libs/com_err /etc/portage/package.mask
5. echo sys-libs/ss
Mike Kazantsev wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:32:57 -0500
CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of
e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was
not merged due to file collisions.
You
Hi,
As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I
go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even
though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the
Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I
be
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote:
Hi,
As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I
go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly
Hi all,
I just did an emerge --sync and when I did 'emerge --pretend --update
--deep world', I got told that my profile was deprecated.
I was told to run the following steps:
# cd /etc/
# rm make.profile
# ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile
I just want to
Eric Martin wrote:
Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library
management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having
a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are
lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to
Justin wrote:
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences?
Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
I think you're being a little harsh. :-) Usually, unmerging a package
that is blocking another package has, in my limited experience, always
solved
Hi Guys,
Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to
upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the
sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been sticking to a kernel
that works. That is just a lead-in to the situation.
Today, I wanted
Disregard the message below. I've figured it out. Sorry! ;-(
Colleen
CJoeB wrote:
Hi Guys,
Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to
upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get
the sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been
are okay now.
Regards,
Colleen
CJoeB wrote:
| Hi Guys,
|
| Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to
| upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the
| sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been sticking to a kernel
| that works. That is just
Hi Guys,
First, let me say that I did search this problem on Google. I found a
somewhat relevant solution, but before I try it, I thought I would post
here.
The problem is jerky playback of the dvd when I try to play it using
kaffeine. The laptop on which I am trying to play the DVD is a
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 09 February 2008, CJoeB wrote:
Why all of a sudden can't I compile goffice without gnome?
Thanks, not necessary. I think I solved it. I just re-emerged
XML-Parser. and things seem to be okay.
Regards,
Colleen
--
Registered Linux User #411143
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 09 February 2008, CJoeB wrote:
Why all of a sudden can't I compile goffice without gnome?
Thanks, not necessary. I think I solved it. I just re-emerged
XML-Parser. and things seem to be okay.
It's hard to see how that relates to your
Hi all,
I did an emerge --sync and got told that a few things needed upgrading,
one of them being goffice. I have gnumeric installed on my system, but
my USE flags include '-gnome'. I don't want gnome (i.e. the desktop) on
my system!! gnumeric, gimp and abiword (and yes, I have openoffice.org,
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