Re: [gentoo-user] do we have gst-plugins-really-bad or equivalent?

2010-03-25 Thread John H. Moe
On 26/03/10 01:49, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i have some .m4a files. and i want to play them in rhythmbox. when i import them into rhythmbox, it says it needs plugin to play mpeg-4 acc file. i searched the network, and people from ubuntu says a gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package would do. but

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-08 Thread John H. Moe
On 08/03/10 16:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-01 Thread John H. Moe
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel module. As a starting point I'm following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml My nvidia device is (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandbox violation emerging media-gfx/dcraw-8.73

2010-02-22 Thread John H. Moe
Arttu V. wrote: On 2/22/10, John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au wrote: From the looks of things, it's trying to install a file directly to the filesystem outside the /var/tmp sandbox. I believe this is a bug that needs reporting, but before I did that, I thought I'd check to be sure

[gentoo-user] Sandbox violation emerging media-gfx/dcraw-8.73

2010-02-21 Thread John H. Moe
When trying to emerge the Thunar thumbnailer plugin, it pulls in dcraw. However, after successfully compiling dcraw, I get the following error when make gets to the install phase: ** Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't unsubscribe from gentoo-user

2010-02-21 Thread John H. Moe
Adam Van Ymeren wrote: I've sent two emails to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org over the last week , but I continue to receive emails from the list. Not that I don't love the gentoo-user mailing list :-) Any advice? -Adam Do you get any response from the list? Any reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread John H. Moe
Shoka wrote: On 07.02.2010 20:29, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:21:20 +0100, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi folks, I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several configuration options

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 2.0.0.23: Incorrect date format.

2010-01-31 Thread John H. Moe
Neil Walker wrote: ubiquitous1980 wrote: I am trying to get Thunderbird to correctly display the date format in my locale: EN_AU Does anyone have any tips? Setting LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale works for me. Be lucky, Neil http://www.the-workathome.com Is this the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in Emerge

2010-01-28 Thread John H. Moe
Crístian Viana wrote: pastebin can also hold the file forever :) On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:12:15 +0300, wins mallow wrote: Please place full log to pastebin. maybe, you missed cc profile, gcc not found, etc ?

Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?

2010-01-26 Thread John H. Moe
Mick wrote: This is confusing me ... I have skype-2.0.0.72 installed for some time now. eix -l skype shows: [I] net-im/skype Available versions: 2.0.0.72!m!s amd64 x86 [qt-static] ~ 2.1.0.81+i!m!s ~amd64 ~x86 [qt-static] Installed

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

2010-01-18 Thread John H. Moe
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: 2010/1/18 walt w41...@gmail.com: Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your results? As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. What do you see? (I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD

2010-01-15 Thread John H. Moe
pk wrote: John H. Moe wrote: play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem: libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902 libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO). Not sure if this is the solution

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD

2010-01-15 Thread John H. Moe
John H. Moe wrote: pk wrote: John H. Moe wrote: play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem: libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902 libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO

[gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD

2010-01-13 Thread John H. Moe
Hello all, I've just gotten Scrubs Season 8 on DVD (as well as House Season 5 and a Dylan Moran DVD), and have found, to my chagrin, that I can't seem to play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem: libdvdread: Can't seek

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

2009-12-27 Thread John H. Moe
(/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2) You may have to substitute your nvidia-drivers version number for the 185.18.36 in my path, or the 190.53 in Alan's path? John H. Moe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread John H. Moe
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:31:31 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world

2009-11-10 Thread John H. Moe
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it It's also used by cryptsetup.

Re: [gentoo-user] sun-jre-bin end-of-life - what now?

2009-11-09 Thread John H. Moe
(and a few by ~x86 keyword as well), not by package.mask. John H. Moe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au writes: I stopped using that option in my systems, as there is now a AHCI SATA option to use instead. It appears CONFIG_ATA_SFF (which CONFIG_ATA_PIIX requires) is deprecated. From the help on it: Do you notice some kind

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-03 Thread John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote: I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in 10+ yrs.. Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. So I'm back in the soup. [I hope what I try to layout below

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel iwl3945 problem

2009-10-15 Thread John H. Moe
John Moe wrote: daid kahl wrote: I've recently rebuilt my laptop, and am having trouble getting the wireless to work correctly. My wireless is making an association with my AP, but TCP/IP traffic doesn't seem to want to transmit over it; I can't even ping my AP. TCP/IP

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound with Intel HDA card in Gateway m6888u laptop (2.6.30-r4, amd64)

2009-09-17 Thread John H. Moe
Jesse Taylor wrote: Hello -- I've been trying to get my sound working for nearly a month now with no luck. * I've followed the Gentoo ALSA Guide *several times*, and it's not working for me. * I've already unmuted my card in alsamixer and raised the volume to 100% * There is no sound

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a good windowmanager

2009-09-12 Thread John H. Moe
Lars Gustbel wrote: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I would like to hear from others what experiences they made with what windowmanagers. Hi! I've been using fvwm2 (http://fvwm.org) for years now and am quite happy with it.

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-10 Thread John H. Moe
Stroller wrote: On 11 Sep 2009, at 03:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I had a strange problem when I emerge dhcpcd 5.1 I get a timeout when trying to get a lease -- it says broadcasting for a lease and times out, however when I go back to 4.0.13 everything is fine. I even tried toput

Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

2009-09-10 Thread John H. Moe
Stroller wrote: On 11 Sep 2009, at 05:17, John H. Moe wrote: Stroller wrote: On 11 Sep 2009, at 03:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I had a strange problem when I emerge dhcpcd 5.1 I get a timeout when trying to get a lease -- it says broadcasting for a lease and times out I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

2009-08-19 Thread John H. Moe
Alex Schuster wrote: Roy Wright writes: kde-4.3 is now unmasked for ~x86. Whop! I'm also happy, and I want to upgrade soon. I hope many of those little annoyances I experience will be fixed. But it is looking like a non-trivial upgrade. :( Yeah. When I