Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved)
After rebuilding a few packages, this system is up to par. The package that was causing tvtime and others to miss-behave was xf86-video-v4l. Thank you all for your replies. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved sort of)
Alan McKinnon wrote: Please post the output of revdep-rebuild -p -i Do these various packages require specifically gstreamer-0.8? If so, that is a bug and should be rpeorted at b.g.o. In general, unmerging gstreamer-0.8 will cause other things linked to it to now not work, so I reckon you will suffer some fallout if you just unmerge it. A good safety net will be to look into the portage cache in /var/db/pkg, you will find a copy of the current gstreamer-0.8 ebuild you are using there. Copy it to your local overlay so you can remerge it if necessary. Do the same with any plugins that are also not in portage anymore Thank you all for the replies, greatly appreciated. Having followed your recommendations I found thet : emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, no way of unmerging -0.8.. I then added search mask in make.conf so that revdep-rebuild does not search /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8 and finally removed 0.8 manually. I've had to rebuild a couple of packages (for now) and all seems to be fine except I can no longer run tvtime, kdetv nor xawtv. xawtv reports: This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.23-gentoo-r9) WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support. /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway Warning: Cannot convert string -*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-* to type FontStruct libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b game over kdetv reports nothing and I can not stop the process. Even using top and k followed by PID of kdetv. I'm sure I have to rebuild something, just not quite sure what. I've re-emerged all three with no change. Where do I look? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved sort of)
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote: Having followed your recommendations I found thet : emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the latest version of a package. You need emerge -C media-libs/gstreamer-0.8. Even though you have manually removed the files, you should still run this to clean up your package database. Tried that and emerge reported no package to be removed. emerge -Cp gstreamer shows only -0.10 -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved sort of)
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote: Having followed your recommendations I found thet : emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the latest version of a package. You need emerge -C media-libs/gstreamer-0.8. Even though you have manually removed the files, you should still run this to clean up your package database. Tried that and emerge reported no package to be removed. emerge -Cp gstreamer shows only -0.10 -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gstreamer
I have both gstreamer-0.8 and -0.10 on my system. -0.8 is no longer in portage. Revdep-rebuild complains about several packages as broken and require gstreamer-0.8. I tried following: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Troubleshooting_Gstreamer Can I emerge -C =media-libs/gstreamer-0.8 without borking my system? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? As strange as this may sound, we had a server go down and we thought psu/mb. it turned out to be the cmos battery. We replaced it (about four years ago), the server has been flawless since. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology. There's 30 some odd possibilities under /usr/portage/sci-electronics. What sorts of experiences has the group had? Oh, and output files will have to be visible to the Micro$hafted too. Maxim I've been using KiCad for quite some time now and works for me. Has several formats to export to and will generate CNC. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008 21:43:49 Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 20:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? Did you try media-gfx/gphoto2 ? I try with emerge media-libs/libgphoto2 with CAMERAS=cameras_kodak_dc120 cameras_kodak_dc210 cameras_kodak_dc240 cameras_kodak_dc3200 cameras_kodak_ez200. But my camera don't support did you connect your camera and use gphoto2 to scan for it? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion
Anyone using compiz-fusion on this list? I'm putting together a system I'll be using to demo linux. compiz-fusion appears to be the eye-candy that would make a demo shine. I see that its in portage (masked) any gotchas I should be aware of before proceeding? Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 11:23 AM, Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone using compiz-fusion on this list? I'm putting together a system I'll be using to demo linux. compiz-fusion appears to be the eye-candy that would make a demo shine. I see that its in portage (masked) any gotchas I should be aware of before proceeding? I've been using it for months with NVidia and Intel drivers; not a problem. Well, with NVidia you need to unload the v4l module for X.org, otherwise it crash X; but that's the only issue. Also, I recommend to grab the fusion-icon package from the xeffects overlay. Thank you. I'll def give it a try. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B.C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?
Dale wrote: Mick wrote: PS. Where I live I have to pay for bandwidth (although where I currently work I don't). So your concept of offering bandwidth for free seems somewhat strange to me. Furthermore, I would be concerned what different people may be using the Internet for and what trouble I could get into, for being the registered owner of the particular public IP address. That said, I would looove being your neighbor! :) I was wondering what would happen if someone downloaded some music illegally or some child porn? How would you prove it was them and not you? Being a good neighbor is nice but you need to be careful for sure. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) :-) It all depends in what country you live in. In Canada you can download/upload all the music you want legally,( we've paid for it ten times over via a levy against all recording media) as for illegal material, if its not on your computer, its not in your possession. Cheers. Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Cranbrook, BC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] skype and logitech quickcam communicate STX
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I am successfully using skype with just a simple mic. The audio is fine. Others in the family have the logitech quickcam communicate STX, which they use unders windows and get both audio and vedeo. I was planning on buying one of these webcams, but wondered if anyone here has had success or failure with it. I am especially interested in skype, but general reports would also be appreciated. thanks, allan http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3878 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!
Just acquired an etrex gps. The unit comes with a serial cable . When I plug in the cable to the latest stable gentoo machine, the signals are (seem) to be interpreted as that for the system mouse. The mouse pointer flies all over the screen, opening and closing programs all over the place. Does anyone know why the serial port would be interpreted as a mouse input? How do I correct this? Any hints, pointers greatly appreciated. TNX -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Garmin gps acting as a mouse!!!
Stroller wrote: I assume you're using X11 KDE or Gnome or something like this. What does your xorg.conf say, please? I'm thinking specifically of the mouse section, but you might as well post the lot to be sure. Also, is anything written to /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog when you plug the GPS in? Stroller. Thanks Stroller, xorg.conf was the culprit. There was a section for serial mouse, removing that solved the prob. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spca5xx
Abhay Kedia wrote: You can try unmasking gspcav1, which is the new branch of spca5xx * media-video/gspcav1 Available versions: [M](~)20060925 [M](~)20070110 Homepage:http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html Description: gspcav1 driver for webcams. That worked nicely, Thank you:) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] spca5xx
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? !!! ERROR: media-video/spca5xx-20060501-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 3996: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1304: Called linux-mod_src_compile linux-mod.eclass, line 511: Called die !!! Unable to make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux default. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/spca5xx-20060501-r2/temp/build.log'. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] bttv options
Where do I setup the options for the bttv module? I need to set the card=40 and tuner =6, no matter what I try I still get: bttv0: Bt848 (rev 17) at :00:05.0, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xdfdff000 bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected] --* bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=00ff [init] tveeprom 5-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? bttv0: using tuner=-1 ---* bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 From the above, you can see that bttv is loaded with card=0 and tuner=-1 I've tried setting in /etc/modules.d/aliases as alias char-major-81bttv options bttv card=40 tuner=6 options tuner type=6 This does not seem to have an affect. Is there some docs that show the proper way of doing this in Gentoo? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bttv options -solved
Ted Ozolins wrote: Where do I setup the options for the bttv module? I need to set the card=40 and tuner =6, no matter what I try I still get: From the above, you can see that bttv is loaded with card=0 and tuner=-1 I've tried setting in /etc/modules.d/aliases as alias char-major-81bttv options bttv card=40 tuner=6 options tuner type=6 This does not seem to have an affect. Is there some docs that show the proper way of doing this in Gentoo? I created a file bttv in /etc/modules.d/ and placed the following within it: alias char-major-81bttv options bttv card=40 tuner=6 This did the trick : ) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WPA with wireless-tools
Grant wrote: I've been using wpa_supplicant to connect to my Gentoo router, and I'm wondering if I can use wireless-tools instead. I have the following /etc/conf.d/net: config_ath0=192.168.0.2 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 routes_ath0=default via 192.168.0.1 essid_ath0=mynetwork channel_ath0=11 iwpriv_ath0=( wpa 1 ) key_mynetwork=s:mykey /etc/init.d/net.ath0 returns no errors, has all the right output, and my PCMCIA card's LEDs are blinking like they are connected, but I can't ping the router. I get Destination Host Unreachable. If I switch back to wpa_supplicant it works perfectly. I did notice, however, that intentionally submitting the wrong password with wireless-tools has the same effect. Can anyone help? - Grant The only time I've run into that problem is when I've used s:somekey when the router was expecting a 64 bit hex. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Cranbrook, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need /etc/conf.d/net setup help
Michael Sullivan wrote:
I have SBC DSL with static WAN IPs. I use the 2Wire OfficePortal as my
DSL modem/router. SBC told me that in order to map my WAN addresses to
my individual PCs, I have to use DHCP. The problem is that using the
default DHCP configuration (no /etc/conf.d/net), my /etc/resolv.conf
file gets overwritten. This is annoying because it rewrites my domain
name. I've tried the following options in /etc/conf.d/net:
set dhcp_ESSID=nodns
dns_servers_ESSID=( 70.234.122.250 )
modules=( ifconfig )
config_eth0=( dhcp )
dhcpcd_eth0=-t 10
dhcp_eth0=nodns nontp
config_eth0=( dhcp )
Whenever I try to restart /etc/init.d/net.eth0 with these options it
tells me:
camille conf.d # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
* Caching service dependencies ...
[ ok ] * ERROR: not enough args.
* Usage: net.eth0 { start|stop|restart }
*net.eth0 without arguments for full help
What exactly is the problem here?
I could be wrong, but should it not read:
set dhcp_eth0=nodns
dns_servers_eth0=( 70.234.122.250 )
???
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[gentoo-user] wireless (solved)
I assumed that the wep key the router uses was a string s:** It turns out that the key is a hexi number instead. Of course removing the s: solved the problem. Now the wireless works nicely. essid_ath0=patkno mode_ath0=managed channel_ath0=6 key_patkno=** enc open -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless
Kurt Guenther wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: Have I missed something obvious? This is a really inane question, but you do have a dhcpd server on your network, right? There is a working dhcp server working, checked and rechecked. Also, make sure you router is using wep and not wpa. If wpa, you need to use wpa_supplicant instead. The router (D-Link DSL-604+) is set up for WEP I'd get it running without encryption first. When you get that working, you can play with the various encryption schemes. --Kurt That was my next shot at it. I am begining to suspect the AP as the culprit, I've setup all kinds of wired networks, this is my first shot at wireless. I did quite a bit of rtfm'n before buying this wireless card. From all info I've come acrossed this should just work . I've noticed that when emerging madwifi-ng that several other modules are built. Namely: wlan, wlan_acl, wlan_ccmp, wlan_tkip, wlan_wep, wlan_xauth, wlan_scan_sta, wlan_scan_ap and ath_rate_sample. Other than ath_pci and wlan_scan_ap, do I have to load any of the others mentioned? Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] wireless
Just acquired an Atheros based wireless card. acquired madwifi-ng and tools. Using the /etc/conf.d/wireless.example I set up as per RTFM'n . I have in /etc/conf.d/wireless: essid_ath0=patkno mode_ath0=managed channel_ath0=6 key_patkno=s:** enc open and I have in /etc/conf.d/net the line: modules=( iwconfig ) # iwconfig eth0 no wireless extensions. lono wireless extensions. wifi0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID: Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 after entering each of the fields manually: iwconfig ath0 channel 6 iwconfig ath0 essid patkno iwconfig ath0 key s:** iwpriv ath0 keymgtalgs 1 ifconfig ath0 up crash ~ # # iwconfig ath0 ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:patkno Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:B5:A0:84 Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:---- Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality=56/94 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:3494 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 However when I issue: dhcpcd ath0 it times out and ifconfig does not show an ath0. I'm running 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 kernel and iwconfig -v iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 28 Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v20. Modprobed modules: ath_pci wlan_scan_sta ath_hal Have I missed something obvious? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions
Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully installed Kernel 2.6.18 -- is it imagination or is it a bit faster on this desktop ? -- , but there are a couple of simple questions I'm not sure how to answer. (1) I used 'make xconfig' it didn't show me the 'PPP' option: when I used find from the edit menu, it showed up I was able to add it, but it's not under the tree-menu. Is this a glitch in the 'xconfig' interface or did I miss something ? (2) I compiled the sensor items into the kernel, not as modules, but I'm now left with 2 orphan module lines when Init runs: loading lm_sensors modules ... [!!] . I've looked around, but can't easily see where those lines are defined (it's not /etc/modules.autoload.d/ , which is used by the kernel). Can anyone give me a quick pointer to where to find them, so that I can comment them out of whatever file they're mentioned in ? /etc/modules.d/lm_sensors -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ttyS1 - ttyS3 file exists
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:44, Ted Ozolins wrote: For several years I've had no reason to use any of the serial ports on this boxen. Now that I have a need for a fax setup, I find that they are borked. Looking over the error messages at boot up I noticed that I get a series of: insmod of dev ttyS1 failed, file exists. all the way to ttyS2. This boxen has been running since about 2002 (maybe 2003) with only a few self inflicted glitches. I did migrate it from devfsd to udev about a year ago. Anyone have any Idea why the /dev/ttySx are not being removed on shut-down? Check RC_DEVICE_TARBALL in /etc/conf.d/rc. Ciao Francesco Thanks, that was it. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 02 September 2006 17:38, Collins Richey wrote: please note that this is an english language list. If you cannot even make an attempt to speak english then go away. That's the dumbest, sickest, most worthless comment I've seen on a list in a long time. You should truly be ashamed. Huh?! So your comment is better?! Much better and to the point. Collins you beet me to itG -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
Adrian wrote: Greetings. This would be my first attempt at getting photos from a digital camera with my Gentoo system. I am using a Kodak EasyShare C533. With USBViewr I can see that the system sees the camera. That part of things seems to be working. However, I've not really a clue what software to use. GPhoto2 does not list this camera as a supported model. I see there is a program called camera but it is masked. Any other suggestions? As always, my thanks. Adrian Emerge gphoto2 and gtkam and have gtkam scan for a camera. See if anything comes up. or you can use the comand-line and: *|gphoto2 /|--auto-detect |/|* -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
Ted Ozolins wrote: Adrian wrote: Greetings. This would be my first attempt at getting photos from a digital camera with my Gentoo system. I am using a Kodak EasyShare C533. With USBViewr I can see that the system sees the camera. That part of things seems to be working. However, I've not really a clue what software to use. GPhoto2 does not list this camera as a supported model. I see there is a program called camera but it is masked. Any other suggestions? As always, my thanks. Adrian Emerge gphoto2 and gtkam and have gtkam scan for a camera. See if anything comes up. or you can use the comand-line and: *|gphoto2 /|--auto-detect OOPS! I don't know where these extra characters came from, it should read: gphoto2 --auto-detect -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage
Remy Blank wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: um, I just came across a problem - it won't work with an AC power cord, because you have active and neutral both going through the clamp in opposite directions, hence they'll cancel each other out. You need only the active going through the clamp... Or only the neutral. It doesn't matter, actually. But how it works (with AC) is something like this: AC produces a field around the wire as it flows. This field in turn will induce a current in a wire placed close to it. Loop a wire (transducer) around another wire (AC current flow), and you can inference the change in current in the original wire by measuring the current flow in the loop. It doesn't work with DC, as DC doesn't create a field (at least, not when it's steady. When switching on and off a DC device, you'll still get a change in current) IANAE(lectrician), so this might be complete bunkum, but that's how I remember it anyway. You almost got it. Actually, it's not necessary that the current be AC: even a DC current produces a magnetic field around the conductor (albeit a DC field). The clamp is a ferromagnetic ring that concentrates the magnetic field, and it is interrupted at one location by a hall-effect sensor that measures the magnetic field. The current can be calculated from the magnetic field intensity and the diameter of the clamp ring. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. Well you almost got it right. The clamp is just a basic transformer being the secondary winding. Since AC current flow changes both in amplitude and direction, induces a current flow in the secondary winding, the clamp. The current is then rectified and the measurement then is displayed on a meter. I've used high voltage transformers from old monitors to monitor and trigger alarms signaling excessive current change. Basically just a home made clamp. Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:31 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the difference between MythTV and the Gentoo VDR is? Gentoo VDR seems to have many more plugins. - Grant what is gentoo vdr? can you point to a website or other resource? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype
Jerônimo Backes wrote: Anyway i suggest you try WengoPhone.. It's open source and is based upon open standards.. I'm using it, the sound quality is better than Skype.. Check out their website http://openwengo.org.. Gentoo even has a ebuild for it in portage (net-im/wengophone).. Farhan Ahmed Thanks a lot for your suggestion. But unfortunately, that package is masked. The ebuild says *missing keyword* for my AMD64. Well, I think I'll give a try to something else for now. What other alternatives (with voip support, of course) can I try? ___ Novidade no Yahoo! Mail: receba alertas de novas mensagens no seu celular. Registre seu aparelho agora! http://br.mobile.yahoo.com/mailalertas/ in your options, what /dev/dsp are you using? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (Linux) surveillance system?
Jeff wrote: Hello all. In the pursuit of a light physical security solution, I was wondering - does anyone recommend a small-time nanny-cam or web cam monitoring system that can run atop Linux and accessed using a web browser? We're looking to beef up physical security to our server room, but we don't have tons to spend. We'd like the design discreet and simple for the time being, until we can afford something huge. Just wondering. :-) -Jeff Have a look at motion: http://motion.sourceforge.net/ http://freshmeat.net/redir/motion/6642/url_homepage/motion.sourceforge.net -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.
Jim wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 17:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 16:55, domenica 2 aprile 2006, david ha scritto: What brand and model # is your printer? HP PSC 1410 Then emerge hplip and they you need to start hplip and cups. sudo /etc/init.d/hplip start sudo /etc/init.d/cupsd start sudo rc-update add hplip default sudo rc-update add cupsd default Now you should be able to go to: http://localhost:631/ Jim I thought you had to have ppds use flage in /etc/make.conf in order for the ppd files to be generated (compiled?) No? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut I thought you had to have ppds use flage in /etc/make.conf in order for the ppd files to be generated (compiled?) No? That was the question! Should I? And after? Bye emilio After emerging hplip you will notice info re: ppds. If I'm not mistaken, emerging hplip without the ppds USE flag will not create the ppd files needed. Once you emerge hplip with the ppds USE flag the ppd files will be created. Then when you go to set-up your printer in CUPS, your printer will be listed. I'm not sure if PSC 1410 is listed, checking hp.com I noticed that the driver file (winxp) for PSC 1410 and 1510 is the same file. If 1410 isn't listed try the 1510. HTH -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage
Teresa and Dale wrote: Hi folks, My girlfriends mom comes over sometimes and she likes to play card games on the computer. Anybody have a list of the games in portage that are card games? You know, like Solitaire or something like that. I have the ones that come with KDE and Pysol too. Just looking for some more for her. She's used to windoze by the way. Also, is there a place to go to find out which ones compare to what ever that is on windoze? I know they have to change the names sonce they may be copyrighted or something. Thanks guys and gals, Dale :-) pysol. you have to emerge python with tcltk use flag in order for it to work. Pysol contains just about every card game you can imagine. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge smpeg
Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi all, I've come a long way since the first time I posted to this list. However, today I'm stumped by something. I tried looking in the forums but didn't find anything that I could make sense of (or perhaps it's my capacity to understand what I'm reading) and I tried doing a google search, but again, couldn't find anything of assistance. After an emerge --sync, two of the packages that were in my world list for updating were smpeg and sdl-mixer. The first to update was smpeg and it bombed. The last line before the emerge bombed was: /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../i386-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -1GL The last few lines of /var/log/emerge.log are: a-libs/smpeg/smpeg-0.4.4-r7.ebuild) 1142731812: === (1 of 2) Compiling/Merging (media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r7::/usr/portage/media-libs/smpeg/smpeg-0.4.4-r7.ebuild) 1142731862: *** terminating. 1142731966: Started emerge on: Mar 18, 2006 20:32:46 1142731966: *** emerge search 1GL 1142731972: *** terminating. Any suggestions as to what to do to get around this would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen What does: emerge -vp opengl report? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) - HP Officejet Pro K550
Trey Sizemore wrote: Trying to get this printer setup using CUPS, but don't see the exact model/driver available in the CUPS web admin printer wizard interface. Is anyone using this printer and know the correct model/driver to use? Thanks. linuxprinting.org list this printer as working perfectly. You will need ppds in your USE flag to compile the ppd files. Emerge hplip after adding ppds in your /etc/make.conf then log into your web setup for cups and it should just work. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] openMotif fails.
In trying to update and fix my system I get hung up on emerging openMotif with the following error: Unpacking source... Unpacking openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.2.3-r9/work * Applying openmotif-2.2.3-mwm-configdir.patch ... [ ok ] * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/x11-libs/openmotif/files/openmotif-2.2.3-CAN-2004-0687-0688.patch.bz2 * ( openmotif-2.2.3-CAN-2004-0687-0688.patch.bz2 ) !!! ERROR: x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r9 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 207, Exitcode 0 !!! Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Anyone else run into this? How do I get around this? TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openMotif fails.
Ted Ozolins wrote: In trying to update and fix my system I get hung up on emerging openMotif with the following error: Unpacking source... Unpacking openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.2.3-r9/work * Applying openmotif-2.2.3-mwm-configdir.patch ... [ ok ] * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/x11-libs/openmotif/files/openmotif-2.2.3-CAN-2004-0687-0688.patch.bz2 * ( openmotif-2.2.3-CAN-2004-0687-0688.patch.bz2 ) !!! ERROR: x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r9 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 207, Exitcode 0 !!! Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Anyone else run into this? How do I get around this? TIA It seems that in the ebuild it refers to *.patch.bz2 yet there should be no .bz2 .. Changing the ebuild to reflect this fails checksum of the ebuild file. how can this be corrected? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openMotif fails.
Klaus Fabritius wrote: * Ted Ozolins wrote: [...] !!! ERROR: x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r9 failed. Anyone else run into this? How do I get around this? Same here. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125328 -kfk Dang! I just filed a duplicate bug report. I did search openmotif but nothing relevant came up. I should have refined my search. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] system maintenance woes
After too many -uvD world upgrades without proper maintenance (python perl) I have created a total mess of this system. revdep lists are almost as large as emerge -vp system on a fresh install. I'm sure I can go through the dep mess I've created and eventually straighten things out. Would emerge -ve world correct some of the broken dependencies? TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using gnupic
maxim wexler wrote: Hello group, Like to learn from others their experiences using gnupic tools. What is the best programmer? DIY preferred. Serial or parallel. What sorts of pitfalls, tradeoffs? Are some of the pic chips more linux-worthy than others? I plan to use a K6 500MHz AMD as a dedicated pic development platform. Any tips on how to configure it for best results? USE flags etc? -mw Just so you know, I am not a programmer. I do have to use PIC's in various project and each time I have to suffer through hacking existing code to make things work. To program the PICs I use ponyprog. There is a linux binary version available and is quite easy to setup. You can use parallel or serial port. A while back I read that a linux version/work-alike for mplab was in the works, I never followed up on its progress. Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))
Rumen Yotov wrote: How do I find out what the entry for my motherboard chips (-set I assume) is? Is there a software way to determine this? All I know is that it's SUPPOSED to be a Pentium IV, but it might not be... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Use lspci or lshw (emerge if not available), use -v -vv -vvv for a more verbose output. Tuning your kernel *requires* you to at least know what your basic hardware is. Manual ? Try: #lspci | grep -i VGA or lspci | grep -i video Or post the output here. PS:could also be done using a LiveCD (gentoo-install-CD, Knoppix etc.) Rumen As for your cpu type you can get that info with: cat /proc/cpuinfo Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux
Kris Kerwin wrote: Argh ... That's $65 down the drain. Usually, I don't have any problems getting devices to work on Linux. Perhaps I shouldn't assume that I'll get all devices to work and do some homework before buying a new device. Thanks for your help, Neil. Kris On Monday 02 January 2006 03:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:03:26 -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote: I recently purchased an Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder to record my college lectures to help with note-taking. It connects to the PC via a USB cord. Googling indicates that it won't work with Linux http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/2161/sort /1/cat/420/page/ 1 It won't work with Linux for now. I have several web cams that for the longest time were not supported under linux. I now see that the Hama Sightcam 100 has a linux driver. That web cam was retired to maybe it will work on linux in the future bin. It now works nicely under linux. Thanks to all the great developers out there. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: GARTInit: WAS (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend))
Michael Sullivan wrote: model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz I guess it isn't a Pentium IV... As you can see from the model, its a p4 -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
Tony Davison wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 13:51, Dale wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:48, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: It's really kinda nice that /everybody/ has a holiday around now, regardless of religion or culture. It would be nicer if we all could appreciate that as a kind of common ground across religions and cultures. Maybe next year. :-) Holly A nice way of saying what I attempted. A special Merry Christmas to you Holly. Thanks for bearing with us idiots throughout the year. Especailly me. LOL And a Merry Xthing and a Happy New Year from me and the Hairy Ones. Hiding in Berkx UK. ( wrapping himself round a bottle of Aussie Shiraz and thinking that an emerge world would not be a good thing to do) Merry Christmas to all and a very happy New Year. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel error messages: gentoo-sources 2.6.13-r5
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I got rid of the file, and now X cannot see my mouse, and refuses to start. I think the problem is that it used to be /dev/mouse and is now /dev/input/mouse0 or some such. I'm not sure. I don't know where the Xorg config file is, so I don't know what to change. (I used to know when I used XFree, but I didn't track the whole switchover). /etc/X11/xorg.conf You might want to try /dev/input/mice Here is the section out of my xorg.conf: Section InputDevice # Identifier and driver IdentifierMouse1 Drivermouse Option ProtocolIMPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option ChordMiddle -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a memory thing?
Dave Nebinger wrote: Just scanning my logs and found the following entry: Oct 9 07:44:08 butthead MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0. Oct 9 07:44:08 butthead Bank 2: 9400417a I'm assuming since it says 'bank 2' it's referring to a problem with one of the ram slots... Can anyone confirm my assumption? I believe that you have selected in your kernel config to report all amd cpu errors. I had quite a few of those with an AMD Athlon 1.4G system. Never had a problem other than the log entry. I've since excluded that entry, the log warnings no longer appear. That system has been up for more than a year (other than reboot for kernel upgrades) and has never locked up nor lost data. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I ask because I can't get a complete compile of glibc. I have to restart the process at lease 3 times before the compile will complete. Let me know what you think. -- yes it is completly possible. But it is also possible, that your PSU is not powerfull enough. A big compile needs a lot of processing power and stresses the ram, so a lot of current is needed - and some PSUs aren't able to cope with such a load -exspecially if they are cheap and/or a little bit older. Try another PSU, do you still have problems, RMA the ram. Memtest86(+) is known not to find all errors. I had the same problem here, Changed RAM and still the same prob. Changed PSU, glibc compiled just fine. This was on an MSI MB with an AMD 750 Duron. Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
Wes Gray wrote: # emerge -p kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-meta-3.4.1 I tried emerging kde-meta. I then tried unmerging all the blockers it created and then emerging back kde, to get rid of kde-meta. When that didn't help I reversed the process and reemerged kde-meta, which is where I am now. I've rebuilt all of kde a couple of times now with the situation getting worse, not better. At the login screen, what have your chosen as the session type. Perhaps its still selecting your old KDE. Check that and select KDE-3.4 and see what happens. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Proliant 3000
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I got the smartStart, but it won't let me set up for IDE boot. When I try to set-up the BIOS it will let me change most settings but says this system does not support IDE HD. Hence I was think ing I would boot on a floppy and have it find the kernel and set them machine up to use the HD. It finds the HD during boot up but can't boot from it... Mike On Friday 09 September 2005 04:19 pm, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Most likely you need to get hold of a copy of the Comaq SmartStart CDs for this machine to set it up to boot from an IDE drive, this will also contain the Compaq Array Controller software which will enable you to set up the 'BIOS' on the smart controller card to tun the array in the way which you want to. Try the Compaq website and see if you can find something there. Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a Compaq Proliant 3000, w 6 18.2 SCSI disks I am building for a file server for my department. I have installed an IDE HD 40gig to hold the OS so as to reserve all the SCSI space for data. Problem is after installing twice and messing around I find that the firmware in teh 3000's was not designed to support IDE HD's. I can install to it, I assume it is that it just won't boot to it. How do I build a floppy to just get the boot process tarted then look to teh HD for kernel and os? Does this make any sense to anyone? Mike Have you looked to see if there is a bios/system upgrade available? We use a Proliant 3000 as the main document/application server at work and had to upgrade the bios/system in order to use ide. Been working great since. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xcdroast - gone?
On a new install I tried to emerge xcdroast but I receive 404 no such file. Checking for distfiles on various mirrors, I can not find any trace of it. Has xcdroast been dropped by gentoo? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcdroast - gone?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:29:07 -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: On a new install I tried to emerge xcdroast but I receive 404 no such file. Checking for distfiles on various mirrors, I can not find any trace of it. Has xcdroast been dropped by gentoo? Which version? i just tried emerge -f xcdroast and it immediately started downloading xcdroast-0.98alpha15.tar.gz from the first mirror it tried, nchc.dl.sourceforge.net. Is your portage tree up to date? Maybe you are trying to download an old version. I did an emerge sync prior to xcdroast. Gave up on it and emerged k3b instead. I'll have to look into this a bit more. Thanks. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4
Ted Ozolins wrote: Just completed an emerge -uvD world on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my lab-rat. My test machine is placed on the net only as a user and when I need to upgrade, the rest of the time it is not on the net. I use the lab-rat to test new hardware/software and its convenient to be logged in as root. How do I enable root login in kdm? TIA Right after I sent this I looked at kdmrc. Now I can login to my lab-rat as root. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network driver
John Dangler wrote: With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100 (NetworkEverywhere) card. From what I've read googling and such - a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com) b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers. I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling would just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before about that. Any input is appreciated. (I also have an ATI video card in here [Radeon RT100 QY (Radeon 7000 VE), so if there's some similar homework I need to do on this one, please share) John D What is the output of lspci? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network driver
John Dangler wrote: With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100 (NetworkEverywhere) card. From what I've read googling and such - a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com) b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers. I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling would just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before about that. Any input is appreciated. (I also have an ATI video card in here [Radeon RT100 QY (Radeon 7000 VE), so if there's some similar homework I need to do on this one, please share) John D I should have added this to my last post. For your radeon card, use the radeon driver in xorg.conf -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4
Just completed an emerge -uvD world on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my lab-rat. My test machine is placed on the net only as a user and when I need to upgrade, the rest of the time it is not on the net. I use the lab-rat to test new hardware/software and its convenient to be logged in as root. How do I enable root login in kdm? TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
Edward A Mihalow Jr wrote: Mark wrote: I have a TDK indi DVD. It works perfectly. I would also add that I have excellent results with LG products as others have mentioned. I have had a TDK and now a SONY dual-layer. Both work excellent. Sony on newegg.com for 89.00. I'm running a Sony dual layer here ($89.00Ca at futureshop.ca) works just fine. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] external modem identificaton
Joseph wrote: How to identify external modem? I think it is by running command: ATI4 Though, how do I connect to a modem from a command line to get a response to ATI4? use a com program such as minicom -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gone fishing
Taking time away from anything technical. Hopefully I won't even have as much as a light switch to look at, let alone use: ) Cheers : ) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Optiplex, New HD, Won't Boot from HD after install
Colin wrote: A more obscure BIOS tactic common back in the day was to put all or part of it in a hidden area on the primary master hard drive. This might be your issue, except I think this was only Compaq 486/Pentium systems. Name-brand computers always have some proprietary feature to keep us power users away (like warranties, or older Dells' nonstandard power supplies). -- Colin When you ran fdisk and created all your partitions, did you flag one of them as bootable? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA Laptop problems
Ian K wrote: Arg, it looks like I need to bump this post again.. I dont know why no one is helping me lately.. :( Ian, this might be a shot in the dark, but what version of MPS is set in your BIOS? 1.1 or 1.4? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build OpenSSH, requires Perl 5
Colin wrote: I'm compiling my system (emerge -env system), but when it gets down to building OpenSSH, it fails, saying You need Perl 5. Pretending and checking the tree shows that Perl 5 will be emerged later on during the install. Attempting to emerge -v perl attempts to emerge svgalib as well (since I haven't built the system), which fails saying that the kernel has not been configured yet. Any ideas? -- Colin I ran into the same glitch on a new system. The only way I was able to get around that was to blank out my USE= in /etc/make.conf. I realized afterwards that I could have accomplished the same by: USE=*- emerge -v perl Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem
Bill Six wrote: Hi, This isn't a Gentoo related problem, but a hardware one (I know next to nothing about hardware). First of all I have a Micron computer with a floppy drive, DVD-read drive (/dev/hdc), CDR drive (/dev/hdd), a master harddrive (/dev/hde), and a slave harddrive (/dev/hdf). Yesterday my computer was running fine. Today my dad put in a DVD burner where the CDR was previously (/dev/hdd). He also took both harddrives out and put them back in because the ribbon (whatever it's called, the grey cable that goes into each drive) was twisted. Now, when I try to start up my computer, it doesn't start at all, it just goes Beep (wait 3 seconds)...Beep (wait 3 seconds)...Beep (wait 3 seconds)... over and over. It doesn't show the splash screen for the video card, or for the manufacturer (Micron). Any idea why it would do that? What do the beeps mean? I put the CDR back in instead of the DVD burner, and it still gives the same error. Last time I let my dad touch my computer haha. Thanks for any help, Bill Six make sure that the ribbon cable is oriented correctly. In most cases the striped edge (red/blue or some other color) is next to the power plugin and that the striped edge is connected to the #1 pin of your MB connector. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron
Zac Medico wrote: --- Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The compile of glibc fails trying to access the file /etc/env.d/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 The file does not exist. Instead we have the file /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130 The directory /etc/env.d/gcc also contains two config files config and config-i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 These files are identical and contain one line CURRENT=i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 Looks like the new compiler is not properly configured. Try this: gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130 Zac Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and this fixed it for me. It makes me wonder why was this necessary? -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Online stores (that ship to Canada)
Sami Samhuri wrote: Hello Gentooers, [I apologize for the off-topic post but I can't think of any relevant lists to post this to.] I recently got a good deal on two Opterons on ebay and as a result have been looking at building the rest of a dual Opteron system. Yes, it was mostly on an impulse; no, I do not *need* it. It was just a good deal I couldn't pass up. I've pretty much nailed down what I want but actually purchasing it is the more difficult task. Unfortunately, shipping from many American online stores is either impossible or ridiculously expensive (ZipZoomFly.com wants $130 to ship a motherboard UPS expedited :p). What is even more unfortunate is that the US stores are where the deals usually are. Perhaps some of you know of some Canadian stores (preferred) or Canadian-friendly US stores where you can find good components to go in a machine of this kind. If so, please share the knowledge. :) Thanks in advance! I've had good results from: http://www.cclcpr.com/shop/ Follow the menu on the left side of the page. Cheers -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gtksee exits when entering directory
Since my last update, my primary ap for browsing photos exits with *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0809bbd2 *** Google returns only one hit (not english) referring to open office. Any ideas as to what I've messed up? TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gtksee exits when entering directory
Aaron Walker wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: Since my last update, my primary ap for browsing photos exits with *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0809bbd2 *** Google returns only one hit (not english) referring to open office. Any ideas as to what I've messed up? Can you elaborate on what that update was? -- What happened last night can happen again. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ] Since I have both Gnome and KDE installed on this box (AMD 2G xp) and had not done an upgrade for about four months, just about every lib. glibc was one of the upgrades. I have gone through just about all the progs I use and do not have any problems with any of them aside from gtksee. I unmerged gtksee and deleted /home/ted/.gtksee then emerged gtksee with no change. The two programs that I've had problems with in the past after an upgrade (pikdev, ponyprog) are unaffected this time. I haven't had time to really trace the prob nor check all bug reports (work load due to a new project at work is taking up just about all my time these days) -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
