Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Garry Smith
Dirk Uys wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time. My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date. And I think

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation

2007-08-29 Thread Garry Smith
Hi James Also, I have a series of files as a result of starting and stopping a sony video camera at football games: At the very least, I need to be be able to combine them: M2U1.MPG . M2U00043.MPG into a single image How about, e.g.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ cat m2u00068.mpg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-13 Thread Garry Smith
Hi James i have a sony digital camera that takes movies, and it just shows up as a usb drive. Well, I went ahaed and purchased a sony DCR SR42. It does not show up with usbview, ivman or in the dmesg if I reboot and leave it attached via usb. I have a Sony DCR-SR32 that I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Ganglia fails to compile

2007-06-24 Thread Garry Smith
Hi guys, Thanks for the replies Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Or it could be because Garry used USE=~x86 rather than ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86. With ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, testing versions are shown. Curses! Fingers and brain were not connected when I typed that ;-( Thanks again. regards Garry --

Re: [gentoo-user] Ganglia fails to compile

2007-06-23 Thread Garry Smith
Hi, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 23 June 2007 12:41:27 Garry Smith wrote: Ganglia fails to compile. Any ideas? You could try again with v3.0.3 or possibly v3.0.4 (bug #172206 [1])... [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172206 obufki gms # USE=~x86 emerge -s

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-18 Thread Garry Smith
Hi, My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no thumbnails or images displayed) Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support for these two applications? you need to rebuild qt with support for all of

[gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-16 Thread Garry Smith
Hi all, My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no thumbnails or images displayed) Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support for these two applications? Many thanks regards Garry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I detect that I'm on Gentoo?

2007-03-26 Thread Garry Smith
Hi How about cat /etc/gentoo-release cheers Garry Jules Colding wrote: Hi, The question might seem silly, but I'm writing a few lines in my 'configure.in' that should detect which distribution the package is being build on. This is for making distribution dependent modifications in the

[gentoo-user] glas-check: Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!

2007-02-17 Thread Garry Smith
Hi all, sudo emerge --sync sudo glsa-check -f $(glsa-check -t all) I get the following error for openldap-2.3.27: !!! ERROR: net-nds/openldap-2.3.27-r3 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 751: Called qa_call 'src_unpack' environment, line 4079:

[gentoo-user] xorg: Failed to load module: glx fglrx

2006-11-25 Thread Garry Smith
Hi, I am trying to configure a Thinkpad T60 2500 with xorg and the ATI X1400 driver. What do I need to do to get xorg to pickup up the glx and fglrx modules? Further details below. Many thanks in advance. regards Garry obufki log # startx xauth: creating new authority file

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg: Failed to load module: glx fglrx

2006-11-25 Thread Garry Smith
Hi Mick, Mick wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2006 13:25, Garry Smith wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure a Thinkpad T60 2500 with xorg and the ATI X1400 driver. What do I need to do to get xorg to pickup up the glx and fglrx modules? You need to remerge ati-drivers every time