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/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so ./
But after restarting firefox, I cannot see videos...
any clue?
Have you installed the essential codecs?
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
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to no success so far on google. Any hints would be
appreciated...
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Perhaps this will install an app to do what you want?
emerge x11-misc/alacarte
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is it set then? The /etc/conf.d/domainname is in my system.
Why isn't it removed if it is obsolete?
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
Phil Sexton schrieb:
Here is another guess:
How about /etc/conf.d/domainname?
Yep, should be configured as well. But as you can see there, it doesn't
set the domainname of the system:
# DNSDOMAIN merely sets the domain entry in /etc/resolv.conf, see
# the resolv.conf
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Phil Sexton schrieb:
I just used the command:
# domainname uilleann
That's not a domainname, as there are no dots (.). Granted, a domain
doesn't
have to have dots, but it's very unusual to have a TLD.
I am thouroughly confused now. I previously had
Pardon my thick skull. Alexander Skwar, I appoligise for my last post.
Darn this morphine I have to take for my pain.
I am confusing hostname and domain name.
I still don't understand why the script isn't supposed to be used to set
hostnane/domainname though.
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
Strange. Why is the script there?
What script?
The script I mentioned before:
/bin/hostname and the symlinks that point to it, /bin/domainname and
/bin/dnsdomainname
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Alexander Skwar wrote:
Phil Sexton schrieb:
I didn't think you had to run it manually unless you want to. Can't
you call if from
/etc/conf.d/local.start
Sure, but why do that? Why not use the mechanisms, that Gentoo
forsees for this?
I thought that was the purpose of that file, to run
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Phil Sexton schrieb:
snip
/etc/conf.d/local.start
snip
Gentoo is the only distribution I have seen use that particular file,
What file? /etc/conf.d/net?
No, the file I was speaking of, /etc/conf.d/local.start
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but if this is
used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf.
So how is the domainname now set?
Tony
/etc/hosts ?
Well, perhaps. It is in my /etc/hosts. But domainname still returns (none)
Tony
You should stop using /etc/hostname and use /etc/conf.d/hostname
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Anthony E Caudel wrote:
Phil Sexton wrote:
Anthony E Caudel wrote:
Mike wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used
and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname.
domainname now returns (none)
/etc/conf.d
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Phil Sexton schrieb:
I thought domainname was set in /etc/hosts.
No, it's not. NIS doesn't use /etc/hosts for these things.
Here is my /etc/conf.d/hostname:
# Set to the hostname of this machine
HOSTNAME=uilleann.fancypiper.info
That's not a hostname. A hostname
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Phil Sexton schrieb:
Anthony E Caudel wrote:
Phil Sexton wrote:
Anthony E Caudel wrote:
Mike wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer
used
and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set
to
/etc/conf.d/hostname and it should be fine. Mine doesn't save those
messages either that I can find. Maybe someone else will come along
with help on that part.
Perhaps enotice would do that for you.
http://www.fmp.com/enotice/
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Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote:
You can tell portage where to log these messages with the PORTAGE_ELOG_*
Variables. Have a look at /etc/make.conf.example.
Gian
Boy, am I behind the times. Thanks, that works much better than the
script I found.
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Hi Listees,
What would be the drive numbers that I would need to replace this:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
if I have Windows installed on /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/hda1? I can't
find it in the docs I have read.
TIA
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compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36.2 [GeForce FX
5700] ( rev a1)
I put this in my /etc/make.conf file
# Set video and sound card(s)
VIDEO_CARDS=nv nvidia vesa
ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 ICE1712
Is that correct for my M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card?
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://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_%28includes_dmix%29
Thanks for the linky.
I answered my own question about an hour after I posted it. I dug
through the docs until I found:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml.
I'm re-compiling my kernel just now.
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If this isn't correct, what should I put and where?
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) built. I dread installing Windows XP Pro yet again.
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Philip Webb wrote:
060506 Michael Sullivan wrote:
My wife likes to do puzzles. Are there were any puzzle-type apps
available in portage that would allow her to use her own images?
Look in /usr/portage/games-puzzle/ for a list of apps,
then use 'eix puzzle-name' to see what they do an
Kevin wrote:
Hi All-
I've read the portage documentation at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched
and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question
that I don't see answered anywhere.
It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes,
Hemmann Volker Armin wrote:
Only, and really only after a kernel update you need
to reboot.
Perhaps not even then.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-adfly.html
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Mick wrote:
On 08/04/06, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cd /mnt/source
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination tar xBfp -)
What does B do? I can't understand the manual! :-(
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Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
my harddisk begins to sound a little strange...I fear I have to
buy a new (bigger) one.
When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a
different physical layout of partitions and another overall size --
how would I do this best
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
Ernie Schroder wrote:
I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version
of gcc was used to compile my kernel?
This should do it:
gcc -v
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Ernie Schroder wrote:
On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write:
Ernie Schroder wrote:
I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which
version of gcc was used to compile my kernel?
This should do it:
gcc -v
Maybe I wasn't clear
Ernie Schroder wrote:
Is there no way of restarting the network on
XP?
From the dos prompt, command:
ipconfig /renew
(I think)
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Dimitar Toshev wrote:
On Friday 20 January 2006 19:44, Phil Sexton wrote:
Michael A Smith wrote:
Phil Sexton wrote:
Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
Where do I find the list with all installed packages?
Cheers,
Felipe
The ones you emerged are listed in the file:
/var/lib/portage/world
Want
Michael A Smith wrote:
Phil Sexton wrote:
Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
Where do I find the list with all installed packages?
Cheers,
Felipe
The ones you emerged are listed in the file:
/var/lib/portage/world
Want it in alphabetical order?
cat /var/lib/portage/world|less
Isn't
Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
Where do I find the list with all installed packages?
Cheers,
Felipe
The ones you emerged are listed in the file:
/var/lib/portage/world
Want it in alphabetical order?
cat /var/lib/portage/world|less
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Matthias Bethke wrote:
I got a Linux box for my mum as well after her Mac died, so I know it's
near impossible to teach some people about folder structures :)
I have taught a few computer classes and that is one of the
things I emphasized, no matter what the operating system.
I have a
Phil Sexton wrote:
Some stuff that wasn't grammatically correct...
I hope that made a little sense, especially the non native
English speakers. I see my pain med must be kicking in...
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Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
My dad had raised the question recently about getting my mom, now
76,using Linux. We went down the path of looking for a new machine but
decided to put it off until after Christmas. I recently started
wondering about using a single computer for two separate people. Can
Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm sure that's possible. I could even use her current Win ME box in
some sort of dual boot config I suppose. However the reason I didn't
start with that idea is that I am not there to hand hold her. If she's
running Gnome how do I ensure that everything is saved on the main
Hi Gentoo folk,
I can't find the package that provides the emaint command.
I browsed through esearch --fullname --verbose app-admin|less,
but found nothing that looked promising.
Any hints/tips?
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Jerry Turba wrote:
I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card
problem.
Video card problems is a morse code B, 3 short beeps and a long
beep on all the boxen I have ever seen.
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Phil Sexton wrote:
Jerry Turba wrote:
I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card
problem.
bad grey matter memory
Video card problems is a morse code B, 3 short beeps and a long beep on
all the boxen I have ever seen.
/bad grey matter memory
That should be one
Willie Wong wrote:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:45:01PM -0500, Phil Sexton wrote:
Willie Wong wrote:
Or is there some way of getting the
mouse back in a situation like this?
This should work as root:
/etc/conf.d/gpm restart'
uh... shouldn't that be /etc/init.d/? and gpm is the console
Ernie Schroder wrote:
I've recently done 11 months worth of updates on this box and have about 40
hours of build time on it in the last 10 days. I want to use it, not watch
more text fly by on the console.
Try compiling it at a lower priority.
I just put this in my /etc/make.conf file:
Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote:
I compiled the driver into the kernel (not as module):
SND_AC97_CODEC
There is your problem. See the install guide. Sound is
supposed to be compiled as a module if you use alsa.
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On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:40, Grant wrote:
system4 ~ # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
or too many mounted file systems
But on 1 of them it mounts fine even
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:00, Walter Dnes wrote:
After a few long+slow stage 1 installs, I want to give up the macho
act and do a stage 2 or 3 next time. Am I correct to assume that I can
set up CFLAGS and USE, and start emerge --system and emerge --world
later on when I'm going away for the
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 20:20, Mark Shields wrote:
That's an interesting idea, Phil. Perhaps a livecd that works like
Knoppix, where you can choose to install it to your system?
Actually, I did use a Knoppix CD to install both Gentoo and Debian SID
on my 5 boot box (Windows XP Pro, Fedora Core 1
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 01:43, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
As for overall installation, more common practice is to disable
OSS/ALSA in a kernel and install alsa-[drivers|lib|utils|oss...] and
so on.
I have tried the gwc few months ago, and it has now alsa support
too (you may use oss also, as alsa
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 04:44, Nick Rout wrote:
what is wrong with alsa's oss emulation?
My poor memory, perhaps? :)
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On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 01:46, askar wrote:
Do you mean I can use both Kmail and fetchmail. And fetchmail will do
that feature I want?
I have my fetchmail to delete the mail after it delivers the mail to my
mail spool as my ISP offers so little storage space, but I believe so.
See:
Hi list,
I just ran across the Gnome Wave Cleaner project:
http://gwc.sourceforge.net/
However, it isn't in portage AFAIK.
uilleann / # esearch gwc
[ Results for search key : gwc ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* app-admin/gwcc
Latest version available: 0.9.6-r2
Latest version
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 23:26, askar wrote:
Hello!
Does anybody know how to delete messages from server when the messages
deleted in Kmail ? It is possible to so in Outlook express and MS
Outlook.
askar
I don't use Kmail, but does it have a local delivery option?
If so, I suggest using
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:04, Vittorio wrote:
I would like to be able to mount the CD-DVD of my laptop clicking an icon in
kde a a non-root user.
1) Is that possible?
2) Where can I find intructions to do the job?
Try running the command:
usermount
If it is installed, just make a launcher
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:26, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[..]
By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your
running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as
Knoppix.
[..]
I was hoping for a screen shot to compare
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 02:40, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
when you say that Gentoo installs on the partition of my choice, how
does that happen: with a gui, drop-down menu or what? I don't mind
formating the fat32/vfat partition to ext3 (or whatever gentoo uses).
My primary concern is losing data on
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:23, Mark Knecht wrote:
Thanks Peter. While I know that VFAT permissions are far fewer it
hadn't occurred to me that you actually couldn't do an install to VFAT
due to those differences. (Not that I'd ever try, but it's good to
know.)
There were some distros that
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 06:39, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
cool, thanks, but, how I got to unmask a package ?
Create and edit /etc/portage/package.keywords and add package arch
to it.
Or, from the root command line, command something like this if I want
mozplugger on my AMD 950 processor box:
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:08, Botykai Zsolt wrote:
Monday 02 May 2005 11.27-n, Nick Rout ezt írta:
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:50 +0200, Spider wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:35 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
I'm looking for a smtp mail-client that can send emails from a script,
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:34, George Roberts wrote:
It is not causeing any issues with my computer. I just puzzles the snot
out of me why this is happening.
Thanks.
Perhaps these will help enlighten you.
# Memory and swap information
cat /proc/meminfo
free
An article, Tips for Optimizing
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