Re: [gentoo-user] No sound in RealPlayer

2007-02-28 Thread Stewart Taylor
Tried this as module and built in to the kernel still no sound Stewart Mohammed Hagag wrote: try #modprobe snd-pcm-oss if not already loaded or built in the kernel, then run the program. On 2/26/07, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I've just updated RealPlayer to version 10

[gentoo-user] No sound in RealPlayer

2007-02-26 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all I've just updated RealPlayer to version 10. Before the update it all worked fine, after the update nothing. Starting RealPlayer and looking at the settings I found that XVideo was checked , no idea why, after un-checking it I got video back but still no sound. Googling showed I was

[gentoo-user] Has xorg or something changed?

2006-12-29 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all A while ago I set up a twin monitor system using two graphics cards. All worked fine until I carried out an update. During the update I noticed that a lot of X11 files were updated but thought nothing of it. When I restarted, the second monitor refused to work. Running Xorg -configure

[gentoo-user] Packet writing a drive that works please

2006-09-27 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all I've been trying to get packet writing to work with my old cd-rw drive. Although I can read the content of any file from a disk produced with InCd running on WinXP I can only mount the disk read only. I assume that my old cd-rw drive just isn't compatible with packet writing. I looked

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync locks up and doesn't continue

2006-09-27 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Don't know if this will help but I had a similar problem when I set up my archiving system. The problem was that I set it to use ssh which needs it own password and the password file was only used by rsync. the answer was to not use ssh and just use rsync client to rsync server. This was

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting x after update

2006-08-07 Thread Stewart Taylor
Richard Fish wrote: On 8/6/06, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I've just completed an emerge --update --deep world, all went ok until I re-started, then I could only get console mode. This is the contents of /var/log/xdm.log. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Probably you have

[gentoo-user] Problems starting x after update

2006-08-06 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi allI've just completed an emerge --update --deep world, all went ok until I re-started, then I could only get console mode. This is the contents of /var/log/xdm.log.Note that your system uses syslog. All of kdm's

[gentoo-user] Only one sound channel with SB live value

2006-04-16 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all I've just put together a system using some old kit I've got. Everything seems OK except the sound card. Before I go any further the system is also setup to boot Win98 and the sound card is fine when running Win98. With the Labtec stereo speakers plugged into the front speaker

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator

2006-02-12 Thread Stewart Taylor
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Ah, yes, I remember that now, sorry for doubting you. Funny, I used it at one time, but I don't need it now. Instead I use the attached shell script after ripping, that you may modify for your purposes. Thanks for the script, I'll give it a try, I had just

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator

2006-02-11 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Are you sure you are talking about KAudioCreator; that just rips and encodes cdda CDs? If you are please tell me where this play list option is/was in the menus and dialogs. Yes, KAudioCreator. The play list option was (V. 1.12 ) in Settings Configure

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator

2006-02-04 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi All Does anyone else have problems with the play list option in KAudioCreator 1.13 as comes with KDE 3.5. I was using 1.12 with KDE 3.4 but since I updated to 3.5 the play list option is no longer available. The first time I had this problem was after updating from 3.4. Since then I

Re: [gentoo-user] printing - via windows PC

2005-09-26 Thread Stewart Taylor
Ian Porter wrote: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED message via the smb url or ERRDOS via the lpd method. I have tried to have the smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pcname/printer and also my Make sure you have the Linux printer setup to log onto the windows computer as guest. HTH Stewart --

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-24 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Tim Thanks for the reply, just printing the info, hopefully this will solve the problem. Thanks again Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-24 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Tim Printed the info, read half way down first page of Mozilla DPI issues, problem fixed in 5 minutes. Thanks again for your help Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-23 Thread Stewart Taylor
Holly Bostick wrote: Phew! what a long post. Sorry it's taken so long to come back on this. I tried the emerge x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt. Then made the changes in KDE Control center. No effect at all. I didn't have Gnome installed, so to see if the basic setting and hardware are ok I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome

2005-09-22 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Tamas The emerge --sync did the trick, everything is working fine now. Thanks for your help. Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome

2005-09-21 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all I'm having problem trying to emerge gnome. A very short while after starting I get the following error message Downloading ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/X11/GNOME/sources/libbonoboui/2.10/libbonoboui-2.10.0.tar.bz2 --10:38:48--

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome

2005-09-21 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Trivial yes, but easily overlooked. I have 1.6 GB free and the file length is correct. Stewart Very trivial question. Have you got enough freespace? Is the saved file equal in size with the said by wget? Cheers, Tamas Sarga Sárga Tamás -- Make the world

[gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all Just about got Gentoo up and running as I want it. Taken a while with all the tweaking and re-tweaking but I've not had as much fun with a computer for years. I've got a couple of problems which, so far, have got me pulling my hair out as nothing I try fixes them. I've got a

[gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-19 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi All I've got a problem with the display under KDE. I've just installed Gentoo for the first time. Under KDE the font sizes are very small compared with what they should be. Compared with the same hardware under Suse 8.0 all text displays a little over half the size. this affects KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work

2005-09-19 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Thanks to Holly , Peter and Scotty for the fix. It now works a treat. Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-05 Thread Stewart Taylor
Zac Medico wrote: Hi Zac Thanks for the help this fixed it. It's now up and running. With recent versions of genkernel you should do ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initramfs* instead. Note that the initramfs or initrd is not required if your kernel has sufficient drivers built in. Zac --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-05 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Nothing I guess but as this is my first fling with Gentoo , the first time I've used this method to install a distro and it's a trial on my second system I thought it was better to follow the instructions. If I stick with Gentoo, when put it on my main system I'll look at all the

[gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi all I've been trying to install Gentoo. I want to see if Gentoo is for me so I've kept it simple. My first attempt I tried a stage1 install, as this failed the second time I tried a stage3 install, if it failed less time wasted. Both times I opted for a genkernel install, everything