Re: [gentoo-user] voice or touch data entry apps

2009-04-27 Thread Valmor de Almeida
James wrote: Hello, I'm looking for special types of applications that allow for data entry, via voice commands or using the touch screen on a touch screen enabled laptop. KDE4 is my preferred desktop, but any application that will run on kde4 and gentoo is of interest. Is there anything

[gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I've been trying the following grub.conf boot kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 video=intelfb,mode=1280x768...@60 but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format appears to be kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=xxx where xxx does not accommodate the

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Sebastian Günther wrote: This is the hint: intelfb can't change the video mode. But intelfb can be used if you /also/ add a vga to the kernel command line. I will post mine as an example: kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/mapper/system-slash \ ro

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Peter Humphrey wrote: kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.29-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap fbcon=scrollback:128k splash=silent memory_corruption_check=1 Thanks for letting me know the fbcon=scrollback option. -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mike Edenfield wrote: these log messages. I assume this is a laptop (or else your intelfb is very confused). For some reason that I don't fully understand, but It is a laptop indeed. assume is a good one, the intel fb device cannot change the video mode on a laptop display. The vga

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 23:23]: since the mode option under intelfb is useless. I could also drop the video parameter altogether since I only have the intelfb driver compiled into the kernel. Only if you don't want to use

[gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I would like to start net.eth0 manually, therefore I currently have - rc-update show acpid | battery default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Tom wrote: kernel ... video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=795 That gives me 1280x1024. I don't know at what refreshrate though... There should be a line in your /var/log/messages file that shows the refresh rate; at least intelfb does show that; not sure vesafb does the same. those options,

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Philip Webb wrote: I start net.eth0 by hand, so it looks as if it's 'netmount'. I removed netmount from all run levels and still get net.eth0 started. It is happening before; during booting I see the line *Wiping /tmp directory... *Device initiated services: net.eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: That happened to me recently. Just change the value of the variable RC_PLUG_SERVICES in /etc/conf.d/net to exclude eth0, like eg RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth0 That did it. Never actually looked inside /etc/conf.d/rc. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. Thanks, -- Valmor

[gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I followed all the steps in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml and created a liveusb on a memory stick; instead of the image livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso, I used the more recent 2008. When trying to boot from the liveusb I get: No operating system found. Do I have to use

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

2009-04-17 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. Right; the minimal iso.

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-10 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Stroller wrote: The sub-packages are not intended to be installed stand-alone - they are merely for the convenience of the devs and so that minimal work is required of your system to maintain minor updates. I wonder why this is a required package * dev-tex/feynmf Latest version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
ABCD wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 08 April 2009 22:17:17 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Would anyone know which portage package would install the stmaryrd fonts? It's tetex. No, it isn't. teTeX is obsolete, and should not be used

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:32:26AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida squawked: All previous replies very helpful. Thanks. However texlive-mathextra won't emerge. Any advice? Thanks, Not sure if this will help, but try *not* emerging it directly. Add mathextra

[gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Would anyone know which portage package would install the stmaryrd fonts? I have these installed: virtual/latex-base dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra dev-texlive/texlive-latex dev-texlive/texlive-basic dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Penguin Lover Marc Joliet squawked: Alternatively, you could use texmfind: mar...@marcec ~ % texmfind stmaryrd dev-texlive/texlive-mathextra [1 file] stmaryrd Found 1 texmf file in 1 ebuild. mar...@marcec ~ % eix texmfind

[gentoo-user] eliminating packages/ebuilds from the portage tree

2009-04-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, There are a couple of packages (ebuilds) in the portage tree that I would like to eliminate completely from my system and not get them back after an emerge --sync. Is this possible? Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] eliminating packages/ebuilds from the portage tree

2009-04-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Eray Aslan wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:52:18AM -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: There are a couple of packages (ebuilds) in the portage tree that I would like to eliminate completely from my system and not get them back after an emerge --sync. Is this possible? You can exclude part

[gentoo-user] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

2009-03-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am trying to configure lm_sensors and sensors-detect identified these two modules I don't know how to build. smartbatt coretemp I tried many config options when rebuilding the kernel 2.6.27.12 (vanilla-sources) but no luck in building the modules. Looking in the kernel sources

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

2009-03-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
David wrote: This should help; http://dwabbott.com/menuconfig_shots/ The pictures help a lot. Under Hardware Monitoring Support I do not have the option Intel Core (2) Duo/Solo temperature sensor in my menuconfig (vanilla-sources 2.6.27.12) which could enable CONFIG_CORETEMP.

Re: [gentoo-user] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

2009-03-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Alan McKinnon wrote: From any menu in make menuconfig, you can type '/' and enter a search string. Menuconfig will list all instances where it finds that string in item headings. coretemp is there. Thanks for this search info. CORETEMP is there under the search but the enabling option is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

2009-03-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Paul Hartman wrote: What CPU have you chosen in your kernel? Did you enable hardware monitoring and expiremental modules? I did not have Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers selected under General Setup. Therefore missed options under Hardware Monitoring Support. I

Re: [gentoo-user] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

2009-03-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Paul Hartman wrote: Also, if you are new to lm_sensors, beware that sensors-detect only works on a subset of the supported sensor chipsets. On my computer, for example, it detected the wrong chipsets which sort of worked (gave wrong/incomplete readings). I had to manually tell it which sensor

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