Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-03-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 2020-02-15 8:48 a.m., Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, at 15:03, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL. During the boot process when it comes to the loading of MySQL it hangs. Is there a way to bypass the loading of MySQL so the computer

[gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-14 Thread Colleen Beamer
it? Thanks in advance, Colleen Beamer

[gentoo-user] Perseverance reaps rewards

2012-12-30 Thread Colleen Beamer
Happy New Year All, I hope you all had a happy holiday. Oddly enough, this e-mail isn't to request assistance although I did post this problem quite a while back and was not able to resolve it. Ever since I got my new desktop computer slightly over a year ago, I have been trying to set up a

[gentoo-user] Just Testing

2012-12-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Recently, I cleared out some gentoo-user e-mail from Firefox and now it seems that Thunderbird is automatically deleting any gentoo-user e-mail when it arrives in my inbox. The address is still in my personal address book, but not in my collected address so, I'm not sure what is going on.

Re: [gentoo-user] Just Testing

2012-12-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
to my e-mail did not land in my Junk folder so perhaps the change in settings rectified things. Regards, Colleen Sent from my ASUS Pad Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently, I cleared out some gentoo-user e-mail from Firefox and now it seems that Thunderbird

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird - Anyone else with this problem?

2012-05-25 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Ever since the last time Thunderbird was updated when I synced, the process does not die when I shut down Thunderbird. I have to kill it before I can start up Thunderbird again. Is anyone else experiencing this problem. Thought I would ask here before I complained to the Mozilla folks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Assistance if possible

2012-03-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 03/18/12 08:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:15:10 -0400 Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All of you guys that are more experienced and technical than I am will probably laugh at me. However Today, I wanted to update my computer. I got all kinds

Re: [gentoo-user] Assistance if possible

2012-03-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 03/18/12 09:32, Alex Schuster wrote: Colleen Beamer writes: Yes, I have activity manager in world, but I've unmasked all kde packages for version 4.8.1 and because of that, I can't get activitymanager installed because the latest verion for that is only 4.7.4 and I get told kactivities

[gentoo-user] Assistance if possible

2012-03-17 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, All of you guys that are more experienced and technical than I am will probably laugh at me. However Today, I wanted to update my computer. I got all kinds of messages related to kde stuff. One my one, I unmerged the offending packages and added the line to my package.keywords file

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 22:19, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen Beamercolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The associated line when you cat /etc/init.d/devfs on my system looks exactly like the line above. What about fstab? An entry in there could override the openrc setting. Good point, but how does

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.comwrote: On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: snip Reading back through this thread I don't see whether Colleen tried my suggestion about a creating a new user

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: x SNIP Okay, so how do I change the group

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 14:27, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer

[gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything relevant. Any ideas? Thanks and Happy New Year. Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything relevant. Any ideas? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 14:48, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything relevant. Any ideas? Thanks and Happy New Year. Colleen Hmmm, are you talking some custom

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 14:58, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 15:09, James wrote: Colleen Beamer colleen.beamer at gmail.com writes: I can't type anything in the konsole window (in KDE). When I exit kde by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and type echo $PS1, I get output similar to what you have posted above (PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\u at \h

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 15:08, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything relevant. Any ideas? Make

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 15:46, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: On 01/01/12 14:58, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen Beamercolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Colleen Beamercolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 16:15, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 15:46, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: On 01/01/12 14:58, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen Beamercolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: What happens if you run xterm? In response, konsole was working just find earlier today - I had a command prompt and everything. I had to install xterm, but on install I could run

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17:36:02 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: What happens if you run xterm? In response, konsole was working just find

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 18:48, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 18:20:55 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17:36:02 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 19:01, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to sending my first message. Will trying googling. Thanks. Colleen Mysterious thread Colleen. Possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 19:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:10:25 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 18:48, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 18:20:55 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to sending my first message. Will trying googling. Thanks. Colleen Mysterious thread Colleen. Possibly the font

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: x SNIP Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device? Regards, Colleen mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep devpts devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 mark@c2stable ~ $ But I haven't a clue how, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: x SNIP Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device? Regards, Colleen mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep devpts

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 20:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 20:05:04 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 01/01/12 19:55, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:40:37 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-26 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 12/26/11 14:54, Paul Hartman wrote: On 12/25/2011 02:51 PM, CJoeB wrote: On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 12/25/11 16:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/25/2011 09:08 PM, CJoeB wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the

[gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I used to use ImageMagick to quickly resize images and convert from one format to another (jpg to png, for example). ImageMagick is installed on my system (installed as requirement of something else), but I'm darned if I can find an executable to run the program. There used to be one in

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi Colleen, Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer: Hi all, I used to use ImageMagick to quickly resize images and convert from one format to another (jpg to png, for example). ImageMagick is installed on my system

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 11/27/11 16:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 17:04:24 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi Colleen, Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer: Hi all, I used to use ImageMagick to quickly resize

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 11/27/11 16:22, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi Colleen, Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer: Does anyone have any experience with this? yes

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 11/27/11 16:28, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 17:04:24 schrieb Colleen Beamer: On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi Colleen, Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer: Hi all, I used to use ImageMagick to quickly resize

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/27/11 03:57, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: I use smplayer for mine. It's nothing fancy but it plays music. I clicked on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and I never could get it to even play the CD. It wanted to build some database or something. I'm in the mood to

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote: This is solved. The solution came from posting to KDE forums. It was a configuration issue: In System Settings, I had to select Device Actions, Play Audio CD with KsCD, select Edit, select

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/22/11 15:28, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote: This is solved. The solution came from posting to KDE forums. It was a configuration issue: In System Settings, I had to select Device

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi Guys, You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw! :-) On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
P.S. to this message: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Guys, You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw! :-) On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. to this message: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, You all must

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
, Optical Disk for the Device type, Available Content for the Value name and Equals Audio. That did the trick! Regards, Colleen On 10/20/11 05:32, Joerg Schilling wrote: Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: If you have only one CD drive, the CD will play with: cdda2wav -e -B -N

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 03:51, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer 'cause I

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 04:41, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:51, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD. Therefore the above entry is not required. Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 05:45, Joerg Schilling wrote: Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to resolve the issue. My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 08:07, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 19.10.2011 01:09, schrieb Colleen Beamer: Hi everyone, I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to resolve the issue. My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote: Semi-solved. On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, My CD drive will read data CD's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 11:15, James wrote: Colleen Beamer colleen.beamer at gmail.com writes: Any ideas? Did you check audio and cdrom (etc) in /etc/group ? and the user group permissions in general. Yes, to all. :-) Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 13:37, Dale wrote: James wrote: Colleen Beamercolleen.beamerat gmail.com writes: Any ideas? Did you check audio and cdrom (etc) in /etc/group ? and the user group permissions in general. hth, James I just thought of something, what about the permissions of the device

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/16/11 18:23, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 23:04:00 CJoeB wrote: On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote: As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the modules and dependencies are loaded. Would building one modules

[gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi everyone, I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to resolve the issue. My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel. In /dev

[gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi everyone, I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to resolve the issue. My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel. In /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to resolve the issue. My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/18/11 19:51, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi everyone, My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel. In /dev cdrom is a symlink to sr0

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon. Any ideas? Have you Googled

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Semi-solved. On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine. When I try to play an audio CD in kaffeine

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - specifically kwin question

2011-06-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:04:15 -0400, CJoeB wrote: With my new and fresh installation of gentoo and kde, I figured out that by right-clicking on the tab at the bottom of the terminal window and choosing Rename and

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-30 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote: I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine. James Wall I tried doing the steps that I found in my google search as

[gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years or more since i did a fresh install, I decided to do one. I followed the handbook - 1st run, I screwed up and missed a step, 2nd run, I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Thanks for the response. However, this has opened another can of worms and I'm bowing to the expertise of this list to help On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Colleen Beamer writes:. /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet: error while loading shared

[gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-17 Thread Colleen Beamer
First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant - could be my stupidity, but I did try! About 6 days ago, I updated my system and since then, I can't boot into X. My nvidia driver loads okay and it looks like it is going to start X, but then reverts to the command line. I've

[gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. -- Remy How am I supposed to do this when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 100503 Colleen Beamer wrote: I can't disable my xdm login script. My computer boots to the login screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session. Yes, it happened to me long ago, after which I decided always

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 5/3/10, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-13 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 9/12/07, Lee Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo on the new laptop. This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel. So *that* is not the issue. And I'm not *that* stupid that I would repeat

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-13 Thread Colleen Beamer
Lee Davis wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo on the new laptop. This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel. So *that* is not the issue. And I'm not *that* stupid that I would repeat a previous mistake. I truly thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one from the CD you booted from), not the configuration you may have had

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 9/12/07, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: So what I thought was some residual problem with screwing up and hitting the 'Media Direct' button wasn't really the problem after all. It might still be, depending on how you've reinstalled. If you blanked

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:01 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used fdisk - deleted all the partitions, created the new partition table and created file systems on them. I can read data from the drive - any text file that I can cat displays fine. I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-11 Thread Colleen Beamer
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: 5) I did the step: zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one from the CD you booted from), not the configuration you may have had earlier on the system you

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-10 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I'm still struggling with this situation Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007, Colleen Beamer wrote: Google found this: http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm So it's a mini-OS type of thing to play media. It hides itself and does other weird stuff so I'm

[gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, Please read this carefully. Don't take offense, I'm not insinuating that you wouldn't. It's just that I don't want to get myself into more of a pickle than I'm in! ;-( This morning as I was getting my son off to work, he got me upset about something and I walked over to my laptop and

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Thanks Alan, Whew! You gave me a lot to respond to and it will take a bit of time since I have to run between two computer. Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007, Colleen Beamer wrote: I'll give you a verbose reply in the hopes that we can get to the root of the problem right

[gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi everyone, I'm having a heck of a time trying to get wireless going on my laptop. I've tried so many things, I'm a bit dizzy and don't know where I've gone right or wrong. First things first. lspci shows my wireless hardware as: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] Samsung 971p

2007-08-15 Thread Colleen Beamer
Danis Petkakis wrote: hi there...i'm thinking of buying the tft monitor mentioned in the subject of this topic and i would like to know how it comprehends with gentoo...i'm a little confused because the monitor doesn't have any switches to control it rather Samsung gives a software called

[gentoo-user] fstab question

2007-08-15 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I have a situation that, before, kind of bugged me but I was able to deal with it. However, now I've added another wrinkle to the situation. I have a usb external hard drive attached to my computer. It's an Iomega and has a power switch. In fstab it is /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 because I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Csányi András wrote: Hi Collen! What type of nvidia-card have you? I have older card and this works only (or older) this version of nvidia-drivers: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 nvidia card (lspci output): VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP

[gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, rant I hate freakin' nvidia!!! /rant Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. I'm an ATI girl and I've never encountered the problems that I have with this damn laptop and it's nvidia card. Heck, I even got X working just fine when I took the hard drive out of my old computer and put

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modules version does not match' This is not relate to nvidia. It would have happened the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:38:37 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
James Ausmus wrote: On 8/8/07, Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modules version does not match

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: And I still think nvidia cards are crap! What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT Nvidia cards under Linux and did not have a single issue with them. When I update the nvidia driver, I generally prefer to do the following: 1. Shut down X and remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: And I still think nvidia cards are crap! It's a subjective point of view. I've not had the frustrations with ATI that I've had with nvidia. But to each his own, right? What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT Nvidia cards under Linux and did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: First, *Denis* did NOT write that Nvidia cards are crap - quite the opposite actually. So don't anybody dare pinning this statement on me in the future replies! ;) No, Denis *did not* write it Colleen did and I still think so, but no matter! ;-) Maybe it was some

[gentoo-user] Update World Issue

2007-08-07 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, On my laptop, I did an update world. One of the programs that the update wants to install is 'sip'. I connect to my mirror and then the mirror goes out to www.riverbankcomputing.com, but gets a 404 error. Anyone else seen this issue? I know what a 404 error is. Would changing mirrors

[gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I have.

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Paul wrote: what is the output of ifconfig -a does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp? ifconfig -a shows the device just fine. And for what it's worth, I rebuilt dhcpcd while I was in the chroot'd environment. Regards, Colleen On 8/6/07, *Colleen Beamer* [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Colleen Beamer schrieb: However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to Help when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

2007-07-25 Thread Colleen Beamer
Kent Fredric wrote: Does your CDROM drive have a dedicated headphone socket?, if so, plug it in and see if you get any sound. My personal suggestion : ditch kscd. My cd player/sound system works fine, and kscd just thrashes doing the exact same thing you did ( I removed my audio cable to

[gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

2007-07-24 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi guys, I know I'm like a bear with a thorn in it's paw, but this is driving me nuts. I've tried the suggestions provided in response to my posts on this list, but I still can't play audio CD's. I posted to the alsa-user list and got a response. I'm posting some of that here because although

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

2007-07-24 Thread Colleen Beamer
Steve Dommett wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: If anyone can provide me with direction, I would sure appreciate it. Sorry I can't help you with your ALSA config. I've been stuck for months now trying to enable SPDIF-out on my own laptop. However: I notice from your first post on this topic

[gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi guys, A while back, I wrote looking for help because I thought I was having problems with Alsa on my Dell XPS M1710 laptop . It takes me a while, but I finally clued in that the problem *might not* be Alsa. Today, I tested me theory my ripped music files are stored on an Iomega external

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