Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-04 Thread Ric de France
not recommend this for most users. ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) -- Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! -- -- http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml --

Re: [gentoo-user] PS3-slim

2009-11-05 Thread Ric de France
from several sources that running Linux is not possible on the new slim PS3s. What he said. -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml ==

Re: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Ric de France
to determine the flags is running: $ emerge --info It should list the USE-flags on your system, allowing you to find out any extras that may have been set that you may want to - away. HTH... ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Ric de France
lists... ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Call for feature requests for 2008.0

2008-01-24 Thread Ric de France
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should do that, or am I look at the wrong list? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion

2007-12-31 Thread Ric de France
recommend to grab the fusion-icon package from the xeffects overlay. Just out of curiosity... can anyone say why are the packages still masked? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-28 Thread Ric de France
. So does our Backup server. So does our datacenter. By our I mean the laboratory I work at (check signature). I see no major issue on running Gentoo on servers. -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc with other distro (Debian)

2007-08-03 Thread Ric de France
of glibc (or other) incompatibilities / inconsistencies between Gentoo and Debian, but I'm sure others on this list can advise you better. HTH (sorta), ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups blockers . . .

2007-06-07 Thread Ric de France
for an upgrade. Like Bo Ørsted Andresen said, probably a bad add to the main tree...? Dunno... ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-31 Thread Ric de France
as well as a revdep-rebuild. ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Ric de France
a prune with a deep world emerge, ie.: # emerge -DNuva world It'll make sure if you prune something like automake that isn't back / forth - compatible will be restored to your system. HTH, Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo in Hong Kong office

2007-03-12 Thread Ric de France
looking for a guy who can help me in doing an installation on our server. Does any of you have expertise in Gentoo and is available for this work? Please write me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or contact me on skype: spiff1281. Regards. -- Marco -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international

[gentoo-user] how do I remove evolution from gnome?

2007-02-20 Thread Ric de France
it more permanent than just doing it before the emerge world command... It's just that I'm having a hard time from figuring out which USE flags (if any) to remove to get rid of evolution... Any suggestions? TIA, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

2007-02-14 Thread Ric de France
compiler? Switched over late last year. Nothing to report that's out of the ordinary. All servers (4) and the desktop have been totally recompiled with 4.1. HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http

Re: [gentoo-user] no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4

2007-02-06 Thread Ric de France
the outputs to this list? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED

2007-02-06 Thread Ric de France
not in front of my Linux box at the moment) ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

2006-12-31 Thread Ric de France
, may I suggest using xine to play DVDs? It's the best I've used (haven't used Ogle or Mplayer to play DVDs, though). Doug -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]:Evolution/OpenOffice spell checking not working

2006-12-21 Thread Ric de France
options I should go looking for? Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] connect-debounce failed and USB mouse has stopped working

2006-12-02 Thread Ric de France
(via CUPS to HP8200), and USB memory keys still seem to be OK when plugged in... Is this a problem with the new kernel, or is it due to me not rebooting my system after several emerge worlds? Any suggestions to go forward? TIA, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international

[gentoo-user] Fwd: connect-debounce failed and USB mouse has stopped working

2006-12-02 Thread Ric de France
Hi all, Please ignore what I wrote... it appears that plugging in another USB mouse has solved the problem. Somewhere during a reboot, the original USB mouse must have somehow fried itself... Sorry for wasting your time... ...Ric -- Forwarded message -- From: Ric de France

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Ric de France
. It appears that the ebuild has been deleted off the portage tree... What would be the safe way to remove this and to move to another player? Does emerge -C xmms still work? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?

2006-10-24 Thread Ric de France
way: emerge --unmerge xmms (and xmms-plugins and accesoires) Can I slide in a emerge --depclean in here? emerge --newuse --deep world emerge playerofchoice ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

2006-10-14 Thread Ric de France
vorbis win32codecs xv -a52 -aac -aalib (-altivec) -arts -debug -directfb -dts -dxr3 -fbcon -flac -libcaca -mng -modplug -samba -speex -theora -v4l -vcd -vidix -xinerama -xvmc VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia -i810 -via 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB /snip HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Totem plays only sound / no video playback of WMV media

2006-10-14 Thread Ric de France
) Starting playback... ...Boring stuff removed /snip HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to create my own linux distribution

2006-07-18 Thread Ric de France
Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: video problem

2006-07-09 Thread Ric de France
] Driver nv #VideoRam131072 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection HTH, ...Ric On 10/07/06, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what package do i emerge to install it? -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Mediawiki

2006-04-23 Thread Ric de France
/Help:Running_MediaWiki_on_Gentoo_Linux - this page is a little out of date. If you use PHP5, you don't need mod_php (well I didn't)... HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 emerge fails.

2005-11-27 Thread Ric de France
the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Any ideas? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Looking for info of Gentoo on zSeries or S/390

2005-09-05 Thread Ric de France
an already existing Linux installation. Wondering if anyone has heard of how you'd do it from scratch. I'm just curious on this topic... it's not like I have access to a mainframe to do it (yet). :-) Thanks in advance, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Ric de France
On 8/30/05, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 August 2005 13:09, Ric de France wrote: What is the bug suggesting to do to fix it: a) Wait for the fix to be sync'ed into portage? b) Emerge gst-plugins-flac? It's (b) Or you could do $ emerge --oneshot gst-plugins-flac (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-31 Thread Ric de France
On 8/31/05, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:59, Ric de France wrote: Anything else you could suggest, or do I just track the bug and see wait for when the fix gets implemented? Do you use 2.4 or 2.6 linux-headers? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68087

[gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
as the forum post suggests, or can this be solved (with totem 1.0.4 being compiled and installed via emerge)? I've also tried setting down my compilation settings to: CFLAGS=-O2 but that does no good. Any suggestions on what could be the problem? Any comments greatly appreciated. ...Ric -- Ric de

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
. But what are your current CFLAGS, and what arch are you running on? x86 - Pentium4 with SMP Thanks for your look in on this... ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling totem-1.0.4 -- looking for suggestions on how to fix

2005-08-29 Thread Ric de France
to be sync'ed into portage? b) Emerge gst-plugins-flac? I guess I need a little help in interpreting the text in the bug. ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Access Violation emerge error

2005-06-06 Thread Ric de France
in and it will be fixed... I haven't tried it, so I've got a 50% upgraded Gnome desktop (somewhere between 2.8 and 2.10)... but I'll do it when I get home later today... HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-06 Thread Ric de France
the upgrade? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Access Violation emerge error

2005-06-06 Thread Ric de France
it. Thanks! Just to confirm with you, are you running x86 or AMD64? ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package.* mess!

2005-05-26 Thread Ric de France
packages only, thus allowing you sometime to decide if you want to intall them or not. Something along the lines of: $ emerge --sync emerge -DNuvf world HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software

2005-05-23 Thread Ric de France
that markup the code that you highlight. Give it a go sometime. You can always edit a page on gentoo-wiki or wikipedia, and click on the preview button as many times as you like without it actually commiting to the database. HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Internal Modem not recognised

2005-04-28 Thread Ric de France
in the future... 2 other links I can also suggest (that sorta point you in the right direction) are: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/Linmodem-howto.html http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/resources.html Good luck... I don't envy you... :-) ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international