[gentoo-user] Recomendation of wireless USB or PCI

2009-04-23 Thread Thomas Chef
Hello ! As I have no network cable where my gentoo computer will be placed, I need to use a wirelss network adapter. Do you have any recomendations of which product (USB plug) to buy which is simple to install ? In my local stores I can choose from: (only USB sticks) - GIGABYTE Link ACT -

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Stroller
On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:30, Simon wrote: ... I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie. In addition to

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-23 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:04:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 23:45:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote: Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS=-j1 to see what make command is launched. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4

2009-04-23 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince bwi...@redback.com wrote: All, I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running gentoo-2.6.24.-r4. # uname -a Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:12:33 PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-23 Thread Morten Holt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-23 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200, Morten Holt th...@t-hawk.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:29:09 -0400 schrieb Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button

RE: [gentoo-user] vmware install error

2009-04-23 Thread 김무성
Perfect Thank you. One more question. localhost vmware-modules # emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 [1.0.0.15-r2] [blocks B ] =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 23 April 2009 07:43:20 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the MAKEOPTS was not the problem, but only the make prepare... I remember to see before that sometimes, the kernel source tree is no more up-to-date with the last kernel build, so when i see that problems, the first thing to do

[gentoo-user] libtool question

2009-04-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, unfortunately, libtool is one of my black spots in my Linux knowlegde. Trying to emerge app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1 libtool fails with libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la' The libtool command is too long to include here, but it definitely doesn't contain

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool question

2009-04-23 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:45 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: unfortunately, libtool is one of my black spots in my Linux knowlegde. Trying to emerge app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1 libtool fails with libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la' The libtool command is too long

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool question

2009-04-23 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:59 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: There was a bug about this (libpcre not installing the .la files). https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266016 should be it btw.. Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs=

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-23 Thread Morten K. Holt
Xavier Parizet wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200, Morten Holt th...@t-hawk.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-23 Thread Marco
[...]  You can try Wicd which is  a great network manager, until you are more familiar with gentoo/wifi configuration.  I have the same chip, with wpa2, wicd handless this without problems. This is cool! For the moment this is perfectly ok for me! Thanks for the tips!

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install error

2009-04-23 Thread Kan-I Jyo
2009/4/23 김무성 ki...@infosec.co.kr: in /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/Changelog it seems that 1.0.0.23 don't support kernel2.6.27. right? 1.0.0.23 does support kernel 2.6.27, according to the change log. In your case, as you can see from the 'emerge' output, it is the vmware-server

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/phasex

2009-04-23 Thread Mark
2009/4/22 Kelly Hirai ke...@met.fsu.edu: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this package appears to be a porn site now. what do we do? kelly Lots of copies on mirrors: http://www.filewatcher.com/m/phasex-0.11.1.tar.gz.391539.0.0.html Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
Hey thanks John, I found some pages of it online (specially the TOC) and it does seem like a very thorough answer to clear the fog in my situation! I'll try to find a place to read the whole content, or a book like this i might actually buy it. Thanks! On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:11 PM, John

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
Well i've had several projects ideas in the past that would have used asterisk in different ways. So, the reason to get it installed for my personal 1-line use is really a first step in understanding asterisk's basics and since I will probably work and tweak it every day for a certain period of

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
Hey Stroller, nice to see a friend in a similar situation as mine! I'm sure that having the hardware already, you probably made a lot of tests in the past... can you share some of your experience? and also, i wonder, why did you let the project down? was it because of lack of motivation (ie

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread kyle . bader
It is a great book, I used it to help me setup my first voip box. Here's that link: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:18 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Simon
oh! wow, i was on that page, but i followed some of the links and got to a place where you had to register to view the whole content on the website... didnt know it was avail for download!! thanks! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM, kyle.ba...@gmail.com wrote: It is a great book, I used it to

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread kyle . bader
Your welcome, also I seem to remember there being a caveat to running asterisk in a vserver (if your host uses that technology) but its not coming to mind. Maybe when I'm home infront of a real computer I can find it. Also I really liked the voiper soft phone, its not in the tree but might

RE: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Wince
-Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:49 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince bwi...@redback.com

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4

2009-04-23 Thread Xavier Parizet
Brian Wince a écrit : -Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:49 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Apr 2009, at 16:57, Simon wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Stroller ... I've actually got a really expensive (or it was when I bought it!) Cisco phone and an X100 POTS card sitting here, as I've been meaning to get round to implementing Asterisk for about 4 years now! Perhaps

RE: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Wince
-Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 Brian Wince a écrit : -Original Message- From: Xavier

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool question

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:45:19 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, unfortunately, libtool is one of my black spots in my Linux knowlegde. Trying to emerge app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1 libtool fails with libtool: link: cannot find the library

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could

RE: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Wince
-Original Message- From: Brian Wince [mailto:bwi...@redback.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:53 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 -Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor.

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1 - Intel unable to pin 'front buffer'

2009-04-23 Thread Mark Knecht
I am still having horrid problems with my wife's machine segfaulting when running any application using xv video. I read some posts in other forums by a couple of folks stating they had similar problems which were solved by updating a bunch of stuff, one fo them being the kernel to 2.6.29, so I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1 - Intel unable to pin 'front buffer'

2009-04-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:24:37 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I am still having horrid problems with my wife's machine segfaulting when running any application using xv video. I read some posts in other forums by a couple of folks stating they had similar problems which were

[gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt

2009-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something because there are still holes: outlines of buttons or windows with no content. The most important of which is the Kicker menu. I can change it to classic

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-23 Thread walt
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 23 April 2009 07:43:20 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the MAKEOPTS was not the problem, but only the make prepare... I remember to see before that sometimes, the kernel source tree is no more up-to-date with the last kernel build, so when i see that problems,

[gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-23 Thread Wyatt Epp
Evening, Lately, for at least a few months, actually, I've been completely unable to sync normally. I'll get the following sort of thing three times from three different servers. Starting retry 2 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.74/gentoo-portage Checking server timestamp ... Welcome to

RE: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Carter
Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2024MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-23 Thread Roy Wright
Paul Hartman wrote: For now you can open a run dialog and type kdesu systemsettings to have the admin options enabled for editing. That works great! Thank you, Roy