Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater
On Monday 01 September 2008 12:23:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, > > because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to > > run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which > > was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it. > > This should fix it: > >revdep-rebuild -X -i --ask > > the problem seems to be a link problem with the ALSA lib. When you hear > "link problem", revdep-rebuild is the solution most of the time. It > will rebuild packages that use the ALSA lib. I ran revdep-rebuild last night after the big reemerge it didn't pick anything up. Just to be sure I re-ran it when I got your email. I doesn't want to rebuild anything. Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%
[gentoo-user] sound hosed after running python-updater
Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it. All the emerges finished without errors, but now the sound doesn't work. I've tried reemerging all the alsa stuff but no joy. I have the alsa drivers in the kernel and I'm using alsa-libs-1.0.16 When I try running madplay -v Music/Megamix/19.mp3 I get the following error: MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie et al. ALSA lib dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol _snd_pcm_plug_open ALSA lib pcm.c:2108:(snd_pcm_open_conf) symbol _snd_pcm_plug_open is not defined inside [builtin] audio: No such device or address I found a thread on the gentoo forums discussing this problem. It seems some pcm plugins need to be specified. So I specified all of them! reemerged alsa-libs and tools, utils, etc. Still the same error message! I've run out of ideas, anybody know what the problem is? Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%
Re: [gentoo-user] googleearth
On Monday 11 August 2008 19:46:22 Dale wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Google earth upgraded over the weekend to version 4.2.205.5730. It > > installed fine but it runs like shit. The rendering is so slow as to be > > completely unusable. The previous version worked fine so I tried to go > > back to it but it's gone, at least according to eix. > > Anybody else having the same problem? Nobody's mentioned it on this list > > or on the forums sofar. > > Where do I start to find a solution? > > Hardware: Compaq Presario V5000 laptop > > Precessor: Celeron M 1.46GHz > > RAM: 2GB > > Graphics: Intel 945GM/GMS Express Integrated Graphics Controller > > > > Saludos > > Matt > > Well, I'm not going to lock myself into a agreement but you can try > starting here: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html I would > start close to the bottom where it says this: "Download the previous > version". That may help. It may go back a little farther or you may > want to try moving to a even newer version where your "issue" may be fixed. > > Hope that helps. Just wish I could get off this stinking dial-up so I > can play with it too. :-( > > Dale > > :-) :-) Just a follow up to this short thread. Sorry it's been a couple of weeks but I've been away doing field work. The problem with the new version of google earth is the atmosphere. Rendering thin air appears to be a resource hog. To restore normal function, deselect Atmosphere in the view menu. Saludos Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%
[gentoo-user] googleearth
Google earth upgraded over the weekend to version 4.2.205.5730. It installed fine but it runs like shit. The rendering is so slow as to be completely unusable. The previous version worked fine so I tried to go back to it but it's gone, at least according to eix. Anybody else having the same problem? Nobody's mentioned it on this list or on the forums sofar. Where do I start to find a solution? Hardware: Compaq Presario V5000 laptop Precessor: Celeron M 1.46GHz RAM: 2GB Graphics: Intel 945GM/GMS Express Integrated Graphics Controller Saludos Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%
Re: [gentoo-user] what qt package?
On Sunday 03 August 2008 18:51:43 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Matthew R. Lee schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:28: > > I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some > > time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development > > package which provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want > > to unmerge them but I can't remember, or figure out which package they're > > from. I've tried variations on the names, I've looked at the > > gentoo-portage web page and 'searched' the database, I've been to the > > trolltech pages. But I can't work it out! I think they all came in one > > package together. Does anyone know what it's called. It will be obvious > > when you tell me :-) > > Cheers > > Matt > > Linguist, Designer and Assistant are part of x11-libs/qt and I don't > think you can get rid of them by use flag. You have to unmerge qt but > this is surely not what you want or can. Only if no package from your > system depends on qt anymore. Is that true? I could of sworn I didn't always have them, and I've always used kde. But then again it might explain why I can't find specific packages for them. Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%
[gentoo-user] what qt package?
I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development package which provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want to unmerge them but I can't remember, or figure out which package they're from. I've tried variations on the names, I've looked at the gentoo-portage web page and 'searched' the database, I've been to the trolltech pages. But I can't work it out! I think they all came in one package together. Does anyone know what it's called. It will be obvious when you tell me :-) Cheers Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%
[gentoo-user] Dell Linux desktop
I'm thinking of buying a dell Ubuntu desktop (Inspiron 530MT) for my lab. The university has an arrangement that can get me a discount. I have a question, has anyone bought one of these and installed gentoo on it? I sure it will work, I'm just wondering if there are any tweaks that dell have made to the Ubuntu install to make certain components work, that may be more difficult to replicate with the gentoo install. I'm going for the default set-up plus extra memory, that's a Pentium dual-core processor E2180 1MB 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB SATA, 20" widescreen, Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100, Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio Any comments would be appreciated Saludos Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem
On Saturday 05 July 2008 20:13:20 Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:47:10 Matt Harrison wrote: > > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:15:05 Mick wrote: > > >> On Sunday 06 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > >>> I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load > > >>> the new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is > > >>> there. Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was > > >>> mounted when I copied the new kernel across and changed the > > >>> grub.conf. What's really confusing me is there's no syntax error in > > >>> the grub.conf that I can see, and the first kernel on the list boots > > >>> fine. Anyone got any cluse as to why grub can't see the second > > >>> kernel? > > >>> > > >>> [grub.conf] > > >>> default 0 > > >>> > > >>> timeout 30 > > >>> > > >>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > >>> > > >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 > > >>> > > >>> root (hd0,0) > > >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>> > > >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8 > > >>> > > >>> root (hd0,0) > > >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3 > > >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > > >> Could you please show us: > > >> > > >> $ mount > > >> > > >> and > > >> > > >> # ls -la /boot > > > > > > /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) > > > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) > > > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) > > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec) > > > shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs > > > (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 > > > (rw) > > > > > > total 17256 > > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root1024 Jul 5 18:28 . > > > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Dec 29 2007 .. > > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root1024 Aug 16 2007 boot > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37395 Dec 25 2006 config-2.6.18-r5 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35286 Dec 28 2006 config-2.6.18-r6 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29907 Jul 19 2007 config-2.6.21-r4 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39449 Aug 4 2007 config-2.6.22-r2 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44583 Jul 5 18:48 config-2.6.24-r8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44541 Jun 23 18:25 config-2.6.25-r5 > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root1024 Jun 23 17:02 grub > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486761 Oct 7 2006 initrd.img-2.6.17-sata > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1637016 Dec 25 2006 kernel-2.6.18-r5 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1606118 Dec 28 2006 kernel-2.6.18-r6 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1916280 Jul 19 2007 kernel-2.6.21-r4 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1740624 Aug 4 2007 kernel-2.6.22-r2 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1847000 Jul 5 18:48 kernel-2.6.24-r8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2952220 Jun 23 18:24 kernel-2.6.25-r5 > > > drwx-- 2 root root 12288 Dec 27 2007 lost+found > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 738926 Dec 25 2006 system.map-2.6.18-r5 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 712206 Dec 28 2006 system.map-2.6.18-r6 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 813409 Jul 19 2007 system.map-2.6.21-r4 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 810321 Aug 4 2007 system.map-2.6.22-r2 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 870491 Jul 5 18:48 system.map-2.6.24-r8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1183038 Jun 23 18:25 system.map-2.6.25-r5 > > > > > > I should probably give /boot a clean, but could this be the problem? > > > > According to your grub.conf your default is the top entry, but the > > kernel image for that doesn't exist in your boot partition. > > > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > > > should probably be > > > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2 root=/dev/sda3 > > > > Thats if 2.6.22-r2 is the kernel your trying to boot. > > > > HTH > > > > Matt > > This is wierd, I hadn't noticed that, but that's not causing the problem. > I'm running the 2.6.22-r2 kernel now, that's the one that boots, the > 2.6.24-r8 is the one grub can't find. > Matt Ok, I figured out the problem, but no why it's happened. If you look at the output of ls -la /boot there is another folder /boot and within this a symlink /boot (./) By copying the kernel to this folder and modifiying the grub.conf in the associated /grub folder the the new kernel boots. Question is how did I come to have a cascade of boot folders and how do I get things back the way they should be? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem
On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:47:10 Matt Harrison wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:15:05 Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 06 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > >>> I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load > >>> the new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is there. > >>> Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was mounted > >>> when I copied the new kernel across and changed the grub.conf. What's > >>> really confusing me is there's no syntax error in the grub.conf that I > >>> can see, and the first kernel on the list boots fine. Anyone got any > >>> cluse as to why grub can't see the second kernel? > >>> > >>> [grub.conf] > >>> default 0 > >>> > >>> timeout 30 > >>> > >>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > >>> > >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 > >>> > >>> root (hd0,0) > >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8 > >>> > >>> root (hd0,0) > >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3 > >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> Could you please show us: > >> > >> $ mount > >> > >> and > >> > >> # ls -la /boot > > > > /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) > > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) > > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec) > > shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs > > (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 > > (rw) > > > > total 17256 > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root1024 Jul 5 18:28 . > > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Dec 29 2007 .. > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root1024 Aug 16 2007 boot > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37395 Dec 25 2006 config-2.6.18-r5 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35286 Dec 28 2006 config-2.6.18-r6 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29907 Jul 19 2007 config-2.6.21-r4 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39449 Aug 4 2007 config-2.6.22-r2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44583 Jul 5 18:48 config-2.6.24-r8 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44541 Jun 23 18:25 config-2.6.25-r5 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root1024 Jun 23 17:02 grub > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486761 Oct 7 2006 initrd.img-2.6.17-sata > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1637016 Dec 25 2006 kernel-2.6.18-r5 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1606118 Dec 28 2006 kernel-2.6.18-r6 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1916280 Jul 19 2007 kernel-2.6.21-r4 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1740624 Aug 4 2007 kernel-2.6.22-r2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1847000 Jul 5 18:48 kernel-2.6.24-r8 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2952220 Jun 23 18:24 kernel-2.6.25-r5 > > drwx-- 2 root root 12288 Dec 27 2007 lost+found > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 738926 Dec 25 2006 system.map-2.6.18-r5 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 712206 Dec 28 2006 system.map-2.6.18-r6 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 813409 Jul 19 2007 system.map-2.6.21-r4 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 810321 Aug 4 2007 system.map-2.6.22-r2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 870491 Jul 5 18:48 system.map-2.6.24-r8 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1183038 Jun 23 18:25 system.map-2.6.25-r5 > > > > I should probably give /boot a clean, but could this be the problem? > > According to your grub.conf your default is the top entry, but the > kernel image for that doesn't exist in your boot partition. > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > should probably be > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2 root=/dev/sda3 > > Thats if 2.6.22-r2 is the kernel your trying to boot. > > HTH > > Matt This is wierd, I hadn't noticed that, but that's not causing the problem. I'm running the 2.6.22-r2 kernel now, that's the one that boots, the 2.6.24-r8 is the one grub can't find. Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem
On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:15:05 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load the > > new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is there. > > Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was mounted when > > I copied the new kernel across and changed the grub.conf. What's really > > confusing me is there's no syntax error in the grub.conf that I can see, > > and the first kernel on the list boots fine. Anyone got any cluse as to > > why grub can't see the second kernel? > > > > [grub.conf] > > default 0 > > > > timeout 30 > > > > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > > > title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 > > > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8 > > > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3 > > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Could you please show us: > > $ mount > > and > > # ls -la /boot /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) total 17256 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root1024 Jul 5 18:28 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Dec 29 2007 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 root root1024 Aug 16 2007 boot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37395 Dec 25 2006 config-2.6.18-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35286 Dec 28 2006 config-2.6.18-r6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29907 Jul 19 2007 config-2.6.21-r4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39449 Aug 4 2007 config-2.6.22-r2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44583 Jul 5 18:48 config-2.6.24-r8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44541 Jun 23 18:25 config-2.6.25-r5 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root1024 Jun 23 17:02 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486761 Oct 7 2006 initrd.img-2.6.17-sata -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1637016 Dec 25 2006 kernel-2.6.18-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1606118 Dec 28 2006 kernel-2.6.18-r6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1916280 Jul 19 2007 kernel-2.6.21-r4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1740624 Aug 4 2007 kernel-2.6.22-r2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1847000 Jul 5 18:48 kernel-2.6.24-r8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2952220 Jun 23 18:24 kernel-2.6.25-r5 drwx-- 2 root root 12288 Dec 27 2007 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 738926 Dec 25 2006 system.map-2.6.18-r5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 712206 Dec 28 2006 system.map-2.6.18-r6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 813409 Jul 19 2007 system.map-2.6.21-r4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 810321 Aug 4 2007 system.map-2.6.22-r2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 870491 Jul 5 18:48 system.map-2.6.24-r8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1183038 Jun 23 18:25 system.map-2.6.25-r5 I should probably give /boot a clean, but could this be the problem? -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] grub boot problem
I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load the new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is there. Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was mounted when I copied the new kernel across and changed the grub.conf. What's really confusing me is there's no syntax error in the grub.conf that I can see, and the first kernel on the list boots fine. Anyone got any cluse as to why grub can't see the second kernel? [grub.conf] default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question
On Monday 23 June 2008 18:11:09 Neil Walker wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > So I should comment out the > > line "splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz" > > > > The file splash.xpm.gz does exist though > > Maybe it does - but the path you have entered in grub.conf doesn't. ;) > There should not be a space after "(hd0,0)". > > > Be lucky, > > Neil > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. Thanks that sorted it However, looking at old, backup, versions of grub.conf that I have; they all have the same space and before the grub-install the splash appeared when booting. Saludos Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question
On Monday 23 June 2008 17:41:30 Miika Linnapuomi wrote: > Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:17:31 -0400 > > "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I ran grub-install, but I've run into a problem. > > When I reboot the splash and menu do not appear, so I can't select > > which kernel to boot. If I press return the the first kernel in the > > list is loaded. After a screen full of gibberish the normal list of > > processes etc intitating fill the screen until X starts. > > I've included my grub.conf below. > > Anybody know what the problem is? > > Thanks > > Matt > > > > default 0 > > > > timeout 30 > > > > splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > > > title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 > > > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > title=Gentoo 2.6.25-r5 > > > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.25-r5 root=/dev/sda3 > > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Loading a non-existent splash can do that. You could try without the > splash, or with > > splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > Thanks > > Miika So I should comment out the line "splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz" The file splash.xpm.gz does exist though Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question
On Monday 23 June 2008 16:55:08 Miika Linnapuomi wrote: > Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:00:41 -0400 > > "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:07:27 dhk wrote: > > > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 > > > >> > > > >> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot > > > >>> partition, copied the new bzimage across, along with .config > > > >>> and system.map. I then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot > > > >>> it offers me the same options as in the old grub.conf not the > > > >>> new one. I must have missed a step somewhere, but I can't think > > > >>> where. Can anyone point me in the right direction Thanks > > > >>> Matt > > > >> > > > >> Did you check whether you've really overwritten the old > > > >> grub.conf? Is the file in the right directory (/boot/grub/)? Is > > > >> there a symlink menu.lst on grub.conf? > > > >> Do you really boot from that partition? > > > > > > > > the file /boot/grub/grub.conf has the new config. > > > > menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf > > > > /boot is the mount point for /dev/sda1 the boot partition > > > > the only thing that I changed is to replace the oldest kernel > > > > with the newest. The order shouldn't make any difference, I want > > > > the default to be my current working kernel. I want to test the > > > > new kernel before I make it the default. Point is that this setup > > > > was working previously and has done so since I started using > > > > gentoo. I have checked to make sure that /dev/sda1 was really > > > > mounted at /boot when I copied everything across, and it was. So > > > > I don't know what has gone wrong. > > > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > Did you run grub-install? > > > > No, and before I do, given the warnings in the manual, I want to make > > sure I don't screw up > > I have a standard partition layout with three partitions sda1 (boot) > > sda2 (swap) sda3 (the rest). sda1 is the bootable partition > > > > So I issue the command grub-instal /dev/sda > > Correct?? > > > > Thanks > > Matt > > Yes, grub-install /dev/sda should do it. Just make sure /boot is mounted > > > Thanks > > Miika Well I ran grub-install, but I've run into a problem. When I reboot the splash and menu do not appear, so I can't select which kernel to boot. If I press return the the first kernel in the list is loaded. After a screen full of gibberish the normal list of processes etc intitating fill the screen until X starts. I've included my grub.conf below. Anybody know what the problem is? Thanks Matt default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=Gentoo 2.6.25-r5 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.25-r5 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question
On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:07:27 dhk wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 > >> > >> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, > >>> copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I > >>> then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot it offers me the same > >>> options as in the old grub.conf not the new one. I must have missed a > >>> step somewhere, but I can't think where. Can anyone point me in the > >>> right direction Thanks > >>> Matt > >> > >> Did you check whether you've really overwritten the old grub.conf? > >> Is the file in the right directory (/boot/grub/)? Is there a symlink > >> menu.lst on grub.conf? > >> Do you really boot from that partition? > > > > the file /boot/grub/grub.conf has the new config. > > menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf > > /boot is the mount point for /dev/sda1 the boot partition > > the only thing that I changed is to replace the oldest kernel with the > > newest. The order shouldn't make any difference, I want the default to be > > my current working kernel. I want to test the new kernel before I make it > > the default. Point is that this setup was working previously and has done > > so since I started using gentoo. I have checked to make sure that > > /dev/sda1 was really mounted at /boot when I copied everything across, > > and it was. So I don't know what has gone wrong. > > > > Matt > > Did you run grub-install? No, and before I do, given the warnings in the manual, I want to make sure I don't screw up I have a standard partition layout with three partitions sda1 (boot) sda2 (swap) sda3 (the rest). sda1 is the bootable partition So I issue the command grub-instal /dev/sda Correct?? Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: digital camera - Longshot!
On Friday 20 June 2008 11:02:28 James wrote: > Matthew R. Lee matthewlee.org> writes: > > Dear All, > > I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging > > system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam. As usual out of the box there is > > no Linux support. The model is a Q Imaging Go-3. Their website doesn't > > mention linux support except in the context of the firewire models. > > http://www.qimaging.com/products/cameras/documentation/ > > Says: > "The Go Series use superior CMOS sensors which take advantage of USB 2.0 > plug-n-play interfaces under Windows supported operating systems. The > MicroPublisher cameras use CCD technology combined with the sustained data > performance of FireWire to offer superior color imaging and performance for > Windows, Mac and Linux based operating systems. Both the Go and > MicroPublisher series cameras come with QCapture Suite and QCapture Pro > software designed for high speed performance preview and capture functions. > A Software Development Kit is available for easy interfacing with custom > software. QImaging cameras are compatible with a large selection of life > science and industrial software for microscope, machine vision and video > streaming applications. " > > > Oh by the way, in my previous post I mentioned "classes of usb > drivers". Take a look here: > > http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class > > A generic class driver under linux just might work for your device, > since it is bascially a "web cam". Vendors most often try to get > their products to use the generic class drivers, so they work > out of the box with the various operating systems. > > Surely there is a way to make one of their microscopes work with linux? > > > I'd be interested in this, if they do not cost too much. > > > James Thanks for the info, I haven't got time to do anything about this until the weekend. Hopefully it will just work. As for the cost, it is excessivly spendy. The cost was around 2.3 million chilean pesos, that's about £2300 or $4600 US. Yeah! seemed exhorbitant to me, but I'm not paying for it. Saludos Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 > > "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, > > copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I > > then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot it offers me the same > > options as in the old grub.conf not the new one. I must have missed a > > step somewhere, but I can't think where. Can anyone point me in the > > right direction Thanks > > Matt > > Did you check whether you've really overwritten the old grub.conf? > Is the file in the right directory (/boot/grub/)? Is there a symlink > menu.lst on grub.conf? > Do you really boot from that partition? the file /boot/grub/grub.conf has the new config. menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf /boot is the mount point for /dev/sda1 the boot partition the only thing that I changed is to replace the oldest kernel with the newest. The order shouldn't make any difference, I want the default to be my current working kernel. I want to test the new kernel before I make it the default. Point is that this setup was working previously and has done so since I started using gentoo. I have checked to make sure that /dev/sda1 was really mounted at /boot when I copied everything across, and it was. So I don't know what has gone wrong. Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] GRUB question
I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot it offers me the same options as in the old grub.conf not the new one. I must have missed a step somewhere, but I can't think where. Can anyone point me in the right direction Thanks Matt New grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=Gentoo 2.6.25-r5 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.25-r5 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Old grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r6 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] digital camera - Longshot!
Dear All, I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam. As usual out of the box there is no Linux support. The model is a Q Imaging Go-3. Their website doesn't mention linux support except in the context of the firewire models. I've done a lsusb and got the following info: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 5354:80e3 [no model or manufacturer info] I've looked through various webcam, gentoo-wiki, and V4L sites to see if those IDs mean anything, but no luck sofar. I even tried googling them. Truth is I'm not sure what they actually refer to. Longshot, has anybody got this camera and got it working. The alternative I suppose is to run it through XP which I'm going to install in a virtual machine later. I've got other software I need to use which I can't persuade Wine to run. -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:42:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove > > gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently > > using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is > > the kernel image in /boot sufficient. Do I need to build myself a > > new working kernel before I reboot again? I can't reemerge 2.6.22-r2 > > becuase it's no longer available. Thanks > > Hi Matt, > > The answer to why this happens is in a thread from earlier today when > this happened to mark Knecht. Summary: > > This is a new thing that --depclean does. Just remerge the sources you > want, put them in world if you want to guarantee that --depclean won't > be overly helpful in future. > > As for the sources themselves, they are only needed to build a kernel or > out-of-tree modules (ati drivers, ndiswrapper, vmware-modules, etc > etc). You already have a working kernel, so you are safe. Gentoo does > not require anything in /usr/src - unlike most binary distros it > doesn't keep kernel headers there, they are somewhere else and > completely unaffected by the presence or absence of full sources. > > If you do need to remerge the original sources, you can grab the > original ebuild from the gentoo attic. Google will find it for you > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Thanks for the info. I'm really not in the mood for building a new kernel. And I'll pay more attention in future, to --depclean and the list. Too much work at the moment Saludos Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up
I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is the kernel image in /boot sufficient. Do I need to build myself a new working kernel before I reboot again? I can't reemerge 2.6.22-r2 becuase it's no longer available. Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 12:00:13 Johann Schmitz wrote: > This should work (untested!): > > for x in $(find -name "*.htm*"); do > ~ tmp=$(mktemp); > > ~ sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' $x > $tmp && mv $tmp $x; > > ~ rm $tmp; > done > > Matthew R. Lee schrieb: > | I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace > | in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do > | this using the following from the command line: > | sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html > newfile.html | mv newfile.html > | file.html > | Problem is I need to do this on nearly 200 files. I assume it could be > | done with a script, but I have zero experience in writing scripts. I've > | looked through a few how-to's but haven't found anything I understand > | sofar. I want to learn how to script, but my Prof want's this done > | yesterday as the associated paper has just been published. > | Cheers > | Matt > > -- > Johann Schmitz > http://www.j-schmitz.net Thanks, job done. All the variations suggested worked, I tried them all :-) I love the command line, I really need to learn how to make the most of it. Saludos from Chile Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files
I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this using the following from the command line: sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html > newfile.html | mv newfile.html file.html Problem is I need to do this on nearly 200 files. I assume it could be done with a script, but I have zero experience in writing scripts. I've looked through a few how-to's but haven't found anything I understand sofar. I want to learn how to script, but my Prof want's this done yesterday as the associated paper has just been published. Cheers Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo
On Sunday 10 February 2008 16:28:12 Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:04:28 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote: > > > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using > > > > gentoo? > > > > > > > > I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view > > > > videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone. > > > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > It's a flash based player mplayer wont work > > > > I can watch the videos without any problem with konqueror, it appears to > > launch an embeded version of kmplayer. > > Saludos > > Matt > > That makes sense as it's the "kde frontend" for mplayer. I had some real > problems with kmplayer and mplayer not playing nice. Kmplayer was sending > commandline parameters that the latest versions of mplayer didn't > understand. Try the realplayer plugin ans see if it works. > > -- > > > From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride I can use realplayer aswell, I use it to stream BBC radio, though it works better if you click launch as a stand-alone player, the embeded version tends to skip a bit -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo
On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote: > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? > > > > I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view > > videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone. > > > > Jeff > > It's a flash based player mplayer wont work I can watch the videos without any problem with konqueror, it appears to launch an embeded version of kmplayer. Saludos Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem printing photos
I'm having a real problem getting photos to print. I'm using HP Deskjet 3845, with the hpijs driver set to (600dpi, photo, full bleed, photo + color cartridge, photo paper) and CUPS 1.2.12. I've been trying to print from digikam, but I've had the same problem from other software. The problem is that the printer starts printing the photo but gives up at some point during the printing, never the same point twice! No error messages that I can see, it just stops and the light on the front of the printer starts flashing. I've tried leaving it to see if it was just a case of it taking its time to process the image but it never starts again. I've tried various mailing lists, googling etc, but I can't find the answer Any one out there no what the problem is? Saludos Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
Dear All, Thanks for the advice. I just successfully completed the transfer of my gentoo installation to the new hard drive. I was able to install grub on the external drive successfully, obviating the need to boot with the live cd after swaping the drives. I did however have one problem with the dev/ being a little messed up, but I followed the instructions in the /etc/issue file and that fix the problem, as far as I can tell :-) Cheers Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
On Monday 24 December 2007 19:36:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote: > > It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` > > and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it > > with the same start point (and a later end point). The filesystem > > would then need to be resized. But I don't know if this will work, > > It will, I've done it myself. The main disadvantages are that you can > only resize the last partition,and it is very slow (because dd copies > every byte of the source drive, not jut the ones in use). Although I have > used this method, I wouldn't do it again, I'd set up the partitions, > copy with rsync and run grub to install it on the new drive. Right I'm going to do it this way, in the morning, so if I'm wrong please feel free to shout at me over night: 1. make the new partitions and file systems on the new drive /dev/sdb 2. mount sdb1 (boot) and sdb3 (root) 3. copy sda1 to sdb1 and sda3 to sdb3 using rsync (I use rsync all the time to do backups so I'll stick with what I know) 4. swap the drives 5. boot with Live CD 6. (not sure about this bit) mount the boot partition (will this be sda1 or sdb1?) and root partition 7. chroot to the new disk 8. do env-update and source /etc/profile 9. install grub (I'm assuming I wont have to change my grub.conf as everything is in the same place as before, relatively speaking) 10. reboot and get on with the rest of my day -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems > > yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. > > > > If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your > > grub.conf and fstab should be fine. > > > > You will need to install grub on the new drive tho. I usually do that > > from the Gentoo CD myself. > > > > Hope it all goes well. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > Me and my sucky typing. Make that cp -a instead. That may work better. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Right, so when I've finished copying the partitions to the new disk, I swap the disks and boot with the Gentoo live CD and follow the instructions from the install handbook: Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However, grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all mounted filesystems. Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this - just copy over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding the rootfs line if you haven't created a separate boot partition. The following command will work in both cases: Code Listing 5: Creating /etc/mtab # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab Now we can install GRUB using grub-install: Code Listing 6: Running grub-install # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda If you have more questions regarding GRUB, please consult the GRUB FAQ or the GRUB Manual. Continue with Rebooting the System. Cheers! -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive
Dear All, I'm running out of space on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000) so I've decided to intall a bigger hard disk. Currently I have an 80GB SATA drive, I'm also going to add more RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) as RAM is so cheap at the moment. I've been through various howto's online, including the one in the gentoo-wiki, but I'm not completely clear on a couple of things. I need this to go quickly and smoothly, I'm about to move house and job and I don't have too much time for messing around. My current partition table looks like this: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 699729 77601982+ 83 Linux I intend to keep the same partition layout on the new disk, but with /sda3 being a lot bigger. So here's how I think I'll do this, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. 1. place the new 160GB SATA drive in an external housing and create the partitions using fdisk, make the file systems, etc. Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it? 2. Copy all the partitions from the old disk to the new disk using cp Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR? As the new disk is a direct replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to change anything in my grub.conf? or should it just work without modification? Here's my current grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r6 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Shutdown, replace the old drive with the new drive, reboot and cross my fingers :-) Will it work? Any comments, as always, greatly appreciated Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] korganiser problem
I'm having trouble with the To-do-List in Kontact. When I try to mark a to-do complete a message pops up saying "Unable to edit item: it is locked by another process." I've tried shutting down kontact and killing all processes associated with kontact/korganiser and then relaunching kontact, but it makes no difference. Anybody got any ideas, I don't want to have to redo my calender and to-do list again from the start. I've pasted the output from ps x below Thanks Matt PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 4957 ?Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde 5026 ?S 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session 5033 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session 5050 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session 5051 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session 5517 ?Ss 0:00 kdeinit Running... 6010 ?S 0:01 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid 6125 ?S 0:00 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup 6315 ?S 0:05 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup 6583 ?S 0:00 kwrapper ksmserver 6585 ?S 0:00 ksmserver [kdeinit] 6586 ?S 0:02 kwin [kdeinit] -session 106d65696f0001160297791008988_1197248206_483363 6588 ?S 0:01 kdesktop [kdeinit] 6590 ?S 0:03 kicker [kdeinit] 6595 ?S 0:01 /usr/kde/3.5/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -a alsa -d -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f 6597 ?S 0:00 kaccess [kdeinit] 6599 ?S 0:00 knetstats -session 1014cd7d2d400011751109460058650054_1197248206_457883 6601 ?S 0:01 kget -session 1014cd7d2d400011797792560058820042_1197248206_458044 6603 ?S 0:00 kmix [kdeinit] -session 1014cd7d2d400011890235880065390012_1197248206_458121 6604 ?R 0:00 klamav -session 1014cd7d2d400011952153240066220014_1197248206_458744 6611 ?S 0:39 konqueror [kdeinit] --preload 6614 ?S 0:00 /home/matt/.kde/Autostart/xbindlink 6616 ?S 0:00 knotify [kdeinit] 6618 ?S 0:00 klipper [kdeinit] 6621 ?R 0:05 konqueror [kdeinit] --preload 6680 ?Ss 0:05 clamd -c /home/matt/klammailfZTiql 6795 ?R 0:01 konsole 6796 pts/1Ss 0:00 /bin/bash 8533 ?SLl1:46 amarokapp 8546 ?S 0:00 ruby /usr/share/apps/amarok/scripts/score_default/score_default.rb 8547 ?S 0:00 ruby /home/matt/.kde3.5/share/apps/amarok/scripts/wiki_lyrics/amarok/pluginsmanager.rb 8586 ?S 0:00 konqueror [kdeinit] --preload 8587 ?S 0:52 tellico -caption Tellico -icon tellico -miniicon tellico 31094 ?S 0:00 ispell -a -S -C -d british 31100 ?S 0:00 kio_uiserver [kdeinit] 31213 ?S 0:00 kio_file [kdeinit] file /tmp/ksocket-matt/klauncher8pUWpc.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-matt/amarok0hLNVa.slave-socket 31567 pts/1S+ 0:00 mplayer -dumpstream rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/2200_sun.ra 31743 ?SN 0:00 kio_thumbnail [kdeinit] thumbnail /tmp/ksocket-matt/klauncher8pUWpc.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-matt/konquerorQgTO9b.slave-socket 31782 pts/2Ss 0:00 /bin/bash 31797 pts/2R+ 0:00 ps x -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache wont start when there is no network available
On Thursday 11 October 2007 09:46:25 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:17:40 -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Question, why does apache2 need net.eth1 to be running? How can I get > > apache2 going without a network connection? Surely everything it needs > > is on the laptop (localhost) > > Set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo" in /etc/conf.d/rc That did the trick, thanks. Sorry I didn't respond sooner but I was in a workshop all day yesterday Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] apache wont start when there is no network available
Yesterday I installed Apache2 Mysql 5 and php 5 along with tikiwiki 1.9.8 on my laptop (localhost). The idea is to play with and learn how to use tikiwiki before I install it on my webhost and revamp my website. Everything was working fine and is working fine here in the office where I have online access. But when I got home last night with the intention of playing with tikiwiki I couldn't because apache wouldn't start. I wouldn't start because net.eth1 couldn't connect to anything. net.eth1 is my wireless connection, net.eth0 is my wired connection. Neither will start at home because I don't have internet at home. Question, why does apache2 need net.eth1 to be running? How can I get apache2 going without a network connection? Surely everything it needs is on the laptop (localhost) I've looked at the httpd.conf but I can't see anything relevant I'm clearly new to this apache stuff, any help would be appreciated Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard layout
On Monday 10 September 2007 15:24:06 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > > I use x11-base/xorg-server [1.1.1-r3]. In my xorg.conf, I have the > following: > > Driver "keyboard" > ..and.. > Option "XkbLayout" "gb,fr,ru,ro" > > Try to change "uk" to "gb". > > Regards, > Liviu > > On 9/10/07, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a few problems with an update of Xorg over the weekend which I have > > sorted out, however I've been left with one niggle. The keyboard layout > > isn't being recognized. > > I have a laptop with a British keyboard layout > > The xorg.conf has the following: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > Driver "kbd" > > Option "XkbLayout" "uk" > > EndSection > > > > This used to work fine, but now it's not working > > I'm using xorg-server-1.3.0.0 > > > > Any suggestions as to why it's ignoring the .conf? > > > > Matt > > -- > > %%% > > Dr. Matthew R. Lee > > CASEB & ECIM > > Departamento de Ecologia, > > P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, > > Alameda 340, Santiago. > > CP 6513677 > > CHILE > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org > > %%% > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > Liviu Already tried changing it to "gb" but it didn't change anything -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] keyboard layout
I had a few problems with an update of Xorg over the weekend which I have sorted out, however I've been left with one niggle. The keyboard layout isn't being recognized. I have a laptop with a British keyboard layout The xorg.conf has the following: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbLayout" "uk" EndSection This used to work fine, but now it's not working I'm using xorg-server-1.3.0.0 Any suggestions as to why it's ignoring the .conf? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 14:27:33 Garry Smith wrote: > Hi James > > > Also, I have a series of files as a result of starting and > > stopping a sony video camera at football games: > > > > > > At the very least, I need to be be able to combine them: > > M2U1.MPG . M2U00043.MPG into a single image > > How about, e.g.: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ cat m2u00068.mpg >> new.mpg > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ cat m2u00058.mpg >> new.mpg > > You could script this for a large number of files of course. > > regards > Garry You can also use media-video/mpgtx which works from the command line Use mpgjoin to join mpg files, very easy -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!
On Tuesday 28 August 2007 08:00:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Stroller wrote: > > On 28 Aug 2007, at 08:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> If you know how to use them, you'll have a lot of fun. > > > > > > What is this desktop search engine thingy whereof the OP speaks? I > > > do not know of such a thing... > > > > It's like locate, except it indexes the contents of files (rather > > than just the names) and it does so immediately the file is saved, > > rather than as a cron job. > > Seems like a lot of folks are being very helpful and want to assist me > in understanding what these Beagle-esque apps do :-) > > I do know what they are, I just never use them - I prefer grep find > locate etc. I was being slightly sarcastic with my comment, with my > tongue very firmly planted in both cheeks :-) > > But hey, maybe some other user who would use such things now know more > about them and maybe emerge them A place for everything and everything in its place. If you are as anally retentive about it as me you don't need a desktop search engine. I had beagle for a while but I never used it so I decided to take the space back. Also for specific types of files there are specific types of database programs. So all my music is in amarok, all my research papers (pdfs) are in tellico, as are all my videos/dvds, all my photos are in digikam. That's the majority of my files. The rest is mostly work which is in a folder called "work" with a sub-folder for each experiment/project. It's not hard. It's only a big job if you've got thousands of files with random file names scattered across your file system. Saludos Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile
On Sunday 19 August 2007 08:50:26 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 18 August 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > NO! don't mask expat! > > > > There is some reason why it got stable. expats current form is out for > > ages. > > > > emerge latest expat, emerge fontconfig, emerge qt and everything else > > broken. > > Do as Volker says. After you run revdep-rebuild you will eventually come > up to the XML error as you described. There's a whole thread about it in > this ML (search for it in Gmane). The solution is to emerge -C XML-Parser > && emerge -uaDv XML-Parser before you continue. If I recall you may have > to do the same with gettext. > > HTH. I did as I was told and all is fine now, it was a marathon compile weekend, 180 packages. I didn't run into the XML error stuff, am I storing up problems for the future? Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem
On Thursday 16 August 2007 06:11, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Please give us the output of > "grep NLS /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source/.config" in order to verify > that you really have cp437 support compiled into your kernel. > ok the grep indicated that cp 437 support isn't there. So I'm recompiling the kernel so it is. I maybe missed it because it has the (USA Canada) label next to it and I've everything set up for europe. I assume if everybody needs it, it is set as default? I don't remember unclicking it. Anyway, hopefully the recompile will sort it out. Thanks for the help. Matt Add: The recompile worked. Sometimes you can't see what's wrong for looking Thanks again for all the help Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 18:38, Xav' wrote: > > You can see here that codepage cp437, which is needed by FAT to mount your > key, is not found. > So you have to compile it in your kernel as module or builtin, as you wish, > by activating the option under > File Systems --> Native Language Support --> Codepage 437 (United > States, Canada) > After recompile your kernel,reboot and enjoy mounting your key ;) > As I stated in earlier posts, the NIS support is compiled into my current kernel, atleast that's what the .config states -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 18:09, Mick wrote: > Can you still mount it with WinXP/Vista? What do they report as a fs > (under admin tools/Computer Management/Disk manager)? Don't know. I don't have a windows machine and it's a public holiday here, there's no one else in the lab > You may want to try pmount /dev/sda and, or /dev/sda1. Didn't work. Same problem > Also give ntfs-3g a try (especially if you need to write to this device). > > Finally, I have had two boxen with hald problems after recent updates (it > would not start). Check that dbus and hald are actually running. dbus and hald are both running > HTH. Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 16:32, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Since I got no idea how to debug the KDE part, all I can suggest is > issuing the following as root: "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt" and see > if it gets mounted beneath /mnt. That way, you can exclude media and > kernel issues. If errors show up, post them and the new lines in the > kernel log. > > -hwh trying to mount it from the command line didn't work, here's the output from dmesg usb 1-4.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 usb 1-4.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-4.4:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-4.4:1.0: 1 port detected usb 1-4.4.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 usb 1-4.4.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 11 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Corsair Flash Voyager1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 1015808 512-byte hardware sectors (520 MB) sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 26 00 00 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 1015808 512-byte hardware sectors (520 MB) sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 26 00 00 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete Unable to identify CD-ROM format. Unable to load NLS charset cp437 FAT: codepage cp437 not found NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector checksum. NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid. NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb1. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sdb1. -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 13:53, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:06:50 -0400 > > "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using udev-104-r13 > > Hm, but udev doesn't do the mount, does it? I would really be > interested whether there is a fstab entry (and what it is) and what > mount command you use, if any. Some software actually must be > responsible for the mount, right? > fstab doesn't mention /dev/sdb1 normally I just plug the pendrive in, the icon pops up in media:/ in konqueror, I click on it and do what I need to do > The output you have cited was from the kernel log and it looks as if > > > > Said pendrive worked fine prior to being inserted into the vista laptop > > > I recently compiled a new kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 with all the same > > > support for file systems as the previous kernel, with the exception > > > that I compiled in support for ntfs. > > So I guess the stick, or at least the card, is not NTFS but FAT (since > it worked before), right? Correct it is, was, FAT > > What would be interesting is the output of "file -s /dev/sdb1". It > should print some details about the partition (you need to run it as > root). > /dev/sdb1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID "MSDOS5.0", sectors/cluster 16, root entries 512, Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/FAT 248, heads 255, hidden sectors 32, sectors 1015776 (volumes > 32 MB) , serial number 0xb465569d, unlabeled, FAT (16 bit) > > I've just checked the kernel config and all the NLS support is compiled > > in > > Do you have automatic module loading enabled? Otherwise you might need > to probe the NLS module for cp437 manually before mounting (I really > think it is just a warning in the kernel log, but I'm not sure -- > especially, if you have autofs in the action, which it also looks like, > since the probing of all the file systems). Try "modprobe nls_cp437". > I do have automatic module loading enabled All the file system stuff including NLS is compiled into the kernel, not as modules. modprobe mls_cp437 returns FATAL: Module nls cp437 not found > -hwh -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:45, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows > > > vista. When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount. I got > > > the following output from dmesg: > > > [...] > > > > How is it mounted? fstab entry? CLI? please provide the options you're > > using. BTW, it's not all that common that those media types are NTFS. > > In most cases, VFAT is in use (is that compiled into your kernel? NLS > > support is currently missing from your kernel -- or not loaded > > automatically if compiled as a module). > > > > -hwh > > I'm using udev-104-r13 > Said pendrive worked fine prior to being inserted into the vista laptop > I recently compiled a new kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 with all the same support > for file systems as the previous kernel, with the exception that I compiled > in support for ntfs. I've just checked the kernel config and all the NLS support is compiled in -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:45, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows > > vista. When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount. I got > > the following output from dmesg: > > [...] > > How is it mounted? fstab entry? CLI? please provide the options you're > using. BTW, it's not all that common that those media types are NTFS. > In most cases, VFAT is in use (is that compiled into your kernel? NLS > support is currently missing from your kernel -- or not loaded > automatically if compiled as a module). > > -hwh I'm using udev-104-r13 Said pendrive worked fine prior to being inserted into the vista laptop I recently compiled a new kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 with all the same support for file systems as the previous kernel, with the exception that I compiled in support for ntfs. -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem
A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows vista. When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount. I got the following output from dmesg: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 1984000 512-byte hardware sectors (1016 MB) sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 1984000 512-byte hardware sectors (1016 MB) sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 Unable to identify CD-ROM format. Unable to load NLS charset cp437 FAT: codepage cp437 not found NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid. NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb1. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sdb1. Now when I put an SD card into the external card reader I get exacly the same problem even though the SD card has been nowhere near vista Any clues as to what is going on? Matt -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless setup bcm4311
On Saturday 04 August 2007 12:59, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 04 August 2007 16:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I'm having problems getting the wifi on my laptop to work. > > The laptop is a Compaq Presario V5214ea > > The wifi card is a Broadcom 4311 (rev 1) > > I've been looking at the Gentoo Wiki page: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx > > > > The problem I've run into is with the kernel setup (kernel > > linux-2.6.21-gentoo-r4) > > > > Under > > Device Drivers --> > >Network device support --> > > Wireless LAN drivers > > "Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support" does not appear. > > Has it been removed from the kernel for some reason? Do I need to enable > > some other option in order to make this option available? I have enabled > > the PCI express support. > > > > Any clues would be most welcome > > Try: > > Location: > -> Device Drivers >-> Network device support > -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) >-> Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) > -> Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extension >-> Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support (BCM43XX [=m]) It's not there, it's not on the list I have Network device support and Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extension checked -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] wireless setup bcm4311
I'm having problems getting the wifi on my laptop to work. The laptop is a Compaq Presario V5214ea The wifi card is a Broadcom 4311 (rev 1) I've been looking at the Gentoo Wiki page: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx The problem I've run into is with the kernel setup (kernel linux-2.6.21-gentoo-r4) Under Device Drivers --> Network device support --> Wireless LAN drivers "Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support" does not appear. Has it been removed from the kernel for some reason? Do I need to enable some other option in order to make this option available? I have enabled the PCI express support. Any clues would be most welcome Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf
On Sunday 24 June 2007 23:11, Urs Schuetz wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > On Sunday 24 June 2007 04:36, Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:13, Christian wrote: > > > > Ok, I have found the solution of my problem: > > > > > > > > emerge --unmerge ghostscript-gpl > > > > emerge ghostscript-esp > > > > > > > > That solves my problem. Maybe it helps you too. > > > > > > It seems that soon they will be merged: > > > > > > http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L463 > > > > > > > Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 22:28 schrieb Matthew R. Lee: > > > > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system > > > > > and cups-pdf. The fonts are a right mess, see attached example. > > > > > Now I know one work-around is to print to postscript than do a > > > > > ps2ps followed by ps2pdf, but this is a less than perfect solution, > > > > > though the only one I've come across so far. > > > > > Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, how did you solve it? > > > > > Comments greatly received > > > > > Matt > > > > Swaping ghostscript-gpl for ghostscript-esp improved the situation, at > > least now the pdf is readable. However the fonts are still a little ugly > > and I can't see any option in the cups interface under set printer > > options for embeding the fonts. I'm offered pdf-general, pdf-banners, > > pdf-policies > > Try to use the ghostpdf.ppd printer description with your > cups-pdf printer to get the options to embed the fonts. You > should have this file already on your system, on mine it is > /usr/share/ghostscript/8.15/lib/ghostpdf.ppd. > > The steps are: > Webbrowser http://localhost:631 > Printers tab, search for the cups-pdf printer > Modify Printer > Continue > Continue > paste the location of your ghostpdf.ppd in the field "Or Provide a PPD > File:", press "Modify Printer" > Now you can set the printer options. > > urs Excelente, that fixed it. Thanks alot Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf
On Sunday 24 June 2007 04:36, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:13, Christian wrote: > > Ok, I have found the solution of my problem: > > > > emerge --unmerge ghostscript-gpl > > emerge ghostscript-esp > > > > That solves my problem. Maybe it helps you too. > > It seems that soon they will be merged: > > http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L463 > > > Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 22:28 schrieb Matthew R. Lee: > > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system and > > > cups-pdf. The fonts are a right mess, see attached example. > > > Now I know one work-around is to print to postscript than do a ps2ps > > > followed by ps2pdf, but this is a less than perfect solution, though > > > the only one I've come across so far. > > > Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, how did you solve it? > > > Comments greatly received > > > Matt Swaping ghostscript-gpl for ghostscript-esp improved the situation, at least now the pdf is readable. However the fonts are still a little ugly and I can't see any option in the cups interface under set printer options for embeding the fonts. I'm offered pdf-general, pdf-banners, pdf-policies Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf
On Friday 22 June 2007 19:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > > 070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, > > > both with kprint system and cups-pdf. > > > > Why don't you use Open Office ? Create a .pdf , then print from Kpdf. > > There's a .bin , if you don't want to compile OO ( 5 hr here). > > or koffice which is able to print to pdf just fine. And in 5h you can > install most of KDE+koffice. I have open-office and I know it works fine for producing pdfs. I normally write my manuscripts in Latex and likewise I have no problem producing pdfs from Kile. This problem has arisen because I wanted to make pdfs of web pages. I've just submitted a research proposal and I needed to include a few webpages in lieu of proper quotes for some of the equipment I wanted. The online submission process required all documents to be uploaded in pdf format. This is just an issue of something that is supposed to work and doesn't and I'd like to figure out why and fix it. At the moment though it isn't "mission critical" Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] print to pdf
I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system and cups-pdf. The fonts are a right mess, see attached example. Now I know one work-around is to print to postscript than do a ps2ps followed by ps2pdf, but this is a less than perfect solution, though the only one I've come across so far. Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, how did you solve it? Comments greatly received Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% job_126-untitled_document.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: [gentoo-user] skype again [solved]
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 15:04, Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated > > Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory > to something else. This database error sometimes occur when Skype does not > shutdown cleanly. Thanks that fixed it -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] skype again
Right I've got skype installed and working, sort of. If I launch it from the start menu it asks me for my password, which I enter, It then say "database error" and refuses to logon. I've contacted skype, they suggested the following: We suggest you delete ~/.Skype/shared.xml and ~/.Skype/skypename/config.xml directories. You have to kill the process with Skype and restart your computer as well. It didn't work. I can launch and use skype from the command line as root, which suggests it might be a permissions issue. But the question is where, I've looked at the group file and I cant see any obvious groups which my user needs to be a member of. Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] skype
Well skype upgraded this morning to version 1.4.0.74 and it aint working. When I tried running it from the command line I get the following: /opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory revdep-rebuild doesn't pick any thing up Do I have to rebuild Qt? or another package? which one provides that library. I've tried down-grading to the previous version but that's now been package.masked This is a real pain in the buttocks. How can I phone home now? I can't afford the rip-off international phone charges at the moment! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] font problem after xorg-server upgrade
Yesterday after a normal emerge -uND world and reboot the fonts in X went haywire. They all jumped in size to, I'm guessing, 100pt or more making KDE completely unusable. After rebooting into the console and some investigation I discovered that if I downgraded to xorg-server 1.2.0-r3 (from 1.3.0.0) and xf86-video-i810 1.7.4 (from 2.0.0) the problem went away. No config was changed during the emerge (except hdparm). Has anyone else had this problem? Do I need to file a bug? I'm snowed under with work this week so I don't have time to experiment. Matt -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems
On Friday 13 April 2007 10:18, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Thank you for you all guys! > > I try to find out, how to separate modem and sound card. > Googling :) > > IStván If you find anything new post it to the list. I think there are plenty of people with similar problems Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems
On Friday 13 April 2007 06:52, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Amilo laptop, which has a "nice" audio subsystem, > called > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High > Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I have some problems with it: > no master volume, skype cannot use its microphone, even I can adjust the > volume of the mic and I can hear my voice when I speak with echo123, but > skype records no sound. > > I would like to know, does anybody have this kind of audio system and > how to solve this kind of issue? > > I googled for a day, but there is no solution to my problem. > > Thank you, > István > > > Technical Details: > > gentoo-sources 2.6.20-r5, skype 1.3.0.53-r1, alsa-driver 1.0.14-rc3 > I have kernel 2.6.18-r6, skype 1.3.0.53, alsa-driver 1.0.14-rc3 My audio works fine, it's not perfect, a bit quiet but good enough to listen to music or movies. I've never managed to get my microphone to work with this sound card either, even though the microphone bars are there in alsamixer. I solved the problem by buying a cheap little external usb sound card which I use exclusively for skype, it works fine. You just have to set up a second sound card using usb-audio. There's a page on the gentoo-forums on how to do it (it's for an actual skype phone, but the sound setup is much the same) http://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-t-390911-highlight-usb+phone.html Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] video capture
On Friday 06 April 2007 12:15, ds wrote: > On 4/5/07, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:37, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Does the camera generate a "normal" TV signal (PAL, SECAM, NTSC,...)? > > > If so, the WinTV-PVR150 will work. > > > > I assume so, the manual doesn't explicitly say so, but it says just > > connect it to a video recorder or tv and "away you go" > > A quick google and check of my usual computer suppliers here in Chile > > doesn't bring up that card. Does it belong to a generic type? Will the > > average TVtuner type card work along with video4linux ( I guess)? > > My experience is that most video capture devices are used for Home > Theater PC's, I've found the most information on the MythTV website. > You can check out the documentation on hardware at this link: > http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 > > I use the Plextor ConvertX, you will find it mentioned under the "USB > Capture Devices" heading on the webpage above, with a link to the > website that has the open source linux driver. This unit is nice > because all of the video encoding happens on the device, so I am able > to capture video with my ConvertX connected to a 400MHz Pentium 2 > gentoo box. Now the driver is available through portage. > > See if you can get either the PX-M402U or the PX-TV402U in Chile. I > do not think the PX-AV100U or the PX-TV100U will work with the open > source linux driver. Right, after a lot more googling etc I might have found my solution. The number of capture cards available here in Chile is limited. I can't find any of the cards mentioned sofar, Hauppauge for example is no where to be found in Chile. The most widely available cards seem to be from Pinnacle. The Pinnacle Dazzle DVC-90, according to the documentation with the kernel works with the video4linux em28xx driver. I thought I should ask before I go buy it if anybody has experience with the card, or have I just volunteered to be the guinea pig :-) Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] video capture
On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:37, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 05 April 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I've been rumaging around on the internet for the last few hours, but I'm > > still confused ( a regular condition!) > > Here's my problem. I have a video camera (ken-a-vision, 7000 series) > > which I can attached to my microscope which outputs a standard analog > > signal. I want to capture this signal on my laptop and edit the video. > > What I need is a basic external video capture card that will work with > > linux. Any suggestions. Sound and colour are irrelevant as the 'stars' > > of the videos are both dead and transparent > > Does the camera generate a "normal" TV signal (PAL, SECAM, NTSC,...)? If > so, the WinTV-PVR150 will work. > > Uwe I assume so, the manual doesn't explicitly say so, but it says just connect it to a video recorder or tv and "away you go" A quick google and check of my usual computer suppliers here in Chile doesn't bring up that card. Does it belong to a generic type? Will the average TVtuner type card work along with video4linux ( I guess)? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] video capture
I've been rumaging around on the internet for the last few hours, but I'm still confused ( a regular condition!) Here's my problem. I have a video camera (ken-a-vision, 7000 series) which I can attached to my microscope which outputs a standard analog signal. I want to capture this signal on my laptop and edit the video. What I need is a basic external video capture card that will work with linux. Any suggestions. Sound and colour are irrelevant as the 'stars' of the videos are both dead and transparent Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is the TIMEZONE variable?
On Monday 12 March 2007 10:01, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I feel really stupid having to ask this here, but in what file is the > TIMEZONE variable set? My PC clock is set by ntp and it's not being > updated for DST. Wherever the variable is, it's not set. I never > updated it becuase I heard it wasn't actually being used yet, but I > think if I set it my machine's time might get updated for DST. I can't > find the stupid variable though. The one that replaces /etc/localtime. > Can anyone help me out? /etc/conf.d/clock -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Intel_HDA Sound, Microphone and Skype [SOLVED] (sort of)
A while back I was looking for a solution to getting the external microphone to work with the Intel_HDA soundcard on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000) I thought I should say I've found a solution of sorts ( or workaround) in the form of a cheap generic usb soundcard. It's cheap, it's small, it works and I use it just for skype. Matt -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] quick kmail question
When I click on a URL in an email it opens a new Konqueror window. However I have it set in my Konqueror configuration to "Open as tab in existing Konqueror when URL is called externally" I've looked through the KMail configuration settings but I can't find anywhere to change this. Is there a way? Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] java vm, GENTOO_VM value
On Monday 05 March 2007 14:27, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 04 March 2007 14:43:38 Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I'm trying to recompile openoffice with java to get the help working. > > However I've run into a problem I > > I'm trying to recompile openoffice with java to get the help working. > > However I've run into a problem I don't understand. > > When I try to emerge dev-java/bsf-2.3.0-r2 it fails and complains that: don't understand. > > When I try to emerge dev-java/bsf-2.3.0-r2 it fails and complains that: > > "* Home for VM 'blackdown-jdk-1.4.2' does not > > exist: /usr/lib/jvm/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2/ > > * Invalid value for GENTOO_VM: blackdown: blackdown-jdk-1.4.2" > > Where is the GENTOO_VM value set? > > I don't have blackdown on my system anymore, I switched to sun abut six > > months ago. I've checked with java-config --list-available-vms > > "The following VMs are available for generation-2: > > *) Sun JDK 1.5.0.10 [sun-jdk-1.5]" > > and with eselect java-vm show > > " sun-jdk-1.5" > > > > So the question is why is the GENTOO_VM set to blackdown, and how do I > > change it? > > I suggest you run `java-check-environment`. Post the output if that doesn't > help you. Also post the output of `java-config-1 -L`.. Thanks, I was missing a generation-1 vm, sorted that out. The packages that had the problems previously have now built. I'm reemerging openoffice with the java flag, so far so good Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] java vm, GENTOO_VM value
I'm trying to recompile openoffice with java to get the help working. However I've run into a problem I don't understand. When I try to emerge dev-java/bsf-2.3.0-r2 it fails and complains that: "* Home for VM 'blackdown-jdk-1.4.2' does not exist: /usr/lib/jvm/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2/ * Invalid value for GENTOO_VM: blackdown: blackdown-jdk-1.4.2" Where is the GENTOO_VM value set? I don't have blackdown on my system anymore, I switched to sun abut six months ago. I've checked with java-config --list-available-vms "The following VMs are available for generation-2: *) Sun JDK 1.5.0.10 [sun-jdk-1.5]" and with eselect java-vm show " sun-jdk-1.5" So the question is why is the GENTOO_VM set to blackdown, and how do I change it? Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] clamav-0.90.1 and config file
When I upgrade to clamav-0.90.1 from 0.88.7, which klamav-0.38 tells me to do, I can't update the database. I just get an error message "conf file error" which doesn't help me much. I've looked at the clamav conf file, but I can't tell if it has a problem or not. The same thing happens with 0.90.0. I followed the instructions in the emerge output to i. revdep-rebuild --library libclamav.so.1 (which rebuilt klamav) and to ii. /etc/init.d/clamd restart. When restarting clamd it complained about being unable to write to the log file (/var/log/clamav/clamd.log) because of the permissions. But even after changing the permissions to get rid of that problem I still get the "config file error" when I try to update the database with klamav Somebody on the forums has posted the same problem, but there's been no reply yet. I've downgraded back to 0.88.7 for the moment Anyone know what's going on? Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice help
On Friday 02 March 2007 11:25, Philip Webb wrote: > 070302 Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I want to change the openoffice splash screen. > > I have to overwrite intro.bmp with the new one, but I can't find it. > > Answer : /usr/lib/openoffice/program/intro.bmp > > Method : 'equery files openoffice > outputfile'; > 'less outputfile'; search for 'bmp'. > Thanks, more than one way to skin a cat! -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice help
On Friday 02 March 2007 11:18, Mike Markowski wrote: > Matt, > > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > ...I want to change the openoffice splash screen. I know I have to > > overwrite the intro.bmp with the new one, but I can't find it... > > Here you go: > > kryten mm $ find /usr/lib/openoffice/ -name intro.bmp -print > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/intro.bmp > > Mike Thanks for that, simple when you know how :-) Anyone got an answer to the bigger problem of the missing help? Matt -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] openoffice help
I decided a change is as good as a rest and have changed the 'look' of my desktop. I want to change the openoffice splash screen. I know I have to overwrite the intro.bmp with the new one, but I can't find it. Does anyone know which folder it's in? I have openoffice, not openoffice-bin, installed. Trying to find the information highlighted a more significant problem, my openoffice help (F1) isn't installed or working. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so how do you fix it. I'd rather not just re-emerge a package the size of openoffice in the hope it just fixes it. Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage
On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:31, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:50, "Matthew R. Lee" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote about '[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage': > > > My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a > > > package to package.keywords 11 times, to deal with the 11 masked > > > packages that xorg-x11-7.2 required. > > > So the question is, is there anyway to get emerge to list all the > > > masked dependencies required all at once? > > > > No. > > > > An alternative package manager, paludis, does have this feature. > > Might as well include a couple of links.. :) > > http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=75 > http://paludis.org/ Thanks for the info I'll check it out at the weekend Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage
I've just been doing my regular emerge -pvu world and the system wants to update xorg-x11 to 7.2, fine. To do this I needed to add some packages to the packages.keywords file, again fine. My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a package to package.keywords 11 times, to deal with the 11 masked packages that xorg-x11-7.2 required. So the question is, is there anyway to get emerge to list all the masked dependencies required all at once? (i.e. when I run emerge -pvu world the first time). I've looked at the man page but didn't see an obvious solution. Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:33, Carl Adams wrote: > I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to > CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer, > but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found > easy to connect and use? > > Either inkjet or low-cost laser. > > Thanks > Carl Adams I use a HP deskjet 3845, works fine with no obvious problems Matt -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] hda soundcard and microphone
I'm still trying to get an external microphone working on my laptop. I've been googling around for the last few hours and searching the alsa-wiki for info but I've not found the answer yet. Here's the setup. I have a Compaq Presario V5000 laptop. It has the HDA soundcard (82801G (ICH7)) with the Conexant CXT5047 chip. I do not have the alsa drivers compiled in the kernel I'm using alsa-driver-1.0.14-rc1 which was compiled with ALSA_CARDS set to hda_intel. Sound playback is fine with amarok, mplayer, xine, etc alsamixer gives me the following controls to play with Master, PCM, Mic Bypa, IEC958, Capture, ExtMic I know what Master and PCM do Mic Bypa can be set to capture or not I'm not sure what to do with IEC958, it can be either muted or on Capture can be set to capture or not and has volume control ExtMic is set to capture and can not be changed, it also has no volume control I've tried various combinations of setting but without success Can anybody help me out, I'd love to be able to use skype again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than making international calls home from a regular telephone. Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] pdf wierdness
For reasons unknown my .pdf files will not open with kpdf or kghostview. Fore example I get the following error message with kghostview: Could not open /home/matt/Work/Pdfs/Not_processed/New/Armsby2006.pdf which has type application/x-kdeuser1. KGhostview can only load PostScript (.ps, .eps) and Portable Document Format (.pdf) files. Now if I change the file type to .x and click on the file it will open in kpdf or kghostview. I've checked the file associations, they all seem in order. Anybody any idea what's up? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection
On Saturday 28 October 2006 21:46, Richard Fish wrote: > > It isn't something they can fix on their end. > > You didn't mention what browser you are using, but assuming it is > firefox does the flash plugin show up when you go to "about:plugins"? > If not, then somehow it is not installed or not installed correctly. > > Another possibility is that they are using flash version 8 or higher, > which had no linux version until a few weeks ago. In this case you > may try unmask the beta of netscape-flash-9.x with "echo > '=net-www/netscape-flash-9*' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask". I > haven't tried it, but have seen reports of memory leaks and browser > crashes that are attributable to this. > > Another option for flash8 compatibility is to install the windows > version of firefox and flash under wine. I have done this with some > success. > > -Richard I'm using Konqueror (3.5.2) with netscape-flash (7.0.68) It's installed properly and working The liverpool site clearly doesn't detect its presence or doesn't like it. In the econsole If I click on "get adobe flash plugin" adobe offers me the the same version as the one I have. I guess I'll have to give flash 9 a go Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection
I'm an e-season ticket holder at liverpoolfc.tv where I can listen to live commentary of all the games and watch video highlights. Last season everything worked fine (or more or less fine), this season they have changed the econsole to work with flash. I have the flashplugin installed and it works. However, when I launch the econsole it says it needs flashplugin installed (it can't detect it) as a consequence I can't access the media streams (except through the technical support page). I've complained to the technical support but got the usual answer "we do not fully support or test on Linux systems" Before I write back an tell them what I think about that, I would like to be able to tell them how to fix it. So after that preamble, the question is, how does their system detect the presence of the flashplugin on my browser. Is it simply that they need the correct file name (libflashplayer.so) in their config or is it more complicated than that? Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf question
On Friday 27 October 2006 11:20, Novensiles divi Flamen wrote: > Do you have 'dhcp_eth0="nodns" ' in your /etc/conf.d/net file? This problem > came up recently with someone else, can't confirm whether it was the nodns > option or a different one (possibly "notcp", which I can't find documented) > but after removing that line his problem went away. > > - Noven No that's not the problem. I've written my own net file as I have to have the ip's etc for the diffrent networks I use. The line you mention is not included. Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] resolv.conf question
Every time I boot my resolv.conf reverts to the original file with no name servers in it. Because I use my laptop in various places I have a series of resolv.conf files (resolv.conf.xx1, resolv.conf.xx2, etc) When I use a different network I just cp /etc/resolv.conf.xx1 /etc/resolv.conf Now I'm having to do this every morning after boot even though I'm on the same network. Why does it keep reverting to this old file? How do I stop it? I've looked in the directory /etc/ but I cant see any file like resolv.conf.old or resolv.conf.tmp Where is it getting this empty file from? -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] espn(wmp) on firefox?
On Sunday 22 October 2006 19:14, James wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to watch a football game over the internet using > espn. It requires Windows Media Player. Will any of the > Gentoo browsers support this format and if so, which ones > and which plugins work best? > > Has anyone watched ESPN in a web browser on Gentoo, and if > so any caveats or gotchas? > > James I use kmplayer embeded in konqueror to watch wmp media streams of football games at liverpoolfc.tv No idea if it will work with firefox. It's not a specific plugin, in fact thinking about it I not sure exactly how it works :-) But I got it working so it can't be that difficult. Check out the gentoo wiki. That's the first place I usually go to get info on these sorts of things. You need mplayer obviously and it needs to be compiled with win32codecs. Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What does "future video mode" mean for the i810 xorg driver?
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 10:04, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > I'm using xorg-server 1.1.1-r1, with i810 driver for the Intel 915 on > board graphics adapter. I tried to use a SUN GDM5410 monitor (with > matching adapter cable), which now is hanging on a SUN workstation. > According to the OSD it runs w/ 81.1kHz/76 Hz vert/hor. freq., and a > resolution of 1280x1024 pixels. BUT if I try to use it on my new! shiny! > gentoo PC, I only get it to 1024x768 pixels. If I specify no modes in my > xorg.conf, I get a black screen, If I specify 1024x768, it works. I > tried to include 1280x1024 and 1280x960 (VESA modi), but got a murderous > screen flicker - totally unusable. The Xorg.0 logfile said something > about "Supported Future Video Modes:" which contain a 76Hz 1280x1024 > mode. What does this mean? > I appended the xorg.cfg used for my tests with this monitor (I used > ddcxinfo-knoppix to generate mode lines), an Xorg.0 logfile is included > also. > Can anyone help me with getting a nice, shiny screen resolution? :-/ > > TIA, > Wolfgang Liebich I've just set up this card on my new laptop, to get the highest resolution you need to emerge 915resolution which patches the video bios, if I understand correctly Try searching on the wiki for this package for the exact details of how to set it up properly. I didn't find it difficult to do Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mmx sse sse2 use flags
I need a bit of advice. I have these use flags enabled for mplayer (mmx, sse, sse2) But I've also seen them as possible use flags for a number of other programs, I'm about to install some kind of dvdripper. So the question is should I enable these flags on a case by case basis or stick them in my make.config? And if so should I use all three or just one? Thanks in advance Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 22:19, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/11/06, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The arecord apeared to work, but when I played it back with aplay - > > silence! > > At this point you may want to try the patch that you found on the > forums. Unfortunately it doesn't apply cleanly against 1.0.13, and > the original patch author didn't release it under any defined > licensing terms, so it isn't legal for me to update it for 1.0.13 and > publish it. So you will either have to downgrade to 1.0.11 and use > his patch as-is, or pester him for an update to .13, or even better > re-publish his patch under the GPL like the rest of alsa. > > If you want to use the patch as-is, copy and save it to a file, such > as conexant.patch. Then download alsa-driver-1.0.11.tar.bz2 from [1], > > and put it in the same directory as the patch. Then run (as root): > > tar -xjf alsa-driver-1.0.11.tar.bz2 > > cd alsa-driver-1.0.11 > > patch -p1 --ignore-whitespace < ../conexant.patch > > patching file alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_patch.h > patching file alsa-kernel/pci/hda/Makefile > patching file alsa-kernel/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c > patching file pci/hda/patch_conexant.c > > > ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel > > [configure output omitted] > > > make && make install && /etc/init.d/alsasound restart > > [make output omitted] > > This should work, but if you have problems (like crashes, devices not > being found, etc), you might need to downgrade alsa-lib, alsa-plugins, > alsa-firmware, alsa-headers, alsa-tools, and alsa-utils to version > 1.0.11 as well with /etc/portage/package.mask. > > HTH, > -Richard > > [1] ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/ Thanks for the help & info. I'm in the UK at the moment and it's getting late. I'll try it in the morning Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:06, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tried using arecord and got the following error > > matt# arecord -d 10 cd -t wav -D copy test.wav > > ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM copy > > It doesn't know what device "copy" is. Try something like: > > arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav -D plug:dsnoop test.wav > > -Richard The arecord apeared to work, but when I played it back with aplay - silence! Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 14:03, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Node 0x17 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400481: Stereo > > Pincap 0x08324: IN Detect > > Pin Default 0xb7a00100: [Fixed] Mic at Oth Mobile-In > > Conn = Unknown, Color = Unknown > > Pin-ctls: 0x00: > > Power: 0x0 > > Hmm, your laptop has a built-in microphone? Are you able to record > sound with that? > > Also, have you tried recording sound with another app, like arecord or > krec? Something that knows how to use the alsa API proper. > > -Richard The laptop doesn't have a microphone, or if it does is well hidden Tried using arecord and got the following error matt# arecord -d 10 cd -t wav -D copy test.wav ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM copy arecord: main:550: audio open error: No such file or directory Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 13:23, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anybody got skype woking with this soundcard. Perhaps you could post > > your .asoundrc for me to have a look > > Unfortunately Intel's HDA isn't really a sound card, but a standard > way of talking to sound cards. The actual chips are made by various > manufacturers, and it really is a bit of a mess. > > 1. You should not have a .asoundrc. Current alsa versions (since > 1.0.9) will automatically use dmix/dsnoop as necessary. In almost > every case, it is wrong to have a .asoundrc. > > 2. Which version of alsa-drivers are you using? 1.0.13 would be my > recommendation, although you may have some issues with MSI > interrupts... > > 3. Can you post the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 and also > the output of "amixer"? > > -Richard Just found a patch on the gentoo forums for this problem, but for the alsa-driver-1.0.11 I'm using 1.0.13 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-502890-highlight-microphone.html Problem is I've never patched anything in my life. How do I use this? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 13:23, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/10/06, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anybody got skype woking with this soundcard. Perhaps you could post > > your .asoundrc for me to have a look > > Unfortunately Intel's HDA isn't really a sound card, but a standard > way of talking to sound cards. The actual chips are made by various > manufacturers, and it really is a bit of a mess. > > 1. You should not have a .asoundrc. Current alsa versions (since > 1.0.9) will automatically use dmix/dsnoop as necessary. In almost > every case, it is wrong to have a .asoundrc. > > 2. Which version of alsa-drivers are you using? 1.0.13 would be my > recommendation, although you may have some issues with MSI > interrupts... > > 3. Can you post the contents of /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 and also > the output of "amixer"? > > -Richard /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 Codec: Conexant ID 5047 Address: 0 Vendor Id: 0x14f15047 Subsystem Id: 0x103c30a5 Revision Id: 0x10 Default PCM: rates 0x040, bits 0x02, types 0x1 Default Amp-In caps: N/A Default Amp-Out caps: N/A Node 0x10 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x41d: Stereo Amp-Out Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x17, nsteps=0x1e, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x1c 0x1c] PCM: rates 0x040, bits 0x02, types 0x1 Power: 0x0 Node 0x11 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x611: Stereo Digital PCM: rates 0x040, bits 0x02, types 0x1 Power: 0x0 Node 0x12 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x100d1b: Stereo Amp-In Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x0e, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x0e 0x0e] [0x8e 0x8e] [0x8e 0x8e] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] PCM: rates 0x040, bits 0x02, types 0x1 Power: 0x0 Connection: 6 0x19 0x14 0x15* 0x1a 0x16 0x10 Node 0x13 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1e, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x1e 0x1e] Pincap 0x081001c: OUT HP EAPD Detect Pin Default 0xc3111010: [Both] Speaker at Ext Left Conn = 1/8, Color = Black Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP Power: 0x0 Connection: 3 0x19* 0x10 0x16 Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1e, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x1f 0x1f] Pincap 0x0833c: IN OUT HP Detect Pin Default 0x03811011: [Jack] Line In at Ext Left Conn = 1/8, Color = Black Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Power: 0x0 Connection: 2 0x19* 0x16 Node 0x15 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1e, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x1f 0x1f] Pincap 0x0833c: IN OUT HP Detect Pin Default 0x03a11012: [Jack] Mic at Ext Left Conn = 1/8, Color = Black Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Power: 0x0 Connection: 3 0x1c 0x19* 0x16 Node 0x16 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400401: Stereo Pincap 0x0860: IN Pin Default 0x99330100: [Fixed] CD at Int ATAPI Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN Power: 0x0 Node 0x17 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400481: Stereo Pincap 0x08324: IN Detect Pin Default 0xb7a00100: [Fixed] Mic at Oth Mobile-In Conn = Unknown, Color = Unknown Pin-ctls: 0x00: Power: 0x0 Node 0x18 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400701: Stereo Digital Pincap 0x0810: OUT Pin Default 0x21440100: [Jack] SPDIF Out at Sep Rear Conn = RCA, Color = Unknown Pin-ctls: 0x00: Power: 0x0 Connection: 1 0x11 Node 0x19 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20050b: Stereo Amp-In Amp-In caps: ofs=0x17, nsteps=0x1e, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-In vals: [0x07 0x07] [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x17 0x17] Power: 0x0 Connection: 4 0x10 0x1b 0x1a 0x16 Node 0x1a [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x30050d: Stereo Amp-Out Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x1f, mute=0 Amp-Out vals: [0x00 0x00] Power: 0x0 Connection: 3 0x15* 0x14 0x17 Node 0x1b [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x300501: Stereo Power: 0x0 Connection: 2 0x14* 0x15 Node 0x1c [Audio Output] wcaps 0x41d: Stereo Amp-Out Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x17, nsteps=0x1e, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x80 0x80] PCM: rates 0x040, bits 0x02, types 0x1 Power: 0x0 Node 0x1d [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1e, stepsize=0x05, mute=1 Amp-Out vals: [0x1f 0x1f] Pincap 0x08314: OUT Detect Pin Default 0x90100112: [Fixed] Speaker at Int N/A Conn = Unknown, Color = Unknown Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT Power: 0x0 Connection: 3 0x1c 0x19* 0x16 Node 0x1e [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf0: Mono output from amixer: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 30 Mono: Front Left: Playback 28 [93%] [7.50dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 28 [93%] [7.50dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 235 [92%] [-4.00dB] Front Right: P
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 09:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 14:36, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I'm getting nothing from the microphone. > > In alsamixer I only have four bars: Master PCM Line Mic > > With all at 90-100% The mic doesn't work with line or mic set to > > capture Is there a way to fix that? > > Sounds like there are only three options: > > 1. Mic is broken - safe to say it's not that > 2. Kernel module is buggy - possible > 3. Wrong kernel module or kernel compiled with wrong settings > > I'd check #3. What's the relevant output from lspci, what module is in > use and if relevant what kernel options are enabled for that module? > > alan I have <*> Sound card support in the kernel (2.6.17-r8) and then I installed alsa-driver package I configured it following the alsa-guide in the gentoo docs the sound card is Intel High Definition Audio, lspci: 00:1b.0 Audio Device: Intel corporation 82801G (ICH 7 Family) High Definition Audio Contoller (rev 01) driver =snd-hda-intel Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 07:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 12:42, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I'm trying to get skype set up on my new laptop and I've run into a > > problem the sound card (Intel HDA) is setup and working (with mplayer > > and amarok) I've installed skype and the interface is working. There > > nothing wrong with the headset (it works on my old laptop). At first > > I kept getting "problem with sound device" error but I've solved that > > but the microphone doesn't appear to be working. When I make a test > > call I can hear the skype lady but I can't here my message when they > > try to play it back > > I've checked the alsa mixer and the microphone is set to capture and > > the volume up. I don't know what I'm missing. Sofar I havn't turned > > up anything in the wiki or forums. > > Has anybody got skype woking with this soundcard. Perhaps you could > > post your .asoundrc for me to have a look > > Skype is easy to set up, IF you have alsa working right... > > Using alsamixer, turn the mic vol right up, can you hear your own voice > in the headset? Make sure you have set the correct mic device, > select "Mic Boost" if it's there. Last resort is to deselect other > channels one by one and see if one of them activates the mic. I once > had a chipset where the mic wouldn't work if a certain IEC958 feature > was on. Until you hear your own voice in the speaker it will never work > > Then in skype make sure you select the alsa/oss option as appropriate, > it's somewhere in the Options. Skype uses alsa, make sure you do have > full support in the kernel > > alan I'm getting nothing from the microphone. In alsamixer I only have four bars: Master PCM Line Mic With all at 90-100% The mic doesn't work with line or mic set to capture Is there a way to fix that? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
I'm trying to get skype set up on my new laptop and I've run into a problem the sound card (Intel HDA) is setup and working (with mplayer and amarok) I've installed skype and the interface is working. There nothing wrong with the headset (it works on my old laptop). At first I kept getting "problem with sound device" error but I've solved that but the microphone doesn't appear to be working. When I make a test call I can hear the skype lady but I can't here my message when they try to play it back I've checked the alsa mixer and the microphone is set to capture and the volume up. I don't know what I'm missing. Sofar I havn't turned up anything in the wiki or forums. Has anybody got skype woking with this soundcard. Perhaps you could post your .asoundrc for me to have a look Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio [SOLVED]
On Sunday 08 October 2006 16:34, Steve Evans wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 20:53, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > On Sunday 08 October 2006 15:44, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > Did as you suggested and removed alsa from the kernel and compiled > > > alsa-driver but It didn't work. The only thing that changed was the > > > name of the chip it detected, same as yours. I still only have Master > > > with alsamixer and no sound not even quitely I'm using kernel > > > 2.6.17-r8 and the 1.0.13 versions of alsa > > > > > > Matt > > > > This might be part of the problem: > > When I try to play an mp3 with madplay I get the following error > > audio: /dev/dsp: no such file or directory > > Am I missing something from the kernel? > > > > Matt > > I'm not sure what would cause that, udev should be creating the device. On > my system /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/sound/dsp. Does that exist? > > I assume that your user is in group audio, so that you have access rights > to /dev/dsp? > > Steve Fixed the problem. I found the following solution on the gentoo forums. It worked for me. I think the problem was with the lack of alsa-oss :-) Thans for your help Matt 1. Use the alsa-driver ebuild instead of the alsa drivers in the kernel. Unmerge alsa-lib, alsa-utils, alsa-oss and any other alsa stuff you have. 2. Before you emerge alsa-driver, configure your kernel as per the instructions on the alsa guide using the method for alsa-driver users i.e. JUST sound support and nothing else. Then remove your kernel modules directory /lib/modules/whatever-your-kernel-is, rebuild your kernel and install it (make clean, make && make modules install, copythe bzImage file to /boot or however you choose to e.g. link it for your boot loader). 3. Clean up /etc/modules.d/alsa. Well, just delete it, to be honest. 4. Reboot with your new clean kernel. You'll probably want OSS emulation, so before emerge'ing alsa-driver, check your USE flags contain both alsa and oss flags. The alsa-driver ebuild will pick up on this. Emerge alsa-driver. You should pretty much be back on track with the alsa guide now, just emerge alsa-utils (should pull in alsa-lib), and alsa-oss as well. Then run alsaconf again. Run alsamixer afterwards. Add alsasound to the boot runlevel (not default). Reboot. -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio
On Sunday 08 October 2006 15:44, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:16, Steve Evans wrote: > > On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:10, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > I'm struggling with getting my soundcard setup > > > from lspci > > > 00:1b.0 Audio Device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH 7 Family) High > > > Definition Audio Contoller (rev 03) > > > > > > chip=Generic 14f1 ID 5047 > > > > > > I've compiled alsa support into the kernel: > > > Device Drivers ---> > > > Sound ---> > > > <*> Sound card support > > > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> > > > <*>alsa > > > <*>sequencer support > > > <*>oss mixer api > > > PCI devices ---> > > > <*> Intel HD Audio > > > > > > I've followed the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide and the HARDWARE Intel 945G > > > on gentoo wiki. I've also checked the gentoo-forums and googled about > > > When I boot the kernel I get no error messages > > > > > > cat /proc/asound/cards > > > cat /proc/asound/version > > > cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat > > > all give the expected responses > > > > > > dmesg doesn't report any problems > > > > > > when I run alsa mixer I get on bar only - master > > > that's it KDE says it can't detect the sound card > > > Sofar I havn't installed any other software that uses sound, but I > > > intend to install amarok, kmplayer, realplayer etc > > > > > > any help would be appreciated > > > Matt > > > > I also have this soundcard. What kernel version are you using? I found > > that with 2.6.16 I only had one bar in alsamixer, just like you. However > > with 2.6.17 I got two bars and the sound worked, but quietly. Some > > googling told me that the volume was fixed in alsa version 1.0.13, which > > is newer than the version in the kernel. So I removed alsa from the > > kernel and emerged the unstable version of alsa-driver, which is version > > 1.0.13. The sound is now louder, but still not as much as I would like. I > > get the impression that the driver for this card is a work in progress, > > so hopefully it will get better. Also this version of alsa identifies the > > chip in the card as being a Conexant, rather than just ID 5047, which has > > to be a sign of progress :-) > > > > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml for information on > > installing alsa using alsa-driver rather than the kernel. > > > > Steve > > Did as you suggested and removed alsa from the kernel and compiled > alsa-driver but It didn't work. The only thing that changed was the name > of the chip it detected, same as yours. I still only have Master with > alsamixer and no sound not even quitely I'm using kernel 2.6.17-r8 and the > 1.0.13 versions of alsa > > Matt This might be part of the problem: When I try to play an mp3 with madplay I get the following error audio: /dev/dsp: no such file or directory Am I missing something from the kernel? Matt > -- > %%% > Dr. Matthew R. Lee. > CASEB & ECIM > Departamento de Ecologia, > P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, > Alameda 340, Santiago, > CP 6513677 > CHILE. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org > %%% -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio
On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:16, Steve Evans wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:10, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > I'm struggling with getting my soundcard setup > > from lspci > > 00:1b.0 Audio Device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH 7 Family) High > > Definition Audio Contoller (rev 03) > > > > chip=Generic 14f1 ID 5047 > > > > I've compiled alsa support into the kernel: > > Device Drivers ---> > > Sound ---> > > <*> Sound card support > > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> > > <*>alsa > > <*>sequencer support > > <*>oss mixer api > > PCI devices ---> > > <*> Intel HD Audio > > > > I've followed the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide and the HARDWARE Intel 945G on > > gentoo wiki. I've also checked the gentoo-forums and googled about > > When I boot the kernel I get no error messages > > > > cat /proc/asound/cards > > cat /proc/asound/version > > cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat > > all give the expected responses > > > > dmesg doesn't report any problems > > > > when I run alsa mixer I get on bar only - master > > that's it KDE says it can't detect the sound card > > Sofar I havn't installed any other software that uses sound, but I intend > > to install amarok, kmplayer, realplayer etc > > > > any help would be appreciated > > Matt > > I also have this soundcard. What kernel version are you using? I found that > with 2.6.16 I only had one bar in alsamixer, just like you. However with > 2.6.17 I got two bars and the sound worked, but quietly. Some googling told > me that the volume was fixed in alsa version 1.0.13, which is newer than > the version in the kernel. So I removed alsa from the kernel and emerged > the unstable version of alsa-driver, which is version 1.0.13. The sound is > now louder, but still not as much as I would like. I get the impression > that the driver for this card is a work in progress, so hopefully it will > get better. Also this version of alsa identifies the chip in the card as > being a Conexant, rather than just ID 5047, which has to be a sign of > progress :-) > > See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml for information on > installing alsa using alsa-driver rather than the kernel. > > Steve Did as you suggested and removed alsa from the kernel and compiled alsa-driver but It didn't work. The only thing that changed was the name of the chip it detected, same as yours. I still only have Master with alsamixer and no sound not even quitely I'm using kernel 2.6.17-r8 and the 1.0.13 versions of alsa Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio
I'm struggling with getting my soundcard setup from lspci 00:1b.0 Audio Device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH 7 Family) High Definition Audio Contoller (rev 03) chip=Generic 14f1 ID 5047 I've compiled alsa support into the kernel: Device Drivers ---> Sound ---> <*> Sound card support Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> <*>alsa <*>sequencer support <*>oss mixer api PCI devices ---> <*> Intel HD Audio I've followed the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide and the HARDWARE Intel 945G on gentoo wiki. I've also checked the gentoo-forums and googled about When I boot the kernel I get no error messages cat /proc/asound/cards cat /proc/asound/version cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat all give the expected responses dmesg doesn't report any problems when I run alsa mixer I get on bar only - master that's it KDE says it can't detect the sound card Sofar I havn't installed any other software that uses sound, but I intend to install amarok, kmplayer, realplayer etc any help would be appreciated Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ALSA and Toshiba sound card
I'm going to buy a new laptop, one of the ones I'm looking at is the Toshiba Satellite A100-761, but I'm worried about the sound card: Toshiba Bass Enhanced Sound System with SRS® TruSurround XT™ System and SRS® WOW I've looked on the ALSA page and it's not listed. Does anyone know if this worjs with ALSA or not. I can't live with a mute laptop Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] wierd characters
I've noticed of late that accented characters in emails that I recieve are either absent, dashed squares, or arabic charecters. I recently set my local as eng_GB is this the cause? Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kontact problem
A problem has just developed seemingly out of nowhere with kontact. The problem is two fold 1. when I try to launch kontact the icon bounces around as usual but the window does not appear. If I do a ps -x there are two relavent lines PID ? S 0:00 kontact PID ? Rl 0:20 kontact trying to launch kontact again does not solve the problem. But I have discovered that if I logout of kde and then back in again that kontact will popup at the start of the session 2. once kontact is open I can use email, feeds, contacts, and notes without any problems. However if I try to switch to either calendar or to-do list, kontact freezes and I have to kill it revdep-rebuild didn't show anything I've tried reemerging kontact-3.5.2, korganizer-3.5.2 and kdepim-kioslaves-3.5.2-r3 but none of that has solved the problem. During the last emerge -uD world the follwing packages were emerged dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.26 dev-libs/libxslt2-2.6.23 gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.0 dev-libs/libcroco-0.6.1 gnome-base/librsvg-2.14.4 dev-python/pygtk-2.8.6 media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.8.0 media-sound/amarok-1.4.1-r2 gnome-base/gconf-2.14.0 I don't know if any of those could be the problem Any ideas? Matt -- %%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] non-ebuild installations
On Sunday 09 July 2006 14:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:28:09 +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > > You've two possible ways (maybe some more): > > > > 1. Create an ebuild into your portage overlay and install the > > package as normal. Portage will handle it as any other ebuild. > > > > 2. Read the INSTALL file, usually you'll be done with a > > "./configure ; make ; make install" (without quotes). > > 3. Search bugs.gentoo.org, forums.gentoo.org and google for an ebuild you > can put in your overlay. I've searched all of the above, no joy. The software is freedelta (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) I guess I'll have to see if I can make an ebuild. There has to be a first time for everything :-) Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] non-ebuild installations
I would like to install some software which is not available as an ebuild. As I never done that before, can anyone point me in the direction of a how-to? I've had a look on the wiki but nothing caught my eye as being what I needed, but I may not have been looking in the right place. Thanks Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:39, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg > > > stuff. > > > > > > You can grab a list of all modular X packages at > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt and > > > run this: > > > > > > emerge -1 $( > > > Much better. :) > > I'm running ext3 file system > I've had a look at the above but it want's me to unmask a whole bunch of > packages. I'd prefer to stick to the stable stuff. I've only the one > laptop and a lot of work on at the moment. I can't afford to be out of > action for too long In the end I did an emerge -e xorg-x11. It was a huge 194 package. It ran into some problems, a bunch of xlibs wouldn't install which cause futher problems cascading down the list. (32 packages failed to emerge, I can provide a list if you need it) Anyway I went past them with emerge --resume --skipfirst. After the emerge -e xorg-x11 had finished I went back and emerged the failed packages individually. Everything emerged. Does that mean portage was trying to emerge the packages in the wrong order? I've rebooted and my new x environment appears to be working fine. Thanks for the help Moral of the story: make back ups of critical conf files you've changed yourself before embarking on major upgrades like this :-) Matt -- %%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee. CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, CP 6513677 CHILE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%% -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
