Re: [gentoo-user] mythdvd on Gentoo?
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:24:40 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I assumed Myth could just play a movie from the disc but it seems like possibly it wants to rip first? As I understand it, MythTV can play DVDs, although I've never tried it. I only use MythDVD to rip discs. Are you able to play DVD's without ripping them? If so maybe I'm missing some other module? mythvideo possibly? You need mythvideo to play the files ripped from DVDs, but not to play direct AFAIK. -- Neil Bothwick I am Speedy Gonzales of Borg: Prepare to be accelerated! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question
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? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox3 jumping between virtual desktops
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:06:53 +0200 Philipp Riegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, I installed firefox 3 rc2 some days ago and maybe some other applications, too. Since then, ther is a strange behaviour. Before: When i click a link in Evolution on Desktop 2, Firefox opens it in a new tab and stays on Desktop 1. After: Firefox moves to Desktop 2 and is the focused App, which prevents me from continuing to read my email. Any idea how i can fix this? Is there a way to force Applications to stay on one specific Desktop? About my setup: Gentoo ~x86, Gnome. Philipp I'm sorry i can't provide a solution to this, but would also be very interested! If you found one, or anyone else reading this, please reply. Patric -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox3 jumping between virtual desktops
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Any idea how i can fix this? I'm sorry i can't provide a solution to this, but would also be very interested! If you found one, or anyone else reading this, please reply. I guess you'll have more answer by asking to the Mozilla community directly. -- Nicolas Sebrecht -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:33:11AM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Well, then upgrade to BL2! And upgrade all the other packages as well. You only have to keep in mind to tell the initscripts that your RAID and LVM devices need to be activated, too. Isn't BL2 masked ~arch? I think it was when I originally ran into this problem. Doesn't that mean that my system will upgrade stable packages that MUST be run using a package that I have to unmask? That sounds a little like a bug if I'm brutally honest. If this is the case I would have at least liked an annoucement or something. On the other hand, I don't think this is case as I've installed a test system copying my setup as closely as possible, and it isn't having the same problems. There must be something particular to the setup on that machine that is causing this but I don't have the knowledge to tell what, and until I can pin it down I'm not going to submit a bug report as it would be unreproducable. I'll look into BL2 and practice upgrading it, if I can satisfy myself that I can get it working ok I'll consider it for the production machine. Thanks Matt pgpJN8VmsW8bI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:20:08 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Isn't BL2 masked ~arch? I think it was when I originally ran into this problem. Doesn't that mean that my system will upgrade stable packages that MUST be run using a package that I have to unmask? No. The BL2 init script provided with LVM must be used when running BL2, they should not be used with BL1. If you are seeing the warning messages it is because you have added the lvm init script to your runlevel when it should not be there. -- Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED],;It's%made in Taiwa~##$ ` #@ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:24:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:20:08 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Isn't BL2 masked ~arch? I think it was when I originally ran into this problem. Doesn't that mean that my system will upgrade stable packages that MUST be run using a package that I have to unmask? No. The BL2 init script provided with LVM must be used when running BL2, they should not be used with BL1. If you are seeing the warning messages it is because you have added the lvm init script to your runlevel when it should not be there. Thats ok, I can understand that. I'm just about ready to give up on this as its obviously too hard to debug. If upgrading to BL2 will fix my problems then that's what I must do. I can't test this tho as I haven't been able to break my test system with the updates. I just hope that BL2 will fix this and not just introduce further problems. I'll consider it and post back my results. Fingers and toes crossed that BL2 solves it :) Thanks Matt pgpk3EI7wdNIR.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14
Help me stop this from happening please.
[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14
Nevermind. Apologies for the premature question. It appears that Openoffice with needs Firefox 2.0.0.14- I just dropped the firefox use flag, as I don't see that as necessary, necessarily. Thanks On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jason Messerschmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help me stop this from happening please.
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote: Help me stop this from happening please. In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem, which was cured by converting the firefox use flag into xulrunner. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:06:10 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation' point of view and a lot worse if you compare the horror stories? The point is that *this* is changing with ATI. really? it is? and how long do you want to wait? Two years? Three? Not as long as with Nvidia ;) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14
Could you elaborate. What is xulrunner exactly? On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote: Help me stop this from happening please. In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem, which was cured by converting the firefox use flag into xulrunner. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Alt-F2 without Gnome-Panel ?
Hi All, I don't want gnome-panel in gnome desktop anymore. So, I remove the panel by killall and setting it never to start again in sessions settings. Now, I don't have Alt-F2 working anymore. Is there anyway to have Alt-F2 working without gnome-panel ? thanks and regards, flukebox
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14
Jason Messerschmitt schrieb: Could you elaborate. What is xulrunner exactly? On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote: Help me stop this from happening please. In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem, which was cured by converting the firefox use flag into xulrunner. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Firefox 3 has been ported to use xulrunner [1,2,3] instead of gecko as rendering engine. The main advantage of xulrunner for source based distributions like gentoo is that building firefox (and other apps which are ported to xulrunner) is way faster than before, because they can use xulrunner as a shared runtime environment. This is more beneficial if you use many apps based on xulrunner. Before you needed the runtime environment for every single app. Now the source of firefox, thunderbird and sunbird is about three times the size of seamonkey which contains the same functionalities of the three apps. With the new xulrunner this will change and you save a lot of bandwith too. As for myself I have replaced the firefox use-flags with xulrunner, although it will take some time to gain benefit from this. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/GRE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with keyboard layout
Hi! I have problem with Keyboard Layout. I've set KDE (3.5.9) to use Polish Keyboard Layout, but when i press left ALT it brings event like RETURN key was pressed. After pressing UP arrow print screen event with screen capture app bringing to life. What's wrong? I can't use my PC normal. Arch is AMD64, that things started after today's Gentoo update. What's wrong? If You tell me to get checksums of xkbcomp or something like that, I've all ready done it. Files are the same. ThX, Mateusz M signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14
That's really nice to know. Thank you. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Messerschmitt schrieb: Could you elaborate. What is xulrunner exactly? On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote: Help me stop this from happening please. In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem, which was cured by converting the firefox use flag into xulrunner. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Firefox 3 has been ported to use xulrunner [1,2,3] instead of gecko as rendering engine. The main advantage of xulrunner for source based distributions like gentoo is that building firefox (and other apps which are ported to xulrunner) is way faster than before, because they can use xulrunner as a shared runtime environment. This is more beneficial if you use many apps based on xulrunner. Before you needed the runtime environment for every single app. Now the source of firefox, thunderbird and sunbird is about three times the size of seamonkey which contains the same functionalities of the three apps. With the new xulrunner this will change and you save a lot of bandwith too. As for myself I have replaced the firefox use-flags with xulrunner, although it will take some time to gain benefit from this. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/GRE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida
Enrico Weigelt wrote: I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100. I have one. Compaq Presario 3415LA (Sempron 3500+, GeForce 6150, Gentoo 64bit.) So I strongly suggest, NOT to buy NV cards. Too late buddy. All my current boxes (6) run on NVidia cards, and are the most stable boxes I ever had. (BTW: a few month ago, I managed to stop a customer from buying several hundreds of NV cards - yes, consulting jobs sometimes make really fun this way ;-P) Poor customer :-) Perhaps you were running cheap PSUs or bad memory banks and that's why your box crashed so often. Regards, Norberto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: digital camera - Longshot!
Matthew R. Lee gentoo at matthewlee.org writes: I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam. 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. You *might* find useful information or help here: http://www.usb.org/developers/ I think wireshark can be used to sniff the usb(buss). if you use XP/vista, then look here: http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/default.htm You might also find another useful software package in /usr/portage/net-analyzer to help you diagnose and figure out what to do with usb. In all operating systems there are generic device drivers that work for different classes of usb devices. So, your device, just might work with a general purpose (class) usb driver, but it's no guarantee. If it does, you might find a way to use either a generic usb driver or a vendor specific usb driver under windows. hth, James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple TV Cards.
2008/6/17 Andrew MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But since I have two video cards that are both using bttv... How do I set this option for one but not the other? Can I 'rmmod' the driver for video1 but not video0? Nope, it doesn't work like that. But luckily, there is another way. The tuner parameter is an array. Try tuner=-1,2 to auto-detect on the first card and specify the tuner explicitly for the second. Cheers, Duane. -- I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine - Bob Dylan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
