Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?
Does he want to stream audio or listen to streaming audio? If he just wants to listen Rhythmbox (and most audio players) can do that. If he wants to stream, look at icecast. If he buys a slingbox he'll need to run the slingbox software under wine. -Chris On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: My dad is interested in some sort of an Internet Radio app for his Gnome desktop. He was thinking of buying a Slingbox but has backed off the idea. For a while we played with iTunes under Wine but that's sort of a mess so I'm looking for something native to Linux. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs
Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure there's no pdf use flag. Make sure Evince is listed as the default application for pdfs in your web browser. -Chris On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says: File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported epdfview works, but it segfaults when trying to open shipping labels from usps.com. Does anyone have any ideas on getting evince back to normal? I did try deleting .gnome2/evince. - Grant I've always preferred xpdf just for simplicity, but be sure you have 'pdf' in your USE flags for make.conf either way. That would probably handle the error of pdf being an unsupported file type.
[gentoo-user] Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800
I have a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 tv card and I wanted to know how to get it working in Gentoo. I'm most concerned with the analog tv and radio features. Thanks. -Chris
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now
I'm having the same exact problem with my mouse. I'm on AMD64 and my cursor often jumps to a corner. Is there a fix? -Chris On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the trend continues, desktop will be totally unusable by 2.6.31/32 when doing something that produces load. So it is not just me that has screwy mouse movement. I been using a old kernel for a while now and even thought it was just a wrong setting on my part. Has anyone been telling the kernel folks about this problem so they can fix it or roll something back? Getting in a little late but my AMD64 machine's mouse died so I grabbed a VERY cheap $6 Microsoft mouse I had received for free some years ago and never used. It works but often jumps to one corner or another at odd times. It sits atop one of my Gentoo Linux mouse pads and I've noticed that if I turn the mouse pad 45 degrees it happens far more often. I figured it was just a cheap mouse. It hadn't occurred to me that it might be a driver issue... - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:49:37PM -0500, Chris Thomas wrote: I'm having the same exact problem with my mouse. I'm on AMD64 and my cursor often jumps to a corner. Is there a fix? It really is a common behaviour with optical mouses. What kind of mouse do you use ? PS : top-posting sucks. -- Nicolas Sebrecht I have a Dell laser mouse. lsusb: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection -Chris
Re: [gentoo-user] usb to ethernet
I have one similar to yours. IIRC, mine is a Realtek 8139 chipset which works fine with the driver in the kernel. -Chris On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:38 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Check it out, using a realtek chip. http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP My question is has anyone every got one of these working on gentoo, or a similar product from another vendor? James
Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux
If you don't need color, I would seriously look at b/w personal laser printers that are network-ready; newer HP models like the 1000 series work very well and and can be found for less than $200. Older HP lasers like the 5si models are built like tanks and are extremely durable and long lasting. -Chris On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:18 PM, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:44 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in Linux? I sure don't. [snip] My suggestion would be not go go cheap. Nowadays you can get a color laser w/ built-in PostScript for around $400. The output is fast and great (compared to ink jets) and It Just Works [tm] with Linux. I'd rather spend the extra money and be happy with my choice, but that's just me. -a Some weeks ago I bought Samsung clp-300 color laser printer for less than 130 Euros. I use cups and I don't have any problems. Did not have to by new color jet. I have been told I can print 7000 pages before I have to :-) You can go cheap and good. The model is from 2006 or so. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux
I've heard the some Samsung laser printers will only print a pre-set number of pages for each toner cartridge even if you have toner remaining. I would probably stay away from the 510s. http://www.dunfield.com/clp510/ -Chris On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arttu V. schrieb: On 12/4/08, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some weeks ago I bought Samsung clp-300 color laser printer for less than 130 Euros. I use cups and I don't have any problems. Did not have to by new color jet. I have been told I can print 7000 pages before I have to :-) You can go cheap and good. The model is from 2006 or so. I have bad experiences with Samsung, though not with that exact model. Samsung proprietary driver may be some sort of world record of ugly hacks and hairy stuff. See, e.g., Gentoo bug #139715 and all the complaints from Samsung-trying Linux-users in the blogosphere / Intertubes. But I'm glad if they've fixed their stuff recently. I have been told not to touch the Samsung drivers. I am using net-print/foo2zjs. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations
It looks fine. You can also press e at the Grub prompt or boot to a live cd if it isn't right. -Chris On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 24 November 2008 23:04:54 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo installations. Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate kernal line like: title=kernel-2.6.27-r3-0x31a-1280x1024 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.27-r3 root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap ## add this for new install title=kernel-2.6.27-r4-0x31a-1280x1024 root (hd1,1) kernel (hd1,1)/boot/kernel-2.6.27-r4 root=/dev/hdb2 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap I didn't want to just try it in case there is something I've forgotten that is likely to get screwed up. I'm not asking if the addressing is right, just asking if in general this can be done with no problems. You have the right idea. Make sure your paths are correct when you install. I see you have different conventions on the two drives. Don't get confused :-) Thanks but I'm not sure what you mean by conventions... do you mean differences like that boot is not a separate partition? And the install is already largely done but still from a chrooted shell with the original Installation booted.
Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.
I had the same thing happen tonight. I just emerged: perl-Module-Build perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder perl-Archive-Tar virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS virtual/perl-IO-Zlib and then emerge --depclean worked. -Chris On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did my weekly sync tonight and ran emerge -uvDN world afterwards. It updated portage and a few other programs. I then wanted to check to see if anything was no longer needed by using --depclean -p. Well, I got this back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p --depclean * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always * be kept. They can be manually added to this set with * `emerge --noreplace atom`. Packages that are listed in * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by * depclean, even if they are part of the world set. * * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a * consequence, it is often necessary to run `emerge --update * --newuse --deep @system @world` prior to depclean. Calculating dependencies... done! * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being installed: * * virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder pulled in by: * perl-core/File-Spec-3.27.01 * * Have you forgotten to run `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to * depclean? It may be necessary to manually uninstall packages that no longer * exist in the portage tree since it may not be possible to satisfy their * dependencies. Also, be aware of the --with-bdeps option that is documented * in `man emerge`. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Since I just updated everything I thought I would try the new set thingy, not into that set thing much but just in case. I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -u --newuse --deep @system @world Calculating dependencies... done! Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages were found on your system. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # What gives here? Everything is up to date yet it then tells me something is not. Since portage updated itself and I saw this little info scroll by: * If you're upgrading from a pre-2.2 version of portage you might * want to remerge world (emerge -e world) to take full advantage * of some of the new features in 2.2. * This is not required however for portage to function properly. Does this mean I need to do a emerge -e world for --depclean to work? Seems a little extreme to me. This from a emerge -evp world: Total: 888 packages (3 upgrades, 5 new, 1 in new slot, 879 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 94,583 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package Then again, emerge -evp does show 5 new packages. I'm like that little puppet of Jeff Dunham's, 'what the he**'? Maybe I need to go back a version of portage. LOL Thoughts? I say thoughts cause I'm not sure there is a answer to this one. o_O Dale :-) :-) Oh, the new/upgrade/slot list: [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r3 [2.6.23-r8, 2.6.25-r9] USE=-build -symlink 48,452 kB [ebuild N] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.28.08 0 kB [ebuild N] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.23 0 kB [ebuild N] virtual/perl-Archive-Tar-1.40 0 kB [ebuild N] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.19 0 kB [ebuild N] virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.09 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-text/rarian-0.8.1 [0.8.0-r1] USE=-debug 317 kB [ebuild U ] www-client/seamonkey-1.1.13 [1.1.12] USE=crypt ipv6 java ldap xprint -debug -gnome -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznopango -moznoroaming -postgres -xforms -xinerama 37,166 kB [ebuild U ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.4.4.6 [6.4.0.6] USE=X bzip2 corefonts%* jbig jpeg jpeg2k openmp%* perl png svg tiff truetype wmf xml zlib -djvu -doc -fontconfig -fpx -graphviz -gs -hdri -lcms -nocxx -openexr -q32 -q8 -raw% 8,650 kB I knew someone would ask for that. ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?
Squid with squidguard or dansguardian should filter out most of the 'bad stuff'. -Chris On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael [19.Nov.2008 16:07]: On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: ... In that case, isn't putting 127.0.0.1 ADDRESSES_TO_BE_BLOCKED into /etc/hosts easier? Or just set up a proxy. No, perhaps not, considering the fact that there are so many sites with pron. Maintaining such a massive hosts file is a disaster and worse still the solution is not fullproof. But then, FWIW such problems seldom have foolproof solutions. Well, at least there is mvps [1] with a nice host-file, blocking mostly ads, banners etc., which I use myself without much trouble. While searching for a list of porn-sites to add to that list, I stumbled upon BadHosts [2], which includes several hosts-files, one of them entirely for porn-sites. The sites listed there might get you started, but as noted by Qian Qiao before, that list will never be complete or up-to-date. Besides, using an anonymizer to reach one of those sites will get you there anyway. You would have to block those, too. My opinion: If children are to be protected from that kind of content, seting up a public computer in a livingroom might be a better way (in conjunction with a host-file maybe for those nasty ads). But as soon as one starts blocking sites, the question will be where to stop. JP Thanks to all that have answered. I appreciate the responses greatly. Indeed the question was based around what to do with a kid that's not using his computer time appropriately. It has nothing to do with 'protecting' him via censoring or anything like that. It was more a matter of should he be playing Flash games or playing online videos of Star Craft games when he has homework to be doing. After thinking about it the decision in the end was to do nothing technical. Nothing technical is going to fix this problem other than him growing up a bit. Thanks again, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] bttv option in kernel?
Select the BT848, then you'll see the driver for the BT878. -Chris On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:00 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all i am need some help getting a video capture card working it supposedly uses the bttv driver. It shows itself in lspci like this only 4 times cause it has for chips i think. 03:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) 03:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11) However i cannot find the bttv driver only the btcx_risc (successor) did some googling and found this post http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-696747-highlight-bttv.html My problem is similar i think but cannot seem to get it sorted could someone please kindly give me a hand? I have pasted a few bits of my .config file that i think might be relative. # CONFIG_TELCLOCK is not set CONFIG_DEVPORT=y CONFIG_I2C=y CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO=y CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y # # I2C Algorithms # CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCF=m CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCA=m # # Multimedia devices # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=y CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2_COMMON=y CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1=y CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1_COMPAT=y CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2=y CONFIG_VIDEO_CAPTURE_DRIVERS=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_HELPER_CHIPS_AUTO=y CONFIG_VIDEO_WM8775=m CONFIG_VIDEO_CX2341X=m # CONFIG_VIDEO_VIVI is not set ..snip.. # CONFIG_VIDEO_HEXIUM_GEMINI is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88=m CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_BLACKBIRD=m ps here is a uname -a for good luck hehe Linux hellen 2.6.25-gentoo-r9CKV1 #5 SMP Thu Nov 20 16:25:22 MST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg33709.html Computer King CaN Mail - Sales Service Hosting Backup http://www.computerking.ca http://www.canmail.org NEW!!! Custom Service Packages Secure IMAP Email - Automated Remote Backups - Photo Blogs - Online Accounting Packages
