[gentoo-amd64] eth3 - how to set up?

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I have just changed my motherboard and processor and am having trouble with my network connection. I am having to enter in a root terminal the following each time I boot the system:- ifconfig eth3 192.168.1.6 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 up After this everything works as it

[gentoo-amd64] Major update problem

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I am now using a new motherboard and processor - change from amd duo to intel quad. All seems to be working well except my previous post ref eth3. However, I am having problems updating my programs. eix-sync went well and portage updated to 2.1.9.37 I then do an emerge -auvtDN --keep-going

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Major update problem

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 07 February 2011 12:27:16 Paul Stear wrote: Hi, I am now using a new motherboard and processor - change from amd duo to intel quad. All seems to be working well except my previous post ref eth3. However, I am having problems updating my programs. eix-sync went well and portage

[gentoo-amd64] audio device and alsa problem

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, Having change motherboard and processor I have 1 outstanding issue. I can't get sound to work in 6 channel mode. If I do a lspci -v | grep -i audio I get 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) This I think is a Realtek ALC883 2,4 or 6 channel I could

Re: [gentoo-amd64] New install - basic question

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Stear
Thank you to Duncan, Frank, Florian, Josh and Agostino for your replies. I am pleased that it appears that I do not need to reinstall from scratch. I am just starting emerge system so I will see what has happed in the morning. regards Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

[gentoo-amd64] error when opening kmail

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I get the following errors when starting kmail / akonadi / mysql :- 110104 13:15:30 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 1429535 110104 13:15:30 [Warning] Can't open and lock time zone table: Table 'mysql.time_zone_leap_second' doesn't exist trying to live without them 110104 13:15:30

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: error when opening kmail --Resolved--

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Stear
Thank you Duncan and Malc, For some reasom the program seems to have reverted to using mysql, I'm sure I followed all the instructions to use sqlite. Well all is now working correctly, thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

[gentoo-amd64] export/import kdemail

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Stear
Is it possible to copy the kmail mail folders/messages so that they can be read by opera's mail client? Thanks for any replies Paul -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: [gentoo-amd64] export/import kdemail

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Stear
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:21:40 +0100, Martin Herrman mar...@herrman.nl wrote: Did you already try google? One of the first hits: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/import-mail-from-kmail-to-opera-696088/ On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Paul Stear gen

Re: [gentoo-amd64] glibc-2.12.1-r1 failure

2010-09-29 Thread Paul Stear
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:10:24 +0100, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:33:22 +0100 Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: snip See the link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6394901.html?sid=9a5afd453e6039723b2d0842a53c2d5c Basically, the advice

[gentoo-amd64] rkhunter results

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, rkhunter runs every day and reports the following:- System checks summary = File properties checks... Files checked: 142 Suspect files: 141 Rootkit checks... Rootkits checked : 246 Possible rootkits: 2 Rootkit names: Xzibit Rootkit, Dica-Kit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kmail - akonadi Server Self Test FAILURE

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Stear
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:09:15 +0100, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Paul Stear posted on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:12:53 +0100 as excerpted: Hi all, I have updated kde to 4.5.1 and now have runtime errors. The following is the self test report:- snip To change with it, however, requires

[gentoo-amd64] glibc-2.12.1-r1 failure

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I think I have a symbolic link problem. Any thought on how to solve this error. Makefile:72: warning: overriding commands for target `/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.12.1-r1/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/login/pt_chown' ../Rules:120: warning: ignoring old commands for

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: glibc-2.12.1-r1 failure

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Stear
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:58:17 +0100, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Duncan, snip CFLAGS=-Os -march=k8 -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -mmmx -msse3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer A couple of years ago I had all kinds of trouble with my amd64 system. In one of the replies to my request for help, it was

Re: [gentoo-amd64] glibc-2.12.1-r1 failure

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Stear
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:13:42 +0100, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hi all, I think I have a symbolic link problem. Any thought on how to solve this error. ... unexpected reloc type in static

[gentoo-amd64] kmail - akonadi Server Self Test FAILURE

2010-09-22 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have updated kde to 4.5.1 and now have runtime errors. The following is the self test report:- Akonadi Server Self-Test Report === Test 1: SUCCESS Database driver found. Details: The QtSQL driver 'QMYSQL' is required by your current Akonadi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] crm114 - update failure

2010-07-02 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 01 Jul 2010 15:50:46 Frank Peters wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:22:01 +0100 Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: snip You are missing libtre.a, the static library. You should emerge tre with USE=static-libs to get it. I don't know if package tre respects the static-libs

[gentoo-amd64] amarok will not start ----again---!

2010-06-11 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, amarok is driving me mad it has decided not to start today, I gat the following output from konsol:- ~/ amarok InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled InnoDB: use atomic builtins. InnoDB: The log sequence number in ibdata files does not match InnoDB: the log sequence number in the

[gentoo-amd64] amarok not starting after various updates.

2010-05-22 Thread Paul Stear
When I try and start amarok I get the splash screen but nothing else happens. The following is the output from a terminal:- ~/ amarok InnoDB: The

[gentoo-amd64] install amarok??

2010-05-11 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, Is it possible to emerge amarok 2.3.0.90 without reducing mysql from 5.1.46 to 5.0.90-r2 with all the problems that would cause. equery d mysql shows:- * These packages depend on mysql: dev-db/mysql-5.1.46 (=virtual/mysql-5.1) dev-libs/apr-util-1.3.9 (mysql ? =virtual/mysql-5*)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: detached task bar in kde [RESOLVED]

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 23 Mar 2010 17:31:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/23/2010 06:06 PM, Paul Stear wrote: Hi, I don't know how I have done this but I have managed to detach the task bar from the part of the panel that pops up when you put the mouse towards the bottom of the screen. I have

[gentoo-amd64] how to start strigi?

2010-03-17 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I thought all of my problems were solved, however, I have noticed that indexing is not working although I have everything installed. I seem to remember some time ago that nepomuk/strigi could be disabled/enabled with the click of the mouse. Could some kind soul tell me where that button is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: how to start strigi?

2010-03-17 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 13:53:26 Duncan wrote: Paul Stear posted on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16:51 + as excerpted: I thought all of my problems were solved, however, I have noticed that indexing is not working although I have everything installed. I seem to remember some time ago

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Failures on updating KDE to 4.4.1 - unable to update kmail

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
My problems are now resolved, after changing gcc and doing various updates I finally emerged kdelibs again and then kdepim and kmail installed with no problems. Thanks to all who helped, regards Paul -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Failures on updating KDE to 4.4.1 - unable to update kmail

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Stear
Hi again, Well my system seems to be working now all accept nepomuk which is installed but the following programs can't find it [ebuild R ] kde-base/kde-meta-4.4.1 USE=nls semantic-desktop* -accessibility (-aqua) (-kdeprefix) 0 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.4.1

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Failures on updating KDE to 4.4.1 - unable to update kmail

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Stear
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:38 +0100, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Duncan posted on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:54:01 + as excerpted: Paul Stear posted on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:12:51 +0100 as excerpted: I have been trying for days to get my kde system working again properly. kmail hasn't been

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Failures on updating KDE to 4.4.1 - unable to update kmail

2010-03-09 Thread Paul Stear
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:54:01 +0100, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Paul Stear posted on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:12:51 +0100 as excerpted: I have been trying for days to get my kde system working again properly. kmail hasn't been updated yet because kdepim-runtime-4.4.1 fails

[gentoo-amd64] Failures on updating KDE to 4.4.1 - unable to update kmail

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I have been trying for days to get my kde system working again properly. kmail hasn't been updated yet because kdepim-runtime-4.4.1 fails with the following error:- - -- The following REQUIRED packages could NOT

[gentoo-amd64] media-video/transcode-1.1.5-r1 failure after revdep-rebuild

2010-02-23 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, Transcode seems to compile fine but produces a sandbox error when installing. sandbox:main signal SIGQUIT already had a handler ... How do I get round this? Thanks in advance Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

[gentoo-amd64] Konsole to show whats running?

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I used to have at the top of my konsol a message that told me which item emerge was working on, For some time now I just see root:python2.6 I'm sure this is easy but I can't seem to find the info about changing what is displayed in the title bar. Can anyone help, please. Paul -- This

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Konsole to show whats running?

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 22 Feb 2010 13:10:16 YoYo siska wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:46:48PM +0100, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I used to have at the top of my konsol a message that told me which item emerge was working on, For some time now I just see root:python2.6 I'm sure this is easy but I

[gentoo-amd64] emerge failures for libgsf intltool

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Stear
Both of the above update emerges failed with the same error: For libgsf:- checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool For intitool checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool How do I install a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge failures for libgsf intltool

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 22 Feb 2010 16:34:13 Frank Peters wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:16:29 +0100 Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool How do I install a perl XML parser? Where is it located

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks Mark, Sorry for the delay in responding. Please correct me if I'm wrong but this sort of thing happens with ALL CD's you try to play? Yes all CDs. snip If it's all CDs then it might be improved with a CD drive firmware update. I have 2 brand new CD/DVDRW which are SAMSUNG

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Stear
Hi again, sorry for replying to my own post. I have just completed some updates to world which included all os alsa. Guess what??? My CDs now play using ksCD. I'll continue checking other apps but at the moment all looks well. Again thanks for your help Paul -- This message has been sent

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

2010-01-07 Thread Paul Stear
Hello Mark, thanks for your help, snip MacMini # cdda2wav No target specified, trying to find one... Using dev=1000,1,0. Type: ROM, Vendor 'MATSHITA' Model 'DVD-R UJ-845 ' Revision 'D8PB' MMC+CDDA load cdrom please and press enter Found 6,0,0 and 6,0,1 cd/dvdrw drives :- Type: ROM, Vendor

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can anyone help please - CD error

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Stear
snip Thank you to Duncan, Sean, BRM Stan for your help. I guess I'll just have to wait for the next version of kde. Did you have any thoughts on why alsa player will not start, could it be the same problem? Anyway thanks again Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo.

[gentoo-amd64] Can anyone help please - CD error

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I have asked this question but no response. I am stumped, if I insert a normal music CD into the drive, KsCD reports no disc, dmesg reports:- sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Add.

[gentoo-amd64] Problems playing CDs

2009-12-30 Thread Paul Stear
Sorry for reposting but I am stuck. Hi all, I have made a lot of changes to my system recently (with the help of Duncan and others) and have resolved many issues, however, I have one outstanding problem. If I put a CD into either of my drives I get the following in dmesg:- sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0]

[gentoo-amd64] Problems playing CDs

2009-12-24 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have made a lot of changes to my system recently (with the help of Duncan and others) and have resolved many issues, however, I have one outstanding problem. If I put a CD into either of my drives I get the following in dmesg:- sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK

[gentoo-amd64] How to comply with postinst message from openrc-0.5.3

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Stear
I just do not understand how I action the following: WARN: postinst /etc/modules.autoload.d is no longer used. Please convert your files to /etc/conf.d/modules and delete the directory. I have the following entries in modules.autoload.d: nvidia cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_userspace powernow-k8

[gentoo-amd64] xine-lib failure

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have moved to a ~amd64 setup but am having a few problems resolving some failures. media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.17 is failing because it can't find libgomp, this is the error: /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/../lib64/libgomp.la: No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-amd64] xine-lib failure

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 23 Dec 2009 13:55:40 Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have moved to a ~amd64 setup but am having a few problems resolving some failures. media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.17 is failing because it can't find libgomp, this is the error: /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/../lib64/libgomp.la

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How to comply with postinst message from openrc-0.5.3

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 23 Dec 2009 16:16:03 Duncan wrote: Paul Stear posted on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:41:16 + as excerpted: I just do not understand how I action the following: WARN: postinst /etc/modules.autoload.d is no longer used. Please convert your files to /etc/conf.d/modules and delete

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: CD drive opening on boot!!

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Stear
On Saturday 19 Dec 2009 20:59:52 Duncan wrote: Paul Stear posted on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:27:49 + as excerpted: Thanks for the replies, I have updated the kernel, udev and hal and the cd stays closed on boot. Thanks for the info. However I now have another problem: When I insert a usb

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: CD drive opening on boot!!

2009-12-19 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks for the replies, I have updated the kernel, udev and hal and the cd stays closed on boot. Thanks for the info. However I now have another problem: When I insert a usb drive or put a cd into the cd drive I am not getting any notification that they have been detected. I have now

[gentoo-amd64] CD drive opening on boot!!

2009-12-18 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have a strange problem that started happening a few days ago. When I boot the machine, the CD/DVD tray partially opens about an inch and stays open until manually closed. I have just noticed that it opens again on shutdown. This could be related: On boot the machine stops for a long

[gentoo-amd64] Tellico stopped working

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have been using tellico for a few years now to hold details of my dvd collection. Today version 1.2.14 would not start, it just flashed on and off on screen. Revdep-rebuild did not report any problems. So I decided to unmask tellico 2.0 and install it but it failed with file

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Tellico stopped working

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Stear
Please help, it would be a disaster if I lost all data. Sorry to reply to my own post. I have resolved the problem. I removed the old version and then installed version 2.0. I backed up my data just in case but the new version found the data no problem. paul -- This message has been sent

[gentoo-amd64] vmware installation problem

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, I have downloaded vmware and placed it in distfiles. When I run emerge it gets to the point of displaying the licence details which I need to agree, so I scroll down to the bottom and (end) comes up, and then I am stuck. I have tried all sorts to get past this point and I am sure

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware installation problem

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 08 Sep 2009 10:30:45 Haitao Zhang wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Paul Steargen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hello all, I have downloaded vmware and placed it in distfiles. When I run emerge it gets to the point of displaying the licence details which I need to agree, so

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: dev-db/libdbi-0.8.3 failed

2009-09-07 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 07 Sep 2009 14:22:07 Duncan wrote: Paul Stear posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:06:26 +0100 as excerpted: syslog-ng wants to update libdbi but it keeps failing snip Is there any particular reason you are building syslog-ng with sql support? If you're using that feature, turning off

[gentoo-amd64] I took the plunge with kde

2009-09-05 Thread Paul Stear
Well I now have kde 4.3.1 installed and apart from a few issues the update from 3.5.10 went well. ***Well done*** to all the developers who have brought kde this far. I just need to get use to working slightly different now grin. By the way does anybody know how to use a smaller font for the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] I took the plunge with kde

2009-09-05 Thread Paul Stear
On Saturday 05 Sep 2009 14:51:43 Anders Lövgren wrote: On Saturdayen den 5 September 2009 13.43.19 Paul Stear wrote: Well I now have kde 4.3.1 installed and apart from a few issues the update from 3.5.10 went well. ***Well done*** to all the developers who have brought kde this far. I

[gentoo-amd64] Blocks when upgrading to kde4.3 from 3.10 on an amd64 system

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have followed the guide on the gentoo site and have had to unmask a number of extra packages and well as kde4. I think I have resolved all blockages, keywords and masks but I can not resolve the following:- !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Blocks when upgrading to kde4.3 from 3.10 on an amd64 system

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 31 August 2009 16:12:55 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Paul Steargen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hi all, I have followed the guide on the gentoo site and have had to unmask a number of extra packages and well as kde4. I think I have resolved all blockages,

[gentoo-amd64] Amarok update failure

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, I have the following error when updating amarok to version amarok-1.4.10_p20090130-r2 Making all in konquisidebar grep: /usr/lib64/libpcreposix.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libpcreposix.la: No such file or directory libtool: link:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Amarok update failure

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 12 June 2009 10:51:41 Beso wrote: 2009/6/12 Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com Hello all, I have the following error when updating amarok to version amarok-1.4.10_p20090130-r2 snip Where do I get libpcreposix.la from? I am running KDE 3.5.10 it should belong to libpcre

[gentoo-amd64] localhost??

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I seem to have lost localhost. if I put https://localhost:631; into konqueror I get a message 404 Not Found My etc/hosts is set to 127.0.0.1 PC.WORK PC localhost Any ideas? Thanks for any help Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux

Re: [gentoo-amd64] localhost??

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 27 March 2009 14:23:29 Justin wrote: Paul Stear schrieb: Hi, I seem to have lost localhost. if I put https://localhost:631; into konqueror I get a message 404 Not Found My etc/hosts is set to 127.0.0.1 PC.WORK PC localhost Any ideas? Thanks for any help Paul

Re: [gentoo-amd64] localhost??

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 27 March 2009 15:08:54 Joachim Bartosik wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 15:22, Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost localhost. if I put https://localhost:631; into konqueror I get a message 404 Not Found My etc/hosts is set to 127.0.0.1

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: External HD to work with Gentoo and Vista.

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 16 March 2009 23:11:52 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: snip Make sure you're in the usb and plugdev groups. Add yourself to them, logout and then login again. I am in the plugdev and usb groups, I'm sure this will turn out to be something silly that I have done or not done.# When I switch

[gentoo-amd64] External HD to work with Gentoo and Vista.

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Stear
I thought I had cracked my problem of writing to a usb external ntfs HD, but I was wrong. Let me pose the problem and hopefully somebody out there will be able to set me straight. I have mp3 files on an internal HD in my gentoo box. I back this up to an external usb HD formated for ext2 - no

Re: [gentoo-amd64] External HD to work with Gentoo and Vista.

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 16 March 2009 10:08:03 Chris Faulkner wrote: oh and here's a link for ya too: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/NTFS-3G Thanks to Chris and Duncan for your help. I now have it working and am currently copying all my mp3 files. I had to manually mount the external HD which is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mount iomegs 1tb external HD

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 06 March 2009 17:21:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Paul Stear wrote: On Friday 06 March 2009 16:43:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE3, simply right-click on it's icon after you plug it it. You'll find permissions and mount options there. The important thing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mount iomegs 1tb external HD

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Stear
snip This issue is now solved. Thanks for all who responded. I connected the external hard drive to windows vista, changed the permissions, disconnected it and connected to my gentoo system. I can now write and am copying my files. Thanks again Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail

[gentoo-amd64] Mount iomegs 1tb external HD

2009-03-06 Thread Paul Stear
I have just bought a ionega 1 tb external hard disc but can not write to it. It is automatically mounted to media:/sdf1 but when I check the permissions they are for mu user name, group root, owner can view Contents. Group and others forbidden. I have tried as user and root to change permissions

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mount iomegs 1tb external HD

2009-03-06 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 06 March 2009 13:36:55 Mark Haney wrote: Paul Stear wrote: I have just bought a ionega 1 tb external hard disc but can not write to it. It is automatically mounted to media:/sdf1 but when I check the permissions they are for mu user name, group root, owner can view Contents

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mount iomegs 1tb external HD

2009-03-06 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 06 March 2009 15:59:46 Chris Faulkner wrote: You have Automounting turned on in the kernel and the appropriate package installed? http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/multimedia.html snip Yes all is in place, I have some solid state devices which when plugged into

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mount iomegs 1tb external HD

2009-03-06 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 06 March 2009 16:43:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Paul Stear wrote: On Friday 06 March 2009 15:59:46 Chris Faulkner wrote: You have Automounting turned on in the kernel and the appropriate package installed? http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/multimedia.html

[gentoo-amd64] Xorg.config

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Stear
Hello, Can somebody send me a copy of their xorg.config that is used with 1 graphics card and 2 identical monitors, side by side. I have read various documents and have now locked up my machine twice, it seems a bit hit and miss. options and sections are different in every document I have read.

[gentoo-amd64] Wacom Serial Digitizer ll UD-0608-R, Help

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, I have the above tablet and have been trying to get it working with Gentoo. The problem seems to be that the kernel driver is USB and all instructions I can find seem to concentrate on the USB versions of Wacom products. I am using: Portage 2.1.6.4

[gentoo-amd64] How to use

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, I have the following command which works well.. mp3gain --auto /home/Fred Music/mp3/B*/*.mp3 I want to expand this so overnight I can get more directories completed. I tried the following but it only did the directories starting B, the sequence after the just wasn't actioned. I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to use

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Stear
On Sunday 04 January 2009 14:35:52 Martin Herrman wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Maciej Kazulak kazul...@gmail.com wrote: The reason only the first command was executed can be that it returned a non-zero exit status. If you want to make sure every command gets a chance to execute,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to use

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Stear
On Sunday 04 January 2009 12:33:27 Martin Herrman wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hello all, I have the following command which works well.. mp3gain --auto /home/Fred Music/mp3/B*/*.mp3 I want to expand this so overnight I can get more

[gentoo-amd64] Error when loading openoffice 3 writer

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, I have had this error for some time now and I thought I should try and resolve it, but I need help. This is the error message box on loading:- Error loading BASIC of document file :///opt/OpenOffice.org/share/basic/WebWizard/script.xlb/: General Error General input/output error Has

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Error when loading openoffice 3 writer

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 15:38:52 Sebastian Redl wrote: Paul Stear wrote: Hello all, I have had this error for some time now and I thought I should try and resolve it, but I need help. This is the error message box on loading:- Error loading BASIC of document file :///opt

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Konqueror crash using ebay

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 18:00:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: snip It is not a kde4-only bug (but it is fixed in 4.2-svn). Some people have the problem with 3.5.10. Maybe (just maybe) some of the kdelibs patches are causing this. Which versions of kdelibs and konqueror do you have installed?

[gentoo-amd64] Konqueror crash using ebay

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Stear
Hello again all, For the last few days I have noticed that I no longer have the little sub menues displayed when I hover the mouse over an item which should the show a menue. Also konqueror crashes everytime I try and look at items I am watching in ebay. I have included the backtrace below, I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Konqueror crash using ebay

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 14:33:07 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 21 Oktober 2008, Paul Stear wrote: Hello again all, For the last few days I have noticed that I no longer have the little sub menues displayed when I hover the mouse over an item which should the show a menue

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Konqueror crash using ebay

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 14:33:07 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 21 Oktober 2008, Paul Stear wrote: Hello again all, For the last few days I have noticed that I no longer have the little sub menues displayed when I hover the mouse over an item which should the show a menue

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Whats using all my disc space?

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 16 October 2008 15:52:59 Richard Freeman wrote: To add to the chorus of suggestions, may I offer kdirstat? It is in portage and does a great job of mapping file use, as well as some administrative tools for cleanup. Just be careful when deleting files that you don't just move

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 22 May 2008, Mark Haney wrote: Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have a divx video file but can't seem to get it to run, the players state :- The content of this media file is blocked. It seems like you are not using the right media player to play this file. You should visit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 22 May 2008, Beso wrote: 2008/5/22 Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 22 May 2008, Mark Haney wrote: Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have a divx video file but can't seem to get it to run, the players state :- The content of this media file is blocked. It seems

[gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have screwed my system up after doing some deep cleans and eix-test-obsolete runs. It appears that the path tp kde is not found on boot. If I login to console and then issue startx as a user, kde starts. I only achieved this by putting the full path to startkde in my user

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Brett Johnson wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have screwed my system up after doing some deep cleans and eix-test-obsolete runs. It appears that the path tp kde is not found on boot. If I login to console

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Beso wrote: 2008/5/15 Brett Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have screwed my system up after doing some deep cleans and eix-test-obsolete runs. It appears that the path tp kde is not found

[gentoo-amd64] USB TV stick (wintv)

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, Can anybody point me in the right direction so that I can get this TV stick set up and working. Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: elog mail

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Duncan wrote: snip I just thought it ridiculous that I had to run a full local mail setup and/or send the mail round trip to my ISP and back (it's admin mail, better it's not sent via unencrypted Internet mail at all!), just to arrange for a local application to

[gentoo-amd64] elog mail

2008-03-07 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I used to have mail sent to my internet account for uploading with my normal mail without having an mta installed. For some time now I have had the header sent but no body to the mail. The guide I followed was the wilki tips but this now says that:- Note: Starting with Portage 2.1.1, it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] unable to emerge anything

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Mark Haney wrote: Paul Stear wrote: Well thank you Mark and Beso, The above worked well and I think I now have my beloved gentoo back to normal. It's great to know that comprehensive help is available to solve even the most complex problems. kind regards

Re: [gentoo-amd64] unable to emerge anything

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Beso wrote: 2008/2/6, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well I think my elation was a bit premature last night.. I ran revdep-update and the 4 or 5 items that should be re emerged failed. So I went to be dreaming about what could be the matter, after all

[gentoo-amd64] HELP - can't compile anything.

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, I have been having terrible trouble ever since my system crashed at the end of last month. It turned out that it was the sata controller on the motherboard, but I only realised this after many fsck correcting errors. Anyway got a new motherboard and took the opportunity to upgrade to

[gentoo-amd64] unable to emerge anything

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Stear
Hello, I have been having problems for weeks and have had to reinstall. My motherboard SATA controller died so I have had to get a new motherboard and at the same time upgraded from a single to a x2 amd 64 processor. I initially installed from an amd 64 minimal install 2006 disc as I couldn't

Re: [gentoo-amd64] unable to emerge anything

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Stear
ps. don't ask the same question on the same mailing list with 2 different subjects as you'll finish in the banlist for 99% of the readers and you won't get any help. Mark Haney Thanks for your advise, I'll try it now. The reason for 2 posts is that I didn't think the first one was sent. I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] unable to emerge anything

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Stear
i suspect that the system does some kind of damaging stuff because of the 2 versions of glibc. having 2 glibc version should never happen and i really think that that is the main problem. remove the older one and reemerge the new one and then emerge again the system. if this doesn't work,

[gentoo-amd64] rsync for backup

2007-12-22 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, Complements of the season. I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I have read the man pages but am not quite sure if I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] printing has stopped

2007-12-10 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 10 December 2007, you wrote: grep -i DocumentRoot /etc/cups/cupsd.conf Well Dave you are a star. I removed the DocumentRoot entry, restarted cups and now I can use localhost:631 in konqueror. I will now take your advise and install a fresh cups later today. Thanks again for your help

Re: [gentoo-amd64] printing has stopped

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Stear
On Sunday 09 December 2007, you wrote: grep -i ServerBin /etc/cups/cupsd.conf Hi Dave, Thanks for your interest in this problem. This morning whilst trying to figure out what the problem was, I decided to create a link from /usr/lib64/cups to /usr/libexec/cups. I restarted the cups server and I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] printing has stopped

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, Further to my last e-mail. Printing now seems to be working correctly, however, I get an error 404 Not Found when I try to bring cups up in konqueror using ://localhost:631. Has anyone any ideas to solve this last bit? Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo

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