[gentoo-user] SOLVED sound opinions?

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Nicholson
Thanks to 'nealbirch' and Bret Holcomb for suggestions. The solution was that I needed to emerge the alsa-driver (as well as rebuild kernel with only M support). I wanted to be sure there wasn;t something overlooked before rebuilding kernel. The quirky part is how I overlooked the distinction b

[gentoo-user] more sound opinions?

2003-04-01 Thread Tom Nicholson
After getting alsasound working, I broke it and I believe it's because of how I answered etc-update. After an emerge, there was a statement that I should run etc-update to resolve which config file to use. I did, and I think that broke alsa probably because I was guessing how to answer etc-upda

Re: [gentoo-user] more sound opinions?

2003-04-02 Thread Tom Nicholson
> Doc > > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 21:12, Tom Nicholson wrote: > > After getting alsasound working, I broke it and I believe it's > > because of how I answered etc-update. After an emerge, there was a > > statement that I should run etc-update to resolve which config

Re: [gentoo-user] more sound opinions?

2003-04-02 Thread Tom Nicholson
gain (start being the ALSA how to :) ) > > > > Doc > > > > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 21:12, Tom Nicholson wrote: > > > After getting alsasound working, I broke it and I believe it's > > > because of how I answered etc-update. After an emerge, there was a &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Nicholson
Don't know if this will help or not, but I had the same error reported and solved it by putting localhost inside apache.conf where it asks for ServerName. ServerName localhost Maybe that doesn't fit your needs but it worked for me. I can now access apache from within my home net. > On April 3,

[gentoo-user] mp3blaster

2003-04-05 Thread Tom Nicholson
After getting sound working on my console-only, 4 gig server box I became dissatisfied with mpg123 when I couldn't pause it interactively. So I found mp3blaster on the net. So where's the problem? well, I had to install 'by hand' (./configure make make install) instead of using emerge and being

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3blaster

2003-04-05 Thread Tom Nicholson
> At 06:31 PM 04/05/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >The mp3blaster is designed from getgo for console use, so I read, and > >uses ncurses so why all the x-base and font stuff? Is this a fault of > >the ebuild or the portage or me? > > I'm betting you didn't modify your USE variables in the /etc/make.con

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3blaster

2003-04-06 Thread Tom Nicholson
pendency is the wrong word here, something that has to be installed to get mp3blaster to install, is what I mean) > Tom Nicholson wrote: > > > Main issue being-- why the ebuild for mp3blaster wanted to install > > x11 stuff which I don't have room for? > > nas (for which m

[gentoo-user] sound opinions?

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Nicholson
Can anyone suggest why my sound doesn't work or where to look for further clues? I've built a gentoo box from older parts to learn with. I wanted just command line stuff to study servers like apache, proftp, samba, etc. so no gui. I remembered there's a sound card in the system and I can't fig