Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I am unclear what you mean here. what is a Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. I suspect it has RCA analog video in, but what comes out? is it DV (like a DV camera format)? If so I suspect you will ned up with a DV format file on your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!

2006-03-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:41:44PM +0100, Simon Kellett wrote Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... mpg123 complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp ... Does mpg123 -a /dev/sound/dsp work ? Nope. The only change is that now I get Can't open /dev/sound/dsp!. -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerges

2006-03-23 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Friday 24 March 2006 02:46, TN wrote: Hi all, I see that emerge has a resume option - but it only compiles from where the the previous emerge was stopped and when you issue a resume, it starts at the beginning of the next package to be emerged. Is it possible to get emerge to continue

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024 - solved

2006-03-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/23/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed my Matrox G550 card to a Radeon 7500, executed the Xorg -configure command, and the created config file works perfectly. It seems that something was wrong with tha matrox card or with the matrox driver. Yes, it seems so. But if for

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/23/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After following several leads from Gentoo folks (including replacing DVD cable) I've narrow it down to problem with dma resetting itself on eject. Hmm, what type of controller is this attached to? On my new laptop, I have a PATA DVD burner, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 21:30 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Isn't the solution to have 3 levels: 'testing', 'probation' 'stable' ? There are 3 levels: Masked, ~ARCH, and ARCH. Masked you can install if you want, like gnome-2.14, but it's your own fault if it kills your system. ~ARCH you can

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerges

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 03:58 +0100, Rick van Hattem wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 02:46, TN wrote: Hi all, I see that emerge has a resume option - but it only compiles from where the the previous emerge was stopped and when you issue a resume, it starts at the beginning of the next

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 02:33 +, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I recently switched from fedora to gentoo, it's a dual boot system. Never in Fedora, not in windows, but in gentoo, I get screen flickers/static. strange. Try comparing you xorg.conf files from fedora and gentoo - it may be the video

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Ian Hastie
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:52:58 +0100 Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so that means log into root before you run X. # vi groups (or whatever the correct way of doing it is) vigr is the right editor for the group file and vipw for passwd. The -s switch makes them edit the shadow file. As the

Re: [gentoo-user] Splash livecd-2006.0 not working

2006-03-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/23/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mtrr,ywrap spla sh=verbose,theme:live-cd-2006.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 Did you notice you have a typo here? That

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 20:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/23/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After following several leads from Gentoo folks (including replacing DVD cable) I've narrow it down to problem with dma resetting itself on eject. Hmm, what type of controller is this

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Antoine writes: # vi groups (or whatever the correct way of doing it is) add your user to wheel I think it is gpasswd -a user wheel. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/23/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is interesting. My DVD burner is connected to IDE controller and I have in kernel enabled both options support: * Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support and * SCSI CDROM support My DVD is recognized as /dev/hdc If I disable first option DE/ATAPI

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerges

2006-03-23 Thread TN
Excellent! thanks a lot, I will give it a go. Iain Buchanan wrote: You can edit /etc/make.conf and add noclean to your FEATURES. This way the temporary stuff in /var/tmp/portage (or wherever it is) will stay behind, and you can say `emerge --resume` and it will continue. HOWEVER: the side

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-23 Thread Gabriel Dain
If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could boot from the Gentoo CD, and chroot to your system Gabriel Dain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 21:24 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/23/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is interesting. My DVD burner is connected to IDE controller and I have in kernel enabled both options support: * Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support and * SCSI CDROM support My DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/23/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, here is dmesg output, the last two lines indicate that: hdc: DMA disabled hdc: ATAPI reset complete The lines that are interesting to me are: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:0f.1 sata_via :00:0f.0: version 1.1 The above PCI id

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-23 Thread Dave Moore
I have this problem too, precisely as thufir described it. I, however, have no other xorg.conf for comparison. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+

[gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-23 Thread Martin S
I lent my USB stick to a guy for a job the other day. Apparently his Win98 box wanted to install drivers for it to work, so he pulled it before Wintendo (anything 2000) could get to doing its stuff.Now I get SuicidalPuppy martoni # mount /mnt/usb/mount: block device /dev/sda is write-protected,

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 00:00 -0600, Dave Moore wrote: I have this problem too, precisely as thufir described it. I, however, have no other xorg.conf for comparison. you mean you deleted it, or your system auto-detects it? if 1. then too bad :( you could try playing around with drivers (eg try

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:03 +0100, Martin S wrote: I lent my USB stick to a guy for a job the other day. Apparently his Win98 box wanted to install drivers for it to work, so he pulled it before Wintendo (anything 2000) could get to doing its stuff. Now I get SuicidalPuppy martoni #

Re: [gentoo-user] LG L1730P in 1280x1024 - solved

2006-03-23 Thread Stefán István
péntek 24 március 2006 04.37 dátummal Richard Fish ezt írta: On 3/23/06, Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed my Matrox G550 card to a Radeon 7500, executed the Xorg -configure command, and the created config file works perfectly. It seems that something was wrong with tha

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-23 Thread Martin S
2006/3/24, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:03 +0100, Martin S wrote: I lent my USB stick to a guy for a job the other day. Apparently his Win98 box wanted to install drivers for it to work, so he pulled it before Wintendo (anything 2000) could get to doing its stuff.

[gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-23 Thread Lord Sauron
Hi, I'm very very new to Gentoo. I managed to squeak through a install from the live CD, however, this gave me a kernel with little or no ACPI support - I have a laptop, so I'd like to have this support enabled. However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel, or do so enabling ACPI support. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!

2006-03-23 Thread Chad Feller
mpg321, if alsa is in your USE flags, I believe will default to alsa (something in /dev/snd versus /dev/sound), hence you're not having the problem with mpg321. To iron out if the problem is with mpg123 or with /dev/dsp (/dev/sound/dsp), can your run something like ls -l /bin /dev/dsp, and

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