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2008-06-30 Thread Erik Ch. Ohrnberger
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[gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-06-30 Thread Dale
Hi, I emailed this list quite a while ago about not getting emails from the list or any other Gentoo list. I wrote the very VERY slow to respond AT&T crew about unblocking the emails. This was on about May 16 or so. Well, a little while ago I got my first set of emails. Wh Ooo

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:23:20AM +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:10:44 -0400 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:49:58PM -0400, sean wrote: > > > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > >> I use wmii and I really don't want to have to merge qt

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:10:44 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:49:58PM -0400, sean wrote: > > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > >> I use wmii and I really don't want to have to merge qt just to > >> test out my sound device...Any other suggestions? > > > > alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:49:58PM -0400, sean wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > >> I use wmii and I really don't want to have to merge qt just to test out >> my sound device...Any other suggestions? > > alsamixer is the only other thing that comes to mind. Well I have everything turned to max and

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread sean
Michael Pobega wrote: I use wmii and I really don't want to have to merge qt just to test out my sound device...Any other suggestions? alsamixer is the only other thing that comes to mind. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Vmware and <= 2.6.25 kernels

2008-06-30 Thread Eric Phillips
I have noticed that many people seem to be having issues with vmware products. I believe that some of the issues may be related to some symbols being removed from the mainline kernel causing modules from vmware-modules to not load into the kernel. To fix it you need to enable UNUSED_SYMBOLS her

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:13:51 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Harrison ha scritto: > > I think it would be in everyone's best interests if we let this > > thread die now, I've been reading this thread for the past 2 or 3 > > days and frankly, it doesn't seem to be bringing anything o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:25:16 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > Why do you start a new round and why are you now asking for completely > different things? I'm not asking different things. The question about the licenses is the most important for me and I've asked that same qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:50:42PM -0400, sean wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: >> No matter what I do the Mic doesn't seem to make any sound through my >> laptop's speakers...Any other ideas on what might be causing this >> problem? > > For KDE I had to specify in KMix which device to capture sound.

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread sean
Michael Pobega wrote: No matter what I do the Mic doesn't seem to make any sound through my laptop's speakers...Any other ideas on what might be causing this problem? For KDE I had to specify in KMix which device to capture sound. Perhaps you need to check such an option in your desktop of ch

[gentoo-user] SOLVED [ was: codec read/write errors ]

2008-06-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:13:20 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:02:39PM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson > squawked: > > Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure writing to cs5535 codec > > Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure reading codec reg 0x7a,Last > >value=0x7a80 > > > > I've go

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
b.n. wrote: I didn't know that showing a mail *you* received is illegal. Maybe I can contact Bloch and ask him permission? I think this thread has long since left the topic of Gentoo in the dust. If you cannot just accept that Joerg is not going to be cooperative on this issue and drop it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30:38PM +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:24:44 -0400 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I bought a Creative NX Pro 2 webcam a few years back, and got it > > working with no problems in Gentoo using the gspcav1 drivers from > > Portage. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bloch could also well not give a f**k about your claims and maybe does not want to spend money etc. just to sue an upset programmer. I most probably wouldn't sue you, if I was him. You're tiptoeing around the main issue, that is:

Re: [gentoo-user] speakers have no sound in Gentoo, but work in Ubuntu

2008-06-30 Thread Brian Johnson
Almost all snd-hda-intel sound cards need quirks added to /etc/modules.d/alsa Under the auto-generated configuration add: options snd-hda-intel model=dell-3stack Once that is done, save the file and run: update-modules Once that has completed (you may need to update-modules --force if it compl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Matt Harrison ha scritto: I think it would be in everyone's best interests if we let this thread die now, I've been reading this thread for the past 2 or 3 days and frankly, it doesn't seem to be bringing anything of use to the ML. I don't want to get involved or takes anyone's side, but maybe t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll be as direct as possible. Please, do the same. I've read your site but I could not find the info I'm looking for. Please, quote the following two lines and provide the relevant text under each of them. =

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll be as direct as possible. Please, do the same. > > > I've read your site but I could not find the info I'm looking for. > Please, quote the following two lines and provide the relevant text > under each of them. > > > > Line 1: Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bloch could also well not give a f**k about your claims and maybe does > not want to spend money etc. just to sue an upset programmer. I most > probably wouldn't sue you, if I was him. > > You're tiptoeing around the main issue, that is: You bring no proof of

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg Schilling ha scritto: But that's irrelevant to our discussion, because I do not want a "web of pointers to copies". I want a single pointer to the (hopefully public) mailing list thread(s) where you discussed with Bloch and y

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-06-30 Thread Mick
On Monday 30 June 2008, Eduardo Otubo wrote: > Hi again, > > In fact, just like Ricardo said, my congrats to a person who wants to > learn Linux starting by Gentoo :-) > But, back to the problem: > > Then, I insist at the point: As root, try to mount it manually and > paste the output here: > > # m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:01:59 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > > > What people with english mothertonge believe is a courtesy, is > > usually seen as a underlying attack by Germans. Try to just be > > direct and there will be less missunderstanding. > I'll be as direct

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread b.n.
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 30 June 2008, brullo nulla wrote: The block will in many cases affect only a branch of the dependency tree. For example, in this case it is all blocked because glibmm wants a masked glib. Portage knows that glibmm wants the masked glib, so it knows that glibmm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Heiko Nock wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:46:41PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: I've just read your outdated page It is not outdated. Since more than a year, there is no visible development in cdrkit. Not visible to you. cdrkit-1.1.8 at http://cdrkit.org/releases/ i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Heiko Nock wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:46:41PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: I've just read your outdated page It is not outdated. Since more than a year, there is no visible development in cdrkit. Not visible to you. cdrkit-1.1.8 at http://cdrkit.org/releases/ is dated 25.05.2008. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Heiko Nock
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:46:41PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > I've just read your outdated page > It is not outdated. Since more than a year, there is no visible development > in cdrkit. Not visible to you. cdrkit-1.1.8 at http://cdrkit.org/releases/ is dated 25.05.2008. It would be prude

Re: Fwd: [gentoo-user] beagle and thunderbird

2008-06-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Dirk Uys schrieb: Should I unmask this unstable release to get the feature I am looking for? You will have to keyword the following: app-misc/beagle dev-libs/libbeagle dev-dotnet/dbus-sharp dev-dotnet/dbus-glib-sharp dev-dotnet/taglib-sharp OK, did that ... You will want to build Beagle w

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 June 2008, brullo nulla wrote: > > Seems a reasonable question, but will be almost impossible to > > implement, as how would you define a package that can "be happily > > merged independently" of a blocking package? > > > > portage is software, it isn't intelligent so it doesn't know h

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30.06.08 10:48]: > The GPL however limits the usability of OpenSource as OSS and claims this > is in order to save OSS. The GPL allows GPLd software to use any kind of > software but disallows other OpenSource Software to use GPLd software. > The main point

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread brullo nulla
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 29 June 2008, b.n. wrote: >> By the way: I find the fact "emerge -pv" just fails in those cases >> extremly annoying. Shoudn't it report the error, skip offending >> packages but let me see what can be happily mer

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 29 June 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > > Doesn't that give you a huge world file ... > > No: of course, I 'emerge -1' when the pkg is not marked 'W/S' in my > pkg.ref. Currently, 'world' lists  97  pkgs ; pkg.ref lists  513 >  pkgs. OK, that would work. I suppose I don't stand much chance o

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread brullo nulla
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could learn to be direct and tell people what you mean. > You asked in a missleading way on a list where hostile statements from > other people have already been seen. > > As I said: less than 20% of human communicati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread brullo nulla
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Actually you can figure out which are the most FAQ from this thread, but >> let me help you for the start. Please, publish detailed information >> for the following events in c

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 29 June 2008, b.n. wrote: > By the way: I find the fact "emerge -pv" just fails in those cases > extremly annoying. Shoudn't it report the error, skip offending > packages but let me see what can be happily merged independently of > that? Seems a reasonable question, but will be almost i

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-06-30 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/6/30 Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Cristian Gary, > i've grouped it into plugdev. > > Richard, > > After i type this command "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto > noauto,ro,user 0 0" it shows: > >bash: /dev/cdrom: Permission denied Actually, the line /dev/cdrom /

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 June 2008, Roger Mason wrote: > Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > emerge -O bash > > and > > Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > So, first try this: emerge -1a =app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 > > Well, in the end I decided to play very straight and use a more > up-to-d

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > emerge -O bash and Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So, first try this: emerge -1a =app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 Well, in the end I decided to play very straight and use a more up-to-date install CD. I'm currently installing from 2008.0_bet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually you can figure out which are the most FAQ from this thread, but > let me help you for the start. Please, publish detailed information > for the following events in chronological order: Please explain why you don't read the FAQ? All your question

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sorry I offended you, Joerg, but your are making it impossible > to be your friend. You could learn to be direct and tell people what you mean. You asked in a missleading way on a list where hostile statements from other people have already been seen

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote that the *thread* - digressing from useful discussion about > software tools and into religion - was pissing me off. This is why I tried not to answer your first question. I know that this usually happens and try to avoid it. > I asked because I

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling ha scritto: > >> But that's irrelevant to our discussion, because I do not want a "web of > >> pointers to copies". I want a single pointer to the (hopefully public) > >> mailing list thread(s) where you discussed with Bloch and you were > >>

[gentoo-user] weird gnome vol control behaviour

2008-06-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, Just got a new Dell Precision M6300, with Intel audio which identifies as: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) and uses the good ol' snd_hda_intel module (2.6.25-tuxonice-r4). /etc/modprobe.d/alsa is full of the usual guff: alias cha

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Roger Mason writes: > I'm building a system using a 2006.0 minimal install disk and > following the (current) installation docs. I got to the part where it > is suggested I upgrade portage. However, there is a blocker: > > (chroot) livecd / # emerge -p --oneshot portage > > These are the package

Re: [gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:14:02 -0230 Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I looked on the bugzilla but this "bug" is maked invalid. Could > someone please suggest a next step? > > Thanks, > Roger emerge -O bash -- Ken69267 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-06-30 Thread Eduardo Otubo
Hi again, In fact, just like Ricardo said, my congrats to a person who wants to learn Linux starting by Gentoo :-) But, back to the problem: Then, I insist at the point: As root, try to mount it manually and paste the output here: # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Certify that /mnt/cdrom exists. :-

[gentoo-user] portage update bloacked

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, I'm building a system using a 2006.0 minimal install disk and following the (current) installation docs. I got to the part where it is suggested I upgrade portage. However, there is a blocker: (chroot) livecd / # emerge -p --oneshot portage These are the packages that would be merged, in o

Fwd: [gentoo-user] beagle and thunderbird

2008-06-30 Thread Dirk Uys
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nirbheek Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] beagle and thunderbird To: Dirk Uys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Dirk Uys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread brullo nulla
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:00:39 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > >> "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Daniel Iliev ha scritto: >> > > How about if you remake your site and explain everything there.

[gentoo-user] speakers have no sound in Gentoo, but work in Ubuntu

2008-06-30 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, my laptop(Dell1400)'s speakers never work in Gentoo(headphones can work). But server days ago, I installed Ubuntu and I found that the speakers work(headphones also work)! I thought the alsa-driver could not drive my sound card properly before, and now, I think there must be some way since Ubun

[gentoo-user] GentooVe en el Gentoo Monthly Newsletter

2008-06-30 Thread Sebastian Magri
Este breve pero placentero mail es para avisarles de manera tranquila que ESTAMOS EN EL GMN CARAJO (respira profundo) Pueden leer la nota sobre la participación de GentooVe en el FLISOL2008 acá: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/20080630-newsletter.xml -- En el pasado creímos que se nos

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:24:44 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I bought a Creative NX Pro 2 webcam a few years back, and got it > working with no problems in Gentoo using the gspcav1 drivers from > Portage. Now, when I plug in the microphone (Which isn't a USB, but a > regular micro

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-06-30 Thread Norman Hakim
> > Norman, > > > > I am glad to know that you have chosen Gentoo as your > first contact > > with GNU/Linux. First of all, congratulations! having > a working Gentoo > > system without any previous Linux knowledge is a > terrific start! > > > > I assumed that you knew what fstab is and how to > mo

[gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread Michael Pobega
Hello gentoo-user. I bought a Creative NX Pro 2 webcam a few years back, and got it working with no problems in Gentoo using the gspcav1 drivers from Portage. Now, when I plug in the microphone (Which isn't a USB, but a regular microphone) nothing happens. I can't hear it through my speakers no ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:00:39 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Daniel Iliev ha scritto: > > > How about if you remake your site and explain everything there. > > > What happened (chronologically and in detail) and provide > > > evidence. Re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Iliev ha scritto: > > How about if you remake your site and explain everything there. What > > happened (chronologically and in detail) and provide evidence. Remake it > > to be clear with simple sentences and easy for finding the information. > > Then pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:47:31 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > > > > You should carefully check the history to understand that most of the > > changes are speudo changes (like adding a space and later removing it > > again). > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately the GPL has not been written in an unambiguous way. This is > > why the OSI rated the GPL as non-free for several years. Some years ago, the > > FSF explained that the GPL needs to be interpreted in a way that makes it > > compliant to