On 12/25/11 15:08, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:20:56 Michael Hampicke wrote:
>>> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my
>>> KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or
>>> anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot.
On 12/25/11 14:27, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB wrote:
>> Happy Holidays, Everyone,
>>
>> To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an
>> issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my l
On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my
>> KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or
>> anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer
>> booted okay and gave me my logi
On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB <mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Happy Holidays, Everyone,
>
> To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know
> about an
> issue I've b
Happy Holidays, Everyone,
To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an
issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop).
Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the
monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the mo
On 10/16/11 20:38, Adam Carter wrote:
>> BTW, I had forgotten to run 'eselect opengl set ati' which I've always
>> done when configuring X. However, when I do this, it returns
>> 'Unrecognized option: ati'
>>
>> You all are probably thinking I'm nuts now, but I thought this my solve
>> the issue
On 10/16/11 18:23, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 23:04:00 CJoeB wrote:
>> On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote:
>>>> As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the
>>>> modu
On 10/16/11 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:14:45 -0500
> Dale wrote:
>
>> CJoeB wrote:
>>> On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved.
>>>> On 15 October
On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>> As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the
>> modules and dependencies are loaded.
> Would building one modules into the kernel and the other as a module
> solve (well, kludge) the
On 10/16/11 17:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Colleen's been here longer than I have :-)
> You shouldn't make such statements about a lady :P
>
>
That gave me a huge laugh! Good considering the trials and tribulations
I've gone through with
On 10/16/11 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:14:45 -0500
> Dale wrote:
>
>> CJoeB wrote:
>>> On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved.
>>>> On 15 October 2011
On 10/16/11 13:37, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 17:08:45 CJoeB wrote:
>> On 10/16/11 11:29, Matthew Finkel wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, CJoeB >>
>>> <mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> > Also: Are t
On 10/16/11 11:29, Matthew Finkel wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, CJoeB <mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Also: Are the modules actually loaded before you unload them? Use
> > `modprobe -vr broadcom tg3`. If there is no outpu
On 10/16/11 08:59, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 16.10.2011 12:43, schrieb Mick:
>> On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 00:05:01 CJoeB wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Well, thanks to the help I got from the list, I finally have Gentoo
>>> installed on m
On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote:
Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved.
> On 15 October 2011 23:44, CJoeB wrote:
>> (...)
> If this is your first install, is FrameBuffer (pretty consoles) really
> a vital component of getting your machine up and runnin
On 10/16/11 06:43, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 00:05:01 CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> However, now I have a networking issue.
>>
>> In past, when I booted to the install CD and my ethernet connection was
>> not active, I typed net-setup
On 10/16/11 05:59, Stroller wrote:
> On 16 October 2011, at 00:05, CJoeB wrote:
>> ...
>> However, when I boot, eth0 does not start. I can start it manually by
>> doing 'modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then 'modprobe
>> broadco
Hi everyone,
Well, thanks to the help I got from the list, I finally have Gentoo
installed on my new desktop and booting to a command prompt.
However, now I have a networking issue.
In past, when I booted to the install CD and my ethernet connection was
not active, I typed net-setup eth0 and was
On 10/15/11 16:21, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
>
>> Documentation for my monitor states that the max resolution is
>> 1920x1080@60 Hz
> To get this resolution that early you need kms.
>
> Check your kernel-config:
>
> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m
> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
>
Hi guys,
I'm still struggling with this. Gave up last weekend and haven't had
time until now. Thought I had it going when I got a command prompt and
then, networking wasn't working. Anyway, more details .
On 10/10/11 16:43, David Abbott wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011
On 10/10/11 17:05, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Colleen
>
>> I'll try this, but I REALLY want those cute little penguins that appear
>> when the computer is booting! :-)
> Make sure this is configured in your kernel. The config option ought to
> be called "CONFIG_BOOTUP_TUX", but it isn't - it's c
On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB wrote:
>> Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but
>> was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to
>> boot into my new system. I got th
Hi Everyone,
I hope someone will be able to "lead me by the nose" here.
For a number of weeks now, I have been trying to install Gentoo on my
new desktop. I kept running into issues and due to time constraints
when I was installing, I put off trying to resolve them.
Today, I went through the in
On 07/23/11 18:24, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 23 July 2011 16:11:20 Mick did opine thusly:
>>> So, if I choose the amd64 iso and Stage 3, it doesn't have to be
>>> on an AMD machine?
>> Correct, you will use this iso (or systemrescueCD or Knoppix) and a
>> Staqe 3 equivalent to build a sys
On 07/22/11 23:07, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the
>> warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about
>> lea
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS.
Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere
near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using
Gentoo since 2004 and the reason I do, is for the control that I have
over my system.
Because t
Hi everyone,
Today, I ordered a new desktop from Dell (offer too good to pass up!).
The system is a Dell XPS 8300 with an Intel Core i7 processor. I was
reading the Gentoo wiki about safe CFLAGS and it said that march=native
is recommended if I use gcc >= 4.2.3.
I looked at processor specific C
On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
>> KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install,
>> t
Hi all.
Okay, colour me "so stupid", but I want to add some TrueType fonts to
KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install,
there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled for
this, but haven't found anything relevant. Can someone please help?
Regards,
C
Hi all,
For the longest time, it has driven me nuts that when you are doing an
emerge in a terminal window (kwin) in KDE, it doesn't display the
progress - i.e. emerge 1 of 5).
With my new and fresh installation of gentoo and kde, I figured out that
by right-clicking on the tab at the bottom of t
On 03/27/11 22:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 27 March 2011 18:50:36 CJoeB wrote:
Hi All,
See output below. I understand what this is telling me. However, the
issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages
about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86
On 03/27/11 19:21, Roman Zilka wrote:
According to my local portage mirror, kipi-plugins-1.9.0 is currently
~x86. There's probably a stray line in
your /etc/portage/package.keywords which unmasks kipi-plugins-1.9.0.
The latest stable is kipi-plugins-1.2.0-r3 which is happy with
libkexiv2-4.4.5-r1
On 03/27/11 21:54, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrote:
You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge --update --deep world
That will update every package to the latest ~x86 version, and cause them
all to downgrade again
Hi All,
See output below. I understand what this is telling me. However, the
issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages
about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86 keyword. And this
goes on continuously.
If I do emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-
On 11/02/10 07:27, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/11/2 CJoeB :
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous post was
>> about not being able to use xsane as a normal user, it would only work
>> as root. Since posting that,
Hi,
Before someone asks "Haven't you posted this before?", I'll respond,
"Sort of, but not really!"
Anyway, I've reread all the previous posts. Mostly, they were related
to the printer portion of the device. The printer works fine.
The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous p
On 08/18/10 01:12, Jake Moe wrote:
> On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
>> On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
>>> On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
> On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
>>> before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
>>> previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation
On 08/17/10 08:36, David Abbott wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help.
> I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts
> depending on the version of baselayout /openr
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
Things were so much easi
Hi,
I'm getting better recently updated to KDE 4.4 - 200+ packages that
needed to be updated (including those that weren't KDE apps) and I had a
bit of jumping through hoops to get everything installed - build
failures, blocks, etc. but managed to do everything by myself with a
little help f
On 06/18/10 19:21, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Colleen Beamer writes:
>
>
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The can of worms comes from doing revdep-rebuild. However, the actual
>> revdep-rebuild bombs and I get told that there are no e-builds to
>> satisfy
On 05/27/10 15:33, Dale wrote:
> CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed
>> to help.
>>
>> The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but
>> some upgrade or other s
Hi,
First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed
to help.
The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but
some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up.
Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the
folders on my hard
Hi,
I had wireless working just fine back when I was using the
2.6.27-gentoo-r8 kernel. Since upgrading to the 2.6.30 series of
kernels, I haven't been able to get it working. I was using the ipw3945
driver, but this driver needs TKIP and something else (don't remember
what) set in the cryptogra
Hi,
I have been doing a bit of cleaning on my system - namely, removing kde
3.5 packages according to directions given via Gentoo documentation.
After doing this, I ran revdep-rebuild (with --pretend) and found that
there were a lot of broken packages. One of the problem packages was
krecipes.
On 05/03/10 10:10, Dale wrote:
>
> I think there is a interactive mode or something too. It is done by
> hitting the "I" key during the first part of the boot up. Just say No
> to xdm or whatever starts your GUI.
>
> Lots of options here. lol
>
> Dale
Thanks, Dale, for the figurative "whack in t
Hi,
First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really
helped.
The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked
by lzma-utils.
One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package of
eix and another one, but neither of these are install
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote:
> CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing
>> working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane
>> when logged in as root.
>>
>> I haven't
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote:
> CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing
>> working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane
>> when logged in as root.
>>
>> I haven't
Hi,
I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing
working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane
when logged in as root.
I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and
the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get the
Hi,
I have an Intel 3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop. I have always used
the ipw3945 driver in gentoo because I have never had any luck with the
iwl3945 driver.
I currently am running the 2.6.30-r10 linux kernel and previous to that
I ran 2.6.30-r6. For the last 2 kernel builds that I have do
Hi everyone,
I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and
copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the
unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I
am having trouble with the scanner. I again have installed unstable
vers
Hi,
For the last little while (not sure when it started), Firefox will not
load .pdf files (also files with a .aspx extention) - it downloads them
and won't even display them if I try opening the pdf after download. I
have nppdf.so as a plugin. Opera displays these files just fine - I
have Oper
Chuck Robey wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote:
> >> I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I
> >> began with an "emerge --sync" and then updated system. I got a message
> >> tellimg me I had to read an eselect message
Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 4/13/2009 12:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht
>>> wrote:
There's a lot of us voting 1 today I think.
How do things like this go stable when they aren't stable, tested and
>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:22:31 -0500, CJoeB wrote:
>
>
>> * Package 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9' NOT merged due to file collisions.
>> * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of
>> the
>> * above message
AllenJB wrote:
> CJoeB wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments:
>
> It's not a bug. It's a valid blocker. They happen.
Yes, I know that, but I seem to remember this issue before and so, did a
google
Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:32:57 -0500
> CJoeB wrote:
>
>
>> On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of
>> e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was
>> not merged due to file colli
Hi everyone,
I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments:
1. emerge -NuDav --fetchonly world
2. emerge -C ss com_err e2fsprogs
3. emerge -NuDav --nodeps e2fsprogs-libs e2fsprogs
4. echo "sys-libs/com_err" >>/etc/portage/package.mask
5. echo "sys-libs/ss" >>/etc/portage/p
Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I
>>> g
Hi,
As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I
go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even
though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the
Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I
be
Hi all,
I just did an emerge --sync and when I did 'emerge --pretend --update
--deep world', I got told that my profile was deprecated.
I was told to run the following steps:
# cd /etc/
# rm make.profile
# ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile
I just want to ma
Eric Martin wrote:
Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library
management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having
a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are
lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to kee
Justin wrote:
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences?
Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
I think you're being a little harsh. :-) Usually, unmerging a package
that is blocking another package has, in my limited experience, always
solved
things are okay now.
Regards,
Colleen
CJoeB wrote:
| Hi Guys,
|
| Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to
| upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the
| sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been sticking to a kernel
| that
Disregard the message below. I've figured it out. Sorry! ;-(
Colleen
CJoeB wrote:
Hi Guys,
Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to
upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get
the sata drive on my laptop recognized. So,
Hi Guys,
Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to
upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the
sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been sticking to a kernel
that works. That is just a lead-in to the situation.
Today, I wanted t
Hi Guys,
First, let me say that I did search this problem on Google. I found a
somewhat relevant solution, but before I try it, I thought I would post
here.
The problem is jerky playback of the dvd when I try to play it using
kaffeine. The laptop on which I am trying to play the DVD is a D
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 09 February 2008, CJoeB wrote:
Why all of a sudden can't I compile goffice without gnome?
Thanks, not necessary. I think I solved it. I just re-emerged
XML-Parser. and things seem to be okay.
It's hard to see how that relat
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 09 February 2008, CJoeB wrote:
>
>
>> Why all of a sudden can't I compile goffice without gnome?
>>
Thanks, not necessary. I think I solved it. I just re-emerged
XML-Parser. and things seem to be okay.
Regards,
Colleen
Hi all,
I did an emerge --sync and got told that a few things needed upgrading,
one of them being goffice. I have gnumeric installed on my system, but
my USE flags include '-gnome'. I don't want gnome (i.e. the desktop) on
my system!! gnumeric, gimp and abiword (and yes, I have openoffice.org,
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