[gentoo-user] [ALSA] Can't use FF and Amarok together as sound driver fails

2007-01-19 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hey! When I watch some videos on youtube and after that want to watch a move wie kaffeine or listen to some music using amarok. I always get the error message that xine was unable to initialize any sound drivers. So this means that I can't use 2 applications using sound. Why is that? Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] [ALSA] Can't use FF and Amarok together as sound driver fails

2007-01-19 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Mauro Faccenda wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 17:33, b.n. wrote: Jakob Buchgraber ha scritto: Hey! When I watch some videos on youtube and after that want to watch a move wie kaffeine or listen to some music using amarok. I always get the error message that xine was unable to

[gentoo-user] [UDEV] No network on startup

2007-01-22 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hello! I have updated my gentoo box by typing emerge --update world. This also updated udev and now I don't get any network on startup. If I want to get a network connection, I'll have to first delete "/var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid" and then run 'dhcpcd eth0'. On startup I get some udev related e

Re: [gentoo-user] [UDEV] No network on startup

2007-01-22 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hello Richard! Thanks for your fast reply! >>> Could you post your current /etc/conf.d/net? The content of /etc/conf.d/net is >> config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) >> dhcp_eth0="nodns nontp nonis" Could it help to delete resolv.conf so that it is then created properly on next startup? (I am just careful

Re: [gentoo-user] [UDEV] No network on startup

2007-01-22 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hello! Thanks a lot! My internet connection now works perfectly, but the error messages are still there :-( Some wise guy told me that there is a tool called genlop, and so I now know exactly what I have emerged. There were just some apps like adobe reader, x11-server. The only program that ac

Re: [gentoo-user] [UDEV] No network on startup

2007-01-23 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/22/07, Jakob Buchgraber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! So I downgraded to udev-103 again and now I get the error message (on startup) that /lib/udev/net.sh cannot be executed, because this file doesn't exist! I also tried reemerging udev, but it didn

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox VERY slow on launch

2007-01-23 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I just reinstalled everything and Firefox takes about 3-5 mins to load the first time. After that it is very fast. Does anyone have an idea as of why this is happening? I tried deleting my ~/.mozilla directory but that doesn't help. This is not the firefox binar

[gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

2007-01-25 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hello! I've been trying to get the standby of my harddisk work for hours. I am actually really frustrated :-) . My problem is that whenever I but my hdd to standby, it stays there for a few seconds and then comes back to work again. So I first thought that there must be any program accessing

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

2007-01-25 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Kent Fredric wrote: n 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! I've been trying to get the standby of my harddisk work for hours. I am actually really frustrated :-) . My problem is that whenever I but my hdd to standby, it stays there for a few seconds and then

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

2007-01-26 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hey! The maintainer of laptop-mode has contacted me directly. After a few mails we (or he) came to the conclusion that my drive is not supported yet properly. He will try to fix this issues and support newer harddisks as soon as possible (probably within the next month). Thanks to all of you

[gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary

2007-01-30 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hey! I know this not related to Gentoo so I apologize for writing this e-mail. Is there any excellent monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? I know a few on the web however I travel a lot (up to 5 hours a day) by train so I got no Internet access there. It would be nice if anyb

Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary

2007-01-31 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:04:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jakob Buchgraber squawked: Is there any excellent monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? What do you mean by monoligual? (English to English? or other languages?) Anycase, I have on my desktop

[gentoo-user] [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-01 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hey everybody! I've upgraded to kernel 2.6.19 (gentoo sources) a few days ago however I can't get my DVD Drive working correctly. I got an Dell Inspiron 9400 Royal. lspci tells me that I have an *ICH7* Chipset [00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA S

[gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-01 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
I am sorry for sending an HTML mail. Here is the plain text version :-) Hey everybody! I've upgraded to kernel 2.6.19 (gentoo sources) a few days ago however I can't get my DVD Drive working correctly. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-01 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Thanks for your reply! >> Any good reason you've chosen to disable .../ATAPI/... support above? Yap. My DVD Drive is SATA. Cheers, Jay -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: -Original Message- From: Jakob Buchgraber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 February 2007 19:16 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow ... snip ... Hey everybody!

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
James wrote: Hello one and all, What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with vlc on amd64? Any wikis? I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a solution for this? Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Fei Liu wrote: Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg_setup webalize

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Fei Liu wrote: Fei Liu wrote: Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg

Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Fei Liu wrote: Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Fei Liu wrote: Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error: !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
James wrote: Jakob Buchgraber googlemail.com> writes: As far as I am informed the win32codecs are not related to any archticture, they just provide codecs used on Windows Systems. Which errrors do you get? Hello Jakob Despite including 'win32codecs' in my USE flags an

Re: [gentoo-user] deleted ._cfg files

2007-02-03 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Kamen TOMOV wrote: Hi, I accedentally deleted a few ._cfg files. Is there a way to get them back? I tryed preinstalling the corresponding packages but with no avail. Thanks! Try: emerge --unmerge && emerge If this doesn't work just unmerge the package delete the corresponding /etc dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-10 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: David Nelson, Early Development Chemist, PAR&D F13 Lab Block, Macclesfield, Cheshire 01625 518518 (ext 28518) -Original Message- From: Michael Schreckenbauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2007 12:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [kernel 2.6.19-r4] DVD Drive extremely slow

2007-02-10 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hey! I just found out that this is a bug in kernel 2.6.19 (http://linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=230939) and no patches have been offered yet. So if anyone knows a patch for this issue, it would be nice if you could offer a link to the patch. Cheers, Jay -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Short history in terminal (without X)

2007-02-15 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Roman Naumann wrote: Hi, does someone know, how to increase the "history-buffer's size" of the terminal? (and I mean the pure terminal, without an X-Server) I mean, if I use some commands producing plenty of output, I cannot scroll to the beginning of the text quite often, because the history bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Short history in terminal (without X)

2007-02-15 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
FuziOK wrote: Jakob Buchgraber wrote: Roman Naumann wrote: Hi, does someone know, how to increase the "history-buffer's size" of the terminal? (and I mean the pure terminal, without an X-Server) I mean, if I use some commands producing plenty of output, I cannot scroll to t

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins

2007-02-18 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Jan Stępień wrote: Hi everyone, # emerge -avDu world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies | !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~x11-plugins/beryl-plugins-0.1.99.2" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to comp

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sys-apps/hwinfo-13.0 fails, missing function "dbus_connection_disconnect" in sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2

2007-02-19 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Emerge sys-apps/hwinfo-13.0 fails, missing function "dbus_connection_disconnect" ( should be in sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2 ?) I'm not really a C programmer but I tried replacing "disconnect" with "close" in that one call from hal.c in hwinfo. That makes it compile ok, but runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question

2007-02-19 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm not clear why revdep-rebuild is showing lots of broken linkages but then telling me everything is in order and there is no work to do to clean up the system. I haven't seen this before. What's causing it? What's the process to get this cleaned up and down to no

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

2007-02-20 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Grant wrote: My girlfriend is from Spain as is her laptop and many of the keys I press don't coincide with the characters printed on the screen. I changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to: KEYMAP="es" and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have changed. Does anyone know how to fix this? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

2007-02-21 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Grant wrote: > My girlfriend is from Spain as is her laptop and many of the keys I > press don't coincide with the characters printed on the screen. I > changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to: > > KEYMAP="es" > > and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have changed. > Does anyone know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Jamie Harr wrote: Hello I've been using redhat forever Switch to GenToo a week or so ago WOW!! I'm really impressed! The only problem I have is the delete key doesn't work like it did with redhat. I hit delete and it acts like back space.I've google'd and searched mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-24 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Gyuszk wrote: Dear gentoo users, As you all know, Firefox 2.0.0.2 is stable on x86 in Portage. When one emerges it, Gnome menu call, and the software calls itself (in about box) Bon Echo (the codename of Firefox 2 development tree). Why? Is really development version of Firefox in Portage, or wh

[gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS Variable in-kernel drivers?

2007-02-27 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Hi! I just read about the required ALSA_CARDS variable when using in-kernel drivers in the Gentoo Newsletter. Since I am using in-kernel ALSA drivers I would like to know what changed and why this is required? Is this explained somewhere? I am using vanilla-sources (not gentoo-sources). So do

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS Variable in-kernel drivers?

2007-02-27 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
b.n. wrote: Jakob Buchgraber ha scritto: Hi! I just read about the required ALSA_CARDS variable when using in-kernel drivers in the Gentoo Newsletter. Since I am using in-kernel ALSA drivers I would like to know what changed and why this is required? Is this explained somewhere? I am using

[gentoo-user] [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?

2007-03-22 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
hi @ all I considered switching to LFS a while ago as this would be the only Linux "distribution" fulfilling my requirements (besides Gentoo, of course). So when reading the LFS Book there was a warning saying Quote from LFS Book 6.2: >> Some kernel documentation recommends creating a symlink