Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death
On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies > suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere > between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards > without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. > And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden > shutdown, just churns merrily along for a few moments > then, clunk, the PC stops cold. > > This is a fresh install of XP SP1 with nothing added > except for the (native)9250 ATI drivers. It hasn't > even been on line yet, so it's not a virus. > > It's on sda1, which was freshly formatted NTFS; the > rest of the drive is given over to gentoo which works > fine. > > Be interested to hear from anyone else this has ever > happened to. > > Maxim Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do you mean you're installing to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? Do I understand right that the installation of XP went OK but booting fails? Or are you trying to boot an installed XP from vmware? Anyway, my experience with such sudden failures were usually linked to either processor heat or Power Supply being not strong enough. But it was never linked to vmware. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both > OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not > mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will. (...) > I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250 You are right that XP should work - or you can install it on a virtual machine. I am not sure what advantages you get from running vmware from a partition (unless of course you also want to dual boot). My experience with video card is: stick with Nvidia as long as AMD/ATI hasn't cured the driver problems - however this is a Linux advice! You are correct about the psu and probably right about the card. It may be a card vs board problem (I had a motherboard that just would not stand a Nvidia 6600GT, however it locked, it did not shutdown). I'm afraid I can't help more as far as Windows is concerned: the latest version I booted from HD was 3.1 and the latest I run in vmware is 2000. Good luck, Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest > and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I > found the output crowded with puffy, oozing > electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for > Fuhjyyu on Google revealed that I'm not alone. > > Can somebody recommend a *reliable*, up-to-date PS, > > >=400W with a 120mm fan? > > Maxim Hi, I've used several LC6550 "Super Silent" PS without any problem (with AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors). 550W and 120mm fan. Thierry -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Mick wrote: > > I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual > you can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number > of other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you > must shut the VM down before you can dual boot into it normally, you have > to register it in VM afresh, etc. There may be workarounds to the > registration issue though: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html > > What I haven't worked out yet is this. Can I create an image from the > original installation and use this with the VM? How do I go about this? The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses NAT, while VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of understanding how to set up NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but I use fixed IP's Thierry -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installing vmware?
On Friday 04 April 2008, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > VirtualBox can be configured in either way! > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Advanced_Networking_Linux > > Ciao > Francesco Many Thanks! I'll give it a try. Not being a network expert, I must admit I used the wizards... and virtualboy had no "bridge" wizard :) Thierry -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?
On Monday 03 August 2009, Grant wrote: > # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% / The partition is fairly full, probably the system has a hard time finding a spot to create an unfragmented file. I remember I read a partition should not be more than 50% used, maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, I would not use such a full partition for / or /home. When it happend I moved /usr to another partition. Thierry
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?
I did not try recently. 3-4- years ago it may still have been Linux PPC. Now it is MacTel so it mainly should be a question of supported hardware and booting. Thierry On Friday 27 February 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm considering attempting to set up an Intel Mac Mini as a > MythTV frontend. Right now I'm thinking I'll leave the > internal drive alone and boot from net or from a USB flash > drive. That way I can spin down the internal HD and save on > power and noise (and the standard OS-X install is still there, > so it can be trivially switched back to normal desktop use). > > I've been googling for info on running Linux on a Mac Mini, and > there was fairly active discussion 3-4 years ago, but very > little recent info. That leads me to either of two > conclusions: > > 1) It can't be done and everybody gave up. > > 2) It's so trivial that people no longer need to ask about it. > > So, how hard would it be to do a USB or network-based Gentoo > install for a recent Intel Mac Mini?
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o > problem. > > Few questions: > - Should I switch to UTF-8 ? > - Why ? > > - Any known problems related to this migration ? > > As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it & will use it if necessary, but > I'd like some users feedback. > > Be happy. > > -- > ~adj~ I did the switch with no big problem, but I regularely receive mail (in French or German) where I have to change the encoding in kmail to get the correct caracters. I don't know if this is rather a problem of the sender or of kmail not identifying the encoding correctly (the setting is set to "auto-detect". Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch to Unicode
On Monday, 6. August 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Where do you set KMail to do "auto-detect"? As far as I can tell, > KMail always obeys the encoding specification given in the mail > itself, and probably only in the absence of that tries to do some > autodetection. You seem to be right - I've checked on a series of mails and this setting does change - seems to quite often be on "autodetect", though... > What exactly these "Fallback encoding" and "Override encoding" do in > Settings > Configure KMail > Appearance > Message window, I haven't > been able to figure out. > > Benno Dunno either. I've tried different choices but it does not ssem to change anything. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] ACPI problem on Compaq
Hello, I've got an older Compaq EVO D510 desktop that I was thinking to setup as a lab machine (that should be also used by people who basicaly have no Linux knowledge). I've installed Gentoo on it and it works well but for one thing: When I want sto shut it down, it reboots! This happens as well from KDE as from the command line with "shutdown -h now": the machine does shut down, then auto-reboots. I've thought it might be linked to ACPI - so I added noacpi acpi=off (I don't know why but it seems I need both to make grub understand) and now it shuts down and stpos, but does not turn off... and if I push the power button, it reboots. Just now I'm thinking I should look if APM is compiled into the kernel, I did a genkernel all so I assume it is. Any idea as to what other possibilities exist to tell that machine just to shut down and turn off? Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI problem on Compaq
On Monday, 13. August 2007, Tim wrote: > > Have you tried just using 'init 0' rather than 'shutdown -h now'? > (...) > > I'd say check in your BIOS to see what power options there are - some > BIOSes can change the action on receiving a power button signal. Thanks for your suggestions. Init 0 did not seem to make a change, then I looked at all the BIOS options and turned off some settings that were on, or reverse - not always understanding what they were to do. Now it seems to work correctly. Perhaps it was a setting that said the power button should wake the computer? Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] dhcp connect problem
Hello, Trying to show that we could use Linux in our chool, I am trying to connect a machine per wifi to a rather Macintosh oriented network. I know I can connect from a (PC) laptop running Mac OS, and the Linux machine is so far that I know the card works and I can see the network. It's an open network (no wep) as the students should be able to connect as well. The problem is that I don't get an IP, and it seems I don't get the access point either (both are probably linked). If I run net-setup it fonds the card and configures it by simply asking if i use DHCP, but that info obviously is not enough. I very nood when it comes to DHCP, as my local network uses fixed IP and I had no problem connecting to it with the same machine. I've found a lot of infos as to how to tell which channel or which network I want to connect to, but I can't solve this "no IP, no AP" problem. If anyone can give me a hint I'd be glad. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: Intel quad vs duo
On Monday, 24. September 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > I'm getting close to buying the parts for my new machine (see earlier msgs) > & an Intel quad-core mentioned by a helpful responder > has now come down almost within my price range. > The CPU I have been contemplating for some weeks is > an 'Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 4 MB 65 nm 2,67 GHz', which sells for CAD 225 , > but there is now 'Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 8 MB 65 nm 2,4 GHz' for CAD 305 > ; the 8 MB cache in the latter divides into 2 x 4 MB / pair processors. > Prices continue to drop weekly & should go lower with our higher CAD. > > My guess is that even a dual-core CPU wb overkill for my simple desktop, > but I'm keen to get value for money in a machine intended to last to 2011 . > Does anyone have any thoughts re dual- vs quad-core processors > when used for various purposes with Gentoo ? I've got no experience with quad, but I can say this with experience: even for a desktop you feel that dual processor is better than dual core, while dual core is better than single core. It's not a matter of speed (or seldom is), it's a much smoother multitasking. As my dual core are more often stuck doing something than my dual processor, I'd tend to think that a quad core would not bring much, but can anyone confirm? Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > So my > opinion is that samsung and seagate seem to deliver (so far...), > maxtor/wd/others, it's a toss-up, and IBM==bad. Harddisks are build by the thousands, and I know of no industrial product that never has a unit go bad. I once had three Fujitsu drives dead in a week, that's bad. My experience with Samsung is excellent. Anyway, I would never trust anyone's advice if it's "I had *one* drive of XXX make, it died, so XXX is bad quality. Harddisks do die, make backups. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get OpenOffice spell checker to work?
On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Graham Murray wrote: > I have a similar problem. I have installed and selected dictionaries, > but openoffice will only allow me to select English as the language for > spell checking. I don't know what version of OOo you are using and I don't run it on Gentoo now so I don't know if there is anything special, but AFAIK you have to *install* the dictonaries from "inside" OpenOffice. You can check in your home directory (for me in .000-2.0/user/wordbook) what dictionaries are installed. Specialy check the file dictionary.lst: if your dictionary is not correctly listed, OOo will not give you the possibility to use it. For example, I have this: # 23.09.2007 09:23:16 # 23.09.2007 09:23:24 # 23.09.2007 09:23:49 DICT fr FR fr_FR DICT fr CH fr_FR DICT de DE de_DE HYPH en GB hyph_en_GB HYPH fr FR hyph_fr_FR HYPH fr CH hyph_fr_FR HYPH de DE hyph_de_DE THES en GB th_en_US_v2 THES fr FR th_fr_FR_v2 THES fr CH th_fr_FR_v2 THES de DE th_de_DE_v2 # 23.09.2007 09:29:44 DICT en US en_US HYPH en US hyph_en_US THES en US th_en_US_v2 You can either modify this file by hand, or use OpenOffice to install the missing dictionaries (these should be a macro for that on their site, or some versions had a wizard if I remeber well). Thierry
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get OpenOffice spell checker to work?
On Tuesday 19 August 2008, William Kenworthy wrote: > The gentoo build removes the wizard and uses hunspell instead. My > personal view is these suck big time and I would rather have the proper > OO ones for en_AU. What happened to the policy of not mucking with > upstream if at all possible? > > BillK Why not install the OOo tar version instead of the ebuild? Thierry
Re: [gentoo-user] weekend amusement
On Saturday 23 August 2008, Guillermo Dutra wrote: > Jajajjaja Very funny, but I have to recognize that while I was compiling > and installing gentoo trough 2 days to get the X work with kde , I > thinked seriously to kick the lcd screen or distroy the keyboard. But > now I don change it!!!. WHat I try to explain to non-linux users is that you can both push your blood pressure up on one partition and get wiped on another to get it down again . Thierry
Re: [gentoo-user] splitting videos?
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 23:28, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >My 14 year old asked if there is a simple app in portage that would > allow him to chop an existing video into a couple of pieces? I guess > he wants to upload something to You Tube but it's either too long or > too large. > >I expect it would be good if you could say 'chop this into 2 pieces > at 4 minutes in', etc. > > Thanks! > > - Mark Hi, Probably kino might do - not sure what formats it will take as input. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Lost nameserver
Hello, I'm in the process of compiling a new system using 2006.1 (minimal install/amd64). My only problem at the moment is that every time I start the system the nameserver information has diseapeared from /etc/resolv.conf. There is a text line saying that the file was "created by the net scripts" so I guess resolv.conf gets re-created at each boot, but I don't find in which "net script" I should pour the nameserver information so that it gets into resolv.conf each time. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost nameserver
On Friday 09 March 2007 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:30:51 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > There is a text line saying that the file was "created by the net > > scripts" so I guess resolv.conf gets re-created at each boot, but I > > don't find in which "net script" I should pour the nameserver > > information so that it gets into resolv.conf each time. > > /etc/conf.d/net > > Set dns_servers_eth0 (or whatever is correct for your network interface). > > It looks like the system is currently trying to set them by DHCP but your > DHCP server is not giving out DNS information. Thanks, I'll try that. As a matter of fact my DHCP server can't give out DNS information as I have no DHCP server and use fixes IPs :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost nameserver
On Friday 09 March 2007 18:50, Dan Farrell wrote: > > In that case, you may not want to use DHCP to configure your devices ; ) I don't use it (or at least I never intended to). I've set up a network configuration with fixed IPs and copied the configuration files as instructed in the handbook - well, maybe I made a mistake somewhere... Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost nameserver
On Friday 09 March 2007 21:57, Dan Farrell wrote: > In all likelihood, you didn't edit /etc/conf.d/net for one of your > network interfaces, which ifplugd then tried to bring up. you may want > to change /etc/conf.d/rc. Yes, I did edit /etc/conf.d/net. Actually everything works correctly (I get the correct IP on the correct card and the gateway is also correct). the only thing that does not work is that I have no dns setting so I can't download the sources to install. I can add "nameserver " in /etc/resolv.conf but it's gone at the next reboot. I've now added dsn_servers_eth0 in /etc/conf.d/net and I'll see next time if I get the dns right. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost nameserver
On Friday 09 March 2007 23:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Have you read /etc/conf.d/net.example? This part may apply here: Hum, no, I did not - I blindly followed the handbook > # NOTE: Setting any of these will stamp on the files in question. So if you > # don't specify dns_servers but you do specify dns_domain then no > nameservers # will be listed in /etc/resolv.conf even if there were any > there to start # with. That's It! However, this must have changed more or less recently, as I never had the problem with my older Gentoo install (based on the 2005 version). Thanks a lot, next time I'll take the time to read the example. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Updating the system fails
Hello, I've a somewhat old system (it was installed with 2005.1 at the time) that I wanted to try updating. However, emerge --update --pretend world thows an awfull lot of blocking packages, mostly x11-something, but including KDE, java and others. There is no question of unmasking all these packages, as has been suggested in another thread for one blocking package. Is there a way to say "try to upgrade all you can and we'll if it works" or does it simply mean the system is screwed beyond repair and a new install is the only hope? Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] network trouble
hello, I'm trying to install on a Gigabyte M61PM-S2. that card works well, but uses some chipsets that are only supported in the latest kernels. Network is such a chipset, it's an nvidia nForce 430 chipset that "uses" a Realtek RTL8211 PHY that, apparently, does not require drivers (if I understand it rignt it's the nvidia part that has drivers. Now the problem I don't understand: I've installed from the 2007.0 minimal install CD, using a stage 3. net-setup finds the card and configures it. It says it uses the forcedeth module. And it works perfectly, with fast downloads. After compiling a kernel (I've used genkernel) and a succesful reboot I have the following situation: the forcedeth module is loaded revolv.conf and /etc/conf.d/net seem to be OK. They look just the same as those on my other machine running Sabayon. If I ping the local IP there is no problem but I can't ping any computer on my network, nor can I ping my gateway It can't be the crad itself, as it works when I use the install CD. So where should I look to find the answer? Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] network trouble (solved)
On Saturday 16 June 2007 22:55, Xavier Parizet wrote: > Coud you provide us the output of dmesg according forcedeth module (dmesg > |grep forcedeth), route -n, ifconfig ethX and /etc/conf.d/net ... I could, but this is no more necessary On Saturday 16 June 2007 23:20, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > A guess from what I have read on another list: You have a conflict because > both drivers (modules) are loaded, the RLT one and forcedeth. If you remove > the RLT module, does is work? > > Uwe > Your guess was wrong, Uwe, but it did help me get on the right track. There is no RTL driver for that chip but... looking another time at the output of lsmod and getting the ansers to Xavier's demands I realized that I the system said that eth0 did not exists - but gave it an IP anyway. SO I wondered who could be stealing my eth0 and sure enough, it was eth1394! So although I did configure the ethernet card as eth0 during install, after reboot the firewire port took eth0 and the nforce card became eth1... So now I have put a (useless) config for eth0 in /etc/conf.d/net (perhaps I could remove it, but I don't know) and tranfered my settings on eth1, and I got my network back. Thanks you both for your help! Now is time to start emerge kde and go to bed! Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerging blockes by non-existing (?) ebuild
Hello, I'm in the process of emerging kde-meta. However, the process is stopped by the kopete ebuild that says I should reemerge x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=opengl. Now emerge --pretend does not return anything that looks like qt-3, neither does emerge --search. In any case, what I would like is to simply say "forget about kopete", as I don't need or use that thing. Is there a way top do thsi? Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging blockes by non-existing (?) ebuild
On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:39, Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Sunday 17 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do following: > > 1) in /etc/portage/package.use add this: > > x11-libs/qt-3* opengl > > =x11-libs/qt-3* opengl > > Is more likely to succeed, I think. > > /PA Thanks to all! I had added the use flag (in make.conf because I do want opengl), what I had missed was the "=" in front of the package name. Too long since I last installed gentoo, I guess. Thanks for the quick help. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound
Hello, I've managed to emerge the gentoo base, X and KDE and all are running fine. My last problem is sound. After several attemps (with the kernel ALSA module and ALSA-driver), I've got my SB Live correctly loaded with ALSA Driver - at least there is no error message. I didn't load any module explicitely. The system loads emu10K1-gp However, I have no sound. The KDE control center does show options for midi on the SB Live 5.1, I've unmuted everything I could in alsamixer, kmix shows there is a sound device there. But kinfocenter says there is no information about the sound device, and when I start Amarok, it says there is "no suitable demux plugin". Everything has been compiled with the arts and oggvorbis flags, and I did an emerge -e word to ensure everything had been compiled with the actual flags. What am I missing? Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote: > Hey Mark, > > Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes > when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I > have to find a new distro, where will I go? Is Debian the only other > meta-distro out there? It's not exactly thriving is it? Is the > meta-distro concept perhaps flawed? The thought of installing the > latest Ubuntu release, wading through a bunch of software I'll never > use, and waiting for the next big release before anything is updated > makes me wanna throw up. > > - Grant I hope I'm not too of-topic. I've never been able to bring friends to try out Gentoo. Tell them they'll be working for days to get a cli distro working... if they get there, setting up X is sure to be the end of the experiment. What I mean is: Gentoo is for experimented users, and those who'd like to become experimented. I consider myself not to be a noob anymore, after 8 years of using Linux, but my last gentoo install still waits to get finished. I tried to get sound, and that crashed the nvidia module, and now I don't have time to cure that. Now, on the next partition, I have installed Sabayon. It's bloated OK, it's not compiled for my machine OK, but I had it up and running in an hour. I still have to test the idea of installing Sabayon, modifying make.conf and emerging world to see what happens. I think the future of Gentoo could be that: an "easy install" for the mass, and he opportunity for the geeks to tweak that install or directly go for the total customisation. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about Sabayon on this list, just as if the "real" Gentoo users feel it's a treason. Thierry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] xorg is unable to detect mouse
Now I love Gentoo as a distribution, but the way to setup X *must* be improved! I have just finished installing on an older Athlon with a Nvidia 2mx graphic card. Xorg -configure just fails: it says it can't detect my mouse (it's an IBM ps/2 trackpoint). xorgconfig gives an unusable config. In the end, the solution was to use xorgconfig, then boot a knoppix CD, copy the xorg.conf to the gentoo installation. Now it works. I wonder that such a superb distribution has no sensible way to setup X in a time when most others "just work". I think there is an urgent need for development in this area. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?
On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:25, Alan wrote: > I'm not sure I tried to install OS/2 under VMWare a while back and > at the time VMWare didn't support OS/2 (something about the memory > management or something). Not sure if this has changed in the 5.x > series or not, but it's something to check. No, VMWare does not support OS/2 (a beta version did, but they stopped the development long ago). However, Parallels does, and it's a lot less expensive. I have eComStation working in a Parallels VM here. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - simple video editing software
On Sunday 17 December 2006 04:34, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Can anyone suggest a simple, easy-to-use software package for light > editing of video files (cutting commercials out of MythTV recordings). > I tried to use avidemux, but it went into an infinite loop when I tried > to save the file after editing. bugs.gentoo.org suggests to me that a > fix isn't coming. I need an alternative... you might take a look at kino, I think it ca do this sort of things. Or I seem to remember about a work in progress names "lives" I think that wanted to be some sort of an open source iMovie, but I did not follow the progress. I must admit that I have given up on Linux video editing for the time and do that on Mac OS... :( Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw
On Monday, 23 January 2006 21:15, Simon Kellett wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming ! > > > > Basic stuff. Not into games, and I don't watch movies on my computer > > either. > > Same as me then: I just bought the cheapest card with an nVidia chip, > AGP8 and DVI out at my local computer shop: ASUS V9400-X/TD / NVIDIA > (GeForce4) MX 4000 / 64Mb (but I only use 1280x1024). 39 Euros > now. Works for me :-) You don't need a very fast card to watch movies. My Thinkpad T23 runs Xine very well with a Savage IX. I'd like to try X-Plane on Linux though - so I'm going to give a 6600GT a try. Did not have good experiences with ATI however. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw
On Monday, 23 January 2006 22:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Resolution is 1680 x 1050. I do need to make sure the 6600 can do this > with the Linux driver. Here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15118735 I read: Is it possible to have 1680*1050 displayed under Linux? Yeah, I have a nVidia 6600 GT and a Dell 2005FPW and it works perfectly. and here: http://forum.hardware.fr/hardwarefr/OSAlternatifs/MDK10-xorg-geforce-6600gt-sujet-44968-1.htm on a french list, I found this Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable (server abort) #DontZoom # disable / (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 1280x1024" HorizSync 31.5-67 VertRefresh 50-75 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480"65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1280x800 ModeLine "1280x800" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848 # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1680x1050 ModeLine "1680x1050" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103 # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1920x1200 ModeLine "1920x1200" 230 1920 1936 2096 2528 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" Driver "nvidia" Option "NvAgp" "1" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection It seems it did work, and these messages are dated December 2004. >From various messages it appears that some users had no problems and other did have many. However, it looks to me that the 6600 GT does support 1680x1050. If you're not interrested in gaming, you might settle for a 6600 (not GT), they are slower & cheaper but should otherwise be compatible. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup
On Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:02, Paul wrote: > Hi all, > Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config > files were updated. However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get > an error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not running" In > the control Centre - Service Manager under startup Services the KDED Media > Manager has a status of Not Running. If I try to start it manually I just > get a message saying Unable to start service. > > I just don't know what to try next - any suggestions? > > Thanks > Paul Not sure if this will help, but I got the same problem after emerging world on my 32bit Gentoo. I did not try downgrading HAL and re-emerging kdebase did not help. After further reading I got to understand that KDE Mediamanager mostly (only?) is in charge of automagicaly mounting media - a feature I've been fighting ever since it appeared, partly because I'm old-fashioned (I prefer the "I mount it because I want it approach) and partly because some programs I use did not react well to it (including untidy unmounts on external medias). All this to say I solved the problem very easily: Control Center -> KDE components -> Service Manager -> unselect Media Manager. This prevents the error message, but of course, if you WANT the media manager, this is not the solution :) -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems
Hello, I've been installing Gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43 and, while I've been able to get a mostly working machine, I need some help for fine tuning: First (but not very important): I can't get the system to use a domain name. The domain name is correctly written in /etc/conf.d/domainname, but typing domainname returns (none). I can set the domainname with domainname "name of the domain" but this does not survive a reboot ?! Second, I can't set the power managment in KDE's Control Center because "ACPI was probably enabled, but some of the sub options were not". I used Genkernel without using --menuconfig so I checked and it looks like everything has been compiled as modules. Now my question is: should I recompile a kernel with the ACPI options compiled into the kernel, or load the modules? Thanks for any hint, Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems
On Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:34, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > From the manpage: > domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name > dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name > nisdomainname - show or set system's NIS/YP domain name > ypdomainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name > Notice the difference between the first two lines? ;-) If you set right > variables in /etc/conf.d/domainname then add domainname to the boot > runlevel with "rc-update add domainname boot". Well, no this does no seem to work. setting DOMAINNAME= doesn't change anything (and the handbook says I should set the DNSDOMAIN variable). ANd rc-update returns "domainname allready installed in runlevel boot; skipping" > > > Now my question is: should I recompile a kernel with the ACPI options > > compiled into the kernel, or load the modules? > > If you have the modules then load them in > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 I'll take a look at that tomorrow > > Cheers, > Renat Thanks, Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?
Hello, I'm running an amd64 Gentoo (but this is not a specific amd64 question) and have installed a few ~amd64 masked packages - and some work amzingly well. So I googled for information as to where I might report success, so that they might be unmasked, but didn't find that info. Where - and how - should I report masked packages that work? Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21.02, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > Where - and how - should I report masked packages that work? > > You don't need to report success. There are teams of folks who 'bless' > the packages into unmasked status when they feel they are ready. > > Your lack of reporting a bug is an indication that there is nothing to > block the package from being promoted. Thanks. Does not seem to me to be the best solution, though: if a package is masked, many users won't install it, so what's the absence of bug report indicating? In my case, the funny thing is: DVDRIP is not masked and does not work. Acidrip is masked and works like a charm. Let's hope that the blessing folks find out. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 23.12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In my case, the funny thing is: DVDRIP is not masked and does not work. > > Acidrip is masked and works like a charm. > > Is the DVD:Rip ebuild doing something incorrectly, or is it just a poor > package from upstream? In the former case, please file a bug at > bugs.gentoo.org. In the latter, a bug can be filed, but it's more likely > to get attention in upstream rather than at bugs.gentoo.org. I had to emerge with -gnome because of a compile problem with gnome-print. Now I can start dvdrip but it remains stuck at scanning the transcode codecs... I had no time yet to investigate further. I'll take a look at ANDREW. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22.32, Mike Myers wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I'm trying to find something that I can use to rip and then remake > DVDs. I have some japanese dvds that won't play on almost any regular > dvd players because of the stupid region thing. K3b didn't seem to have > anything for doing that, so I tried dvdrip/dvd::rip. Whenever I run > dvdrip, it just goes to the next line and says "[filterlist] > (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode..." and sits > there for as long as I let it without actually doing anything. I can't > seem to find anything to skip that process or anything. > > Can somebody please recommend another tool or show me how to fix > dvdrip? I'd really like to watch these dvds from something other than > my laptop. > > Thanks a lot in advance, > Mikey Are you running an amd64 Gentoo? I have the same DVDrip problem here. My solution has been to emerge Acidrip and Mplayer - it is masked, but I have run into no problem so far, the results are as good as those I had with DVDrip/transcode and much faster. I have discovered it uses a newer codec however (FMP4) that prevents viewing the videos on older Xine install, but installing mplayer and/or vlc on those machines is a workaround. I guess it's a problem of building XIne with the right libraries but not every distribution makes it as easy as re-emerging in Gentoo. Xine on Gentoo amd64 works however. Now putting the video back on a DVD is another problem. I've been playing with DVDauthor so far but my standalone players won't play the DVDs (that do play on computers however...) Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help
On Saturday 11 March 2006 23.37, Mike Myers wrote: > I'll try that out. I'm using a laptop with a pentium M though. Then maybe it's a bug in the ebuild (either DVDrip or transcode). Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help
On Monday 13 March 2006 17.34, Chris Frederick wrote: > Mike Myers wrote: > > This is a transcode problem. There's a couple filters for transcode > that are bad. Get rid of (or rename) the > /usr/lib/transcode/filter_compare.so and > /usr/lib/transcode/filter_logo.so files. I had the same problem and I > searched the net for hours to find this, and this is what fixed it for me. > > I don't know if this is a problem with transcode, or if it's a ebuild > problem that causes those filters to hang, but I re-emerged dvdrip and > transcode several times and those files were recreated every time. > > Hope that helps > > Chris Frederick Yes, thanks, it did help. However, now that I can compare, Acidrip/Mplayer is much faster than DVDrip/transcode and, as far as I am concerned, the results are not worse. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21.13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody. > To-day I installed kdebase using "emerge kdebase". > But the installed version was 3.4.3. > Is it right? Did not KDE reach 3.5 version? > > emilio I did not sync recently but (on my amd64 machine) emerge --pretend =kde-3.5.0 shows the package are still masked with keyword. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] default gateway problem
Hello, I had tried Gentoo two years ago and now I'm back after some time using a Debian derivate (is still my main system for the time being). I spent quite a time emerging and compiling from a stage 2 and most things seem to work well. There are two little things that don't work just the way I'd like however and I could not figure out how to cure them so far: - I have a Ti4200 Nvidia card. I compiled my kernel with genkernel --configure and (I think) did everything required to have framebuffer support but I can't get a splash screen to work. Well, that's not important so I go for a text boot, no problem, but I'd love to have a good information about framebuffers anyone know where I should look? - my main problem was that, while my netwrok would start OK, the default gateway would not be set, I had to do it by hand. The informations I found were about /etc/conf.d/net but this file seems ok: config_eth0=( "192.168.1.31 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) route_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.1.51" ) other sources talked from an /etc/conf.d/route , but that file does not exist and I have no clue as to its syntax. What I did now was to add he following into local.start: route add default gateway But I think this is not the best way to do. Were should I put that default gateway information so that it works? Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] default gateway problem
On Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:30, John Jolet wrote: > I do it in the /etc/conf.d/net. "default gw 192.168.0.1" is the entry and > it goes in fine. however, the entry I have is "routes_eth0" not > "route_eth0". Thanks, that was it - I must have made a typo... Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 & Nvidia
On Monday, 7 November 2005 22:31, Peper wrote: > > Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? > > I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 : > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialise NVIDIA kernel module! > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** aborting *** > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration > > Have you really tried running /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh > as root before starting xorg? > > -- > Best Regards, > Peper I did. It worked. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DVD:rip problem
Hello, I'm using DVD:rip on a Mepis/Debian installation with no problem. I don't remeber exactly the versions of DVD:rip and transcode, but it just plain works. On my new Gentoo install DVD:rip starts OK, but then all goes wrong: ripping fails with message "could not read this frame", then transcode simply won't work with any codec (but this may just mean it can't handle what's been ripped). Ad mentioned, ripping and encoding works with Mepis (same DVD, same drives, same hardware). Any idea what could be wrong? Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is cups crap?
Hello all, I am trying to configure a small network (two desktops and a notebook) to share printers. Desktop 1 runs Gentoo and has a B/W Laserjet on LPT1 Desktop 2 runs OpenSuSE 10.0 and has a color Laserjet on LPT1 The Notebook is a Thinkpad runing OpenSuSE 10.0 nad has no printer attached. Both printers are intalled on their computers and work fine... localy On the Gentoo computer I have managed to intall the color Laserjet in Cups (connecting though localhost:631). The interresting thing is that I can print a test page from the KDE printer manager on either printers, but the very same test fails from localhost:631 with the message "you don't have access to the resources on this server" (?!). Anyway, from this computer everything works, which is the most improtant to me. Now to the two SuSE computers. Desktop 2 shares it's printer but can't see the B/W laserjet on Desktop 1. Neither can the Notebook - but it can print on the color printer. I can print the test page on the color printer, but I can't set a root password for cups (unable to open passwd file: Permission denied ; and I _was_ root!). On the notebook lppasswd works. On Gentoo I get the message: "lppasswd: failed to backup old password file: No such file or directory" The B/W Laserjet does show up, but it's not usable, and on the other computers I even have ghost printers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). On the Notebookand Desktop 2 the Laserjet 1300 is seen as "Printer State: idle, accepting jobs" but there is no url and trying to print a test page either gives "you don't have access to the resources on this server" (Desktop 2) or "Test page sent" but nothing is ever printed. >From the KDE printer manager Notebook can print on the color Printer attached to Desktop 2 but does not have access to laserjet on Desktop 1, while Desktop 2 (from localhost:631) is forbidden to use Laserjet 1300 but can print on it's own local printer.. Now, appart from the fact that three recent installations of cups work in three different ways (so I must confess I'm quite lost), and the fact that all three cupsd.conf files are mostly the same, How can I make the Gentoo computer share its printer ?? Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 23.29, Mick wrote: > On 19/04/06, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shouldn't be that difficult. For example to print from Desktop2 to > > printer on Desktop1 go to your Print Manager on Desktop2 and add > > printer: > > Printer Type: IPP Printer > > URI: > > ipp://IP_address_of_desktop1:631/printers/Your_printer_name_on_desktop1 > > > > That should be it I think. Did not seem possible... but I'll take a second look > Also, don't forget to configure the firewall to allow access to the > respective boxen. It may be that you eventually configure CUPS > correctly and then your firewall blocks it. Best to switch it off if > in doubt during your trials. > -- > Regards, > Mick I have no firewalls - the network has a firewall on the router/gateway so no computer runs a software firewall. Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23.18, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Hi, > > OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has > already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to > working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this > happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather > than later too. > > I want to be able to back her drive up to a CD, the whole thing even if > it takes a few CDs. When it dies again, I want to be able to put in the > first CD and it boot and reinstall everything from there with little > interaction from me. > > Is there such a creature? Please tell me it is free. I'm used to Linux > remember. > > I can't believe I let her spend almost $200.00 on that crappie OS. < > hangs head in shame > She a great person in all other respects though. > I just have to keep working on this area. > > Thanks > > Dale I've done that on Laptops (you know, those thingies that come with crap pre-installed) in order to put that back if I sell them later... I know if two ways that (might) work: a) dd - you might have to shrink the partition first or try 7zip to make it smaller later. You'll also need a pertition to store the file. I would do it from some live distro (Mepis or Knoppix or so). You can then put it back the other way round, but you may have to reinstall Windows first to gat a working mbr. b) Paragon Partition Manager. It is _not_ free unfortunately but it's good value for money. Get the CD iso image (the fools distribute it as an *.exe file!), burn it and boot. Amongst other things it will let you resize the partition (if required) and backup/archive it, if you want directly on CD or DVD. Note the software runs on a linux boot cd. As I said, it's not free ($50) - but you can get a free demo here: http://www.partition-manager.com/ and test it. Might save your ass some day. -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Card reader weirdness
Hello, I've got an usb multi-card reader. The device does work, however since I run Gentoo it behaves a little different than before. Previously the reader would be indentified on boot (usually reserving /dev/sda to /dev/sdd). I set up those drives in /etc/fstab and created devices on the desktop to mount them as user. Since using Gentoo the reader apparently is not seen on boot (if no card is plugged in). When I plug a card in and try to mount it I get an error message (no such device). However, if I open a shell, fdisk the device, quit fdisk and close the shell, I can mount the card... So my guess is that I am missing a small something in my setup but I can't find what. Note that this is annoying, not much more :) Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader weirdness
On Sunday 07 May 2006 09.32, Walter Dnes wrote: > I have *EXACTLY* the same situation, and I figured out what was > causing it, and I came up with with a workaround; I wouldn't call it a > perfect solution. (...) Thanks a lot for your report. I'll check what I did, I don't remember if I compiled the drivers as modules or not. It's interresting that you also have an AMD64 board. I run a Tyan Tiger K8W. Maybe this has to do with some chipset? Or is it Gentoo-based? I'll test the new SuSE when it is released and then I have some comparison. Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader weirdness
On Sunday 07 May 2006 10.59, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Sounds like you might be missing a module on startup , try adding > "usb-storage" to the module autoloading script for your kernel. Hello Ognjen and thanks for your suggestion. I'm ashamed it really was that simple. I just thought usb-storage was loaded, I was wrong. i only did a few test just now but it looks like it did cure my problem. Have a nice day, Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound
On Sunday 14 May 2006 16.21, Tito Valentin wrote: > Hello All, > > I can't seem to get sound working. I compiled the kernel so sound > support and also installed the alsa drivers and still no luck. When I > boot the machine I get a lot of snd errors saying that it failed to load > the drivers. When I look in /var/log/messages I get this: > http://pastebin.com/716831 > > When I try to play an mp3 with xmms I get these errors: > > failed to open audio ouput: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Message: device: default > Message: fmt 5, channels: 2 > > ** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: No such > device > ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function > snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device > ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat > returned error: No such device > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name > ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer > returned error: No such device > ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device > ALSA lib pcm.c:2146:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default > > ** WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default): No > such device > xmms-mad-Message: failed to open audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin > > My alsamixer volumn settings are unmutted. > > Also I seem to have the correct links for audio: > > > tito ~ # ls -l /dev/dsp* ; ls -l /dev/audio* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 405331968 May 14 10:04 /dev/dsp > crw-rw 1 root audio14, 19 Oct 19 2005 /dev/dsp1 > crw-rw 1 root audio14, 35 Oct 19 2005 /dev/dsp2 > crw-rw 1 root audio14, 51 Oct 19 2005 /dev/dsp3 > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 20 Oct 19 2005 /dev/audio1 > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 36 Oct 19 2005 /dev/audio2 > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 52 Oct 19 2005 /dev/audio3 > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 7 Oct 19 2005 /dev/audioctl > > I don't know what else to do...any thoughts? > > Thanks, > Tito Hello, I don't know if I missed a previous message, but you give no clue as to what hardware you have. It seems you have no sound card installed. Either you did not compile the appropriate module, or it is not getting loaded. You should load the module for you card manualy (e.g. modprobe ), chechk that it works then add it in /etc/modules.autoload.d/. Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get sound
On Sunday 14 May 2006 19.31, Tito Valentin wrote: > Thierry, > > Here is what my sound card is based on lspci: > > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I can add the card manually when I do: > > # modprobe snd > > But after that, if I play something I get the following error: Take a look in /lib/modules//kernel/sound/pci and try to load some of the modules you find there. Your card seems to be AC97 compatible - however I found mails with mixed problems/success messages for various distribution. One thin I have seen as well was that it seemed to work with OSS better than with ALSA, I don't know if that's true. I've got a 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 family) and it runs using the snd-intel8x0 driver. Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core
Hello, Having got a virgin dual core (Intel D 805) I'm about to install Gentoo on it. I was wondering what would be best. If I understand it right, I could compile an x86_64 version, but I was thinking it would be more compatible to stay with the 32bit for now. Any experience? Thierry -- Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core
On Thursday 27 July 2006 14.41, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Having got a virgin dual core (Intel D 805) I'm about to install Gentoo > > on it. I was wondering what would be best. If I understand it right, I > > could compile an x86_64 version, but I was thinking it would be more > > compatible to stay with the 32bit for now. > > How much RAM do you have or need or will need? > > Alexander Skwar > -- > It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to > do, that makes life blessed. > -- Goethe I've got 2 GB and it will (have to) stay so Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core
On Thursday 27 July 2006 15.10, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > I've got 2 GB and it will (have to) stay so > > Okay, so you won't need one of the main features of 64bit machines - > larger addressable space of RAM. > > Will you do number crunching with floating point numbers or with > large integers? > > If not, then you won't use those advantages either. Somebody correct > me, but if you want to WORK with this machine (ie. not fiddle), I'd > suggest to stay 32bit. Or what advantages would 64bit provide? > > Alexander Skwar Thanks, that's more or less what I thought. No the machine is a bit of an "accident" (I bought the wrong CPU for another board and then decided to build a machine to see what "dual core" really brings) so, if I keep it, it will do "Work" and may be also a little "game" :)) The "dual core" seems to give more "bogomips" than my main machine (a dual Opteron, and that one runs a 64 bit OS) but I'd like to see how this translates in everyday life. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mount and write ntfs (natively)
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm seeing stuff on line that indicates it is now possible to write to > ntfs formated disk from linux (at least semi-reliably). > > I'd like to delete a few directories and files that the windows xp OS > sees as `system files' and will not allow them to be deleted. (...) > > Can anyone guide me on this? AFAIK because it's "semi-reliable" most (every?) distribution does not activate write acces on NTFS. I do also have a Windows installation for Video Processing. I went another way and purchased xplite (www.litepc.com) that gives you access to many more control than just deleting system files. Note that I imagine that most things could be managed if we knew what to change where in the registry, but I don't want to digg into that. Thierry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
