[gentoo-user] how to use fonts installed in the printer

2008-10-02 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. Years ago when I was using Windows there are several fonts always have a printer symbol with them, if I use these fonts, says the Windows manual, they are printed using the font installed in the printer. These fonts are usable in almost all applications, e.g. Word Pad (before was "writer") a

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Joseph
On 10/02/08 08:05, Grant wrote: I have this: # lspci 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) but from ifconfig I only have eth0. Can anyone tell me how to investigate thi

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse start -> crash

2008-10-02 Thread Wu Xiaolin
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:44 AM, András Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm not sure this is right place to ask... but I try. > > So my gentoo is freshly installed and I want to start eclipse. > Eclipse is installed from portage (3.2.1-r3) another eclipse is > downloaded eclipse.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, �Q� wrote: You didn't need this. It's for third-party e-builds, but you aren't using a third party e-build. The zip file came from Sun, but the ebuild is in the Gentoo portage tree. Ebuilds are just scripts which portage uses to build the packages. In this case, the ebu

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Dale wrote: You got the file downloaded right? Put the file, with the new name, in /usr/portage/distfiles then emerge it. It will see the file was downloaded and placed there then emerge it like any other package. You shouldn't need a overlay for that. At least I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-10-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 03 Oktober 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My first install of Gentoo, and I'm pleased by how far I've progressed on > my own, not being a programmer or computer person, but I'm a bit wary of > proceeding further without advice. > > I was trying to emerge some several files which had a

[gentoo-user] Re: First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-10-02 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:08:16 + (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first install of Gentoo, and I'm pleased by how far I've > progressed on my own, not being a programmer or computer person, but > I'm a bit wary of proceeding fu

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-10-02 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My first install of Gentoo, and I'm pleased by how far I've progressed > on my own, not being a programmer or computer person, but I'm a bit > wary of proceeding further without advice. > > I was trying to emerge some several files which had a dependency on > java-sdk-doc

[gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My first install of Gentoo, and I'm pleased by how far I've progressed on my own, not being a programmer or computer person, but I'm a bit wary of proceeding further without advice. I was trying to emerge some several files which had a dependency on java-sdk-docs. Below is the message from em

[gentoo-user] Re: CF and Gentoo

2008-10-02 Thread James
Simon gmail.com> writes: > Best method I now which is near effort-less, but requires preparation is to > setup your drive initially as a RAID-1 mirror but force it to have only one > drive (if you don't want it mirrored all the time). > Thanks for all of the input. I have a severe knee inju

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-compatible wifi GUI?

2008-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:58:02 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Knetworkmanager takes care of the config, using KDE's wallet to store > > WEP/WPA passwords. However, I've recently started using wicd instead > > of knetworkmanager. For one thing, it automatically reconnects when > > you lose and regain the sign

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-compatible wifi GUI?

2008-10-02 Thread Mick
On Thursday 02 October 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:06:48 +0200, Erik Hahn wrote: > > > BTW: I prefer KDE, if this is relevant. > > > > There's network-manager, it uses it's own config files, though. > > Knetworkmanager takes care of the config, using KDE's wallet to store > W

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS can't print--RESOLVED

2008-10-02 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [gentoo-user] CUPS can't print > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 12:31 PM > Hi group, > > This printer, HP Laserjet 4 plus, works fine in WinXP.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS can't print

2008-10-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:31 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > This printer, HP Laserjet 4 plus, works fine in WinXP. According to > localhost:631 the printer was set up successfully but when I tried to print a > test page the printer made some whirring noise then stoppe

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Grant
I have this: # lspci 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) but from ifconfig I only have eth0. Can anyone tell me how to i

[gentoo-user] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

2008-10-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, since I own a LG HD-LT-DT GSA-4163B bruner, which allows to burn DVDRAM discs I try to generate a setup, which successfully writes data to a DVDRAM. Everything else works fine. But writing a complete DVDRAM takes "hours". As recommended I use UDF as the filesystem of choice -- no unnessary r

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS can't print

2008-10-02 Thread maxim wexler
> > Is it possible the LED display on your LJ4 is broken, and > it's in fact > trying to display "Load A4"? Yes, 'H4' could very well be 'A4'. But now, since running emerge -C hpjis and emerge hplip, the error I'm getting is 'W2 INVALID PERS' which, according to the ambiguous error chart tap

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:16:27 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have this: > >> > >> # lspci > >> 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX > >> [Cyclone] (rev 34) > >> 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX > >> [Cyclone] (rev 30) > >> > >> b

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Adrian Pablo Ali
Grant escribió: I have this: # lspci 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) but from ifconfig I only have eth0. Can anyone tell me how to investigate this? Is th

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Grant
>> I have this: >> >> # lspci >> 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX >> [Cyclone] (rev 34) >> 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX >> [Cyclone] (rev 30) >> >> but from ifconfig I only have eth0. Can anyone tell me how to >> investigate this? > >

[gentoo-user] streaming multicast to vlc

2008-10-02 Thread James
All, I'm trying to watch a multicast stream on my Gentoo box using VLC. I've compiled VLC with the flags shown at the VLC website. However, when I try to watch a stream a window the video never appears. - I've enabled multicast in the Kernel; a wireshark capture indicates an IGMP join request is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-compatible wifi GUI?

2008-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:06:48 +0200, Erik Hahn wrote: > > BTW: I prefer KDE, if this is relevant. > There's network-manager, it uses it's own config files, though. Knetworkmanager takes care of the config, using KDE's wallet to store WEP/WPA passwords. However, I've recently started using wicd ins

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 02 October 2008 17:05:11 Grant wrote: > I have this: > > # lspci > 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX > [Cyclone] (rev 34) > 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX > [Cyclone] (rev 30) > > but from ifconfig I only have eth0. Can anyon

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:05:11 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this: > > # lspci > 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX > [Cyclone] (rev 34) > 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX > [Cyclone] (rev 30) > > but from ifconfig I only h

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-compatible wifi GUI?

2008-10-02 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:46:07PM +0100, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > The DHL man has just been & taken my MacBook away to have its ego > stroked by professionally-trained Apple engineers. I thought in the > meantime I might try living the Linux lifestyle for a few days & have > (literall

[gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Grant
I have this: # lspci 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) but from ifconfig I only have eth0. Can anyone tell me how to investigate this? - Grant

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-compatible wifi GUI?

2008-10-02 Thread Stroller
Hi there, The DHL man has just been & taken my MacBook away to have its ego stroked by professionally-trained Apple engineers. I thought in the meantime I might try living the Linux lifestyle for a few days & have (literally) dusted off my (not literarily) black & white Thinkpad. I've onl

Re: [gentoo-user] burning a dvd+r dl - when trying to play: a52: CRC check failed!

2008-10-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Oct 2008, at 11:22, KH wrote: ... I am trying to capy a DVD. Somewhere it does not work as I want it. What I did until now: #mplayer dvd:// #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/folder/moviedvd.iso #mplayer -dvd-device ~/folder/moviedvd.iso dvd:// I think that mplayer may be running DeCSS on the iso

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:41:43 -0500 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, > catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . > Traditionally, baby has been our server, but the power supply went > bad last April and I wasn't able to get i

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations

2008-10-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 08:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, > catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . Traditionally, > baby has been our server, but the power supply went bad last April and I > wasn't able to get it fixed until very r

[gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations

2008-10-02 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . Traditionally, baby has been our server, but the power supply went bad last April and I wasn't able to get it fixed until very recently. Since baby went down, camille has been our server. But n

Re: [gentoo-user] "prelink" a dynamic library

2008-10-02 Thread bzk0711
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:53:04 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hello Helmut, > I want to create a shared library, say libULIB.so, > which needs additional shared libraries, e.g. libmpfr.so and > libgmp.so . > > My users only use the functions provided by libULIB.so.

Re: [gentoo-user] burning a dvd+r dl - when trying to play: a52: CRC check failed!

2008-10-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi together, > > I am trying to capy a DVD. Somewhere it does not work as I want it. What > I did until now: > > #mplayer dvd:// > #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/folder/moviedvd.iso > #mplayer -dvd-device ~/folder/moviedvd.iso dvd:// > > I do not have any problem playing th

[gentoo-user] burning a dvd+r dl - when trying to play: a52: CRC check failed!

2008-10-02 Thread KH
Hi together, I am trying to capy a DVD. Somewhere it does not work as I want it. What I did until now: #mplayer dvd:// #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/folder/moviedvd.iso #mplayer -dvd-device ~/folder/moviedvd.iso dvd:// I do not have any problem playing the iso file this way. #du -m moviedvd.iso 8016

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse start -> crash

2008-10-02 Thread András Csányi
2008/10/2 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 1 Oct 2008, at 20:44, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> ... >>> >>> So I tried more and once xpcom problem is resolved but UTF-16.so (it >>> belongs glibc package) is. >>> I have to re-emerge glibc? >> >> You are throwing faeces at the wall and hoping that it

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse start -> crash

2008-10-02 Thread Stroller
On 1 Oct 2008, at 20:44, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... So I tried more and once xpcom problem is resolved but UTF-16.so (it belongs glibc package) is. I have to re-emerge glibc? You are throwing faeces at the wall and hoping that it sticks ... Hey! It's ART, man! Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS can't print

2008-10-02 Thread Stroller
On 1 Oct 2008, at 20:31, maxim wexler wrote: This printer, HP Laserjet 4 plus, works fine in WinXP. According to localhost:631 the printer was set up successfully but when I tried to print a test page the printer made some whirring noise then stopped and went off-line. In the LED readout on