Re: [gentoo-user] Using gentoo for a sound project

2007-02-04 Thread Christoph Eckert
> - what sound card would you advise ? I use a prosumer USB soundcard connected to my notebook. > - which open software(s) should I use to obtain a burnable file. I'd use the JACK soundserver and timemachine to do the actual recording. Even qarecord does a straightforward job. Both are simple r

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> In the case of some drivers (such as intel hd audio) I have found the > userspace drivers to be far superior to the kernel modules which gave > poor sound quality, incredibly low volume even when turned fully up, > and frequent distortion. using the alsa-driver package makes sense to get more r

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> The dmesg output (referred to by the error) is: > > snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_free_irq > snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pci_quirk_lookup > snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_request_irq > snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_free_irq > snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pci_quirk_lookup > snd_i

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?

2006-12-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
> That's a little complicated for me to play with at this time (no time > to read the man page), but I think it can solve the problem. I feel your pain, but anyway, it looks that you need to write a small shell script which does what you want. If you're using KDE, it's even possible to use DCOP

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?

2006-12-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I have a laptop with lots of documents, plus, I am writing lots of > documents. When I'm working with these files, I stop after every 2 to > 4 hours of work to save the changes, copying the updated files on a > external hard drive. http://konserve.sourceforge.net/ and > I also send them to two

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Any clue? Thank you, your device identifies itself to the kernel as human input device (HID). Many manufacturers seem to like to make their devices to behave like this. On ALSA, the module snd_usb_audio is responsible to drive your card. But as it already works, it seems to be loaded. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving installation to another HD

2006-08-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Any info needed, please let me know. * Boot from a live-CD * mount old and new drive partitions * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /mnt/NEW && tar xSpvf - ) * Drink coffee :) Worked for me more than once. ce -- gentoo-user@gento

Re: [gentoo-user] strange [ file

2006-07-25 Thread Christoph Eckert
> does any one know what could it be?¿ AFAIK it's a synonym to »test«. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 10 finger typing trainer in portage?

2006-07-01 Thread Christoph Eckert
> great! that's what I was looking for, ktouch is probably cool but > needs kdelibs, which take too long too compile :) no prob. Just ask a friend who has KDE installed to send you a tarball of his installation. :))) Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The KDE wallet

2006-06-27 Thread Christoph Eckert
> How to turn this `helpful' offer ... OFF? * Klick on it in the panel * Settings => Configure... * Disable kwallet Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-24 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Can you mention *any* advantage of fish:// over sftp:// ? sftp > supports resuming an incomplete download. I never needed this because I don't have huge files. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-24 Thread Christoph Eckert
> If you are running KDE, just use a sftp URL in Konqueror. fish:/ really is a cool thing. I use it excessively. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow PCMCIA-USB

2006-06-24 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi all, replying to myself. I just did some further tests, and today it's really fast. It seems that it needs some further circumstances that slows down the devices. So please ignore my previous post. First I should do further investigation. Weird. Thanks for all replies so far! Best regar

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow PCMCIA-USB

2006-06-24 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > What's your lspci output? here's the output of lspci. I also have appended the diff of the output of lsmod before and after plugging the PCMCIA-USB card in, and the output of tail -f /var/log/messages while replugging the device: lsmod-diff: > usb_storage31364 0 > usblp

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow PCMCIA-USB

2006-06-23 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Neil, > What do your devices show up as, /dev/sd* or /dev/ub*? as sd*, no ub* at all... > If the latter, you need to turn off the kernel option > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB at > > Device Drivers > -> Block devices >    -> Low Performance USB Block driver ...and it's switched off, I just checked it.

[gentoo-user] Slow PCMCIA-USB

2006-06-23 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi all, I just purchased a PCMCIA-USB-card to make my notebook USB 2.0 ready. I connected an external USB drive and an mp3-stick using Knoppix and was very happy because everything worked right out of the box. Making a backup of my Gentoo installation to the USB drive was a real joy :) . When

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-16 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Anyone know if iRiver's support ogg? depends on the actual device and firmware. For example, there was a firmware update for the iHP-100. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-16 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I don't have an ipod so I have no experience, but there is a 3rd > party firmware hack that replaces the ipod firmware and supports > flac/ogg/etc and adds nifty things. interesting. I'm not computer scientist, but doesn't this depend on the hardware chip in the device? Decoding ogg or even mp

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-16 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Both banshee and rhythmbox support mostly or will soon support fully > the ipod :) Apple hard and software players don't support ogg vorbis, and that's why Apple simply sucks. Sorry, I'm usually not a guy of harsh words, but take care about teh file formats you use. Will you be able to playba

Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)

2006-06-16 Thread Christoph Eckert
> What players would you recommend.  My needs are modest, a few hours > of MP3s would be enough.  My primary goal is to listen to "the > teaching company" lectures. most devices which have as a requirement Mac OS 8.6 or better simoky behave as a USB mass storage and therefore can be mounted on L

Re: [gentoo-user] sound server recommedation

2006-06-15 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I'm looking for an sound server which is widely supported and > can be easily instructed to bounce all audio traffic to a remote > machine, so I can easily switch my speaker without touching > the applications. > > Any recommendation ? maybe jackd (jackit.sf.net) with netjack? Arbitrary audio c

Re: [gentoo-user] Mono build fails

2006-05-23 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > have you ran:  revdev-rebuild thanks for the hint. It gave me lots of errors. > Maybe you have a library out of sync error going on.  I just > installed mono without any issues. Perfect. So it seems to be a problem on my particular installation. > Are you x86 or ~x86?  Are you up to dat

[gentoo-user] Mono build fails

2006-05-22 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi all, from time to time I tried to update beagle to get PDF indexing. Unfortunately it depends on mono, and I always get the same mono build error. Due to many text, I put it here: http://christeck.de/stuff/monobuilderror.txt If anyone has a wee small hint it would be great. Thanks & best

Re: [gentoo-user] New Portage browser

2006-05-16 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas > from USERS, that's why I'm posting here. as I'm a Desktop user, I'll speak up ;-) . > I've never found a program that would allow me to browse > portage categories, then packages, showing in one window description, > vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Install help

2006-04-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I think suppose I should get a graphic user interface I) think the first thing is to configure X (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). THen try startx. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa question: hw:0,0 - hw:0,1 (solved)

2006-04-15 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > Thanks Christoph & Dave for the help! > > My pleasure, glad to help.  Nice to be part of a helpful community! Seconded and thirded :) Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa question: hw:0,0 - hw:0,1

2006-04-15 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Ideas? no :) . As Dave explained, it can be that your channels in the mixer are set incorrectly. Ensure to raise master and PCM levels, and ensure PCM isn't muted. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa question: hw:0,0 - hw:0,1

2006-04-15 Thread Christoph Eckert
> beast sound # ls -l /dev/sound/ > total 0 > crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 12 Apr 15 11:07 adsp > crw-rw  1 root audio 14,  4 Apr 15 11:07 audio > crw-rw  1 root audio 14,  3 Apr 15 11:07 dsp > crw-rw  1 root audio 14,  0 Apr 15 11:07 mixer what does cat /proc/asound/cards tell? B

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa question: hw:0,0 - hw:0,1

2006-04-15 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Any pointers as to what the problem might be (very low sound in > hw:0,0) and how to switch *everything* to use hw:0,1 if hw:0,0 > remains a problem (no cure)? not sure about your device, but maybe you want to ask in the linux audio user mailing list. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox and svg

2006-04-04 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Can someone help me? AFAIR Firefox 1.5 supports SVG, but only a subset of the complete specification. I thinks that's why animations do not appear. I also created some "simple" static SVGs, but Firefoy does not display hatches in objects nor does it render text objects properly. So I conver

Re: [gentoo-user] Telephony software

2006-03-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
> somebody knows any telephony software for Linux? > I do not refer to Skype and likes, but any software that can me to > call a contact using the 56K modem and headphone-microphone. there are many, like linphone, IHU, KPhone, WengoPhone and Ekiga. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] InkScape trouble

2006-03-26 Thread Christoph Eckert
> solfire:/home/mccramer>inkscape > > Emergency save activated! > Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. > If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at > www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to > the crash, so we can fix it. zsh: abort > solfire:/h

Re: [gentoo-user] InkScape trouble

2006-03-26 Thread Christoph Eckert
>  BADABOOM! > >  That's it. not really. PLease start Inkscape from a terminal emulation and post the output. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] In search of two applikations

2006-03-26 Thread Christoph Eckert
>  Is there any backup tool, which simply copies the contents of one >  partition, which is larger than one DVD, to DVDs "as plain as >  possible" -- means copies the contents that way, that I simply can >  mount DVD #n and can easily read and copy the contents? dar.sf.net. Best regards ce -

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux design software recommendations

2006-03-26 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Does anyone have any recommendations for something similar to what > I'm describing, or had success with other software that can do some > of what I want? there's no professional CAD for linux, especially for woodworking: http://www.ribbonsoft.com/de/qcad.html A commercial solution is VariCAD,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two usb memory devices

2006-03-24 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Sure, I can put manual entries in to fix this, but, isn't that what > udev and hal/ivman/dbus are support to do, automagically? Every time > I want to use 2 usb memory sticks on any computer, my only option is > to manually edit the fstab? shouldn't it be possible to create an udev rule to give

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I am interested to know why it needs cups I once had a smiliar problem. One day later I did sync and the prob was gone (thanks to all Gentoo bug hunters and fixers BTW). Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Alsa problem

2006-03-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> So, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. I had similar problems due to some backup files in /etc/init.d/alsa.bck* It was also pulled in to build modules.conf. See if your modules.conf looks weird after a reboot, and if so, check /etc/modules.d/*alsa*, eve

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelau.php the domain is being ported to another server; seems to be a long lasting transition :) . Meanwhile, use http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user for subscription. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
[qjackctl] > Hi Christoph - yes, that was the gui I was working on.   nice app for controlling jackd (start, stop, audio connections). > Jack wont start for some reason from the CLI (I don't know why) > > Here is a transcript of the session attempt to start jackd > > audacity ~ # jackd -dalsa

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelau.php huh, I will ask on the list what's going on here. I'll let you know any result via PM. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I have ardour installed on the box, unfortunately, JACK is currently > being a jerk and giving me fits.  I tried to install the GUI > configurator for JACK, and after 4 hours of emerging the QTlibs, the > compile failed, so Im kinda banging my head on the wall right now. as soon the wall is dow

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Christoph Eckert
> wget -c http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso you can even start a download with the -c option. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux > > you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? not the backend, but the frontend, yes. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
> See list of all *installed* software. epm -ql > Browse available software that can be installed. I use packages.gentoo.org > See what version of a particular software package is installed. epm -ql | grep packagename > See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get a midi-editor working

2006-03-08 Thread Christoph Eckert
> That tutorial was > exactly what I was looking for.  With your help, I can now get > started. what about filing a feature request? BTW: There's also a Rosegarden user mailing list ;-) . Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get a midi-editor working

2006-03-07 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Anyway, have you checked for Timidity? AFAIK Timidity is a tool mainly to playback MIDI files, not to edit them. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get a midi-editor working

2006-03-07 Thread Christoph Eckert
> 1) I emerged "rosegarden" (and dependancies) successfully.  But there > was no sound and no documentation.  No "man rosegarden" and when I > hit {F1} or click on "Help", it complains about "kfmclient not > found".  I'm running Blackbox, and no, I don't want to build KDE in > all its bloated "glo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OOo2 error during save action

2006-03-06 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I post just to say "me too". I think it's something buried in user > configuration and not well updated, first time I saw those messages > was with 1.9x. Seeing that the files aren't corrupted I don't care > much. "Thirded" :) . Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sound recording software in gentoo

2006-03-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Does anyone know if the "E-MU" sound cards are well-supported in > Linux sound recording?  I still havent made up my mind which pro > audio card to invest in for the final result, but it would be nice if > the card has good support in Linux. I guess this question is better placed on linux audio

Re: [gentoo-user] sound recording software in gentoo

2006-03-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I wanted to see if there's a way to set up a home recording > mini-studio using Linux.  In Windoze, there's things like Cubase, > Ableton, Reason, Wavelab, etc...  What's available in Linux for that > purpose (recording, sequencing, mixing, sound effects), and which of > those does Gentoo have i

Re: [gentoo-user] splash screen on bootup

2006-03-04 Thread Christoph Eckert
> i had installed gentoo without splash screen on boot up (ie., > bootsplash) how can i configure now search for gensplash. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-04 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Antoine, > I believe the idea was that you can do just that - dual boot with > whatever you want for x86. I guess it depends on GRUB and if it can install so it is found by the Mac Mini BIOS. > The inverse - installing intel osx on a > non-mac machine is not going to be possible (or at lea

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-04 Thread Christoph Eckert
HI Rick, > Yes, Gentoo should run on it. > Use the plain x86 installer. that's good news :) . > The only problem might be the new type of bios that is in the intel > mac series, I'm not sure how well it is supported by linux. > > I haven't seen any positive or negative messages about running li

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel

2006-03-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi all, I'm interested in buying an Intel Mac Mini. Qestions: * Will Gentoo run on it? * If so: Which installer is the right one (sorry I'm not that familiar with processor hardware)? * Can it dual boot with the installed Mac OS? Thanks & best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] External Firewire Audio Card

2006-03-03 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I've bought an external Edirol FA-66 FireWire for HD recording. > That's fantastic, but now I want to use it with Gentoo/Linux ... > Does anybody has advices about support? freebob.sf.net Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA OSS modules not found

2006-03-01 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I have installed the alsa-driver package following the Gentoo ALSA > guide. lsmod | grep -i snd snd_pcm_oss52000 0 snd_mixer_oss 18688 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_dummy 3460 0 snd_seq_oss34560 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7040 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-01 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Sorry to just blurt right out with this... I'm in need of sound on my > unix box and kind of quickly.  I never even configure sound or want > it as a rule but now I need it to test some recording equipment on a > second winxp computer with m-audio delta-66 installed. you've ALSA installed but i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] program to create buttons and graphic text

2006-03-01 Thread Christoph Eckert
> i would like to know which program can be suited to create buttons > and graphic text to be used, for example, in web pages. Go vector and therefore Inkscape. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-25 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > I just synced argh. I also synced and the Mozilla dependency is gone. Sorry for the traffic & thanks for the help :) . Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-24 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, just wanted to install a recent version on Beagle. So I filled my /etc/portage/package.keywords as required: app-misc/beagle -pv ~x86 dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp ~x86 dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp~x86 dev-lang/mono ~x86 dev-dotnet/libgdiplus ~x86 dev-libs/gmime ~x86 dev-dotnet/gnome-sharp

Re: [gentoo-user] TwinView Question

2006-02-15 Thread Christoph Eckert
> anyways the quick answer is add 'Option "TwinViewOrientation" > "RightOf"' to your driver section. and as a note AFAIK twinview > dosn't give seperate screens, so things like :0.1 may not work. the problem remains: the external monitor is the master monitor, and this can lead to problems when

Re: [gentoo-user] TwinView Question

2006-02-15 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Does anyone see what's wrong in my xorg.conf? I have attached it this > mail. when I understood correctly, there's nothing you can do. * The TwinView Option is special for NVidia cards * This setting has nothing to do with Xinerama * X therefore only sees one card * AFAIK the external monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

2006-02-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I guess that's my problem too.  How do I know what's using OSS?  Can > I just disable it completely while leaving ALSA intact? ALSA usually emulates OSS (it's an kernel building option). You can switch it off, but unfortunately there are still a lot of apps which only can output sound via OSS

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox locks up when looking at flash

2006-02-13 Thread Christoph Eckert
> It didn't help me :( still crash soemtimes on flash movies. Sometimes > it works, but others it just locks firefox up, only way out of it is > to kill it and remove flash. Annoying, but not the end of the world. kill all apps which use your OSS audio device /dev/dsp. I guess some soundserver i

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
> How would that help udev to create the relevant special device files? as seen before, your ALSA devices are present, so it doesn't seem to be an udev problem. ALSA apps don't output sound using device files. cat /proc/asound/cards should list your cards, ls -l /dev/snd/ should show the de

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > Did you raise the > > master and PCM sliders in alsamixer -c 1? > > What does that have to do with udev not creating the special device > files? Nothing, just the default answer if there's no audio output. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-11 Thread Christoph Eckert
> The devices of interest are under /dev/sound and not under /dev/snd > > # ls -l /dev/sound > total 0 > crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 4 Feb 11 15:19 audio > crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 3 Feb 11 15:19 dsp > crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 0 Feb 11 15:19 mixer > crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 1 Feb 11 1

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-11 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and > rightly so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are > a couple of devices under /dev/snd: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/snd $ ls -l > total 0 > crw-rw 1 root audio 116,  0 Feb 11 21:14 controlC0 > crw-rw 1 roo

[gentoo-user] RR4 Linux

2006-02-06 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, did anyone notice RR4 Linux on http://www.lxnaydesign.net ? It's based on Gentoo and it has an hard drive installer; is it a cool thing to get a base Gentoo installed? Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: Default Scan Size

2006-02-06 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, sorry, not Gentoo related, but as it happens on a Gentoo box :-) : My scanner just works fine using sane/scanimage; I mainly use Kooka, a KDE frontend for scanning. Recently I tried Kopyshop for doing easy paper copies. When starting Kooka the default scan size always is set to something

Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-02-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> unsubscribe please try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. thanks, ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA issue

2006-02-01 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Sound was working - at least mpeg files were with sound. This started > with an update world somewhen during november last year. check /etc/modules.d/alsa, that's where your soundcard configuration lives. If it doesn't contain a matching configuration, enter it manually or run alsaconf as roo

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. I wanna know how interesting such a discussion is ;-))) . Please resist to develop a flame war from this topic. Better enjoy open source, regardless if it is KDE, Gnome, OSS, ALSA, OpenOffice.org or Koffice etc., simply enjoy the times we a

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
> It it totally bug-free! How boring! :) Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Michael, > My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb > digital camera - only root can do it.  michael is in the usb group. > There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which > allowed the michael user to offload pictures, but it's gone now.  How > can I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > $(ls *.jpg) > > ick! > > (incidentally, http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html#ls) I forgot to clarify that the CPU of my notebook usually is bored and waits until I move my mouse, so some ls processes can make it a bit busy :) . Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
> i have files of the type: > > duck1.jpg > duck2.jpg > duck3.jpg > > and i would like them to become: > > donald_duck1.jpg > donald_duck2.jpg > donald_duck3.jpg > > Does somebody knows a simple way to do this via shell? for i in $(ls *.jpg); do mv $i donald_$i; done Best regards ce -- gento

Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Walter, > > My machine automatically connects during boot, and this works > > great. When I shutdown the machine, I get an error that adsl > > doesn't seem to run. > >   I have a combined ADSL modem/router that logs on and coverts ADSL > into ethernet.  The only difference from ordinary LANs i

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

2005-12-29 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I am using alsa-driver-1.0.10 You don't need the alsa-driver package, except you own very recent hardware and teh kernel-built-in drivers don't support it yet. What card do you want to drive? Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

2005-12-22 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, I recently did update my machine (didn't do so for a year :) . It is likely that I messed up some things because I'm still not that familiar with portage/emerge as I should be, but I call this "learning by doing" ;-) . Today I'd ask for help concerning adsl. My machine automatically con

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags, command line and packages.use

2005-12-21 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > You are lucky this problem looked interesting to me! ;-> I'm also lucky it did ;-) . > Here is a script that will: > > 1. Scan the package database > 2. Examine the USE flags from when packages were merged, the USE > flags that the package knows about, and the current global USE flags. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] private files

2005-12-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
> I thought since I'm well familiar with tar and gzip it might be > something to tar.gz the directories and encrypt the result. What about mounting an encrypted filesystem in a file via loopback device? Once configured, it can easily be mounted like mount ~/Nothinginhere Passphrase: For backu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update world but just kde-2.5 not other versions

2005-12-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > cat /home/otherU/.xinitrc > > ## start .xinitrc > > exec /usr/kde/3.4/bin/startkde > > ## end .xinitrc this file didn't exist, so I created it and it exactly did what I needed! So thanks a bunch & best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and fstab

2005-12-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> fuser -k /media/cdrecorder was successful, thanks for pointing to > fuser will the -k option also help if a kernel lock happens on a device? Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> And all of these releases have to be carefully coordinated by the > developers, since you can't have a binary download of the new X.org > until the new KDE and GNOME builds are ready, and you have to update > all of the dependency versions for every release, because now release > -r2 of KDE-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and fstab

2005-12-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> > And is there way to very force umount media even if it claims > > device is busy and i cant figure out what process is responsible > > for that. > > Did you try fuser? I made the experience that fuser or lsof often don't help much when you have problems unmounting a device. The output is emp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/asound.state

2005-12-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Furthermore, this did not create the /etc/asound.state file? > > any other ideas? alsactl store resp. restore normally gets automatically executed on ALSA start/shutdown. If this is not the case on this particular machine, then there' s something wrong. Best regards ce -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] update world but just kde-2.5 not other versions

2005-12-13 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Shows several kde-3.5 and several kde-3.4.3 (I'm currently running > 3.4.1).  There has been discussion here about slots but I didn't > notice anyone asking about or telling about how to avoid this > unecessary double whammy. uhm. I just emerged KDE 3.4.3 and thanks to your post I just not

Re: [gentoo-user] libusb build error: FINALLY SOLVED

2005-12-11 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, sorry for the traffic, but I finally solved it by unsetting »doc« from the USE variable :) . The first time I wrote »SOLVED« I thought it would be solved - until jade got wild ;-) . Time to go to bed - thanks and good night. ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libusb build error: SOLVED

2005-12-11 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, replying to myself. I remembered two variables called WANT_AUTOMAKE and WANT_AUTOCONF. I unset them and got another error: Making all in doc make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/libusb-0.1.10a/work/libusb-0.1.10a/doc' rm -rf html mkdir html jade -t sgml -d ./we

Re: [gentoo-user] libusb build error

2005-12-11 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi all, > I'd do: >    [*] emerge -vu portage >    [*] emerge -vuDp world >           [*] if everything went OK: emerge -vuD world >    [*] revdep-rebuild --pretend >    [*] revdep-rebuild so I did. Everything went fine, until it was libusb's turn. I still get: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpa

Re: [gentoo-user] libusb build error

2005-12-11 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, > Oh !! Another thing... I suggest you to use an "automatic" update, > like "emerge -vuDp world", see what will happen, and if everything is > okay, try "emerge -vuD world". > > If you do one by one, then you'll may have packages broken, because > you don't know dependency tree by heart, so y

Re: [gentoo-user] libusb build error

2005-12-11 Thread Christoph Eckert
> OH God !!! :) ? > Haven't updated Gentoo in a year ?? Wow... I think first > thing you should do is to update portage. Portage is updated, I even synced the local tree. I didn't say I didn't update anything during this year, but I only updated the packages I was interested in (main

[gentoo-user] libusb build error

2005-12-11 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, me again :) . I'm trying to update my machine. I have never done so since I installed Gentoo last year, so I'm a bit unexperienced and ignorant about portage and emerge usage. I have updated most of the packages manually to avoid a broken system, and most are done ("only" 98 left :) . S

[gentoo-user] Ardour build error

2005-12-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, while trying to update my ardour installation, I get an error. The build seems to do fine, but then I get: scons: done building targets. ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-media-sound_-_ardour-0.99-17038.log" unlink:/usr/lib/scons/SCons/__init__.pyc open

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-10 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi Richard and Neil, > Nothing in the current portage tree depends on sys-apps/modutils, > only virtual/modutils.  And for every profile except "embedded", > virtual/modutils defaults to sys-apps/module-init-tools. thanks a lot for the help. I simply unmerged modutils and kept module-init-tool

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
> If I recall correctly, you need to unmerge modutils and emerge > module-init-tools.  One is for 2.4 kernels and the other is for 2.6 > kernels if I recall correctly.  I have done this and it worked fine. this is what I have in mind, and this is what made me careful: I get told "unmerge module-

[gentoo-user] module-init-tools vs. modutils

2005-12-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, when doing emerge --update world -pv I get a blocking dependency: sys-apps/module-init-tools (is blocking sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27) is it save on a 2.6.14.2 kernel to do emerge --unmerge module-init-tools && emerge modutils or will I run into trouble? Sorry for my ignorance, but asking go

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking USB help

2005-12-05 Thread Christoph Eckert
> What am I missing to get USB working on my laptop? Any suggestions? Is hotplug running? It should handle all module loading stuff for you. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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