Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-03-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 2020-02-15 8:48 a.m., Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, at 15:03, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL. During the boot process when it comes to the loading of MySQL it hangs. Is there a way to bypass the loading of MySQL so the computer

[gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-14 Thread Colleen Beamer
ant off of it before I wipe it? Thanks in advance, Colleen Beamer

[gentoo-user] Perseverance reaps rewards

2012-12-30 Thread Colleen Beamer
Happy New Year All, I hope you all had a happy holiday. Oddly enough, this e-mail isn't to request assistance although I did post this problem quite a while back and was not able to resolve it. Ever since I got my new desktop computer slightly over a year ago, I have been trying to set up a conn

Re: [gentoo-user] Just Testing

2012-12-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
o responses to my e-mail did not land in my Junk folder so perhaps the change in settings rectified things. Regards, Colleen > > > > Sent from my ASUS Pad > > Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Recently, I cleared out some "gentoo-user"

[gentoo-user] Just Testing

2012-12-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Recently, I cleared out some "gentoo-user" e-mail from Firefox and now it seems that Thunderbird is automatically deleting any gentoo-user e-mail when it arrives in my inbox. The address is still in my personal address book, but not in my collected address so, I'm not sure what is going on.

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird - Anyone else with this problem?

2012-05-25 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Ever since the last time Thunderbird was updated when I synced, the process does not die when I shut down Thunderbird. I have to kill it before I can start up Thunderbird again. Is anyone else experiencing this problem. Thought I would ask here before I complained to the Mozilla folks. Reg

Re: [gentoo-user] Assistance if possible

2012-03-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 03/18/12 09:32, Alex Schuster wrote: > Colleen Beamer writes: > >> Yes, I have activity manager in world, but I've unmasked all kde >> packages for version 4.8.1 and because of that, I can't get >> activitymanager installed because the latest verion for th

Re: [gentoo-user] Assistance if possible

2012-03-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 03/18/12 08:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:15:10 -0400 > Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> All of you guys that are more experienced and technical than I am will >> probably laugh at me. However >> >> Today, I wanted to up

[gentoo-user] Assistance if possible

2012-03-17 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, All of you guys that are more experienced and technical than I am will probably laugh at me. However Today, I wanted to update my computer. I got all kinds of messages related to kde stuff. One my one, I unmerged the offending packages and added the line to my package.keywords file so

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 22:19, Dale wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen >>> Beamer wrote: >>>> On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: >>>>> On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Bea

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 14:42, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: >> On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: >>> On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: >>>> On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 14:27, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Colleen Beamer >> wrote: >>> >>> On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: > On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: >> On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: >>>> On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>>> x >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >>> Reading back through this thread I don't see whether Colleen tried my > >> suggestion about

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > The associated line when you cat /etc/init.d/devfs on my system looks exactly like the line above. >>> What about fstab? An entry in there could override the openrc setting. >> Good point,

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 20:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 20:05:04 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> On 01/01/12 19:55, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:40:37 schrieb Michael Mol: >>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knec

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: >> On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> x >>> >>>> Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device? >>>> >>>> Reg

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > x > >>> >> Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device? >> >> Regards, >> >> Colleen > > mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep devpts > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > mark@c2stable ~ $ > > But I haven't a

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
ag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht: >>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer >>>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to sendin

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 19:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:10:25 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> On 01/01/12 18:48, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 18:20:55 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >>>> On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemm

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 19:01, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> >> No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to sending my >> first message. Will trying googling. Thanks. >> >> >> Colleen > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 18:48, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 18:20:55 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17:36:02 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >>>> On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemm

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17:36:02 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >>>>> What happens if you run xterm? &

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: > >>> What happens if you run xterm? >> In response, konsole was working just find earlier today - I had a >> command prompt and everything. I had to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 16:15, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> On 01/01/12 15:46, Dale wrote: >>> Colleen Beamer wrote: >>>> On 01/01/12 14:58, Michael Mol wrote: >>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 15:46, Dale wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> On 01/01/12 14:58, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen >>> Beamer wrote: >>>> On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote: >>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 a

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 15:08, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out >> how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 15:09, James wrote: > Colleen Beamer gmail.com> writes: > >> I can't type anything in the konsole window (in KDE). When I exit >> kde by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and type echo $PS1, I get output similar >> to what you have posted a

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 14:58, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: >> On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Colleen Beamer >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I se

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 14:48, Dale wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out >> how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything >> relevant. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks a

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out >> how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything >> rele

[gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything relevant. Any ideas? Thanks and Happy New Year. Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-26 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 12/26/11 14:54, Paul Hartman wrote: > On 12/25/2011 02:51 PM, CJoeB wrote: >> On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 12/25/11 16:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/25/2011 09:08 PM, CJoeB wrote: >> Happy Holidays, Everyone, >> >> To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an >> issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). >> Every once in a while, when the

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 11/27/11 16:28, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 17:04:24 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >>> Hi Colleen, >>> >>> Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer:

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 11/27/11 16:22, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: >> On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >>> Hi Colleen, >>> Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >>>> Does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 11/27/11 16:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 17:04:24 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: >>> Hi Colleen, >>> >>> Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer:

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 11/27/11 15:18, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi Colleen, > > Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011, 16:08:41 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> Hi all, >> >> I used to use ImageMagick to quickly resize images and convert from one >> format to another (jpg to png, for example

[gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I used to use ImageMagick to quickly resize images and convert from one format to another (jpg to png, for example). ImageMagick is installed on my system (installed as requirement of something else), but I'm darned if I can find an executable to run the program. There used to be one in

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-27 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/27/11 03:57, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> >> I use smplayer for mine. It's nothing fancy but it plays music. I >> clicked on the pop up and tried to play a CD with amarock, (sp?), and >> I never could get it to even play the CD. It wanted to build some >> database or something. I'm in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/22/11 15:28, Dale wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote: >>> Mick wrote: >>>> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote: >>>>> This is solved. >>>>> >>>>> The solutio

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/22/11 04:14, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: >> On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 01:19:15 Colleen Beamer wrote: >>> This is solved. >>> >>> The solution came from posting to KDE forums. >>> >>> It was a configuration issue: >>> >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
ch"for the parameter type, "Optical Disk" for the Device type, "Available Content" for the Value name and Equals Audio. That did the trick! Regards, Colleen On 10/20/11 05:32, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: > >>> If you have only o

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: > > P.S. to this message: > > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Colleen Beamer < > colleen.bea...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
P.S. to this message: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Hi Guys, > > You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw! :-) > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick wrote: > >> On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi Guys, You all must think I'm like a bear with a sore paw! :-) On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote: > > On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Coll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 13:37, Dale wrote: > James wrote: >> Colleen Beamer gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> >>> Any ideas? >> Did you check audio and cdrom (etc) in /etc/group ? >> >> and the user group permissions in general. >> >> hth, >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 11:15, James wrote: > Colleen Beamer gmail.com> writes: > > > >> Any ideas? > Did you check audio and cdrom (etc) in /etc/group ? > > and the user group permissions in general. Yes, to all. :-) Colleen -- Registered Linux User #41114

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 10:25, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wed, October 19, 2011 7:39 am, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Semi-solved. >> >> On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer >>> wrote: >>>> Hi everyone, >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 08:07, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 19.10.2011 01:09, schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to >> resolve the issue. >> >> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 05:45, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to >> resolve the issue. >> >> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio C

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 04:41, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:51, Mick wrote: > >> To listen to audio CDs you should *not* mount the CD. Therefore the above >> entry is not required. >> >> Since you are trying to use KDE apps to play CDs you ought to check that you >> have installed: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-19 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/19/11 03:51, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 04:54:02 Colleen Beamer wrote: >> On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>> cdda is one of my USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Semi-solved. On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've >> tried with kscd and Kaffeine. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/18/11 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: > >>>> cdda is one of my USE flags. I have tried upgrading phonon-gstreamer >>>> 'cause I read somewhere that the problem might be with phonon. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/18/11 19:51, Dale wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've >> tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've >> checked and rechecked

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/18/11 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Colleen Beamer > wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to >> resolve the issue. >> >> My CD drive will read data CD'

[gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi everyone, I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to resolve the issue. My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel. In /dev cdro

[gentoo-user] Issue 3 - CD Playing

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi everyone, I have googled this problem and tried everything and can't seem to resolve the issue. My CD drive will read data CD's, but will not play audio CD's. I've tried with kscd and Kaffeine. Haven't installed amarok yet. I've checked and rechecked my settings in the kernel. In /dev cdro

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue

2011-10-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 10/16/11 18:23, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 23:04:00 CJoeB wrote: >> On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote: As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the modules and dependencies are loaded. >>> Would buil

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - specifically kwin question

2011-06-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:04:15 -0400, CJoeB wrote: > > > With my new and fresh installation of gentoo and kde, I figured out that > > by right-clicking on the tab at the bottom of the terminal window and > > choosing "Rename" and selecting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-30 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, James Wall wrote: > I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the > stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine. > > James Wall > I tried doing the steps that I found in my google search as previously posted. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Colleen Beamer
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine > thusly: > > > > I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent > > > stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that wa

[gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-29 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years or more since i did a fresh install, I decided to do one. I followed the handbook - 1st run, I screwed up and missed a step, 2nd run, I was carefu

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-18 Thread Colleen Beamer
Thanks for the response. However, this has opened another can of worms and I'm bowing to the expertise of this list to help On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Colleen Beamer writes:. > > > /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet: error while loading

[gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-17 Thread Colleen Beamer
First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant - could be my stupidity, but I did try! About 6 days ago, I updated my system and since then, I can't boot into X. My nvidia driver loads okay and it looks like it is going to start X, but then reverts to the command line. I've bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 15:47:41 Colleen Beamer wrote: >> On 5/3/10, Indexer wrote: >> > On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login s

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Philip Webb wrote: > 100503 Colleen Beamer wrote: >> I can't disable my xdm login script. >> My computer boots to the login screen >> and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session. > > Yes, it happened to me long ago,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Remy Blank wrote: >> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? > > I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, > as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. > > -- Remy How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Indexer wrote: > > On 03/05/2010, at 11:01 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Hi, >> Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, >> but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I >> am supposed to enter my p

Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 5/3/10, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: > Disable your xdm login script; I can't disable my xdm login script. My computer boots to the login screen and the keyboard doesn't work so I can'l login to get a terminal session. > > Regards, > Hazen. > > > On

[gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade

2010-05-03 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, Yesterday, I updated my system. On reboot, I get to my login screen, but then everything is frozen - the cursor blinks in the box where I am supposed to enter my password, but the keyboard doesn't work and my mouse is frozen. I don't know if this has something do do with the xorg update that

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-13 Thread Colleen Beamer
Lee Davis wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo on >> the new laptop. This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel. So >> *that* is not the issue. And I'm not *that* stupid that I would repeat

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-13 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 9/12/07, Lee Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Colleen Beamer wrote: > > This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo > on > > the new laptop. This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel. So > > *that* is not the issue.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
Dan Farrell wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:01 -0400 > "Colleen Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I used fdisk - deleted all the partitions, created the new partition >> table and created file systems on them. I can read data from the >> driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 9/12/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Colleen Beamer wrote: > > So what I thought was some residual problem with > > screwing up and hitting the 'Media Direct' button wasn't really > > the problem after all. > > It might sti

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-12 Thread Colleen Beamer
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Benno Schulenberg wrote: >>> Colleen Beamer wrote: >>>> zcat /proc/config.gz > >>>> /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 >>> This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one &

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-11 Thread Colleen Beamer
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> 5) I did the step: >> >> zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-conf-2.6 > > This grabs the configuration from the running kernel (the one from > the CD you booted from), not the configuration y

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-10 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I'm still struggling with this situation Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 09 September 2007, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Google found this: > > http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm > > So it's a mini-OS type of thing to play media. It hides itself a

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Thanks Alan, Whew! You gave me a lot to respond to and it will take a bit of time since I have to run between two computer. Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 09 September 2007, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > I'll give you a verbose reply in the hopes that we can get to the root &g

[gentoo-user] Boot situation

2007-09-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, Please read this carefully. Don't take offense, I'm not insinuating that you wouldn't. It's just that I don't want to get myself into more of a pickle than I'm in! ;-( This morning as I was getting my son off to work, he got me upset about something and I walked over to my laptop and i

[gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-21 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi everyone, I'm having a heck of a time trying to get wireless going on my laptop. I've tried so many things, I'm a bit dizzy and don't know where I've gone right or wrong. First things first. lspci shows my wireless hardware as: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945

[gentoo-user] fstab question

2007-08-15 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I have a situation that, before, kind of bugged me but I was able to deal with it. However, now I've added another wrinkle to the situation. I have a usb external hard drive attached to my computer. It's an Iomega and has a power switch. In fstab it is /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 because I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Samsung 971p

2007-08-15 Thread Colleen Beamer
Danis Petkakis wrote: > hi there...i'm thinking of buying the tft monitor mentioned in the > subject of this topic and i would like to know how it comprehends > with gentoo...i'm a little confused because the monitor doesn't have > any switches to control it rather Samsung gives a software called >

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Colleen Beamer
Csányi András wrote: > Hi Collen! > > What type of nvidia-card have you? > I have older card and this works only (or older) this version of > nvidia-drivers: > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 > > nvidia card (lspci output): > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: > First, *Denis* did NOT write that Nvidia cards are crap - quite the > opposite actually. So don't anybody dare pinning this statement on me > in the future replies! ;) > No, Denis *did not* write it Colleen did and I still think so, but no matter! ;-) > >> Maybe it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: >>> And I still think nvidia cards are crap! It's a subjective point of view. I've not had the frustrations with ATI that I've had with nvidia. But to each his own, right? > > What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT > Nvidia cards under Linux and did no

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: >>> And I still think nvidia cards are crap! > > What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT > Nvidia cards under Linux and did not have a single issue with them. > > When I update the nvidia driver, I generally prefer to do the following: > > 1. Shut down X an

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
James Ausmus wrote: > On 8/8/07, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jesús Guerrero wrote: >>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 >>> Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello >>>> 'API mismatch.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:38:37 -0500 > Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jesús Guerrero wrote: >>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 >>> Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello &

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 > Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello >> 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the >> nvidia's kernel modules version does not match' >> > Th

[gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I hate freakin' nvidia!!! Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. I'm an ATI girl and I've never encountered the problems that I have with this damn laptop and it's nvidia card. Heck, I even got X working just fine when I took the hard drive out of my old computer and put it in the

[gentoo-user] Update World Issue

2007-08-07 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, On my laptop, I did an update world. One of the programs that the update wants to install is 'sip'. I connect to my mirror and then the mirror goes out to www.riverbankcomputing.com, but gets a 404 error. Anyone else seen this issue? I know what a 404 error is. Would changing mirrors help

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Colleen Beamer schrieb: > >> However, when I boot from >> the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is >> a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to >> "Help" when I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Paul wrote: > what is the output of ifconfig -a > does it show the device, or is it just a problem with dhcp? ifconfig -a shows the device just fine. And for what it's worth, I rebuilt dhcpcd while I was in the chroot'd environment. Regards, Colleen > > > On 8/6/07,

[gentoo-user] Configuration Situation

2007-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi, I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I have. Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

2007-07-25 Thread Colleen Beamer
Kent Fredric wrote: > > Does your CDROM drive have a dedicated headphone socket?, if so, plug > it in and see if you get any sound. > My personal suggestion : ditch kscd. My cd player/sound system works > fine, and kscd just thrashes doing the exact same thing you did ( I > removed my audio cable t

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

2007-07-24 Thread Colleen Beamer
Steve Dommett wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> If anyone can provide me with direction, I would sure appreciate it. >> > Sorry I can't help you with your ALSA config. I've been stuck for > months now trying to enable SPDIF-out on my own laptop. However: > I n

[gentoo-user] Still can't play audio CD's

2007-07-24 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi guys, I know I'm like a bear with a thorn in it's paw, but this is driving me nuts. I've tried the suggestions provided in response to my posts on this list, but I still can't play audio CD's. I posted to the alsa-user list and got a response. I'm posting some of that here because although t

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question

2007-07-22 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:11:18 -0400 > Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm not thinking that the problem might be the DVD-RW drive - it's a >> Ricoh and the specific problem that I was having was not being able t

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