Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jan 2010, at 23:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... If we are truly trying to make Linux more accessible, with things like the plug and play hal offers, should we even be contemplating editing config files? XML is a machine-readable file format that just happens to use ASCII characters, it is

[gentoo-user] BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
One of my machines smoked last week so when tearing it apart for spare parts I noticed the the PC2700 CL 2.5 memory is what my wife's machine uses and she had only 512MB so I took the opportunity to throw in a couple of DIMMs. When I boot Linux (and I'm writing this from Linux running the new memor

[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-18 Thread James
>/etc/X/xorg.conf file? > It might be that with your video card you *must* have an xorg.conf, although > I > think that most cards will run with a basic /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11- > input.fdi this dir is empty? > I have not seen the errors you are getting in your log before, but I notic

[gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > One of my machines smoked last week so when tearing it apart for spare > parts I noticed the the PC2700 CL 2.5 memory is what my wife's machine > uses and she had only 512MB so I took the opportunity to throw in a > couple of DIMMs. When I boot

[gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

2010-01-18 Thread Yuri Ambrosio
checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5) checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8

[gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

2010-01-18 Thread Yuri Ambrosio
checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5) checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 19:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > How does memory get reported up to the kernel? Is that something in > > the kernel (i.e. - choosing the proper chipset support or something) > > or is it purely the return from some sor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 19:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > How does memory get reported up to the kernel? Is that something in >> > the kernel (i.e. - choosing the proper chipset suppo

[gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

2010-01-18 Thread Joseph
I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. What to do about it? It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD shows as "OK" but when I login it is not running. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:30 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > High Memory Support to be precise :) In your case CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > > should do. > > > > Processor Type And Features > > => High Memory Support > > => off / 4Gb / 64Gb > Hi Iai

[gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist

2010-01-18 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each time when i ran 'X -configure', if can still find some of those video drivers and try to load them, and complains that the module does not exist. i guess som

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-18 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 02:59:58 James wrote: > >/etc/X/xorg.conf file? > > > > It might be that with your video card you *must* have an xorg.conf, > > although I think that most cards will run with a basic > > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11- input.fdi > > this dir is empty? OK, xorg elog (I t

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

2010-01-18 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote: I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. What to do about it? It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD shows as "OK" but when I login it is not running. Look at the logs -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-18 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:30, Mark Knecht wrote: ... Currently the disks are showing up as /dev/hda and I thought with newer kernels they were supposed to be /dev/sda. With my newest 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 it seems to be trying to be /sda, but with 2.6.32-gentoo it's coming up /hda. Bottom line question -

Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist

2010-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 08:17:09 Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more > video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each > time when i ran 'X -configure', if can still find some of those video > drivers and try to load

Re: [gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

2010-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 05:30:26 Yuri Ambrosio wrote: > checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5) > checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm in > @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_p

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