User:Terrible Tim

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This page is kept for historical purposes. I have since swiched to Kubuntu. Though it does not have the 7 minute install time like MEPIS, it doesn't take 3 days to get KDE to come up. And most of the problems listed on this page Just Work. Farewell. --Terrible Tim 23:31, 31 Jul 2005 (GMT)

I am a Gentoo newbie as of June 2005; I've been running MEPIS since May 2004 I like MEPIS pretty well, but I wanted newer packages, such as KDE 3.4, and also packages don't work on Debian such as BitPim. One reason I switched was to get FreeNX working, but HOWTO FreeNX Server hasn't yet. Must run openSSH on same port -- Working only with jpeg compression, not png compression (lossless...)hope maybe?

I think all this silly compiling takes way too long, and, as I wait, I wonder, if I would not have been better off living in the land of binaries.

[edit] Current Gentoo Problems

• Festival will not talk to me
• Can't run Google Earth on Linux Google can This guy can with wine I can with qemu and the kqemu kenal mod, a little slow, and only openGL works. There will be no linux version [1] A Linux version is on the way [2] ... ?
• Cannot install iLaunch (needs newer superkaramba, can't install that) got new superkaramba, iLaunch does not work properly
• Cannot install Krita arts was causeing problems, took arts away
• Cannot install any KDE applications (-arts downgrade to KDE 3.3?, why?) will try to get arts later
• cannot play free videos at cnn.com
• Amarok is the only KDE application that has sound and it is using gstreamer. There is quite a lage between the time I click pause and the time is actually pauses. It also skips randomly. I am pretty sure I was using the xine engine before, but it everytime I click that the whole thing crashes emerge asla fixed this, KDE still has no sounds though
• Kicker crashes alot. Mostly on startup, but also with other applications, such as whenever I visit a Flash page in Firefox.
• Cannot get php to respond may helpThis Worked PHP has quit Responding!! Ithink it was cache issues, but it is back now
• Can't get logitech hot keys too work
• need time sync ntp
• Konqi won't do gestures (oh, it says it does, but it won't do any...)
• Can't print. must recompile kernal?!?!? cups must be running
• Monitor won't go into sleep mode (computer won't either, but that never did under Linux) (Control Centre > Peripherals > Display > Power Control)
• KDE spell checking doesn't work ... What paths? Never had to care about this before... Firefox doesn't spell check either. Every time I look at the instruction to make it do so, I am frightened away. This should not be so hard.
• USB thumb drive does not work. Kernal issue? fstab issue
• freenx fails on suspended sessions known bug use the undocumented nxserver --list-suspended <userid> function [3]
• Cannot get Kaffeine to install (Had 0.6 install, very unstable, trying to get latest stable version [0.4] failing)this is a known bug
• cd burning only works as root change permissions in k3b setup
• can't SSH (have to emerge openSSH)
• Don't have "Open as Root" on my right click menu anymore. Don't know how to get it back. (Open, Run as Root Edit as Root)
• There is no stable release of Ksysv (ksysv does not work with Gentoo; this will not work ever. Sorry)
• Emerging gtk-qt-engine has no effect. Ugly Gnome apps... Use another style: QT
• Can't get OO.o to save any files (kdefilepicker crashes)

Fixed this with below code, somebody ought to fix ebuild.

------- Additional Comment #4 From Michael Möller 2005-03-22 09:39 -------
Stephan Binner's patch will also work locally for the OOo's kdefilepicker, only.
-------8<-------------------------------8<---------------
# /opt/kde3/share/config/kdefilepickerrc
#
# OpenOffice.org's KDE file selector configuration
#
# This avoids crashes when using OpenOffice.org with KDE
# file dialogs and KDE >= 3.4
#
# Move this file to $KDEDIR/share/config/kdefilepickerrc
# or merge it to an existing configuration.

[Development]
AutoCheckAccelerators=false
------->8------------------------------->8---------------

[edit] How to get apache to work

root@axiom axiom # umount /dev/hdb1
root@axiom axiom # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
root@axiom axiom # chroot /mnt/hdb1 /bin/bash
root@not a tty[/]# apache2ctl start
apache2: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
root@not a tty[/]#

[edit] How to Boot Qemu

root@axiom axiom # modprobe kqemu
root@axiom axiom # qemu -hda /home/axiom/Linux_Program_Files/qemu/winxp.qcow  -m 256 -smb /home