[gentoo-dev] Questions & XMMS Problem

[gentoo-dev] Questions & XMMS Problem

[Sebastien Phaneuf]

Great distro. I only encounter 1 problem : I emerge alsa. I test it with 
aplay and the file specify in the desktop installation doc. It works fine. I 
emerge XMMS. Then, when I try to play some mp3 I get this message:


** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such 
file or directory

But I don't want to use OSS! I didn't even compile i with the kernel. OSS is 
not specify in my make.conf file (alsa is specify though).

I alsao have a few questions concerning Gentoo :


1- Aside from the doc on the web site, is there some good documentation on
Gentoo? I want documentation on the tools that gentoo use like : rc-update,
env-update... (aside from their man page).

2- Is there some tools can can tell me what packgae I have installed and
what version are they? I read the emerge man page and it seems you cant do
that with an emerge command (or am I wrong)?

3- Where does Gentoo stores its install log? (or is there a place where
gentoo stores install log???)

4- Is there a way to update a package (only a package and not the world)
with emerge (rather than used ebuild as it is said on the GentooFAQ)?

5- Quesiton about the dependency mechanism : if I emerge softwareA with
dependency with softwareB and I update softwareB, will softwareA be
automatically remerge (a kind of broken depencies mechanism...)?

Thanks !!!

Sebastien




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RE: [gentoo-dev] Questions & XMMS Problem

[John P. Marr]

Great distro. I only encounter 1 problem : I emerge alsa. I test it with
aplay and the file specify in the desktop installation doc. It works fine. I
emerge XMMS. Then, when I try to play some mp3 I get this message:

I had the same problem. It went away after I loaded my sound card as a
module and used alsa.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions & XMMS Problem

[George Shapovalov]

Try to check/change your output plug-in. If you have OSS selected, this is 
what xmms will be looking for. If you  want to use alsa you need to 
emerge/enable xmms-alsa.
Also check permissions in /dev/sound if you have all modules loaded properly.
Generally I find that xmms tends to behave somewhat strange if you have 
things slightly misconfigured. I am using alsa and I installed xmms-alsa 
plugin. In order to use xmms I need to load all appropriate alsa modules 
before I launch xmms, otherwise it segafaults and says, that I triggered the 
bug. 
Please see below for more.

On Monday 04 March 2002 17:50, you wrote:
> I alsao have a few questions concerning Gentoo :
> 2- Is there some tools can can tell me what packgae I have installed and
> what version are they? I read the emerge man page and it seems you cant do
> that with an emerge command (or am I wrong)?
Check out app-admin/{gentool,gentoolkit}. 1st is web interface for cmd line 
tools (best probably for browsing installed/possible packages), 2nd is a 
collection of additional scripts.
See below as well.

>
> 3- Where does Gentoo stores its install log? (or is there a place where
> gentoo stores install log???)
/var/db/pkg - mirrors /usr/portage structure, contains only installed 
packages. 

>
> 4- Is there a way to update a package (only a package and not the world)
> with emerge (rather than used ebuild as it is said on the GentooFAQ)?
try emerge pkg-name, it will remerge the package.

>
> 5- Quesiton about the dependency mechanism : if I emerge softwareA with
> dependency with softwareB and I update softwareB, will softwareA be
> automatically remerge (a kind of broken depencies mechanism...)?
	I think it is supposed to do just that. Never worked for me though.

George

[gentoo-dev] Where forth are thou /usr/share/dict/ ?

[Brent Cook]

Hi,

  I just recently resubscribed to the developer list after being dumped
from a server upgrade or something. I forgot how much mail I would get!

Anyway, I was trying out all of the xscreensaver modules (you do it too!),
and tried getting the webcollage module to work. One of the things it
needs is a dictionary to lookup words for random web searching, but I was
unable to locate a package in gentoo that provides the necessary word
list. I looked in my FreeBSD machine and grabbed the files from
/usr/share/dict/, but they appear to be part of the FreeBSD userland, and
not separately maintained (though, how often does a dictionary really need
to be updated?)

If anyone is interested in making an ebuild and adding a word dictionary
to gentoo (they're good for cracking or checking the strength of passwords
too), the files can be had here:

http://ozma.union.utexas.edu/~busterb/dict.tar.gz

This should be an inoccuous package to add, since it is just text files.

 - Brent