ok this is mi first time using gentoo, an i having some problem with mi card reader, and the problem is that is not reading anything i already select the option in the kernel configuration but it does not work anyway.

the other problem is that i cant use the double tap as a click in mi touchpad and the part of the touchpad that works as a scroll does not work too.

and for last i cant play DVD movies, install my printer a canon ip1900, or put the spell check Spanish in openoffice to work .... it is sad i now, but i need some help.

i am running gentoo amd64

and i need to now how to install something that does not come from portage, for an example a .deb file o something similar.

thanks for any help, and greeting from Guatemala. :-)

Welcome to LQ

Better you start a new thread with one question in each. It gets very confusing when more than one question is being answered in a thread. Choosing a thread title that says what the question is about will attract more people with relevant expertise.

You might find LQ's How To Ask a Question helpful.

Have a nice day in Guatemala!

Is of a wise mans fallow an advise (thanks for the advise ;-) ), but can solve at least one of my questions?

Not without more information so might as well get started with those six new threads ...

You are not giving a lot of info. However, here we go.

The first step will be to know what that card reader is. It's probably a pci device. Open a new thread as suggested for this single problem, post in it the output for the lspci command and also your dmesg output. That will give us something to work with.

I know nothing about touchpads, besides the basic functionality. But most likely, this is related to Xorg/HAL/evdev.

We need to know what did you try, what the result was, errors, what software did you use at all, and anything else you can tell us.

Open a new thread for this.

You might be missing the -es dictionary. Describe what are you doing and how is it that it doesn't work.

This is a very wide topic, your best option when not using portage is to install from source if possible. But the procedure is different for each package. Usually you uncompress the tarball and see what's inside. Most times you can find a README or INSTALL file inside teh package.

thanks to i92gubo, this is very helpful, and i will follow your advise an open a new thread for each one of my problems.

i solved the problem of play dvd movies using mplayer instead of totem(gnome default movie player)

Hi, I'm new to Gentoo as well.

For the touchpad issue, you could try using a newer kernel >2.6.31-r10. Maybe a later driver added the functionality you're looking for.

For the spell checker issue in openoffice you need to emerge myspell-es.

If you want to install something outside of the Gentoo repositories you should probably just build it manually from source. Usually this consists of ./configure (once you figure out what the flags should be), make, and make install.

can you please give me an example of how to do it....

What are you trying to install?

i trying to install mathematica 7 but i dont know how...

Try this? http://reference.wolfram.com/mathema...xAndLinux.html

thanks!!!!!

thanks aganin for the link but now i have another problem, i have already installed it but now i cant run the program i suppose i have to compile but how do i do that....??

No, it should already be compiled. You just need to find the executable named "mathematica". Type "which mathematica" to make sure the executable is in your PATH. If not, run "find / -name "mathematica" to find the program.

Here's a link: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathema...xAndLinux.html

Documentation for compilation and installing should be on the site, or within the source under INSTALL or README.

Touchpad issue is interesting, since one install I had on a netbook had it working with the mouse driver without any special settings. No HAL or evdev.

With your card reader, the issue may be related to when/how the kernel detects the card. There are two settings (Probe all LUNs, or something similar) and Async scanning (paraphrased). Both of these are under the same section and solved the same issue when I had these same problems.