Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?
On Monday 12 July 2010 06:52:03 Philip Webb wrote: My cousin in England wants to try out Linux has an Ubuntu Live CD. To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box. The partition is /dev/sda8 is formatted ReiserFS. I use Lilo as boot manager don't want to change to Grub just to offer temporary help to someone, so I refused to let the Ubuntu installer overwrite my MBR, hoping to get Lilo to see Ubuntu via an appropriate 'lilo.conf'. I've managed to get Lilo to add Ubuntu to the boot menu, but only by mounting /dev/sda8 as /z/mount8 using the line image = /z/mount8/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic However, when I reboot select that image via its label, I'm getting the hoary old 'VFS: can't open root device 808'. I've tried adding a dir /z/mount8 in the Ubuntu partition with a symlink of 'boot' to '../../boot' there, but it doesn't help. This does look rather messy, but I just want to be able to boot Ubuntu in order to advise my cousin when she starts using her version. Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ? I think Ubuntu is using GRUB2. Anyhow, I suggest you install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs and you install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR. Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Beta autodepclean script (not yet ready for primetime)
The attached script takes the output of emerge --pretend --depclean
and formats it into a script cleanscript which contains a set of
emerge --depclean commands to remove individual items. Do *NOT*
remove the exit and source cleanscript. It's there to protect you.
The script is very simple-minded about kernel-sources. I.e. it
removes all but the latest version. E.g. I have 3 kernels in /usr/src,
namely 2.6.31-r10, 2.6.32-r7, and 2.6.34-r1. I'm currently on
2.3.32-r7. The script will want to remove 2.6.31-r10 and 2.6.32-r7 and
keep 2.6.34-r1. I suspect that something similar may be true if you
have multiple versions of gcc. Sources and gcc are a bit weird in that
they're not dependancies of any packages, and they aren't listed in
world.
One other thing I have noticed is that the format...
emerge --depclean =sys-boom/bah-1.2.3.4
...will not work if it's masked. autodepclean will find it, but you
need to use emerge --unmerge to remove it.
Other than that, the output from autodepclean seems to be OK. I've
manually removed a bunch of stuff (cutting--pasting lines from
cleanscript), and revdep-rebuild hasn't found any breakages. If you are
unsure about any of its suggestions, please ask on this list.
--
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
#!/bin/bash
echo exit cleanscript
emerge --pretend --depclean |\
grep -A1 ^ .*/ |\
grep -v ^ \* |\
grep -v ^-- |\
sed :/: {
N
s:\n::
s/selected: /-/
s/^ /emerge --depclean =/
} cleanscript
[gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days
Hi, since a few days logrotate is failing due to error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory What has changed, what am I missing? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?
100712 Mick suggested : install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR. Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu. Thanks for your very prompt response. I'm not sure if I've got it right, but I can easily re-install Ubuntu with a /boot partition using Ext2 , then tell Lilo to look there for the kernel image. Is that what you mean ? Any other suggestions are also welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Saturday 10 July 2010 02:57:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/10/2010 04:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I just updated the portage tree and gcc was upgraded. I have set gcc to the newer version - gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.3 * and I am trying to rebuild the whole system with emerge -e system emerge -e world assuming this all goes without trouble (will take a while), should I unmerge version 4.3.4? There's no reason to. Unless you don't need it anymore. And why is the OP rebuilding world at all? There's no reason to do that either, there's no API/ABI break between 4.3.4 and 4.3.3 The difference is between 4.3.4 and 4.4.3, not 4.3.3 Gentoo has the new GCC slotted and the handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml Suggests emerge -e system and emerge -e world in the General Upgrade Instructions. If you think the handbook is wrong or my interpretation of it wrong then *please* tell me. I would prefer *not* to go through this nightmare whenever GCC does a major version bump. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:19:25 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you
tell it to use a particular keyboard layout?
19:18:09 steph...@luciole:/etc/udev/rules.d $ cat 61-x11-input.rules
SUBSYSTEM!=input, GOTO=x11_input_end
ACTION!=add, GOTO=x11_input_end
KERNEL==event*, ENV{x11_driver}=evdev
KERNEL==event*, ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}==1
ENV{ID_INPUT_KEY}==?*, ENV{xkblayout}=fr
LABEL=x11_input_end
===
Interesting, but it seems more complex that a simple stanza
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Using udev rules for something that will only be
used by one application adds unnecessary complication, IMO. If only X
will use the information, I'd prefer to put in in the X configuration
directory.
--
Neil Bothwick
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who
think.(Horace Walpole)
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Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days
* Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, since a few days logrotate is failing due to error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory do you have the process accounting deamon running ? did you instruct logrotate to create this logfile if missing ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme --
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My cousin in England wants to try out Linux has an Ubuntu Live CD. To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box. The partition is /dev/sda8 is formatted ReiserFS. I use Lilo as boot manager don't want to change to Grub just to offer temporary help to someone, so I refused to let the Ubuntu installer overwrite my MBR, hoping to get Lilo to see Ubuntu via an appropriate 'lilo.conf'. I've managed to get Lilo to add Ubuntu to the boot menu, but only by mounting /dev/sda8 as /z/mount8 using the line image = /z/mount8/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic However, when I reboot select that image via its label, I'm getting the hoary old 'VFS: can't open root device 808'. I've tried adding a dir /z/mount8 in the Ubuntu partition with a symlink of 'boot' to '../../boot' there, but it doesn't help. This does look rather messy, but I just want to be able to boot Ubuntu in order to advise my cousin when she starts using her version. Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ? What I do in those cases is to copy the kernel and the initrd of the Ubuntu system into your normal boot directory and just have a root= directive in the append stanza and that works just fine. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days
On 07/12/10 11:00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, since a few days logrotate is failing due to error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory do you have the process accounting deamon running ? No, and I've never done so. did you instruct logrotate to create this logfile if missing ? No, but how to do that? I have'ne found anything in the man file? Thanks, Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P
What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the .xz extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded from my local KDE mirror work anymore? Why should I trust tarballs that are not distributed by upstream? Please, please, don't do that. I'm sure whoever is responsible for this is just misinformed about something. Thank you :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:41 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the .xz extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded from my local KDE mirror work anymore? Why should I trust tarballs that are not distributed by upstream? Please, please, don't do that. I'm sure whoever is responsible for this is just misinformed about something. Thank you :-) This isn't the bitch and moan mailing list. If you've got problems with an overlay maintainer, then take it to the overlay maintainer. General support questions come here. Having said that, you *are* using an overlay. Caveat emptor, and I'm not absolutely certain, but I have a pretty good idea that KDE doesn't even have a oxygen-icons-4.4.92.
Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC
Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? well, I wanted to make some tests with libvirt and VirtualBox, but I guess I'll leave it for some other time. I removed the virtualbox USE flag. Else try emerging virtualbox-ose or virtualbox-bin befire libvirt. nothing's changed. But this is probably a bug? I believe so. emerge should never fail, in my opinion. if the ebuild lacks a dependency, it should be pulled; if the code doesn't compile, use patches; if it has more than one conflicting USE flags, warn the user and use a default flag; anyway, it should never fail, specially like that. :-) On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM, App Deb appde...@gmail.com wrote: Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? If not (say you want to use it with kvm or something else) try emerging libvirt without the virtualbox flag using package.use . Else try emerging virtualbox-ose or virtualbox-bin befire libvirt. But this is probably a bug? libvirt should have virtualbox as a dependency if the use flag is enabled, I think. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.comwrote: hi, when I was trying to emerge the newest libvirt ebuild, the following error appeared on configure: checking for VirtualBox XPCOMC location... not found configure: error: VirtualBox XPCOMC is required for the VirtualBox driver what do I need to install to make it work? I'm emerging with the USE flags: [ebuild U ] app-emulation/libvirt-0.8.2 [0.8.1-r1] USE=libvirtd lxc network nls python qemu virtualbox -avahi -caps -iscsi -lvm -macvtap% -nfs -numa -openvz -parted -pcap% -phyp -policykit -sasl (-selinux) -udev -uml -xen
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P
And to answer the original statement: the kde overlay often puts the ebuilds in before the sources themselves hit the mirrors. And the .xz compression format is the successor to the .lzma format, if I recall correctly...you should have xz-utils on your system.Chris ReffettOn Jul 12, 2010, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:41 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the ".xz" extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded from my local KDE mirror work anymore? Why should I trust tarballs that are not distributed by upstream? Please, please, don't do that. I'm sure whoever is responsible for this is just misinformed about something. Thank you :-) This isn't the bitch and moan mailing list. If you've got problems withan overlay maintainer, then take it to the overlay maintainer. Generalsupport questions come here.Having said that, you *are* using an overlay. Caveat emptor, and I'mnot absolutely certain, but I have a pretty good idea that KDE doesn'teven have a oxygen-icons-4.4.92.
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?
On 12 July 2010 08:37, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 100712 Mick suggested : install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR. Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu. Thanks for your very prompt response. I'm not sure if I've got it right, but I can easily re-install Ubuntu with a /boot partition using Ext2 , then tell Lilo to look there for the kernel image. Is that what you mean ? Any other suggestions are also welcome. Yes, that's exactly what I mean. I recall clicking on 'advanced' or some such options during the Ubuntu install and it gave me an option as to where GRUB should go. I chose the /boot partition and then used the main OS boot manager to chainload Ubuntu's GRUB. As was already suggested by John you can instead copy the kernel image initrd from the Ubuntu installation and place them in your existing /boot partition, then point LILO to it. Doing it as I suggest you will essentially have a mirror installation to your cousin's. PS. I found Ubuntu easier to update/upgrade by having separate /boot, / and /home partitions. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:41 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the .xz extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded from my local KDE mirror work anymore? Why should I trust tarballs that are not distributed by upstream? Please, please, don't do that. I'm sure whoever is responsible for this is just misinformed about something. Thank you :-) This isn't the bitch and moan mailing list. If you've got problems with an overlay maintainer, then take it to the overlay maintainer. General support questions come here. Having said that, you *are* using an overlay. Caveat emptor, and I'm not absolutely certain, but I have a pretty good idea that KDE doesn't even have a oxygen-icons-4.4.92. According to this, they do: http://www.kde.org/info/4.4.92.php http://kde.mirrors.tds.net/pub/kde/unstable/4.4.92/src/ OP, may want to download them there instead. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] fate of nmh
On 07/11/2010 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 July 2010 20:42:54 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: # unless a new maintainer can be found, this package is # slated for removal. # # Removal on 2010-08-23 This is what I use for my mail reader -- with the emacs interface -- so I am wondering what I can do once this happens -- I imagine I can keep it installed, but it would not be a good situation. thanks in advance for any ideas. Pick one: 1. use another mailer. There's no shortage of them 2. fix nmh yourself. It seems like no-one else is going to. Or, you can choose to live with it as is. You might want to look at the quickpkg man page and save nmh and mask it out. This is one of the concepts that will blindside a new Gentoo user. One usually thinks that once a package is found in Portage that he can then rely on it ~ad infinitum~. Well, the folks who write FOSS sometimes just move on and unless someone picks up the gauntlet to maintain the package, it withers and dies.
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?
Sure thing I use lilo on my lap. You want config for example? 2010/7/12 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On 12 July 2010 08:37, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 100712 Mick suggested : install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR. Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu. Thanks for your very prompt response. I'm not sure if I've got it right, but I can easily re-install Ubuntu with a /boot partition using Ext2 , then tell Lilo to look there for the kernel image. Is that what you mean ? Any other suggestions are also welcome. Yes, that's exactly what I mean. I recall clicking on 'advanced' or some such options during the Ubuntu install and it gave me an option as to where GRUB should go. I chose the /boot partition and then used the main OS boot manager to chainload Ubuntu's GRUB. As was already suggested by John you can instead copy the kernel image initrd from the Ubuntu installation and place them in your existing /boot partition, then point LILO to it. Doing it as I suggest you will essentially have a mirror installation to your cousin's. PS. I found Ubuntu easier to update/upgrade by having separate /boot, / and /home partitions. -- Regards, Mick -- Mateusz Mierzwiński Bluebox Software http://www.blueboxsoft.pl/mateusz-mierzwinski
[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem
On 2010-07-09, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: Recently emacs (running in X window mode) seems to have developed a font problem. Perhaps it is a font issue. Yes, I think it probably is. I just did emacs -q (-Q eliminates the splash screen) and then did C-u C-x = while the cursor was on the b in Learn basic keystroke commands. The help buffer includes display: by this font (glyph code) xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x45) What does C-u C-x = give on your system character: b (98, #o142, #x62) preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point: 0x62 syntax: wwhich means: word category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman buffer code: #x62 file code: #x62 (encoded by coding system nil) display: no font available and do you have that font available? No, I don't seem to have Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 availble according to xfontsel. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My polyvinyl cowboy at wallet was made in Hong gmail.comKong by Montgomery Clift!
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P
It's Overlay - this is how it work's. It's buggy stack thats why it's called Overlay. Otherwise the Code from Overlay should be in main stream in regular portage. Please don't complain that Overlay don't work. Try emerge about 3-4 days after error occures. 2010/7/12 mellitus...@verizon.net And to answer the original statement: the kde overlay often puts the ebuilds in before the sources themselves hit the mirrors. And the .xz compression format is the successor to the .lzma format, if I recall correctly...you should have xz-utils on your system. Chris Reffett On Jul 12, 2010, *Albert Hopkins* mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 14:41 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the .xz extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded from my local KDE mirror work anymore? Why should I trust tarballs that are not distributed by upstream? Please, please, don't do that. I'm sure whoever is responsible for this is just misinformed about something. Thank you :-) This isn't the bitch and moan mailing list. If you've got problems with an overlay maintainer, then take it to the overlay maintainer. General support questions come here. Having said that, you *are* using an overlay. Caveat emptor, and I'm not absolutely certain, but I have a pretty good idea that KDE doesn't even have a oxygen-icons-4.4.92. -- Mateusz Mierzwiński Bluebox Software http://www.blueboxsoft.pl/mateusz-mierzwinski
Re: [gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the .xz extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded from my local KDE mirror work anymore? Why should I trust tarballs that are not distributed by upstream? Please, please, don't do that. I'm sure whoever is responsible for this is just misinformed about something. Thank you :-) Looks like it was just fixed an hour ago, resync the overlay and it should use bz2 now: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=commit;h=4b27971ed556c29f6396414a8f5b0868f1ad61d0
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?
100712 Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski wrote: Sure thing I use lilo on my lap. You want config for example? Please : that would help a lot ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?
100712 Mick wrote: As was already suggested by John, Thanks to John too. you can instead copy the kernel image initrd from the Ubuntu installation to your existing /boot partition, then point LILO to it. I tried that, Lilo runs ok, but I still get the kernel panic due to the line in lilo.conf 'root=/dev/sda8'. That suggests that it doesn't like the FS on /dev/sda8 , ie ReiserFS, which must be due to something in the Ubuntu set-up, as the Gentoo stanzas have 'root=/dev/sda3, which is also ReiserFS. I recall clicking on 'advanced' or some such options during Ubuntu install and it gave me an option where GRUB should go. I chose the /boot partition and then used the main OS boot manager to chainload Ubuntu's GRUB. Then you will essentially have a mirror installation to your cousin's. I don't know what you mean by chainload Ubuntu's GRUB; I don't remember your specific choice during the Ubuntu install, only Shall I overwrite the MBR ? , to which I answer No ! . I don't want to learn how to use Grub for this simple test project: Lilo is quite adequate for my normal needs. PS. I found Ubuntu easier to update/upgrade by having separate /boot, / and /home partitions. Ordinarily, that's what I would do, but this is only temporary I'm not even sure she'll go thro' with the project in the end (she's yet another victim of M$ generally Vista in particular). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] Re: anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ?
On 07/12/10 01:52, Philip Webb wrote: [] Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ? Hard to believe that the filesystem is causing a problem. Here's my conf (I have two kernels on the same OS; one hardened, one gentoo sources. I use an initrd only because I have loop-AES installed, and it prompts for a password): boot=/dev/sda prompt ignore-table large-memory timeout=100 default=Hard image=/boot/bzImagehard label=Hard append=ramdisk_size=290 vga=normal initrd=/boot/initrdhard.gz read-only root=/dev/sda3 image=/boot/bzImagegentoo label=Gentoo append=ramdisk_size=290 initrd=/boot/initrdgent.gz vga=normal read-only root=/dev/sda3 HTH .
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: On 2010-07-09, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: Recently emacs (running in X window mode) seems to have developed a font problem. Perhaps it is a font issue. Yes, I think it probably is. I just did emacs -q (-Q eliminates the splash screen) and then did C-u C-x = while the cursor was on the b in Learn basic keystroke commands. The help buffer includes display: by this font (glyph code) xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x45) What does C-u C-x = give on your system character: b (98, #o142, #x62) preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point: 0x62 syntax: w which means: word category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman buffer code: #x62 file code: #x62 (encoded by coding system nil) display: no font available and do you have that font available? No, I don't seem to have Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 availble according to xfontsel. Three points 1. Did you build emacs with xft support? 2. The name you give Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like -unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting either DejaVu or bitstream vera. 3. Your output and mine differ in one point (before the font issue) You have coding system nil. I have coding system utf-8-unix. Unfortunately I know very little about coding systems but do wonder why ours are different since we both did emacs -q. Unfortunately if we do emacs -Q to eliminate some system customization, there is no splash screen. The description of UTF-8 says it is for unicode. Perhaps your nil coding system has trouble with unicode, but I am afraid this has gotten outside my expertise. sorry for not being more helpful. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery
Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot , which has ReiserFS configured as a module, whereas Ext2 Ext3 are 'y'. That suggests that it's running into a road-block: it needs to use ReiserFS to start 'init', but can't load modules till it has already started 'init'. In that case, I need to re-install Ubuntu using Ext2 or Ext3 . In fact, it wb as a bug in Ubuntu's advanced install. Does that make sense to anyone else ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot , which has ReiserFS configured as a module, whereas Ext2 Ext3 are 'y'. That suggests that it's running into a road-block: it needs to use ReiserFS to start 'init', but can't load modules till it has already started 'init'. In that case, I need to re-install Ubuntu using Ext2 or Ext3 . In fact, it wb as a bug in Ubuntu's advanced install. Does that make sense to anyone else ? Or the module could be in the initrd -- should be. Also, be sure you have root= in your append line. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem
On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: What does C-u C-x = give on your system character: b (98, #o142, #x62) preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point: 0x62 syntax: w which means: word category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman buffer code: #x62 file code: #x62 (encoded by coding system nil) display: no font available and do you have that font available? No, I don't seem to have Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 availble according to xfontsel. Three points 1. Did you build emacs with xft support? 2. The name you give Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like -unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal Oops -- cut/paste error. I don't have that font using the whole pattern either. You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting either DejaVu or bitstream vera. I guess I can install more fonts, but I was hoping I could point emacs at one of the rougly 4000 I've already got. 3. Your output and mine differ in one point (before the font issue) You have coding system nil. I have coding system utf-8-unix. Unfortunately I know very little about coding systems but do wonder why ours are different since we both did emacs -q. Unfortunately if we do emacs -Q to eliminate some system customization, there is no splash screen. The description of UTF-8 says it is for unicode. Perhaps your nil coding system has trouble with unicode, but I am afraid this has gotten outside my expertise. I do have one computer where emacs does find a font for the about screen, so I guess it's a matter of comparing the two. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Will it improve my at CASH FLOW? gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery
On 7/12/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot , which has ReiserFS configured as a module, whereas Ext2 Ext3 are 'y'. That suggests that it's running into a road-block: it needs to use ReiserFS to start 'init', but can't load modules till it has already started 'init'. In that case, I need to re-install Ubuntu using Ext2 or Ext3 . In fact, it wb as a bug in Ubuntu's advanced install. Does that make sense to anyone else ? Or the module could be in the initrd -- should be. Also, be sure you have root= in your append line. Yes, I'd be surprised if Ubuntu didn't have reiserfs easily available. OP: see what man page of mount has to say about reiserfs, --tail/--notail and LILO. ext3 doesn't sound so bad any more after reading the man page section. -- Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors
[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.4 system settings - fonts never display
Have I just misconfigured several of my KDE boxes or is there a problem with KDE 4.4.4's system settings? The font installer worked fine in 4.3, but whenever I go into system settings and try to get a list of the fonts, it's just a blank box, whether I choose personal or system fonts. No amount of STFW has yet to yield to me a suitable place to look for further answers. TIA. -- Bill Ἐν ἀρχή ἠν ὁ λόγος
[gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: t...@saya ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL= Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! -Andy
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: t...@saya ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL= Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Try en_US.UTF-8 instead.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade
On Monday 12 July 2010 10:18:48 zek...@gmail.com wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Saturday 10 July 2010 02:57:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/10/2010 04:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I just updated the portage tree and gcc was upgraded. I have set gcc to the newer version - gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.3 * and I am trying to rebuild the whole system with emerge -e system emerge -e world assuming this all goes without trouble (will take a while), should I unmerge version 4.3.4? There's no reason to. Unless you don't need it anymore. And why is the OP rebuilding world at all? There's no reason to do that either, there's no API/ABI break between 4.3.4 and 4.3.3 The difference is between 4.3.4 and 4.4.3, not 4.3.3. Typo. Gentoo has the new GCC slotted and the handbook Of course is slotted. gcc has been slotted since the dawn of time so that you can install mutiple compilers and use any one you feel like at any point. Tools exists to switch the current compiler in use http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml Suggests emerge -e system and emerge -e world in the General Upgrade Instructions. It suggests, it does not say it is mandatory with description of why. Periodically on this list this topic comes up and we re-hash again, for the unmpteenth time, why the docs are misleading. That doc was apparently written by someone who was looking for ways to minimize the amount of mail he gets. If he says to rebuild system and world, then most of the questions he gets asked just go away. Can't fault the dev for that This is all in the mail archives. Most of the whinging done by me actually If you think the handbook is wrong or my interpretation of it wrong then *please* tell me. I would prefer *not* to go through this nightmare whenever GCC does a major version bump. You do not have to do what the handbook tells you, you just have to realise what the handbook hopes to achieve. As hinted above, the intended result appears to be least hassle for the gentoo devs and document writers with maximal guarantee that your box will work afterwards regardless fo how long it takes or number of cpu cycles burnt. It's not necessarily the most convenient way. I have not had to rebuild world due to a compiler upgrade since sometime around the late 3 series (there was a C++ ABI change). -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor
Hi All, I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this adaptor: http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1278964492sr=8-6 Unfortunately, it is not recognised by the kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 I also tried it on a Ubuntu laptop but it did not register at all. What do I need to get it going? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The font in use is DejaVu Sans Mono, which ought to support simple accented characters and other Unicode glyphs. The results of `locale` are as follows: t...@saya ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL= Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. -Andy
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery
On Monday 12 July 2010 17:21:52 Philip Webb wrote: Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot , which has ReiserFS configured as a module, whereas Ext2 Ext3 are 'y'. That suggests that it's running into a road-block: it needs to use ReiserFS to start 'init', but can't load modules till it has already started 'init'. In that case, I need to re-install Ubuntu using Ext2 or Ext3 . In fact, it wb as a bug in Ubuntu's advanced install. Does that make sense to anyone else ? No, I must have installed at least 3 Ubuntus in the last 6 months, all of them on reiserfs. No problem booting them. Unless you have stored a kernel image in a partition (e.g. /boot) that your lilo can read I don't think you'll be able to boot Ubuntu: image=/boot/your_Ubuntu_image label=Ubuntu append=ramdisk_size=290 vga=normal initrd=/boot/your_ubuntu_initrd.gz read-only root=/dev/sda8 I don't use LILO so check the above to make sure there are no errors, and adjust it to your circumstances. Finally, to check that your Ubuntu installation is correct you may be able to boot it using the Ubuntu LiveCD (I recall it offers the option to boot a partition on the hard drive, but I'm not 100% sure). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Monday 12 July 2010 10:18:48 zek...@gmail.com wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Saturday 10 July 2010 02:57:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/10/2010 04:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I just updated the portage tree and gcc was upgraded. I have set gcc to the newer version - gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.3 * and I am trying to rebuild the whole system with emerge -e system emerge -e world assuming this all goes without trouble (will take a while), should I unmerge version 4.3.4? There's no reason to. Unless you don't need it anymore. And how do we know that? I, myself, wonder, as the previous version here is picked by depclean for removal. Can we trust depclean? I suppose if a package didn't compile and had no explicit dependency on the gcc version, that would be a good reason for a bug report and an ebuild change. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml Suggests emerge -e system and emerge -e world in the General Upgrade Instructions. It suggests, it does not say it is mandatory with description of why. Periodically on this list this topic comes up and we re-hash again, for the unmpteenth time, why the docs are misleading. That doc was apparently written by someone who was looking for ways to minimize the amount of mail he gets. If he says to rebuild system and world, then most of the questions he gets asked just go away. Can't fault the dev for that Warning: following this handbook might lead to an infinite loop, when you sync after recompiling everything and you find a newer gcc version was marked stable, and you have to start again. If keeping both versions prevents the troubles fixed by recompiling everything, then it's just not worth it removing the old version (unless you own really fast machine). Suggesting emerge -e is anyway a possible solution for problems, just not the one to choose first. Can't we rely on revdep-rebuild, or write something to catch known upgrade issues? It sounds a while not okay run revdep-rebuild would be a better solution (but I don't know whether revdep-rebuild catches the issues --- probably not if there is an interface change but the library uses the same name as before...). This is all in the mail archives. Most of the whinging done by me actually If you think the handbook is wrong or my interpretation of it wrong then *please* tell me. I would prefer *not* to go through this nightmare whenever GCC does a major version bump. You do not have to do what the handbook tells you, you just have to realise what the handbook hopes to achieve. As hinted above, the intended result appears to be least hassle for the gentoo devs and document writers with maximal guarantee that your box will work afterwards regardless fo how long it takes or number of cpu cycles burnt. It's not necessarily the most convenient way. I have not had to rebuild world due to a compiler upgrade since sometime around the late 3 series (there was a C++ ABI change). The one which involved emerging libstdc++-v3, and which rendered the whole system unusable due to a chicken and an egg? -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.4 system settings - fonts never display
On Monday 12 July 2010 19:28:46 Bill Longman wrote: Have I just misconfigured several of my KDE boxes or is there a problem with KDE 4.4.4's system settings? The font installer worked fine in 4.3, but whenever I go into system settings and try to get a list of the fonts, it's just a blank box, whether I choose personal or system fonts. No amount of STFW has yet to yield to me a suitable place to look for further answers. TIA. -- Bill Ἐν ἀρχή ἠν ὁ λόγος I can't point you to a solution, but can confirm that KDE-4.4.4 fonts work fine here - only the 'Personal Fonts' category is empty (because I have not setup any). 'All Fonts', 'System Fonts' and 'Unclassified Fonts' categories, show fonts in them. (και ο λογος ην προς τον θεον) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? That's probably what the kernel thinks. If you look at the NLS stuff in the kernel, it uses utf8 instead of the usual UTF-8 syntax, which, according to the never-incorrect archives on Wikipedia, states is the official name. I might be all wet, but that's the only place that I'm familiar with that uses utf8. -- Bill Lost a character set, has he? How embarassing. How embarassing.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4.4 system settings - fonts never display
On 07/12/2010 01:52 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 12 July 2010 19:28:46 Bill Longman wrote: Have I just misconfigured several of my KDE boxes or is there a problem with KDE 4.4.4's system settings? The font installer worked fine in 4.3, but whenever I go into system settings and try to get a list of the fonts, it's just a blank box, whether I choose personal or system fonts. No amount of STFW has yet to yield to me a suitable place to look for further answers. TIA. -- Bill Ἐν ἀρχή ἠν ὁ λόγος I can't point you to a solution, but can confirm that KDE-4.4.4 fonts work fine here - only the 'Personal Fonts' category is empty (because I have not setup any). 'All Fonts', 'System Fonts' and 'Unclassified Fonts' categories, show fonts in them. Well, my system that I use most often doesn't seem to have a problem but all my other ones, since the upgrade, show no fonts. Maybe something fixed this one, (-NDu world last week?), but now it's fine. (και ο λογος ην προς τον θεον) And this is how I know, because I was trying to load the GFS Decker fonts on my home machines but couldn't! And I was reading Jeremiah, not John. :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On Monday 12 July 2010 21:58:35 Bill Longman wrote: On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: On 07/12/2010 12:09 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Try en_US.UTF-8 instead. That did it. Thanks! I am confused, though. Why am I setting LANG, etc, to en_US.UTF-8 when locale -a says en_US.utf8? Because the /etc/logale.gen file tells us: # Where locale is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and # where charmap is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. and in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ you will find: UTF-8.gz The next comment says: # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file: # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED which shows: en_US.UTF-8 That's probably what the kernel thinks. If you look at the NLS stuff in the kernel, it uses utf8 instead of the usual UTF-8 syntax, which, according to the never-incorrect archives on Wikipedia, states is the official name. I might be all wet, but that's the only place that I'm familiar with that uses utf8. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal
On 07/12/2010 01:38 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: For now I am happy that it works. Thanks again. -Andy For what it's worth, Andy, here's my setup: /etc/locale.gen has: en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8 el_GR ISO-8859-7 and in /etc/env.d/02locale I have: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 And it all just works. I have the default codepage/NLS set to utf8 in my kernels, too, but I don't create files with Greek names. Not yet, anyway, and I really don't plan on it. Switching keyboard layouts is hard enough in the editor. Ever try to run λσ -λ in bash?
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this adaptor: http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1278964492sr=8-6 Unfortunately, it is not recognised by the kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 I also tried it on a Ubuntu laptop but it did not register at all. What do I need to get it going? In my experience, the small PS/2 to USB mouse adapters like that do not contain a controller chip and only work on USB-compatible PS/2 mice. Those mice typically came with a USB adapter in the first place, so if yours didn't it could be that you're fighting a losing battle. The larger Y-shaped keyboard/mouse-to-USB adapters usually support non-USB-compatible PS/2 mice, though. I have one like this and it works for me: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9291 FWIW :)
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse on a USB adaptor
Maybe you need a powered adapter like the one you need for a classic model m? Can't think of the brand I've seen offhand :/ On 7/12/10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have connected a conventional PS/2 mouse to a USB socket using this adaptor: http://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Replacement-Mouse-USB- Adapter/dp/B0006G2OVG/ref=sr_1_6/275-4357142-7474332?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1278964492sr=8-6 Unfortunately, it is not recognised by the kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 I also tried it on a Ubuntu laptop but it did not register at all. What do I need to get it going? -- Regards, Mick -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle
[gentoo-user] Re: viewing .m4v files with totem
On 07/11/2010 07:42 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ajglap video # file Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.* Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, ~30 fps, video: FFMpeg MPEG-4, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 1 or 2 (stereo, 44100 Hz) Okay, the above is the avi file you made by using ffmpeg to conver the m4v file below, right? Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.m4v: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, iTunes AVC-LC I had no idea what the ISO Media format is, so I read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_base_media_file_format Now I know almost as much as I knew before :p This excerpt seems significant to me, however: ISO base media file format is directly based on Apple’s QuickTime container format. That makes sense because iTunes is mentioned in the same breath as ISO Media. My theory is that Steve Jobs is now riding high and wants to displace M$ as the 800-pound-standards-dictating gorilla. Apple has always been smarter than M$, so I'd rather see Apple dictating standards, but dictators are still dictators, and Jobs is as ferociously closed-shop as Gates and Ballmer ever were. (When is google going to publish an extensible open-source multimedia format? Android almost forces them to do it, IMHO.) What does totem say when you play your m4v file? gottl...@ajglap /a/video $ totem Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.m4v bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) I haven't a clue what that means, unless maybe any multimedia file from iTunes wants to authenticate with an iTunes server before the file can be played? I have no idea. Anyone else?
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- solved
100712 Mick wrote: I must have installed at least 3 Ubuntus in the last 6 months, all of them on reiserfs. No problem booting them. image=/boot/your_Ubuntu_image label=Ubuntu append=ramdisk_size=290 vga=normal initrd=/boot/your_ubuntu_initrd.gz read-only root=/dev/sda8 I don't use LILO so check the above to make sure there are no errors and adjust it to your circumstances. Thanks, that solved the problem, given that I had identified it as arising from Ubuntu not recognising ReiserFS. I added the 'initrd=...' line booted into Ubuntu successfully; Gentoo doesn't require that line, perhaps because I use no kernel modules. BTW the Ubuntu ramdisk needs 7,9 MB Lilo issues a warning (I didn't use your 'append/vga' lines). From my bit of experience so far, Ubuntu does look good for a beginner. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works
Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to Unknown. For a long time it has always been set to Evdev managed keyboard but that isn't even on the list anymore. The keyboard shortcuts preferences no longer recognize these keys when pressed. I can't see anything that I upgraded recenlty that could have changed this. I did update gnome-applets to 2.30.0 today, but downgrading back to 2.28 didn't bring the evdev model back. Anyone else experience this or have a clue as to what could have changed?
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:06 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? Amit I'm a bit slow in replying, but there's a Google SOC project to integrate NetworkManager with Gentoo config files. Last time I looked it seemed to be mostly working. There's a blog somewhere *looking* http://qiaomuf.wordpress.com/ try that out. Don't think there's a command line interface to NM though so don't know how your parsing will go... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. (By Matt Welsh)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: viewing .m4v files with totem
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: On 07/11/2010 07:42 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ajglap video # file Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.* Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 320 x 240, ~30 fps, video: FFMpeg MPEG-4, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 1 or 2 (stereo, 44100 Hz) Okay, the above is the avi file you made by using ffmpeg to conver the m4v file below, right? Correct. Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.m4v: ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, iTunes AVC-LC I had no idea what the ISO Media format is, so I read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_base_media_file_format Now I know almost as much as I knew before :p This excerpt seems significant to me, however: ISO base media file format is directly based on Apple’s QuickTime container format. That makes sense because iTunes is mentioned in the same breath as ISO Media. My theory is that Steve Jobs is now riding high and wants to displace M$ as the 800-pound-standards-dictating gorilla. Apple has always been smarter than M$, so I'd rather see Apple dictating standards, but dictators are still dictators, and Jobs is as ferociously closed-shop as Gates and Ballmer ever were. (When is google going to publish an extensible open-source multimedia format? Android almost forces them to do it, IMHO.) What does totem say when you play your m4v file? gottl...@ajglap /a/video $ totem Game_Theory_Lect_20_s.m4v bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) I haven't a clue what that means, unless maybe any multimedia file from iTunes wants to authenticate with an iTunes server before the file can be played? I have no idea. Anyone else? This file is a freebee lecture from the teaching company (I buy many of their lectures, but only the audio versions, which are straight mp3). I think the msg is 1. You can play some m4v's. 2. This particular m4v involves iTunes (I assume other m4v's, in particular the ones you can watch with totem) do not involve iTunes. totem can't play it but ffmpeg can convert it (poorly). Perhaps when the heat spell is over and I can justify putting on the AC in my NYU office, I will re-power-on the desktop there, and put the files on the internet. Then I could send a bug to bugs.gentoo.org. thanks again for your help. allan
[gentoo-user] firefox crashes when printing (with workaround)
Firefox testing (3.3.6) reliably crashes when trying to print, print preview or page setup with cups-1.4.4. A workaround is to downgrade to cups-1.3.11-r1 (current stable). The details are in these two bugs http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325469 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573039 allan
[gentoo-user] Fails to compile dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328047 I'm using ~amd64,and I sync my portage tree just now,but I couldn't upgrade to dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4. UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) any help?thx
Re: [gentoo-user] Fails to compile dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4
I see this error when i'm trying to compile my python source codes in eric4/eric5 and my system are with uncorrect locales. Your locale are corect? att Em Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:03:35 -0300, Blackdream W blackdream1...@gmail.com escreveu: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328047 I'm using ~amd64,and I sync my portage tree just now,but I couldn't upgrade to dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4. UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) any help?thx -- how much i think, how much i observe, how much i cry humans act like idiots and need die
Re: [gentoo-user] Fails to compile dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4
cat /etc/locale.gen en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 2010/7/13 Zhu Sha Zang zhushaz...@yahoo.com.br I see this error when i'm trying to compile my python source codes in eric4/eric5 and my system are with uncorrect locales. Your locale are corect? att Em Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:03:35 -0300, Blackdream W blackdream1...@gmail.com escreveu: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328047 I'm using ~amd64,and I sync my portage tree just now,but I couldn't upgrade to dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4. UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) any help?thx -- how much i think, how much i observe, how much i cry humans act like idiots and need die
