Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 10:50:22 pm Thierry de Coulon wrote: What am I missing? Try logging out of KDE and get into a virtual console session. From there try to play a sound file using alsaplayer or play command may be? That will clear out any doubts of aRts playing spoil sport. If you don't get any sound from there as well, then try to restart alsasound and look for any error msgs in dmesg. -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] skype again
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory to something else. This database error sometimes occur when Skype does not shutdown cleanly. -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdesktop fails
On Sunday 17 Jun 2007 4:06:05 pm dexter wrote: I was advised to upgrade to newest gcc - I did, and I also have the latest binutils avaluable in the portage. None of those thing helped. I'm quite stuck - I've installed gentoo on several other machines, but never had such a problem. You upgraded GCC and binutils from which versions? Did you run revdep-rebuild to see if your system is consistent? Emerge Qt again and post little more of the error message you are getting i.e. including at least 15-20 lines before the actual error. -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome
On Monday 30 Apr 2007 10:57:08 pm Roy Wright wrote: Is this clashing of menu structures normal between window managers? If so, any tools for backing up the menu structure? Or a way to tell gnome to use kde menu structure? I can't help much as I don't run GNOME along with KDE but this menu looks nice for people who do http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/K+Menu+Gnome+(source)?content=31025 -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey
On Friday 27 Apr 2007 8:56:57 pm James wrote: amd64 You have installed firefox-bin or you have compiled firefox yourself? www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin Available versions: 2.0.0.3 Installed versions: 2.0.0.3 In order to use 32 bit plugins (like flash) on 64 bit browsers, you need to use nspluginwrapper. Look at the following link for firefox and flash 9. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Flash_9_and_Firefox Though the link talks about firefox, the method is same for seamonkey. -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007 11:27:58 pm James wrote: Now make a symlink from what to what? You need to make symlinks to these files in ~/.mozilla/plugins /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey
On Friday 27 Apr 2007 1:52:14 am James wrote: Will this work on Gentoo, as is, or are there further modifications. I failed to mention, that the system is running on an AMD 64 bit cpu, model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Didn't see this post of yours earlier. Sorry for the unnecessary noise. What arch are you running? Is it x86 or amd64? You have installed firefox-bin or you have compiled firefox yourself? -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash with seamonkey
On Tuesday 24 Apr 2007 6:04:19 am James wrote: Abhay Kedia abhay.ilugd at gmail.com writes: What did I miss? Do you have flash plugin mentioned under about:plugins page? NO, That is your real problem. You need to make sure that seamonkey knows about your flash plugin. Try to make soft link to flash plugin in your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. Then start seamonkey and check whether you have flash mentioned under about:plugins now. -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] flash with seamonkey
On Monday 23 Apr 2007 11:44:45 pm James wrote: What did I miss? Do you have flash plugin mentioned under about:plugins page? Also did you try starting seamonkey from a terminal window to see if it throws any errors at you? -- Regards, Abhay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.
On Sunday 25 Mar 2007 7:06:33 pm Dale wrote: That said, I don't like using Konqueror as a web browser. How do I get Seamonkey to either not ID itself or something so this will work? I looked in preferences and I can't find anything in there to change. You can always try installing user agent switcher and use MSIE user agent. Almost none of the sites can afford to reject that user agent. http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/ -- Regards, Abhay pgpB8cBRgtnVV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer2, where is it?
On Saturday 10 Mar 2007 2:44:40 am Dale wrote: Source/nsIScriptableMplayerPlugin.h:10:25: error: nsISupports.h: No such file or directory In file included from Source/plugin.h:54, from Source/plugin-support.cpp:1: Source/nsScriptablePeer.h:49:26: error: nsIClassInfo.h: No such file or directory I did post all of it, just the first part. It is really long. Any ideas on this? A similar problem was also discussed on forums some time back http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-542909.html See if the work around mentioned in there works for you or not. -- Regards, Abhay pgphCycNTkYT4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] spca5xx
On Saturday 10 Mar 2007 11:55:16 am Ted Ozolins wrote: Searching Google I take it that the spca5xx under kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 is still a no go? Anyone know of a work-around? You can try unmasking gspcav1, which is the new branch of spca5xx * media-video/gspcav1 Available versions: [M](~)20060925 [M](~)20070110 Homepage:http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html Description: gspcav1 driver for webcams. -- Regards, Abhay pgp2k6hBk3gWt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 02:32, Philip Webb wrote: BTW my problem is that the menu(-bar) fonts are too large: does anyone else experience this does anyone have a solution ? Have you tried reducing scaling in view settings. You can also over-ride system wide font settings by using OOo default fonts. -- Regards, Abhay pgpcGrwPHD84b.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Intel 82865g
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 21:37, Fernando Ferrari wrote: Hi, I'm use a Xorg version 7.0.0 and the video card Intel 82865G, and Xorg don't work with vesa or fbdev, Any ideas? Use it with i810 driver? I had a 865GV board and it worked fine with i810 driver. What is the compulsion behind using vesa? -- Regards, Abhay pgp7kwJ5urHKH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG Trouble - Found Problem, Need Solution
On Sunday 23 April 2006 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: through KGPG. The problem is that the GnuPG agent in the x86 area is version 1.4.2.2, yet KMail demands verison 1.9 The main problem is that gpg-agent has been Package Masked in favour of gnupg-1.9.20-r1. So KMail demands next best alternative i.e. the keyword masked gnupg-1.9.20. Just add it to your package.keywords and install it. It is not causing any problems :) -- Regards, Abhay pgpAxORX9vH3E.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings
So kdepasswd is probably what you are looking for. Ah...thanks a lot man. What a fine way to troubleshoot :) Thanks to everyone else as well who replied. -- Regards, Abhay pgp94js4y0nKz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Do NOT install evolution
On Saturday 22 April 2006 23:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you could simply do the sensible thing and use KDE ;-) Ouch!!! I hope you have your flame suit on! -- Regards, Abhay pgpfaDBRCih4g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wvdial issues
On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:13, maxim wexler wrote: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool Did you upgrade expat to v2.0? If yes then have a look here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-450797-highlight-expat.html -- Regards, Abhay pgpkAxxx60wRC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings
On Friday 21 April 2006 10:34, Martins Steinbergs wrote: i would say you should emerge kdm mar martins # slocate default3.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/default3.png mar martins # equery belongs default3.png [ Searching for file(s) default3.png in *... ] kde-base/kdm-3.5.2 (/usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kdm/pics/users/default3.png) Thanks for replying. I have KDM installed but it doesn't bring the shown settings tab under KControl. I want to know that which package brings that particular module for kcontrol. -- Regards, Abhay pgpwOF3kaGUmm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin * kde-base/kdeadmin Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE administration tools (user manager, etc.) Thanks but kdeadmin is a meta package while I am using split builds. It wants to uninstall 33 packages. I need that particular package which provides this functionality and it is proving to be as difficult as finding a needle in haystack. -- Regards, Abhay pgpUy3FyVXvjx.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] KControl: Password User Account settings
Hello All, I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png When I check for the same under kcontrol on my system (KDE 3.5.2), I am unable to find it. Can some please help me in finding the package needed, in order to get that settings tab? TIA -- Regards, Abhay pgpC5VKhy50Mc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xml2 USE flag description should not have deprecated
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:08, Aniruddha Shankar wrote: Until I realised that OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 does not have the ability to save files as odt or sxw anymore. Wow!!! That sucks. I also compiled everything according to the new profile last night but don't know what all has been damaged. Didn't notice the OOo thing since I am using bin package. I hope nothing has been lost here. -- Regards, Abhay pgpRbIgBPfVXH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk
On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-442920.html Do tell us if it works. -- Regards, Abhay pgpXUPQ9fxce5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] freezing mozilla with mplayer plug-in
On Thursday 09 March 2006 19:56, pat wrote: I have Mozilla with MPlayer plug-in. Each time I play something with the plug-in the Mozilla freez with next operation. What's wrong ??? Did you check to see if you are getting any error by launching mozilla from a terminal? -- Regards, Abhay pgp7ZQ0fuCJYu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64
On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:04, Holly Bostick wrote: Not sure why sometimes lines get wrapped when they shouldn't be, but it does happen (even in nano, where it shouldn't, and certainly in GUI editors, if you set it that way without thinking), and it can have unexpected consequences (like this). cos it is default behavior of nano? you can override it by issuing -w option to nano. i always run nano with -w. -- Regards, Abhay pgp4BZ0jMafwJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?
On Thursday 23 February 2006 19:25, Uwe Thiem wrote: End of rant. I think you should read this article http://rudd-o.com/archives/2006/01/11/why-swap-is-good-even-with-tons-of-ram/ I don't know about you but since I started using an archck kernel, I have always seen my system actually using swap. The swap prefetch patch seems to be working here and I don't mind at all. In fact it makes my system much more responsive. Here is the current free -m report. $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 495485 9 0 61131 -/+ buffers/cache:293202 Swap: 768241526 Now imagine that if I didn't have any swap space, that 241MB would have either been eaten up from my RAM or those files would never have been cached. In first scenario, it would reduce the capability of my system to cache the important files in RAM b'cos it is already full with not-so-important files, while in the latter case the Disk IO on my system will increase whenever I needed those not-so-important files. What ever your choice might be, I personally choose free RAM for better caching of files + lesser Disk IO, even if that means spending 768MB of HDD space. -- Regards, Abhay pgpugWBJYAuql.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
On Monday 20 February 2006 22:50, Uwe Thiem wrote: So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? If you are in KDE, then right clicking on the file should give you a Open with... option in the context menu. Choose that, browse to the application you want to use to open the file and then check the Remember application association This will set the mime type in KDE. Now just double click the file and it will open in your desired application. If you are rather using Gnome, then I am sure someone using that DE will have some ideas. -- Regards, Abhay pgpSJv8QIyXNp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problems
On Monday 13 February 2006 01:39, Statux wrote: anyone have any ideas or similar experiences? Also, is there a different plugin that does the same thing? I've only known there to be mplayer's version. I like to use mozplugger for these tasks. http://mozplugger.mozdev.org/ It makes netscape compatible plugin thus enabling you to use it in almost every browser including Konqueror, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera etc. Also it not only handles video but also audio files, MIDI files, documents etc. -- Regards, Abhay pgpfUYrRVlRa5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:29, Uwe Thiem wrote: No, they are not. That's OSS stuff and not present on my box since I don't use OSS. I have this in my /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules which is related to ALSA # alsa devices SUBSYSTEM==sound, GROUP=audio KERNEL==controlC[0-9]*, NAME=snd/%k KERNEL==hw[CD0-9]*, NAME=snd/%k KERNEL==pcm[CD0-9cp]*,NAME=snd/%k KERNEL==midiC[D0-9]*, NAME=snd/%k KERNEL==timer,NAME=snd/%k KERNEL==seq, NAME=snd/%k Confirm that you have some similar entries. -- Regards, Abhay pgpMoa0XdP67e.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour
On Saturday 11 February 2006 16:38, b.n. wrote: Why a bad idea? I find it made things easier. If you install SANE for example it is almost obvious you have installed a scanner and you probably need the scanner use flag. So use.defaults did. Of course you can disable it if you don't appear to like it. ...but why enable it in the first place? It is not what Gentoo should do for me. USE flags is optional stuff and should stay that way, rather than portage trying to force an option down my throat. I first experienced this thing when I installed MySQL to use with amaroK. Ok I want it to manage my 20K files music collection but thats it!!! I don't want lots of other packages to think that I want MySQL support in them as well. If I want it, I would enable it. Why should portage enable this USE flag in all of the packages and force me to disable it? Similar is with JDK. If I am installing JDK to compile my occasional JAVA programs then why enable it for GCC, DB, OpenOffice and what not. It was an irritating thing imho. If portage thinks that an option is vital for a package's functioning then it should not be a USE flag and if it is a USE flag then it should *allow me* to decide whether I want to *enable* it or not. -- Regards, Abhay pgp67eXWBOMzh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound
On Sunday 12 February 2006 00:59, Uwe Thiem wrote: Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and rightly so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are a couple of devices under /dev/snd: The devices of interest are under /dev/sound and not under /dev/snd # ls -l /dev/sound total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Feb 11 15:19 audio crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Feb 11 15:19 dsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 0 Feb 11 15:19 mixer crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 1 Feb 11 15:19 sequencer crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 8 Feb 11 15:19 sequencer2 # Now try /etc/init.d/alsasound restart and then immediately see under dmesg for any errors or any other things of interest. -- Regards, Abhay pgp9lgbXUCUhi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.
On Saturday 04 February 2006 07:05, Willie Wong wrote: For firefox, I just found the following tidbit: http://www.mail-archive.com/svg-developers@yahoogroups.com/msg07375.html basically, svgz should be gzip'd svg files. For some reason, Firefox cannot deal with local svgz files, but can display it when served the correct HTTP headers from a webserver. This would explain why it worked on my box (because I only looked at svg files on the web). Which means, possibly, that if you have a webserver (Apache) set up on your box, you might be able to look at the svgz files by serving it via http://localhost/file.svgz? Ah...too bad. Well, I don't have a web server so I guess I'll have to just live with it for a time being. Thanks for looking into the problem :) -- Regards, Abhay pgpUdVl5OOI8P.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing SVG/SVGZ files.
On Friday 03 February 2006 12:01, Willie Wong wrote: For konquerer and kview, did you install ksvg? No but now I did and it works great in KDE related things. Thanks a lot for this :) Which version of eog do you have? 2.12.2 should have support for image/svg+xml Since you have problem with svgz files in both firefox and eog, please check your /etc/mime.types file to make sure that both svg and svgz are associated with image/svg+xml. I am using eog-2.12.2. I did not have mime-types installed thus no /etc/mime.types. Now, I have emerged it but have a different problem in Firefox. When I try to open svgz files it shows the following error -- XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: file:///foo.svgz Line Number 1, Column 1: -- eog doesn't change its behaviour and sits there as I explained earlier. Thanks for the ksvg idea and will be reall greatful if firefox worked as well. -- Regards, Abhay pgpdaVNoNnFkI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)
On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. -- Regards, Abhay pgpDBsUMAdkF2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.
On Saturday 28 January 2006 20:38, Benno Schulenberg wrote: See man hwclock, the section on The Adjust Function. Thanks for the explanation and the tip. It certainly makes sense now :-) Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? I disabled it recently when I was trying to get to the root of this problem. I am also using HPET in my kernel. Can I use both these features? Do they clash with each other? -- Regards, Abhay pgplGFmnbKyrp.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.
Hello Everyone, I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is happening. I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hours ago at 14:00 hrs and boot at 18:00 hrs, it will still set the time to 14:00 hrs instead of the correct time. The CMOS battery is fine. I can say this because if I enter the BIOS (after 4 hours reboot) it shows the correct time. I start a Live CD, it shows the correct time as well, but when I start Gentoo it sets the wrong system time or as mentioned in example: 4 hours back. It writes the time it was shutdown on, over the BIOS Clock instead of reading from it. How can I solve it? How can I force Gentoo to read from the BIOS Clock at the time of boot, instead of writing it. If it helps, here is my /etc/conf.d/clock. - # /etc/conf.d/clock CLOCK=local CLOCK_OPTS= CLOCK_SYSTOHC=no (have tried both yes and no) SRM=no ARC=no - I am not using ntp or any other such softwares because I don't have an all time working Internet Connection. I would be greatful if someone could help me solve this weird problem. -- Regards, Abhay pgp2WVL2x2LGH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: That deserves looking into: I'd start with the kernel config. Maybe something about /dev/rtc? Here are the outputs --- genbox abhay # ls -l /dev/rtc ls: /dev/rtc: No such file or directory genbox abhay # grep RTC /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_RTC is not set # CONFIG_GEN_RTC is not set CONFIG_HPET_RTC_IRQ=y # CONFIG_SENSORS_RTC8564 is not set # CONFIG_RTC_X1205_I2C is not set --- I tried setting CONFIG_RTC to y but that didn't help either. But the quick fix is probably rc-update del clock. I am apprehensive towards doing that. It is a boot time service. How smart would it be to remove it from there. If I try that, would I break my system instantaneously? -- Regards, Abhay pgpMdKG59LddK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.
On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: If it is ticking , then set the hardware clock to the correct time with 'hwclock --set --date=thistime', then throw away the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). That was it!!! That was the file causing all the pain. I moved it away and now there are no problems. Any ideas why it was doing it. The file is obviously there for some reason but it was not functioning properly. It must be something that I messed up. How can I find out? Do you need the local time thing? If Linux is the only OS on your box it's easier to use UTC. Yes I boot multiple OS so I need local -- Regards, Abhay pgp5MSry1d8MZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: But the quick fix is probably rc-update del clock. I don't know if that's a Bad Thing To Do (TM), but nobody screamed when I asked about it in #gentoo. Though the problem is solved now but it is still worth mentioning that removing clock from boot is not possible until i remove bootmisc, syslog-ng and vixie-cron as well. Thanks for you time :-) -- Regards, Abhay pgpYXCc6vahhH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.
with 'hwclock --set --date=thistime', then throw away the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). Stupid me!!! Totally forgot to do the most important thing i.e. to thank you for the help. Thanks a lot for that great tip :-) -- Regards, Abhay pgpY6PaS935Jm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the GRP discs?
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: It's been almost a year since I last installed Gentoo. Now I need to do it again, and I can't find the GRP package CDs on any of the mirrors I've tried. Anyone know where I can find 2005.1 GRP ISOs? Never tried GRP install but is it also know as Package CD? http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml Gentoo 2005.1 Package CD Is that it? -- Regards, Abhay pgpW2lxaYyQZ2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Captive will not acquire?
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 04:35, Michael Kintzios wrote: # /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire bash: /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire: No such file or directory # captive-install-acquire bash: captive-install-acquire: command not found Did you enable gtk USE flag? -- Regards, Abhay pgpjGZsKrszTh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?
On Monday 23 January 2006 22:29, maxim wexler wrote: Yes Try printing a test page directly from CUPS Admin panel so that any problems with printer configuration is ruled out. -- Regards, Abhay pgpIjuPoO2JdK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On Sunday 22 January 2006 17:38, Derek Tracy wrote: wish that Amarok handled Podcasts with more flexibility and allowed me to create playlists and such automaticlaly on my iPod (problem solved by not using Amarok and using bashpodder / gnupod). Check back with amaroK 1.4 and you will have that feature :) KDE has been a great experience and I can see why Linus prefers it over Gnome (I used to enjoy Gnome more than KDE). This all being said I am very excited to see what KDE dev's come up with next (maybe a good Arts successor). The will probably be dropping aRts in KDE 4 -- Regards, Abhay pgpdXJvPpiuga.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --buildpkgonly world won't go: kde metapackage problem?
On Sunday 22 January 2006 23:51, Robert Persson wrote: The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a kde upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop, but could kde in fact be the very source of the problem? Is emerge getting confused by the split kde metafiles again? I don't know the solution to the buildpkg problem but moving to KDE 3.5 should not break your desktop. KDE 3.5 is slotted to install along with 3.4.3. Thus, while you will install 3.5, you will still have the existing KDE 3.4.3. -- Regards, Abhay pgpWBaMTdfVMA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:52, Dale wrote: Still wish I had etcat though. :-( It is located here on my system. /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre2/deprecated/etcat/etcat If you like the script so much then just copy the script to somewhere safe, where portage cannot take it away from you. -- Regards, Abhay pgpxsKbFhHVGY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?
On Monday 23 January 2006 07:02, maxim wexler wrote: In the cups/error_log Did you set LogLevel to debug2 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? If not try it and then see what errors you get. Also double check whether you set atleast one printer as default. -- Regards, Abhay pgpEjcE1ilOqr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On Saturday 21 January 2006 05:36, Holly Bostick wrote: That may be true, but it assumes that I want a Desktop Environment in the first place, which I don't, particularly. Ermm...if you don't want a Desktop Environment then why install K Desktop Environment in the first place and then why get into a discussion related to Desktop Environments anyways? As I said, after finding even GNOME too heavy, I switched to Openbox 3, which basically presents *no* working environment, and now use fvwm-crystal, which presents a relatively minimal one, certainly by comparison to KDE. Openbox is a Window Manager so it is not *supposed* to present any working environment. fvwm-crystal also makes choices for you, like installing a panel and wallpapers for you. It is inherent quality for a DE to make choices and install stuff for you so as to present an already working environment. If it is not doing this...it is not a DE. But I simply don't like DEs. If I'm going to spend time fine-tuning my desktop, I want exactly what I want, exactly the way I like it, not as close to how I like it as the DE supports. That's why I use build-it-yourself WMs like OB3 and FVWM. Before you entered into this discussion, you should have understood the difference between WMs and DEs. You are comparing apples with oranges. How smart it is? I will leave you to decide :) -- Regards, Abhay pgp1v0Kt5iAzd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products
On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:52, maxim wexler wrote: Ok, so you click on 'Do Administrative Tasks' at that place of mystery http://localhost:631/ and it asks you for your username and password and you give it your username and password and it asks you again and again...and as often as it asks, you give until you can give no more! Give root as username and root password. -- Regards, Abhay pgp3B8K8gLpRZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products
On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:52, maxim wexler wrote: Hi, Welcome to my leaner, stripped-to-the-basics, I-can't-setup-my-printer thread. Come in, make yourself at home. Much roomier here, as you can see. Oops!!! Looks like I missed your more obese thread about this same problem. Can you post output of emerge -pv cups and emerge --info -- Regards, Abhay pgpbZYzub1ii0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On Friday 20 January 2006 19:59, Holly Bostick wrote: more comfortable with a more Windows-like environment, and Windows-like assumptions about what a user wants/needs from their desktop, KDE may be just the thing; that is, after all, what it's designed to do to a great extent. That statement is extremely unfair to KDE. Every DE needs to make at least some assumptions to present a working environment for the user and KDE is not alone in doing that. The quality comes in when the DE not only makes some choices for you but also gives you an easy access to editing/changing those features. As far as I can see, you can edit every choice that KDE has made for you with minimal fuss. If that is being Windows-like, then you can not be more wrong. -- Regards, Abhay pgpFYCVgHW1m1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On Friday 20 January 2006 21:08, Alexander Kirillov wrote: and better integrated with other open source projects out there. That is not a quality of Gnome but GTK. Gnome uses GTK while KDE uses QT. Since (earlier) QT had a non-acceptable license for most of the developers of FLOSS, they chose GTK over QT. This lead to more and more applications being written with the toolkit, hence their better integration with Gnome. -- Regards, Abhay pgpSwc6VYnrys.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE? [OT]
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:01, darren kirby wrote: Unscientific: Google for: kde rules -- 40,900 kde sucks -- 9,660 gnome rules -- 554 gnome sucks -- 10,500 Draw your own conclusions. ..or we could always use googlefight ;) http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GBword1=kdeword2=gnome -- Regards, Abhay pgpcSTVYABIM6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:02, Richard Fish wrote: But since ALSA now has the dmix plugin that works pretty well for those cards that do not provide hardware mixing, the only reason to continue to use a sound server is if you have trouble configuring dmix. The use of dmix is not automatic... It is, if you are using 1.0.9 ALSA. I did not do anything do setup dmix and it works fine. -- Regards, Abhay pgpUxPlSEsj7O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3
On Monday 16 January 2006 17:57, Thiago Lüttig wrote: grep: /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libungif.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libungif.la' is not a valid libtool archive Re-emerge imlib2 with gif use flag. -- Regards, Abhay pgpaOEcdpUZYA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I have done it before but I can not seem to get it working now. A google search seems to get me nowhere. Any thoughts or a nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated. Flash still uses OSS to play sounds, and if you are using ALSA then it is using OSS emulation. I don't know how to do it with other browsers but I use aoss firefox to start firefox. This mixes sounds of Flash pretty well with any other sound producing app. I can even hear songs while Flash produces its sound in browser. A point to mention here would be that I am not using esd or any other sound daemon. Just plain jane ALSA with dmix. -- Regards, Abhay pgpMr35fpNrcC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3
On Monday 16 January 2006 18:59, Thiago Lüttig wrote: man, it wasn´t work how wold be the command line exactly ?? First check whether you have gif use flag enabled for imlib2 or not by using this command # emerge -pv imlib2 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-libs/imlib2-1.2.1.009 +X +bzip2 -doc +gif +jpeg +mmx +mp3 +nls +png +tiff +zlib 0 kB As you can see, I have gif flag enabled. Try re-emerging imlib2 by using command # emerge imlib2 -- Regards, Abhay pgp5bZfWrLrZ3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament
On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this out at the moment) It comes from alsa-oss. This package gets compiled automatically, as a dependency, if you enable +oss use flag with alsa-driver On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What purpose do sound servers serve? If you check out mailing list archives of sometime back, you'll find me asking exactly the same question. At that time I was using aRts with KDE, and was experiencing nothing but problems. I did not get any concrete replies to this particular question i.e. Why use a sound server anyways?. Just to see how things turn out, I disabled aRts and don't face any problems till now. I am using ALSA directly. You can also try disabling esd and see how things go for you. If you face any problems then you can enable it again, but I personally don't see any reason to use a sound server. -- Regards, Abhay pgpc8sW0Tdbn2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?
On Friday 13 January 2006 02:04, Zac Medico wrote: You can boot off of the cd and build a kernel immediately or you can copy the cd's kernel. When booted from the cd, the kernel is found at /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo-em64t and corresponding modules are in /lib/modules. The install cd and stages are available from the /releases/amd64/2005.1-r1/ directory on the mirrors. Got the kernel and modules. Systems boots fine, just that I don't have X. This probably is expected as there might not be the necessary modules installed? Will be starting a 64bit install anytime now. Thanks for the tip of getting the kernel and modules from the CD. BTW is there any way I can get X? -- Regards, Abhay pgp2cWpZUkExY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?
On Friday 13 January 2006 22:59, John Jolet wrote: emerge Xorg? or emerge kde-meta Xorg and KDE both are emerged and I am using this kernel on already existing system. If you are saying that I should reemerge them, then wouldn't I bork my already working 32bit system? -- Regards, Abhay -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with firefox + netscape-flash
On Friday 13 January 2006 04:04, Giulio wrote: compiled version. I checked with the binary version and there's no problem at all, so... it's my fault. you are using amd64 or x86 arch? -- Regards, Abhay pgp31HAjcw8GT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?
On Saturday 14 January 2006 00:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: Why don't you just do a separate 64 bit install using stage 3 and GRP packages? You'll have it working in far less time than you have spent on this hybrid 32/64 bit setup. You are probably right that I should do an install with GRP packages but the problem is that this is a family PC. I have 5 other people using this system. I annoyed all of them when I hard pressed and removed Windows. Now if I do a GRP install, then first I'll have to customise it according to everyone's needs and then once again when I complete the amd64 system. Not only does this put more load on me, but also gives the other members a chance to mock me and say, Windows would have been far better. If this current idea (by Zac) of compiling a kernel and drivers under stage 3 doesn't work, then I'll surely do a GRP install. BTW thanks for sticking with this thread for so long and not getting annoyed :-) -- Regards, Abhay pgpvAbDsJoF5w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?
On Friday 13 January 2006 23:58, Zac Medico wrote: Apparently the new kernel does not include the necessary drivers or modules. You may get a clue from /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Depending on your hardware, you may be able to get it working temporarily with either the vesa or fbdev drivers. In any case, you can use a stage3 chroot to build yourself a new kernel and the appropriate drivers. Thanks. That is a nice idea. Will do it next and see how it goes. -- Regards, Abhay pgpQK782NUAsP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?
On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:04, Zac Medico wrote: Well, you can't convert the 32 bit userland directly to 64 bit. However, you can run the 32 bit userland with a 64 bit kernel. For example, you can borrow the kernel from the amd64 minimal install cd. The 64 bit kernel behaves essentially the same as the 32 bit one, so you only need to setup the bootloader like you normally would. After you've booted into a 64 bit kernel, you will be able to chroot from your 32 bit userland into a 64 bit stage3 and build your new system. Wow!!! That sounds the perfect solution. Is it possible? I just compile a 64bit kernel and chroot will be possible? Is there a place I can download the kernel from? Regards, Abhay pgp0fwhhGbINX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O
On Friday 13 January 2006 03:24, Dale Kirkley wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 whatever email address I am trying to send to Relaying denied. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try again. Do you use SMTP Authentication? If not, enable it. Looks like your ISP mail server has started requiring users to login/authenticate before they can use its SMTP service. Read a bit more in this thread: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1316842 -- Regards, Abhay pgpR75ZI8Mwzv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:46, Willie Wong wrote: The documentation for mplayer, however, suggests that with xmms support it can play musepack files. So you probably should make sure you compiled mplayer with the xmms flag, and emerge xmms-musepack. Presumably that would work. Actually I did try that but it doesn't work. If you see I do have xmms use flag enabled and xmms-musepack installed as well but same error. Musepack forums mention that mplayer is natively playing musepack files in CVS so I installed CVS as well...but no luck. http://www.musepack.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=255highlight=mplayer Anyways, I am compiling moc now. Hope that it has an easy to use interface. Regards, Abhay pgphCuOk1CExe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:44, Willie Wong wrote: [01:09 PM]wwong ~ $ mplayer X-Mod_radio_x-level.mpc MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team Ah...thanks a lot. That struck a cord :) I did a major mistake. While searching for mplayer and musepack, I had an idea that CVS version will work. Portage has a cvs snapshot, so I compiled that. It didn't work so I compiled xmms-musepack and recompiled mplayer (cvs version). No luck! But your mail made me compile the stable package and this version uses the xmms plugin :). mpc files now play in mplayer (yipee). Thanks once again for the help. Regards, Abhay pgpwx9cLRfgDy.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?
Hello Everyone, I have a EM64T enabled processor but currently running x86 install. Now I would like to install 64bit Gentoo on this system but since this is the only PC that I have, it is indispensable for me. I can't put it in command line mode or run it on a live CD for 3-4 days and allow it to compile 64 bit Gentoo. So now what are the options for me? Is there anyway that I can enable 64bit emulation on this system, undertake the whole compiling process and then move to the new environment? It does sound silly but just hoping if someone actually accomplished something like this. Any ideas or pointers/links will be really helpful. TIA Regards, Abhay pgp5c8ljjaDYz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?
On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: Do a stage 3 install plus GRP packages. You'll have a fully working 64 bit desktop in around an hour. Then edit make.conf and /etc/portage/* to suit your needs, emerge --sync and emerge -e world while using the system. Thanks for the reply Neil but I don't have a fast connection. Just a 64kbps connection. If I follow GRP way then first I'll have to download a live CD, then the GRP Packages and then undergo the whole process of downloading other distfiles etc. It will be a really long and lengthy downloading process for me. Can't I do it from my existing 32 bit installation? Regards, Abhay pgp7qebz1I2Ss.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?
Hello Everyone, I am trying to play mpc files in mplayer but get the following error while doing so == Requested audio codec family [musepack] (afm=mpcdec) not available. Enable it at compilation. Cannot find codec for audio format 0x2043504D. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! == Here are the USE flags when I compile mplayer and the relevant output after configure gets completed [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0.20060102 +3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext +X +aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -bidi -bindist -bl +cdparanoia -cpudetection +custom-cflags -debug +dga -directfb -doc +dts -dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode -esd -fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk +i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg +libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo +mad +matroska -matrox +mmx +mmxext -nas +nls -nvidia +opengl +oss +png +real -rtc -samba +sdl +sse +sse2 +svga -tga +theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 +vorbis +win32codecs -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid +xvmc 0 kB - Disabled optional drivers: Input: vstream tv-v4l2 tv-v4l tv-bsdbt848 edl live555 mpdvdkit dvb smb Codecs: opendivx x264 libdv amr_wb amr_nb xanim musepack speex twolame toolame liblzo Audio output: sgi sun jack polyp esd dxr2 nas dsound win32 Video output: winvidix bl zr zr2 dxr3 dxr2 directx vesa fbdev aa ggi xmga mga directfb tga tdfxfb Audio filters: ladspa -- Now, it clearly shows that musepack is one of the optional codecs but how do I enable it to compile with mplayer? I have tried installing various musepack related packages so that mplayer's configure detects mpc support but in vain. # emerge -pv libmusepack libmpcdec musepack-tools [ebuild R ] media-libs/libmusepack-1.1-r1 -static 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/libmpcdec-1.2 -doc -static 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-sound/musepack-tools-1.15v +16bit -esd -static 0 kB No relevant use flags seem to be there in the ebuild. What should I do? Any ideas will be highly appreciated. TIA Regards, Abhay pgpm3uy1BhQE7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:48, Mike Williams wrote: You know, you could all just use: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb ...and if we face any problems we will be flamed by purist Gentooers? Reading that wiki entry made me remember the people who use --oh-so-fast CFLAGS and then get flamed in forums. I personally would never use such hacks in something as important as portage. Regards, Abhay pgpXPXH2tNdDU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome
On Saturday 07 January 2006 00:11, David Meyer wrote: /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoxft-render.h:95: error: parse error before XftGlyphSpec keyboard-drawing.c: In function `xkb_state_notify_event_filter': I somehow missed this post. Replied to a similar post b Jamie. Anyways, sync and re-emerge. Known bug, now resolved. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112659 Regards, Abhay pgp9dBoliZOSK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Sunday 08 January 2006 03:25, Trenton Adams wrote: So, there's documentation that specifically explains that packages can be split, and this can cause a conflict? I tried to find that, after What? How is packages being split even comes in question and why does it need specific documentation? A conflict is a conflict. It can arise because of any new change that has been committed to portage. Man pages explain how to solve these conflicts. Job done! Now I don't understand how hand-picking each problem and then explaining about it is going to help. Documentation about a super-set is present. How will writing the same thing about each subset help the matter? If anything it will just increase the redundancy. What you want is a how to on climbing the stairs. Either you can write, Climb 1st step and then go step by step or you can write Climb 1st step, then climb 2nd step, then 3rd step, then climb...? Which one do you want? I dont' need most of gentoo's documentation, as I've found it quite easy to use, after learning and reading about a few basic things. But not everyone does. Why? Why doesn't everyone else find Gentoo easy? What is it that differs you from others? Some super intelligence? The only difference between you and the others that I can see is that you chose to read while others don't. Regards, Abhay pgpbUAdzdLeJf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Sunday 08 January 2006 06:36, Trenton Adams wrote: Here we go again, who says that you have to limit it to a menu? Give a menu, but allow a graphical shell during install for those that want to do extra packages, or whatever. Or, even provide a dynamically extendable menu that can grab packages lists from other places, from another CD, floppy, Internet, etc. So, to not provide a menu would be *limiting* as well. But I do agree with you Holly, that providing *only* a *predefined* graphical menu for package installation would be limiting. Menu of what? How will a Gentoo developer know what you want to install? If you are starting from Stage 3, you just need to choose what to install and thats it. How will a menu help you in that? As far as graphics based Gentoo install is concerned. I don't think that it is even anywhere near Gentoo Dev's priorities right now. Wouldn't it be beneficial to provide automated graphical installs for gentoo, but provide the option to open a graphical shell at *all* stages of the installation process? Wouldn't that be ultimate flexibility? I read about the new graphical install for gentoo, and perhaps it already does this!?!? Yes having a graphical install process would be great. Why don't you volunteer and try to write one for us? :) Regards, Abhay pgpJ9CPke6u3s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:57, Trenton Adams wrote: Menu of what? How will a Gentoo developer know what you want to install? If you are starting from Stage 3, you just need to choose what to install and thats it. How will a menu help you in that? As far as graphics based Gentoo install is concerned. I don't think that it is even anywhere near Gentoo Dev's priorities right now. Really? Then why have they already created one? Hmm. They have? Where? pgprkyOaj6rP1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:33, Trenton Adams wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ Looks great to me. Just didn't see any discussion on gentoo-dev or may be I missed it. So now what do you want then? You have a graphical based install and once you have a working system, you can install more packages. What makes you say that gentoo is difficult? pgp8nWpNSe1aH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:02, Marc Schlienger wrote: Hi, I've installed kde3.4.3 with arts on my amd64 machine. Alsa is working fine. But arts works only partially. All notification sound doesn't work. Also I don't get sound when logging in. But, for example, amarok works with the arts driver. Is this a known bug? What can I do? Whats the result of emerge -pv arts? Regards, Abhay pgpqfZLZday0K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.4.3 with arts on amd64
On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:27, Marc Schlienger wrote: [ebuild R ] kde-base/arts-3.4.3 +alsa +arts +artswrappersuid -debug -esd -hardened -jack -kdeenablefinal +mp3 -nas -vorbis -xinerama 0 kB There is your problem. All KDE system sounds are ogg files thus you need +vorbis USE flag while compiling arts, to play these files or use a third party player like alsaplayer to do it for you. Regards, Abhay pgpbYJ8MKTzlw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error)
On Sunday 08 January 2006 19:04, Marco Calviani wrote: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive What does opengl-update --get-implementation tell you? Regards, Abhay pgp0lQXby91bw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.la error + ATI's libGL.la empty (rss-glx compile error)
On Sunday 08 January 2006 23:51, Marco Calviani wrote: # /usr/sbin/opengl-update --get-implementation ati Change it to xorg-x11 by doing a opengl-update xorg-x11. It will make your system to use xorg driver for opengl purpose. Yes it will remove the 3D acceleration but it is only for the time being. Once you successfully compile your program, you can change back to ati's opengl infra by opengl-update ati. Apparently ati driver's opengl framework seems to be broken which does not provide the library in question but you can work around it by using xorg's library, only for compiling. HTH Regards, Abhay pgpxgVVxK465Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:05, Christian Floeter wrote: my Canon LiDE 25 scanner is only recognized by scanimage when logged in as root. A shot in the dark. Could this be the solution? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_USB_scanner#UDEV Regards, Abhay pgpt0CTQ0IVPW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:28, Trenton Adams wrote: Who says they know they have a fear of computers? You can be doing something that you don't even know you're afraid of. Obviously if it was total fear, they would know about it. LOL!!! Unknown fear? I have heard about Fear of unknown but this one is new. pgp9TEK6EgoIp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Issues trying to get emerge -uD world to work
On Monday 09 January 2006 08:17, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Please excuse the messy cut and paste but I've been having problems with the mailing list from one of my email accounts and had to move back to this one). Sync and re-emerge. Known bug, now resolved. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118077 Regards, Abhay pgp0LqJIqAs5j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?
On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:53, Tom Eastman wrote: I have a two-screen setup with X. Also, in addition to my usual keyboard and mouse, I have a cordless keyboard and mouse combo thingee. At the moment both keyboards work fine, and both mouses control the same pointer. It occurred to me that it would be very cool to be able to have one keyboard and mouse controlling a pointer on one of the monitors, and the other keyboard and mouse controlling the *other* monitor. I don't know where I read this discussion but I totally agree that doing this kind of a thing is really cool. Here is the link to do the same http://disjunkt.com/dualhead/ I can't try it since I don't have two of everything but would love to know how it turns out for you. Do tell us whether you succeed or not ;) Regards, Abhay pgpviQ0TAT1DU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE/CUPS and toner density
On Saturday 07 January 2006 15:53, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: The problem is: I have Xerox Phaser 3120 printer (which, I think, is the same as Samsung ML-1710). I have tried to play with 'toner density' driver property under the 'Printer Manager' - 'printer context menu' - 'Configure'. I have not noticed any difference between '1' and '5' density. The aim is to set max possible density. Try configuring it directly from CUPS (localhost:631) I once tried configuring my deskjet from both KDE and OOo but it didn't work. Then I configured it through CUPS and settings do work now. Regards, Abhay pgpOzqsTEfmW5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?
On Friday 06 January 2006 19:24, Petteri Räty wrote: You can always file a bug in bugs.kde.org to request this to be configurable. As usual first check that the bug does not already exist. While filing the bug I found a related bug and the fix is said to be committed to svn. Here it is http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119146 Is there any chance that Gentoo developers could commit this fix to the portage, even though it is still in SVN? What should I do to confirm? Regards, Abhay pgp5kwAm68vJg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:43, Trenton Adams wrote: which is what I mentioned in another post that I made. When I originally started with gentoo linux, I read the part about why gentoo linux came about. Basically it was all about doing things the way you want. Well, I like the flexiblity, but I also want the simplicity. :) Let us have the simplicity of RedHat, and RPMs (waiting for flames), but with flexibility as well. You should review what you want out of your Linux Distro cos I for once am failing to understand your point of view. What do you want? Gentoo is gentoo. It gives you full control to do what *YOU* want to do and taking full control of a full fledged OS is needless to say; difficult. If you don't desire or need the full control then imho there are various other distros available with *simplicity* written all over them. They should be there at your service. But if Gentoo starts to uninstall stuff from my system without asking me then the whole philosophy of control dies or Gentoo dies. Regards, Abhay pgp7XmAVdrIf0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem
On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:47, Holly Bostick wrote: So from this I deduce that 1) xorg 6.8.99 was *really* broken/incomplete or did something radically different that etc-update and cfg-update cannot deal with, since these files were never updated or offered to update while I when I actually installed the package or at any time while I was running the package (it's not like I haven't emerged anything for the past two months); and etc-update and cfg-update cannot handle it because they are not supposed to do it. The directory has been config protected so even though they are finding the new config files they can't over write anything until the protection is removed. 2) these files are now irrelevant (since I have gone back to 6.8.2-r6) and can be deleted without penalty; and They are relevant but 6.8.2-r6 wants to install its own version of the files. 3) these files are what is confusing the update utilities, and they will snap back when these old-cfg and new-cfg files are deleted. True. Does that sound about right? Xorg 6.8.2-r6 seems to be working OK I have a feeling that you followed the Migrating to Modular X.org guide and uninstalled old version of xorg before installing the new version, thus deleting xkb files. The upgrade to 6.8.99, as expected, installed the new version of these files. Now, that you've downgraded, the old versioned files are trying to install again but since the directory is protected and already contains 6.8.99 xkb files, etc-update cannot update the directory. You are not facing any problem because you are most probably not using xkb or in other words the keyboard layouts. If you've never used different keyboard layouts then you can comfortably delete the new-cfg files and expect to face nil problems. I hope I made myself comprehendible. Please mind that English is not my first language :) Regards, Abhay pgp3xOXyDV1pu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem
On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Holly Bostick wrote: What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. afaik etc-update does not reinitialize anything. All it looks for are files that have been named in a specific way. It diffs the original file with its update and then asks you whether to overwrite or not. You can delete the ._cfg files or let them be. They will not cause you any problems. Regards, Abhay pgpgOpysSL3dO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird!
On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over to Yahoo to post this and the window's still OK. So, thankfully it's not permanent ;) Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what's happening here. Can anybody duplicate it? I went to that site and yup, it resizes the window. May be the site uses some kind of crappy javascript which is doing this. But when I restarted firefox I was not redirected to the second link you pointed to. I had my blank page opened for me. Regards, Abhay pgpLsvp9Hrbps.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Saturday 07 January 2006 22:00, Trenton Adams wrote: I'm just of the mind that we really should encourage it's use, while encouraging people to also understand what's happening under the hood. ...and how do you suggest that should be done? There is tons of documentation available for user to read and know what is happening under the hood but no one wants to RTFM. Even this problem that you faced has been clearly explained along with its solution in man emerge. How should Gentoo force a user to read the documentation and the man pages? I like both that my car just works, and I don't have to know how the pistons go up and down, but that I can also look under the hood if I so desire. Thinking on the wrong lines again and what you want can never happen, at least with Gentoo; because Gentoo does not give you a working car at all. It just gives you spare parts (ebuilds packages), books to read (documentation) and a tool box (portage). Then it tells you to go ahead and make your own car. It totally depends on you whether you want to make it a blazing fast Ferrari or a classy Limo. To achieve anything of that sorts you *HAVE TO* know how the pistons go up and down. If you don't read and just put together the pieces in a random order then you might make a moving car but it will not be a working one. Moral of the story? To have full control, you gotta know how things work inside the engine :) Regards, Abhay pgplgtdTD2sIl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem [SOLVED]
Just on a side note, etc-update will soon be deprecated. Try dispatch-conf. This will be the tool to use in future for config updates. Regards, Abhay pgpscWY8J76WR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts fell apart
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:17, Grant wrote: I was experimenting with kde and now my xfce4 fonts look terrible. Does that ring a bell for anyone? What could be causing this? - Grant Did you try deleting directories related to .kde. Also try deleting .fonts.conf and .Xresources. I hope that you have not customised them and got messed up while using KDE. Regards, Abhay pgpEPXdySfN7f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dbus will not complete compile.
On Thursday 05 January 2006 23:40, Dale wrote: -I../../../../gcj/org/freedesktop/dbus -march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE=1 -c natMessage.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/natMessage.o natMessage.cc:8:21: Message.h: No such file or directory natMessage.cc:15: error: `org' has not been declared gcj -I../../../.. -I../../../../gcj/org/freedesktop/dbus -c Message.java -fPIC -o .libs/Message.o make[5]: *** [natMessage.lo] Error 1 make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs [SNIP] Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-0.60-r3 [0.50-r2] +X -debug +doc +gcj +gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB Do you need gcj use flag? If you don't then try disabling it and see if it works. Regards, Abhay pgpP11o4sXbOy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 11:20, Roy Wright wrote: Try kate -u filename kate --help shows this option: -u, --use Use a already running kate instance (if possible) I have this same problem. Earlier on opening a file from konqueror or any where else the kate used to open it in the already open instance. How to make that behaviour default? How to get back that functionality. I thought that I messed something up but now it looks like everyone is facing this problem. Regards, Abhay pgpksz58vLuLW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 15:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: call Kate. Go to the Control Centre - KDE components - File associations and select text/plain. Select Kate, press Edit, go to the Application tab and change the command from kate %U to kate --use %U. That doesn't work :( It shows error saying KDEInit could not launch kate. Regards, Abhay pgpW1PO6lqBt0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 16:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: I've just tried it on another box, and I do get that error when opening a second file, but checking kate shows that it does have both files loaded. Ah...you are right. The files did get opened but that error pop (and that too twice) is quite annoying. I even tried to rename kate to kate.bin and created a script with name kate which calls kate.bin with --use option but that also gives the same error. I don't quite understand what made KDE developers withdraw such an excellent feature. God knows what goes in developers mind *sigh* Regards, Abhay pgp9tCSQZNznO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: I set the text/plain file type to call this with only %U as an argument, and it works without annoying messages. Thanks for looking into this :) This works but why is it so slow in launching? The first instance loads instantaneously but the second one is quite slow. Any ideas? Regards, Abhay pgpmsrVUBT2NB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE without aRts?
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 19:46, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: Then in kcontrol you may wish to disable arts too, and use external player option. Thus artsd remains in your system but it'll be never used. That is exactly what I am doing :) I have disabled aRts and using alsaplayer to play the sounds. If everything goes fine for sometime then I will try to put a -arts in make.conf and see how it goes. Regards, Abhay pgp7THsnjWmGC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] TIFFs in FireFox?
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 07:58, Justin Hart wrote: How do I incorporate TIFF functionality into FireFox? There do not appear to be any USE flags on firefox that apply to this. You need to use plugin for TIFF images. Just like what you do with Flash and JAVA. You can either use Plugger or mozplugger to do it. These plugins will provide lots of additional functionalities including audio, video, MIDI files playback and viewing of TIFF, PNG, BMP, Photoshop and other formats. I am personally using mozplugger and use imagemagick as a viewer for TIFF images. Regards, Abhay pgpiFJRfOIbkF.pgp Description: PGP signature
