Re: [gentoo-user] KDE - Could not create a python scriptengine
Am 05.01.2011 15:19, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Problems in KDE widget land. I did a daily emerge -DuN @world yesterday. Everything seemed fine until I booted up this morning. Now a number of my KDE desktop widgets are all saying Could not create a python scriptengine for the FadingCalendar widget. (change the name for each widget on my desktop.) I tried removing and adding the widget back but I get the same error. Looking at my emerge log it seem that PyQt4 was emerged yesterday. I see other reports on the web of this problem some 2 years ago on some platforms where PyQt was presumed to be involved. I've made no use flag or package changes on this system. Is anyone else seeing anything like this? Cheers, Mark Hi! Try the remerge alle packages PyQt4 depends on: (equery d PyQt4)
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?
Am 27.12.2010 16:20, schrieb Marc Blumentritt: Hi, I have bought myself a Christmas present, a new shiny hard disk. Now I want to copy my old Gentoo system to my new disk like this: 1.) boot with gentoo boot cd 2.) mount my old system ind /old ( / in one partition, /home, /usr, /var, /tmp and /opt in lvm2 volumes and /boot on it's own partition) 3.) mount my new disk ind /new (just 2 partitions, 1 for / and 1 for /boot) 4.) copy from /old to /new 5.) modify fstab and prepare grub 6.) reboot Concerning step 4: what is the best copy command? I tried with cp -a /old/* /new but got some problems in /home. My user dir got the wrong permissions (I d'ont know, if this is in some way connected with /home being a mount point). Of course this could be the same in other dirs. Is there a better method? I read years ago on this list about using tar with this (piping the tar output into a second tar command, which extracts the files to their final destination). Are there other tools? Or did I use cp in a wrong way? Regards Marc http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] quad vga - dual or single card?
Am 21.11.2010 13:14, schrieb Iain Buchanan: Hi all, I'm appealing to your collective knowledge for something not really gentoo :) I'm looking at 4 independent VGA outputs for a church media / stage environment (dvds, videos, presentations, maybe some live camera backgrounds under text such). Do you think it would be better to get either: * Dual 256MB PCIe x16 nVidia NVS 295, or * Single 512MB PCIe x16 nVidia NVS 420 The single NVS 420 is about $350 more than the dual 295. (There is a dual 420 option but that's another $1000 so I'm hoping to avoid it!) both are quad-monitor capable. I'm considering performance, heat, power, noise, and anything else you can think of. The 295 is passively cooled, 23W each, whereas the 420 is active cooled but only 40W, or so they say! any tips much appreciated :) I would go with a NVS420. If there is a graphics-card that can handle 4 Displays at once, why you want a dual GPU setup? I think this would be more pain, than fun.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE
Am 06.11.2010 13:48, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: Hi all, I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large translucent rectangle showing. The task manager shows and it is of the depth you would expect, the height of a character plus appropriate padding, but as well as this I get this translucent rectangle showing which is about 2/3 screen depth and 2/3 screen width in size. This is displayed as long as the task manager is displayed - move the mouse away from the task manager and the task manager disappears, and so does the mystery rectangle, move the mouse back to display the task manager and the rectangle comes back. There is a screen grab here www.wht.com.au/dodgyMenu.png. Has anyone any thoughts on how to get rid of the mystery rectangle? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew I have a machine with an ATI 5770 in it. It does a few things like this with the default KDE theme. It does fewer things with other themes. (It's not perfect with any theme!) Try another theme? - Mark Which version ati-drivers you use? Im using ati-drivers-10.10 without any Problems with a HD5750 and 3 Screens
Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
Am 02.07.2010 21:56, schrieb Keith Dart: === On Wed, 06/30, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: === able to modify a CD boot image get Gentoo to boot from a USB stick. === I have done that. Here's basically what I did. #!/bin/sh ISO=/home/ftp/pub/install/install-amd64-minimal-20081213.iso mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdc1 dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc || exit mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 $ISO /mnt/iso || exit mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/media1 || exit cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/media1 || exit sync mv /mnt/media1/isolinux/* /mnt/media1 mv /mnt/media1/isolinux.cfg /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg rm -rf /mnt/media1/isolinux* mv /mnt/media1/memtest86 /mnt/media1/memtest umount /mnt/iso #vim /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg sed -i -e s:cdroot:cdroot slowusb: \ -e s:kernel memtest86:kernel memtest: /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg umount /mnt/media1 syslinux /dev/sdc1 -- Keith Dart try the manual from the systemrescuecd (a very recent gentoo based livecd) http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick
Re: [gentoo-user] kdrive use flag quandary
Am 16.05.2010 12:22, schrieb William Kenworthy: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 08:08 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 05:42:13 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to update a laptop after a break of a few months and have an ... anomaly! It suddenly wants the kdrive use flag enabled for xorg-server and sabayon - why? I think kdrive is a minimal xserver built on top of xorg so its not appropriate for a system I want full functionality on - is it? How can I find out whats bringing this use flag in as I cant find anything so far. euse -I kdrive will show which packages on your system are using this flag. Its not what packages use it - but what packages are causing it to be needed that I want: From the new sabayon ebuild stabilized for gnome 2.28 it seems to require xorg-server to be built with kdrive. So even though this system is using stable gnome, the newer sabayon now requires it ... COMMON_DEPEND==dev-lang/python-2.4 =x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.0 =dev-python/pygtk-2.5.3 =dev-python/pygobject-2.15 x11-libs/pango dev-python/python-ldap x11-base/xorg-server[kdrive] It appears its set by autounmask for gnome-2.28.2 on my other systems so guess its a requirement these days ... guess I'll unmask the newer gnome here as well - seems to work ok. BillK You need kdrive for Xephyr!
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused
Am 25.03.2010 10:45, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports Xorg-7.x . From the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739 it looks like version 8.721 supports Xorg-7.x and would thus be more recent than say 10.2 What's the difference between the 8.x and the 10.x series? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. 8.721 represents the ubuntu prebeta 10.4 ati-driver. xorg 7.X support will be in ati-driver-10.4 (or the beta 8.721)
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 suspend to RAM
Am 21.03.2010 09:46, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 20 March 2010 15:16:57 ich bins wrote: Am 20.03.2010 11:21, schrieb Mick: Hi All, I want to map a OEM keyboard button to suspend the PC to RAM, but I am not sure which command KDE4 is using in its menu for suspending to RAM. I assume that I will be able to map this button to the command in question and I wouldn't need to elevate privileges, enter passwds, or the like, because when I select it from the KDE menu it just runs. in the shortcuts section you have to define a new dbus-call org.kde.kded /modules/powerdevil suspend 2 Hmm ... this is weird: I set up Trigger as Sleep and populated the Action fields as you suggested in the Input Actions in SystemSettings. If I click on the Call button under the Action fields, the machine goes to sleep. If I use the keyboard Sleep button it does not. How do I troubleshoot this? have you populated the Xf86Sleep-button (or which you re using) with the action? Is the key you re using known by KDE ? which KDE version you re using?
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 suspend to RAM
Am 22.03.2010 12:17, schrieb Mick: On 22 March 2010 09:26, ich bins imehl_adre...@gmx.net wrote: Am 21.03.2010 09:46, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 20 March 2010 15:16:57 ich bins wrote: Am 20.03.2010 11:21, schrieb Mick: in the shortcuts section you have to define a new dbus-call org.kde.kded /modules/powerdevil suspend 2 Hmm ... this is weird: I set up Trigger as Sleep and populated the Action fields as you suggested in the Input Actions in SystemSettings. �If I click on the Call button under the Action fields, the machine goes to sleep. �If I use the keyboard Sleep button it does not. �How do I troubleshoot this? have you populated the Xf86Sleep-button (or which you re using) with the action? Yes, in the Trigger tab of Input Actions, I clicked on 'Input' and then pressed the keyboard button which changed the 'Input' field into 'Sleep'. Is the key you re using known by KDE ? which KDE version you re using? I believe that the key is known by KDE because it is now also shown under Global hotkeys. I am using KDE-4.3.5 because of the missing kaction in 4.3.5 it worked for me only since 4.4.0
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 suspend to RAM
Am 20.03.2010 11:21, schrieb Mick: Hi All, I want to map a OEM keyboard button to suspend the PC to RAM, but I am not sure which command KDE4 is using in its menu for suspending to RAM. I assume that I will be able to map this button to the command in question and I wouldn't need to elevate privileges, enter passwds, or the like, because when I select it from the KDE menu it just runs. in the shortcuts section you have to define a new dbus-call org.kde.kded /modules/powerdevil suspend 2
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 suspend to RAM
Am 20.03.2010 11:21, schrieb Mick: Hi All, I want to map a OEM keyboard button to suspend the PC to RAM, but I am not sure which command KDE4 is using in its menu for suspending to RAM. I assume that I will be able to map this button to the command in question and I wouldn't need to elevate privileges, enter passwds, or the like, because when I select it from the KDE menu it just runs. in the shortcuts section you have to define a new dbus-call org.kde.kded /modules/powerdevil suspend 2
