Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 27 March 2010 00:57:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? No, that was the FSF's beef. As Volker said,

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:50:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? and that was how many years ago? Inertia has no sell by date :( -- Neil Bothwick She's

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:48:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: RH probably chose Gnome as it is easier to ship a fully working out-the-box system with gnome. KDE has too many knobs Once they'd picked GNOME, for whatever reason, it made sense to stick with it or their support costs would rise with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 27 March 2010 01:46:49 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Now that I know what it is, I've installed the libvdpau package and updated the portage NV drivers to current. If portage keeps current I'll use it; if portage again falls behind I should be able to use NVidia.com and ffmpeg will compile

[gentoo-user] unknown media type error when updating

2010-03-27 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i noticed the following error messages when i was updating my system. * Updating shared mime info database ... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in

[gentoo-user] 32bit version of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 is mission

2010-03-27 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i want to use the binary version of adobe reader. it only has 32bit version, so it depends on a 32bit version of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0. but on my system i can only find one libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 in the /usr/lib64 directory. i was able to use the adobe reader, but after a update

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue

2010-03-27 Thread CJoeB
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue - Solved

2010-03-27 Thread CJoeB
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and

[gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating

2010-03-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/27/2010 02:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i noticed the following error messages when i was updating my system. * Updating shared mime info database ... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue

2010-03-27 Thread Dale
CJoeB wrote: On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 26 Mar 2010, at 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote: ... Setting up and testing my new system (after wasting nearly 1 month with bad RAM modules), I got this error today: [48055.741389] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 26 Mar 2010, at 22:21, Paul Hartman wrote: ... Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA controllers. It has 12 SATA headers on this

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit version of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 is mission

2010-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 27 March 2010 15:15:03 Xi Shen wrote: hi, i want to use the binary version of adobe reader. it only has 32bit version, so it depends on a 32bit version of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0. but on my system i can only find one libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 in the /usr/lib64 directory.

[gentoo-user] gconf errors

2010-03-27 Thread David Relson
Recently noticed: error popup when starting firefox, gnumeric, archive manager, etc: An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for {program}. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. The details window says (in all cases): Failed to contact

[gentoo-user] ffmpeg threads parameter

2010-03-27 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. So I'm thinking of hardwiring a default threads number=6 into the ffmpeg source code; recompiling. Q: Has anyone done this; if so any

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg threads parameter

2010-03-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. First, mplayer uses its own bundled ffmpeg. It doesn't use media-video/ffmpeg at all.

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg threads parameter

2010-03-27 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 03/27/10 21:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. First, mplayer uses its own bundled ffmpeg. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating

2010-03-27 Thread Xi Shen
so...there are expected to be unknown? haha...that is interesting. anyway, thanks. :) -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

[gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating

2010-03-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/28/2010 06:36 AM, Xi Shen wrote: so...there are expected to be unknown? haha...that is interesting. anyway, thanks. :) I guess they're not really expected to be unknown, but they're harmless as long as you don't get disappearing icons. If you do, then this is for you: