Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/01/16 23:10, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: > > https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ page: > > > > "Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a > > supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports > > to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, walt wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:38:45 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > When I start one of my firefox profile (even in "-save-mode") That would be "-safe-mode" by the way, with an "f". > I had a bad problem with the firefox profile manager about a year ago >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Grant Edwards wrote: > [Actually, I don't recall ever using evince or atril for filling out > PDF forms -- so that might be another reason I'd have to keep acroread > around.] In my experience, at least evince is great with forms! Since that's provided by the same backend

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-04 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, lee wrote: > Thank you. The problem is that it doesn't let me add an exception. Only > the older versions do that. All options to add an exception are > disabled. > > There is 'browser.ssl_override_behavior', the value of which is > 2. Guessing by what that means from [2],

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

2015-09-01 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote: I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them again next time I start it. [...] I still believe that at least links for them can be found somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory. Search for

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-31 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > And you should still try suggestion #2 because it's very likely to only affect > one specific configuration. Thanks, I did that just now. Took another, but didn't give me any more data to go by. Getting set up for bisecting and doing real work on

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: You probably did look into this yourself, but did you double-check your /etc/lilo.conf? Is everything fine there? At least it's identical between 4.0.5 and 4.1.6: image=/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-4.0.5 label=Linux405 read-only # read-only

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Hi Fernando, On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: 1. Add loglevel=7 to your kernel parameters and see what it prints before it hangs. That helped, it showed me something about drm, so... 3. From your kernel parameters I assume you're using the radeon free driver right? If that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-29 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've never experienced this particular kernel trouble myself, so I'm not sure if my input would be of much help. Here's what the kernel documentation has to say about this kind of issue: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt:29,33 [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-25 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Hi Alexander, On Sun, 23 Aug 2015, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Peter Weilbacher newss...@weilbacher.org wrote: after successfully using kernel 4.0.5 (vanilla-sources) for a while, I upgraded to 4.1.5 last week and 4.1.6 today. I cannot boot either of them

[gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-23 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Dear all, after successfully using kernel 4.0.5 (vanilla-sources) for a while, I upgraded to 4.1.5 last week and 4.1.6 today. I cannot boot either of them. On the screen I see Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done. Booting the kernel. as the last thing, then it just sits there. To

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-21 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, thegeezer wrote: On 20/11/14 18:19, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: But I like that trackpoint yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a prerequisite. Just that it's pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

2014-04-18 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2014-04-18 02:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/04/2014 18:32, James wrote: alpine? (I guess is the current form/derivative of pine?REALLY? Alpine itself is now abandonware and replaced with some other *pine* app :-) No, Eduardo Chappa still does Alpine releases every now and then,

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-11-26 13:20, Marc Stürmer wrote: Zitat von Peter Weilbacher newss...@weilbacher.org: One more thing that happens to me is that apparently gnome-terminal does not notify console apps of new window size. For me this happens to Alpine. (The only reason why I didn't simply switch

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-11-25 17:15, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 25.11.2013 15:15, schrieb Randy Barlow: Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-terminal). I haven't put much effort into figuring out what is happening, but I'm curious now that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-11-11 23:40, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 04:07:34PM -0600, Dale wrote: What version of Firefox? What addons (if any) do you use with Firefox? Oh good heavens. I have lots of add ons installed. It would take me a while to list them all, heck, just to get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

2013-10-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-10-30 16:44, Andrew Lowe wrote: I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video, the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do this, but low and behold, no

[gentoo-user] Re: Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-10-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-09-26 14:42, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On one of my machines, I get continuous beeping from the internal loudspeaker when I boot a newer kernel (I'm using vanilla-sources). I first had that with 3.10.8 and also with 3.10.10, and it continues with 3.11.1. [...] In the meantime I left

Re: [gentoo-user] Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-10-01 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-09-26 15:35, Bruce Hill wrote: Check the manual for your BIOS/motherboard to see if it's some indication of hardware failure. Hmm, I'm sure that I have seen some beeps documented, but I cannot find that anywhere in the manual now. But I have a hard time believing that it's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-10-01 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-09-26 15:24, the wrote: Might be related with some kind of io error. What does dmesg show? Nothing out of the ordinary. :-( Can it have something to do with the graphics card instead? Because it stops right when the screen blanks? Peter.

[gentoo-user] Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-09-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On one of my machines, I get continuous beeping from the internal loudspeaker when I boot a newer kernel (I'm using vanilla-sources). I first had that with 3.10.8 and also with 3.10.10, and it continues with 3.11.1. When I first had that problem I tried to remove all config options that had

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2013-01-04 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-01-03 13:59, Bruce Hill wrote: xorg-server-1.13.1 (25 Dec 2012) Your mirror must be *really* lagging. :( Not so much: 30 Dec 2012; Agostino Sarubbo a...@gentoo.org xorg-server-1.13.1.ebuild: Stable for amd64, wrt bug #448562 This was the second update since then, maybe the

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2013-01-03 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-12-04 19:52, Peter Weilbacher wrote: Right, I did that now, and have the framebuffer splash back. X also starts but the whole system locks hard once gdm tries to paint the login area. Unfortunately, after rebooting the log doesn't give me any useful output. I have to fiddle around

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2012-12-04 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-11-30 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 30 Nov 2012 09:01:35 Peter Weilbacher wrote: I have the same problem and this solution sucks. :-( Before this update I had such a nice console setup with framebuffer splash, a nice small font, and a Gentoo decoration around it. Really sad to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2012-12-04 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-12-04 11:05, Jacques Montier wrote: 2012/12/4 Peter Weilbacher newss...@weilbacher.org On 2012-11-30 18:47, Mick wrote: KMS should provide framebuffer now, so have you set KMS and firmware correctly? I just didn't realize that this is the case, so maybe my setup is wrong. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] xfig won't compile

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-11-27 12:34, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:20:02PM +0100, Alain Didierjean wrote: I cannot emerge xfig. Both versions (amd64 ~amd64) return that informative message: * Messages for package media-gfx/xfig-3.2.5b-r2: [...] So: - known bug ? - tip available

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-11-28 00:08, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 27 Nov 2012 17:18:43 design [depois das dez] wrote: My video driver is an ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350) and somebody has already updated the section on the Gentoo wiki http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernels_.3E.3D3.0.0 informing that there might be

Re: [gentoo-user] openmp flag

2012-09-28 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-09-26 20:25, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.09.2012 17:01, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:42 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: OH, anyone is encouraged to chime in about openmp and your thoughts as to it's viability and usefulness. Do you believe it will become a

[gentoo-user] Re: Recent networking problems

2012-02-22 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Peter Weilbacher newsspam at weilbacher.org wrote: Hi all, since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a laptop. It all started with a big sync world update that gave me

[gentoo-user] Recent networking problems

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Hi all, since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a laptop. It all started with a big sync world update that gave me new udev-171-r5, wicd-1.7.1_pre20120127, tuxonice-sources-3.0.17, openrc-0.9.8.2, among other things (I'm mostly running stable). Symptoms are

[gentoo-user] wicd fails to set wireless connection

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but I'm not sure. I have done several restarts, re-emerged all relevant packages (dbus, dbus-python, wicd) but still it stops shortly after clicking the

[gentoo-user] Re: wicd fails to set wireless connection

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.07.2011 15:22, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 09:32:44 Peter Weilbacher wrote: Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but I'm not sure. If you have emerged python recently

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 07:49, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:37:10PM -0700, walt wrote On 09/30/2010 05:30 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Johannes Kimmeljohannes.kim...@gmx.de wrote: On 09/30/2010 12:58 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: Heya, I noticed

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 17:16, walt wrote: --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 will Firefox run without this? Yes, it will. cairo-gtk2 is the default (last I looked). You need to pick either that one or cairo-qt if you are building on linux. --enable-oji will Firefox run without this? And what

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 25.10.2009 18:07, walt wrote: On 10/25/2009 08:19 AM, walt wrote: Merging gnome-media with the pulseaudio USE flag breaks gnome-volume-control most horribly IMO, but OTOH I don't understand pulseaudio, so maybe I'm wrong. I found the gnome 2.26 upgrade guide, which points to the

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 26.10.2009 14:19, walt wrote: You say you rebuilt world. Was gnome-media actually rebuild without the pulseaudio Use flag? That's where gnome-volume-control comes from, not from the panel applets package. Yes, I used the usual |emerge -vpDNu world| and that did remerge gnome-media.

[gentoo-user] Re: Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 24.10.2009 03:37, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:04:52AM +0200, Peter Weilbacher wrote How would you do history searches without a database? If you don't know how, I suggest checking the Firefox 2.x code. It worked somehow. Yeah, I am reading the sources

[gentoo-user] Re: Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 21.10.2009 23:22, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: If I had a bunch of money lying around, I'd hire some programmers to seriously slim down Firefox while I was at it. There is no reason a browser should need an SQL database. How would you do history searches without a database? On Linux using

[gentoo-user] Re: less cannot work with emerge

2009-10-16 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 16.10.2009 14:05, Xi Shen wrote: when i use emerge, there are too many packaged that they cannot displayed in one screen. but i cannot use less to separate it into pages. why? please help ;) Be sure to pipe both stdout and stderr to less, i.e. emerge options 21 | less when you are using

[gentoo-user] Re: qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 13.10.2009 14:48, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1,