el 2014-06-22 a las 17:55 Rich Freeman escribió:
For the simple case of one sound device with one application playing at
a time alsa works just fine.
and for more complex cases it also works fine. with dmix you can have
several applications playing at the same time, and if you have more than
el 2014-04-26 a las 10:13 Mick escribió:
I have no experience with midi devices, but from my understanding you
need to get jack configured first.
jack is an additional (and optional) layer that provides low latency audio
(and midi) communication between different applications, and between
el 2014-04-25 a las 06:41 Mick escribió:
Oops! I gave a bum steer, my apologies!
I meant to have typed:
lspci -v | grep -i OHCI
he, should have noticed that myself... :-)
the output here is very similar to yours, OHCI is used only by the
firewire controller (which i don't use, anyway).
i
thanks for your answer!
actually, i just realized that it's working now. unfortunately i don't
know what of all the things i've been trying made the difference...
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [M2496 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96
M Audio Audiophile 24/96
i have an internal pci card (m-audio 2496) that works fine on my gentoo
machine, but i'm having problems with usb audio cards and midi devices.
with different devices i get messages similar to this (for the korg
nanokontrol midi controller):
[19616.783860] usb 4-2: new full-speed USB device
el 2014-03-22 a las 15:50 Tom Wijsman escribió:
How to set this up per folder?
rigth-click on the folder, Properties... - Compose - default to:
for all i know, my data disk died yesterday (WD caviar black, 2TB).
first i see the message:
SATA PORT3 Device Error
Press F1 to resume
and then during boot up this:
[2.775026] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[2.775571] ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY
OK, now i have my system successfully installed and running on my new SSD.
now i have to decide what to do with the rest of the disk (it's a 256MB
samsung).
the first big question is: what about swap? i found some web pages
(perhaps old) stating that it's not wise to put swap on the SSD because
on 2013-07-21 at 15:42 Peter Wilmott wrote:
TBH, unless you are really stressing your RAM usage (Lots of VMs or Java
applications, stuff like that) I'd go without swap.
it's true that most of the time 12BG is more than enough for me and i
don't use swap space on disk. i wouldn't go for a
on 2013-07-20 at 09:42 pk wrote:
On 2013-07-20 01:23, luis jure wrote:
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that
just piles up...
No, 1Tb = 125GB (note the difference between Tb
on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm not
sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the SSD as
a directory under /home for some special uses. or the other way
on 2013-07-19 at 12:47 Bruce Hill wrote:
The OCZs I've purchased have 3-5 year warranty, also. Most of the
mechanical hard drives you purchase today only have one year. I won't
buy any SATA mechanical drives except Hitachi.
i got 5 years on a 4Tb western digital caviar black i bought a couple
hi, i just booted my new system. migration using rsync was smooth. i had
to fight a little with grub2 and gpt, but now it seems everything is
working fine.
the system has been up just a few minutes, so i haven't had time to do
much. but i tried eix-sync and it seemed to me it went much faster.
on 2013-07-19 at 18:03 Dale wrote:
Mine is mostly videos and some smaller amount of pics. 1 Tb is 125Gb?
1Tb is 1,000Gb or so.
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
piles up...
on 2013-07-19 at 17:11 Bruce Hill wrote:
Do some meaningful benchmark...
emerge -ajv app-benchmarks/bonnie++ bonnie++ -d /tmp -u root
then post us your output.
mmm... /tmp is on the root partition that's only about 40 Gb (in my old
HDD / was 30Gb, and that was enough, but sometimes i had
from my recent experience, a caveat if you're using GPT to partition your
disk and intend to boot from it: grub won't install on the disk (at least
if you have an old plain BIOS system, i understand this doesn't happen with
UEFI ??? ).
when i tried to run grub2-install i got this error message:
on 2013-07-19 at 18:39 Dale wrote:
Ahh, that makes sense. Thing is, I can't get rid of family photos or my
videos. Nope, just ain't happening.
yeah, the same here... my 2Tb HD was almost full, so i bought a new 4Tb
disk. and it's a nice feeling having all that space free...
I think I
on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
no, i don't think that's the problem.
the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since
they don't have a MBR. is that correct?
hello list,
i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it
would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk
(my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
i intend to have only two partitions in the SSD: one for / and the other
for /home. i
on 2013-07-18 at 23:40 Davide De Prisco wrote:
I created partitions with fdisk and then I usually push all in with dd
from the old disk. For the grub you can install it like a normal disk.
did you use GPT or plain old MBR? so there's nothing special with grub and
gpt partitioned disks?
on 2013-07-18 at 17:23 Paul Hartman wrote:
Hi!
hi paul, thanks for your detailed answer!
1. partition SSD (start sector at a multiple of 1MB to ensure proper
alignment) 2. format new partitions using discard-capable filesystem
like ext4, xfs, btrfs
yes and yes (using ext4)
4. rsync your
hello list.
any ideas how to install a recent version of jabref? the latest ebuild is
for 2.6 (current stable is 2.9, even ubuntu has a newer version...), and
that doesn't even compile because it needs a recent version of pdfbox (the
one in portage seems to be old, and for some reason i couldn't
on 2013-06-15 at 02:41 pk wrote:
Not sure about the dependencies but the science overlay has 2.9.2 (+ an
-r1) and a 2.10 beta... I assume the science overlay can fullfill the
dependencies as well (but haven't tried emerging it).
i just downloaded the ebuild for jabref-2.9.2-r1 from the
on 2013-05-25 at 02:56 Willie WY Wong wrote:
What USE flags do you have set? In particular, have you tried
installing with the librsync-bundled flag turned on?
i tried now with that USE flag enabled and it works... sort of.
anyway, it's not a priority now, i might investigate more later.
just for the record (i started the thread), i never could make the dropbox
installed by the ebuild work. so i downloaded the binaries from the dropbox
site and they worked fine from the cli with the dropbox.py script.
never got to know what was the problem with the dropbox installed by the
any hints how to make dropbox work on xfce? google returned many hits for
other distributions, or for gentoo but on kde or gnome.
i installed net-misc/dropbox and xfce-extra/thunar-dropbox but all i can
do is upload files with a browser on the website (that is, it recognizes
i have dropbox
hi jacques! thanks for your response. i'm glad it's working for you, it
gives me some hope...
i'm afraid i need some more help, though.
on 2013-05-12 at 16:48 Jacques Montier wrote:
I don't se any thunar-dropbox in portage
no, i found an ebuild in an overlay. i can't see that it does
on 2013-04-02 at 17:58 walt wrote:
On 03/31/2013 08:37 PM, luis jure wrote:
i'm more than irritated by the
assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as non-news.
Of course I don't know exactly which irritating people you mean,
i was referring specifically to the guardian
on 2013-04-03 at 03:33 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
if you meant me -
read my previous post(s).
on 2013-03-31 at 23:05 Michael Mol wrote:
On 03/31/2013 10:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
There was a good story in 'Guardian' :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/29/cyberwar-spun-shoddy-journalism
The Gizmodo article that Guardian article lauds irritated the hell
on 2013-03-01 at 18:49 cosmoslx lin wrote:
Have you try to remove to ~/.kde4 directory? or create a new user to use
kde?
it seems that simply restarting xfce solved the problem...
on 2013-02-27 at 17:58 Daniel Frey wrote:
Have you tried updating your whole system and possibly a revdep-rebuild?
yes, this happened when i updated my system, and i always run
revdep-rebuild after that. more than once, just in case. i also rebuilt
all the problematic applications (e.g. k3b,
hello list,
i use xfce, but i have several kde applications (k3b, digikam, tellico).
after upgrading to kde 4.10.0 i had problems with all my kde apps.
i receive similar error messages saying that the application couldn't
create the I/O slave and Klauncher returned: Error loading «kio_file»
on 2012-12-22 at 17:13 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Now, imagine you are the guy at Samsung deciding what features the S2
will support. Which option you gonna pick?
yeah, you're right, i guess. but for once i'd like the guys at the
corporations to think like me, and not to be forced to think like
on 2012-12-22 at 22:57 Neil Bothwick wrote:
I tried it and soon uninstalled it. Not only does it only allow access to
the SD card (the internal storage can't be unmounted) but even that was
unreliable.
well, that's good to know. by now i already have my phone rooted :-) but
things seem to be
on 2012-12-22 at 19:55 Daniel Frey wrote:
I really struggled with my Nexus 7 and mtpfs. I did finally get it to
work,
well, it seems i have been very lucky indeed. i just emerged jmtpfs as per
mark's suggestion, and it just worked. i just created a /media/galaxy
directory, and an entry in
on 2012-12-21 at 14:26 Mark Knecht wrote:
I managed to mount it successfully using jmtpfs from the poly-c overlay.
thank you mark, i got it working now. i created an entry in fstab, and i
can mount/umount it with simple mount and umount commands (i still haven't
managed to make it work using
on 2012-12-21 at 23:20 Neil Bothwick wrote:
No, and there's a good reason for that.
well, i'm glad to know that there's a good reason to use MTP, because what
i've read so far about it made me wonder...
from the link mark sent earlier:
quote
libmtp (and I assume the MTP protocol itself)
on 2012-12-22 at 14:15 Alan McKinnon wrote:
It all becomes understandable when you figure out what MTP actually is.
yes, of course, thanks for the pointers. but i learned of the existence of
this MTP thing only yesterday, and frankly, at first i couldn't see what
was the advantage over plain
hello list,
i would appreciate suggestions and recommendations to manage a device
(samsung galaxy note II) with android ICS.
as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the device
as a good old USB mass storage device, but rather using this MTP thing.
i googled a bit and
on 2012-05-14 at 08:52 ny6...@gmail.com wrote:
9. DO NOT TOP-POST and DO trim your replies!!!
why don't you observe these yourself? you quoted the whole message you
replied to, which itself contained another full quote, which itself...
many people here complain against top-posting, but few
on 2012-05-14 at 22:54 Alan McKinnon wrote:
(getting old...)
you don't say, really? what a coincidence, it's happening to me too.
anyone else getting older around here? is anyone actually getting
*younger*?
on 2012-05-21 at 22:14 Andrew Lowe wrote:
I have no intention of applying whatever process to the media machine,
the tracks on that remain as ripped. I only want to fiddle the tracks
on the memory stick.
your files are mp3, right? what you want to do is fairly simple, just use
el 2012-05-20 a las 21:48 Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
On 20/05/12 12:41, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
Just for sake of correctness, what the op wants is called
normalization, in the world of sound edition.
Actually, no. That's not what he wants. Normalization simply adjusts
to
i have just set up a new gentoo machine (the first one in years), and when
i run mount, i get this line repeated 20+ times:
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
i admit that i don't know much about binfmt_misc, but it doesn't look
tidy to me. why
i realized my problems trying to rebuild digikam-2.5.0 were related to the
latest version of media-libs/libmp4v2 (1.9.1_p479), that i had upgraded a
couple of days ago.
after masking it and downgrading to libmp4v2-1.9.1, i could compile digikam
again. problems that i was having compiling other
hello list,
on my ~amd64 system, digikam (2.5.0) now fails to start with:
digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libblas.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
searching for libblas, i found these two orphaned files, not belonging to
any installed package:
on 2012-04-03 at 18:02 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
you can check with
eselect blas list
if the right (installed) package is in use.
aha! funny, i had no blas selected. never had to do that before, is this
new?
whatever, thanks for the hint. perhaps i advanced a little i selected
reference (the
on 2011-12-09 at 13:55 Michael Mol wrote:
I couldn't tell you if it's necessarily good, but Audacity has a
noise filter.
that's exactly what i was about to reply.
and if you want to try a CLI tool, sox provides a similar utility.
noiseprof [profile-file]
Calculate a profile of the
on 2011-12-09 at 18:38 Pandu Poluan wrote:
As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend?
i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered
links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links
interface was much better, although lynx seems to be
on 2011-12-10 at 20:50 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Gwc is a little fragile due the longer period it was not maintained
anymore. Its alsa interface simply does not work.
But it clearly wins when it comes to denoising. It also supports the
removal of other audio artifacts.
vielen dank für den
on 2011-10-16 at 22:03 Alex Schuster wrote:
[1] sorry if there are any girls out there, but i think i have never
seen any female names on this list...
I see one :)
yes, so do i, now, after sending my last message...
sorry, colleen, i hadn't noticed you before. are you new on the list?
on 2011-10-16 at 23:54 Alex Schuster wrote:
luis jure writes:
sorry, colleen, i hadn't noticed you before. are you new on the list?
You'd be surprised :-)
oops, i see! sorry again!
hello boys [1],
i know i don't participate much on this list, but this does not mean that
i don't try to follow most of the threads (not all of them, i admit).
i realized just now that no one has commented on the news of the recent
death of dennis ritchie. considering that his contributions to
on 2011-08-16 at 11:38 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Is the dbus-use-flag enabled for your jack?
no, it wasn't.
But because of my negative experience with jack2, I would try downgrading
jack to 0.121.2 or something like that and try again.
i did that, but no joy...
anyway, i'm not convinced
on 2011-08-15 at 22:32 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
What version of jack are you using?
i have jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.7 installed. but i think this
shouldn't be the problem, because at least in the past jack was needed
only if you were going to use audio in rosegarden. the program itself
rosegarden works for you at all? wow, that's great.
i'm on ~amd64, and i haven't been able to make rosegaren work for a long
time. i searched the web and i found people describing the same problem
that i have on gentoo: if i type rosegarden on a terminal absolutely
nothing happens. the
on 2011-08-13 at 10:09 Michael Mol wrote:
I don't use rosegarden, but I noticed you didn't try 'strace'.
who said i didn't? :-)
yes, i did try strace, but i'm not a programmer, just a composer, so i
can't interpret the output. in these cases i can only google the results,
to see if i find
on 2011-08-13 at 20:15 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
yes, works for me.
ich habe nicht so viel glück...
I am currently using rosegarden-11.02 from the pro-audio overlay with
qt-4.7.2
i tried 11-02 from the pro-audio overlay, with no luck. i have qt-4.7.3
currently installed. i don't think the
on 2011-08-14 at 00:29 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
comment#3 talks about jack. Is jack up and running, when you try to start
rosegarden?
yes, i tried both with and without jack running. i don't use jack normally
and don't know much about it, i just tried starting jackd -d alsa and jackd
-R -d
on 2011-07-18 at 18:17 Mark Knecht wrote:
What sort of apps are available to discover a public network ESSID?
Something GUI based would be appreciated if it's in portage.
i got good results with wicd in the past. i got it to work fine on a
gentoo laptop for exactly what you need, if
on 2011-06-27 at 20:17 Stroller wrote:
Did you try Lilypond 2.14.1?
yes, it worked perfectly all right.
reported success already.
great work, thank you!!
on 2011-06-26 at 22:06 Stroller wrote:
This isn't the best fix, IMO.
i completely agree. by solution i meant a quick and dirty fix that
allowed me in the short term to build lilypond.
IMO the correct fix for this is:
yes, i tried emerging fontforge with the patch you proposed and after that
on 2011-05-07 at 12:58 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Do you have an multilib installation (32 and 64 bit libraries) ?
no, it's pure 64 bits.
i found out what the problem was at Gentoo's Bugzilla [1].
for some reason the file /usr/lib64/libz.so is a text file, the solution
was linking it to the real
on 2011-04-24 at 14:31 Adam Carter wrote:
/usr/lib64/libz.so: invalid ELF header
Could not find the zlib library which is needed to understand WOFF
I'd re-emerge zlib - looks like its corrupted.
as i said in my previous post, i can compile lilypond with zlib-1.2.3-r1,
but it fails with
on 2011-04-24 at 13:48 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311147
you might add yourself to that bug mentioning lillypond.
reading the thread, i don't think it's the same bug. anyway, i'll follow
your advise (and stroller's) and i'll file a bug both for zlib and
i've been trying to install a recent version of media-sound/lilypond (music
typesetting software) for some time, but it always fails with this message:
/usr/lib64/libz.so: invalid ELF header
Could not find the zlib library which is needed to understand WOFF
i had this same problem some time
on 2011-04-03 at 10:47 Neil Bothwick wrote:
It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage
might be a little too challenging.
3.5? wow, i always thought that the name meant it had 20K... like the C64
and C128. but no. now, almost 30 years later, i learn that it had 5K,
hello list,
i' currently using an application called jpdftweak to edit metadata in pdf
files, like page numbers. jpdftweak is very useful, but being a gui app
it's slow for repeatedly editing many files.
does anyone know a way to renumber the pages (logical numbers) in a pdf
file from the
on 2011-04-02 at 19:38 Willie Wong wrote:
look at app-text/pdfjam
hi, thanks for the suggestion, although i couldn't find any command
appropriate to what i want to do.
BTW, i have another one: how to remove all bookmarks form a pdf? (from the
command line, i mean)
on 2011-02-27 at 17:08 Dale wrote:
Don't worry, when you understand it really well, something new will come
along. Then you get to rinse and repeat. :/
yep, i know what you mean... a bit frustrating, sometimes, isn't it?
on 2011-02-27 at 10:20 Duong Yang Ha Nguyen wrote:
Hal is deprecated. Try avoiding it as much as possible.
that's what i'm doing, for sure!
on 2011-02-27 at 13:51 Paul Colquhoun wrote:
Hmmm. equery b for /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf or
just /etc/PolicyKit doesn't return any packages on my system.
from what i could find on the web, it seems to me
that /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf belongs to a deprecated policykit
package,
i'm posting this to the list in case it's of some use to somebody.
trying to get automounting of usb drives working on xfce, as discussed on
a recent thread, i recompiled xfce4-session with policykit (polkit) and
consolekit. eventually this got me automounting working, but in the
process i
on 2011-02-27 at 11:25 walt wrote:
Heh. I just replied to that other thread before reading this :)
Sounds like you're way ahead of me now, and thanks for the info.
hmmm... i wouldn't say so. your other mail actually had lots of
information that was completely new for me. pkaction --verbose for
on 2011-02-27 at 08:53 fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
I have the opposite problem from luis jure. I do not mount drives
often, so I am not sure exactly when this problem started, but gentoo
is now automounting drives and I have never wanted that.
perhaps you could go the opposite way than me, like
on 2011-02-26 at 06:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Make sure you have udev enabled for your desktop environment. Or HAL,
if it doesn't support udev. Then it will just work.
hi nikos, the only package in xfce that has a flag for udev is
xfce-base/xfce4-session and it is set. i-m afraid it
on 2011-02-25 at 19:42 Dale wrote:
* xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin
Available versions: 0.5.5 {debug}
Homepage:http://www.xfce.org/
Description: Mount plugin for the Xfce panel
That last one should put you on the right path for sure.
hi dale, i do have the
hi marc,
It seems that for Xfce you want the Thunar Volume Manager plugin
i had already installed this plugin, but it doesn't seem to do much: an
icon for the device appears on the side panel, but no corresponding mount
point is created under /media. when i click on the icon a Not Authorized
on 2011-02-26 at 11:30 luis jure wrote:
i had already installed this plugin, but it doesn't seem to do much: an
icon for the device appears on the side panel, but no corresponding mount
point is created under /media. when i click on the icon a Not Authorized
message appears.
i'm getting
on 2011-02-26 at 16:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Do you have any entries for those devices in /etc/fstab? If yes, delete
them. They interfere with automounting.
i had already deleted them, only after doing so the device icon began to
appear on thunar. but i can't mount it as a normal user,
on 2011-02-26 at 15:47 Marc Joliet wrote:
According to the README file [0], udiskie uses consolekit to obtain
necessary permissions. That means that you need to emerge xfce4-session
with the use flags +consolekit.
i recompiled xfce4-session with +consolekit, but the situation remains
on 2011-02-26 at 16:17 Christoph Brendes wrote:
Hi, for me it works (xfce 4.8 with udev and udisk)
please check if you
- enable the volume manager (thunar preferences: Advanced tab)
- you are in the plugdev group
yes to both... :-(
on 2011-02-26 at 09:33 Grant wrote:
I can't get find to work. This works:
locate *foo*.txt
but none of these work:
find /my/folder -name foo*.txt
find /my/folder -name *foo*.txt
find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt'
What am I doing wrong? I do need the find to be recursive in that
on 2011-02-26 at 14:44 walt wrote:
xfce4-session also recognizes the policykit and consolekit USE flag, and
those two things seem to be the way of the future (until tomorrow, anyway)
for desktop managers like kde and gnome.
xfce has always been closely related to gnome, and it still uses the
on 2011-02-27 at 11:32 Paul Colquhoun wrote:
If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in
/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access.
mmm... i don't have this file (or the /etc/PolicyKit directory, for that
matter). i only have the /etc/polkit-1
hello list,
i'm old-fashioned and i never cared for this automount thing, but now i
have two pen drives and two usb hard disks that i have to mount and umount
all the time, and doing it by hand every time is beginning to be very
annoying...
i see that distributions like ubuntu and others have
hello list.
i'm running ~amd64 on an intel i7. after syncing and updating world, i'm
having some problems:
acroread does not start, failing thus:
(acroread:31925): Gtk-WARNING **:
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libxfce.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
also, trying to upgrade lilypond,
on 2010-07-06 at 13:14 Alan McKinnon wrote:
The football competition where england, france and italy all got their
asses handed to them recently :-)
not to mention argentina and brazil... did you notice the tiny uy in my
e-mail address? :-) :-)
(it's a real pity i don't give a sh*t about
on 2010-06-01 at 01:23 Paul Hartman wrote:
I have 2TB samsung drives which, by default, park heads very quickly.
Using hdparm I changed power saving mode from off (which parks after
a minute) to 254 and now the heads never park.
i have a drive similar to the OP (WD10EADS) and the problem is
on 2010-05-22 at 16:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 05/22/2010 04:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin
on 2010-05-06 at 07:31 Mark Knecht wrote:
Does anyone possibly know of any tools in Open Source for exploring
DSP filter design? Something that might allow me to write equations,
stimulate the filter, see the results in a GUI?
i guess a general scientific tool like octave (a free alternative
hello list,
after many years without a hardware upgrade, i'll be receiving my new
computer next week: intel i7 920 cpu, 6 GB ram, asus p6t mobo.
i'm pretty excited, i imagine that at first i'll be shocked at the
difference with the ancient machine i'm using now.
now my question: searching a
hello list.
i have a bunch of files with accented characters in their names, both
upper- and lower case. i want to rename them using the non-accented
equivalent. i thought that would be easy to do using something like tr.
big mistake. confronted with accented characters, tr outputs garbage.
on 2010-04-07 at 20:01 Kerin Millar wrote:
It can be done with Perl.
i was afraid someone was going to say that... :-)
perl -M'encoding utf8' -MUnicode::Normalize -pe
'$_=NFKD($_);s/\pM//og'
that works great, kerin, thank you! no idea though what $_=NFKD($_)
might mean... that's fine, i'll
hello list,
i purchased recently an external usb disk (HP SimpleSave, 1.5 TB).
i re-formatted it with an ext4 file system, but i can't get rid of the
virtual cd created by the manufacturer with some backup software.
when i connect the disc, the system sees two devices: a hard disc (for
example
on 2010-01-26 at 14:28 Neil Bothwick wrote:
ATTRS{idVendor}==1410, ATTRS{idProduct}==5010,
ACTION==add,RUN+=/usr/bin/eject %k
was the line I used to prevent one such modem showing up as a CD.
thanks for your answer, but i take it that this only hides the
partition? any ideas how i can
on 2010-01-26 at 20:26 Neil Bothwick wrote:
any ideas how i can effectively delete it?
You can't if it is in the drive's firmware.
i see. if i understand correctly, i'd need a specific tool to overwrite
the firmware. is that correct?
hello list, i'm having problems with tellico.
tellico-1* are masked, because they fail to compile with newer versions
of gcc and glib.
but 2.0_pre2 also fails to build while linking, thus:
[...]
[ 99%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/tellico.dir/reportdialog.o
[ 99%] Building CXX object
on 2009-09-20 at 15:44 Arttu V. wrote:
Run revdep-rebuild, or just emerge -1 poppler-qt4 for poppler's qt4
bindings. Then retry emerging tellico.
thanks for your suggestions, but i had already tried that, like i guess
i tried all these obvious bets.
anyone actually using tellico?
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