Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server fails to compile

2009-12-14 Thread Boy Hartsuiker
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 04:27 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: but interestingly portageq owners / xextproto reports None of the installed packages claim the file(s). Yes, since you have given it the name of an ebuild, not a file. You can do what you want by equery files

Re: [gentoo-user] building your own stage3?

2009-12-14 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: Does anybody here know how a stage3 tarball is made? I'd like to mode one myself. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~   Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz   public

Re: [gentoo-user] Using losetup loopback devices / filesystems - changes aren't written to disk?!?!?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 7 Dec 2009, at 02:48, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... I tried repeating your experiment, sans NFS and NTFS, and while I did note that the modification timestamp on the file did not change, the contents of the file did (i.e. the filesystem changed). FWIW this is Debian bug #459703 (Google told me

Re: [gentoo-user] building your own stage3?

2009-12-14 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 12/14, Joshua Murphy wrote: === [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 === Thanks! I think that stage4 is what I really want. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 13 Dec 2009, at 15:01, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 13.12.2009 09:46, schrieb Stroller: Hi all, A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image file in its original format, please? Open the doc file with OpenOffice, save it as a odt file. The odt is a renamed zip

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
2009/12/13 Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com: I ran across this issue last night. At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, setting the XSESSION variable in /etc/env.d is the correct way to do it. From the pkg_postinst section of the x11-apps/xinit ebuild[1]:        ewarn

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
2009/12/13 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:43:41 +, Mick wrote: The /etc/conf.d/xdm file, which arrived after the /etc/rc.conf days, is indeed used to set up the Display Manager, but not the Window Manager/Display Environment X session.  The latter was being

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 19:17, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/13 Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com: I ran across this issue last night. At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, setting the XSESSION variable in /etc/env.d is the correct way to do it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:18:56 +, Mick wrote: The DE/WM to use is specified by whatever display manager you use. Setting it in a global configuration file is pointless on a multi-user system. So, where would you specify which DE/WM session the xdm Display Manager will load up for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hi! Thanks Mike, most helpful! What happens if you want to switch between different sessions at/from the Display Manager stage? Do you place them all in /etc/env.d/90xsession ? Sorry, I'm not sure how to do that. I'm the only user on my system and I don't use a graphical login manager.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:48:57 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 13 Dec 2009, at 15:01, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 13.12.2009 09:46, schrieb Stroller: Hi all, A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image file in its original format, please?

[gentoo-user] Emerge with --root option : users not created

2009-12-14 Thread Shinkan
Hi everyone, I wanted to submit this as a bug on bugzilla, but I must be sure there is nothing that I miss. Let's say I have a /target dir. If I do 'emerge --root=/target someport' (cross-emerge), and that someport is supposed to create users (like vixie-cron, clamav or many others), users are

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with weather plasmoids

2009-12-14 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 14 December 2009, Matthias Krebs wrote: Am Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009 16:44:49 schrieb sean: Robin Atwood wrote: Since the massive Qt 4.6.0/KDE 4.3.4 update I have noticed that the search widget for the various weather plasmoids always returns Cannot find 'London' or whatever.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:01:50PM +0100, Penguin Lover Renat Golubchyk squawked: It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have predicted, it is called simply Object 1 with no file extension. Running `file` on it shows it to be a Microsoft Office Document, but it's

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/14/09, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have predicted, it is called simply Object 1 with no file extension. Running `file` on it shows it to be a Microsoft Office Document, but it's apparently not the kind you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge with --root option : users not created

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:02:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Shinkan squawked: I wanted to submit this as a bug on bugzilla, but I must be sure there is nothing that I miss. Let's say I have a /target dir. If I do 'emerge --root=/target someport' (cross-emerge), and that someport is supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:06:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: On 12/14/09, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have predicted, it is called simply Object 1 with no file extension. Running `file` on it shows

[gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread GerhardosG
Hi , My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (II) LoadModule: evdev (II) Loading

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2009, at 13:01, Renat Golubchyk wrote: ... The file which is responsible for the size of the .doc is immediately obvious when I rename this document.odt to document.zip. It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have predicted, it is called simply Object 1 with no file

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Philip Webb
091214 GerhardosG wrote: My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : ... (II) UnloadModule: evdev Just a quick suggestion: did you enable 'evdev' in your kernel ? -- ,,

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/14/2009 10:29 AM, GerhardosG wrote: Hi , My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (II)

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge with --root option : users not created

2009-12-14 Thread Shinkan
Thanks, I'll do that ! 2009/12/14 Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:02:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Shinkan squawked: I wanted to submit this as a bug on bugzilla, but I must be sure there is nothing that I miss. Let's say I have a /target dir. If I do

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:29 AM, GerhardosG gerhard.goe...@allgaeu.org wrote: Hi , My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) config/hal: Adding input

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the original object a image of a signature? If they used MODI (whose point I thought was so that you have OCR on the scanned document) for an illegible scrawl, I think this should be nominated for the DailyWTF Cheers, W I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server fails to compile

2009-12-14 Thread meino . cramer
Boy Hartsuiker bm.hartsui...@gmx.com [09-12-14 16:56]: On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 04:27 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: but interestingly portageq owners / xextproto reports None of the installed packages claim the file(s). Yes, since you have given it the name of an

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:43:23 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 14 Dec 2009, at 13:01, Renat Golubchyk wrote: ... The file which is responsible for the size of the .doc is immediately obvious when I rename this document.odt to document.zip. It is a 2meg file, but

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 10:48:57 schrieb Stroller: I suspect this is going to prove a dead loss. Thanks for your help, though. As mentioned here http://suppressingfire.org/~burner/evil-mods-tiff/ you could try to use http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ to recover the image from Object 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
2009/12/14 GerhardosG gerhard.goe...@allgaeu.org: Hi , My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:22:42 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:18:56 +, Mick wrote: The DE/WM to use is specified by whatever display manager you use. Setting it in a global configuration file is pointless on a multi-user system. So, where would

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:25:51AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about this way of seeing things. Since it appears there is a signature, as in what is at the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't they want to make it so

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread GerhardosG
Yes , I did enable evdev in kernel !! ( Not as module ) Philip Webb wrote: 091214 GerhardosG wrote: My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : ... (II) UnloadModule: evdev Just a quick suggestion: did you enable

[gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

2009-12-14 Thread walt
Renat Golubchyk wrote: As you said, you really are confused. :-) Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Anyway, I've written a program, and I need it as a statically linked binary. In order to link statically the linker (ld) needs all the used libraries in static form, i.e. as a .a and not as a .so

[gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread GerhardosG
Hi, My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT tux ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by test_nx 1824 0 psmouse 1980 0 nvidia 9574140 0 X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : X.Org X Server 1.6.5 Release Date:

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread walt
Philip Webb wrote: 091214 GerhardosG wrote: My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : ... (II) UnloadModule: evdev Just a quick suggestion: did you enable 'evdev' in your kernel ? And, if you just upgraded X11, did you recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server fails to compile

2009-12-14 Thread Boy Hartsuiker
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:43 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I did a emerge -C libXext xextproto; emerge -1 libXext xextproto; emerge -1 xorg-server but the error remains the same. Now? Seems like the versions are incompatible with each other. Do you have anything X related

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server fails to compile

2009-12-14 Thread Boy Hartsuiker
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 17:43 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I did a emerge -C libXext xextproto; emerge -1 libXext xextproto; emerge -1 xorg-server but the error remains the same. Now? Seems like the versions are incompatible with each other. Do you have anything X related

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2009, at 14:43, Willie Wong wrote: ... (b) If the Big Wig is already happily letting the computer sign those documents for him, is it prohibitive to try the non-technological measure? E.g., ask the Big Wig to provide another image of his signature? Oh, for sure. I just didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:46, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi all, A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image file in its original format, please? This may seem like a bit of an odd request, so I'll explain. The .doc file is quite large, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2009, at 16:25, Dale wrote: ... I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about this way of seeing things. Since it appears there is a signature, as in what is at the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't they want to make it so that is not able to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

2009-12-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:28:21 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: As you said, you really are confused. :-) Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Anyway, I've written a program, and I need it as a statically linked binary. In order to link statically the linker (ld) needs all the

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server fails to compile

2009-12-14 Thread walt
On 12/13/2009 07:27 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: * * x11-libs/libXtst-1.1.0== UNSTABLE version * Package 'x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.5' = STABLE version Your portage is trying to mix stable and unstable packages on the same machine. You need to figure out why that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 December 2009 12:22:42 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:18:56 +, Mick wrote: The DE/WM to use is specified by whatever display manager you use. Setting it in a global configuration file is pointless on a multi-user system. So, where would you specify which

[gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm trying to set up a radeon 9600 in an Apple G5 with two monitors. I've tried both Xinerama and MergedFB. Server version: X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 ppc64 Current Operating

[gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread GerhardosG
Hi , recompile the evdev driver solved the problem NOT. In the console, the output looks like this: tux / # startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3072 X.Org X Server 1.6.5 Release Date: 2009-10-11 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

2009-12-14 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:28:21 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: As you said, you really are confused. :-) Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Anyway, I've written a program, and I need it as a statically linked binary. In order to link statically the linker (ld) needs

Re: [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 14.12.2009 21:39, schrieb Roger Mason: Hello, I'm trying to set up a radeon 9600 in an Apple G5 with two monitors. I've tried both Xinerama and MergedFB. Hello, the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style xorg.conf with xrandr. That don't mix. I learned that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread pk
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I know it is just one line in the shell export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH but I don't know what file to put it in. It would be acceptable, but not preferable, if this was set for all users; the only requirement is that it is set for user gottlieb. For all users:

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:55:35 +0100 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I know it is just one line in the shell export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH but I don't know what file to put it in. It would be acceptable, but not preferable, if this was set for all users; the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/14/2009 3:50 PM, Mick wrote: When I am looking for my XSESSION I get nothing: $ echo $SESSION How do I set this up, other than Mike's suggestion of '/etc/env.d/90xsession'? With baselayout-2, setting it in /etc/env.d is the correct method; if you want per-user sessions you can also

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 December 2009 22:45:54 Mike Edenfield wrote: On 12/14/2009 3:50 PM, Mick wrote: When I am looking for my XSESSION I get nothing: $ echo $SESSION How do I set this up, other than Mike's suggestion of '/etc/env.d/90xsession'? With baselayout-2, setting it in /etc/env.d

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM, GerhardosG gerhard.goe...@allgaeu.org wrote: Hi , recompile the evdev driver solved the problem NOT. In the console, the output looks like this: tux / # startx xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3072 X.Org X Server 1.6.5 Release

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread walt
On 12/14/2009 01:08 PM, GerhardosG wrote: Hi , recompile the evdev driver solved the problem NOT. In the console, the output looks like this: tux / # startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3072 X.Org X Server 1.6.5 Release Date: 2009-10-11 X Protocol Version 11,

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 December 2009 20:25:25 GerhardosG wrote: Hi, My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT tux ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by test_nx 1824 0 psmouse 1980 0 nvidia 9574140 0 X11 start breaks with this

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge with --root option : users not created

2009-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 December 2009 15:02:22 Shinkan wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to submit this as a bug on bugzilla, but I must be sure there is nothing that I miss. Let's say I have a /target dir. If I do 'emerge --root=/target someport' (cross-emerge), and that someport is supposed to create

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

2009-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 14 December 2009 20:28:21 walt wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: As you said, you really are confused. :-) Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Anyway, I've written a program, and I need it as a statically linked binary. In order to link statically the linker (ld) needs all the used

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-14 Thread daid kahl
2009/12/14 Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com: Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 19:17, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/13 Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com: I ran across this issue last night. At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, setting the XSESSION variable in

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 14 December 2009 20:25:25 GerhardosG wrote: Hi, My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT tux ~ # lsmod Module                  Size  Used by test_nx                 1824  0 psmouse               1980  0