Re: [gentoo-user] foo2zjs make install error

2014-04-15 Thread Stroller
On Tue, 15 April 2014, at 2:06 am, Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: … The error message I'm getting at the make install command is: Error - foomatic-rip is not installed! Install foomatic packages for your OS make [install test] Error 1 … To stay out of TL;DR territory, a short list

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-15 Thread Mick
On Monday 14 Apr 2014 15:35:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: The nvidia blobs do work well as long as you use them the way they were intended to be used. The way they were intended to be used is the same way Windows uses them, the Linux and Windows drivers share the bulk of the internal code and

Re: [gentoo-user] foo2zjs make install error

2014-04-15 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On 04/15/2014 07:42 AM, Stroller wrote: On Tue, 15 April 2014, at 2:06 am, Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: … The error message I'm getting at the make install command is: Error - foomatic-rip is not installed! Install foomatic packages for your OS make [install test] Error 1 … To

Re: [gentoo-user] foo2zjs make install error

2014-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:06:12 -0400, Dutch Ingraham wrote: I'm having a problem installing a print driver, foo2zjs, downloaded and compiled from source. There is an ebuild for foo2zjs. This is a driver for a HP P1505n printer. (hplip is not an option as this printer needs further firmware

[gentoo-user] What's happening with grub-install on GPT?

2014-04-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
As an old fart with MBR hardwired into my brain, I'm not sure I understand how booting from a GPT partitioned disk works now. So, I had to (note: had to, not wanted to) install Windows 8.1 on my machine. I had a dual boot Gentoo/Windows7 before that. So I did a backup, wiped the Windows7

[gentoo-user] Akonadi gets MySQL errors after upgrade

2014-04-15 Thread Robin Atwood
After the latest KDE upgrade to 4.12.4 I logged on and Akonadi won't start. It is still at 4.4.11.1 and normally runs faultlessly. Now I get $ akonadictl start Starting Akonadi Server... done. Connecting to deprecated signal

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.04.2014 00:02, schrieb Pavel Volkov: On Monday, 31 March 2014 16:14:44 MSK, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Aside from all the discussions around systemd, I simply gave the new systemd-networkd a try. It helped me to simplify my config for my main machine where I run KVM for virtualization

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/04/2014 09:14, Mick wrote: On Monday 14 Apr 2014 15:35:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: The nvidia blobs do work well as long as you use them the way they were intended to be used. The way they were intended to be used is the same way Windows uses them, the Linux and Windows drivers share the

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-15 Thread David W Noon
On 15/04/14 03:11, Walter Dnes wrote: [snip] model name : AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor This indicates a 64-bit processor. [snip] flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-15 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-04-15 17:33]: On 15/04/2014 09:14, Mick wrote: On Monday 14 Apr 2014 15:35:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: The nvidia blobs do work well as long as you use them the way they were intended to be used. The way they were intended to be used is the same

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia 3D setup

2014-04-15 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Apr 15, 2014, at 18:59, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-04-15 17:33]: On 15/04/2014 09:14, Mick wrote: On Monday 14 Apr 2014 15:35:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: The nvidia blobs do work well as long as you use them the way they were intended to be used.

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-15 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Would you be better off with a Toyota or a Nissan? Same answer: I don't see much difference. Both work, both have free and blob drivers, both are better at some things and worse at others. I really don't see any clear cut reason to choose one over the other for the general

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-15 Thread Pavel Volkov
On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:04:54 MSK, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Did you test it? I think it just works ... Not yet, but it seems weird to have DHCP= for DHCPv4 and not to have any options (DHCPv6/SLAAC/unconfigured) for IPv6. Only Address= for static address. Here is another problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] What's happening with grub-install on GPT?

2014-04-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: As an old fart with MBR hardwired into my brain, I'm not sure I understand how booting from a GPT partitioned disk works now. So, I had to (note: had to, not wanted to) install Windows 8.1 on my machine. I had a dual

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:59:19 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-04-15 17:33]: To exegrate the whole discussion: Help! I have a problem with Linux! ...I have some heard of Linux...bad things...use windows instead! So: Due to the already mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-15 Thread meino . cramer
Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org [14-04-15 19:36]: On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:59:19 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-04-15 17:33]: To exegrate the whole discussion: Help! I have a problem with Linux! ...I have some heard of Linux...bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi gets MySQL errors after upgrade

2014-04-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2014 15:01:51 Robin Atwood wrote: After the latest KDE upgrade to 4.12.4 I logged on and Akonadi won't start. It is still at 4.4.11.1 and normally runs faultlessly. Now I get $ akonadictl start Starting Akonadi Server... done. Connecting to deprecated signal

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:39:09 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org [14-04-15 19:36]: On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:59:19 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-04-15 17:33]: To exegrate the whole discussion: Help! I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2014 18:39:09 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org [14-04-15 19:36]: On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:59:19 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-04-15 17:33]: To exegrate the whole discussion: Help! I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-15 Thread Walter Dnes
Thanks for the info. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 03:42:31PM +0100, David W Noon wrote If you specify -march=k8 in your CFLAGS, you should get pretty decent object code from GCC. I've used -march=native since it became available, because it's one less thing to worry about. That's why I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.04.2014 19:25, schrieb Pavel Volkov: On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:04:54 MSK, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Did you test it? I think it just works ... Not yet, but it seems weird to have DHCP= for DHCPv4 and not to have any options (DHCPv6/SLAAC/unconfigured) for IPv6. Only Address=

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-15 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:33:47 -0400, Walter Dnes mailto:dwn...@ntlworld.com (waltd...@waltdnes.org) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE (in 20140415183347.ga16...@waltdnes.org): On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at

Re: [gentoo-user] foo2zjs make install error

2014-04-15 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On 04/15/2014 08:12 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:06:12 -0400, Dutch Ingraham wrote: I'm having a problem installing a print driver, foo2zjs, downloaded and compiled from source. There is an ebuild for foo2zjs. This is a driver for a HP P1505n printer. (hplip is not

[gentoo-user] HP printing query

2014-04-15 Thread Philip Webb
I ran into a problem trying to print yesterday -- solved for now -- , but would like to simplify things for the next occasion. What appears to have happened is that when I updated Hplip + Cups, one of them created a new printer, so that the list now appears as : Deskjet_2510 Automatically