Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially for those huge resolutions). I think mp4a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.

2009-04-18 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: If it still crashes after the upgrade today, I'm going to unmask Seamonkey2 and see what it looks like. One caveat. Your profile will be automatically migrated and you should be able to use SM2 or SM1. But for emails, if you fetch them with one SM they

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 17:35 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: This

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be maintained by portage). Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your root filesystem (after first checking the contents). Or into

[gentoo-user] kernel build messages

2009-04-18 Thread Mick
Hi All, I updated my kernel and this is what I got when I built it: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.data+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable initial_code to the function .init.text:i386_start_kernel() The variable __cpuinitdata initial_code references a function __init

Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out

2009-04-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 17 April 2009, W.Kenworthy wrote: Yes, try equery f app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools to find all the files involved - its quite extensive. Ha! I remember ... I had to uninstall this package because it kept spinning my hard drive down. mplayer will pause momentarily (very annoying) and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo/GMail/download to Evolution

2009-04-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 17 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: He has just started switching from Time-Warner's Roadrunner cable modem service to Verizon's FIOS. His new link is up and his speed is very nice. (20Mb/S downlaod, 5Mb/S

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade error

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
김무성 writes: For installing vmware My kernel version is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5. But I have no source files. So I downloaded source files. But that’s version 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. When I installed vmware, it told me kernel version and kernel source files’ version no match. I have to kernel upgrade.

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-18 Thread Eric Martin
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I

[gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get it on the list? She doesn't have an

[gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:11:36 Robin Atwood wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:11:36 Robin Atwood wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:30:38 Robin Atwood wrote: So as I see it your choices are: firefox kde-4 I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :( flash and firefox works, so you have to find why it's bailing on your system. What console errors or log messages do you have? Anything in

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread KH
Robin Atwood schrieb: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:30:38 Robin Atwood wrote: So as I see it your choices are: firefox kde-4 I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :( flash and firefox works, so you have to find why it's bailing on your system. What

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, KH wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Michael Sullivan a gentiment tapote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-18 Thread Vasya Volkov
Mike Kazantsev пишет: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:40:17 +0400 Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting parts of audio files? Please with

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck

2009-04-18 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks for your reply. On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:00:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I followed http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on- gentoo-linux to get the SDK

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck

2009-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 18 April 2009 18:43:17 Drew Tomlinson wrote: You may have to add entries to /etc/env.d and run env-update. What might I need to add? I looked in the directory and found lots of files. Thus I suspect I need to create a file and add the proper line. Would it be some sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Robert Bridge
Michael Sullivan wrote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get it on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 18 April 2009, KH wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Robert Bridge a gentiment tapote: Michael Sullivan wrote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot read the keyboard. I couldn't find

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Robert Bridge
Jacques Montier wrote: I had a similar problem with XFCE until I realised that default was the setting I wanted. RobbieAB I think that the default setting in Xfce depends on the first Mode in the Subsection Display of xorg.conf. But i may be wrong... I didn't have any modes in xorg.conf,

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 11:19, Paul Hartman wrote: Hmm, I'm not sure... is this file (or one like it) available online anywhere that I could see if it works on my machine? Paul, I've sent you a link to that video if you want to check it out. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 14:20, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, I can confirm that tovid failed for me as well. However, this mencoder commandline seems to have created a working DVD-compatible mpg file (PAL): mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:03 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:36:52AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote On 13/04/09 Peter Ruskin said: Any reason to use -hal? I don't like hal. I prefer the traditional linux way of mounting stuff when I want to. On my workstation, so do I, but xorg 1.5 works fine if you follow the

[gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Guys, Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to opening all images in an image viewer (say, mirage), and switching from one image to

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is. There

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
090418 Liviu Andronic wrote: Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? Kpdf gives previews in its side index panel : I find it very useful. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

[gentoo-user] CUPS setup with Lexmark e322

2009-04-18 Thread Saphirus Sage
The printer is old and seemingly unsupported in most areas as I could not find a Windows or Mac OSX driver, and none of the linux drivers have worked. I've tried ghostscript's ljet4, the various Postscript PCLs; actually, I've tried every one of them. I've established a proper connection, and that

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to

[gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Denis
Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file within Rasmol source code. There is an ebuild for Rasmol,

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:23:24 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild unpack ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild prepare ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild configure ebuild

[gentoo-user] Clean-up after latest updates

2009-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
1) After the latest batch of updates X crashed on startup. I read through the list, and followed someone's suggestion to re-emerge all drivers listed by the command... equery list | grep x11-drivers/ Thank you sir. That was easy, and I now have X operational again. 2) I go through

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-18 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Jorge Morais wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:20 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on it'. Where have

[gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-18 Thread John P. Burkett
Doing PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage emerge -D -uav world on my amd64 machine elicits a response that ends as follows: Install ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2/image/ category x11-drivers * Installing fglrx module * ati tree 'lib' - 'lib32' on system *