Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread ubiquitous1980
why has moving /etc/udev/rules.d/40-hplip.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/71-hplip.rules and /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud_support.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/71-hpmud_support.rules changed the group from scanner to lp for file: /dev/bus/usb/005/005 and allowed my printer to work? Thanks ubiquitous1980

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-24 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-23, piÄ… o godzinie 09:51 -0700, Grant pisze: Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

2010-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 April 2010 04:40:55 billyd wrote: Thanks for the reply, Alan. My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the partition where /var lives. There are 2 versions of python installed but 2.6.5-r1 is the active one. dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r1,

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
ubiquitous1980 schrieb am 24.04.2010 07:29: why has moving /etc/udev/rules.d/40-hplip.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/71-hplip.rules and /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud_support.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/71-hpmud_support.rules changed the group from scanner to lp for file: /dev/bus/usb/005/005 and

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 April 2010 01:22:53 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2010 00:08:46 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, before getting into too much trouble better I aask: While updateing I got the following message: ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge')

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread ubiquitous1980
Hello Daniel Contents of /etc/udev/rules.d: 40-hplip.rules 70-persistent-cd.rules 56-hpmud_support.rules 70-persistent-net.rules 64-device-mapper.rules 77-nm-probe-modem-capabilities.rules 70-libgphoto2.rules 90-hal.rules

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:46:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: The happy news is that nvidia released a driver with xorg-1.8 support on 23 Apr: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=150325 Good news! Let's hope the upgrade is a simple one for the Gentoo devs to incorporate into an

[gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, may be this is offtopic, may be it is not. Depends on whether gentoo-related software can do something for me in this case... I bought a LCD monitor as a replacement for my aging CRT one. It is a HP LP2475w which has a vertical refresh rate (sorry is this is a corrupted terminus

[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

2010-04-24 Thread billyd
Thanks again Alan, No I don't have genlop installed but I will try that. In /var/log/portage, I didn't actually compare the contents of the duplicates so maybe there is nothing wrong there. The elog/ directories on all three Gentoo installs are empty. Once I review the messages and take

[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel this for now.

2010-04-24 Thread billyd
On Friday 23 April 2010 22:02:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/24/2010 05:40 AM, billyd wrote: Thanks for the reply, Alan. My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the partition where /var lives. Can you post the output of df -i? Free space is only one

[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel - Issue (Non-issue) resolved.

2010-04-24 Thread billyd
Special thanks to Alan and Nikos for offering help. This morning I came up with a great idea for a test. I decided to re-emerge a package that I know always logs a message to /var/log/portage/elog. The package was nvidia-drivers, and after the emerge completed, I checked /var/log/portage/elog

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread William Kenworthy
Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? - 300 is evenly divisible by both 60 and 50 and I think was introduced for this reason. BillK On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 14:26 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, may be this is offtopic, may be it is not. Depends on

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

2010-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:40:47 billyd wrote: Thanks again Alan, No I don't have genlop installed but I will try that. In /var/log/portage, I didn't actually compare the contents of the duplicates so maybe there is nothing wrong there. The elog/ directories on all three Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? - 300 is evenly divisible by both 60 and 50 and I think was introduced for this reason. Assuming your jiffies imply the kernel's setting of CONFIG_HZ_300=y, we're

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 16:56]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? - 300 is evenly divisible by both 60 and 50 and I think was introduced for this reason. Assuming your

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 16:56]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to 300hz? - 300 is evenly divisible by both 60 and 50

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 17:20]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 16:56]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: Not sure if it will help, but try setting your kernel jiffies to

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 24 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 17:20]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 16:56]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 14:33:39 William Kenworthy wrote: Not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now

2010-04-24 Thread billyd
Well, quite a few people *did* have elog issues recently here. I suppose you can be forgiven for making a perfectly reasonable assumption, even if it was wrong in the end :-) Thanks again, Alan, I've been working with Gentoo for nearly 6 years now and try to resolve all my issues without

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-04-24 17:56]: On Samstag 24 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 17:20]: On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:58:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [10-04-24 16:56]: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb am 24.04.2010 18:28: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-04-24 17:56]: Oh - and the freqs of the current has nil influence at all. Sorry for not understanding -- English is not my mothers tongue --: The last sentence: of the current what? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread meino . cramer
Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org [10-04-24 18:44]: meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb am 24.04.2010 18:28: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-04-24 17:56]: Oh - and the freqs of the current has nil influence at all. Sorry for not understanding -- English is not my mothers

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:52:08 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I uses Option TwinView 0 under screen section and Option DynamicTwinView FALSE under device or xrandr gives the wrong refresh rate. I do not know if this will help you. Oh! Yes! the other meaning of

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' .. moved?

2010-04-24 Thread AllenJB
On 22/04/10 18:01, laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: Hi, I can't emerge php4 anymore: USE=cli apache2 emerge '=dev-lang/php-4*' '=dev-lang/php-5*' Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-lang/php-4*. Is there a new way to do so ? thx Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread ubiquitous1980
Daniel, I have found the line which is at fault in xx-libsane.rules. Problem is, what we are doing is a work around: # Hewlett-Packard Photosmart C5100 series ATTRS{idVendor}==03f0, ATTRS{idProduct}==5811, MODE=0664, GROUP=lp, ENV$ I have changed the group to lp from scanner so that I could

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.

2010-04-24 Thread ubiquitous1980
Daniel, After a bit of messing around I have the following: In my home directory I can write to a 0664 file which is in the scanner group I can write to a file with the same permissions in /dev/bus/usb/005, however it does not have the c prefix in the stickybits like the device files do. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] modules.audoload.d is not autoloaded

2010-04-24 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Steffen Loos fe...@gmx.net wrote: I'm not shure if you're running baselayout-2: The place for configuration of autoload modules has changed to /etc/conf.d/modules. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml for explanations in more detail. regards,