Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 08 May 2011 23:24:21 Dale wrote: john wrote: Weather widgets running fine here:- Namely LCD Weather Station and Weather Station . I have only have ever run kde 4-6.2 and 4.6-3 so perhaps there is a problem upgrading from previous versions. Great widgets. Not sure what a

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner CanoScan LiDE210

2011-05-09 Thread pat
On Sun, 8 May 2011 23:28:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 9 May 2011 00:17:42 +0200, pat wrote: I've bought USB scanner CanoScan LiDE210 which is listed with status complete on sane-project. The driver backend name is genesys. I've followed the instructions on [1]. The

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Nils Andresen
Hi, have you tried /bin/bash -x your.script.sh - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix it. Please help.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Xi Shen
yes, you are right. + curl_opts='-x '\'''\''' the -x '' expands to too many quotes. I tried to replace the double-quotes to single-quotes, but still not working. any idea how to fix this? On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, have you tried /bin/bash

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, have you tried /bin/bash -x your.script.sh - see what get's expanded ? Nils 2011/5/9 Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com I guess there's something wrong with the argument expansion. Just do not know how to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Xi Shen
yes, i use the '-x' option, and i can see the expansion now. and i found there are too many quotes. i tried curl_opts=-x , does not work. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-09 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2011 23:24:21 Dale wrote: john wrote: Weather widgets running fine here:- Namely LCD Weather Station and Weather Station . I have only have ever run kde 4-6.2 and 4.6-3 so perhaps there is a problem upgrading from previous versions. Great widgets. Not

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner CanoScan LiDE210

2011-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 May 2011 08:41:04 +0200, pat wrote: Nothing :-( Same output as for user: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Xi Shen
if i use -x '', or -x , it expands to -x. the quotes are removed as they are empty. if i use -x \'\', the expanded quotes are quoted again...resulting too many quotes it is driving me crazy o_O! please help. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: yes, i use

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner CanoScan LiDE210

2011-05-09 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 09 May 2011 08:41:04 pat wrote: On Sun, 8 May 2011 23:28:39 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 9 May 2011 00:17:42 +0200, pat wrote: I've bought USB scanner CanoScan LiDE210 which is listed with status complete on sane-project. The driver backend name is genesys. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
(Forgive my top-posting) try: curl_opts=-x \'\' Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: yes, i use the '-x' option, and i can see the expansion now. and i found there are too many quotes. i tried curl_opts=-x , does not work. On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
(Again, sorry for top-posting) BTW, there are lots of bash gurus in stackovervlow.com. My handle there is 'pepoluan'. Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :) My script looks like:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Xi Shen
i tried that already. not working. i will try the stackoverflow.com. thanks On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: (Again, sorry for top-posting) BTW, there are lots of bash gurus in stackovervlow.com. My handle there is 'pepoluan'. Rgds, On 2011-05-09, Xi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: i tried that already. not working. i will try the stackoverflow.com. thanks On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: (Again, sorry for top-posting) BTW, there are lots of bash gurus

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Kfir Lavi writes: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread JDM
He --Original Message-- From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org ReplyTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error Sent: 9 May 2011 11:36 Kfir Lavi writes: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Kfir Lavi writes: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On 2011-05-09, Xi Shen

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread BRM
Well, I saw a lot of advice on this but no real solution - just some debugging help. At least from my own experience with Bash Scripting, I find that you can never use enough braces when referencing variables. So, the script should read: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x curl ${url} -d \mydata\

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-09 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
I can't believe it!!! Since the purpose of the whole installation was to start using a machine that has been abandoned for some time i paid no attention to a CMOS alert that came up on the screen the first time i turned it on, shrugging it off as one more error message of a machine aproaching the

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-09 Thread Kevin McCarthy
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:44:10AM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Considering the confusing nature of the error and the easyness which it is fixed with, should'n it be in a faq or something? Well, I suppose the handbook could be changed to explain that no only do you have to set the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread Kevin McCarthy
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:44:58PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :) My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x '' curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts If I execute it, I got an error from curl, saying it cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Cmdline image resizer understanding gamma ?

2011-05-09 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 05/06/2011 05:06 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: What about using gimp in scripting mode? I've been working on a pygimp-based plugin for the GIMP yesterday. It's a bit slow but it does the job, and comes with a simple GUI [1]. After running # sudo layman -a betagarden # sudo emerge -av

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set wireless regulatory domain

2011-05-09 Thread John Nielsen
On May 6, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mick wrote: On Friday 06 May 2011 18:04:31 John Nielsen wrote: Doesn't look like this went through the first time; re-sending without attachment. On May 5, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set wireless regulatory domain

2011-05-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 May 2011 17:20:49 John Nielsen wrote: On May 6, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mick wrote: On Friday 06 May 2011 18:04:31 John Nielsen wrote: Doesn't look like this went through the first time; re-sending without attachment. On May 5, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, May

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to check PDF against PDF/X-3 ?

2011-05-09 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 05/05/2011 11:01 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: I'm not aware of any real verification tool. I guess you could easily build one using one of the free pdf libraries for introspecting the file and matching all requirements. If you ever find yourself making such a tool please make it free software

[gentoo-user] Need Preferred Applications help

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Sullivan
A couple of weeks ago I switched my gcc profile over and rebuilt everything with emerge -e system and emerge -e world. Now, when I click on a link in Evolution, seamonkey opens to a blank page instead of to the link that I clicked on. I'm using gnome-base/gnome-2.32.1. Seamonkey is my preferred

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to set wireless regulatory domain

2011-05-09 Thread walt
On 05/09/2011 09:20 AM, John Nielsen wrote: I got it working like I want by: 1) Including RFKILL in my kernel config and 2) Building cfg80211, mac80211, rfkill, and all parts of the ath9k driver as modules Just adding RFKILL to a static (module-less) kernel didn't fix it, and just

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] scanner CanoScan LiDE210

2011-05-09 Thread pat
On Mon, 9 May 2011 09:15:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 9 May 2011 08:41:04 +0200, pat wrote: Nothing :-( Same output as for user: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unable to set wireless regulatory domain

2011-05-09 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 May 2011 23:46:06 walt wrote: On 05/09/2011 09:20 AM, John Nielsen wrote: I got it working like I want by: 1) Including RFKILL in my kernel config and 2) Building cfg80211, mac80211, rfkill, and all parts of the ath9k driver as modules Just adding RFKILL to a static

Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

2011-05-09 Thread Indi
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 11:20:02AM +0200, Mick wrote: On Saturday 07 May 2011 01:40:54 Indi wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 02:10:01AM +0200, Indi wrote: Speaking of that, I always get that notice the PGP signature could not be verified on your mails, Neil. Never mind, sorry -- that

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 08 May 2011 12:59:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/08/2011 11:21:06 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: sys-process/atop shows current CPU freqency I use it to check the effect of sys-power/powernowd why are you using powernowd?