Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

[Jens Reinemuth]

You simply started something compiled with an older Qt lib.
After some updates wether restart your desktop or pc if this dies not help...

Am 28. Mai 2020 22:11:46 MESZ schrieb james :
>comrades,
>
>Pdfs are becoming a challenge to print. I'm sure I'll be printing pdf 
>files for decades to come.
>
>So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this:
>
>"Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e01) with this library
>
>(version 0x50e02)"
>
>
>Not being able to print pdf files is simply a no-go for me. I have no 
>intention of converting 10K+ pdf files to another format...
>
>Suggestions are most welcome, as what I have google-read, it's a mess 
>and I'm no closer to a gentoo centric solution.
>
>
>James

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5

[Jens Reinemuth]

Hi...

I am using kde5 daily at work in a PC and a laptop, @ home in an other PC... It 
is usable as long as you dont use kdepim / akonadi with e.g. mailing lists... 
As soon as my count of Mails grow over some thousands, akonadi simply stops 
working, that means is no longer fetching or displaying Mails... so yes, the 
desktop is cool and stable pim is not really since some versions...



Am 12. Juli 2016 19:30:58 MESZ, schrieb Philip Webb :
>It looks as if in the near future I am going to have to install KDE 5 ,
>if I want to go on using my regular daily apps Konsole Gwenview Okular
>;
>yes, I know I can limit exposure to their requirements
>& don't need to install the whole desktop system.
>
>Before I plunge into that, is anyone else using KDE 5 every day ?
>What are people's experiences with it ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Montag, 6. Oktober 2014, 22:47:51 schrieb Mick:
 On Monday 06 Oct 2014 16:44:57 Jens Reinemuth wrote:
 
  And to go deeper: Why don't they store documents in a database, that is
  better optimized for documents... MongoDB? CouchDB? Instead they use this
  shitty mixture of MySQL and Virtuoso!? WTF?


 No, no, no!  What they should do is use Microsoft's Sharepoint server
 solution, which stores documents in the MS SQL as binary blobs ... millions of
 corporate users can't be wrong!  O_o


Great idea... ;-) I really can't understand why anyone would use a database as 
file-storage!?

But to be real: Why not use anything for akonadi/nepomuk that ist really 
optimized for the purpose... Why not Solr or Elasticsearch... I mean: Nobody 
really ever uses that crap for anything else than doing fulltext-search! As far 
as i remember, even that purpose wasn't really very well done! Elasticsearch 
with some indexers that push a plaintextversion of nearly every document-format 
into the index and you will enjoy searches in millions of documents in nearly 
no time... Using some tags and categories, you will have the perfect semantic 
experience!




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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2014, 18:59:31 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
 Am 05.10.2014 um 18:27 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
  On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote:ystem all that much.
  
  My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the damn
  thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a manner I
  could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when the importer
  managed to destroy my entire mail store and leave me with nothing, so I
  switched to claws and several years later switched again to Thunderbird.
 
 or even better: akonadi eating 10 years and 100 000+ archived emails.
 But the gains were there - search became slower, if it worked at all and
 all filters broke - several times.
 

I can't really count how many times i simply deleted all the .config/akonadi 
and .local/akonadi stuff - and let akonadi regenerate it, simply because i 
deeply believed in the whole crap getting better! It never got better... 

Currently i can live with all that stuff, simply by disabling all nepomuk- and 
akonadi-stuff and waiting for it to show all my mails again... 

Funny: My wife has a second account with exactly the same settings and is 
deeply annoyed by the permanent popups telling her that the balloo-indexer has 
closed... Indeed she has disabled it!!! So i have to kill that shit every 
time!

Most annoying story in the last time: KdePIM 4.10 simply stopped working with 
my private Courier-IMAP-Server, telling everyone, that courier has a bug... 
Ok, maybe, but it worked since every Version and just stopped because one ore 
more developers simply decided to do things right!!!

No Problem in Gentoo, simply mask and downgrade kdepim-meta... I had more 
problems at work with Kubuntu! With KDE4.10.1 everything works as expected...

But this is just a gnome-like-behavior... The developers simply don't really 
care what the users want or need... i really never heard of anybody saying: Oh 
that search stuff is cool! I use it regularily! 

And to go deeper: Why don't they store documents in a database, that is better 
optimized for documents... MongoDB? CouchDB? Instead they use this shitty 
mixture of MySQL and Virtuoso!? WTF? 



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wayland

[Jens Reinemuth]

On Tuesday 22 July 2014 00:32:59 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
  Most Desktops will be a while before interacting with Wayland,
  let alone supporting it natively, imho. Bloatware like gnome
  and KDE will be the last to get QT5, Wayland and a myriad
  of new, super_fast, secure desktop toys, imho.
 
 who told you that 'bloated' buzz word? The same people who told you
 about 'the cloud' or 'web 2.0'?

i think the same people that told him, that desktop environments are security 
risks...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi, gentoo and FritzCard USB2.1

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Samstag, 25. Januar 2014, 06:01:32 schrieb Jens Reinemuth:
 Hi everybody...
 
 [...]

Hi again... 

as there was no response and i did again a lot of googling there really seems 
to exist no way to use a usb fritzcard with a kernel  2.6.x and no one ported 
a driver...

Now i have the problem that i have to use a 20m cable to use an fritzcard pci 
in my main server at least that one seems to work with newer kernels.

regards,

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[gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi, gentoo and FritzCard USB2.1

[Jens Reinemuth]

Hi everybody...

as i own now my second Pi (the first one is my mediaplayer with OpenElec), i 
thought i should use this one for more than just streaming...

Therefor i installed gentoo on it - as it simply has more possibilities than 
raspian or others.

I have an older FritzCardUSB aroud her and want to use that one to run 
capisuite directly on the Raspberry (i wrote some kind of messaging-server in 
nodeJS...) to store calls and faxes... if this is impossible i would like to 
use USBIP on the pi and use the FritzCard on my other gentoo Server... The Pi 
sits right left to the o2-Box and the Server around 20 meters and 3 rooms 
away...

I would like to know which drivers i would need to run the fritzcard? Becouse 
fcusb is no longer in portage and enabling several isdn-kernel-modules did not 
work. 

has someone a similar setup or can help me with the problem?

thanks!

Jens
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Tablets

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Montag, 21. Oktober 2013, 10:43:46 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
 On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:49:44 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote:
 
  use someone a tablet with Gentoo or alternatives? I want me buy a
  tablets, but im not sure i can familiar use Android. Has someone a
  tablet with gentoo or other Distri running?
 
 The Nexus 7 can certainly be used with other distros. I tried one that
 triple-booted to Android, Bodhi (with E17) or KDE couple of weeks ago.
 How it was done is documented in the current edition of Linux Format
 magazine.

The last time i tried KDE (Plasma Active) on my nexus 7 ot really was pita!

Most of the controls where not really designed for touch screens... The concept 
of the freely placeable plasmoids and the windows also was not realy touch 
friendly... 

Of course you can install allmost any Linux with  a multiboot-capable kernel 
(which most of the custom-kernels are...) but you if you really want a gentoo, 
think about an usb keyboard and at least one bigger iron besides to do 
crosscompiling!

 
 People have also installed Ubuntu on the Nexus 7.
 

Ubuntu? I installed the nightlies about 3 times once a month in the past 
quarter year... Always: first update - wont boot again... Give them some time...

 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Selecting a Linux compatible mobo for FX8350

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2013, 10:07:42 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan:
 Hi,
 
 I'm searching for a mobo which is fully compatible with Linux and
 supports AMD FX 8350.
 Preferably, I'm looking for one with onboard GFX, since I don't have
 any need for a big GFX for now.
 
 Any pointers?

Hi Nilesh...

i just recently upgraded to an AMD8350-Bundle with the Gigabyte 78LMT-
USB3 Mainboard... There were 16GB of RAM included in the bundle, not the 
highend-type, but as i simply wanted to have enough ressources to develop 
and do other things in backgroud, that one perfectly meets my requirements.

There is some AMD-Chipset onboard, but as i had an older NVidia Card, im 
using this currently, without any problems. 

I really don't think there should ba any issues with mainboards that are 
incompatible to linux... USB3 works, SATA works, ... What else should work?

regards, 

Jens


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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother MFC 7320

[Jens Reinemuth]

 ### Mail vom Wednesday 03 October 2012, 01:01:41: ###
 
 I has compile new kernel, but the result is same. 
 
 CONFIG_USB_ACM=y
 CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y
 CONFIG_USB_WDM=y
 CONFIG_USB_TMC=y
 

Hi,

i don't really remember where - perhaps search the mailinglist-archive - but i 
think i've read that cups and the USB_PRINTER-module are not working perfectly 
together... try to compile it as module or disable it and compile cups with 
usb-support... 

I use epson-drivers for my all-in-one printer and have no problems... but i 
print and scan via Wifi...

 I use the handbook for usb and usb printer. 
 
 Uff. When on Sabayon run, should run on gentoo too, or?
 
 Regards
 Silvio
 
 

Regards,

Jens

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones:
 I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October.  After
 spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the
 upgrade and migration to work, I gave up and pinned KMail to version
 4.4.11.1.
 
 With the recent upgrade to KDE, I'm curious if anyone knows whether the bugs
 have been worked out and the KMail upgrade will go smoother now?

Just stay with 4.4.x! Akonadi/Nepomuk/... is imho not ready for daily use 
right now! I got 4.8 running in Kubuntu and its a real pain, even with the 8GB 
Ram in the company-laptop!

In private i will never switch! If someday you can't use the older Versions 
with actual KDE i will use Thunderbird...

Jens

[gentoo-user] gentoo as wlan-repeater...

[Jens Reinemuth]

Hi list,

i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy 
wlan-access-point for the people. There is an AP with dd-wrt and 
WPA2-PSK... currently i only have wlan at the window in the kitchen and 
my gentoo-pc which stands about 5m away from that does not even see the 
ap while scanning.


As i also have a gentoo netbook, i thought about using this one as a 
kind of repeater for the wlan.


Both have ath5k-cards, on the netbook i use wicd (as it changes the 
networks more often...) on the PC i hardcoded the access-data in 
wpa_supplicant.conf (as the ath5k is kind of interim-solution until 
our house is built and i will have real wired network there)


Has anyone allready set up something like that? Which settings are 
necessary, is the ath5k able to be used as repeater (as it has to be 
client and ap at once...)?


The alternatives are a old Fritzbox 7140, a Netgear router and 2 
Fonera-Boxes (which all are packed in boxes and wait until the house is 
ready).


So i really would prefer the solution with using the gentoo-netbook 
instead of the routers...


Regards,

Jens

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo as wlan-repeater...

[Jens Reinemuth]

On 10.11.2011 16:48, James wrote:

Jens Reinemuthjensat  reinemuth.info  writes:



i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy
wlan-access-point for the people.

[...]


Hi...

all you mentioned is really true... i don't care really much for the 
security as i don't provide the AP, i just want to connect to it ;-)


i just want to make the signal - which is ok at the kitchen window - a 
little bit stronger, so my pc (about 3m away) can connect to it.


I found some howtos about this issue (mainly debian) in which it ist 
described to split your interface in 2 virtual interfaces 
(wlan0:repeater and wlan0:ap)... You connect with wlan0:repeater to the 
AP of the WLAN and provide another access point via wlan0:ap...


After this, you have to forward your traffic in both directions.

Just wanted to know if this is going to work on a gentoo-box with 
ath5k... And how!? Simple iptables, or do i have to work out some 
bridging stuff?


If i had to provide the main-access-point, i think i would have chosen 
freifunk or something like that, as the appartment is in the plain 
country, no houses around, even if some hackers try to connect, you 
would see every car, every person that is in the radius of 2km around 
the house ;-) And even if someone really manages to connect - so what!? 
There are as many court judgments which say you are responsible for ALL 
traffic via your wifi as the ones saying you are not! I have a legal 
expenses insurance... Aren't we all hackers?


As long as german politicians think (and insist that) it's legal to 
install trojans on computers, i think it's legal to share my bandwith!


regards,

Jens

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo as wlan-repeater...

[Jens Reinemuth]

On 10.11.2011 23:24, William Kenworthy wrote:

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 17:10 +0100, Jens Reinemuth wrote:

On 10.11.2011 16:48, James wrote:

Jens Reinemuthjensat   reinemuth.info   writes:



i currently live in an appartment that has a very lousy
wlan-access-point for the people.

[...]

Hi...

all you mentioned is really true... i don't care really much for the
security as i don't provide the AP, i just want to connect to it ;-)

problem-low signal-solution:bigger antenna, directional antenna,
antenna on the end of a cable, ...

google home made 802.11 antenna for some cheap and usable ideas.


BillK




Hi...

that are great ideas, but i don't have physical access to the router! i 
am just living there...


No ideas how to solve that via software? Currently i am downloading 
zeroshell, which seems to be able to build up repeaters very easily, but 
i would like to do it in gentoo...


i really only need to repeat the signal for about 3 more meters...

Jens

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Jabber Server

[Jens Reinemuth]

On 04.11.2011 14:18, Michael Mol wrote:
 We use Openfire and Asterisk at work. I wasn't aware they could be
 integrated, though.

 Meanwhile, each independently is great.
While i agree that asterisk is great i really think that openfire is a
hell of a jabber server... While ejabberd runs as erlang script,
openfire is written in java which makes it depend on a actual vm with
all it's disadvantages (slow, memory overhead, ...). Even if the
configuration via Webinterface is really easy and comfortable, you have
at least 10-20 features you don't and even will never need...

ejabberd is a jabber-server. not more not less and runs with way less
memory and io...

But i can't understand why there aren't any native (aka. compiled)
jabber-servers, at least some that have actual releases...

Jens

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

[Jens Reinemuth]

On 13.10.2011 16:16, Michael Mol wrote:
 (At least, I think that's the package name for vanilla sources. I
emerge vanilla-sources

[gentoo-user] Bind problems when registering new domains....

[Jens Reinemuth]

Hi everybody,

i registered a new domain yesterday and tried to set the primary ans
secondary nameserver as usual, which resulted in the following
error-message:

Nameserver error - ERROR: 116 SOA record response must be authoritative
(resolver, answer)
([/10.121.46.9|/2001:608:6:7:5:0:0:11]=--80.239.175.176:53 (UDP,
PROTOCOL_EXPLICITLY_CHOSEN, Timeout: 3s, Retry: 1 x 0s, unsecure,
ignoreTC), [/10.121.46.9|/2001:608:6:7:5:0:0:11]=--80.239.175.176:53
(UDP, PROTOCOL_EXPLICITLY_CHOSEN, Timeout: 3s, Retry: 1 x 0s, unsecure,
ignoreTC): RA )

In the server there are 2 networking-interfaces, the ip-address of the
error belongs to the second one...


I am currently running bind-9.7.4 and did not change anything to the
config (except adding the new domain to the zones...)

As i am not really into the whole bind-thingy (someone configured it for
me...) i am totally stuck here...

Actually i tried to update bind to bind-9.8.1 and performed all the
chmods that were suggested, but no change... Still got the same errors.

Perhaps there is someone out there who can help me with this issue...

Regards,

Jens

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[Jens Reinemuth]

I use it on all of my hardware (except the smartphone)... 

That includes my server (Xeon, 64bit, nginx, mariadb, mongodb, postfix, ...), 
my pc at home (Core2, 64Bit, kde 4.7), the netbook (32bit, atom, kde 4.7), my 
file-server (atom, 64bit, samba)...

gentoo is the system of choice on every new hardware i bought or will buy...

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata 1.0 possible?

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 17:23:15 schrieb Mark Knecht:
 Hi Jens,
I've never bothered with actually making the boot device RAID as
 it's pretty easy to recreate if it dies. I do mirror my /boot
 partition on three drives so that hopefully I can change what BIOS
 looks at to boot and get the machine back up that way if necessary. I
 know of one person who reported that he made /boot RAID1 but only
 boots from one of the drive to automatically shadow changes he makes
 to /boot, but I've not tried that myself.
 
As for /root, I'm using metadata=1.2 here, but it wasn't easy. It
 required an initramfs to figure out why it wasn't working, and then a
 _lot_ of care about RAID naming in both the physical RAID details as
 well as the mdadm.conf file to ensure it matched the eventual machine
 name. However it does work well for me.
 
 HTH,
 Mark

Hi Mark,

i really think it could be an issue of naming... As if i boot from the 
install-cd the raid-drives are named md124 - md127 and /dev/md/livecd:1 - 
/dev/md/livecd:4.

I installed a kernel with genkernel and its corresponding initramfs, but after 
booting i get the same errors. starting the busybox shows the /dev/md3 but i 
cant mount it in any way.

regards, 

Jens

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata 1.0 possible?

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 16:18:46 schrieb Jens Reinemuth:
 Hi everybody,
 
 i'm totally stuck with an installation of a server using SoftwareRAIDs (10)
 with an adaptec aic79xx Controller...
 
 I thought that perhaps the drivers must be corrupted, but i found some
 (older) howtos that described you should be using metadata=0.9.0 at least
 on the boot and root partitions. Is this still an issue with actual
 kernels?
 
 regards,
 
 Jens

Omfg... Facepalm!!!

Totally ignorant i really did genkernel with initramfs, added dodmraid as 
parameter, ...

Should have simply done a genkernel --help, which showed up the mdadm 
parameter :-(

After doing this - and changing the mdadm.conf a litte bit - everything works 
as expected... Ok, not everything - should remove all the unneeded modules 
from kernel which i added to locate the error.

Thanx a lot to all,

Jens

[gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata 1.0 possible?

[Jens Reinemuth]

Hi everybody,

i'm totally stuck with an installation of a server using SoftwareRAIDs (10) 
with an adaptec aic79xx Controller...

I thought that perhaps the drivers must be corrupted, but i found some (older) 
howtos that described you should be using metadata=0.9.0 at least on the boot 
and root partitions. Is this still an issue with actual kernels? 

regards, 

Jens

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from SoftwareRaid 10 with metadata 1.0 possible?

[Jens Reinemuth]

Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011, 16:40:47 schrieb Florian Philipp:
 You will still need metadata=0.9.0 if you want to partition the raid
 itself and then boot from it (e.g. create /boot and root on the md device).
 
 Please also take a look at the thread in [2].
 
 [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?10196
 [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg111987.html

Ok, 

this helps a lot... as i have a big spare partition, i should be able to copy 
the whole system from the metadata 1.x raid to the spare one, create a new 
raid with metadata=0.9 and copy the data back...

glad i don't have to emerge the whole world again ;-)

thanx,

Jens