Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

2016-01-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I thought these are only security fixes? Version 20 is actully > feature-complete and in-par with the Windows version 20. > > v11.2.202.559 might be from December, but it's based on an ancient version > from many years ago feature-wise. That may wel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/01/16 23:10, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: > > https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ page: > > > > "Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a > > supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports > > to Fl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, walt wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:38:45 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > When I start one of my firefox profile (even in "-save-mode") That would be "-safe-mode" by the way, with an "f". > I had a bad problem with the firefox profile manager about a year ago > an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Grant Edwards wrote: > [Actually, I don't recall ever using evince or atril for filling out > PDF forms -- so that might be another reason I'd have to keep acroread > around.] In my experience, at least evince is great with forms! Since that's provided by the same backend lib

Re: [gentoo-user] broken seamonkey :(

2015-09-04 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, lee wrote: > Thank you. The problem is that it doesn't let me add an exception. Only > the older versions do that. All options to add an exception are > disabled. > > There is 'browser.ssl_override_behavior', the value of which is > 2. Guessing by what that means from [2], th

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

2015-08-31 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote: I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them again next time I start it. [...] I still believe that at least links for them can be found somewhere inside ~/.mozilla directory. Search for sessionsto

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-31 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > And you should still try suggestion #2 because it's very likely to only affect > one specific configuration. Thanks, I did that just now. Took another, but didn't give me any more data to go by. Getting set up for bisecting and doing real work on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Hi Fernando, On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > 1. Add loglevel=7 to your kernel parameters and see what it prints before it > hangs. That helped, it showed me something about drm, so... > 3. From your kernel parameters I assume you're using the radeon free driver > right? If that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > You probably did look into this yourself, but did you double-check > your /etc/lilo.conf? Is everything fine there? At least it's identical between 4.0.5 and 4.1.6: image=/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-4.0.5 label=Linux405 read-only # read-onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-29 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > I've never experienced this particular kernel trouble myself, so I'm > not sure if my input would be of much help. > Here's what the kernel documentation has to say about this kind of issue: > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt:29,33 [.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-25 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Hi Alexander, On Sun, 23 Aug 2015, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Peter Weilbacher > wrote: > > > > after successfully using kernel 4.0.5 (vanilla-sources) for a while, I > > upgraded to 4.1.5 last week and 4.1.6 today. I cannot boot ei

[gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

2015-08-23 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Dear all, after successfully using kernel 4.0.5 (vanilla-sources) for a while, I upgraded to 4.1.5 last week and 4.1.6 today. I cannot boot either of them. On the screen I see Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done. Booting the kernel. as the last thing, then it just sits there. To up

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-21 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, thegeezer wrote: > On 20/11/14 18:19, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > But I like that trackpoint > yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to > navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a > prerequisite. Just that it's pre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

2014-04-18 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2014-04-18 02:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/04/2014 18:32, James wrote: alpine? (I guess is the current form/derivative of pine?REALLY? Alpine itself is now abandonware and replaced with some other *pine* app :-) No, Eduardo Chappa still does Alpine releases every now and then, 2.11

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-11-26 13:20, Marc Stürmer wrote: Zitat von Peter Weilbacher : One more thing that happens to me is that apparently gnome-terminal does not notify console apps of new window size. For me this happens to Alpine. (The only reason why I didn't simply switch to xfce terminal is

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-25 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-11-25 17:15, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 25.11.2013 15:15, schrieb Randy Barlow: Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-terminal). I haven't put much effort into figuring out what is happening, but I'm curious now that I k

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-11 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-11-11 23:40, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 04:07:34PM -0600, Dale wrote: > What version of Firefox? What addons (if any) do you use with Firefox? Oh good heavens. I have lots of add ons installed. It would take me a while to list them all, heck, just to get a l

Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes

2013-10-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-10-30 16:44, Andrew Lowe wrote: I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video, the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do this, but low and behold, no dial

[gentoo-user] Re: Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-10-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-09-26 14:42, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On one of my machines, I get continuous beeping from the internal loudspeaker when I boot a newer kernel (I'm using vanilla-sources). I first had that with 3.10.8 and also with 3.10.10, and it continues with 3.11.1. [...] In the meantime I lef

Re: [gentoo-user] Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-10-01 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-09-26 15:24, the wrote: Might be related with some kind of io error. What does dmesg show? Nothing out of the ordinary. :-( Can it have something to do with the graphics card instead? Because it stops right when the screen blanks? Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-10-01 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-09-26 15:35, Bruce Hill wrote: Check the manual for your BIOS/motherboard to see if it's some indication of hardware failure. Hmm, I'm sure that I have seen some beeps documented, but I cannot find that anywhere in the manual now. But I have a hard time believing that it's the hardwa

[gentoo-user] Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-09-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On one of my machines, I get continuous beeping from the internal loudspeaker when I boot a newer kernel (I'm using vanilla-sources). I first had that with 3.10.8 and also with 3.10.10, and it continues with 3.11.1. When I first had that problem I tried to remove all config options that had t

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2013-01-04 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2013-01-03 13:59, Bruce Hill wrote: xorg-server-1.13.1 (25 Dec 2012) Your mirror must be *really* lagging. :( Not so much: 30 Dec 2012; Agostino Sarubbo xorg-server-1.13.1.ebuild: Stable for amd64, wrt bug #448562 This was the second update since then, maybe the first time (around

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2013-01-03 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-12-04 19:52, Peter Weilbacher wrote: Right, I did that now, and have the framebuffer splash back. X also starts but the whole system locks hard once gdm tries to paint the login area. Unfortunately, after rebooting the log doesn't give me any useful output. I have to fiddle a

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2012-12-04 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-12-04 11:05, Jacques Montier wrote: 2012/12/4 Peter Weilbacher On 2012-11-30 18:47, Mick wrote: KMS should provide framebuffer now, so have you set KMS and firmware correctly? I just didn't realize that this is the case, so maybe my setup is wrong. I'll study the doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2012-12-04 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-11-30 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 30 Nov 2012 09:01:35 Peter Weilbacher wrote: I have the same problem and this solution sucks. :-( Before this update I had such a nice console setup with framebuffer splash, a nice small font, and a Gentoo decoration around it. Really sad to see that

Re: [gentoo-user] Old ATI Radeon RV350 driver broken after system update

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-11-28 00:08, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 27 Nov 2012 17:18:43 design [depois das dez] wrote: My video driver is an ATI Radeon 9600 (RV350) and somebody has already updated the section on the Gentoo wiki http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernels_.3E.3D3.0.0 informing that there might be

Re: [gentoo-user] xfig won't compile

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-11-27 12:34, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:20:02PM +0100, Alain Didierjean wrote: I cannot emerge xfig. Both versions (amd64 & ~amd64) return that informative message: * Messages for package media-gfx/xfig-3.2.5b-r2: [...] So: - known bug ? - tip available

Re: [gentoo-user] openmp flag

2012-09-28 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2012-09-26 20:25, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.09.2012 17:01, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:42 AM, James wrote: OH, anyone is encouraged to "chime in" about openmp and your thoughts as to it's viability and usefulness. Do you believe it will become a core technology, embed

[gentoo-user] Re: Recent networking problems

2012-02-22 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Peter Weilbacher > weilbacher.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a > > laptop. It all started with a big sync & world

[gentoo-user] Recent networking problems

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Hi all, since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a laptop. It all started with a big sync & world update that gave me new udev-171-r5, wicd-1.7.1_pre20120127, tuxonice-sources-3.0.17, openrc-0.9.8.2, among other things (I'm mostly running stable). Symptoms are th

[gentoo-user] Re: wicd fails to set wireless connection

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.07.2011 15:22, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011 09:32:44 Peter Weilbacher wrote: >> Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection >> (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but >> I'm not sure. >

[gentoo-user] wicd fails to set wireless connection

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but I'm not sure. I have done several restarts, re-emerged all relevant packages (dbus, dbus-python, wicd) but still it stops shortly after clicking the con

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 17:16, walt wrote: > >> --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 >> will Firefox run without this? Yes, it will. cairo-gtk2 is the default (last I looked). > You need to pick either that one or cairo-qt if you are building on linux. > >> --enable-oji >> will Firefox run without this?

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 07:49, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:37:10PM -0700, walt wrote >> On 09/30/2010 05:30 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Johannes Kimmel >>> wrote: On 09/30/2010 12:58 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > Heya, > I notice

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 26.10.2009 14:19, walt wrote: > You say you rebuilt world. Was gnome-media actually rebuild without > the pulseaudio Use flag? That's where gnome-volume-control comes > from, not from the panel applets package. Yes, I used the usual |emerge -vpDNu world| and that did remerge gnome-media. >

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 25.10.2009 18:07, walt wrote: > On 10/25/2009 08:19 AM, walt wrote: > >> Merging gnome-media with the pulseaudio USE flag breaks >> gnome-volume-control most horribly IMO, but OTOH I don't >> understand pulseaudio, so maybe I'm wrong. > > I found the gnome 2.26 upgrade guide, which points to t

[gentoo-user] Re: Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 24.10.2009 03:37, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:04:52AM +0200, Peter Weilbacher wrote > >> How would you do history searches without a database? > > If you don't know how, I suggest checking the Firefox 2.x code. It > worked someho

[gentoo-user] Re: Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 21.10.2009 23:22, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > If I had a bunch of money lying around, I'd hire some > programmers to seriously slim down Firefox while I was at it. There is > no reason a browser should need an SQL database. How would you do history searches without a database? On Linux usin

[gentoo-user] Re: less cannot work with emerge

2009-10-16 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 16.10.2009 14:05, Xi Shen wrote: > when i use emerge, there are too many packaged that they cannot > displayed in one screen. but i cannot use less to separate it into > pages. why? please help ;) Be sure to pipe both stdout and stderr to less, i.e. emerge 2>&1 | less when you are using bas

[gentoo-user] Re: qt-dbus blocker

2009-10-13 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 13.10.2009 14:48, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) > > [blocks B ] >x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r > (">x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r" is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, > x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-l