[gentoo-user] Missing /tmp/.sockets or slow program start

2009-11-26 Thread Urs Schuetz
Hi My system went pretty slow this days, xemacs used about 5 seconds to startup. I remember that this startup time was much faster before. After a little tinkering i found that xemacs pauses during startup at acessing /tmp/.sockets, which did not exist on my box. After creating this file (touch

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-22 Thread Urs Schuetz
Could be baselayout-1. Please take a look at bug #291916 [1] [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/291916 Urs

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't detect printer hp 840c on parallel port

2009-09-04 Thread Urs Schuetz
On 04/09/09, vasya wrote: Hi. Here some problem - can't connect printer hp 840c on parallel port LPT1. Necessary kernel modules I've enabled. But CUPS by foomatic db or hplip by their own drivers can't detect this printer. Hplip tells me that error: No device selected/specified or

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

2009-08-05 Thread Urs Schuetz
On 04/08/09, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and updated packages. At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared. I have long since forgotten its name. Is there some way to do this now? I could probably write some script to simply

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote: I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? I'm using the DNS of my router (D-Link DSL-500G). Works

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: print to pdf

2007-06-25 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to use the ghostpdf.ppd printer description with your cups-pdf printer to get the options to embed the fonts. Hm, why are you using this ppd file with cups-pdf? It doesn't belong to cups-pdf (at least

Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-24 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2007 04:36, Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:13, Christian wrote: Ok, I have found the solution of my problem: emerge --unmerge ghostscript-gpl emerge ghostscript-esp That solves my problem. Maybe it helps you

Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-23 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 19:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Philip Webb wrote: 070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote: I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system and cups-pdf. Why don't you use

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and WindowMaker

2007-04-14 Thread Urs Schuetz
xOn Sat, 07 Apr 2007, Brad Camroux wrote: Greetings, I've been trying to get WindowMaker working on my Gentoo box, so far without success. It's very difficult to find anything on Google et. al., too about getting things working. Today I managed to find the wmaker.inst program to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Xdm doesn ´t start anymore

2006-09-23 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Oliver Klein wrote: Hi Thx a lot that was the mistake, x11-apps/xdm was not installed, but i´m sure it was installed befor update the system...now i got a login window. But it was not very comfortable and the background is full with snow like a bad TV frame. Any ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-07 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Urs Schuetz wrote: Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look at udev now. They are essential, you want them. From http

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-05 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: On Jul 4, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Urs Schuetz wrote: Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look at udev now. They are essential, you want them. From http

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-03 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: Unfortunately i am forced to use nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5 because my graphic card is not supported by newer versions of the driver. I also use kernel 2.6.11 because of that. But now xorg does not seem to work with that driver: (EE) NVIDIA(0):

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-26 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked: strace acroread shows that acroread 7.0.5-r1 uses a very long time with fonts and nonexistent directories like /usr/psres and /usr/share/fonts/afms//usr/share/fonts/afms

[gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Urs Schuetz
Acroread startup is very slow on my gentoo sistem. It takes more than 2 minutes to start acrobat on my old AMD Duron 800 MHz. Also on further startups the load time stays more or less the same. The CPU is 100% used during most of the startup period, which is strange. Top shows CPU usage of 75-98%

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-11 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0200 Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized Console Log window icon. [...] I could not find the script ou option which starts this window

[gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-10 Thread Urs Schuetz
Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized Console Log window icon. I would like to start my computer without console log window in X. I could not find the script ou option which starts this window. Where can I disable it? I don't even know what's the name of the executable

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disable memory

2005-11-13 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Peper wrote: Hello, Is there anyway to disable specific part of memory? memtest86 freezes only when egzamining first MB of it. As a boot option for the kernel (e.g. /etc/lilo.conf): append=mem=exactmap [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somehing like

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa daemon won't start

2005-07-28 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote:  /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:873: failed to obtain info for control #30 (No such file or directory) the settings are stored in /etc/asound.state as soon as ALSA stops. Does this file exist and is it writeable? You can try to delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Willie Wong wrote: I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to find my xsession ended with a message on the console that said something to the effect that Enlightenment

Re: [gentoo-user] Cataloging MP3's

2005-06-05 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005, Patrick wrote: I would like to add all my MP3 info like genre - artists - song and so on, of all the MP3 files that on my server into a mysql database. Is there a program that exists, or must i create my own scripts. TIA Patrick prokyon3 amarok urs --

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-03 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I re-emerged cups, got cupsd to hold, setup my deskjet 722c as parralel port 0, It said everything was good, but the test page will not print! Suggestion: Change in /etc/cupsd.conf: LogLevel info to LogLevel debug or even to LogLevel debug2 Then

[gentoo-user] Ebuild for RealPlayer-10.0.4 not working: Aborting before download

2005-05-11 Thread Urs Schuetz
Just tried to install mplayer with the real USE-flag set, which results in additional installation of RealPlayer-10.0.4. However, the installation is not working, as there is an error before the download of RealPlayer: Here is what «emerge mplayer» does: emerge (1 of 2)