Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

2009-12-15 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:25:46 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure why you have a problem. A quick search on my box shows that most libs (of the small number I checked) have .a and .so Most libs, but not all. glibc is one of them. Anyway, I've added --enable-static to

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sebastian Be?ler squawked: the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style xorg.conf with xrandr. That don't mix. I learned that the hard way. You just made my

[gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-15 Thread GerhardosG
Hi , everyone tux / # lsmod Module Size Used by test_nx 1824 0 psmouse37980 0 nvidia 9574140 0 Here is my xorg.conf # $XdotOrg$ # # Copyright (c) 1994-1998 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # $XConsortium: XF86Conf.cpp

[gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my system still does not have sound. what have i missed? unmute? t

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-15 Thread Ates
GerhardosG wrote: Hi , everyone tux / # lsmod Module Size Used by test_nx 1824 0 psmouse37980 0 nvidia 9574140 0 What is you're xorg error output? What contains the /var/log/Xorg.0.log? My suggestion is check the Xorg.0.log

[gentoo-user] references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread zhen
Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore. What else can I do to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:23, Daniel da Veiga wrote: ... When I want to extract an image from a doc I save it as HTML. It saves images in a separated folder and links it into the HTML. I simply go to the folder and check the image. When I do this in Open Office the image in the resulting .html

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
2009/12/15 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk: On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:23, Daniel da Veiga wrote: ... When I want to extract an image from a doc I save it as HTML. It saves images in a separated folder and links it into the HTML. I simply go to the folder and check the image. When I do

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 08:15:13PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules:

Re: [gentoo-user] references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:50:52PM +0300, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 17:44:01 schrieb Renat Golubchyk: Try checking it with ImageMagick's identify. app-forensic/foremost may be useful too Greetings Sebastian

[gentoo-user] device-mapper

2009-12-15 Thread James
Hello, Background: I upgraded a kde3 system to kde4. Along the way, to get past blocking, I had to install device-mapper. Not sure if all system had it before, as I never looked that closely. This particular system is all reiserf, except for the swap partition. (please no file systems (flame)

[gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Skippy
Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for help. :) I use the following to extract audio from vob files and write it as wav files: mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null It would be handy if this could be automated so I could run a bash

Re: [gentoo-user] references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread zhen
Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:50:52PM +0300, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote: the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my system still does not have sound. what have i missed? unmute? t To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/15/2009 10:23 AM, Skippy wrote: Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for help. :) I use the following to extract audio from vob files and write it as wav files: mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null It would be handy if this

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/15/2009 12:29 AM, daid kahl wrote: You can just set this up in ~/.xinitrc then. exec startxfce4 (that's actually startxfce)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:23:26 -0700, Skippy wrote: mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null It would be handy if this could be automated so I could run a bash script in a directory full of vob files and end up with a set of wav files with the same file name as the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/14/2009 2:21 PM, Stroller wrote: Yeah, I think I have a copy of my signature here which was scanned at about that kinda resolution, stored as a bitmap has a large filesize. When I discovered how badly it slowed down Word when actually trying to place it in a document it got replaced

[gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 02:50 PM, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 03 December 2009 20:20:03 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I know Unicode has a different normalize meaning, but for my purposes, that has already been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread zhen
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/15/2009 02:50 PM, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I

[gentoo-user] Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that KDE 4.3.4 works just fine with Qt 4.6. If you were about to upgrade, spare yourselves some headaches. It does not work just fine. On first sight, it does seem to work, but if you look a bit better, it does not. Symptoms of using

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Skippy linux...@204eastsouth.com wrote: Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for help. :) I use the following to extract audio from vob files and write it as wav files: mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Dec 2009, at 14:00, Mick wrote: ... I'm guessing that the OOo HTML converter will probably turn images into PNGs. If you want to see what the original format is then open the .doc file using OOo and Save As an ODF file - OOo's open document format. Then unzip it and in the folder that

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Dec 2009, at 15:23, Skippy wrote: ... Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for help. :) I recommend the works of Izaak Walton Mendel Cooper. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] device-mapper

2009-12-15 Thread Philip Webb
091215 James wrote: I upgraded a kde3 system to kde4. Along the way, to get past blocking, I had to install device-mapper. This particular system is all reiserf, except for the swap partition. Baselayout is 1.12.13 is installed. All is good. Yesterday, I had to remove device-mapper to so

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote: unmute? To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect). Mplayer?

[gentoo-user] Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread walt
On 12/15/2009 04:15 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel the driver is

[gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread walt
On 12/15/2009 04:50 AM, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links

Re: [gentoo-user] device-mapper

2009-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 15:42:43 schrieb James: This is a critical system for me, so I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything on the 'sunset' of device-mapper. It's included in lvm2 nowadays, hence the blocker. Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 07:25 PM, walt wrote: On 12/15/2009 04:50 AM, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Skippy
Thank you Neil - songs are being sung in your name even now. Skippy On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:41:42 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote the words: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:23:26 -0700, Skippy wrote: mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null It would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 17:23:34 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that KDE 4.3.4 works just fine with Qt 4.6. Well, it does. For me. If you were about to upgrade, spare yourselves some headaches. It does not work just fine. On first

[gentoo-user] openoffice borking tables

2009-12-15 Thread James
Hello, For years now, I have used openoffice to edit word file with tables. Now no matter what version word doc, I cannot edit and file that end in .doc with a simple table. I can edit a .doc file but upon reload the formatting is scrambled. I always save them as word (.doc) XP/97 format. It

[gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread walt
On 12/15/2009 09:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/15/2009 07:25 PM, walt wrote: On 12/15/2009 04:50 AM, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/15/2009 12:07 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote: unmute? To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer is special that way,

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread James
Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes: Bottom line, KDE 4.3 *does* work with Qt 4.6, but it does *not* work just fine (there's a big difference between works and works fine). I assume you mean 'x11-libs/qt' or could you be more specific? James

[gentoo-user] off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

2009-12-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the physical buttons. For example moving the wheel to the left reports button press 13 button press 6 button release 6 button release 13 Similar results for the many other buttons on the beast. Is this what the

[gentoo-user] Re: device-mapper

2009-12-15 Thread James
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs at online.de writes: It's included in lvm2 nowadays, hence the blocker. Thanks guys for the responses. I'll reboot tonight and pray (cause I always do). Gentoo has brought me closer to my maker. (funny how that has worked out).. James

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that KDE 4.3.4 works just fine with Qt 4.6. If you were about to upgrade, spare yourselves some headaches. It does not work just fine. On first sight, it does seem to work, but if

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12/11/2009 08:00 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 17:07:17 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 15:16:01 Dale wrote: Rebooting will also do all of this but it is not needed. From a technical stand point, the only time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 20:09:48 schrieb James: I assume you mean 'x11-libs/qt' or could you be more specific? What would be the other Qt, then? Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 08:17 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 17:23:34 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that KDE 4.3.4 works just fine with Qt 4.6. Well, it does. For me. If you were about to upgrade, spare yourselves some

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 09:09 PM, James wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrealncat arcor.de writes: Bottom line, KDE 4.3 *does* work with Qt 4.6, but it does *not* work just fine (there's a big difference between works and works fine). I assume you mean 'x11-libs/qt' or could you be more specific?

[gentoo-user] Re: What magic does portage use?

2009-12-15 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:30:38 +0100 Sebastian Beßler webmas...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 13.12.2009 23:19, schrieb »Q«: That looks like a bug. Heh, it would be nice if the initscripts worked with the current stable version of baselayout. This is no bug, it is just how baselayout 1

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 16:29:58 Stroller wrote: On 15 Dec 2009, at 14:00, Mick wrote: ... I'm guessing that the OOo HTML converter will probably turn images into PNGs. If you want to see what the original format is then open the .doc file using OOo and Save As an ODF file - OOo's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 17:16:33 walt wrote: On 12/15/2009 04:15 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Kernel driver in use: HDA

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote: unmute? To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer is special that

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Dale
Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote: unmute? To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 10:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: bottom line your system is screwed and you think it is qt4.6 If it got screwed, certainly not by me.

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-15 Thread Dale
Daniel Troeder wrote: On 12/11/2009 08:00 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 17:07:17 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 15:16:01 Dale wrote: Rebooting will also do all of this but it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 12:23:01 Ates wrote: GerhardosG wrote: Hi , everyone tux / # lsmod Module Size Used by test_nx 1824 0 psmouse37980 0 nvidia 9574140 0 What is you're xorg error output? What contains the

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Xi Shen
thanks you all. i have tried to press the mute button, the volume up button, adjust the volume in mplayer, etc. but still got nothing. and my kernel have the intel codec compiled at modules. anyway, i will retry again... On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Bruce

[gentoo-user] Re: off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

2009-12-15 Thread walt
On 12/15/2009 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the physical buttons. For example moving the wheel to the left reports button press 13 button press 6 ... Identifier Logitech MX1000 To clarify a bit, what

[gentoo-user] GLX module not loaded...

2009-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, something is still wrong with my X. I downgraded all according X11-stuff to stable and now I have a login and my X-desktop back. | By the way: It may be helpful that after compiling the Xserver | one is not only warned to compile all X11-drivers again due | to API changes but also and