[gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
emerging libpaper says elog run \paperconfig -p letter\ as root to use letter-pagesizes elog or paperconf with normal user privileges. I did the first and when I run paperconf it says letter as does cat /etc/papersize Nonetheless, whenever evince starts up it defaults to A4 paper. Any help

[gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I use gnucash nearly every day and today it fails to start. I sent in a bug report. Here are the crash details. Distribution: Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Gnome Release: 2.20.3 2008-02-01 (Gentoo) BugBuddy Version: 2.20.1 System: Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r3-ajg1 #1 SMP Wed Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:11:57 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. When I try to start gnucash I get: Segmentation fault Though, gnucash is working OK on my other backup system, so I don't know what is going on. I built it on another machine just now and it works there too. I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:33:35 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll tell you what will happen, they will close the bug with some silly message not enough info etc. I hope you are wrong, but of course time will tell. The same way when I file a bug about new php-5.2.5_p20080206 when it

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:48:09 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/17/08 00:21, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The same way when I file a bug about new php-5.2.5_p20080206 when it came out. The bug was dismissed closed the same day I file it, week later the php was downgraded to current one php

Re: [gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:52 +0100 Henry Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, whenever evince starts up it defaults to A4 paper. Any help would be appreciated. What size are your PDFs? In particular the output from pdfinfo pdffile.pdf | grep 'Page size' might be

Re: [gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:08:11 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: emerging libpaper says elog run \paperconfig -p letter\ as root to use letter-pagesizes elog or paperconf with normal user privileges. I did the first and when I run

[gentoo-user] cpu use flags

2008-04-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have an intel core2 duo (currently in 32 bit mode x86). Is there any reason why I should not set the following use flags. mmx, sse, sse2, ssse3 The last one would be a local flag for mplayer. proc/cpu indicates I have this functionality. flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

2008-04-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:33:05 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: # emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world gives just a few packages with dev-java/rhino the last one (first to be merged). But # emerge

[gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I believe that when I upgrade grub I am supposed to re-run it. I would like to keep the same configuration I have know but am not sure if I installed grub in the MBR (I dual boot windows since it is often needed when calling Dell Support). I believe that I do have grub in the mbr, but wish to

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 21 May 2008 11:42:37 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:53:28 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: If you don't, the stage1 in your MBR may not work with the stage1.5 and stage2 in /boot. This happened

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:23 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Allan Gottlieb: This discussion is interesting and may well prove helpful. But, unless I missed it, I didn't see an answer to my question, namely Although it was a little bit

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
. Thanks! You are welcome and thanks again to alan mckinnon for confirming my guess. allan (gottlieb) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] kernel config ata/atapi and scsi

2008-05-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I remember reading that much of the CDrom et al support now uses the scsi subsystem, but have not remembered enough. I would appreciate answers to the following specific questions. I have a dell insprion 6400 laptop. Using lshw I find that the ide interface contains ATA disk Hitachi HTS72101

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up `du'

2008-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 24 May 2008 16:49:09 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to speed up the du command? I mean short of having cron run it on target directories and store results. (not really speeding up but at least not having to wait for a result) I've seen various mention of du being

[gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk

2008-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am having trouble with my external USB disk. I have the following entry in fstab: /dev/usbhd1 /mnt/b ext3 defaults 0 0 I have written /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules DRIVERS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==335144304641374D, ATTRS{product}==ST94811U2-RK, ATTRS{manufacturer}==Seagate,

Re: [gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk (SOLVED ?)

2008-06-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Thank you alan and Q. The problem seems to be that I was trying to mount (a partition of) the usb disk at boot time with localmount. The localmount init script is run before the usb filesystem (usbfs) is mounted. I have now listed it as noauto in fstab and mount it in local.start. But I did

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:17:36 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:46:44 -0700 James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin

[gentoo-user] recommendation for a wireless G Broadband Router

2008-06-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have a linksys (Cisco) WRT54G, which works fine except for one point. I have been unable to find in the documentation how to tell its dhcp server that mac address X should get IP addr Y. I am prepared to accept the deserved shame if someone tells me how to do this. Failing the above, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a wireless G Broadband Router

2008-06-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:01:17 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gordon Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option is the excellent Tomato Firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), which does exactly what you need out of the box. Another

[gentoo-user] where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running 23.0.50 now with success. thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:08:11 -0500 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running 23.0.50 now with success. What ever is the most

[gentoo-user] another grub problem

2008-07-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The newest update of grub from 0.97-r5 to 0.97-r6 contained the *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but later stages will be the new version, which could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: another grub problem: SOLVED

2008-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
(Summary: I had a problem with installing grub into the MBR. Two thoughtful replies set me straight) At Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:46:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: grub find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,2

[gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My laptop (inspiron 6400) has an intel 3945 wireless chip and hence I use net-wireless/ipw3945{,d,-ucode}. If I include ipw3945 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, I get an error msg during boot Failed to load ipw3945 However, everything works fine. Specifically, ifconfig shows that the

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:05:27 +0930 Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have exactly the same laptop, with the wireless assigned to eth1. net.eth1 is not run in any runlevel, but is launched from udev. Sounds good. I assume you do *not* have ipw3945 in

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading ipw3945

2007-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:19:55 +0930 Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to have the modules load , which initiated the ipw3945d with an error that it can't start until runlevel three, then it worked perfectly once that runlevel was reached. Now it loads the module but

[gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I notice that I have the nsplugin use flag UNset. use.desc says nsplugin - Builds plugins for Netscape compatible browsers Am I correct in believing that firefox is Netscape compatible and hence that I should enable this use flag? thanks, allan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:57:24 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 16:41 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Am I correct in believing that firefox is Netscape compatible and hence that I should enable this use flag? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161835

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:52:23 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 16:41 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I notice that I have the nsplugin use flag UNset. use.desc says nsplugin - Builds plugins for Netscape

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:11:53 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean that echo dev-java/blackdown-jre /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-jdk /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-java3d-bin /etc/make.profile

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:27:09 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 21. Juli 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: echo dev-java/blackdown-jre nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java/blackdown-jdk nsplugin /etc/make.profile/package.use.mask echo dev-java

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:57:09 -0400 Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/22/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. I was fooled by man portage, but I should have know better. That is, I knew full well, but forgot, that /usr/profile is temporary and that user changes

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:02:35 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:43:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: make.profile is for devs to make default system changes make.conf is for users to make customised system changes /etc/portage/* is for users to make customized

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:07:10 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:38:50 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Note that users should place their customized local changes in the /etc/portage directory, creating any needed files listed below that do not exist

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
You used the wrong lib in the revdep-rebuild (see below) At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:18:02 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Naga wrote: On Sunday 12 August 2007 11:39:43 Dale wrote: Same here on both problems. Is this a bug since several have ran into this? Also, I have some Gnome stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:46:28 +0930 Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven Köhler wrote: emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. expat has been updated. Some Apps are now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:51:17 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 August 2007 16:33:59 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I, like others, hit the expat problem and as directed did revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0 gettext failed to compile since emacs could

[gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I successfully battled the expat problem (with Bo's help) and revdep-rebuild reports no further need to recompile. But gnome seems badly broken. $HOME/.gnomerc-errors has one line SESSION_MANAGER=local/ajglap:/tmp/.ICE-unix/7081 1. (minor) gdm can't find the emergence theme, haven't tracked it

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge -uDNav world) exhibits every one of the problems that you had. At least you can take solace in the fact

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:49:20 +0300 Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (13/08/07 22:32) Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:27:09 -0700 Greg Bengeult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge

[gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
to start a gnome app (e.g. gnucash), no output is produced, no window appears, but the app shows up in ps x. I would be very appreciative for any help. thanks in advance, allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
(Sorry for resend, but it looks like this msg didn't reach the list.) At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge -uDNav world) exhibits every one of the problems that you had. At least you can take

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and deleted his home folder. After that, I made the user again and tried logging in. I got a whole bunch of configuration errors... But I don't understand

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:20:07 + (UTC) Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had gnome working fine, then one day it failed for no apparent reason, I hadn't emerged anything for a bit that I recall. I did emerge unmerge nautilus and then emerge nautilus which seemed to to do the trick

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I created a new user testgot with the same uid as gottlieb and it works. There must be something in my config (and yours) that is bad for the old user. I can balance my checkbook

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:00:17 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and deleted his home folder

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:08 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try moving ~/.gconfd out of the way. It helped in my case. Thanks. I tried it, but alas no effect. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:04:52 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm having a heck of a time trying to get wireless going on my laptop. I've tried so many things, I'm a bit dizzy and don't know where I've gone right or wrong. First things first. lspci shows my

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:15:12 +0200 Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same wireless lan card and I have no problems with my installation. Your soln does not work for me, but we do have differences (see below) What does work is when I BOTH autoload ipw3945 and have ip23945d in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:26:36 +0200 Michael Gisbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Wednesday 22 August 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I have the same hardware and had the same problem. I have used the following kludge to fix it. Add ipw3945 to /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 and add ipw3945d

[gentoo-user] playing mms with totem

2007-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
When I fed mit-arvind-tribute-dennis-220k.asx to totem, a popup appeared saying No URI handler implemented for mms Is there a plugin I need or an extra use flag? thanks, allan ajglap gottlieb # eix totem [I] media-video/totem Available versions: 2.16.5 2.18.2 2.18.3 {a52 dbus debug

mplayer fonts (was: [gentoo-user] playing mms with totem)

2007-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:09:00 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both do. Thanks I tried mplayer and as soon as it starts it complained that it could not load bitmap font sans-serif. So I went to preferences and pointed

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer fonts

2007-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:19:25 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:55:09 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/cour.ttf Have you compiled mplayer with truetype USE flag? I have now :-). thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:33:35 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the update to xorg-server-1.3 broke my dual-screen setup. It creates a virtual screen size with the same size of the primary monitor for the second monitor which is my TV. So i can only reach a zone with 800x600 on

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:24:59 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your answer, i will try if i can get it working like this but randr doesn't seem to work on the secondary device. I have heard that nvidia cards doesn't support randr 1.2 so i will give it a try with randr

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:05:26 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested xrandr but it is useless for me! I tried various things but neither of them seem to have any effect on my secondary screen. Since you are describing a TV out it might be your tertiary screen. When I type

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
implement RandR version 1.2 What does xrandr -v say. For me it is Server reports RandR version 1.2 If you don't have 1.2 you won't have the --output stuff. Also --on doesn't exist even in 1.2. I found man xrandr helpful. allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild

2007-10-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago triggered a request for me to run # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7 # revdep-rebuild --library libssl.so.0.9.7 I have done so. The revdep-rebuild for libssl found nothing, but the one for libcrypto rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

2007-10-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:31:57 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:37:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago triggered a request for me to run # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

2007-10-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:07:16 +0200 Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: As always Bo's reply solved the problem completely. I apologize for missing the remove commands. I shall read the instructions more carefully in the future. thank for the help. allan gottlieb

[gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
world offered to merge sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.22-r2 Should I do this merge? thanks, allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:06:41 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the linux-headers and the kernel are completly off -sync. There is no harm in using headers with a higher/lower version number. But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:08:40 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether the software compiled against newer headers will still work depends solely on the kernel. In your example, when you also decide to run a 2.6.10 kernel, then the software relying on newer features (due to the

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:48:15 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:50:56 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean I am at some risk with headers at a higher version than the kernel? I followed the advice at the end of the headers emerge

[gentoo-user] totem and mplayer fail on acm turing lecture

2007-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am trying to view http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turingaward2006.mov totem complains that I don't have the necessary codecs (MPEG-4 AAC decoder) (MPEG-4 Video decoder) I thought I set the right use flags, but presumably not ajglap gottlieb # eix totem [I] media-video/totem Available

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions, permissions

2007-10-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
-ID bit so the page suggests chmod +6000 parent-directory which sets both. Also this is a gnu extension and not required by POSIX. allan gottlieb new york university -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] openoffice hangs (openoffice-bin a little better) no /opt/OpenOffice

2007-10-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I emerge openoffice-2.3.0. Whenever I try to start any component, it hangs. For example [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ooo libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering The splash screen comes up, but that is it. When I type ^C I get back a

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:00:41 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:19:04 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: So, I interpret this as the mplayer plugin not being available for firefox 3.0, which is why it's pulling in the 2.0 stream. So, my best solution is

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:37:21 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:57:40 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: It's because you're trying to emerge it with the firefox USE flag. Remove that from make.conf and use xulrunner instead. I have both USE flags and have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:39:13 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19 Jan 2009, at 16:59, Grant Edwards wrote: ... Someone should file a bug to have the message changed to something clearer. I'd be happy to do that. Is the following correct? The UI and rendering

Re: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs

2009-01-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
now remerged them and did the suggested revdep-rebuild, which as expected rebuilt nothing. Everything worked fine; in particular, evince file.pdf worked. Perhaps you should remerge them in case one of yours is corrupted. Here is the beginning of my emerge showing the use flags allan gottlieb

[gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains unable to open document unhandled mime type Sometimes the mime type is application/text other times it is application/octet-stream. But the file is definitely a pdf. For

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains   unable to open document

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)--Solved ??

2009-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:37 -0500 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. For every

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
and member preference is not to top post. That is, we prefer to have replies after (or interspersed with) the original, not before it. On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday

[gentoo-user] build failure for sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6 (no xregex.h)

2009-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I just did emerge --deep --verbose --tree --ask --update --newuse world The first package to be rebuilt was libstdc++ The failure was creating config.h make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/a/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6/work/gcc-3.3.6/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libiberty' if [ x-fpic

Re: [gentoo-user] build failure for sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6 (no xregex.h)

2009-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:42:07 -0300 Zhu Sha Zang zhushaz...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Allan Gottlieb escreveu: I just did emerge --deep --verbose --tree --ask --update --newuse world The first package to be rebuilt was libstdc++ The failure was [ snip ] Looking at forum in gentoo.org a lot

[gentoo-user] Why is xulrunner-bin required for acroread in amd64 (xulrunner not OK)

2009-02-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have xulrunner installed on my x86 and amd64 machines. When I tried to install acroread on the amd64, it wanted to pull in xulrunner-bin. Sure enough the ebuild contains RDEPEND=media-libs/fontconfig cups? ( net-print/cups ) x86? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is xulrunner-bin required for acroread in amd64 (xulrunner not OK)

2009-02-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:02:03 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:47:51 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: But why are the -bin packages good and the compile-from-source not good? Because the -bin package is 32-bit, like acroread itself. Thank you, I understand now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A little light relief from endless problems

2009-03-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:57:30 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions needed checks on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to 23, 24, 25 and 26

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A little light relief from endless problems

2009-03-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:27:17 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:57:30 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. Not long ago, while booting this machine, four

Re: [gentoo-user] A little light relief from endless problems

2009-03-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:36 +0100 KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Peter Humphrey schrieb: As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions needed checks on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to 23, 24, 25 and

[gentoo-user] apparent error in emerge dependencies

2009-03-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
A strange error occurred which seems to suggest emerge didn't get dependencies right. I executed my normal emerge --ask --deep --tree --verbose --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world and was pleased to see that gnome v24 had gone stable on amd64. However the massive build failed on

Re: [gentoo-user] apparent error in emerge dependencies

2009-03-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:45:18 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: A strange error occurred which seems to suggest emerge didn't get dependencies right. I executed my normal emerge --ask --deep --tree --verbose --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world and was pleased to see

[gentoo-user] are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB Conflict: 3 blocks Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: are blocks now OK with portage-2.1.6.7 ?

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:01 -0400 ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size

[gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to 2.24. Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently). This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login, I can get in and work, but whenever I try systempreferencesappearance I get a dialog box saying

Re: [gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon

2009-03-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:32:44 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to 2.24. Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently). This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login, I can get

[gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

2009-03-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge. My current list follows. Thanks in advance for any help. allan allan gottlieb # eix

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

2009-03-30 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Thank you willie, dale, and paul for your suggestions. allan

[gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Often (now, perhaps always) when I try to halt using either halt from the command line or the shutdown option from the gnome dialog box at the welcome screen the effort fails. If I try to shutdown from gnome, the shutdown hangs at the unmounting file systems. I then tried shutdown now

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back this up. Yes

[gentoo-user] Has RgbPath gone away in new xorg?

2009-04-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have just emerged the new xorg after reading many of the posts here, which were quite helpful. I have USE=-hal and left my xorg.conf alone (except for adding Option AutoAddDevices false) I received an error msg stating that RgbPath was invalid in the Files section. I commented it out and all

Re: [gentoo-user] Has RgbPath gone away in new xorg?

2009-04-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:34 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have just emerged the new xorg after reading many of the posts here, which were quite helpful. I have USE=-hal and left my xorg.conf

[gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK

2009-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed out. With print to file, the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed out. With print to file, the button is live and the pdf file

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:28:26 +0200 Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:29:09 -0400 schrieb Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P

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