Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?
On Saturday 27 March 2010 00:57:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:39:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? No, that was the FSF's beef. As Volker said, Red Hat have never had a problem with proprietary bits. Personally I think they are just being pragmatic. RH probably chose Gnome as it is easier to ship a fully working out-the-box system with gnome. KDE has too many knobs -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:50:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. Wasn't it because of the not-very-free licensing of QT at the time? and that was how many years ago? Inertia has no sell by date :( -- Neil Bothwick She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:48:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: RH probably chose Gnome as it is easier to ship a fully working out-the-box system with gnome. KDE has too many knobs Once they'd picked GNOME, for whatever reason, it made sense to stick with it or their support costs would rise with no increase in income. When you're making a commercially supported distro, the pick one of each approach, as used by Ubuntu, makes a lot of sense. -- Neil Bothwick Conclusion: the place where you got tired of thinking. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)
On Saturday 27 March 2010 01:46:49 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Now that I know what it is, I've installed the libvdpau package and updated the portage NV drivers to current. If portage keeps current I'll use it; if portage again falls behind I should be able to use NVidia.com and ffmpeg will compile either way. But see this article: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/27/0118233/Nvidias-GF100- Turns-Into-GeForce-GTX-480-and-470 I'm not sure what to make of it at the moment. -- Rgds Peter.
[gentoo-user] unknown media type error when updating
hi, i noticed the following error messages when i was updating my system. * Updating shared mime info database ... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu' Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu' Unknown media type in type 'fonts/package' Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin' how to fix this? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
[gentoo-user] 32bit version of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 is mission
hi, i want to use the binary version of adobe reader. it only has 32bit version, so it depends on a 32bit version of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0. but on my system i can only find one libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 in the /usr/lib64 directory. i was able to use the adobe reader, but after a update it no longer works. i cannot remember what i changed. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get the darn thing to work. I can set up the printer used the CUPS web interface. I can send jobs to the printer and they will appear in the queue, but they just hang and won't print. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Colleen This may not help but I noticed something weird like this a while back. The only way I could fix it was to delete the printer and add it back again. Mine is a HP as well so this may be worth trying at least. Also note, you should use the HP tool to add this printer. I think it is hp-setup. On the scanner, it sounds like you need to be added to a group to access the scanner as a user. Look in /etc/group and see if you something scanner related. Hope that helps if no one else has a better idea. Dale Thanks, Dale. Yours was the only response I have received so far. I'm really only replying to add some clarity. I did try deleting the printer and adding again with the same result. The HP tool won't even recognize the printer and gives me the option to go to the CUPS web interface. As far as the scanner goes, I haven't resolved that issue, but it is not a concern at this point. I *did* add myself to the scanner group. I posted that issue previously and was told that I should create a rule. Thanks, again, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue - Solved
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get the darn thing to work. I can set up the printer used the CUPS web interface. I can send jobs to the printer and they will appear in the queue, but they just hang and won't print. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Colleen This may not help but I noticed something weird like this a while back. The only way I could fix it was to delete the printer and add it back again. Mine is a HP as well so this may be worth trying at least. Also note, you should use the HP tool to add this printer. I think it is hp-setup. On the scanner, it sounds like you need to be added to a group to access the scanner as a user. Look in /etc/group and see if you something scanner related. Hope that helps if no one else has a better idea. Dale :-) :-) -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating
On 03/27/2010 02:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i noticed the following error messages when i was updating my system. * Updating shared mime info database ... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu' Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt' Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu' Unknown media type in type 'fonts/package' Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin' how to fix this? You can't. It's perfectly normal. It's not even an error.
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue
CJoeB wrote: On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get the darn thing to work. I can set up the printer used the CUPS web interface. I can send jobs to the printer and they will appear in the queue, but they just hang and won't print. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Colleen This may not help but I noticed something weird like this a while back. The only way I could fix it was to delete the printer and add it back again. Mine is a HP as well so this may be worth trying at least. Also note, you should use the HP tool to add this printer. I think it is hp-setup. On the scanner, it sounds like you need to be added to a group to access the scanner as a user. Look in /etc/group and see if you something scanner related. Hope that helps if no one else has a better idea. Dale Thanks, Dale. Yours was the only response I have received so far. I'm really only replying to add some clarity. I did try deleting the printer and adding again with the same result. The HP tool won't even recognize the printer and gives me the option to go to the CUPS web interface. As far as the scanner goes, I haven't resolved that issue, but it is not a concern at this point. I *did* add myself to the scanner group. I posted that issue previously and was told that I should create a rule. Thanks, again, Colleen There should also be a reply from Philip Webb as well. He suggests checking your USE flags as some older printers require different flags to get the ppds that are needed. That could cause this problem as well and was recently updated. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 26 Mar 2010, at 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
Setting up and testing my new system (after wasting nearly 1 month
with bad RAM modules), I got this error today:
[48055.741389] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
frozen
[48055.741393] ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[48055.741398] ata3.00: cmd 60/20:08:38:15:03/01:00:18:00:00/40 tag 1
ncq 147456 in
[48055.741400] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask
0x4 (timeout)
[48055.741402] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
[48055.741405] ata3: hard resetting link
[48056.198746] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[48056.210514] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[48056.210518] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[48056.210523] ata3: EH complete
I really don't understand what it means, but the timeout, hard
resetting link and invalid CHS sector 0 look scary to me...
How new is this motherboard? One may see something similar if one connects a
SATA2 drive to an older SATA motherboard without the jumper (on the drive)
set to restrict it to 1.5 Gbps.
It is a new motherboard with 8 SATA2 headers, 2 SATA3 (6Gbps) and 2
eSATA. I'm only using the internal SATA2 ports now, not the SATA3. One
floppy and one IDE also unused :)
The drive is 2TB and new as well. No jumpers. Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel2.6.33: ATA failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED, hard resetting link
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 26 Mar 2010, at 22:21, Paul Hartman wrote: ... Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA controllers. It has 12 SATA headers on this motherboard but I don't know how much it can realistically handle at once. Hopefully all of my disks. :) Honestly, I'm not sure that I'd do that. If I thought it was a power issue - and that seems quite a reasonable possibility - I would replace the PSU first. What PSU are you using at the moment? Brand / wattage? I think these are probably overkill: http://www.bluepoint.net/AKAPSU066 http://www.bluepoint.net/AKAPSU071 However, if you're using a 450W PSU at the moment, you can get an OCZ branded 600W for less than £50. I tend to be suspicious of cheap unbranded and Wong Fu 350W - 450W PSUs. Often a 350W PSU from a manufacturer with a half-decent brand (eg Trust) will be better than a no-name 450W PSU. It seems important not only the actual wattage that the PSU gives out (measured with an analogue-needle multimeter) but also how stable that voltage is, how smooth, consistent and reliable it is. Unless your PSU is absolute top-notch quality, try to under-utilise it. With 6 x hard-drives, I would be generous with supplying power - I think a 600W PSU would easily be justified. Stroller. I have a 750W Corsair 750TX which should be plenty (if not overkill). Seems to have all the bells and whistles (though I wish I had bought the modular version). I definitely agree about the cheap no-name PSUs, I've seen some USD$10 ones go up in smoke after just a few minutes of use. Based on the little info I could find Googling it seems the most likely explanations are: IRQ handling weirdness (but that was more probable in older motherboards and kernels) ahci driver issues (I will reboot with the controllers in legacy mode to use the non-ahci drivers and see what happens) a bad drive, bad cable, bad controller, bad sector, something physically bad. Overnight I copied several hundred gigs of data (and still going) and the error has not been reproduced. Before installing, I did a full SMART test (a few hours) and a badblocks read-only test (even more hours) and neither showed any errors. I did not do a full read/write test, though. I haven't heard any unexpected noises coming from the drives (no clicks of doom), though I have so many fans going it may be hard to hear. Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit version of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 is mission
On Saturday 27 March 2010 15:15:03 Xi Shen wrote: hi, i want to use the binary version of adobe reader. it only has 32bit version, so it depends on a 32bit version of libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0. but on my system i can only find one libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 in the /usr/lib64 directory. i was able to use the adobe reader, but after a update it no longer works. i cannot remember what i changed. install app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs which will provide a 32bit version at /usr/lib32/libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0.1800.6 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] gconf errors
Recently noticed: error popup when starting firefox, gnumeric, archive
manager, etc:
An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information
for {program}. Some of your configuration settings may not work
properly.
The details window says (in all cases):
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for
information. (Details - 1: Server ping error:
IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
gconfd isn't running. Manually starting /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 worked
to start gconfd-2, but hasn't affected the gconf errors.
Possibly relevant: Yesterday openrc was updated from 0.6.0-r1 to 0.6.1-r1.
gconfd
Any suggestions regarding what's actually broken and how to fix it?
Thanks.
David
[gentoo-user] ffmpeg threads parameter
Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. So I'm thinking of hardwiring a default threads number=6 into the ffmpeg source code; recompiling. Q: Has anyone done this; if so any surprises? TIA
[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg threads parameter
On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. First, mplayer uses its own bundled ffmpeg. It doesn't use media-video/ffmpeg at all. Furthermore, this is not what the threads USE flag does for ffmpeg. Those applications that allow you to specify an amount of threads assume you're using ffmpeg-mt instead of normal ffmpeg. ffmpeg-mt is a fork of ffmpeg and is not in Portage because it's still considered non-stable upstream. There's an ebuild in Gentoo Bugzilla for ffmpeg-mt and an mplayer that uses ffmpeg-mt as its bundled ffmpeg version. The mt mplayer ebuild can also be found in the wirelay overlay (it's in layman.)
[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg threads parameter
On 03/27/10 21:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. First, mplayer uses its own bundled ffmpeg. It doesn't use media-video/ffmpeg at all. Furthermore, this is not what the threads USE flag does for ffmpeg. Thank you for replying!!! What would you guess the threads parameter is for ffmpeg? I've not found an explanation, and thought it might be the author catching up with Alexander Strange. http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html Those applications that allow you to specify an amount of threads assume you're using ffmpeg-mt instead of normal ffmpeg. ffmpeg-mt is a fork of ffmpeg and is not in Portage because it's still considered non-stable upstream. There's an ebuild in Gentoo Bugzilla for ffmpeg-mt and an mplayer that uses ffmpeg-mt as its bundled ffmpeg version. The mt mplayer ebuild can also be found in the wirelay overlay (it's in layman.) AH! I had switched from bugzilla to the overlay for mplayer (thank you for providing it); but was unaware that ffmpeg-mt had a separate ebuild. Where is it, please? So the same question, then, for ffmpeg-mt; if I replace ffmpeg with ffmpeg-mt after setting a default of 6, can you imagine any problems (other than it is not stable)? Thanks for the help!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating
so...there are expected to be unknown? haha...that is interesting. anyway, thanks. :) -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
[gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating
On 03/28/2010 06:36 AM, Xi Shen wrote: so...there are expected to be unknown? haha...that is interesting. anyway, thanks. :) I guess they're not really expected to be unknown, but they're harmless as long as you don't get disappearing icons. If you do, then this is for you: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288312 This came up quite a while back on the mailing list, and IIRC, the solution was that there is no solution :P
