[gentoo-user] xorg.conf doesn't seem to be read
I have a problem with my screen resolution. In my xorg.conf file I have this: # The favoured Depth and/or Bpp may be specified here DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth8 ViewPort0 0 Modes1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection SubSection Display Depth 16 ViewPort0 0 Modes1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection SubSection Display Depth 24 ViewPort0 0 Modes1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection SubSection Display Depth 32 ViewPort0 0 Modes1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection But in the KDE app kinfocenter going to the settings for xorg I find that the geometry for the screen is set to 1152 x 768 and default depth is 32. This is then what I get on the screen which means that all apps go off the screen to the right. KRandrTray indicates two screens, screen one takes the metrics from kinfocenter (or at least displays the same) while screen 2 is the correct size. But I can't switch or disable screen one to be default. Very confusing as this happens 98 times out of hundred. Any suggestions on how to get the correct metrics on all boots? Regards, Martin S
[gentoo-user] locate
Just recently tried using locate foo.conf | cd to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result of locate. I did a brief google on locate, but didn't find a switch to drop the actual file name from the result. Can it be done, or if not what should I use to get the desired result? Regards, Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] locate
That works yes. A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Martin S 2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote: Just recently tried using locate foo.conf | cd to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result of locate. cd $(dirname $(locate foo.conf)) -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 010: Reserved for future mistakes by our developers -- Regards, Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] locate
2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 11 May 2007 15:29:03 +0200, Martin S wrote: A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) Or type cd double-click middle-click Forgot you're still toppost sensitive in this group. Anyway I don't have a mouse on that system, so I'll have to use Alan suggestion. Regards, Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problems
2006/8/27, gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Bryan Whitehead wrote: It is most likely a problem with your own build enviroment or bad use flags. Post the errors you are having to this group so we can see the build problems. Before you do that, try running repdev-rebuild.I don't know if the OP is having the same problem, but I've noticed thata lot of packages will fail on the md5 checksum or on the file size check.Usually, wiping out the distfile, and/or switching mirrorssolves the problem.But lately, the next mirror in line will have thesame issue.No, the problems I have/d is that lots of servers doesn't have the packages at all. Then continuing to the next mirror with the same result. Crafty (a chess engine) didn't install for 3 days- but just now, when I needed the error message, it installed (figures). Same with kuroo of course... Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] emerge problems
I seem to find lots of bad repository servers when running emerge.emerge mozilla-firefox failed for quite some time (at least a day), emerge kuroo has failed for two days, just like emerge crafty.Does anyone know if there are any general problems with servers? Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2006.0 install
2006/8/21, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin S shieldfire at gmail.com writes: I am having problems installing Gentoo 2006.0. The computer has partitions anddata I want to save. Whenever I try to install (using the LiveCD) I get as far as entering the root password but when the actual installation is about to start the installation dies. Using the cli it simply quits, using the graphical thing I get failed to set root password. Any suggestions (other than use the minimal CD)?Regards,Martin SAn early paragraph in this newsletters talks about liveCD 2006.1 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060814-newsletter.xmlFrom a previous post:Subject: Re: Incompatibility of gentoo 2006Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.userDate: 2006-08-15 15:15:09 GMT (6 days and 16 minutes ago) Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: The GUI (as for Gentoo Installer) is not perfect (yet).Boy, that's showing some restraint.. Of my (3) installs using LiveCD 2006.0, all three had to becompleted manually, Lots of wasted time using LiveCD 2006.0.This was a result of scant-to-nil documentation explainingwhat path (i.e. sequence of choices) to follow. So you just have to float around the various 'sequences of choices'. OnceI got a bootable kernel out of the liveCD 2006.0, I learnedto finish the installation manually. (ugly, real ugly)...On a positive note, the liveCD 2006 does do a pretty good job of hardware discover, selection and driver loading.Currently, *in my opinion*, the manual installation processis the only one to use.I have some additional systems toto install, but, I'm waiting for 2006.1, which should bereleased any day now. [1] will let you track the progressof 2006.1 liveCD release schedule.. I agree. After spending lots of time I have deduced that the installer, 2006.0 variety, doesn't handle installs if the user table is still on the partition where it is going to be installed. It manages to install on empty partitions (at least I think so, it's still at it after 24 hours) - but documentation is definately sub-par on the installer. I don't think it's the doc team that handles it at this time, is it? The error message in my original post indicates that there already is a root user and that the installer isn't able to edit the password file.Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] 2006.0 install
I am having problems installing Gentoo 2006.0. The computer has partitions and data I want to save. Whenever I try to install (using the LiveCD) I get as far as entering the root password but when the actual installation is about to start the installation dies. Using the cli it simply quits, using the graphical thing I get failed to set root password. Any suggestions (other than use the minimal CD)?Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 install
2006/8/19, Hervé [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know if i translate your Email correctly,but to set the passwordof root with gentoo livecd the cmd is :...$ sudo passwdAfter you can used su to obtain the root privileges. The last few lines in the log (still) are: GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - Exception received during 'Set the root password': SetRootPasswordError :FATAL: set_root_password: Failure to set root password! GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - Traceback (most recent call last): GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - File /opt/installer/GLIClientController.py, line 165, in run self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']() GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - File /opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py, line 1189, in set_root_password raise GLIException(SetRootPasswordError, 'fatal', 'set_root_password', Failure to set root password!) GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - GLIException: SetRootPasswordError :FATAL: set_root_password: Failure to set root password!Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] OT - hardware problem: laptop shuts down
Anyone more hardware knowledgeble than me? (Can't be that hard...)I've got a 3-yo Siemens Amilo laptop that shuts down fairly often. I had to change HD in it, and it starting shutting down again - this time after formating the 80 GB disk. It's been like this for some time now, probably what got the old HD as well. Any ideas as to what to look for?Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] amarok and non-Ipod
I suppose, I just thought it did something beautifull.Martin S2006/7/28, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:13:24AM +0200, Penguin Lover Martin S squawked: I got myself an iAudio X5 the other day. Wonderful sound, large disk, yeah really like (until disk breaks). Anyway - Amarok has a Ipod connection thingie which I haven't found how to configure. Is it possible to get it to work with an iAudio. I mounted the X5 and clicked Connect but amarok didn't find my X5 - so I suppose it's looking for something specificly iPodish? I have an M3, and my understanding is that all of iAudio's HDD playersshould be mounted as an external harddrive via usb mass storage usingvfat, which I would suspect is quite a different beast from iPod. Personally I don't use Amarok. But if you are just trying to playmusic off your X5, perhaps you can just mount it as an externalharddrive and point amarok to that mount point?HTH,W--The conjugation of the verb repress is as follows: We protectOur allies monitorOur adversaries repress~Tackhead (54550) on /. post #14708639Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 16:16--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] amarok and non-Ipod
I got myself an iAudio X5 the other day. Wonderful sound, large disk, yeah really like (until disk breaks).Anyway - Amarok has a Ipod connection thingie which I haven't found how to configure. Is it possible to get it to work with an iAudio. I mounted the X5 and clicked Connect but amarok didn't find my X5 - so I suppose it's looking for something specificly iPodish?Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] Kmail recipient limit
Is there a limit of recipients in Kmail somewhere. I looked briefly but couldn't find a setting for this.Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question
Now it seems to be working - thanks.Martin S2006/5/4, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 04/05/06, Farhan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try changing the permissions of /dev/sda*.. I suggest you do a chmod 0666 /dev/sda* [snip . . . ]Before trying this it may be worth adding auto to your fstab:/dev/sda/mnt/usbauto,vfatnoauto,user,noatime 0 0Since you can mount it r/w as root I readily assume that you have compiled VFAT in your kernel . . .Otherwise I can't think of anything else.HTH.--Regards,Mick--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question
Changed /etc/fstab accordingly. Didn't help much.[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount /mnt/usbmount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dmesg | tailInbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:00:9b:77:39:00:d0:02:c7:60:00:08:00 SRC="" href="http://215.94.188.166">215.94.188.166 DST= 85.225.73.22 LEN=521 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=31260 DPT=1026 LEN=501Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e0:00:9b:77:39:00:d0:02:c7:60:00:08:00 SRC="" href="http://202.97.238.131">202.97.238.131 DST= 85.225.73.22 LEN=491 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=45 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=33162 DPT=4081 LEN=471FAT: bogus number of reserved sectorsVFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1. FAT: bogus number of reserved sectorsVFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.FAT: bogus number of reserved sectorsVFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.2006/5/3, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 03/05/06, Robert Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried to change /dev/sda to /dev/sda1 in fstab? best regards. robertAs Robert says, change sda to sda1 and you may also want to add noatime.Then you should be able to mount it as a (single) user.Ifyou have different users and want to allow any one of them to unmountit irrespective of who originally mounted it, then replace user with users.To unmount it run:$ sync umount /mnt/sda1or just:$ eject /mnt/sda1--Regards,Mick--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question
Sorry bout this newbie like question but my brain isn't acting normally (so searching on the forums didn't solve anything either) :(I'm trying to mount my SanDisk Cruzer Micro 256 MB USB stickI've got /dev/sda /mnt/usb vfat noauto,user 0 0 in /etc/fstaband in fdisk /dev/sda I see/dev/sda1 1 979 250623+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)I can mount /dev/usb as root and r/w to it. But as user I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount /mnt/usbmount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so And dmesg | tail says...FAT: invalid media value (0x01)VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.So where am I going wrong? Please help this befuddled temporary newbie.Regards, Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?
2006/3/24, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would bet a write-protect switch got flipped.Otherwise, yes, ithink you have to replace it.I can't imagine how the other guy couldhave damaged it from your description of the events though. Neither can I actually.But I've tried it with Windows as well now - same sh**. Can't format it either.There is no switch on it.I'll have a look at it with the disk manager thing i Win - but I fear I've seen the last of it. My stupidest buy on eBay have served me well as far as it did.Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] is it toast?
I lent my USB stick to a guy for a job the other day. Apparently his Win98 box wanted to install drivers for it to work, so he pulled it before Wintendo (anything 2000) could get to doing its stuff.Now I get SuicidalPuppy martoni # mount /mnt/usb/mount: block device /dev/sda is write-protected, mounting read-onlymount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or soAnd SuicidalPuppy martoni # dmesg |tail...FAT: bogus logical sector size 255VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. FAT: bogus logical sector size 255VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.Googling a bit I found a few ideas how to get the USB-thingie up again.Like:SuicidalPuppy martoni # hdparm -r0 /dev/sda /dev/sda:setting readonly to 0 (off)readonly = 0 (off)SuicidalPuppy martoni # parted /dev/sdaWarning: Unable to open /dev/sda read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sda has beenopened read-only. Warning: Unable to open /dev/sda read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sda has beenopened read-only.And SuicidalPuppy martoni # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdadd: opening `/dev/sda': Read-only file system I'm out of ideas now - Is the last shot to go out and buy a new USB stick?Martin S-- Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?
2006/3/24, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:03 +0100, Martin S wrote: I lent my USB stick to a guy for a job the other day. Apparently his Win98 box wanted to install drivers for it to work, so he pulled it before Wintendo (anything 2000) could get to doing its stuff. Now I get SuicidalPuppy martoni # mount /mnt/usb/ mount: block device /dev/sda is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other errorIn some cases useful info is found in syslog - trydmesg | tailor soThe read-only is a bit misleading - I get this message when mount can't understand the filesystem, even though it may be ok.If you don't need any data from the drive, see if you can re-fdisk andre-format it.Unplug it first and plug in again, just in case you didsomething bad with hdparm. SuicidalPuppy martoni # fdisk /dev/sdaYou will not be able to write the partition table.Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabelBuilding a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previouscontent won't be recoverable.Warning: invalid flag 0x of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4)pPartition number (1-4): 1First cylinder (1-1015, default 1):Using default value 1Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1015, default 1015): Using default value 1015Command (m for help): pDisk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262144000 bytes9 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1015 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 504 * 512 = 258048 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1015 255752 83 LinuxCommand (m for help): wUnable to write /dev/sdaRegards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] DGT chess boards anyone?
Just on the off chance that anyone has actually encountered the beasts - do they work with Linux at all?A link to this fairly neat thing is http://www.dgtprojects.com/eboard.htm You connect them through a USB/serial cable to a computer for transmission of the moves made on the board. Thus you can use them to relay games from a tournament onto the Internet in real-time (common usage). Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
2006/1/10, Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello fellow Linux Users!We here at SaviourLinux.com desire to create a united universal way.Please visit the website for more information, but here is the purpose:Saviour Linux is an easy and universal Linux distribution that pays community programmers.Saviour Linux is not just another distribution. Saviour Linux will beunified and run by the community. We will bring in a new business thatgives out completely free software instead of closed source. All of our profit will come from services and it will pay volunteer programmers.Only a little of the profit will go towards overhead.Whenever I read about yet another Linux distribution, my first reaction to it is Why? With the gazillion distributions already available I find it hard to come up with a reason to create yet another one.Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
2006/1/10, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:57 -0500, Darryl Wagoner wrote: It looks interesting concept similar to something I can up with but haven't had the time to do anything with.What is the profit sharing model?What makes this different than other distro? It it totally bug-free!Wait untill they release their first app :-)Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] What should be backed up?
Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about doing a backup. :)Short of doing an image of the whole installation, what files should be backed up to ensure a quick and easy reinstallation of the working system as of now. Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?
2005/12/28, byron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /root? why's that?Anything special for Gentoo? List of installed apps or something that'll make things easier if need be?Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] Passwords and Skype
hi,Just two quickies. a/ When my firewall is about to start (Firestarter) is pops up a password dialog for the root password. If I check the remember password box, it still doesn't and thows up the same dialog again at next start. (KDE 3.5). Any ideas on how to tame the password dialog? (I've check the forums, and KDE list but nothing so far).b/ Any news on integration of KDE (Kontact preferably) and Skype?(The latest news seems to be late 2004 or mid 2005, of which the latter is less informational). Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
2005/12/25, Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, George Ellison wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. But if you don't like the vim clone, why don't you try on of the others? BTW: How can you *not* like vim? I mean, it's very much compatible to vi, isn't it? emerge -C vim emerge emacsemerge -C emacs emerge ed emerge -C emacs emerge -C ed emerge dosemu ...dosemu edlinOr perhaps that too esoteric. Or is ed a better choice in the circumstances?Regards, Martin S
[gentoo-user] File system on Sony nw-e405
Hi, and Merry Christmas!Anyone with an idea what file system Sony has put on the mp3-player? They have their own proprietary transfer app - which is Windows only, naturally. My partner finally bought a mp3-player the other day, and now we are having problems with the CD on our Windows laptop. So I though I'd just move stuff from my disk to the mp3-thingie. Personally I won't buy a Sony thing after their total f-up with the DMR software.Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] File system on Sony nw-e405
I was thinking of getting an Ipod Nano. Any problems with Linux?Martin S2005/12/24, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 24 December 2005 16:09, Peter De Zutter wrote: The same can be said about Sony MiniDisc, seems to me that all Sony equiment has this protection or whatever they call it. Peter De Zutter I have an NE-E105 and have to use the Sony Connect software (Windoze only) to transfer music. It was so convoluted to set up that I almost threw the thing out the window. You need the latest MDAC 2.8 from mickeysoft to get the Sony software to work. And no - didn't buy it myself - got it at my company's last meeting as a door prize. PolkLUG I have Sony CD-mp3CD player supporting their own Atrack3plus format with onlywindoze soft. I tested it, good thing you can put about 30 albums to one CDbut quality is very poor, below my more than 10 years old compact cassettes. martins--Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 17:04:53 up 1 day,5:46,5 users,load average: 1.00, 1.02, 1.13-- Regards, Martin S
[gentoo-user] ls of /
Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors... LOL Perhaps I shouldn't have written that :) I have a problem, I can't do ls / as that produces the error: ls: .: Permission denied I can however, cd to the root directory and I can list all other directories (that I've tried anyway). So I got the brilliant idea of adding user to the root directory in fstab. For those with similar inclinations I can now, from my own hard earned experience, tell you: don't. It is *not* a good idea! The box won't boot... I got cannot execute /sbin/agetty and Id cN respawning too fast (where N is number 1-6) and the boot process is stuck. Not even ctrl-alt-delete works. BUT, the problem remains: how do I fix ls-right to the root? My fstab look OK /dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/hda4 /stuff reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec $ I did a search on the forums, but haven't found anything really relevant. Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] ls of /
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults0 1 I still get: ls: .: Permission deniedwhen doing ls on the root directoryRegards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] ls of /
Of course, that simple.How it happened to get incorrect permissions I don't know. Thanks anyway!Martin S2005/12/23, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED]:On 23/12/05, Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hda1 /ext3defaults0 1 I still get: ls: .: Permission denied when doing ls on the root directory Hi Martin. I had a problem like this a while ago, except my problemwas purely related to the fact that *all* users could write to / ;-)It turned out that the permissions of / were wrong. Try:$ ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x19 root root 432 Nov 27 11:38 /You will probably find that your permissions of / are wrong, somethinglike drwx--x--x19 root root 432 Nov 27 11:38 /The solution is simply to change those permissions as root to drwxr-xr-x GreetingsRalph--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession
Mmm, perhaps I'll try running a pure ~x86 after all.Finally am getting back up again...Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Corel Draw for Gentoo linux
Of course there's a difference, or else Corel wouldn't make two packages. :) Draw is like Sodipodi (f ex) and Photopaint is like Gimp. Martin S2005/12/21, capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2005/12/21, Iulian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where have you downloaded corel draw for linux? I've always looked for it! :-) On 12/21/05, Iulian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Corel Draw 9 for linux works on Gentoo? Iulian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/corel/photopaint/CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz Best regards, Iulian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listAs I can see this is PHOTOPAINT, not DRAW. Is there any difference? --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] Re: Corel Draw for Gentoo linux
There you are -I know a lot about graphics :-) ButI thought I knew at least a bit more :-( Martin S 2005/12/21, Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: photopaint is like photoshop, gimp, doesn't work with vetorial graphics like corel draw :-) On 12/21/05, Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course there's a difference, or else Corel wouldn't make two packages. :) Draw is like Sodipodi (f ex) and Photopaint is like Gimp. Martin S 2005/12/21, capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2005/12/21, Iulian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where have you downloaded corel draw for linux? I've always looked for it! :-) On 12/21/05, Iulian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Corel Draw 9 for linux works on Gentoo? Iulian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/corel/photopaint/CorelPHOTOPAINT9Lnx.tar.gz Best regards, Iulian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list As I can see this is PHOTOPAINT, not DRAW. Is there any difference? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OO.o 2?
Before my crash I had installed OpenOffice 2 on Gentoo, now going by ~x86 (again!) I still am not getting to emerge OO.o 2. It is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf isn't it? Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: OO.o 2?
Thanks, of course. I think it's simply a case of not syncing the tree to something more recent than the one with 2005.1. At least I do hope so ... We'll see soon :-) Martin S 2005/12/22, Kristian Poul Herkild [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Use /etc/portages/package.keywords to put this in. app-office/openoffice ~x86 With what you did you will use ~x86 on everything. On Thursday 22 December 2005 00:56, Martin S wrote: Before my crash I had installed OpenOffice 2 on Gentoo, now going by ~x86 (again!) I still am not getting to emerge OO.o 2. It is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf isn't it? Regards, Martin S OpenOffice 2 is marked as stable and has been so for a while ;) -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] A confession
I must confess. I've been unfaithful.For a day.After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time by uncarefully upgrading my box I decided that I'd try something less brain taxing.So I reinstalled with Kubuntu. I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ...I prefer battling with my own errors rather than someone elses.I had to fiddle repeatedly with the installation routine just to get the thing installed. It constantly refused to install on my laptop unless I used extended debugging (on the fifth attempt). Then I just wondered who decided I needed all that rubbish in my KDE installation.All rubbish installed I tried opening a mpg from the net. Totem can't handle mpg, trying Kaffeine I get No codecs installed. Looking desperately for codecs in the install tools I came up empty. So I tried the installation docs for Kubuntu - which aren't updated for the latest release. So I went to the forums to look for the solution, but being acustomed to the Gentoo forums I found them a bit confusing. OK, I thought - I'll leave that for later, so I tried playing a DVD can't find the CD-player at the location that /etc/fstab says it is mounted.So I run an installer, it is setup with the configuration decided on by Kubuntu developers, and it doesn't work out of the box. Why bother? Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors... I think I'll run the stable branch this time though.Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] klibc fails
Doing a update of my system I get the following error: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/times.h:60:28: division by zero in #if /usr/src/linux/include/linux/times.h: In function `nsec_to_clock_t': /usr/src/linux/include/linux/times.h:61: error: `x' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/linux/include/linux/times.h:61: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/src/linux/include/linux/times.h:61: error: for each function it appears in.) /usr/src/linux/include/linux/times.h:61: error: `NSEC_PER_SEC' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/src/linux/include/linux/times.h:61: error: `USER_HZ' undeclared (first use in this function) make[1]: *** [eval.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/klibc-1.1/work/klibc-1.1/ash' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-libs/klibc-1.1 failed. Tried looking through the forums, but I failed to find something. Any suggestions as how to solve this. Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] klibc fails
Did now. Nothing appropriate, but i'll give it another shot as they did add a patch that might have the secondary effect of solving my compile problem.Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash
I find that Firefox has become much more unstable, but i can't figure out what i installed latest. haven't really installed much of anything at all lately. it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :( Anyone else seen this? MArtin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USB TV card
Anyone tried a USB TV card with a laptop. I saw a few quite cheap at my nearest computer shop - but naturally they are all targeted towards Windows. Anyone having experience getting such a beast up and running under Linux?Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] mail program
You've found one of the features that makes Gentoo different :) Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?
2005/9/7, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt... Haven't tried that. I'll give it a look. I do think it is problem though that you will have such very different standards as to how applications are supposed to work between WMs/DEs (just take file management). Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:
Uninstall the standard OpenOffice first? Martin S2005/9/8, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually, when I do what you say, I get treat portage # emerge -a openoffice-bin These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] app-office/openoffice (is blocking app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.122) [ebuild N ] app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.122 !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!! on the same system. treat portage # On 9/7/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/05, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using gentoo because I want to be able to compile the latest and greatest. How odd it is that I can only find OpenOffice 1.1.4, where the FedoraCore machines at my school have had OpenOffice 2.0 all (Summer) term. I've not done a lot with masked versions, but I do have universe, multiverse and backports. I see no signs of 2.0. How can this be, gen-too-ers? Surely, I'm missing something. What did I mess up?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Actually your Fedora boxes weren't running 2.0 they where running 1.9 which is the beta for 2.0. If you want to run that on Gentoo you need to add `app-office/openoffice-bin` to your /etc/portage/package.unmask and `app-office/openoffice-bin ~x86` to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file then emerge openoffice-bin. You didn't miss a thing, its just hard masked development. because it's not stable and it does crash often enough but its well worth the install. Also as far as I know there is no such thing as universe, multiverse, and backports gor Gentoo. In any case good luck getting it running, once you get it unmasked its just as easy as the real deal (if you will). -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? -- Go back to the top: I almost always top-postKevin O'Gorman, PhD -- Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?
I enjoy KDE, especially since the atomic builds were introduced. The full KDE is so full of - for my needs - completely useless junk, that I've kept away from it. The bloatedness of KDE atomic is quite acceptable for me. Also, I'm pretty satisfied with the eye-candy. Useability wise, for me, KDE is better than Gnome, which I've tried very hard to like. I wanted to like Gnome, and was excited by the new release (what is standard now - I've forgotten the version number) but the dialog boxes for Open File etc simply made me throw it out. Add to that the main KDE killer Evolution went from the Outlook layout to something else, and Kontact took its place. (The organisation of data is the only think I like in Outlook). I've played with other WM/DEs as well. On RedHat I used WindowMaker and on Gentoo I've played with Enlightenment E16/E17 a bit. When the urge comes over me to be Unixy I use E. It was some time ago though. The main problem I feel is that lots of apps are written for a specific WM rather than a generic non-WM/DE-dependent API. Which makes the entire desktop look like bits and pieces the cat draged home (run Gimp, Kontact and Scid under KDE and you'll know what I mean). There was (is?) a setting in KDE to force *some* apps to bend to the theme of KDE, but that was buggy when I tried it last time.2005/9/1, Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under theassertion that the best window manager/desktop environment isstrictly a matter of personal preference.So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why?I wouldn't trade the multitude of options availabe in Linux foranything, but the choices can be overwhelming.I've played with a lot of 'em, starting with fvwm, through windowmaker, enlightenment 15 16, icewm, gnome, xfce, kde, blackbox... I've been using Fluxbox for quite a while now.I want something that is fairly minimal/lightweight, but with a hintof eye candy and a functional panel or taskbar.Fluxbox justabout has this, but, I can't seem to figure out how to get a gnome-like panel (unless I ran gnome, which would trump thelighweight requirement).I've seen the E17 screenshots, and I'd like to run it, but it's nota trivial install, plus it's still alpha code (though there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that it's plenty stable... I'd still ratherwait for an official release).Some interesting links, if you aren't already aware:http://xwinman.org/ - basic overview of available WMs/DEshttp://www.lynucs.org/ - desktop screenshot archivehttp://www.enlightenment.org/ - best of eye candy :) Anyway, I was just hoping to start a pub-style conversation onwhat people like/disklike in a window manager.Thanks,Matt--Matt Garmanemail at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] OT: font management software
I admit - I'm adicted to fonts. Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? I need to see what the fonts look like and be able to install what's not installed. I found Fontlinge which isn't in portage and consists of a gazillion dependencies. Any more?Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software
What I'm looking for is something like http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/xfonter.html or http://www.neuber.com/typograph/index.html Regards, Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software
And of course, you can download fonts from any of those font collection pages on the net and extract/copy them into /usr/share/fonts/TTF(assuming they're truetype, naturally), run fc-cache and they'll work fine. I had an attack of fontmania recently myself, looking for 'nice'fonts that weren't ComicSansMS that actually had ë, ö, ¤ (that's theEuro symbol, if you can't see it), and *also* had bold and italicvariants (which was the problem). Yes, sure I can do it manually. Something to manage 2000+ fonts would be handy though, opening and closing KFontViewer for each and every of those 2000+ fonts is a bit inefficient. Also, it would be neat to have the fonts sorted into groups when searching for what font to use. (I know I'm a fontoholic). Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] Ericsson K750i
Anyone played with the USB feature of the Ericsson phone? I forgot to bring the cable to my new phone from work - but I suppose I just plug it in and it will be found as an extra drive (like my USB memory stick). Anyone can verify this?Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?
KFireWall (I think it's called) if you use KDE.Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Ericsson K750i
OK, I'll give a shot - sounds promising... :)Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software
I've looked at freshmeat and googled a bit (my terms seem a bit vague) I'm looking for software to keep a collection of research references and notes. I currently play with RefKeep, but - is there other such software out there somewhere? Anyone knows?Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software
Thanks! Now I remember that I should have searched on that instead. I'll give pybliographer a shot. As it is closest to what I'm looking for, even if it's Gnome ... Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?
On 11/07/05, Myk Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption that if it's new(and acceptably stable), I want it. That's hardly in line with Gentoos choice policy. Gentoo isn't about imposing someone elses preferences on everyone. Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] DR working for M$
Hm, Python isn't mentioned among the skills there... It's true then, Gentoo is a virtual distribution built in 3D Studio Max while the original web site was built in Flash, Photoshop, _javascript_ with a bit of Wood-working, and Cold-metal working helping the servers? /Martin SOn 14/06/05, Paul Kain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The guy is $40 000 in debt while giving us a damn fine distro *shrug* I think he deserves it. At least the position may assist his debt Also bear in mind he worked for MS prior to starting on gentoo - http://research.microsoft.com/~dcr/resume/resume.asp He at least transferred the copyrighted stuff and the intelectual property over to the foundation I say leave him be and wish him luck. He isnt a sell out. On 6/14/05, Steven R. Ringwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. Khattri wrote:Im suprised noone has mentioned this yet:http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10838 Perhaps it is a little bit of a heated issue??? Steve--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT!] A new desktop enviornment?
On 06/06/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone.Please note that this post is OFF TOPIC!With that said:I found this on GNOME-LOOK.org and thought you all may be interested. http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=25009forummode=0forumpage=0forumexplevel=3Its basically a new DE under development. The author wants a lot of ideas.I personally have emailed and posted a few to him. What are your thoughts? My thoughts, as with much else in Open Source is Why?. Do we need yet another desktop environment/ window manager? (Do we need yet another FTP/mail client? Another distribution?) Probably not compatible with anything previously existing (in ways of API or GUI from the end user point of view). Anyway, good luck to the project - hope they survive... Regards,Martin S
[gentoo-user] PCMCIA problem
On doing emerge -u this morning I got the error message that my PCMCIA support wasn't enabled in the kernel so I tried doing this following the (installation) kernel doc. With my 2.6.9 kernel I followed: Code Listing 14: Enabling PCMCIA support for 2.6 kernels Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) --- PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support --- * PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support (select 16 bit if you need support for older PCMCIA cards. Most people want this.) * 16-bit PCMCIA support [*] 32-bit CardBus support (select the relevant bridges below) --- PC-card bridges * CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support (NEW) * Cirrus PD6729 compatible bridge support (NEW) * i82092 compatible bridge support (NEW) * i82365 compatible bridge support (NEW) * Databook TCIC host bridge support (NEW) But going into Bus options section I find it like Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) --- PCMCIA/CardBus support --- * CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support (NEW) * Cirrus PD6729 compatible bridge support (NEW) * i82092 compatible bridge support (NEW) * i82365 compatible bridge support (NEW) * Databook TCIC host bridge support (NEW) Is it only me and I'm missing something obvious? Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Menus in KDE
Right-click the K-menu button, select Menu Editor. Then you can add an item manually. Cheers, Martin S
