csound Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator
It's surprising how few people have heard about the most flexible tone generator (=synth) out there: csound http://www.csounds.com The latest package has a Gentoo ebuild, too, which is not in the repository, however. You can do *everything* with it, and it's so fast you can use it as MIDI player, too. Regards ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] diff command for images
You could also try the pamarith comand of the netpbm package. It has both -subtract and -difference ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge
Have I overlooked an option comparable to --ask ? No, Paludis is non-interactive. With 700 packages, paludis takes quite long here to give output, and having that double is irritating. Would it be possible to cache computations such that the second time (without -p) at least would be faster? Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] XML editor
Hello, I'm looking for a free XML editor, may be native or even under Wine, that works well and helps with, for example, presenting the content of all emph tags as a list, selecting a subset of them, and changing the subset markup to placeName rend=bold. Is there an app that I can use for this without programming effort? Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XML editor
Not sure if Quanta will do what you're after? I recall it has some XML code in there, but don't know if it offers the functionality you want. Oh, forgot to say that I don't want to install KDE, sorry. ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Summary Re: [gentoo-user] XML editor
Many thanks for the answers. Unfortunately, nothing really fit my needs, so programming it'll have to be ... In summary, the editors are helpful in visualizing doc structure and oXygen has the most features, while for docbook the specialized apps may be better. Amaya is no longer in gentoo (I recall it the editor of choice for MathML). After oXygen, I'd have liked xxe best, as it doesn't draw a rat tail of KDE, GNOME or wxWidgets dependencies but that's only because I have java handy. ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?
Hello,
Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved
non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty
with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the
package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command
\selectlanguage{german}
babel.sty gives
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `German'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.
german.sty gives
german -- \language number for German undefined, default 255 used,
german -- Please read gerdoc.tex how to install hyphenation patterns.
german -- \language number for Austrian undefined, default 255 used.
german -- \language number for French undefined, default 255 used.
Many thanjks for any hints!
Regards,
ralf
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Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?
Iain wrote
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:34 +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote:
Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved
non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty
with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the
package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command
\selectlanguage{german}
I don't use texlive, but have you set linguas_de?
That was a good idea, and necessary to do, thanks.
However, latex and pdflatex apparently still don't want to use the
language.dat file with the now correct entries. Funnily, xlatex does!
So, as workaround I've converted to UTF-8 and use xelatex now.
Any other ideas?
ralf
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Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?
You wrote I found this which might be interesting: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=newlang Thanks. But it was a stray tetex config file. I was pointed to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] local caching DNS?
Hello, I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?
vorner wrote I use dnsmasq, can be used as a LAN cache too (by simply allowing requests from a given interface). Took me about 30 minutes to configure. I asked dhcp to save to resolv.conf.2 and made resolv.conf to request from localhost. OK this works fine, thanks. However, udhcpd cannt be coaxed to write the servers to the new file, am I missing something? But it's not too bad, I don't reboot often. Thanks for all the answers (and questions ;) ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems
Hello, recently sys-apps/mktemp is blocking coreutils even in x86. mktemp is needed by baselayout, debianutils and a2ps. As a2ps is optional and newer baselayout (~x86) version no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring mktemp, even in ~x86 versions. So, we have a problem. What am I missing here? Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: mktemp dependency problems
no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring mktemp, even in ~x86 versions. Make that 'even in x86 versions' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such
I might be a bit too naive or hands-on -- I think portage or paludis should be able to tell you which upgrades that expat one will draw behind it. I don't know what would be required for implementation, though. In other words, even the existence of a separate revdep-rebuild tool is a design error, IMHO. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bad 3Dness from my Intel 855GM!
this before? I don't know what other programs I can test it with that I might be able to get a screenshot to show you with, but if anybody knows something that might be a good test, let me know! You could test downgrading x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810 to 1.7.4. as there were some problems with i810 after the last x11 upgrade. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Couldn't load XKB keymap...
Search for setxkbmap on the bug server. A missing link on installation is the problem. We're waiting for a patch. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] where is the unifont?
Hello, I have installed the unifont package but it doesn't show with xlsfonts nor xfontsel, nor does an xterm find the font string. I tried the commands mkfontsdir and xset fp rehash. What am I missing? ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?
Daniel Vrcic wrote You should have unifont's path listed in the Files section of xorg.conf: Section Files: ... FontPath /usr/share/fonts/unifont ... Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig? ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?
Albert wrote Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig? That's not what etc-update does. etc-update is just a tool that helps you manage files that a package installs that were CONFIG_PROTECTed. Since font packages don't supply xorg.conf there's nothing to CONFIG_PROTECT and therefore etc-update is futile. ... Then let me phrase it alternatively. As another poster said (thanks), the path can be set with xset +fp. Shouldn't this be done at installation? ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge openssl fails.
You wrote Attached the log file. Looks like kernel headers are not found. Have you recently installed a new kernel manually and deleted the old? Or did you deinstall sys-kernel/linux-headers? You need that. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting HTML to PDF or PS
You wrote I need to convert web pages to PDF files under program control, * app-text/htmldoc [N 1.8.27] target Convert HTML pages into a PDF document -fltk ssl Use flags: * fltk: Adds support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface * ssl: Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules
I love gentoo and can't settle for anything else. What can I do to make sure development doesn't stop? Let me in on that. What can I do too? Help out with bugfixing by submitting patches or even just confirming bugs and supplying needed details? Join testing teams? Join the Weekly News team? Is it really so difficult to see where there is something to do? If yes, wouldn't it be the first step to learn about how it all works? ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] growisofs: media is not recognized as recordable DVD
You wrote I had some .avi's that I wanted to burn, so I went out and bought a 10pack of Fujifilm DVD-R media (4.7GB) and fired up K3b. However, it kept asking me to insert a writable disk even though I put fresh disk after fresh disk in the drive. So I resorted to growisofs. I had an ISO I wanted to burn as well so: $ growisofs -Z /dev/dvdrw=/path/to/image.iso :-( /dev/dvdrw: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0 Installed a new kernel in the meantime? (just an idea) ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules
What does everyone else think about this. Is portage a major blocker of progress or not so much? As said above, details are major blockers of progress. On the other hand, when I switched to paludis, 100 MB of unnecessary packages suddenly were available to delete. So, paludis must do something right where portage didn't. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview
Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis: http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensored Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis? Yes, and very satisfied. Even with the earlier versions. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does this qualify as some bug ?
While trying to prevent 'net-dns/pdnsd' to listen on TCP and on to avoid TCP queries, I changed 'tcp_server' parameter to 'off' and 'query_method' parameter to 'udp_only' in /etc/pdnsd/pdnsd.conf . But when I restarted pdnsd I found it is still listening on TCP. I checked /etc/conf.d/pdnsd and found no option related to listening to 'TCP' set. So, then I checked /etc/init.d/pdnsd and I found that 'pdnsd' has been launched with '-t' command line argument (enables the TCP server thread. pdnsd will then serve TCP and UDP queries.) . So to disable, I need to append '--notcp' to PDNSDCONFIG in /etc/conf.d/pdnsd. So I think, listening shouldn't be made by default, even if it is, then it should be in configuration file, not in init.d script . Since noone answered, I'll try. I'm not into the details of your problem but I have the impression your suggestion should be stated to the pdnsd developing community, not on gentoo. I'd qualify it as bug, but YMMV, and again, I don't know much about it. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?
Hello, I'm using mutt as MUA in an xterm on VT1 and calling up, via urlview, FF on VT2 with a web page from a mail URL. Up to some time recently, Firefox only switched VT the first time I did this, now it does it every time, annoyingly. I would like to make FF stick to a specific VT, or just not switch VT when called from another. Possible? Regards, ralf
Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent Firefox from switching VT?
I would like to make FF stick to a specific VT, or just not switch VT when called from another. Possible? Are you talking about that ? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425879 Exactly, thanks! I guess that what you call a VT (virtual _terminal_) is a virtual workspace. To continue nitpicking, the wmctrl people call it virtual desktop. Regards, ralf
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
2GHz Centrino 2GB Ram 80G SATA 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 Odd. My 2.8GHz Pentium 4 takes *far* longer to compile OO, something close to 10h, though I haven't really timed it. Memory is essential for compiling, so a guess would be that you have less than 1 GB RAM. Maybe even 1GB is not enough. ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I detect that I'm on Gentoo?
You wrote Well, not a very hi-tech solution, but I think that if you find files and directories like /usr/portage, /etc/gentoo-release, /etc/make.*, etc. you can reasonably assume you are running on gentoo. Not necessarily number 1 and 3 if you're using paludis. ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious
You wrote I'm 44. I remember Imsai 8080, Apple II/III and others. In Sweden we had those little boxes known as ABC80 (and later ABC800 with 16 colors and somewhat better graphical resolution). Other boxes are PDP11/70, various PET/Commodore, Ataris et al. I'm felling a huge wave of nostalghia here :) Yes, those Ataris with 16K on-chip OS and 48-64K memory. (400XL) I bought one then at around '82 for 1000? Marks (=$500), the same price I had to shell for a 3,5 Floppy drive for it, the size of a thick book. My first computer, and I'm 44 too! My first Linux was a tarball with Kernel, shell, and some tools including gcc-1.x with a size of around 1-2 MB (memory fails me). It was 1992, not a year after Linus started the thing. After that, there came Slackware for a few years, SuSE for quite some time, LinuxPPC on iMac, Ubuntu, and now Gentoo for some 1,2 years. Regards, ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage
Over a whole system this can add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that. It may simply be a matter of giving /usr/portage its own partition and a smaller block size. I have no data on that, though. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?
You wrote How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it your versions in world? Should one do this once a week? Once in two weeks? I have settled to a 5-day routine, when I sync, update completely the system target, and go through the listing of changes to world, where I only upgrade things important to me or those which have a big gap in the version number or a new major number. This doesn't cost me much personal and CPU time. ralf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Just for comparison, http://blog.spida.net/index.php?/archives/3-Powerusage.html has some measurements of a low-power system. That's not even optimal. My King Young w/ 1.6GHz Celeron, 500 MB RAM, and Intel 855 graphics uses just 30-35W at 100% CPU. And it's silent! ralf P.S. see e.g. http://www.mini-itx.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?
What versions of these are you trying to run? davfs2-1.1.3-r1 and subversion-1.4.2 both depend on just net-misc/neon, without any version deps, so I presume they both work with the current neon-0.26.1-r1. Actually, svn does not depend on neon, only if you use WebDAV, and then it's a svn bug. Reason: neon is meant to be included with packages using it. This is clearly stated in the manual. So, correctly, you would file bugs with both davfs2 and svn. ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something's killing my xfce panel/decorations
Steve wrote Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I have a stable (+unstable gtk) i86/xorg soundless installation with a bare bones xfce4 desktop. My only problem is that, after one two weeks, the xfce-panel disappears and newly started apps are missing the window decorations. They keep missing, even if I restart the panel manually. So I have to restart X which is a PITA. Have you seen this? Do you have a recommendation? Upgrading GTK and or its libs sometimes introduce small quirks into XFCE, I've noticed. Generally, I just re-emerge all the XFCE packages and I'm good to go. Excellent idea. Many thanks! Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] using stage4 conveniently
Hello, I'm using Reto Glauser's mkstage4 script for backup. Reading in the 'Small Footprint Gentoo USB HOWTO' about a stage4 made me ask myself: Is it possible to quickly/comfortably put the backup stage4 on a USB Stick, such that it behaves just like the same system just backed up while the primary HDD is completely passed by? If there is no such tool accomplishing this, there certainly should be, as a way to - have a running system a short time after a HD crash - completely ditch those power hungry HD drives - ... your idea here ... Many thanks for your comments. Regards ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can convert to Postscript, PDF, bitmap from there and thus include it in any other doc format. Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice, I would advise you to rewrite in LaTeX. It's a good way to learn the typesetting and you'll love how it looks. If you care for your text use LaTeX. Do you think all the scientists who put their preprints on arXiv.org can be wrong? Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas
I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. By chance, I found the link to a Word -- LaTeX converter: http://www.grindeq.com Have fun, ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
