Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem
On Dienstag 21 Juli 2009, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, For some reason I could not start kde4 on my laptop. Everything is fine and when I try to log into my account using the kdm log in window it will log in for a second then get back to kdm window. Here is the content of ~/.xsession-errors Warning: Cannot convert string 12x24 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Does anyone know what is going on with my kde4 session? I have installed KDE-4.2.4 and Xorg-server 1.6.2-r1 on my laptop. Thanks Hung ok, there is nothing in Xorg.0.log and your xorg.conf is ok too. You can either check kdm.log now - or start checking permissions for /tmp /var/tmp and the kde related directories in /usr/share.
[gentoo-user] Odd USB external hard disk does not play nice with KDE
Hi, I just bought a novel, 1.5 Tb USB external HD. The kernel recognizes it nice and well, and I can mount and unmount it as root, lookin' its content etc. without problems. But KDE refuses to see it as a new media. It does not even appear in the media:/. The odd thing is that it is the first and so far only external drive with this behaviour. Other USB drives (I have several) work nice, appear in the desktop and KDE ask me what to do with them. What can be odd about that drive and how can I try to diagnose it? thanks, m.
[gentoo-user] missing dependency for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3
Hi all, i don't know if it is a bug oder a missing dependency for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3, that i recently tried to install. the error i got was like /bin/sh: line 1: gtkdoc-rebase: command not found so i emerge -av1 dev-util/gtk-doc and everything worked fine. emerge --info is at http://www.xbra.de/images/emerge-info.txt please, tell me if it is a missing dependency and if it is worth writing a bug, because i'm not familiar with writing one. kind regards, der Max
[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from another Linux distro
I'm getting ready for a remote Gentoo install. I'd like to avoid any sort of CD/USB/floppy usage. I can select a variety of different distros to be preinstalled on the system. Can I end up with the same Gentoo system installing from another distro as I can from a LiveCD? I've read over: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 and it sounds like I may not be able to end up with one big root partition like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 69 19457 155742142+ 83 Linux If the preinstalled distro has a partition table like this, I won't be able to make a separate partition for Gentoo. If the preinstalled distro has separate large partitions, I will be able to install Gentoo on one of the partitions, but I won't ever be able to set up a partition table like the above with one big root partition. Is that correct or do I have this all wrong? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from another Linux distro
Grant wrote: I'm getting ready for a remote Gentoo install. I'd like to avoid any sort of CD/USB/floppy usage. I can select a variety of different distros to be preinstalled on the system. Can I end up with the same Gentoo system installing from another distro as I can from a LiveCD? I've read over: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 and it sounds like I may not be able to end up with one big root partition like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 69 19457 155742142+ 83 Linux If the preinstalled distro has a partition table like this, I won't be able to make a separate partition for Gentoo. If the preinstalled distro has separate large partitions, I will be able to install Gentoo on one of the partitions, but I won't ever be able to set up a partition table like the above with one big root partition. Is that correct or do I have this all wrong? - Grant That is basically correct, you can't remove the root partition, while it is in use What you could do though, depending on how big that boot partition is, is copy the live CD to the boot partition, set a boot option to boot that as the root, and then do your normal install in the main big partition. I've never done, or tried this, but it should workThe minimal install cd is ~50MB I think All that said, I'm an LVM guy myself, and like to have a few partitions about for different things depensding on the machines usage. :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from another Linux distro
So what's the question? You can install gentoo from a live cd, in fact you could try to drop to single user mode and fire up a new kernel via the LiveCD, but alas that may be a bit precarious. Next to that I'd say format your file system and go from the LiveCD, why don't you ahve console access? Simply use the current paritions hwever if this is a Dedicated system remember to format them before hand. XFS, Ext3 and Reiser are all good, I'm partial to XFS myself but I'd advise you to do some resarch. HTH. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Nevynxxx ne...@anferny.me.uk wrote: Grant wrote: I'm getting ready for a remote Gentoo install. I'd like to avoid any sort of CD/USB/floppy usage. I can select a variety of different distros to be preinstalled on the system. Can I end up with the same Gentoo system installing from another distro as I can from a LiveCD? I've read over: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 and it sounds like I may not be able to end up with one big root partition like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 69 19457 155742142+ 83 Linux If the preinstalled distro has a partition table like this, I won't be able to make a separate partition for Gentoo. If the preinstalled distro has separate large partitions, I will be able to install Gentoo on one of the partitions, but I won't ever be able to set up a partition table like the above with one big root partition. Is that correct or do I have this all wrong? - Grant That is basically correct, you can't remove the root partition, while it is in use What you could do though, depending on how big that boot partition is, is copy the live CD to the boot partition, set a boot option to boot that as the root, and then do your normal install in the main big partition. I've never done, or tried this, but it should workThe minimal install cd is ~50MB I think All that said, I'm an LVM guy myself, and like to have a few partitions about for different things depensding on the machines usage. :) -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
Re: [gentoo-user] missing dependency for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3
Maximilian Bräutigam writes: i don't know if it is a bug oder a missing dependency for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3, that i recently tried to install. the error i got was like /bin/sh: line 1: gtkdoc-rebase: command not found so i emerge -av1 dev-util/gtk-doc and everything worked fine. emerge --info is at http://www.xbra.de/images/emerge-info.txt please, tell me if it is a missing dependency and if it is worth writing a bug, because i'm not familiar with writing one. Thanks for the willingness to report this bug, it would be worth to do so, but it has been done already: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278538 Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] missing dependency for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3
Am Dienstag, den 21.07.2009, 13:19 +0200 schrieb Alex Schuster: Maximilian Bräutigam writes: i don't know if it is a bug oder a missing dependency for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.26.3, that i recently tried to install. the error i got was like /bin/sh: line 1: gtkdoc-rebase: command not found so i emerge -av1 dev-util/gtk-doc and everything worked fine. emerge --info is at http://www.xbra.de/images/emerge-info.txt please, tell me if it is a missing dependency and if it is worth writing a bug, because i'm not familiar with writing one. Thanks for the willingness to report this bug, it would be worth to do so, but it has been done already: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278538 Wonko ok, i searched for bugs but found only problems with 2.22.[...]! thanks for your advice. der Max
[gentoo-user] Icelandic issues
No I did not have my money in a dodgy bank but I can no longer play Sigur Ros albums. When the CD is ripped onto the HD the file names contain accented characters and Amarok 2 says the directory/file does not exist. Formerly this was possible, so I am guessing converting to KDE4 may have been the culprit. My locale is set up thus: $ locale LANG=en_GB.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 etc... Dolphin shows file names like: Sigur Ros - 07 - Vi�rar Vel Til Loft�r�sa.mp3 When I use a browser I can see the special characters and can copy them to this mail: Ágætis byrjun. I added is and some other things to LINGUAS and re-installed kde-l10n but no accents. What is the trick with this? TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Icelandic issues
Robin Atwood writes: No I did not have my money in a dodgy bank but I can no longer play Sigur Ros albums. When the CD is ripped onto the HD the file names contain accented characters and Amarok 2 says the directory/file does not exist. Formerly this was possible, so I am guessing converting to KDE4 may have been the culprit. My locale is set up thus: $ locale LANG=en_GB.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 etc... Dolphin shows file names like: Sigur Ros - 07 - Vi�rar Vel Til Loft�r�sa.mp3 When I use a browser I can see the special characters and can copy them to this mail: Ágætis byrjun. I added is and some other things to LINGUAS and re-installed kde-l10n but no accents. What is the trick with this? I had a similar problem lately, after I switched to UTF8. Dolphin and some other applications were unable to deal with these files. i was advised here to emerge convmv and use this utility to convert the filenames to UTF8. Maybe something like 'convmv -f latin1 -t utf-8 Sigur\ Ros\ -\ 07tab' works for you, too. In order to actually do the conversion, add the --notest option. convmv also supports recursive conversion of whole directory trees. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Icelandic issues
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: Robin Atwood writes: No I did not have my money in a dodgy bank but I can no longer play Sigur Ros albums. When the CD is ripped onto the HD the file names contain accented characters and Amarok 2 says the directory/file does not exist. Formerly this was possible, so I am guessing converting to KDE4 may have been the culprit. My locale is set up thus: $ locale LANG=en_GB.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 etc... Dolphin shows file names like: Sigur Ros - 07 - Vi�rar Vel Til Loft�r�sa.mp3 When I use a browser I can see the special characters and can copy them to this mail: Ágætis byrjun. I added is and some other things to LINGUAS and re-installed kde-l10n but no accents. What is the trick with this? I had a similar problem lately, after I switched to UTF8. Dolphin and some other applications were unable to deal with these files. i was advised here to emerge convmv and use this utility to convert the filenames to UTF8. Maybe something like 'convmv -f latin1 -t utf-8 Sigur\ Ros\ -\ 07tab' works for you, too. In order to actually do the conversion, add the --notest option. convmv also supports recursive conversion of whole directory trees. Thanks for the tip! That was not the solution I was looking for but it did the trick. Fortunately I have only one directory affected; I guess it was created before I changed to utf-8. Cheers -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from another Linux distro
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:44:58 -0700, Grant wrote: If the preinstalled distro has a partition table like this, I won't be able to make a separate partition for Gentoo. If the preinstalled distro has separate large partitions, I will be able to install Gentoo on one of the partitions, but I won't ever be able to set up a partition table like the above with one big root partition. You will, as long as the distro you use for installation is not on the first partition. Then you can install Gentoo on the first partition, make sure it works and then remove the partition containing the original distro and resize your root. But why do you want everything n a single partition? This is a more risky setup with a remote server, because any filesystem corruption could make the system unbootable. I'd have a small root partition and everything else on LVM. Then even if /usr or /var is toast, you can still boot in single mode. -- Neil Bothwick He's dead, Jim. Just like your career. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Multiple instances of PyQt4
Hi there!
My @world update shows this problem:
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
dev-python/PyQt4:0
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r5', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.0[X] required by ('installed', '/', 'kde-
base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4', 'nomerge')
dev-python/PyQt4[X] required by ('installed', '/', 'media-
sound/picard-0.11', 'nomerge')
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4 required by ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-
python/qscintilla-python-2.3.2-r2', 'merge')
(and 1 more)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r2', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r1[dbus,qt3support,svg,webkit,X] required by
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4', 'merge')
(and 4 more)
I would like to understand where the problem is. The bottom says that
pykde4-4.2.4 needs at least PyQt4-4.4.4-r2. This is fine, I can see the
corresponding DEPEND line in the pykde4-4.2.4 ebuild.
The top list tells that:
plasma-workspace-4.2.4 needs PyQt4-4.4.0,
picard-0.11needs PyQt4 and
qscintilla-python-2.3.2-r2 needs PyQt4-4.4
Why then is PyQt4-4.4.4-r5 needed? -r2 should satisfy these needs, too,
doesn't it? Or is the problem the 'and 1 more' line? How would I find out
which other package would need -r5 then? And why would the other line be
listed then? I don't get this.
I grepped for PyQt4-4.4.4-r5 through all ebuilds, it appeared only in the
PyQt4-4.4.4-r5.ebuild itself.
This is not an important problem - I think I can unmask some stuff and it
will work. But wanted to cut the amount of masking down a little, and I'm
just curious why this happens.
So, thanks for any insights, if want to practice your portage-fu, but don't
bother if you have more important things to do, I'm fine :)
Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple instances of PyQt4
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 17:11:33 Alex Schuster wrote:
Hi there!
My @world update shows this problem:
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
dev-python/PyQt4:0
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r5', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.0[X] required by ('installed', '/', 'kde-
base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4', 'nomerge')
dev-python/PyQt4[X] required by ('installed', '/', 'media-
sound/picard-0.11', 'nomerge')
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4 required by ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-
python/qscintilla-python-2.3.2-r2', 'merge')
(and 1 more)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r2', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r1[dbus,qt3support,svg,webkit,X] required by
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4', 'merge')
(and 4 more)
I would like to understand where the problem is. The bottom says that
pykde4-4.2.4 needs at least PyQt4-4.4.4-r2. This is fine, I can see the
corresponding DEPEND line in the pykde4-4.2.4 ebuild.
The top list tells that:
plasma-workspace-4.2.4 needs PyQt4-4.4.0,
picard-0.11needs PyQt4 and
qscintilla-python-2.3.2-r2 needs PyQt4-4.4
Why then is PyQt4-4.4.4-r5 needed? -r2 should satisfy these needs, too,
doesn't it? Or is the problem the 'and 1 more' line? How would I find out
which other package would need -r5 then? And why would the other line be
listed then? I don't get this.
I grepped for PyQt4-4.4.4-r5 through all ebuilds, it appeared only in the
PyQt4-4.4.4-r5.ebuild itself.
This is not an important problem - I think I can unmask some stuff and it
will work. But wanted to cut the amount of masking down a little, and I'm
just curious why this happens.
So, thanks for any insights, if want to practice your portage-fu, but don't
bother if you have more important things to do, I'm fine :)
There was issues with pykde4 recently resulting in these blockers. Easiest way
out is to remove all local masks you might have for PyQt and pykde4, unmerge
both and emerge -uND world. Let portage sort it out.
IIRC you can get by by just unmerging one of them and it works. But, I'm too
lazy now to figure out which way round it goes, and memory ain't what it used
to be.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple instances of PyQt4
On 7/21/09, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 17:11:33 Alex Schuster wrote:
Hi there!
My @world update shows this problem:
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
dev-python/PyQt4:0
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r5', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.0[X] required by ('installed', '/', 'kde-
base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4', 'nomerge')
dev-python/PyQt4[X] required by ('installed', '/', 'media-
sound/picard-0.11', 'nomerge')
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4 required by ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-
python/qscintilla-python-2.3.2-r2', 'merge')
(and 1 more)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r2', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r1[dbus,qt3support,svg,webkit,X] required by
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4', 'merge')
(and 4 more)
I would like to understand where the problem is. The bottom says that
pykde4-4.2.4 needs at least PyQt4-4.4.4-r2. This is fine, I can see the
corresponding DEPEND line in the pykde4-4.2.4 ebuild.
The top list tells that:
plasma-workspace-4.2.4 needs PyQt4-4.4.0,
picard-0.11needs PyQt4 and
qscintilla-python-2.3.2-r2 needs PyQt4-4.4
Why then is PyQt4-4.4.4-r5 needed? -r2 should satisfy these needs, too,
doesn't it? Or is the problem the 'and 1 more' line? How would I find out
which other package would need -r5 then? And why would the other line be
listed then? I don't get this.
I grepped for PyQt4-4.4.4-r5 through all ebuilds, it appeared only in the
PyQt4-4.4.4-r5.ebuild itself.
This is not an important problem - I think I can unmask some stuff and it
will work. But wanted to cut the amount of masking down a little, and I'm
just curious why this happens.
So, thanks for any insights, if want to practice your portage-fu, but
don't
bother if you have more important things to do, I'm fine :)
There was issues with pykde4 recently resulting in these blockers. Easiest
way
out is to remove all local masks you might have for PyQt and pykde4, unmerge
both and emerge -uND world. Let portage sort it out.
IIRC you can get by by just unmerging one of them and it works. But, I'm too
lazy now to figure out which way round it goes, and memory ain't what it
used
to be.
PyQt4-4.5.1 ebuild was removed from the portage tree over the weekend.
I had only that specific version unmasked (IIRC kde4 dependencies?),
and ran into a similar(?) situation yesterday. Maybe you hit the same?
(Similar situation == portage surprises and wants to downgrade PyQt4
to 4.4.4-something.)
No worries, IIRC I just unmasked 4.5.2 and everything has been smiles
and sunshine again afterward.
--
Arttu V.
[gentoo-user] Re: Odd USB external hard disk does not play nice with KDE
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:48 AM, brullo nullabrullonu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just bought a novel, 1.5 Tb USB external HD. The kernel recognizes it nice and well, and I can mount and unmount it as root, lookin' its content etc. without problems. But KDE refuses to see it as a new media. It does not even appear in the media:/. The odd thing is that it is the first and so far only external drive with this behaviour. Other USB drives (I have several) work nice, appear in the desktop and KDE ask me what to do with them. Ok. It seems I have been lured into buying a cheap Seagate brick-in-a-box. I will return it tomorrow morning and take a WD. m.
[gentoo-user] vblank_mode is NOT respected
Hi! glxgears shows ~500 fps (instead of ~1500 at more lucky days) instead of ~60 fps. All related info is here (X11 log, emerge info and such): http://gaydenko.com/tmp/x11/ Any thoughts? Must I supply additional info?
Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded
On Monday 20 July 2009, Jacob Todd wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:15:41PM +0100, John wrote: Please can you recommend a email virus scanner. I am a little unsure about all the combinations available. I wish to scan incoming email on my home desktop. I currently use Claws Mail and was looking for the simplest option. Many Thanks -- John D Maunder j...@articwolf.myzen.co.uk Maybe app-antivirus/clamav? Or may be John shouldn't be hijacking threads (search for netiquette if you don't understand what I'm talking about) and Jacob shouldn't respond? Back to the OP's questions: 1) radeonfb is the framebuffer used when in console to render fonts in smaller sizes. radeon is the xorg video card driver. Therefore, you could have them both (either built in kernel or as modules). 2)The (II) RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 320 x 240 message is expressing the screen resolution in millimeters . This roughly is equivalent to 1210x907 pixels. Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' to see the dimensions in rounded numbers. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Or may be John shouldn't be hijacking threads (search for netiquette if you don't understand what I'm talking about) and Jacob shouldn't respond? Back to the OP's questions: 1) radeonfb is the framebuffer used when in console to render fonts in smaller sizes. radeon is the xorg video card driver. Therefore, you could have them both (either built in kernel or as modules). 2)The (II) RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 320 x 240 message is expressing the screen resolution in millimeters . This roughly is equivalent to 1210x907 pixels. Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' to see the dimensions in rounded numbers. -- Regards, Mick I wasn't aware they had done that. GMail separated them into different threads here. Thanks for catching up with my question. Thanks for the info on the screen resolution. OK, there is possibly a little extra difficulty to get this run, but it's likely just ssh stuff or possibly not enabling something in X11. 1) I first ssh into my dad's Gentoo machine. When I try to run the command through the ssh tunnel I get this: gandalf ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Protocol not supported by server xdpyinfo: unable to open display :0.0. gandalf ~ # I then ssh into my mom's Gentoo machine gandalf ~ # !ssh ssh DesertFlower Password: Last login: Mon Jul 20 19:29:10 PDT 2009 from gandalf on pts/0 DesertFlower ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xdpyinfo: unable to open display :0.0. DesertFlower ~ # Right now no one is logged into either machine. Both are presumably sitting with gdm login screens. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: roughly is equivalent to 1210x907 pixels. Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' to see the dimensions in rounded numbers. OK, there is possibly a little extra difficulty to get this run, but it's likely just ssh stuff or possibly not enabling something in X11. 1) I first ssh into my dad's Gentoo machine. When I try to run the command through the ssh tunnel I get this: gandalf ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Protocol not supported by server xdpyinfo: unable to open display :0.0. gandalf ~ # I then ssh into my mom's Gentoo machine gandalf ~ # !ssh ssh DesertFlower Password: Last login: Mon Jul 20 19:29:10 PDT 2009 from gandalf on pts/0 DesertFlower ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xdpyinfo: unable to open display :0.0. DesertFlower ~ # Right now no one is logged into either machine. Both are presumably sitting with gdm login screens. Hmm, it could be an ssh thing, not sure, probably an xauth thing (have a look at man xauth). See if setting your IP address allows to access your parents machine: xdpyinfo -display XXX.XXX.XX.XX:0.0 --where XXX.XXX.XX.XX is your IP address of try to set the relevant env variable: setenv DISPLAY XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:0 at your client machine first. Alternatively, ask them to login and then use the same login credentials. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM problem - SOLVED
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 21 Juli 2009, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, For some reason I could not start kde4 on my laptop. Everything is fine and when I try to log into my account using the kdm log in window it will log in for a second then get back to kdm window. Here is the content of ~/.xsession-errors Warning: Cannot convert string 12x24 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Does anyone know what is going on with my kde4 session? I have installed KDE-4.2.4 and Xorg-server 1.6.2-r1 on my laptop. Thanks Hung ok, there is nothing in Xorg.0.log and your xorg.conf is ok too. You can either check kdm.log now - or start checking permissions for /tmp /var/tmp and the kde related directories in /usr/share. Hi Volker, I rebuild kde-meta package and find out that I have not add consolekit to default boot level. After I have done that everything is fine. Thanks Hung
[gentoo-user] PPP and reseting the DNS servers.
Hi folks, I use dial-up and sometimes my ISP looses its DNS server for some reason. If I try to go to a site, it just says looking up and sits there until it times out. Going to the IP directly still works. My question is this, is there a way to reset the DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf? I notice I have a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh that according to what I read is what sets the DNS server when I connect. Is it safe for me to run that manually? The reason I don't want to reconnect is because it is hard to get a good connection out here. I usually get 19.2k but sometimes 21.6k. If I keep trying I can get a 24k connection but it takes several times to get that even. If I get a good one, I get a good tight grip on that puppy. ;-) Thanks for the help. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: roughly is equivalent to 1210x907 pixels. Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' to see the dimensions in rounded numbers. OK, there is possibly a little extra difficulty to get this run, but it's likely just ssh stuff or possibly not enabling something in X11. 1) I first ssh into my dad's Gentoo machine. When I try to run the command through the ssh tunnel I get this: gandalf ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Protocol not supported by server xdpyinfo: unable to open display :0.0. gandalf ~ # I then ssh into my mom's Gentoo machine gandalf ~ # !ssh ssh DesertFlower Password: Last login: Mon Jul 20 19:29:10 PDT 2009 from gandalf on pts/0 DesertFlower ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xdpyinfo: unable to open display :0.0. DesertFlower ~ # Right now no one is logged into either machine. Both are presumably sitting with gdm login screens. Hmm, it could be an ssh thing, not sure, probably an xauth thing (have a look at man xauth). See if setting your IP address allows to access your parents machine: xdpyinfo -display XXX.XXX.XX.XX:0.0 --where XXX.XXX.XX.XX is your IP address of try to set the relevant env variable: setenv DISPLAY XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:0 at your client machine first. Alternatively, ask them to login and then use the same login credentials. HTH. -- Regards, Mick No luck with -display and any IP address I can think of - my address from the net, my local address. However, there is xdpyinfo -queryExtensions and in that data I see this: m...@gandalf ~ $ xdpyinfo -queryExtensions name of display:localhost:10.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:The X.Org Foundation vendor release number:10503000 X.Org version: 1.5.3 maximum request size: 16777212 bytes motion buffer size: 256 SNIP screen #0: print screen:no dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters) resolution:96x96 dots per inch depths (7):16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 root window id:0x80 depth of root window:16 planes number of colormaps:minimum 1, maximum 1 So on my dad's machine, which I know I set up as 1280x1024, I get the right answer. On my mom's machine however, which I have to m...@desertflower ~ $ xdpyinfo -queryExtensions name of display:localhost:10.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:The X.Org Foundation vendor release number:10503000 X.Org version: 1.5.3 maximum request size: 16777212 bytes SNIP screen #0: print screen:no dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters) resolution:96x96 dots per inch depths (7):16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 root window id:0x80 depth of root window:16 planes and locally on my machine here I get the same info: screen #0: print screen:no dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (338x270 millimeters) resolution:96x96 dots per inch depths (7):16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32 root window id:0x80 depth of root window:16 planes so I'm not sure if I'm looking at their machines or just my own? Actually, on my mom's machine it seems it's not really screen #0, it's screen #1 according to the config file, but maybe Xorg actually calls it screen #0 when it's tunning. None the less her default resolution is supposed to be 1024x768 - she has an old small monitor: Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device ** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon] Monitor My Monitor DefaultDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] PPP and reseting the DNS servers.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:01:37PM -0500, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: I use dial-up and sometimes my ISP looses its DNS server for some reason. If I try to go to a site, it just says looking up and sits there until it times out. Going to the IP directly still works. My question is this, is there a way to reset the DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf? I notice I have a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh that according to what I read is what sets the DNS server when I connect. Is it safe for me to run that manually? If your provider's DNS server is unreliable, perhaps try a work around and use OpenDNS? Their nameservers are at 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. You have to hardcode that into resolv.conf, and run dhcpcd with '-C resolv.conf'. W -- Hannelore: Sure thing, but I can only eat slices that have an even number of toppings on them. Marten: Couldn't you just, like, put an extra piece of pepperoni on an odd-toppinged slice and even it out that way? Pintsize: Couldn't you ALSO take a topping off, if it was an odd number? Winslow: Or you could multiply any odd-numbered slice by any even-numbered slice! Math is delicious! Sortir en Pantoufles: up 957 days, 39 min
