Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
Tony Miller wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:00:41PM -0500, Dale wrote: I see the music bars in almost all the slides. I see the little keyboard on the right in a couple of them. I didn't ever see any text except for the letters that correspond to the notes. I'm assuming that the text would be almost to the bottom of the page tho. If that is correct then I can confirm it is not there with Seamonkey 2, Firefox and Konqueror. Those are the browsers I have installed. There is definitely supposed to be text on the bottom of the page. Glad its not just me. I'm probably just going to find a music theory program that isnt a webpage. Give the list a day or so and see if someone else reports that it works. Then you can see what they have installed that is missing or if it is a wrong version of something that is installed. Keep in mind that this list goes through a 24 hour cycle since readers are in different time zones. Add in that some may actually test it on different machines, home and work etc. I would think it would work the same regardless if OS. I suspect that something is missing somewhere. You just have to figure out what it is that is not working. Maybe contact the website and see what they say as well. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to unstable
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Damian writes: Thus, I'm thinking about switching all of my system to the unstable branch. But first I want to be sure that this is reasonable given the problems I described before. Can you provide me some useful advice according to your experience? I have asked a similar question here, I suggest you read the thread [*]. I did not regret the switch and would also suggest running ~arch. Beware the update to openrc, and do what the elog messages tell you to do before rebooting. Wonko [*] http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg94206.html I'm finally running an unstable system. I had to compile nearly 500 packages, to report a couple of bugs, and to install beagle from my custom overlay. In addition, blueman is not working anymore. The problems were not so many in proportion with the number of packages compiled. Thank you all for your advices, Damian.
Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:36:38 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. Try running it from a terminal with the -n option, you may see some output when it exits. -- Neil Bothwick The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some good ideas :) thanks in advance Matt You probably don't want to hear this, but: vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's weird behaviours. Use a different cron daemon. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Gnome bluetooth in Gentoo
Did anybody could manage to get gnome-bluetooth working? First I had problems with permissions, so I added some udev rules and the permissions in rfkill. But now, if I launch the applet I just get a big button that says turn on bluetooth. I did that but nothing happened. With blueman every worked fine, but since that package no longer works on my unstable system I had to search for that alternative. Thanks in advance, Damian.
Re: [gentoo-user] vde_switch cannot create tap
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:53 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: bridge allow your vm to connect to the internet directly. the vm will connect to the dhcp server as your host machine do. vde creates a vlan on your host, and your vms connect to that vlan. and your host machine will act like a gateway to your vm. people say vde is easier to config if you have many vms. i actually never tried bridge. maybe i should try it some time. Yeah, libvirt does the same thing. It creates a virtual tap device which you can put your vms on, then it runs dnsmasq on that interface for dhcp/dns, and acts as a NAT/gateway for the vms. It's pretty much the same thing AFAICT. I'm sure there are differences but they sound pretty similar to me.
[gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long
hi, if you system is up for many days, sometimes i will not be able to browser web site. but the BT download still works. i can also ping the web site. i really have no idea how to troubleshoot this. even 'curl' cannot get the web page. it feels like all tcp connections are blocked. my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long
I get something like this, but just logging off and on again seems to fix it. For me, anyway. it's 2x Xeon, Kde 4 On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, if you system is up for many days, sometimes i will not be able to browser web site. but the BT download still works. i can also ping the web site. i really have no idea how to troubleshoot this. even 'curl' cannot get the web page. it feels like all tcp connections are blocked. my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
[gentoo-user] cpufreqd cannot start
hi, i used to be able to start the cpufreqd service. but recently, it fails to start. and the error message is: * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * cpufreqd requires the kernel to be configured with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ * Make sure that the appropiate kernel drivers for your CPU are * built-in or loaded. * ERROR: cpufreqd failed to start i ran zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i cpu_freq, the return is: CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=m # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_POWERSAVE is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_CONSERVATIVE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_CONSERVATIVE=m which means i have cpu freq compiled in my kernel. what else would cause cpufreqd cannot start? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I get something like this, but just logging off and on again seems to fix it. For me, anyway. it's 2x Xeon, Kde 4 any idea what is the cause? this is really a annoying bug. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] cpufreqd cannot start
On Donnerstag 15 April 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i used to be able to start the cpufreqd service. but recently, it fails to start. and the error message is: * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * cpufreqd requires the kernel to be configured with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ * Make sure that the appropiate kernel drivers for your CPU are * built-in or loaded. * ERROR: cpufreqd failed to start i ran zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i cpu_freq, the return is: CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=m # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y well, no matter what you do - cpufreqd could not set the frequencies becuase performance is default. But despair not: cpufreqd is very much not needed. Forget its existance and use ondemand as governor. Problem solved. Or are you using some arcane cpu that does not scale with ondemand?
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On 4/14/2010 11:38 PM, Tony Miller wrote: Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful. I have www-plugins/adobe-flash version 10.0.45.2 installed. Are you using Adobe's 64-bit Flash? If so, this is apparently a very common problem. I've seen the same effect on numerous Flash applets on Facebook, for example; thus far I've been unable to figure out which Flash element is being used that doesn't work, because it's not consistent even within a single applet. --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/14/2010 11:38 PM, Tony Miller wrote: Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful. I have www-plugins/adobe-flash version 10.0.45.2 installed. Are you using Adobe's 64-bit Flash? If so, this is apparently a very common problem. I've seen the same effect on numerous Flash applets on Facebook, for example; thus far I've been unable to figure out which Flash element is being used that doesn't work, because it's not consistent even within a single applet. AFAIK this is almost always due to missing fonts on your system. Usually the corefonts package like I mentioned earlier.
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On 4/15/2010 12:28 AM, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Millermcfiredr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful. I have www-plugins/adobe-flash version 10.0.45.2 installed. Works for me using 64-bit adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r1 in every browser I tried. I see things like: • Clefs assign individual notes to certain lines or spaces. • Two clefs are normally used: The Treble and Bass clefs. • The first clef we will discuss is the Treble Clef (also called the G Clef). • The staff line which the clef wraps around (shown above in red) is known as G. Any note placed on this line becomes G. • The note on the space above G is A. (Remember, there is not an H note). Since you know more about music than me, I may be seeing the same thing you described. I couldn't remember what some of the things were called. I only took piano lessons when I was a kid. Based on you description, it may be working the same here. No... he's actually quoting the text that should be on the page, not describing the musical elements. It's a series of bullet points describing in words what is displayed above it. So clearly you're not seeing what he is :) On the plus side: Paul Hartman is a genius; installing 'corefonts' has fixed a bunch of previously-broken Facebook games. But sadly, not this musictheory page, so I must still be missing the fonts. Paul, Is there a way to tell which font the Flash animation is trying to use? --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On Thursday 15 April 2010 05:12:29 Paul Hartman wrote: Works for me using 64-bit adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r1 in every browser I tried. I'm using the same flash program with Firefox 3.6.3 and I don't see any of the text you mention. I also don't get any sound, though I don't know whether I'm supposed to. Maybe it uses fonts you don't have installed? I would specifically check for media-fonts/corefonts first... that has the standard Microsoft web fonts. Core fonts are installed here, along with 31 others. -- Rgds Peter.
[gentoo-user] Re: Can't find bluetooth device (BCM2046)
On Sunday 04 April 2010 00:43:52 you wrote: My lsusb shows as much: Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) dmesg: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 NET: Registered protocol family 31 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14 Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6 Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [snip ...] I've tried a few more things in the kernel and still nothing, as if there is no bluetooth device there: $ hcitool inq Inquiring ... Inquiry failed.: No such device $ hcitool scan Device is not available: No such device I read that the above message means that something is blocking the card. That blocking would not be hardware, because rfkill only shows the wireless card: # rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no I tried a Knoppix DVD and it shows an additional device: [ 21.223947] usb 2-1.6.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 [ 21.311301] usb 2-1.6.3: New USB device found, idVendor=413c, idProduct=8156 [ 21.311310] usb 2-1.6.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 21.311316] usb 2-1.6.3: Product: Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card [ 21.311321] usb 2-1.6.3: Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corp [ 21.311477] usb 2-1.6.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 21.855508] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 [ 21.855564] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 21.855566] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 21.855569] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 22.603366] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6 [ 22.603613] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb [ 23.847876] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14 [ 23.847881] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 23.954976] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 23.954985] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 23.954991] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 29.842867] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 29.842872] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 31.214657] Bridge firewalling registered [ 31.229130] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6 [ 31.229135] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized The device ID 413c:8156 is the bluetooth which I am not able to find on my machine. When running Gentoo there is no such thing ... # lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:640e Microdia Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 007: ID 1307:0163 Transcend Information, Inc. 256MB/512MB/1GB Flash Drive Bus 002 Device 006: ID 413c:8158 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Touchpad / Trackstick Bus 002 Device 005: ID 413c:8157 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Keyboard Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c002 Logitech, Inc. M-BA47 [MouseMan Plus] Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub while in Knoppix: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:640e Microdia Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 007: ID 1307:0163 Transcend Information, Inc. 512MB/1GB Flash Drive Bus 002 Device 006: ID 413c:8156 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card Bus 002 Device 005: ID 413c:8158 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Touchpad / Trackstick Bus 002 Device 004: ID 413c:8157 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Keyboard Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Any ideas at all as to what I should be looking for? The devillish thing is that when I enable bluetooth on my phone it tries to pair with a Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card! What the ... !? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables - do I need the nat table?
On Monday 12 April 2010 13:31:09 Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-11 9:20 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org writes: I'm a bit clueless when it comes to firewalls, and have no idea what these numbers mean/do: *raw :PREROUTING ACCEPT [4911:886011] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [4546:2818732] COMMIT The numbers are [packets:bytes] which match the rule or table concerned. Ok, so... I still don't know what they *mean*... ie, is this a hole in my firewall? What is the raw table used for, in plain english? I think the man page explains this in plain enough English: raw: This table is used mainly for configuring exemptions from connection tracking in combination with the NOTRACK target. It registers at the netfilter hooks with higher priority and is thus called before ip_conntrack, or any other IP tables. It provides the following built-in chains: PREROUTING (for packets arriving via any network interface) OUTPUT (for packets generated by local processes) So, as long as packets come and go you should see their count increase. More importantly though... When I try to remove the nat and raw tables from my firewall, they don't go away. I have always kept my rules in a separate file, and when I want to make changes, I change the external file, then do iptables-restore /path/to/iptables-current. (My rule set is very small, so this only takes a second or two, so its not/never been a problem) I've been doing it this way for a long time, and all other changes I have ever made - eg, opening a certain port for a certain host - work fine, but, when I comment out the raw and nat tables, then restore the rules, then do iptables-save path/to/iptables-current-dump, the examined file still shows the raw and nat tables loaded... ??? You need to read the man pages, but in short if you have certain modules enabled in your kernel you will end up loading certain default tables. I don't know how you have configured your kernel or your firewall (and I am no expert to offer detailed advice) but I am guessing that although you remove a rule or two you are not removing the modules that load these tables. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/15/2010 12:28 AM, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Millermcfiredr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text on this page. http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next' slide, but I see none. Kinda sucks because this site is very useful. I have www-plugins/adobe-flash version 10.0.45.2 installed. Works for me using 64-bit adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r1 in every browser I tried. I see things like: • Clefs assign individual notes to certain lines or spaces. • Two clefs are normally used: The Treble and Bass clefs. • The first clef we will discuss is the Treble Clef (also called the G Clef). • The staff line which the clef wraps around (shown above in red) is known as G. Any note placed on this line becomes G. • The note on the space above G is A. (Remember, there is not an H note). Since you know more about music than me, I may be seeing the same thing you described. I couldn't remember what some of the things were called. I only took piano lessons when I was a kid. Based on you description, it may be working the same here. No... he's actually quoting the text that should be on the page, not describing the musical elements. It's a series of bullet points describing in words what is displayed above it. So clearly you're not seeing what he is :) On the plus side: Paul Hartman is a genius; installing 'corefonts' has fixed a bunch of previously-broken Facebook games. But sadly, not this musictheory page, so I must still be missing the fonts. Paul, Is there a way to tell which font the Flash animation is trying to use? I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the generic _sans font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on your system. Maybe it can only use TTF fonts? I'm not really sure. If all else fails, here is the complete list of font packages I have installed on my machine: media-fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3 media-fonts/corefonts-1-r4 media-fonts/dejavu-2.30 media-fonts/encodings-1.0.3-r1 media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi-1.0.2 media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi-1.0.2 media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.2 media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.2 media-fonts/font-arabic-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bh-100dpi-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bh-ttf-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bh-type1-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bitstream-speedo-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-dec-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-ibm-type1-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-isas-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-jis-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-micro-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.1-r1 media-fonts/font-misc-meltho-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.0 media-fonts/font-mutt-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc-1.1.0 media-fonts/font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.2 media-fonts/font-sony-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-sun-misc-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-util-1.1.1-r1 media-fonts/font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1-1.0.2 media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r3 media-fonts/intlfonts-1.2.1 media-fonts/lfpfonts-fix-0.83-r2 media-fonts/lfpfonts-var-0.84 media-fonts/terminus-font-4.30 media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r3 media-fonts/unifont-5.1.20080914 media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.4.9 media-fonts/x11fonts-jmk-3.0-r1
Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long
On 15 Apr 2010, at 12:48, Xi Shen wrote: ... if you system is up for many days, sometimes i will not be able to browser web site. but the BT download still works. i can also ping the web site. i really have no idea how to troubleshoot this. even 'curl' cannot get the web page. it feels like all tcp connections are blocked. my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4. How are you connecting to the net? Are you sure this isn't the router? Have you tried switching it off and back on again? (seriously) There is a tendency in BitTorrent to fill up the NAT tables of routers with insufficient RAM. I cannot explain why this would appear not to affect ping. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the generic _sans font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on your system. Maybe it can only use TTF fonts? I'm not really sure. Wierd. I have all the same fonts you do, plus a few extra, and still no text in that flash. Now that I know it's a font issue I might mess around with my fonts and see if I can figure out what it's problem is. --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the generic _sans font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on your system. Maybe it can only use TTF fonts? I'm not really sure. Wierd. I have all the same fonts you do, plus a few extra, and still no text in that flash. Now that I know it's a font issue I might mess around with my fonts and see if I can figure out what it's problem is. I think the default font paths in Gentoo were changed around a few months ago (at least in ~arch), as a last resort you may want to try unmerging all font packages and then emerging them again, and restarting X afterward. I don't remember if I had to edit font paths when that happened or not... but maybe check that too. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the generic _sans font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on your system. Maybe it can only use TTF fonts? I'm not really sure. Wierd. I have all the same fonts you do, plus a few extra, and still no text in that flash. Now that I know it's a font issue I might mess around with my fonts and see if I can figure out what it's problem is. I think the default font paths in Gentoo were changed around a few months ago (at least in ~arch), as a last resort you may want to try unmerging all font packages and then emerging them again, and restarting X afterward. I don't remember if I had to edit font paths when that happened or not... but maybe check that too. :) Specifically I thnik it was changed from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ to /usr/share/fonts/ Be sure the TTF path in your xorg.conf (if you have one) is pointing to the correct place.
Re: [gentoo-user] no text in certain flash app
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the generic _sans font, which should let it use any sans-serif font on your system. Maybe it can only use TTF fonts? I'm not really sure. Wierd. I have all the same fonts you do, plus a few extra, and still no text in that flash. Now that I know it's a font issue I might mess around with my fonts and see if I can figure out what it's problem is. I just opened my web browser and ran lsof and these fonts are in use: /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf (I use DejaVu fonts as my browser default) I then opened the flash page from the original poster's message and these additional fonts are listed: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/arial.ttf /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019004l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019003l.pfb
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome bluetooth in Gentoo
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:46, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: Did anybody could manage to get gnome-bluetooth working? First I had problems with permissions, so I added some udev rules and the permissions in rfkill. But now, if I launch the applet I just get a big button that says turn on bluetooth. I did that but nothing happened. With blueman every worked fine, but since that package no longer works on my unstable system I had to search for that alternative. Thanks in advance, Damian. A better question. Why isn't blueman working? I am using testing for a few months now and I use blueman (with a bt mouse, so, its vital). -- Daniel da Veiga
[gentoo-user] USe rsync to backup RAID0 to RAID1?
Hi, I would like to back up a mounted RAID0 to a mounted RAID1. I've not used rsync before but it seems very well suited for this task. The contents of the RAID0 are currently very simple - just some iso images and two VMWare Windows XP installs. I don't see any links in there. However my iso directory I did create a few links: m...@c2stable ~ $ ls -al /virdata/isoImages/ total 1184672 drwxrwxrwx 2 mark users 4096 Apr 15 14:09 . drwxrwxrwx 4 mark users 4096 Apr 14 14:57 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark users 667621376 Apr 15 08:36 Win98.iso -rwxrwxrwx 1 mark users 544276480 Apr 14 15:16 WinXPHome.iso lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark users 9 Apr 15 14:09 XP2_CD1 - Win98.iso lrwxrwxrwx 1 mark users13 Apr 15 14:08 XP2_CD2 - WinXPHome.iso m...@c2stable ~ $ If those are going to cause problems I can likely get rid of them. Would the following command be appropriate to backup /virdata on RAID0 to /backups on RAID1? rsync -avx /virdata/. /backups/. It appears that maybe the -a option wouldn't copy the links? Longer term I want to figure out how to rotate backups but for now I just want to get a copy safely to RAID1 before the end of the day. Also, how does rsync handle the backup if the RAID0 directory is active and changing? Will it keep working until there are no differences? Or does it read once and copy? Thanks, Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: no text in certain flash app
On 04/15/2010 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: ...I decompiled the flash on that page... Wait a minute. Am I the only one here who wants to know how to decompile a flash app? I don't believe that, so please give us a hint :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup
Am Montag, 12. April 2010 schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=yes), things get done about 9 seconds faster that with RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=no. Boot time is still at 45 seconds. Can boot be sped up even more? Perhaps by thinning out your bootup batch, removing stuff from boot you don’t really need. Example: I print ralely, so only start cups when needed. Same with timidity, apache and other stuff. Switching from serial to parallel boot got me - according to bootchart - from 41 to 37 seconds on my 3 years old laptop. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Why’d the orange go blind? Because it was low on Vitamin C. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no text in certain flash app
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:52 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/15/2010 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: ...I decompiled the flash on that page... Wait a minute. Am I the only one here who wants to know how to decompile a flash app? I don't believe that, so please give us a hint :) There are numerous flash decompilers for that evil and ubiquitous operating system named after a hole in a wall. :) Since I'm at work I used one of them. In gentoo, there is the swftools package which has some analysis/conversion tools. swfdump -F file.swf shows font information and confirms what I saw in the decompiler. For the music theory SWF file (which is actually called from another wrapper SWF), we see this among other data: [030]15 DEFINEFONT2 defines id 0016 ID: 16 Version: 2 name: _sans characters: 0 hightest mapped unicode value: 256 style: 0 encoding: 00 language: 00 Fonts can be embedded in Flash files, although in this case they are not doing that, and instead using the font _sans, which is a special generic font family that's supposed to exist and work on all devices... although that's apparently not the case. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] USe rsync to backup RAID0 to RAID1?
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:30:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I would like to back up a mounted RAID0 to a mounted RAID1. The RAID makes no difference, because rsync works at the filesystem level. Would the following command be appropriate to backup /virdata on RAID0 to /backups on RAID1? rsync -avx /virdata/. /backups/. Yes, although the use of -v makes it harder to see any errors that may occur. It appears that maybe the -a option wouldn't copy the links? It does. Also, how does rsync handle the backup if the RAID0 directory is active and changing? Will it keep working until there are no differences? Or does it read once and copy? It reads once, and will generally produce an error if a file has changed between scanning and copying. Running rsync repeatedly until it returns a 0 status may be worth considering. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 10: Computer security signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] monitor identification question (Gnome)
I just retired my Viewsonic 19 CRT in favor of a Viewsonic VX2433WM. Looking in Xorg.0.log it's obviously recognized (as the following lines indicate): (II) RADEON(0): Serial No: R4F100901594 (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 24 H max: 82 kHz, PixClock max 210 MHz (II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: VX2433wm However in Gnome's Display Preferences dialog, the monitor type shows up as Unknown. What can be done about this? Additionally, a box saying Unknown (black text on cyan background) appears on my screen at the upper left corner. This wouldn't matter except that I like my Gnome panel at the top of the screen and the box blocks the Main Menu icon. The box appears to be a repeat of the Gnome Display Preferences dialog's Unknown monitor info. How can one nuke the box?
Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron keeps stopping
On 15/04/2010 09:20, Alan McKinnon wrote: You probably don't want to hear this, but: vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's weird behaviours. Use a different cron daemon. I don't mind hearing this :) I only use vixie-cron as that is what I started with (I think from the old install documents), I'm not tied to it at all. I has worked perfectly on several installs until this problem appeared. I've switched to fcron on that machine and it seems to be ok so far, only time will tell. From now on I'll use fcron by default to avoid this problem happening again. Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: How are you connecting to the net? yes, i connect to the net through a router. and i share the router with my roommates. Are you sure this isn't the router? Have you tried switching it off and back on again? (seriously) i do not think so. if it is the router has the problem, all people using that router will suffer the same problem. but it is only me have this problem. There is a tendency in BitTorrent to fill up the NAT tables of routers with insufficient RAM. I cannot explain why this would appear not to affect ping. my BT client use a fix port to connect to the net, and i guess it cannot configure the NAT table of the router. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
[gentoo-user] Re: xine problem
mischdele at gmx.de writes: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvd1 - hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 5 22:33 /dev/dvdrw1 - hda Looking at the files you listed I guess /dev/dvd doesn't exist on your system. You should probably try /dev/dvd1 or /dev/hda... OK, I Noticed that too. I cannot find where I change, dvd to dvd1 or hda. Nothing under settings maybe there is a config file I can edit manually? I cannot find any docs addressing how to change the DVD name/link/selection? I never had to do anything, other than 'emerge xine' in the past to use xine (used it for years) so HAL, dbus or kde4 must have changed it in a upgrade over the last few months. James
