[gentoo-user] Missing /tmp/.sockets or slow program start

2009-11-26 Thread Urs Schuetz
Hi My system went pretty slow this days, xemacs used about 5 seconds to startup. I remember that this startup time was much faster before. After a little tinkering i found that xemacs pauses during startup at acessing /tmp/.sockets, which did not exist on my box. After creating this file (touch

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-22 Thread Urs Schuetz
Could be baselayout-1. Please take a look at bug #291916 [1] [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/291916 Urs

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't detect printer hp 840c on parallel port

2009-09-04 Thread Urs Schuetz
On 04/09/09, vasya wrote: >Hi. Here some problem - can't connect printer hp 840c on parallel port >LPT1. Necessary kernel modules I've enabled. But CUPS by foomatic db or >hplip by their own drivers can't detect this printer. Hplip tells me >that "error: No device selected/specified

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

2009-08-05 Thread Urs Schuetz
On 04/08/09, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and > updated packages. At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared. I > have long since forgotten its name. > > Is there some way to do this now? I could probably write some script > to s

Re: [gentoo-user] local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote: > 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? I'm using the DNS of my router (D-Link DSL-500G). Works

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: print to pdf

2007-06-25 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Urs Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try to use the ghostpdf.ppd printer description with your > > cups-pdf printer to get the options to embed the fonts. > > Hm, why are you using this ppd file with cups-pdf? I

Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-24 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Sunday 24 June 2007 04:36, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:13, Christian wrote: > > > Ok, I have found the solution of my problem: > > > > > > emerge --unmerge ghostscript-gpl > > > emerge ghostscript-esp > > > > > > That solves my problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-23 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007 19:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > > > 070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, > > > > both with kprint system and cups-pdf. > > > > > > W

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and WindowMaker

2007-04-14 Thread Urs Schuetz
xOn Sat, 07 Apr 2007, Brad Camroux wrote: > Greetings, > I've been trying to get WindowMaker working on my Gentoo box, > so far without success. It's very difficult to find anything > on Google et. al., too about getting things working. Today I > managed to find the wmaker.inst program to inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Xdm doesn ´t start anymore

2006-09-23 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Oliver Klein wrote: > Hi > > Thx a lot that was the mistake, x11-apps/xdm was not installed, but i´m sure > it was installed befor update the system...now i got a login window. But it > was not very comfortable and the background is full with "snow" like a bad > TV frame. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-07 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Urs Schuetz wrote: > > >>>Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. > >> > >>I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look > &

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-05 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On Jul 4, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Urs Schuetz wrote: > > >Check whether you have /dev/nvidia[0..9] and /dev/nvidiactl. > > I don't have them. But the kernel module is loaded. I'll have a look > at udev now. They are e

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 does not work with nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5

2006-07-03 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006, Philipp Riegger wrote: > Unfortunately i am forced to use nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r5 because my > graphic card is not supported by newer versions of the driver. I also > use kernel 2.6.11 because of that. > > But now xorg does not seem to work with that driver: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-26 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked: > > strace acroread > > shows that acroread 7.0.5-r1 uses a very long time with fonts > > and nonexistent directories like /usr/psres and > > /usr/

[gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Urs Schuetz
Acroread startup is very slow on my gentoo sistem. It takes more than 2 minutes to start acrobat on my old AMD Duron 800 MHz. Also on further startups the load time stays more or less the same. The CPU is 100% used during most of the startup period, which is strange. Top shows CPU usage of 75-98%

Re: [gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-11 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:08:25 -0200 > Urs Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized > > "Console Log" window icon. > > [...] >

[gentoo-user] X without console log window?

2006-02-10 Thread Urs Schuetz
Everytime when I startup my computer, in X apears a minimized "Console Log" window icon. I would like to start my computer without console log window in X. I could not find the script ou option which starts this window. Where can I disable it? I don't even know what's the name of the executable f

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disable memory

2005-11-13 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Peper wrote: > Hello, > Is there anyway to disable specific part of memory? memtest86 > freezes only when egzamining first MB of it. As a boot option for the kernel (e.g. /etc/lilo.conf): append="mem=exactmap [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Somehing li

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa daemon won't start

2005-07-28 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > >  /usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:873: failed to obtain > > > info for control #30 (No such file or directory) > > the settings are stored in /etc/asound.state as soon as ALSA > stops. Does this file exist and is it writeable? > > You can try

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Willie Wong wrote: > I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update > on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to > find my xsession ended with a message on the console that said > something to the effect that Enlightenment segfaul

Re: [gentoo-user] Cataloging MP3's

2005-06-05 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005, Patrick wrote: > I would like to add all my MP3 info like genre - artists - song > and so on, of all the MP3 files that on my server into a mysql > database. Is there a program that exists, or must i create my > own scripts. > > TIA > Patrick prokyon3 amarok urs -- gento

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool

2005-06-03 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I re-emerged cups, got cupsd to hold, setup my deskjet 722c as > parralel port 0, It said everything was good, but the test page > will not print! Suggestion: Change in /etc/cupsd.conf: LogLevel info to LogLevel debug or even to LogLevel debug2 Th

[gentoo-user] Wmaker with drag and drop support?

2005-05-14 Thread Urs Schuetz
I don't have Drag&Drop support for docked application icons in windowmaker-0.91.0-r1. The input field «Command for files dropped with DND» in the «Docked Application Settings» dialog does not accept input, and below the input field is written «DND support was not compiled in». I used the flags: +

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ebuild for RealPlayer-10.0.4 not working: Aborting before download

2005-05-12 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Yoann Pannier wrote: > Holly Bostick wrote, On 05/12/2005 03:48 AM: > > As for why your download failed with such a weird error, I cannot say, > > but maybe it has something to do with it being a https:// url? > > Oh, a wget installed without ssl in USE flags ? Yes, but this

[gentoo-user] Ebuild for RealPlayer-10.0.4 not working: Aborting before download

2005-05-11 Thread Urs Schuetz
Just tried to install mplayer with the "real" USE-flag set, which results in additional installation of RealPlayer-10.0.4. However, the installation is not working, as there is an error before the download of RealPlayer: Here is what «emerge mplayer» does: >>> emerge (1 of 2) media-video/realplay

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Which TV recorder

2005-04-28 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Tamas Sarga wrote: > Hi, > > I use tvtime for viewing TV. What do you suggest as a simple tv > recorder and why? I just want a simple app. to record from-time > to-time x-station to an AVI. My card uses bt787. Nuppelvideo, a simple low-ressource CLI recorder. Project seems a