Re: [gentoo-user] flash & mozilla-firebird
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Meka[ni] wrote: > What to emerge? I would like it to be gplflash (I thing it's the only open > source). When I emerged mozilla-firebird, the ebuild seems to have automatically set up the flash stuff (I have the netscape-flash package installed). But if you already have the another flash player installed, you just want to create a symbolic link from wherever your current flashplayer.xpt file is to /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/plugins/flashplayer.xpt. On my system, this looks like: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 37 Feb 23 20:57 /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/plugins/flashplayer.xpt -> /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt I'm not sure if gplflash uses the flashplayer.xpt file or not, you'll have to figure that out yourself. But if you just want to install netscape-flash, then you can get Firebird set up correctly buy typing (as root): ln -s /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt \ /usr/lib/MozillaFirbird/plugins/flashplayer.xpt HTH -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to use this list effectively?
Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: I am new to this list and to lists in general and I am wondering how to work with thiis list so that I only follow those threads that either I can reasonably help on or that I am interested in? I have just joined several other lists as well and my mail box is getting absolutely flooded with mail. I go through each one by hand, keeping the one's that I can help with or that I am interested in, and trashing the rest but it's getting to be quite a chore. Is there an easier way to work with lists such as this one? I know this isn't a Gentoo question as such but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. There are a variety of tools available to help with mailing lists. Depending on your email client, you might be able to apply sorting rules to your incoming mail. This is probably the easiest thing to set up. I know that pine, evolution and mozilla mail have rules. I would imagine that mutt and kmail do as well (though I could be wrong). If your email cliend doesn't have rules, you should look into a package called procmail. This is a very powerful mail sorting/redistribution software that will allow you to do just about anything with incoming mail. However, setup is more difficult than simple mail-client based rules. Once you have something with which you can apply rules to mail, what you probably want to do is put mail from each mailing list into its own folder, but that is just my own suggestion. You can, of course, do whatever you think makes your mail easiest to deal with. HTH -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo support for GNU emacs?
I've noticed that there's a lot of packages that I want to use with plain GNU emacs, but Gentoo only provides these packages for Xemacs (e.g., leim, ess). So what I've been doing is installing the packages by hand to work with GNU emacs, but is there a way to make these ebuilds work with plain GNU emacs? It would make my life much easier. TIA. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] audacity segfaults on startup
Try: cp /etc/skel/.Audacity ~/.Audacity This is documented somewhere, but I can't find it except that it's buried on the Audacity users list archive. Cheers. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Why doesn't logging work?
I have PORT_LOGDIR set in my make.conf file. I've also made sure that, as the documentation says, the directory exists. In fact, I'm getting files in the log directory which correspond to all of my merges, but all of these files are zero-length. Why are the logs not being properly created? Thanks. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which stage tarball should I choose?
Steve Juranich wrote: Yes. You can still choose stuff built specifically for your architecture (depending on which iso you downloaded), but you won't be compiling anything with a stage3 install. Thus, you will be unable to tweak optimizer flags and USE variable stuff. Spoke too soon. You still have the option to build all of your "user-level" apps. What you'll be skipping is the "emerge -u system" step. To get a list of what this will do, you can do an 'emerge -up system' and see what it looks like (if you already have a stage1 system running). I'm pretty sure this is mostly stuff like awk, sed, perl, python, etc. All of the stuff that you need to have a "functioning" gentoo box. With the stage3 setup, you'd install most of your user-level apps like mozilla, gnome/kde, . HTH -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which stage tarball should I choose?
Daniel Carrera wrote: Hello, I've read the Gentoo x86 installation instructions. I have them in front of me right now. I don't entirely understand the difference between stage1, stage2 and stage3 tarballs. I have some questions that might clear things up for me: * What is the bootstrap process (in this context)? I know that the difference between stage1 and stage2 is that stage2 skips this. Why would I want to go through the bootstrap process? What does it compile? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap12> bootstrap.sh will build binutils, gcc, gettext, and glibc, rebuilding binutils, gcc, and gettext after glibc. Needless to say, this process takes a while. Once this process completes, your system will be equivalent to a "stage2" system, which means you can now move on to the stage2 instructions. This took about 3 hours on my Athlon XP 2100+, IIRC. * I get the impression that stage3 doesn't compile anything. Is this correct? So with stage2 you compile your system, but with stage3 you just install pre-compiled binaries just like all the other Linux distributions. Am I right? Yes. You can still choose stuff built specifically for your architecture (depending on which iso you downloaded), but you won't be compiling anything with a stage3 install. Thus, you will be unable to tweak optimizer flags and USE variable stuff. HTH -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox, Blackbox, and Openbox (was: Re: [gentoo-user]Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome)
James Michael Fultz wrote: Fluxbox will do most of the things you mention and other things not mentioned. Workspace switching with mousewheel, dragging windows among workspaces, edge-snapping, built-in keygrabber, and ordering dockapps in the Slit. It is also possible to disable window tabs by setting "session.tabs" to "false" in `~/.fluxbox/init'. Using Fluxconf (x11-misc/fluxconf) makes that even easier. Okay, now that the name of the thread has changed, I'm going to ask my question. I switched over to fluxbox after using the GNOME monolith for a couple of years. I am *extremely* happy with the switch, but there's a couple of tricks I'd like to be able to do with the mouse, and I can't figure out how to do it. Specifically, I'd like to be able to click on the window resizers in some way that they only change the dimensions of the window in one dimension (e.g., changing the Y dimension, while keeping the X dimension in tact). This is apparently possible by using keyboard shortcuts (see http://www.fluxbox.org/docbook/en/html/x298.html#AEN463), but I haven't found any references on how to do this with the mouse. I've tried shift-clicking, alt-clicking, ctrl-clicking, shift+alt-clicking, et cetera ad nauseum, to no avail. I'm assuming I can change this by editing ~/.fluxbox/init, but I don't know. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Should I be using -fomit-frame-pointer?
I've been using gentoo now for a little more than a week (9d 20h 24m, to be exact), and I'm pretty happy with the gains in speed over Debian (Athlon XP 2100). I just found out today about the -fomit-frame-pointer flag, and I was wondering if it's really worth the time and effort of rebuilding my entire system to use that flag? Also, if I do decide to rebuild my entire system, I'd need to (if I understand correctly): 1) emerge glibc (recompile glibc with the new -fomit-frame-pointer flag) 2) emerge -e world (recompile everything else with the new version of glibc). Does this sound about right? Like I said, I'm pretty new to this, so any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Festival
Ted Ozolins wrote: Is there anyone on either list working with or using festival? I have it up and running but for some reason no matter what voice I tell it to use, I still get the default "drsbaitso" voice. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. It's been a while since I was working with festival, and this might be a stupid question, but are you sure you downloaded and installed the other voices? IIRC, the stock festival distro only comes with one voice (I thought it was something called "RAB", but I could be wrong). If you've already done this, I'm sorry, but that's all I can think of right now. Good luck. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong
Mat Branyon wrote: I just recently switched to gentoo. I am using fluxbox and it never seems to keep the time correct. I just updated the time via ntpdate (which is also set in my crontab to run every nite). It had the right time, but now I look at it and it's roughly an hour and ten minutes fast. What does this kind of error mean? How would I fix it? This is the ntpdate output: 24 Feb 14:25:30 ntpdate[15564]: adjust time server 140.221.8.88 offset -0.208179 sec It's not an error. Don't worry about fixing it. It's just ntpdate's way of telling you what it did to set your clock. In your crontab, append this to your ntpdate line: ">/dev/null 2>&1" and you won't get any more of these reports from cron. HTH -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound says it works, but it doesn't.
Mario Vukelic wrote: Also, did you hit "m" to unmute the channels? Ugh! I thought that turning up the volume would automatically un-mute it the channel. Indeed, after hitting "M", I'm able to hear "Leb i Sol". Puno hvala, gospodine Vukelicu. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sound says it works, but it doesn't.
In all my years of installing and running linux, the most dreaded task of setting up a new system has been sound. It seems like something is always "not quite right" and I have to beat my head against a wall (and rebuild the kernel a couple of times) to make it work. This time (my first try with Gentoo) is really no exception. The only thing different is that I've NEVER had this kind of problem before. Any help offered is greatly appreciated. I have one of those silly little via8366 on-board sound chips that, once configured, works quite well. The problem is getting everything configured. This situation is a little strange in that it's not your typical "device not found" error or anything like that. I am using the alsa drivers to get this sound working. I installed the sound drivers, did the "modprobe"s recommended on the ALSA web page, ran 'alsamixer' to turn the volumes up, made sure my speakers were on, I'm in the member of the audio group, and so on. The thing is that now I'm able to play sound files (I don't get any system complaints), but I'm not getting anything from the speakers. The volume on the speakers are turned up to their pre-gentoo levels, so everything should be okay. This is the first time I've even heard of problems like this, so any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Where are the archives for this list?
Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I've looked at the Gentoo mailing list page (http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml) at least a dozen times and I don't see any reference to a list archive. Could somebody please send me a link to this? Thanks. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Su problems
"John P. Marr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My problem is that I am unable to su into root from my normal user. I have tried everything I can think of to fix this, but it is still broken. I had this problem on my new machine, too. Make sure you're a member of the "wheel" group. Of course, if you've already done this, please ignore. :-) -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Debian user trying out Gentoo.
Hi there. I've been a loyal Debian user for years, and I'm now giving Gentoo a try. For the most part I'm liking it, but there's a couple of things that I'd like to know about "emerge". I've read the man page, and it appears that the only search options are "search" which only searches the (very terse) package descriptions and package names for hits, and the "-S" option, which takes for-flippin'-ever. At this point, I'm really missing "apt-cache" because I can't find which package provides "xlsfonts" and "xfontsel". Actually the root of this problem is that I need to install iso-8859-2 (for Croatian) and VISCII,VNR,TCNV (for Vietnamese) fonts on my machine. I'm also having trouble with emacs not allowing non-latin1 formats. So if you have any suggestions on making me feel more "at home" in Gentoo (i.e., getting comfortable with "emerge" and any other gentoo specific tools), I'd be very grateful. Thanks! -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
