Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre Konqueror crash using flash plugin
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Does flash work in other browsers? 64-bit or 32-bit? What package does nspluginviewer belong to on your system? I think it should be using Qt4 if it's the KDE4 version. Mine is from kde-base/nsplugins-4.3.2 and is located in /usr/bin/nspluginviewer Perhaps Flash is the one using Qt3... I'm not skilled at reading backtraces. Do you have adobe-flash emerged with the 64bit USE flag enabled? Yes, adobe-flash is emerged with 64bit -32bit multilib and works fine with firefox. # equery b /usr/bin/nspluginviewer * Searching for /usr/bin/nspluginviewer ... kde-base/nsplugins-4.3.2 (/usr/bin/nspluginviewer) Looking at the back-trace makes me think there is something wrong with the gtk theme engine, but it works fine with other gtk apps. -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] Re: Bizarre Konqueror crash using flash plugin
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Robin Atwood wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Does flash work in other browsers? 64-bit or 32-bit? What package does nspluginviewer belong to on your system? I think it should be using Qt4 if it's the KDE4 version. Mine is from kde-base/nsplugins-4.3.2 and is located in /usr/bin/nspluginviewer Perhaps Flash is the one using Qt3... I'm not skilled at reading backtraces. Do you have adobe-flash emerged with the 64bit USE flag enabled? Yes, adobe-flash is emerged with 64bit -32bit multilib and works fine with firefox. # equery b /usr/bin/nspluginviewer * Searching for /usr/bin/nspluginviewer ... kde-base/nsplugins-4.3.2 (/usr/bin/nspluginviewer) Looking at the back-trace makes me think there is something wrong with the gtk theme engine, but it works fine with other gtk apps. I was right, x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt 0.8 and 1.1 where installed at the same time. This seems to be allowed because 1.1 (KDE4) is slotted. I unmerged 0.8 and everything started working. :) 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 --
[gentoo-user] Bizarre Konqueror crash using flash plugin
/usr/lib64/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #70 0x00358d0374b2 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #71 0x00358d03a79b in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #72 0x00358d03ac6f in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #73 0x0035bc54cb1f in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlagsQEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag) () from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #74 0x003f2a62109f in ?? () from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4 #75 0x0035bc5270d5 in QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlagsQEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag) () from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #76 0x0035bc527255 in QEventLoop::exec(QFlagsQEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag) () from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #77 0x0035bc5292fc in QCoreApplication::exec() () from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtCore.so.4 #78 0x004194fe in ?? () #79 0x0039d4e1ea44 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #80 0x00408a79 in _start () It seems to be loading QT3!? My system is a current with KDE 4.3.2 running. Any ideas how this could happen? Are other people seeing 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] Re: Bizarre Konqueror crash using flash plugin
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, walt wrote: On 10/27/2009 10:23 AM, walt wrote: On 10/27/2009 06:22 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: I have never got the flash plugin to work with Konqueror4 on my 64 bit system though it works fine on a 32 bit one... I just discovered something pretty strange on my 64 bit machine: the flash package includes both 32 and 64 bit versions, but the symlink for the plugin points to the 32 bit version... Sorry, my eyes are playing tricks today. The symlink I mentioned is pointing from /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/, not /usr/lib64. I think you must have something on the machine that's still linked to qt3 and it needs to be reinstalled. I would just rename/move the qt3 library and let revdep-rebuild reinstall whatever it is. I still have QT3/KDE3 installed because I still use some KDE3 applications. Removing it is currently not convenient. I have other problems now... Sigh. -- -- 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] Can't block pop3 attack
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 23 October 2009 21:49:42 Robin Atwood wrote: My syslog is showing zillions of messages: Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534 from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(199.64.134.61.broad.gs.dynamic.163data.com.cn) failed Oct 24 02:26:09 opal xinetd[8054]: EXIT: pop-3 status=0 pid=16534 duration=11(sec) I run denyhosts but don't trap pop3 messages so I manually added the IP address to /etc/hosts.deny and..., it made absolutely no difference. I run qpopper which is compiled with xinetd support and xinetd uses tcpd, so I assumed the address would be blocked. Apparently not so. Any ideas? You have allow ALL ALL early in hosts.allow, or you have allow pop3 all earlier in hosts.allow The second! I had forgotten about that. The trouble I set it up that way so I could pick up email from arbitrary locations while travelling. It seems the price of that is allowing idiots to spam your logs. Thanks for the pointer. -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 --
[gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack
My syslog is showing zillions of messages: Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534 from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(199.64.134.61.broad.gs.dynamic.163data.com.cn) failed Oct 24 02:26:09 opal xinetd[8054]: EXIT: pop-3 status=0 pid=16534 duration=11(sec) I run denyhosts but don't trap pop3 messages so I manually added the IP address to /etc/hosts.deny and..., it made absolutely no difference. I run qpopper which is compiled with xinetd support and xinetd uses tcpd, so I assumed the address would be blocked. Apparently not so. Any ideas? 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] @preserved-rebuild
On Saturday 26 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:58:35 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: I had exactly the same problem. I solved it by deleting /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry with no ill effects (since revdep- rebuild was clean). No apparent ill effects. You now have the old, orphaned version of the library on your system and unknown to portage. Portage deletes these after emerge @preserved-rebuild has successfully re-emerged packages depending on it. I checked with ldd what was needed and it looked OK. Also, revdep-rebuild will report libraries that have no owner as broken. # equery f readline * Searching for readline ... * Contents of sys-libs/readline-6.0_p3: /lib64 /lib64/libreadline.so - libreadline.so.5 /lib64/libreadline.so.5 - libreadline.so.5.2 /lib64/libreadline.so.5.2 /lib64/libreadline.so.6 - libreadline.so.6.0 /lib64/libreadline.so.6.0 /lib64/libreadline.so.5.2 is part of the current package and doesn't need to be preserved, which I guess is why you can re-emerge kalgebra forever and the preserved registry never gets updated. HTH -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] @preserved-rebuild
On Friday 25 September 2009, James wrote: Hello, I keep getting this mesaage on one particulary system: existing preserved libs: package: sys-libs/readline-6.0_p3 * - /lib64/libreadline.so * - /lib64/libreadline.so.5 * - /lib64/libreadline.so.5.2 * used by /usr/bin/calgebra (kde-base/kalgebra-4.2.4) So I've rebuilt kalgegra, readline and revdep-rebuild comes up clean. I ran 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' numerous times and still I get this error message. I had exactly the same problem. I solved it by deleting /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry with no ill effects (since revdep- rebuild was clean). HTH -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] problem filtering portage messages...
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Jarry wrote: Hi, I have a log-server (syslog-ng) collecting logs from my servers. Everything works for standard logs: clients forward them to server where they are filtered (based on facility or application) and splitted into a few files (for each client). The problem is with portage logs: I can not find any pattern I could use to filter them out. For example, this is small part of /var/log/emerge.log: 1250923552: *** emerge sync 1250923552: === sync 1250923552: Starting rsync with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage 1250923665: === Sync completed with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage 1250923666: *** terminating. 1250923760: Started emerge on: Aug 22, 2009 06:49:20 1250923760: *** emerge depclean 1250923760: depclean ... Can I somehow force portage to write all its logs (summary.log, emerge-fetch.log, emerge.log) in standard syslog format RFC-3164? I mean with all that stuff like priority (facility), header (timestamp, hostname), application, etc. Even better if portage could write its logs to /dev/log... This came up on the Gentoo portage forum recently. What I do is this: 1. In /etc/conf.d/local.start add a line tail -F /var/log/emerge.log | awk '{$1=;print | logger -t emerge -p local5.info}' 2. In /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf add lines to the effect of: destination emerge { file(/var/log/emerge); }; filter f_emerge { program(emerge); }; filter f_messages { level(info..emerg) and not facility(auth, authpriv, mail, news, cron, local0, local6) and not program(emerge); }; log { source(src); filter(f_emerge); destination(emerge); }; Restart syslog-ng and there you go. :) HTH -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] problem filtering portage messages...
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Jarry wrote: Robin Atwood wrote: 1. In /etc/conf.d/local.start add a line tail -F /var/log/emerge.log | awk '{$1=;print | logger -t emerge -p local5.info}' Thanks. First I'll try to figure out what this line actually means! :-) This was devised by Mike Hunt on the Portage forum (see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-788086-highlight-.html). It tails the default emerge log into an awk stage which deletes the Unix time stamp, and then logs the records into the standard syslog with the priority set to facility local5 and level info; these can be whatever works for you. -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 --
[gentoo-user] Announcement: KrcStat 0.6 available for KDE 4.2+
From the gratuitous self-publicising department: My GUI replacement for rc-update/rc-show is now available for KDE 4.3. You can find it at http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KrcStat?content=110734. Previous releases did not attract much attention because, I guess, there are not too many Gentoo users checking kde-apps.org, so I have announced it here. It should work with both baselayout 1 and 2. Enjoy! -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] Re: Announcement: KrcStat 0.6 available for KDE 4.2+
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/22/2009 05:09 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: From the gratuitous self-publicising department: My GUI replacement for rc-update/rc-show is now available for KDE 4.3. You can find it at http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KrcStat?content=110734. Previous releases did not attract much attention because, I guess, there are not too many Gentoo users checking kde-apps.org [...] Well, submitting an ebuild to bugzilla would be a good idea. If it won't make it to portage at first, you should be able to put it in sunrise. That's the place you need to go, not kde-apps.org. kde-apps.org is ok - not everybody checks out sunrise regularly or searches biugzilla for new stuff. That said, bugzilla AND kde-apps.org now that is a good idea ;) OK! http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282310 -- -- 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] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers
On Saturday 01 August 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... 3. They hijack DNS, making every invalid address resolve to an address anyway, which when viewed in a web browser goes to an error page (full of advertisements and sponsored links). You never know if a hostname is really invalid or not, which makes troubleshooting non-HTTP connections interesting. http://www.opendns.com is your friend. :) I switched a few months back and not regretted it. HTH -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] KDE 4.2.98, no copy paste in Konsole
On Thursday 23 July 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, Yesterday I upgraded to KDE 4.2.98 (4.3 RC3) and everything seems normal except the clipboard does not work at all in Konsole. I highlight text, right click, choose copy, and nothing. Click the clipboard icon to see the clipboard history, and that text is nowhere to be found... My copy paste in every other program seems to work normally. Weird. Is anyone else using this version and does your copy paste work in Konsole? As discussed in various other places, copy to the clipboard is broken in Qt 4.5. However, it is now fixed in git, see; https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199333 HTH -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 --
[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
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] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes
On Friday 10 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I'm re-emerging hal. I was already using gcc-4.1.2. I still have mouse and keyboard emerged, but not mentioned in the xorg.conf. I am coming late to the party here but I not so long ago did this on an old ATI R300 card and and an NVidia FX-5200. All I had to do was to make sure to emerge evdev by: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev in /etc/make.conf and then comment out the mouse/keyboard stanzas in my existing xorg.conf. And then it worked. If you really feel you need a new video card, I recently got a GeForce 9400 GT. It has 512MB of RAM, is inexpensive and KDE 4.2 performance is very acceptable. HTH -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] Training Spamassassin via KMail
On Monday 06 July 2009, Stroller wrote: On 5 Jul 2009, at 18:29, Daniel D Jones wrote: ... What I'd like is a button on my KMail toolbar that, when pressed, forwards the selected email to a specific email address and moves the email to the Spam folder. Any help in configuring this would be greatly appreciated. You can do all that (and train spamassassin using spamc) using the Filters dialog. HTH -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] Training Spamassassin via KMail
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Robin Atwood wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Stroller wrote: On 5 Jul 2009, at 18:29, Daniel D Jones wrote: ... What I'd like is a button on my KMail toolbar that, when pressed, forwards the selected email to a specific email address and moves the email to the Spam folder. Any help in configuring this would be greatly appreciated. You can do all that (and train spamassassin using spamc) using the Filters dialog. Correction: you want sa-learn --spam for the training with the pipe- through filter action. HTH -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] Training Spamassassin via KMail
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: Correction: you want sa-learn --spam for the training with the pipe- through filter action. You can train a spamassassin running on an server by running sa-lern --spam on the client? Thats new to me, but thats maybe because I don't use KMail and don't know the pipe-through filter action. man sa-learn :) -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] firefox 3.0.10 crashes
On Saturday 23 May 2009, dhk wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can not even go to ebay ( http://www.ebay.com ), the page flashes and then firefox crashes. Does anyone know what's causing this and how it can be fixed? My guess would be flash... try uninstalling flash, java, nspluginwrapper, disabling add-ons, etc one by one until you find the cause. It was the adobe-flash. I uninstalled it and all was fine. The emerge -pv adobe-flash looks like the following: [ebuild N] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 USE=32bit (multilib). I installed it again and Firefox crashes on certain sites. So now it's uninstalled again. At least Firefox is stable now. Is there a flash that works? If you are on amd64 you could specify the -32bit use flag. HTH -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] Konqueror and Flash (again...)
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 22:19:04 Robin Atwood wrote: I have everything at 4.2.3 like you. I rebuilt adobeflash as 32bit but I still get the same error: konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::lookup: Looking up plugin for mimetype application/x-shockwave-flash : /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so nspluginviewer(20187) NSPluginClass::initialize: results in 0 nspluginviewer(20187) NSPluginInstance::NPGetValue: results in 0 konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::newInstance: - NSPluginLoader::NewInstance = 0x12b4540 konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::pluginResized: 640 385 konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::resizeEvent: 640 385 false true false konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::showEvent: 640 385 true true false konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::instance: NSPluginLoader::instance - 3 nspluginviewer(20187) PluginHostXEmbed::setupWindow: 102768327 640 385 KCrash: Application 'nspluginviewer' crashing... sock_file=/home/robin/.kde4.2/socket-opal/kdeinit4__0 konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::processTerminated: Viewer process terminated konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::release: NSPluginLoader::release - 2 konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::~NSPluginInstance: - NSPluginInstance::~NSPluginInstance And since you mention it, the kmplayerpart no longer plays embedded stream video, as on http://www.apple.com/trailers/. I get similar output when viewing flash, right up to PluginHostXEmbed, and yet mine works just fine Very strange. Think I will just turn flash off for konq. :( -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] Konqueror and Flash (again...)
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009 11:43:30 Robin Atwood wrote: On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 22:19:04 Robin Atwood wrote: I get similar output when viewing flash, right up to PluginHostXEmbed, and yet mine works just fine Very strange. Think I will just turn flash off for konq. :( Shot in the dark: try rebuild konqueror and kdelibs. It's worth a try. I just installed 4.2.3! I will wait until the next update, they seem to be coming fairly frequently. -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 --
[gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)
A few weeks back the list gave me some advice on using Flash on KDE 3.5 under amd64 arch. I ended up with using gnash, which has a kpart, with konqueror routinely, and adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 (64 bit) with firefox for when I wanted to see a movie. And all was well. :) Then, in my pride and arrogance, I decided to upgrade my desktop to use KDE 4.2.3. After two days of hacking away, I now have almost all the functionally I had with KDE 3.5.10 (two omissions being amarok and bluetooth). However, every time I visit a site with flash I get a segfault in nspluginviewer after it's loaded libflashplayer.so. Someone mentioned they had this working, I am curious to know how since there are quite a few open tickets for this on k.b.o. 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] Konqueror and Flash (again...)
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:53:11 Robin Atwood wrote: Then, in my pride and arrogance, I decided to upgrade my desktop to use KDE 4.2.3. After two days of hacking away, I now have almost all the functionally I had with KDE 3.5.10 (two omissions being amarok and bluetooth). However, every time I visit a site with flash I get a segfault in nspluginviewer after it's loaded libflashplayer.so. Someone mentioned they had this working, I am curious to know how since there are quite a few open tickets for this on k.b.o. On amd64 I have konqueror-4.2.3, nplugins-4.2.3, adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 with USE=32bit multilib (I have a 32 bit Firefox for a Java based vpn - not relevant to flash), and no nspluginwrapper. It all JustWorks(tm) out the box, and I don't need to fiddle with embedded mplayer stuff either. I used to have constant crashes in konqueror with flash which one day just went away after I rebuilt all of KDE with USE=-prefix. IIRC it was an upgrade from 4.2.2 as well. WHat console output do you get if you launch the browser from the command line and view flash? I have everything at 4.2.3 like you. I rebuilt adobeflash as 32bit but I still get the same error: konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::lookup: Looking up plugin for mimetype application/x-shockwave-flash : /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so nspluginviewer(20187) NSPluginClass::initialize: results in 0 nspluginviewer(20187) NSPluginInstance::NPGetValue: results in 0 konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::newInstance: - NSPluginLoader::NewInstance = 0x12b4540 konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::pluginResized: 640 385 konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::resizeEvent: 640 385 false true false konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::showEvent: 640 385 true true false konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::instance: NSPluginLoader::instance - 3 nspluginviewer(20187) PluginHostXEmbed::setupWindow: 102768327 640 385 KCrash: Application 'nspluginviewer' crashing... sock_file=/home/robin/.kde4.2/socket-opal/kdeinit4__0 konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::processTerminated: Viewer process terminated konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::release: NSPluginLoader::release - 2 konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::~NSPluginInstance: - NSPluginInstance::~NSPluginInstance And since you mention it, the kmplayerpart no longer plays embedded stream video, as on http://www.apple.com/trailers/. -- -- 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 --
[gentoo-user] Many dbus reject messages when starting KDE4
When I login to KDE 4.2 I instantly start getting zillions of messages from dbus rejecting send messages. It seems to affect many different components. This is a current Gentoo system. I tried on the forums but got no response. Has anyone here seen this? May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.169 (uid=1001 pid=32590 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/kmixctrl --restore ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.169 (uid=1001 pid=32590 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/kmixctrl --restore ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.169 (uid=1001 pid=32590 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/kmixctrl --restore ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.170 (uid=1001 pid=32597 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/krunner ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.170 (uid=1001 pid=32597 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/krunner ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.170 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 --
[gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success 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] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:11:36 Robin Atwood wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? I also could never get the 64bit flash to work wiith konqueror-3.5, and nspluginwrapper simply never ever worked at all for me. I had to use firefox to view flash. Latest adobe-flash is 64 bit and works well in konqueror-4.2. Top reports around 10% cpu usage when idle, but that's probably more due to a stupid blocking IO strategy by Adobe than anything else. So as I see it your choices are: firefox kde-4 I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :( -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] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:30:38 Robin Atwood wrote: So as I see it your choices are: firefox kde-4 I don't use KDE4 and firefox also freezes. :( flash and firefox works, so you have to find why it's bailing on your system. What console errors or log messages do you have? Anything in elog alerts that might provide a clue? You could also try swfdec or gnash if you know you don't need the latest and greatest flash features. You're right, firefox works with the latest 64 bit version of flash. I will use that when necessary. Thanks! -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] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, KH wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? TIA -Robin Hi, with the amd64 version of flah there is no need for www-plugins/nspluginwrapper, is there? Did you emerge adobe-flash with USE Flag -32bit ? No, but re-emerging it with -32bit makes no difference with konqueror, it still segfaults. Firefox works fine, however. -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] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?
On Saturday 18 Apr 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I was using net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36 but the ebuild was removed from portage and I got downgraded to www-plugins/adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 since I had higher versions masked. I use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.0.0 with konqueror-3.5.10; when I tried to upgrade it the latest version just segfaults so I have masked that. adobe-flash-9.0.159.0 now just causes konqueror to freeze and 10.0.22.87 segfaults. Anyone having any success with this? On my system, when I did etc-update it automagically renamed netscape-flash to adobe-flash in my /etc/portage/package* files. Emerge flash with -32bit use flag and it should work without need for nspluginwrapper. That includes in Konqueror. I unmerged nspluginwrapper but flash still segfaults with konqueror. -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 --
[gentoo-user] Qt application fonts completely illegible
Recently, with the help of people here, I prevented bitmap fonts from being used to render web pages by tweaking /etc/fonts. Suddenly today I noticed that pure Qt applications (*not* KDE apps) such as qtconfig have completely illegible fonts. These two thing may or may not be related. I also just updated the Nvidia drivers. Looking at ~/.qt/qtrc, the font parameter is set to DejaVu the same as the KDE settings. Anybody else seen 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 --
[gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites
Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference whether I use Firefox or Konqueror, the appearance is the same. How can I find out what font is being used and maybe substitute it with CSS? TIA -- -- 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] Ugly fonts on some seb sites
On Thursday 26 Mar 2009, Philip Webb wrote: 090326 Robin Atwood wrote: Recently http://freshmeat.net/ updated its look and now the fonts are very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference whether I use Firefox or Konqueror, the appearance is the same. I don't encounter a problem with Konqueror -- I didn't check Firefox, but it sb the same -- set to use New Century Schoolbook for all variable fonts Luxi Mono for all fixed-width fonts: that's a quick fix you might try. I use DejaVu for all my fonts which usually makes most pages look very elegant but I don't think it makes a difference if the font is specified by the site. -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] Ugly fonts on some web sites
On Thursday 26 Mar 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference whether I use Firefox or Konqueror, the appearance is the same. How can I find out what font is being used and maybe substitute it with CSS? I have the same problem here. Tried Firefox, Epiphany and Konqueror-3.x. Their CSS-file contains this line: body {margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 100%; line-height: 21px; min-width: 960px; background: #184860; color: #000} Doesn't look suspicious to me. Helvetica is not a truetype font and if it is being used looks ugly. HTH -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] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites
On Friday 27 Mar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Put this in /etc/fonts/local.conf: [...] I forgot to mention that is that file is empty or does not exist, create it and put this at the beginning: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd !-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file to configure system font access -- fontconfig And this at the end (after the entries I posted in my previous message): /fontconfig Thanks for the excellent info. Rebuilding cairo certainly improves the look with Firefox but the /etc/fonts/local.conf seems to have no effect on Konqueror. -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] Monitoring temperatures
On Saturday 21 Mar 2009, Dale wrote: What may also be a good idea is to have some way to shut the systems down when they get to hot or if the A/C fails. I would think a temperature sensor would be better myself. I !think! gkrellm can do that. I'm sure there is a way to do it automatically tho. After all, you can't monitor temps 24/7 but the system can. If you want to do it professionally nagios is the way to go. http://www.nagios.org/ There is an lm_sensors plugin or you can code your own. HTH -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] backup program recommendations?
On Friday 13 Mar 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Kbackup and then k3b to burn them. Works well so far. Just On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. Are there GUIs not depending on KDE? Yes, there is darGUI. Checkout freshmeat.net. -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] @kde-4.2
On Monday 09 Mar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:09:34 + (UTC), James wrote: 'autounmask kde-4.2' did not work. So autounmask does not understand sets. Either append the set file to package.keywords cat /etc/portage/sets/kde4.3 /etc/portage/package.keywords Or make package.keywordsa directory and simply put a copy of the sets file in there (or a symlink to the sets file). This is the more manageable option. Another approach is: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~* emerge -pv --columns @kde-4.2 | awk '{ print $4 ~* }' kde4 which worked for me. (You will have to top'n'tail the output a bit.) HTH -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] backup program recommendations?
On Saturday 07 Mar 2009, Dale wrote: I seem to recall that Kdar or dar had a bug that lead to it being masked. This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be worth checking into to make sure. Nothing worse than thinking you have backups when they are worthless. Kdar became incompatible with later versions of libdarapi but then it was fixed and now works well again. Dar is extremely fast compared to tar, especially when restoring. It is probably best to use scripts to perform nightly backups (lots of examples on the web site) and the GUI for those times when you want to restore those couple of files you just munged. :) Dar also has options for running an external utility at the end of each backup 'slice', so writing the archive to DVD would be an option. HTH -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] backup program recommendations?
On Friday 06 Mar 2009, James Wall wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW drive to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What programs would you recommend to handle this task? DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. HTH -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 --
[gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers
I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have enabled the ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the interface correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. Are there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching? 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] wicd and ath5k drivers
On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: Robin Atwood wrote: I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have enabled the ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the interface correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. Are there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching? TIA -Robin I've actually always had trouble with the ath5k driver, but it seems to come in spells where several restarts will get around the problem. Check what dmesg has to say. Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticate with AP xxx Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled$ Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticated Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: associate with AP x Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and mixed-cell disab$ Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled$ You get quite a few hits on this but no explanations. It's not the WEP password, that is correct. HTH -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] wicd and ath5k drivers
On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: Robin Atwood wrote: I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have enabled the ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the interface correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. Are there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching? I've actually always had trouble with the ath5k driver, but it seems to come in spells where several restarts will get around the problem. Check what dmesg has to say. Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticate with AP xxx Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled$ Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: authenticated Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: associate with AP x Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: mismatch in privacy configuration and mixed-cell disab$ Feb 25 21:51:02 agate wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled$ You get quite a few hits on this but no explanations. It's not the WEP password, that is correct. WEP password or WEP key? I seem to recall wicd being kinda weird about ascii. It's a hex key. This all worked fine with the madwifi-ng drivers but I thought I would try and use the drivers available in the stock kernel. Not such a good idea, maybe? -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] wicd and ath5k drivers
On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:01:20 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have enabled the ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the interface correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. Are there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching? As you are no longer using madwifi, you can't use this driver with wpa_supplicant, use wext instead Thanks Neil, that's what I needed to know. I thought the issue was something like that but couldn't find the information. 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] media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?
On Sunday 08 Feb 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28. My el-cheapo webcam (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles: /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_c ore.c:54:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_c ore.c: In function 'spca5xx_ioctl': /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_c ore.c:2463: error: implicit declaration of function 'video_usercopy' etc. I discovered a number of gspca modules in the kernel: gspca_spca508 gspca_spca506 gspca_spca505 gspca_spca500 gspca_spca501 gspca_spca561 but I can't find out which one suits my webcam. usb id is above, and it's a freebie from a pc store, so it's branded with their logo and comes with no technical notes. I've tried loading each gspca_spca5xx module one by one, but none of them creates a video device (that I can tell). I just backed out gspcav1 and compiled all the kernel drivers as modules and just plugged the webcam in; the kernel works out which ones to use. # lsmod | grep spca gspca 621584 0 gspca_zc3xx48320 0 gspca_main 22656 1 gspca_zc3xx compat_ioctl32 8256 2 gspca,gspca_main videodev 34112 3 gspca,gspca_main,compat_ioctl32 However, you are not out of the woods yet! You will probably need the libv4l libraries installed to get spcaview to work. Skype and kopete still completely fail to find the camera. :( There is a long thread on the Gentoo fora about this. -- -- Robin Atwood
[gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...
My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to perform a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely current 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation where I could choose which system to login to. In fact, on my second attempt, I get my original KDM 3.5 login screen and no new options and when I login I do get my original desktop environment, albeit with corrupt konqueror tool bars. Any ideas how to enable KDM 4.2 and get the new desktop? TIA -Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?
On Monday 02 Feb 2009, Grant wrote: One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine. Does anyone know how that works? It might have something to do with the High Resolution Timer Support option (in Processor type and features.) Not sure though. Thank you but none of my systems seem to have that enabled. - Grant See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-731009-highlight-.html HTH Thanks, does anyone know where this has gone in 2.6.28: Device Drivers - Character Devices - Enhanced Real Time Clock Support Or what the variable name might be so I can look it up that way? I couldn't find it by searching for RTC in .config. - Grant $ grep RTC .config CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y CONFIG_RTC=m CONFIG_GEN_RTC=m CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X=y Found under Device Drivers - Character Devices -Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to perform a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely current 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation where I could choose which system to login to. In fact, on my second attempt, I get my original KDM 3.5 login screen and no new options and when I login I do get my original desktop environment, albeit with corrupt konqueror tool bars. Any ideas how to enable KDM 4.2 and get the new desktop? In my case I uninstalled KDE 3 completely before trying to install KDE 4.2. Also make sure your xdm has kde-4.2 so it uses the new KDM. No the problem was that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not the same as restarting xdm. Doing that, I got the new login screen. -Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?
On Sunday 01 Feb 2009, Grant wrote: One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine. Does anyone know how that works? It might have something to do with the High Resolution Timer Support option (in Processor type and features.) Not sure though. Thank you but none of my systems seem to have that enabled. - Grant See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-731009-highlight-.html HTH -- -- Robin Atwood
Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Robin Atwood wrote: No the problem was that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not the same as restarting xdm. Doing that, I got the new login screen. Next problem. I am compiling @kdepim-4.2 and it fails because it can't find KdepimLibs_CONFIG. I saw this before with nepomuk. Searching seems to imply you need cmake-2.6.2 (I have 2.6.2-r1), so shouldn't everyone hit it? Anyone any idea about this? -- Found KDE 4.2 include dir: /usr/include -- Found KDE 4.2 library dir: /usr/lib64 -- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler -- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4 CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:57 (MESSAGE): Could NOT find KdepimLibs (missing: KdepimLibs_CONFIG) Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/apps/cmake/modules/FindKdepimLibs.cmake:73 (find_package_handle_standard_args) CMakeLists.txt:17 (find_package) -- -- Robin Atwood
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?
On Thursday 22 Jan 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Jan 21 14:35:43 [sshd] Invalid user murray from 203.110.208.68 So, 11 attempts in the first minute of activity (and it picked up pace, later on attempting every 2 seconds). Surely denyhosts should have blocked it already at that point based on my settings, correct? Your regex's might not be up to snuff. Try adding the one below to denyhosts.conf: USERDEF_FAILED_ENTRY_REGEX=Invalid user (?Puser.*) .*from (:::)? (?Phost\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}) HTH -Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Gentoo article info question
On Friday 26 Dec 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: Both the kqemu and qemu packages are installed. Apparently run info kqemu refers to somthing other than the Gnu info program, but I don't know what. You should switch to the Qemu monitor (Ctrl-Alt-2) and then you can run the info and other commands. HTH -- -- Robin Atwood
Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2008, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: Anyone ever reply to this? If you're using Gnome, then HAL + Gnome will take care of it. I am using HAL + ivman in my servers. It works well for fixing mount points. Thanks, I got several replies but all pointed to just using hal + gnome, as most desktop environments take care of automounting these days. You might want to take a look at this, how to use udev rules. This way you are not dependent on any GUI support. In fact, no extra packages are required. http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html -- -- Robin Atwood
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-bin spellchecker not working
On Monday 01 Dec 2008, Fernando Antunes wrote: 2008/12/1 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas how to fix? ispell, hunspell, aspell, myspell-en and aspell-en are all installed. James, ooo 3 use extensions to install dictionaries. James http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-711397-highlight-openoffice.html?sid=83d3c5c7c6cee4cdef59a8b447b5e343 HTH -- -- Robin Atwood
[gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
A complete solution to this problem for Firefox 23 may be found at: http://www.gomellow.com/?p=32. HTH -Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:09, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many web sites are badly designed in that that they hard-code text input fields with a black font but inherit the background colour from your desktop, so if you have a suitably Gothic light-on-dark colour scheme you cannot read your input. I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by supplying a user css page but, for those occasions when you have to use it, I want to do the same thing with Firefox. A quick google reveals the presence of userContent.css in your profile, so I added my rules, eg, html-body { background-color: white; color: black; } input { background-color: #E1E7FD; color: black; } but it makes absolutely no difference. Anybody had any luck with this? Have you looked at Preferences -- Content -- Fonts Colors -- Colors...? Uncheck the Allows pages ... and set your own preferences. I've never used it but it looks like it might help. I tried that but the rest of the page becomes very white! Cheers.. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 851 322487 MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: abend922 Yahoo: abend922 --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, »Q« wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:09:00 +0700 Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by supplying a user css page but, for those occasions when you have to use it, I want to do the same thing with Firefox. You can use userContent.css for it after you google some documentation, but it's easier to just use the Stylish extension to manage user css. http://userstyles.org/stylish/. Thanks, I will try it out. -Robin --
[gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
Many web sites are badly designed in that that they hard-code text input fields with a black font but inherit the background colour from your desktop, so if you have a suitably Gothic light-on-dark colour scheme you cannot read your input. I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by supplying a user css page but, for those occasions when you have to use it, I want to do the same thing with Firefox. A quick google reveals the presence of userContent.css in your profile, so I added my rules, eg, html-body { background-color: white; color: black; } input { background-color: #E1E7FD; color: black; } but it makes absolutely no difference. Anybody had any luck with this? TIA -Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Preserved Libraries?
On Friday 25 Jul 2008, s3b4sm4gr1 wrote: I'm trying to get emerge world to complete after a recent --sync. However, I get a series of error messages related to preserver libs and I'm told to use this command: emerge @preserved-rebuild to resolve the problem. Repeated use of that command doesn't seem to help. What do I need to do to get emerge world to complete? When I recently had this problem the advice was to delete all the libraries and run revdep-rebuild to check everything was OK. In fact, revdep-rebuild found no problems. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood
Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling ATI drivers 8.28.8
On Saturday 21 Jun 2008, Ivan Alden wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile the ATI proprietary drivers for my DELL D600 lap. I found in a web search that the last working drivers for this card was the 8.28.8 version. /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8/work/common/lib/modules/fgl rx/build_mod/firegl_public.o /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8/work/common/lib/modules/fgl rx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:89:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory This is an old problem! The header config.h got removed from the kernel source in directory /usr/src/linux/include/linux but many drivers were not updated to reflect this. I think your options are: 1. Find a copy in an old kernel source 2. Make a dummy file (it doesn't do much) 3. Symlink to autoconf.h in the same directory HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Platoali wrote: And I want to know which one is better supported in Linux kernel regardless of how much open/free the drivers is. I'm currently thinking between Nvidia Quadro fx 1700 and Ati firegl 5600. Does anyone have any comment about them? I don't know if this helps but my laptop has an Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 chip which I use the x11-base/x11-drm drivers with and it's fine. I think it's only 2D though, i.e. googlemaps is unusable. However, everything is open-source. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood, -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help with a regex
On Sunday 25 May 2008, »Q« wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:57:45 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: But why does [[:space:]]+ work and \s+ fail? Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]] As Robin's already pointed out, \s is part of Perl's regex syntax. If you've compiled grep with the pcre useflag, you can use grep -P Thanks for that, \s is a lot easier to read than [[:space:]]! -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Need help with a regex
Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service scripts that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line like: provide dns i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text provide, followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come up with: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong? TIA -Robin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Andrey Falko wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service scripts that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line like: provide dns i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text provide, followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come up with: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d Right now you are saying: match one or more spaces in the begining followed by provide followed by one or more spaces followed by *one* word followed by one space and followed by /etc/init.d I think you mean: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w+ /etc/init.d but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong? I see your mistake\w means alphanumeric character, not word. I had just realised that myself. However, it still doesn't work. :( Thanks for trying, though. -Robin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008, 17:22, Robin Atwood wrote: Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service scripts that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line like: provide dns i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text provide, followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come up with: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong? On my system, no initscript has the line provide dns in it, so it might be possible that you don't have any file with that line. That said, you should use -r, and you don't need the -e switch: grep -r '^[[:space:]]\{1,\}provide[[:space:]]\{1,\}dns' /etc/init.d or, perhaps clearer grep -rE '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+dns' /etc/init.d I am looking for all the scripts with lines like provide xxx, not just the dns service. That said, your solution did the trick! I amended the expression to: grep -rE '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+\w+' /etc/init.d and got what I was after. But why does [[:space:]]+ work and \s+ fail? Cheers -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 851 322487 MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: abend922 Yahoo: abend922 -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep -e is not the same thing as egrep or grep -E, and I never managed to get \s to work as a synonym for [[:space:]] I was wondering about that! Plus you need a proper file glob i your file spec That was a typo in my post. Try: egrep '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+\w' /etc/init.d/* Thanks, I am in business now. Cheers -Robin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: But why does [[:space:]]+ work and \s+ fail? Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]] Here for a start: http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html#shorthand and also http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qregexp.html#characters-and-abbreviations-for-sets-of-characters Is it a Perl thing? Probably! http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm#DoingStringComparisons -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
On Thursday 08 May 2008, Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 07 May 2008 10:43:30 Robin Atwood wrote: Taken, sucessfully, from http://mikearthur.co.uk/2007/12/konqueror-with-latest-adobe-flash-howto / Thanks for the link. I tried it and although the kmplayer plugin now loads, it makes a hash of playing the flash content; I get a bit of sound but no video. ;( Nice thought though. Oh, works fine for me :) Looks a bit odd with the kmplayer rewind/pause/fastforward button bar appearing then disappearing. I live in Thailand and although I pay for a 2 MBit ADSL connection, I only get that locally, the international bandwidth is rubbish. KMplayer seems to be unable to cope with this, whereas the flash plugin run natively is just about acceptable. Fortunately, we have a local Gentoo mirror! :) -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 05 May 2008 18:04:42 Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, that version now seems to have been removed. So what version are people using? Taken, sucessfully, from http://mikearthur.co.uk/2007/12/konqueror-with-latest-adobe-flash-howto/ Thanks for the link. I tried it and although the kmplayer plugin now loads, it makes a hash of playing the flash content; I get a bit of sound but no video. ;( Nice thought though. -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, that version now seems to have been removed. So what version are people using? TIA -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, that version now seems to have been removed. So what version are people using? * net-www/netscape-flash Latest version available: 9.0.124.0 Latest version installed: 9.0.124.0 * net-www/nspluginwrapper Latest version available: 0.9.91.5-r1 Latest version installed: 0.9.91.5-r1 You are using the nspluginwrapper for x86 arch? -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Alex Schuster wrote: Robin Atwood writes: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, that version now seems to have been removed. So what version are people using? New flash on one machine, where I have the same problems. I disabled flash in konqueror, so do not get the segfaults all the time, but it sucks to use firefox for every site with flash I want to use. So on another machine, I kept the old 9.0.48.0-r1, despite the many security bugs. Maybe I will save the old flash stuff in some special directory which I will tell konqueror to use, so I can upgrade flash and use the new version, except for konqueror. Wonko I solved the problem by downloading the old netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1.ebuild from http://sources.gentoo.org/ and placing it in my local overlay. But, as you say, it sucks... Cheers -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spca5xx
On Saturday 10 Mar 2007, Ted Ozolins wrote: Searching Google I take it that the spca5xx under kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 is still a no go? Anyone know of a work-around? !!! ERROR: media-video/spca5xx-20060501-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 3996: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1304: Called linux-mod_src_compile linux-mod.eclass, line 511: Called die !!! Unable to make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux default. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/spca5xx-20060501-r2/temp/build.log'. IIRC, you need a copy of config.h in /usr/src/linux/include/linux, which you can find in older kernel sources, or may be in /usr/share/include/linux. HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?
On Wednesday 28 Feb 2007, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2007 06:54, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:14, Jesús Guerrero wrote: El Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:53:54 +0100 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Mick writes: How am I supposed to specify sox? /usr/bin/sox doesn't play any sound. Have a look at this Do I really need aRts? thread, in the middle it says: now, copy this script into /usr/bin/Ksplay: #! /bin/sh sox $@ -v 1.0 -q -t alsa default emerge sox to get an external sound player for kdm events. Go into the control center, click system notifications and click player settings near the bottom. Click use external player and then type /usr/bin/Ksplay. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-526080-highlight-arts.html Alex Alternatively you can just use the script /usr/bin/play, included in the sox package. Cool! I seem to have missed this in man sox. It plays system sounds now nicely. Blast! I spoke too soon. It /usr/bin/play plays system sounds fine, by alsa will not mix them if e.g. amarok is playing in the background. It's either one or the other. Do I need to rebuild kdelibs without arts for it to work? This should really be simpler. i recently went through this after something broke in arts. I turned off the KDE sound system and in the System Notifications dialog, specified playsound as the external player (found in sdl-sound package). You can also use mplayer but the module is enormous. Everything works really well now, with no drop-outs during the KDE Start/Stop fan-fares. :) HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory small disks?
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:21, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I have a rather old computer (tyan motherboard, K6 processor) which currently runs debian. I want to convert it to a gentoo box. As the system is rather old and it's disks are very small by today's standards, too, I would like to hear about your experiences with such tight situations. I have an old P2 233Mhz laptop that runs Gentoo. I build the system on a modern, very fast machine (specifying the right architecture) and then zipped up the partition up into a tarball. Then boot up the old machine with a Live CD and ftp over the tarball, unpack it, tweak /etc/fstab, install Grub and away you go! HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi needs ESSID to connect?
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 02:43, Mick wrote: How is one meant to configure /etc/conf.d/net to be able to associate with different APs, some with no encryption, some with WEP, some with WAP. I don't mind using a gui if this is going to offer some interactivity, to enable me to achieve this. A recent post mentioning a Gnome application wouldn't do for me on this occasion, as I don't have Gnome on this laptop. Kwifimanager does not seem very helpful, at least not with this USB adaptor and its driver. Thanks for your suggestions so far. Try kwlan at http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=37041, I have found it quite effective. There is an ebuild at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144772 HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:38, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions are identified as. Also, I need to know how to change the Windows partition so that Windows believe it is the first disk, otherwise it will not boot. That's right, it won't. You need the map command in your grub.conf: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) WinXP will now think that it is on the first disk and it will boot happily. I recently had that message because I changed a partition's file system to ext3 and ext3 was neither compiled into the kernel nor in the initrd file. In this case, I think the USB Mass Storage module will need to be available plus the SCSI support. HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Logwatch and TimeZone Errors
On Thursday 02 November 2006 15:35, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Has anyone seen this problem? I've tried to rebuild perl and logwatch and timezone-data ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine TimeZone. at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm line 3635 Date::Manip::Date_TimeZone called at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm line 676 Date::Manip::Date_Init() called at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm line 799 Date::Manip::ParseDateString('epoch 1162369100') called at /usr/share/logwatch/lib/Logwatch.pm line 508 Logwatch::TimeBuild() called at /usr/sbin/logwatch.pl line 731 I have been through this, Perl doesn't understand Far Eastern time zones like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date Thu Nov 2 17:52:10 ICT 2006 I resorted to hacking /etc/cron.daily/00-logwatch and adding: export TZ=+0700 which fixes the problem. Adjust your offset accordingly... :) HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 8513 22487 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Thursday 26 October 2006 11:42, Martins Steinbergs wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:31, Dale wrote: postgres postgres just works, i wont say is there any big difference compared with mysql. My mistake, postgres isn't supported on *my* system because I have the flag turned off. :) I just checked in amarok's engine room and couldn't see the option. -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 8513 22487 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:49, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:59, Willie Wong wrote: I have one question about xmms alternatives: xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys on my multimedia keyboard bound to remote controls and also certain voice commands bound to playing and stopping of music), can someone point me to an alternative of xmms that also supports remote controls? Thanks in advance, amarok I was able to control amarok with my mobile phone and bluetooth... Cool! Have you a HOWTO? There are AFAIK two apps, Bluemote and BlueAmarok out there, I have used both. But I think they have a fairly strong dependency on Sony Ericsson menu extensions. HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 8513 22487 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:49, Dale wrote: I have never done any of this before. Somehow, likely by mistake, I got one CD copied over and can play off the hard drive. I have no idea how I did this really. I need someone on or off list to teach me how to get the music off the CD, get it into Amarok so I get get this going. This looks really cool. If whoever can help me uses MySql instead, I would be willing to install it, especially if it is better. I only want to do CDs. I have a lousy dial-up connection here. By default amarok uses a built-in copy of SQlite, so you don't really need MySQL unless you use it for something else. Postgres is not supported. Rip your CDs with k3b. HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 8513 22487 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
On Sunday 03 September 2006 01:53, Dale wrote: Well, I have a Canon camera and mine will not work like that either. I use gtkam to get my pictures and it works fine. May want to try that. I did run into permission problems at first. May want to try it as root if running it as user fails. Same here. Recent Canons use the PTP protocol. You need to emerge libptp2 and use ptpcam to see if it can find the camara. If that works, emerge gtkam or digiKam . -- -- Robin Atwood -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] writable devices being mounted as read only
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 13:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 00:57 schrieb ext Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 07 August 2006 21:49, sean wrote: Hello All, Whenever I mount my USB DVD writer or my SCSI cd-rom writer I always get the following similar message for either device, root or otherwise. mount /mnt/dvd/ mount: block device /dev/sr1 is write-protected, mounting read-only This is just a hint for you. /dev/sr1 is a read-only device per definition. Both devices in my fstab have 'noauto,user,rw' but still the write only message. Try modprobe sg to get a writable device. HTH -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices
I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a reboot. After a bit of research I added: # tun device for hercules KERNEL==tun, NAME=net/tun to /etc/udev/50-udev.rules but it doesn't seem to hack it. :( Anybody any ideas? 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 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 20:46, Holly Bostick wrote: Robin Atwood schreef: I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a reboot. After a bit of research I added: # tun device for hercules KERNEL==tun, NAME=net/tun to /etc/udev/50-udev.rules but it doesn't seem to hack it. :( Anybody any ideas? TIA -Robin. Hey, Robin, I don't know what, if anything, is wrong with your rule, but I'm almost sure you're adding it to the wrong file. Hope this helps until somebody with more familiarity with that particular device and custom udev rules comes along. Thanks for the input, but it didn't make any difference. -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 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 21:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:48:49 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: I need a device /dev/net/tun to use with hercules. tun is defined in the kernel and the traditional mknode method works fine but I loose it after a reboot. The device is created when you load the tun module. you don;t need a udev rule unless you want to change its name, ownership or permissions. OK, I have to lead the module first. All is clear... :) 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 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Where are the suspend2 options in suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r1-3
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 01:57, Uwe Klosa wrote: I have also a P4 + HT and I want to use it to. Have you tried the CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP parameter. I will try it this evening. Cheers Uwe Robin Atwood wrote: On Monday 28 November 2005 17:36, Uwe Klosa wrote: No they did not. I've got a compile error. But I have a solution for my problem. In my kernel config SMP was activated - has always been. But in the current kernels suspend2 depends on (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP). After I changed that - I deactivated SMP for now - SUSPEND2 I have had the exact same experience. The point is I have a P4 3.2 GHz + HT processor and want to use the SMP support, as well as suspend. This worked in 2.6.12 so it's a patching error, right? Cheers... -Robin, I tried editing the .config file with the suspend options (copied from the 2.6.12 tree) but got a link error - the patches need to be fixed. -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 -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list