Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre Konqueror crash using flash plugin

2009-10-28 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre Konqueror crash using flash plugin

2009-10-28 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] Bizarre Konqueror crash using flash plugin

2009-10-27 Thread Robin Atwood
 /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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre Konqueror crash using flash plugin

2009-10-27 Thread Robin Atwood
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.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack

2009-10-24 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack

2009-10-23 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-26 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-25 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] problem filtering portage messages...

2009-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] problem filtering portage messages...

2009-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] Announcement: KrcStat 0.6 available for KDE 4.2+

2009-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Announcement: KrcStat 0.6 available for KDE 4.2+

2009-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.98, no copy paste in Konsole

2009-07-23 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] Icelandic issues

2009-07-21 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Icelandic issues

2009-07-21 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-23 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-13 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-13 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-12 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-12 Thread Robin Atwood
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/.
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[gentoo-user] Many dbus reject messages when starting KDE4

2009-05-09 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] Qt application fonts completely illegible

2009-03-31 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some web sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring temperatures

2009-03-21 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

2009-03-13 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] @kde-4.2

2009-03-09 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

2009-03-08 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

2009-03-06 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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[gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers

2009-02-25 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

2009-02-09 Thread Robin Atwood
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.
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[gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
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

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Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Robin Atwood
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)



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-22 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Gentoo article info question

2008-12-26 Thread Robin Atwood
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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-10 Thread Robin Atwood
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

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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-bin spellchecker not working

2008-12-02 Thread Robin Atwood
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

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[gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?

2008-09-30 Thread Robin Atwood
A complete solution to this problem for Firefox 23  may be found at:

http://www.gomellow.com/?p=32.

HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?

2008-09-28 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto use user CSS with Firefox?

2008-09-28 Thread Robin Atwood
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.
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[gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?

2008-09-27 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Preserved Libraries?

2008-07-26 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling ATI drivers 8.28.8

2008-06-21 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

2008-06-18 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help with a regex

2008-05-25 Thread Robin Atwood
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:]]!

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[gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Robin Atwood
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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Robin Atwood
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?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Robin Atwood
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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread Robin Atwood
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

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Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-08 Thread Robin Atwood
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! :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-07 Thread Robin Atwood
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.  ;(

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[gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Robin Atwood
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?

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Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-05 Thread Robin Atwood
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...

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Re: [gentoo-user] spca5xx

2007-03-10 Thread Robin Atwood
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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?

2007-02-28 Thread Robin Atwood
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. :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to install gentoo on an OLD K6 box w/ tight memory small disks?

2007-01-23 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi needs ESSID to connect?

2007-01-16 Thread Robin Atwood
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

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Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-27 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Logwatch and TimeZone Errors

2006-11-02 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.

2006-10-26 Thread Robin Atwood
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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-25 Thread Robin Atwood
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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.

2006-10-25 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-03 Thread Robin Atwood
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 
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Re: [gentoo-user] writable devices being mounted as read only

2006-08-08 Thread Robin Atwood
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.

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[gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

2006-02-07 Thread Robin Atwood
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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

2006-02-07 Thread Robin Atwood
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.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Getting udev to create tun devices

2006-02-07 Thread Robin Atwood
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...
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Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Where are the suspend2 options in suspend2-sources-2.6.14-r1-3

2005-11-29 Thread Robin Atwood
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.
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