Re: [gentoo-user] connecting phone (sonyericsson c702) as mass storage device: one works, not the other [SOLVED]

2009-09-21 Thread KH
Erik schrieb: Carlos skrev: Erik a écrit : I have a strange problem when trying to connect a telephone (SonyEricsspm C702) as a mass storage device.I have 2 such telephones, let us call them Black and Green. [snip] /var/log/messages for the 2 telephones: Google result from "Sony Eri Memory S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
On 09/21/2009 04:16 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Before I did 'emerge -uvDN world' a couple of days ago > the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite configurable with tabs. > Now the terminal app really sucks. Yet another problem when people do 'emerge ... world' (groan, not at you). My own practice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Opens an identical xterm. In the original terminal it says Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct before spawning the new terminal. Search results inconclusive. BTW if you google "Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct" + xfterm4 you get precisely one hit, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
090921 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:13:37 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Krusader can no longer connect to a remote site via 'fish://'; >> in fact Krusader 1.80.0 (with KDE 3.5.10) won't do it anymore either. >> I can connect to the site via 'ssh' from the CLI. > I can connect with K

RE: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file

2009-09-21 Thread David Juhl
You should be able to unzip it with unzip or p7zip if it is a regular zip file. If it is a cabinet file then you need cabextract. Dave On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 17:02 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > Did you try running the .exe with wine? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim -- log message?

2009-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 01:52:41 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > In /var/log/slim.log I found this message: > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > . Unfortunately I simply don't know, what it wants to say to me... > > Can anybody help? > > T

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/21/2009 04:16 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Before I did -uvDN world a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite nice, configurable, with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. I've looked in ~/.config/xfce4 for something to tweak but must have missed it. Settin

[gentoo-user] Slim -- log message?

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, In /var/log/slim.log I found this message: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". . Unfortunately I simply don't know, what it wants to say to me... Can anybody help? Thank you very much in advance! Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word-

[gentoo-user] upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Before I did -uvDN world a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite nice, configurable, with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. I've looked in ~/.config/xfce4 for something to tweak but must have missed it. Settings->Preferred Applications->Utilities leads to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Setting up correct domainname

2009-09-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 September 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 20 Sep 2009, at 12:30, Mick wrote: > > ... > > -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- > > > > (reason: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : > > invalid > > sender domain) > > > > -Transcript of session follows - > > > > ... w

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers to radeon

2009-09-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/21/2009 08:10 PM, James wrote: Hello, Currently, on an old laptop I have this chip: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) using ati-drivers, all if fine with: xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 ati-drivers-8.593 #

Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>   I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my >> MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to >> get it to wake up or at least show me w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:41:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Turns out none of the backup or Myth files were savable in any >> practical manner of speaking. Myth could play them, or at least start >> playing them - I don't know if it could get

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/21/2009 11:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: I'm not sure this is progress: the Unix way is to use extensions as a guide, but process files according to their identified content; Gwenview 4.3.1 seems to be following the M$ approach of ob

Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my > MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to > get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? > The drive shows under fdisk /

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP="no" to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsas

[gentoo-user] Re: Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only >> produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. > > It works for me on ~amd64. I'm using mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090825 with > "quicktime" USE

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090921 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in > >> 3.5.10 . They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this > >> ? > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread Pupino
2009/9/21 : > walt [09-09-21 19:36]: >> On 09/20/2009 07:40 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >walt  [09-09-21 02:32]: >> >>On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> >> >>>solfire:/home/mccramer>l /etc/asound.state >> >>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122 2009-08-06 18:05 /etc/asound.sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
walt [09-09-21 19:36]: > On 09/20/2009 07:40 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >walt [09-09-21 02:32]: > >>On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> > >>>solfire:/home/mccramer>l /etc/asound.state > >>>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122 2009-08-06 18:05 /etc/asound.state > >>>solfire:/home

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers to radeon

2009-09-21 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 19:10, James wrote: > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" > (I keep vesa for a backup) > > emerge -C ati-drivers > > run 'qlist -I -C x11-drivers/' > > and rebuild the list of supporting drivers? > > > ???  that simple or did I miss something? Yes, change your xorg.conf. Change

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
090921 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: >> Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in 3.5.10 . >> They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this ? > it does show little images, > but you are missing thumbnails whic

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/20/2009 07:40 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt [09-09-21 02:32]: On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: solfire:/home/mccramer>l /etc/asound.state -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122 2009-08-06 18:05 /etc/asound.state solfire:/home/mccramer>sudo rm -f /etc/asound.state solfire:/

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers to radeon

2009-09-21 Thread James
Hello, Currently, on an old laptop I have this chip: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) using ati-drivers, all if fine with: xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Portage Feature Request

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
a) wrong list b) please read this and think about it: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/09/04/filtering-compiler-optimisation-flags-is-not- a-solution c) gentoo is about responsibility. You are responsible for the stuff you do. Gentoo tries not to get in your way if it can. What you ask for is compl

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Portage Feature Request

2009-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 21 September 2009 18:16:32 Paige Thompson wrote: > I hope nobody finds this offensive, I'm not a great writer but I gotta get > this out there. > > Goal: to resolve quality issues with packages and the behavior of portage > > Problem 1: > > This is a really simple thing, first of all i

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Portage Feature Request

2009-09-21 Thread Paige Thompson
I hope nobody finds this offensive, I'm not a great writer but I gotta get this out there. Goal: to resolve quality issues with packages and the behavior of portage Problem 1: This is a really simple thing, first of all it would help a lot if packages will not try to build with specified cxxflag

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Stroller [09-09-21 17:13]: > > On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >... > >When using the line: > > > > @ 5 fetchmail -a > > > >nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded > >with > > > > fetchmail -a > > > >from the commandline. > > Here my cront

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

2009-09-21 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 17:43, wrote: > By the way: Calling fetchmal -d from ~/.openbox/autostart.sh also does > not work, but other programs started from there do have no problems. Try running fetchmail -d -v --logfile ~/fetchmail.log in your autostart or cron and see if fetchmail gets started

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila [09-09-21 17:13]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > > > Harry Putnam [09-09-21 04:25]: > >> Ward Poelmans writes: > >> > >> > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote: > >> >> > >> >> When using the line: > >> >> > >> >>    @ 5 fetchmail -a > >> >> > >> >> nothing happens:

[gentoo-user] ReSOLVED: KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread James
Frank Steinmetzger gmx.de> writes: > I've had a similar issue when switching logins between KDE 4 and 3 regularly > - > The menu went missing in 3 from time to time. As solution I was told to run > kbuildsycoca. In your case (for KDE4) you need to run kbuildsycoca4. All I had to do was run

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, James wrote: > > any ideas? maybe you forgot CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y ? but you should really start with a diff of the configs.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 21. September 2009 schrieb James: > When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde [4] menu bar across the bottom > of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions > that always start upon booting up, but all of the other kde >

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: runlevels and service list

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 16:51 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 20 September 2009 22:06:44 Dale wrote: > > > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> > /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though ba

[gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread James
Hello, What happens is when I boot up kernel-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 all the kde stuff (4.2.4) shows up. When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde menu bar across the bottom of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions that always start

Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only > produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. > > Ditto in firefox. This was working. > > But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko > in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 Sep 2009, at 17:07, Harry Putnam wrote: Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. Suggest playing one from the command line - mplayer gives a LOT of output, some of which may be useful. You might have to

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

2009-09-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. Here my crontab says: 0-59/4 * * * */usr/bin/fetchmail > /d

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > More progress/problems with KDE 4.3.1 . > > Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in 3.5.10 . > They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this ? no - and could you please rephrase your question? it does s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:13:37 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Krusader can no longer connect to a remote site via 'fish://'; > in fact Krusader 1.80.0 (with KDE 3.5.10) won't do it anymore either. I can connect with Krusader on KDE 4.3.1 but fish:// has been broken in KDE 3.5 for quite some time. > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:41:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Turns out none of the backup or Myth files were savable in any > practical manner of speaking. Myth could play them, or at least start > playing them - I don't know if it could get to the end of any of them, > but if I tried to copy them off