[gentoo-user] Cannot upgrade kde-base/superkaramba

2010-07-08 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I tried the last days to do a emerge -avuDN world but it fails at the package kde-base/superkaramba-4.4.4 I get the error message: Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libsuperkaramba.so CMakeFiles/superkaramba.dir/python/meter.o: In function `QString2PyString(QString)': meter.cpp:(.text+

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:25:03 David W Noon wrote: > > >Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? > > >/etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff > > >like telnet and rlogin, never for console lo

[gentoo-user] viewing .m4v files with totem

2010-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
How should I view .m4v files with totem. Is there a gst-plugin or a use flag for gst-plugins-meta? I have used the following, which "works", but the video quality is bad ffmpeg -i file.m4v file.avi totem file.avi thanks, allan

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 11:28 PM, Grant wrote: Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? "mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. There is no latest "mp

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs font problem

2010-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Grant Edwards writes: > Recently emacs (running in X "window" mode) seems to have developed a > font problem. > > There are two cases where text displays as a mixture of filled and > unfilled rectangles: > > 1) When the mouse pointer hovers over certain things a balloon pops > up containing

[gentoo-user] emacs font problem

2010-07-08 Thread Grant Edwards
Recently emacs (running in X "window" mode) seems to have developed a font problem. There are two cases where text displays as a mixture of filled and unfilled rectangles: 1) When the mouse pointer hovers over certain things a balloon pops up containing nothing but black filled rectangles.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Grant
Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? >>> >>> "mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. >> >> Sorry for my misunderstanding.  I'd like to follow the latest mplayer >> with ffmpeg-mt support. > > There is no latest "mplayer with ffm

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:25:03 David W Noon wrote: > >Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? > >/etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff > >like telnet and rlogin, never for console login. > > I thought /etc/issue was for the *getty programs to e

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:10:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out: >On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [snip] >> Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and >> the greeting? If you are using PAM

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 08:37 PM, Grant wrote: Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? "mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. There is no latest "mp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jul 2010, at 17:24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Are you sure about this characterisation? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/56008 Thanks. I missed that one. I would have expected to have caught it, had they cross-posted to -user. AIUI Uoti maintains that there's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jul 2010, at 18:37, Grant wrote: ... Also thanks to Stroller for clearing up the mplayer/mplayer-uau situation. I have to admit that I'm not entirely clear on the matter. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Grant
>> Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt >> patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? > > "mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. Is there a way to either do that specifically, or to fo

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-08 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: I see there's a 2.8.1-r2 release this morning. Hopefully that will solve my problems. Cheers, Mark Ahhh, you are running unstable. I'm stable and using dev-util/cmake-2.6.4-r3 so the fact that I have had no issues may be because I am still on stable. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, I ge

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing > at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. > So now it has the line > MOTD_FILE /etc/motd > for instance. But instead of displaying

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing > at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. > So now it has the line > MOTD_FILE /etc/motd > for instance. But instead of displaying

[gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, I get configuration error - un

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 06:59 PM, Stroller wrote: On 7 Jul 2010, at 19:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as "mplayer-git", before the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown reasons. While mplayer from multimedia only adds the ffmpeg-mt

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>    I was trying to slog through all the libpng problems on one of my >>> machines last night but ran into a different issue late in the evening >>> where cmake wo

[gentoo-user] vim(1) barks at root, and no other

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
For some reason, when I use vim as 'root' I get sporadic messages "no protocol specified" that show up on the console, in such a way that I think it's going to /dev/console. It gets into the text I'm editing, but isn't really there because ^L clears it. Save for some abbreviations related to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Stroller
On 7 Jul 2010, at 19:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as "mplayer-git", before the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown reasons. While mplayer from multimedia only adds the ffmpeg-mt patch, mplayer-uau adds more patch

[gentoo-user] udev boot errors - unable to access device

2010-07-08 Thread Mick
Hi All, I updated sys-fs/udev-149 yesterday and noticed some uevent errors during boot today. They went by too fast for me to catch them, but they said something about udevent: unable to access device/000/000 . mouse and another about event9. Do I ignore, delete permanent udev rules, or do

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:30:55 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What the heck is the OSS-QM? Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf Which list? You've been cross-posting to multiple lists, wa

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-08 Thread covici
Kyle Bader wrote: > Iotop is for io and the kernel support is through netlink. Aside > > On 7/7/10, James wrote: > > Jarry gmail.com> writes: > > > > > >> I would like to see in console current network transfer rate > >> for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] > >> with "

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >>    I was trying to slog through all the libpng problems on one of my >> machines last night but ran into a different issue late in the evening >> where cmake wouldn't build. I haven't been reading this list all that >> c

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 July 2010 00:56:52 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. > > It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates > missing maildir directories. Are you running some kind of propaganda campaign here where you whinge abou

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-08 Thread Remy Blank
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m > file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured > on eth0? bash? No, I'm not joking. The file is a bash script, and hence can just be sourced by another bash script, which coul

[gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-08 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:30:55 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > What the heck is the OSS-QM? > > Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: > > http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf Which list? You've been cross-posting to multiple lists, was that announcement cross-po

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Willie Wong wrote: > What the heck is the OSS-QM? Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.d

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon wrote: > Where's the common ground to combine all of that into one repository? The > idea > is a pipe dream. Fairly simple: use different branches. Hopefully, several distros would aggree on a common base, but thats not mandatory. The main point is, that everything's done withi

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautifying goot and halt process

2010-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 04:33:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > I tried chvt 1 by hand and it generates the same "color flash" as > the automatic switch to the console while shutting down my box. I suspect this may be an artifact from your monitor switching resolutions, in which case the fix is t

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-08 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Neil Bothwick : > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:23:13 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > > > Set in in xorg.conf. there's a thread on the forums that deals with > > > this using HAL fdi files, but those are not deprecated for Xorg. > > Whoops, don't know how that "not" crept in, HAL is depr