[gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-2.24.1 failed

2009-04-18 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all I can not build gnome-base/gnome-keyring because it could not find libtasn1-config script. Any suggestion? Thanks Hung Error message: .. checking LIBGCRYPT API version... okay

[gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-18 Thread John P. Burkett
Doing "PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage emerge -D -uav world" on my amd64 machine elicits a response that ends as follows: >>> Install ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2/image/ category x11-drivers * Installing fglrx module * ati tree 'lib' -> 'lib32' on syst

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye & good riddance

2009-04-18 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Jorge Morais wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:20 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on it'. Where have you got that from? I ha

[gentoo-user] Clean-up after latest updates

2009-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
1) After the latest batch of updates X crashed on startup. I read through the list, and followed someone's suggestion to re-emerge all drivers listed by the command... equery list | grep x11-drivers/ Thank you sir. That was easy, and I now have X operational again. 2) I go through /var/log/p

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:23:24 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild unpack > ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild prepare > ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild configure > ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild compile > ebu

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of > molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic > sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored > in a header file

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis wrote: > I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of > molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic > sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored > in a header file within Rasmol s

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Denis wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of > molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic > sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored > in a header file wit

[gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Denis
Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file within Rasmol source code. There is an ebuild for Rasmol, an

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Guys, > Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs > in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is > that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to > opening all images in

[gentoo-user] CUPS setup with Lexmark e322

2009-04-18 Thread Saphirus Sage
The printer is old and seemingly unsupported in most areas as I could not find a Windows or Mac OSX driver, and none of the linux drivers have worked. I've tried ghostscript's ljet4, the various Postscript PCLs; actually, I've tried every one of them. I've established a proper connection, and that

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
090418 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? Kpdf gives previews in its side index panel : I find it very useful. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Ce

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov wrote: > Hello. > Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: > 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting > parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is. > > There are: media-sound/s

[gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Guys, Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to opening all images in an image viewer (say, mirage), and switching from one image to an

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:36:52AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote > On 13/04/09 Peter Ruskin said: > > > > Any reason to use -hal? > > > > I don't like hal. I prefer the traditional linux way of mounting > > stuff when I want to. > > On my workstation, so do I, but xorg 1.5 works fine if you

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:03 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was > > just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and > > now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 bec

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 14:20, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, I can confirm that tovid failed for me as well. However, this mencoder commandline seems to have created a working DVD-compatible mpg file (PAL): mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavc

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/18/09 11:19, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Hmm, I'm not sure... is this file (or one like it) available online >> anywhere that I could see if it works on my machine? > > Paul, I've sent you a link to that video if you want to check it out. Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > >> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: >> I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. >> It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 11:19, Paul Hartman wrote: Hmm, I'm not sure... is this file (or one like it) available online anywhere that I could see if it works on my machine? Paul, I've sent you a link to that video if you want to check it out. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Robert Bridge
Jacques Montier wrote: I had a similar problem with XFCE until I realised that "default" was the setting I wanted. RobbieAB I think that the default setting in Xfce depends on the first Mode in the Subsection "Display" of xorg.conf. But i may be wrong... I didn't have any modes in xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it > > > when my keyboard became dead. > > It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X > that cannot read the keyboard. > > > I c

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Robert Bridge a gentiment tapote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: >> A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was >> just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and >> now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's >> not on "the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 18 April 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 wit

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 > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Robert Bridge
Michael Sullivan wrote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on "the list". Is there a way I can get it on "the li

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck

2009-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 18 April 2009 18:43:17 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > You may have to add entries to /etc/env.d and run env-update. > > > > > What might I need to add? I looked in the directory and found lots of > files. Thus I suspect I need to create a file and add the proper line. > Would it be some

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Air and TweetDeck

2009-04-18 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks for your reply. > On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:00:59 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> Has anyone had luck installing Adobe Air and TweetDeck on Gentoo? I >> followed >> http://www.flashinthepan.ca/computer-tips/linux-computer-tips/adobe-air-on- >> gentoo-linux to get the

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-18 Thread Vasya Volkov
Mike Kazantsev пишет: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:40:17 +0400 Vasya Volkov wrote: Hello. Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is.

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Jacques Montier
Michael Sullivan a gentiment tapote: > A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was > just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and > now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's > not on "the list". Is there a way I ca

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph wrote: >>> >>> Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: >>> mp4a >>> avc1 ? >> >> Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intens

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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread KH
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
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? Anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/09 02:10, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph wrote: Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially for those huge resolu

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 us

Re: [gentoo-user] Which level of flash reader for AMD64?

2009-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

[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 s

[gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on "the list". Is there a way I can get it on "the list"? She doesn't have an

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-18 Thread Eric Martin
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin wrote: > >> Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down >> as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before >> unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back >>

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade error

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
김무성 writes: > For installing vmware > > My kernel version is 2.6.24-gentoo-r5. But I have no source files. > > So I downloaded source files. But that’s version 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. > > When I installed vmware, it told me kernel version and kernel source > files’ version no match. > > I have to kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo/GMail/download to Evolution

2009-04-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 17 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > He has just started switching from Time-Warner's Roadrunner cable > > modem service to Verizon's FIOS. His new link is up and his speed is > > very nice. (20Mb/S downlaod, 5Mb/S upload using S

Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out

2009-04-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 17 April 2009, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Yes, try "equery f app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools" to find all the files > involved - its quite extensive. Ha! I remember ... I had to uninstall this package because it kept spinning my hard drive down. mplayer will pause momentarily (very annoying) a

[gentoo-user] kernel build messages

2009-04-18 Thread Mick
Hi All, I updated my kernel and this is what I got when I built it: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.data+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable initial_code to the function .init.text:i386_start_kernel() The variable __cpuinitdata initial_code references a function __init i386_start_k

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo

2009-04-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: > > How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be > > maintained by portage). > > Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your > root filesystem (after first checking the contents).

Re: [gentoo-user] Continued Xorg crashes

2009-04-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 17:35 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Paul Hartman > > wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> This started as part of Michael's thread about Myth crashing. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.

2009-04-18 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > >> If it still crashes after the upgrade today, I'm going to unmask >> Seamonkey2 and see what it looks like. >> > > One caveat. Your profile will be automatically migrated and you should > be able to use SM2 or SM1. But for emails, if you fetch them with on

Re: [gentoo-user] burning HD mpeg4 to dvd

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Joseph wrote: > Anybody has any idea which package I need to recompile to get codecs: mp4a > avc1 ? Okay, avc1 is H.264 which is massively CPU intensive, so that explains your slow playback (especially for those huge resolutions). I think mp4a is AAC. So for tra