Re: Updating my system
El miércoles, 7 de diciembre de 2005 05:57, Richard Wegner escribió: > Hi there, > > I recently tried to update my system and this is what I get: [...] > > I have no idea what to do now? I just want to upgrade my system.. > > Currently I have Debian 3.1 UNSTABLE version (I prefer it that way > actually). Then this is not a good time to upgrade your system to current sid if you do not know what is going on with such a message. Due to another C++ global change, a lot of C++ libraries are again affected. Do you remember the last C++ ABI havoc? More or less this is the same, but probably it will be much shorter. Simply relax and wait another week to upgrade. You do not *really* need the latest sid. Believe me. :-) Ender. -- I once farted on the set of Blue Lagoon. -- Brooke Shields (South Park). -- Desarrollador de Debian Debian developer pgp731hT5i5oK.pgp Description: PGP signature
sound support under KDE
Can anybody explain me the mess I feel I am in? There is arts, gstreamer, xine, mplayer, flac, jack, alsa, and I am sure I forgot something which is used for sound playing on KDE. I understand that some of these are more like hardware drivers (ALSA -- although there is alsaplayer) and some more manipulating more sophisticated high-level stuff (xine, mplayer), but still there seems to be too much stuff going around. I am currently mostly on arts/xine with stuff from testing (and now sid with new KDE), but I know that things are gradually moving towards gstreamer. So I would like to switch, but I am totally confused about what to do. So here are my questions: 1) Are they? I mean is arts dead or going to die soon? 2) Control Center's sound system tab is just for arts, right? Is there (is there going to be) some equivalent for gstreamer? Where to get it? 3) Any other suggestions what is the most simple working set of tools (both for collection of tracks from my CDs as well as for playing radio streams over the Internet) with packages from the main Debian repository? URLs for some documents explaining this mess would be more than welcome as well. Thanks in advance, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read. -- Alberto Moravia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound support under KDE
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:14, Matej Cepl wrote: > Can anybody explain me the mess I feel I am in? There is arts, gstreamer, > xine, mplayer, flac, jack, alsa, and I am sure I forgot something which is > used for sound playing on KDE. I understand that some of these are more > like hardware drivers (ALSA -- although there is alsaplayer) and some more > manipulating more sophisticated high-level stuff (xine, mplayer), but still > there seems to be too much stuff going around. I am currently mostly on > arts/xine with stuff from testing (and now sid with new KDE), but I know > that things are gradually moving towards gstreamer. So I would like to > switch, but I am totally confused about what to do. So here are my > questions: I'd say if you have a working setup, you can safely stay with it until KDE4 is released. > 1) Are they? I mean is arts dead or going to die soon? aRts is AFAIK no longer actively maintained or developed, but will be part of KDE3 due to compatability reasons. It will likely not be part of KDE4 unless it is part of a KDE3 compatability layer/library. > 2) Control Center's sound system tab is just for arts, right? Is there (is > there going to be) some equivalent for gstreamer? Where to get it? This section is for KDE's audio system, i.e. how sounds are produced for example in notifications. This is tied to aRts (unless you configure an external player) there is no direct usage of other decoder frameworks implemented., thus no configuration page in a default installation. It might be possible that control center modules for other sound systems are available as third party projects. > 3) Any other suggestions what is the most simple working set of tools (both > for collection of tracks from my CDs as well as for playing radio streams > over the Internet) with packages from the main Debian repository? I guess this is a matter of taste. I use mplayer (not in main repository IIRC) for most playing needs, configured with arts as the audio driver/sink (-ao arts) Cheers, Kevin pgpjofevKMT7g.pgp Description: PGP signature
fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank
Hi - I've just done: apt-get install msttcorefonts and the fonts seemed to install fine. The fonts are being served by xfstt, and $ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts lists all the -msttcorefonts-blah- But in xfontsel, the window pane that normally shows the font symbols appears blank! Likewise, in $ xterm -fn '-msttcorefonts-courier \ new-bold-r-normal-bold-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-' the cursor moves when I tap the keyboard but I don't see any characters. Any ideas on how to debug this? Do I need to do some additonal configuration after installing msttcorefonts? Leni. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:14, Leni Mayo was heard to say: > Hi - > > I've just done: >apt-get install msttcorefonts > and the fonts seemed to install fine. The fonts are being served > by xfstt, and >$ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts > lists all the -msttcorefonts-blah- This is interesting. $ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts returns nothing. Blank. I did a pipe to less, and looked by hand, and still nothing named "ms" anything. # apt-get install msttcorefonts Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done msttcorefonts is already the newest version. > Any ideas on how to debug this? Do I need to do some additonal > configuration after installing msttcorefonts? I think it's quite interesting, and look forward to some other peoples experiences here. Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank
Curt Howland wrote: >> Any ideas on how to debug this? Do I need to do some additonal >> configuration after installing msttcorefonts? > > I think it's quite interesting, and look forward to some other peoples > experiences here. Try xlsfonts | grep '^-monotype' Mat?j -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. -- Frederick Bastiat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 19:33, Matej Cepl was heard to say: > xlsfonts | grep '^-monotype' Nothing. Nothing with just "monotype" either. # dpkg-reconfigure msttcorefonts warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype does not exist or is not a directory These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross- platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are still available from third parties. You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use, but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes to the file name or packaging format. All fonts downloaded and installed. -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:14 pm, Leni Mayo wrote: > Hi - > > I've just done: >apt-get install msttcorefonts > and the fonts seemed to install fine. The fonts are being served by > xfstt, and >$ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts > lists all the -msttcorefonts-blah- $ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts $ xlsfonts | grep microsoft ... -microsoft-comic sans ms-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 ... > Any ideas on how to debug this? Do I need to do some additonal > configuration after installing msttcorefonts? That is to say, all my msttcorefonts start with -microsoft-*. Of course, I installed them almost 3 years ago, so maybe something has changed since then. Or maybe the new installer is broken? Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank
When I installed the msttcorefonts package yesterday, it installed the fonts as msttcorefonts, meaning the .ttf files live under /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts and xlsfonts reports the fonts as -msttcorefonts-blah- Where I am stuck is that these fonts aren't visible to the naked eye when selected in xfontsel or used in xterm. Leni Josh Metzler wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:14 pm, Leni Mayo wrote: > Hi - > > I've just done: > apt-get install msttcorefonts > and the fonts seemed to install fine. The fonts are being served by > xfstt, and > $ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts > lists all the -msttcorefonts-blah- > > But in xfontsel, the window pane that normally shows the font symbols > appears blank! Likewise, in > $ xterm -fn '-msttcorefonts-courier \ > new-bold-r-normal-bold-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-' > the cursor moves when I tap the keyboard but I don't see any characters. > > Any ideas on how to debug this? Do I need to do some additonal > configuration after installing msttcorefonts? > > Leni. That is to say, all my msttcorefonts start with -microsoft-*. Of course, I installed them almost 3 years ago, so maybe something has changed since then. Or maybe the new installer is broken? Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank
last few weeks i've had the problem that certain flash website won't display text (altough its possible to select the invisible text and copy and paste it). could this be related? On Thursday 08 December 2005 03:08, Leni Mayo wrote: > When I installed the msttcorefonts package yesterday, it installed the > fonts as msttcorefonts, meaning the .ttf files live under > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts and xlsfonts reports the fonts > as -msttcorefonts-blah- > > Where I am stuck is that these fonts aren't visible to the naked eye > when selected in xfontsel or used in xterm. > > Leni > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
