Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

On Friday 10 April 2009, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Fred Elno: > > fr > > > > Since yesterday i have > > de > nodeadkeys > compose:menu > > but it took a while to find the right syntax. At which place is e.g. > input.xkb.options mentioned in the documentation? > > Could't f

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

Mick: >On Friday 10 April 2009, Hartmut Figge wrote: >> - xorg.conf - >> Option "XkbOptions""compose:menu" >> --- > >What is the meaning of the "compose:menu"? Sometimes i need to input special characters like e.g. ç with my keyboard and need a way to do s

[gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?

Hi All, I have a ntfs partition which I mount with ntfs-3g and fuse. Some months ago I had split a video file which thereafter bzipped: -? ? ?? ?? rec1xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec2xaa.bz2 -? ? ??

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:37:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a ntfs partition which I mount with ntfs-3g and fuse. Some months > ago > I had split a video file which thereafter bzipped: > > -? ? ?? ?? rec1xaa.bz2 > -? ? ??

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question

In <20090410172143.71e0c...@coercion> mike_kazant...@fraggod.net (Mike Kazantsev) writes: >--Sig_/jt3LFSWbbFXQHdaTjHGlbt4 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:05:49 + (UTC) >Konstantinos Agouros wrote: >> Any clues

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Xav' wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:37:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Is there an application I could use to remove them and free the space on > > the > > disk, or should I run chkdisk or fsck first? I cannot afford to lose the > > > > remaining data on the disk and I do n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Mick: > > > >What is the meaning of the "compose:menu"? > So i have need of a compose key. Years ago there was a combination of > AltGr and Shift_Left which could be used but that stopped to work. I see, I should have phrased my question differen

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

On Friday 10 April 2009, walt wrote: > The big picture first: The plan is to use evdev *instead* of the > drivers in xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, [snip...] > In my xorg.conf there is no mention whatever of mice or keyboards, > and xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Mick wrote: > > BTW, the new xorg dri is really slow. > > You need to enable EXA as acceleration type. And for that, you *need* > an xorg.conf. > >Section "Device" > Driver "radeon" > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

For the record, in case anyone else runs into this, following the Gentoo Upgrade Guild, I chose course (2) to deal with HAL, ie I compiled 'USE="-hal" emerge xorg-server'. I encountered 3 problems. (1) xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 failed to compile with a message implying lack of a file 'xf86dri.h'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:08:50 +0100 Mick wrote: > I tried EXA but it made no difference. Prehaps you forgot to setup dri? If so, try x11-misc/driconf. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:08:50 +0100 > > Mick wrote: > > I tried EXA but it made no difference. > > Prehaps you forgot to setup dri? > If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Thanks Mike, how do you mean set up dri? It is shown as 'yes' in glxinfo. -- Regar

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

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:58:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a > working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. Did you try the Magic SysRq keys? That's a lot friendlier than cutting the power. -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sin

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

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 couldn't find where I wrote those key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:33:10 +0100 Mick wrote: > Thanks Mike, how do you mean set up dri? It is shown as 'yes' in glxinfo. ... > On Saturday 11 April 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Just try this tool, it's GUI, written just for that purpose. It'll create ~/.drirc f

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs recompile required but not recognized

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:52:26 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > If you did install kdelibs, then the Qt version that is picked up by > this configure is not the same version you used to compile kdelibs. > The Qt Plugin installed by kdelibs is *ONLY* loadable if it is the > _same Qt

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Xandros, EEE which partition to chroot

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:22:46 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > There are four partitions on the SSHD, sda1,2,3,4. sda1 is formatted > ext2 and is the largest and contains the file system. sda2 is slightly > smaller, formatted ext3 and also has a file system on it, but with > fewer files. sda3 is

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

Mick: [ compose:menu ] >I see, I should have phrased my question differently: which is the compose >key ... It is easy to misunderstand. Especially for me with my lack of knowledge of english. ;) >I don't have a key that is called "compose", but I think that my menu >key is the one between R

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question

On 11 Apr 2009, at 10:13, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: ... the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a proprietary extension in there. It's worth mentioning that the original GPL, AT&T sponsored VNC offered no en

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?

On 11 Apr 2009, at 09:37, Mick wrote: ... I cannot afford to lose the remaining data on the disk and I do not have another disk as large to back up first. You're completely stuffed, then. There's nothing you can safely do except leave these dodgy files intact. Is there an application I

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

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:58:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a >> working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. >> > > Did you try the Magic SysRq keys? That's a lot friendlier than cutting > th

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

On 10 Apr 2009, at 14:50, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Stroller wrote: The sub-packages are not intended to be installed stand-alone - they are merely for the convenience of the devs and so that minimal work is required of your system to maintain minor updates. I wonder why this is a required

[gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...

I have got myself into a bind with kde 3.5.10 and 3.5.9 - I would like to unmerge all kde and then remerge it as 3.5.10. Currently its taken me ages to unmerge packages as I have emereg world, which its just dawned on me is only printing 3 blocking packages at a time - very slow progress Its just

Re: [gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:01 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Its just dawned on me that this is kde-meta - is there a way to just > remove all kde at once? emerge -C kde-meta emerge --depclean -a -- Neil Bothwick I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. signature.asc Des

Re: [gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:01 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: > I have got myself into a bind with kde 3.5.10 and 3.5.9 - I would like > to unmerge all kde and then remerge it as 3.5.10. Currently its taken > me ages to unmerge packages as I have emereg world, which its just > dawned on me is only

Re: [gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...

On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 14:04 +0200, Uwe wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:01 +0800 > William Kenworthy wrote: > > > I have got myself into a bind with kde 3.5.10 and 3.5.9 - I would like > > to unmerge all kde and then remerge it as 3.5.10. Currently its taken > > me ages to unmerge packages as

Re: [gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...

On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 12:58 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:01 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Its just dawned on me that this is kde-meta - is there a way to just > > remove all kde at once? > > emerge -C kde-meta > emerge --depclean -a > Thanks Neil, I used the xa

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question

Zebedee was (I think) originally designed to offer an encrypted port based tunnel for vnc amongst other apps. Ive found it extreemly useful over the years, and far more stable/flexible/featureful than the ssh alternative, especially over poor and dialup connections. zebedee + vnc is classic unix

[gentoo-user] Double firefox references in taskbar

Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox using the button in kde's menu, I get two "Mozilla firefox" references in the task bar, one of which with the turning hourglass. Then, the main window of firefox appears. The bouncing firefox icon continues to be near the pointer

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs recompile required but not recognized

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:45:51AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:52:26 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > If you did install kdelibs, then the Qt version that is picked up by > > this configure is not the same version you used to compile kdelibs. > > The Qt Pl

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

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Mick wrote: > # qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ > x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev > x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard > x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati > > Are you saying that the above drivers are no longer neede

Re: [gentoo-user] Double firefox references in taskbar

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:13:06PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox using > the button in kde's menu, I get two "Mozilla firefox" references in the > task bar, one of which with the turning hourglass. Then, the main window > of firefo

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works

Again, for the record in case it's of use to others. Previously & cautiously, I updated Xorg-server, but used the old modules. Having got that to work, I've gone the Evdev route & it seems to work ! I recompiled kernel 2.6.29 to use 'event interface' (as instructed). Then in /etc/make.conf , I co

Re: [gentoo-user] Double firefox references in taskbar

On Saturday 11 April 2009, 16:09, YoYo siska wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:13:06PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox > > using the button in kde's menu, I get two "Mozilla firefox" > > references in the task bar, one of which with

Re: [gentoo-user] Double firefox references in taskbar

On Saturday 11 April 2009, 16:24, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2009, 16:09, YoYo siska wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:13:06PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > > Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox > > > using the button in kde's menu, I get two "Moz

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

Jon Hamilton wrote: > On Wed, April 8, 2009 07:10, Dale wrote: > >> KH wrote: >> >> >>> Dale schrieb: >>> >>> >>> Hi, I have ran into a problem here. When I go to http://wireless.att.com/ Seamonkey crashes. It does this pretty fast even tho I am on a s

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

Dale: >Well, I'm back again. I did a new profile by renaming .mozilla and then >copying over my emails, passwords and bookmarks. I didn't copy anything >else that I can recall. I also didn't copy prefs.js. I did edit it to >point to my old passwords file but surely not a problem. Now, Seamonk

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

Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > >> Well, I'm back again. I did a new profile by renaming .mozilla and then >> copying over my emails, passwords and bookmarks. I didn't copy anything >> else that I can recall. I also didn't copy prefs.js. I did edit it to >> point to my old passwords file bu

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

Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > >> Well, I'm back again. I did a new profile by renaming .mozilla and then >> copying over my emails, passwords and bookmarks. I didn't copy anything >> else that I can recall. I also didn't copy prefs.js. I did edit it to >> point to my old passwords file bu

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

Dale: [SM 1.x] >Archaic? For me, yes. Since years i use nightlies of SM. Not quite correct, though, because i update the source, formerly from cvs, now with hg, apply my own patches and build my own SM. >I read about the new Seamonkey 2 but it said it was not ready >for mainstream or something t

[gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

I was updating the xorg-server on my other gentoo box from 1.3.x to 1.5.3, and my X would not launch until I commented out 'freetype' or 'vga' modules in the xorg.conf - why is that? Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now, and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers, mouse drivers, and

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

Denis wrote: I was updating the xorg-server on my other gentoo box from 1.3.x to 1.5.3, and my X would not launch until I commented out 'freetype' or 'vga' modules in the xorg.conf - why is that? Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now, and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers, mou

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

Dale: >OK. I renamed it to .old then restarted Seamonkey and it still >crashed. First you should have looked if the plugins are gone now. > So nothing changed there. What else can I try? This is the >list of things on about:plugins: > >QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7 >RealPlayer 9 >Windows Media Pl

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

Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > [SM 1.x] > >> Archaic? >> > > For me, yes. Since years i use nightlies of SM. Not quite correct, > though, because i update the source, formerly from cvs, now with hg, > apply my own patches and build my own SM. > > >> I read about the new Seamonkey 2 but

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

Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Mick > wrote: > > > # qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ > x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev > x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard > x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse > x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics >

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

Dale: >BTW, I use gmail so I don't get copies to reply to so I have to keep >coming back to yours. PITA but it's free. :-D I use news.gmane.org and there is gmane.linux.gentoo.user a normal newsgroup. No mails. :) Hartmut

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

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 one SM they are no longer available for the othe

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

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] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.

Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Despite of the last one all should have disappeared after renaming > /usr/lib/nsbrowser and restarting of SM. For me that worked. Hm. > > If your Shockwave Flash comes from the package adobe-flash, then > > h...@e675 ~ $ equery f adobe-flash > [...] > /usr/lib/nsbrowser/pl

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:30:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > >> * dev-tex/feynmf >> Latest version available: 1.08-r3 >> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] >> Size of files: 328 kB >> Homepage: >> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fe

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

Dale: >This appears to be a Seamonkey issue and I have no clue where to >start. I ran Seamonkey in a console as a user. To recall. You have renamed ~/.mozilla, SM newly emerged so that it creates a new ~/.mozilla at the next start, not installed any extension and have now only the default plugin

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

Hartmut Figge wrote: > > To recall. You have renamed ~/.mozilla, SM newly emerged so that it > creates a new ~/.mozilla at the next start, not installed any extension > and have now only the default plugin in about:plugins. > > And your SM crashes at http://wireless.att.com/ > > Interesting. :) >

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

Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > >> This appears to be a Seamonkey issue and I have no clue where to >> start. I ran Seamonkey in a console as a user. >> > > To recall. You have renamed ~/.mozilla, SM newly emerged so that it > creates a new ~/.mozilla at the next start, not installed any

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 = no memory card device

>> After upgrading to xorg-server-1.5, the /dev/sdb1 device no longer >> appears when I insert a memory card.  Does anyone know why that is? >> >> - Grant > > you also did an udev update and nuked some config files? It looks like udev was updated on March 31st and xorg-server on April 6th. I supp

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

Dale: >A few days ago, I did rename .mozilla to .mozilla.old and it worked >fine. Then I copied over my emails, password files and bookmarks. You should really test with a new profile as described. That is the standard way to test the integrity of a profile. No crash in the testprofile and you

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 = no memory card device

>>> After upgrading to xorg-server-1.5, the /dev/sdb1 device no longer >>> appears when I insert a memory card.  Does anyone know why that is? >>> >>> - Grant >> >> you also did an udev update and nuked some config files? > > It looks like udev was updated on March 31st and xorg-server on April > 6

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

Dale: >I found another site that it crashes on. > >http://www.frozencpu.com/products/2513/fan-214/Thermaltake_120mm_Smart_Case_Fan_II_A2029.html No problem here. Tested with a gentoo SM 1.1.16 with --no-remote while running my SM2. Hartmut

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

Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > >> A few days ago, I did rename .mozilla to .mozilla.old and it worked >> fine. Then I copied over my emails, password files and bookmarks. >> > > You should really test with a new profile as described. That is the > standard way to test the integrity of a

[gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults

I ran emerge -avuD world on my system today, and now mythfrontend segfaults. Here's my info: camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1 USE="alsa debug dvb dvd jack lirc m

[gentoo-user] Re: remove all kde and start again ...

Uwe googlemail.com> writes: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-config.xml I wonder when this page will be updated with KDE-4 information, and other related issues? Anyone with insight or inside info? James

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

Dale: >Hartmut Figge wrote: >> No crash in the testprofile and you know, that something is wrong in the >> old one. And if the testprofile crashes you can go back to the old >> profile and have nothing lost but some minutes. > >This is what I did the other day when I renamed .mozilla to >.mozilla.

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

Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > >> Hartmut Figge wrote: >> > > >>> No crash in the testprofile and you know, that something is wrong in the >>> old one. And if the testprofile crashes you can go back to the old >>> profile and have nothing lost but some minutes. >>> >> This is what

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 & adopting the Evdev approach, I can unplug + replug my mouse & keyboard without losing usage: previously, you had to restart X to get them back. I assume the idea behind the change is to allow hotplugging these devices. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

090411 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Denis wrote: >> I updated the xorg-server from 1.3.x to 1.5.3 & my X wouldn't launch >> until I commented 'freetype' or 'vga' in xorg.conf - why is that? >> Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now >> and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers, mouse dri

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

Philip Webb wrote: > After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 & adopting the Evdev approach, > I can unplug + replug my mouse & keyboard without losing usage: > previously, you had to restart X to get them back. I assume > the idea behind the change is to allow hotplugging these devices. > > You hav

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:47:46 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 & adopting the Evdev approach, > I can unplug + replug my mouse & keyboard without losing usage: > previously, you had to restart X to get them back. I assume > the idea behind the change is to allow hotpl

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

Dale: >What I do is this. I make a copy of my .mozilla directory to >another hard drive for extra protection. Not bad. >Then I rename, So did i. >start fresh and do whatever. Nothing complicated, really. Start SM and create the old accounts exactly as they were before. Close SM and replace t

[gentoo-user] Bye

Greetings, some nice days here but it is eating too much of my time. I'm writing this in case someone will reply to my former postings and wonder why there is no answer. Hartmut, unsubscribing

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

Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > >> start fresh and do whatever. >> > > Nothing complicated, really. Start SM and create the old accounts > exactly as they were before. Close SM and replace the folder Mail on the > new profile with the folder Mail from the old profile. > That's basicall