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Hello, I upgraded my video card to a 780 Ti, that was released recently. Now X fails to start and gentoo runs with console only. re-emerging the drivers has not done any good. nvidia-xconfig does not solve the problem ether. My guess is, that the current gentoo-nvidia-driver simply does not support the 780 Ti yet. On m... | You may check nvidia site yourself if you find a newer binary version. Also please read the linux release note of nvidia drivers on nvidia homepage and check if your card is supported ... Also check gentoo-bugzilla if there is a new version ... |
Hi, I want to use rainlendar ( http://www.rainlendar.net ) as an integrated calendar in my fluxbox environment. so far no version is available in portage; just a very old version in an overlay. so i downloaded the latest version from the homepage. after working around this issue aboutl libwebkitgtk ( https://forums.gen... | Have you download the 64bit tarball? I've just download the tarball, untar it to my /home, run .rainlendar and it work... EDIT: I don't have libwebkitgtk |
UPDATE: I forgot in the original thread to say that the prob is emerging on the second screen called 'Acer HS244HQ'. If you have the same fault with other monitors, your'e maybe on the right place, too! Hi. I have problem: since an update from xorg-server from 1.13.4-r1 to 1.14.3-r2 and also the problem emerged on chan... | Just found this thread. I have same problem, both monitors are DVI. It seems the second monitor is protecting itself from incompatible modes. Will try and use a modeline to force settings when I get back home. |
While being on Arch I had this line to display mpd status in conky: TEXT $if_mpd_playing ${mpd_smart}$endif But on Gentoo if_mpd_playing and mpd_smart are unrecognized commands Instead, I tried TEXT $if_running mpd ${mpd_artist}$endif And I get Conky:if_running needs an argument Segmentation fault And then it freezes c... | Did you try: ${if_running mpd} ${mpd_artist} ${endif} So the function and var are within { } |
I emerged gnome-light and it seems to be working OK, but the mouse is to[o] fast even on the lowest settings... Any ideas? | Maybe you are talking about a laptop and you need Code: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics ? |
Hi I'm having sort of a problem with my machine. I'm trying to run glxgears on my desktop since I notice something disable my desktop compositing after I run an update via emerge. xorg log: http://pastebin.com/GwEXXDNC Module Size Used by nvidia 9389614 22 [ 17.905] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; ... | Quote: [ 17.905] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X [ 17.905] (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X [ 17.905] (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If [ 17.905] (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, P... |
Ran emerge -Duvan @world followed by emerge --depclean and X now tells me that no devices detected, no screens configured. I have tried emerging the xf86-video moules that Xorg.0.log references, but no dice. I have tried rebuilding the kernel and refreshing the symlink to make sure it is pointing to the right location.... | I'll try the group you mentioned and get back to you. Thanks! |
I'm trying to install thunar-volman plugin for thunar. This requires enabling of "udev" USE flag for thunar. As soon as this flag is added, I get funny slot conflicts. Quote: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: gnome-b... | Going by output and ebuilds, likely changing useflags and not using '-N' screws up depeendency calculation. Try either that or explicitly adding gvfs to emerge line. |
Hello Gentoo users, I am trying to start a Linux program (/usr/bin/vkeybd) from a bash script. But when I execute the script by clicking on it, the program will not open but if I drop the same script into a terminal window, the program will successfully launch. The script looks like this: Code: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/vke... | I think I solved my problem. I needed to reboot for it to work. I'm sorry I posted so quickly without exploring all other possibilities. All the best, Roy |
I last installed Gentoo over a year ago, and I didn't care about effects and all that... I recently decided to rebuild my Windows computer as a Gentoo box to refresh my skills. Now I'm faced with gnome 2 that looks like every other gnome I've seen in the past 5 years, and I'm thinking I must have to configure something... | Format!!! HardwareIntel |
Hello, I have Code: Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5139 Card Reader in my Laptop and it seems to work properly. When I use the SD card all is OK. But when I insert MMC card and try to enter into it under Dolphin I get this http://i.piccy.info/i8/b798c59650d9a8498384e8bce94917a5/1382872542/160543/637660/33.png On second... | eyoung100 wrote: Does the MMC card have a /home/<user> also No, the MMC is empty (freshly formatted). |
When I'm in a non-X console on my system, the default PS1 setting coming from /etc/bash/bashrc: Code: \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\] ...isn't working correctly, and I'm sure that at one point it was working. The prompt ends up looking like this: Code: ;tom@dell2:~tom@dell2 ~ $ ...where the end of... | PROMPT_COMMAND? |
Code: $ firefox After ~7-10 minutes firefox in running In dmesg Code: [ 63.658776] grsec: Segmentation fault occurred at 00000000000006c4 in /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox[firefox:6850] uid/euid:1000/1000 gid/egid:1000/1000, parent /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox[firefox:6849] uid/euid:1000/1000 gid/egid:1000/1000 [ 63.658787] ... | Tractor Girl wrote: I have exactly the same problem According to this, it should be working now...but it is not... http://hardenedgentoo.blogspot.com/2012/06/default-mprotect-restriction-for.html I tried both 17 and 24 mprotect must be disabled for now, this is due to ion jit, it is too much work to backport the fixes ... |
After a recent emerge update, the X (kdm and startx) stopped working. Here are the error messages from startx Current version of pixman: 0.22.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from c... | Yes, re-merge X11 drivers: Code: qlist -I x11-drivers ls /var/db/pkg/x11-drivers |
Since upgrading my system to a sandy bridge i5 2500k, and doing a recompile, firefox immediately segfaults when run. Removing .mozilla doesn't help, nor does running in safe mode. Here's the output when running with gdb: Code: (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/firefox warning: Could not load shared library symbols f... | any reason for all theses compilation options? Code: -fweb -fno-ident -ftree-vectorize -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block |
Brand new install... 3.10.7 kernel .. have tried Nvidia 331.19 and now 325 ... Not doing anything, and KDE will Flash back to the logon screen... and my X session will be lost... does this randomly form 5mins to 20mins of desktop use. how do i even get a log for this? video driver issue? no crash error... just flash ..... | It could be that your KDE session crashes, but there is no indication of that in ~/.xsession-errrors. Possibly it is the X server which crashes. If so, it will be recorded in /var/log/Xorg.0.log (which will be renamed to Xorg.0.log.old once the X server restarts). |
Hello, I am using spacefm as my file manager. I want to change the file icons, so I added this line gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango" in the .gtkrc-2.0, but it changes nothing, even the "gtk-icon-theme-name" doesn't be recognized, (under vim, the color is white, not the color (brown in my case) like others) Could someone t... | rorgoroth wrote: Which version of spacefm are you using? In portage 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 is set to build with gtk3 by default for some reason (no idea why, gtk3 version is buggy). So you need to set the icon theme for gtk3. If you are using the 0.8.7 that still uses gtk2 then, the method you use works for me. I suggest: 1. ... |
EDIT: working with nvidia driver by this post https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-959568-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html if u are headless as I was type me, I will try to help POST: Hi, I have problem here with this xorg config I can not boot a xorg serve -only black screen I am trying to set up an optimus http... | See this: No device detected while startx? . In short: Remove the Bumblebee package if you have it. Install the proper intel video driver for your system, presumably intel915 If you have the nouveau driver compiled in kernel disable it Pass nomodeset = 1 on your kernel command line Reinstall the Bumblebee package |
Hi, Been trying for some time to get xorg running on my lenovo laptop... anyway ran nvidia-settings today and still no luck.. attaching xorg.conf and xorg.log.0 maybe someone can help me... xorg.conf http://pastebin.com/m7KqTueK xorg.log.0 http://pastebin.com/pVu7Had3 Basicly it ends with Code: [ 234.890] (II) NVIDIA U... | Jonas_H, Welcome to Gentoo. From your log Code: [ 234.887] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:0166:17aa:2200 rev 9, Mem @ 0xf1000000/4194304, 0xe0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00006000/64 [ 234.887] (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 10de:1140:17aa:2200 rev 161, Mem @ 0xf0000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xd0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00005000... |
Hey there. After messing up badly my system i decided to reinstall clean gentoo. Everything is perfect but one thing: Cant change my keyboard layout through gnome-control-center (gnome-3.6) cuz i get the following error when opening "Region and Language": Code: Aranza ~ # gnome-control-center (gnome-control-center:5170... | Problem fixed... its so noob i'm actually ashamed to post the solution but i will anyways to help new people in case they are lost: I didnt know Systemd was such a "revolution", i thought it was just an other package and didnt configure the kernel to boot with it neither i did any of its configs. problem solved this wa... |
So far the only driver I've been able to get to work on this is the VESA would like to have either Nouveau or Nvidia working. With the Nvidia driver I end up with a blank screen. In both cases make.conf VIDEO_CARDS is set to nouveau or nvidia as the case may be. Trying not to paste too much in, but if more would help j... | Is your laptop Optimus Based If so, see No device detected while startx? |
I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. First my login manager slim is not showing any "username / password" text upon log in; now Openoffice-bin has no menu text on top. How to go about this bug? I have four systems two x86 and two amd64 one x86 and one amd64 are effected by this bug, two other ... | Solved. This is a problem with xorg-server-1.14.3 Downgrading to x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.4-r1 solved the problem. |
After an update my gnome icons are missing? gnome 3.8 top right icons are gone rhythmbox keys(like back and play) dont have icons nautilus, same thing i found a thread on archlinux saying to run this command ( https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135149 ) /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache But that ... | Fixed it.. And for others with same problem.. The pain was in a gtk+ update so updated gtk+ then emerge -v librsvg /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache then alt + f2 input "r" and everything turned to normal |
Hi, I have a problem with build a driver for my nvidia card... I am trying to run optimus on my new laptop, but by now I can't even compile a driver xD so I am kind of stuck Please help! kernel version : 3.11.6 ( I have use two line patch on it to reverse changes wich should came with 3.12 cuz my Ralink wifi wasnt work... | I personally use official binaries from NVidia.com for various reasons, might give that a try. |
Does anyone use E17 I have been trying to get this working for three days now.The only way I can start it a second time is to delete the .e folder .I am using xinitrc to start it it ."exec enlightenment_start" I have it built with all the modules and xcomposite and xrandr. Pease help. | I don't use ebuilds for e so don't know which e17 version you had originally but it sounds like r0.17.4 - in that version you need to remove the check mark from "Show Splash..." under "Settings -> Look -> Startup" since there's a bug in that release which causes what you describe (having to delete fresh ~/.e dirs). giv... |
I know this has to be a permissions problem but I can't find a post anywhere just searching for lnusertemp, too much junk in google and no explanation to help me know exactly what I need to do to fix. Anyhow this occurred due to me moving a stage 4 install onto system using tar -xvf, and I'm sure there is something mis... | Yeah temp is being deleted. rm-rf /tmp/* after doing permission corrections.. The message is a popup that I get in between my attempt to login (kdm is starting) and me getting into a kde session. The splash screen never loads but instead I get a message about lnusertemp being unable to do something and it says /tmp ful... |
I was using my pc regularly. There happened to be 2 kernels. kernel-3.10.7-gentoo and kernel-3-10-7-gentoo-r1 at some time. I made symlink to newer kernel and removed old kernel but things that I mentioned in the title happened. (After boot blank screen and after I press a key login screen comes I change to usr and ent... | Did you compile the new kernl or just update the symlink? |
Hey. Yesterday I applied the latest updates to X11 and now I face "random" crashes in which I find myself logged out of KDE without warning. This happens when I click certain links on certain websites or scroll with either my Synaptics Touchpad or with mouse wheel clicked (making that arrow-thingy appear, sorry for lac... | I've had similar issues, much better since kernel 3.11.3+ using latest available mesa,xorg-server,libdrm and glamor with also changed my video card to a Radeon 7750 from a 4670. More info here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44099 and here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-960660-start-0-postdays-0-p... |
Hi, I'm trying to install Gnome on a fresh system and it fails with : Code: itstool -o "yelp-xsl.pot" yelp-xsl.xml.in File "/usr/bin/itstool", line 134 ret = u'' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax make[3]: *** [yelp-xsl.pot] Error 1 . . . * ERROR: gnome-extra/yelp-xsl-3.4.2 failed (compile phase): * emake failed * * If you ... | Seems itstool doesn't work if active python version is 3.x (it is in your case, right ?). I wonder, if that changes once python 3.3 is out, though there are plans to move Gnome to python3 (but, IIRC, only since 3.8 ). |
Hi, I compiled KVM support into my kernel and installed qemu and virt-manager. When creating VM in virt-manager I'm able to start it, which looks like this (it's also very slow): http://shrani.si/f/v/wb/3cjyZPfY/qemu2.png Sometimes only this is displayed: http://shrani.si/f/38/WW/3RGKaFBc/qemu3.png After that when the ... | I thought virt-manager put in a warning... hitting control and alt at the same time (without any other button) will release the focus of the window. Is this the problem you were having? I think the control-alt thing is fairly common in a lot of virtual machines and emulators. I found that my virtual machines with QEMU/... |
Hello everyone I just installed enlightenment for the first time and nothing in the menu will launch.If anyone is familiar with enlightenment please help me. I want to purge all the files and reinstall to see if that fixes it but every time I remove and reinstall it is not removing the config files that I cannot find i... | This has been a nightmare from the beginning. Three days I have been at this now I found the files to delete but it does the same thing as soon as I set the screens up in system settings it does the same thing.The menu will only work on the left monitor. |
I have a fresh install with X, fluxbox, and urxvt. According to rxvt-unicode Wiki ( http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Rxvt-unicode ), I can add the settings to "~/.Xdefaults" but "~/.Xresources" is preferred. The problem is, if I put my settings to "~/.Xresources", they are not recognized; putting them to "~/.Xdefaults" alwa... | Gentoo64 wrote: Have you tried running xrdb -load ~/.Xresources ? That did the trick. Thanks. One thing I noticed is that the settings are preserved even after I reboot the system (and even if I don't load it in "~/.xinitrc"). Do you happen to know where xrdb is storing the settings? __ sol |
This command works fine at the lxterminal Code: xautolock -time 1 -locker "sudo pm-suspend" & But I couldn't manage to get it automatically running when the user logs in. I tried many things. The last thing I tried was: Code: GNU nano 2.3.2 File: /home/ahmet/.config/autostart/.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Nam... | I found this wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDM and this line in that wiki: Quote: By default, LXDM doesn't read ~/.xinitrc but ~/.xprofile. solved my problem. I put the Code: xautolock -time 1 -locker "sudo pm-suspend" & command in the Code: ~/.xprofile file. Now things work. |
--- hi guys. I have failed installing kde for my new laptop : Code: # emerge -avj kde-base/kdebase-startkde * Messages for package kde-base/kwin-4.10.5: * ERROR: kde-base/kwin-4.10.5::gentoo failed (configure phase): * cmake failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_configure * environment, line 4410: Cal... | I see this post , it mentioned xcb-util-image package https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-964724-start-0.html after I install it, emerge kwin successfull. |
Here is my i3wm config file with the following features. German Keyboard Layout xscreensaver process started. Keybindings: Windows +E starts xfe File manager Windows +L locks the Screen with xscreensaver Volumemutekey mutes pulseaudio Volumeupkey unmutes and rises master pulseaudio channel +1dB Volumedownkey unmutes an... | You can probably use idesk for desktop icons, although that just seems wrong for a tiling wm, in my opinion. I prefer to bind commonly used applications to keyboard shortcuts. I use feh for a background, although nitrogen will work as well. I start it by adding the following to my config: Code: exec --no-startup-id feh... |
using the latest digikam under KDE if I add more than 50 folders for it to index, it seems to stall on making the thumbnails, and then crashes, it makes no difference if i use mysql, mariadb or sqlite. I have tested this on 2 different systems, and both show the same symptoms, I tried debian 7, which uses digikam 2.6 a... | if its eating 8G of memory and all the swap then there is an issue somewhere, also looking at that link I am not using face recognition, so not sure that would apply |
Hi, everyone. First timer here. I began installing Gentoo last Friday. I tried plain desktop profile at the beginning. Everything was okay. Sounds came out, could play movies smoothly, could browse the internet without any serious problem. Last night I decided to try KDE on Gentoo. So I changed to kde profile. Did emer... | Have you used alsamixer ? Maybe you have to unmute the card ... |
Hi and thanks, I am looking for docs on how to start stumpwm from xinitrc without a display manager, I have tried a couple examples but no success, the X process fails. I am grateful for any help | jk121960 wrote: Hi and thanks, I am looking for docs on how to start stumpwm from xinitrc without a display manager, I have tried a couple examples but no success, the X process fails. I am grateful for any help "it fails" doesn't qualify as "informative". Please, give us copy-pasted errors or something. Or, at least, ... |
I still use Windows (7 and 8, to be specific), and one thing I somewhat miss is "Win + NUM" shortcut. Basically you pin your favorite programs to the taskbar, and when you press, say, "Win+1", the first pinned program shows up. If it's not already running, Windows starts the program and brings it to the front; if the p... | Saving PID on initial launch seems like to great suggestion, but it didn't work for me well, because even if I know the program is already running, in order to bring it in front of others, I need to use "wmctrl -i -a $win_id" where $win_id is the window ID (not PID) managed by the window manager. I have to look though ... |
Hi, I've been having problems with UTF8 support in my urxvt. Take a look at this pstree output: Quote: # pstree ─┬────ck-launch-sessi───awesome ├─urxvt───bash───urxvt───bash The problem is that the UTF8 characters don't work in the first urxvt, but work in the second urxvt/bash. I've started the second urxvt rigth from... | Yes, I solved it. Before starting X by startx command, I executed the following command in the terminal: Code: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Now, I only need to add the same command in to the /etc/rc.local. |
Hi After last two system update I had to put Code: Driver=SQLITE instead of Code: Driver=SQLITE3 in my ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc, to get Kmail work again (akonadi server was failing complaining about missing driver). How I can upgrade to SQLITE3 to get rid of this issue? I'm sure it will be a stupid thing, but ... | There was a note somewhere that akonadi works better with mysql and that is the default (i think). Sqlie is troublesome (for me, at least). |
I'm using LXDE and every time I'm logging out I'm getting: ** (lxsession-logout:2061): WARNING **: dbus-interface.c:94: DBUS: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files Since HAL has been deprecated for some time now, I'm not sure that it has a USE flag, but even if it does - it's not hal as I ... | That message is safe to be ignored - it says only what it says. If there's no other message, lxsession is most likely using upower. |
Hi I did an emerge -uDN and after the graphical login screen there's no desktop. Is there a way to see the warnings that are generated during an emerge? Because when I came back to the box I read a warning something like "you mayhave to emerge xorg-server for your keyboard...etc"... I may have missed warnings that occu... | certem wrote: Yes I've emerged them. It's still the same. Blank screen and mouse pointer. The here /var/log/Xorg.0.log is http://bpaste.net/show/140337/ Ah, I actually deleted that suggestion after I had a look at my own log and saw the same errors. I don't think they're your problem. Code: [ 20.057] (EE) open /dev/fb0... |
The first symptom of the problem was that after upgrading Acrobat Reader (acroread), all text in the user interface (menu bar, menus, dialogs) displays as little boxes, not as letters. The debug output from acroread says, Code: (acroread:9368): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pang... | This was very helpful for me also - thank you very much. Funny though that I got this error on only one of two amd64 Gentoo machines I installed recently. |
Hello, I'm using the newest X.org and ATI proprietary drivers and ran into trouble. On the hardware size, the system is a HD 7870 and the screen is an LG 27EA53VQ (27", 1080p); the two are connected using a HDMI cable. When system boots and is in text mode everything works as expected, the text fills the screen and eve... | For me in gnome2: Applications -> System Tools -> AMD Catalyst Control Center -> Display Manager ->DTV(1) ->Adlustments ->Overscan ->0% also accessible from terminal with Code: amdcccle |
Hi Folks, I'm having some issues with my java script plugin in the midori web browser. I've tried installing both the icedtea and sun-jre-bin plugins following the instructions at the gentoo java wiki: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml When I select one of them, midori detects it in its preferences->extensions list... | Okay, I'm going to mark this one SOLVED. It turns out that my 'does it work' test was confounded by many websites discriminating against less commonly used browsers, and that when I changed a setting in midori that allows it to pretend to be a different browser (firefox, in my case), most of the issues disappeared. Unf... |
Is anyone getting the issue of a blank screen under KDE? I cant seem to get it to wake up the screen, no matter what keys I press nothing will wake the screen up, I have acpi_backlight=vendor and i915.semaphores=1 as boot options as suggest on an Arch wiki, but it still seems to happen, the shortcut keys to up the brig... | "Wake up" seems to imply that the screen lost sync and is in DPMS off mode? Or just black screen with/without mouse cursor? |
Hi all, Some odd behavior has cropped up recently with fontconfig. It never presented a problem before now. Anyway, when I load something like, say, firefox, from the console I get the following error message: Code: Fontconfig error: "/home/username/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 11: invalid attribute 'name' The ... | Can use e.g.: Code: <match> <test name="family"><string>Helvetica</string></test> <edit mode="assign" name="family" binding="strong"><string>Liberation Sans</string></edit> </match> |
Can anyone tell me why I don't have the multi-page per sheet option in Okular or is anyone else experiencing the same issue? I tried to google but don't seem to find any answer. | Is the option there and greyed out? I have the option enabled, and I can confirm it is working. I am using okular version 0.16.1 in kde 4.10.1. |
Hi, I have a little problem with xfce4: maximized windows are overlapped by the bottom panel I use, so that the bottom of the window is 'hidden' (unless I chage window size). Look, for example : http://s23.postimg.org/8kawr1vxl/Workspace_1_004.png | Are you sure the window is maximized? I had this problem, too, but I think the mistake was that the window was only as big as the screen, but not maximized. Try if it goes away if you click on the maximize button again (maybe twice). |
I've been having very bad performance in 3d applications like TF2 native, LoL in WINE, and I've been having odd issues with my KDE desktop where it will start running very poorly. At worst windows contents won't update anymore and they start to flicker. I'm seeing frame rates at about a third of what I normally see in ... | blackkstar, Please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log on a pastebin xorg.conf tells what you asked Xorg to do. The log tells what it actually did. IS you normal user in the video group? |
I recently got a second monitor, so now I'm running a dual setup. It works great, except that each boot I get a wrong resolution on the second one. But here's the strange part: I only need to turn the monitor off and on again to fix the issue. Another way of fixing it is to change resolution in the Screen settings in G... | Thanks! I've re-created a monitor settings file, as well as the radeon.conf file. Let's hope it works better next boot. |
During the week-end I shut off my computer for the first time in about a week, with the result today, that plasma desktop segfaults. I guess I must have done some update since last restart, that I have forgotten about. I have done preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild, and updated today. Still problem. I had a similar i... | albright wrote: the same to me last week; don't know what caused it I moved ~/.kde4/share/config/*plasma* and it worked again (had to reset my prefs ) Thanks, that worked - lost my settings, but at least plasma is up again! |
Problem: conky doesn't show hard disk temperature ,when start conky by shortcut ;and show hdd temp when run conky in terminal command line. I emerged conky with hddtemp use. and I had chmod +s /usr/sbin/hddtemp and in ~/.conkyrc: Code: ${color #98c2c7}HDD: ${color #db7093}${alignr}${execi 1 hddtemp -q /dev/sda|cut -c 3... | try /usr/sbin/hddtemp and see if that won't work or use the conky built in variable Code: ${hddtemp /dev/sda} |
Hello, I have the following scenario: a framework that runs a gui program. group a that all the included users can use that framework in an essence, user x from group a can execute program a1. program a1 uses sudo to run another program as user a_x which runs a gui program. as the executing user isn't user a_x, I need ... | forgot to add some outputs: Code: dagg@NCC-5001-D ~ $ emerge --info mesa x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel Portage 2.1.12.2 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.10.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ===================================... |
With Gentoo Source 3.10, Xorg 1.14, ATI Radeon HD 7850 hardware the system would hang when loading X, or provide a blank/black screen. I have this video card, in Intel i5 some ASUS mainboard, I forget which. I saw few posts related to this, so I'll just collate them together. While working on this issue I disabled star... | for starters use gentoo-sources-3.11.3 There were some bugs fixed that affected the radeonsi cards. I have a 7750. and this may help as well. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon George |
Gnome start slowly, Mouse and Keyboard don't work with GDM. Code: homeserver ~ # gdm gdm[1397]: GLib-GIO: g_dbus_method_invocation_return_gerror: assertion `error != NULL' failed gdm[1397]: GLib: g_error_free: assertion `error != NULL' failed when I tried to restart dbus, Code: homeserver ~ # /etc/init.d/dbus restart *... | clouds222, Please post your Code: emerge --info output. As a wild guess, do Code: emerge -1 xf86-input-evdev This is only inteded as a diagnostic/workaround. Its not a fix. |
I'm getting permission denied errors when I try to change mime types / default application in XFCE4. If I use sudo for permissions, it's changing the defaults for root and not for my normal user. Any ideas? | solved by taking ownership of the ~/.local/share/applications folder |
Hello, I have some problem with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~310.19 and ~313.18. As sone as I update to one of these Versions on of my Monitos (have 2 Monitors) switches on and of very fast. With 304.64 his works fine. Couln't find anything about this Problem. xorg.conf Code: # nvidia-settings: X configuration file gene... | Are you fucking crazy rmzelnick ? You are telling him to goes out of his monitors specs to setup a resolution... As of today i don't know a monitor model without a security to prevent this case, but back to old days, your suggestion could destroy his hardware. So even it doesn't appears so harmful, it's not certainly s... |
Hello, I just updated my kernel from 3.8.13 to 3.10.7 as described in the kernel upgrade guide. I manually added the appropriate entry into the grub.conf and updated grub accordingly. Now I have two entries for gentoo (one for the old and one for the new kernel). I can boot with the new kernel, however the xserver fail... | Which guide did you follow? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml#doc_chap6 |
In the past I would use this http://9oe.me/blog/?p=1170 to get the Japanese input to work with Skype. I even re-posted the link on a thread for someone else having the same difficulty. But for some odd reason it is just not working this time. Any ideas how I can fix this. Japanese input is a hard requirement for my box... | Since I expect to eventually be interested in 'ibus' etc, I tried a few things. The first thing I looked at was adding this fragment to my /etc/portage/make.conf: Code: # IBus - additional alternative input method for input of Chinese Japanese Koran text # It is possible you may want to additionally "emerge -1 ibus-ant... |
Hello everyone, recently this problem appeared on my laptop. I have some scripts in my ~/.bin/ directory. This directory is on beginning of my $PATH so gmrun used to run them with no problem, but now it complains. Look at this: Code: $[FrostyX ~]-> echo $PATH /home/frostyx/.bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/us... | 1) When did this start happening? 2) What changed? |
Hello, I'm trying to install KDE as per the instructions in this guide and, while I've made it this far figuring stuff out on my own through trial-and-error, Google, and searching these forums, I've hit a road block. The kwin package will not emerge, and after looking at the build.log it seems as though some compiler s... | Emerging xcb-util-renderutil solved this issue |
I recently upgraded to the latest stable KDE offered in Gentoo: version 4.10.5. Everything went smoothly and for the most part, I am enjoying the new system. However I noticed some CPU activity I wasn't expecting and a simple look at "htop" showed me it was "nepomukservicestub" and "virtuoso". As far as I can tell, the... | Probably this? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475464 |
I have mail-client/thunderbird-17.0.8 installed, and it works like a charm, except for one quibble: When I delete an RSS feed, it gets moved to Trash, which is fine. However next time I start Thunderbird, the feed is back in its old place, while the other copy in Trash is still there, too! Similarly, if I even delete t... | Try closing Thunderbird and check the profile directory. For example I have feeds messages in ~/.thunderbird/9uqddt4r.default/Mail/Feeds, your directory is different. If you have a folder you want to remove in the RSS feed called "Gentoo" then you should have a two files: one simply called "Gentoo" and the other "Gento... |
slim + xfce4 >>log in xfce4 with slim instead of "startx" 1.boot computer 2.log in xfce4 with slim 3.swtich to tty1..6 4.swtich to tty7 all is OK BUT >>log in xfce4 with command "startx" 1.boot computer 2.log in tty1..6 && "startx" ( cat ~/.xinitrc , get "exec startxfce4" ) 3.switch to tty1..6 4.switch to tty7 ERROR! n... | First, your life will be much easier if you log the output of startx: Code: startx &> ~/startx-errors then look in that file to see what is going in. It sounds like SLiM had already started on vt7 before you ran startx. If that is the case then the session started by startx will be in vt8. Use <Ctrl><Alt><F8> to get to... |
I've installed Fluxbox + SLiM. Running startx works great, X and Fluxbox start up as expected. Unfortunately, logging in from SLiM dumps me out to the login prompt at the console. My configuration is as cach0rr0 describes in this topic: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-951578-highlight-slim+fluxbox.html The only e... | As Root: Code: /etc/init.d/dbus start rc-update add dbus default rc-update del xdm default && rc-update add xdm default /etc/init.d/xdm restart |
After recent upgrade I'm getting an error when trying to start the virtualbox: Code: Failed to access the USB subsystem. Could not load the Host USB Proxy service: VERR_NOT_FOUND. Details: Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x00004005) Component: Host Interface: IHost {dab4a2b8-c735-4f08-94fc-9bec84182e2f} Callee: IMachine... | Vorlon wrote: I assume you've tried the obvious "emerge virtualbox virtualbox-modules". Do you have all 4 virtualbox modules loaded? lsmod should show that you have vboxpci, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, & vboxdrv loaded. If any of those were missing, that might cause the error you've seen. I'm using "virtualbox-bin virtualb... |
I have no problems with root and fluxbox. However when I try to use fluxbox on my new user, it doesn't work. I copied the .fluxbox directory from root to my user's directory, and did chown for it. However, fluxbox is still having issues reading my configuration. This is the ls -al of my directory: /home/dj/.fluxbox Quo... | Add your user to vboxusers. See: Running VirtualBox VirtualBox - Gentoo Wiki wrote: Users will not be able to run and use VirtualBox if they are not a member of the "vboxusers" group. Code: root # gpasswd -a <user> vboxusers As a side Note: Code: rm -vR /home/dj/.fluxbox/* Allow fluxbox to start with the default config... |
For some reason, ksysguard ("System Monitor") on my laptop does not have any sensors active in the CPU or Network History graphs in the System Load tab. Weird. Is it possible to add sensors to these existing graphs? I don't want to have to create a new tab. Thanks, cheers. | Yes, that is the conclusion I came to. So it begs the question, why do the default tabs not include the same CPU and network sensors that appeared on my other system? Weird. |
Hello. I have a good chunk of my applications non-functional due to what appears to be a file-collision. There are is one application that depends on emul-linux-x86-sdl, that is wine, and it's because I have a 64-bit system. That seems to be unavoidable. However emul-linux-x86-sdl installs the same files as openal, cau... | On a 64bit system media-libs/openal-1.13 should not install ANY files into /usr/lib32/ Please add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" to /etc/make.conf, rebuild media-libs/openal and check if the problem persists. |
Hello all, I got gentoo successfully installed, dual booted, and X working thanks to some good advice here from the gentoo forums. I have installed dwm and gotten it somewhat configured and am using rxvt which is nice, but the question that I have is: 1) how do I pipe conky to the status bar up at the top for dwm? All ... | DWM reads the title of the root window and uses that for the status bar text; so to get conky information in the status bar, you have to put that information in the root window title. From https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dwm#Conky_statusbar : Put this in your ~/.xinitrc file: Code: conky | while read -r; do xsetro... |
Hi, I just upgraded to Gnome 3.8 and systemd and I am unable to delete network connections from nm-connection-editor even though I run it as root in gnome 3.8. Where does Gnome stores network configurations in version 3.8? Kind regards, Rok | rokj wrote: Hi, I just upgraded to Gnome 3.8 and systemd and I am unable to delete network connections from nm-connection-editor even though I run it as root in gnome 3.8. Where does Gnome stores network configurations in version 3.8? Kind regards, Rok Its is turning out that it has something to do with DHCP, so if I s... |
this is run from a script that's started by a desktop file to pop up a terminal to temporarily interact with. I need to: 1. prevent terminal from closing immediately after input since I may have entered it wrong and need to re-enter; 2. use the open terminal to temporarily block subsequent things in the script from run... | turns out an openconnect option was causing the problem ("--setuid" which is to drop to user privs after vpn is up). I tried many experiments including nohup/disown, other terminals/shells, etc., but not until I removed that option did the session stay up after terminal was closed. I can use that option if I copy/paste... |
I'm quite happy with my minimal system, in which I can recognize every process I see in htop because *I* launched them. Well, not every one. Whenever I launch a gtk+-3.6 application I see 3 new processes that remain even after I exit that application: Code: fran 30332 0.0 0.0 258920 2800 ? Sl 16:41 0:00 /usr/libexec/at... | Just found a post that lead me to a solution: setting NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 somewhere in the environment avoids gtk3 programs spawning that stupid daemon. I had to apply this patch too. BTW, this response is quite eye-opening: Quote: So these seem to fall into the "people wanting to consume GTK3 outside of the GNOME schedule"... |
Hi, I need to change my keyboard layout (the Xorg one), but solutions found on the internet didn't work: I read that I should put a conf file like "10-keyboard.conf" in the "xorg.conf.d" directory. The problem is that there wasn't such a directory, so I decided to create it manually, I put in it the .conf file but it d... | setxkbmap usually isn't a solution, just a proof you're doing something wrong. For evdev driver, XkbRules are meaningless and XkbModel shouldn't matter, but you need to filter paths. As for the initial value, just swap the order in both Layout and Variant. But do you really need two layouts or are you just copy/pasting... |
Hello. I am trying awesome. I got 384-th error after starting. Google says nothing, or I am blind a little. Code: ~ $ DISPLAY=:1.0 awesome E: awesome: main:384: cannot open display My configs here: Code: ~ $ cat .xinitrc exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session awesome Code: ~ $ cat .config/aw... | simply run Code: $ startx that will read your .xinitrc and launch the commands you specified in there. Mine looks like this: Code: $ cat .xinitrc #ck-launch-session /usr/bin/enlightenment_start mv ~/.xsession-errors ~/.xsession-errors.old compton --config ~/.config/compton.conf 2>> ~/.xsession-errors & exec awesome 2>>... |
My new laptop has a most annoying problem I specifically got an intel card so it would be pain free. This isn't the case. When booting, my screen goes black unless I add 'nomodeset' to the kernel command line. Naturally, this results in startx failing with the famous Fatal server error: (EE) no screens found(EE) since ... | Its a Lenovo G780 with an Intel video card. |
When I run dropbox with fluxbox in Ubuntu, I see a little icon in the status area. http://s24.postimg.org/66j9voa4j/fluxbox_dropbox.png It's pretty handy, because I can verify whether all my files are synced or not. But when I tried the same thing in Gentoo (fluxbox + dropbox), I'm not able to make the icon to show up.... | Does this trick help? |
Hello Gentoomen, I have been using Gentoo for about 3-4 months now, still learning alot but I have a pretty nice grasp on it for a beginner. I have been customizing my DE though, and for some reason Feh does not want to autostart for me. I included feh into my .xsession/(symbolic link) .xinitrc as well, but still nothi... | I'm using dwm with feh too. .xinitrc: Code: conky | while read -r; do xsetroot -name "$REPLY"; done & st & st & feh --bg-scale /path/to/picture & exec dwm this should work... |
Hi, I see same fail above in several packages. Is the wrong about my system? Code: tux cy # emerge usbutils * IMPORTANT: 8 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/package.license' needs updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section... | hcyildiran, Code: GENTOO_MIRRORS="URIs" is not a valid GENTOO_MIRRORS list. If you comment it out, it will use the default mirror at Oregon State University Open Source Lab. To get a list of mirrors, use mirrorselect. mirrorselect speed tests all the Gentoo distfiles mirrors it knows about and selects the best ones for... |
I have installed gnome 3.8 with systemd . I find I only installed virtual/udev and did not install sys-fs/udev and sys-fs/eudev . Is this abnormal ? Thanks | yes, look into less /usr/portage/virtual/udev*.ebuild |
I recently installed funtoo on my PC. When I got around to installing kde, kwin fails to compile. Version number is 4.11. I am chrooting through Kubuntu 13.04 during the installation, however the error persists even if i boot straight into funtoo. Here is the output of "emerge --info '=kde-base/kwin-4.11.0'": Code: ===... | Yes, funtoo always lags behind with the portage tree. |
Has anyone else been having the issue of some thumbnails of PDF files showing up dolphin, while others just show a blank white box? Also has anyone who is using okular noticing that it has been extremely slow to load thumbnails of pages, and in rendering the main page This is on a core i7 machine so i doubt that the CP... | I think it is an issue with the thumb preview as it is fine under XFCE all show the cover as it should, I use mupdf on XFCE and agree its fast, will try the other program you mentioned. Some open like you say almost instant, others take minutes for the previews to show |
I recently upgraded to kernel 3.6.6 (this is built with genkernel with the arguments "all --menuconfig --splash=natural_gentoo splash-res=1024x768") and Xorg-server 1.13.0-r1 and I switched from the ati fglrx drivers to the open source radeon drivers (my ati chip is an RV710 and as far as I gathered, this is no longer ... | If you use genkernel, then you can also use genkernel --menuconfig If the radeon driver is built as module, you must ensure that it loads before X starts. This is typically done through /etc/conf.d/modules |
hi. i need to run .jnlp files on my desktop. as i know it is java web start apps. so i already installed jre but i have no ideas how to run .jnlp . can you help me guys?[/b] | I read documentation from Oracle about jnlp files. Quote: The JNLP file specifies the name of the main JAR file, the version of Java Runtime Environment software that is required to run the RIA, name and display information, optional packages, runtime parameters, system properties, and so on.* Do you have necessary jar... |
With GTK2 there's a dozen standalone theme-switch programs and a whole bunch of themes available, but GTK3 looks like something out of a 1980s CDE desktop complete with comically large fonts. Given that GTK2 support is being ripped out of existing portage packages at the rate it is, I'd have expected such basic things ... | lxappearance does gtk3 config |
This is using multi-lib ~amd64 xorg-server-1.14.2.90 for various ' reasons '.. Manual login with startx can be made to work. The manual says that slim will pass %session as empty-string if no session selected -- that is: .xinitrc will obtain $1=<empty> in that case So in .xinitrc, I Code: # DEFAULT_SESSION=e16 DEFAULT_... | If you select no session, $1 is empty, so $DEFAULT_SESSION, i.e. "e16" is substituted. If you select e16 then "starte16" is executed. This explains the difference. I do not know what is the supposed way to start e16; perhaps it requires additional actions or certain environmen variables to be set or some parameters pas... |
Hi, since a recent BIOS update I have problems with my display backlight in KDE. I'm using an ASUS N56VZ laptop with an onchip Intel GPU plus a NVIDIA GeForce 650M via Bumblebee. The problem seems to be that X picks the wrong backlight folder from /sys/class/backlight/. The folder looks like this: Code: acpi_video0 acp... | Finally figured it out by myself. What I did: Create a directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d Move my /etc/X11/xorg.conf which contains only input specific stuff to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-input.conf Create a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with the following content: Code: Section "Device" Identifier "HD 4000" Driver ... |
Hello, i can't emerge plasma-workspace while upgrading to kde4.4.0 thats the error i got: Code: [ 79%] Building CXX object plasma/netbook/containments/newspaper/CMakeFiles/plasma_containment_newspaper.dir/applettitlebar.o Linking CXX shared module ../../../../lib/plasma_containment_netpanel.so CMakeFiles/plasma_contain... | Try with FEATURES="-ccache". |
Hallo One of my most important programs, the Netnewsticker, doesn't compile now. Unfortunately I'm not able to customise the ebuild. The Error message means EAPI 3 is not compatible. Is there anybody who can help me? Here are ebuild and patch code. But there seem to be an other problem. Is it possible that the new plas... | franzf wrote: Changing EAPI=3 to EAPI=4 IMHO should work. (if the error is only about EAPI compatibility) Yes, it seem to work. But there is also the problem with plasma-workspace and rss tag. Code: kde-base/plasma-workspace:4 (kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.11.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with >=kde-b... |
Several things require authentication and some don't work. I think it is a permissions problem. When I insert a usb flash drive I have to authenticate to mount it. If I want to restart my laptop I have to authenticate. NetworkManager/nm-applet will not let me disconnect from one network and connect to another. However ... | Did you add your user to the necessary groups? |
After my last update, vlc stopped working. I tried rolling back the vlc version as well as the updated packages. It still sigfaults on startup. I also removed a few KDE components, (kate, okular, ark, kdelibs) and their dependencies, however vlc wasn't built with USE=kde and didn't depend on any of the removed packages... | There don't appear to be any major differences other than I am using -gnome and -udev. Since my build is crashing on startup before it can even do simple things like --version or --help, I seriously doubt that support for different features and codecs is used in the code and therefore the source of the sigfault. Howeve... |
Hi all, sorry if this has been asked somewhere else already. For about 3 days I'm trying to fix my gnome-desktop. After the update to 3.8, gdm seems not to start gnome-desktop. The login fields disapear, the background keeps unchanged and I can move the mouse. Nothing else Does anyone have an idea about this? I updated... | Have you tried starting Gnome 3.8 without gdm? <ctrl><alt>F1 to the 1st console and "systemctl disable gdm" then "systemctl stop gdm". Change to F2 console login as a user and try startx.... Do you get your gnome desktop ? JohnY |
Hello everyone! I'm new to Gentoo, and my system is working beautifully, except for one thing. I installed KDE using startkde and I also installed Konqueror and Yakuake. However, whenever I click an icon in the menu to open anything in Konqueror, it begins opening hundreds of windows without end, and I have to stop it ... | Did you install dolphin? |
Hello, Each time I try to add an online account, a segfault happens after the authentication. This happens with google or facebook accounts so I don't think it is related to the type of account. Here is what I've got with gdb : Code: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007fffec748380 in json_object... | Ok, so apparently upgrading dev-libs/json-glib to version 0.16.0 solved my problem. |
hi everyone I've been using gentoo for quite some time now and I've always found the solution to my problems somewhere in this forum or elsewhere in the web. however, I haven't found a solution to this particular problem so I thought I'd post it myself this time. in short: gwenview-4.10.5 doesn't emerge ... seems like ... | It was fixed half an week ago in Portage, Quote: *gwenview-4.10.5-r1 (03 Aug 2013) 03 Aug 2013; Jonathan Callen <jcallen@gentoo.org> +gwenview-4.10.5-r1.ebuild: Revision bump to fix build with multilib libjpeg-turbo Plus the icedtea-bin issue is tracked at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479442 |
I`m using kde. I couldnt change keyboard language. I applied https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Configuration made changes but /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ doesnt exist Code: # ls /etc/X11/ Sessions chooser.sh startDM.sh xdm xinit help please | hcyildiran, Make a file called /etc/X11/xorg.conf My file contains Code: Section "InputClass" Identifier "UK keyboard" Driver "evdev" MatchIsKeyboard "on" Option "xkbmodel" "evdev" Option "xkblayout" "gb" # Option "xkbvariant" "deadgraveacute" # Option "xkbrules" "base" Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" EndSection Fo... |
The dev-qt/qt*-4.8.5 series has been unmasked in portage and "emerge @world" wants to upgrade them but I get a whole series of messages indicating conflicts with dev-qt/qt*-4.8.4. I honestly don't understand how I need to interpret these and resolve them. i.e. I don't understand why emerge won't perform the upgrades an... | check if you have qt designer install, if not, install it (without the phonon flag, there is a bug with it) and try again. |
Hello, how can I change my system to xfce 4.10? I'm using gnome 2, and I want to remove all gnome 2 packages and only use xfce 4. | Be aware that a certain number of libraries will come along for the ride. First you will want to adjust your profile and use flags. use eselect profile to set the desktop one instead of gnome. You may also want to set -gnome in your make.conf USE variable. Next, you probably want to have X while you work, so install xf... |
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