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Greetings, I have been trying to emerge dev-libs/nss because it is required for chrome and adobe flash player. I read all the comparable threads but they're not giving me my solution to this problem. Those threads are also a bit outdated so this is my last resort to get my desktop gentoo 100% working. I get the followi... | A significant portion of build log seems missing. It's probably cause your make.conf is broken. It's exported verbatim, so you can't put random variable names in there and you did exactly that in your [Use Flags] section. |
I let my system run completely out of disk space. I have a big problem now (even after clearing space). When I try to log into Gnome as my normal user, I just see the desktop background and my cursor spins endlessly. I noticed that nautilus seems to be having issues, as it's starting over and over (I know because its P... | I solved my problem. Through a ton of trial and error, I discovered that (a presumably corrupted) ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache was the culprit. Removing it got rid of the problem. A bit of googling informed me that it's a cache of the other files in that directory, and a quick 'update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mim... |
after upgrading, akonadi refuses to start: Code: # akonadictl start akonadictl: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_program_options-mt-1_49.so.1.49.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory boost was also updated, so I tried to mask dev-libs/boost-1.51.0-r1, but now it refuses to downgrade... | albright wrote: I'm confused about whether you still have/had this problem *after* revdep-rebuild ... can you clarify? revdep-rebuild is still running I changed my message a little. Sorry for the misunderstanding. --Kees |
After being away from my home PC for almost half an year, I have decided to update my system. Consequently, now I have some weird problems with pulseaudio and udev. Pulseaudio does not enlist the internal audio device after restarting the system. It could be solved by killing pulseaudio, but I am personally looking for... | emerge -auvND --with-bdeps=y world && revdep-rebuild && dispatch-conf expect problems. This will probably fail. 6 months is really really pushing it for a system update. To kill a fly with a sledge hammer, you can try emerge -e system world && dispatch-conf |
hi all , I do not like to update my gentoo frequently cause compile takes me a long time,but some days ago, I decided to upgrade my Xorg server to 1.13 and gentoo-source kernel 3.6.2 . it sucks me . the X was crash at login window, the screen was blank. sometimes you can see the mouse loading with the circle.I try to f... | Perhaps you should set "rc-update add udev-mount sysinit" to get it working. There are one or two threads about this issue here on the forums when you upgrade udev. |
I'll pull this problem to the new thread from https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-942726-highlight-.html since I am not sure this issue is the same Just updated and xorg-server and it fails to start with my old xorg.conf X starts if I remove xorg.conf, but fails if xorg.conf is present either in /etc/X11 or in /etc/X... | Code: equery u xf86-video-intel |
Last weekend after an update (~x86) my KDE desktop stopped working properly. KDM shows up for a few seconds and then crashes, falling back to console. Using startx to fire up the desktop works. The desktop looks functional but there is no proper rendering. It's not possible to change settings, have a usable file manage... | As I realized today i965_dri.so is really missing in /usr/lib/dri. I stumbled over this after checking my Xorg.0.log again and my /usr/lib/dri. |
I have a bug to install file-roller-2.32.2 but it just 16 package before complete Gnome install. Now question is: Can I install other 15 packages manually and run gnome incompletely until find a way for solve this bug? ( I think I must solve it myself because in bug pages they said it SOLVED!!! ). I need Desktop to run... | It work! |
Hi I'm in first installing and don't know what to do with this error in gnome compile time! another question is : all compiled file are losed and i must start again? Please help me! Regards Code: [32;01m * [39;49;00mPackage: app-arch/file-roller-2.32.2 [32;01m * [39;49;00mRepository: gentoo [32;01m * [39;49;00mMaintain... | Any Idea? |
Hello, I switched from Gnome 3.4 to KDE 4.9.2 (I have near zero experience with KDE) starting from 'kde-base/kdebase-meta' and it goes almost smoothly, but I found two issues that I can't solve: 1 - Dolphin won't create any thumbnail: Code: kde-base/dolphin-4.9.2 USE="semantic-desktop thumbnail (-aqua) -debug -handbook... | I would hazard a guess that this is a feature not a bug. If it really bothers you, you can try renaming Documents to documents like this: mv Documents documents |
So I have two monitors and I've read up on how to get two monitors to work. Right now, I'm running lxde. Startx works fine with mouse and keyboard both working. Both monitors show the same thing. I want two extend the screen to the second monitor. How would I do that? I read here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-conf... | figured it out. I had to make my own file. |
I'm curious if anyone would have any advice for this experience I'm having... I am running the Awesome Window Manger and X.. I do not use Gnome or KDE or any other window managers. I wrote a simple Java program and I am running it with appletviewer . The .html file that I run my applet from sets the canvas width and he... | There was a problem related to the window manager name (which was what I suspected). The solution is to install the wmname utility which is in the portage tree. Here is a link to the utility for more detailed information. http://tools.suckless.org/wmname |
Well the keyboard works well in the terminal but stop working in X. I'm using a Dell Vostro 1450 laptop and am brand new to gentoo. Here's my Xorg.0.log http://bpaste.net/show/52471 And my kernel config http://bpaste.net/show/52473 What's causing the error?[/url] | add INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" to /etc/portage/make.conf either Code: emerge xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-synaptics or Code: emerge -av xorg-server which should include xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-synaptics |
desktop: openrc + gnome 3.6 -> no problem laptop: systemd + gnome 3.6 -> worked and then broke after some updates I am currently mostly using my desktop, but I would like to transition to systemd with both systems for the future. However when I boot my laptop gnome(-shell) fails to start (the typical "oh no, s.th. went... | First, sorry for no help on the systemd front (or udevsystempulseaudiod, as it's called, that just got webserver and QRCode abilities). But, just out of curiosity, why do you want to migrate your systems? It's clearly being ignored in serious distros, for the time being, and there is talk about forking udev etc. I real... |
Hi, Yesterday my konsole stopped work. After starting konsole, I can can change setting, manage profiles, colors, change cursor blinking etc - but I CAN'T type anything into the konsole. I reemerged konsole, deleted old config files - still the same. I use kde-base/konsole 4.9.2 Next to the blinking cursor I can't see ... | see this post https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-940164-highlight-konsole.html Basically update openrc to 0.11.1 and Code: rc-update add udev-mount sysinit |
I need your help, guys! I was trying to change my E17 gtk theme and I tried to explore the rest of the Settings (bad for me). I pressed "Backlight" (without having change something or press "apply") and from that moment my screen becomes black and returns only with the mouse to be black again after a while! I'm gonna g... | Solution: Settings Panel --> Blanking --> Uncheck "Enable Screen Blanking" and check "Suspend on blank"! I don't know how this stuff was checked! I didn't do it, I swear! |
Hi there, here's my make.conf http://bpaste.net/show/52202/ here's my xorg.conf http://bpaste.net/show/52203/ is it something wrong about it? I still have english layout on my keyboard. | google says Code: nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the line in section "InputDevice" Option "XkbLayout" "pl2" to. Option "XkbLayout" "pl" On next log-in you will have all polish letters, even in terminal. |
Hi. I have been suffering this issue for quite a while now, but have not managed to fix it. For some reason, some webpages' fonts render incorrectly in Firefox, with some pairs of characters being rendered in bold. For example, http://www.spring.org.uk/ suffers from this ( http://oi48.tinypic.com/24wu15v.jpg ). I have ... | I did notice a pattern but I didn't know what it was exactly, thanks for pointing that out I have looked around, still no luck in finding anything though. I have a horrible feeling that I may have some remnants of my experiments with the various font overlays, as I would expect this to be a pretty widespread issue if i... |
I'm having a problem with my USB mouse. It's a Razer Imperator and I've seen a couple other posts regarding people having trouble with this mouse. None of them had a solution. When Xorg starts, I just can't move the mouse at all. Here is my Xorg log pertaining to this device: Code: [ 16.637] (II) config/udev: Adding in... | 0x001A4 wrote: None of them had a solution. It works for this guy . |
CPU frequency scaling monitor applet disappears from Add to Panel dialog. Prior existing applets of same disappear from panel after newer ebuild revision emerged. Emerged gobject-introspection dev-libs/dbus-glib again after initial update of gnome-applets (as noted in the elog summarys) before I restarted gnome into th... | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439768 Thanks. I see someone just put that up. bugs.gentoo.org has wanted a public e-mail address which kept me from filing it prior and I tend to err on my mistakes being strongly viewed as PEBKAC before I'd file. Will mark topic solved if the bug report receives a confirm. |
Hi all, after emerging world this weekend I can not open any terminal anymore form within a window manager. Gnome-terminal says: "getpt failed: file or directory not found". I checked - mounting /dev/pts: is mounted, - grepped pts in /etc/fstab: not included, - checked /dev/ptmx: is present. One thing I noticed while b... | sws, What do you have inside /dev/pts ? |
bpaste.net/show/51326 bpaste.net/show/51327 | xcislav, What you have is three xterms, xclock all running in twm, which is actually a very nice window manager. (Well, I like it) If you don't have a mouse, check your kernel for EVDEV Code: $ grep EVDEV /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y # CONFIG_USB_PWC_INPUT_EVDEV is not set is the right answer. Fix your k... |
Hi there, I've did great configuration using http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Synaptics_Touchpad/Xorg_7.3 (synclient option=x) Unfortunatelly it was all gone after rebooting system. How to make it permanent? Thanks! | IIRC, "SHMConfig" has been obsolete since xorg-server 1.8. |
i booted my system after serveral days, now i cannot open a prompt anymore ... i just get this: http://i.imgur.com/vFGWA.png xterm wont even start up when i switch to the console (ctrl+alt+f1), login and the prompt works for every user. so the bash profiles are not the problem. i have absolutely no clue what even the p... | First check out bash: Code: # ls -lh /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 733K Oct 20 05:13 /bin/bash if it looks fine, Then place something like this in /usr/local/bin/test.sh: Code: #!/bin/bash printenv>/tmp/envprint /bin/bash and then check what command konsole is using on startup, if it's '/bin/bash' set Code: /usr/loc... |
Hello Everyone, I am currently running Chromium 23.0.1271.22, and have noticed that it consistently crashes on various Google sites. For instance, I get the "Aw, Snap!" page for any search on images.google.com, and the front page of news.google.com. There may be others, but those are the two that are causing the bigges... | jasn wrote: BTW, I'm still getting this error with the latest chromium-23.0.1271.26. Please report things like that on the bug tracker in the future, I was not aware upstream has not merged this at .26 time, and we are likely to be backporting the patches on Gentoo. The main difference is that package maintainers are g... |
I ran the following on a brand new install: echo "modules=\"nvidia\"" >> /etc/conf.d/modules echo "VIDEO_CARDS=\”nvidia\”" >> /etc/make.conf echo "INPUT_DEVICES=\”evdev\”" >> /etc/make.conf echo "x11-base/xorg-server udev" >> /etc/portage/package.use emerge xorg-server emerge nvidia-drivers emerge twm emerge xterm env-... | Have you started dbus? Every time I build a new Gentoo box, I forget to do this, and starting X leaves me with no keyboard and mouse (and therefore no way to ctrl-alt-backspace out). |
I don't know if this is a feature of if it's borked. Basically, when I read an email and it's marked unread, it's only visible until that instance ends. Actually, if I go to another folder and come back to my Inbox (and it's refreshed), the read emails vanish. Subfolders are fine. It's only the inbox. Updated it yester... | The latest Thunderbird is 15.x. Try that. |
In my desktop, trash and home dirs icons both show up as gears! No matter what I do they always appear as gears. How can I get the Home and Trash can icons back? Something I tried ... Starting a desktop from scratch fixes the problem, but I need all configurations I have. So, I decided to copy the from scratch .desktop... | Did you try to find files that have the names trash.desktop? Have a look at the contain of them and check the line named icon. See to what picture it is associate. The icon is shown within a files browser. Then drop the trash.desktop file to your desktop. it should use the same icon. Then delete the gear one. You can a... |
I find that I cannot start Libreoffice without disabling X11 access control. I have no problems with any other installed apps, so I don't know what the issue here is. Code: alex@alex-thinks ~/Downloads $ lowriter Doc1.doc XDM authorization key matches an existing client!/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin X11 er... | Circuitsoft wrote: So, the fix seems to be to add Code: DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 to /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config /me wonders whether you checked before w/o xdm (simply by startx or xinit) or not ... |
Heres pretty much everything i did. I updated portage. I unmerged xorg-server I emerged xorg-x11 I completely updated my world and then did a depclean. Now when i start X i get this. Code: [ 25.810] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" [ 25.810] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev [ 25.810] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [ 25.810... | rabcor, What is listed in your INPUT_DEVICES= ? |
Hey again, Third thread. I feel like a noob but I am trying to do as much research as I can on gentoo/linux etc. Alright so I decided it is time I install a Desktop Environment so I chose xfce. I followed http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml yet when I run startx I get a no screens found error. Xorg.0.log Code:... | watch for the lines with (EE) in the Xorg.0.log The nvidia binary module Quote: Kernel driver in use: nvidia and the xorg nouveau-module are mutually exclusive. If you want to use xorg with automagic configuration (no configfile) you have to use nouveau; if you want to use the nvidia binary module you have to use a con... |
I try to install E-17. I followed the instructions from Gentoo wiki, but I have some issues. This was the result of eix-sync: Code: # eix-update Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix/portage.eix) .. [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-md5-or-flat) Reading category 156|156 (100%) Finished... | Yeah, the overlay has pretty broken code and there's some missing ebuilds. The error spam's even worse in paludis. You should be able to install the rest no problem though. |
Hi, I have a problem getting a Geforce 8400 GS graphics card to work satisfactory with a Flatron 915FT Plus screen. I have tried configuring the screen in xorg.conf but X11 seems to ignore that section... X11 just uses the default 1024x768 resolution at 60 Hz, but I'm sure the screen can make 1600x1200 at 85 Hz. It see... | xrandr often gives useful information about connected screens and available configurations. Furthermore what's about starting X without any xorg.conf ? |
hello all, I have a hotplug based multiseat setup with 2 seats, the first is mine which uses a logitech mk250 wireless mouse/keyboard combo, the second uses a wired ibm keyboard and genius tablet. for some reason my setup gets delays in reaction of the inputs or even miss events, it looks like the driver is just stuck.... | ok, I think I've found my issue, it started first when I pressed CTRL+ALT+F1 from seat 2 to drop to shell and seat 1 actually dropped. I've looked in the net and found this: https://jeremy.visser.name/2009/08/multiseat-tips/ going thought the page I've stumbled on this: Quote: When launching X.Org (or in your gdm.conf ... |
Fresh install on desktop. Trying to emerge xorg drivers: Code: # emerge xorg-drivers Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Running pre-merge checks for x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.6.2 * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/l... | rpil, Code: Resolving xorg.freedesktop.org... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address `xorg.freedesktop.org suggests that something has trampled over /etc/resolv.conf or that your dhcp server does not send you nameserver entries. |
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out why gnome color manager keeps failing. Any help would be appreciated! Code: Portage 2.1.11.24 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.5.3-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings =====================================... | nuzzy wrote: Code: docbook2man gcm-calibrate.sgml > /dev/null Quite obviously, something without that '> /dev/null ' suffix would be far more useful. And yes, that's the upstream's silly idea. |
Hello everyone, So after finally having a success gentoo install, I decided it is time I decide on a Desktop Environment. So I initially found out I would need xorg in order to get the gnome desktop. I decided I would follow http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml When I emerge xorg-server though it fails to do a ... | JmpEax, Code: VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau vesa" needs proper kernel support - some things must be on, some off. vesa will work with any card made since 1998 but there is no acceleration. So. Drop nouveau from your VIDEO_CARDS for now and emerge xorg-server again. Packages you have already emerged will not be rebuilt. When it ... |
I'm having some trouble with my compose key, and I'm hoping someone can help me. It works for some key combinations in some programs, but not for the same key combinations in other programs. compose+e+' produces é in KMail, but compose+"+> will not produce ”. (but it does in Chrome!) Similarly, in KMail, compose+a+o pr... | I've determined that all KDE applications use one set of compose key combinations, while non-KDE programs use another set (which happens to be the one I'm used to). I find this strange, because, on my desktop (as opposed to the laptop I'm using currently), KDE uses the same compose combinations as non-KDE programs. Doe... |
Hello~ In my .xsession-errors, there are some error messages. I don't know why this comes and how to solve them. By googling, I found there have been many issues on them but I cannot find the solution. Quote: (gnome-settings-daemon:3693): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output (gnome... | What does your xorg log look like? |
I'm having trouble with a world update because xorg-server>1.9.5 seems to have been masked. Since the online package database says that xorg-server 1.13 is marked as stable x86 and I've been using xorg-sercer >1.9 on other systems for a long time (amd64, though) I wonder if perhaps the server I synced portage with migh... | You could just take a look . |
I'm fairly new to gentoo but have been using other distros for awhile now. I have kde plasma on the 3.4.9 kernel. I was trying to recover a file using grep but I never shutdown xdm before running init 1. Now it doesn't matter what runlevel I have The kernel boot to it doesn't change the runlevel of the Xserver. It give... | onecallaway8705, Welcome to Gentoo. I suspect you have some hidden (start with a .) filenames in ~ or /root related to Xorg, so Xorg thinks its running already. The easiest way to test this is to make a new user, so these files cannot exist, then use that user. If it works for the new user, hunt down the files for othe... |
I have upgraded xorg-server to 1.11 and the intel card isn't recognized anymore. Fails to load DRM device. and other errors. I get screen not found. I checked the output and found out that there is no /dev/dri. Here is the complete output of Xorg.0.log: Code: X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-11-04 [ 3819.654] X... | queen, /dev/dri is provided by the kernel. Turn off any hardware framebuffer drivers. Turn on Intel in agpgart and in DRM in the kernel. Turn on KMS (Kernel mode setting) under one of the intel options. At one time KMS was optional, its not true any more. You will get a framebuffer console for free. |
Hello. Every time I try to print something from my firefox, google chrome. thunderbird, whichever application I am using it instantly crashes when I click on print. I'm using cups 1.5.3 as that's the most recent version of cups which is compatible with my Kodak ESP 5250 printer and c2esp open source kodak driver. I've ... | Did you by any chance upgrade from cups-1.5.3 to cups-1.6.1 and then downgrade to 1.5.3? I ask because when I did that (I reverted to 1.5.3 because of bug STR #4155 in 1.6.1) I experienced exactly the same problem as you. I tried revdep-rebuild too, without success. I never found a solution and ended up having to re-me... |
For quite some time I have been suffering from total system freeze when my screen saver has been active for a while or sometimes when I initiate shut down of my system. I have been looking extensively among similar problems in the Gentoo Forum and on the web. But I have not found anyone with an identical problem, thoug... | dalek wrote: You may also want to try the nvidia drivers. It's odd but sometimes one rig works great with the 3rd party nvidia drivers but another rig works best with the Nvidia drivers. So, if one could be causing a problem, try the other. Do you mean I have to set Code: VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" instead of Code: VIDEO_CAR... |
Hello, this problem has bothered me for a long time. I am running xfce 4.10 on my laptop. After starting the xfce, the xfce power manager can't control the display by defaul, for example, reducing the brightness, switching off the monitor if the laptop is inactive for the time that I set in the preference. However ther... | If you unplug it and power manager starts working, maybe it's set to not change the display while plugged in? |
Does anyone think that they can post a tutorial to install compiz fusion as a standalone? I read a outdated version on of gentoo's wiki's but I prefer the newer compiz better. Also is it true that compiz will be unsupported? Or will Gentoo not support it anymore? | Does /sys/class/drm list your monitor connection? Have you got xf86-video-ati installed? Are you using an xorg.conf? (it should work without one) |
I have a major problem getting nouveau to work with xorg. It worked some time ago until I recompiled the kernel using a different config file (sadly, I lost the working one...). I have tried editing the kernel config for some time but I can't get it working. The nouveau kernel driver works except that startx gives me e... | lilrc, Everything you posted looks good, so the problem must be with something you didn't post. Can we see your kernel .config file please. The decompressed /proc/config.gz is preferred but if thats not there, the .config that belongs to the kernel shown by Code: uname -a That may or may not be the same kernel as point... |
Morning all, I have a strange dbus issue that I can't seem to get to the bottom of when I'm starting up a GNOME session through GDM for the first time. It seems that the dbus daemon is 'hanging' on startup, where I cannot launch any dbus reliant apps such as Gnome Terminal and Nautilus. I need to stop dbus for Gnome Te... | Looking into this more I found the following errors in .xsession-errors. Anyone know how this could be fixed? Code: (gnome-settings-daemon:3878): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_notify: object class `GkbdStatus' has no property named `name' (gnome-settings-daemon:3878): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking I... |
I've setup a new environment and installed enlightenment (E16) and it seems all the window borders and control elements (checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.) are not showing. Did I miss something? | Code: shark bigun # emerge --info Portage 2.1.11.23 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.4.9-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.4.9-gentoo-x86_64-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_E6300_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 30 Sep ... |
problems with Xorg-server，fail to startx. And I don't know whether it is the problem about drivers. My video card is Amd 6470M. Xorg.0.log says: Code: [ 3827.483] X.Org X Server 1.12.2 Release Date: 2012-05-29 [ 3827.483] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 3827.483] Build Operating System: Linux 3.4.9-gentoo x86_64 Ge... | You've got a segfault, which is not good. Offhand, I would see what happens when you disable fglrx and use radeon. If that works, then it's a driver problem. You could also try upgrading/downgrading xorg-server and/or the video driver. (Psst. It's "I don't know", not "I don't", which leaves the reader wondering if the ... |
When I emerge -pv <some package> , I find some package I want just owns linguas="* B" ,but I prefer A's linguas . I need the linguas of A ,but if it does not exist , I can use B substituted . I know I can define both A and B in my make.conf, but I do not need B when they both exist . I try to write a file /etc/portage/... | linguas get expanded to normal USE-Flags. linguas="de fr" will get USE="linguas_de linguas_fr". So you can simply add per-package-entries to package.use in the form of pkg-cat/pkg-name linguas_A |
I have installed fluxbox in my new laptop install. I tried to install thunar, but I received this message from portage: Code: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=sys-fs/udev-180[gudev,hwdb]" (dependency required by "sys-fs/udisks-1.99.0-r1" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "gno... | It was more simple after all. I deactivated udev and udisks USE flags and thunar emerged perfectly! Thanks for your trouble, gyus. |
Hi, ALL, According to this under the "First Impression" I need to issue a command in listing 2.9. However, doing it I got: Code: sed: -e expression #1, char 2: extra characters after command I typed: sed -i 'li\export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-' ~/.xinitrc What am I missing? Thank you. | Quote: sed -i ' l i\export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-' ~/.xinitrc You should use better fonts Quote: sed -i ' 1 i\export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-' ~/.xinitrc |
I'm running a Gentoo AMD64 System, kernel 3.5.3-gentoo I am on Gnome 3, my shell version is 3.4.2 (Just noticed Gnome 3.4.2 in latest sync so I'm updating this post.) (That's right, I actually liked the clean, efficient Gnome 3 interface.) I was using Nouveau for my nVidia card but I got really tired of all the tearing... | Just to make sure... You've checked that 3D acceleration is working in other programs, right? I've ran Gentoo+nvidia for several years and sometimes I still forget to do 'eselect opengl set nvidia' for new installs... |
Hi, First my hardware: Lenovo Thinkpad W530 nVidia k2000m Graphics with Optimus The Intel Graphics works good with X but I want to use only the nVidia k2000m card (Discrete graphics mode!) I can't use nouveau driver since my graphic card is way too nouveau I believe (ok this is a bad joke! ). The drivers are yet to be ... | I was able to startx but I had to pass to the kernel: ACPI=noirq I don't have any input devices though working... This is my dmesg here: http://pastebin.com/FjSsxQRK I can see ACPI method parse exec failed. Perhaps, you can help me sort things out. I re-emerged udev with debug use. I also reemerged the xf86-drivers.. e... |
Hi, ALL, I barely remember that in order to answer: "What package the program belongs?" I need to issue: equery belongs So, I tried: equery belongs fglrx but received equery: command not found Help! Thank you. | "equery belongs" only reports what package an existing file on your system belongs to. For instance: Code: ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/ls * Searching for /usr/bin/ls ... sys-apps/coreutils-8.14 (/bin/ls) Finding something that isn't installed is harder. Sometimes it takes a lot of looking or just someone that knows. I ... |
So, I can't start x as normal user then I su. The problem is, when I su, it starts x as root and I'm in my session as root. I tried to start a new session but all I got was a black screen with a white dash in the top left corner. Also, I don't know how to leave the Desktop Environment. The guide says to Ctrl-Alt-Backsp... | Ctrl-Alt-Backspace died a while ago. Now it only exists when you reconfigure it to. (Please don't ask me, I don't know how). When you Ctrl-Alt-F1 back to your session (assuming you logged in to the first session) type ctr+c to kill xorg. Now on to your problem: what does your user's .xinitrc file contain? If you do not... |
Hello everybody, I think my problem is related to this one: (I already posted there as you can see, but no answers as it's marked as [SOLVED] I think) https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7118702.html Difference for me is that I can boot fine until xdm starts gdm and loads the nvidia kernel module. As stated there I c... | All your info are totally incoherent : - Showing an xorg.conf with dri disable and a xorg.log with dri enable - Showing an interrupt list with irq 9 in use and a dmesg with a free irq 9 same for intel_hda that is MSI enable and your log show it has been stop. I would say first, disable devices in your bios for trying, ... |
I want to emerge a package named kalarm.I run emerge -pv kalarm ,there returns an error , followed: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: kde-base/kdelibs:4 (kde-base/kdelibs-4.9.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pu... | please post the entire output in code tags |
I have xfce4-power-manager installed, but I can't figure out how to add it to the panel. I have the Brightness plugin in the panel which I think is related, but I don't see any option to add the power manager to the panel. I've had it in the panel in the past. Does anyone have this working? | Perfect, thank you! |
i just updated my system, which moved me from emacs-23.4 to emacs-24.1. i can run emacs (and emacsclient) without issue, but i am unable to save any files. when i execute 'save-buffer', the minibuffer properly displays "Saving file /path/to/file..." but nothing else happens. the file is not saved. the status of the buf... | Please note anyway: write-file-hooks wrote: This variable is an alias for `write-file-functions'. This variable is obsolete since 22.1 Of course, this was not your question. To answer your question: write-file-hooks wrote: List of functions to be called before writing out a buffer to a file. If one of them returns non-... |
I can start KDE with startx command after I login on tty1. I want to login on KDE but switching default runlevel by editing /etc/inittab has no effect. How can you do this? | cristi92b wrote: I can start KDE with startx command after I login on tty1. I want to login on KDE but switching default runlevel by editing /etc/inittab has no effect. How can you do this? kdm? |
For instance, ibus works perfectly on firefox. It doesn’t work with gedit though, and neither does it with gnome-terminal. I don’t think the problem comes from my GTK_IM_MODULE or QT_IM_MODULE settings as trying to launch gedit by setting them explicitly does not help. Ibus still does not work when doing this: Code: GT... | Did you build both gtk2 and gtk3 modules of ibus ? |
Hi all, I've been trying to get Gentoo going on a laptop the last couple of days. It's an HP Pavilion DV6. It's entirely ATI/AMD-based, as the lspci will attest: http://pastebin.com/KBFEyvKH I've installed from the Stage 3 as normal, so it's a pretty vanilla install. The kernel is a custom compile; I basically removed ... | ok, first do the following: enable CONFIG_AGP in the kernel and select the AMD one. I strongly urge you to compile radeon as module. set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE to this: radeon/RS780_pfp.bin radeon/RS780_me.bin radeon/R600_rlc.bin "radeon/CEDAR_me.bin radeon/CEDAR_pfp.bin radeon/CEDAR_rlc.bin now reboot and see if lspci ... |
Why won't lightdm die any more during shutdown? If I try to stop xdm using /etc/init.d/xdm stop I get: Code: recluce ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm stop * Stopping lightdm ... * start-stop-daemon: 1 process refused to stop * Error stopping lightdm * ERROR: xdm failed to stop recluce ~ # I know this used to work, but I'm not sure ... | Might be stupid question to some but asking anyway. Have you checked if lightdm is supported by the installed 'xdm' init script? It was added only recently to later xorg-server ebuilds which the xdm file is part of. See, Code: $ grep lightdm /etc/init.d/xdm lightdm) EXE=/usr/sbin/lightdm PIDFILE=/var/run/lightdm.pid |
I am trying to get X forwarded from a remote pc to my desktop. The remote pc and local pc are both Gentoo. Between the local and remote pc, I have a proxy. I use 'net-misc/corkscrew' to allow SSH to connect to the remote machine. Code: $ cat config # Abbreviating hostnames Host remote-pc HostName remote-pc.example.com ... | doesn't ssh -X host is needed for X11 forwarding? |
I logged out of gnome tonight and gdm no longer presents me with a login screen. I get some XDMCP window that says "No serving hosts were found" that I have never seen before. I have no idea what to check besides my /etc/rc.conf and /etc/conf.d/xdm. I haven't changed them and they look right: /etc/rc.conf sets XSESSION... | I searched my emerge.log and found during my last world update: Code: 1269060107: >>> emerge (3 of 34) x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.3 to / 1269060107: === (3 of 34) Cleaning (x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.3::/usr/portage/x11-l ibs/libXdmcp/libXdmcp-1.0.3.ebuild) 1269060107: === (3 of 34) Compiling/Merging (x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.3::/u... |
Hello, I somehow managed to hose my system. Now when it starts up the screen flickers and then turn black (starting X I assume). Changing to console with Ctrl+Alt+1 doesn't work either (probably problem with radeon, as far as I remember this never worked), neither does Ctrl-Alt-Del reboot the system. I remember that Ge... | If you have the possibility to boot from a cd or usb stick into a rescue system I think you could chroot into your system (or maybe just mount your partitions) and add rc_interactive="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. Then the interactive boot should be activated and by pressing "i" you can choose again which service should be sta... |
Because this new problem isn't related to Gnome 3.4 anymore but to Gnome 3.2, I post it here and make a new thread. When I try to compile gtkhtml, it exits every time with the same error. My build.log is located at http://pastebin.com/f6S5chuz Any ideas? | Actually, it is related to Gnome 3.4, or more exactly to glib 2.32. There were certain changes made in glib pkgconfig files, that need a fix or two in a few places (and most likely Gnome 3.4 version of gtkhtml has them). |
sorry if i should have posted my problem in the other "startx fails" threads, but i thought i start a new one because their problems are similar but different:-) i've followed the gentoo tutorials: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml my graphics card is: Sapphire HD 645... | You have two problems: misconfigured kernel - no KMS, vesa and fbdev present but unneeded bad configuration in xorg.conf.d Please configure your kernel according to the instructions in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml then post the result of 'cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*'. You might also want to set VIDEO_CAR... |
Hello, Does anyone already test it? I found no ebuild, video or anything more of some themes and images. http://sourceforge.net/projects/be-shell/ Cheers! | I posted an ebuild in the bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426946 Theming and configuration mainly through direct editing of the config files. Documentation is online: http://sourceforge.net/p/be-shell/wiki/browse_pages/ |
Hello, I'm using minimal, custom KDE4 installation (4.9.1) everything works like a charm but there is no sleep option in kde "Leave" sub menu. Do I have to install something to enable it? System configuration is able to enter ram sleep mode. | All right I had to install powerdevil which serves as power management subsystem in KDE. |
I didn't find any search results about this issue that I am having right now. This is what is installed. Code: [I] app-office/openoffice-bin Available versions: 3.4.0-r2 Code: equery f app-office/openoffice-bin | grep soffice /usr/lib64/openoffice/basis3.4/program/libsofficeapp.so /usr/lib64/openoffice/basis3.4/share/c... | Because openoffice and libreoffice both used the "soffice" program name, it was not possible to install them alongside each other. So now it was removed. The other executables like ooffice, oowriter, etc. are still there. |
Code: The profile appears to be in use by process 2769 on host new-host-3. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, delete the file /home/athena/.config/chromium/SingletonLock and relaunch Chromium. I got that error message when I launched chromium this morning. It's never happened to me. Actually, on... | nvm, turns out im just being dumb...the file was there. it was just hidden. ls -a and then rm fixed it. |
I have two computers running XFCE 4.10. On one, applications using GTK+3 look fine , but on the other, they look terrible (both screenshots show gnome-extra/gucharmap-3.2.2). On both computers, I have x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.0-r200 and x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.0-r300 installed, and I have the same ~/.con... | Well, actually 3.2->3.4 might very well be the key difference here. There were theme breaking changes between those versions, mainly related to making background style changes behave more css-like. |
Okay, this is annoying, I have just gotten my system to boot after a painful upgrade of gnome. Everything seemed to be working fine, it was booting fine and everything. But for some reason, I now am getting the following error when trying to manually start GDM after it fails at boot: Code: # gdm start ** (gdm:3655): WA... | From here ; Quote: Status 09/2010: Linux distributions, including Novell's openSUSE, have now abandoned radeonhd as the default driver, instead using the radeon driver. radeon has more features, including Kernel Mode-Setting support and more 3D support, and it supports all Radeon generation from original R100 Radeons t... |
Okay, I have been trying gnome 3 for a little while now, and I really don't like it very much at all. I did notice, however, during the time that I was dealing with gnome 3 upgrading and broke my system, having to use the live dvd, kde seemed pretty nice. Basically I am wanting to install it and take it for a further t... | Make sure your tree is up to date, the aqua USE flag shouldn't be there at all. Check if an `emerge -uvaDN world` makes packages show up that previously had aqua enabled. Also, the semantic-desktop flag should either be enabled or disabled globally in make.conf, make sure the flag isn't somewhere in package.use. |
Any thoughts on what might be causing this: Code: $ /usr/bin/kcmshell4 system-config-printer-kde Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/apps/system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py", line 45, in <module> from PyKDE4.kdecore import * RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v7.0 but the Py... | Okay, my bad... I tend to solve these things on my own shortly after posting emerge -1 sip emerge -1 PyQt4 pykde4 system-config-printer-kde I am not sure which of the last 3 packages were really necessary, but threw them all in as a poke in the dark. It worked. Cheers |
Hello, I use this ~/.Xdefaults for a while now, and since I switched to Gentoo I noticed that fonts in urxvt are really bigger than xterm. Code: ! Xterm XTerm*faceName: xft:Dejavu Sans Mono:pixelsize=11 XTerm*foreground: rgb:dd/dd/dd XTerm*background: rgb:11/11/11 XTerm*color0: rgb:19/19/19 XTerm*color8: rgb:25/25/25 X... | Maybe antialiasing? |
A couple of months ago I wanted to upgrade to the newer 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 kernel. After configuring, building and installing the new kernel I rebooted to the new kernel and emerge all x11-drivers. I could never get the nvidia-drivers to load and X constantly failed to start with the "no screens found" error. I gave up in... | Blob will not work without xorg.conf, one needs minimal conf, something like this: Code: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection |
hello I installed gentoo (I used the minimal version ) I want install gnome desktop for this reason I used "eselect profile set" to choose "default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome" after that I updated protage then I used "emerge busybox" and "emerge system" , but after a verrry long periode of compiling HAL isn't found... | med-gentoo, hal is dead - long live udev. Its quite normal. If you are reading some documents that reference HAL, they are out of date. If the documents you are reading are on gentoo.org, please file a bug. |
I upgrade my gnome 2 to gnome 3 but when my gnome start I will see this error : Code: Unfortunately Gnome3 failed to start properly and started in fall back mode . This most likely means your system (graphics hardware or driver) is not capable of delivering the full Gnome 3 experience . This is my graphic hardware : Co... | It's Code: eselect opengl list Don't forget the "g" in opengl. I suspect that not having your opengl set to nvidia might be the cause of your 3D acceleration problems, but just in case, make sure your user is part of the 'video' group. |
Hi , when i try to edit the menu in xfce it shows me this: failed to execute "alacarte". (No such file or directory) and application menu is greyed (when i go to edit menu with right click on app menu...) help. | Well, is alacarte installed? On Gentoo it's not pulled in default by xfce4-meta . |
I want to upgrade my gnome to gnome 3.2 and I followed GNOME 3.2 Upgrade Guide when I emerge gnome-base/gnome-shell I will see this output : Code: emerge gnome-base/gnome-shell * IMPORTANT: 4 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. * Last emerge --sync was 30d 7h 6m 42s a... | have you tried even to read the output? my guess that not, you need to understand what exactly are you doing and read the outputs. in a nutshell, there are missing use flags and you are pulling gnome 3.4 instead of 3.2 |
I use rxvt-unicode. I love it. But I normally use it on a machine with a mouse. I have a laptop I've set up, and it has no middle mouse button. Shift-insert seems to work for some, but not all things. For example, highlighting text in urxvt lets me shift-insert back into the terminal, but not into Firefox. What can I d... | I've found xclip, xclipboard and Clipboard, not sure what to do with any of those. Since normally I press the middle mouse button (a.k.a scroll wheel) to paste FROM urxvt, I think I just need to configure a something on my keyboard to emulate the third mouse button. I opt for the context key that's going unused on this... |
Hi Folks Does anyone know which ebuild the program 'xfce4-terminal' is in please? I have XFCE 4.10 and am missing it. I thought it was in 'xfce4-utils' but a... Code: # ebuild /usr/portage/xfce-base/xfce-utils/xfce-utils-4.8.3.ebuild test ...does not show me the terminal app. Here is what I have installed already:- Cod... | x11-terms/terminal |
Hi, I have a new Gentoo guest installed in VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host. X11 is working (I'm using wmii) and I have emerged the VirtualBox guest additions. Seamless mouse integration works, but auto-risize display and clipboard sharing do not work. I followed the instructions here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Virt... | Silly me! For some reason I didn't enable the X USE flag. Also, I had to run the following when starting my X session: Code: VBoxClient --clipboard VBoxClient --display Everything's working now. |
Hello, I have a python programs that needs "gnome.ui" to run: Quote: import gnome.ui ImportError: No module named gnome.ui I found out that gnome-python could provide this module. However when i emerge dev-python/gnome-python-base I get this during the build: Quote: The following modules will be built: The following mo... | TBH, if that program by this date still uses gnome.ui, it's beyond dead. What is it, anyway ? |
I'm tentatively assuming that the problem lies with the xf86-video-ati driver but, as I'm not a programmer, I don't know that for a fact. The problem is that the Radeon X300 (RV370) chip which used to have no problem at all is now no longer being properly recognized. Is there anything I can modify/update on my system o... | dufeu wrote: I'm tentatively assuming that the problem lies with the xf86-video-ati driver but, as I'm not a programmer, I don't know that for a fact. The problem lies somehwere else, in the kernel specifically Just recompile the kernel with CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y |
X used to work fine for month (ati fglrx) but suddenly i get "no screens found" after i ran an update. i reran Code: X -configure and get this (see picture) http://s527.photobucket.com/albums/cc355/dukekonz/?action=view¤t=IMAG2971.jpg any hints? it compiles fine btw.. i even did an re-emerge world, to no avail | Forget those autoconfigs. Delete your xorg.conf, you won't need any unless you're using a proprietary binary blob driver or have some really special setup. In the former case it's only a 3- or 4-liner telling xorg which binary blob to load. |
I would like to remove the extensions from Libreoffice. If I pretend to install the package, I am shown this:- Code: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ~] app-office/libreoffice-3.6.0.4 USE="branding cups dbus graphite gtk opengl svg vba webdav xmlsec (-aqua) -binfilter -binfilterdebug -eds -gnome* -gstreamer ... | LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS is not an incremental variable, so you want to do Code: LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="" emerge -pv app-office/libreoffice |
Hi, I've been reading some documentation of gnome 3, I have had it masked since it came out, but updating my current system has become troublesome, so as bad as I hate to, I guess I need to upgrade to gnome 3. The problem is, I am very confused. I have unmasked everything (I think) that is needed, I have read the upgra... | todd93, Code: [blocks B ] <sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r2 ("<sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r2" is blocking sys-apps/hwids-20120512) [blocks B ] <sys-apps/usbutils-005-r1 ("<sys-apps/usbutils-005-r1" is blocking sys-apps/hwids-20120512) [blocks B ] <sys-fs/udev-182 ("<sys-fs/udev-182" is blocking sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-10) [blo... |
Hello, I've read in several places, including in this forum that xorg.conf is an outdated method of configuring X. Can someone indeed confirm that? I currently don't have and xorg.conf file and my system works fine. However I would like to be able to disable the touchpad on my laptop while I'm typing and I found the fo... | jopeto, Xorg does a pretty good job of guessing the setup provided :- a) you do not use binary blob video drivers b) you only have a single display c) you like the default USA keyboard layout. If you answer 'No' to any of the above you need either a stub xorg.conf, just with the bits you want to control or a selection ... |
I try to upgrade kde from 4.8.4 to 4.9 but caught an error: Code: [ 74%] Built target plasma_engine_statusnotifieritem make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.9.0/work/plasma-workspace-4.9.0_build' make: *** [all] Error 2 * ERROR: kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.9.0 failed (compile phase): ... | Do not hesitate to file a bug at https://bugzilla.gentoo.org |
Hi everyone, I've just jumped ship from gnome3 to KDE 4.9, and I'm trying to get myself comfortable, but something is really bothering me: I can't seem to find a way for the menu to pop up with a 'super' key a'la gnome. I've looked online and there are an excessive amount of different ways of doing this, but I'm not su... | CaptainHero wrote: hi, not really sure which menu you are exactly talking about, but if you mean the kickoff menu its really easy: right-click -> settings -> shortcut Huzah! That was way to easy - thank you sir! Also I got to learn what the damn thing is called. One internet cookie for you! Thanks again, |
I have been using xfce4 on Gentoo for about 16 months. It never needed upower, consolekit, or policykit. (Those never came up as dependencies of any xfce4 packages.) I am about to install xfce4-4.10 on another system, and those three packages came up as dependencies of xfce4-meta-4.10. Any idea what USE flag might be p... | It was in fact the udev USE flag. (At first I had it in make.conf. I removed it from there but added "xfce-base/xfce4-session udev" to /etc/portage/package.use/xfce-base. Once that was moved out of /etc/portage/package.use/, xfce4-meta no longer lists upower, consolekit, and policykit as dependences.) |
I have just upgrade to kde 4.9 from kde 4.8.4. But it won't start. EDIT: I have done revdep-rebuild after installing kde 4.9 here is the .xsession-errors: Code: startkde: Starting up... Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) QDBusConnection: session D-Bus ... | just a shot in the dark - does it help if you define the hostname into /etc/X0.hosts (so that at least drkonqi comes up) ? |
This version doesn't create a libattica.so.0 symlink, only libattica.so.0.3, so emerging or running KDE packages fails because libkdeui.so (kde-base/kdelibs) is built against libattica.so.0. A workaround is to create the missing symlink: > ln -s libattica.so.0.3.0 libattica.so.0 Solutions: 1. mask >dev-libs/libattica-0... | Running revdep-rebuild would be preferable (remove symlink first). The change in soname is due to ABI break, which means that programs using your symlink may now behave in unexpected ways. |
All of a sudden, my monitor is only capable of 1024x768 (or lesser) video modes. Previously it could perfectly show modes up to 1680x1050 (max). Other than that there are no visible ill effects (no slow down, no artifacts, nothing else). I use the radeon open source driver, and the driver is working, so: no, it hasn't ... | Maybe the VGA cable has gone bad. Can you replace it with another one? Anyway you can use "cvt -r" to make a custom modeline and add it to xorg.conf.d. Example: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf: Section "Monitor" Identifier "VGA-0" Modeline "1920x1080" 138.50 1920 1968 2000 2080 1080 1083 1088 1111 +hsync -vsync Op... |
Is it possible to have dualseat with nvidia+intel drivers, i have installed everything according Gentoo wiki http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Multiseat . Everything works just fine with lxdm and gdm, but when i choose kdm to have dualseat i only get kdm on nvidia card, monitor that is connected to intel gpu is black, only t... | please mark solved if it is indeed solved. |
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