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I tried to do a fresh install and stuck at pycups. previous versions failed either. after couple hours of search and revdep-rebuild, python-updater, reemerging curl and pycurl still looking... Code: # emerge -v pycups &> pycups.err These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies .... don... | pycups-1.9.61 successfully merged with cups-1.5.3 |
I have posted the topic in the "Installing Gentoo" forum since this is a fresh install of X. But I also post it here in hope of catching more helps and suggestions: Just followed the steps in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml to install the graphic card drivers and X servers. Then startx gave following error... | Double-posting is frowned upon here. This is the correct place to post it, since Xorg stuff is not part of getting Gentoo up and running. I think people will want to see your emerge --info in order to understand your system a little better, so please post that. |
Hey All' Trying to mask package ati-drivers-12.6. I have 4000 series and is not supported any more in ver 12.6. So I want to use the 12.4 ver. Have masked 12.6 and it still wants to emerge it. Put 12.4 in package.use. Any suggestions? Thanls in advance.... | icarus1040, Close but no cigar ... package.use is for per package USE flags You need package.mask |
All gtk applications appear big in both font and the size of elements. Im not sure how to make them appear more normal/smaller. Screenshot can be seen at http://i.imgur.com/kihyz.jpg My screen resolution is 1680x1050 Any suggestions? | GTK thinks your screen is >100dpi and is scaling fonts accordingly. You should fix your driver configuration if that's not the case. |
Hi, What is better (or correct) to set on (eselect) mesa when using nvidia proprietary blobs, classic or gallium? Thank you!!! | Doesn't matter, you won't be using either. But to explain anyway: the classic sw driver is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. Then there's two gallium drivers: If you don't enable the llvm flag, you get softpipe, which is also sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. If you do enable the llvm flag, you get llvmpipe, which is slo... |
or something? I can copypaste unicode characters into chromium just fine but they all appear as question marks in urxvt. xterm also shows them just fine. ☭☭☭ any ideas? | How have you configured urxvt? Also please paste the result of 'emerge --info' and 'emerge -pqv rxvt-unicode'. |
GTK+ applications aren't able to print and give the following error when selecting any of the printers: Code: Getting printer information failed I can however print from the command line using lpr. I have the system setup to print to an external CUPS server. After skimming many bug pages and other resources, I think it... | I can't believe it, but it all boiled down to a name resolution issue on the CUPS server. The server's hostname was specified in /etc/hosts, but not the hostname.domain name even though /etc/resolv.conf contained the domain information. So for some reason the CUPS server needed that line in /etc/hosts in order for clie... |
I have a problem with my fresh gentoo installation on my desktop computer. I can't get my mouse to work and I've tried everything for 3days now so I rly hope that you could help me. make.conf Code: # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /usr/share/... | use InputClass and not InputDevice I'm not even sure InputDevice works anymore, anyway InputDevice was to target a single device and advance mouse could use and expose more than just 1 device (or more than one event if you prefer). And as your xorg.log is telling you, you are using Code: [ 9297.587] (**) Logitech USB G... |
Hi, I've been trying to set up a single X Screen spanning two physical displays for my GeForce GTX 550 Ti. I have the following Xorg.conf Code: $ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-device.conf Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "Primary" "false" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" Option "Righ... | The "Primary" option gave me some strange errors with ATI driver - I'd start from removing those lines. I also think that the whole "Screen" section is redundant, including the "Display" subsection. If you want to specify resolutions per monitor, the correct way would be to use "PreferredMode" option in each "Monitor" ... |
Hi All, In the past with Thunderbird 2.x this has not been a problem, however I cant seem to get it right with Thunderbird 3.0.4-r1 I am attempting to install a dictionary for TB. I download the .xpi file from the mozilla website, then extract the contents of the .xpi file. Lastly I copy the dictionaries/ folder that w... | OK SOLVED IT. Found that there is no need to install the individual .xpi files for dictionaries, all you have to do is install the myspell package and it installs dictionaries for both Thunderbird & OpenOffice , it's actually quite awesome! In my example: Code: # emerge myspell-en and I got all English dictionaries , b... |
My ~/.bashrc has the following export; $HOME/.bashrc Code: export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel' A. If I run jcontrol from a terminal Code: # /opt/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0.5/jre/bin/jcontrol Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dawt.us... | Do not use the Openbox menu? |
I did a big update of my system (280 updates) and now can't start x... I didn't change anything about my kernel and I did several revdeb-rebuild after updating. I get this message at startup Quote: fatal server error : no screens found Server terminated with error (1) Xorg.0.log : http://bpaste.net/show/37788/ lpci -k ... | When ever you update xorg you do need to rebuild some drivers. Here is the command to memorize, burn into you memory, etc, so when Xorg fails you don't need to do anything drastic to find it. Code: emerge -av -1 $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) It should get you a working xorg again, hopefully. |
Hi there, Has anybody happen to know how can I set the path to the notes.ics file from knotes? It sounds something stupid. When I type smth into knotes and close it, the program complains it can't write the file /home/ferreirafm/.kde3.5/share/apps/knotes/notes.ics Ok great. It's because .kde3.5 directory doesn't exists... | For who it may interest, the problem has been solved. Inside .kde4 directory Code: grep -r kde3.5 | grep notes which brought the file Code: ./share/config/kresources/notes/stdrc inside it, there was a line pointing to the old kde3.5 directory, which I replaced with kde4. Finally, I have restarted kde. |
Hello. I just installed gentoo for the first time. I am using the openbox wm and some kde apps within it (krusader, for example). The entire kde is not installed. The problem is that krusader does not show the file transfer dialog. By Google i found the only solution: "right click on the notification icon in the system... | solved by installing kde-base/kdebase-runtime-meta |
Hi, I've got a new notebook and some small problems with the x11 running on it. I haven't set up a xorg.conf since I doubt this would help - if I'm wrong just tell me and I'll try one. The settings I'm setting up with setxkbmap (I'm german, so I change it to de) and xset (the repeat option is disabled, I don't know why... | Hi Manu311, Manu311 wrote: I haven't set up a xorg.conf since I doubt this would help - if I'm wrong just tell me and I'll try one. I've never used setxkbmap to change keyboard language or so. So I can't help you much. However, in my opinion xorg.conf is the best way to set these stuffs. G'Luck |
Hello. I just installed gentoo. I am using the openbox wm and some kde apps within it(krusader, for example). I installed the systemsettings package to configure kde apps, the entire kde is not installed. The problem is that there is no entry for the icon theme configuration in the systemsettings. For example, here is ... | You need kde-base/kcontrol. |
I have net-misc/dropbox-1.4.7 . The start script /etc/init.d/dropbox has Code: PID_DIR=/var/run/dropbox ... start() { ... mkdir -p ${PID_DIR} ebegin "Starting dropbox" for dbuser in ${DROPBOX_USERS}; do local homedir=$(eval echo ~${dbuser}) if test -d "${homedir}" && \ start-stop-daemon -S -b \ -m --pidfile ${PID_DIR}/... | cfgauss, you are right, although your description was a bit misleading. It's actually the occurrences of ${PID_DIR} , which is a variable with the content /var/run/dropbox , which are not used consistently. There are actually two bugs. 1) the status function does not use the variable ${PID_DIR} 2) (which is a result of... |
Hi, for some reason I don't see any options anywhere in KDE 4 to allow my system to hibernate. Specifically I want KDE to go in to hibernation when I close the lid on my laptop and the system is not plugged into an electrical outlet. In the System Settings -> Power Management -> Energy Saving, Settings On Battery Tab U... | pm-hibernate works? |
When I try and print an email in Claws mail, it tells me that is needs the program html2ps installed. I've dug around the archives, and it appears that html2ps was discontinued in Gentoo some time ago due to lack of maintainer. Have Gentoo Claws users got any workaround for printing emails? Many thanks Ian | My Claws prints no problem. |
I want to install Desktop enviroment ,during X server Configuration,I face a problem ,my eselect kernel list is : Code: #eselect kernel list Available kernel symlink targets : [1] linux-3.2.21-gentoo * when I run this commad : Code: #ls /boot linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 what can I do now ??? | The guide you've mentioned is a bit incomplete. (BTW, that '/dev/cdrom' line is a bit pointless, but that's a different issue) The real question here is what will you be running within xorg-server ? I suspect that "command not found" at the end of startx output was the correct and expected behavior. |
Hello,recently I have installed the gnome but now i wanna get rid of it totally and install xfce instead.i dont exactly know how to do that.i have made necessary changes in the make.conf and then used the commands emerge --update --deep --newuse world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild respectively.did i do ok or not? | Hi, you should try this : Code: # nano /var/lib/portage/world Delete each entry that you see that has gnome-base or something similar. After that, run this : Code: # emerge --depclean -a # revdep-rebuild -i |
Hello everyone, i use slim as login manager. Unfortunately it is possible to login as root. Therefore my question: Is it possible to disable this behaviour, i. e. that root could not login over slim? Best regards GOS | I don't think that's possible. By definition, root has all rights and you shouldn't disable any rights for root even if you could, as you could end up not being able to fix something if something gets broken. Logging into Xorg as root is discouraged, but that's only because a regular user's permissions won't allow a ra... |
Hi all, I cannot build seamonkey 2.11 (the latest one; I added keywords for seamonkey to unmask the latest). The latest seamonkey-2.11 failed like this Code: checking MOZ_LIBNOTIFY_CFLAGS... -pthread -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libpng15 checking MOZ_L... | Resync - the problem was fixed both in the ebuilds and in the eclass. |
I just installed Gentoo on my computer. Everything seems to work like it should except for the X server. Although the X server works and displays twm on my 1920x1200 monitor when typing startx, the image is very soft, like if the wrong resolution was chosen. However, it looks like it actually is 1920x1200 but very unsh... | pvh1987, Please put your /var/log/Xorg.0.log on a pastebin site so we can see what Xorg is actually doing. Most of your xorg.conf is redundent and will be ignored. Only the Code: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 8800 GT" EndSection is essential to ... |
I have following error messages when "emerge dev-texlive/texlive-latex" This is a summary of all `failed' messages: `luatex -ini -jobname=dvilualatex -progname=dvilualatex dvilualatex.ini' failed `luatex -ini -jobname=lualatex -progname=lualatex lualatex.ini' failed * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2010 failed (compi... | I found a solution from https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-797335-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html |
Since several months I have had frequent and frustrating problems with my KDE environment, especially the PIM applications. The problem can be isolated to the Nepomuk/Soprano/Virtuoso/Strigi and Akonadi suite or their dependants. Se this thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-928462-highlight-.html Some of the pr... | Relevant differences I found to my kde setup: Code: dev-db/virtuoso-server-6.1.4-r1 -kerberos app-misc/strigi-0.7.7-r1 +inotify app-office/akonadi-server-1.7.90 -mysql -sqlite +postgres This was stable with 4.8.x as well as it is now with 4.9 RC1. I can't even remember my last kmail2 crash, maybe back with 4.8.1 or so.... |
It used to work fine. Other apps print fine. I reemerged firefox, gutenprint, gimp. ghostscript-gpl. | Fixed it by resetting the printer. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problems_printing_web_pages |
Just installed a fresh new Gentoo on my new machine. When starting X i'm having problem with my locales and i can't figure out why. My config files: /etc/env.d/02locale Code: LANG="en_US.utf8" locale-gen -l Code: en_US.ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 de_DE.ISO-8859-1 de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro After rebooting and starting up the te... | sligo See if this link will give you what you want. http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Locales |
Hi, i im new to kde and i have a problem... How can i change the language to Greek(the whole system if it's possible)? | did you set LINGUAS="el" in make.conf and install kde-l10n? V. |
Hello! GUI login fails. When KDE login dialog appears I typing username and password. When pressing Enter screen goes blank for a second and login dialog appears again with password cleared. It happens everytime I trying to login. If I select a "Console Login" in dropdown menu, I can login and start kde manually. I fou... | I found some additional info, ~/.xsession-errors contains this message: /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession: line 71: exec: xterm: not found I have not xterm installed. May be I must edit line 71 under 'failsafe case' in Xsession? If yes, what I must to write instead of exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0 P.S. I've replaced this... |
This sounds like a question that has been asked and answered previously, but I couldn't actually find this particular question. I have previously used KDE desktop applications over X11 forwarding on my local network with no problem: remote apps were so seamless that I often forgot they were remote. After not using it f... | I didn't think that OpenGL fed through would be very quick any which way... but it shouldn't affect most bitblt type windowing stuff. Usually only affects 3D graphics. Are there specific applications that are slow? How is your net connection, are you using the same network driver and adaptor? Wifi vs wired? How is your... |
Hi. I Installed Gentoo and it runs perfectly. Next was xfce4 - it launches good too ( few errors about missing modules vesa and fbdev, but wile xfce is working I want to install rest of system and then catch up weird errors.. ) and I decided to install slim - I followed this http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xfce-config.xml... | F1 will allow you to cycle through your sessions. Don't worry about vesa and fbdev. If I recall correctly those are just fall back drivers that you don't need. There is no harm in xorg failing to load them. The slim wicki is a good place to learn about your new login manager: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SLiM |
Hi All: According to this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11757928 webex audio cannot work on 64bit linux due to webex using a 32bit java module for audio. Is it possible to build a 32 bit browser to use on a 64 bit gentoo rig to specificaly make use of for webex sessions? Cheers, John | As I understand it you can get a 32 bit Firefox be emerging firefox-bin. I don't know if that will solve the problem. You can also set up a 32 bit chroot. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2 |
Does anyone know the proper driver for a touchpad? I did the qlist and rebuilt every driver in that list, but the touchpad that once worked is non-functional. I am thinking maybe a driver is missing that was once there? -X | Pastebin xorg log. |
I have a problem where rxvt-unicode using the monospace font is rendering improperly after a a system update. At first I thought it was all in my head then I dug up an old screenshot... Old rendering on top, new rendering on bottom. I've changed no config files at all. http://imagebin.org/219585 Any ideas what could ha... | Just realized that emerging rxvt-unicode with +alt-font-width it fixed the issue, but I'm still curious _why_ this was suddenly required if anyone can provide information on that. |
Hi everyone, since recently I have problems starting Bluetooth under Gnome 3. After activating it says on syslog: Code: Jul 7 15:07:44 HOSTNAME dbus[2138]: [system] Activating service name='org.bluez' (using servicehelper) Jul 7 15:07:44 HOSTNAME dbus[2138]: [system] Activated service 'org.bluez' failed: Launch helper ... | There have been changes recently in how the daemon gets run - see the most recent ebuild (IIRC, committed today). |
I can't seem to emerge -uDNav world. I think it has to do with my USE flags in make.conf I was wondering, do I have to configure for Xorg for KDE to work? Here's my make.conf Code: # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/ma... | You want to add this line to your make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915 vesa fbdev" I am assuming that the i915 driver is the one you are using. The output looks consistent. You may also want to add the use flag -semantic-desktop if you don't want the bloat that it pulls in. It is only really needed for things like kmail ... |
Hello, I just finished updating kde to version 4.8.4, getting xorg to be updated as well (xorg-drivers 1.12, xorg-server 1.12.2, xorg-x11 7.4-r2) and can no longer login. The screen stay black and nothing seems to be problematic in the logs (dmesg, Xorg.0.log). I already remerged nvidia-drivers and xorg-drivers/* but n... | Please wgetpaste the logs, content of your make.conf, logfile of your login manager (for example /var/log/kdm.log if you use KDM) and emerge --info. |
I just upgraded one of my boxes and now I can not start x11 Segmentation fault at address 0x9c /var/log/Xorg.0.log Code: .... [ 21.981] (II) RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 270 [ 22.561] Backtrace: [ 22.561] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x566c28] [ 22.561] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x16a909) [0x5... | mesa list showing Code: eselect mesa list i915 (Intel 915, 945) i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x) r300 (Radeon R300-R500) [1] gallium * r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands) [1] gallium * sw (Software renderer) [1] classic [2] gallium * In my make.conf I have: VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" If radeon fails vesa ... |
I'm having an issue when starting X with fglrx. When I start it, it will go to a black screen and just hang. I can't use ctrl+alt+F* keys to switch vt since it does nothing after starting X. I am also unable to use aticonfig as it returns "No supported adapters detected". I'm using a Lenovo Z575 with Radeon HD 6520G. X... | lijnk, Your log is truncated. That means something stopped. Can you ssh in from another system and regain control? Can you use the soft off power button when the system is in this state? If not, your CPU is halted which means something crashed big time. Try a different version of fglrx. Do not use fglrx directly from t... |
I've activated "PC Speaker support" in kernel but it is not enough. What else should I do? | What's your soundcard ? |
So, I finished emerging kde and everything. I tried to start it using startx but it didn't work. I realized that I was suppose to have an /etc/conf.d/xdm but I don't and when I tried to emerge xdm. I got a Code: *Fetched failed for 'x11-apps/xconsole-1.0.4 *Failed to emerge X11-apps/xconsole-1.0.4 For consolekit, when ... | Check the list of mirrors . I believe there are mirrors in mainland China. You may want to try using those mirrors. Also, if you download something as a user download it to your home directory then us cp or mv as root to copy or move the file to /usr/portage/disfiles. Its best to deal with only one problem at a time if... |
I'm trying to install Profont for use in Awesome WM. I got it to work for urxvt by using mkfontdir, but I don't really understand how it works or what I did. I tried adding it in in the config file (I didn't put in a size parameter because Profont doesn't take sizes I think), but it just goes to the default font. What ... | Just to be clear, do you want to understand how font settings work for urxvt, or how to set the default font in Awesome? |
I have a strange problem with KDE (v. 4.8.3) after the last emerge world. When I boot the system KDE doesnt start fully. It asks me for username/password and then opens my Deskop but some applications in tray are not started (for example Klipper and there is no icon for volume control), and I'm unable to use system sho... | I've been having similar symptoms, but intermittently (maybe 1 of 10 or so startups). I'm posting from work & can post my exact KDE version tonight, but it's the stable 4.8.* in portage. A few weeks ago I installed klipper, but couldn't get it to autostart at logon at all, which I think it should do as part of KDE's se... |
Hello, On one of my up-to-date Gentoo machines the KDE NetworkManager applet (networkmanagement) doesn't work; it always reports that networkmanager isn't running (it is and works fine). I've already removed all traces of udev/dbus and it's glues/glib/polkit/consolekit/networkmanager and rebuilt them, but the KDE apple... | Thanks, I implemented the solution offered in the bug report, but it didn't help. It didn't even work before polkit-0.106, and all other machines have 0.106 where it DOES work. The old kde knetworkmanager applet wasn't installed (I stripped the system down to bare minimums before rebuilding all of KDE). |
I'm trying to install Gentoo on my Wife's Acer 6930 laptop. A very old install of Gentoo worked on it in the past. I've followed the various handbooks and Install documents etc. I've tried the login managers, xdm, gdm, and ligthdm. All appear for a second or two, if they appear at all, only to be replaced by a blank/bl... | The only thing that looks weird to me is this line: Code: [ 415.693] (II) intel(0): Allocated new frame buffer 1408x768 stride 5632, tiled Why 1408 and where does it come from? Actually, it starts earlier, from dmesg: Code: [ 1.075586] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 106x30 With the default 8x16 font, ... |
Pastebin goodies emerge --info: http://dpaste.com/766083/ xorg.conf: http://dpaste.com/766075/ Xorg.0.log: http://dpaste.com/766080/ kernel .confg: http://gist.github.com/3029003 Version goodies x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4 kernel: 3.3.8-gentoo x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.2 x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r2 GPU - ATI Radeon HD 48... | Legacy drivers is expected for this month , i guess it will supports 3.4 kernel and last xorg-server |
Hi, Yesterday I did as usually emerge --sync & emerge -upDN world. It was some updates for ffmpeg, mplayer and polkit & udisks. After this I did emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild. I use ~amd64 system. Today morning I had a problem with starting KDE, system freeze for a moment (about 20sec) with the initial screen, a... | Xywa, Support for Host-side USB has to be enabled --- USB support │ │ │ │ <*> Support for Host-side USB │ │ │ │ [*] USB verbose debug messages │ │ │ │ [*] USB announce new devices │ │ │ │ *** Miscellaneous USB options *** │ │ │ │ [ ] USB device filesystem (DEPRECATED) │ │ │ │ [ ] USB device class-devices (DEPRECATED) │... |
Hi all, I'm not sure when this problem started, but I just noticed today that opengl isn't working any longer. I have tried running glxgears and get an error message. Typing in glxinfo|grep direct gets me the following: Code: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0". ... | Take a look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log ... there may be some hints as to why acceleration is not being setup. |
Hello, I'm new to gentoo and just successfully installed it on my machine which has an Intel B950 processor with integrated Intel HD graphics (2000). I used the genkernel, since on my first try i messed things up, so decided to install that one before I gain a bit of experience and compile my own optimized kernel. I in... | to mount /boot you need Code: mount /boot anyway if you have futher trouble please post emerge --info so people have a chance to see weirdness in it ie: jopeto wrote: Code: VIDEO_CARDS="intel, vesa, fbdev" make.conf use space separators not commas, if you did an error like that, you might end with a dismiss VIDEO_CARDS... |
I'm getting this error when I plug in my nook Code: $ calibre Unable to open device <calibre.devices.nook.driver.NOOK object at 0x17f1690> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 166, in do_connect dev.open(detected_device, self.current_library_uuid) File "/usr/lib64/ca... | Did you update anything at all, either on your computer or your nook? |
I have Gnome 3 running on my radeon laptop with the open driver and no xorg.conf, using the laptop display and the external monitor connected to DVI. gdm mirrors the display and I am not much bothered about it here (only during login). Within Gnome, the external monitor is not properly initialized, because part of the ... | First: emerge things with xinerama USE-flag. This will tell applications not to stretch everything over all avaiable monitors, but to treat them as separate ones. Second: put something like this to your xorg.conf: Code: ###fixing initial mouse postion Section "Monitor" Identifier "VGA-0" Option "Primary" "true" EndSect... |
Hi, When I click change time zone on gnome than I get message: Quote: Not Authorized for action org.gnome.settingsdaemon.datetimemechanism.settimezone Any idea how can I give this permission to gnome, whichout running the settings daemon with sudo? thanks, Szymon | Gnome 3? Using the GUI, in Settings -> Date and Time I have an 'unlock' button in the top right corner. Otherwise use /etc/localtime in a console? |
Hey team, I have read the man page for fbterm, and I can't get my head around the part which implements a nice background image to the framebuffer on tty1 or tty2. Any ideas what I am supposed to do here? What do I do with the wrapper-script? I have changed the path to the path of the image and made the script executab... | I still don't understand pidsley. I have put the wrapper in a folder within my users home. I have named the folder .fbterm I then go to console (tty1) and navigate to the .fbterm folder within my home folder. I enter Code: fbterm-bi /path/to/image.jpg In return I get Code: -bash: fbterm-bi: command not found This is wh... |
Hi, after deleting some contacts these contacts are still shown in activity 'Search and Launch' -> 'Contacts'. Is there a way to delete a contact completely? I've installed - KDE 4.8.3 - nepomuk 4.8.3 - akonadi-server 1.7.2 Regards | I assume the plugin 'contacts' in 'Search and Launch' based on nepomuk. Does anybody know how I can clear or delete the nepomuk repository? Deleting all files in ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend does not help. The problem only occurs with old contacts. When I add a new contact, the contac... |
Hi all, I just installed gentoo on my dinosaur-old computer. It works all fine except that I can't get the resolution I want with Xorg (I use openbox as a windows manager). I'll try to put all relevant information and what I tried already: Just a quick note before that: I know higher resolutions are supported because I... | samapprend, Welcome to Gentoo. Xorg is using the VESA driver, with your hardware it should use the intel driver, however, that needs correct kernel support. You mentioned genkernel ... that will leave out the bits of the kernel you need to support Xorg. You will have to add them yourself. First, make friends with wgetp... |
Whenever I try to emerge -av ibus , this error is returned: Code: [blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.4 ("<x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.4" is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-3.4.3) !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: x11-libs/p... | HI, Actually, the current version of xorg-server in portage is 1.11.4-r1. Which version are you running? From your post, it seems you are running the previous version. Have u tried to upgrade xorg-server? G'Luck |
Hello everyone I am having a problem with gnome 3 I have two radeon HD4670 with one LCD monitor on the first and two on the last.For some reason no matter what drivers I use fglrx or radeon I cannot get gnome to display the only thig that shows up is a little bit of the back growing and two black bars on the top and bo... | Here is my X.org log file maybe this will help I cant make any sense of it.Thanks. [code:1:e3e21fddb9] 34988.470] X.Org X Server 1.11.4 Release Date: 2012-01-27 [ 34988.471] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 34988.471] Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.12-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo [ 34988.471] Current Operating System: Li... |
Kernel: 3.4.0 Desktop environment: xfce 4.10 graphic card: ati - fglrx 12.4 I set one jpg file as the wallpaper of my desktop. But it is in grey level. the original one is colorful. I don't why. Others work well, like conky, opera, etc. I didn't find any options which let me to change this style. Could someone know how... | I see. The saturation in my desktop setting is 0. that's why my wallpaper is grey. |
I just updated my system and now I cannot change my keyboard layout in X anymore, I'm stuck with en_US. Using the us layout is a PITA for me, sorry to say. I usually use a Norwegian layout. The problem exists for all applications in X including terminal emulators, on the shell its working fine, though. Am I missing an ... | Have you configured your keyboard layout for X as it is mentioned in the manual? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml (chapter five) As for the second question - if you mean the 'Fn' laptop key, then it is controlled by BIOS (or the keyboard controler). I know no way to control it from the O/S level and ... |
Hi, guys. I updated my system a few days ago and since then, KDE can't detect when I plug a pendrive, a card reader, a cdrom... The system detects the device, but KDE doesn't. Dbus and hal daemon are running: Code: sparkster@fenix ~ $ ps -A | grep dbus 3211 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon 4405 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch 4406 ? 00:0... | I had the same problem. Look at this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-823121-highlight-.html |
New xorg-server, yay! Having to keyword piles of packages *or* mask the new server, not so yay. Code: The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed: #required by x11-libs/libxcb-1.8.1, required by x11-libs/libX11-1.5.0, required by x11-libs/libXv-1.0.7, required by x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.7, required by x11-drive... | jesnow wrote: New xorg-server, yay! Having to keyword piles of packages *or* mask the new server, not so yay. Code: The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed: #required by x11-libs/libxcb-1.8.1, required by x11-libs/libX11-1.5.0, required by x11-libs/libXv-1.0.7, required by x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.7, require... |
I am completely new to Gentoo and have hit a brick wall trying to get a gui working. I have 3 xterm windows that come up when I startx. I cannot emerge kde-meta it fails with this: Code: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2:0[minizip]". !!! One of the following packag... | Hi, @mark2. Welcome to Gentoo! You're closer than you think. It's possible you haven't chosen the best profile for a desktop install. Can you post the output of Code: eselect profile show please? Profiles (among other things) set USE flags to default values that are tuned for a particular usage pattern. So, although yo... |
Hey team, this is a weird one. I rebuilt my world the other night, and portage has borked on about 20 or so packages out of 1790 odd. One of those packages is xorg-server-1-11.4-r1 The thing is, I am seeing a lot of warnings during compile time. Therefore I know failure is imminent. Code: warning: redundant redeclarati... | Thistled, The common theme is Code: ld returned 1 exit status The linker does not like you, or rather its unable to resolve some symbols at link time. Your LDFLAGS seem sane. Run Code: lafilefixer --justfixit which you may need to emerge. Also some Xorg related things don't like to emerge unless Code: eselect opengl is... |
The problem has been here for a long time, about a month. I have done "emerge --sync" many times in this period, no effect at all. Searched in google, "autopoint" belongs to sys-devel/autotext, I reemerge it and no effect still. Code: fpemud-workstation fpemud # emerge icoutils Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Ver... | Mind revealing the content of the file mentioned in that block of build log ? |
Code: * ERROR: mail-client/thunderbird-10.0.5 failed (compile phase): * (no error message) * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 85: Called src_compile * environment, line 6528: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * CC="$(tc-getCC)" CXX="$(tc-getCXX)" LD="$(tc-getLD)" MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="${MAKEOPTS}" emake -f client.mk ||... | PostChache wrote: Build log : https://gist.github.com/2984798 Code: MozillaRuntimeMain.cpp x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -o MozillaRuntimeMain.o -c -I../../dist/stl_wrappers -I../../dist/system_wrappers -include /var/tmp/portage/mail-client/thunderbird-10.0.5/work/comm-esr10/mozilla/config/gcc_hidden.h -DMOZ_THUNDERBIRD=1 -D... |
I'm trying to install gnome 3.2 from the main portage tree (no overlay), but I have a problem when compiling media-libs/clutter-gst-1.4.4. Obviously, I keyworded everything needed and placed under package.use the necessary things. Now I have dev-libs/glib-2.30.2 installed. I ran revdep-rebuild -i and everything in the ... | geyser wrote: So, which few packages did you rebuild to solve the problem? Thanks! +1 this comment. As I am stuck trying to rebuild my "world", and I keep seeing ' undefined reference to `g_mutex_unlock'. It's holding me back on a lot of packages. Spiros - can you enlighten us please? Cheers. |
Hey everybody, first just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to read my post and sorry for the foolish issue here, but I'm a bit new to Linux (and more specifically, Gentoo). I was trying to install Gnome, and when following the guide I saw that I needed to install xorg-server to get it to work. I was able to ins... | When you (re)build the kernel I suggest you use a local version (e.g. "buildX") in "General setup -> Local version". Then build and install the kernel with: > make (builds kernel image and modules) > make install (installs the kernel image in /boot) > make modules_install (installs the kernel modules in /lib/modules) S... |
i cant make thumbnails/image-preview work. In the Dolphin preferences under the preview-tab theres nothing to select for "show previews for". It's just blank, no list. Quote: # eix -I dolphin [I] kde-base/dolphin Available versions: (4) 4.6.3 4.6.5 ~4.7.2 {aqua debug +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix semantic-desktop ... | well, I just solved it by emerging "kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves" shouldnt that be a dependency for the thumbnail-useflag? |
So, I have UTF-8 enabled on my system: Code: # locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ME... | - define "special character" - LANG affects only newly created files, old ones need to be converted manually, if necessary |
Hello all I am having a nightmare trying to install gnome 3.2.1 .I have reinstalled twice now thinking i made a mistake along the way some where but the same every time it is always s (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages) i don't know what to please help me I used to us Gentoo I never had such a hard tim... | Clairvoyance is not a common trait among humans, also stop opening new threads if you don't bother providing info in the old ones. |
I emerged polkit-0.106 and the corresponding udisks. I poked around after having a problem with mounting CD's and found a solution to the problem; i.e; Code: usermod -d /var/empty polkitd This fixed the problem. Sometime later I noticed that the device notifier wasn't running for USB disks, so I rebooted. KDM wouldn't ... | I thought I had done several revdep-rebuilds, but the one you suggested fixed it. I wonder if things got screwed up after I downgraded polkit. Perhaps I didn't do it then... Thank you for your help. |
Hello all , I am having a problem in stalling gnome light 3.2.1 I tried directing the out put of the emerge command to a file but all that was saved in the file was "these are the packages that will be emerged." all I get is >=sys-fs/udev-171-r5[gudev,hwbd] required by (sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r2::gentoo , ebuild scheduled... | are those useflags set on udev ? If so, paste the whole output from under "Total: <x> packages " line. |
Since yesterday (I'm not sure exactly which update caused it) gnome-shell sometimes crashes on login, i.e. I get the Oh no! screen. Sometimes it takes three login attempts until I manage to log in. When it does work, lots of other stuff fails, e.g. libfolks stuff, power management, etc. Plus, I get the following .xsess... | Now I figured that I didn't change the home directory of polkitd like the ebuild said, so that solved it. |
Hi all, I recently installed konqueror, but have been unable to open pages from the location bar. Pressing the home button (with the default homepage) would open a page with "The requested operation could not be completed Improperly Formatted URL" But the funny thing is that if I drag the icon to the left of the locati... | same problem here with a fresh installation of konqueror 4.8.3. I've never used any kde-app bevore on this system. |
Recently i found the net-im/kde-telepathy-meta ebuild and wanted to give it a try. I added keywords for all its dependencies and successfully emerged the packages. Here's my the of packages that got installed: Code: net-libs/telepathy-qt-0.9.1 USE="-debug -farsight (-farstream) -test" net-libs/telepathy-glib-0.18.1 USE... | I had to enable the "gnome-keyring" USE Flag on the "net-im/telepathy-mission-control" for this to go away if I remember right. You might also want to try the just released 0.4.0 kde-telepathy version from the kde overlay. the 0.3.1 is not really useful for anything. |
I installed gentoo and after a lot of trial and error i got X and awesomeWM working. Im using a laptop with intel graphics and I would like to know how to change the screen resolution. Ive tried following a guide on the wiki and it asks to use a tool called xrandr to identify my monitor name and device name, and im not... | Look at the "help" and "man" pages; Code: xrandr --help man xandr now type: Code: xrandr -q You should get some output. Mine was: Code: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 4096 x 4096 VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted ... |
I'm just posting this just in case someone else has the same problem as I did. I upgraded to KDE-4.8.1 a few days ago, and when I logged into KDE, my system was so slow, it was barely usable. The fix is simple, but took me a little while to find. I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 6600GT with the nvidia-drivers-173.14.31 You ... | When your graphics card can no longer run the latest nvidia-drivers, it's time to upgrade, I've come to believe. I run something about three years newer than yours in a couple of my boxes (GeForce 8400GS) and don't have these issues. KDE-4.8* remained fast with no special tweaks. - John |
I'm not sure what to do about this, or how, or where to report it, if needed. emerge --info '=x11-libs/libfm-0.1.17': Portage 2.1.10.65 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.4.0-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System Settings ==================... | triquetra, wgetpaste the error log |
Hi everyone, Im trying to install xorg in my gentoo by ubuntu (gentoo is chrooted),i followed step-by-step the guides in gentoo page but still doesnt work and im freaking out My graphic is a Intel i915. $ startx xterm -- :1 vt09 hostname: Unknown host xauth: file /home/ricardo/.serverauth.18249 does not exist X.Org X S... | its not loading your graphics drivers, if your using binary drivers for graphics your going to need a xorg.conf and specify which driver you want to be loaded there and other things in xorg.conf.d |
When doing the daily word update I am getting these extra lines since a while: Code: WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: dev-cpp/libcmis:0 (dev-cpp/libcmis-0.2.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with <dev-cpp/libcmis-0.2 required by (app-office/libreoffice-3.5.4.2-... | Which update depends on libcmis-0.2.2? The current version of libreoffice needs libcmis-0.1.0, it fails to build with libcmis-0.2.2. |
How can I get my settings from nvidia-settings to take effect when I log into Xfce? My settings are retained somewhere because when I open nvidia-settings, it's the way I last set it, but those settings don't take effect until I run nvidia-settings (in other words, my screen brightens up the way I set nvidia-settings t... | Create a startup script using XFCE's control panel, and add: Code: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings --load-config-only For the brightness, I use in an initscript (i.e. run as root): Code: echo 5 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness |
I am completely new to Linux in general and I am currently using awesome. Today I installed slim login manager, but after login, awesome wont run. I followed the steps here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SLiM What should I do? I realize this may be a stupid question, but I am completely new. Please help and thank you. | laughable300, Welcome to gentoo It's possible that you missed a step with the directions or just did something wrong. I just glanced over the instructions and got a little confused Did you make a symbolic link from the session file to ~/.xsession If you already had an ~/.xsession file, you would have had to delete the ... |
Synced today, emerge world and revdep-rebuild. All went fine except when I try to log into my desktop I get a blank desktop without any icons and lots of defunct plasmoids. Several important tools in the taskbar like the device manager are defunct. The battery monitor complains about some service not started. Starting ... | what version of polkit do you have installed? in case of 0.106, downgrade to 0.105 again until it is fixed |
Which package I need to enable gnome3 built-in desktop recorder (aka ctrl+alt+shift+R)? I'm certain of a needed package, but I can't remember which and I cannot find that... Thanks!!! | I found in gnome-shell ebuild: >=media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.23 media-plugins/gst-plugins-vp8 I didn't see during the system installation. Thanks!!! |
Hello,I'am a university student in China. Now I have some problems when setuping gentoo desktop (Gnome 2.32) (I have used Gentoo for 2 months half an year ago) my computer is lenovo Y450 video card nvidia GT130M [core G96,512M video ram] moniter yoda 1366*768@60hz, 14 inch but I think nvidia-drivers doesn't know the mo... | now I am using xf86-video-nouveau instead of nvidia-drivers formery, I had the same problem when install Arch And I install nouveau instead finally,only this works right in gentoo,if to use nouveau you have to configure the kernel, add support for "DRM for nouveau" that disgussed,because kernel source have the function... |
I just emerged xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10_pre. Everything works fine except I can't move panel items. If I right click and select move from the menu it creates a red line which i can move the item, but it wont let me move it to the right side of the panel. All the items in the panel are on the left side and I can reorde... | Did you try to add a spacer in the middle of the panel ? In the spacer properties, expand should be checked, and the spacer should be transparent . |
I just upgraded to xfce4 4.10 and I have noticed that top panel icons (clock, workspace etc) are positioned to the left of the panel along with "Application menu". Does anybody knows how to move these panel icons to the right of the panel (as it was with ver. 4. ? | Add "Separator" to the Panel and configure it to "Expand" |
I have just migrated to Kmail2 with a lot of hazzle. I finally seem to get most things working, except contacts in the KAddressBook). KaddresBook refuses to show my contatcs. I backed my contact up, before migrating to KMail2. I then make an attempt to import my contacts from the KAddressBook File menu: File--> Import-... | I have nothing to choose from in the leftmost pane (the one with the heading "Name"). It is empty :( |
Hi, **My rootfs has 11GB of free space. Only /boot and /home are in separated partitions. EDIT: I resized my rootfs partition from 15GB to 25GB yesterday. I'm trying to update to Thunderbird 13 but portage returns Code: * Checking for at least 4 gibibytes disk space at "/var/tmp/portage/mail-client/thunderbird-13.0/tem... | Check Code: df -h |
I've just done a world update during which XFCE was upgraded. The XFCE logout dialog box has now lost the 'Shutdown' and 'Restart' options. Which config file is responsible for this behaviour? (I start my XFCE session using 'startx' at the the console.) Thank you. | Fitzcarraldo wrote: I don't know if it was for the same reason as in your case, but when I installed Xfce in a fresh Gentoo Stable x86 installation a couple of months ago, there were also no 'Shutdown' and 'Restart' options in the Xfce logout dialogue box. To enable those two options I had to add the two files mentione... |
I stated that chromiun don't open anymore, I don't know how much time because I only use chromiun when I need open two sessions at same time, ... Well the case is, it wont open because can't find libicu*.so files Here is ldd stuff: Code: geckos@gentoo ~ $ ldd /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chrome | grep not libicui18n.so.... | You need to run "revdep-rebuild", which should rebuild chromium against the new ICU libraries. |
I have a problem with kde-base/system-config-printer-kde-4.8.3. I was switching lately between Python2 and 3 back and forth, so that can be the problem (but I always ran python-updater). Anyway - the problem is: Code: Output from installing kde-base/system-config-printer-kde-4.8.3:4::gentoo to ::installed replacing 4.8... | If you got it to compile - try it - at my machine it core dumped (at an almost stable x86). Update It seems to be kde-base/pykde4-4.8.3 which is the culprit /Update |
Hey all, I have an issue with the way plasmoids are connecting to the internet. I use the "Weather Forecast" plasmoid to, well, have a nice weather forecast The plasmoid works well in an of itself. No issues there. The plasmoid also works well when logging in while being connected to an ethernet cable. However, the iss... | Hello71 wrote: One google later... https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92845 I think there may or may not be a patch somewhere in that long list. Wow. Running for 7.5 years and still not a definite solution. A bit saddening. Hello71 wrote: A better solution would probably be to have a script to get NetworkManager/wicd... |
emerge --info =kde-base/kdelibs-4.8.3 Code: Portage 2.1.10.49 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux... | Please provide the complete build.log: * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-4.8.3/temp/build.log' |
Hello Gentoo users. I've been striving to use XFCE without HAL. I'm novice in Gentoo but I've read that HAL is outdated and shouldn't be used. I decided not to use it so I've added -hal flag. I've used this to install D-Bus, ConsoleKit and PolicyKit. I wanted to have auto-mounted devices in Thunar (Actually using thuna... | Since you are using Thunar, and Thunar is using gnome-base/gvfs, you could try using it with UDisks2: /etc/portage/package.use: gnome-base/gvfs udev udisks -gdu /etc/portage/package.keywords: <gnome-base/gvfs-9999 # emerge -av1 gnome-base/gvfs |
Dolphin now crashes after a World upgrade and installation of kde-4.8.3. It appears for a split second, then goes down. It loads properly if I'm logged in as root. A new user account works OK, too. I tried removing files related to dolphin in .kde4 in my home directory.....also tried removing this directory entirely. N... | with your user run Code: kbuildsycoca --noincremental as a first try. You also could post what dolphin prints to the konsole. |
I just emerged LyX and it crashes immediately upon starting. It pops up a dialog box with the error message Code: SIGSEGV signal caught! Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX... and then it dies. As you can see below, my system is fresh installation of a stable "vanilla" Gentoo box. One other interesting and important not... | What desktop environment and theme do you use? |
Hi, I found there is a benchmark function in ubuntu's gnome disk utility (/usr/bin/palimpsest). But couldn't find it in gentoo, any way to use it ? I have sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-3.4.1 installed. I saw screenshots from below articles. http://srdandukic.blogspot.com/2011/06/io-benchmarks-with-gnome-disk-utility.html... | popsUlfr wrote: Only sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility versions <3.4.0 seem to have the benchmark option, never noticed this myself. So to get the benchmark option back you'd want =sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-3.0.2-r301. Thank you. Just as you said, it's removed in 3.4.0+, gnome-disk-utility-3.0.2-r301 has the benchmark func... |
Hello everyone. I have a 700 MHz PPC machine that has been running Gentoo quite well for years. I've connected it to a TV and used it as a media center, not as a workstation or desktop. I do not update it frequently After waiting 3-4 months, I recently ran 'emerge --sync' and then 'emerge -vDu world' This machine is co... | Thanks for taking the time to reply, dE_logics! dE_logics wrote: First, why Gnome? lxde is lighter and xfce is functional yet light. Sounds interesting, I'll probably install it alongside Gnome to give it a spin first. dE_logics wrote: This issue is related to the configs in ~.* Any idea specifically which files or fol... |
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