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Re: OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15T09:56:59Z

Thank you Neil - songs are being sung in your name even now.

Skippy

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:41:42 +0000
Neil Bothwick <neil@...> wrote the words:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:23:26 -0700, Skippy wrote:
>
> > mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null
> >
> > It would be handy if this could be automated so I could run a bash
> > script in a directory full of vob files and end up with a set of wav
> > files with the same file name as the original vob.
>
> for i in *.vob; do
> mplayer "${i}" -ao pcm:waveheader:file="${i/.vob/.wav}" -vo null
> done
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> I can't walk on water, but I can stagger on alcohol.

Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15T09:38:55Z

On 12/15/2009 07:25 PM, walt wrote:

> On 12/15/2009 04:50 AM, zhen wrote:
>> Hi.
>> Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
>> firefox? I know there are options in about:config
>> (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
>> firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore.
>> What else can I do to enable opening of links?
>
> It may depend on what desktop you use. In gnome, e.g., there is an item
> in the System dropdown menu called "Preferred Applications" that must be
> set properly because gnome (apparently) intercepts your mouse click.
>
> I don't know if kde has such a thing, but I'm guessing it does.

It does, but Mozilla apps never honor it.

Re: device-mapper

2009-12-15T09:34:25Z

Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 15:42:43 schrieb James:
> This is a critical system for me, so I just want to make sure
> I'm not missing anything on the 'sunset' of device-mapper.

It's included in lvm2 nowadays, hence the blocker.

Bye...

Dirk

Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15T09:25:01Z

On 12/15/2009 04:50 AM, zhen wrote:
> Hi.
> Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
> firefox? I know there are options in about:config
> (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
> firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore.
> What else can I do to enable opening of links?

It may depend on what desktop you use. In gnome, e.g., there is an item
in the System dropdown menu called "Preferred Applications" that must be
set properly because gnome (apparently) intercepts your mouse click.

I don't know if kde has such a thing, but I'm guessing it does.

Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15T09:16:33Z

On 12/15/2009 04:15 AM, Xi Shen wrote:

> hi,
>
> my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k
>
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
> Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
>
> the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
> to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
> system still does not have sound.
>
> what have i missed?

Did you include any of the CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_* options in your
kernel config? I built them all as modules, and I notice that only
one of them actually gets loaded (in my case, the Realtek codec.) so
I'm assuming that only one is needed.

Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15T09:07:52Z

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
> On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
>> unmute?
>>
> To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer
> is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect).

Mplayer? Seriously?

Why not use amixer (purely commandline) or alsamixer (quasi-gui)?
That's what they are intended for!

Cheers,

W

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FORD Marble...
ZAPHOD Marble...
FORD Ice-covered marble...
ZAPHOD Right... it's as slippery as... as... What's the
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Re: device-mapper

2009-12-15T08:41:42Z

091215 James wrote:

> I upgraded a kde3 system to kde4. Along the way,
> to get past blocking, I had to install device-mapper.
> This particular system is all reiserf, except for the swap partition.
> Baselayout is 1.12.13 is installed. All is good. Yesterday,
> I had to remove device-mapper to so that udev-146-r1 could install.
> reading a little bit on this, it seems that I must have lvm2 installed?
> lvm2 is installed so all is cool?
> Also, I have e2fsprogs installed, but I do not think I need it,
> but is it a good idea to just leave it installed?
> I do periodically connect other hard drives to recover files and data,
> using a usb-2-ide(or sata) cable on this system,
> so ext2/3/4 support is probably a good idea, but is it absolutely required?
> This is a critical system for me, so I just want to make sure
> I'm not missing anything on the 'sunset' of device-mapper.
> I have not reboot yet, since all of these changes.....

I did the same steps last Saturday & have had no problems.
I do need Ext2 for my /boot partition, which is normally not mounted;
otherwise, I use Reiserfs + Lvm2 .

BTW you can continue to use a few KDE 3 apps alongside KDE 4 :
you need to have separate dirs ~/.kde3.5 & ~/.kde4 .

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Re: OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15T08:35:01Z

On 15 Dec 2009, at 15:23, Skippy wrote:
> ...
> Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for
> help. :)

I recommend the works of Izaak Walton & Mendel Cooper.

Stroller.

Re: OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15T08:29:58Z

On 15 Dec 2009, at 14:00, Mick wrote:

> ...
> I'm guessing that the OOo HTML converter will probably turn images
> into PNGs. If you want to see what the original format is then open
> the .doc file using OOo and Save As an ODF file - OOo's open document
> format. Then unzip it and in the folder that is created amongst other
> you will find:
>
> -Configurations/Images
> -Pictures
> -Thumbnails

"Save As an ODF file" - do you mean .ODT?

<http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_bd7e73e69d5212365418fc46d2626f26.xml
>

I can't find ODF as an option on this version of Open Office (3.1.0).

Stroller.

Re: OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15T08:25:16Z

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Skippy <linuxgn2@...> wrote:

>
>
> Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for
> help. :) I use the following to extract audio from vob files and
> write it as wav files:
>
> mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null
>
> It would be handy if this could be automated so I could run a bash
> script in a directory full of vob files and end up with a set of wav
> files with the same file name as the original vob.
>
> If anyone knock out such an animal for me I'd be ever grateful and
> praise your name over and over.

I'm sure there are 20 ways to do it... Something like this might work:

for a in *.vob; do mplayer $a -ao pcm:waveheader:file=$a.wav -vo null; done

You also may want to look at the -dumpaudio and -dumpfile options of
mplayer if you want the original format audio from your DVD instead of
converting it to WAV files...

Heads up: KDE 4.3 does not work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15T08:23:34Z

I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that "KDE 4.3.4
works just fine with Qt 4.6".

If you were about to upgrade, spare yourselves some headaches. It does
not work "just fine." On first sight, it does seem to work, but if you
look a bit better, it does not. Symptoms of using KDE 4.3 with Qt 4.6:

* Logging out of KDE takes half a minute.
* Amarok takes ages to load.
* The text on (Oxygen) push buttons is not centered.
* Fonts and shapes appear somewhat messed up (e.g., the tray clock).
* Global shortcuts (like CTRL+ESC to start "System Activity") stop
working after a few hours of uptime.

There might be more, but I didn't stay around long enough to find out.
I reverted to Qt 4.5. Note that I *did* a full rebuild of all packages
that depend on Qt, including all of KDE of course ("equery depends" is
your friend).

Bottom line, KDE 4.3 *does* work with Qt 4.6, but it does *not* work
"just fine" (there's a big difference between "works" and "works fine").

Re: Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15T08:11:08Z

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> On 12/15/2009 02:50 PM, zhen wrote:
>> Hi.
>> Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
>> firefox? I know there are options in about:config
>> (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
>> firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore.
>> What else can I do to enable opening of links?
>
> I think you're doing it wrong (:P)
>
> In Thunderbird's preferences, you need to go to the "Attachments" tab to
> configure the "Content types". There, my setup looks like this:
>
> http://i49.tinypic.com/m7tiiq.png
>
> This is Thunderbird 3.0 though, I don't remember if TB 2 works the same
> way.
>

In tb2 it looks different, but i don't want to go to tb3 while it's not
stable.
It seems I miss something silly in my KDE environment...

Re: [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-15T08:05:51Z

On Thursday 03 December 2009 20:20:03 felix@... wrote:

> I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean
> converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I
> know Unicode has a different "normalize" meaning, but for my purposes,
> that has already been done. Maybe I should call it standardization or
> make up a new cromulent word.
>
> By which I really mean I am confused by a lot of advice I have gotten
> from USAians who get by with the good old 7 bit ASCII character set on
> a daily basis, whether it be written in Unicode or not.
>
> One of the puzzles to me is all the accented chars. Umlauts, etc. I
> am not trying to convert names for permanent purposes but for internal
> comparison. In Germany is a district "Busingen", with an umlauted
> 'u'. Is it reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or
> without the unlauted u? French has the cedilla and acute and grave
> accents. Spanish has the tilde n. Scandinavian languages (all?
> some?) have the o with a slash.
>
> Or put another way, I don't know much about German, French, Spanish,
> etc keyboards. Do your keyboards have any of the extra keys, all of
> them? Are German keyboards and French and Spanish keyboards as
> restricted to their own languages as US keyboards are? If you have to
> hit two or three keys to keep the umlauts, accents, and tildes, do you
> get lazy sometimes and type the base character by itself? Is it even
> considered the base character, or is it considered lazy and sloppy,
> much as I get complaints about typing "thru" because "through" is too
> much trouble?
>
> I need something the equivalent of the C function strcasecmp() which
> not only ignores case, but all other differences without distinction,
> whatever they may be. If leaving off umlauts horrifies academics and
> purists but is what people do in the real world, I want to take that
> into consideration, so that if one person uses the ummlaut and another
> doesn't, it won't generated two separate entries. But if leaving off
> the umlaut or accent is a distinct place name, then I can't do that --
> but if real world people do that and live with the confusion, then I
> guess I have to make a different choice.
>
> Yes, I am something of an ignorant American. I know some Japanese,
> French, and Spanish, but not the details of everyday usage. I'd like
> to learn.
>

Hi Felix,

Apart from what was already mentioned, you might want to also consider the
following:

1) Even though people tend to try to do it correctly, non-natives can still
make mistakes with the names. These mistakes are frowned upon by the natives,
but are a part of live.

2) Names of cities can change with time, example:
"New York" used to be called "Nieuw Amsterdam" (Or "New Amsterdam" in english)

3) Some cities have multiple valid spellings in the same language:
The Hague = "Den Haag" or " 's Gravenhage" (yes, the apostrofe before the "s"
is part of the second version of the name)

An easier option might be to filter on the post-codes, these should be unique
and if you put the countries international abreviation in front of it, like
so: "NL-1234 AA" or "D-12345", you have a single field to check and then link
the actual city-name to the postcode area.

Disclaimer: I have no clue if these 2 postcodes actually exist

--
Joost

Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15T07:57:39Z

On 12/15/2009 02:50 PM, zhen wrote:
> Hi.
> Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
> firefox? I know there are options in about:config
> (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
> firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore.
> What else can I do to enable opening of links?

I think you're doing it wrong (:P)

In Thunderbird's preferences, you need to go to the "Attachments" tab to
configure the "Content types". There, my setup looks like this:

http://i49.tinypic.com/m7tiiq.png

This is Thunderbird 3.0 though, I don't remember if TB 2 works the same way.

Re: OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15T07:50:11Z

On 12/14/2009 2:21 PM, Stroller wrote:
> Yeah, I think I have a copy of my signature here which was scanned at
> about that kinda resolution, stored as a bitmap & has a large
> filesize. When I discovered how badly it slowed down Word when
> actually trying to place it in a document it got replaced with a much
> smaller gif version. The improvement in performance that this
> eventuated was, to me, slightly unexpected - surely whatever the
> original format, both images must be stored in RAM in about the same way.
>
> Stroller.
There's MS Office for you...

Re: OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15T07:41:42Z

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:23:26 -0700, Skippy wrote:

> mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null
>
> It would be handy if this could be automated so I could run a bash
> script in a directory full of vob files and end up with a set of wav
> files with the same file name as the original vob.

for i in *.vob; do
mplayer "${i}" -ao pcm:waveheader:file="${i/.vob/.wav}" -vo null
done

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Re: Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-15T07:38:54Z

On 12/15/2009 12:29 AM, daid kahl wrote:
> You can just set this up in ~/.xinitrc then.
>
> exec startxfce4
(that's actually startxfce)

Re: OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15T07:36:37Z

On 12/15/2009 10:23 AM, Skippy wrote:

> Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for
> help. :) I use the following to extract audio from vob files and
> write it as wav files:
>
> mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null
>
> It would be handy if this could be automated so I could run a bash
> script in a directory full of vob files and end up with a set of wav
> files with the same file name as the original vob.
>
> If anyone knock out such an animal for me I'd be ever grateful and
> praise your name over and over.
>
> Thanks, Skippy
>

You should really learn bash scripting, it will help you no end...

Marcus

Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15T07:35:20Z

On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote:

>
>> the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
>> to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
>> system still does not have sound.
>>
>> what have i missed?
>
> unmute?
>
> t

To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up
(mplayer is special that way, other programs don't have the same
effect). If sound on that and other apps works now, you need to run
rc-update add alsasound default
and then it should work even after a reboot.

Marcus

Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15T07:26:47Z

Bruce Hill wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:50:52PM +0300, zhen wrote:
>> Hi.
>> Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
>> firefox? I know there are options in about:config
>> (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
>> firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore.
>> What else can I do to enable opening of links?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Zhen.
>
> In the file .thunderbird/6cg9h9aw.default/prefs.js (replace 6cg9h9aw.default
> with your profile) add these two lines:
>
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
> user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
>
> Bruce

Yes, these are the same settings that I set in about:config but they
didn't work for me. Also I set
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http(s) = true to be sure that
thunderbird tried to open links by showing warning message. But that
didn't help. I tried also this from command line: "/usr/bin/firefox
http://www.somesite.com" and it worked OK.

Best regards,
Zhen.

OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15T07:23:26Z

Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for
help. :) I use the following to extract audio from vob files and
write it as wav files:

mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null

It would be handy if this could be automated so I could run a bash
script in a directory full of vob files and end up with a set of wav
files with the same file name as the original vob.

If anyone knock out such an animal for me I'd be ever grateful and
praise your name over and over.

Thanks, Skippy

device-mapper

2009-12-15T06:42:43Z

Hello,

Background:
I upgraded a kde3 system to kde4. Along the way, to get past
blocking, I had to install device-mapper. Not sure if all system had
it before, as I never looked that closely. This particular system
is all reiserf, except for the swap partition. (please no file systems
(flame) discussion). To see the old issues in greater detail [1].

Baselayout is 1.12.13 is installed.
All is good. Yesterday, I had to remove device-mapper to so that
udev-146-r1 could install. So reading a little bit on this, it seems
that I must have lvm2 installed? lvm2 is installed so
all is cool?

Also, I have e2fsprogs installed, but, I do not think I need it, but
is it a good idea to just leave it installed? I do periodically connect
other hard drives to recover files and data, using a usb-2-ide(or sata)
cable on this system, so ext2/3/4 support is probably a good idea, but
is it absolutely required?

This is a critical system for me, so I just want to make sure
I'm not missing anything on the 'sunset' of device-mapper.
I have not reboot yet, since all of these changes.....

[1]Subject: KDE3 removal 25 Nov 2009

Re: OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15T06:22:47Z

Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 17:44:01 schrieb Renat Golubchyk:

> Try checking it with ImageMagick's "identify".

app-forensic/foremost may be useful too

Greetings

Sebastian

Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15T06:14:09Z

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:50:52PM +0300, zhen wrote:
> Hi.
> Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
> firefox? I know there are options in about:config
> (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
> firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore.
> What else can I do to enable opening of links?
>
> Best regards,
> Zhen.

In the file .thunderbird/6cg9h9aw.default/prefs.js (replace 6cg9h9aw.default
with your profile) add these two lines:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");

Bruce
--
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes
the man."

Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15T06:09:20Z

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 08:15:13PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:

Could you d/l this script:
http://slackwarebox.dyndns.org:88/HOW-TOs/alsa-info.sh
and pastebin.ca the output?

I have a T61 with working sound and webcam built-in mic.

Bruce Hill
--
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes
the man."

Re: OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15T06:00:09Z

2009/12/15 Stroller <stroller@...>:

>
> On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:23, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> When I want to extract an image from a doc I save it as HTML. It saves
>> images in a separated folder and links it into the HTML. I simply go
>> to the folder and check the image.
>
> When I do this in Open Office the image in the resulting .html document is a
> .png. If I do it in Word for Mac it's a .gif, although there appears to be
> an option to use .png in the export options.
>
> I think the image is a bitmap & it's being converted. There's nothing else
> in the document that would explain it being 2meg.
>
> I'll try Renat's suggestion to use ImageMagick's `identify` command
> (emerging ImageMagick now), but will just mention it to the customer this
> afternoon.

I'm guessing that the OOo HTML converter will probably turn images
into PNGs. If you want to see what the original format is then open
the .doc file using OOo and Save As an ODF file - OOo's open document
format. Then unzip it and in the folder that is created amongst other
you will find:

-Configurations/Images
-Pictures
-Thumbnails

assuming that OOo was successful in converting them to a
non-proprietary format. However, if the signature file is a MSWindows
embedded metafile you may be out of luck. In that case the only
solution is to ask the originators of these files to paste/embed these
signature images as a png/jpeg file.

Coming to think of it, you may also be able to copy and paste the
image after you convert the file into pdf ... but I am not sure if
this is going to help with your problem.
--
Regards,
Mick

Re: /bin/loadkeys not found after emerge -DuN world

2009-12-15T05:17:23Z

Hi,
temporary you can create a symlink "/bin/loadkeys" to "/usr/bin/loadkeys".
This will fix it for the first time.

Greets Black

Mark Knecht wrote:

Hi,
I've completed my updates of this older Mac Mini. The machine boots
and runs fine but there's a small problem in the boot console:

* Loading key mappings
* /bin/loadkeys not found
** ERROR: cannot start consolefont as keymaps could not start

None of this occurred prior to the emerge -DuN world.

I tried using equery belongs /bin/loadkeys but it didn't find
anything, There seem to be a number of bugs that discuss this which
are a bit beyond my understanding of what to do, like this one:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232072

I guess it's caused by some issue in baselayout and may be fixed in
a newer version. I can wait for the new version to become stable if
this won't cause any big problems but I cannot evaluate the severity
of this on my own.

Comments? Can I leave it alone and not worry about problems?

Thanks,
Mark

Re: OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15T05:01:05Z

On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:23, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> ...
> When I want to extract an image from a doc I save it as HTML. It saves
> images in a separated folder and links it into the HTML. I simply go
> to the folder and check the image.

When I do this in Open Office the image in the resulting .html
document is a .png. If I do it in Word for Mac it's a .gif, although
there appears to be an option to use .png in the export options.

I think the image is a bitmap & it's being converted. There's nothing
else in the document that would explain it being 2meg.

I'll try Renat's suggestion to use ImageMagick's `identify` command
(emerging ImageMagick now), but will just mention it to the customer
this afternoon.

Stroller.

references from thunderbird

2009-12-15T04:50:52Z

Hi.
Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
firefox? I know there are options in about:config
(network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links anymore.
What else can I do to enable opening of links?

Best regards,
Zhen.

Re: X11 start breaks

2009-12-15T04:23:01Z

GerhardosG wrote:
> Hi , everyone
>
> tux / # lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> test_nx 1824 0
> psmouse 37980 0
> nvidia 9574140 0
>
>
What is you're xorg error output? What contains the /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
My suggestion is check the Xorg.0.log for errors. Every line that
contain error start with (EE) or similar.

__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4436 (20090918) __________

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Re: my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15T04:19:08Z

> the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
> to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
> system still does not have sound.
>
> what have i missed?

unmute?

t

my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15T04:15:13Z

hi,

my laptop is thinkpad t61. according to the output of lspci -k

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
system still does not have sound.

what have i missed?

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2009-12-15T03:29:28Z

Hi , everyone

tux / # lsmod
Module Size Used by
test_nx 1824 0
psmouse 37980 0
nvidia 9574140 0

Here is my xorg.conf

# $XdotOrg$
#
# Copyright (c) 1994-1998 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
# $XConsortium: XF86Conf.cpp /main/22 1996/10/23 11:43:51 kaleb $

# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)

FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"

# ModulePath can be used to set a search path for the X server modules.
# The default path is shown here.

# ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this is an optional section which is used to specify
# which run-time loadable modules to load when the X server starts up.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

Load "dbe"
Load "glx"

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.

SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules

Load "type1"
Load "freetype"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section. This contains various server-wide Options.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"

# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
# received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging

# Option "NoTrapSignals"

# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key
# events.

# Option "DontVTSwitch"

# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><BS> server abort sequence
# This allows clients to receive this key event.

# Option "DontZap"

# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> mode switching
# sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events.

# Option "DontZoom"

# Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
# it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
# but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
# receive a protocol error.

# Option "DisableVidModeExtension"

# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client.

# Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune"

# Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device
# (mouse and keyboard) settings.

# Option "DisableModInDev"

# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to
# change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset).

# Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev"

# Set the basic blanking screen saver timeout.

Option "blank time" "10" # 10 minutes

# Set the DPMS timeouts. These are set here because they are global
# rather than screen-specific. These settings alone don't enable DPMS.
# It is enabled per-screen (or per-monitor), and even then only when
# the driver supports it.

Option "standby time" "20"
Option "suspend time" "30"
Option "off time" "60"

# On some platform the server needs to estimate the sizes of PCI
# memory and pio ranges. This is done by assuming that PCI ranges
# don't overlap. Some broken BIOSes tend to set ranges of inactive
# devices wrong. Here one can adjust how aggressive the assumptions
# should be. Default is 0.

# Option "EstimateSizesAggresively" "0"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Input devices
# **********************************************************************

# **********************************************************************
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"

# Set the keyboard auto repeat parameters. Not all platforms implement
# this.

Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.

Option "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a European
# keyboard, you will probably want to use one of:
#
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
#
# If you have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# If you have a US "windows" keyboard you will want:
#
# Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
#
# or:
#
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"

# These are the default XKB settings for xorg
#
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" ""
# Option "XkbOptions" ""

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"

# The mouse protocol and device. The device is normally set to /dev/mouse,
# which is usually a symbolic link to the real device.

Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

# On platforms where PnP mouse detection is supported the following
# protocol setting can be used when using a newer PnP mouse:

# Option "Protocol" "Auto"

# When using mouse connected to a PS/2 port (aka "MousePort"), set the
# the protocol as follows. On some platforms some other settings may
# be available.

Option "Protocol" "PS/2"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some older Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.

# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

# Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice, or any
# 3-button mouse where the middle button generates left+right button
# events.

# Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Monitor section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of monitor sections may be present

Section "Monitor"

# The identifier line must be present.

Identifier "Generic Monitor"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

# HorizSync 31.5 # typical for a single frequency fixed-sync monitor
# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

# VertRefresh 60 # typical for a single frequency fixed-sync
monitor

# VertRefresh 50-100 # multisync
# VertRefresh 60, 65 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# VertRefresh 40-50, 80-100 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# Modes can be specified in two formats. A compact one-line format, or
# a multi-line format.

# A generic VGA 640x480 mode (hsync = 31.5kHz, refresh = 60Hz)
# These two are equivalent

# ModeLine "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525

Mode "640x480"
DotClock 25.175
HTimings 640 664 760 800
VTimings 480 491 493 525
EndMode

# These two are equivalent

# ModeLine "1024x768i" 45 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 Interlace

# Mode "1024x768i"
# DotClock 45
# HTimings 1024 1048 1208 1264
# VTimings 768 776 784 817
# Flags "Interlace"
# EndMode

# If a monitor has DPMS support, that can be indicated here. This will
# enable DPMS when the monitor is used with drivers that support it.

# Option "dpms"

# If a monitor requires that the sync signals be superimposed on the
# green signal, the following option will enable this when used with
# drivers that support it. Only a relatively small range of hardware
# (and drivers) actually support this.
# Option "sync on green"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

Section "Device"

# The Identifier must be present.

Identifier "nVidia GeForce"
Driver "nVidia"

# Chipset "generic"

VideoRam 262144

# Clocks 25.2 28.3
# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
# Option "hw cursor" "off"

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections.
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.

Section "Screen"

# The Identifier, Device and Monitor lines must be present

Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "GeForce 7600 GT"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"

# The favoured Depth and/or Bpp may be specified here

DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection

EndSection

# **********************************************************************
# ServerLayout sections.
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
# the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
# section may be specified from the X server command line with the
# "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
# When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
# is used alone.

Section "ServerLayout"

# The Identifier line must be present

Identifier "Main Layout"

Screen "Default Screen"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

tux ~
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Re: [OT] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-14T23:38:01Z

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sebastian Be?ler squawked:
> the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style
^^^^^^^^
> xorg.conf with xrandr. That don't mix. I learned that the hard way.

You just made my day :)

Cheers,

W
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Re: Re: Building static libraries

2009-12-14T22:53:06Z

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:25:46 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@...> wrote:
> I'm not sure why you have a problem. A quick search on my box shows
> that most libs (of the small number I checked) have .a and .so

Most libs, but not all. glibc is one of them.

Anyway, I've added "--enable-static" to EXTRA_ECONF and it worked.
There are some packages that don't like it. In particular, sandbox
aborts in the configure phase with the message

"configure: error: dont be a Kumba, building a libsandbox.a is stupid"

:-)

I had to put an exception into /etc/portage/bashrc in order to handle
that.

Cheers,
Renat

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durch die sie entstanden sind.
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