May 2007 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

FW: gv & resource file in ubuntu feisty fox

by Bill Mills-Curran

I've searched and have not found the answer to this issue. gv in the Ubuntu feisty fox distro does not seem to observe the resource file. In particular the auto-refresh and reverse scroll do not work. My resource file is ~/.gv and contains: GV.reverseScrolling: TRUE GV.watchFile: TRUE GV.autoResize: FALSE This did work on Red Hat FC4, but the same file does not work in Ubuntu. Am I doing something wrong or have I found a bug? TIA, Bill

May 25, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Cups, FC6, and networks, oh MY!

by Chuck Anderson

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:29:07AM -0400, Bill Smith wrote: > I'm mostly wondering what I need to do to get FC6 to share this printer > (that is, the LaserJet 4MP) with other computers on the network. It should be a simple checkbox under system-config-printer (System->Administration->Printing in GNOME). I have: Local Printers printer and then in the Settings tab there is a checkbox: [x] Shared

May 25, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Cups, FC6, and networks, oh MY!

by Mike Leo

I'm not following this whole thread, but you need a printer entry in /etc/samba/smb.conf to share it with windows folks ----- Original Message ---- From: Bill Smith <wsmith(a)chezsmith.com> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 8:29:07 AM Subject: Re: [Wlug] Cups, FC6, and networks, oh MY! On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:25:26 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > >I've got an old LaserJet 4M myself. Ran nicely for years, before the >rollers started putting junk on the paper. It's also got the >JetDirect card as well, so you can just put it onto the network. > >I'd be happy to sell it off for a nominal sum, say $50? But let me >check that the darn thing is still in the basement... This would give >you spare parts if anything broke on yours. Thanks for the thought... How much is interchangeable between the 4M and 4MP? I know that my printer doesn't have anywhere for a JetDirect card: it's got a parallel, AppleTalk, and serial port at one edge on the back, and on the side, it's got two (empty) memory slots... I'm mostly wondering what I need to do to get FC6 to share this printer (that is, the LaserJet 4MP) with other computers on the network. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure." -- Dogbert * TAG! v3.2 * _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 25, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Cups, FC6, and networks, oh MY!

by Bill Smith

On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:25:26 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > >I've got an old LaserJet 4M myself. Ran nicely for years, before the >rollers started putting junk on the paper. It's also got the >JetDirect card as well, so you can just put it onto the network. > >I'd be happy to sell it off for a nominal sum, say $50? But let me >check that the darn thing is still in the basement... This would give >you spare parts if anything broke on yours. Thanks for the thought... How much is interchangeable between the 4M and 4MP? I know that my printer doesn't have anywhere for a JetDirect card: it's got a parallel, AppleTalk, and serial port at one edge on the back, and on the side, it's got two (empty) memory slots... I'm mostly wondering what I need to do to get FC6 to share this printer (that is, the LaserJet 4MP) with other computers on the network. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure." -- Dogbert * TAG! v3.2 *

May 25, 2007

Well, maybe one more sparc64 question....

by Ken Jones

Jamie, That posting you sent me is definitely my bug. The only difference is the revision level of media-libs-mesa. The poster claims that his problems were fixed with a emerge --sync the following morning. I have not been so lucky. -------------You and the bug report told me to eselect opengl. I did and this is what I get. kjones-sun2 temp # eselect opengl set xorg-x11 shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent dir ectories: No such file or directory !!! Error: Can't load module opengl Killed kjones-sun2 temp # ----------I then looked for a relationship between opengl and xorg-x11. kjones-sun2 temp # locate opengl | grep x11 /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11 /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include/glxtokens.h /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include/glxmd.h /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include/glxproto.h kjones-sun2 temp # --------The posting also asked that I check glxproto.h as a logical link. kjones-sun2 temp # ls -l /usr/include/GL/glxproto.h ls: cannot access /usr/include/GL/glxproto.h: No such file or directory kjones-sun2 temp # --------So I just tried to find glxproto.h. It is real and 75729 bytes in size... kjones-sun2 temp # locate glxproto.h /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include/glxproto.h kjones-sun2 temp # kjones-sun2 temp # ls -l /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include/glxproto.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75729 May 23 18:14 /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/include/glxpr oto.h That seems very interesting and pertinent. I have not the faintest idea what is going on. Do you understand?? Do you know what I need to do to get xorg-x11 installed? Ken Jones

May 25, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Cups, FC6, and networks, oh MY!

by Gregory Avedissian

I've got a 4L that's connected to my linux box, and I share out the printer using samba. With debian etch, I had to manually edit a couple of the cups files, but in sarge, I didn't have to do that. If you want details, I'll have to drag out my notes. Greg Bill Smith wrote: > I have recently acquired an HP LaserJet 4MP. It's connected to the > parallel port of my system running FC6 (with all current updates). > > The printer itself works great, so long as I am trying to print from > localhost, but I'd like to share it to the other systems on my > network. (These other systems include WinXP, Mac OS X, etc.) > > I've poked around a bit and found pointers on getting cups to work on > other OSs (Gentoo, Ubuntu), but not Fedora Core. > > Would anyone have any pointers? I'm willing to post config file > segments, if that will help-- just tell me what you need to see. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com > Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com > > "He played me like a fish... I can't make it any clearer > than that." -- Colin Mochrie, on "Who's Line Is It, > Anyway?" > * TAG! v3.2 * > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 25, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Cups, FC6, and networks, oh MY!

by John Stoffel

I've got an old LaserJet 4M myself. Ran nicely for years, before the rollers started putting junk on the paper. It's also got the JetDirect card as well, so you can just put it onto the network. I'd be happy to sell it off for a nominal sum, say $50? But let me check that the darn thing is still in the basement... This would give you spare parts if anything broke on yours. John

May 24, 2007

Cups, FC6, and networks, oh MY!

by Bill Smith

I have recently acquired an HP LaserJet 4MP. It's connected to the parallel port of my system running FC6 (with all current updates). The printer itself works great, so long as I am trying to print from localhost, but I'd like to share it to the other systems on my network. (These other systems include WinXP, Mac OS X, etc.) I've poked around a bit and found pointers on getting cups to work on other OSs (Gentoo, Ubuntu), but not Fedora Core. Would anyone have any pointers? I'm willing to post config file segments, if that will help-- just tell me what you need to see. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "He played me like a fish... I can't make it any clearer than that." -- Colin Mochrie, on "Who's Line Is It, Anyway?" * TAG! v3.2 *

May 24, 2007

Re: [Wlug] last sparc64 gentoo question - I promise

by Jamie Guinan

On Thu, 24 May 2007, ken jones wrote: > I succeeded in doing: > #emerge --sync > #emerge portage > Then I tried > #emerge xorg-x11 > overnight. I woke up to find this had failed on step 101 out of 133. That's actually rather good progress. :) > ------------------- > The first two emerge's completed, emerge xorg-x11 did not. Below is > stdout. Looking at the log it appears that stddef.h is missing... > -----------snip--------- > makedepend: warning: clientattrib.c (reading /usr/include/gconv.h, line > 31): cannot find include file "stddef.h" > ---------snip---------- > Right at the end stdout said, "!!! If you need support, post the > topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant." > I have no idea what this means. Do you? > Any suggestions what I do now? My guess is to just try again. I found this, http://www.nabble.com/emerge-xorg-xll--fails-out-at-media-libs-mesa-6.5-r3-… See the post from Donnie Berkholz near the bottom, where he suggests # eselect opengl set xorg-x11 Then try, # emerge -ptv xorg-x11 [ this will show you what's going to be merged ] # emerge xorg-x11 [ ok, try again...] -Jamie > Ken Jones > ========================================== > -------------------snip of emerge failure step 101 out of > 133---------------- > >>> Emerging (101 of 133) media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1 to / > >>> Downloading > 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/MesaLib-6.5.1.tar.bz2' > --00:50:32-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/MesaLib-6.5.1.tar.bz2 > => `/usr/portage/distfiles/MesaLib-6.5.1.tar.bz2' > Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 156.56.247.195, 216.165.129.135, > 64.50.236.52, ... > Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|156.56.247.195|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 3,138,257 (3.0M) [application/x-tar] > > 100%[===============================================================================>] > 3,138,257 523.02K/s ETA 00:00 > > 00:50:38 (503.34 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/MesaLib-6.5.1.tar.bz2' > saved [3138257/3138257] > > * checking ebuild checksums ;-) > ... > [ ok ] > * checking auxfile checksums ;-) > ... > [ ok ] > * checking miscfile checksums ;-) > ... > [ ok ] > * checking MesaLib-6.5.1.tar.bz2 ;-) > ... > [ ok ] > * QA Notice: USE Flag 'amd64-fbsd' not in IUSE for media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1 > * QA Notice: USE Flag 'kernel_FreeBSD' not in IUSE for > media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1 > >>> Unpacking source... > >>> Unpacking MesaLib-6.5.1.tar.bz2 to > /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1/work > * Applying 6.5.1-freebsd-dri.patch > ... > [ ok ] > * Removing DO_DEBUG defs in dri drivers... > * Sparc assembly code is not working; deactivating > >>> Source unpacked. > >>> Compiling source in > /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1/work/Mesa-6.5.1 ... > (cd configs && rm -f current && ln -s linux-dri current) > . > . <<=============many steps in here=========>> > . > clientattrib.c: In function `__glFreeAttributeState': > clientattrib.c:131: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > clientattrib.c:132: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > make[3]: *** [clientattrib.o] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1/work/Mesa-6.5.1/src/glx/x11' > make[2]: *** [subdirs] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1/work/Mesa-6.5.1/src' > make[1]: *** [default] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1/work/Mesa-6.5.1' > make: *** [linux-dri] Error 2 > > !!! ERROR: media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1 failed. > Call stack: > ebuild.sh, line 1615: Called dyn_compile > ebuild.sh, line 972: Called qa_call 'src_compile' > ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile > mesa-6.5.1-r1.ebuild, line 215: Called die > > !!! Build failed > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call > stack if relevant. > !!! A complete build log is located at > '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r1/temp/build.log'. > > kjones-sun2 bin # > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

May 24, 2007

Re: [Wlug] last sparc64 gentoo question - I promise

by Mike Frysinger

On Thursday 24 May 2007, ken jones wrote: > The first two emerge's completed, emerge xorg-x11 did not. Below is > stdout. Looking at the log it appears that stddef.h is missing... > -----------snip--------- > makedepend: warning: clientattrib.c (reading /usr/include/gconv.h, line > 31): cannot find include file "stddef.h" > ---------snip---------- no, that is a warning (like it says), not an error ... the makedepend program is kind of crappy when it comes to generating depend files, that's why using gcc's -MM is much preferred ... but that's a different topic > Right at the end stdout said, "!!! If you need support, post the > topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant." > I have no idea what this means. Do you? > Any suggestions what I do now? My guess is to just try again. you could try posting the actual error -mike

May 24, 2007