7:22 p.m.
I went straight from FC1 to FC3 and something ugly has appeared.
(I mention this because it might have appeared in FC2, but I wouldn't
know.
The ghostscript output UGLY! Big clunky-looking font.
Easy to create example: (using yum startup -- any [ba]sh script will do.)
$ enscript -p out.ps -G -C --color --pretty-print=sh /etc/init.d/yum
$ gv out.ps # or whatever GS viewer you use
The above example you can do a perl script (--pretty-print=perl) or
whatever.
Part of the problem is easy to notice that because there is COLOR in
out.ps the gv display will have some text "backed-up" over preceding
characters. Not so noticeable for those who don't do a lot of
'enscript' of scripts, is that the font is big and clunky and runs off
the right-hand side of the "page".
I do quite a bit of programming in various scripts and sometimes
C/C++, and I have a need to produce nice program listings.
I have used 'enscript' for years; from RH v7.x through FC1 it produced
exactly what I needed. With FC3, it is just unusable for my purposes.
Note that NO FONT is specified, so I am used to getting the default
which is mono-spaced resulting in output that has all characters lined
up as they should be. (No variable-width character adjustment.
Kerning?) I have tried many variations specifying a font to get back
to what I want. If I specify something which produces variable-width
characters, the output is "correct" in that there is no "backed-up"
text due to the color specification; however, this type of font is no
good for program listing purposes.
I have determined that the problem is with ghostscript! (Any utility
I use which displays postscript uses ghostscript.) I can produce my
standard enscript output on my FC3 system at home, take it to my
office and look at it on my RH 7.3 system with gv and it is as I want
it to be.
This problem is significant to me for several reasons, and affects my
intention to upgrade my system at work to FC3.
Help will REALLY be appreciated!
(Including the proper "official" place to post this.)
--
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Bill R. Williams <brwilliams AT chartertn DOT net>
3:47 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:22:03PM -0500, Bill R. Williams wrote:
I have determined that the problem is with ghostscript! (Any
utility
I use which displays postscript uses ghostscript.) I can produce my
standard enscript output on my FC3 system at home, take it to my
office and look at it on my RH 7.3 system with gv and it is as I want
it to be.
Are you sure the problem is not in urw-fonts? Try downgrading to the
version you had in FC1 or FC2.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140584
Tim.
*/
10:30 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:47:10AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:22:03PM -0500, Bill R. Williams wrote:
> I have determined that the problem is with ghostscript! (Any utility
> I use which displays postscript uses ghostscript.) I can produce my
> standard enscript output on my FC3 system at home, take it to my
> office and look at it on my RH 7.3 system with gv and it is as I want
> it to be.
Are you sure the problem is not in urw-fonts? Try downgrading to the
version you had in FC1 or FC2.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140584
Tim.
*/
Thank you Tim!
The urw-fonts from FC2 (urw-fonts-2.1-7) solved the problem.
I went looking for bug reports, but since I was looking for
ghostscript it didn't show up.
Obviously, I am lost in the weeds when it comes to the various parts
which make up the various GUI utilities and their fonts.
--
---------------------------------------------
Bill R. Williams <brwilliams AT chartertn DOT net>
5:21 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:07:52AM -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
Why isn't there an update for these fonts?
The work around in the bugzilla entry:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=140584
says that installing the urw-fonts package from FC2 is a workaround. So
I did this:
1. Downloaded urw-fonts-2.1-7.noarch.rpm from an FC2 site
2. rpm --oldpackage -hFv urw-fonts-2.1-7.noarch.rpm
3. Edit /etc/yum.conf and add the line under "gpgcheck=1"
exclude=urw-fonts.noarch
If an update does arrive, just delete the exclude line and yum will
update the fonts.
--
Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
norm(a)turing.une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412
http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
9:57 p.m.
New subject: FC3 gnome-volume-control broken
System:
Linux 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Somewhere along the line my gnome-volume-control stopped working.
It *was* working in FC3 and I seldom mess with it unless I'm doing something
which requires the mixer -- like recording from an LP!
Which means I have no idea what/when it got broken. (Perhaps an
update? I've about given up using SElinux; seems like every update to
selinux-policy-targeted kills something and I have to turn it off!)
Sorry, got off on a tangent, there.
Using the speaker icon on my task bar is futile:
Attempting move the slider -- it just reverts to BOTTOM.
Attempting to R-Click->Open Volume Control gets an error box
which says:
Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found.
The sound works!
Furthermore, alsamixer works. aumix/xaumix work.
Somewhere along the line Gnome has lost the ability to "see" my sound
devices. Anybody else seen this or have any clues?
My built-in sound card Driver: snd-intel8x0
According to Hardware Browser:
nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Controller (MCP)
AlsaMixer v1.0.6 (which sees *all* the goodies) says:
Card: NVidia nForce2
Chip: Realtek ALC650F
--
---------------------------------------------
Bill R. Williams <brwilliams AT chartert n DOT net>
10:07 p.m.
New subject: FC3 gnome-volume-control broken
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Bill R. Williams wrote:
System:
Linux 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Somewhere along the line my gnome-volume-control stopped working.
It *was* working in FC3 and I seldom mess with it unless I'm doing something
which requires the mixer -- like recording from an LP!
Which means I have no idea what/when it got broken. (Perhaps an
update? I've about given up using SElinux; seems like every update to
selinux-policy-targeted kills something and I have to turn it off!)
Sorry, got off on a tangent, there.
Using the speaker icon on my task bar is futile:
Attempting move the slider -- it just reverts to BOTTOM.
Attempting to R-Click->Open Volume Control gets an error box
which says:
Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found.
The sound works!
Furthermore, alsamixer works. aumix/xaumix work.
Somewhere along the line Gnome has lost the ability to "see" my sound
devices. Anybody else seen this or have any clues?
My built-in sound card Driver: snd-intel8x0
According to Hardware Browser:
nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Controller (MCP)
AlsaMixer v1.0.6 (which sees *all* the goodies) says:
Card: NVidia nForce2
Chip: Realtek ALC650F
Dear Bill
please may you run the mixer from a terminal, and tell us what it puts out?
Greetings
Oliver Leitner
Technical Staff
http://www.shells.at
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11:50 p.m.
New subject: FC3 gnome-volume-control broken
At 10:57 PM -0400 7/2/05, Bill R. Williams wrote:
System:
Linux 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux
Somewhere along the line my gnome-volume-control stopped working.
It *was* working in FC3 and I seldom mess with it unless I'm doing something
which requires the mixer -- like recording from an LP!
Which means I have no idea what/when it got broken. (Perhaps an
update? I've about given up using SElinux; seems like every update to
selinux-policy-targeted kills something and I have to turn it off!)
Sorry, got off on a tangent, there.
Using the speaker icon on my task bar is futile:
Attempting move the slider -- it just reverts to BOTTOM.
Attempting to R-Click->Open Volume Control gets an error box
which says:
Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found.
The sound works!
Furthermore, alsamixer works. aumix/xaumix work.
Somewhere along the line Gnome has lost the ability to "see" my sound
devices. Anybody else seen this or have any clues?
My built-in sound card Driver: snd-intel8x0
According to Hardware Browser:
nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Controller (MCP)
AlsaMixer v1.0.6 (which sees *all* the goodies) says:
Card: NVidia nForce2
Chip: Realtek ALC650F
This fixed the problem for me:
At 10:22 PM -0400 6/23/05, James Walker wrote:
Hi,
I had the same problem; my sound was working but the gnome volume controller
was not. I found a solution on a forum somewhere. As root run:
gst-register-0.8
-James
____________________________________________________________________
TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com>
' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
5:57 a.m.
New subject: FC3 gnome-volume-control broken
Bill R. Williams wrote:
Linux 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux
Somewhere along the line my gnome-volume-control stopped working.
It *was* working in FC3 and I seldom mess with it unless I'm doing something
which requires the mixer -- like recording from an LP!
Which means I have no idea what/when it got broken. (Perhaps an
update? I've about given up using SElinux; seems like every update to
selinux-policy-targeted kills something and I have to turn it off!)
Sorry, got off on a tangent, there.
Using the speaker icon on my task bar is futile:
Attempting move the slider -- it just reverts to BOTTOM.
Attempting to R-Click->Open Volume Control gets an error box
which says:
Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found.
When that happened here I found that (from your home directory) if you:
1. rm .gnome2/gnome-volume-control
2. click on the volume control and it works again.
I have no indication WHY this changes things as IIRC the file that is
(re)generated appears to be identical to the one erased in bot permissions and
content.
HTH
ciao,
furlan
--
Links: http://del.icio.us/furlan
Home: http://flprim.us/index.html
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry
6:12 a.m.
New subject: FC3 gnome-volume-control broken
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 22:57 -0400, Bill R. Williams wrote:
System:
Linux 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Somewhere along the line my gnome-volume-control stopped working.
The gnome mixer
uses gstreamer. Probably you have made an update
of gstreamer. Run gst-register and try again.
--
Gérard Milmeister
Langackerstrasse 49
CH-8057 Zürich
6:08 p.m.
New subject: FC3 gnome-volume-control broken
As has been said before: This list rocks!
My problem is fixed.
Solution -- run:
gst-register-0.8
as suggested by Tony Nelson and Gérard Milmeister.
Note to Tony: In my haste I overlooked James Walker's instruction "As
root run" in your response; I ran it as my non-root account and that
worked for me. It appears that it updated/created my:
~/.gstreamer-0.8/registry-i386.xml
I first tried furlan's (flp) thing: rm .gnome2/gnome-volume-control
That didn't work for me.
And Oliver, since the problem is now fixed do you still want output
from a mixer?
The rest of this note is the text of the responses, and
my original post is the last thing.
--Bill R. Williams <brwilliams AT chartertn DOT net>
==> 1 <==
On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 05:07:44 +0200 Oliver Leitner wrote:
Dear Bill
please may you run the mixer from a terminal, and tell us what it puts out?
==> 2 <==
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:50:57 -0400 Tony Nelson wrote:
This fixed the problem for me:
At 10:22 PM -0400 6/23/05, James Walker wrote:
>Hi,
>I had the same problem; my sound was working but the gnome volume controller
>was not. I found a solution on a forum somewhere. As root run:
>gst-register-0.8
>-James
==> 3 <==
On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 06:57:37 -0400 flp wrote:
When that happened here I found that (from your home directory) if
you:
1. rm .gnome2/gnome-volume-control
2. click on the volume control and it works again.
I have no indication WHY this changes things as IIRC the file that is (re)generated
appears to be identical to the one erased in bot permissions and content.
HTH
ciao,
furlan
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry
==> 4 <==
On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:12:57 +0200 Gérard Milmeister wrote:
The gnome mixer uses gstreamer. Probably you have made an update
of gstreamer. Run gst-register and try again.
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 10:57:40PM -0400, Bill R. Williams wrote:
System:
Linux 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Somewhere along the line my gnome-volume-control stopped working.
It *was* working in FC3 and I seldom mess with it unless I'm doing something
which requires the mixer -- like recording from an LP!
Which means I have no idea what/when it got broken. (Perhaps an
update? I've about given up using SElinux; seems like every update to
selinux-policy-targeted kills something and I have to turn it off!)
Sorry, got off on a tangent, there.
Using the speaker icon on my task bar is futile:
Attempting move the slider -- it just reverts to BOTTOM.
Attempting to R-Click->Open Volume Control gets an error box
which says:
Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found.
The sound works!
Furthermore, alsamixer works. aumix/xaumix work.
Somewhere along the line Gnome has lost the ability to "see" my sound
devices. Anybody else seen this or have any clues?
My built-in sound card Driver: snd-intel8x0
According to Hardware Browser:
nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Controller (MCP)
AlsaMixer v1.0.6 (which sees *all* the goodies) says:
Card: NVidia nForce2
Chip: Realtek ALC650F
--
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Bill R. Williams <brwilliams AT chartertn DOT net>
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