[SM-Discuss] Cry for help

Treeve Jelbert treeve at scarlet.be
Wed Dec 5 12:31:15 EST 2007


On Wednesday 05 December 2007 04:39:45 Juan Carlos Torres wrote:
> Hello mages!
>
> Relatively new user here and first mail to the list. So far I've been
> enjoying the Source Mage experience. It's almost everything I hoped it
> would be. The ride was a bit bumpy, but it was enjoyable, thanks to the
> community. I'm still a bit far from the goals I set for myself in Source
> Mage, and I need all the help I can get, specially with three issues I've
> never been able to figure out on my own. I am very willing to learn and
> read in order to learn, but it's kinda frustrating when you're totally
> clueless and don't even know where to begin. A nudge or pointer in the
> right direction would be greatly apprieciated. Without further delay, in
> order of ascending
> importance/annoyance:
>
> 1. Compose key to enter accented/special characters. I don't always use
> special characters, but it can be quite a pain to have to launch a separate
> app (like kcharselect) to enter those characters. I have include
> Option "XkbOptions" "compose:ralt" in my xorg.cnf already. But it only
> works in KDM (login screen). Anyone with links on how to set this up (in
> KDE), please do share. :)
>
> 2. Printing and Scanning. I have an HP PSC 1350 (Printer-Scanner-Copier). I
> have never experienced what it is like to setup CUPS and SANE from scratch,
> so I'm completely lost. I have blindy installed cups, hplip, hpijs, a bunch
> of foomatic stuff, sane, and xsane. My printer is detected and I can add it
> with the correct driver (HP PSC 1300), but I can't seem to be able to print
> anything, not even a test page. Do I have to be part of a goup other than
> lp? And the scanner is totally undetected.
>
> 3. Konsole 4 (from KDE 4) fails to build using our Qt 4 spell. This is
> currently my biggest source of headache/heartache. Basically, kdebase4
> fails to build with this error messages:
>
> [ 38%] Generating konsolepart_automoc.cpp
> cd /home/kde4/kde/build/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src
> && /home/kde4/kde/bin/kde4automoc
> /home/kde4/kde/build/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/konsolepart_automoc.cpp
> /home/kde4/kde/src/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src
> /home/kde4/kde/build/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src /usr/bin/qt4/moc
> Generating Part.moc
> /home/kde4/kde/src/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/Part.h:57: Error: Undefined
> interface
> kde4automoc: process
> for /home/kde4/kde/build/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/Part.moc failed:
> Unknown error
> pid to wait for: 0
> processes in queue: 0
> returning failed..
> make[2]: *** [apps/konsole/src/konsolepart_automoc.cpp] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kde4/kde/build/KDE/kdebase'
> make[1]: *** [apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsolepart.dir/all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kde4/kde/build/KDE/kdebase'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> makeobj[0]: Leaving directory `/home/kde4/kde/build/KDE/kdebase'

I also encountered this problem when building on amd32 which also has kde3 
stuff installed.  On  amd64 with only kde4 I had no problems.  I am not sure 
what is causing this.


I encountered something similar with kdeutils.



>
> This only happens when using our Qt 4 spell. I've tried using qt-copy from
> KDE's SVN, following http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4#Qt
> and Qt 4.3.2 directly from Trolltech, built with the same options as KDE's
> qt-copy. Both of these work. I'm suspecting it might have something to do
> with our spell. Anyway, KDE 4.0 will officially be released by January so I
> can probably survive that long. But I really need this soon, since KDE is
> my main area of interest.
>
> I really hope I can find some help to get these resolved soon. I really
> want to make things work in Source Mage. Unfortunately, I'm beginning to
> doubt whether I have the stuff that makes a mage. :(
>
> Thanks in advance!
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-- 
Regards, Treeve
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