Perhaps shifting more software from main repo to overlays would relieve some of the burdens, so devs could then focus on the essentials; I'm aware that the definition of essential is ambiguous or open to various different interpretation.

According to the mailing list, they might be working on the solution, so it might take a while before the stable version comes out.

Thanks.

I also found out that I could install it manually by using It appears that they might overhaul that particular package due to the amount of obsolete/outdated commands.

I read that control package is no longer part of default Octave installation (unfortunately), so how do I install it?

Is the control package part of any Octave's use flag?

Thanks.

I solved the problem, and regained the capability to fill the page with plot on landscape mode by adding: Before I executed the print command.

I did, and -o raw also failed to work.

Wait, after spending some time in octave mailing list, I assume that -l is reserved only for postscript printer, which means it won't work on CUPS. Is this correct?

It seems like if I perform xorg-server upgrade too soon, I'd be sitting in the front of login screen w/o being able to type anything. Thank goodness for this thread, and the fact that I haven't upgraded xorg-server yet.

Split from my other thread since it is no longer relevant.

I attempted to print any postscript file (.ps) by utilizing the following command.
lpr -l filename.ps
And it didn't do anything, no print job was sent to CUPS server. Removing -l option allows me to print, so I'm wondering if there is ...

A quick fix that I performed on print.m allows me to resume the printing capability.
From
if (doprint)
if (isunix ())
prn_opt = "l";
if (doprint)
if (isunix ())
prn_opt = "";
Apparently, lpr -l is broken on my system; I attempted to reinstall cups & foo2zjs, but the procedure failed to fix ...

In case anyone is curious about the difference between 3.0.3 and 3.2.4's print.m file.

--- octave_print_dot_m_3_0_3 2010-05-20 10:00:10.000000000 -0700
+++ octave_print_dot_m_3_2_4 2010-05-20 09:49:50.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Copyright (C) 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Daniel Heiserer ...

Since upgrading to version 3.2.4, Octave is no longer able to send the print job to printer. I recalled this happening before 3.2.4 hit stable, but now the problem persists after 3.2.4 was declared stable recently. Is downgrading to 3.0.3 the only solution? Can someone enlighten me?

I suspect that ...

Fixed.

Commenting the export LANG line on .bashrc solved it.

Thanks.

Setting the pager to /usr/bin/less did the trick, and my shortcut is back. However, I could still see the symbol, â (accented a), everywhere on the manpage, and I still cannot figure what's going on.

I just noticed it recently that I could no longer press b button on the keyboard to scroll up while reading the manpage, and a few of the manpages, such as the one that belongs to emerge , suffer from corrupted formatting perhaps as the result of the man update. Somehow, man program forgets what ...

It seems that Georgia Tech rsync mirror is having problem today. I was connected, but then I never received the file. I was stuck on the "receiving file list..." message for a long time.

Why do you un-emerge qt manually every time there is a version upgrade? I've never had to do anything of the sort.
Due to the blocks imposed by the new QT version (I'm not talking about upgrading from QT3 to QT4, but between previous & next version of QT4).
Strange, is it because I don't have KDE ...

Why on earth do I need to un-emerge qt manually everytime there is a version ugrade?

Is there any other way to upgrade QT in a normal "emerge" manner like every other programs?

Thanks to the poster who pointed out about "qvlc" command, I was going to give up on VLC, but then I saw this thread.

I fixed the problem by using xev & assigned the new ID (the update changed the ID from 117 to 135) of Menu to Fluxbox's RootMenu shortcut. It also solved the PageDown problem that I had.

eselect news isn't intuitive; I didn't know how to use it until I stumbled upon this thread. It sucks when keyboard+mouse suddenly failed to function after xorg-server update.

@pandaxiongmao: are you using xmodmap somewhere,
cause while menu may simply be a missing proper XkbOptions string,
a missing pagedown suggest an incorrect remaping ?
Sorry, my bad. Page down button isn't missing, but it got replaced by Menu, and Menu button no longer works.
I never recalled ...

Maybe you got the wrong .fdi setting.
My experience was similar (keyboard & mouse stopped working right after the OS entered GUI), then I realized that I haven't performed rc-update hal default to activate hal during boot-up; it fixed the problem. The only missing keys are pagedown & menu.

After that incident with its former server host, gentoo-portage has never been the same since.

paulbiz wrote:Does it show up properly in print preview? What about print to PDF or PostScript?

Yes, it does show up properly in print preview. The first page prints correctly, but not the 2nd one. I haven't tried printing a PDF file since I un-installed Acroread a few days ago & replaced it with XPDF.

Flarkis wrote:looks to me like a printer driver error

Can you be specific? I think the CUPS installed on my system is working fine because other applications are able to utilize the driver w/o any problem, except Firefox 3.

If I remember correctly, Firefox 2 never exhibited this kind of behavior.