Re: [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-31 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:52:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't > start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window > is showing up. > > Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64. What happens when you start

[gentoo-user] OT: Flash+nspluginwrapper versus Gnash comparisons?

2013-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm getting rather annoyed with Firefox. I don't want to get into that flamewar right now. I'm trying to migrate to UZBL. The latest git version is a lot better than the stale stable version. The uzbl- ebuild is broken (yes, I've filed a bug), so I pull directly from git and build and ins

Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:57:14PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Are you running an Nvidia video card with their proprietary driver? > Youtube, even static/paused Youtube images would cause that on such a > setup I once had. I already fixed it and answered my own thread. ;) And, no, I feel the

Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem

2013-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:22:39AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote > Last night my laptop began having two problems. > > First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no > output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about > 7-8s, and then the mouse curso

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

2013-10-31 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: > Making things "just work" is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more > supported versions/implementations of python. Indeed. > We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in the Python user guide. > > https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/python-

Re: [gentoo-user] vim and gvim package split

2013-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:02:12PM +0100, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote > I guess this is an already debated topic, but I only found this very > old thread on the subject: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/4328 > > which contains the original communication of the ebuild split

[gentoo-user] vim and gvim package split

2013-10-31 Thread Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
I guess this is an already debated topic, but I only found this very old thread on the subject: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/4328 which contains the original communication of the ebuild split and some discussions and observations that probably are no more applicable. I'm abs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 07:31:04AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote > Today 1920x1080 on a 23" screen still doesn't look like a large > working environment. Maybe if I'd never had greater resolution on > 17" and 19" CRTs, and come from 1024x768 on a 15" LCD, I'd think > it HUGE. Part of the issue is that I

[gentoo-user] OT : HP Preps 64-Bit ARM Server

2013-10-31 Thread James
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319942&itc=eetimes_node_195&cid=NL_EET_CommDL_20131031&elq=fe77091a3eee4d1e83358277e4e7f39c&elqCampaignId=2099 Everyone better get some sort of gentoo running on some sort or ARM processor. Distro bragging rights hang int void() Opps, I forgot

[gentoo-user] Re: Pentoo overlay

2013-10-31 Thread James
Bruce Hill happypenguincomputers.com> writes: > Starting next week, new stages will have make.conf and make.profile > moved from /etc to /etc/portage. This is a change in the installation > defaults, that will only affect new installs so it doesn't affect > current systems. Yep, forgot bout tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pentoo overlay

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:24:55PM +, James wrote: > > The only difference I've see so far is make.conf > is in /etc/portage/. mingdao@server ~ $ eselect news read 5 2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move Title make.conf and make.profile move Author

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I fix wrong boot order?

2013-10-31 Thread Jarry
On 30-Oct-13 2:49, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: So how can I fix it on the 1st server, so that syslog-ng starts after network interface is up? I would probably fix this by adding rc_need="net" to /etc/conf.d/syslog-ng That's probably cleanest solution. Thanks, it worked like a charm! The only thin

[gentoo-user] Re: Pentoo overlay

2013-10-31 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > Has anyone installed Pentoo? WOW ! You've got to check out pentoo-installer. It puts a hardened kernel and toolchain and XFCE onto a system, very clean and easy.. The only difference I've see so far is make.conf is in /etc/portage/. When I perform a rout

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 31/10/13 16:16, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras gmail.com> writes: Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is showing up. Perhaps a license issue? # Modify /etc/portage/make.conf file fo

[gentoo-user] Virtualization, security and Bare Metal

2013-10-31 Thread James
Hello, Some threads ago, I post on a tangent concerning some new ARM features on a thread about system (ricer motivated) minimiztion. Funning thing was the ricer never thought to read up on -O3 and the pitfalls therein. Oh well, I guess I thought I read somewhere that the "ricers" had left Gento

[gentoo-user] Pentoo overlay

2013-10-31 Thread James
Hello, Has anyone installed Pentoo, for penetration testing, as an overlay [1] on an existing Gentoo system? Or directly installed? I'm also interested in experiences and how folks rate Pentoo, compared to other distros targeted at Pentetration Potpouri. Supposedly, everything with Pentoo is

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-10-31 Thread James
Nikos Chantziaras gmail.com> writes: > Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't > start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window > is showing up. Perhaps a license issue? # Modify /etc/portage/make.conf file for your system: ACCEPT_LICENS

Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:22:39AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: > Last night my laptop began having two problems. > > First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no > output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about > 7-8s, and then the mouse curs

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card with two ports.

2013-10-31 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 02:40:15PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/10/2013 04:32, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Quick question. I have a Nvidia GeForce GT 220 video card. It has a > > VGA and a HDMI connection. My question, if I hook a monitor to each > > port, they will both have the sam

[gentoo-user] video display problem

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
Last night my laptop began having two problems. First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about 7-8s, and then the mouse cursor doesn't change from the I-beam back to the pointer for another 2s o

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card with two ports.

2013-10-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 30/10/2013 04:32, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Quick question. I have a Nvidia GeForce GT 220 video card. It has a > VGA and a HDMI connection. My question, if I hook a monitor to each > port, they will both have the same pic right? Depends on the card. It might have two "processors"[1], one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 03:13:37AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > What size is that screen? Can you attach a screen shot? I have 1920x1080 on > > everything but this laptop (1440x900), and use 23" screens at work. Still, I > > just can't seem to like any setup with more than one thing on the sc