Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
091112 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 12 November 2009 00:40:16 Alex Schuster wrote: >> Philip Webb writes: >>> There is a problem somewhere & it mb a small fix for my machine >>> & it wb nice to track it down if others are not experiencing it. >> T

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
091118 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 23:56:00 Philip Webb wrote: >> Are you using Nvidia ? -- someone else mentioned that as a possible cause. > Yes, nvidia-190.42-r3 > I'll try downgrade nvidia tomorrow and see what happens I'm using 185 & cou

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-18 Thread Philip Webb
contain other items too ? -- Surely, nothing you can have done would have deleted a partition ! -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-18 Thread Philip Webb
his case" Yes, 'man recvfrom' has rather opaque info which mb relevant ... (sigh) -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
I have submitted Gentoo Bug 293933 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

2009-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
-base/systemsettings-4.3.1 W 091030 kde-misc/filelight-1.9_rc3 W 091011 kde-misc/krename-4.0.1 W 090916 kde-misc/krusader-2.0.0-r1 -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Citie

[gentoo-user] Gentoo in the enterprise

2009-11-26 Thread Philip Webb
es Gentoo ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
a small package like this can have > on a source-based distro... 2 pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. -- ====,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-04 Thread Philip Webb
nger for my weekly update session (tomorrow Sat), but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to chaos with all the extra frantic labor which would result. Again, I've been doing this for 6 years with Gentoo on 2 machines & haven't run into any major setbacks. By all means, ignore my advice & do it your own ways (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-05 Thread Philip Webb
091205 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: >> Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of >> 'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which >> have changed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-05 Thread Philip Webb
not in 'world'. My 'world' file contains 112 entries, incl 28 'sys' + 35 'kde'. Really, does something like that need spelling out (tries to smile) ? -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-06 Thread Philip Webb
091206 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2009 21:09:50 Philip Webb wrote: >> Please read what I said & hopefully think briefly before responding. >> If the pkg is already in 'world', it's 'emerge '; >> if not -- the more frequent cas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-07 Thread Philip Webb
091207 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:49:44 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I know that from my home-made list of pkgs which I have installed, >> where they are marked with 'W' & system pkgs with 'S'. >> Yes, I do have to keep it u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-12 Thread Philip Webb
n. There was also an update to Hal Lvm2 & Util-linux from my weekly 'eix-sync', which I made sure to get done before tackling X. HTH. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 start breaks

2009-12-14 Thread Philip Webb
27;evdev' in your kernel ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] device-mapper

2009-12-15 Thread Philip Webb
tinue to use a few KDE 3 apps alongside KDE 4 : you need to have separate dirs ~/.kde3.5 & ~/.kde4 . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and kde-base/kdelibs:3.5

2010-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
KDE 4.3.3 & there doesn't seem to be anything wrong. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Xterm start-up delay: solved

2010-01-08 Thread Philip Webb
I have found a solution to the delayed start of Xterm. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293933 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su

2010-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
the terminal. When I enter 2 ^d's after the 'su' as above, I get 501: ~> su Password: 502: ~> Use "exit" to leave the shell. 502: ~> HTH -- ,, SUPPORT

[gentoo-user] Xterm slow start : partly solved

2010-01-26 Thread Philip Webb
293933 for details. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
ing quite different. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
100202 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >>> I had this on my stand-by machine & discovered it was waiting >>> for a broken CD drive; when I unplugged the drive, all was well. >> I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
long ? My long-standing policy ( > 6 yr ) has been to stick to 'stable' for all system pkgs, but use 'unstable' for well-supported apps (eg KDE): I haven't run into a serious problem in all that time. -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
but it is for anyone with the time to spare to manage their own computer in the way which suits them best. so definitely, thanx to the devs who make it all happen (big smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 2:12 am, Philip Webb said: >> i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system >> & i rely on a home-made list of packages i've installed, > What is the world file > if not a home

Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

2005-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
050519 darren kirby wrote: > $ echo "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" > ~/.bashrc ? shouldn't that be '>>' ... ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
050519 Tero Grundstr?m wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: >> i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system -- various snips -- > I'd also like to see portage keeping it in alphapetical order. > At the moment it is a mess be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Philip Webb
as possible. Gentoo is probably the best distro for you in that case, but if you have time to spare, you could try working thro' LFS. a good way to learn would be simply to goto www.gentoo.org/ & read all the documentation there carefully: there's really nothing better. -- ===

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Online stores (that ship to Canada)

2005-06-02 Thread Philip Webb
naby store & they have an 'on-line shipping' link. i always go there. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Communit

Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] symbolic link to var tmp

2005-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
050603 Andreas Vinsander wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition. >> others please correct me, if i'm mistaken. > I will correct you now! > You can make symbolic links across partitions, just try it! ok thanks (w

[gentoo-user] setserial : needed or not ?

2005-06-05 Thread Philip Webb
27; & rebooted again. What is 'setserial' needed for ? If its omission causes warnings, why has it been dropped from 'system' ? Anyone have useful info ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] setserial : needed or not ?

2005-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
050605 Francisco Ares wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> There have been some changes to what's included in 'system' recently. >> After checking /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages & various 'virtuals' >> it seemed that pkg 'setserial' ha

Re: [gentoo-user] setserial : needed or not ?

2005-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
050606 Rumen Yotov wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> There have been some changes to what's included in 'system' recently. >> After checking /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages & various 'virtuals' >> it seemed that pkg 'setserial' ha

[gentoo-user] logs changed from bz2 to gz

2005-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
Bzip2 does a tighter compression than Gzip , the change seems odd. Does anyone have any insights into this change ? Any reasons to use a different logger rather than Sysklogd ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole font

2005-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
electing 'Fixed (gnu) regular 13'. That might help. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] installation time 3.4.1 vs 3.3.2

2005-07-05 Thread Philip Webb
ssword stuff). My conclusion is that the new approach is a definite improvement. Thanks as always to the devs for their volunteer efforts. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt probs

2005-07-06 Thread Philip Webb
uld be adequate for an ordinary desktop system. First, 'emerge ssmtp' & edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf to taste, then specify it in ~/.muttrc : set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp" -- ,,======== S

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Philip Webb
27;, which helps in deciding the order in which to emerge packages. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-21 Thread Philip Webb
eeded ? I looked at the Gentoo forum, wiki & dox, but found nothing to help. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANS

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
xorg figure it out for you. Thanks for the advice. Hopefully, if the mobo & graphics card handle it, Xorg won't have too much difficulty getting used to it. I would assume that LCDs are less susceptible to damage than CRTs, if they are given the wrong sync & refresh rates. -- =

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
han the best available ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-us

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiling vim linked to libncursesw

2005-07-27 Thread Philip Webb
: log> emerge -pv mutt ... [ebuild R ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.8-r2 -buffysize -cjk +crypt -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -sasl +slang +ssl -vanilla -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Install CD : was Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Philip Webb
e Gnome desktop on the CD & wondered why it doesn't use eg Fluxbox, but that's personal taste (smile). -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cent

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Philip Webb
no other connections got dislodged accidentally. Just my bit of Gentoo wisdom (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studi

[gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
them ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
080119 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> A problem I have is that Firefox is not deleting .pdf files from /tmp >> after I have viewed & saved them elsewhere (using Kpdf). >> There seems to be no place in Firefox or Kpdf settings to change this. >> Does anyo

Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
080119 Kevin wrote: > To automatically wipe /tmp upon reboot, > change WIPE_TMP to "yes" in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc Thanks: I will consider the implications. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb :

Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
080120 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008, Philip Webb wrote: >> 080119 Kevin wrote: >>> To automatically wipe /tmp upon reboot, >>> change WIPE_TMP to "yes" in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc >> Thanks: I will consider the implications. > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Mouse

2008-02-11 Thread Philip Webb
ll your USB ports ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
h mentioned several recovery apps, which are all in Gentoo : magicrescue gpart sleuthkit foremost . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Co

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Philip Webb
he latter, check that the menu is using the correct command (eg use Kmenuedit). If the former, are there any error messages ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] Links within HTML-pages not working any more in konqueror?

2008-02-27 Thread Philip Webb
2 . Lynx goes to the correct line, but Dillo goes to line 403 (!) -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--

[gentoo-user] k3b demands audio support

2008-03-04 Thread Philip Webb
otal: 4 packages (4 new), Size of downloads: 7,243 kB The extra pkgs required by K3b all involve audio. I have no sound support in my kernel. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Philip Webb
write, but I don't remember what happened with <= 3.5.8 . Something for KDE bugzilla ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Communit

[gentoo-user] how accurate is 'lshw' (was memory upgrade) ?

2008-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
ot complaining if it's faster than advertised (smile), but does anyone have any comments re the 2 differences in output ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
var/tmp/mutt-* ... (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
080414 forgottenwizard wrote: > On 03:58 Mon 14 Apr , Philip Webb wrote: >> Vim defaults to keeping temporary files in /var/tmp , >> but Mutt defaults to /tmp & Vim called by Mutt does the same. >> Recently, I changed the default in .muttrc to use /var/tmp inste

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
Palladio as a good alternative; for fixed spaces, Luxi Mono. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O---

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
to file a bug with KDE, but I'ld rather not waste their time, if anyone has further advice. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package

2008-04-23 Thread Philip Webb
fit (grin). I made 5 pp of notes when installing on my newly-built box 2007-10-xx , but now everything is working even better than after my 1st install 2003 . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] EL

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-05-03 Thread Philip Webb
080503 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Mick wrote: >> On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: >>> In my case, it isn't kdm.log , as I don't have Kdm installed >>> (I use 'startx' from a raw command-line after booting). >

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
lon-64 3200+ Processor? On my 2003 machine (AMD 2500+) 5 hours ; on my 2007 machine (Intel Core-2 Duo 6700) 2 hours . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
GE_TMPDIR. Yes : on my 2007 machine the latest 2.4.0 needed 2,7 GB disk space, but earlier versions on my 2003 machine could take <= 6 GB . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] []

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
I don't boot straight into X , but to a raw console first. Finally, it helps (if you use KDE) to enable keypad cursor movements, tho' I didn't find out how to emulate a mouse click that way. HTH & comments welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works

2009-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
quot; "false" I rebooted & everything is working ! I have a Logitech mouse which I bought several years ago & use a US keyboard layout, which probably simplified the task. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//__

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

2009-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
devices. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
nger appears: can anyone explain ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
090412 walt wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'), >> but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ? > lshal is telling you that your nvidia hardware is recognized, > but doesn't tell you that th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
t;true" No. Any other suggestions ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Philip Webb
e of their task for KDE 4 . Perhaps I should try Xfce 4.6 with some KDE 4 apps ... (smile) -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Philip Webb
090413 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I got KDE 4.2.1 installed with only a couple of bugs along the way. >> I'm not impressed: there's some eye-candy, but usability is reduced. > I would suggest totally getting ri

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : the undead has been killed

2009-04-13 Thread Philip Webb
090413 Philip Webb wrote: > I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, > so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma & the hideous mask is removed > -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- > & the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds rea

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
ey will steadily restore its choices & taste by 4.3 or 4.4 . Perhaps KDE is now where Xfce was with its 4.2 (2004: now 4.6). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye & good riddance

2009-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
;m impressed with Thunar, which is way ahead of Dolphin & cb installed without most of Xfce 4 . There was an article in the Linux press last week about a plain user, who had had enough of Microsoft & tried out a Linux distro: what she loved most was the simple practical Fluxbox desktop ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Pausing kernel startup ?

2009-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
e buffer among the kernel config choices. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
090418 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? Kpdf gives previews in its side index panel : I find it very useful. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cit

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
is very quick if you assign them to Alt-Fn keys). Start-up time is not that important for a desktop machine, which its user typically starts once/day while making coffee etc. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//

[gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
the KDE apps I use. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
090420 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009 16:25:07 Philip Webb wrote: >> Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ? > I believe it's kcminit but it doesn't show up in ps afterwards. Thanks for the hint, which got me to look at wh

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
efault urandom | boot vixie-cron | default & I start net.eth0 by hand, so it looks as if it's 'netmount'. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

2009-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
090420 Philip Webb wrote: > Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ? > Htop reveals that 'konsole' -- the 1st app I started after Fluxbox -- > caused the following processes to start & remain running : > > 3863 kdeinit running ...

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
27;-1' frequently ... (grin) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
rg/ Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Apparently, our version of Python was unmasked very recently. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [

[gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
have 'SCSI device support -> SCSI CDROM support' enabled, then you shouldn't have 'ATA...RLL' enabled as well. Is this a vital change in 2.6.29 ? Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
090515 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 15 May, Philip Webb wrote: >> BIOS reports "Auto-detecting PATA primary master: ATAPI CD-ROM". > Is your CDwriter a SATA device? > Here, 2.6.29-r3 works just fine with my SATA-dvd-writer. Well, BIOS believes it's PATA . Anyway,

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: big mystery

2009-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb: >> For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD & discovered >> that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ; >> I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of '

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: kernel bug ?

2009-05-16 Thread Philip Webb
t /dev/sr0 either. Comments still welcome (I've sent output to a helper off the list). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Univer

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sr0 has disappeared: solved

2009-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
090516 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 11:55:18 schrieb Philip Webb: >> I have got 2.6.25 to work again after enabling 'evdev' > evdev is completely unrelated to CD writing. Yes, I know that: it was necessary in order to resurrect 2.6.25 after the big chan

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
(I didn't find out re CDs till just now). Each new kernel sb accompanied by a list of changes in configuration with a short help paragraph for each: at present, that's missing. Something to for Gentoo devs to nag upstream to get improved (smile). --

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
090517 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:18:14 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> 'make oldconfig' is the usual recommendation, but there's no help: >> it's just a list of "Do you want to ... ?" which you can't save easily. > Of cour

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
090518 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:00 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> The blurb tells me nothing, but if I follow its advice, I do get : > I said there was help, I didn't claim it was helpful :) > I got bitten by this one a while ago on a box using a mixtur

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
090518 bn wrote: > Philip Webb ha scritto: >> Hopefully, the OP has got some useful hints out of all this ... > Yes. I'm kinda considering switching to Ubuntu. > I love Gentoo, it's almost 4 years I'm using it, but I need this laptop > to *work*, and I cannot af

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
090518 bn wrote: > Philip Webb ha scritto: >> With binary distros, you are stuck with whatever their makers give you. > whatever distro you're using, Linux is Linux. You're not locked out. > If my xorg.conf doesn't work (it happened with Ubuntu), > I can edit it o

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-21 Thread Philip Webb
using Konqueror instead, when I read 'Spectator', which doesn't suffer from the problem. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
as well as when I got it. Secret ? -- actually made in Japan ... (grin) -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
boards are USB. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
, I tried to estimate what each LV would need based on experience. Recently, I added a whole new LV & extended another, but otherwise LVM has worked flawlessly (even SystemRescue recognises it). -- ,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
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