Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem : latest

2018-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
updated the kernel recently, I also had to update Nvidia-drivers. Is it possible that that could have affected Xsane + Iscan ? This really is a puzzle : any further suggestions are very welcome. Thanks again for the others so far. -- ====,,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scanner problem : latest

2018-07-20 Thread Philip Webb
180719 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-07-19 05:29, Philip Webb wrote: >> The Mint version seems to find a file in /usr/share/iscan-data , >> which the others don't find, but that file is present in my Gentoo system. > I have not looked at the strace log, but this smac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scanner problem : PS

2018-07-20 Thread Philip Webb
180720 Philip Webb wrote: > On inspection, Mint 19 does seem to have installed itself on /dev/sdb5 , > so I can copy the vital files from its /boot to my own Gentoo /boot , > edit lilo.conf accordingly & see if it will start : not today ! I have successfully booted into

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] MBR + GPT + GRUB

2018-07-22 Thread Philip Webb
ut 1st among them -- , but a few brief hours with Mint reminds me how much better it is than all those pre-cooked binary distros which are the alternative. And all of them are far better than trying to live in the Microsoft Motel. (smile for now) -- ====,,=

[gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

2018-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
g of the Nvidia version I was using when my scanner was working with Gentoo (last time 180626). I have the distfiles, but not the ebuilds : is there anywhere I can find ebuilds for Nvidia-Drivers 390.42 390.48 ? -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scanner problem : latest

2018-07-24 Thread Philip Webb
180723 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:04:26 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Linux Mint 19 leads you along to a point where you've told it >> where to install, you click 'proceed' & it chugs along nicely, >> then it says it's trying to insta

[gentoo-user] trying to use Nouveau

2018-08-03 Thread Philip Webb
-merged. Can anyone offer advice what to try next ? BTW the Wiki entry for 'nouveau' seems a bit out-of-date. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to use Nouveau

2018-08-05 Thread Philip Webb
.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27512 May 12 20:20 vesa_drv.so Is 'udev' getting entangled in this at some point ? Does anyone have any further advice ? Thanks so far. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to use Nouveau

2018-08-05 Thread Philip Webb
180805 Philip Webb wrote: > 180804 Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> Your xorg.conf -- or a file from xorg.conf.d directory -- >> must contain the following : >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card1" >> Driver "modes

[gentoo-user] Nvidia vs Nouveau : solved

2018-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ containing : Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nouveau" EndSection ; (5) 'eselect opengl set xorg-x11'. HTH others.

[gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-24 Thread Philip Webb
AT formatting ? Might it be better to replace that with a Linux FS, eg Ext2 ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] python targets problem

2018-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
p; advise what to do ? Perhaps just leave well along ... (smile) -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
Thanks for the replies : it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Tor

[gentoo-user] Nouveau test : back to Nvidia

2018-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
ching Nvidia/Kernel versions. Is there any prospect that Nouveau wb able to do 3D one day ? Are there any 3rd possibilities ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Un

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-30 Thread Philip Webb
180825 Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the replies : > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. I used 'tar -a' to copy the contents of the partition to a USB stick, then copied them back to another partition, updated Lilo &a

[gentoo-user] module-init-tools : masked opponent

2013-03-09 Thread Philip Webb
Back with 'module-init-tools' -- now in 'package.unmask' -- all is well. Does anyone know what's going on ? -- did I miss a 'news' item ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] module-init-tools : masked opponent

2013-03-09 Thread Philip Webb
130309 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 09/03/2013 15:07, Philip Webb wrote: >> Doing my usual Saturday system update, I saw a prominent msg >> telling me that 'module-init-tools' has been masked >> & to use 'kmod' or 'modutils' -- the msgs vary --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: module-init-tools : masked opponent

2013-03-09 Thread Philip Webb
130309 »Q« wrote: > 130309 Philip Webb wrote: >> Doing my usual Saturday system update, I saw a prominent msg >> telling me that 'module-init-tools' has been masked >> & to use 'kmod' or 'modutils' -- the msgs vary -- to replace it. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: module-init-tools : masked opponent : SOLVED

2013-03-11 Thread Philip Webb
130309 Philip Webb wrote: > 130309 »Q« wrote: >> 130309 Philip Webb wrote: >>> Doing my usual Saturday system update, I saw a prominent msg >>> telling me that 'module-init-tools' has been masked >>> & to use 'kmod' or 'modutils

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/bc required for kernel compile?

2013-03-12 Thread Philip Webb
ver-5.20 requires sys-devel/bc root:503 ~> uname -a Linux localhost 3.5.3-gentoo #5 SMP Sun Jan 20 03:01:39 EST 2013 ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Uni

Re: [gentoo-user] Current Dells and UEFI/secureboot (or other showstoppers)?

2013-03-30 Thread Philip Webb
you decide to try. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Udev 200 : dhcpcd problem + solution

2013-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
]: enp5s0: leased 192.168.1.2 for 86400 seconds I'm not sure what 'sit0' is, but it doesn't seem to affect the outcome. HTH others who may face the same problem. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
hoddy-journalism -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev 200 : dhcpcd problem + solution

2013-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
130401 Mick wrote: > On Monday 01 Apr 2013 02:54:08 Philip Webb wrote: >> I've spent a lot of today trying to fix a glitch in starting 'dhcpcd' >> after upgrading to udev-200 ; I outlined it in a msg to gentoo-dev . -- details snipped -- > Thanks for sharing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
arines & Masons. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Philip Webb
ex4 128 GB SATA3 R 560 MB/s W 430 MB/s for CAD 115 . HTH -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Philip Webb
"bleeding edge". My impression is that Btrfs is a bit unstable, but Ext4 is usable. I haven't used either. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-24 Thread Philip Webb
130424 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> 130423 Philip Webb hadn't read any horror stories re Reiser 3 : > Where have you been for the last ten years? Reading this list & various Linux news sites. > A quick search of this list's archives will reveal several. If it's so ea

Re: [gentoo-user] Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-02 Thread Philip Webb
x27;t cause problems normally. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] LO 4.0.2.2 : no delays during emerge

2013-05-04 Thread Philip Webb
CPU is 'AMD Bulldozer X4 FX-4170 4-Core 4,2 GHz 8 MB'. I use kernel 3.8.5 & have all the relevant dirs on an SSD with Reiser 3 . HTH others -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

2013-05-12 Thread Philip Webb
rock solid for me. > By unstable I meant ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64" That's 'testing', which usually means the ebuild mb slightly awkward, but there are no known bugs; if there were, it wb 'masked'. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc

2013-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] mesa 9.1.2.r1 fails to build

2013-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
allows it to install on my machine. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me with an emerge "slot" problem.

2013-07-13 Thread Philip Webb
2.2-r1::gentoo, installed) It looks like one of those standard conflicts, which you resolve by unmerging Libgcrypt before merging the new version ; after that, you may also need to remerge Vino . -- ,,==== SUPP

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-22 Thread Philip Webb
been using Fluxbox for years : it's simple, highly configurable & quite adequate for everyday work ; you can use apps from KDE or Xfce, as you please. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /]

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/bbpager dependency on x11-wm/blackbox

2013-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
t's easy to restart. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers

2013-08-23 Thread Philip Webb
as the choices to single letters, then enter what you need. Let us all know if that works (smile). -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Who sets the symlink /dev/rtc => /dev/rtc0 ?

2013-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
", SYMLINK+="rtc", OPTIONS+="link_priority=-100" However, in /dev I have : crw--- 1 root root 10, 135 Aug 25 07:39 /dev/rtc ie it's not a symlink. I'm using udev-204 . HTH -- ====,,

Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???

2013-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
mta So you need to remerge procmail vixie-cron mutt or equivalents. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSI

[gentoo-user] digikam + systemd

2013-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
I just did 'emerge -pv digikam' for 3.3.0 & it wants to install 54 pkgs, incl systemd ; 10 pkgs are KDE & include Marble. Is my surprise justified ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Ph

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam + systemd

2013-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
130906 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I just did 'emerge -pv digikam' for 3.3.0 >> & it wants to install 54 pkgs, incl systemd ; >> 10 pkgs are KDE & include Marble. Is my surprise justified ? &

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam + systemd

2013-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
130906 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) Portage wants USE="plasma". >> (2) kipi-plugins -> k3b -> USE="udisks". >> (3) marble -> pykde4-4.11.0 -> USE="script". >> (4) udis

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam + systemd

2013-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
incl systemd , which I've masked in package.mask with "sys-fs/systemd". -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam + systemd

2013-09-07 Thread Philip Webb
130906 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) Portage wants USE="plasma". >> (2) kipi-plugins -> k3b -> USE="udisks". >> (3) marble -> pykde4-4.11.0 -> USE="script". >> (4) udis

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-09-27 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] xorg-server update puzzle

2013-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
de list of installed + removed pkgs). Presumably, these have all been absorbed into other Xorg pgms. Is this correct ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toron

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server update puzzle

2013-10-09 Thread Philip Webb
131008 Khumba wrote: > 131008 Philip Webb wrote: >> A few days ago, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.3 with a lot of deps. >> Everything seems to be working normally since then, >> but a lot of pkgs became unneeded, according to 'emerge -cpv', ie >> 13100

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server update puzzle

2013-10-11 Thread Philip Webb
131009 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 08:13:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I haven't tried xorg-server without xorg-x11 in a while, >> but lots of those utilities are useful : xkill, xrandr ... . >> What are they useful for ? -- I can't do 'man

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
s just bad JS programming. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
150401 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2015 11:34:19 Philip Webb wrote: >> 150401 Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, >>> even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? >> Occasiona

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-02 Thread Philip Webb
150401 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:34:19 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU, >> which stops when I kill FF & restart it. That's just bad JS programming. > Do you have to kill the whole browse

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
150403 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:02:54AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:28:43AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >>> if there's only 1 tab open & you kill it, it kills the whole FF job too. >> Fortunately, we

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
cience + math, besides well-trained physicists. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] HowTo rebuild everything same way differently

2015-04-10 Thread Philip Webb
===,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
what's gone wrong, (2) what their choices are, (3) how to resolve the problem. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRA

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
150426 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/26/2015 03:17 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Portage needs to tell users (1) more clearly what's gone wrong, >> (2) what their choices are, (3) how to resolve the problem. > The process goes something like this: > 1. Become frustrat

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
ook at it & try to make Portage output more understandable. We are always grateful for their volunteer efforts. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple repos.conf layout please

2015-05-01 Thread Philip Webb
ine : what is it for ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] has the sun set ?

2015-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
unset on a new machine. I realise Gentoo itself doesn't provide support for Kde-Sunset, but does anyone know of a way round this obstacle or have other advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, P

Re: [gentoo-user] has the sun set ?

2015-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
150601 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 00:06:44 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Yesterday, while doing my weekly system update, I encountered a msg : >> !!! The following installed packages are masked: >> - media-libs/lcms-1.19-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.m

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for "text string"

2015-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
27;grep -r "Check/Money Order" *.php'. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
er, if the pager is not running, the toolbar remains hidden always. Before I file a bug, has anyone else seen this ? Any advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centr

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
150607 Philip Webb wrote: > Yesterday, I updated to the now stable Fluxbox 1.3.7-r1 ; > there have been no changes in my config files. > > Normally, I have the toolbar (the panel at the bottom of the screen) hidden > & make it visible by dropping the mouse down there ; &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
150607 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 07 Jun 2015 18:57:58 Philip Webb wrote: >> Yesterday, I updated to the now stable Fluxbox 1.3.7-r1 ; >> there have been no changes in my config files. > Same here. >> Normally, I have the toolbar (the panel at the bottom of the screen) >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
y find access or you can buy it in some CD/DVD form. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
fluxbox'; I also tried adding the log part to 'startfluxbox', but no improvement. I plan to submit a bug, but log output mb useful to include there. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
150608 Philip Webb wrote: > 150608 Zhu Sha Zang wrote: >> Have you tried to use 'exec fluxbox -log "~/.fluxbox/log"' >> to check what happening ? > Thanks for the suggestion : I tried it, but no log file appears. > I use 'startx' & put your

[gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

2015-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
experience with these or have any advice to offer ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

2015-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
s. My small HP printer is capable of scanning too, but there's no Linux driver to do that. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toront

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

2015-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
150621 Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 07:02:39AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> My trusty 12-year-old scanner is starting to show signs of age : >> I'm inclined to get another Epson, but would consider something else. >> Does anyone have experience with these o

[gentoo-user] Adwaita cursors

2015-06-29 Thread Philip Webb
e results. FYI -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The state of public relations?

2015-07-25 Thread Philip Webb
e large server farms may want a means of cloning an existing system onto new machines, but that's a different problem, which sb solvable, if it isn't already. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /]

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

2015-08-01 Thread Philip Webb
loper version of FF, but how you come to be using it is not clear. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

2015-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
150802 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 02 Aug 2015 07:52:02 Philip Webb wrote: >> Today, did the same emerge without any problem : >> my bookmarks remain the same, as does my start-up ("home") site. >> From the discussion, it appears that your difficulties >> resulted

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
o the problem myself. I hope it's not going to be a requirement for Gentoo users that they become experts in using Git. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Universi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
suggest it sb a top priority for dev's to write. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-08-29 Thread Philip Webb
everything -- & not powering off at all ; the monitor + Xscreensaver are off whenever I'm away from the machine for >= 1 hr (approx). Are there any pro's/con's I sb aware of ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT _

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
ernation' in this connection : what do they mean ? Do they correspond to saving to RAM/disk ? -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
150903 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:32:52 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Mick mentioned 'S3' = 'sleep' & 'S4' = 'hibernation' in this connection: >> what do they mean ? Do they correspond to saving to RAM/disk ? > Sh

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict - xfce-base/libxfce4util

2015-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
Really, can't our valued + respected devs do better in this area ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-07 Thread Philip Webb
Cache OEM HDSG002084 ST500DM002 : Downtown 5 : $ 60 Seagate Desktop HDD 500 GB 3.5in SATA3 16 MB Cache OEM DVD : * DVSS004328 SH-224FB/BSBE : Downtown 4 : $ 22 Samsung (SH-224FB/BSBE) Internal 24x DVD Writer, OEM Black, SATA, 1.5 MB Buffer -- ====,,===

[gentoo-user] new machine : case + power

2015-09-16 Thread Philip Webb
The front USBs mb more limited, but might there be differences in the PSU outlet cabling ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : case + power

2015-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
150917 james wrote: > Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: >> 150914 CPU : AMD X8 FX8370E 8-core 4,3 GHz 16 MB 32 nm 95 W > I have 3) FX8350. Outstanding performance for the cost. Love them all. >> 150914 Mobo : Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P 970+SB950 DDR3 2000 : 119.99 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
problem, which experienced users can diagnose themselves, but the present Portage output is too opaque to help newcomers. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : case fan

2015-09-22 Thread Philip Webb
he inside starts getting too hot ? The machine has woken up -- it's like having a baby (grin) -- & BIOS shows everything is running as expected. Thanks for the useful help previously : fan advice wb welcome. -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : mobo fault

2015-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

2015-10-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment

2015-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
it for years (smile). I use 'startx' & in .xinitrc I have : xscreensaver & kdeinit & startfluxbox This speeds things up. I even manage to go on using 3 KDE 3 games. The power of Gentoo ! -- ====,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about initial/default ownership of /usr/portage

2015-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
151002 Raymond Jennings wrote: > Who is supposed to own /usr/portage? On my system, it's 'portage:portage'. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Uni

Re: [gentoo-user] Root device as UUID not properly detected

2015-10-06 Thread Philip Webb
not detected. Did you try other USB sticks, which you know work in other machines, in that one machine ? Otherwise, it mb something awry in that machine. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

[gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-12 Thread Philip Webb
happening quite clearly. What am I doing wrong ? Am I using the correct tool ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto T

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-12 Thread Philip Webb
151012 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:46:00PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out. > Just curious why : why not just power it off or lock it ? It's not relevant to the problem, but I do

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-13 Thread Philip Webb
151012 Philip Webb wrote: > I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out. > The pkg to use seems to be Pm-utils, which I've installed. > 'pm-suspend' does suspend, but only briefly : > after 5 s , it restarts automatically & everythi

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-13 Thread Philip Webb
151013 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed ; >> I can power off & restart normally afterwards. >> 'dmesg' + 'syslog' simply show an immediate restart a

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-14 Thread Philip Webb
151013 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/13/2015 09:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> 151013 Daniel Frey wrote: >>> On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >>>> but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed ; >>> There was a kernel change some ti

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User posting diagrams, graphics?

2015-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
accident. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-01 Thread Philip Webb
m to work : I use the 'prtdialog' plug-in, which prints, but only badly as above. Can anyone offer advice or suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
151101 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/01/2015 04:08 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. >> 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. >> When I print a text file from Gvim or a

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
ar to my own. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 03 Nov 2015 18:33:58 Philip Webb wrote: >> The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality, >> but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge). >> Therefore, something has to tell it t

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