Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Philip Webb wrote: > 151103 Mick wrote: >> Is your gentoo user a member of lp & lpadmin group? > 'lpadmin' yes ; 'lp' no, but 'lp' is a member : I've added my userid. > On the face of it, the latter shouldn't make a differ

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : one solved

2015-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Philip Webb wrote: > In addition, the icon doesn't work in Gvim, tho' :ha does. That latter was mistaken : the icon is simply a shortcup for :ha . You have to tell Gvim which printer to use. In ~/.vimrc you need : 'set pdev=Deskjet_2510' (or system name for

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : hiccups solve them

2015-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
151103 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 to print 'high-quality' or 'best'. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
optical back-ups in case Earth's poles reverse (grin), so the DVD drive will get used a couple of times a year. Your list omits an SSD drive : they're much faster than HDD, tho' you should have one of those too for back-ups etc. -- ====,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-06 Thread Philip Webb
al I don't use often. 'y' is for back-ups & is not normally mounted. Mint helped when installing Gentoo, Mageia is sentimental : both mb useful to show friends who ask re Linux. All the sizes are really overkill for what I actually use. HTH --

Re: [gentoo-user] reading data cd/dvd

2015-11-11 Thread Philip Webb
dvd (as root), then (as user) 'cd /mnt/dvd' & use Most/Mupdf/Feh/etc to look at the files. Quick, effective, foolproof ... (smile) -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] can't login

2015-11-11 Thread Philip Webb
; but on trying to login again in the graphic logic, > it keeps the same behaviour. You probably need to reboot to get the new password recognised. To avoid such troubles, I login at the raw terminal, then 'startx'. -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] combining pdf files, different size

2015-11-23 Thread Philip Webb
age. Give it a try. It's good, but it requires Java. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-12-07 Thread Philip Webb
ORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] do I need ppp ?

2016-12-12 Thread Philip Webb
I access the Internet using 'dhcpcd' via a simple router. I have 'ppp' installed with a note "for PPP via baselayout". Do I in fact need to keep 'ppp' ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT

[gentoo-user] Portage vs Qt

2016-12-13 Thread Philip Webb
efore I send in a bug, does anyone else have useful comments ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] do I need ppp ?

2016-12-15 Thread Philip Webb
#x27;ppp' & the I/net seems to be working as usual. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Portage nonsense : this week's version

2016-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
bservations -- I've listed 'qt5' among my USE flags & haven't listed 'qt4', so it follows that I've specified "at most one of qt4/qt5". Portage refuses to hear this, so I'm stuck. Does anyone have a useful suggestion or do I report a bug ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage not so nonsense : solved

2016-12-19 Thread Philip Webb
161218 J. Roeleveld wrote: > 161218 Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to see which pkgs might have updates available in 'testing', >> so I enter, where 'emergeu' = 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge' >> USE="openssl qt5 text ruby_targets

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage spokes again...

2016-12-20 Thread Philip Webb
uot;32 64 x32"} Installed versions: 1.10.12^t([2016-10-23 05:47:09])(X -debug -doc -selinux -static-libs -systemd -test -user-session ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32") I have '-*' in ma

[gentoo-user] where are KDE 5 menu item commands stored ?

2016-12-21 Thread Philip Webb
s it opens correctly when clicked. Can any KDE user advise ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.0 + nvidia problem

2016-12-27 Thread Philip Webb
e are also many USE flags & many kernel options. Before I try permutating them all (smile), has anyone else had trouble here ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre,

Re: [gentoo-user] Retrieving bounced list messages

2017-01-03 Thread Philip Webb
.gentoo.org/ . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] defective Dolphin, cruising Krusader (was Nvidia)

2017-01-06 Thread Philip Webb
patience at first. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

2017-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
p; then 'startx'. My .xinitrc has a line 'startkde'. Everything works ok. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd good or bad?

2017-01-08 Thread Philip Webb
==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

2017-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
ecause of no matching config section. (II) UnloadModule: "vesa" (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file. (EE) error: (EE) no screens found(EE) -- final lines snipped Does anyone have any suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Problem matching latest kernel with latest Nvidia

2017-01-10 Thread Philip Webb
170109 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/09/2017 10:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I had a previous thread re Kernel 4.9.0 + Nvidia 375.26 (now stable). >> I tried recompiling that kernel with DRM disabled, >> & remerged Nvidia 375.26 , but X won't start. > The nvid

[gentoo-user] Firefox : strange site blockage

2017-02-07 Thread Philip Webb
, nor anything in AdBlockPlus. To keep the older Tab sorting system, I still FF 38.8.0 , but there has been no other problem with it since I installed it 160716. Can anyone suggest what might have happened ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox : tab grouping

2017-02-09 Thread Philip Webb
170208 Philip Webb wrote: > I tried to do a search for 'Thomas Telford' with the default Google : > nothing happened nor when I substituted Wikipedia in the search-engine box ; > OTOH in that box DuckDuckGo successfully found the Wikipedia entry. > I also tried my bookmar

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror:5 - why couldn't it be more like konqueror:3 ?!!

2017-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
my experience was that once KDE 5 came along, apps tended to need the full desktop installed. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRA

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror:5 - why couldn't it be more like konqueror:3 ?!!

2017-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
ng of files/directories. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror:5 - why couldn't it be more like konqueror:3 ?!!

2017-04-20 Thread Philip Webb
170420 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 Apr 2017 19:14:10 Philip Webb wrote: >>> I've never used Konqueror as a file-manager, but regularly use Krusader, >>> which I strongly recommend for all heavy-lifting of files/directories. >> Thanks Philip, I

[gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

2017-04-22 Thread Philip Webb
ged without any problem. What are other users' experiences using GCC 5.4.0 ? -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

2017-04-23 Thread Philip Webb
170423 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 23. April 2017, 07:45:49 CEST schrieb Philip Webb: >> What are other users' experiences using GCC 5.4.0 ? > My personal advice & experience: > * install the new gcc-5.4 > * switch to it > * run the revdep-rebuild command

[gentoo-user] new printer

2017-05-01 Thread Philip Webb
ecifications : Linux driver available -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new scanner

2017-05-01 Thread Philip Webb
3.4 lbs Power Consumption Operating : 2.5 W , Standby : 1.4 W Manufacturer Warranty 1 Year Limited Toronto Downtown : 2 -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [

[gentoo-user] new scanner : partial success

2017-05-03 Thread Philip Webb
b done via another distro sb available with Gentoo too. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new scanner : partial success

2017-05-04 Thread Philip Webb
170503 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-05-03 15:13, Philip Webb wrote: >> It appears that the driver set-up includes a binary blob >> & that it can't be done simply by picking the correct SANE_BACKENDS item >> (the old scanner simply need 'plustek' to be ch

[gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo

2017-05-04 Thread Philip Webb
omments, advice, warnings etc ? Thanks for the advice offered so far. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : no success

2017-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
170504 Philip Webb wrote: > I want to get my new Epson V550 working on Gentoo, > having successfully installed Epson's driver on Mint. > > I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dpkg', which handles .deb archives, > & listed the content of the 3 .deb files in the Eps

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : further thoughts

2017-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
170506 Mick wrote: > On Friday 05 May 2017 19:27:47 Philip Webb wrote: >> There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 : >> I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600 >> & try to install Iscan + data + that plugin. > If you are going to change

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
much external support ? -- 'pdftk' is very useful iff you're willing to install Java. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : further thoughts

2017-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
s were ; also, Mint uses Systemd & my Gentoo uses Openrc. I've put the install script on my Internet site at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ . Can anyone interpret it & check whether it does anything with the files which might make them work differently ? -- =

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : solved

2017-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
170506 Gene Hannan wrote: > On 05/05/2017 04:27 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to get my new Epson V550 working on Gentoo, >> having successfully installed Epson's driver on Mint. >> >> I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dpkg', which handles .deb archives, >

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning with HP DJ

2017-05-07 Thread Philip Webb
170506 allan gottlieb wrote: > On Sat, May 06 2017, Philip Webb wrote: >> I have an HP printer, which also copies & can scan, >> but it isn't supported by Sane-backends & would require much work. > Do you have hplip and hplip-plugin merged ? > I have SANE_BACKE

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rocks

2017-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
l computer lists anywhere. Thanks again to whoever it was told me how to get my new scanner working. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Simple to upgrade Linux distro

2017-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
ted experience. Mageia 6 has just come out, so why not install that ? -- Mandrake is what I used before I started using Gentoo in 2003. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities C

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Philip Webb
want to expand my knowledge! This is a very polite & friendly list with good advice available. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Philip Webb
140730 behrouz khosravi wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> 140729 behrouz khosravi wrote: >> ^ 'conquered' (smile) : 'concur' = 'agree'. > Sorry. No need at all ! -- You said you wanted to learn (at the end)

Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync

2014-08-01 Thread Philip Webb
ble 4.2.5.2) & won't update till 4.3.x.x . A lot of the changes are minor bug fixes or features I don't use. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-01 Thread Philip Webb
it cb happily ignored via '--nodeps'. Just don't expect this to be documented anywere (grimace). -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
140802 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, August 01, 2014 12:26:59 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> Not quite (smile) ! -- I ran into this & sent bugs to Gentoo + KDE ; >> the outcome was that I discovered that Phonon doesn't in fact demand >> that you install the actual soun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
andling Phonon correctly : see KDE bug 190601 & Gentoo bug 265864 . -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Philip Webb
w to configure that to *always* default to *off*, > instead of remembering the last setting, that would help. Have you tried Mutt (smile) ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cit

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-08 Thread Philip Webb
140808 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > does anybody know how to tell 'most' to scroll when I use my mouse wheel? IIRC it's KDE which does it for me : Most runs in a Konsole. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Ph

Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean's strange behaviour

2014-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
bug about this? I noticed you have filed a bug, but there's already one there : see Gentoo bugs 510390 375115 . Hopefully, it wb dealt with soon. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
uick alternative to Okular for PDFs . The great attraction of Gentoo is that you get to build your own system & can mix + match as much as you please. HTH. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECT

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
140816 Henrique Lengler wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:31:10PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I do use Evince as a quick alternative to Okular for PDFs . > Have you ever tried mupdf or xpdf ? Thanks for the reminder ! -- I do indeed have Mupdf installed, but had forgotten all ab

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
-load FM for a long time. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
but it looks rather experimental & has a long list of commands, most of which I'm unlikely to use. Okular is ok for heavier work & Mupdf is quick'n'simple for glancing around PDFs from the CLI. -- ,,==== SUPPO

Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
ueror as an alternative browser recently after it refused to accept every URL as malformed. Rekonq is an adequate replacement + Firefox for regular use ; I also use Lynx when I want text copies of WWW dox. My window manager is Fluxbox. -- ,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
velopment support. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Python 3.4.1

2014-10-11 Thread Philip Webb
to list pkgs which use the Python flag & (2) I don't know which pkgs might not be safe with 3.4.1 (Portage ? ). Can anyone explain or point me to the relevant docs ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Web

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.4.1

2014-10-11 Thread Philip Webb
141011 James wrote: > Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: >> I've just installed python-3.4.1 alongside 2.7.7 3.2.5-r6 3.3.5-r1 . >> I've changed the lines in make.conf to >> USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.4" >> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 p

[gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-17 Thread Philip Webb
devs ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread Philip Webb
use Lynx for those items which don't need JS & reserve Firefox for those which do. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Kernel 3.17.1-r1

2014-10-18 Thread Philip Webb
ps the option got moved around ; since it's not new, I shouldn't have been asked about it during the dialog. (2) There's been a sudden masking of 3.17.0 in favor of 3.17.1-r1 , now successfully running my machine. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
future DVD) for when the Earth's poles change & everything magnetic is wiped out (grin). 2 belts + 3 braces : HTH. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities C

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss : PS

2014-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
141027 Philip Webb wrote: > ... HHD ... (4 times) HDD (red face) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] using python 2.7

2014-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
sk again if you need more help. This is a friendly place, but mb you tripped over the doorstep (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRA

[gentoo-user] Nvidia-Xscreensaver problem

2014-11-08 Thread Philip Webb
9.348] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
evelopment. Time will tell, but probably fairly soon. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user]ask for installation help!

2014-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
has any difficulties with Virtual Box. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

2014-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
h > momentum and speed. The goal of such a prank? To make the people think > about it and change their opinion that this would not happen. A rather shrewd analysis ; the name 'Devuan' adds to my suspicions. -- ====,,======

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: perl blockers

2014-12-14 Thread Philip Webb
world' without '-p' & then emerge pkgs singly. It's a bit more work, but I've always avoided trips + traps. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-19 Thread Philip Webb
sks. If you continue to have difficult with Grub, try Lilo instead. It's simpler & quite adequate for ordinary use. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Universit

[gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem

2014-12-29 Thread Philip Webb
blem ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem

2014-12-29 Thread Philip Webb
141229 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 29/12/2014 11:03, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >> The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago >> & cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem

2014-12-29 Thread Philip Webb
141229 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 29/12/2014 14:16, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >> The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago >> & cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : more

2014-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
141229 Philip Webb wrote: > I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. > The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago > & cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . > The revision I created today has mangled some of the punct

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : bug report

2014-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
141231 Philip Webb wrote: > 141229 Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : > I've investigated further & the problem remains. > It occurred to me that

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency riddle...

2015-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
t show that a "tcl" USE flag is available for it. > I added it nonetheless, > but the command failed again with the same error message Is the problem that Tcl needs 'rendering' enabled for Vtk ? Yes, these Portage msgs are often very obscure ... --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : bug report

2015-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
150101 walt wrote: > On 12/31/2014 04:40 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation. >> It occurred to me that it was perhaps being caused by importing a text

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-03 Thread Philip Webb
y dox. All are satisfactory. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice PDF conversion problem : solved

2015-01-04 Thread Philip Webb
150102 Philip Webb wrote: > 150101 walt wrote: >> On 12/31/2014 04:40 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >>> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >>> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation. >>> Apostrophes & extended das

[gentoo-user] printer problem solved by new flag

2015-01-04 Thread Philip Webb
ilter failed", but when I chose 'hpcups' it went thro' properly. I'm reporting this to help others who may run into the roadblock. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] []

[gentoo-user] USB mouse query

2015-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
se I need to do ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] mouse problem with old machine

2015-01-08 Thread Philip Webb
2" (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded ... The machine doesn't respond to mouse movements. Can anyone suggest what I'm missing ? Eg do I need to install 'evdev' ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Firefox bookmarks

2015-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
r machine. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox bookmarks

2015-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
150110 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > 150110 Philip Webb wrote : >> Can anyone tell me where Firefox stores its bookmarks ? > If you want do transfer Firefox bookmarks from one system to another, > you can simply press Ctrl+Shift+O in Firefox. A window will open up > where you

[gentoo-user] restoring master boot record

2015-01-11 Thread Philip Webb
e proper place ? If I do find myself facing this problem one day, I may not have e-mail, so I'ld like to have the necessary info saved for when it's needed. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /]

Re: [gentoo-user] restoring master boot record

2015-01-12 Thread Philip Webb
r_backup of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1' ; > so you can just write the MBR to a file > and either include the partition table (bs=512) or exclude it (bs=446). Thanks ! -- someone else who keeps careful notes : added to mine. -- ====,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-16 Thread Philip Webb
hter ; I am finishing my MSc in computer science ; my hobbies are playing the guitar & riding my mountain bike". OTOH I suspect most of us here starting computing with punched cards ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___

[gentoo-user] problem with Adobe flash

2015-01-18 Thread Philip Webb
ll about security), both of which are absent or installed elsewhere by Mageia. Can anyone suggest what's going wrong with Adobe flash on Gentoo ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

[gentoo-user] problem emerging Libdrm

2015-01-24 Thread Philip Webb
asked Google without much help. Can anyone suggest what might be causing this problem ? -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging Libdrm : solved

2015-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
150125 Philip Webb wrote: > After exactly 2 years , I'm trying to update my Asus EEE netbook. > Trying to update gtk+ , I've run into a problem : > it requires Mesa & Cairo & both require libdrm-2.4.58 , > which refuses to compile, failing with lines reporting >

[gentoo-user] updating netbook : next problem

2015-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
yout or coreutils. Does anyone have any suggestions ? Gcc is 4.8.3 . -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSI

Re: [gentoo-user] updating netbook : "C Compiler can't create executables" : solved

2015-01-26 Thread Philip Webb
150126 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 26/01/15 13:01, Philip Webb wrote: >> Having restored X & proceeding to work thro' pkgs, I emerged >> reiserfsprogs lsof kbd tar baselayout libutempter autoconf-wrapper >> bin86 push coreutils gmp . Trying the next set of pkgs, &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat

2015-01-27 Thread Philip Webb
to-date. My netbook was running 2.15-r3 (121216) till I updated it this week (I haven't used it since 130127 & ordinarily don't use it for I/net). -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [

[gentoo-user] updating netbook : Python needs libjpeg.so.8 : solved

2015-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
mple Jpeg. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] updating netbook : Python needs libjpeg.so.8 : solved

2015-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
150129 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 05:52:27 -0500 Philip Webb wrote: >> The 3rd stumble was Python, which refused to compile, >> as it couldn't find /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8 . >> It seems that Libjpeg-turbo works only on 64-bit systems >> & that

Re: [gentoo-user] updating netbook : Python needs libjpeg.so.8 : solved

2015-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
150130 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:13:35 -0500 Philip Webb wrote: PW> The 3rd stumble was Python, which refused to compile, > as it couldn't find /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8 . > It seems that Libjpeg-turbo works only on 64-bit systems > & that 32-bit systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

2015-02-03 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] netbook connects to Internet automatically, desktop doesn't

2015-02-08 Thread Philip Webb
ated pkgs. The kernels are 3.17 & 3.18 ; desktop manager is Fluxbox. Can anyone explain what I need to do to get the desktop machine to behave as helpfully as the netbook does ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

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