Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
070826 Aaron Clark wrote: > On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as >> "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 >> integrated High-definition video processing >> with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo- user] KDE & HAL: запретить монт ирование определенных р азделов

2007-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
ive help first (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto --

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
Bash 070728 without any problem. My Readline version is 5.2_p4 (070701): do you need to upgrade yours ? Have you looked for similar problems in the Forum ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] EL

Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
hat mb your problem rather than anything to do with passwords: have a look in such places as /etc/login* & /etc/security/* . Just a quick suggestion in the absence of more informative help. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___

[gentoo-user] new machine: Intel quad vs duo

2007-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
ore CPU wb overkill for my simple desktop, but I'm keen to get value for money in a machine intended to last to 2011 . Does anyone have any thoughts re dual- vs quad-core processors when used for various purposes with Gentoo ? -- ,,====

[gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error

2007-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
in a Gentoo doc, esp one like this. Can anyone offer advice ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
070929 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote >> Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes, >> I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem. >> Does anyone have any

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

2007-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
w errors here & there). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
help readily available, whereas 'xconfig' has a whole panel on the screen showing relevant help, while also allowing easy re-use of your previous .config (as above). Of course, always keep >= 1 previous kernel available for emergencies. -- ,,===

[gentoo-user] Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
erience or advice to offer in this area ? (Thanks to those who commented re quad-cores: I plan to get a Core 2 Duo) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
care to make the case for Grub ? Lilo is so easy. (I don't mean to start a silly dispute, just to learn from others) Otherwise, thanks for all the reassurance re Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits. -- ,,======== SUPPORT _

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
: unlike the other two, it couldn't use my full monitor resolution & it also boots into a Gnome desktop (ugh & grin). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
071007 Florian Philipp wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> more generally you could try to install from Knoppix >> -- that's what I used when I installed my current system 4 years ago -- >> or the simple but powerful System Rescue ( http://www.sysresccd.org/ ), >> wh

[gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
s layout would seem to risk losing everything on the HDD & require re-installation. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Communit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
it into the install process. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles

2007-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'. I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', >> which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD >> as '/dev/sda', neith

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
071020 b.n. wrote: > Philip Webb ha scritto: >> Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs >> takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? >> It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. >> It won

[gentoo-user] Re: new box

2007-10-22 Thread Philip Webb
071022 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 20 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Philip Webb writes: >>> BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'. >>> I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net. >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new box

2007-10-23 Thread Philip Webb
071023 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:30:58 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) it refused to compile 'sandbox' with some error; > this is often fixed by 'FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge -1 sandbox' It was fixed, as were errors in compiling Gli

[gentoo-user] mobo onboard Intel graphics

2007-10-25 Thread Philip Webb
e irritants, but no sensible responses. I have tried the obvious changes in xorg.conf without success. Does anyone have any useful experience or suggestions ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo onboard Intel graphics: some progress

2007-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
071025 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 10/25/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've got X working on my new box with Fluxbox (KDE is more work). >> I used 'Xorg -configure' to create the basic xorg.conf . >> It runs without any obvious problems,

Re: [gentoo-user] What should i use instead of /dev/usb?

2007-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
: have a look for that. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Glxgears crashes X

2007-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
#x27; & 'i915' ; kernel 2.6.22-r8 ; 64-bit system . Has anyone else encountered this or have any suggestions ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
071027 Philip Webb wrote: > X starts with no errors in the log, but 'glxgears' & 'glxinfo' crash X. > The processor is an Intel G33 using drivers 'i810' & 'i915' ; > kernel 2.6.22-r8 ; 64-bit system . After sleeping on the problem &

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Philip Webb
savers, but affordable if needed otherwise. Your & others' further comments & suggestions are very welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Philip Webb
071029 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Unrecognised deviceID 29c2 >> backtrace ... >> ... /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so ... (provided by pkg 'mesa') > What versions of Mesa and xf86-video-i810 are you running? 'mesa-progs-6.5.2'

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Philip Webb
em ? >> Is there any way of testing the other 3 versions in the dir, >> which I listed in the previous msg (one is 'i915tex') ? > There's no need. It knows which one to choose. :) That's good to know (smile). -- ====,,======

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Philip Webb
e using an Nvidia card & direct monitor plug-in produces none of these defects, suggesting the cause is the G33 chip. I'm not keen to buy another Nvidia card, if I can avoid it ... Any advice here too wb very welcome. -- ,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Philip Webb
071031 Philip Webb wrote: > Meanwhile, what I believed to be a small irritant is proving a show-stopper. > Leaving aside DRI, the display from the new machine spills off the screen: See previous msg for full horror story, but I did check the DPI : both machines show 99x98 in answer to &#x

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-11-01 Thread Philip Webb
071031 Philip Webb wrote: > 071030 James Ausmus wrote: >> the media-libs/mesa-7.0.1 works fine >> *IF* you apply the attached patch (either hack the ebuild >> or CTRL-Z immediately after emerge gets done unpacking the source). >> I had the same problem you did, did th

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg library responsible for handling keyboard input

2007-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
rivers/xf86-input-keyboard ... -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto --

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
$ Windows may insist on changing the time on its own, so you may find it happens twice. > I had to set the time manually to adjust for the 1 hour shift. > Shouldn't this be automatic? What did I miss? HTH -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] Console with color graphics capabilities?

2007-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
'feh' (Portage) is an excellent little app which allows quick viewing of images & slide-shows all from CLI. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre f

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-15 Thread Philip Webb
74, 1 > 09/30/74, 1 I would do it with Vim, mainly 's' & 'q'. It would probably help slightly if you used international date format: '1974-09-27' etc. HTH -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___/

[gentoo-user] new box working well: 2 small problems

2007-11-23 Thread Philip Webb
on't test floppies much today. Has anyone else encountered either of these problems or have a suggestion ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 fresh install woes (configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.???)

2007-11-27 Thread Philip Webb
later need for some other pkgs 'app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs' & some of its brothers. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Webb
et back on the CPU. > 1000Hz for a really low latency desktop machine. I don't play games, but I've long had my desktop box using HZ_1000 & it has always been very responsive (now Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.6.23-r3). That's certainly the first thing to try. -- ====,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Webb
you to 'Enable block layer -> IO Schedulers -> whatever you want'. '?' get you help on the options ... I seem to be using 'CFQ', which is apparently the default: my desktop system is performing admirably. -- ====,,=======

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
ew desktop machine recently, I used RFS 3 for everything except /boot (which is Ext2). -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRA

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Philip Webb
ound is to run 'revdep-rebuild --pretend ... ', then do by hand whatever it says it would do, omitting the silly stuff. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cent

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
reviewed" : it is poorly expressed & not clear even to a native speaker (wry smile). > "105 minutes were closed and 57 were open" - what is "57"? Minutes : what else ?! -- ====,, SUPPORT __

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Philip Webb
roast' for CDs. -- ,, 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] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Philip Webb
all this is that I have (almost) never had any problem with my Gentoo machines since I started using Gentoo 0310 . 'emerge world' is the source of many problems regularly reported here. HTH (smile) -- ,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
080628 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:53:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> 'emerge world' is the source of many problems regularly reported here. > No, it's changing package versions that breaks a working system, > whether this is a result of running &#

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately: correction

2008-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
080628 Philip Webb wrote: > I've been doing it this way for nearly 8 years Of course, I mean nearly 5 years . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre f

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-29 Thread Philip Webb
080628 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:57:05 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> the problem with 'emerge world' (without '-p') is >> the user hands over control of his machine to an unreliable automaton, > No one has ever suggested that you run e

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-06-29 Thread Philip Webb
wn sense of awe that anyone new to Linux got Gentoo running at the 1st shot ! -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-29 Thread Philip Webb
bianutils] 080425 sys-libs/db-4.3.29-r2 [for python?] This way, I should always know exactly what is installed & why: if not, it's my own fault for being careless. That power over my system a big reason for using Gentoo (smile). -- ====,,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
isfied using another DE (smile) ? Also, it does use less memory, typically 400 MB a/a 700 MB at end of day. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Ur

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
r the old & good Galeon & I used that on my previous (now stand-by) machine, but to use it on this machine I'ld have to install 49 Gnome pkgs (ugh). I asked before: do those having problems with FF3 perhaps use Gnome ? -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem

2008-07-15 Thread Philip Webb
e finger". -- ,, 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] Mounting usb problem

2008-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
ounted the stick like this, I can read/write to it from my user's command-line or use Krusader with it. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-26 Thread Philip Webb
s running two or three years ago. Yes, Gentoo is a thoroughbred, whereas Ubuntu mb a trotter & M$ Windows is an ass or a mule ... Of course, like all thoroughbreds, it needs extra training & attention ... -- ,,======

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Philip Webb
-startup-notification -xulrunner" and for OpenOffice : USE="-binfilter cups dbus -debug -eds -firefox -gnome -gstreamer gtk java kde -ldap -mono -odk opengl -pam -seamonkey -xulrunner" my system LANG is 'en_US.UTF-8'. -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] Trendnet KVM Switch

2008-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
#x27;s channels is defective. > PD: Sorry for my bad english!! No problem there (smile). -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] weekend amusement

2008-08-22 Thread Philip Webb
un weekend everyone ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: building kde-meta

2008-08-24 Thread Philip Webb
latter allows apps to show Russian, Chinese, Esperanto etc , while AFAIK the former disables non-English help files etc. BTW the best way to set up make.conf is to have USE="-* " . So the short answer is Yes (smile). -- ,,===

[gentoo-user] OT : DSL modems & changing ISP

2008-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
this area I should know about (smile) ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT : DSL modems & changing ISP

2008-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
080826 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-08-25, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've decided to change my ISP from Sympatico to Uniserve >> & need to check a couple of things re which others may have advice. >> (1) the best option seems to be to buy a D

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1

2008-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
his is a show stopper for me. Me too. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
mewhere in KDE. Might this be the cause/problem ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
080902 David Relson wrote: > 080902 Philip Webb wrote: >> I have the keypad arrows set to move the cursor (like the mouse). >> IIRC it's a setting somewhere in KDE. Might this be the cause/problem ? > I don't think that a KDE setting is the issue as I'm a Gno

[gentoo-user] landmark development !

2008-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
ed-1.0 has become stable ! That will make everyone's weekend (grin) ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--

Re: [gentoo-user] landmark development !

2008-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
080906 b.n. wrote: > Philip Webb ha scritto: >> ed-1.0 has become stable ! That will make everyone's weekend (grin) ! > ed... THAT ed? the editor? Yes, after all these years ! -- ,, SUPPORT _____

[gentoo-user] Ssmtp gotcha

2008-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
O Quickstarter : Tools -> Options -> Memory -> Enable Systray Quickstarter , then add to Systray via Kdocker (Gentoo pkg for KDE). -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Ci

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-7.2: Filesize does not match recorded size

2008-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
ems 080816. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
to remain the best all-purpose binary distro. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] A huge list

2008-09-27 Thread Philip Webb
to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? 'revdep-rebuild --pretend' : then emerge the items you want singly. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, U

[gentoo-user] test: please ignore

2008-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
This is a test to see whether I can send to the list from my new ISP & whether messages are sent to me. Please ignore otherwise. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Ce

[gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-18 Thread Philip Webb
rly soon (smile to devs). -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-18 Thread Philip Webb
081019 Philip Webb wrote: > OO 3.0.0 compiled successfully in 2 h 29 m on this Core2 Duo machine, > but needed 5,3 MB temporary disk space (ok here, but others beware). Sorry, that's >= 5,3 GB

Re: [gentoo-user] progress everywhere !

2008-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
081019 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2008 07:25:28 Philip Webb wrote: >> Does anyone know why it wants 'xulrunner', which is not a use flag here ? > It's this [details snipped: thanks]: > So basically it is dependant on the nsplugin USE flag > and wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: progress everywhere !

2008-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
081019 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-10-19, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday 19 October 2008 07:25:28 Philip Webb wrote: >>> OO 3.0.0 compiled successfully in 2 h 29 m on this Core2 Duo machine, >>> but needed 5,3 GB temporary disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: progress everywhere !

2008-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
081019 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2008 18:48:37 Philip Webb wrote: >> I suspect there wb pleas for help from users who run out of disk space: >> earlier versions needed  < 3 GB , so this is a big jump, >> esp as I have  2 GB  memory (I didn't check how

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
;t have Myspell installed: could that be your problem ? Have you checked for Gentoo bugs & the Gentoo forum ? > I'm back to MSOffice. I hate it but it works. That does seem a bit extreme ... (smile) -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] install problem

2008-11-15 Thread Philip Webb
more precise about what is wrong. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary

2007-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
ccess via U Toronto). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] clean_delay has stopped working

2007-02-11 Thread Philip Webb
gs or the forum. Does anyone have information or comments ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

2007-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
; & 'o'. Perhaps this will get you started, if no-one else has more precise info. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice help

2007-03-02 Thread Philip Webb
outputfile'; search for 'bmp'. -- ,,==== 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] mysterious freezes when browsing Internet

2007-03-06 Thread Philip Webb
ing Kernel 2.6.18-gentoo, KDE 3.5.6 , Epiphany 2.16.3 & Xorg-x11 7.1 . Otherwise, my system is very stable & problem-free. Has anyone else run into this bizarre phenomenon ? Does anyone have useful suggestions ? -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious freezes when browsing Internet

2007-03-07 Thread Philip Webb
070306 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:22, Philip Webb wrote: >> During the past few months, I've been bit by sudden total freezes >> while using Epiphany & Konqueror to browse Internet sites. >> The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 d

Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies

2007-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
, it won't ask for 35 deps ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies

2007-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
070308 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:23 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I don't have a sound card & have removed all sound software from my box. >> Whyever would Gedit want sound pkgs or a CD burner ?? > It doesn't. I don't mean to start an ar

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix error message

2007-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
expects parameters. Should you perhaps be using 'eix-sync' ? -- ,,==== 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] floppy flops: mtools vs file managers

2007-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
ith KDE & Xfce). Have other people had such problems -- have they even tried -- , does anyone have useful comments, suggestions or explanations ? -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] EL

Re: [gentoo-user] floppy flops: mtools vs file managers

2007-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
070411 David W Noon wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philip Webb wrote: >> Ordinarily, I use Mtools to manage diskettes (floppies): >> it's very fast & efficient to copy & delete files from the CLI. > I presume you use only FAT12 formatted floppies

[gentoo-user] floppy flops: further tests

2007-04-15 Thread Philip Webb
for weightier tasks & Dolphin is still immature. Further comments are welcome. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-29 Thread Philip Webb
fix your .fonts.conf . -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

2007-04-29 Thread Philip Webb
e, choose one of the pure binary distros, which are best for most Linux users. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
cdroast as front-end when writing CDs : it's reliable. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
re very busy in their lives & simply don't have the time to keep it upto-date. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy/Paste Functionality in Konsole

2007-05-23 Thread Philip Webb
sert The last sentence is a different matter. I just tested both commands & they copy the whole content of Klipper into the Konsole, which is not usually likely to be useful (smile). Dan should have a look at Klipper too & see how it works. -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
h I can use 'Ctl-Alt-F1' to re-access the TTY, when 'Return' brings a terminal prompt & I can restart X with 'startx' as usual (super-fast!); this depends on enabling the 'magic SysRq' option in the kernel. Of course, I don't know whether it will work n

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
070604 Philip Webb wrote: > 070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> From time to time my X server will lock up, >> usually while I'm editing something heavily graphical. >> When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop >> is mouse motion. No cli

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