[gentoo-user] Xulrunner 2.0 seems to demand Alsa : any advice ?

2011-03-27 Thread Philip Webb
without any success. I don't have sound hardware or sound enabled in my kernel. Does anyone have suggestions or should I file a bug ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] Xulrunner 2.0 seems to demand Alsa : any advice ?

2011-03-29 Thread Philip Webb
110328 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 27.03.2011 20:51, schrieb Philip Webb: >> Wanting to try Firefox 4.0 , I tried to emerge Xulrunner 2.0 >> & ran into this problem : >> root:527 profile> emerge xulrunner >> checking for alsa... Package alsa was not found

[gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
something to define them ? -- anyone know ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
something to define them ? -- anyone know ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
eone wb able to help you make progress. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
ce: that often solves problems. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
110411 Bill Longman wrote: > On 04/11/2011 08:13 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. >> There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux > Are you sure there's no documentation? [long list snipped] (red fac

Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

2011-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
1 (/usr/lib64/libX11.la) -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
static-libs" emerge -Dup libgcrypt & if that works, add the flag to /etc/portage/package.use . -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

2011-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
inually reporting problems which I have avoided since 2003 . -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
able improvement; part of that is no delay now starting Eth0 (presumably C has replaced Bash). -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
110511 Dale wrote: > Do you, or anyone else, have the parallel startup enabled? > I started to but noticed the warning in the config file. No & for the same reason as yourself. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
f you wish. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] libre vs openoffice

2011-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
sb fixable with a few minutes work. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with Nvidia-drivers-270.41.06

2011-06-05 Thread Philip Webb
110605 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2011 08:01:27 Philip Webb wrote: >> I installed the latest stable Nvidia driver 270.41.06 >> & X refuses to start with the message >> API mismatch: the client has the version 270.41.06, >> but this kernel m

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???

2011-06-23 Thread Philip Webb
== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-23 Thread Philip Webb
bit of time maintaining it. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Nvidia & kernel 3.0

2011-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
3.0.0', but both names cause the same result. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia & kernel 3.0

2011-08-03 Thread Philip Webb
110802 YoYo Siska wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:35:01AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Has anyone run into a problem trying to compile Nvidia with kernel 3.0 ? >> AFAIK I have the correct symlink to the kernel source >> root:602 src> ls -l >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 roo

[gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
nything else I've overlooked ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
110815 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 >> & found it wants to install a long list of deps, >> many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. >> As

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
if i shd remove the USE flag, recompile the relevant pkgs & see what happens when i try using them. further comments still very welcome & thanks for those so far. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
> How does everybody here use Gentoo? 2 personal desktop machines (one stand-by) + 1 netbook. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRAN

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
to start (Kmahjongg Kworldclock). Emerge throws out a dire warning re compiling LO without Java, but doesn't say exactly what the dire results wb. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

[gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files

2011-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
run into problems with Gnome-type apps. I'm presently updating to gcc-4.4.5 (previously 4.4.3), but that will take > 3 hr in the netbook, so any advice is welcome. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb EL

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files : PS

2011-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
Yes, I did run 'lafilefixer --justfixit', but it had no effect. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O-

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files

2011-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
ut that still doesn't explain the missing .la files, which I can only emphasise were created in my desktop machine. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files : SOLVED

2011-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
110820 Philip Webb wrote: > I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook. > I merged glib-2.28.8 successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job, > it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list. > However after that, merging gtk+-2.24.4 librsvg-2.34.0 libglade-2.6.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge gnome-base/librsvg; missing /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la

2011-08-23 Thread Philip Webb
tool archive > make[2]: *** [librsvg-2.la] Error 1 It looks like the problem I reported recently, which was solved by remerging gcc libtool , esp the latter. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?

2011-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
110817 Philip Webb wrote: > 110815 Florian Philipp most helpfully wrote: >> >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Java_and_OpenOffice.org&oldid=15 > I deleted 'java' from the make.conf USE list > & recompiled Libreoffice (lat

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the "error" messages during boot?

2011-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
; that mb somewhere in the Kernel configuration. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe?

2011-09-10 Thread Philip Webb
ce, which have a fully adequate PDF substitute. You can check each package in your list with 'emerge -cpv ' & see what it says requires it: if they only support one another, you can fairly safely remove them all. -- ,,===

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I send email under linux terminal?

2011-10-22 Thread Philip Webb
igurable, very reliable. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-13 Thread Philip Webb
ert '+', escape '\@' etc succeed. Can anyone suggest a way to do this ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
14 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:06:04 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> To convert a UNIX date to a human-readable version the command is : >> 556: ~> date -d @1321251520 >> Mon Nov 14 01:18:40 EST 2011 >> I would like to create a Bash alias or fun

Re: [gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
14 Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:13:34AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> alias th='date -d @$1' > That is not how you use alias. > What you want is to use a function. Replace the alias line by > function th { date -d @$1; } > in your bashrc

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

2011-11-20 Thread Philip Webb
d, but I missed the peak), which is the usual amount. It took 1 h 56 m with my Core 2 Duo CPU. See Forum thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6864358.html . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Phili

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

2011-11-25 Thread Philip Webb
work. Can anyone explain what is going on ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

2011-11-26 Thread Philip Webb
wb in Portage ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick

2011-11-28 Thread Philip Webb
'display'. Use left-mouse to display the menu. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-28 Thread Philip Webb
e explain what these messages mean ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc 0.9.4 : opaque warnings

2011-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
28 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:17, Philip Webb wrote: >> Since updating to Openrc 0.9.4 , I'm getting some opaque messages : >> (1) When starting eth0 : "You are using a bash array for config_eth0. >> This feature will be removed in the

Re: [gentoo-user] cleanup_tmp_dir()

2011-12-04 Thread Philip Webb
p file & rescue what you were writing. Perhaps the OP has some problem of that kind & that is the solution. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Philip Webb
111206 LinuxIsOne wrote: > Then I asked him of ... Gentoo & he says: Is it a country? No, it's a miniature penguin (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| C

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

2011-12-09 Thread Philip Webb
111209 Pandu Poluan wrote: > Which text browser do you recommend to read documentations in HTML. Lynx : I've been using it daily since 1996 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Webb
==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Webb
postgres -test -vba -webdav -xmlsec) This is a 64-bit system with an Intel Core2 Duo processor. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Unive

[gentoo-user] xscreensaver-5.15 doesn't find images

2011-12-29 Thread Philip Webb
___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] libacl mess

2010-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
an't 'emerge --sync', which fails as above. Yes, I tried 'USE="-acl" emerge coreutils', which also fails as above. Any advice which might save me further time + anguish wb very welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] libacl mess : further thoughts

2010-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
100820 Philip Webb wrote: >> The next step seems to be to unpack the whole Stage 3 tarball >> in the netbook's / dir & see what happens. After that, a full reinstall. Further examination of what's in Stage 3 + review of my detailed notes from installation last yea

Re: [gentoo-user] libacl mess : solved by sleep

2010-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
What it shows, yet again, is the value of keeping copies of everything, & finally, that with Linux & esp Gentoo problems are 1 layer deep: identify what is wrong & it's fairly simple to put it right & you may even find luck is on your side some of the time, as here. HTH others. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] email client with USE flags -gtk -kde?

2010-08-27 Thread Philip Webb
100827 tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: > Can anyone recommend an email client that will work > with -gtk and -kde USE flags? Have you tried Mutt ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb EL

[gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ?

2010-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
touchpad, no keys). Is anyone else using a touchpad w/o Hal ? Any suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto T

[gentoo-user] Baselayout 1.12.13 & bug 291916

2010-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
to Baselayout 2 ? What are others' experiences ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout 1.12.13 & bug 291916

2010-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
100904 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2010 13:20:06 Philip Webb wrote: >> Today I ran into bug 291916. >> I updated my Asus EEE netbook to Baselayout 1.12.13 & got the messages >> "assuming udev failed somewhere, as /dev/zero does not exist" etc

Re: [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ? -- SOLVED

2010-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
100904 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 04.09.2010 14:13, schrieb Philip Webb: >> I successfully removed Hal from my desktop machine some time ago. >> Today, I tried removing it from my ASUS EEE netbook : >> I dropped 'hald' from the default runlevel, >> & reco

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question

2010-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
x27;s self-referential (smile): correct spelling is 'malformed'. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
'startx' + ~/.xinitrc : # PP 091002 : for Fluxbox-1.1.1 + KDE 4 xscreensaver & kdeinit4 & startfluxbox Fluxbox mb the most under-rated piece of software in the Linux universe. -- ,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal

2010-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
e KDE desktop, but not for most KDE apps; I use Fluxbox + quite a few KDE apps; Exo Thunar belong to Xfce. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
101027 Dale wrote: > It's sort of hard to check my email with no GUI tho. Have you looked at Mutt ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
rather it's "text-based", ie non-GUI: it has a much simpler appearance than Lynx, is highly configurable & responds to simple keystrokes. It's probably worth a look for you. -- ,,==== SUPPORT _

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal

2010-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
101028 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Harry Putnam did opine thusly: >> Philip Webb writes: >>> From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook : >>> To remove Hal : drop '-hal' flag, add 'udev' flag ; >> So no kind of hal f

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox + Bbpager : weird problem

2010-11-06 Thread Philip Webb
re any way to get it (or Fbpager) to start in the toolbar ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox + Bbpager : weird problem

2010-11-06 Thread Philip Webb
101106 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 06 November 2010 09:19:49 Philip Webb wrote: >> I'm a happy user of Fluxbox & Bbpager works well with it. >> However, I can't get it to start directly after (re-)booting, >> but have to do 'startx' twice, after whi

[gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Philip Webb
quot; ; }' ; the " ... " are essential: it fails without them or with ( ... ) instead. HTH a few others. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Philip Webb
101112 Bill Longman wrote: > On 11/12/2010 09:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> but is there a way to set up a command to goto a parallel dir, >> eg if you're in ~/tmp goto ~/hold ( 2 of my commonly-used dirs) ? >> The elegant way is 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Philip Webb
101112 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 12 November 2010 09:57, Philip Webb wrote: >> I tried 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $1 ; }', > Doesn't 'function cd2() { cd ../$1 ; }' work ? -- Yes Yes, you're correct (slightly red face) ! I'm not

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox + pager : weird problem : solved

2010-11-15 Thread Philip Webb
101107 Philip Webb wrote: > I'm a happy user of Fluxbox & Bbpager works well with it. > However, I can't get it to start directly after (re-)booting, > but have to do 'startx' twice, after which it appears in the slit. After a bit more experimentation, I&#x

[gentoo-user] haldaemon

2010-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg - blocking portage-2.1.9.24

2010-11-27 Thread Philip Webb
er run into a problem as a result. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox 3.6.12 problem?

2010-12-09 Thread Philip Webb
101128 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] modem problem : Speedstream vs Zoom

2010-12-16 Thread Philip Webb
orks with the newer Zoom modem, not Gentoo. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] modem problem : Speedstream vs Zoom

2010-12-17 Thread Philip Webb
101216 Jason Weisberger wrote: > 101216 paul.hartman wrote: >>> 101216 Philip Webb had run into a bizarre problem with broadband & modems. >> If it's a modem+router combo, do you need to worry about PPPoE at all ? >> typically the router would take care of that f

Re: [gentoo-user] In search for different variant of terminus-font

2010-12-20 Thread Philip Webb
mile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
=== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
110101 Philip Webb wrote: > typically in the very early morning when their doing maintenance: Sorry, it's early in my day: that sb "they're" (red face). -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___,

[gentoo-user] Pth & Fluxbox

2011-01-15 Thread Philip Webb
xbox: at this stage, only Gkrellm has been started. See other msg for the other improvement + a query. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of

[gentoo-user] Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-15 Thread Philip Webb
appears after c 2 sec , where before it took c 5 sec to show up, so there's a very nice improvement in performance anyway. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Philip Webb
110116 Nuno J. Silva wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: >> On Sunday 16 January 2011 05:50:58 Philip Webb wrote: >>> Using more haste than sense after 'emerge -cpv =boost-1.41.0-r3' >> Did you mean 'emerge -cpv ...' or 'emerge -Cpv...' ? What

Re: [gentoo-user] Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Philip Webb
110116 pk wrote: > On 2011-01-16 06:50, Philip Webb wrote: >> Can anyone explain why the latest stable Openoffice can't use >> the latest stable slotted Boost(-build), which is used only for OO ? >> Perhaps the devs have tripped up slightly in the sequence of updates. >

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.37 : MCE problem

2011-01-18 Thread Philip Webb
o. Everything else seems to be working ok. Does anyone have any idea what's going on ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.37 : MCE problem

2011-01-21 Thread Philip Webb
110118 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've just installed & compiled  gentoo-sources-2.6.37 >> & am getting msgs in all my terminals >>  Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18 14:32:38 2011 ... >> loca

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
t not by the KDE apps I use. I don't like the KDE 4 desktop, so use Fluxbox, which I strongly recommend as something else which just works once you've set it up to taste. BTW there are reports of problems with Xfce 4.8 . -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning

2011-02-09 Thread Philip Webb
imple precautions: (1) I never use testing versions of system pkgs like Glibc & (2) I have FEATURES="buildsyspkg" in make.conf . Beyond those, I'ld say Gentoo users are grown-ups who don't need coddling. -- ,,=======

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
et if you're careful (you wb using Lynx or Wget). Finally -- with a (big smile) -- don't panic ! We've all been there & with Gentoo the solution is usually not far away once you find it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
120704 Alex Schuster wrote: > Philip Webb writes: >> 120704 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> ... install Ubuntu (or one of its spin-offs). > Ik ! My view exactly (grin). >> Why does he need KSM ? -- Google found an article which advises : >> "if you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] eix output and libpng

2012-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
install the former do 'emerge libpng:1.2', for the latter 'emerge libpng:0'. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-20 Thread Philip Webb
thoughts or advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new machine : (2) HDD or SSD ?

2012-07-20 Thread Philip Webb
sn't much churn among the stuff I have on my existing HDD (above). I saw a recent thread on this topic, but further thoughts are welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Citi

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-20 Thread Philip Webb
. Any further thoughts re Intel vs AMD wb very welcome. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How to make mutt open files by *EXTENSION*?

2012-07-24 Thread Philip Webb
value of Gentoo is that you can keep things really simple. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm

2012-07-25 Thread Philip Webb
2 in stock). How do you compare cores vs nm ? How far is cache size important ( 6 vs 8 MB )? When I built my current machine 2007, the CPU cost CAD 213 , so both look as if they're in the right ballpark. -- ,,==== SUPP

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm

2012-07-25 Thread Philip Webb
120725 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012, 16:05:29 schrieb Philip Webb: >> I've listed what's available at the local store, >> which I trust to stock reliable items, tho' I wouldn't ask their advice. >> All the AMD's are 32 nm

[gentoo-user] new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-29 Thread Philip Webb
mments implied that Intels have a built-in GPU : if so, would that save the cost of a graphics card ? how would it compare to an Nvidia card ? how reliable are the drivers ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRI

[gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-07-31 Thread Philip Webb
er a CD/DVD drive from another machine. All pieces are in good supply at Canada Computers in downtown Toronto, which suggests they are popular with other customers. Comments are as welcome as ever (big smile). -- ,,======

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
120802 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012, 16:33:21 schrieb Philip Webb: >> There are no Samsung SSDs available at the store (do they make them ? ). > are you joking? Samsung is one of the big ones - > a lot of laptops run with rebranded Samsung SSDs. >

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
he hip re Samsung. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-06 Thread Philip Webb
but made no other changes in config files etc. Does anyone have thoughts re the effect of kernel versions on swapping ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Philip Webb
120808 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb: >> Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office & Firefox this week, >> neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); >> OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; >>

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