Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
] in the right margin, and all that. If you tell me how to find out, I'll answer any questions. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Alexanderb3n...@yandex.ru wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Synopsis: This host is running kdm. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip snip ] Hi, You haven't told us how you start

[gentoo-user] xterm man page has broken link to X

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the issue of how to find X docs. My intent is casual; I don't have time to become expert in it, so I'm hoping for fairly quick usage info. Does such exist? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
module 'gentoo-portage' rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5] --- ** April 21, 2009 ... And so on -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. Message follows: * Running emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Explorer 8, naturally, requires a plug-in to view SVG. On Linux, my FF showed only the embed version, and that only after I got NoScript to stop blocking it. I wonder what's different on my system. Oh, and svg was enabled all along. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-proprietary plugins/viewers _can_ view? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
dropped support for their viewer, and the most recent blurb promoting SVG relates to Illustrator CS2, when CS4 is the current version. I have CS4, but haven't learned to use it yet. Is there a future in SVG? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au wrote: DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers - Graphics - Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the correct ATI support under

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'? there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11.  xorg-x11 is selected. That means you have not removed ati-drivers.  It might be they interfere

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and xorg-x11.  xorg-x11 is selected. If you're using flgrx you want 'eselect opengl set ati', but again I thought 2D would work fine without this. Actually, I think fglrx is from ati-driver, which is for a different card. Anyway, I would expect X to start somehow. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. equery could not tell me what owns libglx. I could not remember how to use portageq, and the --help message did not help much. Nevertheless, it looks like I'm closer because it now sees a screen. Any more clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au wrote: RESULTS: fglrx loads, but does not see the adapter.  There's also a problem with the mouse driver -- some undefined

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
there, as modules. If I modprobe for r128, it gets loaded along with module drm. It makes no difference to the startx behavior. Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'? there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11. xorg-x11 is selected. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Summary: X is hosed. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: David Relson wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Summary: X is hosed. A couple of weeks back, I made

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I thank you for the expert advice.  I'm doing the emerge now, but even if it succeeds, I'm worried that the xorg

[gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't compile due to a file conflict, but portageq does not see it. Probably because the ati-drivers you

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't compile due to a file conflict

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I mask to go back to xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
some 72 packages that want to emerge, a lot of them from x11-drivers; and I'm still too nervous about this to let it proceed. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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

2009-04-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
it's now fixed for Linux at least. I'm gland. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html Yes they're easy.  My question is about

[gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
first surfaced in HTML email being received on a much more sophisticated page by Yahoo Mail. There's a lot I don't know about character encodings, i18n and the rest, but this still seems discrimination against the symbol font. Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. The situation is the same on systems that DO have a Symbol font, including my Windows Vista. I changed the page to use font-family and included my Gentoo box's OpenSymbol. No joy. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in browsers.  Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

2009-03-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
there, including to the answer to the mystery behind the missing ltconfig. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ Thanks. This is helpful no matter what it sounds like. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

2009-03-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/libtool, but no ltconfig. I'm in a similar fix on Ubunu, the only other Linux I have at home. Can anyone enlighten me? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

2009-03-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:19:19 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to learn about libtool for the New Riders book GNU Attoconf, Automake and libtool, and I'm stymied early on.  It wants me

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Naga nagat...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 February 2009 00:59:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got a low-use CGI script on my web server. Aside from web crawlers, I usually see at most a few hits a week from people who share my hobby. I just found out it's

[gentoo-user] Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
log says is: [Sun Feb 15 15:46:32 2009] [error] [client 64.166.164.49] Premature end of script headers: board Any idea how to debug this, or any intuitions about what I neglected to do? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com writes: I don't get much help from the logs. The access log shows that the request got an error code, 64.166.164.49 - - [15/Feb/2009:15:46:32 -0800] GET /hex-bin/board HTTP/1.1 500 542

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com writes: I don't get much help from the logs. The access log shows that the request got an error code

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
mentioned in the man page (INVOCATION section). HTH -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] emerging app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 says unpack news.eselect-20080320: file format not recognized. Ignoring.

2009-01-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Updating this morning, I noticed that app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 says unpack news.eselect-20080320: file format not recognized. Ignoring. It goes ahead and build anyway. Is this a problem? What should I do about it? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking advice about backup and partitioning; preparing to dual-boot Linux onto Vista drive

2008-12-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Dude, the Dell is here!!! On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:39:17 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Dude, I'm getting a Dell! It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work. But I want to put

[gentoo-user] Seeking advice about backup and partitioning; preparing to dual-boot Linux onto Vista drive

2008-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
on a home system. Now that I'm seeing 1,000,000 MB eSATAs for under $100 this is starting to make sense. Thanks for the idea. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
it. Significant? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Noven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:19:33 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Noven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Allistar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've re-emerge vmware-modules, re-run ...vmware-config.pl, and prayed. I still cannot do /etc/init.d/vmware start because this one part fails: Virutal machine

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've re-emerge vmware-modules, re-run ...vmware-config.pl, and prayed. I still cannot do

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:57:48 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Server was also nice because I could create new VMs with it, which Workstation would not do. Really? I created three today. Maybe now. But when I made

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Allistar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've re-emerge vmware-modules, re-run ...vmware-config.pl, and prayed

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:57:48 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Server was also nice because I could create new VMs with it, which Workstation would

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Noven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Allistar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Noven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Allistar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Nov 11

[gentoo-user] vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markos Chandras wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2008 06:39:33 Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here. It appears broken. I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets

[gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
in a spell checker. Where would I look to solve that? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD RosterFormat.rtf Description: RTF file

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the problem. What's a safe way to do this emerge? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Reopen: OpenOffice dies on startup

2008-10-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/8/08, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2008 23:33:52 schrieb b.n.: Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: Am Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008 04:23:35 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: I'm about to compile, but I hate that solution. Why did you choose Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Reopen: OpenOffice dies on startup

2008-10-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/08, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008 04:23:35 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: Why did you choose Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Reopen: OpenOffice dies on startup

2008-10-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It's bin. I'm about to compile, but I hate that solution. ++ kevin On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 6. Oktober 2008 01:31:56 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I thought it was solved, but I was wrong. Last time I reported this I was advised to start

[gentoo-user] Reopen: OpenOffice dies on startup

2008-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
binaries are) has 10 GB free. python-updater has been run. I need some advice. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. ++ kevin On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 September 2008 05:37:14 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: openoffice-bin has been compiled with a given set of use flags

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 September 2008 05:37:14 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: openoffice-bin has been compiled with a given set of use flags and on a machine that may or may not match what you have. Compiling it yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch 24 September 2008 07:28:42 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful. Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed early. It does ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful. Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed early. It does ask about plugins, and whether it shour restore my

[gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
in the log files. I've done revdep-rebuild, and its clean. Then I re-emerged openoffice-bin (which is what I use). To no avail. Any ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:00:34 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 3 September 2008, 04:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Thanks, I've created a Google Group, and added these links to a page in it. Check out

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
01, 2008 at 10:01:13PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked: I was finally able to cobble together a working flex/bison parser from the bison-bridge example in an appendix to the flex info page. I'd like to share it, and perhaps other _working_ sample programs to the web at large

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 2 September 2008, 07:01, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been teaching myself scanners over the summer, thinking to teach my students this fall. It was hard because just about all of the examples are inadequate

[gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
it, and perhaps other _working_ sample programs to the web at large. Does anyone know of a better venue for this than just some random page on my school's web server? I would like other people to be able to find this stuff and perhaps add to it or otherwise improve on it. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Erratum: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... This applies to examples in the texinfo pages, the 2003 O'Reilly book, and online manuals. This book was actually published 11 years earlier, in 1992. Even a current download of the associated sample files

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, since the same is true of a great many individual users here. Minorities may collectively even be the majority. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
? Harumph! Mind you, I'm not certain who cut who off, but I'll be glad to report there's a serious effort to fix this. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing. This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting warnings and other oddities during compilation. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.25-r6 oddities; is this kernel really ready for stable?

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing. This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting warnings and other oddities

[gentoo-user] Java configuration is hosed

2008-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/java-config-2, but there is not. Where should it come from? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Java configuration is hosed

2008-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kevin Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 22/07/08 18:51: I cannot emerge the latest xulrunner, but the root cause appears to be my Java configuration. I haven't touched it in ages, so I have no idea how this happened

[gentoo-user] Trouble tweaking KDE package six

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for that), but pointers to resources. Of course, if anyone has answers, or can guide me, that would be welcome too. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] trouble configuring postgrey

2008-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
of that? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] drive configuration changes on reboot; blkid.tab defeats UUIDs

2008-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
this madness somehow? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] spamassassin-3.2.1-r1 emerge failure

2008-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
this, and know of a workaround? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] SOLVED Re: gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:12 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat Virtual Machines # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
flag makes gnucash depend on gnucash-docs, which in turn depends on yelp. That's what requires the HTML engine. I'm getting OT here, but I just wonder if FF-bin couldn't export a set of headers, as the kernels do. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm having trouble blocking gnucash from pulling in the full-compiled version of firefox. I've got package.provided with www-client/mozilla-firefox www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.14 but it still insists on pulling in the ebuild. How do I stop this? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble blocking gnucash from pulling in the full-compiled version of firefox. I've got package.provided with www-client/mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-extra/yelp... ] treat portage # eix yelp ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I mentioned I already did that. There's a slight typo in that there's an = before the one with a version number. ++ kevin In fact, portage is driving me slightly nuts (or nuttier) over this. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:12 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat Virtual Machines # emerge -at gnucash These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Re: gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:12 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat Virtual Machines # emerge -at gnucash These are the packages that would

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
working. Then I noticed that all the 2.6.25 kernels are ~x86. If I were you I'd check if they're ~arch for you too, and if so it might be best to go back to stable versions of both vmware and the kernel. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Huh? Can't find a KDE volume control

2008-06-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
that does the job. Presumably I haven't emerged the crucial thing. I do have arts emerged, and in my USE flags, or my KDE games would be mute. What do you all like to use? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Huh? Can't find a KDE volume control

2008-06-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, it's early and I'm feeling stupid. But with all the KDE packages, I can't find one that actually controls the sound volume. Usually, I like

Re: [gentoo-user] Huh? Can't find a KDE volume control

2008-06-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Okay, thanks . But I just did that and it has no discernable effect on the game sounds from, for instance, konquest or kmahjongg. For that matter, neither does

Re: [gentoo-user] Huh? Can't find a KDE volume control

2008-06-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Okay, thanks . But I just did that and it has no discernable effect on the game sounds from

Re: [gentoo-user] Huh? Can't find a KDE volume control

2008-06-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Okay, thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale (SOLVED)

2008-06-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:45 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: TOP POSTED SUMMARY: operator error. An incorrect setting of LANG and LC_ALL were in /etc/profile. They had been suggested by the guide, but were incorrectly done and override the results of all

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-06-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2008 07:05:14 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Just to be sure, I re-ran locale-gen just now

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale (SOLVED)

2008-06-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for suggesting a re-reading, Daniel. ++ kevin On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = en_EN

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-05-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 31 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I did not have 02locale in /etc/env.d/dir, although there was a lot of other stuff in that directory. I added the two lines. I ran env-update I ctl-alt-backspace restarted my

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-05-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2008 07:05:14 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Just to be sure, I re-ran locale-gen just now. It reported two problems with a Polish locale (that I do not use): Then remove it from /etc/locale.gen. you

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-05-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

2008-05-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
have to create it and set your locales there. after donig this run env-update regards Dominik On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: On Thu, May 29, 2008

[gentoo-user] Message bus mis-configured

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
When I use some KDE tools, most recently Konqueror, I get symptoms of a mis-configuration which I think is dbus-related. I've never fooled with it as far as I can remember, and I know nothing about it. So I'm hoping there's an easy cure. The recent thing: opening a Konqeror windows for a

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