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 comment on this strange sequence of events

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

2007-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error

2007-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
' of 'head' on my screen. I am amazed to find an error in a Gentoo doc, esp one like this. Can anyone offer advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

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

2007-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] new machine: Intel quad vs duo

2007-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
, 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 ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

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

2007-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
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 ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

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

2007-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
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] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

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

2007-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
, after which you should see 'sdan' listed in /dev . Then as root, 'mount /dev/sdan /your/chosen/mountpoint' set the permissions for the latter to allow your user to access it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

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 maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp @ 75 Hz ; maximum shared

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

2007-08-22 Thread Philip Webb
070822 Florian Philipp wrote: Philip Webb purslow at sympatico.ca writes: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp at 75 Hz ; maximum

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

2007-08-21 Thread Philip Webb
070821 James wrote: Philip Webb purslow at sympatico.ca writes: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp at 75 Hz ; maximum shared

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
070820 Mick wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007, Philip Webb wrote: I copied a series of dirs to my USB stick as each one was done, they took successively longer to finish, tho' they were all roughly the same size. It must be something to do with the way the data is laid out on the stick

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

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070818 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully mounted the stick copied a file onto it: it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. For performance

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070819 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 20:13:14 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? Because there are no moving parts

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Philip Webb wrote: 070816 Florian Philipp wrote: USB-sticks appear as SCSI drives. That means their block device is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc. check if usb mass storage is enabled in your kernel. Yes, that's it presumably : So I'll need to compile a new kernel, ie 2.6.20 - 2.6.22

[gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 8/16/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just bought my first USB memory stick (Kingmax 1 GB ). When I insert it into a USB slot, devices appear : /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00 ep01 ep82 ep83 but when I try to mount it ( /z/usb is an unused dir in my

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-13 Thread Philip Webb
070813 Philip Webb wrote: I now have (via a line in .bashrc ): LANG= LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 ... snip ... LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 There's no difference in the headers. It occurs to me that I'm running Mutt via 'konsole -e mutt', which is restarted automatically by KDE . I did restart X

[gentoo-user] Mutt depends on Lynx ?

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt depends on Lynx ?

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
070812 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 12 August 2007 14:27:16 Philip Webb wrote: I went to emerge the latest Mutt found it wanted to emerge Lynx too. I have a recent Lynx in /usr/local am experienced with both apps (yes, I know that that Lynx doesn't count for Portage). Does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
=POSIX LC_NAME=POSIX LC_ADDRESS=POSIX LC_TELEPHONE=POSIX LC_MEASUREMENT=POSIX LC_IDENTIFICATION=POSIX LC_ALL= Philip Webb also wrote: In .muttrc I have: 'set charset=iso-8859-1' Maybe comment this line out? I have, with this result in a couple of test e-mails to myself: MIME

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
070811 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I write e-mails with Gvim called up by Mutt (as now). [...] termencoding -- character encoding used by the terminal set tenc=utf-8 This suggests you are using a UTF-8 locale. In /etc/locale.gen I have en_US ISO-8859-1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf : PS

2007-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
070811 Philip Webb wrote: 070811 Benno Schulenberg wrote: That does not solve the actual bug: Mutt should not advertise charset=iso-8859-1 , when the message contains UTF-8. In .muttrc I have: set charset=iso-8859-1 Perhaps this sb changed to correspond with what Vim is doing

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] charset iso/utf (was:packages.gentoo.org down?)

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
070810 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Philip Webb wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré), Your email uses UTF-8, What do you mean ? but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. That is what I would expect Mutt to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
070709 Philip Webb wrote: I'm planning to build a 3rd machine later this summer. Thanks for all the advice suggestions, which I have recorded will consider carefully before actually buying stuff in August. Any further thoughts from anyone wb added gratefully to the file. I suspect Gentoo users

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating menu in KDE

2007-07-06 Thread Philip Webb
everything else alone. Just use the menu editor to fix it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
) using whatever individual packages you need. Then keep it upto-date. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
management system that is better than portage, IMHO. So, thanks from me to all the devs! :-) Thirded (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-03 Thread Philip Webb
(see bug 183887). I have version 6 : try restoring that see what happens ('emerge =kde-base/kdebase-pam-6'). You should also look in /etc/pam.d/ for further clues. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: A file listed in the Manifest could not be found

2007-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-22 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.7 : slow shutdown

2007-06-17 Thread Philip Webb
this ? Does anyone have helpful suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
070615 Andrea Bona wrote: 070614 Philip Webb wrote: what does [I] mean ? and where are these letters documented ? I think that [I] means that the package is already installed. Yes, that seems intuitive matches experience; it's part of Eix (not Portage) doesn't seem actually to be documented

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

2007-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
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 next time X locks up (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

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 clicks actually register and even the three-finger

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

2007-05-23 Thread Philip Webb
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. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

2007-05-18 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-29 Thread Philip Webb
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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
, which are best for most Linux users. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

[gentoo-user] floppy flops: further tests

2007-04-15 Thread Philip Webb
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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 Yes: they have never been reformatted under Linux

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

2007-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix error message

2007-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies

2007-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
want sound pkgs or a CD burner ?? It's probably easier for AH to use Kwrite, if he doesn't like Vim: even if he has no KDE pkgs installed, it won't ask for 35 deps ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

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 argument, but it does want them, as I said

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 doesn't work. The only time I had

[gentoo-user] mysterious freezes when browsing Internet

2007-03-06 Thread Philip Webb
system is very stable problem-free. Has anyone else run into this bizarre phenomenon ? Does anyone have useful suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice help

2007-03-02 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?

2007-02-23 Thread Philip Webb
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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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary

2007-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
then ? -- ,, 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] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
'Distrowatch' has its annual review today with a rather snide report on Gentoo as no longer being fashionable (grin). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
devotees grow their own healthy produce. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Start Epiphany

2006-12-07 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-06 Thread Philip Webb
you login/logout want to leave a job running in the meantime: that I didn't do. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-05 Thread Philip Webb
of CPU. The longest pkg otherwise seems to be Kword + 5 deps at 1 h 22 m ; several other pkgs take 1 h +/- a bit. There is a binary, but that's not the Gentoo Way (tm). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-05 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start

2006-12-03 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start

2006-12-03 Thread Philip Webb
061203 Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Philip Webb wrote: Emerge details (this is the latest unstable): app-editors/gvim-7.0.174 USE=-acl (-aqua) -bash-completion -cscope -gnome gpm gtk motif -mzscheme -netbeans -nextaw -nls perl python -ruby Mine are: app-editors/gvim-7.0.17

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
the packages in question. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
it with the Seamonkey engine. Generally, I'm a KDE fan, but Epiphany is one of Gnome's successes. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-22 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
work for me: it still demands the '1' versions of Glib Gtk+ , tho' not Gnome-libs. The same for Dillo. Does anyone know whether these other two are going away sometime too ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

2006-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
approach preserves that option. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
' to fix the problem. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-21 Thread Philip Webb
061021 Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Philip Webb wrote: if nothing else helps quickly: try Mutt instead of Pine. Mutt is more featureful, better supported works well with Vim. I tried mutt more than a year ago, when I didn't know that I could use vim with pine, instead

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
helps quickly: try Mutt instead of Pine. Mutt is more featureful, better supported works well with Vim. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
' (5) sit on hands for = 10 sec while examining the results of (2 3 4) (6) only then, 'rm -f whatever'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt Use Flag Advice

2006-10-04 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
know what happens ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] new foomatic-filters ebuild

2006-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] ghostscript fails to build during revdep-rebuild

2006-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to get vi!?

2006-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] elog saves messages in wrong folder

2006-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
060925 Richard Fish wrote: On 9/25/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can either of you post your make.conf please? You asked (smile): # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/cnf

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions : 1 answered

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
060923 Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully installed Kernel 2.6.18 -- is it imagination or is it a bit faster on this desktop ? -- , but there are a couple of simple questions I'm not sure how to answer. (1) I used 'make xconfig' it didn't show me the 'PPP' option: when I used find from

[gentoo-user] modular X : all's well + a suggestion

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
060924 Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session, so perhaps the command to return uses the next free F key. -- lots of interesting

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions

2006-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions

2006-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
060923 Ted Ozolins wrote: Philip Webb wrote: (2) I compiled the sensor items into the kernel, not as modules, but I'm now left with 2 orphan module lines when Init runs: loading lm_sensors modules ... [!!] . I've looked around, but can't easily see where those lines are defined (it's

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-22 Thread Philip Webb
060921 Philip Webb wrote: I've updated to modular X and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? Modular X does create its own version on the fly, but it's better to have the file in /etc/X11 in case of further change. On the raw console (outside X) I ran 'Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060921 Andrew Frink wrote: On 9/20/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just updated to modular X everything seems to be working, except that after Ctl-Alt-F2 I can't get back to X with Ctl-Alt-F7 . I can get back to the original raw terminal with Ctl-Alt-F1 , which shows 3

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails (solved)

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060922 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 2 . Because on most machines inittab tells init to start agetty on the first six VTs, and X then takes the first free VT. Another test

[gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
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