Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Gordon Schulz
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? Really fast, no crashes as of yet, totally satisified. -- Greetings, Gordon. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Boris Fersing
Hi, I didn't experience any crash with Firefox3, the only problem I had was a rendering issue with the resized pictures, but this bug is related to xulrunner-1.9 and it can be fixed in the xorg config. For me Firefox3 is a lot faster that Firefox2 and I don't have to restart it every 3 days in

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Justin
Seems to randomly die, dont really see it as faster than FF2, objectionable behaviour (jumping desktops when its called from another app), ugly icons, ... It will get better, ... I hope. BillK I started with a clean profile and got random crashes. It could be a little faster, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread stephane ancelot
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:24:49 +0200, Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? Yes, move to last opera release, sounds better to me -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ --

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

2008-07-02 Thread Norman Hakim
NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA --- On Mon, 6/30/08, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 4:50 PM On Monday 30 June 2008, Eduardo Otubo wrote: Hi again,

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
080702 Gordon Schulz wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? Really fast, no crashes as of yet, totally satisified. Same here on KDE 3.5.9 : are the dissatisfied using another DE

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Schulz escreveu: On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? Really fast, no crashes as of yet, totally satisified. ME TOO, so

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

2008-07-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.07.08 10:50]: There _is_ an evil conspiracy at least on Suse. Suse told me that they cannot use unmodified original software and they need to modify my software. But that's not an evil conspiracy against you, that's the normal policy of SuSe: they

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Adam Carter wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? I find the -bin version is stable, and works well with embedded flash (e.g. youtube). (I find the new Opera is more stable, and when loaded without the mail programs (Opera -nomail -nolirc ) it

[gentoo-user] where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running 23.0.50 now with success. thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when it is unable to contact the server, when I would prefer it to use the existing sources.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when it is unable to contact the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:48:22 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: None of the madwifi-ng ebuilds in my portage tree have an svn source. I'd be surprised if they did because the Gentoo devs generally discourage subversion/cvs/etc. ebuilds. It's in an overlay, the portage ebuilds don't support my card.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Johann Schmitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: | I was hoping someone already knew a workaround, otherwise it makes it | impossible to build from source you have already downloaded and verified, | which sounds like a bug to me! Hm. Edit the ebuild and temporarily disable the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/7/2, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when it is unable to contact the server, when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:10:58 +0200, Johann Schmitz wrote: | I was hoping someone already knew a workaround, otherwise it makes it | impossible to build from source you have already downloaded and | verified, which sounds like a bug to me! Hm. Edit the ebuild and temporarily disable the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: I've just tried to emerge the svn ebuild of madwifi-ng after a kernel update. I have previously merged this so I have working sources in $DISTDIR/svn-src but svn.madwifi.org is down. The emerge bails out when it is unable to contact the server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:50:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: There's an env var, something like ESVN_SERVER, that you can set to offline, and if the ebuild inherits the svn eclass, it won't try to checkout new sources. Thanks Alan. The variable is ESVN_OFFLINE, which you set to anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:37:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I have not tried this myself but you can try to copy $DISTDIR/svn-src to $WORKDIR and use 'ebuild name-of-the-ebuild.ebuild {install,qmerge}' to install it manually. See 'man ebuild' for reference. I was about to try this when Alan's

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

2008-07-02 Thread Eduardo Otubo
Well, I think you did it, man! Just check out your /mnt/cdrom and see if your files are there :-) []'s On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA --- On Mon, 6/30/08, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

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

2008-07-02 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/7/2 Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA Dear Mick Richard, This is the output after i mount it manually: mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-proctected, mounting read-only Regards, Norman Norman, Good, you did it, you mounted your cdrom. That message is just

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:37:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I have not tried this myself but you can try to copy $DISTDIR/svn-src to $WORKDIR and use 'ebuild name-of-the-ebuild.ebuild {install,qmerge}' to install it manually. See 'man ebuild' for reference. I was about

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

2008-07-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 schrieb Ricardo Bevilacqua: If you want cdrom to automatically mount when you insert a cd, just add this line to your /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom      auto      noauto,ro,user     0 0 Sorry, but that's nonsense. It tells the mount command that it should try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:37:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I have not tried this myself but you can try to copy $DISTDIR/svn-src to $WORKDIR and use 'ebuild name-of-the-ebuild.ebuild {install,qmerge}' to install

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

2008-07-02 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/7/2 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 schrieb Ricardo Bevilacqua: If you want cdrom to automatically mount when you insert a cd, just add this line to your /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0 Sorry, but that's nonsense. It

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

2008-07-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 schrieb Ricardo Bevilacqua: I am sure that you could specify one file system type, but I am not too sure if this really works at any case because a DVD could not follow the ISO 9660 standard. As far as I know, some DVD's use the UDF Yes, what I wrote what auto is

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

2008-07-02 Thread Eduardo Otubo
In fact, To we get those things really automactly mounted, we need to install and configure 'ivman' and 'hald'. For those who speaks portuguese I have a great tutorial writen by a friend of mine: http://nottooamused.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/montando-dispositivos-automaticamente-no-gnulinux/ []'s

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread doki_pen
Adam Carter wrote: I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? +2 on firefox3. Faster, doesn't slow down after long use. I really see the difference with javascript. The engine is much faster. Just try a js heavy page(like google apps). I haven't had

[gentoo-user] Myspell and Linguas variable

2008-07-02 Thread Thomas Pedersen
Hey Was just going to install my dictionaries for myspell, when I was wondering why myspell doesn't pull in the dictionaries depending on the languages in the LINGUAS variable in make.conf ?? - This method wouldn't require the user to be aware of the dictionaries when uninstalling myspell (or

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 July 02 Wednesday 02:20:30 PM -0400, doki_pen wrote: +2 on firefox3. Faster, doesn't slow down after long use. I really see the difference with javascript. The engine is much faster. Just try a js heavy page(like google apps). I haven't had any crashes. Only complaint is

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Brian Johnson
Jason, That's totally weird. Couple things that could cause this -- try disabling any composting window managers you may have running to see if that makes a difference. Also, is your computer stressed out (100% cpu usage) when you view the page? I've noticed that, among other things, GUIs in

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Jason Messerschmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On AD 2008 July 02 Wednesday 02:20:30 PM -0400, doki_pen wrote: +2 on firefox3. Faster, doesn't slow down after long use. I really see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 July 02 Wednesday 02:39:21 PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote: I've noticed an odd visual glitch with blogspot pages- it superimposes my desktop on some pages. It's a bit hard to explain so here's a pic. As far as I know it's only this page, but might be good fodder for some of you

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
080702 Justin Findlay wrote: Maybe it's time to switch back to konqueror. I was using Konqueror 3.5.9 till FF3 came out found it fast reliable; there was 1 bug which was causing crashes on some JS pages, but they fixed it in a new version of Kdelibs. FF3 is a bit faster at rendering uses

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Jason Messerschmitt
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Brian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, That's totally weird. Couple things that could cause this -- try disabling any composting window managers you may have running to see if that makes a difference. Also, is your computer stressed out (100% cpu usage)

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread b.n.
This thread is getting depressing. I use Kubuntu at work and FF3 worked without a hitch since the beta. On Gentoo, FF2 works good, but I'm quite perplexed to see that FF3 is so many problems while a binary distro can flawlessly run a FF3 beta on its flagship release. What's wrong? m. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 06:00:57 pm b.n. wrote: This thread is getting depressing. I use Kubuntu at work and FF3 worked without a hitch since the beta. On Gentoo, FF2 works good, but I'm quite perplexed to see that FF3 is so many problems while a binary distro can flawlessly run a FF3 beta

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

2008-07-02 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/7/2 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 schrieb Ricardo Bevilacqua: I am sure that you could specify one file system type, but I am not too sure if this really works at any case because a DVD could not follow the ISO 9660 standard. As far as I know, some DVD's use

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

2008-07-02 Thread Dale
Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: 2008/7/2 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 schrieb Ricardo Bevilacqua: I am sure that you could specify one file system type, but I am not too sure if this really works at any case because a DVD could not follow the ISO 9660 standard.

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

2008-07-02 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
2008/7/2 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: Dirk, Sorry, I had misunderstood. But believe it or not, that way works fine for me. I insert a cdrom and gets automatically (or automagically maybe) mounted. I do not know, maybe is something about Gnome, but have no idea.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 July 02 Wednesday 04:38:00 PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I asked before: do those having problems with FF3 perhaps use Gnome ? I use enlightenment live CVS from the enlightenment overlay. My general experience with FF3 is that it's about the same performance wise as FF2. There were

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

2008-07-02 Thread Norman Hakim
NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA --- On Wed, 7/2/08, Ricardo Bevilacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ricardo Bevilacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:49 AM 2008/7/2 Norman Hakim [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-02 Thread Aaron Clark
For those still searching for background on this topic to try and understand the effects and discussions of the GPL vs CDDL licensing in other distros and how this may affect your use on Gentoo, you may find the respective articles on wikipedia instructive. Don't just read the brief

[gentoo-user] Re: where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running 23.0.50 now with success. What ever is the most recent cvs version is what will get installed if you run `emerge emacs-cvs'

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild

2008-07-02 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
on 06/27/2008 12:36 PM Zhang Le said the following: On 13:18 Thu 26 Jun , Alan McKinnon wrote: That info is still a bit skimpy though. Is there anything more somewhere? And what about FEATURES=preserve-libs, is that documented somewhere? All you need to do is to run 'emerge

[gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-02 Thread James Homuth
I went to run emerge update, and it threw this curious little block loop at me. emerge --pretend --quiet --update --deep world produces: [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2) [blocks B ] =sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5) Anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-02 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM, James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to run emerge update, and it threw this curious little block loop at me. emerge --pretend --quiet --update --deep world produces: [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2) [blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008 schrieb ext James Homuth: I went to run emerge update, and it threw this curious little block loop at me. emerge --pretend --quiet --update --deep world produces: [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2) [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-02 Thread James Homuth
Will the package itself be removed at some point? And if so, I'm assuming Portage will take care of killing it from my system at that point? At 01:26 AM 03/07/2008, you wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM, James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to run emerge update, and it threw this

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, James Homuth wrote: I went to run emerge update, and it threw this curious little block loop at me. emerge --pretend --quiet --update --deep world produces: [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2) [blocks B ]

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

2008-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Norman Hakim wrote: Richard, I will try add this line to my /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom      auto      noauto,ro,user     0 0 i will paste it the output here if error occur. And about usb,what command should i add so that i can mount my thumbdrive? These

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

2008-07-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: Yes, I know. That is how it is explained as an example in the Gentoo Linux Handbook Chapter 8 [1] and it has worked for me so far. I am sure that you could specify one file system type, but I am not too sure if this really works at any case