[gentoo-user] Filesize error downloading eigen-3.0.3

2012-01-25 Thread denis cohen
Hi, I am trying to install freecad which pulls in dev-cpp/eigen-3.0.3. I get a filesize error which prevents installation of eigen. Any clues on how to solve this problem? Thanks Denis Here is portage output: Emerging (1 of 3) dev-cpp/eigen-3.0.3 from science * Fetching files in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize error downloading eigen-3.0.3

2012-01-25 Thread Dale
denis cohen wrote: Hi, I am trying to install freecad which pulls in dev-cpp/eigen-3.0.3. I get a filesize error which prevents installation of eigen. Any clues on how to solve this problem? Thanks Denis Here is portage output: Emerging (1 of 3) dev-cpp/eigen-3.0.3 from science *

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize error downloading eigen-3.0.3

2012-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:38:59 +0100, denis cohen wrote: I am trying to install freecad which pulls in dev-cpp/eigen-3.0.3. I get a filesize error which prevents installation of eigen. Any clues on how to solve this problem? emerge --sync and try again. If that fails, try again using a

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread walt
On 01/24/2012 10:52 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just scanned through the gnome-control-center code looking for clues about pulse and found no sign that pulse is voluntary. So what would happen if I installed pulse and just didn't start the thing, what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:24:46 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 10:52 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just scanned through the gnome-control-center code looking for clues about pulse and found no sign that pulse is voluntary. So what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread covici
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 10:52 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just scanned through the gnome-control-center code looking for clues about pulse and found no sign that pulse is voluntary. So what would happen if I installed pulse and

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy questions

2012-01-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:14:22PM +, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 17:08:43 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I know, in general, what proxies do -- caching, filtering, and bypassing firewalls. I have even written a couple of very special purpose proxies. Now I need one for work, and

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

2012-01-25 Thread James Broadhead
On 23 January 2012 20:55, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: On 23.01.2012 01:00, Philip Webb wrote: During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1 is now testing, while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in stable. I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few

[gentoo-user] OT: Sparse Matrices and Code Refactoring

2012-01-25 Thread James
Hello folks, Sparse matrix techniques[1] is a relatively new area of mathematics: many are struggling to leverage. In my research, I have learned about a recent phenomenon that may be quite useful to the larger Gentoo community. (EI) Emergent Inference is the specific new phenomenon [2] and is

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize error downloading eigen-3.0.3

2012-01-25 Thread pk
On 2012-01-25 10:38, denis cohen wrote: I am trying to install freecad which pulls in dev-cpp/eigen-3.0.3. I get a filesize error which prevents installation of eigen. Any clues on how to solve this problem? ebuild manifest path-to-eigen.ebuild IIRC... try man ebuild. Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-25 Thread BRM
Well, just to follow up on this - I did get the nouveau driver working and the system operational. - The console still does not work; don't know why but it seems to not get a working resolution. Not sure how to fix that right now. - Starting XDM (KDM) works, and brings up the login. - I am able

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-25 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 20:23:33 BRM wrote: Well, just to follow up on this - I did get the nouveau driver working and the system operational. - The console still does not work; don't know why but it seems to not get a working resolution. Not sure how to fix that right now. - Starting XDM

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy questions

2012-01-25 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 17:11:36 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:14:22PM +, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 17:08:43 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I'm not entirely clear of your use case scenarios and the constraints you are trying to address with a proxy (e.g. why

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com Does it work satisfactorily with kernel 3.0.6? I found the 3.1.6 breaking suspend on my machine so have gone back to 3.0.6, but my hardware and video driver is different to yours. Haven't tried 3.0.6 with the kernel change

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread Walter Dnes
An answer from a different Walter G... I also don't use pulse - plain ALSA is good enough for me - but looking over the design goals for pulseaudio I see a decent attempt to deal with audio properly for the future. These days we have computers and devices that can interact with many other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  An answer from a different Walter G... I also don't use pulse - plain ALSA is good enough for me - but looking over the design goals for pulseaudio I see a decent attempt to deal with audio properly for the future.

[gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-25 Thread Dale
Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf. I found a