Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:23:46 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > "Modern" UEFI firmware not reporting such errors, if such be the case, > would be one of the reasons for me to depise UEFI as I do. I can't see that being true. > Why do I > need UEFI? A traditional BIOS can boot my machine just

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 14:29:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:23:46 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > "Modern" UEFI firmware not reporting such errors, if such be the case, > > would be one of the reasons for me to depise UEFI as I do. > > I can't see that being true. > > > Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 11:23:46 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Indeed, on The Register the other day, in a comments sections, somebody > described how he had a dual boot GNU/Linux Windows setup, and after a > Windows update, the GNU/Linux wouldn't boot at all. He suspected that > the Windows update

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade and firefox/seamonkey issues

2015-10-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 07:57:32PM -0500, Dale wrote Howdy, I recently did a upgrade which included glibc. Now both Firefox and Seamonkey has problems starting. I have several profiles and some work and some don't. Using safe-mode works which makes me think

[gentoo-user] How do I change an X keyboard layout?

2015-10-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. The two keyboard layouts I use in XFCE are both fine and dandy, but they are incomplete. In particular, I want the key combination to take me to tty13 in the same way that takes me to tty1. I've been searching for _hours_ trying to find out how to do this. I cannot find the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Lee
'modprobe -r pcspkr' should remove the offending beep. On Oct 20, 2015 9:10 AM, "Alan Mackenzie" wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps > at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. > Just what

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I change an X keyboard layout?

2015-10-21 Thread Marc Joliet
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 15:51:43 Alan Mackenzie wrote: >Hello, Gentoo. > >The two keyboard layouts I use in XFCE are both fine and dandy, but they >are incomplete. In particular, I want the key combination > to take me to tty13 in the same way that > takes me to tty1. > >I've been searching

[gentoo-user] glibc upgrade and firefox/seamonkey issues

2015-10-21 Thread Dale
Howdy, I recently did a upgrade which included glibc. Now both Firefox and Seamonkey has problems starting. I have several profiles and some work and some don't. Using safe-mode works which makes me think the browsers themselves are OK but something else got messed up. The only package I

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade and firefox/seamonkey issues

2015-10-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 07:57:32PM -0500, Dale wrote > Howdy, > > I recently did a upgrade which included glibc. Now both Firefox and > Seamonkey has problems starting. I have several profiles and some work > and some don't. Using safe-mode works which makes me think the browsers >

[gentoo-user] xsane - emial "connection failed"

2015-10-21 Thread thelma
I'm trying to use/setup xsane to email simple document (pdf file) I've set all the parameters in xsane - preference - setup: email correct but I still get an error: SMTP connection failed I'm using port 25 on mail.shaw.ca so there is no authentication and the mail should be accepted. sending

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade and firefox/seamonkey issues

2015-10-21 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 07:57:32PM -0500, Dale wrote Howdy, I recently did a upgrade which included glibc. Now both Firefox and Seamonkey has problems starting. I have several profiles and some work and some don't. Using safe-mode works which makes me think the browsers

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 10:03:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 20 October 2015 19:22:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Where is the beep coming from? > > > > Real speakers (like where music comes out) - check Alerts & > > Notifications or similar in your DE. > > > > That silly monotone speaker

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Mick. On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:55:29AM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 10:03:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 October 2015 19:22:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Where is the beep coming from? > > > Real speakers (like where music comes out) - check Alerts & > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 20 October 2015 19:22:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Where is the beep coming from? > > Real speakers (like where music comes out) - check Alerts & > Notifications or similar in your DE. > > That silly monotone speaker that can only make bing noises and has been > in pc's since the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, James. On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:03:27PM +, James wrote: > Alan Mackenzie muc.de> writes: > > > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps > > > > at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. > > > > Just what is this beep