Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : hiccups solve them

2015-11-04 Thread Mick
On Thursday 05 Nov 2015 06:21:16 Philip Webb wrote: > 151103 Philip Webb wrote: > > The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality, > > but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge). > > Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality'

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : hiccups solve them

2015-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Philip Webb wrote: > The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality, > but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge). > Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'. > > In Mint, when that is set via the 631 menu,

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : one solved

2015-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Philip Webb wrote: > In addition, the icon doesn't work in Gvim, tho' :ha does. That latter was mistaken : the icon is simply a shortcup for :ha . You have to tell Gvim which printer to use. In ~/.vimrc you need : 'set pdev=Deskjet_2510' (or system name for your own device). When this

[gentoo-user] Battery charge status script for term or text console

2015-11-04 Thread Walter Dnes
The attached script requires "make menuconfig" to have Power management and ACPI options ---> [*] ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support ---> <*> Battery or CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY enabled if you do .config manually. The script reads /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/uevent on

Re: [gentoo-user] xen and NUMA

2015-11-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 November 2015 13:14:18 CET, hw wrote: > >Hi, > >how do I know whether xen uses NUMA or not? It says in dmesg: > > >[0.00] NUMA turned off >[0.00] Faking a node at [mem >0x-0x40068fff] > > >and 'xl info -n' shows two nodes: > > >node:memsizememf

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 03 November 2015 22:38:18 Dale wrote: > Now if I can just get Seamonkey and Firefox to stop defaulting to > English (United Kingdom) instead of English (United States) I'll be even > happier. o_O Why would you want all those wrong spellings? ;) -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] xen and NUMA

2015-11-04 Thread hw
Hi, how do I know whether xen uses NUMA or not? It says in dmesg: [0.00] NUMA turned off [0.00] Faking a node at [mem 0x-0x40068fff] and 'xl info -n' shows two nodes: node:memsizememfreedistances 0: 14656 3304 10,20

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-04 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 02:19:40 AM Dale wrote: >> >> I wish I could get me a laser printer. I'm dipping off into electronics >> again and will have to make PCBs and they say laser printers work >> better, although I have had a couple tell me ink jets work just as goo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 00:10:47 -0800, Raymond Jennings wrote: > A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned > by a package. > > You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs > to someone. > > But if you find orphaned junk, it could be fair game.

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 02:19:40 AM Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:38:18 PM Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: > I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping > at straws, g

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-04 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:38:18 PM Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest time,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

2015-11-04 Thread Raymond Jennings
A good place to start is to make a hotlist of anything that isn't owned by a package. You really shouldn't randomly delete things that portage thinks belongs to someone. But if you find orphaned junk, it could be fair game. If you have something bulky that DOES belong to a package, consider usin