Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-01 Thread Jerônimo Backes
I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01-r1 and am having problems getting OOo to accept input of accented, single and double quote characters under KDE 3.4.3. KDE overrides Xorg configs. Just open the KDE's Control Center, select Regional Accessibility, then Keyboard Layout

[gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-01 Thread Jerônimo Backes
I have Skype installed on my HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop, but the sound doesn't work. When speaking, the person I'm talking with can listen to me without problems. But then that person speaks with me, I hear some cracks, but no voice. I'm running skype under KDE 3.5.2, and arts has full-duplex

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-01 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Farhan Ahmed wrote: First of all don't start a new topic by replying to other non related thread.. Sorry about that. I won't do this again. As far as skype problem goes, try enabling 'Full Duplex'.. It can be accessed under Control-Center-Sound Multimedia-Sound System-Hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems with skype

2006-05-02 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Anyway i suggest you try WengoPhone.. It's open source and is based upon open standards.. I'm using it, the sound quality is better than Skype.. Check out their website http://openwengo.org.. Gentoo even has a ebuild for it in portage (net-im/wengophone).. Farhan Ahmed Thanks a lot for

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-02 Thread Jerônimo Backes
I tried your tip, using all sorts of keyboard layouts (Generic 101 / 104 / 105 key, Logitech Cordless + Cordless Pro), US English, with or without international variant/dead characters, but no joy so far. What seems odd is that OpenOffice is the only application affected, while all other

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-03 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Dave Jones wrote: Jerônimo Backes wrote on 05/03/06 00:04: What seems odd is that OpenOffice is the only application affected, while all other applications work correctly under KDE. Oh, I forgot to mention: DON'T use UTF-8 with KDE if you need to use some special keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and OpenOffice keyboard problems

2006-05-03 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Bo Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 00:04, Jerônimo Backes wrote: Oh, I forgot to mention: DON'T use UTF-8 with KDE if you need to use some special keyboard layouts. Stay with ISO-8859-1 (the default encoding). KDE has issues with UTF-8 and certain keboard layouts. What kind

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Are they stable and pretty easy to use/install? Any problems with games? How about commercial OpenGL games ported to Linux like Call of Duty and Doom 3? They are a pain in the ass! Worse than childbirth or a golf ball inside your kidneys. Problems with games? After all that pain, there is

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-08 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 05:18, JimD wrote: Jerônimo Backes wrote: NO! (expand the fontsize to 100 pt or something to get the meaning) ATI support for linux is the crapiest thing on earth! I guess it is safe to assume you don't like ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd Error

2006-05-11 Thread Jerônimo Backes
The solution is simple: Don't use arts. You can also open the configuration panel of Amarok and in the Engine section, select Alsa as output plugin (or maybe esd, as you use gnome) Hi recently i merged amarok to see what´s the big deal about it. But after the merge the CPU usage raised to

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Jerônimo Backes
So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a good option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone? What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best choice. But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have to be able to make it look

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx vs 3d

2006-11-01 Thread Jerônimo Backes
oskar kapala wrote: I have ati radeon xpress 200 on amd64. When I add an option Option Composite Enable to my xorg.conf my 3d accel is gone: I have the same hardware, and the same problem too. Not sure for ati cards, but with an nvidia one i have to add, Option GLXwithComposite 'true'

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Jerônimo Backes
What's your LINGUAS set to? `emerge -vp mozilla-firefox` if in doubt? Also did [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.8 USE=java xprint -debug -gnome -ipv6 -mozdevelop -moznopango -xinerama LINGUAS=-ar -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -ga -ga_IE

[gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?

2006-12-03 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Hi! I have a laptop with lots of documents, plus, I am writing lots of documents. When I'm working with these files, I stop after every 2 to 4 hours of work to save the changes, copying the updated files on a external hard drive. I also send them to two e-mail accounts (gmail and yahoo). Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?

2006-12-03 Thread Jerônimo Backes
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:57 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: I have a laptop with lots of documents, plus, I am writing lots of documents. When I'm working with these files, I stop after every 2 to 4 hours of work to save the changes, copying the updated files on a external hard drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-backup tool?

2006-12-03 Thread Jerônimo Backes
But 2GB? Huh... :) . 2Gb is the entire documents directory. I just want to e-mail the altered ones (in fact, the total attachment size is no greater than 200 Kb) I'll see what Kmail can do. Thanks again. Jerônimo. ___

[gentoo-user] Database migration software

2007-01-05 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Hi. I have a small database (100 tables) in firebird and want to migrate SOME data of it to a postgresql database. The latter database serves to a different purpose, so I just have to migrate specific columns of specific tables from the former database. Is there any app that can do that job?

[gentoo-user] DRI doesn't work with Radeon XPress 200M and opensource Drivers

2007-01-18 Thread Jerônimo Backes
I've tried everthing I found on google and the forums and still can't find the way to make DRI work with my ATI Radeon XPress 200M and the opensource drivers. I don't want to install the closed source because I want to use beryl, and these drivers can't do the job, AFAIK. So, here I am,

[gentoo-user] DRI doesn't work with Radeon XPress 200M and opensource Drivers

2007-01-18 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Sorry about the mail with html... I've tried everthing I found on google and the forums and still can't find the way to make DRI work with my ATI Radeon XPress 200M and the opensource drivers. I don't want to install the closed source because I want to use beryl, and these drivers can't do

[gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

2006-08-01 Thread Jerônimo Backes
What is the release date for 2006.1? I would also like to know what are the new features. Can someone point me a link? (I googled for that information and found nothing) Thanks a lot. ___ Você quer

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD playback slow

2006-09-10 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Did you try to change the video driver (in mplayer preferences menu)? I've got into the same problem, and solved it by changing to x11(XImage/Shm). My DVD playback is pretty bad. ___ Novidade no Yahoo! Mail: receba

[gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Jerônimo Backes
I googled a lot but wasn't able to find any answer on how to do this. umask=000 doesn't work with reiserfs. Thanks in advance. ___ Você quer respostas para suas perguntas? Ou você sabe muito e quer

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount a reiserfs partition with write permissions to all users?

2006-09-12 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Simply use chmod on the mounted partition. chmod 777 /path/to/something Thanks a lot, it worked as you said. It will be retained on the next mount. I thought this wouldn't happen, so I made this noob question. Thanks again.