Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:22:05 -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote: that's mainly because I switched my escape for GNU screen from ^A to ` That's a good idea, as I use ` a lot less than Ctrl-A I may do the same. Then I'll have to override years opf muscle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): But nowhere near as clear. And it's quicker to type $( - muscle memory - than to

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread James
Jesús Guerrero i92guboj at terra.es writes: You can't since you want to use ati-driver/fglrx. The fglrx is not part of the kernel, it's only shipped in the form of a binary-only closed source kernel module. fglrx doesn't need (and most likely will fail as you see) the in-kernel radeon drm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:28:12 + (UTC), James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Jesús Guerrero i92guboj at terra.es writes: You can't since you want to use ati-driver/fglrx. The fglrx is not part of the kernel, it's only shipped in the form of a binary-only closed source kernel module.

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread James
Jesús Guerrero i92guboj at terra.es writes: Probably the colors screwing everything, as always. Try searching the qlist man page for something like --nocolor or --color=never. Yep: emerge -1 $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) works just fine thx James

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/08/2009 06:28 PM, James wrote: One final question. When I run this command: emerge -1 $(qlist -I x11-drivers) I get this error: 'x11-drivers/ati-drivers' is not a valid package atom Please check ebuild(5) for full details. Try: emerge -1 $(qlist -I x11-drivers) And it's usually quicker

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): But nowhere near as clear. Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key above TAB and to the left of 1. I rest my case :) Note you can also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): But nowhere near as clear. And it's quicker to type $( - muscle memory - than to do the whole hunt-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): But nowhere near as clear.

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote: I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do remember using nested $() commands... Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at least) anyway? Hopefully not! It's just two key presses to type ``. $() takes 4 (shift+4+9, command,

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/08/2009 09:33 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): But nowhere near as clear. Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key above TAB and to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 October 2009 21:27:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote: I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do remember using nested $() commands... Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at least) anyway? Hopefully not! It's just

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/08/2009 11:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 08 October 2009 21:27:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote: I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do remember using nested $() commands... Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:34:37 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): But nowhere near as clear. Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key above TAB and to the left of 1. I rest my case :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:33:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): But nowhere near as clear. Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with backticks. You can nest commands with ``, it's just less intuitive; each of the following are equivalent: echo $(echo $(echo $(echo $(echo foo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:22:05 -0400, Jonathan Callen a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with backticks. You can nest commands with ``, it's just less intuitive; each