Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Philip Webb
dislodged accidentally. Just my bit of Gentoo wisdom (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

[gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
080119 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: A problem I have is that Firefox is not deleting .pdf files from /tmp after I have viewed saved them elsewhere (using Kpdf). There seems to be no place in Firefox or Kpdf settings to change this. Does anyone have a useful suggestion for automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
080119 Kevin wrote: To automatically wipe /tmp upon reboot, change WIPE_TMP to yes in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc Thanks: I will consider the implications. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
080120 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008, Philip Webb wrote: 080119 Kevin wrote: To automatically wipe /tmp upon reboot, change WIPE_TMP to yes in /etc/conf.d/bootmisc Thanks: I will consider the implications. There aren't any implications. By *definition*, the contents

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Mouse

2008-02-11 Thread Philip Webb
sure to deselect but that doesn't fix the problem. It looks like a hardware problem: have you tried a variety of mouses ? Have you tried plugging onto all your USB ports ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
recovery apps, which are all in Gentoo : magicrescue gpart sleuthkit foremost . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Philip Webb
that the menu is using the correct command (eg use Kmenuedit). If the former, are there any error messages ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Links within HTML-pages not working any more in konqueror?

2008-02-27 Thread Philip Webb
to the correct line, but Dillo goes to line 403 (!) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

[gentoo-user] k3b demands audio support

2008-03-04 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] pasting in Kate or Kwrite doesn't move the cursor

2008-03-07 Thread Philip Webb
remember what happened with = 3.5.8 . Something for KDE bugzilla ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

[gentoo-user] how accurate is 'lshw' (was memory upgrade) ?

2008-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp

2008-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
080414 forgottenwizard wrote: On 03:58 Mon 14 Apr , Philip Webb wrote: Vim defaults to keeping temporary files in /var/tmp , but Mutt defaults to /tmp Vim called by Mutt does the same. Recently, I changed the default in .muttrc to use /var/tmp instead as a result I can happily

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
alternative; for fixed spaces, Luxi Mono. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package

2008-04-23 Thread Philip Webb
on my newly-built box 2007-10-xx , but now everything is working even better than after my 1st install 2003 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-05-03 Thread Philip Webb
080503 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: In my case, it isn't kdm.log , as I don't have Kdm installed (I use 'startx' from a raw command-line after booting). One way to find out more would be to file a bug with KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
(Intel Core-2 Duo 6700) 2 hours . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice

2008-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
the latest 2.4.0 needed 2,7 GB disk space, but earlier versions on my 2003 machine could take = 6 GB . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
were closed and 57 were open - what is 57? Minutes : what else ?! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
080628 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:53:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 'emerge world' is the source of many problems regularly reported here. No, it's changing package versions that breaks a working system, whether this is a result of running 'emerge world' or updating the guilty

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately: correction

2008-06-28 Thread Philip Webb
080628 Philip Webb wrote: I've been doing it this way for nearly 8 years Of course, I mean nearly 5 years . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-29 Thread Philip Webb
080628 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:57:05 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: the problem with 'emerge world' (without '-p') is the user hands over control of his machine to an unreliable automaton, No one has ever suggested that you run emerge world without -p or -a. Damage caused

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb

2008-06-29 Thread Philip Webb
running at the 1st shot ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-29 Thread Philip Webb
is installed why: if not, it's my own fault for being careless. That power over my system a big reason for using Gentoo (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
(smile) ? Also, it does use less memory, typically 400 MB a/a 700 MB at end of day. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Philip Webb
(now stand-by) machine, but to use it on this machine I'ld have to install 49 Gnome pkgs (ugh). I asked before: do those having problems with FF3 perhaps use Gnome ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
volunteer labors (big smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] charset iso/utf (was:packages.gentoo.org down?)

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
070810 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Philip Webb wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré), Your email uses UTF-8, What do you mean ? but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. That is what I would expect Mutt to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
070811 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I write e-mails with Gvim called up by Mutt (as now). [...] termencoding -- character encoding used by the terminal set tenc=utf-8 This suggests you are using a UTF-8 locale. In /etc/locale.gen I have en_US ISO-8859-1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf : PS

2007-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
070811 Philip Webb wrote: 070811 Benno Schulenberg wrote: That does not solve the actual bug: Mutt should not advertise charset=iso-8859-1 , when the message contains UTF-8. In .muttrc I have: set charset=iso-8859-1 Perhaps this sb changed to correspond with what Vim is doing

[gentoo-user] Mutt depends on Lynx ?

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt depends on Lynx ?

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
070812 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 12 August 2007 14:27:16 Philip Webb wrote: I went to emerge the latest Mutt found it wanted to emerge Lynx too. I have a recent Lynx in /usr/local am experienced with both apps (yes, I know that that Lynx doesn't count for Portage). Does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
=POSIX LC_NAME=POSIX LC_ADDRESS=POSIX LC_TELEPHONE=POSIX LC_MEASUREMENT=POSIX LC_IDENTIFICATION=POSIX LC_ALL= Philip Webb also wrote: In .muttrc I have: 'set charset=iso-8859-1' Maybe comment this line out? I have, with this result in a couple of test e-mails to myself: MIME

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-13 Thread Philip Webb
070813 Philip Webb wrote: I now have (via a line in .bashrc ): LANG= LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 ... snip ... LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 There's no difference in the headers. It occurs to me that I'm running Mutt via 'konsole -e mutt', which is restarted automatically by KDE . I did restart X

[gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 8/16/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just bought my first USB memory stick (Kingmax 1 GB ). When I insert it into a USB slot, devices appear : /dev/usbdev1.4_ep00 ep01 ep82 ep83 but when I try to mount it ( /z/usb is an unused dir in my

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
070816 Philip Webb wrote: 070816 Florian Philipp wrote: USB-sticks appear as SCSI drives. That means their block device is /dev/sda, /dev/sdb etc. check if usb mass storage is enabled in your kernel. Yes, that's it presumably : So I'll need to compile a new kernel, ie 2.6.20 - 2.6.22

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070818 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully mounted the stick copied a file onto it: it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. For performance

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Philip Webb
070819 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 20:13:14 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? Because there are no moving parts

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
070820 Mick wrote: On Sunday 19 August 2007, Philip Webb wrote: I copied a series of dirs to my USB stick as each one was done, they took successively longer to finish, tho' they were all roughly the same size. It must be something to do with the way the data is laid out on the stick

[gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-21 Thread Philip Webb
070821 James wrote: Philip Webb purslow at sympatico.ca writes: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp at 75 Hz ; maximum shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-22 Thread Philip Webb
070822 Florian Philipp wrote: Philip Webb purslow at sympatico.ca writes: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp at 75 Hz ; maximum

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom and usb automounting problem..

2007-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
, after which you should see 'sdan' listed in /dev . Then as root, 'mount /dev/sdan /your/chosen/mountpoint' set the permissions for the latter to allow your user to access it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-26 Thread Philip Webb
070826 Aaron Clark wrote: On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp @ 75 Hz ; maximum shared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo- user] KDE HAL: запретить монт ирование определенных р азделов

2007-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
first (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated bash crashed complete system

2007-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
is 5.2_p4 (070701): do you need to upgrade yours ? Have you looked for similar problems in the Forum ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

2007-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
than anything to do with passwords: have a look in such places as /etc/login*/etc/security/* . Just a quick suggestion in the absence of more informative help. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] new machine: Intel quad vs duo

2007-09-23 Thread Philip Webb
, but I'm keen to get value for money in a machine intended to last to 2011 . Does anyone have any thoughts re dual- vs quad-core processors when used for various purposes with Gentoo ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

[gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error

2007-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
' of 'head' on my screen. I am amazed to find an error in a Gentoo doc, esp one like this. Can anyone offer advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
070929 Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes, I changed the file extension to '.html' Epiphany now has no problem. Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

2007-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
there). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
on the screen showing relevant help, while also allowing easy re-use of your previous .config (as above). Of course, always keep = 1 previous kernel available for emergencies. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

[gentoo-user] Lilo ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
in this area ? (Thanks to those who commented re quad-cores: I plan to get a Core 2 Duo) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
don't mean to start a silly dispute, just to learn from others) Otherwise, thanks for all the reassurance re Lilo ReiserFS on 64 bits. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
, it couldn't use my full monitor resolution it also boots into a Gnome desktop (ugh grin). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
071007 Florian Philipp wrote: Philip Webb schrieb: more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my current system 4 years ago -- or the simple but powerful System Rescue ( http://www.sysresccd.org/ ), which I plan to use when I install Gentoo

[gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
losing everything on the HDD require re-installation. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles

2007-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
files w/o using the I/net. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
071020 b.n. wrote: Philip Webb ha scritto: Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful

[gentoo-user] Re: new box

2007-10-22 Thread Philip Webb
071022 Mick wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: Philip Webb writes: BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'. I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net. You can use any other boot CD, unless you use the automatic installer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new box

2007-10-23 Thread Philip Webb
071023 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:30:58 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: (1) it refused to compile 'sandbox' with some error; this is often fixed by 'FEATURES=-sandbox emerge -1 sandbox' It was fixed, as were errors in compiling Glibc Gcc, by enabling 'IA32' in the kernel: IIRC

[gentoo-user] mobo onboard Intel graphics

2007-10-25 Thread Philip Webb
in xorg.conf without success. Does anyone have any useful experience or suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies

Re: [gentoo-user] mobo onboard Intel graphics: some progress

2007-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
071025 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 10/25/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got X working on my new box with Fluxbox (KDE is more work). I used 'Xorg -configure' to create the basic xorg.conf . It runs without any obvious problems, but there are 2 niggles: (1) the log file shows

Re: [gentoo-user] What should i use instead of /dev/usb?

2007-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
for that. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Glxgears crashes X

2007-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
encountered this or have any suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
071027 Philip Webb wrote: X starts with no errors in the log, but 'glxgears' 'glxinfo' crash X. The processor is an Intel G33 using drivers 'i810' 'i915' ; kernel 2.6.22-r8 ; 64-bit system . After sleeping on the problem reading Forum discussion re 'x11-drm', I've tried a few more things

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Philip Webb
071029 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Philip Webb wrote: Unrecognised deviceID 29c2 backtrace ... ... /usr/lib64/dri/i915_dri.so ... (provided by pkg 'mesa') What versions of Mesa and xf86-video-i810 are you running? 'mesa-progs-6.5.2' (latest available). 'xf86-video-i810-2.1.0' ( 2.1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-29 Thread Philip Webb
in the dir, which I listed in the previous msg (one is 'i915tex') ? There's no need. It knows which one to choose. :) That's good to know (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-30 Thread Philip Webb
Nvidia card, if I can avoid it ... Any advice here too wb very welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-10-31 Thread Philip Webb
071031 Philip Webb wrote: Meanwhile, what I believed to be a small irritant is proving a show-stopper. Leaving aside DRI, the display from the new machine spills off the screen: See previous msg for full horror story, but I did check the DPI : both machines show 99x98 in answer to 'xdpyinfo

Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more

2007-11-01 Thread Philip Webb
071031 Philip Webb wrote: 071030 James Ausmus wrote: the media-libs/mesa-7.0.1 works fine *IF* you apply the attached patch (either hack the ebuild or CTRL-Z immediately after emerge gets done unpacking the source). I had the same problem you did, did the Googling, found the patch

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg library responsible for handling keyboard input

2007-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
-keyboard ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight savings time

2007-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
twice. I had to set the time manually to adjust for the 1 hour shift. Shouldn't this be automatic? What did I miss? HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Console with color graphics capabilities?

2007-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
) is an excellent little app which allows quick viewing of images slide-shows all from CLI. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-15 Thread Philip Webb
'. It would probably help slightly if you used international date format: '1974-09-27' etc. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies

[gentoo-user] new box working well: 2 small problems

2007-11-23 Thread Philip Webb
a suggestion ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 fresh install woes (configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.???)

2007-11-27 Thread Philip Webb
-x86-xlibs' some of its brothers. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Webb
games, but I've long had my desktop box using HZ_1000 it has always been very responsive (now Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.6.23-r3). That's certainly the first thing to try. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Webb
want'. '?' get you help on the options ... I seem to be using 'CFQ', which is apparently the default: my desktop system is performing admirably. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
recently, I used RFS 3 for everything except /boot (which is Ext2). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Philip Webb
-rebuild --pretend ... ', then do by hand whatever it says it would do, omitting the silly stuff. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Install CD : was Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/config permissions

2009-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

2009-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 and KDE-3.5

2009-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
into testing. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] weekend fun

2009-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16497-international-wildbird-competition/2 -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O

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