Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend an HTML/CSS editor?

2006-09-19 Thread Jeff Grant
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 19 September 2006 04:38, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been writing a modest amount of HTML/XHTML by hand with vim for some time because a) MSWord results are just too ugly to countenance b) OOffice output, while better is still ugly and behaves badly around style sheets.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem

2006-09-09 Thread Jeff Grant
Colleen Beamer wrote: Thanks to all who have replied, but my problem *is not* with my mouse. I went through that issue the very first time I installed Gentoo and know that I have to change it to /dev/psaux. I can boot into kde. However ... As root: $ emerge -av app-admin/eselect-opengl

Re: [gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...

2006-09-09 Thread Jeff Grant
Jerry McBride wrote: My son, all of thirteen years old, the master of all he surveys, the supreme keeper of all knowledge of the known and unknown universes, the pinultimate ruler of mankind... Has asked me to put Linux on his desktop computer... It seems he has become weary of

[gentoo-user] Rebuild video drivers after kernel compile?

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Grant
With modular Xorg, do you still need to re-build your video drivers after every time you re-compile a kernel? Just wondering... -Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mouse pointer in Xorg?

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Grant
I want my default Xorg pointer back - silly right? How the heck do you manipulate the appearance of the mouse pointer? Never though about this one. :-) -Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pointer in Xorg?

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Grant
Donnie Berkholz wrote: You can set the cursor theme in /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/index.theme with a line Inherits=theme_name. (You should also be able to put the default/ subdirectory in any valid icon path [1], but I like this one.) The regular black one is called core;

[gentoo-user] Kernel serial error messages

2006-09-05 Thread Jeff Grant
This one eludes me - for the past week, I've been seeing these messages popping up in my terminal: error 3 request 15 minor 0 serial 20113326 error 3 request 15 minor 0 serial 20113326 error 3 request 15 minor 0 serial 20113326 The messages vary slightly, but this seems to be the most popular

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Grant
Hey Frank. Make sure you have: * media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio Latest version available: 1.2.10-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 2,916 kB Homepage: http://www.xmms.org Description: Xmms Plugin: xmms-cdaudio License:

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio CD support

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff Grant
this matter? ... and if yes ... how do I add the plugin to the known ones? Thnx Frank On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:24 +0200, sdoma wrote: ... right [ Not Installed ] for me too. Thanks ;) On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:17 -0400, Jeff Grant wrote: Hey Frank. Make sure you have: * media-plugins

Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP clients

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Grant
Don't forget -- http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml :-) -Jeff bijayant kumar wrote: Marc, Hi Once again you have solved my problem. Thank you very very much. Marc Blumentritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bijayant kumar schrieb: Hi, I have installed

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Grant
For my K/V/M (keyboard, video, mouse) to all work snappy with the new Xorg, I made sure to include these items in my /etc/make.conf: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse joystick VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia v4l vesa My Logitech mouse was acting crappy until I added those lines. As always, YMMV. -Jeff Donnie

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Jeff Grant
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 and http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz These are two articles that indeed led me to believe that XFS was the way to go - and here, I'm also experiencing some dreadful performance - tar/untar performance specifically. What to do..

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Jeff Grant
: On 8/29/06, Jeff Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are two articles that indeed led me to believe that XFS was the way to go - and here, I'm also experiencing some dreadful performance - tar/untar performance specifically. Can you define dreadful? Are you seeing the same results (fast

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage

2006-08-29 Thread Jeff Grant
# emerge -s nvidia * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Latest version available: 1.0.8774 Latest version installed: 1.0.8774 Size of files: 31,714 kB Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/ Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries License: NVIDIA -Jeff

[gentoo-user] uniprint, ggv, and utf-8 - argh...

2006-08-28 Thread Jeff Grant
Ok - so - I got yudit living on my box, which also contains the uniprint program. $ man uniprint uniprint - produce postscript output from unicode text for printing So - here's the command I'm using on what appears to be a Chinese utf-8 file: uniprint -in chinese_utf8.txt -out