[gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-10 Thread Simon Kellett
e (only X libs)) - works on Linux (at home) and Solaris (at work) - can easily configure colours, incl. tabs. (I am not sure what the "session" thing you like is, but with mrxvt you can pre-define commands in the config file to run in each different tab when mrxvt is started; but you c

[gentoo-user] Re: Windows <->Linux Video Chat App

2006-05-06 Thread Simon Kellett
talk to Gnomemeeting on Linux (the app does not *have* to be the same, just the protocols and codecs etc.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: cd record does not record!

2006-05-06 Thread Simon Kellett
et lucky and knock an offending fleck of dust off the lens ! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble running X clients as root

2006-05-06 Thread Simon Kellett
- will cause /root/.profile and .bashrc (IIRC!). -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: where is /dev/ttyS* ?

2006-04-24 Thread Simon Kellett
ted by the kernel or udev ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: wget -c strange behaviour

2006-03-27 Thread Simon Kellett
HTTP servers that support the "Range" header." I am guessing his does not ! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-26 Thread Simon Kellett
thanks I did not know this. (I have never tried anything like emerge world yet, I just update the packages as I need (either bug fixing or for new functionality): I just noticed the older ebuilds go missing from /usr/portage). -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germa

[gentoo-user] Re: screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Kellett
e Xorg "nv" driver may be good enough for you (I am happy with it!), and is less hassle than the full NVidia driver. Either way, try to use the correct video driver. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to tar?

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Kellett
ork connect between the 2 machines: if yes than can you just use rsync to push the files across directly ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Kellett
3. This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of *forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild (and dependencies) would always be kept. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Li

[gentoo-user] Re: send mail to gentoo-user locally

2006-03-21 Thread Simon Kellett
be anyone, with any faked headers, especially if you are on dial-up. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!

2006-03-21 Thread Simon Kellett
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... mpg123 complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp ... Does "mpg123 -a /dev/sound/dsp" work ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- g

[gentoo-user] Re: bash_history

2006-03-07 Thread Simon Kellett
ittab has a line: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now I am guessing that you could replace the shutdown command with a script of your own that does whatever you want, and then finally calls shutdown ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany|

[gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives

2006-03-02 Thread Simon Kellett
if yes, how to perform this task. IIRC Windows likes (or used) to be installed on the first drive *only*. I would take no chances and physically *remove* your Linux disc, make your windows-to-be disk the first drive, install Windows, put your linux disk back in, install Grub and correct /etc/f

[gentoo-user] Re: fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Simon Kellett
or kernel versions from 2.6.13 onwards you must specify the mtrr mode: eg "mtrr:2". IIRC the default is off !! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Simon Kellett
. (And it annoys me as I use Windows at work, and Linux at home.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-31 Thread Simon Kellett
optional support is enabled and both gtk and qt > support are disabled. The asterisk... Yep: I stand corrected. I missed this paragraph when I searched for it last night !! I can see it now ! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany|

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Kellett
* by it to warn you. Unfortunately man emerge does not help !! -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Simon Kellett
s forks: 1 for downloading, the other to compile. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-297712-highlight-parallelfetch.html -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-29 Thread Simon Kellett
that *will* be used if you do a new (re)emerge. This will be different, for example, if you changed something in /etc/portage, or set flags on the command line for the previous emerge. -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Simon Kellett
parallel-fetch to FEATURES in /etc/make.conf (This feature is new and does not seem to be well documented, I read it on a Forum and have not had chance to use is yet !) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@

[gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-23 Thread Simon Kellett
ter shop: ASUS V9400-X/TD / NVIDIA (GeForce4) MX 4000 / 64Mb (but I only use 1280x1024). 39 Euros now. Works for me :-) (I forgot to mention that you may wish to choose a card that is *passively* cooled if you do not like fan noise !!) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: which video card for dell2005fpw

2006-01-21 Thread Simon Kellett
digital interface over the analog? I think yes: why convert to an analog signal when the source and receiver are both digital ? Also now problems with alignment. However, when I looked anyway, you could not save any money by only have DVI - you have to buy a card that supports both !! -- Simon Kel

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances

2006-01-21 Thread Simon Kellett
gt; How do I start a second instance of FireFox V1.5? Does export MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1; firefox ; firefox -ProfileManager help ? -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Old kernel versions

2006-01-21 Thread Simon Kellett
Yes: unlike most packages these are the kernel *sources* not the kernel install (which you have done manually). (So you could do emerge gentoo sources, config, make, install etc, and immediately remove the kernel sources.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, German