Re: [gentoo-user] Switched monitors, having resolution problems

2007-02-28 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 3/1/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:58:56 - Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Vlad Dogaru [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2007 04:56 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re

[gentoo-user] Switched monitors, having resolution problems

2007-02-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello all, I have just switched monitors and X now starts in 640x480. I intend to make it work at 1280x1024, and have changed DefaultDepth and Modes lines in xorg.conf accordingly. The console works at 1024x768 as usual, but I have compiled that into the framebuffer. Any suggestions? Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] Switched monitors, having resolution problems

2007-02-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 2/28/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007, Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello all, I have just switched monitors and X now starts in 640x480. I intend to make it work at 1280x1024, and have changed DefaultDepth and Modes lines in xorg.conf accordingly

Re: [gentoo-user] Switched monitors, having resolution problems

2007-02-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 2/28/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:54:29 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 2/28/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2007, Vlad Dogaru

Re: [gentoo-user] First time kernel compiler experiencing some problems

2007-02-12 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 2/12/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I manged to solve the problem by not compiling nvidia framebuffer support. Now even the nvidia-drivers work. Other than that, and a bit offtopic, too, today has been both very fun and incredibly educational (but a bit sore on the eyes).

[gentoo-user] First time kernel compiler experiencing some problems

2007-02-11 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, after a couple of failed attempts some time ago, I actually ended up with a kernel that boots. However, I am experiencing some problems which I think are at least in part due to my perhaps incomplete kernel configuration. First of all, my console is still in 80x24 mode, although I pass

[gentoo-user] First time kernel compile, experiencing some problems

2007-02-10 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, after a couple of failed attempts some time ago, I actually ended up with a kernel that boots. However, I am experiencing some problems which I think are at least in part due to my perhaps incomplete kernel configuration. First of all, my console is still in 80x24 mode, although I pass

[gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

2007-02-08 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not provide this time. Thanks, Vlad -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

2007-02-08 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 2/8/07, Jürgen Geuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:08 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google

[gentoo-user] Uninstalling KDE packages

2007-01-29 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, after some suggestions from the list I finally emerged KDE to give it another try. Even with 256 MiB of RAM, it works quite acceptably, save for the startup time. However, I notice it has installed all sorts of marginally useful and ultimately resource consuming software such as KWallet.

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalling KDE packages

2007-01-29 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/30/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 January 2007 22:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: after some suggestions from the list I finally emerged KDE to give it another try. Even with 256 MiB of RAM, it works quite acceptably, save for the startup time. Two things to improve startup

[gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I don't use, but I hope to keep them until the planned reinstall of Gentoo, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/27/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello, My distfiles is getting quite big and I was thinking of symlinking it to another partition (just as a temporary solution until I find the time to re-partition my hard drive). I know I could just delete what I don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-27 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/27/07, Jeffrey Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:14, Jürgen Geuter wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:40 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not default to /tmp? Many people have an extra partition

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC Failing

2007-01-23 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/23/07, Pierre-Yves Rofes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, January 22, 2007 8:49 pm, Randy Barlow wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 19:33 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: (presumably good -- only let memtest run for about 3 minutes) You should probably test it much longer than 3 minutes before you

[gentoo-user] GCC Failing

2007-01-22 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, what I initially thought was a problem with kdelibs is turning into something even more strange. Emerge failed for every package I tried to install with the message: Internal compiler error: Segmentation Fault. I have tried re-emerging gcc from two local mirrors, but got a bunch of hash

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC Failing

2007-01-22 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/22/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 January 2007 12:48, Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello, what I initially thought was a problem with kdelibs is turning into something even more strange. Emerge failed for every package I tried to install with the message: Internal compiler error

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC Failing

2007-01-22 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/22/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 January 2007 12:25, Naga wrote: On Monday 22 January 2007 12:48, Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello, what I initially thought was a problem with kdelibs is turning into something even more strange. Emerge failed for every package I tried

[gentoo-user] X slowed down; is it KDE?

2007-01-21 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, Since this morning, Fluxbox has been running very slowly. For instance, when I start Eterm, it takes about 3 to 5 seconds. Every single time. And conky shows X climbing up to 100% CPU usage until I get the terminal window. Could this be because of my failed attempt to compile KDE? Emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 January 2007 23:46, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/19/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buy a couple spare RAM modules. Surely I agree with your will to build a minimalistic system, this will help anyway and it's a nice experience, but RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/20/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One good thing (among others) of using a real desktop environment is that all apps share the vast majority of libraries which are loaded into memory just once. When you mix environments or use an eclectic collection of unrelated apps, they all draw

[gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-19 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, I am recently growing fed up with strongly graphical applications causing my (admittedly quite old) computer to slow down to a crawl. I like the concept of Ratpoison and am thinking of switching to it, but could use a few tips for making the big change. I am especially looking for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox/Conky acting up

2007-01-19 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vlad, On Thursday 18 January 2007 22:35, Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello everyone, I had Conky start automatically when I log in to Fluxbox by adding the following line to .fluxbox/startup: exec /usr/bin/conky It is before exec /usr/bin/fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-19 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/19/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vlad Dogaru ha scritto: Hello, I am recently growing fed up with strongly graphical applications causing my (admittedly quite old) computer to slow down to a crawl. I like the concept of Ratpoison and am thinking of switching to it, but could use

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox/Conky acting up

2007-01-19 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/20/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 21:28, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you probably need is a line like: kill -HUP conky

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox/Conky acting up

2007-01-19 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/20/07, Vlad Dogaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 21:28, Vlad Dogaru wrote: On 1/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you probably need is a line like: kill -HUP

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox/Conky acting up

2007-01-18 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello everyone, I had Conky start automatically when I log in to Fluxbox by adding the following line to .fluxbox/startup: exec /usr/bin/conky It is before exec /usr/bin/fluxbox (a howto warned me about this pitfall) and everything works as expected. The only problem is that when I exit my

[gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

2007-01-15 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, Browsing getoo-wiki.com for an image viewer, I only found Gthumb, which depends on GNOME. I use Fluxbox because I have an older computer and would like to keep dependencies at a minimum. Any suggestions? I only need a viewer; organising my pictures is not a plus. No exotic formats, just

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

2007-01-15 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/15/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 03:16:02PM +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: Hello, Browsing getoo-wiki.com for an image viewer, I only found Gthumb, which depends on GNOME. I use Fluxbox because I have an older computer and would like to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

2007-01-15 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/15/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/16/07, Vlad Dogaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Browsing getoo-wiki.com for an image viewer, I only found Gthumb, which depends on GNOME. I use Fluxbox because I have an older computer and would like to keep dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

2007-01-11 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/11/07, Ralf Stephan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output than that from LaTeX. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

2007-01-11 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 1/11/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote: I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to

[gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

2007-01-10 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package I am missing (searches yielded nothing of interest thus far) or another piece of software I can use? Thanks, Vlad Dogaru PS: Double