Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Stroller: My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network adaptors have worked. Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen USB network adapters don't work with Linux is the sort of thing that might have been

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 04 Jul 2013 18:43:26 Kevin Thompson wrote: What architecture are you running this on? What USE flags are enabled with Firefox? This is amd64 stable. $ emerge -pv firefox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies .. .. done! [ebuild R

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 Jul 2013 03:40:23 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask. On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever it's called). This

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 July 2013, at 07:48, Thomas Mueller wrote: My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network adaptors have worked. ... Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen USB network adapters don't work with Linux is the sort of thing

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 05/07/13 at 10:28am, Peter Humphrey wrote: [1]Perhaps I shouldn't mention Konsole, of which I have four instances on one desktop. In two of them, turning the mouse wheel scrolls the output as expected, but in the other two it scrolls the command-line buffer! I assume this is just one

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 Jul 2013 13:43:39 Yohan Pereira wrote: On 05/07/13 at 10:28am, Peter Humphrey wrote: [1]Perhaps I shouldn't mention Konsole, of which I have four instances on one desktop. In two of them, turning the mouse wheel scrolls the output as expected, but in the other two it

[gentoo-user] DisplayLink

2013-07-05 Thread Michael Mol
Anyone ever have any luck using a DisplayLink USB adapter in a multiheaded scenario? I'm having a difficult time getting anything connected to the adapter to show up via xrandr. I'm told I need: (via Matthew Thode on Google+) * =x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting-0.7.0 * =x11-apps/xrandr-1.4.0

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Perhaps I shouldn't mention Konsole, of which I have four instances on one desktop. In two of them, turning the mouse wheel scrolls the output as expected, but in the other two it scrolls the command-line buffer! I

[gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Dale
I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie guy there had a interesting statement that makes me think I'm not recommending them

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Davide De Prisco
Ahahahah... Il giorno 05/lug/2013 22:13, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com ha scritto: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie guy there had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie guy there had a interesting statement that makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie guy there had a

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-07-05, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him.

[gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Joseph
I installed xscavenger and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in games group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission denied /usr/games/bin/scavenger -rwxr-x--- 1 root games 70496 Jul 5

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I installed xscavenger and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in games group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Joseph
On 07/05/13 21:45, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I installed xscavenger and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in games group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash:

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:20 -0600 Joseph wrote: I installed xscavenger and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in games group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission denied

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe /usr/games/bin/ is not on the path? How do I check it, I forgot :-/ echo $PATH

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Joseph
On 07/05/13 22:37, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe /usr/games/bin/ is not on the path? How do I check it, I forgot :-/ echo $PATH Path looks OK. /usr/games/bin is there $ echo $PATH

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Joseph
On 07/05/13 23:36, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:20 -0600 Joseph wrote: I installed xscavenger and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in games group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: