Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' as a plain user shows: $

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user still shows all settings as en_US.UTF-8 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: Oops! This is more complicated that I thought ... If, always as a plain user, I use aterm then /etc/env.d/02locale is read and LANG is en_GB.UTF-8. However, if I use xterm it is still LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Your aterm

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads You might want to read this and set up your locales properly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 June 2010 18:52:18 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, my Atheros wlan (builtin, internal intenna) is regularily loosing link. Reproducible in various different networks. At home, my wlan ap is about 2 meter away (within the room), so link quality (currently 53) shouldnt be the

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads You might want to read this and set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Swift
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:43:54 William Kenworthy wrote: Could it be your desktop overiding the basics? - gnome or kde perhaps? Also check the login manager (I use GDM and there is a language setting for the login there.) Aha! You got it! From a console both ~/.bashrc and

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Dale
David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8

[gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that direction anyway so it

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:40:53 Dale wrote: David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-26 Thread James Wall
On 6/23/2010 4:36 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:29:16 Dale wrote: By all means, use genkernel. I will, RSN. This nearly new, shiny, quad-core box is as sluggish as hell, and I want to find out why. So I'll use genkernel to install everything under the sun and see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:50:01 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: David W Noon wrote: [snip] I ditched all those /etc/env.d settings for locale, and put mine in /etc/profile.d/local.sh as follows: SNIP Something I run into

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP real    94m25.632s user    246m19.420s sys     36m19.092s c2stable ~ # Even though i have 12 processor threads you can see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the

[gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. When I enable it, everything works but several driver packages (evdev and mouse,

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 09:24 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. When I enable it, everything

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. When I enable

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-configuring devices. Well in general hal has fallen out

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 09:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:44:47AM -0500, Dale wrote For future reference, after you switch gcc, you should run env-update and source /etc/profile. Then you don't have to log out and back in again. One could argue that one is easier than the other tho. ;-) I knew I had to do a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:54:07PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote Is it time already to set -hal in make.conf and get rid of hal? Even better, put it in /etc/portage/package.mask. Here's mine... sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/hal sys-libs/pam I could simply try, yes ;-) Try it, you'll like

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird.

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:54 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is it time already to set -hal in make.conf and get rid of hal? I have some packages that still need hal.. or at least to use them the way I use them they still need hal. I don't have hal as a global use flag, but have it for

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 22:38, schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: Even better, put it in /etc/portage/package.mask. Here's mine... sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/hal sys-libs/pam I could simply try, yes ;-) Try it, you'll like it. Why? ;-) I am not as bold to do what you suggested. Added -hal to my

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 22:56, schrieb Albert Hopkins: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:54 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is it time already to set -hal in make.conf and get rid of hal? I have some packages that still need hal.. or at least to use them the way I use them they still need hal. I don't have

[gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps. For a sample, see... http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped 2 sentences from the CNN webpage. How can I fix it? 2) Back in 2000, one of the things that drove me to linux was the availability of true console text

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Swift
On 26 June 2010 22:36, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: 1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps.  For a sample, see... http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped 2 sentences from the CNN webpage.  How can I fix it? 2) Back in 2000, one of the things that drove

[gentoo-user] Hibernate script trying to bring down non-existant sit0

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
Another little glitch on my new machine. I have hibernate enabled for my regular user account via /etc/sudoers. The command fails due to an error in NetworkStop. Switching to root, and running hibernate with the verbose -v3 option, I see the following... hibernate: [60] Executing NetworkStop

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 23:48:46 Christopher Swift wrote: On 26 June 2010 22:36, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: 1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps. For a sample, see... http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped 2 sentences from the CNN webpage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate script trying to bring down non-existant sit0

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 June 2010 00:00:57 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Another little glitch on my new machine. I have hibernate enabled for my regular user account via /etc/sudoers. The command fails due to an error in NetworkStop. Switching to root, and running hibernate with the verbose -v3

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these things are related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move over to the video system Well, my KDE does so many weird things, this still might be unrelated. Similar problems are