Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Tero Grundström
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Pingveno wrote: Bit of a pet peeve here: making things look easier than they really are. I do quite a bit of emerging of packages that aren't stable yet. I have an installation of PHP 5 that, if upgraded from its current version (mod_php-5.0.3-r1) would cause an update of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread Tero Grundström
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: 050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 2:12 am, Philip Webb said: i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system i rely on a home-made list of packages i've installed, What is the world file if not a home made

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do you think so? And how

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which facilitates the role of Low latency desktop in the 2.6 kernels. A parameter can be set to 1000 [default] and can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, marcin wrote: If by Low latency desktop you mean Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) then i have tried this and it doesn't help. I set the kernel timer frequency to 100 Hz. There are other things that affect the latencies too. One is the timer frequency setting. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 17:41, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: are you sure? AFAIR 250 is default since som time. No, 1000 has always been the default for 2.6. kernels. not anymore! unpacked a 2.6.16

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 19:20, Tero Grundström wrote: Anyways, 1000Hz is still the preferred setting for desktop (according to menuconfig and CK). That is of course only if you don't have problems. yeah, but 250 is not worse in 'responsiveness

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 23:21, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I went 250Hz a long time ago, and it did not hurt me in any way. But I am also only using vanilla kernels without patches ;) Whether its

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing installation of evolution and others

2005-06-29 Thread Tero Grundström
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: That's it. The only major applications that I can think of that are installed by gnome and not by gnome-light which would remain on the system as orphans are Totem (and it's gstreamer or xine dependencies), and possibly beagle, if that's installed. If

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting anymore

2005-07-04 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Fernando Canizo wrote: Hi all, i just upgrade my system yesterday and now i can't startx, here's what it says: [SNIP] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.99.13 (/usr/lib/modules/libfb.a) ^ How can i get back to my old version of xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 ? Hmm...

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging old kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Tero Grundström
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Peng wrote: Could it be possible to mask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.5 to block all 2.6 kernels but no 2.4s? That works and you'll also get the updates to the 2.4.x kernel with 'emerge -u world'. -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS setting for 3D Rage Pro

2005-07-15 Thread Tero Grundström
Hello, I also have this video card. On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Converting my last FC machine to Gentoo since it didn't survive an FC2 to FC4 upgrade. Questions: 1) Is the VIDEO_CARDS= setting in /etc/make.conf still considered the right way to configure a new machine for a

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Mauro Faccenda wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might

Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

2005-07-18 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp I've noticed that libgsf has jumping versions. That is one week it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does anybody know what might

Re: [gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

2005-07-19 Thread Tero Grundström
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is, you know in gnome-terminal you can select whether to use system terminal font, what font is this? it seems to be the issue. I *could* simply increase the font size in all affected apps but I shouldnt have to do that. It is your

Re: [gentoo-user] 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler; 2.) kdebase-3.4.1-r1 failed

2005-07-21 Thread Tero Grundström
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Joseph wrote: I wasn't thinking about masking KDE but gcc-3.4.1 on AMD64 platform and make stable 3.3 version. I run onto one posting claiming that there is some kind of bug in gcc-3.4.1 (and this version is the only stable version on AMD64. I think that if you use

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: I've gotta say, I'm getting tired of upgrading them (I saw the upgrade to 1.0.6 two days ago, but waited; there was an upgrade to 1.0.6-r1, which I took yesterday afternoon, and today I have to upgrade to 1.0.6-r2). I'm getting tired of it too. I

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Tero Grundström schreef: In any case, I'm not having any problems with firefox or tbird 1.0.6-r1 That's the real paradox here. I don't remember when was the last time I had a problem with ff (actually I use only Galeon these days, compiled against

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Benno Schulenberg schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: I understand heavy development, but three upgrades in three days is a bit much even for me Come on, Holly, when you're running unstable (~x86), you've got to be ready to take frequent updates. Or,

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: In this case, syncing less often wasn't an issue-- the reason I had to upgrade to 1.0.6 was due to a GLSA. I don't find any GLSA on firefox-1.0.6. Even the official firefox release notes doesn't list any

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: You don't have to insult me with a strong implication that I'm stupid or something-- certainly over an issue that neither of us control (Portage), and certainly not over behaviour that I have clearly documented my experience of. Geez. Holly I should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On Jul 24 15:46, Mark Shields (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: Any ideas? All the comments about enabling 4G highmem are correct - the kernel can't address a full gig without it. However, enabling this slightly slows down your memory, and

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK fonts

2005-08-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, rodrigo ahumada wrote: El Sáb 06 Ago 2005 22:40, Dave S escribió: How do I keep my wonderful smooth GTK fonts ? emerge gtk-theme-switch Or emerge gtk-chtheme, which is abit better IMO. -- T.G.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: I could then end my emerge (eclipse). After the emerge I end-up with 805Mb free. In fact, I have a 38GB disk on my laptop. My mistake was that I assumed that gentoo was not so space-consuming. Now I'll have to make some modifications, redo my

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi Tero, what I meant with redo my partitions was in the way that I will expand my gentoo partition (or try to). I have: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83% / ^^ *might* be enough for a minimal system, but

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:45:36 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundstr_m wrote: udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev ^^ Why a separate partition for /dev? This is complete waste. Especially with that size. udev is a virtual filesystem, it's using 808K of memory, not 252M

RE: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Tero Grundstrm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2005 08:46 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa RTC and extending swap space

2005-08-25 Thread Tero Grundström
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:59:53 + krgn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Has anyone experience with the Alsa RTC-module and how install it? Isn't this included in the latest in-kernel alsa? At least I see an option for 'RTC Timer support' under the alsa submenu of 2.6.13-rc7. I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-28 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:05:23 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some more reading, I decided to emerge Firefox and Thunderbird anyway... It installs fine, except it's really annoying that mousing over a menu selection turns the colors white on white... (developer's joke,

Re: [gentoo-user] 10 finger typing trainer in portage?

2006-07-01 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, krgn wrote: Hello, I am looking for a programm that I can practice 10 finger typing for gentoo/linux. Does anyone have a recommendation, or is there even one in portage? Does it make sense what I would like to say? I know only one - gtypist. It's a console program. I've