Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 17 Apr 2016 23:00:45 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > PS what does 'tl;dr' mean ? -- I've seen it in other msgs. > > To long; didn't read. I'm fairly sure that is it. Actually, too long; didn't read. > Dale > > :-) :-) :-) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-17 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > PS what does 'tl;dr' mean ? -- I've seen it in other msgs. To long; didn't read. I'm fairly sure that is it. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
160417 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 03:30:15 schrieb Philip Webb: >> So another question arises : >> has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group > no it hasn't in the past, but with 3d acceleration creeping in everywhere. The puzzle for me is that I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-17 Thread Andreas K. Hüttel
Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 03:30:15 schrieb Philip Webb: :) > So another question arises : > has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group no it hasn't in the past, but with 3d acceleration creeping in everywhere... > If the latter, how are users supposed to know re such matt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-16 Thread Mick
On Saturday 16 Apr 2016 21:30:15 Philip Webb wrote: > So another question arises : > has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group > -- in which case, I must have made a mistake somewhere, > perhaps when I installed in my new box 1510xx -- or is it a recent change ? > If the latt

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
160417 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Libreoffice started using the OpenGL system much more > over the last releases. > * Check if "eselect opengl list" settings make sense Yes : root:500 ~> eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia * [2] xorg-x11 > * Check if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
160416 Philip Webb wrote: >> * Check if your user is in the video group > No, it wasn't & of course when I added it, both problems were solved ! I've checked /etc from my previous machine (now stand-by) & my user was in the video group there, so the question becomes : was 'group' created by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

2016-04-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 01:14:19 schrieb Philip Webb: > > LO 5.0.5.2 open the file okay for me, > > but I can't easily test the higher versions at the moment. > > Have you tried running localc from an xterm window > > to look for error messages?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
160416 walt wrote: >> 160416 Philip Webb wrote: >> I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using >> LibreOffice. I've put the original file up at >> http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx >> It should show a table of ridership figures for the Toronto transit s

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

2016-04-16 Thread walt
On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:57:45 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using > LibreOffice. I've put the original file up at > http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx > It should show a table of ridership figures for the Toronto transi