Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts, Region settings, and CD/DVD questions
Krikket wrote: First, I now have my new fresh Gentoo install up and running, with many thanks going to people here. I've set a KOI8R console font, so I can read nice cyrillic characters on file-names and stuff. I've set the 8x16 font. (I had the 8x8 font set during the initial install, until I got the gui going, so things wouldn't scoll off the screen so quickly!) But now I find that just about every font in Gentoo is *slightly* too small for me to read. Switching back from the 8x8 to 8x16 font didn't make a whit's bit of difference, so I'm assuming gnome/kde pull their fonts from somewhere besides rc.conf. Yes, XFree86 uses different fonts/mechanism. If someone could point me at the file I need to change to give me slightly larger fonts across the board, it will be extremely appreciated! Measure your display's horizontal and vertical dimensions in millimeters. Open /etc/X11/XFree86config[-4] in your favorite text editor and add this line to Section Monitor: DisplaySize horizontal-size-in-mm vertical-size-in-mm One other regional setting problem that I'm having is at some point during the istall I was asked if I wanted to enter a code for the country (region) and language. Not knowing what data it wanted, other than two two letter codes seperated by a '_', I guessed and entered 'us_us' as my default. I guessed wrong. It probably should have been 'en_us' or 'us_en' or some-such. Going over the documentation again, I can't seem to find where I stumbled across this. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I should look? If u like to see which locales are supported, run this: qpkg -l glibc | grep locale | less So u had to put en_US :-) (Otherwise, most applications attempt to start things, produce an error, and then go back to the default, which is what it should have been using in the first place...) The final problem with the install, and then I can say that my first Gentoo install is complete... CD-ROMs and CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drives. Is there a how-to somewhere out there, so I can get these devices working? My system acknowleges the CD-ROM, but won't allow a user to mount anything. If I try to su, I get more errors, but I'm getting either mount point does not exist or can't find ... in /fstab or mtab, Part of the problem, I'm sure, is that I'm not using the right mount-point, but I don't know what I should be doing here... Therefore the howto request. man mount is your friend I see, u started with linux yesterday, and all training u like to get from ML. It's not a good idea ... it'll take decades then :-) noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts, Region settings, and CD/DVD questions
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Krikket wrote: First, I now have my new fresh Gentoo install up and running, with many thanks going to people here. I've set a KOI8R console font, so I can read nice cyrillic characters on file-names and stuff. I've set the 8x16 font. (I had the 8x8 font set during the initial install, until I got the gui going, so things wouldn't scoll off the screen so quickly!) But now I find that just about every font in Gentoo is *slightly* too small for me to read. Switching back from the 8x8 to 8x16 font didn't make a whit's bit of difference, so I'm assuming gnome/kde pull their fonts from somewhere besides rc.conf. Yes, XFree86 uses different fonts/mechanism. Good to know... If someone could point me at the file I need to change to give me slightly larger fonts across the board, it will be extremely appreciated! Measure your display's horizontal and vertical dimensions in millimeters. Open /etc/X11/XFree86config[-4] in your favorite text editor and add this line to Section Monitor: DisplaySize horizontal-size-in-mm vertical-size-in-mm Thank you! Things aren't quite as myopic now, but with some tweaking, I may be able to improve things... One other regional setting problem that I'm having is at some point during the istall I was asked if I wanted to enter a code for the country (region) and language. Not knowing what data it wanted, other than two two letter codes seperated by a '_', I guessed and entered 'us_us' as my default. I guessed wrong. It probably should have been 'en_us' or 'us_en' or some-such. Going over the documentation again, I can't seem to find where I stumbled across this. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I should look? If u like to see which locales are supported, run this: qpkg -l glibc | grep locale | less So u had to put en_US :-) So I did. But what's qpkg and how do you get it? I tried an emerge and came up with bupkis, so I double-checked with the portage tree on gentoo.org, and similarly came up with nada. Any idea what file I need to edit? My system acknowleges the CD-ROM, but won't allow a user to mount anything. If I try to su, I get more errors, but I'm getting either mount point does not exist or can't find ... in /fstab or mtab, Part of the problem, I'm sure, is that I'm not using the right mount-point, but I don't know what I should be doing here... Therefore the howto request. man mount is your friend I see, u started with linux yesterday, and all training u like to get from ML. It's not a good idea ... it'll take decades then :-) Yes, man mount is your friend. I even looked there. And believe it or not, I'm not trying to get all my knowledge from this list, but when the basics fail me, I don't know where else to turn. If you have additional suggestions, I'm more willing to listen! That was even what I was (and still am) *asking* for, because I don't see anything on explaining Gentoo and CD/DVD stuff. One thing that I have learned from playing around with different linuxes is that while the man files tend to be consistant across the varients, the details sometimes change. And it's those details that are currently biting me in the ass. Trust me on this one. If I was tying to get all my data from here (or even if this was the first place I turned to) my questions would be *vastly* different. Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts, Region settings, and CD/DVD questions
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[gentoo-user] Fonts, Region settings, and CD/DVD questions
First, I now have my new fresh Gentoo install up and running, with many thanks going to people here. I've set a KOI8R console font, so I can read nice cyrillic characters on file-names and stuff. I've set the 8x16 font. (I had the 8x8 font set during the initial install, until I got the gui going, so things wouldn't scoll off the screen so quickly!) But now I find that just about every font in Gentoo is *slightly* too small for me to read. Switching back from the 8x8 to 8x16 font didn't make a whit's bit of difference, so I'm assuming gnome/kde pull their fonts from somewhere besides rc.conf. If someone could point me at the file I need to change to give me slightly larger fonts across the board, it will be extremely appreciated! One other regional setting problem that I'm having is at some point during the istall I was asked if I wanted to enter a code for the country (region) and language. Not knowing what data it wanted, other than two two letter codes seperated by a '_', I guessed and entered 'us_us' as my default. I guessed wrong. It probably should have been 'en_us' or 'us_en' or some-such. Going over the documentation again, I can't seem to find where I stumbled across this. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I should look? (Otherwise, most applications attempt to start things, produce an error, and then go back to the default, which is what it should have been using in the first place...) The final problem with the install, and then I can say that my first Gentoo install is complete... CD-ROMs and CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drives. Is there a how-to somewhere out there, so I can get these devices working? My system acknowleges the CD-ROM, but won't allow a user to mount anything. If I try to su, I get more errors, but I'm getting either mount point does not exist or can't find ... in /fstab or mtab, Part of the problem, I'm sure, is that I'm not using the right mount-point, but I don't know what I should be doing here... Therefore the howto request. Yes, I did check the site and forums for these questions, and while I'm not surprised that I didn't find answers to the first set of questions, I am a but surprised to find bupkis on the CD/DVD question... So, any suggestions, pointers, reccomendations, etc, are greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts, Region settings, and CD/DVD questions
sorry, cant help w/ the font issue, but as far as the cd-rom issues... make sure that in your /etc/fstab, you have 'user' under the options. that'll take care of not being able to mount/umount as a user acct. mount points in gentoo for IDE cd drives are '/dev/cdroms/cdrom#' www.xcdroast.org has a good deal of information about cd-burning in linux. That's the program i've always used, and it is getting to the point it's actually a nice stable and usable program. For some reason, i've always had mixed success getting scsi emulation to work the first time w/ gentoo kernelsno idea whysometimes i get it right the first time, and other times it takes some fiddling...but once it's working, it's very reliable. hope that helps some Brendan On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 23:42, Krikket wrote: First, I now have my new fresh Gentoo install up and running, with many thanks going to people here. I've set a KOI8R console font, so I can read nice cyrillic characters on file-names and stuff. I've set the 8x16 font. (I had the 8x8 font set during the initial install, until I got the gui going, so things wouldn't scoll off the screen so quickly!) But now I find that just about every font in Gentoo is *slightly* too small for me to read. Switching back from the 8x8 to 8x16 font didn't make a whit's bit of difference, so I'm assuming gnome/kde pull their fonts from somewhere besides rc.conf. If someone could point me at the file I need to change to give me slightly larger fonts across the board, it will be extremely appreciated! One other regional setting problem that I'm having is at some point during the istall I was asked if I wanted to enter a code for the country (region) and language. Not knowing what data it wanted, other than two two letter codes seperated by a '_', I guessed and entered 'us_us' as my default. I guessed wrong. It probably should have been 'en_us' or 'us_en' or some-such. Going over the documentation again, I can't seem to find where I stumbled across this. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I should look? (Otherwise, most applications attempt to start things, produce an error, and then go back to the default, which is what it should have been using in the first place...) The final problem with the install, and then I can say that my first Gentoo install is complete... CD-ROMs and CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drives. Is there a how-to somewhere out there, so I can get these devices working? My system acknowleges the CD-ROM, but won't allow a user to mount anything. If I try to su, I get more errors, but I'm getting either mount point does not exist or can't find ... in /fstab or mtab, Part of the problem, I'm sure, is that I'm not using the right mount-point, but I don't know what I should be doing here... Therefore the howto request. Yes, I did check the site and forums for these questions, and while I'm not surprised that I didn't find answers to the first set of questions, I am a but surprised to find bupkis on the CD/DVD question... So, any suggestions, pointers, reccomendations, etc, are greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brendan Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
