Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-02-06 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Maybe the users who want to see a progressbar just want Gentoo for the speed and they don't want to get intimidated with all those messages they do not understand. Then a progressbar is much better: they have an indication of when it will be finished even if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-02-04 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Neil Bothwick wrote: Like this? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42346highlight=emergeprogresssid=3c66f1e0ff64d1c988e565486c467cae I used it for a while and it provided useful feedback of the progress of lengthy compiles, but it also caused problems with a number of packages so

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-02-04 Thread Tommi Pirinen
gabriel wrote: On February 4, 2004 09:28 am, Tommi Pirinen wrote: Any chance for some devs consider adding this kind of functionality to the main tree? there's no need to add this to the main tree. one of the really great things about gentoo is the fact that it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-02-03 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Nathaniel McCallum wrote: The problem is largely technical. There is no "set period of time" that it takes to compile something... In fact, it varies widely based upon USE flags. On top of that, it also varies with every version (and every re-version). To acurately gauge a percentange,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1

2004-02-02 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: IMHO, it is really VIA + nvidia problem, I met it on VIA chipset boards too (see my previous [EMAIL PROTECTED] ML) What chipsets u have on mainboard/VGA ? I have 2 bugdet computers, the older one is using VIA KT333 and newer has KT400, both have a GeForce 2MX400. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-02-01 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Troy Dack wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:36, Tommi Pirinen wrote: So how did you install Gentoo? How does installation process have to do with anything? I suppose I booted it from the disc and made the settings and emerged the packages I want. It is obvious

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1

2004-02-01 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Sean Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 18:42, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: I can't really say what causes this, because when i launch X, everuthing is ok, it only happens after some time, probably has something to dio with the apps i run under X - not sure, haven't been poking into

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-01-31 Thread Tommi Pirinen
gabriel wrote: 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. it's not garbage. it's output. Yeah, except it's not even output, it's mostly input. The command lines of the compilers

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??

2004-01-31 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hi, On Saturday 31 January 2004 20:30, Jerry McBride wrote: 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. Well, I had some severe problems the last days

[gentoo-user] OT: Keyboard layouts (was: Re: [gentoo-user] The irony of kernel development)

2004-01-26 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If you think 2.6.x kernels are stable, try using an unpatched 2.6.1 kernel with a GB or Japanese (or possibly German) keyboard. Actually, almost any non-english keyboard is affected somehow. Such as non-US keyboards being totally broken, you mean? :) (If anyone cares,

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia performance so bad...

2004-01-25 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Sensei wrote: Redeeman wrote: I gave it a try... but nothing happens... always ~5 fps. Moreover... those packages are just the same package from the nvidia official site, with a patch for via chipsets --- maybe the 4x patch ;) Nothing... :( With this lousy gpu I should reach 30~50 fps when

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4 starting at level 3

2004-01-23 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Kurt Guenther wrote: My inittab is set to just come up as level 3, so I don't incure the overhead of an X session that I don't use. However, after the latest sync, the system boots into a beautiful Gentoo Login screen. How do I switch levels on this? --Kurt Gentoo doesn't use numbered

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-20 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Andrew Farmer wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:46:55 -0800, Aaron Walker muttered: Andrej Kacian wrote: Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? I assume there will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-19 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Andrej Kacian wrote: Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? I assume there will be separate package for each unicode character class (latin-a, latin-b, hebrew, ...). emerge --search font Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-19 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Andrej Kacian wrote: I tried that in the first place. Nor unicode neither efont-unicode helped. I also tried some others, but to no avail. (That's why I'm asking here) Humm... I don't think I've emerged anything special and my gucharmap shows most of the characters just fine (except

[gentoo-user] Font problem: unicode IPA block corrupted by Nimbus Sans L

2004-01-16 Thread Tommi Pirinen
I have this persisting problem with incorrect glyphs being rendered in stead of the most of the IPA character block of unicode. According to gucharmap utility these wrong glyphs are contained in font called Nimbus Sans L, which doesn't even seem to exist in any of the common font-directories.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.2 font size

2003-02-11 Thread Tommi Pirinen
Exactly the same problem. I wasn't sure where it came from, because I had mass update recently, but main point is that many of config files seemed to have trivial font-style increases by one pt. I thought it was related to some change in fonthandling, but it seems it was to actuallu increase font

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.2 font size

2003-02-11 Thread Tommi Pirinen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:03:58 +0100 Henk Abma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:19:42PM +0200, Tommi Pirinen wrote: What config files do you mean? where did you change something? If I change the point size in gnome from 14 to 12 where possible, things get slightly better