Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 21:26:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > On Saturday 17 October 2009 20:58:00 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Richard Marza wrote: > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Kevin O'Gorman > *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:58 PM > *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 20:58:00 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Modifying the monitor section made no noticeable change. There's still a > > 24-pixel bleed off the right edge to begin with. I can fool with >

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Richard Marza wrote: > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Kevin O'Gorman > *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > *Sent:* Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:42 PM > *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Samstag 17 Oktober 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I normally stay logged in forever, even after updates. I'm both busy and > > lazy. However, the Xorg flurry seemed t

Re: [gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 19:21:46 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > > My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no > modeline. > > I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1

[gentoo-user] Desperately seeking modelines; xorg 1.6.3.901-r2 bleeds off the edges

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no modeline. I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1024 resolution. Do I need to go back to the days of modlines? Xorg.conf is attached. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD xorg.conf Descripti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Large update blocked

2009-10-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
nality is taken over by eselect itself. > > I had the same thing a while back. The above is correct. Remove > eselect-news as the functionality is now in eselect. > > The sleep deprivation must have been worse than I thought. I was interpreting 'world' as if it were 'system'. My bad. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Large update blocked

2009-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
his update? Details below. ++ kevin [blocks B ] app-admin/eselect-news ("app-admin/eselect-news" is blocking app-admin/eselect-1.2.3) Total: 61 packages (56 upgrades, 5 new), Size of downloads: 41,445 kB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains p

Re: [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess

2009-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
gt; > You (and anyone else, actually) might also want to add > > Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > to the Section "InputDevice" of your keyboard. This will reenable > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for killing X. > > This is interesting, and I'd like to try it, but my xorg.conf does not have an "InputDevice" section, or anything specific about keyboards or mice. How should I add this safely? ++ kevin > For me, X started to work again after removing ~/.Xauthority. > > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag 13 September 2009 13:04:37 schrieb Arttu V.: > > On 9/13/09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 09/13/2009 01:48 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm just trying kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 and having the same trouble I had > with 2.56.30-r4, so now I need to ask if I'm alone in this. > > I copied my .config from my 2.6.28-gentoo-r5, did "make oldconfig&q

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
100 (rev 0d) 07:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0d) The 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 kernel does not bring them up, and a manual attempt to do so in /etc/init.d errors out with a claim the interfaces do not exist. Anybody else seen this or can give guidance? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot

2009-08-20 Thread Kevin Haddock
,nodev) -Kevin - People originally thought the eternal question was: "Why am I here?" But now we know the question is actually: "Why is THAT THERE?" -Me --- On Wed, 8/19/09, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > From: Mike Kazantsev > Subject: Re: [gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot

2009-08-19 Thread Kevin Haddock
: --- On Sat, 8/8/09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > From: Volker Armin Hemmann > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 2:19 PM > On Samstag 08 August 2009, Kevin > Haddock wrote: > > For the life of m

Re: [gentoo-user] When will the ~ go from Firefox 3.0.12?

2009-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
13 is the latest (with security updates). Or 3.5.2... > Maybe, but 3.0.11 is the latest stable on x86. The OP's question is a good one, still awaiting an answer. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] fixing raid1 /boot

2009-08-08 Thread Kevin Haddock
tware-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-4.html But I can't figure out what package ckraid is in. Equery belongs is not help and searching gentoo-portage.com returns nothing. Does anyone know of some gentoo specific instructions in this regard? Thanks in advance, -Kevin - People originally thought the e

Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Haddock
I changed the permissions on my machine. On the remote machine, it shouldn't need root permissions just to compile programs, right? -Kevin - People originally thought the eternal question was: "Why am I here?" But now we know the question is actually: &qu

Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Haddock
--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Galevsky wrote: > From: Galevsky > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 1:09 PM > 2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock : > > hmmm... ok, I can see that, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Haddock
hmmm... ok, I can see that, but if I use sudo, will distcc try to distribute the compile jobs logging in as my unprivileged user, or will it try doing it as root (on the other machine)? -Kevin - People originally thought the eternal question was: "Why am I here?" But n

Re: [gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Haddock
I tried adding myself to that (and logging out and back in) and it didn't make any difference. -Kevin - People originally thought the eternal question was: "Why am I here?" But now we know the question is actually: "Why is THAT THERE?" -Me --- On

[gentoo-user] installing/upgrading with emerge from non-root

2009-08-05 Thread Kevin Haddock
superuser access is required. Is there any way to do this? -Kevin - People originally thought the eternal question was: "Why am I here?" But now we know the question is actually: "Why is THAT THERE?" -Me

[gentoo-user] glxinfo not found

2009-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The Gentoo page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml calls for the use of a utility called glxinfo. It does not exist on my system, and I have been unable to determine what needs to be emerged for it to appear. Anybody who has it, please tell me what package it belongs to. TIA ++ kevin

[gentoo-user] Mach64 and opengl (was: portage and library troubles with GL)

2009-08-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Arttu V. wrote: >> On 8/2/09, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> checking for GL/glu.h... yes >>> checking for glVertex3d in -lGLcore... no >> >> Starting from here,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 8/2/09, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> checking for GL/glu.h... yes >> checking for glVertex3d in -lGLcore... no > > Starting from here, libGLcore.so on my current desktop system belongs > to nvidia-drivers: > > lrw

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 02 August 2009 01:31:14 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> I've been tr

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Kenneth Prugh wrote: >> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:19:52 -0700 >> "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: >> >>> [...] >> >> Are the packages looking for a .la file

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Kenneth Prugh wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:19:52 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> [...] > > Are the packages looking for a .la file? I had a problem on my system > that it wanted a nonexistant opengl.la or something simi

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 01 August 2009 23:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I've been trying to get a few recalcitrant packages to build >> (evolution-data-server, openoffice) but they seem to require things >> that my sy

[gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
* remove temporary files, and try again. * (you can edit package/ebuild list first) * * To remove temporary files, please run: * rm /var/cache/revdep-rebuild/*.rr treat ~ # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cannot emerge libgksu: lacks XML::Parser

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:51 PM, ABCD wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I've got portage's dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36, but nevertheless several >> packages have started to fail during emerge for lack of Perl's >> XML::Parser. >> Even the simple s

[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge libgksu: lacks XML::Parser

2009-07-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/x11-libs/libgksu-2.0.9/temp/environment'. * >>> Failed to emerge x11-libs/libgksu-2.0.9, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/libgksu-2.0.9/temp/build.log' -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Torsten Veller wrote: > * Kevin O'Gorman : >> Errno architecture (i686-linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-kosmanor) does not >> match executable architecture >> (i686-linux-thread-multi-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor) at >> /usr/lib/perl5/

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > More info: > Even though the perl and libperl emerges seemed to go okay, they also > fail on startup, with pretty much the same complaint about this > Errno.pm file.  On looking at that file, I see that it says it's >

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
;s no hint what I have to do to regenerate it. I'll try a few things, but I could really use some expert help at this point. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/www-apache/mod_perl-2.0.4-r1/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/www-apache/mod_perl-2.0.4-r1/temp/environment'. * -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, >> folks. > > Works for me. ;-) > > But its true that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, walt wrote: > On 07/10/2009 01:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> On  9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> >>> I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at >>> least one package got past my vers

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/policy/x11-input.fdi > > here: > > > > > hal-setup-keymap >  microsoft >  xorg >  en_US >  en_US >  microsoft >  xorg > > > >  evdev >  7 > 6 >  5 > 4 >  8 >  4 5 >  30 >  true > > > > > > Very import when upgrading to 1.6.* > re-emerge everything that is installed from x11-drivers/* > > Now, you should have the best X11 ever (note, I'm using the > bleeding-edge stuff (unstable isn't the wright word) > i.e. I have > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"   (or ~x86 on a 32 bits machine) > > Helmut. Please also describe your keyboard and mouse. I suspect mine are different, and I am not at all sure how to adjust the setup for my hardware. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 090709 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: >>>> If all else fails: >>>> x11-base/xorg-server  -hal >>> Is there any other advice? >> A new HAL made no d

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Keith Dart wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:03:20 +0100 >>> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The elog messag

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
_SYSTEM="save mail" FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch" And I had been thinking that the "buildpkg" was going to make reversion a lot easier, except that I've never actually installed one of these puppies. Mind, I only tried once. I've got about 4 GB of packages at the moment. :o) ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:03:36 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at >> least one package got past my version limits and X broke.  Rather

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ing evdev, but not compiling xorg for HAL. I'm not sure how that works out in detail, because hald is still running and the "hal" use flag is in use everywhere but xorg-server. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> James wrote: >>> >>>> Kevin O'Gorman gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> James wrote: >>> Kevin O'Gorman gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> 'emerge -e1 world' did the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale wrote: > James wrote: >> Kevin O'Gorman gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> >>>> 'emerge -e1 world' did the trick >>>> >> >> >>> Okay, I was hoping for variable mileage, but mayb

[gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
"RenderAccel" # [] Identifier "Card0" Driver "mach64" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "Rage XL" BusID "PCI:7:1:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier &

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Synopsis: great progress made -- further progress will be in a different thread related to keyboard and mouse On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 19:15:29 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > >> dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libgl

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:24:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> >> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or >> >> directory >> > >> > You don't have xdm installed, ha

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:09:18 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory >> &

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:09:18 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory > > You don't have xdm installed, have you checked /etc/conf.d/xdm? > I do

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I'm not getting anywhere with X, and the scripts themselves seem to be >> screwed up. >> I've re-emerged x11-apps/xinit to no avail, and I'm curren

[gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
oad module "dri" (loader failed, 7) (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. treat X11 # exit Script done on Wed 08 Jul 2009 09:46:21 AM PDT -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] xdm wont start

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Jul 2009 09:00:53 AM PDT -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Synopsis: This host is running kdm. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul >> >> Hartman wrote: [ snip snip ] >> > Hi, >> > >> > You haven&#

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Alexander wrote: > On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: >> >> > I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able >> > to shut

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul >> Hartman wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>>> I'm having tro

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able >> to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. >> >> What is

[gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. What is the gentoo way to do that? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] xterm man page has broken link to X

2009-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
issue of how to find X docs. My intent is casual; I don't have time to become expert in it, so I'm hoping for fairly quick usage info. Does such exist? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:24:35 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own >> mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. >> Message follows: >

[gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
module 'gentoo-portage' rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1504) [receiver=3.0.5] --- ** April 21, 2009 ... And so on -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I tried that Adobe site in FF on gentoo and ubuntu with the same >> non-result.  On Vista, I tried FF, Opera, Safari and IE 8, with varied >> forms of failure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 06/15/2009 03:30 PM, Mick wrote: >>> >>> 2009/6/15 Florian Philipp: >>>> >>>> Mick schrieb: >>>>> >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
lback like this: > > width="PIXELS"> >     > > > > I tried that Adobe site in FF on gentoo and ubuntu with the same non-result. On Vista, I tried FF, Opera, Safari and IE 8, with varied forms of failure. Interestingly, Opera at least offered to start inkscape to view the image, which succeeded. The text on that image suggested it's specific to an adobe plugin -- which it plugs of course. Does somebody have a web page with SVGs that normal browsers with non-proprietary plugins/viewers _can_ view? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
; run the eselect to repoint it yet, it will be set to >> /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so). >> >> >> >> Can you tell me what package owns those files?  I'm not having any >> luck looking them up on my system. > > Sorry Kevin, I wasn&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >>> > DRI requires kernel support - Device Drivers -> Graphics -> >>> Direct Rendering Manager, and you'll want to select the >>> corr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ions/libglx.so). > >> > Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'? >> > >> there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11.  xorg-x11 is selected. > > If you're using flgrx you want 'eselect opengl set ati', but again I thought > 2D

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> >>> Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'? >>> >> >> there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11.  xorg-x11 is selected. > > That mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ATI support under that. That's always been there, as modules. If I modprobe for r128, it gets loaded along with module "drm". It makes no difference to the startx behavior. > > Re: glx, what happens if you run 'eselect opengl list'? > there are two listed, ati and xorg-x11. xorg-x11 is selected. > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Adam Carter >> wrote: >>>> >>>> RESULTS: fglrx loads, but does not see the adapter.  There's also a >>>> p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 May 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> In make.config, I changed to >>  VIDEO_CARDS="r128 vga fbdev vesa" >> and recompiled xorg-server. > [snip...] > >> Now when I try "startx&q

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
it asking for this module if it didn't build with it? And I likewise do not know why it's trying to load "glx" or "ati". equery could not tell me what owns libglx. I could not remember how to use portageq, and the --help message did not help much. Nevertheless, it looks like I'm closer because it now sees a screen. Any more clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cannot install emacs/emacs-cvs with X use

2009-05-24 Thread Kevin
I've downgrade sandbox & it works, thanks both of you. On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Zsitvai János wrote: > Kevin wrote: >> and here it is emerge --info: >> http://dpaste.com/hold/47084/ > > According to http://bugs.gentoo.org/267053, downgrading sandbox to ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Summary: still hosed, and I'm still confused, and Xorg is having trouble seeing the video adapter and with loading the mouse driver. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> Getting desperate >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
dication except for a hard hang with nothing logged (which implies > its the filesystem so no log is written) when running on 2.6.29 for a > few hours. > > BillK > > > On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 16:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark K

[gentoo-user] cannot install emacs/emacs-cvs with X use

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin
Hello, after reinstall my system, I can emerge neither emacs nor emacs-cvs successfully on my gentoo. when proceeded to the working fork check, it stops and hangs over, never go ahead. build.log: http://dpaste.com/hold/47083/ and here it is emerge --info: http://dpaste.com/hold/47084/ I can on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> David Relson wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 >>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> >>>> Summary: X is hosed.

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Summary: X is hosed. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Kevin O'Gorman writes: >> >>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> >>> &g

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman writes: > >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > >> > I thank you for the expert advice.  I'm doing the emerge now, but even >> > if it succeeds, I

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes: >> >>> On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't comp

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > >> On Freitag 22 Mai 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 won't compile due to a file conflict, >> > but portageq does not see it. > >

[gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for collisions. Anybody know how to work around this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Kevin Coetzee
Ric de France wrote: 2009/5/19 Kevin Coetzee mailto:kdcoet...@gmail.com>> Adam Carter wrote: The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a *negative*

Re: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-18 Thread Kevin Coetzee
t, so this stops their use. example, I use openbox , so don't need gnome or kde support. -- Kevin Coetzee kevin.blogs.uls.co.za

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I mask to go back to xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
required by "world" [argument]) >> >> How do I get passed (sp?) this? >> > > You need to mask the most recent intel drivers > (x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel) > You may also want other stuff. To stop xorg-server-1.5 I had to add >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-joystick-1.3.1 >=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 But there are still some 72 packages that want to emerge, a lot of them from x11-drivers; and I'm still too nervous about this to let it proceed. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders

2009-04-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
overy so I don't have to reboot or restart anything. But I've always wondered why that was an issue -- a major pain whenever the thing gets unplugged. Apparently it's now fixed for Linux at least. I'm gland. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) >>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html >> >> Yes they're easy.  My question

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in >> browsers.  Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see >> the font

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
dings", for example. The situation is the same on systems that DO have a Symbol font, including my Windows Vista. I changed the page to use font-family and included my Gentoo box's OpenSymbol. No joy. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
have access to that machine to check out configurations. I have a very simple HTML example at http://www.kosmanor.com/~kevin/symbol.html. By rights it should show "The quick brown fox" transliterated into greek letters. On most browsers set up for English, it seems to come out in lat

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

2009-03-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t the libtool > home page[1]?  There's a crapload of information there, including to the > answer to the mystery behind the missing ltconfig. > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ Thanks. This is helpful no matter what it sounds like. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

2009-03-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:19:19 -0800 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> I'm trying to learn about libtool for the New Riders book "GNU >> Attoconf, Automake and libtool", and I'm stymied ea

[gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

2009-03-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
but one of them in /usr/share/libtool, but no ltconfig. I'm in a similar fix on Ubunu, the only other Linux I have at home. Can anyone enlighten me? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Naga wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2009 00:59:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I've got a low-use CGI script on my web server. Aside from web >> crawlers, I usually see at most a few hits a week from >> people who share my hobby. >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> "Kevin O'Gorman" writes: >> >>> I don't get much help from the logs. The access log shows that the >>> request got an err

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Kevin O'Gorman" writes: > >> I don't get much help from the logs. The access log shows that the >> request got an error code, >> 64.166.164.49 - - [15/Feb/2009:15:46:32 -0800] "GET /hex-b

[gentoo-user] Eeek: Apache2 lost it's CGI ability

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
e error log says is: [Sun Feb 15 15:46:32 2009] [error] [client 64.166.164.49] Premature end of script headers: board Any idea how to debug this, or any intuitions about what I neglected to do? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bash completion problem: can anyone confirm?

2009-01-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have to do something like that, I pepper all of the rc scripts with lines like [ -e /etc/conf.d/DEBUG ] && echo "~$USER/.bashrc: \$-='$-'"\ (modify according to what info you want and what script it's in) then touch or rm the file /etc/conf.d/DEBUG. Don't forget to include system scripts like /etc/profile and anything else mentioned in the man page (INVOCATION section). HTH -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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