Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. > > For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock > up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to > help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? :(

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:38 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a three year old Inspiron 6000 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon > X300 graphics. I can't get the laptop to resume from suspend or > hibernate. I have gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r3, hibernate-script and > ati-drivers-8.40.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is > there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is > module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it? > > - Grant > -- > gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > So the question is, why do I have old emacs in the main info dir and > newer emacs info in subdirs which are not easily accessible from the > info system, and what do I do to correct this? 'eselect emacs' allows you to select which version of emacs to use, and as part

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

On Montag, 25. Februar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: as Alan wrote killall is your friend. It does not need a pid. pidof can tell you the name of an app. And with strace you can look for yourself where gnome-panel hangs. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir

My /usr/share/info dir has several different versions of emacs info. In addition to the usual emacs-*.info.gz (1-36), there are two subdirs. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13269 Feb 10 2005 /usr/share/info/emacs-1.info.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14595 Feb 10 2005 /usr/share/info/emacs-36.info.gz These t

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

On Monday 25 February 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: > Finally, I'd like to just get the PID of gnome panel in a one-liner > to send to kill, if I can't get this fixed. Can anyone volunteer a > "gimme only the PID" one-liner? killall gnome-panel edit 'gnome-panel' as appropriate to make it whateve

[gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? I've adopted the strategy of kill -INT and (next time) kill -HUP (and r

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

Yahya Mohammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the suspend/hibernate process produce logs anywhere? I don't see > anything in /var/log/* In /etc/hibernate/common.conf (or one of the other config files in that directory), you need something like: LogFile /var/log/hibernate.log LogVerbosity 3

[gentoo-user] nspluginwrapper

Hello, I run seamonkey on a amd64 (64bit os). Now every time after rebooting my workstation, I have to re emerge net-www/nspluginwrapper in order to get shockwave (flash) things to work with seamonkey. This was not the case before. Could someone enlighten me as to what I need to do to fix this o

[gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

Hi list, I have a three year old Inspiron 6000 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon X300 graphics. I can't get the laptop to resume from suspend or hibernate. I have gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r3, hibernate-script and ati-drivers-8.40.4 installed. Both hibernate and suspend used to work a long time ago, b