Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-26 Thread Dale
Vincent Launchbury wrote: On 2010/10/26 07:29PM, Dale wrote: Is starting fluxbox without kdm as easy as typing "startfluxbox" in a console as a user? Surely it can't be that easy. No, since X has to be started first. X creates windows, but just puts them all on top of each other, wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-26 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 2010/10/26 07:29PM, Dale wrote: > Is starting fluxbox without kdm as easy as typing "startfluxbox" in a > console as a user? Surely it can't be that easy. No, since X has to be started first. X creates windows, but just puts them all on top of each other, with no way to move them, and no way t

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
101026 Dale wrote: > I'm installing fluxbox, got it emerged. > I use KDE but want a back up in case a upgrade goes bad. > I want to select fluxbox in kdm when I login > but also know how to start fluxbox even if kdm doesn't work. Why not eschew Kdm altogether ? -- just use 'startx' + ~/.xinitrc :

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-26 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm installing fluxbox, got it emerged so far, and am trying to figure out a couple things. Here it is in a nutshell. I use KDE but want a back up in case a upgrade goes bad. I'm wanting to set it up so that I can select fluxbox in kdm when I login but I also want to know how to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:35 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, James did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > emerge -avuND world > > rebuild everything related to kde-base. > > Device notifier is back, but you have to click > on the icon (on the panel bar) to get it to > 'p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:24 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and > > whatever else it might be! > > > > I'm getting bad performance whe

[gentoo-user] HP Deskjet 3050 no output - no error

2010-10-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I could need some help here: I've bought an HP Deskjet 3050 USB printer/scanner. Copying works but printing doesn't. The first odd thing is that the HPLIP application (its qt4-frontend) doesn't detect the device although dmesg shows a correct identification on USB. However, the ordinary

[gentoo-user] Re: usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-26 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > emerge -avuND world rebuild everything related to kde-base. Device notifier is back, but you have to click on the icon (on the panel bar) to get it to 'pop up' the app. On all the other system it does this automatically. Device Notifier configured the same o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/26/10, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 26 October 2010 02:48:03 Dale wrote: > >> r...@smoker / # glxinfo > >> r...@smoker / # glxgears > > Would someone tell me which package has these two programs? The bit of > poking about that I've done doesn't find them. ~ $ equery belongs glxinfo [

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 October 2010 02:48:03 Dale wrote: > r...@smoker / # glxinfo > r...@smoker / # glxgears Would someone tell me which package has these two programs? The bit of poking about that I've done doesn't find them. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-26 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:03 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Roger > Cahn > did opine thusly: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to buy a laptop Asus N series, > > but could anybody tell me if its possible > > to use it with Gentoo-Linux? > > And

[gentoo-user] Photographs of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)

2010-10-26 Thread Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang E nming) 张恩鸣
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and > whatever else it might be! > > I'm getting bad performance when switching virtual dekstops and moving > windows and such.  GL screensavers seem to be ok though. Same here.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout --> openrc ?

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:39 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Dean Matzkov did opine thusly: > You're probably thinking of this: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256188 > > It's a relatively rare bug, but it is quite annoying when it does happen. > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:02 PM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:01 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Iain Buchanan did opine thusly: > On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 > > schrieb Iain Buchanan : > > > > [...] > > > > > Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affe

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:03 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Roger Cahn did opine thusly: > Hi, > > I want to buy a laptop Asus N series, > but could anybody tell me if its possible > to use it with Gentoo-Linux? > And in case of yes, if it's a good choice? > Thank you > Roger Does it hav

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout --> openrc ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dean Matzkov
You're probably thinking of this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256188 It's a relatively rare bug, but it is quite annoying when it does happen. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There are three blockers holding baselayout-2/openrc back, none of them affect > you:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 > schrieb Iain Buchanan : > > [...] > > Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... > > can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x from > > memory. Sorry

[gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-26 Thread Roger Cahn
Hi, I want to buy a laptop Asus N series, but could anybody tell me if its possible to use it with Gentoo-Linux? And in case of yes, if it's a good choice? Thank you Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth audio

2010-10-26 Thread Christian Apeltauer
Am Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:11:35 + schrieb James : > Also, the a2dp thing has me pulling my hair out. Is the *only* way to > use a2dp with pulseaudio? Is there no way to simply redirect all audio > to the bluetooth headset? > > Anyone who can toss some experience in my direction would be greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 schrieb Iain Buchanan : [...] > Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... > can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x from > memory. Sorry for being vague, I'll keep looking. Ah, I seem to remember the prob

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-26 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 09:30 +0300, Fatih Tümen wrote: > >> Looking at above values 494MB does not seem to be enough for >> hibernation. Do you add extra swap or close some apps before >> hibernation? > > Tuxonice filewriter :) > > $ ls -alh

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-26 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, over the last week or so I've noticed unusually large swap usage. I usually hibernate this laptop and have uptimes up to 12 days so apps can run for a long time. I don't usually use any swap space (except for a few k). If I swapoff and swapon, the usage falls back to

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 09:30 +0300, Fatih Tümen wrote: > Looking at above values 494MB does not seem to be enough for > hibernation. Do you add extra swap or close some apps before > hibernation? Tuxonice filewriter :) $ ls -alh /suspend_file -rw--- 1 root root 1001M May 17 12:02 /suspe