Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: > Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: > > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: > > > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' > > as a plain user shows: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: > > Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: > > > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: > > > > > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undes

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: > > I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain > > user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? > > > > I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user > > still shows all settings as "en_U

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > Oops! This is more complicated that I thought ... > > > > If, always as a plain user, I use aterm then /etc/env.d/02locale is > > read and LANG is en_GB.UTF-8. However, if I use xterm it is still > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads At least I thought so, what else could be the cause. But I just emerged aterm, and the default is also to be not a login shell. There is a -ls option for this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads > You might want to read this and set up your locales properly. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 25 June 2010 18:52:18 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > my Atheros wlan (builtin, internal intenna) is regularily > loosing link. Reproducible in various different networks. > At home, my wlan ap is about 2 meter away (within the room), > so link quality (currently 53) shouldnt be

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads > > You might want to read this an

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Mick writes: > > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login she

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="C" > LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ADD

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Swift
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Mick writes: > > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login she

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:43:54 William Kenworthy wrote: > Could it be your desktop overiding the basics? - gnome or kde perhaps? > Also check the login manager (I use GDM and there is a language setting > for the login there.) Aha! You got it! From a console both ~/.bashrc and /etc/env.d/02l

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] >Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: > >LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" >LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" >LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" >LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" >LC_COLLATE="C" >LC

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Dale
David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8

[gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that direction anyway so it

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > It's weird. > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts > heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until > it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downw

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels > or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this > in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that dire

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's weird. > > > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > starts > > heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until > > it

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:40:53 Dale wrote: > David W Noon wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] > > Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: > > > > [snip] > > > >> Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: > >> > >> LANG="en_G

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > It's weird. > > > > > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > > > > starts > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-26 Thread James Wall
On 6/23/2010 4:36 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:29:16 Dale wrote: By all means, use genkernel. I will, RSN. This nearly new, shiny, quad-core box is as sluggish as hell, and I want to find out why. So I'll use genkernel to install everything under the sun and see if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:50:01 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: >David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> I ditched all those /etc/env.d settings for locale, and put mine >> in /etc/profile.d/local.sh as follows: >> ><< SNIP >> > >Something I run

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> real    94m25.632s >> user    246m19.420s >> sys     36m19.092s >> c2stable ~ # >> >> Even though i have 12 processor threads you can see the effectivity is >> more like 3 or 4 1 ov

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It's weird. Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it

[gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. When I enable it, everything works but several driver packages (evdev and mouse,

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 09:24 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. When I enable it, everything wor

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the > x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin > a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. > When I enab

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and > configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal > to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-configuring devices. > Well in general hal has fallen

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 09:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-confi

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:44:47AM -0500, Dale wrote > For future reference, after you switch gcc, you should run env-update > and source /etc/profile. Then you don't have to log out and back in > again. One could argue that one is easier than the other tho. ;-) I knew I had to do a coup

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:54:07PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote > Is it time already to set "-hal" in make.conf and get rid of hal? Even better, put it in /etc/portage/package.mask. Here's mine... sys-apps/dbus sys-apps/hal sys-libs/pam > I could simply try, yes ;-) Try it, you'll li

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > It's weird. > > > > > > > > Sometimes, but not always,

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:54 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Is it time already to set "-hal" in make.conf and get rid of hal? I have some packages that still need hal.. or at least to use them the way I use them they still need hal. I don't have hal as a global use flag, but have it for indi

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 22:38, schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: > Even better, put it in /etc/portage/package.mask. Here's mine... > > sys-apps/dbus > sys-apps/hal > sys-libs/pam > >> I could simply try, yes ;-) > > Try it, you'll like it. Why? ;-) I am not as bold to do what you suggested. Added "-

Re: [gentoo-user] XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.06.2010 22:56, schrieb Albert Hopkins: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:54 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Is it time already to set "-hal" in make.conf and get rid of hal? > > I have some packages that still need hal.. or at least to use them the > way I use them they still need hal. I don

[gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps. For a sample, see... http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped 2 sentences from the CNN webpage. How can I fix it? 2) Back in 2000, one of the things that drove me to linux was the availability of true console text mod

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Swift
On 26 June 2010 22:36, wrote: > 1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps.  For a sample, see... > http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped > 2 sentences from the CNN webpage.  How can I fix it? > > 2) Back in 2000, one of the things that drove me to linux was

[gentoo-user] Hibernate script trying to bring down non-existant "sit0"

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
Another little glitch on my new machine. I have hibernate enabled for my regular user account via /etc/sudoers. The command fails due to an error in NetworkStop. Switching to root, and running hibernate with the verbose "-v3" option, I see the following... hibernate: [60] Executing NetworkSto

Re: [gentoo-user] X Windows setup questions on my new machine

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 23:48:46 Christopher Swift wrote: > On 26 June 2010 22:36, wrote: > > 1) Text sucks on webpages, and other GUI apps. For a sample, see... > > http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/webtext.png where I snipped > > 2 sentences from the CNN webpage. How can I fix it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate script trying to bring down non-existant "sit0"

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 June 2010 00:00:57 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > Another little glitch on my new machine. I have hibernate enabled for > my regular user account via /etc/sudoers. The command fails due to an > error in NetworkStop. Switching to root, and running hibernate with the > verbose "-v3"

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these > > things are related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move > > over to the video system Well, my KDE does so many weird things, this still might be unrelated. Similar problems a

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate script trying to bring down non-existant "sit0"

2010-06-26 Thread waltdnes
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:21:06AM +0100, Mick wrote > Check again using 'iconfig -a'. > > You should see a IPv6-in-IPv4 interface there. Normally, this would > not be up unless you have set up some fancy tunnel with your ISP > who would be terminating your IPv6 link. My ISP offers this but > h

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-26 Thread Nagatoro
On Saturday 26 June 2010 14.35.28 Mick wrote: > On Friday 25 June 2010 18:52:18 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > my Atheros wlan (builtin, internal intenna) is regularily > > loosing link. Reproducible in various different networks. > > At home, my wlan ap is about 2 meter away (wi