Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

* Walter Dnes wrote: > Bad news > > It's more painfull building up a collection of flv videos. The old > version used to copy Youtube videos/songs/whatever into /tmp with a > filename beginning with "Flash". Which tends to fill up disk space, if not wiped regularily ;-o > The new

[gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution

After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1280x1024. Gnome->System->Preference->Monitors Under Monitor Preferences the monitor is Unknown, Resolu

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: > After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's > all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution > is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1280x1024. > > Gnome->System->Preference->Monitors

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd segmentation fault and spamassassin will not emerge

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 14:27 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > I thought seg faults were usually hardware No segfaults are usually software or, more specifically (C) programming errors. It's when an application attempts to access a memory location that it's not assigned to.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage internals : shadow root

* Alan McKinnon wrote: > 1. Remove all traces of yast and it's bastard brethren from the SuSE box. > 2. Have three qualified sysadmins double check that you have indeed removed > every last trace of it. > 3. PREFIX=/some/stage/dir/ > 4. ./configure && make && make install No, configure with norm

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution

On 09/24/2010 07:06 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: >> After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's >> all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution >> is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution

On 09/24/10 05:38, dhk wrote: > On 09/24/2010 07:06 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: >>> After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's >>> all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution >>> is now set at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux >>> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unu

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson > wrote: > > On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: > > I haven't had any crashing or fai

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > >> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >>> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> I haven't had any cras

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On Friday 24 September 2010 10:26:54 pm Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is > not free (as in beer). Is that true? true. -- - Yohan Pereira.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On 09/24/10 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman > wrote: > > On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson >> mailto:b...@thehenderson.com>> wrote: >> >> On 09

[gentoo-user] Mystery: powertop shows "emerge" causing wake-ups, but emerge is not running.

Hi, When running powertop on an idle system, I noticed that "emerge" is in the list of items causing wake-ups. It is virtually always 8.0 wake-ups per 10 second sample (occasionally 8.1 wake-ups, maybe a result of rounding). It is always there. The puzzling bit is that emerge is not running at al

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On 09/24/10 08:11, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux >> has always been pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: >>> ... >> Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters seriously. >>>ICC is the I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... >>> >    Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? > >    I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on >    Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion abou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 21:18, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: >>> >>> When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: >>> >>> $sudo gui-admin >>> No protocol specified >>> gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 >>> >>> ( Assume gui-

[gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

On 09/23/2010 04:18 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 ( Assume gui-admin is an X program ) But (gk|kde)su(do

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On 09/24/2010 06:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller > wrote: >> >> On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: > ... >>Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? >> >>I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on >>Ubuntu l

[gentoo-user] iwl5000 firmware fails to load

Folks, I am having a fairly strange problem with my iwl5000 and the microcode. After a fresh install Gentoo install wireless works with no issues. Upon installing a set that includes xorg, Firefox, hal, VirtualBox, etc. the wireless ceases to work. Check out a snippet from my dmesg: ~ % dmesg |

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: > >>> ... > >> > Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? > > I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on > Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/23/2010 04:18 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 ( Assume gui-admin is an X pr

[gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

I have recently discovered Dropbox as an interesting thing to experiment with, not without its drawbacks, but interesting. I have it running on a work Mac laptop and an Android phone, and it is another interesting idea to put it on Linux. However, its downloads are for Fedora and Ubuntu, or a sou

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

On 24 September 2010 21:11, wrote: > So the question is ... does anyone have experience with Dropbox on > gentoo?  My system is ~amd64, running fvwm when necessary, neither KDE > nor Gnome.  I'd really like a command line program which I could run > for manual syncing. I'm using nautilus-dropbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:43:11PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > I'm using nautilus-dropbox. It's working fine, not the slightest > problem. I rarely use Nautilus, though. All access is through the CLI. > > If you don't want the daemon running all the time then don't start it > automatically. Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

On 24 September 2010 21:58, wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:43:11PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> I'm using nautilus-dropbox. It's working fine, not the slightest >> problem. I rarely use Nautilus, though. All access is through the CLI. >> >> If you don't want the daemon running all the tim