[gentoo-user] rdesktop problems 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3

2015-02-04 Thread Matthias Hanft
Hi, I'm using "net-misc/rdesktop" in order to get access to a VirtualBox (Windows) guest on a remote (also Gentoo) Linux: Windows PC with Gentoo Linux with - Gentoo Linux with Xming serverssh rdesktop programVirtualBox (Windows) >From my Windows desk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.02.2015 um 22:07 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: > >> Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often >> because some component starts dying. Sometimes cleaning the fans work >> wonders. > > Good suggestion, will check t

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Alt key behavior?

2015-02-04 Thread Bruce Schultz
On 4 February 2015 10:54:31 AM AEST, Grant wrote: >I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the >same make and model which they use to operate. I wrote a script for >this and it works great. I've run into a situation where a particular >new (used) laptop works fine but th

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 02:43:31PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > Hello list, > > This is to summarise what I did in case anyone else wants to do > something similar. > > Last May I was looking for a font that would distinguish the upper-case > letter O from the numbers 0 and 8 on a virtual TTY wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Alt key behavior?

2015-02-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:54:31PM -0800, Grant wrote > I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the > same make and model which they use to operate. I wrote a script for > this and it works great. I've run into a situation where a particular > new (used) laptop works fine b

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 09:19:20 Walter Dnes wrote: > A bit of a tangent... do you know of any font editors that will > convert a font to "double-wide"? E.g. convert 8x8 to 16x8, 8x12 to > 16x12, or 8x16 to 16x16. I think that would be a bit of a tall order, unless you're happy to accept

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Alt key behavior?

2015-02-04 Thread Grant
>>I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the >>same make and model which they use to operate. I wrote a script for >>this and it works great. I've run into a situation where a particular >>new (used) laptop works fine but the Alt+F2 shortcut to open the >>program launcher

[gentoo-user] esue -i for cpu flags

2015-02-04 Thread James
Hello So I use this syntax all the time esue -i {flagname} for lots of information. It still works with most flags as it always has (euse -i X). Lastly (since the new global CPU flag changes) it does not work for the old cpu-specific flags. Why? euse -i sse global use flags (searching: sse) **

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:33:58PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Wednesday 04 February 2015 09:19:20 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > A bit of a tangent... do you know of any font editors that will > > convert a font to "double-wide"? E.g. convert 8x8 to 16x8, 8x12 to > > 16x12, or 8x16 to 16x16. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Alt key behavior?

2015-02-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 February 2015 15:27:32 CET, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:54:31PM -0800, Grant wrote >> I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the >> same make and model which they use to operate. I wrote a script for >> this and it works great. I've run into a situ

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-04 Thread wabenbau
Am Mittwoch, 04.02.2015 um 15:33 schrieb Peter Humphrey : > >From my own experience I can only suggest terminus-font; you might > >find > an acceptable compromise there as its heights range from 12 to 32 > pixels, so I suppose its widths will range from 6 to 16. Or perhaps > some font will call

[gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3

2015-02-04 Thread walt
On 02/04/2015 01:56 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using "net-misc/rdesktop" in order to get access to a VirtualBox > (Windows) guest on a remote (also Gentoo) Linux: > > Windows PC with Gentoo Linux with - Gentoo Linux with > Xming serverssh rdesktop pr

[gentoo-user] Compiler :amd & nividia gpu ?

2015-02-04 Thread James
This is an interesting read: http://www.clustermonkey.net/Parallel-Programming/an-open-compiler-for-openacc.html And here are the compiler sources: http://web.cs.uh.edu/~openuh/download/ No, I have not testing this gpu compiler yet. James

[gentoo-user] Nvidia and Radeon video cards in the same box.

2015-02-04 Thread Linux
First question should be, can this be done? I had 2 Nvidia videos cards, running 2 monitors, with X spanning both monitors. One card died and I replaced it with a Radeon video card. Can I still span X across the two monitors? Does the make/model of the cards matter at all? If the answer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rdesktop problems 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3

2015-02-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, February 04, 2015 04:27:48 PM walt wrote: > On 02/04/2015 01:56 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using "net-misc/rdesktop" in order to get access to a VirtualBox > > (Windows) guest on a remote (also Gentoo) Linux: > > > > Windows PC with Gentoo Linux with

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Radeon video cards in the same box.

2015-02-04 Thread Mickaël Bucas
2015-02-05 4:58 GMT+01:00 Linux : > > First question should be, can this be done? > > I had 2 Nvidia videos cards, running 2 monitors, with X spanning both > monitors. > > One card died and I replaced it with a Radeon video card. Can I still span X > across the two monitors? Does the make/model