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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Duane Malcolm said:
> Hi,

Hi Duane, I'll try and answer the few I think I know.  ;)

> Just because Jeremy isn't commenting on the silence I have a few query.
> Most of them problems I've put up with for a while but is any one
> answers at their finger tip I would be appreciative.
>
> I have just got a P3 laptop and I installed Sourcemage quite easily, it
> was the smoothest install I've ever had. Thought recently I have run
> into a few minor issues.

That's great!  I agree, I think SMGL has the easiest install out there. 
We just need to clean up a few dependencies to have an easier install of
extra apps (which, of course, I forgot to write down to make bug reports
:/).

> 1.  I'm having trouble with mozilla 1.3. It is hanging when when I make
> any keystroke. This problem has appeared recently and happens
> intermittently, ie.,  if mozilla is hanging I can reboot and it might go
>  away. Currently, I'm trying to drop back to mozilla 1.3a but the
> compilation is failing when it ries to compile in the calender. Has
> anyone experienced this? I have recently installed acroread with the
> plugin for mozilla but have since removed it.
>
> This same problem happened on my previous P4 box and I installed galleon
>  to get around the problem but galeon was crashing too.

I can't even get mozilla to compile on my g/f's P4 (had problems with
Alsa, but just remove the sedit line from BUILD, thanks to Gabriel Devenyi
in the following bug:  http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2867). 
On my P3, I stopped using Mozilla, mostly because of focus issues with the
mouse disabling my ability to type anywhere in mozilla, including the
address bar (happens in Windows as well, so it's not a Linux-specific
bug).  Have you tried phoenix-devel?  It's a much-slimmed down web browser
using the Mozilla code, though not as pretty.  :)

> 2. I've been wanting to install gnucash, mrproject, gnumeric (1 or 2)
> and abiword. Some of these depends on gal and others on gal2, though
> both can't exist at the same time. Can anyone explain what is happening
> here and how I can get around it?

I'm not sure.  Other libraries are able to coexist by installing into
<lib>-<version>; I don't know why the gal library doesn't do this. 
Perhaps talk to the GNOME maintainers.  Have you tried running both at
once (by removing the CONFLICTS)?  If so, does everything still work
(check by doing a 'sorcery rebuild' ;)).

> 3. When I log in as a user I can't run pon until root has run it at
> least once. Any ideas?

How does pon set things up?  Is pon setuid?  I have DSL, so I've never
used pon.  :)

> And finally just out of curiosity, is it better to build xfree86 with
> the font server or without and just use Xft?

Well, apparently XFree86 now comes with newer Xft libraries, so it is best
to use those with XFree86 (at least for now, until newer Xft libraries are
released ;)).  You may want to remove the DEPENDS on Xft* from xfree86
before you do so, otherwise xfree86's libraries will be overwritten.

> Cheers for any help or enlightenment on these issues.

Hope I _did_ light up some of the issues.  :)

> Duane

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