I have made the following expierience with frozen X:
*) Even if normal keyboard doesn't work, the Magic SysRq often stil does
and allows for a clean reboot by holding AltGr and pressing k then s then
u then b -- Kill all processes, Sync all drives, Umount all drives, Boot
the system.
*) the
On Sunday, the 16th of January, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly spake:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:53:43PM +0800, ZeeGeek wrote:
sometimes I read books on my laptop, and it's just annoying
to have the xscreensaver blank the screen every few minutes
without moving the mouse or keyboard. so I wanna stop
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
Err... AltGr?
a.k.a Right Alt.
Whatever activates the SysRq key on your keyboard, usually PrtSc or
Print on IBM PC keyboards.
You can also configure the key by writing a character to
/proc/sysrq-trigger
See
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
On 01/16/05 18:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
Err... AltGr?
a.k.a Right Alt.
Whatever activates the SysRq key on your keyboard, usually PrtSc or
Print on IBM PC keyboards.
You can also configure
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
On 01/16/05 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
On 01/16/05 18:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
B means do a hard reboot
O means do a hard poweroff
Quoting Heitzso from Dec 19
I'm used to command line admin programs and hand editing files
but would like to try a gui admin system. What gui admin suite
works best with gentoo?
SNIP content=a lot of votes for webmin /
I know linuxconf which is theoretically universal but _very_
Quoting Jeff Smelser from Dec 16
--[PinePGP]--[begin]--
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 07:55 pm, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 09:32, Jeff Smelser wrote:
Listen moron. I didn't say anything about the popularity.. We are
Quoting Davide Ricci from Dec 12
Hi,
I did install gentoo on my machine starting from a stage2 tarball.
After bringing up the minimum system wanted to install the KDE and did a
# emerge -u kde
But the compilation wasn't successful since the ebuild 'qt-3.2.2-r1' exploited
a bug in the
Quoting Robert Cernansky from Dec 3
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:21:26 -0600 MARTINSON, GREGORY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MG I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with 48
MG Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and ftp as
MG well as maybe a music
Quoting Stephan Wesselman from Dec 3
What is the package or command to use the finger username in gentoo?
And what do I need to emerge to get this command?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qpkg -f /usr/bin/finger
net-misc/netkit-fingerd *
You could have got to this by either:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
Quoting Spider from Dec 2
begin quote
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:19:41 -0600
Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said
old game?
( nope, the ps/2 that I ran it on originally is dead )
There is a
Quoting Chris Bare from Nov 26
I also can't figure out who has a dependency on lesstif. I tried emerge -puUD
package on each of the other packages listed above, one at a time, and none
of them showed up with lesstif when I did it that way.
It is probably Opera.
In the Opera ebuild there is a
Hi!
I just found a typo in /etc/mailcap:
# The following displays Japanese text at sites where
# the kterm program is installed:
#text/plain; kterm -geometry +0+0 -e more %s /dev/null; \
test=test `echo %{charset} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` = iso-2022-jp
there is a comment-hash missing,
Quoting Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos from Mar 6
Hi all,
I'm using latest gentoo kernel sources and I have iptables 1.2.7a. I've
ran the commands:
localhost root # iptables -t nat -F
localhost root # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
where eth1 is my
I did some research, and found that the libwwwsql.so lib belongs to
package net-libs/libwww
when I try to reemerge that, I get
!!! Error: the =mysql-4 package conflicts with this package and both
can't be installed on the same system together.
heh. But they are!
This looks like a bug in
Quoting Heino Herrlich from Mar 6
Peter wrote:
PG I get this error with emergeing tetex-2.0-r1:
PG /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
PG warning: libmysqlclient.so.10, needed by /usr/lib/libwwwxml.so, not
PG found (try using -rpath or
Quoting Ben Sparks from Mar 5
I've been emerging kde since oh, about midnight last night and every
once and a while I'll glance at the screen and sometimes I'll see a
random warning this..or warning that should I be concerned with these
warnings or are they just a common occurance when
Quoting Johnh from Feb 28
Here's the problem.
I am trying to edit a windows registry file
system.reg is 2974173 in size.
I can edit it, but it's really slow.
I recommend nedit, it deals with large files just fine, and is easy
to use if you are used to windows editors, because it uses
Hi!
I assume like me, there are a lot of people running several different
kernels, sometimes booting this, sometimes that.
Now if one emerges a third-party modules, like the NVIDIA kernel
driver, emerge moves the module to the /lib/modules/version dir of
the current kernel, that is, the one
Quoting Elvis Dieguez from Feb 27
I suppose you are correct about my poor example (I wanted to be sarcastic
because I am tired of this argument that shows up every other month).
And I understand things would have been better in your situation had you had a
statically compiled VI present.
Quoting Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) from Feb 26
I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his
laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able
to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our
business. Can anyone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Feb 26
Yeah, I did look at the website, and I have to go with looks dodgy as well.
[...]
So, why am I writing? I want to make a prediction. The prediction is that,
in Malcolm Gardner Associates' training materials and courses on Data
protection there will
Hi!
I have a strange mouse by fujitsu, called the TouchBird. Instead of
the middle mouse button is has a small touchpad, which functions as a
third button by double tapping, and as two mouse wheels (up-down,
left-right) when dragging the finger.
I got the up-down wheel functionality and the
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