Python is built with tkinter by default if you have the tcltk use variable
(which will cause the latest version of tk to be emerged).
Try this:
$ python
Python 2.3.2 (#1, Nov 19 2003, 07:54:28)
[GCC 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r2, propolice)] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or
I often launch an xterm from a remote xserver this way:
ssh -f -X -l my_login remote_box xterm
Then I can launch programs from the xterm.
Stephen
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:52 am, Elliott, Andrew wrote:
I have recently run into a situation where I need to export my display
from a server
Yes, but do you really need to include the -e flag? That would emerge
everything in the world (no pun intended) that python requires.
On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:42 am, David Gethings wrote:
Am I right in thinking that an 'emerge -e python' will recompile it -
and include the tcltk support
Mostly. One way that it diverges is that it allows you to have different
versions of kde and gnome installed at the same time, so there might be /usr/
kde/3, /usr/kde/3.1, etc. I think this is a plus.
On Friday 14 November 2003 09:53 am, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
I'm considering switching from
Doing emerge --pretend --update world tells me that x11-libs/
openmotif-2.2.2-r2 needs to be installed. But I already have x11-libs/
openmotif-2.2.2-r3 installed.
Do I really need r2 and r3 installed?
# qpkg -q x11-libs/openmotif
x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.2-r3 *
DEPENDED ON BY:
Hmm. Works now after a reboot. I'm running kde 3.2 beta 1, so it might have
been something with that. Thanks for the response.
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:29 am, jkw wrote:
is that it never stops anymore with control-c ... I have to use the
kill
command to stop it. I'm using
is that it never stops anymore with control-c ... I have to use the kill
command to stop it. I'm using net-misc/iputils-020927.
Is something wrong with my setup?
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Whenever I do:
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
more than once, things I get ifconfig processes that won't go away. If anyone
could help troubleshoot, I would appreciate it.
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and there to here,
funny things are
What do I have to change to get this working?
$ mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 bootcd.iso mnt/
mount: only root can do that
Thanks.
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Cool. Thanks.
On Saturday 01 November 2003 07:54 pm, Spider wrote:
begin quote
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:54:45 -0600
Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is propolice? Does it mean I'm all for the police, or is it
Italian for fast linux distro?
Hmm, I wonder if it's the test name
I wonder if your firewall is blocking ping scans. Disable the firewall and see
if you can ping google.
In my firewall, I do:
# Block ping scans
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP
# ... but not coming from our LAN
iptables -A FORWARD -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j DROP
What could possibly be wrong here?
# chown root.root *
chown: `root.root': invalid user
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Thanks all. The colon did the trick.
On Saturday 01 November 2003 10:28 am, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
Your using the masked version I see...
Try root:root.. Thats be deprecated to be compliant I guess..
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and there to here,
What is propolice? Does it mean I'm all for the police, or is it Italian for
fast linux distro?
Hmm, I wonder if it's the test name of the prepatch ...
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.23-pre3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo
Linux 3.3.2-r2, propolice)) #1 Sat Nov 1
You can also try the command: df -h to get the size of all mounted
filesystems in human readable format.
Not easy for me to read. Any other commands to check the hard drive
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and there to here,
funny things are
I had that problem and just restarted mozilla and it went away.
I've had the problem that some submit or go buttons don't seem to work.
On Saturday 25 October 2003 03:33 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Any website that had a password input field, I couldn't enter text in
that field.
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I have a printer attached to my parallel port that I would like to make
available to a win98 client on the same subnet. I've added cupsd to the
default runlevel.
I've set up dhcpd/ip masquerading for the windows client. It can browse the
net and gets assigned an ip.
When going to the add a
Thanks for the help! Works great now.
On Monday 27 October 2003 01:33 pm, Karl Huysmans wrote:
You do need Samba. Just emerge, you will find a sample smb.conf file in
/etc/samba. Copy this file to /etc/samba/smb.conf, and you are almost
done. Check your workgroup (must be the same as on your
I see that a post on gentoo-dev talked about linux-headers-2.4.21 being
released for ~x86, with a recommendation of recompiling glibc at a minimum.
Question: am I supposed to have two versions of linux-headers (2.4.19-r1 and
2.4.21)?
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Sounds like spambayes might be what you want. I'm using it for two pop3 email
accounts.
I put the files in a .spambayes folder and I start the service
from .bash_profile:
cd ~/.spambayes;pop3proxy.py
cd
You can have each user do the same or have root do it. It uses bayesian
filtering, so
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 03:52 pm, Jon Persson wrote:
There are some corrupted files, download the font-arial...-files from the
homepage of mplayer and move them to /usr/portage/disfiles/
/Jon
Must be fixed on the mirrors now. (It didn't work before for me either.)
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I have the A7N8X-X. Works great, though I don't use the built-in ethernet or
audio.
If you'd like, I can send your my kernel config file.
On Monday 06 October 2003 06:29 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm looking into build another machine, possibly based on the A7N
series of motherboards. Can
I could use some help with lilypond/font configuration
I get this message when trying the lilypond command:
$ lilypond bassus.ly
GNU LilyPond 1.8.2
Now processing: `bassus.ly'
Parsing...
error: can't find `feta20.afm'
Fonts have not been installed properly. Aborting
I added the directories to
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:00 pm, Stephen Boulet wrote:
I don't know if my problems are compiler related. Two things that don't
compile for me are licq, patch, dvipdfm (usingsys-devel/gcc-3.3.1-r4).
emerge --emptytree patch failed on coreutils, but I ran a regenworld,
emerged
On Monday 29 September 2003 02:45 pm, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote:
If you only want to send mails from the command line, you first have to set
up ssmtp (under /etc/ssmtp ... or something like that).
After that, you can send an email via
$ cat /path/to/mail.txt | mail -s subject [EMAIL
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 08:15 am, Stroller wrote:
# cat file.txt | sendmail -s mailing from the command line
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sendmail: Cannot open mail.localdomain:25
You almost certainly don't.
Have you actually tried LOOKING at /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf..?
It is the most simple
I don't know if my problems are compiler related. Two things that don't
compile for me are licq, patch, dvipdfm (using sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1-r4).
I'm doing emerge --emptytree patch now
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:22 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
You guys running the latest release of GCC 3.3.1
On Thursday 25 September 2003 08:38 am, Stroller wrote:
You only have to open specific ports on firewalls if you are serving a
torrent. Others jumping on it have no problem, and are encouraged to
do so,
since they make everyone's download rate go up.
I think you're mistaken. As far as
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:01 am, Terry Churchill wrote:
Absoloutely, but I don't agree that bittorrent is the way to go.
But - it should be an option for those who do want to use it, and are
willing to open the required ports on firewalls, etc.
[snip]
You only have to open specific
Be sure to do your research on which ones first. The SanDisk SDDR-73 works
well with linux.
On Thursday 25 September 2003 01:13 pm, gabriel wrote:
do yourself a favour and get a card reader with the camera. they appear
as a usb mass-storage device to linux and are even more portable than
the
I'm happy with mbmon with my nforce2 board.
On Thursday 25 September 2003 09:44 am, Ernie Schroder wrote:
Has anyone gotten lm-sensors working on an Nforce 2 based board? I
would appreciate links and/or hints.
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and there to here,
What does 12 mean?
For example, I have the following commands in local.start:
route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth0
route add 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
/etc/init.d/dhcp start
Should these commands each be followed by 12?
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Did any have small konsole fonts after upgrading to kde 3.1.4?
Normal, medium, and large fonts for me are all the same size ...
-- Stephen
On Thursday 18 September 2003 05:24 am, Joshua Banks wrote:
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How do I change the the font size for my console
I read the forum entry on setting up ntpd
(http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41099) and did everything except
modify /etc/conf.d/ntpd.
I checked my time with the date command and compared it with
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl.
The time as reported by date was not correct,
Thanks for the tip on kappfinder! I never knew that existed.
Anyone know how to get it to find openoffice.org and games in
/usr/local/games?
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:33 pm, gabriel wrote:
On September 16, 2003 10:57 pm, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote:
I emerged Mozilla-Firebird today. The
Is everyone sure that they don't have a cpu overheating problem?
I have the -X version of the board (no serial ata), and have been very steady
under load with improved cooling.
I'm using sys-apps/xmbmon, which tells me I'm mostly below 50C.
-- Stephen
On Monday 15 September 2003 04:03 pm,
I've been very happy with LVM. I have /root on reiserfs and /boot on ext2,
but all my other partitions are on LVM and are reiserfs:
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 2.9G 243M 2.6G 9% /
/dev/vg/usr10G 6.5G 3.6G 65% /usr
I'm running 2.4.22. For some reason my sound module won't load.
I recompiled my kernel with acore as a module:
make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make
modules_install emerge nvidia-kernel env ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1 emerge
alsa-driver alsa-utils
I have a nforce2 chipset board,
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:24 am, Davide Brini wrote:
Hello everybody, here are some doubts I have.
1. In my /etc/make.conf, I have -O3 for CFLAGS, but I see that some
packages still compile using -O2. Is this behavior intentional, for
example because the package or ebuild author
Thanks. I downloaded and unzipped this image:
288K Nov 20 2000 MSD622BD.IMG
Does that size seem right? I would have thought it was larger ...
What options does dd need to put this on a floppy?
Thanks.
On Monday 08 September 2003 12:43 am, Dan Foster wrote:
Hot Diggety! Stephen Boulet
1025 -b
-- Stephen
On Sunday 07 September 2003 07:12 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Stephen Boulet wrote:
I'm trying to configure spambayes as a user, but am getting an error when
I'm not root.
The program sets up a port you can go to with a browser as a web
interface configuration page (http
Good call. It seems that it's only python that has the problem. I wonder
why...
On Sunday 07 September 2003 09:36 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Stephen Boulet wrote:
Yes, but I'm having the issue using ports 1024:
$ python /usr/bin/pop3proxy.py -u 1025 -b
SpamBayes POP3 Proxy Beta2
If I don't have access to windows to create a DOS boot floppy, is there a way
to upgrade the bios? I have an Asus motherboard (A7N8X-X).
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Thanks. USE=-java emerge -p mod_php seems to have done the trick.
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 01:40 am, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
Given that PHP absolutely requires a 1.4 JDK to work
Huh?
PHP 4 has *experimental* and *optional* support for Java (ext/java,
I masked sun's jdk 1.4 in my /etc/portage/package.mask because I want to use
1.3. Is there any way to resolve the following dependency?:
# emerge -p --update world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies |
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy
I just purchased this board. Can you say a little more about the sound issues?
Any other issues with the board?
-- Stephen
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:31 pm, bob bob wrote:
I have the same MB as you...
I had random harld lockups under gentoo sources.. so I swapped to the
gaming sources
In make.conf, it says:
Portage will set the default ccache dir if it is not present in the
user's environment: ${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/ccache (/var/tmp/ccache).
But I don't have any /var/tmp/ccache, only a /root/.ccache.
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From here to there
and there
Do you include motif? You could try nedit.
On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:58 am, Harald Arnesen wrote:
Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's to anyone's advantage to learn both emacs and vi.
1) As mentioned, vi is on everything *n?x. If ever in a bind, vi will
be there.
Except when you
What exactly do I have to do to let users mount /dev/fd0? I've already added
them to the floppy group.
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Thanks!
Here's a harder question: With the auto file system type option, mount will
mount a vfat floppy as msdos. Other than change the type from auto to vfat,
is there any way to have vfat be the preferred option?
-- Stephen
On Saturday 02 August 2003 12:07 pm, Bering wrote:
Stephen Boulet
Thanks. I'm impressed ...
On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:35 pm, Steven Elling wrote:
I don't know why the developers chose to make /etc/filesystems a symbolic
link to /proc/filesystems because it is not needed (any takers) but you
can remove the symbolic link, copy /proc/filesystems to
Bandopadhyay wrote:
Stephen Boulet wrote:
Hmm, this doesn't seem to work. After doing:
emerge -u -p --deep world,
I get a list of packages, and dev-python/Imaging-py21 is on the list.
When I do
emerge -u -p world,
dev-python/Imaging-py21 isn't listed. But doing:
# etcat
key : dev-python/Imaging-py21 ]
gives me no dependencies...
On Monday 28 July 2003 04:24 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
Stephen Boulet wrote:
Is there any way to fine out which packages depend on a package?
emerge gentoolkit
etcat -d packagename
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Is there any way to fine out which packages depend on a package?
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I have the problem too. I think k3b is slow because it calls cdrecord
--scanbus when it starts up, and that is slow (maybe I'm wrong).
I just added a compact flash reader (usb) which uses ide-scsi, and was
wondering if that is causing the problems.
On Thursday 24 July 2003 05:31 am, Frank
I've emerged metalog according to the directions, but there is no
/var/log/messages.
Is this normal?
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:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:24:51 +0200
Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Stephen Boulet (2003-07-24 13:50 +0200)
I've emerged metalog according to the directions, but there is no
/var/log/messages.
Is this normal?
Yes
It is indeed ;)
You may look at /var/log/everything
On Saturday 12 July 2003 03:27 am, William Kenworthy wrote:
We were able to get three identical machines where gentoo, Mandrake and
debian were installed for a basic i386/i586/optimised by gentoo
(-march=petium3 -pipe -O3) comparison. Nothing fancy, roughly standard
installs, of similar
You can grab the whole window and then crop the image.
On Sunday 06 July 2003 07:31 pm, Gëzim wrote:
With Ksnapshot you can make a snapshot of a specific
window, when you
check the 'Only grab the window containing the
pointer' box. The
result would be the same as you wanted.
But I
Anyone know what the new option in 2.4.21, Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support,
means?
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I've emerge xmms-cdread. How do I use xmms to play an audio cd?
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Try posting on comp.lang.python. Lots of friendly people there.
On Saturday 07 June 2003 08:38 pm, DAVID wrote:
I don't know about all that, but am getting back into
Python right now. As far as databases, I am currently
writing an app to do some stock analysis for me.
Beancounter (perl)
I've had issues with 4.3 and have gone back to 4.2.1.
1) winex won't work
2) some games like alpha centauri and tuxracer give me a frequency over
range error from my monitor, despite the fact the the same config file works
great with 4.2.1.
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I have spamassassin working well with kmail now. Is the ruleset regularly
updated, and how do you do that?
I read that it now does Bayesian logic too. How do you train it?
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and there to here,
funny things are
Yes, it does, thanks. I just wish I could find the cause for my xfree 4.3
woes.
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 12:29 am, Bryan Feir wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:55:52PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote:
Does anyone have Alpha Centauri running under xfree 4.3? For me it works
only under 4.2
Does anyone have Alpha Centauri running under xfree 4.3? For me it works only
under 4.2. With 4.3 emerged, I get a over frequency message from my monitor
when smac is launched, but the exact same config file works fine with xfree
4.2.x.
-- Stephen
On Monday 24 March 2003 07:36 pm, Susie
Is there a command you can use to query which daemons are running?
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Emerging app-arch/alien and converting to tgz might be an option.
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 07:04 pm, Vincent van de Camp wrote:
You may be able to install the rpms with the --force flag, and if that
doesn't work, try the --nodeps flag, which turns off dependency
checking. That has always
for the help.
On Monday 10 March 2003 09:39 am, Kurt Lieber wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:14:35AM -0600 or thereabouts, Stephen Boulet
wrote:
There is a distcc in Gentoo HOWTO at:
http://cvs.gentoo.org/~hanno/distcc.html
This page is out-of-date. We've already contacted the developer
There is a distcc in Gentoo HOWTO at:
http://cvs.gentoo.org/~hanno/distcc.html
It recommends:
Add the following lines to the /etc/make.conf on the machine you want to
use for compilation:
export DISTCC_HOSTS=localhost pc1_hostname pc2_hostname pc3_hostname
export
Whoops, I see that there was a very timely article on it in this week's
newsletter. I'll dig into that a bit.
On Monday 10 March 2003 12:14 am, Stephen Boulet wrote:
There is a distcc in Gentoo HOWTO at:
http://cvs.gentoo.org/~hanno/distcc.html
It recommends:
Add the following
You could put it in /etc/conf.d/local.start.
For example, I have a bash script to change my settings to what I'd use at
work. If I put sh /path/to/my/script.sh in local.start, it would run the
script. I don't see why you couldn't do the same for scheme.
# change networking to work settings
I have a printer connected to my parallel port and cups installed. It's easy
to set this printer for my linux laptop to use.
Anyone know do I make it available to someone running mac v. 9.x?
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If I'd like to pass an option to the ide-scsi module (hdc=ide-scsi), how do
I make this entry and which file do I put it in?
Does it somehow go in /etc/modules.d/aliases, or do I need to make a ide-scsi
file in modules.d?
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Thanks for the fast response!
Works great now.
My kernel options are:
ide0=autotune ide1=autotune hdc=ide-scsi
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On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:19 pm, Martin Larsson wrote:
On s_2003-03-02 at 20:13, Stephen Boulet wrote:
If I'd like to pass an option to the ide-scsi module (hdc
Is this a valid CFLAG for pentium 3?
CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe
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No. Still get document contains no data. Any other suggestions?
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:49 am, Ryan wrote:
I believe that you can get that error if you don't have SSL setup
correctly. (i.e. your web server is running on port 443, but not with SSL
capabilities). Try going to:
PHP was working when I tried it earlier, but now the test.php script just
shows the script text (? phpinfo(); ?).
No errors reported in /var/log/apache. I wonder what can be causing that...
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:05 am, Doug Gorley wrote:
No. Still get document contains no data. Any
I followed through the desktop user guide on setting up squirrelmail.
Everything checks out up to the part where you actually login with:
https://localhost/squirrelmail/src/login.php
When I try doing this, I get a The document contains no data message.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
What program gets exected by the configure shortcuts menu? I don't seem to
have one under Settings.
On Thursday 20 February 2003 06:01 pm, Mike Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 23:58, Collins wrote:
Damn, I feel stupid. I spent a long time looking under Configure
Koqueror and tried
I was wondering if anyone else finds openoffice much less responsive on the
same hardware as MS office.
I'm talking about little things like a noticable lag the dialog popping up in
scalc when choosing Format-Cells ...
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I have both kde 3.0 and 3.1 installed. My .xinitrc fle has:
rm -rf .kde.backup
exec /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde
in it. When I type startx, the splashscreen for kde 3.0 boots up, but the
background and icons for kde 3.1 show up, and nothing in the desktop is
functional (no mime-types found,
config file, but same result.
I think I'm going to downgrade to 4.2.1-r2. Then maybe winex et al will work
again.
-- Stephen
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 03:53 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:09, Stephen Boulet wrote:
I'm getting this error when I launch a program
I'm getting this error when I launch a program like tuxracer (commercial
version) or Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (but not tribes2, strangely enough).
This message comes from the monitor itself, btw.
I'm using the same options in my Xfree file as before (using nvidia's driver
for my 32 MB
to run 'modules-update'.
On Saturday 01 February 2003 06:25 pm, Stephen Boulet wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2003 08:09 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
Did you run /sbin/modules-update after editing aliases?
Anders
Yes I did. I still get:
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart
Can someone tell me how to edit /etc/modules.d/aliases to tell the module
loader which device I want to have use ide-scsi?
I don't want to pass the kernel the boot option hdc=ide-scsi since I'm
already passing it the options ide0=autotune ide1=autotune. (I want to be
sure that the ide channel
On Friday 31 January 2003 09:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fre, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:01:59 -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote:
I get the following with dmesg:
agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset (device id: 0605), you might want to try
agp_try_unsupported=1.
Where do I try this?
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