-Original Message-
From: JurLan
Sterling Chavis wrote:
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe I read that you need to be
a member of the wheel group before you can use su.
You're right :)
That wasn't what happened in my case. I could use su, it just wouldn't let
me su to
I get
them all the time. I figure it is because I responded to one of those cheesy
"you won the lotto" spams (or maybe it was a Nigerian spammer). I just wanted to
see what response I would get.
-Original Message-From: Nicholas Hockey
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday,
You can keep both kernel versions around and reload the last one if you are
having trouble. However, every time you switch, you will have to re-emerge
packages which contain kernel modules (ati-drivers for me).
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From: Joshua Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
This probably a useless response, but here goes.
Usually the game's mouse sensitivity is independent of desktop settings. It
is this way for me and ut2003. Usually in games you can adjust the
sensitivity beyond what it's GUI allows in it's config file. To fix your
problem, I would look there
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From: Joshua Banks
--- Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
You can keep both kernel versions around and reload the last one if
you are
having trouble. However, every time you switch, you will have to
re-emerge
packages which contain kernel modules (ati
-Original Message-
From: Gerhard W.Gruber
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:55:00 -0600 , Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This probably a useless response, but here goes.
:)
Usually the game's mouse sensitivity is independent of desktop settings
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From: Gavin Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?
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Hi all,
During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and
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From: Gerhard W.Gruber
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:35:33 -0600, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You shouldn't have to build and install Mesa. The program opengl-update
just changes some links from /usr/lib to another directory. The files
for
your
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:51:43 -0600, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
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opengl-update xfree does switch back to mesa (the one merged into xfree
-Original Message-
From: Redeeman
hmm, i start X, and numlock isnt on.. how to make it become that
automatically?
any ideas?
I believe there is an option in the XF86Config config file to turn this
on. I'm not at a linux box, so I can't look this up. I'd either use the man
page or look
Uhh...No, I don't know how to remove you from this newsgroups. Sorry and
have a nice day.
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From: croz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 1:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo
CAN SOMEONE MOTHERFUCKING
-Original Message-
From: Nick Fisher
GNOME KDE use flags
Ok... so there are gnome and kde USE flags. The descriptions aren't too
informative... things like 'adds support for gnome'. Now as I understand
it XFCE is quite gnome like... should I then use the -gnome flag when
compiling X apps
-Original Message-
From: Tom Wesley
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 21:43, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Nick Fisher
GNOME KDE use flags
Ok... so there are gnome and kde USE flags. The descriptions aren't too
informative... things like 'adds
-Original Message-
From: Nick Fisher
FYI, XFCE4 has session management that is masked in portage, but works
perfectly here...
Session management? I'm not 100% what you mean in this context what
'session' is being managed in what way? Are we talking about the X
session? As in the
-Original Message-
From: Gerhard W.Gruber
I did emerge ati-drivers to get 3D accelleration. Unfortunately this
doesn't
work for my card (Asus Radeon 9800XT) as soon as I switch OpenGL to use the
ATI provided library. I did this with opengl-update ati as the installation
told me to. since
-Original Message-
From: Oliver Lange
mathieu perrenoud wrote:
I fully agree. But emerge -ep world | grep '-alsa' can hardly be called
shell hacking.
Instead of that cryptic shell stuff (i mean in general), I'd like to have
the
portage tree and all it's stuff put into a simple SQL
.
-Original Message-
From: Oliver Lange
Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote:
Using a SQL DB would increase the data stored on the harddisk. It is also
slower than raw file access. The deal breaker is that you don't want to
depend on a SQL DB for minimal installs.
?? Did you ever use
You should see the speed improvement only if your app uses POSIX threads.
-Original Message-
From: Redeeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:45 PM
To: Gentoo Maillinglist
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] install: bootstrapping w/NPTL support?
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at
Just to confirm the bug, I have that same problem as well. I haven't looked
into it yet.
-Original Message-
From: Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:14, Black Hand wrote:
- i have a strange problem with gxine in debian. some times fail (segment
fault) when i try to put gxine
TWM and FVWM are a simple low-resource window managers. Don't install gnome
or kde!
-Original Message-
From: MARTINSON, GREGORY
I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with 48
Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and ftp as
well as maybe a
Does it work with the VGA device?
-Original Message-
From: Al Smith
Hello All -
I am trying to configure my X11 on my laptop and I keep failing with a
no-screens error. I am running a toshiba laptop with a Trident
CyberAladdin-P4 video card.
Any assistance would be appreciated...
Just curious; What changed in your config file?
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Al Smith
My X Problem is fixed. I ran xf86cfg to have it autodetect my settings...
Seems to work...
-Original Message-
From: Al Smith
I am trying to configure my X11 on my laptop and I keep
There is a DOS version of Prince of Persia you can download!
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From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:40:24 -0600
Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sure that most of you who own a TV in the US have seen one of the
many
This was happening to me, but you can restore the defaults at boot time by
doing the following.
1) adjust the mixer to the desired levels
2) /etc/init.d/alsacontrol start
3) rc-update -a alsacontrol default
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Tony Scharf
Ok, Ive got XMMS running through
A lot of people seem to not use -O3, because it can cause worse
performance in some situations. I'm gonna leave it in my make.conf till
someone (maybe me, if I get some free time) shows that it causes worse
performance on average. Because that is really what the flags in make.conf
should be geared
conjectureI'd imagine the interface for POSIX threads hasn't changed. The
NPTL just improved the 'backend'./conjecture
I've a pdf file describing NPTL if you want me to mail that to you. There is
a place online you can download it, but I forgot where that was. I haven't
had time to read through
kill -9: nothing can defeat the power of kill -9
-Original Message-
From: Martin Hudec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] XFS server eating too much CPU
Hi there,
I've installed X Font server (4.3.0r3) on
Unix is a what you say is what you get sort of operating system. It is not
very forgiving, but I like it that way. It sucks when you type rm -r * in
the root directory by accident. I did type it once and learned a very
valuable lesson (don't do that).
If you are often deleting files by accident,
xchat. Though I don't know how feature rich it is, since the mozilla client
is good enough for me.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Gaffney
I'm looking for a good IRC client. I've used both BitchX, which is great,
and Mozilla's
IRC client, which is very feature poor. I'd just
As someone pointed out to me earlier, you have to be part of the wheel
group to su. You might want to check that, although I don't see how the
command below removed you from the wheel group.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Joel Konkle-Parker
Ok, I have no idea what happened here, but
That is weird. A compiler should generate the same code whether it is
optimized or unoptimized. It would be interesting to hear an explanation
from the gcc folk as to what causes this.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Matt Garman
A while back I posted a message talking about the
Thanks. I should have worded my reply I don't know if rather than I don't
see how. Plus I should check replies before I bother. :) Sorry all.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: brett holcomb
Man group points out that the -G option will add you to
that group but remove you from all others
All the graphics and sound are going to be the same regardless of the option
you choose. Since they all are going to use the original CD. I would check
the various websites to see what they have done to the original code.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Joel Konkle-Parker
I have a copy
Hello,
I can't get any sound from my ut2003 install. The weird thing is I also
have the ut2003-demo installed and the sound works for it. I had to
install ut2003 semi-manually, because the emerge didn't work. Anybody else
have this problem?
Thanks,
Nathan
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. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Eamon Caddigan
Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is weird. A compiler should generate the same code whether it is
optimized or unoptimized. It would be interesting to hear an explanation
from the gcc folk as to what
The ati-drivers don't need agpgart. The fglrx kernel module has that
functionality built in. I have 9500pro and everything is working.
If you can't get the ati-drivers to work, the radeon driver under X should
get you a good resolution and refresh.
My mainboard is a dual Tyan athlon mb, so I
Lots a people i guess. I did this:
USE=-ipv6 emerge wget
and then it worked.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Thomas T. Veldhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] wget Address family not supported
I did a
Well that sounds like a challenge...:)
-Original Message-
From: SN
I don't have to try it :-)
I was sitting next to the guy who implemented Yahoo launch, if you know what
I mean :-)
So I just know it ain't possible can't tell you more.
- Original Message -
From: Michele Di
I ran across this page, so I thought I'd post it for the person who wanted a
svg viewer.
http://xsvg.org/
It isn't completed, but the status page lists what works.
-Nathan
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Hall was assuming the Kamil hadn't run xf86config at all. Which is what I
thought from Kamil's email as well.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: downtime null
first of all, please use text only. many of us use MUAs that don't
support HTML formatted emails.
i've been having the same
Adobe SVG! SVG is a W3C standard. Anyway, I believe mozilla will view SVG.
I'm not sure which version supports or if you will need a plugin. You will
have to check out mozilla.org. Or await a more knowledgable person to
reply.
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From: dave willis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
instructions, that is what I would have
picked up, of course I will double check that though.
-Original Message-
From: Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 1:30 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] emerge time problem
Did
Withers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:13 PM
To: Gentoo User
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wine warcraft 3
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:08, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote:
Has anyone gotten warcraft 3 to run under wine?
From www.transgaming.com:
Searching games
I thought doom, doom2, and quake were released as freeware. In which case it
would be ok just to offer the cds for free download...
-Original Message-
From: Stroller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] (OT)
Has anyone gotten warcraft 3 to run under wine?
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Somebody will probably tell me to RTFM, but I did read the man page (not the
manual). I can't su to root under a user. Is this disabled? It says
username/password incorrect, but that ain't true. Always used to work with
Debian.
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In the format menu, just click plain text. It will convert an html email
to plain text. As far as I know, there isn't an option that forces outlook
to always use plain text. So I have to use the menu every time.
-Original Message-
From: Brent L Johnson
I am only sending text mails to
Small correction: Another list member pointed out to me that
fomit-frame-pointer isn't enable for any of the O settings for x86
(according to the documentation). I wanted to make sure, so I emailed
gcc-help email address. Someone emailed me the following procedure to
determine exactly what flags
, 2003, at 3:32 pm, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote:
In the format menu, just click plain text. It will convert an html
email
to plain text. As far as I know, there isn't an option that forces
outlook
to always use plain text...
I'm pretty sure there is, in preferences, but I don't
Ghostbusters!
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Check that the (non-comment) line before CHOST has a ending double quote
on it.
-Original Message-
From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:10 AM
To: gentoouser
Subject: [gentoo-user] env-update
howdie all
i am busy doing a stage 1 install i have just
Pretty sure it is aic78xx. I have a 2940 and use it. There is a aic7900, but
I would think that is for way newer stuff.
-Original Message-
From: Patrick Marquetecken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:32 PM
To: Gentoo-user
Subject: [gentoo-user] Another
Just as a FYI, -fomit-frame-pointer is included in -O -O2 -O3 -Os
according to:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html;.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Peter Ruskin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had this exact same problem. Check out this forum thread:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=610577sid=2b54c915d50425f86566ae09
4bf4fc85#610577
I unmerged all the docbook stuff and libxml2, deleted /etc/xml/catalog and
/etc/xml/docbook, turned down some of my CFLAGS, and remerged those
: [gentoo-user] gcc optimizations
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 16:54, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
wrote:
Just as a FYI, -fomit-frame-pointer is included in -O -O2 -O3 -Os
according to:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html;.
Only if it does not affect
Hello,
I think mine used to do that when I used genkernel. I know something SCSI
was in a loop, but I couldn't read the screen because something was wrong
with the console. I ended up compiling by hand and I just included aic78xxx
in the kernel. Then things were fine.
-Nathan
-Original
I don't know fer sure, but gnome2 could be using gconf to store its
config. You maybe want to try the gconf-editor...
-Original Message-
From: eric heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:32 PM
To: Doug Weimer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]
That isn't what I read. gs stands for gentoo stable and this kernel is
more suitable for a production environment than the rest.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 12:35
My optimization flags were too aggressive. I recompiled libxml2 with the
default optimizations and it worked. This happened to me with the
findutils too. And 2.6 is still working great for me.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Van Eps, Nathan D.
I decided the instability was a good
Hello,
I decided the instability was a good excuse to try 2.6.0-test8 and it works
great (so far).
I still haven't resolved the /etc/xml/catalog and /etc/xml/docbook
problem. If someone would be willing to mail me a copy of their files, that
would be great.
Thanks,
Nathan
-Original
Hello,
Has anybody had stability problems with dual athlon mp systems with the
2.4.20-r6 kernel? I'm getting freezes after a few minutes of starting the
kernel. It works fine without an SMP kernel (I used the one from the 1.4
boot disk). Does anybody have a stable dual athlon mp system running?
I was 100% slackware, then 100% debian, and now 100% gentoo. I have to use
NT at work though...blech.
-Nathan
-Original Message-
From: Patrick Marquetecken
Op di 21-10-2003, om 13:47 schreef Eric Livingston:
I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a
comprehensive solution
installation problem
On Saturday 18 October 2003 19:36, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James
Tower) wrote:
Hello,
I can't get my LiveCD to boot. I always get the error:
isolinux: Disk
error 44, AX=4280, drive 9F. Has anyone got that error
before? Does anyone
know what it means?
I've tried the gentoo
Hello,
I can't get my LiveCD to boot. I always get the error: isolinux: Disk error
44, AX=4280, drive 9F. Has anyone got that error before? Does anyone know
what it means?
I've tried the gentoo and the smp kernel and a bunch of different
permutations of the installation options. I have the 1.4
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