Re: [gentoo-user] OT recover disk after mke2fs -j ?

2003-10-18 Thread dwillis
i had a harddisk go bad and the filesystem got corrupted, but i could still read the drive, so i wrote some programs to search the drive for specific types of files that i needed, such as tar.gz, zip, word docs, etc. the names of many of these files were lost, but the data not. tar will

[gentoo-user] Re: is there a good XF86config creator

2003-10-09 Thread dwillis
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, HvR wrote: one thing i dislike about gentoo is that the support for creating a proper XF86config file is missing. the equivalent tool from redhat is much smarter. so what i do these days is install redhat have it create the config file then copy it to a save spot, install

[gentoo-user] Re: maybe Gentoo-specific X-server problem

2003-10-06 Thread dwillis
here's how i got the max resolutions on my monitors: comment out the Modes line in 'Section Screen' so you have something like this: Section Screen Identifier Screen[Tri-Tib] Device Device[Trident] Monitor Monitor[Tiburon] DefaultDepth16

[gentoo-user] Re: help with monitor

2003-10-04 Thread dwillis
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Monah Baki wrote: I've been running gentoo 1.4 on a dell monitor no problem, I then switched it to an apple colorsync, after grub the monitor starts to flicker, then I switched it to another dell, after grub, the screen goes black on me, but I can ssh to the box. I know