Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-30 Thread Bryan Feir
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:07:20AM +0100, Alex Huth wrote: > Am Montag, 31. März 2003 08:51 schrieb Bryan Feir: > >Sounds like you have ALSA set up and running, but you don't have the > > OSS compatibility modules loaded. You need to 'modprobe snd-pcm-oss' to > > get those in, then you should

[gentoo-user] nForce support

2003-03-30 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I'm going to be building a new system soon and I am in the process of deciding what to go for. Currently I'm been hearing good things about the nForce 2 chipset, specifically the Abit NF7. Has anyone had experience with this board or the nForce 2 chipset under Gentoo before. Hows driver support

[gentoo-user] Error using mkisofs

2003-03-30 Thread Doug Gorley
Does this mean anything to anyone? localhost / # mkisofs -o /mnt/raid/backup_20030330.iso -R /home/ mkisofs: Panic: no space, cannot add RR CE entry (1 bytes mising). mkisofs: currlen: 70 ipnt: 157, recstart: 0 mkisofs: Send bug report to the maintainer. mkisofs: Aborting. localhost /

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-30 Thread Alex Huth
Am Montag, 31. März 2003 08:51 schrieb Bryan Feir: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:35:52AM +0100, Alex Huth wrote: > > Has anyone configured a via-82xx chipset on a Asus A7V8X? I can´t get it > > playing. I really know howto to configure sound. > >Yes, works fine for me. > > > What im wondering ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-30 Thread Alex Huth
Am Montag, 31. März 2003 08:51 schrieb Bryan Feir: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:35:52AM +0100, Alex Huth wrote: > > Has anyone configured a via-82xx chipset on a Asus A7V8X? I can´t get it > > playing. I really know howto to configure sound. > >Yes, works fine for me. > > > What im wondering ab

RE: [gentoo-user] USB Mass Storage

2003-03-30 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> > > hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 5 > > > usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout > > > usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-110) > > > hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 6 > > > usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110) > > IIRC you need t

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-30 Thread Bryan Feir
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:35:52AM +0100, Alex Huth wrote: (B> Has anyone configured a via-82xx chipset on a Asus A7V8X? I can$B!-(Bt get it (B> playing. I really know howto to configure sound. (B (B Yes, works fine for me. (B (B> What im wondering about, is that there is no device (dsp

[gentoo-user] Soundkonfiguration via-82xx on Asus A7V8x

2003-03-30 Thread Alex Huth
Hi guys! Has anyone configured a via-82xx chipset on a Asus A7V8X? I can´t get it playing. I really know howto to configure sound. What im wondering about, is that there is no device (dsp or anything else) in /dev. I´m using devfs so there must be a device, or? The only thing i recognize is a

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-30 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 20:33, Collins Richey wrote: > > I also get this trying to find the scanner: > > The vendor and product information needs to be associated with > 'scanner'. I don't know how to do that for a built-in. It's worth a > try to remake your kernel with scanner as a module and t

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:51:21 -0800 Susie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:05:54 -0700 > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you hve the correct info for your scanner in > > /etc/modules.autoload? > > > > Mine (a different scanner) looks like this > > > > scann

Re: [gentoo-user] naive question about distcc

2003-03-30 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 21:09, Jeremy Schneider wrote: > It occurs to me that these things don't change very often on my system, and > that the answer to these checks could be cached, perhaps associated with a > hash or date of certain config files, such as make.conf. Does this make any > sense,

Re: [gentoo-user] naive question about distcc

2003-03-30 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
It is obvious you have never built any of these packages by hand. Almost all OSS packages today use the GNU configure scripts to configure them for building on a BUNCH of difference platforms. Linux being just one. These scripts build the actual makefiles that are used to compile the package on the

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-30 Thread Susie
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:05:54 -0700 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you hve the correct info for your scanner in /etc/modules.autoload? > > Mine (a different scanner) looks like this > > scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011e I have mine built into the kernel. So that's not the pr

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED sound opinions?

2003-03-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome and glad you're playing sound now! I've noticed that when I install a system the sound portion has soundcore and usually it picks one of the sound cards so I have to scan the list and unselect anything is has done. > Thanks to 'nealbirch' and Bret Holcomb for suggestions. > > The

[gentoo-user] SOLVED sound opinions?

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Nicholson
Thanks to 'nealbirch' and Bret Holcomb for suggestions. The solution was that I needed to emerge the alsa-driver (as well as rebuild kernel with only M support). I wanted to be sure there wasn;t something overlooked before rebuilding kernel. The quirky part is how I overlooked the distinction b

Re: [gentoo-user] naive question about distcc

2003-03-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:09:24 -0500 "Jeremy Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that when I do makes, a lot of time is spent by the > system checking lots of stuff: > ... > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes

[gentoo-user] naive question about distcc

2003-03-30 Thread Jeremy Schneider
I've noticed that when I do makes, a lot of time is spent by the system checking lots of stuff: ... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for i586-pc-li

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:37:01 -0800 Susie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An update. It's found it with the kernel after copying over the > patched files to a fresh 2.4.20 tree however now comes to the problem > of getting sane to see it. Sane notices the driver and says it found > a scanner but sca

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-30 Thread Susie
An update. It's found it with the kernel after copying over the patched files to a fresh 2.4.20 tree however now comes to the problem of getting sane to see it. Sane notices the driver and says it found a scanner but scanimage -L returns nothing. Trying the plustek.conf does nothing same with hp

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Toshiba Satellite 2410

2003-03-30 Thread Mark Saunders
I got it working! i had to emerge the nvidia-kernel ebuild manually and tweak two variables in one of the source files to get the notebook screen working in 1024x768. works like a charm now On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 00:28, Mario Udina wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 12:27, Chris van der Pennen wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd keeps blowing away my custom /etc/ntp.conf

2003-03-30 Thread A. Craig West
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Raptorfan wrote: > Howdy. I've a small problem that is really starting to piss me off. I have a > custom ntp.conf on my plaything gentoo box; all ntpd does on this box is > maintain peer connections amongst all my home unix boxen (one of which syncs > to outside sources). When

[gentoo-user] JEdit FTP plugin

2003-03-30 Thread Mark Saunders
I use jedit alot to edit files by FTP. The JEdit FTP plugin frustrates the heck out of me.. it sporatically dies during a write with a timeout error. It's not the remote system, it's not the java version, i can't figure it out. has anyone else hit this? -- Mark Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cy

Re: [gentoo-user] bad ./configure Cant emerge mod_php

2003-03-30 Thread Chris
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:08:17AM +0200, Stelian Iancu wrote: > On Friday 28 March 2003 02:52, Chris wrote: > > try USE="-java" emerge mod_php Thanks to all who answered, this looks to be working OK... How did you all know this? Is this a FAQ somewhere? Thanks, Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gail for gnome

2003-03-30 Thread Chris Graves
I got the same problem trying to emerge orbit2 two days ago. Never got an explanation... install is at a stand still. Anyone know what causes this? -c On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 10:24, Gent00 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > When I try to emerge gail (as a

Re: [gentoo-user] VIA VT82C693A/694x ide trouble

2003-03-30 Thread Tiemo Kieft
mmm, I just put in a 'new' disk, well just exchanged it with another linux machine, the new disk is a Western Digital 20gb. Problem solved! And the computer where I put the 'broken' Maxtor drive in is also working fine... This disk just doesn't like linux 2.4.20 on this particular Via chipset, co

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub problem

2003-03-30 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:40 pm, ds wrote: > Problem solved, thank you Ernie!!! > > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:34, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:23 pm, ds wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > I seem to have lost my /boot/grub location. Heck for that matter, > > > I can't find g

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub problem

2003-03-30 Thread ds
Problem solved, thank you Ernie!!! On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:34, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:23 pm, ds wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I seem to have lost my /boot/grub location. Heck for that matter, I > > can't find grub.conf anywhere. I know I have it somewhere because > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub problem

2003-03-30 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:23 pm, ds wrote: > Greetings, > > I seem to have lost my /boot/grub location. Heck for that matter, I > can't find grub.conf anywhere. I know I have it somewhere because > when I boot I get my normal 5 seconds of splash screen that I > specifically defined in grub.conf in

[gentoo-user] fetchmail doesn't

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Wesley
Hi, I made a quick post on the forum, but in case someone here who's something people there don't: Does anyone know what is causing this in fetchmail?? I get it on various mail servers fetchmail: 6.2.2 querying pop.ntlworld.com (protocol POP3) at Sun Mar 30 20:21:23 2003: poll start

[gentoo-user] /boot/grub problem

2003-03-30 Thread ds
Greetings, I seem to have lost my /boot/grub location. Heck for that matter, I can't find grub.conf anywhere. I know I have it somewhere because when I boot I get my normal 5 seconds of splash screen that I specifically defined in grub.conf in my initial build. Reason I ask all this, is I made som

Re: [gentoo-user] How to protect a usb mass storage device advice

2003-03-30 Thread Jon \"GenKiller\"
This thread should get you up and going in no time :) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31363 -Jon "GenKiller" Gaudette Webmaster - http://www.digital-drip.com Co-Webmaster - http://www.cncnz.com On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:59, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using a while now a u

Re: [gentoo-user] VIA VT82C693A/694x ide trouble

2003-03-30 Thread Norberto BENSA
On Sunday 30 March 2003 02:22 pm, Kris Coryn wrote: > Hi tiemo, > > for me these errors are from the disk, yes a bad harddisk, > seen that often here with older disks. > I don't think so. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) hdd: ST330630A, ATA DISK drive hdd: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question

2003-03-30 Thread Timothy Grant
On Sunday 30 March 2003 06:22 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: > an example, I'll use Timothy Grant's web page which he ioncludes in his > signature in posts to this list. www.craigelachie.org I would expect to Ya trying to get me Gentoodotted there Ernie! -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.cra

Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c

2003-03-30 Thread Susie
Ok I found my problem. I have the 2.4.21-pre6 patch and after talking to the maintainer of the scanner patch he said maybe my usb wasn't on. Well doi me didn't notice my cam light was off(it's usb). Low and behold the kernel isn't loading the two usb drivers which I have built in. So if anyone

[gentoo-user] cdparanoia, cdrdao not using DMA?

2003-03-30 Thread Matt Garman
If I mount a normal iso9660 cdrom, then copy all of its contents to my hard drive, it is extremely slow, and bogs down my system if DMA is not enabled. If I use hdparm -d 1 on the CDRW, the copy then goes very smoothly and does not cause a performance hit to the computer. However, using the tool

Re: [gentoo-user] usb or ps2?

2003-03-30 Thread Bryan Feir
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:48:40PM +0200, gabor wrote: > i have a microsoft intellimouse. i can plug it into the usb or into the > ps/2 mouse connector. > > question: which is better? > > or: do you use the usb connector to connect your mouse or the ps/2? and > why? I use USB, for a very simp

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree upgrade recommended?

2003-03-30 Thread Sean
I know it's a bit off-topic, but how's the radeon 3d support these days. I seem to recall it being quite lackluster for quite a while, and then heard that ATI had gone the nvidia route with binary drivers. I currently have an NVidia card, but have been considering picking up one of the newer ATI Ra

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 & RAM

2003-03-30 Thread nealbirch
Sundance wrote: I heard nealbirch said: It's not just kde, I use window maker now ( I do have kde installed thought) and have the same problem with GL. I use a nvidia card, btw IIRC, the NVidia drivers are known to leak memory at every turn. You may want to try to take the X session down, r

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 & RAM

2003-03-30 Thread nealbirch
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 01:47 pm, nealbirch wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:51 am, Scott Thomason wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:31:24 +0100 "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: interesting point ... I use one of those GL screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Cable Modem Configuration

2003-03-30 Thread nealbirch
Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 19:18, Matt Neimeyer wrote: I'm trying to set up a Gentoo Router / File Server / Firewall... I've got multiple NIC's in the box (one for each port, to each room in the house). However, that leaves me one short to connect the cable modem. I connecte

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd keeps blowing away my custom /etc/ntp.conf

2003-03-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Are you running dhcp? I believe that will mess with the script unless you set one of the parametes telling it not to do it. > Howdy. I've a small problem that is really starting to piss me off. I have > a custom ntp.conf on my plaything gentoo box; all ntpd does on this box is > maintain peer c

[gentoo-user] How to protect a usb mass storage device advice

2003-03-30 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm using a while now a usb mass storage device ext3 format (usb stick) with sensitive information like gnupg, ssh keys and other data. The idee is if my laptop is stolen that information is not availible on the hard disk. But what is the usb stick is stolen !!!, is there a way to encrypt t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.2.1 Window Manager Choice

2003-03-30 Thread Sebastian Hungerecker
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:17:56 +0100 (BST) "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which window manager would you recommend that I should go with? I realy don't like metacity, because it's lacking a lot of features. I'd recommend xfwm4 or sawfish. Also waimea works great with gnome. -- [

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree upgrade recommended?

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sunday 30 March 2003 6:49 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Is 4.3.0 unmasked yet - if not stick with what you have until it is. > Especially since you are happy with 4.2.1. > > > Hi, > > > > I'm running xfree 4.2.1 right now, it works pretty smooth besides from > > some issues with the graphic adap

[gentoo-user] emerging gail for gnome

2003-03-30 Thread Gent00
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! When I try to emerge gail (as a dependency for gnome), I get: - -- Installing ./html/book1.html - -- Installing ./html/gail-libgail-util-gailmisc.html - -- Installing ./html/gail-libgail-util-gailtextutil.html - -- Installing ./html/libg

[gentoo-user] ntpd keeps blowing away my custom /etc/ntp.conf

2003-03-30 Thread Raptorfan
Howdy. I've a small problem that is really starting to piss me off. I have a custom ntp.conf on my plaything gentoo box; all ntpd does on this box is maintain peer connections amongst all my home unix boxen (one of which syncs to outside sources). Whenever this box is rebooted (which is frequent as

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree upgrade recommended?

2003-03-30 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Is 4.3.0 unmasked yet - if not stick with what you have until it is. Especially since you are happy with 4.2.1. > Hi, > > I'm running xfree 4.2.1 right now, it works pretty smooth besides from > some issues with the graphic adapter (Radeon 7500 sometimes doesn't > initialize, screen stays black)

[gentoo-user] monkey-media/rhythmbox compile error

2003-03-30 Thread Christian Aust
Hi, while trying to emerge rhythmbox I get this error while compiling monkey-media: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"MonkeyMedia\" -I.. -I../src/stream-info-impl -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/g

Re: [gentoo-user] VIA VT82C693A/694x ide trouble

2003-03-30 Thread Kris Coryn
Hi tiemo, for me these errors are from the disk, yes a bad harddisk, seen that often here with older disks. if you can boot from another distro or the gentoo cdrom do following test cat /dev/hda3 > /dev/null # check the 3 partition of the disk ATTENTION : > to dev/null NOT < or

Re: [gentoo-user] Good mp3 player/archiver recommendation

2003-03-30 Thread Mario Udina
> > mp3korn, needs mysql and qt, > > it is a graphic archiver / player, however it only stores the path > > to the mp3, not the song! > any links? i can't find it. sorry it was mp3kult emerge mp3kult http://mp3kult.sourceforge.net -- Mario Udina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: [gentoo-user] System and World question

2003-03-30 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Arun Bhanu said: > Hi, > > When I do a emerge system I get the following output(attached at the end > of the mail). Notice that vim-6.1 appears in the update of system. As > far as I know, vim is not part of system. Then why is it showing up in > the system update. Vim will upgrade only if you ha

[gentoo-user] Gnome 2.2.1 Window Manager Choice

2003-03-30 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello, In /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.2.1.ebuild on line 22 it says: # Metacity was choosen as the default window manager because of sawfish's long time of non-working state. and on lines 93-95 it says: "note that to change windowmanager to metacity do: " " export WINDOW_MANAGER=\"/us

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning CDs

2003-03-30 Thread Scott Thomason
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 03:59:03 -0300 Norberto BENSA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went back to ide-scsi and now everything is fine... Funny, I > remember burning CDs without ide-scsi when 2.4.20 came out. Oh well... I've had the same problems. I don't think you will find LKML the least bit interest

Re: [gentoo-user] Good mp3 player/archiver recommendation

2003-03-30 Thread gabor
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:39, Mario Udina wrote: > > what software is able to work with some 3000+ MP3 songs in a fast and > > efficient way? I'd like to have library browsing like Apple iTunes and > > quick sync between the library directory and database. Any > > recommendations? Best regards, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Good mp3 player/archiver recommendation

2003-03-30 Thread gabor
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:14, Christian Aust wrote: > Hi, > > what software is able to work with some 3000+ MP3 songs in a fast and > efficient way? I'd like to have library browsing like Apple iTunes and > quick sync between the library directory and database. Any > recommendations? Best regards,

[gentoo-user] VIA VT82C693A/694x ide trouble

2003-03-30 Thread Tiemo Kieft
Hi I'am having trouble with my Via based mainboard. Everytime I try to e2fsck /dev/hda3 I get the following error: ide0: reset: succes hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: status=0x10 { SectorIdNoFound }, LBAsect=58819088, sector=50593808 end_r

Re: [gentoo-user] Good mp3 player/archiver recommendation

2003-03-30 Thread Mario Udina
> what software is able to work with some 3000+ MP3 songs in a fast and > efficient way? I'd like to have library browsing like Apple iTunes and > quick sync between the library directory and database. Any > recommendations? Best regards, > > - Christian mp3korn, needs mysql and qt, it is a gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Toshiba Satellite 2410

2003-03-30 Thread Mario Udina
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 12:27, Chris van der Pennen wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 19:05, Mark Saunders wrote: > > I've installed gentoo on my a toshiba satellite 2410.. > > it went alot smoother than i expected - no problems at all. > > > > but i am having trouble getting xfree running. > > This

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question

2003-03-30 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 28 March 2003 11:51 am, Kurt Bechstein wrote: > Not a problem. Glad to hear it worked. > > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:45, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Friday 28 March 2003 11:32 am, Kurt Bechstein wrote: > > > From the kmail help manual: > > > > > > 6.6. How can I use a different browser

[gentoo-user] Good mp3 player/archiver recommendation

2003-03-30 Thread Christian Aust
Hi, what software is able to work with some 3000+ MP3 songs in a fast and efficient way? I'd like to have library browsing like Apple iTunes and quick sync between the library directory and database. Any recommendations? Best regards, - Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] xfree upgrade recommended?

2003-03-30 Thread Christian Aust
Hi, I'm running xfree 4.2.1 right now, it works pretty smooth besides from some issues with the graphic adapter (Radeon 7500 sometimes doesn't initialize, screen stays black) and the power management (ACPI isn't supported). But I'm particulary happy with font rendering. Should I upgrade to xfree

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1.1 & RAM

2003-03-30 Thread Sundance
I heard nealbirch said: > It's not just kde, I use window maker now ( I do have kde installed > thought) and have the same problem with GL. I use a nvidia card, btw IIRC, the NVidia drivers are known to leak memory at every turn. You may want to try to take the X session down, rmmod the NVidia

Re: [gentoo-user] usb or ps2?

2003-03-30 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I use the usb port... the only reason I have is that usb looks cool :) On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, gabor wrote: > hi, > > i have a microsoft intellimouse. i can plug it into the usb or into the > ps/2 mouse connector. > > question: which is better? > > or: do you use the usb connector to connect you

Re: [gentoo-user] usb or ps2?

2003-03-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 30 March 2003 14:48, gabor wrote: > hi, > > i have a microsoft intellimouse. i can plug it into the usb or into the > ps/2 mouse connector. > > question: which is better? > > or: do you use the usb connector to connect your mouse or the ps/2? and > why? usb it is 'faster', it supports h

[gentoo-user] usb or ps2?

2003-03-30 Thread gabor
hi, i have a microsoft intellimouse. i can plug it into the usb or into the ps/2 mouse connector. question: which is better? or: do you use the usb connector to connect your mouse or the ps/2? and why? thanks, gabor -- That's life for you, said McDunn. Someone always waiting for someone who

Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?

2003-03-30 Thread Arnold Krille
On Saturday 29 March 2003 23:50, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > For that login shells have been invented: > su - Hmm, thanks! su -l didn't work... Arnold -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Toshiba Satellite 2410

2003-03-30 Thread Chris van der Pennen
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 19:05, Mark Saunders wrote: I've installed gentoo on my a toshiba satellite 2410.. it went alot smoother than i expected - no problems at all. but i am having trouble getting xfree running. i can get it running fine at 800x600, but i can't get it going at 1024x768. 102

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Toshiba Satellite 2410

2003-03-30 Thread Mark Saunders
I've installed gentoo on my a toshiba satellite 2410.. it went alot smoother than i expected - no problems at all. but i am having trouble getting xfree running. i can get it running fine at 800x600, but i can't get it going at 1024x768. 1024x768 is the native resolution. i've got the nvidia dr