Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4 starting at level 3

2004-01-23 Thread Eric Ball
On Saturday January 24 2004 07:04 am, Kurt Guenther wrote: > I did an: > >rc-update del xdm > > and removed it. How do I add it to runlevel 4? No man page. > "rc-update" seems to indicate that > > rc-update add runlevel4 > > might work, but it doesn't. > > --Kurt You might want to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Init & config files

2004-01-14 Thread Eric Ball
On Tuesday January 13 2004 11:29 pm, Sensei wrote: > Now, who overwrites the configuration files? I had the same problem > with modules.conf for alsa, and I had to modify /etc/modules.d/alsa > --- and I found no documentation about this kind of init. > > Anyone can help me? I don't understand who s

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla problems

2004-01-05 Thread Eric Ball
On Monday January 5 2004 04:03 pm, Ben Munat wrote: > Anyone else have trouble with losing the ability to type in Mozilla > (and Firebird)? I've found that it fairly consistently locks me out > of typing inside of web text fields *and* the address bar. It seems > like it happens when I close anothe

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition Magic

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Ball
On Monday September 8 2003 02:26 pm, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get a reasonably priced copy of > Partition Magic? When I deleted my other partitions in Windows, I > inadvertently deleted the Linux partition I created with PM a year > ago. Damn Microsoft!!! Got fix th

Re: [gentoo-user] ati drivers

2003-08-15 Thread Eric Ball
> > so after "emerge -u world" > > ...trying a lot of mirrors.. > > !!! Couldn't download fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.4.i586.tar.gz. > > Aborting. > > > > I have tried it for a few days now but I get still the same error. > > What is going wrong here? > > I've been having the same problem. I used lynx t

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling for a new architecture

2003-07-21 Thread Eric Ball
On Monday July 21 2003 10:23 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote: > As far as I know. Instruction ordering and such are also optimised > for specific CPUs, I think, but you'd really have to check gcc's home > page to be sure. I moved a -march=pentium3 system to an Athlon XP, and everything still works fast en

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer help

2003-07-11 Thread Eric Ball
> It is. I've got an XP 1800+ myself, and the core speed is about > 1530 MHz. I have no idea how this works internally, but, in any case, > your clock speed is correct. It goes up 66 MHz per 100 points for Athlon XPs with 256 KB of cache. -Eric -- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it ta

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find masked dependencies.

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Ball
On Friday July 11 2003 04:33 am, Robert Young wrote: > I am trying to follow > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/chinese.html > > and I am trying to add zh-kcfonts > but its dependencies seem to be masked. > > How do I find masked dependencies. > > I added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to make.conf and the

Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..

2003-07-03 Thread Eric Ball
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:14 pm, Robin H.Johnson wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > For your list of CFLAGS there, I'd advise you to read what the gcc > manpage has on them. Some of them are ok, but solely due the following > ones, I personally as a developer wouldn't support your bugs until you > recompil

Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..

2003-07-03 Thread Eric Ball
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:42 pm, drewbian wrote to gentoo-user: > > After looking through the huge array of optimizations people have posted > > on the discussion forum's I'm rather confused as to what the hey to put > > in there. Particularly as most posters seem to use Pent 4's or Athlon > > XP's, >