[gentoo-user] rearranging hd for adding a winxp install

2003-11-07 Thread a_k_b
hi there i always wanted to prevent this, but now that there are so many new games outta there, i want to have a gaming os back on my hd... so i decided to install winxp additionally in a small partition on my first hard drive. but now, as you can imagine, there are _several_ problems. i got th

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware crashes all the time

2003-10-31 Thread a_k_b
> What version of vmware are you running? What kernel version are you running? > Did you compile the kernel modules with the same version of gcc that you > compiled your kernel with? Have you made sure the vmware modules are loaded > before you run vmware? here a few facts: --- [~] > uname -a L

[gentoo-user] vmware crashes all the time

2003-10-31 Thread a_k_b
well, i started a thread in this ml a week or so ago, which was part of this problem. but i think the problem is vmware at all. when i start vmware (root works, normal user not!? O_o), it boots the system and after a short time it freezes, so i cant really use it. in this case it is a win2kserve

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot remove vmmon module (from vmware)

2003-10-07 Thread a_k_b
modules dont have a pid!? > sorry, use "kill -9 " for the modules. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot remove vmmon module (from vmware)

2003-10-07 Thread a_k_b
well, i cant do this, because of this two still running references on this module. did i forget this point? *lol* _this_ is my problem: i cannot remove it. if i could, i coult run vmware-config.pl. Am Tue, 07 Oct 2003 06:38:12 +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "rmmod" the m

[gentoo-user] cannot remove vmmon module (from vmware)

2003-10-06 Thread a_k_b
hi there, i got the following problem: once these days my vmware started, but the vm was hanging, so i had to kill the vmware process. but now, after killing it, the vmmon module doesnt get free to unload it. i think it hanged because the modules had to be recompiled for my new kernel. so it se

[gentoo-user] caller number and fax monitoring?

2003-09-17 Thread a_k_b
does anyone know about a tool for monitoring my isdn (normal voice calls) and/or isdn fax? at the moment i run an answering machine and a fax with my fritz!pci (isdn card) and it works quite well. i receive and send faxes and also the answering machine works well. but my problem is to notify tha

[gentoo-user] how to allow dialin via isdn?

2003-08-29 Thread a_k_b
is there a way to allow a user to dialin via isdn, so he is part of my lan? with windows i did this to play lan games over a "wan" connection, such as vpn. but i cant really use vpn, since the other user is restricted to direct dialin instead of using the internet (its faster and doesnt cost any

[gentoo-user] any gtk-stock theme out there?

2003-08-27 Thread a_k_b
does anyone know about a stock theme for gtk or something like that? i already know that its a) possible via ~/.gtkrc(.mine) and that b) gtk2 themes can provide stock items (which isnt done by many, as far as i know). but is there a source for stock icons? art.gnome.org doesnt have any (or not m

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread a_k_b
> > mh sure... i understand this. but cant there be kind of prevention? i think if its > > so easy to do those things with xfree, there should be something like an > > automatically deallocation of the memory the app used. would be much better to > > prevent this... and give an option to NOT to

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread a_k_b
> This then makes for a mess when a sloppy coder doesn't deallocate RAM as > he should when having used X pixmap calls. This is a gaim bug that > should be filed. mh sure... i understand this. but cant there be kind of prevention? i think if its so easy to do those things with xfree, there shou

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread a_k_b
> Same problems here, sure it's gaim, sure sylpheed-claws releases it's memory > without problems, but, when you have all your gtk+ apps killed, why the memory > isn't released?? well, i tested around for a while now and have to say that it really seems to be gaim. the less i chat with gaim, the l

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-15 Thread a_k_b
> You're not running Xinerama by any chance, are you? nope... well, i think i have support for it compiled in (wherever...), but dont use it. arne -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-15 Thread a_k_b
well, i tried to check something within the last few hours. here's what i experienced: at one point there was (nearly at the beginning of my x session) a moment that x used about 70% of my memory. when i killed sylpheed-claws, it got back to about 20%. but then after a few hours (well, when i wok

[gentoo-user] console unusable after vidmode change

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
hi there, i got the following problem: for a few days now i cant switch back to a x-less vt any more. when i do this, i got a crappy screen with some green symbols on it, but cannot read anything. when my pc starts it is all okay, but when i start x and switch back / kill x, its that crappy. i

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
> > uhm... i think both of the mentioned apps use them, dont they? > gaim uses gtk-2, sylpheec-claws gtk-1.2 i talked about pixmaps :) sry if i didnt say this properly :-) but, i think its gaim or gtk itself, since gaim is the one which has _always_ had a problem with slowing down after a while a

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
> Ok , this soudnds rather aggrevating indeed. > could you think through what programs you are using on a regular basis, > since it probably is some program leaking pixmaps into X and failing to > reclaim them. well, on a regular basis its especially gaim and sylpheed-claws. both apps in differen

Re: [gentoo-user] console unusable after vidmode change

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
> Out of interest what video drivers are you using?? If you are using the > nvidia driver and a frame buffer for the kernel boot up then this is a known > problem (its in the nvidia readme's). It is caused as two kernel drivers both > want the same hardware I think. ah good to know... but

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
> Have you tested the memory to make sure you havent got a bad stick? Try > emergeing memtest86, if there is a memory leak it should spot it. does an memory error cause programs to fill up memory? sounds bit weird... but if so, it explains many of my problems *lol* arne -- [EMAIL PROTE

[gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-14 Thread a_k_b
hi there, for months now i got the problem that X eats my mem and cpu after running awhile. i dont know the problem, since other guys told me they got much less problems than me with this... does anyone know a problem that could cause this? i could imagine its got something to do with gtk, sinc