Re: [gentoo-amd64] Bad performance on doom3 with alsa and oss

2006-01-20 Thread David Guerizec
Le Vendredi 20 Janvier 2006 09:36, Etienne Imguimbert a écrit : Dear all Here is the alsa section of the FAQ about Linux version of doom3: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/#head-8c36163f1dfc3a253ef72c0f821 b0b0dd2fc17b1 This FAQ says about amd64 system: on amd64 systems you may

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, This logging in business is the recommended test for my generated password. Really I need the username to install my compiled fwall. A user of root doesn't work so that is why I'm mithering you guys. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Bad performance on doom3 with alsa and oss

2006-01-20 Thread Etienne Imguimbert
I have looked in /lib/modules/kernelXXX, I did not found any snd-ioctl32 module... I have juste enabled tue sound support in the kernel (and no oss or alsa), and just emerged alsa-driver, alsa-lib. Where can I find this module? Regards, Etienne 2006/1/20, David Guerizec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Dear Harm, thanks for the links. I endeavour to use the 'best' Linux I can (which, initially I thought was Debian). I save ALL useful correspondence. I thought problems and fixing them were a integral part to learning, as I am a new dist, consequently I find your suggestion to change to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin Philp
I am afraid I am slightly lost now. To log into the ssh server with a password you need the following: 1. Server running and accepting password logins - some don't accept passwords but only accept rsa/dsa keys - it depends on the setup. 2. You can see the server and the ssh port from the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
I am really sorry for this, I am following fwbuilder instructions from tp://www.fwbuilder.org/archives/cat_howtos.html#95 it recommends ssh to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which lost me. Correctly someone pointed out about allowing root access with ssh, I had forgotten I stopped this in the absence of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world [working]

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I ran python-updater and merged dbus, all works now. Thanks Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:06, Gavin Seddon wrote: Dear Harm, thanks for the links. I endeavour to use the 'best' Linux I can (which, initially I thought was Debian). I save ALL useful correspondence. I thought problems and fixing them were a integral part to learning, as I am a new

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Dear Harm, Indeed, occasionally I do not put enough effort into my problems; however there are prob;ems I fix myself but you don't hear about these. This isn't laziness I just have too much to do, really I should have time to myself to fix my problems . You are quite correct though it was the

[gentoo-amd64] Re: error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Duncan
Harm Geerts posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:02 +0100: On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:01, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I ran the updater. I received ' * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 57 config files in /etc need updating. *

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world gentoo general

2006-01-20 Thread B Vance
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:32 +, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, thanks Duncan. I have renamed this since the topic has changed and it isn't really relevant to updating. Has anyone seen this months new scientist? There's an article about OS's used for browsing. It gives the percentages of

[gentoo-amd64] Upgrading behaviour

2006-01-20 Thread kevin
I have been running an AMD64 system for a while and was tempted by ~AMD64. I copied my hardrive onto a spare, booted it up, edited make.conf to use ~AMD64 as the default and ran emerge sync emerge -uavDN world. After a bit of fiddling around with emerge stopping on several occasions for various

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrading behaviour

2006-01-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 23:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running an AMD64 system for a while and was tempted by ~AMD64. I copied my hardrive onto a spare, booted it up, edited make.conf to use ~AMD64 as the default and ran emerge sync emerge -uavDN world. After a bit of fiddling