Re: [gentoo-user] umm... what not to do.

2003-02-05 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
deep world Check for newer versions of every package installed or needed. sync Flush dirty disk buffers. Not really needed, as this is done repeatedly in the shutdown scripts. halt Bring the system down immediately. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slowdown problem

2003-02-04 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
; slower! Starting interprocess communication and the second one takes > ages. My hostname is in the hosts file (and using analog modem for > network, but usually my box isn't connected). Do you have an AGP graphics card? Try adding the following to XF86Config: Section "DRI"

Re: [gentoo-user] Specifying which ide cdrom gets scsi emulation

2003-02-02 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
On Sunday 02 February 2003 09:32 pm, mikepolniak wrote: > However i believe kernel 2.6 will have cd burning without the need > for scsi emulation. Source? -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Specifying which ide cdrom gets scsi emulation

2003-02-02 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
rom hdc=ide-scsi /etc/modules.autoload: ide-cdrom This solution sucks, although a perhaps a more pertinant point would be "why?" -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] timezone and zic

2003-02-02 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
t; in /etc/localtime and I have no idea what this problem might be. Who knows... -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname

2003-02-02 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
erate those files anyway, requiring the shell to load /etc/hosname on startup is just more work. Granted that on a fast processor, this would be vanishingly small in terms of time, but it's still pointless. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb-uhci fails to load

2003-02-02 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:24 am, Alan Nilsson wrote: > on 2/01/03 10:55 PM, Bruce J.A. Nourish at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is my stuff: > Amd XP1800, ASUS Nvidia nforce chipset > Kernel 2.4.20 on Gentoo 1.4rc1 > > Output from insmod: > > Using /lib/modules/2.4.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb-uhci fails to load

2003-02-01 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
tually use the device. In short, mousedev and hid do different things: if you want to use your mouse, you need both. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge koffice" seg faults! (it's getting worse!) (correction)

2003-02-01 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
On Saturday 01 February 2003 08:18 pm, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote: > C++ compilation is not "more intensive": it simply requires less > work. The processor does (roughly) the same amount of work for each Argh! That should be "more work"! -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge koffice" seg faults! (it's getting worse!)

2003-02-01 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
erns of memory access, shifts, arithmetic and interrupts. The C++ compiler's pattern apparently annoys the processor more. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail/OpenPGP still not working right even after fixes..

2003-02-01 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
On Saturday 01 February 2003 01:37 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I made a howto for aegypten+kmail: > http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv/kmailgentoo.php Your page is unreadable in konqueror. The text is obscured by a huge box. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-user] About XFS

2003-01-31 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
ith or without the IMON module. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I sort mail easily?

2003-01-31 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
my mail via ISP. I stopped using procmail long ago. It does the job, but the language is cryptic and fragile. You might try maildrop, which has proper support for maildir folders, and a simple, clear language. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to write an init.d script

2003-01-30 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
27;s own memory space; the moment it tries to do anything else, the kernel will kill it. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA query

2003-01-30 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
that is already in-kernel. I find it hard to believe that a set of stable modules like ALSA would crash for attempting something like this. Again, kernel logs would be needed. Also, have you checked the ALSA page to see if/by what driver the card is supported? -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] About XFS

2003-01-30 Thread Bruce J.A. Nourish
6G 19G 20% / I've never had trouble with XFS. -- Bruce J.A. Nourish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list