Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla 1.5 issues

2003-10-27 Thread Frank Reich
Tom Wesley wrote: With 1.5 could you try going to www.livejournal.com and using some of the links at the top... My Mozilla dies instantly. No problem here. Checked a few links. But I didn't emerge Mozilla-1.5. Didn't want to update all the packages of the dependencies, well not yet. I downloaded

Re: [gentoo-user] question to linux-headers

2003-10-14 Thread Frank Reich
Spider wrote: The update to -r1 is a very small one, that just adds a virtual to tell your system that it has the OS headers, something which was not necessary when we first packaged linux-headers, but that had to be added now that we have more versions here. Well... I'll update then. Shouldn't I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging nvidia-kernel fails

2003-10-14 Thread Frank Reich
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Enable it in the kernel options when you run make menuconfig and then build the kernel. Seems my friend didn't really boot the new kernel :-/ Thx anymay. Regards, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] question to linux-headers

2003-10-13 Thread Frank Reich
Hello. I wonder what's going on with those version numbers. I currently use a gentoo-stable kernel (sys-kernel/gs-sources-2.4.21_rc8). But for some time now when trying to update a package it tells me to update sys-kernel/linux-headers as well - from 2.4.19 to 2.4.19-r1. Why 2.4._19_, although

[gentoo-user] emerging nvidia-kernel fails

2003-10-12 Thread Frank Reich
Hello. A friend of mine has a problem emerging nvidia-kernel (emerge nvidia-glx works fine). The error messages says something about MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support disabled -> should be enabled by reconfiguring and recompiling kernel. It's a gentoo-stable 2.4.22_pre2 and my friend h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: maybe Gentoo-specific X-server problem

2003-10-12 Thread Frank Reich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, did that help, or not? it's unclear to me from your post. Sorry, I didn't get you in the first place. Now I've tried what you said - it took some time because I didn't have time for further testing - and it didn't help :-( I commented out the "Modes"-lines as you sai

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: maybe Gentoo-specific X-server problem

2003-10-06 Thread Frank Reich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [XF86Config-section] you'll need to ctrl-alt-+ to find a resolutions that work There was my problem! As I already said in my other posting, XFree checks EDID (Extended Display Identification Data), which for my monitor only allows 1280x1024 as maximum resolution. But I kn

Re: [gentoo-user] maybe Gentoo-specific X-server problem

2003-10-05 Thread Frank Reich
Donnie Berkholz wrote: The configuration tools provided by XFree86 are generally enough to get the job done (X -configure, xf86cfg -textmode, and xf86config are three primary methods). Oh no. I usually want a higher screen resolution than the one the monitor was designed for, e.g. I want 1152x864

[gentoo-user] maybe Gentoo-specific X-server problem

2003-10-05 Thread Frank Reich
Hello. I have a problem using my 20inch monitor with a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels. It's a Sony GDM-4011P which is a little old but in Windows I got it up to 1400x1050 at 85Hz using a tool named Powerstrip. Now I want to use this monitor on my Gentoo machine. For I don't know any other tuni

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic with detection of IRQ-Router

2003-09-08 Thread Frank Reich
Everything unnessessary like ACPI or APM etc. has been removed from the kernel. But no success yet :-( Any other ideas? Regards, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Kernel panic with detection of IRQ-Router

2003-09-08 Thread Frank Reich
Hello. For a friend of mine I ask you for help on a Gentoo-install on an old computer. I already tried in alt.os.linux.gentoo, but the answer(s) didn't help. The problem is this: Hardware: Pentium 120 with Intel FX chipset Distribution: Gentoo 1.4 The Gentoo-boot-CD boots successful. When check