Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop 3D Graphics

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Stilson Jr.
Hey Steven, I have had pretty good luck so far with the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel ebuilds on x86 systems (still running the 2.4 kernel). The two cards I have configured so far are the GeForce 2 Go in my Inspiron 2650 and the GeForce FX 5200 in my tower. As far as other chips, the ATIs have

Re: [gentoo-user] Macintosh volumes

2004-01-16 Thread Michael Stilson Jr.
I have used it (hfsplus) with the 2.4.x kernel. Just compiled it as a module on my IBM clone and built-in on my PPC machine. So far I haven't had any problems. I guess I haven't tried to mount and rw to a Mac volume from the IBM clone though. No problems with the Mac. It's an old world machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Toshiba 300CDS

2004-01-13 Thread Michael Stilson Jr.
If you are compiling the system from scratch (is there any other way to do it ;), my advice is to have at least a 512MB swap space; otherwise, you are probably going to hang. I also needed, 1GB minimum for my /var partition to compile xfree86. With a 2GB ceiling, we are quickly running out of

Re: [gentoo-user] installing qmail

2004-01-13 Thread Michael Stilson Jr.
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Tony Larco wrote: I had the same blocked package. I did it just like this and it worked great. # emerge unmerge ssmtp then # emerge qmail I don't know if it's the most appropriate way to do it, but hey it works. :) - michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] X/Gnome: How does this work for regular users?

2004-01-13 Thread Michael Stilson Jr.
On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 07:31 PM, Aaron Walker wrote: gabriel wrote: On January 11, 2004 07:04 pm, Michael Stilson Jr. wrote: Just got done emerging xfree and gnome. My root user can log into gnome fine (obviously), but my regular user (groups: users, wheel, audio) cannot log in to gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] X/Gnome: How does this work for regular users?

2004-01-13 Thread Michael Stilson Jr.
hey, cool, cool... So then we get something like... . . drwxrwxrwt5 root root 1024 Jan 13 15:16 tmp . . Haven't tested it out on my home desktop and laptop yet, but my little test server here at the office let's me store my options in lynx instead of just crashing. A very

[gentoo-user] X/Gnome: How does this work for regular users?

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Stilson Jr.
Hey, Just got done emerging xfree and gnome. My root user can log into gnome fine (obviously), but my regular user (groups: users, wheel, audio) cannot log in to gnome. Looks like permission errors. Is there a group or groups that I should add my user to? I read through the Desktop

[gentoo-user] X/Gnome: How does this work for regular users?

2004-01-11 Thread Michael Stilson Jr.
Hey, Just got done emerging xfree and gnome. My root user can log into gnome fine (obviously), but my regular user (groups: users, wheel, audio) cannot log in to gnome. Looks like permission errors. Is there a group or groups that I should add my user to? I read through the Desktop