I have made the following expierience with frozen X:
*) Even if normal keyboard doesn't work, the Magic SysRq often stil does
and allows for a "clean" reboot by holding AltGr and pressing k then s then
u then b -- Kill all processes, Sync all drives, Umount all drives, Boot
the system.
*) the
On Sunday, the 16th of January, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly spake:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:53:43PM +0800, ZeeGeek wrote:
sometimes I read books on my laptop, and it's just annoying
to have the xscreensaver blank the screen every few minutes
without moving the mouse or keyboard. so I wanna stop
xscr
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
Err... "AltGr"?
a.k.a Right Alt.
Whatever activates the "SysRq" key on your keyboard, usually "PrtSc" or
"Print" on IBM PC keyboards.
You can also configure the key by writing a character to
/proc/sysrq-trigger
See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
On 01/16/05 18:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
Err... "AltGr"?
a.k.a Right Alt.
Whatever activates the "SysRq" key on your keyboard, usually "PrtSc" or
"Print" on IBM PC keyboards.
You can also conf
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
On 01/16/05 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
On 01/16/05 18:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday, the 16th of January, Peng thusly spake:
B means "do a hard reboot"
O means "do a hard poweroff"
T
Quoting Chris Bare from Nov 26
> I also can't figure out who has a dependency on lesstif. I tried emerge -puUD
> on each of the other packages listed above, one at a time, and none
> of them showed up with lesstif when I did it that way.
It is probably Opera.
In the Opera ebuild there is a line
Quoting Spider from Dec 2
> begin quote
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:19:41 -0600
> "Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said
> > old game?
> > ( nope, the ps/2 that I ran it on originally is dead )
>
>
Quoting Robert Cernansky from Dec 3
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:21:26 -0600 "MARTINSON, GREGORY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> MG> I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with 48
> MG> Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and ftp as
> MG> well as mayb
Quoting Stephan Wesselman from Dec 3
> What is the package or command to use the "finger username" in gentoo?
> And what do I need to emerge to get this command?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ qpkg -f /usr/bin/finger
net-misc/netkit-fingerd *
You could have got to this by either:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
Quoting Davide Ricci from Dec 12
>
> Hi,
> I did install gentoo on my machine starting from a stage2 tarball.
> After bringing up the minimum system wanted to install the KDE and did a
> # emerge -u kde
>
> But the compilation wasn't successful since the ebuild 'qt-3.2.2-r1' exploited
> a bug in
Quoting Jeff Smelser from Dec 16
> --[PinePGP]--[begin]--
> On Tuesday 16 December 2003 07:55 pm, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 December 2003 09:32, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> > > Listen moron. I didn't say anything about the popularity.. We
Quoting Heitzso from Dec 19
> > I'm used to command line admin programs and hand editing files
> > but would like to try a gui admin system. What gui admin suite
> > works best with gentoo?
>
>
I know linuxconf which is theoretically universal but _very_
RH-specific AFAIK, and then there are
Quoting Lee John Moore from Jan 30
> Anybody else suffered the same fate? I get segfaults trying to run opera and
> opera-static after emerging KDE3.1; I can't even get the GUI.
Yes I did.
I fixed it by editing ~/.opera/opera6.ini
and removing the line where it looks for the plugins:
[User P
Quoting Alan from Feb 5
> Well, looks like gnome 2.2 is now officially out. Anyone have any bets
> on how long before we have ebuilds in the main gentoo tree? :)
>
> Hmm... better check in case they are already there.
for the impatient, there is a guide here:
http://cvs.gentoo.org/~spide
Quoting gabor from Feb 6
> and now back to the topic:
> IS GIVING A HIGHER PRIORITY TO X A GOOD IDEA OR NOT ?
AFAIK RedHat 8.0 does it per default, together with their "jiffies"
kernel hack makes the system much more responsive.
My guess is they needed to do that in order to run their GnoDE
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Feb 20
>
> I made the following change to /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
> # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
> # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
> SubSection "extmod"
> # Option"omit xfree86-dga"
Hi!
I have a strange mouse by fujitsu, called the TouchBird. Instead of
the middle mouse button is has a small touchpad, which functions as a
third button by double tapping, and as two mouse wheels (up-down,
left-right) when dragging the finger.
I got the up-down wheel functionality and the t
Quoting Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) from Feb 26
> I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his
> laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able
> to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our
> business. Can anyone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Feb 26
> Yeah, I did look at the website, and I have to go with "looks dodgy" as well.
[...]
>
> So, why am I writing? I want to make a prediction. The prediction is that,
> in Malcolm Gardner Associates' training materials and courses on "Data
> protection" there
Hi!
I assume like me, there are a lot of people running several different
kernels, sometimes booting this, sometimes that.
Now if one emerges a third-party modules, like the NVIDIA kernel
driver, emerge moves the module to the /lib/modules/ dir of
the current kernel, that is, the one the /usr
Quoting Elvis Dieguez from Feb 27
> Oh God don't start the vi-emacs-nano-elvis-jed war again. If you want to use
> VI just do:
>
> emerge vi
>
> and continue on your merry way. Who cares that historically *nix has VI in its
> base install? Cars used to have a crank out front to start them up b
Quoting Elvis Dieguez from Feb 27
> I suppose you are correct about my poor example (I wanted to be sarcastic
> because I am tired of this argument that shows up every other month).
>
> And I understand things would have been better in your situation had you had a
> statically compiled VI pres
Quoting Johnh from Feb 28
> Here's the problem.
> I am trying to edit a windows registry file
> system.reg is 2974173 in size.
>
> I can edit it, but it's really slow.
I recommend nedit, it deals with large files just fine, and is easy
to use if you are used to windows editors, because it uses
Hi!
I am running a SMP kernel on my dual athlon system.
The kernel lets you turn off the second CPU at boot-time when using
the "nosmp" boot option.
Unfortunately, when I do this (to save power when i dont need it),
my network card (PCI Davicom 9102) does not work.
I can ping my local IP (192
Quoting Ben Sparks from Mar 5
> I've been emerging kde since oh, about midnight last night and every
> once and a while I'll glance at the screen and sometimes I'll see a
> random "warning this..or warning that" should I be concerned with these
> warnings or are they just a common occurance whe
Quoting Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos from Mar 6
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using latest gentoo kernel sources and I have iptables 1.2.7a. I've
> ran the commands:
> localhost root # iptables -t nat -F
> localhost root # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
>
> where eth1 is m
Hi!
I get this error with emergeing tetex-2.0-r1:
gcc -o oxdvi.bin xdvi.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o events.o font-open.o
string-utils.o my-vsnprintf.o my-snprintf.o help-window.o
message-window.o statusline.o xserver-info.o gf.o pk.o psdps.o psgs.o
psheader.o psnews.o special.o util.o vf.o sfDir.
I did some research, and found that the libwwwsql.so lib belongs to
package net-libs/libwww
when I try to reemerge that, I get
!!! Error: the >=mysql-4 package conflicts with this package and both
can't be installed on the same system together.
heh. But they are!
This looks like a bug in
Quoting Heino Herrlich from Mar 6
> Peter wrote:
>
> PG> I get this error with emergeing tetex-2.0-r1:
>
> PG> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> PG> warning: libmysqlclient.so.10, needed by /usr/lib/libwwwxml.so, not
> PG> found (try using -rpath o
Hi!
I just found a typo in /etc/mailcap:
# The following displays Japanese text at sites where
# the "kterm" program is installed:
#text/plain; kterm -geometry +0+0 -e more %s /dev/null; \
test=test "`echo %{charset} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`" = iso-2022-jp
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