Re: [newbie] full screen gaming [WAS]Mandrakesoft quiet? Voodoo fixes?

2001-05-10 Thread abram olson
text always but I tried having it boot to init5 as a test and quake3 still worked fine. Abe --- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza francisco@MU1-1A-u-0534 wrote: Abe, How do you start linux?, in a graphical login or in the classic text one? ___ Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El

Re: [newbie] Geforce in Mandrake 8

2001-05-10 Thread abram olson
working great over here. abe --- s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, they work. -s On Thursday 10 May 2001 05:26 am, you wrote: Has anyone managed to install Geforce Xfree4 drivers on Mandrake 8 yet? I've not tried yet but didn't want to screw up my, currently, working, installation

RE: [newbie] DVD player

2001-05-01 Thread abram olson
http://xine.sourceforge.net Works great, is being actively worked on and is easy to build and install. If you look around a bit you can kind a very complete Xine version that has decss plugin included with it. Try google. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any question sgetting it

Re: [newbie] rebuild src.rpms with athlon optimizations

2001-04-28 Thread abram olson
well I tried to rebuild a package that I had successfully built before with these commands: rpm --rebuild --target=athlon ftp-0.17-4mdk.src.rpm rpm --rebuild --target=k7 ftp-0.17-4mdk.src.rpm and neither one of them worked. Here's an out put of where it failed on every one of the packages.

Re: [newbie] rebuild src.rpms with athlon optimizations

2001-04-28 Thread abram olson
wow man. Your as interested in this as I am! Cool. I'm running mandrake 8.0 and it reports that I have this gcc installed. 2.96-0.48mdk Everything goes fine with the builds until I get that error message then it barfs. I can see the build querying the compiler to see if it supports athlon

RE: [newbie] rebuild src.rpms with athlon optimizations

2001-04-28 Thread abram olson
PROTECTED] wrote: Rpm knows nothing about the K7 and the Athlon. You need to compile it for the i586 but pass Athlon switches to the compiler via RPM... Read the MAN... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of abram olson Sent

Re: [newbie] rebuild src.rpms with athlon optimizations

2001-04-28 Thread abram olson
hmm, in total I've tried this with 6 different packages and I get the same error with all of them so I don't think it's necessarily package related. I tried rebuilding gcc as i686 and it hung at the end when it was trying to write some pdf file??? I'll try it again though and see what happens.

[newbie] rebuild src.rpms with athlon optimizations

2001-04-27 Thread abram olson
I noticed that the version of gcc included with mdk 8.0 offers some athlon specific optimizations. Currently my system rebuilds src.rpms and source from tar balls as i686. How can I tell the compiler to use athlon optimizations? I've looked through the rpm website, the gcc manuals, the LDP and

Re: [newbie] rebuild src.rpms with athlon optimizations

2001-04-27 Thread abram olson
Probably. I've already done that in any case with Todd from mandrakes' help. So the question is this: I've got an athlon compiled kernel now how do I make athlon compiled packages? Abe --- michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to rebuild your kernel

Re: [newbie] Takes 7000000000000000000000 years to install windows fonts

2001-04-25 Thread abram olson
I noticed that huge amount of time too Vic. I was running DrakConf from a console and in the console there was about a million error messages saying something to the effect that the file type is not understood. After about 15 minutes of that drakfont finially got done. I;ve seen this behaviour

Re: [newbie] Grip

2001-04-25 Thread abram olson
that is really weird! I've done four installs of mandrake 8 so far and they have all been subtely different. I did a recommended install on my brothers machine and it yielded a system that was windows for all intents and purposes. I'm not sure of the exact numbers as far as size/bit rate

Re: [newbie] Grip

2001-04-24 Thread abram olson
I did an expert install of 8.0 and grip was setup to make mp3's using bladeenc I immediately changed it to make .oggs cause they sound better and are about the same size as mp3's. Xmms should play .oggs by the way. There is an xmms-ogg-vorbis package on the cd's that you can install to make it

[newbie] kapm-idled, 8.0, can't rebuild kernel, locking up.

2001-04-21 Thread abram olson
what is this kapm-idled thing and why can I not kill it? Why can I not disable it? Why is it absolutely there against my will? It takes up between 50 and 100% of my cpu on all monitoring progs making them USELESS and eventually causes my system to lock and crash. I uninstalled ALL kde