I've got a few questions here. If I smell napalm in my inbox tomorrow morning, then I'll know I have gone too far.
0. How do the geeks who use, try, multiple distros handle the ~/.* stuff, especially across major/minor versions of GNOME, KDE, etc.? I think I've already solved this one, though. I made a /cfg directory in each distro's partition with symlinks in my ~/ directory pointing down into the distro's partition to the real user configuration data at /cfg/<user>/.*. 1. Before I installed nvidia's proprietary driver for my video card I could do up to 1600x1200 at 24 BPP. The nvidia driver seems to be restricting me now to 1280x1024. I tried commenting out 1280x1024 and lower for each color depth in /etc/X11/XF86Config and then restarting xdm. This caused X to cycle through each mode and then quit, after, it seemed, finding none acceptable. If this is an nvidia.o problem, can I reasonably switch to the nvidia driver on the fly for GL intensive applications and then back? 2. I can't seem to get bittorrent to work under gentoo. The errors I'm getting imply, it seems, that the defaultly configured firewall on my box doesn't allow traffic over bittorrent's usual ports. I know zero about TCP/IPv4, networking stuff. Where is a good place to start? Is it easy to discreetly open ports 6881-6889 for bittorrent traffic? 3. About 4:5 CDs I try to burn end up corrupted by bus errors. I've been using xcdroast mostly, but also tried vanilla cdrecord but get the same bus error. Would k3b solve this? (How's that for an untrained question?) This happens on fedora (2.4.22-1.2149.nptl with SCSI emulation) and on gentoo (2.6.1 using native ATAPI protocol). None of cdrecord's options seem to solve the problem. Justin ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
