[gentoo-user] sudoers file

2005-04-19 Thread Tres Melton
HI, I'm trying to add a user to my /etc/sudoers file that will enable them to play doom3 with elevated priorities but NOT elevated privileges. I want to cut down on the choppiness in the game play for the user so I want them to start doom3 with the command: "sudo nice -n -5 /usr/games/bin/doom3

Re: [gentoo-user] --update world aftermath...

2005-04-19 Thread Scott Jones
Digby, Etc-update always wants to replace files that are different from the standard files (baseline files).  The secret is to remember which files you changed and not let it replace them.  So, if you want your alsa to keep working do not let it modify your already-modified files.  Also watch out

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge oddity.. update

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:56:21 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I did check the bugzilla (by searching for mozilla in the package > database and then invoking the 'bugs' link) but none of the > five items listed seemed to refer to 10.0.3.. Why 'mozilla' when the error was with RealPlayer? Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >I need to learn the RAID levels, but what I mean is I think what's > >called mirroring. > > > > Yep, thats RAID1. Forgive me, I've been married to my laptop for too > long, and I forget that 'normal' computers can have

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge oddity.. update

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
Sorry - that was a typo. Typing 'bugzilla' must have made me think back to my earlier problem with mozlla :-/ It was actually 'realplayer' that I searched on, and which produced the five matches when I selected the 'bugs' link I just tried it again, and all it gives me are ID's 6720, 79555, 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Question

2005-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 11:57 am, James Colby wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I apologize if this has been covered before, but I have not been able > to find an answer through searching. > > My question, when I do an emerge -p --deep --update world emerge tells > me that it wants to install kde-base

Re: [gentoo-user] --update world aftermath...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
Ah, 'etc-update'! I knew there was some tool to semi-automate the process, but I can never remember the name. The emerge warning always directs me to consult 'emerge --help config' for more information, but this omits any mention of anything other than manual searching and updating.. Perhaps it w

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-19 Thread Phill MV
> From your dmesg output, it looks like you have some kind of hardware > problem. Have you double checked that your cabling and hardware > configuration is good? Some things to check: > > 1. That the burner is jumpered correctly for 'master'. Done/ > 2. The IDE cable is not damaged (you might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

2005-04-19 Thread Robert Morris
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:27 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > Le mardi 19 avril 2005 à 09:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit : > > > > > are you sure this doesn't answer your question? It solved my system > > clock drift (which was about 30 minutes a day, but hw clock was ok). I > > know adjtime

[gentoo-user] Re: DNS resolution not working with DHCP (RESOLVED)

2005-04-19 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
A. Khattri wrote: > 1. Can you ping that name server? Yes. > 2. What is /etc/nsswitch.conf Via another post, I'm guessing you're looking for the 'hosts' line, which is 'hosts: files dns' > 3. Check you dont have a firewall blocking UDP 53. Not sure how to test that. But read on... > If you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Erik
Mark Knecht wrote: >On 4/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>If/when you do try this, please report the results. I am using USB2.0 >>disks for my backups right now, but my bandwidth is limited to 20MB/sec >>total. Since one of the disks I backup is also a USB2.0 disk, my >>eff

[gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-19 Thread Nanayakkara, Pubudu
My PC has Windows installed. I am trying to boot it up with Gentoo boot CD so I can install gentoo on it. But it is failing to read the boot CD. What could be the problem? Cheers, Pubudu. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
> >On my 3 1394 drives I get about 18MB/S, 24MB/S and 24MB/S. The 18MB/S > >drive is the oldest (and smallest at 40GB) of the three. > > > > > That sounds very slow. I get 36,7MB/s (hdparm -t /dev/hda) on the > harddisk in my laptop from last year (1400MB/s with hdparm -T /dev/hda). > Newer station

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-19 Thread Tres Melton
Change the order of the boot devices in your BIOS. You might make sure that you can actually see the CD from Winblows so that you know it is readable. If this is your problem then you might want to try a distro that is geared more towards new Linux users. On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:12 +1000, Nanay

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Did you burn the data file or burn the iso? If you look at the CD in Windows what do you see? (Should be folders and files - not a single iso file. Next, does your PC boot from CD. Some people turn that off or place it after the hard drive so they can leave a CD in and still boot. check BIOS. Thi

RE: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-19 Thread Nanayakkara, Pubudu
Yes, I can see the file on Windows, and I have changed the BIOS to boot it from CD. But it still doesn't work. BTW what is distro? - Pubudu. -Original Message- From: Tres Melton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2005 2:38 PM To: Gentoo List Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]

RE: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-19 Thread Nanayakkara, Pubudu
This may be the issue, I only have one iso file.. "install-amd64-universal-2005.0.iso" Gentoo installation guide doesn't say that I need to have more than one file. So, I downloaded only the ISO file. Cheers, Pubudu. -Original Message- From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-19 Thread Willie Wong
I am not familiar with Windows CD burning software, but there should be an option for you to Open an ISO file. Sometimes it is called Open a disc Image, or something similar. What you have done is, instead of burning the iso as a raw data, making a CD of the iso. You want to think of the iso as a

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