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kirill

Usually I can read Bugzilla stuff. But I have questions about http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7163 . Is there a bug in privoxy-3.0.0 or in the privoxy ebuild or is this just an announcement? When might the privoxy package be updated to 3.0.0? Should I use the ebuild given or compile manually ...

kirill

splakdatter wrote:Is there a web site somewhere that describes tweaks to speed up KDE?

Thanks

I don't know about any particular sites, but we've got a KDE optimization thread here on forums. Maby you'll get some hints from there!

kirill

I tried using the --march=duron example in make.conf, but gcc barfed on it. Changing it to i686 works fine, buy why doesn't duron work? This is with Gentoo v1.4 rc1

Why did you think it would work? Maby there is no such architecture as duron. And by the way you should use -march (one line).

For ...

kirill

cf25 wrote: how do i get it to do that automagically?quote]

Use the pcmcia init-script.
Code: Select all
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start
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rc-update add pcmcia default

kirill

route -n does this on client:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
128.113.136.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 128.113.136.254 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0

and this on server:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref ...

kirill

Currently it reports as NTFS/HPFS in fdisk. This must be incompatible with the NTFS module in the kernel.

What filesystem id should I use if it's possible to change without deleting all data on the partition?

My workstation's NTFS partition is also reported as NTFS/HPFS in linux' fdisk. You ...

kirill

I'm trying to connect to a vpn server. Therefor i had compiled the kernel with ppp, installed the pptpclient and configured it with
pptp-command. After starting i get the message that the tunnel was set up correctly for ppp0 (checked with ifconfig) but i still can't reach any server outside.
thx ...

kirill

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/usr/src/linux/include/asm/fixmap.h:18: asm/acpi.h: No such file or directory
//quote]

Any ideas? I tried (heheh) recompiling my kernel and installing from source without portage, and i get the same error messages. Keep in mind that the old drivers DID work, i just got this problem when ...

kirill

I apologize for not reading up more before posting. I just was itchin to post. I know how it gets annoying when people consistently ask the same questions. On another topic all together. Anyone have any luck setting up the linux-wlan prism2 drivers? How does the presence of the wlan-ng script ...

kirill

Does anyone know the permissions I use on my ~/htdocs/ user directory to have apache provide the http://localhost/~username service?

Apache uses ~/public_html/ directory by default. If you want to use ~/htdocs/ you should either create a symlink (?) or to set it site widely in /etc/apache/conf ...

kirill

is this what you are looking for: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8744 ?

kirill

in the exports file ive only used plain ip adresses
ive set this up b4 ive done the nameserver stuff

I remember when I used ip-address in exports and tried to access it. Guess what I got "permission denied" and guess why? my beloved ISP had setup a reverse (on its dns server) which was totally ...

kirill

I tried it on the console and during a X-Session. I already read the two links you posted. nothing that could help me :(

is there another way just to find out if I'm using AGP4x? I use NvAGP because with agpart I get lockups in X (Via kt133a)

Sorry but I just have to ask this. Did you enable ...

kirill

thanx for ur hints but read this (its actually weird):

mount somehost:share mountpoint
-> RPC timeout
mount somehost.somedomain:share mountpoint
-> WORKS
host somehost
-> somehost.somedomain has adress w.x.y.z (which is correct)
cat /etc/resolv.conf
-> nameserver b.l.a.h
-> seach somedomain

i ...

kirill

Here's my output of the nvidia proc interface:

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Disabled

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge: Via Apollo Pro
Fast Writes: Not Supported
SBA: Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000000

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia ...

kirill

just after i installed gentoo i remarked that mounting an NFS fs took quite long (about 2-3 mins). i didnt care tho, cause it worked.
now (without having done anything about it) it waits for the same 2-3 mins and then brings up a 'mount: rpc: portmapper failure - rpc: timed
out'.

slow mount - You ...

kirill

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kirill

will it be difficult getting my geforce 2 mx400 and athlon xp 1800 (256mb ddr ram) to work with X? i know that the driver install for nvidia cards are quite different than normal. putting the howto aside, are there any quirks i should know about?

would i notice a difference between something like ...

kirill

i use nvidia driver on my tnt2 card
when i do
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Disabled
anyone no why it' don't enable and how to fix it i serch alot didn't find nothing thx.
it's prety old guide but very good an answer to many problem
http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811 ...

kirill

NOTE: With NVdriver you need to reboot each time you change some module parameters!

Why is that?, isn't unloading and reloading the module sufficient?

Yeah one could think reloading is enough, but it's not. That is mentioned in the nVidia Linux Driver Troubleshooting Guide :
Bear in mind that ...

kirill

To enable said options:

modprobe NVdriver NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1

I tried this and it took it, but nothing changed for me. I have a laptop and prehaps the hardware doesn't support this. I made the change in the source code as you did and still no change, so I think my ...

kirill

yes I really now! ;)

When I download the drivers from nvidia and edit one .h file of the driver and then compile ist, SBA and FBA is supportet and activated!!!

My question was, is it possible to edit the .h file before emerge begin the compile process?

yeah that's covered in the Gentoo FAQ ...

kirill

plinux011 tmp # cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Enabled
Driver: AGPGART
AGP Rate: 4x
Fast Writes: Disabled
SBA: Disabled

How do I activate Fast Writes and SBA in the nvidia-kernel ebuild?
Do you even know what they stand for? ;)
Check /proc/driver/nvidia/host-bridge and /proc ...

kirill

I'm wondering if this is possible.

I would like to have a single line either at the top or the bottom of my console screen that shows system stats like cpu utilization or %, mem utilization or %, network traffic ( if possible), # of running processes or better yet how many concurrent processes are ...

kirill

mantis wrote:Hi i have thought about this is the past but it only came up recently and it's getting my HDD space back. Which directories are safe to delete to get space back?

Some tips:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8993
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3011

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