@Akkara:

That's exactly what was happening. Now that I know what the problem is, I'll be able to avoid the problem. Thanks!

I know it's not autorun, because I sometimes end up spinning around in a circle too - any of the movement keys can get "stuck," but it's only ever happened in WoW under Wine. I'll try tonight to use a newer keyboard - perhaps that will fix things.

I've got an interesting problem that I don't think anyone here has posted so far. From time to time, my movement keys will "stick," causing me to continue running in a certain direction until I push the key again. This a real dealbreaker for me, because many times I can't catch what the problem is ...

When I use the mod at http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=2764, WoW crashes when I open the minimap, whether I'm indoors or not.

@Timbers2k: Is 0.9.10 the most recent version wherein everything works with no crashes?

The current patch in the first post of this thread does not seem to apply cleanly for me for wine 0.9.11. Here's the patch output:

bill@greendream ~/Desktop $ cat /var/tmp/portage/wine-0.9.11/temp/wow.patch-18564.out
***** wow.patch *****

=====================

PATCH COMMAND: patch -p0 -g0 -E ...

Abit667 wrote:Ah yeah, I wasn't sure about that overlay thing, I ended up just putting the patch into the normal ebuild.

I would wholeheartedly recommend that you use an overlay for any custom ebuilds - as soon as you run 'emerge sync,' you'll lose any changes you've made to ebuilds in /usr/portage.

The version of Wine you're trying to install is too old. Go with the newest in unstable, which (as of right now) is 0.9.6.

Well, things are running pretty smoothly, except for the occassional futz-up. Periodically, the wine-preloader locks up like a mofo and won't answer an explicit killall cmd. Might be the problem mentioned before with dynamic processes running in the background, or it might be something else.

If I ...

goblin wrote:Is there a way to see if Opengl and glx is working correctly?

'glxgears' is commonly used to test that opengl is active and working (and accelerated). Just type that into a console.

I'm the proud owner of a brand new iPod, and I'd like to stuff it full of music. Unfortunatly, most of my music is in vorbis format, which iPods of course can't read. So I'd like to re-rip my modest CD collection to AAC or M4A so that I can put it on my nice shiny new portable.

I put together a new ...

I just installed a fresh copy of WoW on my machine, with a nice, clean ~/.wine directory. Then I upgraded it. And then I spent an hour or so playing the game, killing boars. Fun!

The most vexing problem I ran into was the black screen problem. I don't know if this is the same as everyone else's ...

I've got a really bizarre problem. I just upgraded from an Athlon XP 1800+ to a 3000+ (Barton core). Things 'feel' a little faster, but I for some reason, well:
bill@greendream ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon(tm ...

iTunes Music Store files have DRM on them that prevents them from being read by "unauthorized" programs. There's no such thing as an "authorized" program for Linux, unfortunately.

However, since you have a powerbook running OSX, there's still hope. You can use jHymn ( http://hymn-project.org/ ) to ...

I'm looking around the man page for ld right now, wondering what else we can add into this. (Yes, I am a ricer, I have to make sure I'm not missing anything) Anyway, there's a few options that I'm a little curious about now, including:

--strip-debug
Omit debugger symbol information (but not all ...

I've read that the optimization engine in GCC 4.0 is totally new. That's why they decided to use 4.0 as the version number and 3.5. Because the engine is totally new, it's not as ironed out as the older one is, so it's not as good yet as the old, mature code in the 3.x series is.

However, the new ...

Well... I thought the vsync/etc numbers were right. They were the numbers that came from the UseEdid option... turns out that EDID isn't very reliable.

I tried out some new numbers I found while searching around on the internet (For the reference of others, those numbers are 30-100 for horizsync ...

I'm having some weird graphics issues with the nvidia driver on my Latitude c840 laptop. the issues are rather hard to explain, so I'll just use this picture to illustrate the problems I'm having. As you can see, the right-hand side of the screen has an odd 'rainbow' effect, and the bottom of my ...

I don't know if this was said before or not, but I may as well throw my two cents in.

If you specify both -march AND -mtune in make.conf, it turns out that the last one you specify is the one that gets used. This might cause a small amount of slowdown in your programs, because GCC will use -mtune ...

You say you're having problems with getting the fonts in Mozilla-based browsers? I dont' mean to toot my own horn or anything, but I've written a quick howto post in these very forums to do just that. Since "Gecko-based browsers" (including Firefox, Epiphany, Galeon, and Thunderbird) use their own ...

And for more font smoothing madness, check out the X.org and fonts howto on Gentoo's Wiki. It's got a lot of information on how to smooth out your fonts in every other application, not just gecko browsers. I followed the instructions, and now everything looks very nice.

what about font.FreeType2.enabled ?


That's the main one. You want to set that to true, and that'll turn the smoothing on.

As for the "always use my fonts/colors" checkbox, using it will make pretty much every site use the serif font. If you don't mind serifs, then that's fine, but having the ...

Ah. Well, in that case, you could probably just put the files in your user.js file for firefox. The file doesn't exist by default, but that's easy to fix:

nano -w ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/user.js
should do it. The '.xxx' are actually three random characters. I'd just use tab completion to ...

kamagurka: I compiled firefox without the moznoxft USE flag. If you used that flag, that might be the cause of the options not showing up.

I was digging around all over on the net trying to get information on font antialiasing, and this is pretty much what I found on the Mozilla-based browsers (including Galeon, Epiphany, Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Thunderbird). Turning these options on makes everything niiiiiiiice and smooth. Some ...

Eh, I don't really want to warez it. I've found that 90% of the time, it's too much trouble to download isos from whatever network, and I honestly don't want to bother. Not to mention all of those pesky "moral" issues that tend to crop up from such an endeavor.

Besides, what if I have the same ...