Posts by laclasse

Benkurtz, i just don't know how you can get past the "IMALLOC_VMADDR is undefined blah blah" error when compiling the ati drivers 3.2.8 on 2.6.0-test8. I do need 3 patches to make it work. How come your vanilla kernel +...

Here is my section of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 : Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "TrackPad" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option ...

Glad it did work for you. If you want to use experimental and the latest packages, you should upgrade to debian testing/unstable aka Sid. To do so, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, change the "stable" or "sarge" to...

IS it pre win XP installed ? Do you have ntfs partition on the drive ? If so, get a win98 floppy dos disk, bot under dos, erase the partitions using fdisk, issue fdisk /MBR just to make sure boot sector is clean, once all partition are...

/just been reading that there is huge problems, as well as lots of updates on mdk 9.2. Anyone can confirm ?

BenKurtz : as i have said just up there ^ : "gentoo applies that patch to the source ( fglrx_public.c actually ) at emerge before compiling" hence why YOU don't see it, and WHY it does compile cleanly on gentoo. If you don't...

randy82103: Why are you trying to turn linux into windows ? I mean loggin in in a text console, and issueing startx isn't that bad ( thats what i am using ). As well, giving ampler permissions to users to the shutdown and halt command is...

Benkurtz, what Bratag refers to is a patch, which you wouldn't know when running gentoo as gentoo applies that patch to the source ( fglrx_public.c actually ) at emerge before compiling, heres a link to support my words :...

If you start kde from startx, the problem will not occur. At the moment you are starting twm (minimal window manager) and from there starting kde again, hence the X on windows. To sort it , open a shell / console / terminal, and as your...

NS, get scripting. bash is made for that: #!/bin/bash /sbin/ifconfig ethX(wlan0) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up ; # or dhclient ethX(wlan0) if using dhcp /sbin/route add default gw YOURGATEWAYIP ; echo -e "Command line is far more...