Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Ok, check your kernel config. The following error into google gave me a hint, [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier: Function not [ 2082.101] (EE)

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :) -- Joost I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on gentoo.org.

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :) -- Joost I went back and

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds things up even more ;) The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, as I

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds things up even more ;) The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds things up even more ;)

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on gentoo.org. There is no mention of nvidia needing that. Should I tell the doc team so they can mention that for others or is my machine a little unique? Since someone else ran into it on the link you posted, it may be something that

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:35:15 Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at