Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-25 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:53:25 Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: I been working on gathering information for this for a while. I just tried something else. I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to download videos. Also, it crashes

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Here we go again. New thread, same problem. I'm compiling info over a period of time here so bear with me. Info alert: [...] Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash. Maybe some third

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Here we go again. New thread, same problem. I'm compiling info over a period of time here so bear with me. Info alert: [...] Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there and if not, recommend something I can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I'd also try other video drivers, like nouveau or nv. I think you did not do this yet, sorry if I just overlooked it. They may not work as well as the nvidia-drivers for you, but this way you can rule out the video drivers, or confirm it has something

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: I been working on gathering information for this for a while. I just tried something else. I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to download videos. Also, it crashes when I am downloading videos but that is about all I use Firefox for.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash. Maybe some third party thing that works reasonably well. If youtube works, I should be good to go since the sites

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I found the link on the xorg site. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I found the link

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: I been working on gathering information for this for a while. I just tried something else. I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to download videos. Also, it crashes when I am downloading videos but that is about

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash. Maybe some third party thing that works reasonably well. If youtube works, I should be good

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:46:55 -0500, Dale wrote: You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable. OK. How do I do the VESA drivers? Honestly, the only trouble I can recall out of nvidia was upgrading the kernel then rebooting and realizing I forgot to rebuild against the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:46:55 -0500, Dale wrote: You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable. OK. How do I do the VESA drivers? Honestly, the only trouble I can recall out of nvidia was upgrading the kernel then rebooting and realizing I forgot

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:14:11 -0500, Dale wrote: It's the standard video driver, x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa And I change nvidia to vesa or do I need to unmerge nvidia first? If you keep xorg.conf, change it to use vesa. Also, are these done as modules like nvidia is? Hmmm, if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale asks: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them. I'm not sure I have ever used

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Thanks. I remembered after hitting reply to set it in make.conf. I got some done anyway. I'll report back what blows up. O_O Dale :-) :-) OoooK. That didn't work to well. Using VESA, the screen was ALL messed up. It was mostly garbage to say it lightly. I also tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:18:34 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info: OoooK. That didn't work to well. Using VESA, the screen was ALL messed up. It was mostly garbage to say it lightly. I also tried the nv driver again, all I got was a blinking cursor. I