[gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

2012-10-27 Thread Tami King
Hello, I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut if off there and I don't remember what I did and my searches haven't turned

[gentoo-user] Re: remove fancy framebuffer on boot

2012-10-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/10/12 19:22, Tami King wrote: I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut if off there and I don't remember what I did

Re: [gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

2012-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 27. Oktober 2012, 11:22:08 schrieb Tami King: Hello, I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut if off there

Re: [gentoo-user] Paranormal Gentoo?

2012-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 26. Oktober 2012, 17:05:38 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: I have no clue how that can happens... probably kaffeine. Gets a notice that the device status changes and locks up until it is done. But why sudo? -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2012, 22:04:12 schrieb Kerin Millar: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-10-25, Kerin Millarkerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: The comment you linked to was fairly bereft of technical content, That comment was from _Ted_Ts'o_ for pete's sake. I don't care it was from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: [snip] and that ONLY two people who did some REALLY stupid stuff to stumble over that bug are hit by it, should tell you something. Actually, it seems only *one* person can reliably reproduce this bug:

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 26. Oktober 2012, 01:34:35 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:10:17 -0500, Dale wrote: Or just don't update the kernel until it is fixed. After all, if the kernel you are using works and is not a serious security problem, just use it for a while. They will fix it

Re: [gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

2012-10-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:22:08 -0500, Tami King wrote: I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins displayed. That sounds like kernel modesetting (KMS), disable it by adding nomodeset to the

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-27 Thread William Kenworthy
Did you update xorg-server? - you need to rebuild the drivers (see ebuild messages) BillK On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 16:34 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, after a world update including 3.5.7 sources and nvidia-drivers-304.60 I have no mouse. In the console or desktop. The kernel

[gentoo-user] adobe flash isnt working

2012-10-27 Thread William Kenworthy
I have noticed that adobe flash isnt working and googling says some versions have an sse2 bug. I have the latest from portage (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.243 with sse2check enabled) Should it work, or should I look elsewhere. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-27 Thread Maxim Wexler
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:56 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.auwrote: Did you update xorg-server? - you need to rebuild the drivers (see ebuild messages) BillK didn't help