[gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and I

[gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have to power down one of my machines each day. Booting it the other day fails from time to time. On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by its own. It looks as if mounting /usr fails sometimes (silently). The first unusual message is that it cannot find the file

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

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI doesn't

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

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier: Function not [ 2082.101]

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:55:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot

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

2010-12-15 Thread Teemu Vartiainen
2010/12/15 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [  2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [  2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [  2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier:

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I

[gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ? The setup is - machine A is equipped with a Quad core CPU - machine B is equipped with an N330 Atom-CPU - machine A is doing the system update on a local chroot-environment for machine B and generates binary packages.

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

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-15 09:48]: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:55:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Teemu Vartiainen wrote: 2010/12/15 Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE)

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253,

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

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
r...@smoker / # cat /media/disk/files/Xorg.0.log | grep EE [ 2081.047] Current Operating System: Linux fireball 2.6.36-gentoo-r4 #15 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 13 01:15:13 CST 2010 x86_64 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 2081.048] (II) Loading extension

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

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:03:58, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de [10-12-15 10:00]: Hi, I have to power down one of my machines each day. Booting it the other day fails from time to time. On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by its own. It looks as if mounting /usr fails sometimes

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

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:26:16, Dale wrote: Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit. I'd try to boot by SystemRescueCD and let it start X11 to rule out some hardware problems. (Version 1.6.4 is using xorg-server-1.9.2) Helmut.

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:26:16 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:32:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de [10-12-15 10:00]: Hi, I have to power down one of my machines each day. Booting it the other day fails from time to time. On this (and all my machines) /usr is on an ext4 file system by its

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

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: First of all: In grub add a 2 at the end of the kernel command line. This will boot you into runlevel 2 (console) without trying to switch to X. This way you will have a clean machine with no confused nvidia driver hanging a

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

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: 1.) Add hal to the USE flags of /etc/make.conf. This is going to be fun ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't move Chromium windows between screens

2010-12-15 Thread Pau Peris
Everyone here running kde+xinerama is able to drag Chromium through screens without kwin bar on top, when Chromium is maximized/full screen? Hard to believe i'm the one suffering this pain :'( PD: Issue just happens with window maximized/full screen. 2010/11/16 Pau Peris sibok1...@gmail.com:

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

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about the card. It was using the generic nv driver and it still wouldn't work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:15:12AM +0100, Thomas Drueke wrote: Hi, is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ? The setup is - machine A is equipped with a Quad core CPU - machine B is equipped with an N330 Atom-CPU - machine A is doing the system update on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I'll search for such a configuration problem, otherwise I'll create a bug report. Are you using rc_parallel=NO ? (in /etc/rc.conf)

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

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about the card. It was using

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 11:03:43, Adam Carter wrote: I'll search for such a configuration problem, otherwise I'll create a bug report. Are you using rc_parallel=NO ? (in /etc/rc.conf) No, why disable fast booting. If it turns out to be necessary it would be a pity! But I'll try it for a while

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:54:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: 1.) Add hal to the USE flags of /etc/make.conf. This is going to be fun ;-) Yes, I remember that episode on his last machine :) -- Joost

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:26:16, Dale wrote: Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit. I'd try to boot by SystemRescueCD and let it start X11 to rule out some hardware problems. (Version 1.6.4 is using xorg-server-1.9.2) Helmut. I tried booting

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

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
IMO its a waste of time to worry about any of this other stuff - the EE's in the log file are ERRORs, directly pointing at serious issues with missing modules. So either the modules dont exist, or xorg cant find them. There's no evidence of a problem with the nvidia module or the

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:10:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale, Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off and unplug power and then start it again? I have, in the past, had issues where a card wasn't being reset properly during a reboot and only a cold start would lead to correct behaviour. --

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about the card. It was using the generic nv

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 12/15/10 11:03:43, Adam Carter wrote: I'll search for such a configuration problem, otherwise I'll create a bug report. Are you using rc_parallel=NO ? (in /etc/rc.conf) No, why disable

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread Thomas Drueke
Interesting approach. I'll give that a try. Thanks, Thomas Am 15.12.2010 10:56, schrieb YoYo Siska: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:15:12AM +0100, Thomas Drueke wrote: Hi, is it possible to emerge packages to a $ROOT directory mounted via NFS ? The setup is - machine A is equipped with a Quad

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253,

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

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I don't think that's true. In my Xorg.0.log I do have (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) and still, X11 is running just fine. I think these modules are superfluous with a recent Xorg version.

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

2010-12-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
On 12/15/2010 11:18 AM, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:26:16, Dale wrote: Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit. I'd try to boot by SystemRescueCD and let it start X11 to rule out some hardware problems. (Version 1.6.4 is using

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work,

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

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. Dale :-) :-) Did u see my other email with this? Can you locate libdri.so, libdri2.so and libglx.so on your file system? On my ATI system they're

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:03:58, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG

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

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. fwiw xorg supplies the libdri modules, its not part of nvidia-drivers. For

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:20:20 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale, Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off and unplug power and then start it again? I have, in the past, had issues where a card wasn't being reset properly during a reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging package via NFS ?

2010-12-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Yes, I have a N330 (zotec ION) with 3G ram, no local storage and swap over nbd with portage and build area in /tmp which itself is on tmpfs. Some packages (gcc and glibc in particular) require a lot of ram and tmpfs to emerge so sometimes I have to disable tmpfs and use nfs storage. Because

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:30:46 Adam Carter wrote: I don't think that's true. In my Xorg.0.log I do have (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) and still, X11 is running just fine. I

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

2010-12-15 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:20:33AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:10:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:45:34 Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. fwiw xorg

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

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:22:33 -0600, Dale wrote: I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. It's not. Those errors about dri are a standard feature of the nvidia binary drivers. They do not

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE)

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

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:31:54 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) How about just reading the bloody first post in the thread where parts of the log are quoted? -- Neil Bothwick TERROR: A female

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:20:20 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale, Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off and unplug power and then start it again? I have, in the past, had issues where a card wasn't being reset

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:30:46 Adam Carter wrote: I don't think that's true. In my Xorg.0.log I do have (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) and still, X11 is running just

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

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:03:58 Dale wrote: I knew if I updated the kernel I had to re-emerge the nvidia-drivers but I didn't know it was the other way around too. No, it isn't. Not here at any rate. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
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 posted in my first post. Here is the results of the latest test. I shut down the rig and unplugged the rig and monitor.

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:03:58 Dale wrote: I knew if I updated the kernel I had to re-emerge the nvidia-drivers but I didn't know it was the other way around too. No, it isn't. Not here at any rate. I tried it anyway. No change. Dale :-) :-)

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
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 posted in my first post. Here is the results of the latest test. I shut

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
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 posted in my first post. Here is the results of the latest test. I shut

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:12:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 11:03:43, Adam Carter wrote: Are you using rc_parallel=NO ? (in /etc/rc.conf) No, why disable fast booting. If it turns out to be necessary it would be a pity! But I'll try it for a while to see if it helps, On the

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

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:44:59 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you seem to have misunderstood Mark. The power is delivered by the harddisks case. AKA external power supply. esata has 0 power distribution capabilities. Always remember: first unplug the sata cable, wait, then power. This allows the device to flush the cache.

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

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
Result: eve ~ # find /usr -name libdri* /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri2.so eve ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (II) Loading extension

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 14/12/2010, at 4:57pm, Mark Knecht wrote: The SATA spec allows for hot plugging, so technically yes ... My recollection of my understanding (multiple disclaimers) was that SATA *allowed* for SATA hot-plugging but didn't *mandate* it. If I could have found a SATA

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

2010-12-15 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:39:27AM -0600, Dale wrote: ... I'm attaching both the new just tried xorg.conf and the xorg.log file. No grep or anything this time. Let me know if you see anything fishy or that needs changing. Thanks. Dale ... [ 2082.083] (II) Loading extension

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
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 posted in my first post. Here is the

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.

[gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, my /tmp has the permissions set to 1777 . And it is the mountpoint for an extra partitions holding the stuff of '/tmp/' When booting into single-user mode and unmounting /tmp and doing a ls -ld /tmp it shows drwxrwxrwt 45 root root 61440 2010-12-15 15:07 /tmp BUT as soon as I

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: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:13 on Wednesday 15 December 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de did opine thusly: Hi, my /tmp has the permissions set to 1777 . And it is the mountpoint for an extra partitions holding the stuff of '/tmp/' When booting into single-user mode and unmounting /tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless of its perm settings before the mount With nothing mounted on it, the mount point's permission are those of the directory. As soon as you mount something on it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless of its perm settings before the mount With nothing mounted on it, the mount point's permission are those

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless of its perm settings before the mount

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: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [10-12-15 16:00]: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 16:20:32 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [10-12-15 16:00]: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de

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

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date.  I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it.  I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time.  I had to reboot to move some things around and when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:20 on Wednesday 15 December 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de did opine thusly: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [10-12-15 16:00]: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]: On Wed, 15

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Andrea Conti
E-SATA != SATA Nah. They are *exactly* the same. Evidently someone realized that the original SATA connector is way too fragile to be regularly used to plug/unplug a cable by hand, so they engineered in some features which make it a bit more resilient. But apart from the shape of the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT HD video camera Gentoo

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:20 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Howdy, I'm going to get myself an HD video camera, that works well with open source software on Gentoo. Problem is (head scratching), I recall when I went through this some years ago I had lots of problems making a

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Andrea Conti
The SATA spec allows for hot plugging, so technically yes ... My recollection of my understanding (multiple disclaimers) was that SATA *allowed* for SATA hot-plugging but didn't *mandate* it. a good summary of the hardware/driver situation wrt hotplugging can be found here:

[gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Jarry
Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from consumer components (yes, I already warned him about zero-support consequences). It should be some kind of multi-purpose server

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 05:54:40 Dale wrote: According to the mobo manual, if I enable AHCI, it is hot swappable. and enabling AHCI is the only sane option. So do it. I just ain't to comfy doing it. I'd like to see it done with no smoke getting out first. no smoke. Worst case:

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 05:54:40 Dale wrote: According to the mobo manual, if I enable AHCI, it is hot swappable. and enabling AHCI is the only sane option. So do it. I just ain't to comfy doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in world - howto

2010-12-15 Thread Pau Peris
The following lines creates an auditWorldFile.log log file which will show packages requires by other packages, so theones you can safely remove. #!/bin/bash n=`wc -l /var/lib/portage/world|awk '{ print $1 }'`; for i in `seq 1 $n`;do pkg=`cat /var/lib/portage/world|head -n$i|tail -n1`;

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 05:54:40 Dale wrote: According to the mobo manual, if I enable AHCI, it is hot swappable. and enabling AHCI is the only sane option. So

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:08]: Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from consumer components (yes, I already warned him about zero-support consequences).

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

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com  wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 05:54:40 Dale wrote: According to the mobo manual, if I enable AHCI, it is hot

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: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:24:58 Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 05:54:40 Dale wrote: According to the mobo manual, if I enable AHCI, it is hot swappable.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:08]: Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from consumer components (yes, I already warned him about

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/15/2010 09:35 AM, Jarry wrote: So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx? Uh oh..don your flameproof underwear and open the floodgates I've not used the new six-core AMDs but I love my XII 940. And with Intel's new

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:52]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:08]: Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from

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: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date.  I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it.  I bought a brand new monitor this morning,

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

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-15, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: E-SATA != SATA Nah. They are *exactly* the same. Not according to Wikipedia -- it says the electrical specs for eSATA are different than the specs for normal SATA. I've seen that stated in other places as well. I don't have copies of the

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