Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

2023-07-05 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 16:42:15 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without having > to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout to dvorak. > > My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful. > > Section "InputDevice" >   

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

2023-07-05 Thread Jigme Datse
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 16:42:15 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without > having to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout > to dvorak. > > My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful. > > Section "InputDevice" >  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
It could also indicate a problem with the power supply failing.  I've seen this a number of times and it often manifest as memory errors when testing the ram.   Any number of things in the computer can fail in ways that may not be so obvious.  Substitution trouble shooting may be needed, i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

2023-07-05 Thread Alan Grimes
I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without having to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout to dvorak. My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful. Section "InputDevice"    # generated from default     Identifier "Keyboard0"     Driver  

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-07-05, Peter Humphrey wrote: > This version of memtest86 ran to completion after going through the whole > 64GB, and stopped with a success message. That's a pretty good sign, but I have seen memory that made it through one complete test pass and failed on subsequent ones. > Over the

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 16:38:35 BST Michael wrote: > Hmm ... you won't like what I have to say now about bad RAM: :) > Servers and specialised workstations with large amounts of RAM use RDIMM ECC > to correct errors. With modern PCs having even more RAM than some servers, > it can take

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 16:23:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:05:28 BST Michael wrote: > > Did you try to reseat your graphics card and your RAM sticks, just in case > > their electrical contacts got oxidised? > > Not yet. I was hoping to avoid that because of

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:05:28 BST Michael wrote: > Did you try to reseat your graphics card and your RAM sticks, just in case > their electrical contacts got oxidised? Not yet. I was hoping to avoid that because of difficulty of access. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread Jack
On 7/5/23 10:05, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:07:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:36:59 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:02:16 BST Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] Same problem as before, but now the three instances of gkrellm shimmer

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:07:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:36:59 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:02:16 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > > If this is the thing I've run into a few times over the years then the > > > only > > > way out I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:36:59 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:02:16 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > If this is the thing I've run into a few times over the years then the > > only > > way out I've found is to delete my user config files and start over. > > > > As a test,