[gentoo-user] Re: No desktop after login with kdm

2009-12-23 Thread Nelis Botha
Hi I left the laptop on overnight and it resolved itself. Rebooted and it was still working okay. Been going through the logs but can't find anything that indicates what cuased this. Thanks Regards Nelis On 20/12/2009, nelis.bo...@gmail.com nelis.bo...@gmail.com wrote: I had to hardreboot

[gentoo-user] No desktop after login with kdm

2009-12-20 Thread nelis . botha
I had to hardreboot my laptop was totaly unresponsive to any input. Now that I have rebooted I can login with kdm but after that I have no desktop. I can open applications with krunner (alt+f2) but thats it. All the applications looks okay. Any ideas as to how I can resolve this? Ps I am

[gentoo-user] Unable to set up wireless lan - followed documentation

2009-11-14 Thread Nelis Botha
Hey list I need some help. I am trying to set up my wireless lan on gentoo. I have recompiled kernel. Every attempt at configuring /etc/conf.d/net end in faed to configure wireless for wlan0 i have folowed the advice given when it fails and give info/advice to resolve but nothing has worked thus

[gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

2009-11-14 Thread Nelis Botha
Hey guys I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start

[gentoo-user] double posting

2009-11-14 Thread Nelis Botha
hey guys sorry for the double post I was under the impression the 1st mail's sending failed thus the 2nd mail ignore the 1st mail sorry again for any inconveniance cuased regards nelis

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

2009-11-12 Thread Nelis Botha
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 23:10:35 Alexander Clark wrote: The remote end cut you off. Try another mirror. Is this a know infrastructure issue. It seems to happening a lot lately. I'm wary of retrying lest I end up on a ban list. I've retried a lot.