Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-07 Thread Dave S
I've gotta say, composite was the first thing I thought of as well-- and I've never even seen it in use, much less used it myself. But would changing xorg.conf help, if the xorg package was compiled with the +composite USE flag set (which is what I at least am wondering about, rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-07 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:40 am, Dave S wrote: ...what about xcompmanager (or whatever it's called)? Is that possibly running? Holly You could be right, Im going out to work now but I tried changing 'nvidia' to 'nv' in xorg.conf and everyting returned to normal, I re-emerged nvidia-glx

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-07 Thread Dave S
Ed Jabbour wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:40 am, Dave S wrote: ...what about xcompmanager (or whatever it's called)? Is that possibly running? Holly You could be right, Im going out to work now but I tried changing 'nvidia' to 'nv' in xorg.conf and everyting returned to normal,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-07 Thread Dave S
Dave S wrote: Ed Jabbour wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2005 02:40 am, Dave S wrote: ...what about xcompmanager (or whatever it's called)? Is that possibly running? Holly You could be right, Im going out to work now but I tried changing 'nvidia' to 'nv' in xorg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-07 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 07 July 2005 01:57 pm, Dave S wrote: Ed Jabbour wrote: If you emerged the nvidia stuff, you got the newest versions. Do you have the RIVA TNT2 by any chance? If so, portage now has 1.0.7664, which acc/to NVidia is not compatible with the TNT2. I use 7174, which works fine.

[gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Dave S
Please help, I have managed to really screw up my second gentoo box, ** How I did it ** Well, I tried emergeing gnome, liked the look of it but then it appeared to crash, all icons on the desktop went the bottom taskbar stopped working. Going into KDE all the K menus appeared messed up ie no

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, you don't have composite activated, do you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Dave S
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, you don't have composite activated, do you? I have looked in xorg.conf but cannot find any reference to it, just in case I swapped xorg.conf for an old copy, same problem :( Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

2005-07-06 Thread Holly Bostick
Dave S schreef: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, you don't have composite activated, do you? I have looked in xorg.conf but cannot find any reference to it, just in case I swapped xorg.conf for an old copy, same problem :( Dave I've gotta say, composite was the first thing I