Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-28 Thread Grant
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts.  Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-26, pon o godzinie 19:10 -0700, Grant pisze: Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Grant
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts.  Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there is extra one in

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-27, wto o godzinie 10:37 -0700, Grant pisze: Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-26 Thread Grant
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts.  Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there is extra one in thinkpad

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-24 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-23, pią o godzinie 09:51 -0700, Grant pisze: Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-22, czw o godzinie 09:47 -0700, Grant pisze: Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Grant
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts.  Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there is extra one in thinkpad specific

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-23 Thread erdunand
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:51:19AM -0700, Grant wrote: And (its only my private opinion - could base on wrong facts :P) dont be used to hal because the 1.8 xorg-server dont like it any more, preferring udev, and future versions wouldn't probably support hal at all. Lately i delete hal

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Grant
Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL OK, and since xorg-server-1.7 doesn't have a udev USE flag, I should probably stick with hal until 1.8.

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/23/2010 1:37 PM, Grant wrote: Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL OK, and since xorg-server-1.7 doesn't have a udev USE flag, I should

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Grant
Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL OK, and since xorg-server-1.7 doesn't have a udev USE flag, I should probably stick with hal until 1.8.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-23 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 4/23/2010 1:37 PM, Grant wrote: Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL OK, and since

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Grant
Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or directory (EE) intel(0): Failed to become

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 22 April 2010 17:47:23 Grant wrote: Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Adam
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so) You only

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Mick
On 21 April 2010 12:26, Adam a...@jaftan.com.au wrote: ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Grant
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so) You only

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/21/2010 3:07 PM, Grant wrote: Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-21 Thread Grant
Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or directory (EE) intel(0): Failed to become

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread deface
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Grant wrote: did etc-update over write xorg.conf ? I actually don't use an xorg.conf at all. - Grant I

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-19, pon o godzinie 20:24 -0500, deface pisze: ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Grant
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf, moreover its discouraged to use one. (or just i think so) Exactly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-20 Thread Bartosz Szatkowski
Dnia 2010-04-20, wto o godzinie 11:51 -0700, Grant pisze: ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface But the new version of xorg (from circa 1.7) dont really need xorg.conf,

[gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-19 Thread Grant
I just updated a lot of packages on my laptop including xorg stuff, the intel-drivers, and firefox. Firefox is running really slowly now, with kind of a lag to everything. Does anyone know of anything to try in order to fix it? Do I need to disable or enable DRI? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-19 Thread deface
did etc-update over write xorg.conf ? On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Grant wrote: I just updated a lot of packages on my laptop including xorg stuff, the intel-drivers, and firefox. Firefox is running really slowly now, with kind of a lag to everything. Does anyone know of anything to try in

Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox

2010-04-19 Thread Grant
did etc-update over write xorg.conf ? I actually don't use an xorg.conf at all. - Grant I just updated a lot of packages on my laptop including xorg stuff, the intel-drivers, and firefox.  Firefox is running really slowly now, with kind of a lag to everything.  Does anyone know of anything