Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 October 2008 04:02:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] I've configured it with TwinView as in: Option TwinView True Yes. Some output : $ sudo grep -i -e xinerama -e twinview /var/log/Xorg.0.log (**) Option Xinerama 1 (**) Xinerama: enabled (**) NVIDIA(0): Option

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread YoYo siska
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:10:34AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 13 October 2008 04:02:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] I've configured it with TwinView as in: Option TwinView True Yes. Some output : $ sudo grep -i -e xinerama -e twinview

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 October 2008 13:53:49 YoYo siska wrote: tabletka ~ # equery hasuse xinerama | wc -l 285 most of them are apps from kde-base/* (3.5.9), seems that it changed between 3.5.9 and 3.5.10, plus iwndow managers like fluxbox, openbox... That looks better. I was convinced that most kde-3

[gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-10-13, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: [snip] There's a third option you haven't mentioned: two different displays rather than a large virtual display spread across two monitors. [snip] Pros: * Mouse movement and focus still act like one large

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-13 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/10/12 Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). If you have another machine lying around, try setting

[gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-10-13, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Displays can have different resolutions, sizes, depths. So can xinerama / twinview :) I thought I had read somewhere that they had to have the same depth at least. Based on what little I do know about Xlib I'm also pretty surprised

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerge hal

2008-10-13 Thread M. Sitorus
sori to open this topic again. last night, i try to emerge hal-0.5.11-r3 and it pulled glib-2.18.1 as its depedency. but emerging glib failed. i'm already run revdep rebuild, but nothing happend. here is the error log: Unpacking source... Unpacking glib-2.18.1.tar.bz2 to

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

2008-10-13 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: motion looks about right, but segfaults for me like this: Have you customized the /etc/motion.conf file? Googling should produce some wikis or example files to follow. James

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread James
Adam Carter Adam.Carter at optus.com.au writes: Is /dev/ttyUSB0 as functional as a regular /etc/ttyS0? I have a USB to serial adapter that uses the pl2303 driver, and have It's listed in the kernel sources so it should work.. make menuconfig --device drivers --usb --USB Serial Converter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

2008-10-13 Thread Grant
motion looks about right, but segfaults for me like this: Have you customized the /etc/motion.conf file? I get the same error whether I customize the file or use the default one. Googling should produce some wikis or example files to follow. No luck so far but I'm working on it. - Grant

[gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-13 Thread Nicola
Hi! Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the same mistake twice in a

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

2008-10-13 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Have you customized the /etc/motion.conf file? No luck so far but I'm working on it. I'm not sure about the latest version of motion, but here's a note I save from version 3.2.7 (that may provide some examples): * You need to setup /etc/motion.conf

[gentoo-user] Easily coping with a domain password

2008-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, Some weeks go well, some don't. For me, this one isn't. The AD at work was moaning that I needed to change the password, which I duly did under protest. Then all hell broke loose. 30 seconds later the account was locked. That turned out to be kontact checking Exchange once a minute when

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
FTDI work very well under windows or linux. Once you add the appropriate driver (via the linux kernel) you can boot either winblows or linux and use the 9pin-serial-to-usb as you like with either OS. The device is setup and works (hence the existance of the /dev/ttyUSB0 device). If the

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread James
Adam Carter Adam.Carter at optus.com.au writes: It works fine with minicom. Its just not responding in wine or vwmare (when mapped to a windows com port). OK, good. Sorry, I never tried to use with wine or vmware James

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:08, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). Since I'm

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
Also; absydos adam # setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument And absydos adam # stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 speed 9600 baud; line = 0; -brkint -imaxbel absydos adam #