> > I'm a beginner in gentoo. I use it on office's laptop which is toshiba > satellite 4080xcdt. This is not very fast machine with not very big hdd. I > didn't have any special problems using freeBSD, but I had to change it to > linux due to some conditions (*). Firstly during first days of Gentoo work
You might want to look at - http://fuzzymunchkin.dyndns.org/tdot/toshiba.php3 http://www.schamberger.org/linux/toshiba_satellite_4090_xcdt/ http://homepages.compuserve.de/hbuennig/toshiba_sat4080.html All three show the X config file they are using. > (there was no X installed) screensaver was blocking the display. I had to > make hard reset every time. (Right, what part of kernel is responsible for > this screensaver) Apparently the apm implementation on in the linux kernels isn't all that hot for Toshibas. But it did get much better in the 2.6 series of kernels. Also, the above listed users seemed to have problems in X when they left gpm running. Though, that should work better with the 2.6 kernels. > I can't jump to console mode and screensaver blocks my keyboard now. What > to > do next? I'd like to change XFree86 but I don't know if 500mb of free space > is enough. So to be clear - this is xscreensvaer? And not just DPMS? There are real issues with some of the xscreensaver programs. And on a system with limited gfx memory, xscreensaver is proably not a wise choice. If it's DPMS, then that's some kind of interaction between X, the kernel, and your hardware. > xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 > linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r11 > Seriously - I'd update to xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 and at least 2.6.9-r14. Bob - -- [email protected] mailing list
