On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Samstag 17 Oktober 2009, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I normally stay logged in forever, even after updates. I'm both busy and > > lazy. However, the Xorg flurry seemed to have died down, so I took the > > plunge and rebooted. Oops. > > > > <troll option=ignore> > > It had not re-emerged xf86-input-* for me, a case that I think should be > > handled automatically -- I use a source distro because I want to be able > to > > tweak it, not so that it can force me to do so at arbitrary, inconvenient > > and unpredictable intervals. > > </troll> > > > > gentoo is about 'doing it yourself' and 'emancipation of the user' and not > about 'holding your hand'. It is not gentoo's fault if you act stupid. > > > > > My Xorg.conf does specify some details about the monitor, but no > modeline. > > I had to put that stuff in there originally to get my preferred 1280x1024 > > resolution. Do I need to go back to the days of modelines? Xorg.conf is > > attached. > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "WDE" > ModelName "LCM-20v5" > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > ? > Opinions differ about what constitutes stupidity. I'm not much interested in yours and I don't speak about mine, in part because neither one clarifies anything. Opinions about usefulness are another matter. Why not dispense with portage and have everyone compile their own from tarballs -- just publish a list of packages and patches; then you'd really not be holding hands. It seems to be a matter of degrees and judgement. Modifying the monitor section made no noticeable change. There's still a 24-pixel bleed off the right edge to begin with. I can fool with settings to make it bleed left instead, but there's no setting that affects pixel spacing. I like the cleaner monitor section, though. I'm back to thinking about modelines. Any better ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
