Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-07 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 7, Myra Nelson did say: Joe: I gave up on gpm in a terminal before x is started. I never could manage to get to work right. Whereas I've almost always got gpm working... In fact I had it working on this install (right after blacklisting nouveau, got me a

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-06 Thread Myra Nelson
Joe: I gave up on gpm in a terminal before x is started. I never could manage to get to work right. The other thing I've noticed about the onboard graphics is some manufacturers seem to modify the drivers slightly. I had one laptop with ATI onboard and the only drivers I could make work were the

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-05 Thread Myra Nelson
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 02:15, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote: It would appear that on Jul 5, Ross did say: On 05/07/10 07:08, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: I've yet to find a DE that will remember enough details of a konsole window in it's saved sessions method to

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread Andre Osku Schmidt
i got lost in your mail... but i do see from your subject that you should use `pacman -Syu` and not just `pacman -Su`, as the package database wont be updated without `y`... and for blank screen, maybe try kernel option `nomodeset`... and in next mail try to be more precise what you did and what

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread fons
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:51:12AM +0200, Andre Osku Schmidt wrote: i got lost in your mail... but i do see from your subject that you should use `pacman -Syu` and not just `pacman -Su`, as the package database wont be updated without `y`... and for blank screen, maybe try kernel option

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 4, Andre Osku Schmidt did say: i got lost in your mail... but i do see from your subject that you should use `pacman -Syu` and not just `pacman -Su`, as the package database wont be updated without `y`... Sorry for my natural wordyness but I do have a hard time

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread fons
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 08:15:26AM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: But in any case even when I do get X working I won't allow ANY display manager to control my boot/login process. If they take away startx I'll likely give up X before I'll use GDM, KDM, Entrance (etc...) Any graphical

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 4, f...@kokkinizita.net did say: I'm using XDM which is relatively painless compared to GDM, KDM and friends. With a modified 'Arch' setup it can be made to look nice. What looks nice to me is the console login prompt... Also aside from that, there's another

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread Ross
On 05/07/10 07:08, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Jul 4, f...@kokkinizita.net did say: I'm using XDM which is relatively painless compared to GDM, KDM and friends. With a modified 'Arch' setup it can be made to look nice. I've yet to find a DE that will remember

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread fons
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 03:08:05PM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: What looks nice to me is the console login prompt... Also aside from that, there's another reason I use startx (with a wrapper script that copies the appropiate file to ~/.xinitrc depending on which desktop...) Which is

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 08:44 +1200, Ross wrote: On 05/07/10 07:08, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Jul 4, f...@kokkinizita.net did say: I'm using XDM which is relatively painless compared to GDM, KDM and friends. With a modified 'Arch' setup it can be made to look

[arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-03 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Hi. I'm not that sure what's happening. But I just acquired an HP Pavilion desktop. (My Sister's Hubby just bought a new win 7 box and let me recycle his old xp box... I told him right away that I'd found the problem he was having with the old box, it was running windows...) Anyway it's got AMD