[gentoo-user] Modular X and Black Screen on Alt-Tab (switch Windows)

2006-09-30 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm not sure what's going on. I finally went from xorg-6.8.2-r2 to xorg-7. Everything seems to be working fine. (i'm happy that there wasn't much issues) (yet??) The only thing which is bugging me is the Switching Windows. (Alt-Tab) in Gnome-2.14 When I do an Alt-Tab, the whole window (the curren

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
060924 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote >> I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, >> Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session, >> so perhaps the command to return uses the next free F key. -- lots of inter

[gentoo-user] modular X : all's well + a suggestion

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
Resuming Nvidia with modular X proved to be easy using the Guide, which anyway agrees to my home-made help file from previous occasions. The ~x86 driver pkg 8774 offered no difficulties with kernel 2.6.18 , except that I had to add a line to xorg.conf : Section "Monitor" ... DisplaySize 28

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, > when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 & 2 . In fact, > I've suppressed higher-numbered TTY 3-6 in /etc/inittab . > Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X s

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-22 Thread Philip Webb
060921 Philip Webb wrote: > I've updated to modular X > and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? Modular X does create its own version on the fly, but it's better to have the file in /etc/X11 in case of further change. On the raw console (outside X) I ran 'Xorg -co

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > 060922 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: > >> On Friday 22 September 2006 02:35, Philip Webb wrote: >> >>> I've updated to modular X >>> and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? >>> root: X11> pwd >>> /etc/X11 >>> root: X11> ls -l >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060922 Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 22 September 2006 02:35, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've updated to modular X >> and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? >> root: X11> pwd >> /etc/X11 >> root: X11> ls -l >> total 8 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 22 September 2006 02:35, Philip Webb wrote: > I've updated to modular X [...] > and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? > > root: X11> pwd > /etc/X11 > root: X11> ls -l > total 8 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Sep 20 15:56 Sessions > -rwx

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > I've updated to modular X > > root: share> eix xorg-x11 > [I] x11-base/xorg-x11 > Available versions: [M]6.8.2-r8 [M]6.9.0-r3 7.0-r1 ~7.1 > Installed: 7.0-r1 > > and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? > > root: X11

[gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
I've updated to modular X root: share> eix xorg-x11 [I] x11-base/xorg-x11 Available versions: [M]6.8.2-r8 [M]6.9.0-r3 7.0-r1 ~7.1 Installed: 7.0-r1 and everything seems to be working as before, but where is xorg.conf ? root: X11> pwd /etc/X11 root: X11> ls -

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails (solved)

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060922 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, >> when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 & 2 . > Because on most machines inittab tells init to start agetty > on the first six VTs, and X then takes the first free VT. >> Another t

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: > I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, > when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 & 2 . Because on most machines inittab tells init to start agetty on the first six VTs, and X then takes the first free VT. > In fact, > I've suppressed higher-numbered TTY

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
060921 Andrew Frink wrote: > On 9/20/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've just updated to modular X & everything seems to be working, >> except that after Ctl-Alt-F2 I can't get back to X with Ctl-Alt-F7 . >> I can get back to the original raw terminal with Ctl-Alt-F1 , >> which s

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-21 Thread Mick
On Thursday 21 September 2006 14:16, Andrew Frink wrote: > On 9/20/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just updated to modular X & everything seems to be working, > > except that after Ctl-Alt-F2 I can't get back to X with Ctl-Alt-F7 . > > I can get back to the original raw termi

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-21 Thread Andrew Frink
On 9/20/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just updated to modular X & everything seems to be working,except that after  Ctl-Alt-F2  I can't get back to X with  Ctl-Alt-F7 .I can get back to the original raw terminal with  Ctl-Alt-F1 ,which shows  3  identical error messages.  I tried

[gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-20 Thread Philip Webb
I've just updated to modular X & everything seems to be working, except that after Ctl-Alt-F2 I can't get back to X with Ctl-Alt-F7 . I can get back to the original raw terminal with Ctl-Alt-F1 , which shows 3 identical error messages. I tried remerging Xkeyboard-config (from a previous repl

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X undefined symbols.

2006-07-18 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
> > Please file a bug with this information, xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > and emerge --info. Sorry again. You said file a bug didn't you. Must be the heat... I'm filing a bug now. :-\ -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X undefined symbols.

2006-07-18 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
> > If I run "X -configure" it complains about XAACreateInfoRec when loading > > i810_drv.so, and vgaHWGetIndex when loading "vga_drv.so." It also > > complains about VBEExtendedInit when loading the VESA driver. > Please file a bug with this information, xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log > and emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X upgrade

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libddc.so > (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8 > > That's where it stops. I've ssh-ed in and tried to kill X (which is >

[gentoo-user] Modular X upgrade

2006-07-17 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I've already done the new modular upgrade on several machines and they all worked perfectly, except my main multi video card machine. I have some older S3 Virge PCI video cards that aren't playing nice with the new xorg. In VIDEO_CARDS I have nvidia and s3virge, and the proper drivers are being c

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X undefined symbols.

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Andrew MacKenzie wrote: > My last email didn't seem to make it to the list, I hope this isn't a > duplicate. > > I've converted 4 machines to modular X, and one is having an issue. > My laptop (Thinkpad T43) is getting the following error when I start X: > > dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drive

[gentoo-user] Modular X undefined symbols.

2006-07-17 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
My last email didn't seem to make it to the list, I hope this isn't a duplicate. I've converted 4 machines to modular X, and one is having an issue. My laptop (Thinkpad T43) is getting the following error when I start X: dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so: undefined symbol vgaH

[solved?] Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-11 Thread John Blinka
It appears that the nvidia driver wants something that isn't available when the "minimal" use flag is present during the xorg-server compile. Eliminating this use flag got rid of the unresolved symbols. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-10 Thread John Blinka
Heitor wrote: > Hello, > > I dont know if it helps you butn I had the following problem. > > With the stable nvidia driver i got these "unresolved messages" and I > couldn't load the module when I emerge the testing driver. I saw on > the list that there was a > "x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers"

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-09 Thread Heitor
Hello, I dont know if it helps you butn I had the following problem. With the stable nvidia driver i got these "unresolved messages" and I couldn't load the module when I emerge the testing driver. I saw on the list that there was a "x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers" (I have a very old Geforce

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
John Blinka wrote: > Symbol fbCloseScreen from module > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! See how all your nvidia driver ends with .o instead of .so? That means you didn't build the drivers with USE=dlloader (which is now set by default). Thanks, Donnie signature.asc De

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/8/06, John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've successfully upgraded to modular X on 4 machines without any issues, but the 5th box is fighting me. The 5th box, a Dell Inspiron 8200, has an nvidia card, and I've used the proprietary nvidia video drivers for years without problems.

[gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-08 Thread John Blinka
Hi, I've successfully upgraded to modular X on 4 machines without any issues, but the 5th box is fighting me. The 5th box, a Dell Inspiron 8200, has an nvidia card, and I've used the proprietary nvidia video drivers for years without problems. I've followed the instructions in http://www.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

2006-06-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thanks, this is what I will do. BillK On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:46 -0400, JimD wrote: ... > > unmerge x11-misc/xscreensaver. > > If you use Gnome emerge: > gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

2006-06-06 Thread JimD
W.Kenworthy wrote: > I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding > that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver. Of course there is nothing > in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots. Eventually it > takes out the OS and a system reboot is required. > > Is any

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

2006-06-06 Thread Kurt Guenther
W.Kenworthy wrote: > I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding > that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver. Of course there is nothing > in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots. Eventually it > takes out the OS and a system reboot is required. > > Is anyo

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

2006-06-06 Thread leszek
Le mardi 06 juin 2006 à 12:49 +0800, W.Kenworthy a écrit : > I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding > that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver. Of course there is nothing > in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots. Eventually it > takes out the OS and

[gentoo-user] Modular X and xscreensaver

2006-06-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
I have just brought my X up to date (modular Xorg 7.1) and am finding that xscreensaver is crashing the xserver. Of course there is nothing in the logs, or onscreen as X either stops or reboots. Eventually it takes out the OS and a system reboot is required. Is anyone else seeing this (in which

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
Toby 'qubit' Cubitt wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:23:41AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Toby 'qubit' Cubitt wrote: >The only downside to freeNX was it was more complicated to get >working. The big downside of NX for me is, that your session ends as soon as NX is stopped. Not so with VNC (n

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-03 Thread Toby 'qubit' Cubitt
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:23:41AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Toby 'qubit' Cubitt wrote: > > >The only downside to freeNX was it was more complicated to get > >working. > > The big downside of NX for me is, that your session ends > as soon as NX is stopped. Not so with VNC (no matter which >

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Toby 'qubit' Cubitt wrote: The only downside to freeNX was it was more complicated to get working. The big downside of NX for me is, that your session ends as soon as NX is stopped. Not so with VNC (no matter which VNC). Alexander Skwar -- BTW: I have a better name for the software Micro

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-02 Thread Toby 'qubit' Cubitt
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:26:00PM +0200, Rick van Hattem wrote: > On Saturday 01 April 2006 23:47, Jim wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db/pkg $ epm -qf `which xmkmf ` > > > imake-1.0.1-r1 > > > > > > Please file a bug against tightv

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-02 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Saturday 01 April 2006 23:47, Jim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db/pkg $ epm -qf `which xmkmf ` > > imake-1.0.1-r1 > > > > Please file a bug against tightvnc, as it's missing > > a dependency. > > Will do. > > > BTW: Why use tightvn

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
Try using zebedee to both compress and encrypt (if neccessary) the vnc connection. Provided a nice usability increase when using vnc through a modem, though tightvnc was a little better than vnc. BillK On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:47 -0500, Jim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-01 Thread Jim
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db/pkg $ epm -qf `which xmkmf ` > imake-1.0.1-r1 > > Please file a bug against tightvnc, as it's missing > a dependency. Will do. > BTW: Why use tightvnc at all? Realvnc 4 is as fast in > my experience and there's

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-01 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Saturday 01 April 2006 22:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: > BTW: Why use tightvnc at all? Realvnc 4 is as fast in > my experience and there's still somebody workign on it - > seeing that the last update to tightvnc is dated > July 2005, I doubt that anybody maintains it anymore. > Realvnc lacks jpeg

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jim wrote: Would this be a problem with the EBuild or with the app? I am try to install tightvnc and get the following error. Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1/work/vnc_unixsrc ... /usr/portage/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: line 41: xmkmf: c

[gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-01 Thread Jim
Would this be a problem with the EBuild or with the app? I am try to install tightvnc and get the following error. >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1/work/vnc_unixsrc ... /usr/portage/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: line 41: xmkmf: command