Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 January 2011 01:21:46 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:33:18AM +, Mick wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2011 21:18:14 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:07:40PM -0800, walt wrote: On 01/02/2011 11:25 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: My

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote: On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a VT and restart xdm, everything works as expected. Just for

Re: [gentoo-user] How 2 disable synaptic pad (driver)

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 January 2011 07:57:10 x...@synapse.plus.com wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2011, James wrote: Hello, so I got xorg-server working just fine on several machines...(*!/#FFF) Now I want to disable the synaptic pad on a laptop. The first laptop I want to do this to is working

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-03 Thread walt
On 01/03/2011 02:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote: On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a VT and restart xdm,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: UPS driver error

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 January 2011 09:42:29 Francesco Talamona wrote: I think is an issue with the UDEV rules. At the end of /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules I put this line for my liebert USB UPS: SUBSYSTEMS==usb,ATTRS{idVendor}==10af,ATTRS{idProduct}==0004,SYMLINK+ =liebert- ups MODE=0660,

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ Works for me on ~amd64 gentoo with nvidia-drivers :)

[gentoo-user] Re: How 2 disable synaptic pad (driver)

2011-01-03 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: Now I want to disable the synaptic pad on a laptop. Or if you want to use the xorg configuration files you can try creating: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and adding the option: Option TouchpadOff 1 FANTASTIC! Section InputClass

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:37:23AM +, Mick wrote: KMS won't work with framebuffer modules like vesa/uvesa/radeonfb/etc. unless you also add nomodeset at the kernel line in GRUB. I'm not using those modules. Unless KMS actively breaks because those modules exist but aren't loaded, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How 2 disable synaptic pad (driver)

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 January 2011 16:21:41 James wrote: Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: Now I want to disable the synaptic pad on a laptop. Or if you want to use the xorg configuration files you can try creating: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and adding the option:

[gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a device first. Since my computer has an internal media bay (and my

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:37:23AM +, Mick wrote: KMS won't work with framebuffer modules like vesa/uvesa/radeonfb/etc. unless you also add nomodeset at the kernel line in GRUB. I'm not using those modules. Unless KMS actively breaks because those

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a device first. Since my

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 January 2011 17:12:11 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:37:23AM +, Mick wrote: KMS won't work with framebuffer modules like vesa/uvesa/radeonfb/etc. unless you also add nomodeset at the kernel line in GRUB. I'm not using those modules. Unless KMS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:12:41PM -0600, Dale wrote: I ran into a weird video issue a month or so ago and there was a lot of head scratching. Just out of curiosity, do you have this built into the kernel under 'General Setup? System V IPC Again, I have that built in the kernel not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:53:05PM +, Mick wrote: I don't know because on my boxen I had the framebuffer modules built in the kernel. Therefore I had to recompile the kernel with all the KMS settings as suggested in the article above and remove the framebuffer modules completely. ...

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Stroller
On 3/1/2011, at 6:17pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally

[gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/03/2011 08:09 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM,meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers???

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: uvesafb will not give you extra resolutions.  It will however allow you to use non-default refresh-rates which is sometimes useful with CRT monitors. But it has a drawback too: it needs a userspace tool and resolution is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg Schaible did opine thusly: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Stroller
On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where /etc/fstab is located ? The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. I'm not saying this helps solve your problem, I'm just sayin'. BTW: Yes, I will boot next time with a LABEL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:12:41PM -0600, Dale wrote: I ran into a weird video issue a month or so ago and there was a lot of head scratching. Just out of curiosity, do you have this built into the kernel under 'General Setup? System V IPC Again, I have that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Calendar applications

2011-01-03 Thread Hamilton Silva
Take a look at osmo http://clayo.org/osmo/. Regards Hamilton

[gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/03/2011 10:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: uvesafb will not give you extra resolutions. It will however allow you to use non-default refresh-rates which is sometimes useful with CRT monitors. But it has a drawback too:

[gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-03 Thread Dale
Hi, I been watching my clock here for a while. On my old rig, ntp kept the clock set very, very well. This rig seems to have issues. I tried the stable version of ntp and it just seems to keep resetting the time but not adjusting the drift file at all. I even adjusted manually once and

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console

2011-01-03 Thread Hung Dang
Hi, You can try to modify the default font in /etc/conf.d/consolefont and restart /etc/init.d/consolefont to see if the new font look OK for you or not. The terminus-font looks OK for me. Hope this help Hung On 01/03/11 20:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman