Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:28:35 CJoeB wrote: On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote: I can do this, but the computer isn't that old and up until today when I rebooted the computer by holding the power button, on reboot, the mouse and the keyboard worked fine. And although the computer is new,

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On 12/25/2011 01:08 PM, CJoeB wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the monitor goes on

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On 12/25/2011 02:51 PM, CJoeB wrote: On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-26 Thread Colleen Beamer
On 12/26/11 14:54, Paul Hartman wrote: On 12/25/2011 02:51 PM, CJoeB wrote: On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 December 2011, at 09:44, Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:28:35 CJoeB wrote: … And although the computer is new, I've screwed the warranty because I removed Windows and there is only Linux on my computer. It is worth noting for future cases like this that the warranty may not be

[gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread CJoeB
Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor the mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread CJoeB
On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread pk
On 2011-12-25 20:08, CJoeB wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave me my login screen, but

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:20:56 Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread CJoeB
On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave me my login

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread CJoeB
On 12/25/11 14:27, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 03:51:02PM -0500, CJoeB wrote: Wild guess: xorg-server was upgraded to a newer version with changed ABI, so you have to remerge everthing installed under x11-drivers # emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to a login

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:13:22PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to a login screen and neither my keyboard nor mouse work […] Well then leave the graphical login out. […] Whoops, that’s what you get if you send answers without reading all new

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread CJoeB
On 12/25/11 15:08, Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:20:56 Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The