[gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier: Function not [ 2082.101]

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:55:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Teemu Vartiainen
2010/12/15 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [  2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [  2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [  2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier:

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-15 09:48]: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and when I rebooted, the GUI

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:55:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Teemu Vartiainen wrote: 2010/12/15 Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253,

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
r...@smoker / # cat /media/disk/files/Xorg.0.log | grep EE [ 2081.047] Current Operating System: Linux fireball 2.6.36-gentoo-r4 #15 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 13 01:15:13 CST 2010 x86_64 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 2081.048] (II) Loading extension

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:03:58, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:26:16, Dale wrote: Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit. I'd try to boot by SystemRescueCD and let it start X11 to rule out some hardware problems. (Version 1.6.4 is using xorg-server-1.9.2) Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:26:16 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: First of all: In grub add a 2 at the end of the kernel command line. This will boot you into runlevel 2 (console) without trying to switch to X. This way you will have a clean machine with no confused nvidia driver hanging a

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: 1.) Add hal to the USE flags of /etc/make.conf. This is going to be fun ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about the card. It was using the generic nv driver and it still wouldn't work.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about the card. It was using

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:54:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: 1.) Add hal to the USE flags of /etc/make.conf. This is going to be fun ;-) Yes, I remember that episode on his last machine :) -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:26:16, Dale wrote: Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit. I'd try to boot by SystemRescueCD and let it start X11 to rule out some hardware problems. (Version 1.6.4 is using xorg-server-1.9.2) Helmut. I tried booting

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
IMO its a waste of time to worry about any of this other stuff - the EE's in the log file are ERRORs, directly pointing at serious issues with missing modules. So either the modules dont exist, or xorg cant find them. There's no evidence of a problem with the nvidia module or the

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:10:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale, Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off and unplug power and then start it again? I have, in the past, had issues where a card wasn't being reset properly during a reboot and only a cold start would lead to correct behaviour. --

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about the card. It was using the generic nv

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253,

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I don't think that's true. In my Xorg.0.log I do have (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) and still, X11 is running just fine. I think these modules are superfluous with a recent Xorg version.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
On 12/15/2010 11:18 AM, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:26:16, Dale wrote: Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit. I'd try to boot by SystemRescueCD and let it start X11 to rule out some hardware problems. (Version 1.6.4 is using

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work,

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. Dale :-) :-) Did u see my other email with this? Can you locate libdri.so, libdri2.so and libglx.so on your file system? On my ATI system they're

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:03:58, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. fwiw xorg supplies the libdri modules, its not part of nvidia-drivers. For

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:20:20 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale, Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off and unplug power and then start it again? I have, in the past, had issues where a card wasn't being reset properly during a reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:30:46 Adam Carter wrote: I don't think that's true. In my Xorg.0.log I do have (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) and still, X11 is running just fine. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:20:33AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:10:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote: I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:45:34 Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. fwiw xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:22:33 -0600, Dale wrote: I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. It's not. Those errors about dri are a standard feature of the nvidia binary drivers. They do not

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) [ 2082.101] (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:31:54 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) How about just reading the bloody first post in the thread where parts of the log are quoted? -- Neil Bothwick TERROR: A female

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:20:20 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale, Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off and unplug power and then start it again? I have, in the past, had issues where a card wasn't being reset

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:30:46 Adam Carter wrote: I don't think that's true. In my Xorg.0.log I do have (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) and still, X11 is running just

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:03:58 Dale wrote: I knew if I updated the kernel I had to re-emerge the nvidia-drivers but I didn't know it was the other way around too. No, it isn't. Not here at any rate. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here is the results of the latest test. I shut down the rig and unplugged the rig and monitor.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:03:58 Dale wrote: I knew if I updated the kernel I had to re-emerge the nvidia-drivers but I didn't know it was the other way around too. No, it isn't. Not here at any rate. I tried it anyway. No change. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here is the results of the latest test. I shut

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here is the results of the latest test. I shut

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:44:59 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote: [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
Result: eve ~ # find /usr -name libdri* /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri2.so eve ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (II) Loading extension

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:39:27AM -0600, Dale wrote: ... I'm attaching both the new just tried xorg.conf and the xorg.log file. No grep or anything this time. Let me know if you see anything fishy or that needs changing. Thanks. Dale ... [ 2082.083] (II) Loading extension

!! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here is the

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: Pintér Tibor wrote: how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) That's where the errors came from that I

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Ok, check your kernel config. The following error into google gave me a hint, [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier: Function not [ 2082.101] (EE)

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :) -- Joost I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on gentoo.org.

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :) -- Joost I went back and

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds things up even more ;) The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, as I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date.  I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it.  I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time.  I had to reboot to move some things around and when I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, and it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds things up even more ;) The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds things up even more ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Hi again, For those mot up to date.  I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 card in it.  I bought a brand new monitor this morning,

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on gentoo.org. There is no mention of nvidia needing that. Should I tell the doc team so they can mention that for others or is my machine a little unique? Since someone else ran into it on the link you posted, it may be something that

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:35:15 Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at