Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-25 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:53:25 Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: > >> I been working on gathering information for this for a while. I just > >> tried something else. I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to > >> download videos. Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:18:34 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info: > OoooK. That didn't work to well. Using VESA, the screen was ALL > messed up. It was mostly garbage to say it lightly. I also tried > the nv driver again, all I got was a blink

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Thanks. I remembered after hitting reply to set it in make.conf. I got some done anyway. I'll report back what blows up. O_O Dale :-) :-) OoooK. That didn't work to well. Using VESA, the screen was ALL messed up. It was mostly garbage to say it lightly. I also tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale asks: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them. I'm not sure I have ever used th

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:14:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > > It's the standard video driver, x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa > And I change nvidia to vesa or do I need to unmerge nvidia first? If you keep xorg.conf, change it to use vesa. > Also, are these done as modules like nvidia is? Hmmm, if I > r

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>> I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so >>> long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use >>> them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:46:55 -0500, Dale wrote: You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable. OK. How do I do the VESA drivers? Honestly, the only trouble I can recall out of nvidia was upgrading the kernel then rebooting and realizing I forgot

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:46:55 -0500, Dale wrote: > > You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable. > OK. How do I do the VESA drivers? Honestly, the only trouble I can > recall out of nvidia was upgrading the kernel then rebooting and > realizing I forgot to rebuild against the new k

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash. Maybe some third party thing that works reasonably well. If youtube works, I should be good

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: I been working on gathering information for this for a while. I just tried something else. I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to download videos. Also, it crashes when I am downloading videos but that is about a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I found the link o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:41:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so > long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use > them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. I > found the link on the xorg site. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: > Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there > and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash. Maybe some > third party thing that works reasonably well. If youtube works, I > should be good to go since the sit

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote: > I been working on gathering information for this for a while. I just > tried something else. I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to > download videos. Also, it crashes when I am downloading videos but that > is about all I use Firefox fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > I'd also try other video drivers, like nouveau or nv. I think you did > > not do this yet, sorry if I just overlooked it. They may not work as > > well as the nvidia-drivers for you, but this way you can rule out the > > video drivers, or confirm it has som

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Here we go again. New thread, same problem. I'm compiling info over a period of time here so bear with me. Info alert: [...] Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there and if not, recommend something I can use be

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Here we go again. New thread, same problem. I'm compiling info over a > period of time here so bear with me. Info alert: [...] > Right now, just look over my info, see if you see anything insane there > and if not, recommend something I can use besides flash. Maybe some > third

[gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Here we go again. New thread, same problem. I'm compiling info over a period of time here so bear with me. Info alert: root@fireball / # emerge --info firefox Portage 2.2.0_alpha45 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r4, 2.6.39-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ===