Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710
Hi all, Well, I'm almost there, but still need some guidance. > Colleen said the screen was "garbled" - doesn't seem to be an out of > range problem. Probably it would be best if Colleen attached or linked > to Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf and maybe kernel output [if that kernel > recompilation didn't fix the problems of course]. Okay, the installation of kde went fine. However, when I'm presented with the login screen for my user id, I get the message: Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation. I'm not sure why this is happening. Before adding xdm to the default runlevel, if I typed 'startx' as the root user, kde started up fine and started the wizard to configure kde. I don't know if it's relevant, but my home directory is on another partition, but the passwd file looks okay in this regard. However, if I exit the xsession - i.e. at the kde login screen select console login or do Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the xsession, the text is still all garbled. Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Autohide mouse pointer
Hi, list My "big" problem is that my mouse pointer remains visible when I'm watching clips in full-screen with mplayer under X. I have Beryl running with Nvidia's binary drv and normally the pointer goes off after several (tens of) seconds of inactivity. Not in full-screened mplayer. How do I fix it? -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710
On Sat, 05 May 2007 03:24:55 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Okay, the installation of kde went fine. However, when I'm presented > with the login screen for my user id, I get the message: > > Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation. I've seen this caused by permissions. Make sure everything in ~/.kde3.5 is owned by the user chown -R user: ~user/.kde3.5 or even chown -R user: ~user -- Neil Bothwick Boss spelled backwards is "double-SOB" signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Wesnoth version
Is there a specific reason why gentoo doesn't provide development versions of Battle for Wesnoth (games-strategy/wesnoth)? I couldn't find anything in bug database. Development versions (1.3.2) are pretty stable, so I can't see a reason why are not included in "~x86". As for "x86", 1.2.4 (latest stable) seems ok. Should I open a bug for that? Thanks, Marko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wesnoth version
On Saturday 05 May 2007, "Marko Kocić" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wesnoth version': > Is there a specific reason why gentoo doesn't provide development > versions of Battle for Wesnoth (games-strategy/wesnoth)? > > I couldn't find anything in bug database. Development versions (1.3.2) > are pretty stable, so I can't see a reason why are not included in > "~x86". As for "x86", 1.2.4 (latest stable) seems ok. > > Should I open a bug for that? Yeah, a new numbered release deserves it's own ebuild, even if it has to linger in package.mask. Make sure it's been 2-3 days after the release and then file a version bump bug. Please report if "simply renaming" the existing ebuild works and/or what you had to change to get a clean compile/install. If you follow Wesnoth closely, but aren't part of upstream, you might consider becoming a/the gentoo package maintainer for it. IIRC, IMHO, the packaging for Wesnoth could use a little "love". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710
At Fri, 04 May 2007 12:03:12 -0400 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always used ATI cards and after this experience, I think I > still prefer them. I understand your frustration and going back to ATI in the future is certainly an option. I should add however that there have been quite a number of reports to this mailing list documenting frustration with ATI (I have never had ATI myself). My own very unscientific summary of the situation is that ATI has been less favorably reviewed then nvidia. Another view expressed is essentially "a pox on both your houses", proprietary drivers are problematic by nature. good luck. allan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wesnoth version
On 5/5/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, a new numbered release deserves it's own ebuild, even if it has to linger in package.mask. Make sure it's been 2-3 days after the release and then file a version bump bug. Please report if "simply renaming" the existing ebuild works and/or what you had to change to get a clean compile/install. Simple renaming worked on my "~x86" system. I haven't noticed nothing suspicious so far. If you follow Wesnoth closely, but aren't part of upstream, you might consider becoming a/the gentoo package maintainer for it. IIRC, IMHO, the packaging for Wesnoth could use a little "love". I agree that Wesnoth woul need more "love", but I don't qualify as official maintainer of Wesnoth package simply because I have never looked into the code. But if "let's try to rename ebuild and see what happens when the new version is released", I'll be glad to help by sending reports to this list. Thanks, Marko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mount NFS mounts as soon as possible
Hi, I use here a gentoo for my diskless video recorder but I have the problem the some mounts e.g. /usr is mounted to late (is mounted via NFS). Is there a possibility to say gentoo to mount at first all disk (including NFS) and then start the normal startscripts. Best regards, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Don't get a /etc/resolv.conf on dhcpcd ethx - Get /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv instead which doesn't work unless copy to /etc/resolv.conf
> you _are_ using dhcpcd, right? I decided to emerge dhcpcd again to see what I get. It reports an error at the end of the compilation. * QA Notice: USE Flag 'kernel_linux' not in IUSE for net-misc/dhcpcd-2.0.5-r1 * * dhcpcd requires kernel support for Packet Socket (CONFIG_PACKET). However it completes OK and seems to work OK other than having to manually create the correct DNS in /etc/resolv.conf. Anyone any ideas. Thanks, Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710
On Saturday 05 May 2007 19:49:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > I've always used ATI cards and after this experience, I think I > > still prefer them. > > [...] My own very unscientific summary of the situation is that ATI has been > less favorably reviewed then nvidia. [...] One could say that the open source drivers for ati cards are considerably better than the open source drivers for nvidia *because* the proprietary ati drivers are so horrible compared to the proprietary drivers from nvidia... :) -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2007 03:24:55 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Okay, the installation of kde went fine. However, when I'm presented >> with the login screen for my user id, I get the message: >> >> Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation. > > I've seen this caused by permissions. Make sure everything in ~/.kde3.5 > is owned by the user Thanks for the tip - another one from the list that I'll file away for future reference. :-) This worked, but the problem was actually my /home/colleen directory. /home is on a separate partition and I actually had to create the colleen directory, which I did as root and ergo, it was owned by root. All is cool now! Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Don't get a /etc/resolv.conf on dhcpcd ethx - Get /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv instead which doesn't work unless copy to /etc/resolv.conf
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 05:36:13AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote > However it completes OK and seems to work OK other than having to > manually create the correct DNS in /etc/resolv.conf. > > Anyone any ideas. Thanks, Richard A bit heavy-handed... ln -f /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv Next time the system tries overwriting /etc/resolv.conf-eth2.sv, it will also overwrite /etc/resolv.conf -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
