Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-08 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 10:11 pm, Steve wrote: > >Steve, > > Try uncommenting the line: > > Option "XkbDisable" > >And restart X > >This should disable any strange keyboard toggles IINM > >-- > > I finally figured out what was wrong. I have an NVIDIA video card > and I use the NVI

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-08 Thread Steve
Steve, Try uncommenting the line: Option "XkbDisable" And restart X This should disable any strange keyboard toggles IINM -- I finally figured out what was wrong. I have an NVIDIA video card and I use the NVIDIA kernel module. On a whim, I disabled that and the VT switching came

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-06 Thread Steve
Very strange. The config should work. Tell me, What happens if you log on as root and then start X? Same behaviour? or does it work properly? The only other thing I can think of is some obscure keyswitch. I am troubled by one of those myself. Every time I reboot this thing, my numberpad won't outp

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-06 Thread Steve
At 11:09 AM 10/6/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:18 pm, Steve wrote: > At 12:49 AM 10/4/03 , Leendert van den Berg wrote and said this: > > > >Can you change to VT1? ctrl+ alt+ F1?n If so, but not to other > > > >terminals X is starting before the VT's are sp

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:18 pm, Steve wrote: > At 12:49 AM 10/4/03 , Leendert van den Berg wrote and said this: > > > >Can you change to VT1? ctrl+ alt+ F1?n If so, but not to other > > > >terminals X is starting before the VT's are spawned. Not sure > > > > how to check for that though > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-05 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:54 pm, Steve wrote: > At 11:41 PM 10/4/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: > > > >What happens when you hit the combination alt + F1? > > > >What happens when you hit the combination alt + F2? > > > > > > Nothing. > > > >Strange. In KDE, alt + F1 should open the "s

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-05 Thread Steve
At 11:41 PM 10/4/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: > >What happens when you hit the combination alt + F1? > >What happens when you hit the combination alt + F2? > > Nothing. > Strange. In KDE, alt + F1 should open the "start applications" menu and alt + F2 should open the "Run Command" dialo

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-04 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:20 pm, Steve wrote: > At 12:33 AM 10/4/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: > >On Friday 03 October 2003 11:42 pm, Steve wrote: > > > At 09:36 AM 10/3/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: > > > >On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:17 pm, Steve wrote: > > > > > At 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-04 Thread Steve
At 12:33 AM 10/4/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: On Friday 03 October 2003 11:42 pm, Steve wrote: > At 09:36 AM 10/3/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: > >On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:17 pm, Steve wrote: > > > At 03:32 PM 10/2/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > >On Thursday 02 Octobe

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-04 Thread Steve
At 12:49 AM 10/4/03 , Leendert van den Berg wrote and said this: > >Can you change to VT1? ctrl+ alt+ F1?n If so, but not to other > >terminals X is starting before the VT's are spawned. Not sure how to > >check for that though > > I can not change to any terminal once in X. > > > >Another thing to

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-04 Thread Todd Sunderlin
Read this message a little late, but what machine arch are you using? I've looked through the replies, and haven't seen anything regarding machine arch. The first one is a problem on SPARC, which is easily fixed. Here is our solution to it (may or may not work on x86, I've never had a problem)

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Steve wrote: > > I do get this message when X starts: xkbcomp reports Type "Two-level" has 2 > levels but has three arguments. > try xev BTW, what layout are you using? Regards, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-03 Thread Leendert van den Berg
> >Can you change to VT1? ctrl+ alt+ F1?n If so, but not to other > >terminals X is starting before the VT's are spawned. Not sure how to > >check for that though > > I can not change to any terminal once in X. > > > >Another thing to try Open an xterm (konsole if you're using KDE) > >and ty

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-03 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 03 October 2003 11:42 pm, Steve wrote: > At 09:36 AM 10/3/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: > >On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:17 pm, Steve wrote: > > > At 03:32 PM 10/2/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > >On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:33 pm, Steve wrote: > > > > > At 11:28 AM 10/2/0

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-03 Thread Steve
At 09:36 AM 10/3/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote and said this: On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:17 pm, Steve wrote: > At 03:32 PM 10/2/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote: > >On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:33 pm, Steve wrote: > > > At 11:28 AM 10/2/03 , Andrej Kacian wrote and said this: > > > >On Wed, 01 Oct 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-03 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:17 pm, Steve wrote: > At 03:32 PM 10/2/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote: > >On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:33 pm, Steve wrote: > > > At 11:28 AM 10/2/03 , Andrej Kacian wrote and said this: > > > >On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:34:56 -0400 > > > > > > > >Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-02 Thread Steve
At 03:32 PM 10/2/03 , Ernie Schroder wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:33 pm, Steve wrote: > At 11:28 AM 10/2/03 , Andrej Kacian wrote and said this: > >On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:34:56 -0400 > > > >Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 03:27 PM 10/1/03 , Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > >On Wednesday

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-02 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:33 pm, Steve wrote: > At 11:28 AM 10/2/03 , Andrej Kacian wrote and said this: > >On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:34:56 -0400 > > > >Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 03:27 PM 10/1/03 , Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > >On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-02 Thread Steve
At 11:28 AM 10/2/03 , Andrej Kacian wrote and said this: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:34:56 -0400 Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:27 PM 10/1/03 , Peter Ruskin wrote: > >On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:04, Steve wrote: > > > > 1. I can't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-02 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:34:56 -0400 Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:27 PM 10/1/03 , Peter Ruskin wrote: > >On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:04, Steve wrote: > > > > 1. I can't use CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 to switch from X to a console. > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-01 Thread Steve
At 03:48 PM 10/1/03 , gabriel wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:04, Steve wrote: > 2. Upon booting I get this message right after "Mounting Local > Filesystems" completes: 'modprobe: modprobe: Cant locate module > nls_iso8859-1' I have a feeling that this is related to perhaps samba > settings in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-01 Thread Steve
At 03:27 PM 10/1/03 , Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:04, Steve wrote: > > 1. I can't use CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 to switch from X to a console. Is > > this set in a config file somewhere, and if so how do I get it to > > work again? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-01 Thread gabriel
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:04, Steve wrote: > 2. Upon booting I get this message right after "Mounting Local > Filesystems" completes: 'modprobe: modprobe: Cant locate module > nls_iso8859-1' I have a feeling that this is related to perhaps samba > settings in the kernel config. i'd check your k

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:25, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:04, Steve wrote: > > 1.  I can't use CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 to switch from X to a console.  Is > > this set in a config file somewhere, and if so how do I get it to > > work again? > > In /etc/X11/XF86Config, add the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 20:04, Steve wrote: > 1.  I can't use CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 to switch from X to a console.  Is > this set in a config file somewhere, and if so how do I get it to > work again? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, add the following to Serverflags section: Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes" man XF8

[gentoo-user] Three small but annoying problems.

2003-10-01 Thread Steve
I have my Gentoo system pretty much set up and running how I want it but I have these three annoyances: 1. I can't use CTRL-ALT-F1-F6 to switch from X to a console. Is this set in a config file somewhere, and if so how do I get it to work again? 2. Upon booting I get this message right after