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

2011-07-23 Thread YoYo Siska
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:22:32PM -0500, Dale wrote: ... using either. I clicked on the link to download and the window popped up to ask me whether to open it or save it. I selected to save it as I have done countless times before. As soon as I clicked that, the window popped up asking

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

2011-07-23 Thread Dale
YoYo Siska wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:22:32PM -0500, Dale wrote: ... using either. I clicked on the link to download and the window popped up to ask me whether to open it or save it. I selected to save it as I have done countless times before. As soon as I clicked that, the window

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

2011-07-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Dale wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: I guess it starts to download it to a temp file, than moves it to the file you choose (never looked into it)... so the problem would be most likely in that operation.. I just find it downright odd that a browser causes a

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

2011-07-23 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Dale wrote: YoYo Siska wrote: I guess it starts to download it to a temp file, than moves it to the file you choose (never looked into it)... so the problem would be most likely in that operation.. I just find

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

2011-07-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 July 2011 19:45:50 Dale wrote: I have tested all sorts of things including running memtest. Which version? The latest in Gentoo predates the introduction of support (whatever that is) for the i-5 and i-7 CPUs. That was version 4.19 if I remember aright. You can get the latest

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

2011-07-23 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2011 19:45:50 Dale wrote: I have tested all sorts of things including running memtest. Which version? The latest in Gentoo predates the introduction of support (whatever that is) for the i-5 and i-7 CPUs. That was version 4.19 if I remember

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

2011-07-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 July 2011 20:46:41 Dale wrote: I have a AMD CPU. Just not a Intel guy. Oh, sorry. My mistake. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter number 5290

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

2011-07-23 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2011 20:46:41 Dale wrote: I have a AMD CPU. Just not a Intel guy. Oh, sorry. My mistake. No problem. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have been sitting on one that the test don't work on. lol Dale :-) :-)

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

2011-07-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 21/07/11, Neil Bothwick wrote: 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. Or move it to /root.

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

2011-07-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 21/07/11, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 21/07/11, 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. Try VESA. I would

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

2011-07-22 Thread Dale
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 21/07/11, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 21/07/11, 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-user] Re: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Dale wrote: Just picking a post to reply here and it may have a good point. I was browsing around to see what software I had for my UPS. I thought I would download the thing, untar it and just check out the README file to see what would be involved

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

2011-07-22 Thread Dale
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Dale wrote: Just picking a post to reply here and it may have a good point. I was browsing around to see what software I had for my UPS. I thought I would download the thing, untar it and just check out the README file to

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

2011-07-21 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 21/07/11, 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. Try VESA. As for Firefox-bin, I'm not sure that would help

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

2011-07-21 Thread walt
On 07/21/2011 01:18 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: 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 blinking cursor. I don't think it even tried to do anything. If you have your opengl set to nvidia, you

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

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 07/21/2011 01:18 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: 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 blinking cursor. I don't think it even tried to do anything. If you have your

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

2011-07-21 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 07/21/2011 01:18 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: 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 blinking cursor. I don't think it even tried to do anything. If you have your opengl