On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:56 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 05:37:09 PM R0b0t1 wrote:
>> Err, pretend I quoted the person talking about Nvidia drivers not being too
>> bugguly. They ok, but people remember the bad times.
>
> If they don't load properly,
On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 05:37:09 PM R0b0t1 wrote:
> Err, pretend I quoted the person talking about Nvidia drivers not being too
> bugguly. They ok, but people remember the bad times.
If they don't load properly, X will fail to start and I get thrown into a
text-console login.
No need to
Err, pretend I quoted the person talking about Nvidia drivers not being too
bugguly. They ok, but people remember the bad times.
Also: people use lower resolution than max because most everything doesn't
support proper dpi scaling
Slightly buggy. Boot using Intel igpu, use laptop power switching.
On 23/03/2016 16:39, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-03-23, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Most users in this day and age would probably reply "why do I need to
>> start with different resolutions and colour depth?"
>
> When using different display hardware: LCD projector,
On 2016-03-23, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-03-23, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Most users in this day and age would probably reply "why do I need to
>> start with different resolutions and colour depth?"
>
> When using different display
On 2016-03-23, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Most users in this day and age would probably reply "why do I need to
> start with different resolutions and colour depth?"
When using different display hardware: LCD projector, TV, etc.
> It's been many years since I myself
On 2016-03-23, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +, Ian Bloss wrote:
>> >> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can
On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:57:02 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 23/03/2016 12:53, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:46:09AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote
> >
> >> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
> >>> You're probably right, the magick sysrq
On 23/03/2016 12:53, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:46:09AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote
>> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> You're probably right, the magick sysrq feature pretty much obviates
>>> the need to boot to console to protect
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:46:09AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote
> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> > You're probably right, the magick sysrq feature pretty much obviates
> > the need to boot to console to protect against buggy X11 servers. But,
> > it's fairly recent
On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +, Ian Bloss wrote:
> >> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the
> >> magic sysrsc key to get control of input back
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:47:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> The last time I had X to fail when booting was when I tried hal.
> > How could we ever forget...
> I doubt I ever will. I have to give the guy behind it credit tho. When
> it was pretty clear that it wasn't going as was planned,
And no
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:37:16 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> The last time I had X to fail when booting was when I tried hal.
> How could we ever forget...
>
>
I doubt I ever will. I have to give the guy behind it credit tho. When
it was pretty clear that it wasn't going as was
On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +, Ian Bloss wrote:
>
>> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the
>> magic sysrsc key to get control of input back from X
>
> Yes, I mentioned Alt-SysReq-R several posts ago.
Grant Edwards wrote:
> Except X failing to load and falling back toa console never seems to
> the failure mode I'd run into. It's more like X starts up and the
> keyboard and mouse don't work, so I've got to go dig out my laptop
> (which was hopefully not left at the office) boot it up and then
On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:37:16 -0500, Dale wrote:
> The last time I had X to fail when booting was when I tried hal.
How could we ever forget...
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On March 22, 2016 1:37:16 AM GMT+01:00, Dale wrote:
>Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:10:12 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a
> safe console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:10:12 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a
safe console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head
examined.
>>> After all, it's not as though it falls back to a
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:10:12 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a
> >> safe console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head
> >> examined.
>
> > After all, it's not as though it falls back to a console if X fails to
>
On 2016-03-21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:52:26 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
>
>> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe
>> console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined.
> After all, it's not as though it
On Monday, March 21, 2016 12:30:43 PM »Q« wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:43:38 +0200
>
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Danger, Will Robinson, danger!
> >
> > The power of the troll is strong with this one.
>
> Well, Gentoo *is* a bad system once you've set up automatic
>
On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:43:38 +0200
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Danger, Will Robinson, danger!
>
> The power of the troll is strong with this one.
Well, Gentoo *is* a bad system once you've set up automatic
footguns aimed at you from every possible angle. The outrage every
On Monday, March 21, 2016 03:02:49 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-03-21, Alan Grimes wrote:
> > Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe
> > console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. [...]
>
> A bit hyperbolic
On Monday, March 21, 2016 12:43:36 PM Francisco Ares wrote:
> 2016-03-21 11:25 GMT-03:00 Nikos Chantziaras :
> > On 21/03/16 13:52, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard
> >> does no longer respond in X. This is
2016-03-21 11:25 GMT-03:00 Nikos Chantziaras :
> On 21/03/16 13:52, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard
>> does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying
>> because when I have xdm in rc-update, X is started
On 2016-03-21, Alan Grimes wrote:
> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe
> console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. [...]
A bit hyperbolic perhaps, but I've always been a firm believer in the
"boot to console and
On 21/03/16 13:52, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
Hi,
since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard
does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying
because when I have xdm in rc-update, X is started right at
boot. I have no chance to get back to the console using
Ctrl-Alt-F1, and the
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