Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-05 Thread Colleen Beamer
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-05 Thread Colleen Beamer
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:48:20 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens when you; emerge -pv xorg-x11 What do you mean, What happens? It emerges, no error messages. Well, with the -p flag it should just pretend to. And show the effective USE flags, which might be

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:48:20 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: david wrote: What happens when you; emerge -pv xorg-x11 What do you mean, What happens? It emerges, no error messages. Regards, Colleen Hi, Don't have the OP mail-thread, but just a suggestion -

RE: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread JD
with the least additional frustration... -Original Message- From: Rumen Yotov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:11 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710 On Fri, 04 May 2007 08:48:20 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:50 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:32 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: Mouse support is compiled into my kernel (genkernel) Although the section for keyboard is there, there isn't a relevant choice to pick, but I assume

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, First, I have to thank you *all* for your patience with me. I'm not a developer and my formal computer training is limited. However, I'm not stupid (I know no one has implied that), but I get a little frustrated when I've done something successfully a half dozen times and now it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Nikola Goranov
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007, Mick wrote: Colleen's machine is a laptop. They don't have horiz and vert sync signals... Those settings apply only to CRT displays. 99 times out of 100, LCD screens do just fine with a minimal xorg.conf. Here's mine: Section Monitor #

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:08, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi all, I'm having a heck of a time. I've tried so many things, that I'm totally confused. After installing xorg-x11, I ran Xorg -configure. It gives me a file with no horizontal or vertical sync. I would think then that you would

RE: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-03 Thread JD
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710 On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:08, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi all, I'm having a heck of a time. I've tried so many things, that I'm totally confused. After installing xorg-x11, I ran Xorg -configure. It gives me a file with no horizontal

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 03 May 2007, Mick wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:08, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi all, I'm having a heck of a time.  I've tried so many things, that I'm totally confused. After installing xorg-x11, I ran Xorg -configure.  It gives me a file with no horizontal or vertical

[gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I'm having a heck of a time. I've tried so many things, that I'm totally confused. After installing xorg-x11, I ran Xorg -configure. It gives me a file with no horizontal or vertical sync. I tried using the ddcxinfo-knoppix tool, but when I did ddxcinfo-knoppix -hsync, it returned 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread C Lee Davis
Colleen Beamer wrote: Does anyone have a Dell Inspiron M1710 and will let me take a look at their xorg.conf file? This is from my XPS M1710; I'm not sure how similar they are, but I hope it helps. Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0