Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread Hung Dang
Hi, You can try to modify the default font in /etc/conf.d/consolefont and restart /etc/init.d/consolefont to see if the new font look OK for you or not. The terminus-font looks OK for me. Hope this help Hung On 01/03/11 20:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Paul Hartman [11-01-03 17:27]: >> On S

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman [11-01-03 17:27]: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, wrote: > > Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high > > resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ > > Works for me on ~amd64 gentoo with nvid

[gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-03 Thread Dale
Hi, I been watching my clock here for a while. On my old rig, ntp kept the clock set very, very well. This rig seems to have issues. I tried the stable version of ntp and it just seems to keep resetting the time but not adjusting the drift file at all. I even adjusted manually once and my

[gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/03/2011 10:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: uvesafb will not give you extra resolutions. It will however allow you to use non-default refresh-rates which is sometimes useful with CRT monitors. But it has a drawback too: it needs a users

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Calendar applications

2011-01-03 Thread Hamilton Silva
Take a look at osmo . Regards Hamilton

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:12:41PM -0600, Dale wrote: I ran into a weird video issue a month or so ago and there was a lot of head scratching. Just out of curiosity, do you have this built into the kernel under 'General Setup"? System V IPC Again, I have that buil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Stroller
On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: > ... > And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where /etc/fstab > is located ? The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. I'm not saying this helps solve your problem, I'm just sayin'. > BTW: Yes, I will boot next time with a LAB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg Schaible did opine thusly: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device > >> changes. With 2.6.35 and be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > uvesafb will not give you extra resolutions.  It will however allow you to > use non-default refresh-rates which is sometimes useful with CRT monitors. > > But it has a drawback too: it needs a userspace tool and resolution is > switched t

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device > changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it > seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a > device

[gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/03/2011 08:09 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman [11-01-03 17:27]: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, wrote: Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ Wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Stroller
On 3/1/2011, at 6:17pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> ... >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it >> seems that anything that is internall

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, wrote: > Paul Hartman [11-01-03 17:27]: >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM,   wrote: >> > Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high >> > resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? >> >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesa

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:53:05PM +, Mick wrote: > I don't know because on my boxen I had the framebuffer modules built in the > kernel. Therefore I had to recompile the kernel with all the KMS settings as > suggested in the article above and remove the framebuffer modules completely. > ..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:12:41PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > I ran into a weird video issue a month or so ago and there was a lot of > head scratching. Just out of curiosity, do you have this built into the > kernel under 'General Setup"? > > System V IPC > > Again, I have that built in the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 January 2011 17:12:11 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:37:23AM +, Mick wrote: > > KMS won't work with framebuffer modules like vesa/uvesa/radeonfb/etc. > > unless you also add nomodeset at the kernel line in GRUB. > > I'm not using those modules. Unless KMS a

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device > changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it > seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a > device f

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a device first. Since my com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:37:23AM +, Mick wrote: KMS won't work with framebuffer modules like vesa/uvesa/radeonfb/etc. unless you also add nomodeset at the kernel line in GRUB. I'm not using those modules. Unless KMS actively breaks because those module

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman [11-01-03 17:27]: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, wrote: > > Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high > > resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ > > Works for me on ~amd64 gentoo with nvid

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman [11-01-03 17:27]: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, wrote: > > Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high > > resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ > > Works for me on ~amd64 gentoo with nvid

[gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a device first. Since my computer has an internal media bay (and my moni

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How 2 disable synaptic pad (driver)

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 January 2011 16:21:41 James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > > Now I want to disable the synaptic pad on a laptop. > > > > Or if you want to use the xorg configuration files you can try creating: > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf > > > > and adding the option: > > Option

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread felix
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:37:23AM +, Mick wrote: > KMS won't work with framebuffer modules like vesa/uvesa/radeonfb/etc. unless > you also add nomodeset at the kernel line in GRUB. I'm not using those modules. Unless KMS actively breaks because those modules exist but aren't loaded, I don'

[gentoo-user] Re: How 2 disable synaptic pad (driver)

2011-01-03 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > Now I want to disable the synaptic pad on a laptop. > Or if you want to use the xorg configuration files you can try creating: > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf > and adding the option: > Option "TouchpadOff" "1" FANTASTIC! Section "InputClass" Iden

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode & the console

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:28 AM, wrote: > Final question after all there words: How can I get such a high > resolution with this hardware and the nvidia-drivers??? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ Works for me on ~amd64 gentoo with nvidia-drivers :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: UPS driver error

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 January 2011 09:42:29 Francesco Talamona wrote: > I think is an issue with the UDEV rules. > At the end of /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules I put this line for my > liebert USB UPS: > > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb",ATTRS{idVendor}=="10af",ATTRS{idProduct}=="0004",SYMLINK+ > ="liebert- ups" MODE

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-03 Thread walt
On 01/03/2011 02:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote: On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a VT and restart xdm, everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] How 2 disable synaptic pad (driver)

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 January 2011 07:57:10 x...@synapse.plus.com wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2011, James wrote: > > Hello, so I got xorg-server > > working just fine on several machines...(*!/#FFF) > > > > Now I want to disable the synaptic pad on a laptop. > > The first laptop I want to do this to is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote: > On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow, > > because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a > > VT and restart xdm, everything works as expected. > > Just for c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.9.2 and wrong display size

2011-01-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 January 2011 01:21:46 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:33:18AM +, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 02 January 2011 21:18:14 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:07:40PM -0800, walt wrote: > > > > On 01/02/2011 11:25 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >