From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PrDVB-0000Xb-4J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:55:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B65D31C027; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2871C027 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3217A46090 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:53:46 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:53:45 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X Message-ID: <20110220175345.63aed97b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D601E81.1000301@gmail.com> References: <4D600CBF.8030300@gmail.com> <4D601E81.1000301@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs57 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/H+B70058IlQdSKG716j.2Vo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 07b53ebf934d9379d7948b8eb374fcf7 --Sig_/H+B70058IlQdSKG716j.2Vo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it > exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and > wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no > wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config > utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down. > There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to > get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this. The man page is empty but wicd-cli --help will shoe that that this is not what you want. You need wicd-curses, but wicd-client should call that for you when X is unavailable. If you have auto-connect enabled for your ESSID, you don't even need that, wicd will connect as soon as it starts at boot. --=20 Neil Bothwick I distinctly remember forgetting that. --Sig_/H+B70058IlQdSKG716j.2Vo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1hVSkACgkQum4al0N1GQP+IgCgwSfePPQO+PhiGc7AtIcm7YQB RPAAoKEOfbCxVI6wWOisRCI2m4yDvvKa =beTI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/H+B70058IlQdSKG716j.2Vo--