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 1PrFiz-0002JA-Ll for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:17:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5435A1C018; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 095AB1C018 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so5035036wwi.10 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:14:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=47uycOuUe7ZZ3WYnQ3fo+wbXGD9iU5PzRWqCcCQb1BQ=; b=haxqyhHBzSWHlTIajqHb38eDeBX4gvFpZfjTCZ5zi87HIKRCtFe56TicydOQYvBERX X4pdlVFvsI+6m6LLyz8JuI5Lbgl9UEMm0B0cPB/hjzVIpXOqg/xDzqp2OJRnBr6ftqtd uQds1n2fJrmmCB2VFl53R25CAyhUKsjY1htWc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=a/XPe9zsgIRIX3TzeCqj7s5V0NrtEteosvG43w+TQTTA+fi3vrYmT1e1h2SvyBY/Ed JfMYlgtOL4rwzGQJePdmlDaYoUgntEldenvCOioySBBicnyNlYrh/kdO0J6ZyFQNEfOm nnwgA/tk8HkzucYj5sz549Kg+IwutKqA7fwnA= Received: by 10.216.179.133 with SMTP id h5mr1399213wem.69.1298232845071; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r57sm1773301wes.1.2011.02.20.12.14.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:14:03 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:14:07 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <14727.1298025315@ccs.covici.com> <4D61380A.70609@wonkology.org> <32261.1298231093@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <32261.1298231093@ccs.covici.com> 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; boundary="nextPart2204327.CeiHtZemrr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102202014.19330.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7a7b950de7821a1bd261724dadbb6e04 --nextPart2204327.CeiHtZemrr Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 20 February 2011 19:44:53 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > >=20 > > > Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? > > >=20 > > > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. > >=20 > > X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in > > four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I > > fear this will lead to trouble eventually. > >=20 > > I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with > > it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just > > give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does > > not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X > > since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when > > X just worked. >=20 > Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I > lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to > get out. Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure. I have > in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary > testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel. >=20 > X stuff is sure quirky. Yes, especially between versions! ;-) To get your keyboard/mouse back with version 1.7 you may need to set up tho= se=20 pesky .fdi files and of course you will need to make sure that hal is runni= ng. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2204327.CeiHtZemrr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1hdhsACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYKagCg+6klpjt1IUmAiVmx+LOGm+7a mwYAoMQopbvXtC4VCDkM82TuAYBiNecy =eLFe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2204327.CeiHtZemrr--