Re: [arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK

2009-10-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:06 PM, David C. Rankin < > drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > I'm having a problem with openoffice calc. When I highlight a few cells or > > few > > rows and then change the background color, no color is shown on the monitor > > for the cells. Mo

Re: [arch-general] Who has the original for backgrounds in /usr/share/archlinux/wallpaper

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 11:14:38 pm Jesse Zola wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > Listmates > > > > Does anybody know who has the originals of the wallpapers in > > /usr/share/archlinux/wallpaper? I as because I would like to get the > > backgrounds but ha

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 03:45:44 am pascal wrote: > Le Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:46:36 -0500 > > "David C. Rankin" a écrit: > > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:37:43 pm Mikael Eriksson wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > > Guys, > > > > > > > > After pic

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 07:30:51 pm Dario wrote: > Hi! > > In data venerdì 16 ottobre 2009 23:20:45, Damjan Georgievski ha scritto: > > Does you KDE work if you try to log in as a new clean user? > > I'd also try to use another login manager, if you haven't tried this way > yet, trying another

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 04:20:45 pm Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > The fbcon is the Biggie!. But that is now some compiled into the kernel > > magic that I'm pretty much at a loss to deal with. I installed > > xf86-video-fbdev and the fbdev error is gone, but as others correctly > > said, that was

[arch-general] Kernel Updates & radeonhd -- what does that mean for me compiling the radeonhd from git?

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I don't know exactly how the kernel changes would effect me compiling and installing the radeonhd module from the radeonhd git repository (if at all). My question is "If I compile and install the radeonhd driver, will the new kernel setup use my module or will it use so precompiled module

[arch-general] Latest Kernel Update Breaks kdm with Radeonhd (abterm of greeter) -- Requires Removal of xorg.conf

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I almost had a heartattack tonight when I updated my laptop and X died. I though "oh no, here we go again -- the intel story all over again..." After update I did a clean restart and the first thing I noticed was the screen resolution changed (twice) during the boot process: (1) First fe

Re: [arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK

2009-10-16 Thread Dexter Ang
I can confirm that I'm not seeing what you're saying. Setting the background color over here displays it immediately. Using openoffice-base 3.1.1-2 dex On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:06 PM, David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > Guys, > > I'm having a problem with openoffice calc.

[arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I'm having a problem with openoffice calc. When I highlight a few cells or few rows and then change the background color, no color is shown on the monitor for the cells. Moving the input box up/down across the rows or cells that the background color was set on, the color indication in the

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread Dario
Hi! In data venerdì 16 ottobre 2009 23:20:45, Damjan Georgievski ha scritto: > Does you KDE work if you try to log in as a new clean user? I'd also try to use another login manager, if you haven't tried this way yet, trying another desktop environment and trying to use the standard vesa driver

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> > The fbcon is the Biggie!. But that is now some compiled into the kernel magic > that > I'm pretty much at a loss to deal with. I installed xf86-video-fbdev and the > fbdev error is gone, but as others correctly said, that wasn't the problem. fbcon is the framebuffer console,i.e. a module that

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 06:11:10 am Guus Snijders wrote: > 2009/10/16 David C. Rankin : > > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:06:15 pm David C. Rankin > > [...] > > >> Maybe a brake-through I managed to get a strace of startx. While the > >> strace was running, I had a sustained X session with a s

Re: [arch-general] Intel AG 4965

2009-10-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 16 Oct 2009 06:33 -0300, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: > OK, I'll try when I get home... > > On my work i could connect whit a WEP wireless... > > Maybe some problem whit the wpa stuff? > > Att, > Alan > > Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > >I would suggest trying some lower level tools, like netcfg

Re: [arch-general] Intel AG 4965

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Hoffmeister
OK, I'll try when I get home... On my work i could connect whit a WEP wireless... Maybe some problem whit the wpa stuff? Att, Alan Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: I would suggest trying some lower level tools, like netcfg or even wpa_supplicant directly, to see if it is the driver or the tool... 2

Re: [arch-general] Intel AG 4965

2009-10-16 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I would suggest trying some lower level tools, like netcfg or even wpa_supplicant directly, to see if it is the driver or the tool... 2009/10/16 Alan Hoffmeister > Tom K wrote: > >> Flavio Costa wrote: >> >>> Maybe the output of NetworkManager's log would be helpful too. >>> Try "# tail -f /var/

Re: [arch-general] Intel AG 4965

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Hoffmeister
Tom K wrote: Flavio Costa wrote: Maybe the output of NetworkManager's log would be helpful too. Try "# tail -f /var/log/messages" while connecting to a wireless connection. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: Hello guyz! First of all, let me introduce. My name is

Re: [arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-16 Thread Otávio Módolo
for those who don't want to use vim, ex has a visual mode that is pretty much the same as vi was. it's a little bit old throlgh. 2009/10/16 Øyvind Heggstad > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:11:40 +0200 > Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:11:00 +0200 > > Øyvind Heggstad wrote: > > >

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread Guus Snijders
2009/10/16 David C. Rankin : > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:06:15 pm David C. Rankin [...] >> Maybe a brake-through I managed to get a strace of startx. While the strace >> was running, I had a sustained X session with a small xterm in the top-left >> corner of the display. I couldn't do anythin

Re: [arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-16 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:11:40 +0200 Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:11:00 +0200 > Øyvind Heggstad wrote: > > > > So you have to use 'hjkl' and so on. (which you should use anyway) > > only on crappy (or 'suboptimal' for the political correct) keyboard > layouts. > > Dieter W

Re: [arch-general] Intel AG 4965

2009-10-16 Thread Tom K
Flavio Costa wrote: Maybe the output of NetworkManager's log would be helpful too. Try "# tail -f /var/log/messages" while connecting to a wireless connection. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: Hello guyz! First of all, let me introduce. My name is Alan Hoffmeister,

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-16 Thread pascal
Le Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:46:36 -0500 "David C. Rankin" a écrit: > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:37:43 pm Mikael Eriksson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > > > After picking around in the logs, one recurring error seems to be: > > > > >