Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 October 2008 04:02:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: > [snip] > > > I've configured it with TwinView > > as in: > Option "TwinView" "True" Yes. Some output : $ sudo grep -i -e xinerama -e twinview /var/log/Xorg.0.log (**) Option "Xinerama" "1" (**) Xinerama: enabled (**) NVIDIA(

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread YoYo siska
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:10:34AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 13 October 2008 04:02:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > I've configured it with TwinView > > > > as in: > > Option "TwinView" "True" > > Yes. Some output : > > $ sudo grep -i -e xinerama -e twin

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 13 October 2008 13:53:49 YoYo siska wrote: > tabletka ~ # equery hasuse xinerama | wc -l > 285 > > most of them are apps from kde-base/* (3.5.9), seems that it changed > between 3.5.9 and 3.5.10, plus iwndow managers like fluxbox, openbox... That looks better. I was convinced that most k

[gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-10-13, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > [snip] >> >> There's a third option you haven't mentioned: two different >> displays rather than a large virtual display spread across two >> monitors. > > [snip] > >> Pros: >> >>* Mouse movement and focus still ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-13 Thread Duane Griffin
2008/10/12 Alexander Puchmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) > worked fine for nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes > (not always) scrollock and capslock LED blinking). If you have another machine lying around, try set

[gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-10-13, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>* Displays can have different resolutions, sizes, depths. >> >> So can xinerama / twinview :) > > I thought I had read somewhere that they had to have the same > depth at least. Based on what little I do know about Xlib I'm also prett

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerge hal

2008-10-13 Thread M. Sitorus
sori to open this topic again. last night, i try to emerge hal-0.5.11-r3 and it pulled glib-2.18.1 as its depedency. but emerging glib failed. i'm already run revdep rebuild, but nothing happend. here is the error log: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking glib-2.18.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

2008-10-13 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > motion looks about right, but segfaults for me like this: Have you customized the /etc/motion.conf file? Googling should produce some wikis or example files to follow. James

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread James
Adam Carter optus.com.au> writes: > Is /dev/ttyUSB0 as > functional as a regular /etc/ttyS0? I have a USB to serial adapter > that uses the pl2303 driver, and have It's listed in the kernel sources so it should work.. make menuconfig -->device drivers -->usb -->USB Serial Converter Support

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

2008-10-13 Thread Grant
>> motion looks about right, but segfaults for me like this: > > Have you customized the /etc/motion.conf file? I get the same error whether I customize the file or use the default one. > Googling should produce some wikis or example files to follow. No luck so far but I'm working on it. - Gra

[gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-13 Thread Nicola
Hi! Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the same mistake twice in a r

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

2008-10-13 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > > Have you customized the /etc/motion.conf file? > > No luck so far but I'm working on it. I'm not sure about the latest version of motion, but here's a note I save from version 3.2.7 (that may provide some examples): * You need to setup /etc/motion.conf before ru

[gentoo-user] Easily coping with a domain password

2008-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, Some weeks go well, some don't. For me, this one isn't. The AD at work was moaning that I needed to change the password, which I duly did under protest. Then all hell broke loose. 30 seconds later the account was locked. That turned out to be kontact checking Exchange once a minute when I

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
> FTDI work very well under windows or linux. Once you add the > appropriate driver (via the linux kernel) you can boot > either winblows or linux and use the 9pin-serial-to-usb > as you like with either OS. The device is setup and works (hence the existance of the /dev/ttyUSB0 device). If the d

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread James
Adam Carter optus.com.au> writes: > It works fine with minicom. Its just not responding in wine or vwmare > (when mapped to a windows com port). OK, good. Sorry, I never tried to use with wine or vmware James

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel crash - howto find out what happened?

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:08, Alexander Puchmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there! > > MY gentoo system (an [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2GB ram, nforce4-chipset) worked fine > for > nearly two years, but now it frequently freezes, sometimes (not always) > scrollock and capslock LED blinking). > > Sin

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
Also; absydos adam # setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument And absydos adam # stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 speed 9600 baud; line = 0; -brkint -imaxbel absydos adam #

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver 177.80 + xorg 1.5.1 + Compiz

2008-10-13 Thread Roy Wright
Nicola wrote: > Hi! > Somebody out there try to set up the latest xorg server (and all the ~x86 > dependency) the latest nvidia driver and compiz? > I would like to try, but my latest attempt three weeks ago caused same crazy > problems (X didn't start at all), and I am not so crazy to do the sa