Thanks a lot to all of you!

Hi,

i've bought a new Xtreamer Ultra, and It comes with tweaked Ubuntu and stuff, as a true Gentoo user, I've wiped everything from there, bought internal 2.5inch HDD for Gentoo.

The problem is that Xtreamer has no CDROM and I don't have an external one, I will not buy one for 1 installation.

Is ...

I need basic desktop env, KDE-4, virtual box with windows O.S and Adobe software, on linux: Development IDEs. Eclipse etc...
Is something of this requires 3D?

Hello,

Can't find any documentation regarding the subject.

What is the purpose of nouveau drivers? Does It better than old nvidia drivers? It works on older g.cards, like nVidia G10* on laptops?

Because I can't seem to make It work, and there's no proper HOWTO's yet. First of all I would like to ...

Many thanks for your help and fast answer. I'll use LVM as you suggested.

Hello.

I'm trying a new way of partitioning my system. Tired of 3 primary disks.

I want to try and do something like that (separate):
/ - root
/boot
/swap
/var
/opt
/usr
/tmp
/home

All these directories in a separate partition.

Which should stay primary, what should go to extended and be a ...

Changed the first message to another question. Up.

KDE Compositing is sucks at this days, will wait for more CompizFusioned effects in KDE

Any ideas how do I fix the problem with 1 desktop?

And it was empty... So I just reinstalled the whole windows XP system with all necessary software

emerge -1 dbus

then

rc-update add dbus default

restart

Virtual Machine with Windows XP disappeared from VirtualBox.
How can I find it?

My KDE taskbar shows only 1 desktop, not 4. When I rotate the cube - it rotates the same window, but compizconfig has 4 desktops set, same in KDE config is set to 4 desktops.
Any ideas on how to fix it?

wiped ~/.config/compiz folder, reemerged compiz-fusion and all It's meta packages, restored ...

Hello.

I need some help.
I can't make my headphones take control over the speakers to play the sound.
They worked for 2 days and after a reboot they stopped.
I use ALSA, snd-hda-intel driver, USB sound devices and PCI compiled as Kernel modules and loaded.
If I open alsamixer or Gnome Alsa Mixer or ...

emerge --info
http://dpaste.com/143337/

cat /var/log/xdm.log
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I did restart, but as well I did env-update and revdep-rebuild, nothing helped.

Yes, kde4 is a right value...

The point is not kde4 value, It's the Xorg server updated from 1.6.* to 1.7.* and now Its crashing.

So, I've upgraded my world and system, and after that, instead of seeing my beatiful KDM Login Manager, I see prehistoric X login manager, which cannot get me into my Gentoo.

ANyway. I couldn't fix the problem. Reemerged xorg, nvidia drivers, x11 drivers etc...
/etc/conf.d/xdm says DISPLAY_MANAGER ...

Deleted ~/.conf/compiz
UNCHECK: CompizConfig Settings Manager -> Workarounds -> Fix screen updates in XGL with fgrx <- UNCHECK THIS AND EVERYTHING WORKS SMOOTH AND FINE

Hello Guys.

I couldn't find any optimization guides for Compiz+Intel GMA Graphic Cards over the internet, so I want to ask you if anyone can offer me a good configuration for Compiz in order to raise the FPS.

The Problem
Fired: Fusion-Icon -- Emerald+Compiz -- FPS = 15 per 5 seconds
Tested ...

After switching KMS in kernel to OFF, recompiling kernel and much more reemerging packages, I've got it to work, but have this at system boot:

start-stop-daemon: did not create a valid pid in `/var/run/kdm.pid`

Hello,

I have probably very complex error, which prevents me from running KDE throguh KDM Login Manager as regular User.

My Graphic Card is Intel Integrated Q965

Kernel version is 2.6.32-r1

When I run startx as root from console, KDE starts normally, without a problems.
When I try to do it ...

Hello.
This time I have a problem with very low FPS, everything is slow, freezing and stuck.
GLXgears shows 2.5 FPS, 13 frames per 5.5 seconds.
OpenGL, select set to Nvidia, drivers reinstalled and work fine.
How to debug this issue?
Low FPS is everywhere, even when typing this message.

I really appreciate your help, could please coordinate me and tell what packages to rebuild/delete/update?
Which one of two are testing? x11-proto or x11-libs group?

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.3 [2.2.2] 0 kB
[blocks B ] <x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.99.1 ("<x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.99.1" is blocking x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.3)

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied ...

Current version is 2.2.2, last available is 2.3 which is hard masked and I can't unmask it.. still says masked, even with amd64 keyword.

fratyr@tuxlover / $ equery b xf86vmproto.h .
[ Searching for file(s) xf86vmproto.h,. in *... ]
fratyr@tuxlover / $