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[UK]Superdude

kaviazzz wrote:PORTDIR_OVERLAY="
/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects
$PORTDIR_OVERLAY
"

i guess i should have something more right (

Indeed, try this

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PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/portage/local/layman/enligtenment"

[UK]Superdude

Agreed! I'm surprised it has not been included in gentoo in some way or another. From the bug report it looks like a personality clash rather than anything technical. Grabbing it from sourceforge and make etc works out of the box surely an ebuild can cope with this.

[UK]Superdude

So, what gives problems?
with BigDesktop mode xvideo has the strange effect that if I have the video playing on the secondary display and move the mouse also on that display the video moves out of my sight and I see only a black frame. I have to move the mouse to the right border of the primary ...

[UK]Superdude

Have you tried these drivers in portage?

emerge -ps orinoco
Searching...
[ Results for search key : orinoco ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

* net-wireless/orinoco
Latest version available: 0.15_rc3-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 85 kB
Homepage: http ...

[UK]Superdude

Just thought I would quickly say how impressed I am with this tool.
I think the idea of indexing config files and recoording which ones are unmodified
is an innovation that really should be in portage by default.

Just a small thing that may imrpove it would be to set the alias in roots
.bash ...

[UK]Superdude

Does the image appear when it gets to loading the splash runlevel?

I got mine working after trying the following:

1). Make sure you have created the initrd image correctly. Plenty of places tell you how that should happen, see the gentoo wiki for a pretty good guide.

2). Remove the colour depth ...

[UK]Superdude

gimpel wrote:are you using reiser4?
if so, it's because of staircase cpu scheduler. it sucks pretty much in combo with reiser4..

Can you elaborate on this a bit more? I am quite interested....

[UK]Superdude

After some trials with the drive as the only disk on the cable, I get the same results from hdparm.

Something is definately not right here.....

[UK]Superdude

The drives are jumpered with the above the slave, and the master on the cable being the other driver in question.
The other drive has another os, and is not used by my gentoo at all so there is less reason to have them on seperate channels even though that would be prefferable. Unfortunately with ...

[UK]Superdude

Its from baselayout

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qpkg -f /etc/init.d/net.eth0
sys-apps/baselayout *

Same output for domain and local

Re-merge that and you should have all your scripts back.

[UK]Superdude

Hi all,

Having spent the afternoon crawling through the plethora of threads regarding hdparm, dma, slow computers, slow hard disks, cdroms, dvds etc etc I have finally hit a brick wall.

I have dma enabled on my disks, except that I am getting very poor transfer speeds from them.

I have a KT4V ...

[UK]Superdude

I removed duplicate entries in the /etc/prelink.conf file and prelink has seemed to work.

Should this become a bug report? It seems that the behaviour of env-update is wrong, or at least prelink needs to be able to deal with duplicates?

Does anyone have anything else to add?

[UK]Superdude

I too recently upgraded to the new prelink and wondered if it was related.

Hmmmm

[UK]Superdude

cato` wrote:When I prelink I get absolutly no output, does this mean it was sucessfull or not?
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laptop root # prelink -avmfR
laptop root #
laptop root # prelink -avmqR
laptop root #

I get the same result....

hmmmmm

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

[UK]Superdude

Recompile glibc with -nptl in your use flags. That should fix the problem.

Or you could always try a 2.6 kernel. The process to shift to the new kernel is quite painless really.

[UK]Superdude

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebuffe ... Grubsplash

This site has a nice guide and explanation of how to set it all up...

[UK]Superdude

a new splashutils is out.

does anybody have a clue yet, how animations and stuff are to get realised? e.g. is anyone _aware_ of themes using this?

(and i don't mean those using the bootsplash project)

thank you!

Changelog from new splashutils:

Added numerous new features and bugfixes ...

[UK]Superdude

I am also interested in staying in silent mode until X has been started, any update as to whether this is possible or not?

check your /etc/conf.d/splash file:

/etc/conf.d/splash

# should we drop to verbose mode on initscript errors? (yes/no)
SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="no"

Make sure that ...

[UK]Superdude

Well looking at those entries, here's the differences that I see (if it helps what has changed), The theme shouldn't matter if default points to emergance, but the video mode specification is different... You don't specify a colour depth in the second one.

Exactly what I was thinking,
wonder if ...

[UK]Superdude

Well, after more reading and more reading and more playing and some swearing, I fixed my problem.
I can't exactly say what the problem was, but these are the things I changed.
1. Grub.conf
this:

kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd3 elevator=cfq video=vesafb:mtrr,1280x1024-32@85 splash ...

[UK]Superdude

Thanks for the reply. That's where I've been hacking
I have the same image on all of my VCs. I am truely stumped....

All of the themes defined above exist in /etc/splash, and if I set the config to use a different one on VC0, I get that one on all VCs.

I'm beginning to suspect demonic possession ...

[UK]Superdude

I suspect your and my problem is due to subtle errors in configuration, all due to inadequate documentation.

So, since I have the background loading at boot part working, I'll share my grub.conf lines in the hope that this gets you going. If someone else can post configs for differing background ...

[UK]Superdude

*sigh*

I have a problem with my gensplash.
The problem is that the framebuffer works (1280x1024@85). It does not, however start with a theme (should be emergence). I have tried it with the image compiled in the kernel or in as an initrd as per:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Installing ...

[UK]Superdude

Does ut2004 not provide an installer of its own?

I remember using the original UT installer and installing that to my home directory no problems. As far as doing it with portage, i'm not sure that it supports user installed applications yet. Would be a nice feature tho wouldn't it :)

But I ...

[UK]Superdude

I think it would be a great idea. As long as the option to add karma points is only offered in the technical parts of the forums. But the current system is working now so why change it?
Agreed

I have a feeling that it would be like the ranking system we have at the moment, although harder to ...

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