I've been trying desperately to make conky work well with plasma, but it's just not happening. Whenever I run conky with double buffer on, it seems to overlap plasma's background image with black. I thought maybe this script would help but it doesn't, the background just stays black. Any ideas? I'm ...

I have setup my laptop to both hibernate and sleep when lid is closed, but do it only after some delay (20 sec or so) and if lid opens before that, cancel everything.

very clever - is this setup via the acpi default.sh script? Some more details would be
appreciated

thanks

Seconded. Sounds like ...

I'm a laptop user, and I like for my laptop to sleep when the lid is closed... most of the time.

Sometimes, however, I like to close the lid and have the computer not sleep, like when I just want to quickly move it.

The solution: a switch that will inhibit any attempt by the machine to suspend ...

I'm having a problem with compiz in Xfce4. I like to have more than one desktop, and I also like to have a taskbar that lists all windows from all workspaces. Ideally, selecting a task on the taskbar will switch to that window, switching desktops if needed.

Unfortunately, the Xfce4 taskbar fails to ...

I'm also unresponsive for the first two minutes after I'm woken up... :P

Good point :) But I have no sympathy for my machine.

If I get rid of KDE and stop running kdm, and then start x with fluxbox, or with twm, my wake times are much more reasonable (5 seconds) and X doesn't act up. Must be ...

With tuxonice, my computer is a lot more responsive after waking from sleep, but X is still acting up as usual. Perhaps it's because I'm using a compositing window manager.

EDIT: Nope, I disabled compositing and the same problem persists.

I foolishly never bothered to look into tuxonice. I thought that all it did was add hibernation support, which I don't have a huge desire for. I'm going to try it out. Thanks.

vanilla-sources-2.6.34-rc1

I've noticed that when I bring my laptop (Lenovo Ideapad Y430) back up from S3 sleep, it's effectively unresponsive for anywhere from 30 seconds to two minutes. Today I ran top in a terminal window, put the computer to sleep for 10 minutes, then brought it back up so that I could see top as the ...

albright wrote: It builds now - thanks be to the maintainers

Same here

Openoffice keeps failing early on in the build. I tried rebuilding it with MAKEOPTS="-j1" but to no avail. Any ideas on what's up here? sysui and toolkit need to be rebuilt? :?

Build error and emerge --info below:


Module 'sdext' delivered successfully. 7 files copied, 0 files unchanged

2 ...

mA doesn't mean much, a more useful number is W

P = U x I

Where P is power in watts, U is voltage in volts and I is current in amperes.

Say, 18 V and 1.655 A will give power consumption 29.79 W.

I remember this from high school physics :P

My power management scheme is good, in my opinion. I ...

I'm disappointed with my laptop's battery life. I can get just over 2 hours of continuous use from it. The computer and battery are less than a year old, and I've kept good care of both.

I'm wondering if ~1655 mA is a normal rate for a laptop battery while doing non-intensive tasks like word ...

Hi, I like to lock my screen whenever I leave my computer or shut the lid on my laptop. I've been using kscreenlocker for years, but since KDE 4 and my latest laptop I've been having big problems with it. The software does work, but it's slow; sometimes after coming back from sleep, the ...

I tried buggy_irq=1, buggy_semaphore=1, and ac97_quirk=1 but with no positive results. The same error messages arise.

I installed Windows XP on a different hard drive, and Windows also has trouble with the device. Device manager tells me that the audio controller failed to start with error code 10 ...

I looked at the manual for this motherboard, and it says that the sound shares an IRQ with the parallel port; IRQ5, to be exact. So, I turned on the parallel port in the BIOS, and now lspci shows this:


00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2)
Subsystem ...

Intel ICH 0000:00:06.0: PCI INT A disabled
Intel ICH: probe of 0000:00:06.0 failed with error -5
Intel ICH 0000:00:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LAUI] -> GSI 21 (level, high) -> IRQ 21
Intel ICH 0000:00:06.0: setting latency timer to 64
codec_ready: codec is not ready [0x300000]



I posted this ...

http://www.google.com/search?q=nforce&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.gentoo:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

Or did I miss something and nforce has nothing at all to do with nvidia?

The motherboard's chipset bears nVidia's name, but the sound chip is, in reality, manufactured by Realtek. The ...

aCOSwt wrote:Did you come across this one ?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/113595
BTW, your preceeding traces show that intel_8x0 catched the device

Unfortunately, that fix didn't work for me.

Where can I find ALC850 in the kernel? I checked out all of the PCI driver options and none of them are called ALC850. I'm running gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6

In the meantime, here is lspci -vv for my sound card, as well as /proc/interrupts.


00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation ...

Today I powered on the machine and nForce audio is back in lspci. Weird. However, loading snd-intel8x0 doesn't work, and dmesg shows:


Intel ICH 0000:00:06.0: PCI INT A disabled
Intel ICH: probe of 0000:00:06.0 failed with error -5
Intel ICH 0000:00:06.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LAUI] -> GSI 21 (level ...

Hello,
I've built a new system from old parts: an ASUS SK8N motherboard, AMD Opteron 146, etc. Everything is going well, except that the onboard nForce3 sound chip (intel8x0 driver) doesn't seem to be functioning. I have it enabled in the bios, but lspci doesn't say anything about it. Of course this ...

I upgraded to 2.6.31-r6, and now I cannot even change the brightness at all, not with the keys or with software. I'm going to try the latest git-sources.

Interesting, I do recall not having this problem with some earlier kernel. 2.6.28 I believe. Hopefully it returns to working order by the next kernel release.

Which driver is in question here? ACPI_VIDEO?

When I start my system, the brightness control keys (Fn+Up, Fn+Down) work. As X starts up, they continue to work, and as far as I can tell, they function until I switch the VT. After that, I have to use a program like KDE's power manager, or 'echo x > /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD03/brightness' to change ...