I had really high hopes for the updates that came to x11-libs/vte and to x11-base/xorg-server yesterday: [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.0-r200 [0.26.2] USE=”introspection* -debug -doc (-glade) -python” 0 kB [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.1.901 [1.10.1] USE=”nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib” 5,209 kB I did a full system update, ran revdep-rebuild and env-update, …
Category: Technology
May 06 2011
xorg-1.10.1, nvidia-drivers-270.41.03, and the terminal emulator
Ever since the last system update (which included xorg-1.10.1 and nvidia-drivers-270.41.03), I have had an annoying problem regarding desktop drawing. Any time that I open LXterminal, a black box the same size as the default terminal window appears in the upper-left corner of my primary display. Interestingly, it only seems to happen when I open …
May 03 2011
Faulty hardware a lot lately
I’m not sure why, but I have had a lot of service calls lately that resulted in hardware components having to be replaced. In the past couple weeks, I’ve replaced five sets of memory modules, a network adapter, three monitors, two video cards, and a hard drive. Fortunately, none of these have been on enterprise-level …
Thought for the Moment
