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, …
Tag: Gentoo Linux
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 …
Apr 29 2011
Ripping woes
Well it hasn’t exactly been the most fun of days in the world of troubleshooting. I bought a bunch of used CDs recently, and decided that I needed to rip them to my new machine. I started on the process, but then three of the new discs didn’t rip. They just sat there. I put …
Thought for the Moment
