Comments on: What was I thinking? http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hal’s day of reckoning « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-43842 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:07:49 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-43842 [...] around November 2008 I have had the singular displeasure of heaping blame upon hal whenever something went southward in a system I built. Forgetting to start it up has killed more [...]

]]> By: demonicmaniac http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42481 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:58:27 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42481 The Arch Wiki ist pretty detailed when it comes to Xorg and Hal.
The section titled “i don’t want this crap, how do i turn it off?”,rather aptly put imho, describes how to stop hal from being a bastard and grabbing everything. I still use xorg.conf, I just gotten by KMS which is default in kernel 2.6.33 when using intel or ati chipsets, which ignores lots of xorg.conf settings. another possibility concerning the weird colours is 16 bit. Recently 16 bit has shown issues on all kinds of chipsets, maybe trying 24 would help. Here’s the link to the wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_Input_Hotplugging
cheers.

]]> By: Ach, Arch! « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42151 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:01:55 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42151 [...] Projects « What was I thinking? [...]

]]> By: SicknessNow http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42150 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:17:38 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42150 Oh, I’ll give Links2 -g a try on my netbook, which has OpenBSD on it right now. If it works well enough, I’ll dump Firefox, which I dislike because of its GTK dependencies.

]]> By: SicknessNow http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42149 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:05:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42149 My primary free Unix choice is OpenBSD, which doesn’t have anything like Linux’s framebuffer, so I use X and try to keep it fairly minimal. In fact, I often run without a window manager at all, and just launch a big Xterm via .xinitrc (which in turn runs tmux).

Of course, this is probably all just sillyness on my part, as I’m not really running on low end hardware; I just love minimalism and the Unix command line paradigm. My desktop is a Dell Dimension e520n (1.86ghz Core2Duo with 4GB of RAM) and my portable is a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 (1.6ghz Atom with 1.5GB of RAM).

]]> By: steve http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42148 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:26:38 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42148 My 500MHz P3 laptop/server is X-less. Fluxbox went ok on it but I didn’t really gain anything since I have better computers if I want a GUI. I enjoyed setting up a console-only system as a means of learning something and helping to make the most of the flotsam and jetsum that was flowing my way :D

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42147 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:19:23 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42147 I occasionally run links2 -g on my Pentium, and it’s no worse (and a little better) than a text-mode browser. And you can see images and so forth. …

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42146 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:17:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42146 If I remember correctly, Firefox 2 could be compiled against DirectFB, giving you a “modern” web browser without using the Xserver.

]]> By: SicknessNow http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42145 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:15:35 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/what-was-i-thinking/#comment-42145 I really like the idea of a command line only system but I couldn’t imagine now having a modern web browser. I do too many things via the web.

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