menu usefulness destroyed, how to make useful again

[Jim Cornette]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply. sorry for the alarm.
> 
> I suspect your gnome-settings-daemon had frozen and you attempted to 
> make the change where it could not communicate with the panel (so panel 
> warned you), and later relogging in just got the daemon running as 
> expected.
> 

That sounds like a reasonable explanation to me. I'll have to log out of 
the GUI's and then back in if problems creep up unexpectedly.

If it is possible to get a message that states your system is locked 
down, there should be some setting which would gray out some features 
and prevent removing existing applets. I hope I never need it.

Regarding the problem with X, I was getting lspci output as a regular user.
also I'll attach to an existing bug or file a new bug and include the 
logs for the nouveau or nv not working.
I included so I do not need to post a separate reply is the lspci output 
as root this time. I'll have to remember this limitation and get lspci 
information as root only in the future. Thanks for that explanation 
also. Capabilities are allowed, though signaled is spelled wrong in the 
output. (its red underlined, not noticeable otherwise really)

NV lspci as root:
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7000M (rev 
a2) (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30ea
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- 
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
	Region 0: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Region 3: Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 
Enable-
		Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
	Kernel modules: nvidiafb

Jim