Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Mick]

On Monday 02 July 2007 23:08, Willie Wong wrote:

> from 'info sed' -> Examples
>
>  #! /bin/sh
>  # rename files to lower/upper case...
[snip...]

> (And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the
> sed info page ;p )

WOW! I didn't expect so many ways to get this done, thanks guys for all your 
suggestions.  :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS
> > forced
> > down our throats.
>
> I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660.  It was designed to
> be a one-size-fits-all standard so it would work on all (well, most)
> systems.

I don't blame MS for iso9660 - I blame MS for the name limitations ;)

> There is even a part in the standard for file versions as to 
> work with VMS systems (I guess you could blame Digital for that one).
> OTOH there are plenty of non-standard, incompatible extensions to
> ISO9660 you can blame (Rock Ridge: Unix, Joliet: Microsoft, El Torito:
> IBM, Mac OS: Apple).

ElTorito something completly different

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Torito_(CD-ROM_standard)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS
> > forced down our throats.
>
> Aaargh!  :-@
>
> > To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet'
> > option under filesystems (in older k3b) or choose 'linux/unix and windows
> > (with newer k3b).
>
> Thanks, I found that out after I paid attention to the default settings.  I
> am still not sure why the k3b default is not the linux/unix format.
>

because all systems can read iso9660. But not all systems can read rockridge 
or joliet. iso9660 is the most compatible option, so it is the default.
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Mick writes:

> Will this do?
>
> http://www.gerdfleischer.de/klinpopup.php

Yes! Thanks, this looks nice. It minimizes into the tray, and opens as 
window when a message arrives (if configured so). I think I will be using 
it.

I first had a little problem because of a five-second delay with 
smbclient -M, but I solved it by enabling WINS support in smb.conf.

I like it, thanks again!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Hemmann, Volker Armin writes:

> On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:

> > I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another
> > host in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A
> > window should open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.
>
> yes. it is known als 'talk'. For decades.

I know about talk, but usually this sends an invitation first, which the 
user must respond to. And I want a window to open immediately. Besides, the 
invitation appears in one of the many open terminals, I had to seach a 
while until I found the right one :)

I just tried ktalk, didn't knwo about that before. It opens a console in 
talk mode when accepting an invitation (but again I have to accept it 
first), but nothing happens in it, the graphics does not get updated, I see 
my desktop in the window.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

[Randy Barlow]

Alex Schuster wrote:

Any ideas?


How about Zephyr then?  http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?vid=635

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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Willie Wong]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:59:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked:
> Hi All,
> 
> I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which 
> unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 
> characters maximum, just like DOS would do.  Is there a clever way to change 
> some of them back to lower case (in batches within given directorates) so 
> that she doesn't have to do it manually one by one?  I do not want to change 
> the access times, only the filename case letters. 

from 'info sed' -> Examples

 #! /bin/sh
 # rename files to lower/upper case...
 #
 # usage:
 #move-to-lower *
 #move-to-upper *
 # or
 #move-to-lower -R .
 #move-to-upper -R .
 #
 
 help()
 {
cat << eof
 Usage: $0 [-n] [-r] [-h] files...
 
 -n  do nothing, only see what would be done
 -R  recursive (use find)
 -h  this message
 files   files to remap to lower case
 
 Examples:
$0 -n *(see if everything is ok, then...)
$0 *
 
$0 -R .
 
 eof
 }
 
 apply_cmd='sh'
 finder='echo "$@" | tr " " "\n"'
 files_only=
 
 while :
 do
 case "$1" in
 -n) apply_cmd='cat' ;;
 -R) finder='find "$@" -type f';;
 -h) help ; exit 1 ;;
 *) break ;;
 esac
 shift
 done
 
 if [ -z "$1" ]; then
 echo Usage: $0 [-h] [-n] [-r] files...
 exit 1
 fi
 
 LOWER='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
 UPPER='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
 
 case `basename $0` in
 *upper*) TO=$UPPER; FROM=$LOWER ;;
 *)   FROM=$UPPER; TO=$LOWER ;;
 esac
 
 eval $finder | sed -n '
 
 # remove all trailing slashes
 s/\/*$//
 
 # add ./ if there is no path, only a filename
 /\//! s/^/.\//

 # save path+filename
 h
 
 # remove path
 s/.*\///
 
 # do conversion only on filename
 y/'$FROM'/'$TO'/
 
 # now line contains original path+file, while
 # hold space contains the new filename
 x
 
 # add converted file name to line, which now contains
 # path/file-name\nconverted-file-name
 G
 
 # check if converted file name is equal to original file name,
 # if it is, do not print nothing
 /^.*\/\(.*\)\n\1/b
 
 # now, transform path/fromfile\n, into
 # mv path/fromfile path/tofile and print it
 s/^\(.*\/\)\(.*\)\n\(.*\)$/mv "\1\2" "\1\3"/p
 
 ' | $apply_cmd



. which is probably a bit of an overkill. 
(And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the
sed info page ;p )

HTH, 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT serial port program with a gui interface

[b.n.]

James ha scritto:


Well those are OK but, I was hoping for something with
a few simple input boxes, so the user can input, say
a floating point varialble or an integer varialble
inside the box, then my program would use the
9600 baud serial port to transfer the parameter setting
to a specific register on the microP. Likewise the 
program (gui) could interrogate the microP and discover

various settings/values, using the gui interface.
A raw terminal session will work, but, it helps me to 
be able to put simple graphics and other things beside

the IO gui boxes (my jargon is neophyte. maybe they are
called dialog boxes to gui programmers?)

>


I know how to do all of the serial stuff on the linux
and microP side, I just am not much of a gui developer
(to say the least)

It can be simple to the point of spartan on the gui side
of things, I usually use C underneath and on the micro.


If you know c++, I guess you can use the GUI library wxWindows and code 
the gui yourself. It's not that hard (I use the wxWindows library under 
Python, however).


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Re: [gentoo-user] dbus and hal problems

[Daniel Iliev]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:57:20 +0200
Cahn Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm with thunar and xfce.
> I can't bring up cdrom or cdrw when I put in
> a cd or dvd. I must do it with a terminal, and then
> I get an icone on the desktop and it works well.
> 
> In contrary, the usb-key works normally and an icone
> appears on the desktop and I can read what is in it.
> 
> In ps -e I have hald, hald-runner and hald-addon-acpi
> but not hald-addon-stor
> This last one appears after mounting a cd, dvd or key-usb.
> It remains even after I have cd or key removed.
> But it disappears after reboot.
> 
> How can I get hald-addon-stor remaining in ps -e?
> Thanks for your help.
> Roger
> 

I have "/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto noauto,ro,user  0 0" in
my "/etc/fstab" and everything works fine. I think (not sure) one needs
a directory called "/media" in order this auto-detection/mounting stuff
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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Alex Schuster]

Mich writes:

> I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings
> which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened
> them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do.  Is there a clever
> way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within given
> directorates) so that she doesn't have to do it manually one by one?  I
> do not want to change the access times, only the filename case letters.

Create a script like this, name it lowercase.sh or something, and call it 
with "lowercase file1 file2 dir1 dir2". I takes a list of files as 
arguments (use * for all), and also works for directories. 
So, "lowercase ." should convert all files and directories to lowercase.

Put the script into your $PATH, or precede it by its path, e.g. ./lowercase. 
To test it before possible messing up (I just wrote this quickly) use 
the -t option: lowercase -t /path/to/your/files


#!/bin/bash

# parse options (-t only)
while getopts "t" opt
do
case $opt in
t )
test=true
;;
* )
exit 1
esac
done

shift $(( OPTIND-1 ))

# loop over arguments
while (( $# ))
do
file=$1
if [[ -d $file ]]
then
# call myself
$0 ${test:+-t} "$file"/*
elif [[ -f $file ]]
then
# conversion to lowercase
  dir=$( dirname  "$file" )
 base=$( basename "$file" )
lower=$( echo "$base" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )
newfile=${dir:+$dir/}$lower
[[ $file -ef $newfile ]] ||
${test:+echo} mv -v "$file" "$newfile"
else
echo "File not found: '$1'"
fi
shift
done


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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Albert Hopkins]

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS
> forced 
> down our throats. 

I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660.  It was designed to
be a one-size-fits-all standard so it would work on all (well, most)
systems.  There is even a part in the standard for file versions as to
work with VMS systems (I guess you could blame Digital for that one).
OTOH there are plenty of non-standard, incompatible extensions to
ISO9660 you can blame (Rock Ridge: Unix, Joliet: Microsoft, El Torito:
IBM, Mac OS: Apple).
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Mick]

On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

> that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced
> down our throats.

Aaargh!  :-@

> To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' option
> under filesystems (in older k3b) or choose 'linux/unix and windows (with
> newer k3b).

Thanks, I found that out after I paid attention to the default settings.  I am 
still not sure why the k3b default is not the linux/unix format.

> About the renaming -  maybe this might help:
> *  sys-apps/rename
>   Latest version available: 1.3
>   Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>   Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
>   Homepage:http://rename.berlios.de/
>   Description: tool for easily renaming files
>   License: GPL-2

Thanks!  Seems a useful little app.  Will try it out.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host
> in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should
> open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.

yes. it is known als 'talk'. For decades.



>
> Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone
> knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting
> for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an
> xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost.
>

yes. emerge -s talk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 2 July 2007 22:59, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings
> which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened
> them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do.  Is there a
> clever way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches
> within given directorates) so that she doesn't have to do it manually
> one by one?  I do not want to change the access times, only the
> filename case letters.

Assuming there are no spaces in the names, something like:

cd $targetdir

for n in *; do

  newname=`echo $n | tr -s 'A-Z' 'a-z'`
  mv $n $newname

done

should work. It might be possile to do the same using bash alone, but I'm 
too lazy to check now.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Randy Barlow writes:

> If you are already using Kopete, why not just use an instant message
> service like AIM or Jabber or another?

I thought about that, too. But as I wrote I would prefer a window to open, 
instead of having a little notification in he taskbar that kopete received 
a message, which I have to klick at.

Beides, I often have trouble with my accounts, they go offline from time to 
time, and I have to restart them manually. I want something that works all 
the time. Okay, I could set up my own jabber server just for that, but that 
seems to be a little exaggerated. And I would need to find out how to send 
a message via command line, too.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which
> unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8
> characters maximum, just like DOS would do.  Is there a clever way to
> change some of them back to lower case (in batches within given
> directorates) so that she doesn't have to do it manually one by one?  I do
> not want to change the access times, only the filename case letters.

that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced 
down our throats.

To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' option 
under filesystems (in older k3b) or choose 'linux/unix and windows (with 
newer k3b).

About the renaming -  maybe this might help:
*  sys-apps/rename
  Latest version available: 1.3
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
  Homepage:http://rename.berlios.de/
  Description: tool for easily renaming files
  License: GPL-2
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

[Mick]

On Monday 02 July 2007 21:20, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host
> in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should
> open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.
>
> The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming
> phone calls. At the moment I just set the DISPLAY variable and open an
> xterm displaying the message, but that involves using xhost, and is not
> that sophisticated. KDE can be assumed to be running on all the systems.
>
> There is the Winpopup plugin for kopete
> (), which
> makes it respond to messages sent via NET SEND from a Windows host, or
> smbclient -M from a linux host. But it does not seem to be enabled by
> default. kopete has a use flag (winpopup), but I am using monolithic
> ebuilds, and kdenetwork does not know about it. Could this be a bug to
> report?
> Anyway, there would be some more problems with that. smbclient -M takes a
> few seconds until it sends, I would need to find the cause first. And I
> assume that kopete would display a little notification in the taskbar
> first, which must be clicked at, while I want a window to open immediately.
>
> Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone
> knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting
> for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an
> xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost.

Will this do?

http://www.gerdfleischer.de/klinpopup.php
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[gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

[Mick]

Hi All,

I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which 
unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 
characters maximum, just like DOS would do.  Is there a clever way to change 
some of them back to lower case (in batches within given directorates) so 
that she doesn't have to do it manually one by one?  I do not want to change 
the access times, only the filename case letters. 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

[Randy Barlow]

Alex Schuster wrote:

Any ideas?
  


If you are already using Kopete, why not just use an instant message 
service like AIM or Jabber or another?


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[gentoo-user] Sending notification to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in LAN

[Alex Schuster]

Hi there!

I'm loooking for a method to send a message to another user on another host 
in my LAN. Something like, um, NET SEND does under Windows. A window should 
open, displaying the message, nothing more is needed.

The purpose is to inform me or other people in the house about incoming 
phone calls. At the moment I just set the DISPLAY variable and open an 
xterm displaying the message, but that involves using xhost, and is not 
that sophisticated. KDE can be assumed to be running on all the systems.

There is the Winpopup plugin for kopete 
(), which 
makes it respond to messages sent via NET SEND from a Windows host, or 
smbclient -M from a linux host. But it does not seem to be enabled by 
default. kopete has a use flag (winpopup), but I am using monolithic 
ebuilds, and kdenetwork does not know about it. Could this be a bug to 
report?
Anyway, there would be some more problems with that. smbclient -M takes a 
few seconds until it sends, I would need to find the cause first. And I 
assume that kopete would display a little notification in the taskbar 
first, which must be clicked at, while I want a window to open immediately. 

Any ideas? It's not that important, but I thought I'd ask, maybe someone 
knows a cool solution. If not, I will write a little daemon script, waiting 
for a message file arriving in a shared directory, and displaying it in an 
xterm. This way I avoid the use of xhost.

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[gentoo-user] xvmc?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
  If I build an app like MythTV with the xvmc flag how can I tell
when Myth is running whether it is actually using xvmc and, if
possible, how much xvmc helps?

  NVidia card if it matters.

Thanks,
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[gentoo-user] Re: Transparent network compression

[Remy Blank]

Florian Philipp wrote:
> Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host?
> 
> My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline 
> adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has 
> got an option for using lzo but I would like to have a solution for NFS, too. 
> With a bandwidth like this even bzip2 could be useful.

You could tunnel all your traffic through an OpenVPN [1] link. OpenVPN
can be configured to compress all packets using LZO (--comp-lzo). And if
encryption overhead is too high, you could have it use a null cipher
(--cipher null).

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[1] http://www.openvpn.net/



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[Florian Philipp]

Hi list!

Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host?

My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline 
adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has 
got an option for using lzo but I would like to have a solution for NFS, too. 
With a bandwidth like this even bzip2 could be useful.

Thanks in advance!

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[gentoo-user] Re: Gambas interface

[Benjamin Graf]

Now I found out the problem : I just had to launch qtconfig and select
another theme...

Ben

2007/7/2, Benjamin Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hi,
I've installed gambas (a programming language/ide a bit like
VisualBasic). I'm running fluxbox and the gambas interface is a bit
ugly (maybe like a tcl/tk interface). I think if I were running KDE it
would look better.
A screenshot is available at
http://www.imagehoop.com/view_image/a831f642/gambas.jpg .

My USE flags for fluxbox, gambas and qt :

x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0_rc3  USE="gnome imlib kde nls truetype xinerama
-disableslit -disabletoolbar"

dev-util/gambas-1.0.14  USE="bzip2 curl doc kde sdl xml zlib -mysql
-postgres -sqlite -xsl

x11-libs/qt-4.2.3-r1  USE="cups doc gif glib jpeg opengl png xinerama
zlib -accessibility -dbus -debug -examples -firebird -mng -mysql -nas
-nis -odbc -pch -postgres -qt3support -sqlite -sqlite3"
INPUT_DEVICES="-wacom"

Thanks !

Ben


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[gentoo-user] Gambas interface

[Benjamin Graf]

Hi,
I've installed gambas (a programming language/ide a bit like
VisualBasic). I'm running fluxbox and the gambas interface is a bit
ugly (maybe like a tcl/tk interface). I think if I were running KDE it
would look better.
A screenshot is available at
http://www.imagehoop.com/view_image/a831f642/gambas.jpg .

My USE flags for fluxbox, gambas and qt :

x11-wm/fluxbox-1.0_rc3  USE="gnome imlib kde nls truetype xinerama
-disableslit -disabletoolbar"

dev-util/gambas-1.0.14  USE="bzip2 curl doc kde sdl xml zlib -mysql
-postgres -sqlite -xsl

x11-libs/qt-4.2.3-r1  USE="cups doc gif glib jpeg opengl png xinerama
zlib -accessibility -dbus -debug -examples -firebird -mng -mysql -nas
-nis -odbc -pch -postgres -qt3support -sqlite -sqlite3"
INPUT_DEVICES="-wacom"

Thanks !

Ben
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Re: [gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area

[Pongracz Istvan]

2007. 07. 2, hétfő keltezéssel 12.04-kor Jure Varlec ezt írta:

> 
> I think a boot parameter of the form
> reserve=0xff48,0x87
> should do the trick.
> 
> Regards,
> Jure

Thank you very much!
reserve seems for io regions, but memmap=nn$ss seems ok.

Thank you again, you started me to the right direction.

Regards,
IStván

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Re: [gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 2 July 2007 11:50, Pongracz Istvan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One of my partners has a problem in an existing motherboard.
>
> There are physical memory regions, which regions are buggy.
> I do not know, the memory module itself, or them motherboard, but if
> the kernel want to access to these region, it crashes.
>
> I would like to know, is there a solution to make a memory hole, which
> will be never addressed?
>
> The situation is similar, when the HDD has bad sectors and I cover
> them with a never-used-partition or file.
>
> I googled a while, before I wrote this email, but I have no result
> yet.

You should really replace the broken components. However, google 
for "badram".
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Re: [gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area

[Jure Varlec]

On Monday 02 of July 2007 11:50:37 Pongracz Istvan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of my partners has a problem in an existing motherboard.
>
> There are physical memory regions, which regions are buggy.
> I do not know, the memory module itself, or them motherboard, but if the
> kernel want to access to these region, it crashes.
>
> I would like to know, is there a solution to make a memory hole, which
> will be never addressed?
>
> The situation is similar, when the HDD has bad sectors and I cover them
> with a never-used-partition or file.
>
> I googled a while, before I wrote this email, but I have no result yet.
>
> Thank you,
> István


I think a boot parameter of the form
reserve=0xff48,0x87
should do the trick.

Regards,
Jure

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[gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area

[Pongracz Istvan]

Hi,

One of my partners has a problem in an existing motherboard.

There are physical memory regions, which regions are buggy.
I do not know, the memory module itself, or them motherboard, but if the
kernel want to access to these region, it crashes.

I would like to know, is there a solution to make a memory hole, which
will be never addressed?

The situation is similar, when the HDD has bad sectors and I cover them
with a never-used-partition or file.

I googled a while, before I wrote this email, but I have no result yet.

Thank you,
István



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Re: [gentoo-user] luma crashes before starting

[Arnau Bria]

Hi,

today I've updated my system and there was a luma update, version 2.3
and it works!

But, I found a very strange thing, it wants to downgrade my luma
version when I've never said to install unstable one:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep luma /etc/portage/*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $


[D] net-nds/luma
 Available versions:  2.1.3 ~2.2.1 ~2.3
 Installed versions:  2.3(11:22:00 AM 07/02/2007)(-samba)
 Homepage:http://luma.sourceforge.net/
 Description: Luma is a graphical utility for accessing and 
managing data stored on LDAP servers.

¿?¿?

TIA,
Arnau

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