Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: [ snip ] Oh, and I forgot; doesn't the links in /dev/disk/by-id, /dev/disk/by-label, /dev/disk/by-uuid do what you want to? Those seem to list partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: $ ll /dev/disk/by-id ... ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 - ../../sda ... That's a whole drive right there. Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You are so right, they are there, and I don't why I overlooked them... too many

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Alex Schuster writes: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: $ ll /dev/disk/by-id ... ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 - ../../sda ... That's a whole drive right there. Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You are so

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries and fails to create /dev/block, which is already existing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent ulimit for daemons

2012-08-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/02/12 01:52, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:41:41 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: Is there a blessed method these days for setting the ulimit per-daemon? The best I've been able to do is a global setting in /etc/rc.conf: rc_ulimit=-s 1048576 The entries under

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries and fails to create /dev/block, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia NVS 5200M

2012-08-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Aug 01 2012, Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Aug 01 2012, Daniel Troeder wrote: On 31.07.2012 16:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote: latitudes E6430 6430s nvidia through optimus :( latitudes E6330 No nvidia. I see.

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012, 15:57:25 schrieb Dale: I think memory is like hard drives, one or two people have something go wrong and they have to be all bad for everyone. no, it is like: no correct SPD rom ever. Just because most mobos work around it, is not an excuse. Or like an entire

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012, 16:33:21 schrieb Philip Webb: 120801 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Kingston is way too expensive for their low quality products. You can just buy some cheapo 'almost' noname brand and get better results. At my regular store (no, I'm not schlepping all over town),

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 01:34:04AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote So I made some udev rules like this, and my drives are called /dev/hd1, hd2 and hd3: SUBSYSTEMS==scsi, KERNEL==sd?, ATTRS{model}==SAMSUNG HD154UI, SYMLINK=hd1 This works fine, and this way I can address them in scripts, smartd

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 02 August 2012 16:50:36 Mark Knecht wrote: Dunno about the python-3.2 thing. Are you set to use 3.2 by default? (How aggressive of you!) ;-) I'm set to use 2.7 as default which I think is the overall recommendation of dummies like me: I thought so too, so I was surprised to find a

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: You can get the ATTRS{serial} (i.e. serial number). See the printer example at http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html and adapt to your hard drive. Serial numbers should be unique, even amongst otherwise identical drives...

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 02 August 2012 16:50:36 Mark Knecht wrote: Dunno about the python-3.2 thing. Are you set to use 3.2 by default? (How aggressive of you!) ;-) I'm set to use 2.7 as default which I think is the overall

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries and fails to

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:59:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: You can get the ATTRS{serial} (i.e. serial number). Not all drives supply this. I have a pair of Seagate drives and a pair of WD drives. Neither drive is distinguishable from its twin with udev attributes. -- Neil Bothwick If nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:43:50 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: BTW, sys-fs/udev-187 does not have the 'udevinfo' command, it seems to be 'udevadm info' now. udevinfo disappeared a long time ago. I wrote a script called udevinfo to call mdadm info so that I didn't need thchage my setup, it is dated

[gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Willie Matthews
Hello everyone, I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. I have two nVidia video cards, one is a PNY 8400 GS PCIe and the other is a 6150 LE built onto the board. Problem is I want to use the nVidia driver with my 8400 GS but when I do try to use it, it will just lock up the entire

[gentoo-user] Re: I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Willie Matthews
On 08/02/12 13:09, Willie Matthews wrote: Hello everyone, I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. I have two nVidia video cards, one is a PNY 8400 GS PCIe and the other is a 6150 LE built onto the board. Problem is I want to use the nVidia driver with my 8400 GS but when I do

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. I have two nVidia video cards, one is a PNY 8400 GS PCIe and the other is a 6150 LE built onto the board. Problem is I want to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/02/12 13:09, Willie Matthews wrote: Hello everyone, I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. I have two nVidia video cards, one is a PNY 8400 GS PCIe and the other is a 6150 LE built onto the

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Willie Matthews
On 08/02/12 13:53, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. I have two nVidia video cards, one is a PNY 8400 GS PCIe and the other is a 6150 LE built onto the

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Hey Mark, What technical information would you like me to post? I am not to good with troubleshooting. Driver Version is x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-302.17:0 -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread pk
On 2012-08-02 18:25, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: If you want quality: buy something else. If you are concerned about the prize: seriously, buy something else. Hm, your experience with Kingston seems different than mine; I've had nothing but problems with other brands _but_ Kingston and I've

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Willie Matthews
On 08/02/12 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Hey Mark, What technical information would you like me to post? I am not to good with troubleshooting. Driver Version is x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-302.17:0 --

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP To my eye this looks to be the part you should go looking for answers about. Others in the past seem to have had their machines hang with this sort of message. I would not go further forward than the 3.3.8

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Willie
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.comwrote: On 08/02/12 14:39, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Willie Matthewsmatthews.wil...@gmail.com matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Hey Mark, What technical information would you like me

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Willie
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP To my eye this looks to be the part you should go looking for answers about. Others in the past seem to have had their machines hang

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not for others.(me) I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how to get to stable, if that is even possible.

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not for others.(me) I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate and a few other things have gone missing

2012-08-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:28:15PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, […] 1) Hibernate has disappeared from the Leave option in the KDE menu 2) My Dolphin has lost some mappings to an NTFS disk that I dual boot to. On the left hand side of Dolphin there's a panel, Places I think it's

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Alecks Gates
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not for

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
120802 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012, 16:33:21 schrieb Philip Webb: There are no Samsung SSDs available at the store (do they make them ? ). are you joking? Samsung is one of the big ones - a lot of laptops run with rebranded Samsung SSDs. Samsung produces flash

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120802 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012, 16:33:21 schrieb Philip Webb: There are no Samsung SSDs available at the store (do they make them ? ). are you joking? Samsung is one of the big ones - a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Willie Matthews
On 08/02/2012 05:26 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill level I do not think this

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
That will likely work. You can also unmask many/most testing packages to the Rev you currently have installed and then likely continue updates running eix-test-obsolete along the way to clean up the unmasked over time. Good luck. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent ulimit for daemons

2012-08-02 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:38:32 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 08/02/12 01:52, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:41:41 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: Is there a blessed method these days for setting the ulimit per-daemon? The best I've been able to do is a global

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Try Kernel 3.0.x. But I suspect hw is the cause. 8400 Bumpgate Material? Maybe Not but i would replace it. Send from phone. Nightmare. Am 03.08.2012 06:30 schrieb Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com: On 08/02/2012 05:26 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent ulimit for daemons

2012-08-02 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com writes: Is there a blessed method these days for setting the ulimit per-daemon? The best I've been able to do is a global setting in /etc/rc.conf: rc_ulimit=-s 1048576 The entries under /etc/security seem to be ignored when using `/etc/init.d/foo

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
120803 Michael Mol wrote: http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/solid-state-drives They have just 1 desktop at 128 GB it costs USD 230 ... ! I'm grateful to VAH for getting me to check out the OCZs, but I suspect he's shooting from the hip re Samsung. --