Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:57:21 -0500, Dale wrote: press Tab at the boot menu to edit isolinux options. But use one of the specifically 64 bit menu items, not the generic one that tries to determine your CPU type on the fly. Thanks. I thought there was a way to edit it but I was going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:57:21 -0500, Dale wrote: press Tab at the boot menu to edit isolinux options. But use one of the specifically 64 bit menu items, not the generic one that tries to determine your CPU type on the fly. Thanks. I thought there was a way to edit it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:04:21 -0500, Dale wrote: Want to hear something equally funny? I started the UPS service that started this whole mess to see if it works. This is from messages: So, new mobo and $120 later, same freakin error. All this, still in the same hole. Now ain't that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:04:21 -0500, Dale wrote: Want to hear something equally funny? I started the UPS service that started this whole mess to see if it works. This is from messages: So, new mobo and $120 later, same freakin error. All this, still in the same hole.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:52:06 -0500, Dale wrote: Did you consider the possibility that the fault lies within the UPS? Yep. The UPS costs even more than the mobo tho. ;-) Still sucks tho. As it was, I don't have anything to test the UPS with. I had to replace something. Take the UPS to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:52:06 -0500, Dale wrote: Did you consider the possibility that the fault lies within the UPS? Yep. The UPS costs even more than the mobo tho. ;-) Still sucks tho. As it was, I don't have anything to test the UPS with. I had to replace

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:04:21AM -0500, Dale wrote: Every once in a while, my brain actually comes up with something. ROFL Want to hear something equally funny? I started the UPS service that started this whole mess to see if it works. This is from messages: Oct 22 02:47:50

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Dale
Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:04:21AM -0500, Dale wrote: Every once in a while, my brain actually comes up with something. ROFL Want to hear something equally funny? I started the UPS service that started this whole mess to see if it works. This is from messages: Oct 22

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Edward M
On 10/22/2013 2:04 AM, Dale wrote: I started the UPS service that started this whole mess to see if it works. This is from messages: ohci_hcd :00:12.0: urb 8803ea43f980 path 2 ep1in 9312 cc 9 -- status -121 Oct 22 02:47:52 localhost kernel: [51257.891409] ohci_hcd :00:12.0:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Dale
Edward M wrote: On 10/22/2013 2:04 AM, Dale wrote: I started the UPS service that started this whole mess to see if it works. This is from messages: ohci_hcd :00:12.0: urb 8803ea43f980 path 2 ep1in 9312 cc 9 -- status -121 Oct 22 02:47:52 localhost kernel: [51257.891409]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Edward M
On 10/20/2013 9:27 PM, Dale wrote: I did some googling and found out that I have to add iommu=pt to the kernel command line. When I do that, it works fine. In the UEFI/BIOS menus; does it have a |IOMMU Controller option and if it does, try enabling it and boot linux normally. |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Dale
Edward M wrote: On 10/20/2013 9:27 PM, Dale wrote: I did some googling and found out that I have to add iommu=pt to the kernel command line. When I do that, it works fine. In the UEFI/BIOS menus; does it have a |IOMMU Controller option and if it does, try enabling it and boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Update. I did some googling and found out that I have to add iommu=pt to the kernel command line. When I do that, it works fine. It seems that this mobo doesn't play well with 64 bit Linux. Some even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:54:05PM -0500, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/10/13 11:09, Dale wrote: I rebooted and the newest sysrescue still wouldn't boot up. It says it can't find /sysrcd.dat which I think is caused because it can't use the USB port that the sysrescue stick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:54:05PM -0500, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/10/13 11:09, Dale wrote: I rebooted and the newest sysrescue still wouldn't boot up. It says it can't find /sysrcd.dat which I think is caused because it can't use the USB port

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/21/2013 02:13 AM, Dale wrote: Tyan is a mobo I have heard good things about. I think someone gave me a puter to repair once that had a ASUS mobo. It seemed to be a nice mobo. Pity the guys house caught fire from the central heat tho. I'm open to ideas here. Basically, I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: On 10/21/2013 02:13 AM, Dale wrote: Tyan is a mobo I have heard good things about. I think someone gave me a puter to repair once that had a ASUS mobo. It seemed to be a nice mobo. Pity the guys house caught fire from the central heat tho. I'm open to ideas here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Edward M
On 10/21/2013 2:13 AM, Dale wrote: While I like Gigabyte as a brand, if this is going to be something that reduces the value of my purchase, I want to get something else. Appears IOMMU is becoming an industry standard and is also being used by other motherboard makers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Dale
Edward M wrote: On 10/21/2013 2:13 AM, Dale wrote: While I like Gigabyte as a brand, if this is going to be something that reduces the value of my purchase, I want to get something else. Appears IOMMU is becoming an industry standard and is also being used by other motherboard makers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:45:40 -0500, Dale wrote: From testing, it turned out to be a BIOS setting and some things that isn't supported in 64 bit Linux. Basically, you have to hack your way into getting something to work. If I could pass the right option to the kernel on sysrescue then it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:45:40 -0500, Dale wrote: From testing, it turned out to be a BIOS setting and some things that isn't supported in 64 bit Linux. Basically, you have to hack your way into getting something to work. If I could pass the right option to the kernel on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.10.2013 07:39, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.10.2013 05:54, schrieb Dale: Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure.

[gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Howdy, I ordered the new mobo as much as I needed to wait. The mobo is the same brand but a different chipset and a couple other things are different. I have already built a kernel for those changes. I plan to put everything on the old mobo on the new mobo. That includes the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread Edward M
On 10/20/2013 2:19 PM, Dale wrote: I still think this is a kernel issue. I just don't know which part. I have tried switching stuff on/off and such but nothing works. I'm thinking about putting my sledge hammer to work. :/ Hello, Have you tried booting into a linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread Dale
Edward M wrote: On 10/20/2013 2:19 PM, Dale wrote: I still think this is a kernel issue. I just don't know which part. I have tried switching stuff on/off and such but nothing works. I'm thinking about putting my sledge hammer to work. :/ Hello, Have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/10/13 07:52, Dale wrote: Edward M wrote: On 10/20/2013 2:19 PM, Dale wrote: I still think this is a kernel issue. I just don't know which part. I have tried switching stuff on/off and such but nothing works. I'm thinking about putting my sledge hammer to work. :/ Hello,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/10/13 07:52, Dale wrote: Edward M wrote: On 10/20/2013 2:19 PM, Dale wrote: I still think this is a kernel issue. I just don't know which part. I have tried switching stuff on/off and such but nothing works. I'm thinking about putting my sledge hammer to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/10/13 11:09, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/10/13 07:52, Dale wrote: Edward M wrote: On 10/20/2013 2:19 PM, Dale wrote: I still think this is a kernel issue. I just don't know which part. I have tried switching stuff on/off and such but nothing works. I'm thinking about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/10/13 11:09, Dale wrote: I rebooted and the newest sysrescue still wouldn't boot up. It says it can't find /sysrcd.dat which I think is caused because it can't use the USB port that the sysrescue stick is plugged into. So, I booted Knoppix instead from DVD.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/10/13 11:09, Dale wrote: I rebooted and the newest sysrescue still wouldn't boot up. It says it can't find /sysrcd.dat which I think is caused because it can't use the USB port that the sysrescue stick is plugged into. So, I booted Knoppix instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/10/13 11:09, Dale wrote: I rebooted and the newest sysrescue still wouldn't boot up. It says it can't find /sysrcd.dat which I think is caused because it can't use the USB port that the sysrescue stick is plugged

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.10.2013 05:54, schrieb Dale: Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to it and wasn't expecting it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-19 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.10.2013 05:54, schrieb Dale: Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, October 18, 2013 05:33, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to it and wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:52 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Fri, October 18, 2013 05:33, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was

[gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Howdy, I ordered the new mobo as much as I needed to wait. The mobo is the same brand but a different chipset and a couple other things are different. I have already built a kernel for those changes. I plan to put everything on the old mobo on the new mobo. That includes the

[gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread walt
On 10/17/2013 02:40 PM, Dale wrote: Third thing is, no mouse worky. It works in the BIOS but not in the OS. Dale, I don't understand what you mean by works in the BIOS. Could you give us a few more details?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to it and wasn't expecting it either. Second, it works except for the third part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:57:46PM -0700, walt wrote: Third thing is, no mouse worky. It works in the BIOS but not in the OS. Dale, I don't understand what you mean by works in the BIOS. Could you give us a few more details? He means the mouse works when he boots and has to select

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to it and wasn't expecting it either. Second, it works except for the third part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Dale
Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:57:46PM -0700, walt wrote: Third thing is, no mouse worky. It works in the BIOS but not in the OS. Dale, I don't understand what you mean by works in the BIOS. Could you give us a few more details? He means the mouse works when he boots and has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Dale
Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to it and wasn't expecting it either. Second, it works except for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to it and wasn't expecting it either. Second, it works except for