Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with hdparm and SATA-controller

2007-11-15 Thread Billy Holmes
from what I recall, hdparm works perfectly for PATA drives, but not so much for SATA. Something about PATA drives looking like IDE drives and SATA drives looking like SCSI drives (to the kernel). notice /dev/sda a pata would be /dev/hda I think you're rather limited in what you can control

Re: [gentoo-user] how to detect the throughput in the lan?

2007-11-15 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't you recommend some tools? I've always liked ntop. It provides way more than you probably want, but it provides pretty graphs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Problem with hdparm and SATA-controller

2007-11-15 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi, I want to optimize the sound output of my shiny new sata disc, but I have some problems to set hdparm options. My options look like this: # SATA Disk sda_args=-d1 -c1 -u1 -A1 -S6 -M128 -B1 I don't know, if I really want it to spin down, since my system is running on it. But that's not the

[gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-15 Thread pepone.onrez
There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? I know that this hard this has 3 partitions hda1(jfs) hd2(swap) and had3 (jfs) any help will be aprecciatted. -- Pepone

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, pepone.onrez wrote: There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? testdisk can do it gpart can do it maybe parted can do it too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-15 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting pepone.onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? if you can recreate the partition table EXACTLY as it looked, then you might be able to run some type of recovery util like e2fsck or xfs_repair,

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, pepone.onrez wrote: There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? testdisk can do it gpart can do it maybe parted can do it too. I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 14:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I know this is EXTREMELY off topic but I don't know of another better list to ask on. I'm hoping maybe there is a Linux command line method for doing this. Thanks in advance. I have a data file with data that changes

[gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I know this is EXTREMELY off topic but I don't know of another better list to ask on. I'm hoping maybe there is a Linux command line method for doing this. Thanks in advance. I have a data file with data that changes infrequently. The file lists only the day the data changes. There are

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I'd use something like perl[1] to read (2 lines initially) and then each line of the original file, generate the intermediate lines by comparing each line to the one before... printing the new generated lines to stdout (or a specified file if desired). Cheers Mark [1], perl, php, python,

[gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread hkml
Hi Group, I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the clipboard content

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-15 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'd read the whole file into a 2-field array, then just fill-in the gaps until the next value-change (value being the 2nd column). - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Apoye la Musica Libre - Vote

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery

2007-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:27:11 +, Mick wrote: (PS. [OT slightly] Don't mean to start another flamewar about the pro's con's, but would this sort of recovery work the same with a LVM? I would assume that it would, because the LVM is sort of a superstructure, but I do not know how the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell

2007-11-15 Thread maxim wexler
http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/ I use this cd image and it works like a treat. Not for me. Same problem: grub can get the HDs straight. I quit. Not a great biggee; I only use XP for one proprietary program that has yet to be linux-fied. I'll just tell the BIOS to boot from that

[gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends

2007-11-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Can anyone help me with an update issue? I do not seem to be able to update a lot of my system, because sane-backends fails to compile. This is the error I get make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/work/sane-backends-1.0.18/backend' make[1]: *** No

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the

Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data

2007-11-15 Thread Philip Webb
071115 Mark Knecht wrote: I have a data file with data that changes infrequently. The file lists only the day the data changes. There are only 144 lines representing 23 years of data. There are three values for the data - 1, 0 -1. The file looks like this: 09/27/74, 1 07/11/75, -1

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Miernik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the possibility to change this behaviour? Very interesting, my Gentoo machine is currently X-less so I can't test it, but I'd like such

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the possibility to change this behaviour? I use Klipper and have it configured so that both clipboard

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Bryan Whitehead
This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the clipboard. Also, middle-click (or whatever is mapped to your 3rd mouse button) is paste. This is just how X works. Getting around this is a hack in itself. Next time you are on an Solaris or AIX workstation - know that cut/paste is

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Miernik
Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the clipboard. Also, middle-click (or whatever is mapped to your 3rd mouse button) is paste. This is just how X works. Getting around this is a hack in itself. No, read this: