Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers 8.452.1

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > or 8-01 as the package is called... Has anyone tried them yet? I know I should have tried this before I posted, but I just rebooted, and now glxgears, fgl_glxgears, and GL screensavers just segfault. at least all fglrx errors have gone fro

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers 8.452.1

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
or 8-01 as the package is called... Has anyone tried them yet? With a bit of tweaking the previous ebuild, I managed to install them. So far they're no worse than 8.40.4 (8.443.1 is unusable for me because I have a 1680x1050 resolution which the driver doesn't support!), but they're not as good as

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Jan Seeger
On Thu, 24. Jan, maxim wexler spammed my inbox with > Hi group, > > Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that > will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and > the like. > > Prefer command line/ncurses. Not sure if that's what you want, but speaker-test from alsa-utils can gene

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 24 January 2008 21:33:12 Dale wrote: > >> I emerged autounamsk and used the command "autounmask >> kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0" without the quotes of course. There may be a >> block or two. I had one that involved qt. I also had to mask qt 4.4 >> since it d

Re: [gentoo-user] Polymake Ebuild and general questions

2008-01-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:57:51 Thomas Kahle wrote: > I've written an ebuild for a math-software called polymake > (www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake). > You find it attached. You have to digest it yourself to use. > ("ebuild polymake-2.3.ebuild digest") > Maybe some people could test it (on amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 24 January 2008 21:33:12 Dale wrote: > I emerged autounamsk and used the command "autounmask > kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0" without the quotes of course.  There may be a > block or two.  I had one that involved qt.  I also had to mask qt 4.4 > since it does not have dbus support. Which is

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Higgins
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:15:14 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > something like this should do it: > > > > gcc -D LINUX -include string.h -lm -o tonegen > > tonegen.c > > > > Yup. Thanks Iain. ++ Very handy. ;-) -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---|

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 24, 2008 8:42 PM, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #eix-sync. Then #emerge autounmask and ran > > #autounmask kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0 > > which completed w/o error. > > $eix kde picks up the new version: > > <...> > * kde-base/kde > Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 3.5.6:3.5 >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > Ah, you may have to get a later version of KDE 3.5 > before going any > farther. I had 3.5.8 on mine and had no blocks with > it. Want my > package.keywords and package.unmask files. Ok, I copied over your files. Ran #update-eix and #eix-sync. Then #emerge autounmask and ran #autounmask kd

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> something like this should do it: > > gcc -D LINUX -include string.h -lm -o tonegen > tonegen.c > Yup. Thanks Iain. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. h

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:13 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > all I can find is the file src/tonegen/tonegen.c in > > audacious-plugins > > Seems to be a different file than > > www.lns.com/papers/tonegen/tonegen.c ah, then your previous Q. is easy. Looking at the above c file, it says #ifdef LI

Re: [gentoo-user] Call for feature requests for 2008.0

2008-01-24 Thread Dale
Ric de France wrote: > On 25/01/2008, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Replies sent to this list will *not* be seen by Release Engineering, so >> make sure that you send your responses to the correct list. You'll have >> to join the list first, if you're not a subscriber, alread

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:00 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > looking for a tonegen.c file in audacious... If I > > http://www.lns.com/papers/tonegen/tonegen.c > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/elex $ gcc -lm -o tonegen > tonegen.c > tonegen.c:56:31: machine/soundcard.h: No such file or > directory [sn

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> all I can find is the file src/tonegen/tonegen.c in > audacious-plugins Seems to be a different file than www.lns.com/papers/tonegen/tonegen.c -mw Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. htt

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> looking for a tonegen.c file in audacious... If I http://www.lns.com/papers/tonegen/tonegen.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/elex $ gcc -lm -o tonegen tonegen.c tonegen.c:56:31: machine/soundcard.h: No such file or directory tonegen.c: In function `main': tonegen.c:172: error: `SNDCTL_DSP_GETFMTS' un

Re: [gentoo-user] Call for feature requests for 2008.0

2008-01-24 Thread Ric de France
On 25/01/2008, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Replies sent to this list will *not* be seen by Release Engineering, so > make sure that you send your responses to the correct list. You'll have > to join the list first, if you're not a subscriber, already. I'm guess sending an email

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-24 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > JFFS2, or budget on replacing the cards every couple of months. Thanks to everyone that helps, thx Neil, James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-24 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:58:54 +0200 "Arttu V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/24/08, Stefan Onken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Any ideas how to improve the speed ? > > noatime? > I wouldn't expect that to help too much. Async is the #1 speed improvement on my network; I get disc access

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > all I can find is a vague xmms reference to "Tonegen". You might try > looking for a tonegen.c file in audacious... If I find more, I'll let > you know. all I can find is the file src/tonegen/tonegen.c in audacious-plugins which has thi

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 15:45 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > > > #EXTM3U > > #EXTINF:-1,Tone Generator: 82.4 Hz;164.8 Hz;247.2 > > Hz;329.6 Hz > > tone://82.407;164.814;247.221;329.628 [snip] > Played right off the bat in audacious! Thanks! How is > that 'Tone Generator' formatted. I could only

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:22:00PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked > OK, got it: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ sox -t nul /dev/null > sine.wav synth 10.0 sine 440.0 | aplay sine.wav > Playing WAVE 'sine.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, > Rate 44100 Hz, Mono Better yet (I di

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > #EXTM3U > #EXTINF:-1,Tone Generator: 82.4 Hz;164.8 Hz;247.2 > Hz;329.6 Hz > tone://82.407;164.814;247.221;329.628 > #EXTINF:-1,Tone Generator: 110.0 Hz;220.0 Hz;330.0 > Hz;440.0 Hz > tone://110.000;220.000;330.000;440.000 > #EXTINF:-1,Tone Generator: 146.8 Hz;293.7 Hz;440.5 > Hz;587.3 Hz >

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:06:38PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: > > > > compile it, run it like > > > > ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - > > > > > This works, sort of. Sounds like a dentist drill going > in an out. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > > http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_2452.html > -- Yeah, I found that. It's going into the queue. > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > __

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, maxim wexler wrote: http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_2452.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
compile it, run it like > > ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - > > And you should get A-440 out of your speakers. OK, got it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ sox -t nul /dev/null sine.wav synth 10.0 sine 440.0 | aplay sine.wav Playing WAVE 'sine.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little E

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:41 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that > will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and > the like. > > Prefer command line/ncurses. I used to do this quite easily from XMMS to tune my guitar - never

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:27:24PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > > > ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - > > > > And you should get A-440 out of your speakers. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out |play -t raw > -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3000 - > play soxio: Failed reading `

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > compile it, run it like > > ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - > This works, sort of. Sounds like a dentist drill going in an out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out | aplay -t raw -f cdr Playing raw data 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Big Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > ./a.out | play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3 - > > And you should get A-440 out of your speakers. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $ ./a.out |play -t raw -s l -f s -c 1 -r 3000 - play soxio: Failed reading `-': unknown file type and without the hyphen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs/c-prog $

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: >> Ah, you may have to get a later version of KDE 3.5 >> before going any >> farther. I had 3.5.8 on mine and had no blocks with >> it. Want my >> package.keywords and package.unmask files. >> > > Assuming a question. Yes, I'd like to see them. > > > >

[gentoo-user] udev, scsi modules and lvm2

2008-01-24 Thread Andrej Filipcic
Hi, I have the following problem with lvm2 and volume groups discovery. With emulex FC scsi controller as module (lpfc) where data disks are attached and configured with lvm2, the volume groups are not automatically scanned at boot. lpfc is added to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, so scsi

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
> > Ah, you may have to get a later version of KDE 3.5 > before going any > farther. I had 3.5.8 on mine and had no blocks with > it. Want my > package.keywords and package.unmask files. Assuming a question. Yes, I'd like to see them. ___

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > maxim wexler schrieb: > > Hi group, > > > > $eix kde gives: > > > > > did you do an update-eix? yes > > > kde-4 ist masked. THink thats why it doesn show up. > What does ls > /usr/portage/kde-base/ says? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /usr/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 24 January 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > $eix kde gives: > > > > <...> > > * kde-base/kde > > Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 > > 3.5.7:3.5 ~3.5.8:3.5 > > Installed: 3.5.2 > > Homepage:

RE: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-24 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
Man fstab & man nfs{d} & man mount and search for sync write options. Wsize and rsize=8192 and wsize=8192 might work but I think they are deprecated. Althought, async or sync might still be used. Use these options when mouting your nfs share or make them permanent in your fstab file. Gentoo-wik

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED No ebuild for kdeartwork-colorschemes ??

2008-01-24 Thread ionut cucu
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:05:50 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yakuake works, but claws-mail doesn't, so I'm back on 3.5 for now. > > I've got KDE-4 from the svn/git overlay on 2 desktop machines and I must say it's pretty stable. I must say now kde brought me back from fluxb

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-24 Thread Arttu V.
On 1/24/08, Stefan Onken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any ideas how to improve the speed ? noatime? -- Arttu V. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
You might be interseted in rezound; it is graphical, however. Liviu On 1/24/08, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that > will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and > the like. > > Prefer command line/ncurses. > -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread Dale
maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > $eix kde gives: > > <...> > * kde-base/kde > Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 > 3.5.7:3.5 ~3.5.8:3.5 > Installed: 3.5.2 > Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE - merge this to pull in > all non-

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:41:04AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that > will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and > the like. > > Prefer command line/ncurses. > One of my friends coded something like this once as a plug-in for XMMS. Can't

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 24 January 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that > will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and > the like. > > Prefer command line/ncurses. Maybe audacity can do that? (I don't use it so I don't know). However, a bit o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 January 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > $eix kde gives: > > <...> > * kde-base/kde > Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 > 3.5.7:3.5 ~3.5.8:3.5 > Installed: 3.5.2 > Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE - mer

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread Justin
maxim wexler schrieb: > Hi group, > > $eix kde gives: > > did you do an update-eix? > <...> > * kde-base/kde > Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 > 3.5.7:3.5 ~3.5.8:3.5 > Installed: 3.5.2 > Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:46:04 + (UTC), James wrote: > > Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the > > contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive > > on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. > > Earlier I posted the p

[gentoo-user] KDE4.0?

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, $eix kde gives: <...> * kde-base/kde Available versions: 3.5.5:3.5 ~3.5.6:3.5 3.5.7:3.5 ~3.5.8:3.5 Installed: 3.5.2 Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE - merge this to pull in all non-developer kde-base/* packages <...> And h

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Network Stream from Pipe

2008-01-24 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:29 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I'm currently trying to set up a personal video recorder in form of a > headless server using mencoder and freevo. > > What I would like to do is watching the movie while mencoder is realtime > encoding it to x264/vorbis in a Ma

[gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and the like. Prefer command line/ncurses. Maxim Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, James wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > > -mcpu is deprecated, according to the examples file as of gcc 3.4, SO: > > > > > > CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > > CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" > > > > > > changed to: > > > C

[gentoo-user] NFS Server Tuning

2008-01-24 Thread Stefan Onken
Hello, I am running a x86 gentoo box as a nfs server. As a filesystem I am using XFS on a 3ware Raid system. The 3ware systems seems to be quite quick, although access via NFS seems to be very slow. Any ideas how I can improve speed ? I was expected a speed only limited by the 100 Mbit networ

[gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes: > > -mcpu is deprecated, according to the examples file as of gcc 3.4, SO: > > CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" > > changed to: > > CFLAGS="-Os -mtune=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > or > > CFL

[gentoo-user] Call for feature requests for 2008.0

2008-01-24 Thread Chris Gianelloni
Hello everyone, Release Engineering is in the planning stages for 2008.0, so we're asking for input from the community on things that they'd like to see added/changed/removed from our release media. All requests should be something Release Engineering actually can accomplish, like profile changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Enviado por: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 24/01/2008 17:00 > Por favor, responda a gentoo-user > > Para: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > cc: > Asunto: [gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread tecnic5
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado por: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24/01/2008 17:00 Por favor, responda a gentoo-user Para: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org cc: Asunto: [gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings silvanoc.com> writes: >If you'd like to use the same make.

[gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread James
silvanoc.com> writes: >If you'd like to use the same make.conf for different machines you should >make sure they all have same processors or, at least, same family of > >processors; in your case, I recommend using -mcpu instead of -march. Keep >in mind that K6 processors have their own -marc=k

[gentoo-user] Re: firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread James
Ricardo Saffi Marques las.ic.unicamp.br> writes: > Don't forget denyhosts and I'd also use metalog instead of syslog-ng. Hmmm, So you are suggesting to run 'denyhosts' directly on the firewall ? portage has version 0.8-r1 but I see version 2.6 for download. Which version do you use? If n

Re: [gentoo-user] firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread tecnic5
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado por: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24/01/2008 15:59 Por favor, responda a gentoo-user Para: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org cc: Asunto: [gentoo-user] firewall make.conf settings Hello, I keep driving to make the size of the (gentoo) firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > > >> That's the problem. For one thing to work, you

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > >> That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). > > > > and AFAIR the option won't help you

Re: [gentoo-user] firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, James wrote: Hello, I keep driving to make the size of the (gentoo) firewall as small(fast) as posible to run on minimal resources. I have a mixture of old pentiums and amd (k6) machines. I'd like to have one make.conf file for all the systems. Anybody see anything wrong (

[gentoo-user] firewall make.conf settings

2008-01-24 Thread James
Hello, I keep driving to make the size of the (gentoo) firewall as small(fast) as posible to run on minimal resources. I have a mixture of old pentiums and amd (k6) machines. I'd like to have one make.conf file for all the systems. Anybody see anything wrong (not optimized) with these settings?

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Hal Martin: > AFAIK your machine can only use as much RAM as the bootloader detects, > no? Would be a bad thing, wouldn't it? No, the kernel does it's own detection. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configura

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hal Martin
Well this machine supposedly supports up to 8GB of RAM so I can only assume that it doesn't map the pci-space to there. But I wonder, will enabling the higher RAM limit really open up more RAM? The BIOS detects all 4096MB, but Grub only lists 3.6GB. AFAIK your machine can only use as much RAM as t

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). and AFAIR the option won't help you, if your maiboards bios maps pci-space at the 3,6GB-4GB range. -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). and AFAIR the option won't help you, if your maiboards bios maps pci-space at the 3,6GB-4GB range. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the > family to view. > > When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it in > quicktime. I don't see any opportunity to download the file and I > hat

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-24 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what > > the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before > > rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it)... > Then don't reboot. Mount another

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). :-/ On 1/24/08, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > > There is an option in the kernel that will make it "see" all the 4GB. > Set > > the option

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > There is an option in the kernel that will make it "see" all the 4GB. Set > the option for up o 64GB in the kernel and you may use your 4GB. and slow down memory access a lot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
There is an option in the kernel that will make it "see" all the 4GB. Set the option for up o 64GB in the kernel and you may use your 4GB. On 1/24/08, Hal Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahh, but it won't last... > > $ free > total used free shared >