Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-19 Thread William Kenworthy
Do you have a verifiable (as in from a knowledgeable source) reference for this? - it goes against a lot of what I found googling a year ago where swap size was dependent on CPU architecture (i.e., zeon/opteron/athlon etc), not 32/64bit.) e.g., see How large can my swap space be? at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-19 Thread Daniel Tihelka
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Daniel Tihelka dtihe...@gmail.com wrote: Hallo Mick. Thank you very much - it helped. Removing 'video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3 vga=792' from kernel boot options, and framebuffer-related

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Tihelka dtihe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP   What do you see in glxgears? I see this: Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be approximately the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-19 Thread Mick
On 19 January 2011 14:28, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Tihelka dtihe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP   What do you see in glxgears? I see this: Running synchronized to the

[gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Matthias Fechner
Dear list, I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what drives are detected

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I have seen some seriously spurious results from glxgears over the years.  I recall reading somewhere that if your fps is less that 100, it may be caused by your screen refresh rate being out of keel with your card or

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:02:41 +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. Have you included

Re: [gentoo-user] No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-19 Thread Daniel Tihelka
Hallo Mick. Thank you very much - it helped. Removing 'video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3 vga=792' from kernel boot options, and framebuffer-related stuff in kernel config, especially: # CONFIG_FB_DDC is not set # CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT is not set # CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT is not set #

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Matthias Fechner ide...@fechner.netwrote: Dear list, I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root

Re: [gentoo-user] BIOS flash safe with dosemu ?

2011-01-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 17:41:52 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, does anybody if it's safe to flash the BIOS using a DOS emulator like app-emulation/dosemu ? Thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. it is not considered safe. Get an usb stick with freedos or systemrescue cd or use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-01-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
btw, very related: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/01/17/microupdates-for-microcodes

Re: [gentoo-user] disk error, where?

2011-01-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 22:44:52 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 18.01.2011 16:30, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: yes, rerun badblocks in destructive write mode. Twice. The second time create a badblocks file and use it with mkfs - that way bad blocks should be skipped. Like in: #

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Matthias Fechner writes: I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Jarry
Matthias Fechner writes: I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. Did you recompile kernel to support your new mobo?

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-19 Thread kashani
On 1/19/2011 12:07 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Do you have a verifiable (as in from a knowledgeable source) reference for this? - it goes against a lot of what I found googling a year ago where swap size was dependent on CPU architecture (i.e., zeon/opteron/athlon etc), not 32/64bit.) You

Re: [gentoo-user] disk error, where?

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.01.2011 18:14, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: no, 1. badblocks -wv /dev/sdb6 2. badblocks -wv -o /whateveryouwant/badblocks.out /dev/sdb6 and set something like -b 512 or -b 4096 and blocks-at-once accordingly. ok, running that right now. We'll see thanks a lot.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-19 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 16:05:11 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I have seen some seriously spurious results from glxgears over the years. I recall reading somewhere that if your fps is less that 100, it may be caused

[gentoo-user] Re: Microcode update AMD

2011-01-19 Thread walt
On 01/17/2011 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: alsmost all bios load the microcode automatically. I've known for years what microcode is and what it does, but the idea of updating it is a complete surprise to me. From where does the bios get the microcode that it loads?

[gentoo-user] Re: Microcode update AMD

2011-01-19 Thread walt
On 01/19/2011 04:53 PM, walt wrote: On 01/17/2011 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: alsmost all bios load the microcode automatically. I've known for years what microcode is and what it does, but the idea of updating it is a complete surprise to me. From where does the bios get the

[gentoo-user] Keymap used for bttv (dvbt) ???

2011-01-19 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, while searching for these damned hickups with my Avermedia dvb-t card I found this in the kernel log: bttv: driver version 0.9.18 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv :01:06.0: PCI INT A - GSI 21 (level,

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread John Campbell
On 01/20/2011 08:02 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: Dear list, I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. After the panic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9

2011-01-19 Thread dan blum
Nikos, Thanks for the help. My system is looking for the i915 module. Would you know where the module needs to be? Thanks. Dan --- On Tue, 1/18/11, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: From: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9 To:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9

2011-01-19 Thread Dale
dan blum wrote: Nikos, Thanks for the help. My system is looking for the i915 module. Would you know where the module needs to be? Thanks. Dan - I think it is in the kernel and you just have to built it in. Dale :-) :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9

2011-01-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2011 06:57 AM, dan blum wrote: Nikos, Thanks for the help. My system is looking for the i915 module. Would you know where the module needs to be? Not sure what you mean with system. Do you mean X.Org tells you it can't find the kernel module for i915 graphics? Enable it in the