Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 2820SA - Slowwwwwwwwww?

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Sobey
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Paul Sobey wrote: I have a server running Gentoo X64 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 with an Adaptec 2820SA configured with a simple mirror. This card is a PCI-X card but due to an oversight on my part is plugged into a standard PCI slot on a PCI-E motherboard. Still, I'm getting

[gentoo-user] Adaptec 2820SA - Slowwwwwwwwww?

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Sobey
Dear All, I have a server running Gentoo X64 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 with an Adaptec 2820SA configured with a simple mirror. This card is a PCI-X card but due to an oversight on my part is plugged into a standard PCI slot on a PCI-E motherboard. Still, I'm getting some absolutely atrocious disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -puv really slow?

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Sobey
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: In case of the timestamp issue i think it is a bug [1]. I think portage should first check the timestamps and if they are different it should delete the cache! Interesting idea - I've been running eix-sync in my crontab. Perhaps that hasn't been updating the edb

RE: [SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless hidden association problem

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Sobey
Is wpa_supplicant the best/only way to do this? Please can anyone tell me how this works in ubuntu as it does seem to and I would hope that I could replicate it (K)ubuntu use NetworkManager. For what it's worth, I also use this on my laptop, and it works very well, particularly when you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -puv really slow?[OT]

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Sobey
Out of interest, why? If the server only syncs once per week, you *know* that nothing will change as far as the client (i.e. desktop) is concerned 6 out of 7 of the times it syncs? Seems a waste? No reason at all - just set one up a few weeks after the first and didn't think. And of course it

[gentoo-user] Emerge -puv really slow?

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Sobey
For the last couple of weeks I've noticed that emerge -puv world takes an absolute age on my machine (currently at 5 mins and counting), while the cpu gows to 100%. The little emerge rotator bar that spins while it calculates dependencies moves extremely slowly. Is there any known bug that

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -puv really slow?

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Sobey
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Paul Sobey schrieb: For the last couple of weeks I've noticed that emerge -puv world takes an absolute age on my machine (currently at 5 mins and counting), while the cpu gows to 100%. The little emerge rotator bar that spins while it calculates dependencies moves

Re: [gentoo-user] quickcam pro 4000

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Sobey
James wrote: I have this usb camera installed (or so I think): lsbus: Bus 004 Device 003: ID 046d:08b2 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 4000 /etc/udev/rules.d/40-video.rules has this entry: KERNEL==video[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/video%n, SYMLINK+=%k, GROUP=video So what is a good application to view the

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused - vmx cpuflag missing

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Sobey
Hey Guys, I'm trying to get a hypervisor running. I've installed Gentoo 64bit on a new(ish) HP XW6400. When booted with the minimal install CD, /proc/cpuinfo shows: bla bla Just build a stock (gentoo-sources) kernel on the same machine, and the vmx flag is there, along with a whole load

[gentoo-user] Confused - vmx cpuflag missing

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Sobey
Hey Guys, I'm trying to get a hypervisor running. I've installed Gentoo 64bit on a new(ish) HP XW6400. When booted with the minimal install CD, /proc/cpuinfo shows: livecd ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused - vmx cpuflag missing

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Sobey
Hey Guys, I'm trying to get a hypervisor running. I've installed Gentoo 64bit on a new(ish) HP XW6400. When booted with the minimal install CD, /proc/cpuinfo shows: bla bla Just build a stock (gentoo-sources) kernel on the same machine, and the vmx flag is there, along with a whole load of

[gentoo-user] [OT] Automated Builds - Advice Plz

2008-05-12 Thread Paul Sobey
Hello All, Not sure this is the perfect place to post, but you are such a helpful bunch, I thought I'd give it a crack. In several previous jobs I've put together automated builds for Windows boxes, complete with app installs, configuration, bla bla. Now in a new role, I need to develop an

[gentoo-user] Linux box - Checkpoint Firewall

2008-04-30 Thread Paul Sobey
Hello All, Does anybody know if it's possible to set up a vpn from a Gentoo machine to a Checkpoint firewall? With pre shared keys it seems easy enough but I need to connect using xauth and RSA tokens. Has anybody attempted such a connection? Cheers, Paul -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux box - Checkpoint Firewall

2008-04-30 Thread Paul Sobey
Good question... I've looked in the past, but never found enough time to try figure that one out... There is almost no informatino around on doing it though (At least that I've ever managed to find). I have a user here who does use Gentoo kvpn to a cisco concentrator. So it SHOULD work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KAudioCreator - Stopped Working

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Sobey
Anno v. Heimburg wrote: In your $HOME/.kde/share/config directory, search for a file or file(s) called something like kaudiocreatorrc and perhaps similar files (I do not have it so I do not know if it perhaps uses several config files, they'll be easily identified by name, though), and rename

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Sobey
Gavin Seddon wrote: b.n. wrote: Gavin Seddon ha scritto: Hi, Can anyone recommend a easy-to-install and decent wc for conferencing? Depends on what you mean with decent. I have a cheap Logitech and it works m. Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 Webcam looks good? For what it's worth I have a

[gentoo-user] KAudioCreator - Stopped Working

2008-04-24 Thread Paul Sobey
Some time in the last three months (last time I bought a new CD!), KAudioCreator has stopped working on my system, Running from a shell gives the following: *** glibc detected *** kaudiocreator: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x081ccb38 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/libc.so.6[0x4a953a00]

Re: [gentoo-user] kopete and msn contacts

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Sobey
b.n. wrote: I switched from aMSN to Kopete to have a decent msn client that also works with gtalk. Unfortunately I found that kopete has some kind of bug with MSN contacts. It's apparently impossible to *add* a new contact (if I try, it says nothing just like it's working, but the contact

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Sobey
On Monday 28 January 2008 00:39:51 Mike Mazur wrote: In my case, vo=gl2, vo=gl and vo=x11 all behave the same, with regular pauses. xv is not listed when I type `mplayer -vo help`. So doesn't this indicate that it's perhaps not mplayer itself causing trouble, but rather something system-wide