Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-09-01 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 19:24:15 CEST schrieb Michael: > On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 12:08:04 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > > > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would > > > not > > > have any

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 12:08:04 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would not > > have any effect. Anyway, let's try this in /etc/asound.conf: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-31 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would not > have any effect. Anyway, let's try this in /etc/asound.conf: > > defaults.pcm.card 1 > defaults.pcm.device 0 > defaults.ctl.card 1 > > On a reboot your

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 21:03:02 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Montag, 30. August 2021, 13:30:03 CEST schrieb Michael: > > There was a recent move to pipewire which could have jumbled audio devices > > around for you - but I am not familiar with how pipewire works, or why it > > would have

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Montag, 30. August 2021, 13:30:03 CEST schrieb Michael: > On Monday, 30 August 2021 11:30:38 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have a weird problem on my Lenovo P14s laptop. Before I applied a world > > upgrade (based on August 22 state portage), the internal speaker of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 11:30:38 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a weird problem on my Lenovo P14s laptop. Before I applied a world > upgrade (based on August 22 state portage), the internal speaker of the > laptop worked fine, but now its all silent, although all mixer

[gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I have a weird problem on my Lenovo P14s laptop. Before I applied a world upgrade (based on August 22 state portage), the internal speaker of the laptop worked fine, but now its all silent, although all mixer levels are 100% and no channel is muted. Observed facts: * Connecting a

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-28 11:07, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:43:56 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? I've followed it

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:43:56 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: > > I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone > > have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? > > > > I've followed it this far: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: > I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone > have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? > > I've followed it this far: > > /etc/acpi/events/lm_lid.sh >/etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh >

[gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-27 Thread n952162
I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid.   Does anyone have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? I've followed it this far:     /etc/acpi/events/lm_lid.sh   /etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh     /lib/udev/lmt-udev  (laptop mode tools?)  

[gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-27 Thread n952162
I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid.   Does anyone have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? I've followed it this far:     /etc/acpi/events/lm_lid.sh   /etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh     /lib/udev/lmt-udev  (laptop mode tools?)  

[gentoo-user] laptop/tablet convertibles linux compatibility

2015-11-01 Thread Stefano Crocco
Hello to everyone. I'd like to buy a laptop/tablet convertible and to install Gentoo on it. Searching Google I couldn't find up to date information about the linux compatibility of this kind of device (most of the pages I found are at least a couple of years old and at any rate, they give quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. If the temperature goes to 99C when on top of a table, return the

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. If the temperature goes to 99C when

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. If the

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Dec 17, 2014, at 8:37, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put it into the fridge ;-) This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. Not to be tried at home ;-) This is hilarious ;D

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Dec 17, 2014, at 12:56, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Thanasis
On 12/17/2014 02:46 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: Because the temperature of the laptop in the freezer will always be above dew point it will never get wet. When you take it out though it's temperature will most likely be below dew point of the ambient air so water will condensate Right. Which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Thanasis wrote: On 12/17/2014 02:46 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: Because the temperature of the laptop in the freezer will always be above dew point it will never get wet. When you take it out though it's temperature will most likely be below dew point of the ambient air so water will condensate

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Christian Kruse
Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger writes: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put it into the fridge ;-) This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. Haha, this whole thread reminded me of this XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1172/ Regards, --

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Randy Westlund
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:18:54PM +, Mick wrote: There may be nothing wrong with your configuration, but something wrong with the design of your laptop. Some laptops are not designed particularly well with regards to ventilation. In the summer I have a desk fan which I turn on and

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Randy Westlund
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 07:37:24AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put it into the fridge ;-) This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. Not to be tried at home ;-) Hahaha, I've actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
;-) Yes, nice. To explain: I only let the thinkpad in there for maybe 10 minutes or so ... So the risk is minimized, I assume. Am 17. Dezember 2014 18:44:37 MEZ, schrieb Christian Kruse c...@defunct.ch: Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger writes: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad

[gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-16 Thread Randy Westlund
Hey guys, When I'm compiling something large and close the lid of my laptop (lid close events disabled) or leave it on the couch where it can't get proper airflow, it tends to overheat and crash. If I leave it open and on a table, everything is fine. I have a quad-core processor and

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-16 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2014 21:16:38 Randy Westlund wrote: Hey guys, When I'm compiling something large and close the lid of my laptop (lid close events disabled) or leave it on the couch where it can't get proper airflow, it tends to overheat and crash. If I leave it open and on a table,

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 04:16:38 PM Randy Westlund wrote: Hey guys, When I'm compiling something large and close the lid of my laptop (lid close events disabled) or leave it on the couch where it can't get proper airflow, it tends to overheat and crash. If I leave it open and on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. If the temperature goes to 99C when on top of a table, return the laptop to the shop as it is

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-24 Thread Zhang Jun
22 54 - Original Message - *From:* Zhang Jun gb2...@gmail.com *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Sent:* Monday, 23 April, 2012 03:50 *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot I get the dmesg log and kernel config, forgot to get the rc.log ( using windows now

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
...@gmail.com *To:* gentoo-user mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Sent:* Sunday, 22 April, 2012 08:25 *Subject:* [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot laptop: asus F3TC, amd Turion, NV-go7300 kernel-3.0.17-r1 tuxonice screen goes dark

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Scherer
Sent: Monday, 23 April, 2012 03:50 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot I get the dmesg log and kernel config, forgot to get the rc.log ( using windows now ). please help to have a look on these files, also tryed boot with different kernel parameters for acpi, only

[gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-22 Thread Zhang Jun
laptop: asus F3TC, amd Turion, NV-go7300 kernel-3.0.17-r1 tuxonice screen goes dark just after I see the linux boot logo, when using kernel 2.6.x, I even do not use hotkey to control lcd backlight, default light is ok, but now, it goes dark, re-compiled kernel many times, but no luck, in kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-22 Thread Michael Scherer
: Zhang Jun To: gentoo-user Sent: Sunday, 22 April, 2012 08:25 Subject: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot laptop: asus F3TC, amd Turion, NV-go7300 kernel-3.0.17-r1 tuxonice screen goes dark just after I see the linux boot logo, when using kernel 2.6.x, I even do not use

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

2011-12-02 Thread James Broadhead
On 29 November 2011 23:17, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm wondering what the process is to switch the audio video output of my laptop the

[gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm wondering what the process is to switch the audio video output of my laptop the its HDMI port? I'd like to try using xine to play DVDs. I assume in Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

2011-11-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:17:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm wondering what the process is to switch the audio video output of my laptop the its

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Roger Cahn
Ask not will this work on Gentoo, rather ask will this work on Linux! Your answer is very interesting, Iain. I'll try what you wrote, and then take my decision ;-) Thank you very much for the explanation. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Fatih Tümen
The best would be to run lspci on the machine as others suggested. You can paste the lspci -n output here and get the availability of drivers for linux. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ There is also lists of hardware/laptops known to be working on Gentoo. N series is not listed on Gentoo wiki but

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Roger Cahn
The best would be to run lspci on the machine as others suggested. You can paste the lspci -n output here and get the availability of drivers for linux. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ There is also lists of hardware/laptops known to be working on Gentoo. N series is not listed on Gentoo wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 11:08 +0200, Roger Cahn wrote: Ask not will this work on Gentoo, rather ask will this work on Linux! Your answer is very interesting, Iain. I'll try what you wrote, and then take my decision

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-27 Thread Roger Cahn
Thank you for your answers. To get a sensible answer on a question like that, you MUST supply the entire spec of all the hardware you intend to buy. Only then can people offer an opinion on how good or otherwise the drivers are. Here are the specifications: Specifications Processor Cache

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, Ask not will this work on Gentoo, rather ask will this work on Linux! You'll get much better responses to your research on google at least. If it works on any mainstream Linux distribution, there's a 99.9% chance it will work on Gentoo. For example, I just did a google search for NVIDIA®

[gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-26 Thread Roger Cahn
Hi, I want to buy a laptop Asus N series, but could anybody tell me if its possible to use it with Gentoo-Linux? And in case of yes, if it's a good choice? Thank you Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:03 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Roger Cahn did opine thusly: Hi, I want to buy a laptop Asus N series, but could anybody tell me if its possible to use it with Gentoo-Linux? And in case of yes, if it's a good choice? Thank you Roger Does it have Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-26 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:03 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Roger Cahn did opine thusly: Hi, I want to buy a laptop Asus N series, but could anybody tell me if its possible to use it with

[gentoo-user] laptop-mode

2010-08-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
With recent update to laptop-mode I decided to rework the power saving on my sony vaio. Mostly ok, but it seems laptop-mode is exclusively grabbing acpi events somehow. I have modded /etc/acpi/default.conf to trap the function keys for screen brightness and then control the LCD. However

[gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig',

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Mick
2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/2/2009 11:26 AM, Mick wrote: 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 06:13 -0800, BRM wrote: the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. Please post the exact error message (write it down if need be). Simply saying or something to that effect tends to lead to errors in

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works.

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection... (solved)

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:52:35 BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: - which makes me ask: What is your exact error message? I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-29 Thread BRM
for the help all! Ben - Original Message From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:59:55 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... Cool. Thanks. That looks like it should solve the issue. Ben - Original Message From

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-26 Thread Gregory SACRE
: Gregory SACRE gregory.sa...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:57:31 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... This is the script I am using. It is spawned by the default.sh from /etc/acpi: -- SCRIPT START

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-26 Thread BRM
Cool. Thanks. That looks like it should solve the issue. Ben - Original Message From: Gregory SACRE gregory.sa...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:32:32 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... I've googled a bit and found

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-25 Thread Gian Calgeer
Hi BRM wrote: I mostly run KDE 3.5 (I'll go to KDE4 when I can...once portage 2.2 comes out and all) There's no need to wait for Portage 2.2 in order to install KDE 4, 2.1.6.4 also seems to support EAPI 2. Gian

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-24 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:14 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: if radeontool or something will allow you to disable the display even when you aren't in X, or without proper access to the display (like xset requires) you might be able to even escape needing that xhost setting. No way of testing it at

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-23 Thread Gregory SACRE
This is the script I am using. It is spawned by the default.sh from /etc/acpi: -- SCRIPT START -- # default display on current host export XAUTHORITY=/home/your_user/.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 # find out if monitor is on STATUS=`cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-23 Thread BRM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:57:31 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... This is the script I am using. It is spawned by the default.sh from /etc/acpi: -- SCRIPT START -- # default display on current host

[gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-22 Thread BRM
I'm running a Dell D600, and I've located a number of tools for it but I am not seeing anything related to when I close the lid. Since I got Gentoo running on it, the Monitor continues running when I close the lid. I've found several sources for doing something as an ACPI event, which seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-22 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm running a Dell D600, and I've located a number of tools for it but I am not seeing anything related to when I close the lid. Since I got Gentoo running on it, the Monitor continues running when I close the lid. I've found

[gentoo-user] laptop internal fan

2009-01-14 Thread Allan Arguelles
I have a Sony VGN-FE880E and the fans don't run no matter how hot the laptop gets. I used to run Vista on this, and it worked fine. I don't recall ever having the fans active under Gentoo though. Is there anything I missed emerge-ing?

[gentoo-user] Laptop fails boot on battery

2008-06-23 Thread dexters84
I have an Asus Z92F laptop - a modification of Asus A6F model ICH7 chipset CoreDuo T2250 1,5GB DDR2 Intel 950 graphics ATA100 HD 80GB My problem with it is that it fails to boot into linux when working only on battery. When I plug the power supply and do a fresh boot kernel loads properly.

[gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 2 May 2008, 18:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? Yes. XP will blow away the MBR and replace it with its own MBR, so, to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Sandro Hannemann
Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Cheers, Sandro -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: I presume I'll use grub root(hd0,4) to point at my root and still use That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is sda2. grub setup (hd0) to get grub installed into the MBR? That's correct. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: I presume I'll use grub root(hd0,4) to point at my root and still use That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is sda2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP: sda1 - /boot = 50MB sda2 - swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 - /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 - / balance

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Sandro Hannemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Cheers, Sandro I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. However that's not on the 2007.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Sandro Hannemann wrote: Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Not quite. It's not ntfs-ng, it's the same old ntfs write support that's been there for ages, and it's *partial*

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-04 Thread Grant
| My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes | and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there | is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How | do you troubleshoot something like this? | | - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-04 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Dale said this part. o_O Do you recall what you did? Recompile a package? Blow out some dust bunnies? Cross your toes? I believe it stopped freezing after it's periodic ext3 filesystem check after a reboot, but it didn't report any type of error after the check. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-03 Thread Grant
| My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes | and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there | is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How | do you troubleshoot something like this? | | - Grant | | Start

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-03 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: | My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes | and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there | is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How | do you troubleshoot something like this? | | - Grant | |

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | On 03/31/08 09:26, Grant wrote: | My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes | and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there | is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with

[gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Grant
My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot something like this? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Ale
2008/3/31, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot something like this? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Grant wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Steven Lembark
Grant wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot something like this? There's a decent

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it is panicking, so I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph
On 03/31/08 09:26, Grant wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot something like this? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:31:50 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) Does it freeze under no load? Just boot it and wait. don't log in, etc. I'd also try booting from a Knoppix CD to see if it still happens. It is doesn't, the problem is in software, not hardware. Running memtest86 wouldn't be a bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I had problems with CFS too. Similar to the one's you describe. Under heavy disk/cpu-load (like emerge and updatedb in parallel) the system was unresponsive. I changed the scheduler back to anticipatory and the problem was gone. Interestingly i

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi, I had problems with CFS too. Similar to the one's you describe. Under heavy disk/cpu-load (like emerge and updatedb in parallel) the system was unresponsive. I changed the scheduler back to anticipatory and the problem was gone. Interestingly i also have a thinkpad, X30

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread Mark David Dumlao
maybe your partitions are near full? -- thing.

[gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully slow under moderate to high CPU usage (such as compiling) or copying more than a few MB. GUI's become almost totally unresponsive and at times

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 PM, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully slow under moderate to high CPU usage (such as compiling) or copying

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread fire-eyes
Andrey Falko wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 PM, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully slow under moderate to high CPU usage (such as

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 8:56 AM Stroller said the following: On 25 Dec 2007, at 15:59, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I

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2007-12-29 Thread rcupardo
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Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 9:49 AM András Csányi said the following: 2007/12/25, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread András Csányi
2007/12/29, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The solution is the next: - use fglrx (you have to test the 3D rendering with fgl_fglxgears command) - use mplayer with -vo gl or -vo gl2 option (the gl and gl2 is opengl video output) I have fglrx and verified it works. I have not tried

[gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit jumpy as if the video hardware is not fast

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