Re: [gentoo-user] portage update problem

2007-12-19 Thread Redouane Boumghar
Yep thanks, The default install was made on a 32bit profile The reinstall with the 64 bit profile worked out well and I am now upgrading with no problem. Have a good day, -- Redouane BOUMGHAR Physics, Remote Sensing and Digital Imagery Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:50:22

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 00:01:45 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: ... we're talking about laptops, so a sudden loss of power is not something that could happen at any moment. Unless its battery is in the same clapped-out state as mine. -- Rgds Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread purple
after a while a built new desktop with xfce and since than i have issues with sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 when running revdep-rebuild because revdep constandly rebuild sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 over and over again every time i run it.. sample output from revdep-rebuild: http://rafb.net/p/0HuBCG36.nln.html seems its

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-19 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Mittwoch 19 Dezember 2007 10:27:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:56:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: the only thing i can think of that might affect this is vmware or vnc. i'm using both a lot at the moment, so perhaps something to do with the keyboard grabbing is affecting

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:56:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: the only thing i can think of that might affect this is vmware or vnc. i'm using both a lot at the moment, so perhaps something to do with the keyboard grabbing is affecting x -question mark- however closing both vnc and vmware don't

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Safe to post my MAC address?

2007-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:40:15 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Damn if this isn't one of the most off-topic posts ever... Oh, I don't know... I think I win that contest[1] [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153681 Surely the dolphin thread is the lifetime winner of that

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-19 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:56:12PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: apologies for the all-lowercase and other features of this email - but therein lies my problem -exclamation mark- from time to time x will just pretend that the caps lock, shift, and alt keys have dropped off the face of

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to get rid of the annoying speech bubble in Evolution?

2007-12-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:59 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife and I run evolution 2.12.1 . We love the blinking letter in the notification area of our panel, but we absolutely can't stand the speech bubble that pops out of it,

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-19 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Philip Webb wrote: 071218 Sergey Kobzar wrote: - ReiserFS looks unsupported now What do you base that assessment on ? It's true that RFS 4 was going nowhere even before its creator's legal

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop weirdness

2007-12-19 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Have it started doing that after anyh particular installation or right after the base system was installed? Seems to me that it is a leak of resources (memory). Have you tried checking /var/log/messages or /var/log/kernel/current ? Regards, Saffi On 12/19/07, Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

[gentoo-user] Laptop weirdness

2007-12-19 Thread Wayn0
Hi Guys/Girls, I have gentoo running on a few machines and recently bumped into a strange issue, with one of my laptops. I have an Acer travelmate laptop that until about a few ago was running the factory installed Windows XP with no problem. I installed gentoo on it all went smoothly (done

[gentoo-user] displaying the actual order init scripts will run

2007-12-19 Thread Mike Williams
Hey all, I'm knocking together an init script that needs to run at a very specific point during startup. Is there a simple way I can see in exactly what order the init scripts would be run? Don't much fancy constant rebooting just to make sure it runs at the correct time! Especially seeing as

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop weirdness

2007-12-19 Thread Wayn0
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Have it started doing that after anyh particular installation or right after the base system was installed? Seems to me that it is a leak of resources (memory). Have you tried checking /var/log/messages or /var/log/kernel/current ? Regards, Saffi Hi, It

[gentoo-user] Correct stripe size on nvraid

2007-12-19 Thread Yahya Mohammad
I have an nforce5 motherboard set up with two disks in a RAID0 configuration. The BIOS menu shows Striping block as 64K and Striping width as 2. What exactly does this mean? Is 64K the smallest possble chunk size written to a single disk? I want to know what's the optimum value for the stride

Re: [gentoo-user] Correct stripe size on nvraid

2007-12-19 Thread Mark Shields
On Dec 19, 2007 10:33 AM, Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an nforce5 motherboard set up with two disks in a RAID0 configuration. The BIOS menu shows Striping block as 64K and Striping width as 2. What exactly does this mean? Is 64K the smallest possble chunk size written to a

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-19 Thread YoYo Siska
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: I have this too when using vmware and it seems that somehow just the keymap screws up. I run kcontrol, activate the keyboard layout switcher (with 2 languages in it) and once it's activated I can deactivate it again (or switch the language back and forth). Then

[gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Grant
Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis: http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensored Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Philip Webb
071219 purple wrote: i have issues with sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 when running revdep-rebuild because revdep constandly rebuild sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 over and over again Revdep-rebuild seems to be an imperfect tool: this happens to me sometimes also with Gcc I ignore it. The work-around is to run

Re: [gentoo-user] brlcad users here?--RESOLVED

2007-12-19 Thread Randy Barlow
maxim wexler wrote: Just to clarify: What does a 'pre-compiled binary' do? There wasn't even an executable that I could see. A precompiled library is just one that has already been built for you from the source code. So, somewhere in there should have been an executable... -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (19/12/07 08:43) Grant wrote: Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis: http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensored Thanks for the link. Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis? Yes, for some 4-5 months and plan to

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-19 Thread David Finkel
You should just be able to pass the nox kernel command line option at boot, the xdm init script, from baselayout, contains a line which checks the kernel command line for the xdm parameter. -David Original message Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:16:00 +0400 From: Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:43:41 Grant wrote: Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis? Yes, I did it long time ago :-) Bye... Dirk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] displaying the actual order init scripts will run

2007-12-19 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 15:36:01 Mike Williams wrote: Hey all, I'm knocking together an init script that needs to run at a very specific point during startup. Is there a simple way I can see in exactly what order the init scripts would be run? Don't much fancy constant rebooting just

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were uninstalled. I think that the problem I have may be more basic. The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is part of the problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197? The attached weblink

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-19 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 18, 2007 11:04 AM, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Yes, I have a PCI sound card and it definitely works. My Oggs are still playing. :-) Does the soundcard also work in the slots that you tried the NICs in? (If the soundcard doesn't work there, don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread b.n.
Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:43:41 Grant wrote: Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis? Yes, I did it long time ago :-) I'd like to try Paludis, looks very promising. I think I've read that Portage and Paludis can coexist happily. Can someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Grant
Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis: http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensored Thanks for the link. It really got the meta-wheels turning for me. I found especially interesting the fact that Paludis's use on Gentoo is

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread purple
i dont find that soulution as the elegant one, must be some logical solution for that on java developer side.. everything worked excellent on KDE, and just after i did a clean install with XFCE this problem popped up.. btw revdep-rebuild never caused me a trouble, ever.. -- purple..

[gentoo-user] ldap authentication and apache 2.2 problems

2007-12-19 Thread Derek Bodner
Hey guys, Having some problems setting up ldap authentication with apache 2.2, something that worked previously with 2.0. I have the following setup: [ebuild R ] www-servers/apache-2.2.6 USE=ldap ssl -debug -doc -mpm-event -mpm-itk -mpm-peruser -mpm-prefork -mpm-worker -no-suexec (-selinux)

[gentoo-user] hello there!

2007-12-19 Thread Jesús Abidan Ramos Salas
i am new at this list... i hope i can help -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I'm starting to wonder if I have two broken NICs after all. Do they work when you plug them into your firewall box? If they do, then it can really be only the cable. Are you certain that you're not using a cross-over cable when you need a straight one, or the other way

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Naga Toro
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17.43.41 Grant wrote: Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis: http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensor ed excellent is a bit much... Seems like a propaganda pice to me. That said I did find paludis a

Re: [gentoo-user] hello there!

2007-12-19 Thread Sven Albrecht
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:32 -0600, Jesús Abidan Ramos Salas wrote: i am new at this list... i hope i can help Me too, at first I'm basically reading and learning ^^ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Mark Shields
On Dec 19, 2007 2:46 PM, Naga Toro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17.43.41 Grant wrote: Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis: http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensor ed excellent is a bit much...

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (19/12/07 20:05) b.n. wrote: Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:43:41 Grant wrote: Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis? Yes, I did it long time ago :-) I'd like to try Paludis, looks very promising. I think I've read that Portage and

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Zsitvai János
b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to try Paludis, looks very promising. I think I've read that Portage and Paludis can coexist happily. Can someone confirm it? It would be useful for a transition. It works just fine. :) Later versions have the ability to use portage configuration files

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:45:49 -0500 (EST), David Finkel wrote: You should just be able to pass the nox kernel command line option at boot, the xdm init script, from baselayout, contains a line which checks the kernel command line for the xdm parameter. This works, but because nox stays in

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:53:18AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote Another thing you can try: add something you want to be done (like switching to a vt or a certain sysrq-key) to your acpid config and let acpid run. If the keyboard hangs, just push the power button ... for example:

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I've tried to run through the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187. The kernel is configured per that guide, and I get the message: usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187 When I try to run ifconfig wlan0 up, however, I get: wlan0: unknown interface: no such device I

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
Aaaargh, a typo in my instructions On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:58:25PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote rc-update add default acpid (to automatically start acpid at future bootups) Should have read... rc-update add acpid default -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:53:18AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote Another thing you can try: add something you want to be done (like switching to a vt or a certain sysrq-key) to your acpid config and let acpid run. If the keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread b.n.
Mark Shields ha scritto: Portage has proved more than adequate for my needs. Paladis doesn't seem like anything I need or want. Well, Portage is adequate for my needs too, and I've never tried Paludis but the very continue-on-failure and underlays things look like, for example, two small but

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to get rid of the annoying speech bubble in Evolution?

2007-12-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 07:35 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:59 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife and I run evolution 2.12.1 . We love the blinking letter in the notification area of our panel, but we

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 21:37:38 Rumen Yotov wrote: Watch out for some scripts (perl-cleaner, claw-mail, etc.) in which the use of portage/emerge is embedded. Put 'paludis' as USE-flag. Unless you use a crappy, unsupported overlay no such use flag exists. Kind of curious how that relates

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 071219 purple wrote: i have issues with sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 when running revdep-rebuild because revdep constandly rebuild sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 over and over again Revdep-rebuild seems to be an imperfect tool: this happens to me sometimes also with Gcc I ignore it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 22:42 +0100, Zsitvai János wrote: And the recent addition of the option '--continue-on-failure' won me over all over again. :) I've been wondering for a long time why portage doesn't continue with building other packages when one fails - so long as deps are met why stop?

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, purple wrote: after a while a built new desktop with xfce and since than i have issues with sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 when running revdep-rebuild because revdep constandly rebuild sun-jdk-1.4.2.16 over and over again every time i run it.. sample output from

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:43:04 Dale wrote: I have had mine showing it needed to recompile gcc for a very long time now.  There is also a bug for it too.  It has been there for a really long time.  There are hacks to work around the bug but some don't like the hack and neither did I.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] hello there!

2007-12-19 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:32:18 -0600 Jesús Abidan Ramos Salas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am new at this list... i hope i can help Welcome to the list. Long live Gentoo! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:46:20 Iain Buchanan wrote: And the recent addition of the option '--continue-on-failure' won me over all over again. :) I've been wondering for a long time why portage doesn't continue with building other packages when one fails - so long as deps are met why

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I made significant progress today. I manually edited the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c There is a static structure near the top of the code, static struct usb_device_id rtl8187_table[] __devinitdata = { /* Realtek */ {USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8187)},

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:43:04 Dale wrote: I have had mine showing it needed to recompile gcc for a very long time now. There is also a bug for it too. It has been there for a really long time. There are hacks to work around the bug but some don't like

[gentoo-user] performance enhancement using x86_64-pc-linux-gnu?

2007-12-19 Thread Richard Marzan
Hello, Today, I thought about changing the CHOST, even if it means performing a fresh install, to the one in the subject line for performance improvement. Am I wrong to assume that changing the CHOST to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and setting CFLAGS to athlon64 will offer faster operation of

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Final piece of info for the day. When I ran dhcpcd wlan0, I get Error, wlan0: timed out Error, wlan0: lease information file '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-wlan0.info' does not exist Any assistance gratefully received Jeff On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:47:55 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: I made

[gentoo-user] Emerge multiple-versions-in-same-slot weirdness with X11 libs...

2007-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
I just did an emerge --sync followed by an ask fetchonly, which I do to avoid unpleasant surprises. Emerge is sending the following message to stderr. I don't like the concept of masking out stuff for an ordinary emerge. Any idea what gives? ### begin screen capture

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent revdep-rebuild issues: sun-jdk-1.4.2.16

2007-12-19 Thread Randy Barlow
Dale wrote: I'll give that -gcj a try tho. Can I just disable it on gcc or does it have to be global? Also, what is it anyway? I would disable it globally for now. gcj is an open source implementation of Java, but last I read about it (maybe like 3/4 a year ago) it wasn't very complete yet.

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-19 Thread forgottenwizard
On 22:37 Wed 19 Dec , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:45:49 -0500 (EST), David Finkel wrote: You should just be able to pass the nox kernel command line option at boot, the xdm init script, from baselayout, contains a line which checks the kernel command line for the xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] hello there!

2007-12-19 Thread forgottenwizard
On 20:55 Wed 19 Dec , Sven Albrecht wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:32 -0600, Jesús Abidan Ramos Salas wrote: i am new at this list... i hope i can help Me too, at first I'm basically reading and learning ^^ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Same here. I've been subscribed

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Richard Marzan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 22:42 +0100, Zsitvai János wrote: b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to try Paludis, looks very promising. I think I've read that Portage and Paludis can coexist happily. Can someone confirm it? It would be useful for a transition. It works just fine. :) Later

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-19 Thread Stroller
Just a quick question to see if any of the list members are using Gentoo - or any other Linux distro for that matter - on Dell PowerEdge 2600 or 2800 servers? A site I manage has had from new a 2800 running Windows, which we're quite happy with (the 2800, that is, not Windows ;). We really

Re: [gentoo-user] performance enhancement using x86_64-pc-linux-gnu?

2007-12-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007, Richard Marzan wrote: Hello, Today, I thought about changing the CHOST, even if it means performing a fresh install, to the one in the subject line for performance improvement. Am I wrong to assume that changing the CHOST to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Zsitvai János
Richard Marzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May i have that script? I assume it's GPLed :-) Honestly, calling it a script is an embellishment. Perhaps phrasing it as 'something that keeps the faster moving parts of configuration in sync' would have been better. echo '*/* x86'

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Vasiliy G Tolstov
Grant wrote: Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis: http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensored Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis? - Grant i'm completely delete portage and use paludis. work's fine ;) -- С

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, I cannot really go into details, but maybe I'm competent enough to make some notes on this: On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:47:55 -0500 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I manually edited the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c [...] I added the line

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
Bo Ørsted Andresen написа: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 21:37:38 Rumen Yotov wrote: Watch out for some scripts (perl-cleaner, claw-mail, etc.) in which the use of portage/emerge is embedded. Put 'paludis' as USE-flag. Unless you use a crappy, unsupported overlay no such use flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-19 Thread kashani
Stroller wrote: Just a quick question to see if any of the list members are using Gentoo - or any other Linux distro for that matter - on Dell PowerEdge 2600 or 2800 servers? A site I manage has had from new a 2800 running Windows, which we're quite happy with (the 2800, that is, not Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Dommett
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote: I haven't done much digging yet, but thought a quick show of hands here might save some time. It looks like the SCSI hot-swap / RAID controller uses an AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver which is (?) part of the main kernel - anyone know if that does status