Re: [gentoo-user] Software raid

2004-01-31 Thread Jimmy Rosen
You might get by without restarting from scratch, but that depends on what you actually want to do. Read Daniel Robbins linux software raid howto on ibm's developer site for linux. There are many good articles there. The sw raid partitions should be marked by a special partition type for the

[gentoo-user] kde 3.1.4 launch exec pauses

2004-01-29 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I recently upgraded from kde 3.1.2 to 3.1.4, and I often get these long pauses and delays, 5-15s (subjectively, not timed), when launching an application from the kde icons or menus. Launching from terminal window command line is quick as ever, and the delays weren't there before the upgrade.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB ports on PCI card

2004-01-28 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I don't remember which chipset I had on the one I tried, but I had no problems with it, none that I noticed anyway. I just included the appropriate modules in the kernel, ehci-hcd I believe it was, and include it in the /etc/modules.autoload. Harebraman Jimmy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-21 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I haven't been able to find any dual MBs that support more than the 266 fsb, so even if you can take the spanking hip blastathon cpugathingie and do the contact-connect to enable dual operation it wouldn't be as fast since it is used to a much higher fsb. Please tell me I'm wrong here, and that

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-21 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I've (sheepishly admitting) actually not bothered much about the intel solutions since the dual athlons became available. Every time I've taken the time to check the prices of Intel stuff in comparison to performance they have come up short. Admittedly I haven't checked the intel solutions for

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

2004-01-20 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Last time I checked and compared, in november, the price/performace was still in favor of the dual athlon mp setup. I still use that kind of setup for my customer's clustered workstations. The smoothness of a dual system is way better than a single, really. I expect the opteron

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

2004-01-19 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I have some experience with 3ware Promise kernel SW raid Promise: I started with a promise 6000 card and after serious problems with that card I decided to abandon that path. Primarily the card is largely incompatible with the AMD 760 chipset as far as I've been able to conclude. I use dual

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Problems

2004-01-15 Thread Jimmy Rosen
If you have problems while un-tarring the files I'd suggest re-downloading and burning another copy. I'm not sure, but it seems like corrupt archives. Jimmy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] /etc/group administration questions, caching, references

2004-01-15 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi there folks. This is a bit embarrasing as I should already know this, but alas, I don't. I've googled a bit for it and read the reference manuals I've got... group membership by group reference I want users u1 and u2 to be members of groups g1 and g2. In /etc/group I'd like to use something

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem? : emerge -pu system: baselayout overwrites make.conf

2004-01-14 Thread Jimmy Rosen
as I've been able to determine). I've even tried to mark it read only, but to no avail. Harebrafolk Jimmy On Tuesday 13 January 2004 20.27, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:53:45 +0100 Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using gentoo for a while now. Every time I have

[gentoo-user] Problem? : emerge -pu system: baselayout overwrites make.conf

2004-01-13 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I've been using gentoo for a while now. Every time I have updated baselayout it has overwritten the make.conf file automatically with a default file. I've tried protecting it but to no avail. Is this as it should be? I'm asking because it's about time for another system update emerge -pu

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

2004-01-13 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I have some experience with the following: 3ware Promise kernel SW raid Promise: I once started with a promise 6000 card and after serious problems with that card I decided to abandon that path. Primarily the card is largely incompatible with the AMD 760 chipset as far as I've been able to

Re: [gentoo-user] switching harddrives

2004-01-08 Thread Jimmy Rosen
After you have untarred or otherwise transfered the old root system files to the new disk you can use grub to write a MBR just like it is stated in the install documents. Harebraman Jimmy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-07 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I use acpi instead of apm. Just run acpid at default runlevel and put ospm_system in modules.autoload and it powers down nicely after shutdown. Jimmy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] correct single sample errors after ripping CDs

2003-12-15 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi, I'm trying to rescue some old CDs that have gone all scratchy. When ripping them with cdparanoia I get several pop/click/snap, where one single sample is way out of whack. It's simple to fix a few of them manually in a wave editor, but not when there's a lot of them. I've been searching

Re: [gentoo-user] usb hpoj hotplug problems with HP OJD125xi printer/scanner

2003-12-05 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Well, now I've gotten it to print ok from linux as well, however the scanning with hpoj still has the same problem. The printing works after using setting up the printer as follows: foomatic-configure -s cups -p HP-OfficeJet_D125 -c file:/dev/usb/lp0 -n HPPrinter -d hpijs writing to

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor help

2003-12-03 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Here are the generic settings I use for most old crap screens attached to various cluster node machines. When you specify h and v frequencies for the monitor X won't back down to 640x480, unless of course that's all the frequencies can support. Harebraman Jimmy Section Monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] user stats: uptime with Gentoo

2003-10-25 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I run a couple of gentoo openmosix SSI clusters (read: lots of machines) and I've noticed that uptime is not limited by software stability, but rather by hardware failure / upgrades, changing server rooms, severe system updates (mainly kernel changes), and the likes. Once the machines are left

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?

2003-10-21 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi, I'd be interested in a link to the open source CAD app in development, if you've got the time. Thanks Jimmy On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01.53, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:16 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: snip I've been using (dual-booting ... :-) ) Linux and

Re: [gentoo-user] Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0.

2003-10-08 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Perhaps a stupid thing, but I remember having to switch from mesa to nvidia (I don't have a radeon so I'm not sure this is relevant at all) via opengl-update before I got DRI to work properly. Jimmy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while emerging avifile - SOLVED

2003-08-14 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Yep, re-emerging gcc for CHOST i686 seems to do the trick. avifile is happily compiling along right now. ... Yep worked fine Harebrafolk Jimmy On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12.20, Jimmy Rosen wrote: Hi there, I'm getting the very same thing: checking for C++ compiler default output

Re: [gentoo-user] x doesn't work!

2003-08-14 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I think you are onto something here. I just stumbled on the same problem. Trying old monitors don't work unless I set the resolution down to lowest standard 640x480, but new monitors will work just fine. If you check the log you probably have huge lists of video modes that are tried out.

[gentoo-user] gentoo adelie cluster init code, bug || me=lackwit ?

2003-08-10 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi there I'm checking out the adelie clustering code. But I have found a problem. Is the adelie code up to date? If so, I have missed something, otherwise... If I boot a node with gentoo=adelie boot parameter a couple of things happend: In /sbin/rc line 198, it detects boot parameter adelie,

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while emerging avifile

2003-08-06 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Some searching on the forums shows that this might be due to 1.4_rc4 stage 3 ships with a gcc i586 instead of i686. I'll try updating with i686 set in CHOST and se if that fixes it... Harebrafolk jimmy On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12.20, Jimmy Rosen wrote: Hi there, I'm getting the very same

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while emerging avifile

2003-08-06 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi there, I'm getting the very same thing: checking for C++ compiler default output... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. for all of the following packages: avifile-0.7.32.20030219.ebuild avifile-0.7.34.20030319.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Promise SX4000 ATA Raid!!!!!!!

2003-03-14 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I have had problems with this card before, because I need to use both openmosix kernel and mpx motherboards. If you have no such requirements it should work fine with the pti_st driver you can download from promise web pages, and vanilla kernel 2.4.19 or 2.4.20. Try checking out the link below

[gentoo-user] strange emerge -pukb --deep world

2003-02-28 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I'm upgrading my gentoo world. doing a 'emerge -pukb --deep world' first checking for what's going to happend showed that emerge wanted to downgrade my java install from 'sun-j2sdk-1.4.1' to 'sun-j2sdk-1.4.0-r2' So I opened my world file and added =dev-java/sun-j2sdk-1.4.1 at the bottom, trying

Re: [gentoo-user] X Configuration

2003-02-18 Thread Jimmy Rosen
personally I think xf86cfg is easier than xf86config, but it doesn't work perfectly all the time. There used to be some (ncurses based I think) config tool with old redhats. Anyone know what that was? Also xfree.org has good documentation on configuring X. I think you can find it from

Re: [gentoo-user] Build farms

2003-02-13 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Hi I did a performance/cost analysis for my lab some months ago. From my calculations, the best bang for the swedish krona I could find from the limited number of suppliers I had available (drowning under crappy brain-less purchase regulations) was to go with big stuff. So I did. I bought:

[gentoo-user] promise sx6000, i2o_block, pti_st - both work, poor performance

2003-02-01 Thread Jimmy Rosen
Update. Thanks Aurélien Gouny for your assistance. You're a saint. I have gotten both i2o_block and pti_st drivers to work, but with poor performance. I have it installed under a vanilla 2.4.20 with all scsi and i2o options as modules. Someone reported on a forum