Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-30 Thread Man Shankar
On 20:31 Sat 27 Dec , Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Another reason I didn't put Gentoo on the server is because everyone would start spamming the forums about lag when I emerge -u world while they're getting frags in Counter-Strike :P set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in /etc/make.conf I'll just hay

Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-30 Thread Man Shankar
On 17:11 Mon 22 Dec , Andreas Niederl wrote: Hi, Man Shankar wrote: Hello, I want to try out the tiling window managers. I would want to know the experiences of the users about awesome and xmonad. Primarily i would like to know which of those two tiling WMs has worked for you

[gentoo-user] Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread David Bourgeois
Hi, I have much trouble to get sata working with an Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) interface from a Compaq dc5800. The minimal CD 2008.0 uses the ata driver and not sata so harddisks are registered as /dev/hda. After installation, my custom kernel does the same and I had to disable ata completely

[gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
David Bourgeois wrote: Hi, I have much trouble to get sata working with an Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) interface from a Compaq dc5800. The minimal CD 2008.0 uses the ata driver and not sata so harddisks are registered as /dev/hda. After installation, my custom kernel does the same and I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread David Bourgeois
Thanks Nikos, I had a look in the bios, couldn't find AHCI (it's HP Compaq BIOS, not very complete) but changed the translation mode from Automatic to LBA assisted and now it works. Out of curiosity, I reverted the BIOS to defaults (Automatic translation mode) and it still works. So basically I

[gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Try enabling AHCI in the BIOS (search for it in the SATA/IDE settings) and enable * AHCI SATA support in the kernel. Another note: Make sure you *first* build a kernel with AHCI support and *then* change the option in the BIOS or else Linux won't boot either :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
David Bourgeois wrote: Thanks Nikos, I had a look in the bios, couldn't find AHCI (it's HP Compaq BIOS, not very complete) Glad it works, but in any case, search the BIOS for things like SATA or Native. Usually the choices are: 1. IDE emulation, Compatible 2. RAID 3. AHCI, Native, SATA

[gentoo-user] Looking for an old ebuild: courier-authlib 0.58

2008-12-30 Thread Stefan Onken
Hello, for updating an old system I am looking for courier-authlib 0.58 (which still has vpopmail support). Unfortutely I don't find any ebuilds for it. Can anyone help ? Stonki -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche ProFTPD Dokumentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for an old ebuild: courier-authlib 0.58

2008-12-30 Thread Justin
Stefan Onken schrieb: Hello, for updating an old system I am looking for courier-authlib 0.58 (which still has vpopmail support). Unfortutely I don't find any ebuilds for it. Can anyone help ? Stonki Hi Stonki, take this

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Pongracz Istvan pongracz.ist...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to compile vmware-server-1.0.8.126538 with vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 but compiling vmmon failed. Those are old, if you want to use a newer kernel use a newer vmware ebuilds. Add the vmware overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for an old ebuild: courier-authlib 0.58

2008-12-30 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/30/08, Stefan Onken supp...@stonki.de wrote: Hello, for updating an old system I am looking for courier-authlib 0.58 (which still has vpopmail support). Unfortutely I don't find any ebuilds for it. Can anyone help ? Perhaps one of these will do:

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for an old ebuild: courier-authlib 0.58

2008-12-30 Thread Stefan Onken
Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2008 schrieb Justin: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-libs/courier- authlib/?hideattic=0 Thanks ! -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche ProFTPD Dokumentation www.krename.net: Der Batch Renamer für

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread David Bourgeois
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: David Bourgeois wrote: Thanks Nikos, I had a look in the bios, couldn't find AHCI (it's HP Compaq BIOS, not very complete) PS: You reminded me of one the reasons I don't buy HP or any other generic vendor.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 09.35-kor Paul Hartman ezt írta: Those are old, if you want to use a newer kernel use a newer vmware ebuilds. Add the vmware overlay with layman and then you can get vmware-server 2.0.0 and vmware-modules 1.0.0.23 -- this version of the modules is working for me

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 18.31-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: Other thing, vmware-server-console unable to connect to the server on localhost. It seems, this is the normal way. There is no this kind of console for 2.0. Unfortunately the web gui has no console, but a stupid message to

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 18.43-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: Ok, I click on the Install plugin and I got the plugin. Seems working, except only some messages on the blank screen: Open the console in a new window. Click anywhere to open the virtual machine. I click everywhere, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to ram: correct behavior?

2008-12-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
Hi Damian, please note, that I'm no kernel (or USB) expert - just guessing around from experience... Am Samstag, den 27.12.2008, 14:48 +0100 schrieb damian: Try enabling or disabling USB_SUSPEND (Device Drivers-USB support-USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup) in your kernel. It was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Dec 2008, at 13:43, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... It seems you have set up the SATA controller to do (sub-optimal) IDE/ PATA emulation rather than native AHCI. Try enabling AHCI in the BIOS (search for it in the SATA/IDE settings) and enable * AHCI SATA support in the kernel. Note

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 21.19-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: This happened, because something wrong with the plugin. When I try to start the console, I got this error: /home/pongi/.mozilla/firefox/mv9y1pdy.default/extensions/vmwarev...@vmware.com/plugins/bin/vmware-vmrc: symbol

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Pongracz Istvan pongracz.ist...@gmail.com wrote: 2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 21.19-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: This happened, because something wrong with the plugin. When I try to start the console, I got this error:

[gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: On 30 Dec 2008, at 13:43, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... It seems you have set up the SATA controller to do (sub-optimal) IDE/PATA emulation rather than native AHCI. Try enabling AHCI in the BIOS (search for it in the SATA/IDE settings) and enable * AHCI SATA support in the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 15.05-kor Paul Hartman ezt írta: Dude, I am tired.. :) Congratulations and enjoy your VMware until the next kernel release breaks everything again. :P Paul Thank you Pauk :) I think, it is better to get a linux friendly scanner to avoid using

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Pongracz Istvan pongracz.ist...@gmail.com wrote: 2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 15.05-kor Paul Hartman ezt írta: Dude, I am tired.. :) Congratulations and enjoy your VMware until the next kernel release breaks everything again. :P Paul Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 16.28-kor Paul Hartman ezt írta: I don't know your specific needs when it comes to scanning, but a few years ago (2005) I got an Epson Perfection 2400 on eBay for about $15 USD. It is USB and has worked great with Gentoo (media-gfx/iscan)... Epson seems to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Extremely slow sata with IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

2008-12-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Dec 2008, at 21:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Stroller wrote: On 30 Dec 2008, at 13:43, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... It seems you have set up the SATA controller to do (sub-optimal) IDE/PATA emulation rather than native AHCI. Try enabling AHCI in the BIOS (search for it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad

2008-12-30 Thread Christian Franke
On 12/17/2008 05:51 AM, Man Shankar wrote: I want to try out the tiling window managers. If you're not already fixed to Awesome or Xmonad you might also want to have a look at ion. [1] I am using it on my notebook which has a relatively small screen resolution of 1024x768, so most time I was