Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 12 February 2011 01:39:44 Keith Dart wrote: Start by resetting to all defaults.. ;-) That was the obvious first step. Many motherboards these days support unsafe settings (overclocking, etc.) Yes, this one does, but I've never used them. if you haven't already. I have, as you

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-12 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 02/12, Peter Humphrey wrote: === That was the obvious first step. === Well then, I would use this as an excuse to get a nice new system. ;-) -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:53:36 Keith Dart wrote: Well then, I would use this as an excuse to get a nice new system. ;-) Nice idea. It's only a year old though, and I could hardly justify the expense then. Thanks anyway. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 01:00:11 Keith Dart wrote: That really sounds like flaky hardware, possibly bad memory. try running memtest86+. Let it run overnight. That's what I thought. I have run memtest86+ overnight, but of course it didn't find anything. As Gentoo seems to be immune to

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-11 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 02/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: === As Gentoo seems to be immune to this problem, I assume that other kernels are setting some parameters that push the hardware to its limit, so the next thing I'll try is to detune the performance somewhat. Trouble is, the BIOS setup screens have so

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 04 February 2011 18:12:50 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem on my workstation. It runs Gentoo fine (well, sluggishly) but when I installed Fedora 14

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 03 February 2011 08:14:21 Dale wrote: I'm just glad to have something that doesn't kill my mouse and keyboard. ;-) At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem on my workstation. It runs Gentoo fine (well, sluggishly) but when I installed Fedora 14 to try it,

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 08:14:21 Dale wrote: I'm just glad to have something that doesn't kill my mouse and keyboard. ;-) At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem on my