[gentoo-user] Can't compile opal.

2007-12-13 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi I'm trying to finish an emerge world and I'm stumbling on getting opal to compile so it can continue. I'm running on an AMD proc with i686 arch in my make.conf file. So, the no such instruction error message is baffleing. It seems to die with slightly different instruction errors each

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a restricted user

2007-12-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 schrieb Grant: I've noticed when adding this kind of a user in the past they are able to look at files all around the system that I'd prefer they can't. Why? System directories look nearly the same on any

Re: [gentoo-user] DMZ on an vmware gentoo guest running on winXP host

2007-12-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 13 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setup: Home Lan with principle desktop machine running Gentoo. Three other machines running WinXP that are a trio of video and sound editing machines. And finally my wifes WinXP machine in antoher room. All connected by Gigabit lan thru

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardening a laptop for travel

2007-12-13 Thread Grant
I don't know, now that I've set up shorewall on my router it seems like a simple matter to set it up on another machine. I should only need to edit a few config files with very light additions. - Grant Understand - to be honest I have moved to shorewall on almost all my machines for

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-13 Thread Grant
I'd like to create a really restricted user on my laptop. I don't want the user to be able to do much of anything but browse the web, use skype, and maybe look at photos on a CD or something. I did this: useradd -m -G users,audio,cdrom -s /sbin/nologin newuser How does that look? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-13 Thread Rumen Yotov
Grant написа: I'd like to create a really restricted user on my laptop. I don't want the user to be able to do much of anything but browse the web, use skype, and maybe look at photos on a CD or something. I did this: useradd -m -G users,audio,cdrom -s /sbin/nologin newuser How does that

[gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread James
Hello, I use the gentoo kernel series for my production systems. On my gaming system, I have a 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 kernel that works very well for gaming (bzflag). It an amd64 with 2 gig of ram. I've tried to build a 2.6.23-getnoo-r3 kernel for gaming and it performs very poorly with no other

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardening a laptop for travel

2007-12-13 Thread Grant
I don't know, now that I've set up shorewall on my router it seems like a simple matter to set it up on another machine. I should only need to edit a few config files with very light additions. - Grant Understand - to be honest I have moved to shorewall on almost all my

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, James wrote: # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set betwen 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 the new scheduler was introduced. Most people (like me) have had positive results related to gaming. But maybe bzflag is stupidly coded? Nonetheless you should try 'voluntary'

Re: [gentoo-user] DMZ on an vmware gentoo guest running on winXP host

2007-12-13 Thread Shawn Haggett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setup: Home Lan with principle desktop machine running Gentoo. Three other machines running WinXP that are a trio of video and sound editing machines. And finally my wifes WinXP machine in antoher room. All connected by Gigabit lan thru a netgear FVP318

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Shawn Haggett
CONFIG_HZ_100=y # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=100 Smaller numbers here actually mean less clock interrupts per second. This means that the CPU doesn't have to spend as much time switching between processes. However it also means

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Webb
071214 Shawn Haggett wrote: CONFIG_HZ_100=y # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=100 Smaller numbers here actually mean less clock interrupts per second. ie the CPU doesn't have to spend as much time switching between processes, but

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Randy Barlow
Philip Webb wrote: I don't play games, but I've long had my desktop box using HZ_1000 it has always been very responsive (now Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.6.23-r3). That's certainly the first thing to try. I use 100 Hz on an old P3 desktop/server. It's not a high traffic server, but it does my

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Philip Webb wrote: 071214 Shawn Haggett wrote: CONFIG_HZ_100=y # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=100 Smaller numbers here actually mean less clock interrupts per second. ie the CPU doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:50:58 -0500 Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also look for entries where is says eth0 has entered promiscuous mode - that's a sure fire sign you've been hacked.. unless you're running a virtual machine with a bridge, or your own packet sniffer/traffic monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:44:35 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to try 2006.1 and Knoppix. - Grant You don't use minimals, grant? I'm surprised. I would never put a liveCD in a computer if I could avoid it, myself. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-13 Thread Grant
I'm going to try 2006.1 and Knoppix. - Grant You don't use minimals, grant? I'm surprised. I would never put a liveCD in a computer if I could avoid it, myself. What do you mean? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Silicon Image 3112 Raid Controller on Kernel 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 not working.

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:51:31 +0100 Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson schrieb: Hello Norman, I, too, have one of their controllers (identified by lspci as RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02). It works ... kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hardening a laptop for travel

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:22:45 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that systems like e.g. Ubuntu server do not even have a firewall running would make you think so. The fact that while on the road you only stay connected for short periods of time would improve your chances too. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardening a laptop for travel

2007-12-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:58:02 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know, now that I've set up shorewall on my router it seems like a simple matter to set it up on another machine. I should only need to edit a few config files with very light additions. - Grant Either way you go, I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: recommendation for C2D motherboard

2007-12-13 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:16:10 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I'm sorry for this very off-topic post but my MSI-P965 Platinum have wreck it's first PCI-e slot and so did my NVidia 7900GS (I don't know which one died first but I'm pretty sure both are dead)

[gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Carson
Greetings, Where in the kernel config (make menuconfig) do I find the choice for schedulers. The one I am currently using is Anticipatory. What is the newest and latest scheduler for 2.6.23? Regards, Jason Carson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Router/Firewall strangeness

2007-12-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:50:58 -0500 Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also look for entries where is says eth0 has entered promiscuous mode - that's a sure fire sign you've been hacked.. unless you're running a virtual machine with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Andrey Falko
On Dec 13, 2007 3:27 PM, Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Where in the kernel config (make menuconfig) do I find the choice for schedulers. The one I am currently using is Anticipatory. What is the newest and latest scheduler for 2.6.23? Regards, Jason Carson -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Webb
071213 Jason Carson wrote: Where in 'make menuconfig' do I find the choice for schedulers. The one I am currently using is Anticipatory. What is the newest and latest scheduler for 2.6.23? Try '/sched', which will get you started lead you to 'Enable block layer - IO Schedulers - whatever you

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-13 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
I'm trying to get my Broadcom 4311 b/g card to work with the native kernel driver (bcm43xx) and b43-fwcutter but it's does not work. I placed the extracted firmware code in /lib/firmware and dmesg states that it failed to load the module. Has anyone gotten this card to work and how? Any link

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Carson
I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems and IDE disks ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so which scheduler is better for a server. Should I stay with

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Jason Carson wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems and IDE disks ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so which

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Joshua Doll
Jason Carson wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems and IDE disks ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so which scheduler is better for a server.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Andrey Falko
On Dec 13, 2007 3:57 PM, Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... The article is very old, take a look at this, newer one: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardening a laptop for travel

2007-12-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 13:09 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:41:06 -0500 I don't run iptables on my laptops. Instead, I choose to run only a few secure services and then proceed to not worry about it. hmmm - another target. Firewalls can be viewed as a waste of time on

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: Jason Carson wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems and IDE disks ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Joshua Doll
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: Jason Carson wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems and IDE disks ... I have a server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: Jason Carson wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for

[gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message reports that the ide-cdrom on hda is the only drive present. The computer is a Toshiba

[gentoo-user] Re: gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: I have the best results with 300Hz. With 1000Hz the kernel wastes to much time context switching. Compiling is slower, gaming FPS lower ... OK, I have read all that was posted and I'm experimenting with new kernels.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Dec 2007, at 20:53, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: I'm trying to get my Broadcom 4311 b/g card to work with the native kernel driver (bcm43xx) and b43-fwcutter but it's does not work. I placed the extracted firmware code in /lib/firmware and dmesg states that it failed to load

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message reports that the ide-cdrom on hda is the only

[gentoo-user] Re: DMZ on an vmware gentoo guest running on winXP host

2007-12-13 Thread reader
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would I likely be opening my lan up for some christmas shopping by having a gentoo guest on a WinXP host running as a DMZ machine? It would be pretty barebones with a IPTABLE setup for logging and tagging or whatever I get interested in doing with the traffic.