On Tuesday 18 January 2011 04:42:38 William Kenworthy wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:23 -0800, Grant wrote:
And for those with gigabytes of swap, keep in mind that the majority of
processors can only access up to 32 x 2G swapfiles under linux, so 4G is
only going to be half used.
Unless
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:27 on Tuesday 18 January 2011, Mick did
opine thusly:
BTW, it used to be that the kernel would not (easily?) access more than
128M of swap for some reason and multiple 128M swap partitions were more
efficient than a single larger space, but this has
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 07:27 +, Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 04:42:38 William Kenworthy wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:23 -0800, Grant wrote:
And for those with gigabytes of swap, keep in mind that the majority of
processors can only access up to 32 x 2G swapfiles under
Am 18.01.2011 00:06, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html
looks also worth reading
I had badblocks running over night, it told me that it found 33 bad blocks.
Reallocated_Sector_Ct, Current_Pending_Sector and Offline_Uncorrectable
Am 18.01.2011 10:31, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Am 18.01.2011 00:06, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html
looks also worth reading
I had badblocks running over night, it told me that it found 33 bad blocks.
Reallocated_Sector_Ct,
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:39 on Monday 17 January 2011, William
Kenworthy did opine thusly:
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
wrote:
On Sun,
William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au writes:
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:23 -0800, Grant wrote:
I think the idea is never use swap if possible, but in a case where
you don't have swap space or run out of swap space I think it's still
possible to lose data.
Isn't swap just an extension of
My last update bumped XFCE to 4.8, and I quickly learned that it's got
some serious bugs. So, I need to roll back to whatever the prevous
version was. How do I tell portage to not use 4.8?
I tried adding this line in /etc/portage/package.mask:
=xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.8
But that does
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:45:37 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 18.01.2011 10:31, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Am 18.01.2011 00:06, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html
looks also worth reading
I had badblocks running over
Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com writes:
On Jan 17, 2011 4:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Monday 17 January 2011 15:13:54 Jason Weisberger wrote:
The update killed your free core :)
a 'free core' that is probably broken in mysterious and hard to find
On 2011-01-18, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
My last update bumped XFCE to 4.8, and I quickly learned that it's
got some serious bugs. So, I need to roll back to whatever the
prevous version was. How do I tell portage to not use 4.8?
I tried adding this line in
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:29 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote:
The bios microcode update is likely an enable setting rather than the
bios actually updating the cpu. You need to do some reading/asking of
the manufacturers (not here) if it bothers you.
Thanks for the links, I
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:22:20 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
But that does nothing. Do I have to individually mask all 20+
components of XFCE?
Yes, but it's not difficult:
qlist -ICv xfce-base/ | sed 's/^/~/' /etc/portage/package.mask/xfce-48
--
Neil Bothwick
mandelbug /man'del-buhg/
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:29 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
wrote:
The bios microcode update is likely an enable setting rather than the
bios actually updating the cpu. You need to do some
btw, very related:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/01/17/microupdates-for-microcodes
Hi,
does anybody if it's safe to flash the BIOS using a DOS emulator like
app-emulation/dosemu ?
Thanks for sharing your experience,
Helmut.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
does anybody if it's safe to flash the BIOS using a DOS emulator like
app-emulation/dosemu ?
Thanks for sharing your experience,
Helmut.
I don't think it will work (unless you are flashing the
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 17:41:52 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
does anybody if it's safe to flash the BIOS using a DOS emulator like
app-emulation/dosemu ?
Thanks for sharing your experience,
Helmut.
it is not considered safe. Get an usb stick with freedos or systemrescue cd or
use the
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:29 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
wrote:
The bios microcode update is likely an enable setting
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 09:34:14 Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:29 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, I got it to load by hand:
1) emerge microcode-ctl
which also emerges microcode-data. Unfortunately microcode-data looks
to be out of date.
The ebuild for newer versions (including the latest 20101123) is in
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, I got it to load by hand:
1) emerge microcode-ctl
which also emerges microcode-data. Unfortunately microcode-data looks
to be out
On 2011-01-18, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:22:20 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
But that does nothing. Do I have to individually mask all 20+
components of XFCE?
Yes, but it's not difficult:
qlist -ICv xfce-base/ | sed 's/^/~/'
On 01/18/2011 06:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
does anybody if it's safe to flash the BIOS using a DOS emulator like
app-emulation/dosemu ?
It won't work. The flashing tools are designed to be run in real mode.
Dosemu runs in vm86 mode.
Your best bet is to get a bootable *.iso from
i'm sorry,but chinese doc is different form english doc,
i read chinese doc and loss some step.
2011/1/16 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com
On Sunday 16 January 2011 13:53:14 doherty pete wrote:
how can i confim i have evdev,if i donn't have ,i think i have to edite
/etc/make.cof USE=-evdev
On 2011-01-18 17:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
does anybody if it's safe to flash the BIOS using a DOS emulator like
app-emulation/dosemu ?
If you have a compatible board you could try flashrom. It's in portage
and the homepage is: http://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom
MfG
Peter K
On 1/17/2011 8:42 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
No swap contains pages from memory that have not been accessed for
awhile so they can be stored elsewhere freeing ram for actual active
pages. When they need to be accessed, they have to be swapped back in,
and often something swapped back out to
I've just installed compiled gentoo-sources-2.6.37
am getting msgs in all my terminals
Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18 14:32:38 2011 ...
localhost kernel: [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on
this CPU type.
Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, I got it to load by hand:
1) emerge microcode-ctl
which
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
I've just installed compiled gentoo-sources-2.6.37
am getting msgs in all my terminals
Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18 14:32:38 2011 ...
localhost kernel: [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
I've just installed compiled gentoo-sources-2.6.37
am getting msgs in all my terminals
Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 20:42:05 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 20:42:05 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On
Am 18.01.2011 16:30, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
yes, rerun badblocks in destructive write mode. Twice. The second time create
a badblocks file and use it with mkfs - that way bad blocks should be skipped.
Like in:
# badblocks -p2 -wv /dev/sdb6
?
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 21:13:49 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 20:42:05 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM,
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
Is the /etc/microcode.dat path a bug, now that firmware is typically placed in
/lib/firmware?
Shall I create a symlink or raise a bug report?
--
Regards,
Mick
Mick,
I don't think so. Seems to me Gentoo can
I upgraded my xorg from 1.76 to 1.9 yesterday, including downloading the most
recent drivers. When the new system did not work, I checked the xorg log
(attached) and I thought that the problem was the mode setting. So in the
kernel, I enabled the modesetting by default and now the card does not
On 01/19/2011 06:46 AM, dan blum wrote:
I upgraded my xorg from 1.76 to 1.9 yesterday, including downloading the
most recent drivers. When the new system did not work, I checked the
xorg log (attached) and I thought that the problem was the mode setting.
So in the kernel, I enabled the
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