Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?
I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) and can confirm it runs at near native speeds. Be aware however that there is an issue with the clock on 2.4 series kernels - due to the changes made to run at 1000Hz, you will find that Gentoo's clock no longer keeps perfect time. This problem can be improved, but not completely solved, by (a) recompiling the kernel to run at a lower clock and (b) running the VMWare toolkit, which has a clock helper On 8/21/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do much damage. That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed from the virtual disks. VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series. As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free. That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O -- Neil Bothwick A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, Wish you were here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SiS 900 Fast Ethernet Adapter and Gentoo
Frank, The SiS 900 works fine for me on 100 Mbps without any specific ifconfig instructions, so should work for you unless Acer have it in a (very) non-default configuration. Note however that when you compile the kernel, you do need to change the config to include SiS 900 support, it's not included by default. Can't help on the graphics. On 8/11/05, Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've reported this already in a former post and maybe it's too early to ask this again. I've bought an Acer 2313NLC notebook. The NIC is a SiS 900 and the graphics controller is a SiSM661MX. I wasn't able to bring the NIC up. I gave the notebook to the Acer service because the (preinstalled) Linpus Linux has messages about PCI bus faults in the syslog. I still haven't the notebook back but ... ... I'm sort of nervous. I've Googled a bit about SiS and found a lot of posts reporting the SiS chipset working on RedHat, SuSe, Debian ... and some posts this chipset NOT to work on Gentoo. Well, most of the posts I found are 2 to 3 years old. Maybe this isn't an issue at all furthermore. Has someone got this to work? My provider gives me a 100Mbps FD link. In the kernel documentation there is still this: 3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet by ifconfig causes the media link down. Will I have to do a ``mii-tool -a 10baseT-FD,10baseT-HD'' before being able to use this NIC? I found: /* * SiS 300/630/730/540/315/550/[M]650/651/[M]661[FM]X/740/[M]741[GX]/330/[M]760[GX] in /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/sis. Due to this and reading the information on: http://www.winischhofer.net/ the graphics should'nt be an issue, should it? Excuse me my impatience but I'd like to install some Linux as soon as I get the machine back ... and I'd prefer Gentoo (using the NIC ;) over Fedora (using Click'nClay with Anaconda) Regards Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
