[gentoo-user] Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE drivers. This is what I have currently: hda Actual hard drive

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE drivers. This is what I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/8/27 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there any games base on openCL?

2010-08-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 Aug 2010, at 06:24, Blackdream W wrote: 2010/8/26 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com On Wednesday 25 August 2010, Blackdream W wrote: I install the ati-drivers-10.7.1 just now,this version it seem support openCL 1.1. Any games base on it? Thanks. games can not be

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE drivers. This is what I have currently: hda

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there any games base on openCL?

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/25/2010 02:44 AM, Blackdream W wrote: I install the ati-drivers-10.7.1 just now,this version it seem support openCL 1.1. Any games base on it? Not right now. And it probably will stay that way, since games mainly target Windows as a platform and there they can use either PhysX on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Dale
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 J. Roeleveldjo...@antarean.org: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? No, but you can use reiserfstune -l. Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote: Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is there a boot option noide or some other switch I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2010 10:50, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Applying labels to your filesystems is trivial. Simply use the e2label utility (it's in the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package and installed by default, so there's nothing new to emerge). For example, if your hda1 is your root partition and your hda2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? Nope: eve ~ # reiserfstune --help reiserfstune: unrecognized option '--help'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote: Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is there a boot option noide

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? No, but you can use reiserfstune -l. Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it

[gentoo-user] Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-27 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I am currently running a guest with VMware-Server-1. However the modules needed for that on the host are no longer supported and I am stuck with 2.6.31 for the moment. So I am thinking of alternatives. My requirements: It should only need as much RAM on the host as needed (so XEN with

[gentoo-user] email client with USE flags -gtk -kde?

2010-08-27 Thread tpar...@etherstorm.net
Can anyone recommend an email client that will work with -gtk and -kde USE flags? I know the common ones such as Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail, and Claws are out. Is there a option similar to those or do I stick with something like Alpine?

[gentoo-user] Re: Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-27 Thread Remy Blank
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: I use VirtualBox on a Mac but can it run headless? Any other proposals? Yes, see the documentation for VBoxHeadless. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.35 and AHCI - what about platform ?

2010-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2010 01:34, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Since your SATA controller works without that option enabled, you have a normal AHCI controller on your motherboard's southbridge. That means the answer is no. You don't need that option enabled. Thanks, Nikos!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to change your /etc/fstab and grub conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/27/2010 12:58 AM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I am currently running a guest with VMware-Server-1. However the modules needed for that on the host are no longer supported and I am stuck with 2.6.31 for the moment. So I am thinking of alternatives. My requirements: It should

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you won't be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/27/2010 09:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Snipped Yet another way to use labels: When you make the filesystem, apply the name then i.e.:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 09:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Snipped Yet another way to use labels: When you make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Snipped Yet another way to use labels: When you make the filesystem, apply the name then i.e.: mke2fs -j -L SpeedySSD /dev/sde1 then in your

[gentoo-user] How and whether to take action on elog message from sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.73

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I read the logs, but it doesn't always help. This one apparently used to build statically, and is now using shared libraries. Here's the message: === *Subject:* [portage] ebuild log for sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.73 on treat.kosmanor.com LOG: setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/27/2010 09:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Actually, you can: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html And this is similar to the syntax in the kernel's Documentation/intel_txt.txt file. (Read the section below

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/27/2010 09:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox (Namoroka-3.6.8, actually) and Epiphany-2.31-r1 both fail to show captchas

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.comwrote: On 08/26/2010 04:29 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: On a number of websites, I've been unable to see the captcha that I need to complete my

Re: [gentoo-user] email client with USE flags -gtk -kde?

2010-08-27 Thread Philip Webb
100827 tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: Can anyone recommend an email client that will work with -gtk and -kde USE flags? Have you tried Mutt ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache crashed, what could be the reason?

2010-08-27 Thread Kyle Bader
Except for that, only common scannings for phpMyAdmin, myadmin, pma, mysql, scripts, etc. Nothing more. Any ideas why apache died? I noticed you have mod_dav mod_cache and are running 2.2.15, perhaps it's this? http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1452 -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] How and whether to take action on elog message from sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.73

2010-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:55 on Friday 27 August 2010, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: I read the logs, but it doesn't always help. This one apparently used to build statically, and is now using shared libraries. Here's the message:

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache crashed, what could be the reason?

2010-08-27 Thread Jarry
On 27. 8. 2010 19:23, Kyle Bader wrote: I noticed you have mod_dav mod_cache and are running 2.2.15, perhaps it's this? http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1452 You may be right! But what can I do? There is not even masked version 2.2.16 in portage, despite the fact it

Re: [gentoo-user] How and whether to take action on elog message from sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.73

2010-08-27 Thread felix
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:55:58AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Leaving that aside, the message does not state *which* filename to append .static to, and where to change it, so I'm baffled as to how to take action on this message, even if I thought it important to do. Itis a confusing

[gentoo-user] xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread James
Hello, We'll I've got a new samsung monitor 2333HD-1 that is verified 1920x1080. Finally, I got it working on a dvi-d-2-dvi-d video cable with no problems...(minimal xorg.conf) and ati-drivers. OK, so I switch to a DVI-Don video card to HDMI on the monitor and it comes in, but the bottom and

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: We'll I've got a new samsung monitor 2333HD-1 that is verified 1920x1080. Finally, I got it working on a dvi-d-2-dvi-d video cable with no problems...(minimal xorg.conf) and ati-drivers. OK, so I switch to a DVI-Don

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: Is the monitor doing overscan on HDMI? I'd assume the monitor (HDMI input) is doing the overscan, since HDMI is suppose to be 'smart'. That what the link suggested. Is the ATI driver doing underscan on HDMI based on the assumption that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:00 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: Is the monitor doing overscan on HDMI? I'd assume the monitor (HDMI input) is doing the overscan, since HDMI is suppose to be 'smart'. That what the link suggested.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:31 on Friday 27 August 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, We'll I've got a new samsung monitor 2333HD-1 that is verified 1920x1080. Finally, I got it working on a dvi-d-2-dvi-d video cable with no problems...(minimal xorg.conf) and ati-drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:31, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, We'll I've got a new samsung monitor 2333HD-1 that is verified 1920x1080. Finally, I got it working on a dvi-d-2-dvi-d video cable with no problems...(minimal xorg.conf) and ati-drivers. OK, so I switch to a

[gentoo-user] Kernel Configuration

2010-08-27 Thread Aaron Bauman
All, I recently asked about some issues about getting my kernel to boot. I would rather not use the ubuntu kernel as previously suggested unless it is completely safe. I am currently booting successfully off of Ubuntu running kernel version 2.6.32-21-generic. The errors I kept getting when

[gentoo-user] Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-08-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore
My Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10750083982 Scanned documents in the (currently 42) photo albums of my Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10750083982#!/profile.php?id=10750083982v=photos Videos in my Facebook account:

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread Jason Carson
Hello, We'll I've got a new samsung monitor 2333HD-1 that is verified 1920x1080. Finally, I got it working on a dvi-d-2-dvi-d video cable with no problems...(minimal xorg.conf) and ati-drivers. OK, so I switch to a DVI-Don video card to HDMI on the monitor and it comes in, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Configuration

2010-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:11 on Friday 27 August 2010, Aaron Bauman did opine thusly: All, I recently asked about some issues about getting my kernel to boot. I would rather not use the ubuntu kernel as previously suggested unless it is completely safe. I am currently booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? Nope: eve ~ # reiserfstune --help

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Configuration

2010-08-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Aug 2010, at 21:11, Aaron Bauman wrote: ... I would rather not use the ubuntu kernel as previously suggested unless it is completely safe. I am currently booting successfully off of Ubuntu running kernel version 2.6.32-21-generic. Why would it be unsafe? The Ubuntu kernel config

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Stroller
On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? Nope: eve ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Aug 2010, at 17:06, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, make sure you have a bootable

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I just looked at the manual for this TV online and it looks like it has Just Scan mode which could potentially show you the original image by pressing the P.SIZE button on the remote control. So you might want to try again to see if this

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: Have you tried setting the INPUT NAME of the HDMI to PC using the remote (on TV)? My Samsung does the same, after I set my HDMI as PC everything is at the right place. Can only do this on the PC selection which only works when a standard

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: You have nothing to fear from fiddling with clock settings on a flat panel. The owrst you can do is to get no picture. Good to know. thx James

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf (HDMI vs DVI-D)

2010-08-27 Thread James
Jason Carson jason at jasoncarson.ca writes: Can you set overscan to 0% in the ATI Catalyst Control Center. Does that make a difference? Dunno know. 'ATI catalyst Control Center' will not launch from KDE menu system(strange) Ideas on what to recompile? ati-drivers? emerge -1 `qlist -I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08.2010 18:06: On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Actually, you can: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html (Read the section below Use a label): fstab: LABEL=ROOT / ext3defaults1 1

[gentoo-user] Can't connect to new router

2010-08-27 Thread Grant
I just got a new TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wireless router but I can't seem connect to it. I've tried the Gentoo initscript as well as wicd. With the initscript, I get: wlan3: carrier lost wlan3: timed out I see a lot of this in dmesg: b43-phy0 ERROR: MAC suspend failed I can connect to other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those?