[gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations
Hi all, It's time for a new computer and I'm interested in folks thoughts about motherboards for Athlon 64 CPUs. I intend to use SATA RAID1 via a 3ware card. The machine will be used for a workstation as well as a server that I use to store applications to be installed on other workstations, as well as disk images. It will also be acting as a WINS server for about 170 windoze boxen, and will be running Gentoo (of course!). The workstation duties will be fairly light, and I'm looking for something that's good at kicking out lots of data to other workstations. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which laptop should I get?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:34:48PM -0700, Elric Scott wrote: I am currently looking at the HP Pavilion zd7000 and the Compaq Evo N800W. Which laptop will have the least problems, and the most efficiancy? You probably won't want to hear this, but I would *never* buy an HP/Compaq computer of any sort unless I had an enterprise support agreement. My experience with HP/Compaq hardware is that they use crappy components which break all the time, and then they try to get you to pay them for legitimate warranty repairs or to weasle out of the warranty. I have had problems with HP/Compaq trying to do this with me, even though we have a state-negotiated *contract* with them, and have purchased the equipment through this program. I'm talking stuff like trying to charge us to replace dead tape drives under warranty-- Oh, we have to take the drive and test it. If you want to be able to back up your servers, you'll have to give us $125 for a loaner drive. Nevermind that your contract stipulates the part will be replaced within 24 hours of the time the call being placed. Recently, I've also had a lot of problems with Dell laptops which seem to be related to inadequate cooling and/or use of crappy hard drives in assembly. Do yourself a favor-- get a Toshiba or IBM laptop. The one drawback is that if they break, you have to ship them back (at their expense) for repair, and it generally takes 3-4 days. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 Please note that my email address has changed. Update your address book to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1236319,00.asp
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:10:09AM -0500, Shawn wrote: Lack of IQ can preclude using gentoo It's sure a shame it doesn't preclude running for public office Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 Please note that my email address has changed. Update your address book to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The $100 Linux UPS Challenge
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:50:55PM +0200, Patrick wrote: |This has been an ongoing problem for me. Can anyone recommend a UPS for a | Linux desktop type machine that can do an automated shutdown and runs in the | neighborhood of $100? I have no trouble with this in Windows, doing it with | $60 USB versions from APC, but I haven't found anything similar for Linux. | |If you've solved this problem, please respond back with both the UPS | model number (if possible) and where to get the drivers. I like the APC BK500JS. It costs ~$135 (USD) and has a serial port connection. For drivers, just 'emerge apcupsd', which, IMO is a *much* better package than apc's drivers. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 Please note that my email address has changed. Update your address book to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Tungsten T and Gentoo
Hi all, Has anyone gotten the Palm Tungsten T to work with Gentoo? I've tried the following: 1) Replaced visor.c and visor.h in the gentoo sources with the respective files in 2.4.22-vanilla. 2) Compiled in all the kernel modules and inserted them as instructed in the various howtos. 3) Tried the various suggestions as to which /dev/usb/tts/ to use. 4) Emerged hotplug. 5) Done a hard reset. When I try to sync the PDA, I can see the thing in /proc/bus/usb/device, but I can't get it to sync. Anyone have any ideas on this? Cheers, Dennis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:58:09PM +0300, Janne Johansson wrote: If I was to set up a linux-box with gnome/kde and a graphical login, with mozilla, balsa/sylpheed/evolution (pre-configured of course) and openoffice buttons in the workspace/toolbar, why would the ever need to touch the command line? Because it's fun ;-) Cheers, Dennis Please note that my email address has changed. Update your address book to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:19:04AM +0100, Dan Fairs wrote: Public sector adoption in particular is interesting. Here in the UK, it looks like the government are a Microsoft shop, with the Government Gateway and all. Has anyone been involved in a Gentoo deployment in the public sector? I've got 1 Gentoo server here, soon to be 2 (migrating from SuSE), and a laptop I use for LAN analysis. Everything works great-- as a server, I think Gentoo is *much* better than Red Hat Advanced Server, but then I'm not a big Red Hat fan. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 Please note that my email address has changed. Update your address book to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Windows to linux... What was that app?
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:35:43PM -0700, Zack Gilburd wrote: It should be: maybe. Are we close? No. The day my grandmother can get over the learning curve of managing her own Gentoo box, then we're close. I do not entirely agree with the opinion that it should be, however. I do not want Linux to be so user friendly that I can no longer use it properly (think Redhat, Mandrake, et al). Folks might want to qualify the term ease of administration, because this term depends more than somewhat upon the person using it. I chose Gentoo for what I perceive to be its ease of administration. That is, no funky GUI administration tools. I much prefer doing system administration at the command line with vim being my preferred administration tool. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 Please note that my email address has changed. Update your address book to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fork of Gentoo?
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:09:13AM -0400, Jason Gouger wrote: You really can't make any assumptions like that without hearing both sides of the story. The article posted on slashdot was rather one sided Making assumptions based on a slashdot article is kinda like making assumptions on the SCO/IBM debacle based on what's on SCO's website. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 Please note that my email address has changed. Update your address book to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Promise RAID Gentoo
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:54:36PM +0100, MooktaKiNG wrote: OK. this is the most frustrating thing i've ever had with Gentoo. I can boot with the liveCD. I can load the produles, ataraid and pdcraid. it does work. I install successfully. Then i install Grub. I follow the howto and do root=/dev/ataraid/d0p1 My /boot is a seperate partition in hda1. But it just doesn't boot. I gave up using grub for this, and used (groan) lilo. My /etc/fstab looks like this: /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1/boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part3/ ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part2noneswap sw 0 0 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part5/usr ext3noatime 1 1 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part6/var ext3noatime 1 2 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part7/usr/local ext3noatime 1 2 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part8/opt ext3noatime 1 2 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part9/home ext3noatime 1 2 And my /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: menu-scheme=Wb prompt timeout = 50 lba32 boot=/dev/ataraid/disc0/disc disk = /dev/ataraid/disc0/disc bios = 0x80 map = /boot/System.map delay = 50 vga = normal# Normal VGA console # End LILO global section # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/ataraid/disc0/part3 append = idebus=66, ide0=ata66 label = Gentoo read-only # read-only for checking image = /boot/vmlinuz.old root = /dev/ataraid/disc0/part3 label = Old.kernel read-only # read-only for checking I hope this helps. If you find a way to make grub work, please let me know, as I would much prefer to be using grub. Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. --Hermann Goering -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] libxml build error
Hi all, I built a gentoo 1.2 box for a friend, and he kept the thing and it hasn't been updated in about 6 months. He only has a modem and he brought it over to my house to upgrade. So, I did an did a sync, an emerge portage, and an emerge -u system, because of all the (neat) changes in the past few months. Then I went to do emerge -u world and all was fine and dandy until I got to libxml. Then I got the following: nanohttp.c: In function `xmlNanoHTTPConnectAttempt': nanohttp.c:807: `len' undeclared (first use in this function) nanohttp.c:807: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once nanohttp.c:807: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [nanohttp.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libxml2-2.4.24/work/libxml2-2.4.24' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libxml2-2.4.24/work/libxml2-2.4.24' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-libs/libxml2-2.4.24 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line -271, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) I tried deleting the distfile, redownloading, and also cleaned out the build directory, but I keep getting the same message. Anyone know how to fix this? Cheers, Dennis -- Dennis Soper[EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Supervisor Facilities Services-- The University of Oregon 1276 University of Oregon phone: 541-346-2286 Eugene, OR 97403 fax:541-346-2299 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
