Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer. This rings a bell. Your kernel line in grub.conf has something like

Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/26/2010 12:05 AM, Drake Donahue wrote: Alternate run: X -retro to start xserver that will show the old black/white stipple and a mouse cursor. Note: you will have to do a power off to get out of X. If this actually works, you should be able to use ctrl-alt-F1 or whatever to get back to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Freeman
On 01/26/2010 12:05 AM, Drake Donahue wrote: Alternate run: X -retro to start xserver that will show the old black/white stipple and a mouse cursor. Note: you will have to do a power off to get out of X. If this actually works, you should be able to use ctrl-alt-F1 or whatever to get back to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed.  Graphics performance may suffer. This rings a

[gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/26/2010 07:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining [drm] MTRR allocation failed.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Drake Donahue
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 09:30 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 26 January 2010 01:13:59 Mark Knecht wrote: mtrr: type mismatch for c000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining [drm] MTRR

[gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine. (at least not easily) I need to run TradeStation and I'd like to try under Linux but

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/26/2010 09:55 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine. (at least not easily) I need to run

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: video driver / system state question

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/26/2010 07:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP    Assuming I haven't made any omissions or stupid mistakes that gets me into xfce4. I don't know if I'm running X over a frame buffer or using a more native VGA.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Marko Obrovac
Hello Mark, 2010/1/26 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com Hi, OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine. (at least not easily) I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine. (at least

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Marko Obrovac marko.obro...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Mark, 2010/1/26 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com Hi,   OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if I can get around

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Windows splash screen up OK - it says 39 minutes until installation will be done but most likely it will go much faster. Thanks! If the performance is good this will be nice. Back later... Cheers, Mark XP

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/27/10 08:47, Marko Obrovac wrote: Hello Mark, 2010/1/26 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com snip 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? snip You might want to try vmware-player (if you want to go the vmware way). It is free, but it comes with restrictions.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/27/10 08:47, Marko Obrovac wrote: Hello Mark, 2010/1/26 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com snip 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? snip You might want to try vmware-player (if you want