Hi Sean,
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:22:51 -0400
sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thought you might be interested on how things went. Sorry for the
> delay, I am recovering from an injury I suffered a little over a week ago.
>
> Anyway, due to not being able to troubleshoot the SCSI cd-rom p
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:26:48 +
Rudson Ribeiro Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The X start with DRI, but gl programs and X halt the system in the exit.
>
> This is the and of this tunnel?
>
Not anything I can recommend from here. If GL is causing a halt and the bad
memory location is pr
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:17:36 +
Rudson Ribeiro Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I was wanting install ati-drivers with DRI suport on my notebook zv6000
> (AMD 64bit Linux Gentoo system), but the module fglrx don't load
>
> ~ # modprobe fglrx
> FATAL: Error inserting fglrx
> (/
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:41:56 +0100
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Those of you that only use x86 based system don't know how lucky you are
> to have two decent bootloaders. If you took the worst aspect of LILO and
> GRUB and added some extra user-hostility for luck, you'd still have
>
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:07:42 -0400
sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am able to see the scsi cdrw and the jaz drive.
> Tried mounting the jaz drive but as expected it failed, the format of
> the unit cartridge is UFS. But it at least saw it, assigned it, and
> tried to mount when I manually tr
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:13:44 -0400
sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to get my recently built system to recognize my Adaptec
> 29160 configured on the system.
> I have SCSI built into the kernel, here is the dmesg statement,
> SCSI subsystem initialized,
Do you have SCSI Trans
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:48:37 -0400
"Samuel Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone know if iRiver's support ogg? I use that exclusively and transcoding
> everything to mp3 would not be pleasant.
>
My iFP-999 supports ogg. I use it on Linux - Gentoo with ifp-manager
(which is not in Portage)
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:43:03 -0400
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My approach requires 2 emerges (boa and rsyncd) and their config files
> on the server plus inserting the server as the preferred mirror in 2
> lines in /etc/make.conf on the client(s).
>
That's close to what I do a
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:25:25 +
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What's the pros/cons of mounting portage over NFS Vs http-replicator?
If you only have one architecture and one system type or one system that
can be a superset of the others, nfs will serve you fine.
If you have multiple a
On Tue, 9 May 2006 20:06:53 -0600
"Justin Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not even the most dogged user is going to read through every flag and
> decide if he wants it set or not.
I do and set specific sets of flags for each machine I run. It does take
about 30 min. and I do have to chec
On Sat, 06 May 2006 13:13:19 +
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The mind boggles! It seems that I'll have to emerge elinks or lynx whether
> I want it or not.
You'll be mighty happy you have it for that one time X won't start and you
need to download
a fix or find one from the command
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:48:36 -0700
"Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm using the latest 8756 version of the nvidia driver.
>
Try this -
emerge -C nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx
emerge -av =nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 =nvidia-glx-1.0.8178-r1
Set the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:09:21 +0530
"Hiren Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
^ shouldn't that be a "2"?
Bob
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:32:41 -0500
JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well I have been married a little over 5 years. I "let" my wife manage
> the finances starting a few years ago. She knows how much money is in
> the bank down to a dime. If I tap-mac and get cash, I get the
> 3rd-degree of wh
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:46:01 -0500
JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did I leave anything out that is needed for nvidia on an amd64? Or
> should I not expect anything more from the on board NVIDIA GeForce 6100
> even though it is running over PCI-e?
>
Onboard video uses system memory. So the
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:06:42 -0500
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My main worries would be proprietary stuff like RealPlayer and the
> win32codecs portion of mplayer.
>
Both work for me within reason. The win32codecs I use with
mplayer-bin. And Realplayer works.
But if you are on
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:07:46 -0800
Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600
> "Michael Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0?
> > I had considered one
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600
"Michael Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0?
> I had considered one of the following workstations; has anyone had
> good or bad experience with these workstations and Gentoo for amd64?
>
> HP xw93
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:52:48 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Since I switched to kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 (from r5), with an identical
> .config
> file, dhcpcd doesn't stay alive as a daemon:
> - it starts okay at boot time and eth1 gets its address from IAF, then it dies
> - when the lease time'
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:55:39 -0600
Qv6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I'm looking for a scrolling stock ticker/tracker for Kde or Gnome. Any
> good one out there?
>
I've used tclticker for ages. It's not desktop specific.
http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html
Bob
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:30:48 -0600
Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:36:05PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> My real issue is that fglrx worked under Suse 9.2,
> and not under Gentoo. But, no, I am NOT going back. Try
> installing xfishtank under
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:54:04 -0800
gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Also, one inherent flaw with your suggestion is the requirement of a
> livecd. I know you mentioned floppy, but these are SPARC boxen and I
> doubt I could fit all the d
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:27:25 -0800
gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm getting this box from a vendor, and I thought they had limited
> options. We've always gone Intel before, and I'm relatively new to
> this organization. I'm going to poke around for some benchmarks. I
> would be inter
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:52:01 -0800
gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering if anyone here has any experience with gentoo on a 4/8
> CPU server.
I've been running it for years on a 4P PIII Xeon and my take is I won't r
> For video data, use a linear stripe across two controllers. And at least
> three controllers
> for HD video. But HD video requires SCSI or SAS, stripped across multiple
> controllers and
> 15Krpm drives in the arrays.
I should be a bit more detailed. For -
Uncompressed SD video -
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:58:53 + (UTC)
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What's the best 64 bit processor choice for performance for Gentoo?
> Dual-core?
Perhaps you should ask what the best price performance/watt in the cpu
range? Generally it's best to figure out your needs and then calc
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:04:53 +0100 (CET)
Álvaro Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, any one uses Wildcat Realizm?
>
No, but I did use a VP970 for awhile. The problem you;ll
have is that Gentoo moves much faster than 3DLabs, and
much faster than Xig, which used to supply the Linux driver
for
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:26:23 +
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try searching Freshmeat for "stress test", there are several programs to
> put network, CPU, I/O etc. through their paces. There's also StressLinux,
> a live CD containing a number of these programs.
>
emerge -uDNav st
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:44:19 +1000
"Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> May I ask others' experiences with e17? I just wasted my holiday
> installing e17 on two of three machines. It is smaller than Kde, but
> background is 20% of cpu . Buggy. Beautiful. A PITA to configure,
> and m
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:58:07 +0100
Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [blocks B ] media-libs/libungif (is blocking media-libs/giflib-4.1.4)
> [blocks B ] app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r4)
> [empty/missing/bad digest]: sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r6
> [blocks B ] =x11-libs/openmoti
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:04:48 -0600
"Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm thinking about getting one of the Dell Widescreen Ultrasharp LCD
> displays.
>
> Has anyone used one under Gentoo (x86) and how good is it?
>
If you're referring to the 24" model - 2405FPW, yes I'm running o
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:50:31 -0800
Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One other thing - if you're using a 64-bit machine, you'll need
to run - mplayer-bin test.mpg to see the default capture. The
format isn't recognized in the 64-bit version of mplayer because the
co
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:50:10 -0600
"Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> So, my problem is, how do I avoid the extra 100, unnecessary compiles?
> I tried "emerge --emptytree --upgrade -p" but it ignored the upgrade
> option so I can't combine them that way.
>
Simply put you can't
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:17:27 -0600
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried the test "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" and opening it in mplayer
> and all I got was the blank screen.
Blank screen indicates no signal.
> I tried it with /dev/video24 and
> got static
Typical tuner input
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:42:09 -0600
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I said, I tried setting up the evilwm stuff from the MythTV section
> on the Gentoo wiki. I ran kdm and selected "Custom" and logged in as my
> test user. The screen cleared and then it spit me back out at the k
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:47:19 -0800
Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems that something is not stable with the X server or with the card
> drivers. For now,
> perhaps forget MythTV and just see if you can get a stable input running with
> something like
> tvt
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:57:32 -0600
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The reason it was giving me the error was because mythbackend was
> > shutting down. I ran mythbackend in a screen, detached the screen and
> > ran mythfrontend. I did this twice. Both times once mythfronte
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:40:06 -0600
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I didn't see anything there that hinted at being my TV card, yet I KNOW
> it's in there. It works great in Windows. It's a Hauppage
> WinTV-PVR-250. Why doesn't it show up in /dev?
>
Well, I've got the PVR-350.
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:08:02 -0600
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to find out what each device node is connected to
> hardwarewise? I'm wonderine if /dev/video0 is NOT the correct device
> for my tv card, and if one of the other sixty-three /dev/video* nodes,
> b
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:24:58 +
Richard Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk
> space for sources or CPU power to compile everything
> kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that
> will get me a
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:52:16 -0800
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115593
>
> That's with portage-2.0.53, right?
>
> Zac
Yes, that's it. From the bug, it seems the problems are in the ebuilds.
However, the
updated portage's solution is to remov
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:48:25 +0100
Peper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While writing this i thought about smth: cannot displaying licenses be
> implemented in emerge? If you want to progress(fetch the file) you must
> accept displayed license. Maybe sun will be happy with that...
>
Licenses ar
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:08:04 -0500
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not talking about wars all over the place. I'm doing my monthly
> update on my emergency backup machine. Here's what I've run into. Has
> pmidi been deprecated?
>
Don't think so. And don't run - emaint -f wor
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:49:49 +0530
Sumeet Pal Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I am having problems with emerge working during installation.
> I have Pentium4 with HT PC, and tried to install gentoo-2005 twice,
> eveything was fine ,hardware was easily detected, but network did not work
> w
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:39:07 -0600
Qv6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> I am looking for a really good Content Management System that is
> feature-rich and easy to install. Webgui seems good, but the install is
> tedious.
>
Pmwiki works well. Allows creations of groups (farms), is
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:17:07 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was doing a emerge -e world to make sure everything was in order after
> the gcc upgrade and poking KDE 3.5 into the mix as well. I only have 92
> packages left.
>
> OK, any ideas on what went south? I added ivman to the
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:43:45 -0500
fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use
> newer nvidia drivers.
>
The newer Nvidia drivers have a tighter spec on speeds. They also now need
mode lines for, as I recall, resolutions above
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:10:02 -0500
John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the "emerge -e world" step of the gcc-3.4 upgrade as documented
> on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/gcc-upgrading-guide.xml.
>
> Unfortunately, after compiling for a day or two, the upgrade has ter
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:50:24 + (UTC)
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you receiving and correctly displaying HDTV broadcast over the air
> with these cards? If so, Which one do you like better for HDTV reception?
> We're moving to all HDTV broadcast in my area of Florida in early 2006...
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:36:38 -0600
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You mentioned possibly obscure system inventory scripts in perl.
> So apparently you already know it can be a time consuming undertaking
> to dig one up with google, test it, etc etc.
>
> Do you know of one off the
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:31:28 -0600
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want straight command line so redirect is possible, but a thorough
> summary. Not just hdw or pci or usb. I want that but also what
> filesystems,
df -h
cat /etc/fstab
> which users,
cat /
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:32:11 -0500
"Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just need a bare-bones card to make backups of my VCR tapes and DVDs.
> Not even interested in a TV-tuner though I guess they all include that.
> Gentoo support is a must.
I have both a PVR-350 Hauppauge and an HD-30
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:58 +1000
"Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did download this driver, and when I installed, a message was generated
> that the version was wrong. Maybe I'll try again, and just install it
> anyway.
>
I wonder if the HAL use flag needs to be set to use the d
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000
"Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is
> doing. Turn on vesa framebuffer?
>
Yes. Under - Device Driver --> Graphics support --> Select VESA VGA graphics
support
The
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:50:14 +1000
"Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I gather that there was a bug in the mga drivers some time ago, and it
> appears that the xorg drivers have incorporated the patches I have seen
> during my google searches.
>
I had one running on Gentoo last year, b
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:06:12 +0200
sempsteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've installed the nvidia drivers by the walkthrough of "Gentoo Linux nVidia
> Guide". Emerge installed "nvidia-glx v1.0.6629-r6" and "nvidia-kernel
> v1.0.6629-r4" with no problems and i did the necessary changes in t
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:31:10 +0600
El Nino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron & around 1GB ram.
>
I wouldn't worry about whether it's parallel or sata raid. If you
need high i/o it needs to be SCSI. Otherwise either IDE or SATA works fine
with little difference
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:19:26 -0800 (PST)
Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So if I use a non-traditional partition... then I should be good?
>
Use parted/gparted and select EFI GUID Partition support in
your kernel config, under Files types --> Partition types.
Make the partition an
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:46:41 +0100
Jimmy Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Primary:
> What is a recommended way to update an old system to minimize the
> amount of broken ebuilds?
> Is emerge --emptytree world a good idea? Is it better than a clean
> install? Or is the documentation's way good
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:29:14 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As you can see I have a few broken thingys. It says I need to re-emerge
> apache and I have never used apache in my life. What the heck does it
> need that for? This is my desktop rig not some fancy server.
>
Perhaps you
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 05:40:28 +
Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would you guys suggest in terms of specs for a server, serving
> say 50 odd thin clients?
>
>
Probably 2P Opteron with 2 GB to 8 GB main memory. Cpus around 2 GHz.
You'll have to calculate the memory needs of each
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:31:33 +0100
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What else could I do alongside it, other than running an emerge or
> something?
>
You could switch to a non-proprietary gfx driver, and try that, though it
might not work with the ATI card you have.
Try emerging app-b
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:55:24 +0200
Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One of the big problems with Linux diskless is it really doesn't scale
> > well, it doesn't allow for clients to run multiple versions of the os,
>
> Why would you want to do that?
>
Ah! Not everyone would. But ther
Since I'm rambling now, guess I should do the rest of the memory download...
One of the big problems with Linux diskless is it really doesn't scale well, it
doesn't
allow for clients to run multiple versions of the os, nor for different arch
types to
co-exist off one server of a different arch
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:45:22 +0100
Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am wondering what the difference is between using LTSP and Diskless Nodes
> is for creating a thin client network.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml#doc_chap3
>
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:26:53 -0700 (PDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As a gross first pass, my impression is that ThinkPads and Dells seem to
> do well with Linux.
>
> Do your collective experiences confirm or deny this?
>
Works fine on IBM X31 and T42.
Bob
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:37:27 +0100 (BST)
damian bamforth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to burn an iso image with a .bz2 extension (the
> full file name is
> livecd64-ahorn5.iso.bz2).
>
> I only have windows xp.
>
Download Puppy Linux, burn a cd, boot it up. You also have the option
of in
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:07:47 -0400
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have several Loki game titles around, are they able to run on amd64
> gentoo?
>
Some do, with a bit of finding out when to wave the chicken. Unreal Tournament
installs and runs without problem, once it's unmasked.
Other
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 8:57:59 -0400
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On a new system I built I had to recreate the /dev/nv* items.
The problem is udev is not creating the device nodes like it should. Neither
0.68, nor 0.70. Why? Don't know.
I took NVmakedevices.sh from an older nvidia-kernel (down
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:59:55 -0700
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>I'm looking at this mythbackend server machine using top. Sometimes
> the CPU usage goes to essentially 100%, but only in the 'wa' section.
> What is 'wa'? I searched through the man page but didn't see anything
>
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:01:41 +0200
capsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So the problem is :
>
> When RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" there is no lp0 and sometimes hdc, it
> doesn't depend on cd/dvd disc inside my dvd, or on if my printer is
> set to "on"/"off"
>
On a properly operating system, /dev/lp0
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:46:33 -0400
Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
> What I'd really like -- a 6600-- is right
> > out).
>
> If you're gonna spend that much money go all the way for a 6800 its well
> worth the cash.
>
Ma
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:27:08 -0400
- - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> This is the first time I heard of intel compilers and I am using dual
> 3.2GHz irwindales with 1 mb cache each and 2 GB of ram. Is there any
> advantage
> to using these compilers over GCC? What performance gain can I expect
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:47:11 -0500
Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess the other advantage is that a good dual Xeon system with 4GB
> RAM will run me around $3000, whereas a dual Opteron (with dual core)
> system with 4GB RAM will run me more like $4300. If the Opterons are
> currently at
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:40:24 -0500
Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With my need for parallel execution of several single-thread Monte
> Carlo and Finite Element tasks, what would be the pros and cons in
> considering the Xeons and Opterons?
> i
Xeons - massive memory bandwidth. Really can't
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:35:10 -0700
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob,
>I don't think this was ever the point. The question was: "For this
> specific machine what would be the best flags?"
>
You;ll hate this - it depends on what your main apps do. Are they i/o
intensive,
compute
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 23:46:02 -0400
Paul Hoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> I found your email really informative and I have a question regarding
> one of your final comments. To paraphrase, you state that doing
> things the hard way will make employees more knowledgeable, "more so
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:59:10 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In either case, I wouldn't want to extrapolate Xeon Irwindale results
> to all Intel X86 chips, let alone AMD. /usr/portage/app-benchmarks has
> several items in it. Does anybody know which ones have floating-point
> tests?
>
Ther
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:56:56 +0100
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fair comment. If you're talking about individual user/admins then the
> learning curve of installing and administering a different OS (not
> necessarily more difficult, just different) is a serious obstacle.
>
Based on
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:05:48 +
Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I
> performed the following steps
>
> 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS.
Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as wel
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:19:39 -0400
Lincoln Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I consistently get an ACCESS DENIGHED error will trying to emerge glibc.
> Does anyone else get this:
>
I haven't seen the problem. A few things to look at may be -
- running out of diskspace.
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:13:43 -0400 (EDT)
"Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am
> running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 card.
> I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:40:08 +0800
Qiangning Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Sanders wrote:
> > enlightenment E16. After messing with KDE, Gnome, Openbox, fluxbox,
> > flirting with XCFE and a few others, I came back to Enlightenment.
>
> As an XFCE user curren
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:28:21 -0500
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I
> wouldn't trade the multitude of options availabe in Linux for
> anything, but the choices can be overwhelming.
>
enlightenment E16. After messing wi
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:25:36 +0200
Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello!
> I want to buy a DVB-T card Gentoo compatible and I need a S-Video input
> too.
> I searched a lot by Internet but I found only few news... (no info about
> S-Video input or if it works)
> I don't want to pay muc
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:29:34 +0400
Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've recently installed GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x
> into my gentoo box and got it working.
> Bootsplash, opengl and so on..
> But one serious problem remains.
> I have 90% chance to get garbled screen right af
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:15:38 -0400
"John Dangler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In /boot, I have both linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 and
> kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.
>
> In /boot/grub/grub.conf, only the genkernel is listed
>
Just edit /boot/grub/grub.conf.
You can read about how in the
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100
Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput but
> case 1 surely shows it is performing. What the heck is going on here? I would
> be deeply indebted to any person on this list that could shed
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:19:43 +0200
Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How would you feel if a company bought lots of
> too-small-to-be-readily-visible flying cameras (like the mosquito-cams
> in the Dan Brown book Deception Point :-)) and followed you around
> wherever you went (in these "public
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:13 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In the output above I noticed the lines:
>
> Vendor_info: 'TOSHIBA '
> Identifikation : 'CD/DVDW SD-R5372'
> Revision : 'TU53'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW
>
> I happen to know
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400
Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is anyone aware of a decent comm program for Linux? Something along the
> lines of SecureCRT for Windows? (SecureCRT is a commercial program. There's
> supposed to be a Linux port in progress but I'd much prefer to
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Gentoo. I ordered a Pacific Digital USB DVD-RW/CD-RW
> drive on August 1 and it came in today. I'm not quite
> sure how to go about using it though. I mainly use
> xcdroast for writing CDs (I make daily back
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:14:26 -0400
"John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even "IF" only one of those allegations are true, I'm disappointed in
> Mozilla's choices. They were, until a few days ago, "non-profit". Google
> may be the best general purpose search engine out there right now, but
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:27 +0800
Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I too use XFS for my Home Directory. I think I've suffered 1 instance of
> curruption in the entire 2 years I've had this laptop. (Touch Wood)
>
Perhaps I should mention one of the main reasons I use XFS - the tools.
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:40:36 +0200
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook?
> I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a
> sudden the power goes away (battery empty) and one, that
> also doesn't (overly) unn
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:01:09 +0200
"Arek Murzyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I use udev and Legacy(BSD) with 2.6.12-r6. How to check if I use virtual
> terminal?
> How to switch to Unix98 - I can't find this option in menuconfig.
It's on the same menu, just above the BSD pseudo ter
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 22:27:15 -0400
Heath E Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok strange one here , I got home tonight and somehow my ferrets got up on the
> computer key board got logged in as su and managed to get into my runlevel
> files and delete them. Not all but a good amount . Also in t
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:57:41 +0200
Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le 06 août à 07:30:12 Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit
> notamment:
>
> Looking at the two necessary modules for kino:
> /dev/raw/raw1394 is in group disk, while /dev/dv1394-0 is in group root
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:41:15 -0400
"C.Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Now for the question. I need confirmation of my understanding. In
> the make.conf file when setting up the USE flags, I include anything
> that I want to have compiled
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:29:05 +0200
Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to use kino, but face some permission problems.
> modules raw1394 an dv1394 are loaded, but when I want to use kino I get
> the answer that:
> dv1394 open: Permission non accordée (not gran
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