[gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-19 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > > I can now rest assured that my hda on this laptop is 600d. Phew! Mathematically, firmware engineers suffer from limited mathematical/logical constructs: For example They cannot tell the difference between Christmas and Halloween Why ? because31oct == 25d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 19 April 2007 10:03, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Sorry, this was intended to be a reply to the OP (Mick IIRC), my fault. Cool, thanks for your very informative explanation. E

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: Sorry, this was intended to be a reply to the OP (Mick IIRC), my fault. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, > > > CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600d, UDMA(100) > > > > > > What's the hw_config part? > > > > Any more (useful) ideas on this? Seems a kind of hardware config register (part of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 22:58 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:37, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I see these two messages in dmesg and I am not sure what they're about: > > > > intel_rng: FWH not detected > > I think this has to do with: > > CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y > > Evident

[gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:37, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I see these two messages in dmesg and I am not sure what they're about: > > intel_rng: FWH not detected I think this has to do with: CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y Evidently my laptop does not have a firmware hub (FWH) for generating random