Re: [gentoo-user] xorg & nvidia (again) ;-(

2006-06-27 Thread David Klempner
th Xgl, following the Xgl howto, about a week ago, went "ooh! shiny!" then backed out when I couldn't get compiz to go without crashing for more than about ten minutes with normal use. Admittedly, this is based on one snapshot, and maybe some other people's experiences are better, but it doesn't seem ready yet. -- David Klempner pgpLpsTqRUcKF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-21 Thread David Klempner
lear as you did)? I did some googling about a year and a half ago, when I finally upgraded my desktop from 512MB to 1GB and ran into these issues for the first time, and I've spent some time poking around the kernel sources before. -- David Klempner pgpy6jT8opukm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread David Klempner
lot of it. As such, I might be wrong.) -- David Klempner pgpehjRSoldKu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread David Klempner
page is enabled. (that might be what you meant in the first place, of course, but it's worth making sure...) All you need to be able to select the VMSPLIT options is CONFIG_EMBEDDED (that is, saying yes to the "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" item) which doesn&

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread David Klempner
* David Klempner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-20 14:15]: > For whatever reason, they made prompting about VMSPLIT dependent on > CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Quoting http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17 : --- commit 9539d4e79fae8482bc64ced03a46c7c6d711d19e Author: Andi K

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread David Klempner
* Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-20 14:45]: > > > > > > Is that with x86 and 2.6.17? I had those config options with 2.6.16, > > > but they are not present in 2.6.17. Though looking at > > > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Kconfig I cannot see why the option was not > > > offered. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread David Klempner
* Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-20 12:55]: > Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > > CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y > > # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT is not set > > # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set > > # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set > > CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xC00

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-19 Thread David Klempner
* Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-19 17:47]: > > However, is this something to do with my firewall, or my sysctl setup? > > $ nc -l 192.168.0.1 -p 80 > Can't grab 0.0.0.0:80 with bind : Permission denied > That would be because you need r

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-18 Thread David Klempner
* Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-19 00:25]: > David Klempner wrote: > > Note that without doing *anything*, with a normal 3G/1G split, you'll > > actually get 896M. Recent kernels added in a config option to have a > > 2.75G/1.25G split, which solves

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-18 Thread David Klempner
video driver. Did you recompile it when you recompile your kernel? Is acceleration still working at all? Do you get the current performance issues either without the extra RAM with a highmem kernel or with the extra RAM without a highmem or 2G/2G kernel? -- David Klempner pgpp5IYaB3O7Y.pgp Description: PGP signature