Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI problem on Compaq

2007-08-13 Thread Tim Allingham
ays understanding what they were to do. Now it seems to work > correctly. Perhaps it was a setting that said the power button should wake > the computer? > > Thierry > This often happens when the PC is set to power back up after an AC outage -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Allingham
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:10 -0700, Grant wrote: > > > > > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > > > > > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all > > > > > > kinds > > > > > > of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Allingham
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:25 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:33, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 09:22 schrieb Mick: > > > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: > > > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > > > temperatur

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Allingham
If you want something to give a simple listing similar to CPU-z, set up phpsysinfo On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 09:18 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > I use lspci,now.But lspci can't provide so much information as eve

Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?

2007-08-05 Thread Tim Allingham
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 16:32 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 00:46:08 maxim wexler wrote: > > So, emerge portage results in one package being > > installed, portage, 61kb. > > > > emerge -u portage lines up 5 or 6 packages plus > > portage, 18Mb. > > > > Went ahead and jus

Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

2007-07-31 Thread Tim Allingham
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:58 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > AFAIK .bashrc is sourced even when no X is running (e.g. when > > > logging in via ssh). > > > > More importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up. > > Works for me. > > -- > Peter > =

Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

2007-07-31 Thread Tim Allingham
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:23 +0300, Alex V. Fansky wrote: > Hello, > I want command "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" to be executed on my X.org start and even > restart. Where is the best place to put it? > > -- > Alex V. Fansky > Minsk, BSU can't you use .xinitrc for this? signature.asc Description: This

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB

2007-07-28 Thread Tim Allingham
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 09:39 +1000, Tim Allingham wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 20:28 -0300, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: > > Hello everyone!!! > > > > May be somebody can shed some light here... I'm building a server here > > with 4GB of RAM memory. The f

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux too damn slow if memory > 3GB

2007-07-28 Thread Tim Allingham
of RAM in any of my intel systems, so I can't comment from experience, however my suspicion would be the overhead introduced from PAE, which (at least on older kernels) requires some processing overhead to utilise. Are you able to try a 64-bit install to determine if this is the case? Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs

2007-07-27 Thread Tim Allingham
I run a few virtual machines using qemu, which can be run without hardware virtualisation support. One of the things it will happily do is mount a physical CD drive, so you may be able to burn the music off in this manner (using the -cdrom switch with /dev/dvdrw gives me a DVD burner through the wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slapd doesn't start after update

2007-07-27 Thread Tim Allingham
Have you tried using revdep-rebuild to check the links on that library? an updated version may have broken the links On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 17:59 -0300, ツ Leandro Sales wrote: > I reinstall openldap 2.2.28 and when I start slapd, I got (from the > log): > > Jul 27 17:55:11 embedded slapd[2957]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer + compiz + x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.0.x = busted video

2007-07-15 Thread Tim Allingham
What output driver are you using in mplayer? I've seen the same issue occur with a couple of output drivers running on beryl machines, I personally have it configured with the gl output driver and have never had an issue (running on nvidia hardware with beryl enabled) while my brothers machine had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Remote access to windows desktops

2007-07-12 Thread Tim Allingham
hat protocol available on XP home or only Pro? I'm not > finding it on a WinXP home installation. > The Remote desktop server is only available on XP Pro, a client is available on XP home. simplest would be to install something like the ultravnc server on the XP machine, then just use vncvie

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-11 Thread Tim Allingham
head setup with Beryl, generally with 5-7 apps open (oOo, Opera, Nvu, Gnucash, X-chat etc). I would often emerge programs while these were running, with 1GB it would create regular "stutters" as the RAM filled up, with 2GB I rarely notice a slowdown at all. Tim Allingham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-09 Thread Tim Allingham
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 20:52 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000 > Tim Allingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment > > > > dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/ >

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-08 Thread Tim Allingham
; Pessimists say the glass is half empty, > Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? > > Alan McKinnon > alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za > +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/ Tim Allingham tim -at- datafirst-it.com.au signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing primary monitor on dual-monitor X.org setup

2007-06-06 Thread Tim Allingham
Give this a try, haven't got a chance to test atm but should do what your after Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card1" Monitor"Monitor0" DefaultDepth24 SubSection "Display" Modes "1280x1024" Depth

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Tim Allingham
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:04 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 > > > > > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-17 Thread Tim Allingham
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 > > > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard > > > drive, but it cannot access /dev/s