Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:53:36 Keith Dart wrote: > Well then, I would use this as an excuse to get a nice new system. ;-) Nice idea. It's only a year old though, and I could hardly justify the expense then. Thanks anyway. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-12 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 02/12, Peter Humphrey wrote: === > That was the obvious first step. === Well then, I would use this as an excuse to get a nice new system. ;-) -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart public key: ID: 19017044 <

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 12 February 2011 01:39:44 Keith Dart wrote: > Start by resetting to all defaults.. ;-) That was the obvious first step. > Many motherboards these days support "unsafe" settings (overclocking, > etc.) Yes, this one does, but I've never used them. > if you haven't already. I have, a

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-11 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 02/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: === > As Gentoo seems to be immune to this problem, I assume that other > kernels are setting some parameters that push the hardware to its > limit, so the next thing I'll try is to detune the performance > somewhat. Trouble is, the BIOS setup screens have s

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 01:00:11 Keith Dart wrote: > That really sounds like flaky hardware, possibly bad memory. try > running memtest86+. Let it run overnight. That's what I thought. I have run memtest86+ overnight, but of course it didn't find anything. As Gentoo seems to be immune to th

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 04 February 2011 18:12:50 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem > > on my workstation. It runs Gentoo fine (well, sluggishly) but when > > I installed Fedora 14 to try it, I fou

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2011 08:14:21 Dale wrote: > >> I'm just glad to have something that doesn't kill my mouse and > >> keyboard. ;-) > > At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem on my > workstation. It runs Gento

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 03 February 2011 08:14:21 Dale wrote: > I'm just glad to have something that doesn't kill my mouse and > keyboard. ;-) At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem on my workstation. It runs Gentoo fine (well, sluggishly) but when I installed Fedora 14 to try it