Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-09-01 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 19:24:15 CEST schrieb Michael: > On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 12:08:04 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > > > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would > > > not > > > have any effe

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 12:08:04 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would not > > have any effect. Anyway, let's try this in /etc/asound.conf: > > > > defaults.pcm.card

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-31 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would not > have any effect. Anyway, let's try this in /etc/asound.conf: > > defaults.pcm.card 1 > defaults.pcm.device 0 > defaults.ctl.card 1 > > On a reboot your Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 21:03:02 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Montag, 30. August 2021, 13:30:03 CEST schrieb Michael: > > There was a recent move to pipewire which could have jumbled audio devices > > around for you - but I am not familiar with how pipewire works, or why it > > would have

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Montag, 30. August 2021, 13:30:03 CEST schrieb Michael: > On Monday, 30 August 2021 11:30:38 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have a weird problem on my Lenovo P14s laptop. Before I applied a world > > upgrade (based on August 22 state portage), the internal speaker of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 11:30:38 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a weird problem on my Lenovo P14s laptop. Before I applied a world > upgrade (based on August 22 state portage), the internal speaker of the > laptop worked fine, but now its all silent, although all mixer leve

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-28 11:07, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:43:56 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? I've followed it

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:43:56 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: > > I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone > > have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? > > > > I've followed it this far: > > /et

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: > I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone > have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? > > I've followed it this far: > > /etc/acpi/events/lm_lid.sh >/etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh >

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
;-) Yes, nice. To explain: I only let the thinkpad in there for maybe 10 minutes or so ... So the risk is minimized, I assume. Am 17. Dezember 2014 18:44:37 MEZ, schrieb Christian Kruse : >Hi, > >Stefan G. Weichinger writes: > >> When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Randy Westlund
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 07:37:24AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put > it into the fridge ;-) > > This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. > > Not to be tried at home ;-) Hahaha, I've actu

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Randy Westlund
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:18:54PM +, Mick wrote: > There may be nothing wrong with your configuration, but something wrong with > the design of your laptop. Some laptops are not designed particularly well > with regards to ventilation. In the summer I have a desk fan which I turn on > and

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Christian Kruse
Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger writes: > When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put > it into the fridge ;-) > > This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. Haha, this whole thread reminded me of this XKCD: Regards, -

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Thanasis wrote: > On 12/17/2014 02:46 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: >> Because the temperature of the laptop in the freezer >> will always be above dew point it will never get wet. >> When you take it out though it's temperature will most likely be >> below dew point of the ambient air so water will cond

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Thanasis
On 12/17/2014 02:46 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: Because the temperature of the laptop in the freezer will always be above dew point it will never get wet. When you take it out though it's temperature will most likely be below dew point of the ambient air so water will condensate Right. Which is wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Dec 17, 2014, at 12:56, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: >>> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > Try cleaning the vents. > > Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Dec 17, 2014, at 8:37, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > > When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put > it into the fridge ;-) > > This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. > > Not to be tried at home ;-) This is hilarious ;D --

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: >> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: >>> Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking a

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: > Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> >>> Try cleaning the vents. >>> >>> Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop >>> is >>> on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. >>> >>> If the temp

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > >> Try cleaning the vents. >> >> Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop >> is >> on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. >> >> If the temperature goes to 99C when on top of a table,

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > Try cleaning the vents. > > Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop > is > on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. > > If the temperature goes to 99C when on top of a table, return the laptop to > the shop as

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 04:16:38 PM Randy Westlund wrote: > Hey guys, > > When I'm compiling something large and close the lid of my laptop (lid > close events disabled) or leave it on the couch where it can't get > proper airflow, it tends to overheat and crash. If I leave it open and > on

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-16 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2014 21:16:38 Randy Westlund wrote: > Hey guys, > > When I'm compiling something large and close the lid of my laptop (lid > close events disabled) or leave it on the couch where it can't get > proper airflow, it tends to overheat and crash. If I leave it open and > on a table,

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-24 Thread Zhang Jun
ael.sche...@meduniwien.ac.at > phone: +43 6991 941 22 54 > > - Original Message - > *From:* Zhang Jun > *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > *Sent:* Monday, 23 April, 2012 03:50 > *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot > > I get the dmesg log an

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Scherer
Sent: Monday, 23 April, 2012 03:50 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot I get the dmesg log and kernel config, forgot to get the rc.log ( using windows now ). please help to have a look on these files, also tryed boot with different kernel parameters for acpi, only

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Please try to deactivate everything related to framebuffer and specific video hardware in your kernel config. See if it helps, then activate one option at a time until it breaks again. Specifically: CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop screen goes dark in boot

2012-04-22 Thread Michael Scherer
did you look at the logs? if you haven't already looked at them dmesg and /var/log/rc.log have information that could help you pinpoint the problem. one of the earlier live-cds had that problem and I got around it by starting the the cd with "gentoo noacpi nox" options though I doubt this can hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

2011-12-02 Thread James Broadhead
On 29 November 2011 23:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new > TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm > wondering what the process is to switch the audio & video output of my > laptop the its HDMI port? I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop - Switch video/audio output to HDMI?

2011-11-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:17:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new > TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm > wondering what the process is to switch the audio & video output of my > laptop the it

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 11:08 +0200, Roger Cahn wrote: > > Ask not "will this work on Gentoo", rather ask "will this work on > > Linux"! > > > Your answer is very interesting, Iain. > I'll try what you wrote, and then take my d

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Roger Cahn
> The best would be to run lspci on the machine as others suggested. You > can paste the lspci -n output here and get the availability of drivers > for linux. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ > > There is also lists of hardware/laptops known to be working on Gentoo. > N series is not listed on Gentoo w

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Fatih Tümen
The best would be to run lspci on the machine as others suggested. You can paste the lspci -n output here and get the availability of drivers for linux. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ There is also lists of hardware/laptops known to be working on Gentoo. N series is not listed on Gentoo wiki but perh

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Roger Cahn
> Ask not "will this work on Gentoo", rather ask "will this work on > Linux"! Your answer is very interesting, Iain. I'll try what you wrote, and then take my decision ;-) Thank you very much for the explanation. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, Ask not "will this work on Gentoo", rather ask "will this work on Linux"! You'll get much better responses to your research on google at least. If it works on any mainstream Linux distribution, there's a 99.9% chance it will work on Gentoo. For example, I just did a google search for "NVIDI

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-27 Thread Roger Cahn
Thank you for your answers. >> To get a sensible answer on a question like that, you MUST supply the >> entire >> spec of all the hardware you intend to buy. Only then can people offer an >> opinion on how good or otherwise the drivers are. Here are the specifications: > Specifications > Process

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-26 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:03 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Roger > Cahn > did opine thusly: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to buy a laptop Asus N series, > > but could anybody tell me if its possible > > to use it with Gentoo-Linux? > > And

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:03 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Roger Cahn did opine thusly: > Hi, > > I want to buy a laptop Asus N series, > but could anybody tell me if its possible > to use it with Gentoo-Linux? > And in case of yes, if it's a good choice? > Thank you > Roger Does it hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection... (solved)

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick > On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:52:35 BRM wrote: > > - Original Message > > From: Mick > > > 2009/12/2 BRM : > > > - which makes me ask: > > > What is your exact error message? > > I'll post that tonight. Exact error message was: ERROR 13:

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:52:35 BRM wrote: > - Original Message > > From: Mick > > > 2009/12/2 BRM : > > > I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to > > > try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a > > > 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actu

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mick 2009/12/2 BRM : I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick > 2009/12/2 BRM : > > I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. > > Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 > > kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports > > it

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 06:13 -0800, BRM wrote: > the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or > something to that effect, so it won't load it. Please post the exact error message (write it down if need be). Simply saying "or something to that effect" tends to lead to errors in

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/2/2009 11:26 AM, Mick wrote: 2009/12/2 BRM : I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Mick
2009/12/2 BRM : > I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. > > Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel > that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a > Pentium M which is what I have selected duri

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-29 Thread BRM
r the help all! Ben - Original Message From: BRM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:59:55 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... Cool. Thanks. That looks like it should solve the issue. Ben - Original Message From: Gregory SACR

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-26 Thread BRM
Cool. Thanks. That looks like it should solve the issue. Ben - Original Message From: Gregory SACRE To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:32:32 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... I've googled a bit and found these two things: [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-26 Thread Gregory SACRE
/proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy > > Ben > > > > - Original Message > From: Gregory SACRE > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:57:31 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-25 Thread Gian Calgeer
Hi BRM wrote: > I mostly run KDE 3.5 (I'll go to KDE4 when I can...once portage 2.2 comes > out and all) There's no need to wait for Portage 2.2 in order to install KDE 4, 2.1.6.4 also seems to support EAPI 2. Gian

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-24 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:14 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > if radeontool or something will allow you to disable the display even > when you aren't in X, or without proper access to the display (like > xset requires) you might be able to even escape needing that xhost > setting. No way of testing it

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-23 Thread BRM
CRE To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:57:31 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close... This is the script I am using. It is spawned by the default.sh from /etc/acpi: -- SCRIPT START -- # default display on current host expo

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-23 Thread Gregory SACRE
This is the script I am using. It is spawned by the default.sh from /etc/acpi: -- SCRIPT START -- # default display on current host export XAUTHORITY="/home//.Xauthority" DISPLAY=:0.0 # find out if monitor is on STATUS=`cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Lid Close...

2009-01-22 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, BRM wrote: > I'm running a Dell D600, and I've located a number of tools for it but I am > not seeing anything related to when I close the lid. Since I got Gentoo > running on it, the Monitor continues running when I close the lid. > > I've found several sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Sandro Hannemann wrote: > Hi, > > On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... > > CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y > CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y > > No need to go FAT anymore... Not quite. It's not ntfs-ng, it's the same old ntfs write support that's been there for ages, and it's *part

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Sandro Hannemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... > > CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y > CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y > > No need to go FAT anymore... > > Cheers, > Sandro > I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. However that's not on

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > > > > sda1 -> /boot = 50MB > > sda2 -> swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% > > of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) > > sda3 -> /var = 2GB > > sda4 ==extended > > sd

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > > I presume I'll use > > > > grub> root(hd0,4) > > to point at my root and still use > > That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: > I presume I'll use > > grub> root(hd0,4) > to point at my root and still use That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is sda2. > grub> setup (hd0) to get grub installed into the MBR? That's correct. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the > > weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine > > overnight so I'm going to finally do

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Sandro Hannemann
Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Cheers, Sandro -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: > My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the > weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine > overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I > wanted to when I bought it. > > Data: > > 80GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the > weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine > overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I > wanted to when I bought it. > > Data: > > 80GB ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 2 May 2008, 18:41, Mark Knecht wrote: > Data: > > 80GB hard drive > 2GB DRAM > > Questions: > > 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer > to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? Yes. XP will blow away the MBR and replace it with its own MBR, so, to be ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-04 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Dale said this part. o_O Do you recall what you did? Recompile a package? Blow out some dust bunnies? Cross your toes? I believe it stopped freezing after it's periodic ext3 filesystem check after a reboot, but it didn't report any type of error after the check. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-04 Thread Grant
> > > |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 > minutes > > > |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but > there > > > |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. > How > > > |> do you troubleshoot something like this? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-03 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How |> do you troubleshoot something like this? |> |> - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-03 Thread Grant
> |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes > |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there > |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How > |> do you troubleshoot something like this? > |> > |> - Grant >

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph wrote: | On 03/31/08 09:26, Grant wrote: |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:31:50 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > 1) Does it freeze under no load? Just boot it and wait. don't log in, > etc. > I'd also try booting from a Knoppix CD to see if it still happens. It is doesn't, the problem is in software, not hardware. Running memtest86 wouldn't be a bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it is pani

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Joseph
On 03/31/08 09:26, Grant wrote: My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How do you troubleshoot something like this? - Grant St

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > The first thing to determine is that whether it is freezing of the > user interface or the underlying kernel. For desktops I often compile > the kernel with the option that it flashes the keyboard LEDs when it > is panicking, so I can s

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Steven Lembark
Grant wrote: > My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes > and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there > is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How > do you troubleshoot something like this? There's a decent trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes > and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there > is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How > do you troubleshoot somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Ale
2008/3/31, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes > and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there > is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How > do you troubleshoot something like this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes > and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there > is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How > do you trou

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread Mark David Dumlao
maybe your partitions are near full? -- thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread fire-eyes
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi, I had problems with CFS too. Similar to the one's you describe. Under heavy disk/cpu-load (like emerge and updatedb in parallel) the system was unresponsive. I changed the scheduler back to anticipatory and the problem was gone. Interestingly i also have a thinkpad, X30 i

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-07 Thread Thomas Kahle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I had problems with CFS too. Similar to the one's you describe. Under heavy disk/cpu-load (like emerge and updatedb in parallel) the system was unresponsive. I changed the scheduler back to anticipatory and the problem was gone. Interestingly i a

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread fire-eyes
Andrey Falko wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 PM, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully slow under moderate to high CPU usage (such as compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop: Thinkpad T43: Disks Very Slow Under Load, Were Fast in the Past

2008-03-06 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 PM, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43. In the past, disk access was > fine under load (CPU or disk). These days, the disk becomes painfully > slow under moderate to high CPU usage (such as compiling) or copyin

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread András Csányi
2007/12/29, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The solution is the next: > > - use fglrx (you have to test the 3D rendering with fgl_fglxgears command) > > - use mplayer with -vo gl or -vo gl2 option (the gl and gl2 is opengl > > video output) > > > I have fglrx and verified it works. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 9:49 AM András Csányi said the following: 2007/12/25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when at

Autoreply: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread rcupardo
Salve, sono assente dall'ufficio e non tornerò fino al 07/01/2008. Risponderò al messaggio al mio ritorno. Per eventuali comunicazioni urgenti potete contattare il numero verde 800.91.92.99 o inviare una email ad [EMAIL PROTECTED] specificando la natura del problema. Saluti -- Riccardo Cupardo

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/25/2007 8:56 AM Stroller said the following: On 25 Dec 2007, at 15:59, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread András Csányi
2007/12/25, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci > detects it as: > > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon > Xpress 1100 IGP] > > However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Dec 2007, at 15:59, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post my

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop weirdness

2007-12-19 Thread Wayn0
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Have it started doing that after anyh particular installation or right after the base system was installed? Seems to me that it is a leak of resources (memory). Have you tried checking /var/log/messages or /var/log/kernel/current ? Regards, Saffi Hi, It starte

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop weirdness

2007-12-19 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Have it started doing that after anyh particular installation or right after the base system was installed? Seems to me that it is a leak of resources (memory). Have you tried checking /var/log/messages or /var/log/kernel/current ? Regards, Saffi On 12/19/07, Wayn0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-15 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But you don't need to do this as you've already found that the > problem is in bash and it's related to something in the environment. > If the PS1 didn't fix it, try with either just --norc or just > --noprofile to try and narrow things

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roger Mason wrote: > > Does it also happen in another > > shell than bash (for example in 'busybox ash')? > > Just tried it: no, the problem was absent. Okay. Hmm... Which version of bash are you using? You're running stable so it should be 3.1. But I would have thought that the problem you

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Arturo, "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> Are it certain keys (like the 's') that have the problem? Are it > [...] >> single-user maintenaince mode? Does it happen when running from >> a liveCD? > > I'd add: > > Does it happen on

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Benno, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Mason wrote: >> >> I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need >> >> sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to >> >> be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to >> >> be entered tw

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Are it certain keys (like the 's') that have the problem? Are it [...] > single-user maintenaince mode? Does it happen when running from > a liveCD? I'd add: Does it happen on memtest86 or another OS or gnu/li

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roger Mason wrote: > >> I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need > >> sometimes need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to > >> be recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to > >> be entered twice. Are it certain keys (like the 's') that have the problem? Ar

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Mason wrote: >> I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes >> need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be >> recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be >> entered twice. The probl

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Roger Mason wrote: > I have a strange problem on my laptop[1] wherein I need sometimes > need to enter keystrokes twice in order for them to be > recognised. For example, I type 'ls' but the 's' needs to be > entered twice. The problem has bee present for some time and I > have noted the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue - Success!

2005-12-12 Thread C. Beamer
Mariusz Pękala wrote: >>El Domingo, 11 de Diciembre de 2005 11:42, C. Beamer escribió: >> >> >>>My issue is this: The computer powered off in the middle of the install >>>of xorg-x11. This has happened a couple of times. I haven't been >>>having problems with the laptop, so I'm pretty sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue & update

2005-12-12 Thread C. Beamer
Devon Miller wrote: > Do you have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ defined in your kernel config? > > I have an HP laptop where I have seen similar behavior. After dealing > with it for some time, I tracked it down to a problem with changing > the cpu's frequency. For a very small period after the clock is > chang

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue

2005-12-12 Thread Devon Miller
Do you have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ defined in your kernel config?I have an HP laptop where I have seen similar behavior. After dealing with it for some time, I tracked it down to a problem with changing the cpu's frequency. For a very small period after the clock is changed, the thermal sensor reads back

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue

2005-12-11 Thread Mariusz Pękala
> El Domingo, 11 de Diciembre de 2005 11:42, C. Beamer escribió: > > My issue is this: The computer powered off in the middle of the install > > of xorg-x11. This has happened a couple of times. I haven't been > > having problems with the laptop, so I'm pretty sure the issue has > > something to

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