Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Dale wrote: > Florian Philipp wrote: >> >> Am 27.10.2011 19:30, schrieb Dale: >> I just wonder how much data they will be able to pack into a 3.5" drive >> tho.  Hm.  Surely they will run out of room at some point.  I mean, >> the heads have got to have a littl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Am 27.10.2011 19:30, schrieb Dale: I just wonder how much data they will be able to pack into a 3.5" drive tho. Hm. Surely they will run out of room at some point. I mean, the heads have got to have a

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: HP ARM servers

2011-10-28 Thread James
Michael Mol gmail.com> writes: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/tegra2/install.xml > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/trimslice/install.xml > Does this mean we may start seeing ARM processors that could take over > the role of x86 on desktop systems? The trimslice is a (mini) workstat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> > I have to say this.  I worked at a computer place in the late 80's.  Back > then a 25Mhz CPU was fast as lightening.  Hard drives were maybe 100MBs. >  Memory, lucky if you have a 1 or 2Mbs.  Now look where we are.  I'm still >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Amazon streams now but I haven't tried them yet. (Watch out for 'One > Touch' and accidentally spending money...) Amazon streaming works fine in Linux (I've tried it), it just uses the plain old Adobe Flash plug-in.

[gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on mobo with Realtek 8111C LAN, but the last weekly autobuild does not detect it, so I'm basically stuck in the corner, as I can not download kernel sources and procede with installation. From what I found after little googling, kernel-module r8169 should contain

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install gentoo on mobo with Realtek 8111C LAN, > but the last weekly autobuild does not detect it, so I'm > basically stuck in the corner, as I can not download kernel > sources and procede with installation. > > From what I fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag 27 Oktober 2011, 16:00:09 schrieb Michael Mol: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > Am Donnerstag 27 Oktober 2011, 15:17:45 schrieb Michael Mol: > >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > >> wrote: > >> > Am Donnerstag 27 Ok

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Jarry
On 28-Oct-11 16:52, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jarry wrote: I'm trying to install gentoo on mobo with Realtek 8111C LAN, but the last weekly autobuild does not detect it Which kernel version? Which patchset? # uname -r 3.0.6-gentoo Without manually loading the m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Mol
(oi, it's getting harder and harder to snip this thing properly) On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag 27 Oktober 2011, 16:00:09 schrieb Michael Mol: >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> wrote: >> > Am Donnerstag 27 Oktober 2011, 15:

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jarry wrote: > On 28-Oct-11 16:52, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jarry  wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to install gentoo on mobo with Realtek 8111C LAN, >>> but the last weekly autobuild does not detect it >> >> Which kernel version? Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Jarry
On 28-Oct-11 17:24, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jarry wrote: On 28-Oct-11 16:52, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jarrywrote: I'm trying to install gentoo on mobo with Realtek 8111C LAN, but the last weekly autobuild does not detect it Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Amazon streams now but I haven't tried them yet. (Watch out for 'One >> Touch' and accidentally spending money...) > > Amazon streaming works fine in Linux (I've tried it), it just uses t

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Jarry wrote: > On 28-Oct-11 17:24, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jarry  wrote: >>> >>> On 28-Oct-11 16:52, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jarry    wrote: > > I'm trying to install gentoo on mobo

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: > On 28-Oct-11 17:24, Michael Mol wrote: > > lsmod -k > > > > Find the line for the Realtek device > > > > lsmod -vn > > I do not understand. lsmod does not have "-k" or "-vn" switches. lspci was meant. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Jarry
On 28-Oct-11 18:02, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Jarry wrote: On 28-Oct-11 17:24, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jarrywrote: On 28-Oct-11 16:52, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jarry wrote: I'm trying to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Jarry wrote: > On 28-Oct-11 18:02, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Jarry  wrote: >>> On 28-Oct-11 17:24, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jarry    wrote: > On 28-Oct-11 16:52, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Fri, O

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Jarry
On 28-Oct-11 18:30, Michael Mol wrote: # lspci -k 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard Kernel driver in use: r8169 Kernel module

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jarry wrote: > On 28-Oct-11 18:30, Michael Mol wrote: >>> >>> # lspci -k >>> >>> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. >>> RTL8111/8168B >>> PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) >>>        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-EP45

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Jarry
On 28-Oct-11 18:54, Michael Mol wrote: ls /sys/class/net # ls -l /sys/class/net lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 28 14:59 eth0 -> ../../devices/pci:00/:00:1c.4/:03:00.0/net/eth0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 28 14:59 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo I did one more test: I simply ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag 28 Oktober 2011, 08:53:40 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Paul Hartman > > wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Amazon streams now but I haven't tried them yet. (Watch out for 'One > >> Touch' and accidentally spending money...) >

[gentoo-user] Re: Realtec 8111C LAN not detected...

2011-10-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/28/2011 05:46 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on mobo with Realtek 8111C LAN Note that this chip isn't properly supported by Linux. It uses a driver for the 8111* chips that isn't really compatible. I have a 8111E chip and with the kernel drivers it stops working af

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag 28 Oktober 2011, 11:19:37 schrieb Michael Mol: > (oi, it's getting harder and harder to snip this thing properly) > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > Am Donnerstag 27 Oktober 2011, 16:00:09 schrieb Michael Mol: > >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:41 PM

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD->mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-28 Thread James
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > I started looking around in Google for something to encode a few DVDs > A program called handbrake was showing up in a lot of links, but it > requires an overlay. While I have no problem adding yet another > overlay (which on is best?) I wondered what might b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed.

2011-10-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Freitag 28 Oktober 2011, 08:53:40 schrieb Mark Knecht: >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Paul Hartman >> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Amazon streams now but I haven't tried them yet.

[gentoo-user] Calls compiler directly, and strange parameters passed. Is this a bug?

2011-10-28 Thread Michael Mol
Just update calibre, and it looks like it builds a bunch of Python extensions. In the build output, I see many things like these: g++ -O3 -Wall -DNDEBUG -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -march=amdfam10 -mcx16 -msahf -mpopcnt --param l1-cache-size=64 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-s