Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, June 19, 2012 12:06 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit card ;-) > > That's implicit in the wedding vows :( That can be solved by making sure she has a decent paying job hers

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, June 19, 2012 1:37 am, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:24:58 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: > > [snip] > >> Felix, did you follow any >> analogous steps for the 4TB drives? >> >> (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than any of my >> aggregate volumes.) > > > Complet

[gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi everyone, Ok, here's my dilemma... I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not have any Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the hypervisor, but they do have an internal 2.5" dual SATA/SAS drive cage, for running a bootable OS (in my case the ESXi hyper

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Ok, here's my dilemma... > > I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not have any > Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the hypervisor, but they > do have an internal 2.5" dual SATA/SAS drive

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:47:10 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Ok, here's my dilemma... > > I have some new Dell R515 servers (12 bay versions). These do not > have any Dell supported internal SD (or CF) card options for the > hypervisor, but they do have an internal 2.5" dual SATA/SAS

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:54:26 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Lucky you didn't challenge her to max out your Platinum credit > >> card ;-) > > > > That's implicit in the wedding vows :( > > That can be solved by making sure she has a decent paying job herself :) That worked for you??? :-O -

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-19 9:56 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: With my last batch of ESX hosts, someone "forgot" to order the R710 SD internal add-on. But it has 8 x 600M SAS drives So what I did is configured all drives as a RAID 10 and let ESX grab enough for the hypervisor and leave the rest for regular s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - glslideshow failing; don't know why

2012-06-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 June 2012, at 01:32, Michael Sullivan wrote: > My screensaver is failing. I use a slideshow of a directory of > photographs. I use xfce with xscreensaver-5.15. The error says > something like "could not find , using fixed instead; > xscreensaver killed…" grep your xfce config for . `

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-06-19 9:56 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> With my last batch of ESX hosts, someone "forgot" to order the R710 SD >> internal add-on. But it has 8 x 600M SAS drives >> >> So what I did is configured all drives as a RAID 10 and let ES

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread Stroller
On 18 June 2012, at 15:39, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> ... >> It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in >> a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would >> operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any >> analogous steps for the 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 18 June 2012, at 15:39, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >>> ... >>> It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in >>> a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would >>> operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb

[gentoo-user] Oszkár Ocsenás

2012-06-19 Thread Oszkár Ocsenás
Hy! I'm new in this list. My name is Oszkár Ocsenás I'm from Hungary I'm interested in Linux@work, and Linux@daily use My most known distributions are: Ubuntu, Fedora, Sabayon and Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Oszkár Ocsenás

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Oszkár Ocsenás wrote: > Hy! > > I'm new in this list. > My name is Oszkár Ocsenás > I'm from Hungary > I'm interested in Linux@work, and Linux@daily use > > My most known distributions are: Ubuntu, Fedora, Sabayon and Gentoo Greetings, Oszkár. Most people who joi

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, wrote: > I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even acknowledge > its presence.  USB 3.0 may be advertised as backwards compatible, but not on > my system. Is the drive powered by USB, or an external power supply? USB3 supplies more power

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread felix
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:49:48AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > A thought...if the system is old enough that it only has PCI and PCI-X > (as opposed to PCIe), then it's definitely not going to have USB3. > > Perhaps putting attaching the USB3 enclosure to the system by way of a > USB2 hub might wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread felix
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:43:41AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, wrote: > > I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even > > acknowledge its presence. ?USB 3.0 may be advertised as backwards > > compatible, but not on my system. > > Is the dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:05 PM, wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:49:48AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: >> A thought...if the system is old enough that it only has PCI and PCI-X >> (as opposed to PCIe), then it's definitely not going to have USB3. >> >> Perhaps putting attaching the USB3 enclosur

[gentoo-user] Problems lua/luarocks

2012-06-19 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I got some problems with lua and its package manager called "luarocks". From the lua mailing list I got the information, that luarocks normall installs lua module/packages/"rocks" below /usr/local ... a place lua will look for, when adviced to use a certain module. With Gentoo, luarocks was

[gentoo-user] [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread walt
I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, libbonobo and libbonoboui. I edited the autoconf.in to check for those standard libraries, and it did p

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread Ezequiel Garcia
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:40 PM, walt wrote: > I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For which applet?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: > I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For > reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers > that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, > libbonobo and libbonoboui. > > I edited the autoconf.in to

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread walt
On 06/19/2012 01:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, libbonobo and lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/19/2012 06:38 PM, walt wrote: >> >> Got a link? If it works with 4.10, I can just make an ebuild for it. > > Thank to you and Ezequiel for the quick replies :) > > git://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin > Well, I basically recreated this: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread walt
On 06/19/2012 05:27 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 06/19/2012 06:38 PM, walt wrote: >>> >>> Got a link? If it works with 4.10, I can just make an ebuild for it. >> >> Thank to you and Ezequiel for the quick replies :) >> >> git://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin >> > > Well, I ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:29:13AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 & it's working ok so far. Me too . Thanks for starting the thread, and giving the answer. I ran an update last night, and X wouldn't restart today. I remembered the thread, keyworded 302.17

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Oszkár Ocsenás

2012-06-19 Thread Philip Webb
120619 Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Oszkár Ocsenás wrote: >> I'm new in this list. My name is Oszkár Ocsenás. I'm from Hungary. >> I'm interested in Linux@work, and Linux@daily use >> My most known distributions are: Ubuntu, Fedora, Sabayon and Gentoo > Greetings, Oszká

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Oszkár Ocsenás

2012-06-19 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Oszkár Ocsenás wrote: > Hy! > > I'm new in this list. > My name is Oszkár Ocsenás > I'm from Hungary > I'm interested in Linux@work, and Linux@daily use > > My most known distributions are: Ubuntu, Fedora, Sabayon and Gentoo > > Welcome! I saw you also introduced

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: >> I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For >> reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers >> that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, >> li