[gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

read on a forum somewhere that this could be caused by the HAL daemon so I shut that down and no luck :-( Any ideas? Thanks Wayn0 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeAgent extn. Drive setup ideas

en time; so I'm looking for a scheme that they will each be unquely recognized (Labeled? any caveats? James Most, in fact all of the external drives I have used come formatted with fat32 standard even the 500GB iomega I recently bought. So copying between OSes should not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

too-sources 2.6.23-r8 if memory serves. Thanks again Wayn0 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

both sata pata drives in with a very similar kernel config and it work as expected :-/ I will try removing all the ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL stuff tonight, and report back later. Thanks again for the help On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:47 +0200, Wayn0 wrote: Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:

Re: [gentoo-user] Incredibly slow disk access

. :-) Wayn0 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing via GRML

I can follow to do this? James There is very little difference, you could use the standard gentoo handbook. Wayn0 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

holds no water with me as the user will need be somewhat experienced to maintain the system in any event. Detaching oneself from documentation will become a vital skill once you have your own *unique* Gentoo system up and running. my 2c -- Wayn0 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

chroot? How would you download it when you haven't set GENTOO_MIRRORS yet :) GENTOO_MIRRORS has a default value set :-) Wayn0 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

gonna give it a go. So yeah anybody in Johannesburg need the sources let me know, will be downloading them this evening. Regards Wayn0 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello everyone, Hello 8< I searched a bit on the Internet and found the BBC Radio Station [2]. I have one single technical problem with it: it's "Available Online (UK Only)". So, my questions: 8< I would imagine that this is IP based :-

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu video driver

pat wrote: Hello, I'm playing with qemu on windows and I've installed Gentoo into it. Now I want to setup X.org, but have no idea which video driver should I use. Can someone help? Thanks a lot Pat The vesa driver should work. -- Wayno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu video driver

pat wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:30:50 +0200, Wayn0 wrote pat wrote: Hello, I'm playing with qemu on windows and I've installed Gentoo into it. Now I want to setup X.org, but have no idea which video driver should I use. Can someone help? Thanks a lot Pat The vesa driver s

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu video driver

pat wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:30:50 +0200, Wayn0 wrote pat wrote: Hello, I'm playing with qemu on windows and I've installed Gentoo into it. Now I want to setup X.org, but have no idea which video driver should I use. Can someone help? Thanks a lot Pat The vesa driver s

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu video driver

pat wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:12:09 +0200, Wayn0 wrote 8< I've tried this one and previous problem gone, but there's a new one :-| For all modes receiving: (II) CIRRUS(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (insufficient memory for mode) (II) CIRRUS(0): Not usin

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu video driver

pat wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:42:13 +0200, Wayn0 wrote pat wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:12:09 +0200, Wayn0 wrote 8< I've tried this one and previous problem gone, but there's a new one :-| For all modes receiving: (II) CIRRUS(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu video driver

pat wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:37:18 +0200, Wayn0 wrote [snip] Final solution, copy the config from one of the livecds you used. Yes, I've did it too, but it missed DefaultDepth parameter line too :-) Thanks a lot for the patience and help. Pat All good mate, glad to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

econd server (even if its the right thing to do, which i believe so), in such case, would you still recommend Gentoo?. Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-) Those things can be life savers! -- Wayn0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Laptop weirdness

onfig) and rebuilding the entire system. Thanx, Wayn0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop weirdness

started right after a base install, the system is running extremely well otherwise... meaning no errors or weirdness whatsoever. It feels like I am running a great system on a 486. lol! Wayn0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list