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Cybersorcerer

Hi,

as i said you have to get the NEW version BMC PM for Servers. Patrol for Linux Enterprise Servers does not even support kernel 2.6 etc ...

Cybersorcerer

I don't use sub-pixel hinting andl my system was not slow BUT 30% and more overhead, just for some eyecandy, is far too much. At the end of the day i have work to do with my laptop

. I dropped it and i won't bring it back until these problems are solved.

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

i am an employee of BMC Software and i can tell you that it won't install and it wont run. Patrol for Linux Enterprise Servers is damn OLD and has been superceeded by BMC Performance Manager (the new name of Patrol) for Servers. But even with the new version only
Red Hat and SuSE are supported ...

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

i have tried it on my Dell M90 and have seen up to 25 % Usage by beryl and an additional 12 to 15 % cpu usage by X.
I decided that this eyecandy stuff is not worth this kind of overhead

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

look here http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Implement_ ... s_your_PDC

Cybersorcerer

Well don't know what you did during your system update, i guess the easiest would be to re-emerge the thing. If this solves your problem please mark your original topic with [SOLVED]

Cybersorcerer

are you sure cpufreqd is in /etc/init.d ? Please post output of :

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ls -la /etc/init.d

Cybersorcerer

eehhm and where is the beef ?

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

here ist the relevant part of my .config compare it to yours and make the relavant changes.

#
#
# CPU Frequency scaling
#
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV ...

Cybersorcerer

If the above advice does not help post the output of

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lspci

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

it looks like the boot flag is missing on /dev/hda6

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

is your problem solved ? If yes please add [SOLVED] to your original post.

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

this is definitely a problem :

hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165H6S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

this shows that you use the ide drivers, this will NOT work.

Do one of the following:

* Disable the IDE system. OR
* Build the IDE driver as built-in (this is often the default) and add the hdc=noprobe ...

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

please have a look at the following post :

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-48 ... inted.html

looks exactly like the problem you have.

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

i assume your Acer uses a Sata Controller but to be sure please post ouput of lspci .
Bottomline the drive performance is very bad, not even fast enough for DVD playing. It feels like an IDE drive that is not using DMA.
The laptop uses a SATA to PATA bridge for the DVD drive and you will not ...

Cybersorcerer

Hi just wondering if you still have this problem ?

I am running an M90 with gentoo, i assume it's probably the missing sata support in your kernel but i am not 100% sure.

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CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y

If this is not the case can you post output of

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lspci

Cybersorcerer

Hi Tom,

sorry but i have no idea how gnome works, i have always used KDE. I am afraid you are on your own with this one. However
maybe the following links will help you to sort out your problem :

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_gnome-volume-manager
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Auto_mount_filesystems ...

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

something else to check ..... You should have the following links in /dev ....

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep  4 13:10 cdrom -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep  4 13:10 cdrw -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep  4 13:10 dvd -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep  4 13:10 dvdrw -> sr0

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

strange ... does DVD playback work ? And another stupid question, do you have support for the iso9660 FS in your kernel ?

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CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y

Cybersorcerer

Hi el3ktro,

out of curiosity .... does it work now ?

Cybersorcerer

Here are the parts from my kernel config. I did not enable AHCI support.

<*> SCSI disk support
< > SCSI tape support
< > SCSI OnStream SC-x0 tape support
<*> SCSI CDROM support
[*] Enable vendor-specific extensions (for SCSI CDROM)
<*> SCSI generic support

Cybersorcerer

Hi el3ktro,

you might have done most of this already but i am outlining the complete procedure here (i got it working that way):
You absolutely need to reconfigure your IDE Bus to use the SATA Driver

1) Remove support for for the IDE bus. Deselect the following option

Device Drivers -->
ATA ...

Cybersorcerer

Hi,

hast du mal einen etc-update ausgeführt ?

Cybersorcerer

Hi Bill,

great ! Please add [SOLVED] to the original header of your post.

Cybersorcerer

Most likely you will also see a new kernel version, a new version of gcc, glibc, portage, baselayout udev etc.... It is probaly a good idea to
look at all the upgrade guides in the gentoo documentation. If you decide to install xorg 7 then look for the appropiate threads in this forum.

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