Thank you very much! That worked. However I just want to delete references to 2.6, as nothing uses it.

Dan

When running python-updater, the following happens:

ivan ~ # python-updater
* Starting Python Updater...
* Main active version of Python: 2.7
* Active version of Python 2: 2.7
* Active version of Python 3: 3.2
* Globally supported Python ABIs in installed repositories:
* gentoo: 2.4 2.5 2.6 2 ...

I'm in the same boat, with an Audigy2 sound card. One thing I *Did* do was remove hal.

Dan

You actually have to load the cisco kernel module to make this work.

I was at the Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit in New York on Monday and Tuesday. Lots of good talks on btrfs, ext4, and realtime linux. I talked with Ted Tso, and Chris Mason for a little while on Monday, and afterwards I had the pleasure of having a few beers with Andrew Morton and ...

You can get decent prices on RME Hammerfall DSP gear on Ebay. I've been considering this, for a machine I plan to build for dedicated audio. Alsa supports the RME line, for the most part.

Dan

There is a bug with the latest x.org and the wacom driver. If I try to use my tablet in *any* way, mouse, pen, eraser... It crashes X hard.

Dan

Oh this is an easy one... It happens because the SAN is discovered before the SCSI disks are. Both FC and SCSI subsystems appear to be the same to Linux. If you include the drivers for the SCSI HBA/RAID adapter built in to the kernel, and have the FC HBA as a module, it will discover them in the ...

Interesting, I have a similar problem, but in my case, gdm just fails to start. It fails with no discernible error as well. This happens on a ~x86 version on my laptop, but NOT on my Opteron box.

Dan

One serious issue may be with a newer version of dhcpcd. if you do an ifconfig on your interface, check the MTU. Sometimes the MTU will be a *Really* low number because bad data gets returned from the dhcp server. If that's the case, try setting the MTU to 1500 manually, or a larger size if you are ...

I can tell you that the DHCP servers are windows boxes with a Cisco DHCP Server solution on it. The vintage is uncertain, as are the revisions of the servers.
I wish I had the clout to tell them to fix it...

*Shrug* Not the choice I would have made if I was in charge of the infrastructure...

Since ...

I've had a lovely time trying to troubleshoot an issue with VMWare. I did an emerge --sync, then and emerge -uD --newuse world. All went well, no issues at home with VMWare. Only when I connected with the corporate LAN, the Windows XP session inside of VMWare began throwing fits. No web pages loaded ...

I had a good time this past friday, up at the IBM Poughkeepsie campus. I got to see a Z9 running Linux and it definitely kicked major butt. I'd love to do an install of Gentoo on such a system.

Dan

Look for a bios option to move the PCI address space to the end of memory, rather than where it is.

A subtle corruption was introduced in the 2.6.17 series of kernels. The gentoo-r4 and -r5 kernels contain the correction for the cause of the corruption, but you need to run the latest version of xfs_repair to fix the existing problems. The corruption will creep, and may cause all sorts of issues ...

You might want to try a new kernel. I have noted that newer 2.6.16 kenrnels dealt with memory better. I haven't made the switch to 2.6.17, and won't due to xfs issues which were "corrected" in later 2.6.17 kernels. I'm going to wait for 2.6.18 to re build the kernel.

Dan

No, That won't buy you what you want. The architecture of the chip is such that the extra registers (which are 64 bit) are only visible when the chip is in 64 bit mode. This applies for both AMD and Intel 64 bit x86 chips.

Dan

Hard lockups are *Usually* a sign of over aggressive fCFLAGS, or an impending hardware problem... I've been running unstable on my dual opteron box for *Years* and haven't had any lockups. My CFLAGS are fairly conservative.

Dan

A better otion might be to : Saves from having to re-emerge the whole thing.

I want to thank you for your efforts on this, I won't get a chance to try this as I already moved to gnome 2.14 I'll Check to see if the issue is here as well.

Dan

In a week or so I'm going to install on a 32 CPU lpar on an IBM p690 server. 64 GB ram, and 4 TB of Fibre Channel storage. Should be fun!

Dan

I'm going to get to install Gentoo on an IBM p690, (32 CPU 64 GB RAM) and 4 TB disk (EMC Clariion CX700) in a month or so, when th app tests are done. It isn't the newest machine, but it still counts as Big Iron. Definitely going to be fun benching that against AIX 5.3.

Dan

Nagios is in portage.. It is reasonably easy to set up.


Dan

One of the very nicesct features of XFS is the "realtime" feature. This lets you stream data off of the disks in an isochronys manner. It is ideal for media playback by the way. I used to use it under Irix for that very reason.

Dan

Ummmm
For AMD64 chips and running a 64 bit kernel, no highmem is needed.

However, there may be a BIOS otion for remapping memory. I believe that is what may be happening to you.

Dan