From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HeLz1-00043P-P1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:02:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3J20lxZ028114; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:00:47 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out1.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3J1tCGR019184 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:55:13 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9978842803 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:55:10 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6 From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200704182259.17898.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200704181937.37436.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200704182259.17898.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:23:46 +0930 Message-Id: <1176947626.12627.211.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3e51e565-43fb-4390-bab3-56c0bb989b48 X-Archives-Hash: c31fbd5ec090f4fa73abc4f0e1e31b3a On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 22:58 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:37, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I see these two messages in dmesg and I am not sure what they're about: > > > > intel_rng: FWH not detected > > I think this has to do with: > > CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y > > Evidently my laptop does not have a firmware hub (FWH) for generating random > numbers. Or that your laptop can't generate random hardware. > > hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: > > hw_config=600d, UDMA(100) > > > > What's the hw_config part? > > Any more (useful) ideas on this? I admit I had to read the joke 4 times before I got it, but that only makes it funnier. um, I think it's a register (ie. a number where each bit has some meaning) about the capability of your HD. What exactly 0x6000, 0x8, 0x4, and 0x1 are, I don't know. Something to do with cable types, and so on, I think. someone more into the kernel could probably help more here I think :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan linux: the choice of a GNU generation (ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list