From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RJtNe-0008QY-V1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:50:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 678A921C037; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C5D21C01F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws19 with SMTP id 19so5211444vws.40 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:49:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=lXXTPz4hifwSlnYjYgiwX69IAP25HIV+ubsPNcQhIuo=; b=dCZ42OmCD+q37mLFbCcIPK41axLtjWc/ZsV7ZcVfwpShERwmtF+VtRGtGsyijAyRdn FqXP63FIdvmQoYy3B2NUSzfT8f/AdeJ/xnMgVe35MMJO6YcZ9bqeDJ4BLEni+DTZ84F/ WjkD6209bAq/pEECWDdiy4r+O8NP4KEukiGDg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.164.74 with SMTP id yo10mr966909obb.69.1319834954485; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.38.42 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:49:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1916730.lWDedWx0D1@localhost> References: <4EA9130A.6070807@gmail.com> <1916730.lWDedWx0D1@localhost> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:49:14 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed. From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b50a2b5ed2565c1b470056d93c88c4f1 On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Freitag 28 Oktober 2011, 08:53:40 schrieb Mark Knecht: >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Paul Hartman >> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Amazon streams now but I haven't tried them yet. (Watch out for 'One >> >> Touch' and accidentally spending money...) >> > >> > Amazon streaming works fine in Linux (I've tried it), it just uses the >> > plain old Adobe Flash plug-in. >> >> Therein apparently lies the problem for me. Adobe Flash no longer >> works on my machine since adding a second video card. I just tried >> Amazon in Firefox 7 and it just sits doing nothing. >> >> I _think_ this is related to using Xinerama on KDE but when I posted >> questions here (twice) I got no responses so it seems few people are >> doing this. For my futures trading I need 3 or 4 monitors and I >> couldn't make sense out of using X without Xinerama so I seem stuck, >> at least native in Gentoo. I suspect it's fine in a Windows VM but >> I've got Jimmy Kimmel running at the moment so I'll test that later. >> >> I REALLY, REALLY miss having all the OpenGL stuff you get with KDE. I >> had it with one Nvidia card but not with two... >> >> - Mark > > you don't need xinerama for multi-monitor setups. > Volker, I understand that but I'm wondering if you read my post? I stated 'I couldn't make sense out of using X without Xinerama'. If you're interested in discussing multiple graphic card, multi-monitor setups then I'd be more than willing to start another thread. However that discussion doesn't belong in a thread entitled "Hard drive RPMs and data speed". - Mark