Re: [gentoo-amd64] CFLAGS for Core2?

2006-09-23 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:17 -0400, Brandon Edens wrote: I have a friend that has riced out Gentoo boxes twice now and had problems due to the cflags he chose. Of course, your results may vary. riced out? I assume you mean something like fried, but I don't understand how bad CFLAGS can do

Re: [gentoo-amd64] CFLAGS for Core2?

2006-09-23 Thread Simon Stelling
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: riced out? I assume you mean something like fried, but I don't understand how bad CFLAGS can do anything except make your code run slower. My favourite example of how you can waste other people's time: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122208 Another

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Christoph Mende
DRI is hardware accelerated 3D rendering. You don't need it for music apps, but you most probably need it for your Windows games, without direct rendering you will use software rendering and get most likely get 5 fps in OpenGL games. It may be nice to have direct rendering for xine too, since xine

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia sobota, 23 września 2006 03:09, Stefan Wimmer napisał: $ emerge terminus-font $ vim /etc/conf.d/consolefont $ CONSOLEFONT=ter-v12n $ /etc/init.d/consolefont restart Gott im Himmel! I didn't know that's possible - I love terminus font and I didn't realize I could use it in console...

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/22/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700: P.S. - I'm still curious about trying your compiler flags but now there is no pressing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/22/06, Stefan Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-22 19:51] : Hi, Where do I learn about changing the size of the font used at boot time so that I can see more lines while booting, and more lines when a kernel crash occurs? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/06, Greg Bur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/06, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700: P.S. - I'm still curious about trying

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:03, Mark Knecht wrote: So you did essentially the emerge -e system emerge -e system emerge -e world steps that you did when upgrading gcc to get there? Er, the GCC upgrade guide [1] only mentions a single emerge -e system to go from 3.4.4 to 4.1.1, and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] CFLAGS for Core2?

2006-09-23 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Stelling wrote: And we all like X freezing: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80329 In short, yes they can break your system. Pretty easily even, if you don't know what you're doing. Well, I didn't see much that looked dangerous

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Pawel Kraszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-23 09:09] : Gott im Himmel! I didn't know that's possible - I love terminus font and I didn't realize I could use it in console... Many, many thanks, Stefan, for enlightenment! Got to fix all my servers :) Glad I could help you :)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 14 September 2006 20:08, Duncan wrote: Here's my CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS: ...etc. Which model of Opteron are your CPUs? I have a feeling they differ from my 246s, and I've been wondering how I ought to tune your helpfully explained flags to suit my box. -- Rgds Peter --

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/06, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:03, Mark Knecht wrote: So you did essentially the emerge -e system emerge -e system emerge -e world steps that you did when upgrading gcc to get there? Er, the GCC upgrade guide [1] only mentions a

[gentoo-amd64] Wireless usb

2006-09-23 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I search a wireless card (better usb, but pci is ok too) that it works perfect with gentoo on amd64. I bought some time ago a card, but it doesn't work at all. I prefer to be sure about that I can buy, using your personal experience. My router

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/06, Stefan Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-23 10:01] : I was unclear as to whether your suggestion works without the vesafb stuff. It seemed that it might so I tried it but got this error: ... So am I - but I see no reason why it shouldn't

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan
Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:39:11 +: Which model of Opteron are your CPUs? I have a feeling they differ from my 246s, and I've been wondering how I ought to tune your helpfully explained flags to suit my box. I'm

[gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan
Greg Bur [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:55:59 -0400: I put my workstation through its paces last weekend using Duncan's flags and so far I've only run across one package that gave me problems and that was Evolution. It didn't like the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Jason Booth
On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: Nope. SSE and SSE2, but not SSE3. According to /proc/cpuinfo, that is. The flag in cpuinfo is pni for Prescott New Instructions. Cheers, Jason -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Re: vectorization (was: gcc4 CFLAGS)

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan
Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:30:36 +: And I've found that module-init-tools won't compile with -combine either. It complains about too many modules being passed. I did the same as you and removed -combine while merging

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 September 2006 17:21, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?': On Saturday 23 September 2006 19:52, Duncan wrote: However, the only difference (CFLAGS wise) that I'm aware of for the AMD

Re: [gentoo-amd64] CFLAGS for Core2?

2006-09-23 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 09:48 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: riced out? I assume you mean something like fried, but I don't understand how bad CFLAGS can do anything except make your code run slower. My favourite example of how you can waste other people's time: %