Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?

2006-11-02 Thread Michel Merinoff
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:59, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?': I think gcc version should not have impact on X because NVidia's drivers are binary, closed source - they don't care about the gcc used to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?

2006-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:48:11 +0300, Michel Merinoff wrote: No, there's no way to make a pure binary driver that works on all systems, because symbols in the kernel will be at different locations depending on options it was compiled with. Should this mean, that you have to recompile all

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.18 kernel

2006-11-02 Thread Christoph Mende
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 00:42 +, Duncan wrote: FWIW, I handle my kernel stuff directly, downloading from kernel.org, not thru portage. Thus, I care not one whit about Gentoo's kernel stabilizing. echo sys-kernel/vanilla-sources ~arch /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge vanilla-sources

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.18 kernel

2006-11-02 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Christoph Mende [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 00:42 +, Duncan wrote: FWIW, I handle my kernel stuff directly, downloading from kernel.org, not thru portage. Thus, I care not one whit about Gentoo's kernel stabilizing. echo sys-kernel/vanilla-sources ~arch

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problem with emerge on a dual-processor machine [SOLVED]

2006-11-02 Thread Marek Wróbel
I had the same problem with my computer. I bought early Athlon 64 3000+ on socket 754, mainboard Asus K8V. First I tried 4 different TwinMOS memory modules (so that weren't no-names), but the system was very unstable and memtest86+ showed memory errors. Fortunately I could take Hynix memory

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.18 kernel

2006-11-02 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 10:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’ve found vanilla kernels to be much more reliable on my system than Gentoo kernels (why I don’t know), FYI: I have never had a problem with gentoo kernels. I have had non-standard modules that would not compile, but updating the