Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] X on an older PPC-based Mac Mini?

2009-05-29 Thread Mounir Lamouri
If it can help, my xorg.conf and hal file (for keyboard) from my Powerbook G4. Mounir k...@cas.mcmaster.ca wrote: I have gentoo running on two PowerMac G5s, and have xorg-server-1.5 now mostly working. I have two monitors on each machine --- if you have only one, your xorg.conf could be much

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: But, surely -march= also instructs gcc to support the additional instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying to. What's the difference between supporting the certain set

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: But, surely -march= also instructs gcc to support the additional instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying to. What's the difference between supporting the certain set

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 May 2009 21:19:37 +0100, Stroller wrote: What's the difference between supporting the certain set of instructions with -march= and doing so with USEs? -march determines how the code is compiled. USE determines which code is compiled. -- Neil Bothwick Runtime Error: Out of

[gentoo-user] Livemix

2009-05-29 Thread alex stone
Not sure if this should be here, or in some sort of Pro-overlay list, but here goes: Could the pro-overlay team consider adding Livemix to the suite of pro-audio programmes? It's a highly useful mixer, but i've been stumped at trying to get it stable from source, and working within Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Livemix

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:34 AM, alex stone compos...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if this should be here, or in some sort of Pro-overlay list, but here goes: Could the pro-overlay team consider adding Livemix to the suite of pro-audio programmes? It's a highly useful mixer, but i've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Adam Carter adam.car...@optus.com.au wrote: For me, libdri.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libdri.so libglx.so is a symlink to /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so (since you havent run the eselect to repoint it yet, it will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Livemix

2009-05-29 Thread alex stone
Mark, thanks, Alex. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:34 AM, alex stone compos...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if this should be here, or in some sort of Pro-overlay list, but here goes: Could the pro-overlay team consider adding

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Edenfield
Strollerstrol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: But, surely -march= also instructs gcc to support the additional instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying to. What's the difference between supporting the certain set of instructions with -march= and doing so with USEs?

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
Ok, thanks everybody, getting ready to dive in and fix this thing. Two more questions please: I modified the bottom of /etc/fstab to look like this according to a post in the eee forum: ... #shm/dev/shmtmpfsnodev,sosuid,noexec 0 0 tmpfs/tmptmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-29 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: Ok, thanks everybody, getting ready to dive in and fix this thing. Two more questions please: I modified the bottom of /etc/fstab to look like this according to a post in the eee forum: ... #shm/dev/shmtmpfsnodev,sosuid,noexec 0 0 tmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 May 2009 11:32:58 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: tmpfs/tmptmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 Does this have anything to do with the inode issue? Only that it reduces the number of inodes needed by mounting/tmp on a ramfs. What's the best fs for a 4G SSD? I

[gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-29 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping hostname says unknown host name. It doesn't even contact the dns server, which is running on the same host. But dig hostname works fine. Also, using the

[gentoo-user] How to feed the watchdog?

2009-05-29 Thread mereandor
Hi, I recently bought a MSI GM-IM45 [1] mainboard which includes a (hardware) watchdog timer. Now the problem is that I don't know how to prevent it from resetting the system. There seem to be two possible ways but I'm unable to make either one of them work... 1. There is a BIOS setting to

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 28 May 2009 22:11:02 +0300 Timur Aydin t...@taydin.org wrote: I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping hostname says unknown host name. It doesn't even contact the dns server, which is

[gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-29 Thread Grant
My girlfriend is at her wit's end with her SSD netbook and is now hogging my laptop. Her netbook has 1GB RAM that could be upgraded to 1.5GB, but I've read that it's a pain. It already runs xfce4, and I've just made these optimizations based on past discussions: 1. CFLAGS=-march=prescott -0s

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
I found the best way to deal with the Eee 900's two drives was to create a small root partition (I used 200M) and swap on sda. Then make the rest of sda and all of sdb into an LVM volume group. I still use ext3 for /, but it contains so little that inodes are not an issue. You definitely want

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:39:09 -0600 Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Just got back from Circuit City or whatever it's called with a 16G SD card and I'm steeling myself for the big task ahead. Just what do you have under root? How did you format the rest? ext4 or reiserfs for root.

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-29 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 29 May 2009 17:24:06 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Am I missing anything significant? I've read that it's good to set up /tmp in RAM. How can I do that? In /etc/fstab I have: shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec Is that related? Only in a way that it is tmpfs as

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-29 Thread Graham Murray
Timur Aydin t...@taydin.org writes: Hi, I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping hostname says unknown host name. It doesn't even contact the dns server, which is running on the same host. But dig