Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext KH: why does #ls /usr/src/linux/arch/ show alpha/ blackfin/ h8300/ m32r/ mips/ ppc/ sh64/ um/xtensa/ arm/ cris/ i386/ m68k/ parisc/s390/ sparc/ v850/ avr32/ frv/ ia64/

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: oh, and for whatever reason wine performs better under 64 bit OS rather than 32. Don't have any other proof then my own experience but Diablo LOD runs much smoother once I've rebuilt my system with 64bit with the same useflags and

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, KH wrote: why does #ls /usr/src/linux/arch/ show alpha/     blackfin/  h8300/     m32r/      mips/      ppc/       sh64/      um/        xtensa/   arm/       cris/      i386/      m68k/      parisc/    s390/       sparc/     v850/     avr32/     frv/      

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:06:13PM -0500: On Feb 12, 2008 8:06 AM, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wael Nasreddine wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Hal Martin
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On February 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit machine I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: The x86_64 name is used by Red Hat and other distros. There are all the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Boris Fersing
On Feb 12, 2008 8:06 AM, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wael Nasreddine wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Wael Nasreddine wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible. Best place to check is Intel's website -

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: Let's say this processor supports 64 bits, what whould I gain from migrating to x86_64 I mean would it be faster??? I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Wael Nasreddine
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible. Best place to check is Intel's website - here's what I found:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: Let's say this processor supports 64 bits, what whould I gain from migrating to x86_64 I mean would it be faster??? I've never owned/worked on a 64bit machine before so excuse my lack of knowledge :) Please stop using the x86_64

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: The x86_64 name is used by Red Hat

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible. Best place to check is Intel's website - here's what I found: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sspec=sl9dv

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-11 Thread Boris Fersing
On Feb 11, 2008 10:17 PM, Wael Nasreddine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, It's been like 6 months I'm using the arch i686, but today I saw on this page[1] something that confused me, saying that I have an x86_64 arch I have a Toshiba A135-S4427 with Intel dual core 1.73Ghz here's the output

[gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-11 Thread Wael Nasreddine
Hello, It's been like 6 months I'm using the arch i686, but today I saw on this page[1] something that confused me, saying that I have an x86_64 arch I have a Toshiba A135-S4427 with Intel dual core 1.73Ghz here's the output of /proc/cpuinfo CUT processor : 0 vendor_id :