[gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Grant
I just upgraded from an AMD64 Sempron to an AMD64 Athlon X2. What do I need to do in software to accommodate the new CPU? Do I need to enable something in the kernel to get the dual cores working? I've read something about support for AMD's Cool and Quiet technology too. - Grant -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Flashing BIOS trouble

2007-08-10 Thread Grant
But that motherboard doesn't appear here: http://www.msicomputer.com/support/TechSupport.asp Perhaps there's no need for an update or there's no one available right now. Try contacting MSI directly. They use to be very friendly (just don't mention you run Linux) I

[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Albert W. Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with issues like this when they arise. So please have patience with us. As far as I'm concerned, it's fine that the site is

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Building WireShark 0.99.6-r1 with gcc 4.1.

2007-08-10 Thread Developer Edoceo
When trying to emerge wireshark on my system it fails with some error that Google results indicate (to me anyways) that it's 64bit related. I'm on 32bit platform. Build proceeds for a while then dies with this: wiretap/.libs/libwiretap.so: undefined reference to `GUINT64_SWAP_LE_BE'

Re: [gentoo-user] liborbisenc.so.0 error

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:40:35 Mick wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2007 01:03, Marc Redmann wrote: # ls -la /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 -- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 2005 /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 # ls -la /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.0 -- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 2005

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 05:59:32 John covici wrote: checking whether to compile the browser plugins... yes checking which gecko to use... configure: error: Gecko firefox not found Either disable nsplugin _or_ emerge firefox But the thing is, I have firefox compiled and

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 10 August 2007 04:59:08 John covici wrote: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --color=n  --verbose --nospinner This is nit-picking but usually (99% of all cases) --verbose isn't needed with --info. Hence `emerge --info

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/10/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 August 2007 09:27:17 Alexander Skwar wrote: Albert W. Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote: And now here is the relevant section of the config.log file. configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins configure:23058: result: yes configure:23064: checking which gecko to use configure:23093: error: Gecko firefox

[gentoo-user] amd64 4G memory

2007-08-10 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
Hi, I'm a bit confused, because before this moment I thought that 4G for amd64 platform is normal memory size... I've Asus a8n-e motherboard and AMD X2 cpu. Yesterday I've installed +1G memory to my already installed 3G. Before this my system showed that all 3072M of memory are avalible. After

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Zac wrote: The reason I asked is that I have been running this on my AMDX2 systems since it has been available with no noticeable degradation, and possibly a little better responsiveness. I thought maybe you had some experience with it that would contradict my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:01:09 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: If there was a little explanation earlier on, we could have avoided the panic and dissemination of false information that followed. Panic? A web site was inaccessible, that's all. It's not as though the four horsemen of the apocalypse

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Am Freitag 10 August 2007 16:57 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Zac wrote: Why don't you want mulit-core scheduler support? read the help text. CONFIG_SCHED_MC: Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 18:01:09 Dan Cowsill wrote: Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with issues like this when they arise. So please have patience with us. As far as I'm concerned,

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 10 August 2007 05:59:32 John covici wrote: checking whether to compile the browser plugins... yes checking which gecko to use... configure: error: Gecko firefox not found Either disable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:55:39 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: What I DO find bad, is that there was no communication about that. [...] Maybe that means you should get your money back. Oh, wait... Don't forget that some people DO give money to Gentoo :) -- Neil Bothwick All right,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 09:27:17 Alexander Skwar wrote: Albert W. Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with issues like this when they arise. So please have patience

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 09 August 2007 19:38:40 Dale wrote: Not sure if this will help or not, but this is what mine says. Won't help the OP.. :p [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery belongs libstdc++.so.5 [ Searching for file(s) libstdc++.so.5 in *... ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6-r1

[gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-10 Thread James
Hello to all, I'm in need of a portable video camera(or rig), such as the sony SR82, but one that is gentoo friendly for video transfer. Hopefully I can find a video camera that transfers directly to a gentoo sytem via usb 2.0? After my experience with a Sony Viao Laptop, I'm not really keen on

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote: configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins configure:23058: result: yes configure:23064: checking which gecko to use configure:23093: error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 8/10/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:01:09 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: If there was a little explanation earlier on, we could have avoided the panic and dissemination of false information that followed. Panic? A web site was inaccessible, that's all.

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote: configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins configure:23058: result: yes configure:23064: checking which gecko to use configure:23093: error: Gecko firefox not found   If you need amy more from that log, let me know.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 17:15:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:55:39 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: What I DO find bad, is that there was no communication about that. [...] Maybe that means you should get your money back. Oh, wait... Don't forget that some people DO

[gentoo-user] Replytolist plug-in for thunderbird not working

2007-08-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi! I have enabled this plug-in since it has been included in the thunderbird ebuild. However for some reason it doesn't work. I didn't bother until now, but as there are some inconsistencies with the gentoo mailing lists, (some use reply to munging and some not, see threads on gentoo-project

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Zac wrote: Why don't you want mulit-core scheduler support? read the help text. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] liborbisenc.so.0 error

2007-08-10 Thread Mick
On Friday 10 August 2007 15:43, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:40:35 Mick wrote: On Sunday 05 August 2007 01:03, Marc Redmann wrote: # ls -la /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 -- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 2005 /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 # ls -la

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Zac
Why don't you want mulit-core scheduler support? On 8/10/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Grant wrote: I just upgraded from an AMD64 Sempron to an AMD64 Athlon X2. What do I need to do in software to accommodate the new CPU? Do I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 4G memory

2007-08-10 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/10/07, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a bit confused, because before this moment I thought that 4G for amd64 platform is normal memory size... I've Asus a8n-e motherboard and AMD X2 cpu. Yesterday I've installed +1G memory to my already installed 3G. Before this

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 4G memory

2007-08-10 Thread Tim
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Hi, I'm a bit confused, because before this moment I thought that 4G for amd64 platform is normal memory size... I've Asus a8n-e motherboard and AMD X2 cpu. Yesterday I've installed +1G memory to my already installed 3G. Before this my system showed that all 3072M

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 4G memory

2007-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Hi, I'm a bit confused, because before this moment I thought that 4G for amd64 platform is normal memory size... I've Asus a8n-e motherboard and AMD X2 cpu. Yesterday I've installed +1G memory to my already installed 3G. Before this my

Re: [gentoo-user] charset iso/utf

2007-08-10 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Hmm... Your email uses UTF-8, but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. How come? jokeHe's mailer is probably 25 years old./joke - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad

Re: [gentoo-user] charset iso/utf (was:packages.gentoo.org down?)

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré), Hmm... Your email uses UTF-8, but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. How come? Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge reporting different number of ._cfg....s

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Gary Artim wrote: * IMPORTANT: 4 config files in '/etc' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. localhost gary # find /etc -iname '._cfg*' /etc/mutt/._cfg_Muttrc.dist /etc/mutt/._cfg_mime.types.dist

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Grant wrote: I just upgraded from an AMD64 Sempron to an AMD64 Athlon X2. What do I need to do in software to accommodate the new CPU? Do I need to enable something in the kernel to get the dual cores working? I've read something about support for AMD's Cool and

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Zac
The reason I asked is that I have been running this on my AMDX2 systems since it has been available with no noticeable degradation, and possibly a little better responsiveness. I thought maybe you had some experience with it that would contradict my experiences. I always assumed that the If

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 04:59:08 John covici wrote: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --color=n  --verbose --nospinner This is nit-picking but usually (99% of all cases) --verbose isn't needed with --info. Hence `emerge --info --ignore-default-opts` would be preferable (less noisy) on bug reports and

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Naga
On Friday 10 August 2007 03:43:37 Albert W. Hopkins wrote: [an explanation] Thanks for that! We (I) do appreciate the work you do! -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.cflags

2007-08-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! Is there any sensible reason why it is not possible to change cflags and cxxflags on a per-package base like useflags? I think gcc's default behavior is to use the last given setting if you specify for example -O2 and -O3 at the same time. Therefore simple appending should be safe,

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
070809 Albert W. Hopkins wrote: I'm sorry for the late response but the following will hopefully clear up some things. I am out of town all this week and all next week. I have no access to Gentoo's servers and limited access to the Internet. On top of that I am *very* busy ATM. There is a

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge reporting different number of ._cfg....s

2007-08-10 Thread Remy Blank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Artim wrote: emerge has been reporting +1 more ._cfg then I find when I run find. This has just started happening. I noticed the same thing, emerge reports one more file to be updated than etc-update finds. It's an off-by-one bug in the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-10 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/10/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all, I'm in need of a portable video camera(or rig), such as the sony SR82, but one that is gentoo friendly for video transfer. Hopefully I can find a video camera that transfers directly to a gentoo sytem via usb 2.0? After my experience

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.cflags

2007-08-10 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/10/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Is there any sensible reason why it is not possible to change cflags and cxxflags on a per-package base like useflags? I think gcc's default behavior is to use the last given setting if you specify for example -O2 and -O3 at the same

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.cflags

2007-08-10 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 10 August 2007 22:16:31 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! Is there any sensible reason why it is not possible to change cflags and cxxflags on a per-package base like useflags? I think gcc's default behavior is to use the last given setting if you specify for example -O2 and -O3 at the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 10 August 2007 18:01:09 Dan Cowsill wrote: Again, I apologize for the outage. We'll be back online next week and hopefully after that we'll have a better way of dealing with issues like this when they arise. So please have patience

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 10 August 2007 16:57 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Zac wrote: Why don't you want mulit-core scheduler support? read the help text. CONFIG_SCHED_MC: Multi-core scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making when dealing with multi-core

Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-10 Thread Joseph
I think with Linux you will be limited to FireWire port only; correct me anybody if I'm wrong. -- #Joseph On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 17:39 +, James wrote: Hello to all, I'm in need of a portable video camera(or rig), such as the sony SR82, but one that is gentoo friendly for video

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 4G memory

2007-08-10 Thread Jarry
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Before this my system showed that all 3072M of memory are avalible. After +1G instalation it shows 3948M of avalible memory. You're a lucky man! I have 3 GB in my PC (mobo Asus A8N-sli deluxe, amd64/x2-4800+) and bios shows 3 or ~2.8 GB depending on the graphic

[gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-10 Thread Walter Dnes
My 1999 Dell with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of *MAIN RAM* is finally dying on me. With the network card, and now the internal modem gone, I think it's time to retire the Dell. Next month would be its 8th anniversary, and that is ancient for a PC. I have an AMD3000+ as my new main machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Walter Dnes wrote: It features an Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 video chip. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_graphics_media_accelerator the 3100 chip is very similar to the GMA 950, which works very well under Linux. The G33 and friends are listed in

Re: [gentoo-user] charset iso/utf (was:packages.gentoo.org down?)

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
070810 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Philip Webb wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré), Your email uses UTF-8, What do you mean ? but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. That is what I would expect Mutt to use. --

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Grant
The reason I asked is that I have been running this on my AMDX2 systems since it has been available with no noticeable degradation, and possibly a little better responsiveness. I thought maybe you had some experience with it that would contradict my experiences. I always assumed that

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote: And now here is the relevant section of the config.log file. configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins configure:23058: result: yes

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 10. August 2007, Grant wrote: The reason I asked is that I have been running this on my AMDX2 systems since it has been available with no noticeable degradation, and possibly a little better responsiveness. I thought maybe you had some experience with it that would

[gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070810 Benno Schulenberg wrote: Philip Webb wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré), Your email uses UTF-8, What do you mean ? You wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré). Notice the letters é. This looks quite a lot like UTF-8 to me. In your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Cowsill
The point is if you want immediate and professional reactions everytime something happens you should be paying someone to monitor things.. I'm sorry, it just seems a tad ignorant to assume that the reason the problem with the server was not addressed is because no one was being paid to

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.cflags

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 22:16:31 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! Is there any sensible reason why it is not possible to change cflags and cxxflags on a per-package base like useflags? I think gcc's default behavior is to use the last given setting if you specify for example -O2 and -O3 at the

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Grant
The reason I asked is that I have been running this on my AMDX2 systems since it has been available with no noticeable degradation, and possibly a little better responsiveness. I thought maybe you had some experience with it that would contradict my experiences. I always

Re: [gentoo-user] where does ufed put flags?

2007-08-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 10 August 2007 22:18:21 Thufir wrote: Here are my use flags: If you wanted to show your use flags you should have pasted `emerge --info`. localhost ~ # cat /etc/make.profile/make.defaults [...] Why are you pasting things from the bottom level of your profile? You should really read

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
070810 Alexander Skwar wrote: You wrote: (I've just been reading LeCarré). Notice the letters é. This looks quite a lot like UTF-8 to me. In your header, you are saying, that you don't use UTF-8, though. I write e-mails with Gvim called up by Mutt (as now). My Gvim settings (probably dating

Re: [gentoo-user] New CPU, what needs to be done?

2007-08-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 11. August 2007, Grant wrote: The reason I asked is that I have been running this on my AMDX2 systems since it has been available with no noticeable degradation, and possibly a little better responsiveness. I thought maybe you had some experience with it that would

[gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-10 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide) that is redily available? Yes, I bought one from http://linitx.com and use it in my MythTV frontend. OK, I found some for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-10 Thread Tim
James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide) that is redily available? Yes, I bought one from http://linitx.com and use it in my MythTV frontend. OK, I found