Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, July 17, 2012 5:36 am, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Virtualisation ? I am running qemu (windows, gentoo), vbox (windows, > gentoo, fedora) and gxemul (ultrix) all 32 bit guests on 32 bit systems > on either 32 or 64 bit hardware running gentoo - can you confirm you > need 64bit for 64bit gue

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> > So the same old query again I guess. >> > What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit >> > processor? >> > >> > I

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit for me. >>> >>> Why 32? ... Flash, win32

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 19:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > So the same old query again I guess. > > What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit > > processor? > > > > I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit >>> for me. >>> >> >> Why 32? ... Flash, win32 codecs, probably Wine but not sure as it has >> been years... >

[gentoo-user] [OT] Ángstróm Distribution: Sourcecode download?

2012-07-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, does someone know a way to download the Angstrom-Distribution and the according toolchain to build the binarie via crosscompiling on my Gentoo-system (I only found the binaries...) ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> So the same old query again I guess. >> What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit >> processor? >> >> I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > So the same old query again I guess. > What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit > processor? > > I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or > = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm n

[gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:52:08 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > So the same old query again I guess. > What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit > processor? > > I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is > gt or = 4 GB, even there 32bit is al

[gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
So the same old query again I guess. What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit processor? I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong. So what is recommended? There are as su

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC/Build Problems

2012-07-16 Thread Christopher Lemire
Every time I take the time to think through and write something like this up, I solve it pretty quickly afterwards. I'll tell you how I solved it. GCC wasn't the problem, and gcc-config -l wouldn't of done any good because I only had one gcc. So I created a simple hello.c that fprint("Hello Working

[gentoo-user] Re: /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/07/12 19:30, Silvio Siefke wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:03:33 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You cannot write to /home directly, only in your own /home/me home directory. I have formated the new partion with gparted in ext4. Then have mount the partion mount /dev/sda3 /home/siefke/ext

Re: [gentoo-user] /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 16. Juli 2012, 19:20:55 schrieb Silvio Siefke: > Hello, > > all is done. Now the /home is in other Partion. Sometimes make self trouble > where is no trouble. > > > Thanks at all. > > Regards > Silvio could have been so simple... just create partition, mount somewhere, cp -a, clean

Re: [gentoo-user] /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, all is done. Now the /home is in other Partion. Sometimes make self trouble where is no trouble. Thanks at all. Regards Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:03:33 +0300 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> You cannot write to /home directly, only in your own /home/me home >> directory. > > I have formated the new partion with gparted in ext4. Then have mount > the partion moun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Silvio Siefke
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:03:33 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > You cannot write to /home directly, only in your own /home/me home > directory. I have formated the new partion with gparted in ext4. Then have mount the partion mount /dev/sda3 /home/siefke/ext, but with user rights i can not write

[gentoo-user] Re: /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/07/12 18:34, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, my hdd is full and on the free partion i want make the /home partion. But how can make it? Copy and fstab? When i mount the partion over thunar i can not write as user on the partion. You cannot write to /home directly, only in your own /home/me h

Re: [gentoo-user] /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Silvio Siefke wrote: > Hello, > > my hdd is full and on the free partion i want make the /home partion. > But how can make it? Copy and fstab? When i mount the partion over thunar > i can not write as user on the partion. > > /dev/sda3 on /run/media/siefke/data ty

[gentoo-user] /home on other partion move

2012-07-16 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, my hdd is full and on the free partion i want make the /home partion. But how can make it? Copy and fstab? When i mount the partion over thunar i can not write as user on the partion. /dev/sda3 on /run/media/siefke/data type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) Has someone a advice for

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox - Bridged networking not working with broadcom-sta driver

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Tommy Bongaerts wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:42:54AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Tommy Bongaerts >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm running Gentoo on an Acer Travelmate 7750 laptop. This >> > particular laptop has a Broadcom

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox - Bridged networking not working with broadcom-sta driver

2012-07-16 Thread Tommy Bongaerts
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:42:54AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Tommy Bongaerts > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running Gentoo on an Acer Travelmate 7750 laptop. This > > particular laptop has a Broadcom wireless NIC that only works with > > the proprietary Broadcom wl

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox - Bridged networking not working with broadcom-sta driver

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Tommy Bongaerts wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Gentoo on an Acer Travelmate 7750 laptop. This particular > laptop has a Broadcom wireless NIC that only works with the > proprietary Broadcom wl driver as provided by the broadcom-sta ebuild. > > Wireless by itself work

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC/Build Problems

2012-07-16 Thread Todd Goodman
* Christopher Lemire [120716 08:08]: [..] > Making a simple Hello World and attempting to compile: > > bullshark@beastlinux ~ % cat hello.c > #include > > main() { > printf("Hello Working GCC\n."); > } > bullshark@beastlinux ~ % gcc hello.c -o hello > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../.

[gentoo-user] Virtualbox - Bridged networking not working with broadcom-sta driver

2012-07-16 Thread Tommy Bongaerts
Hi, I'm running Gentoo on an Acer Travelmate 7750 laptop. This particular laptop has a Broadcom wireless NIC that only works with the proprietary Broadcom wl driver as provided by the broadcom-sta ebuild. Wireless by itself works perfectly fine, but when I use virtualbox with the virtual NIC bri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The system's font display problem

2012-07-16 Thread 赵佳晖
Oh,Thank you,It worked 2012/7/15 Nikos Chantziaras > On 15/07/12 16:14, 赵佳晖 wrote: > > Hi.all . Just now i just change my locale so i can use the fcitx. But > > after i reboot , the system's fonts display has problem. > > and my locale: > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 > > LC_NUMERI

[gentoo-user] GCC/Build Problems

2012-07-16 Thread Christopher Lemire
I was doing a system upgrade. Following the instructions from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2&chap=1 emerge --sync emerge --update --deep world So after that, everything was updated except build dependencies and packages that had a use flag change on them, so I b

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - gcc-4.5.4 makes trouble

2012-07-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/16/2012 12:02:25 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I've just been bitten by this * surprise * > > After upgrading to gcc-4.5.4 (from 4.5.3) > some packages / ebuilds fail since gcc-4.5.4 doesn't include the libffi.so.4 > libr

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - gcc-4.5.4 makes trouble

2012-07-16 Thread Markos Chandras
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I've just been bitten by this * surprise * > > After upgrading to gcc-4.5.4 (from 4.5.3) > some packages / ebuilds fail since gcc-4.5.4 doesn't include the libffi.so.4 > library. > > I had to rebuild > dev-lang/perl (all versions

[gentoo-user] Heads Up - gcc-4.5.4 makes trouble

2012-07-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've just been bitten by this * surprise * After upgrading to gcc-4.5.4 (from 4.5.3) some packages / ebuilds fail since gcc-4.5.4 doesn't include the libffi.so.4 library. I had to rebuild dev-lang/perl (all versions here 2.7 3.2) dev-libs/gobject-introspection dev-libs/gobject-introsp

Re: [gentoo-user] consolekit is not active in awesome.

2012-07-16 Thread Leiking
yes, I tried, not work 2012/7/16 Mick : > On Saturday 14 Jul 2012 12:07:09 Leiking wrote: >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-930032.html?sid=5c01cd2a5c1d5d0da75c6a >> c01abf04a0 > > Have you tried starting awsome with: > > exec ck-launch-session startx > > > -- > Regards, > Mick