[gentoo-amd64] Hardware: USB controller card recommendations?

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Kjorling
Can anyone recommend a good USB 2.0 controller card for my AMD64-based system? The one I currently have seems to work for only small amounts of data, and I have heard that Via chipsets have this problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hardware: USB controller card recommendations?

2006-01-11 Thread Bob Sanders
Michael Kjorling, mused, then expounded: Can anyone recommend a good USB 2.0 controller card for my AMD64-based system? The one I currently have seems to work for only small amounts of data, and I have heard that Via chipsets have this problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread Fernando Boaglio
Hi, =DI would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce NVidia!My old GeForce2 it's really bugging me, freezing my desktop sometimes, which gave me the error NVRM XID: 0008. =( I don't see people complaining about this error at Nvidia forums with new boards, only GForce2 and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] XOrg 6.9

2006-01-11 Thread Hamish Marson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: On 1/9/06, Hamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WOuld it be impolite of me to ask if XOrg 6.9 is ever going to be available for amd64? I see that 7.0 (Modularised) version is hard masked, but it doesn't compile anyway when I unmask

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread plaf
i recently purchased an nsilencer 6600gt, i really like it. it has 256mb and it has zero sound emmission hence the name. on my box, glxgears gives about 6300fps with it. it was around $110CDN On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:37 -0200, Fernando Boaglio wrote: Hi, =D I would like to hear from your

[gentoo-amd64] Re: NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread Duncan
Fernando Boaglio posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:37:17 -0200: br clear=allHi, =DbrbrI would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce NVidia!brbrMy old GeForce2 it's really bugging me, freezing my desktop sometimes, which brgave me the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: XOrg 6.9

2006-01-11 Thread Hamish Marson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Hamish Marson posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:31:16 +: The file glxproto.h appears to be incorrect on my machine... I'm not sure which part of the modularised X this file should be a part

[gentoo-amd64] x11-drm-20051223 failure - `SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED' undeclared

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm running a non-Gentoo 2.6.15 kernel with realtime support. I ran into this problem with x11-drm: make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.15-rt2' CC [M]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread James Chapman
I have a new 7800GT and it runs perfectly. Had to install the drivers manually (emerge kept breaking everything) but it is really really awesome. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ glxgears 57792 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11558.400 FPS 68485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13697.000 FPS 68615 frames in 5.0 seconds

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11-drm-20051223 failure - `SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED' undeclared

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took a quick look at Bugzilla but didn't see anything that matched up. Does this work with the Gentoo kernel? Builds fine here against suspend2-sources-2.6.15 Any other ideas? Older versions of x11-drm did emerge correctly:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread Roy Wright
James Chapman wrote: I have a new 7800GT and it runs perfectly. Had to install the drivers manually (emerge kept breaking everything) but it is really really awesome. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ glxgears 57792 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11558.400 FPS 68485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13697.000 FPS 68615

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread Martin Martinov
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 22:44, Duncan wrote: Fernando Boaglio posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:37:17 -0200: br clear=allHi, =DbrbrI would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce NVidia!brbrMy old GeForce2 it's really bugging me,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Cedega running programs on fat32 partition

2006-01-11 Thread Jordi Molina
Hi Brett, Normally, as said by transgaming support and in the FAQs for cedega, you can have issues running games from a non ext/reiserfs partition. I can tell you from my experience that most of the games fails to run in cedega when running them from a fat32/ntfs volume. What I do now is run