Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 May 2007 07:28:31 +0200 Roman Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Briggs wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. Not all Core 2 Duo's in

[gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread burlingk
Due to issues with some of the software I am wanting to run, when it is run under the AMD64 bit version of Gentoo (one of which is Blender, which I hope will be properly stable soon), I am planning to run x86 Gentoo (With the i686 stage3) on an AMD64 processor. My question is this, If I enabel

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-25 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, May 24, 2007 12:38 pm, Denis wrote: My aim is to build a fast, stable system for my computations, which ultimately brought me to another major decision: 32-bit or 64-bit... I run simulations which I write in C and numerical computations which I run in Mathematica (which has just

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 20:44:10 -0400, Denis wrote: I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. One concern I have - when I configure the kernel, I fail to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 25 May 2007 02:12:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is this, If I enabel 64 bit support in the kernel, You mean run a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit support. There's no such thing as a 32-bit kernel with 64-bit support (at least not in x86-land). is that likely to cause any

[gentoo-user] Problem with Suspend-to-RAM and Virtual Consoles

2007-05-25 Thread Brian Johnson
I've got an interesting problem when attempting to Suspend-to-RAM (S3) and virtual consoles. I swear, three days ago it was working and I didn't change anything (I don't think) at least that would change how this works (i.e. kernel, drivers, whatever) With that said, here's my problem (and what

RE: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:07 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo. On Friday 25 May 2007 02:12:49 [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-25 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Randy Barlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 4:23 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf? Snip If you are using a lot of memory in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 25 May 2007 04:09:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, unless I need the upper memory support, it may be better for me to just not click the flag for 64bit memory support, and move on? IIRC, that's for PAE, which you definitely shouldn't use unless you have 4G of RAM or greater. Ticking

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 24 May 2007 23:42:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: In particular can I share  * distfiles (DISTDIR)  * logs (PORT_LOGDIR) Sure.  * tmp (PORTAGE_TMPDIR) If you ever compile the same package at the same time that may not be such a good idea. Even if it works it may be confusing. Why not

RE: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 6:28 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo. On Friday 25 May 2007 04:09:00 [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 25 May 2007 04:53:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes the difference between a 64 bit kernel, and a 32 bit kernel? Use of 64-bit machine code [*], particularly instructions that make use of 64-bit native[**] registers[***]. * Defining this is more difficult, since that does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Denis
What makes the difference between a 64 bit kernel, and a 32 bit kernel? Use of 64-bit machine code [*], particularly instructions that make use of 64-bit native[**] registers[***]. Is there any slowdown for the 64-bit set-up when it has to run 32-bit software? Aside from not having the

RE: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Denis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 9:32 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo. What makes the difference between a 64 bit kernel, and a 32

[gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've already asked this question on gentoo-user-de but I've got no - let's say - convenient answer. Therefore I'll try my luck here: Another user had some trouble because Kaffeine couldn't play .ogg-files. In the end we found out that he activated the necessary USE-flag and re-emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 14:31 schrieb Denis: What makes the difference between a 64 bit kernel, and a 32 bit kernel? Use of 64-bit machine code [*], particularly instructions that make use of 64-bit native[**] registers[***]. Is there any slowdown for the 64-bit set-up when it has to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 25 May 2007 15:19:30 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another user had some trouble because Kaffeine couldn't play .ogg-files. In the end we found out that he activated the necessary USE-flag and re-emerged xine-lib but Kaffeine kept using the old lib which was

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 25 May 2007, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Changing libaries': Another user had some trouble because Kaffeine couldn't play .ogg-files. In the end we found out that he activated the necessary USE-flag and re-emerged xine-lib but Kaffeine kept using the

RE: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:20 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries Hi! I've already asked this question on gentoo-user-de but I've got no - let's say -

RE: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Peter Alfredsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:55 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo. On Friday 25 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 15:39 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:20 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries Hi! I've already asked this question

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Friday 25 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, the reason that Blender is masked, is because it does messed up things to the save files in the AMD64 version. http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-244/64-bits-support/ ^Not anymore. -- /PA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy/Paste Functionality in Konsole

2007-05-25 Thread mark
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 10:52 -0400, Dan Cowsill wrote: I have just recently switched over to KDE and started using Konsole, and I was wondering something. I really like the copy/paste functionality you find in the Linux console and in PuTTY where you just highlight the text you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-25 Thread Thiago Lüttig
when I start kde as root, everything works fine On 5/24/07, Fabio A Correa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Thiago, Thiago Lüttig wrote: saying, it cannot contact DCop Server or connect to the X server. I Could you please post the messages the

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 May 2007 11:32:48 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2007 23:42:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: In particular can I share  * tmp (PORTAGE_TMPDIR) If you ever compile the same package at the same time that may not be such a good idea. Even if it works

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-25 Thread Andreas Claesson
On 5/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Randy Barlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Snip If you are using a lot of memory in your computations, then the 64-bit environment will be much friendlier to you :) Also, if I understand correctly, you

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Roman Zimmermann
Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 18:52 schrieb Allan Gottlieb wrote: As I mentioned, I would be dual booting into *either* x86 or amd64. There is only one computer (my laptop) involved; all filesystems are local. Since the two systems can never be booted simultanously you can AFAIK share all of those

[gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

2007-05-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I did #emerge --sync a couple of weeks ago, followed by an update of portage. But seems every time I do $ emerge -pv some pkg it always references software out-of-date by years sometimes. Two recent examples: sdcc and ecasound. There are many more. How do I tell portage to go for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-25 Thread Thiago Lüttig
Man, when I start kde with a regular user, it takes the eternity to start, and doesn't say any error message On 5/25/07, Thiago Lüttig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I start kde as root, everything works fine On 5/24/07, Fabio A Correa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 May 2007 13:49:44 -0300, Thiago Lüttig wrote: when I start kde as root, everything works fine This sounds like a permissions problem, I've seen something like this before. If so, the cure is chown -R user: ~user/.kde/ -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh as he farted in front of a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

2007-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:27:10 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: I did #emerge --sync a couple of weeks ago, followed by an update of portage. But seems every time I do $ emerge -pv some pkg it always references software out-of-date by years sometimes. Two recent examples: sdcc and ecasound.

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 May 2007 19:24:41 +0200 Roman Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 18:52 schrieb Allan Gottlieb wrote: As I mentioned, I would be dual booting into *either* x86 or amd64. There is only one computer (my laptop) involved; all filesystems are local. Since the

[gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread Christer Ekholm
Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:14:53PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote Hi group, I connect to the web using $sudo /usr/sbin/pon isp on one machine(2.6.20-gentoo-r6). On another machine(2.6.19-gentoo-r5), I get :sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-25 Thread Denis
On 5/25/07, Andreas Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you (Denis) are doing a lot of mathematical calculations you will probably benefit from running in 64bit mode. I often need to run Monte Carlo simulations (in C) which involve a lot of array storage and array scanning/searching

Re: [gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

2007-05-25 Thread b.n.
maxim wexler ha scritto: How do I tell portage to go for the latest stable pkg without having to download the tarball and compiling/installing it manually? You probably want ebuilds for newer packages that are still not in Portage. You can 1)file a request bug or 2)write an ebuild yourself for

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Alfredsen
http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-244/64-bits-supp ort/ ^Not anymore. Has this migrated it's way to the portage tree yet? I am not in a position to check. ^^;; Yes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread maxim wexler
$ls -l `which sudo` ---s--x--x 1 root root 107240 2007-05-21 11:11 /usr/bin/sudo* ^ ^ setuidroot -- Christer Thanks Christer, never saw that command before, but like I told Walter, a listing for sudo is indeed: ---s--x--1 2 root root

[gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread Christer Ekholm
I was wrong. Sorry. I realize now that this cannot be your problem, sudo tell you that it is not setuid if it's not. $ sudo chmod -s sudo $ sudo ls sudo: must be setuid root Thanks Christer, never saw that command before, but like I told Walter, a listing for sudo is indeed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread maxim wexler
Example: $ pwd /usr/bin $ ls -li sudo 8803772 ---s--x--x 2 root root 107240 2007-05-21 11:11 sudo* $ find . -inum 8803772 ./sudo ./foo $ ls -li foo 8803772 ---s--x--x 2 root root 107240 2007-05-21 11:11 foo* Unfortunately I do not know what's wrong, try to

RE: [gentoo-user] portage lags behind?

2007-05-25 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: b.n. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 6:28 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage lags behind? maxim wexler ha scritto: How do I tell portage to go for the latest stable pkg without having to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 25 May 2007, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works': strace: ... open(/etc/sudoers, O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) FS corruption. Check dmesg for any errors, but fsck the filesystem