Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 19, 2011 1:18 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Kind of like what I always do when I switch from -march=nocona to -march=native. (Usually I use -march=nocona to ensure seamless VM migration on my XenServer-equipped boxen, but for some VMs, i.e., those requiring

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: On 12/16/2011 10:12 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Dual layer DVDs will only work, if the layer break is at the right place. I so far have not been able to get the layer break value from the IFO file. You need to use cdrecord -atip to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.11.2011 01:04, schrieb Neil Bothwick: If you're feeling adventurous, GCC 4.6, currently masked for testing, has specific -march options for the i7 and Sandybridge i7, according to the Gentoo Wiki CFLAGS page. Being adventurous now. compiled sys-devel/gcc-4.6.2, and set CFLAGS=-O2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.12.2011 12:01, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Built my kernel for a start, runs fine. Considering to emerge world after a nice backup ;-) correction: emerge system for a start ... sure ...

[gentoo-user] Re: A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-19 Thread walt
On 12/18/2011 10:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Just like with any other optimization switch, there can be bugs. If Gentoo says it doesn't support graphite, then I'd stay away from it because Gentoo devs might not listen to your bug reports if you use it. I've been using gcc with graphite

[gentoo-user] Re: please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-19 Thread walt
On 12/18/2011 05:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: # /etc/portage/package.mask: # GNOME 3.2 stuff =gnome-extra/sushi-0.2.1 Just working from memory here. Try removing the version number: gnome-extra/sushi

[gentoo-user] Xmonad!

2011-12-19 Thread jorge espada
Hi, I'm thinking of giving a try to Xmonad X11/window manager... anyone has experience or recommendations. Should I use kde or gnome as base.. or relay 100% on xmonad Thanks Jorge E. Espada

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmonad!

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
I use 'awesome', another tiling wm. No need to base it off of gnome or kde...Haven't tried xmonad, though. On Dec 19, 2011 8:44 AM, jorge espada espada.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of giving a try to Xmonad X11/window manager... anyone has experience or recommendations. Should I

Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Kind of like what I always do when I switch from -march=nocona to -march=native. (Usually I use -march=nocona to ensure seamless VM migration on my XenServer-equipped boxen, but for some VMs, i.e., those

[gentoo-user] (Solved) please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand.  The entire output is below. As far as I can tell

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-26 17:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Thanks for quoting me, Michael ... but I also googled that command somewhere ... not my idea ... ;-) Just went to that URL to cut and paste the command, the mentioned one doesn't work! My make.conf shows this comment/command: gcc

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package management. -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 2011-11-26 17:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Thanks for quoting me, Michael ... but I also googled that command somewhere ... not my idea ... ;-) Just went to that URL to cut and paste the command, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package management. http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread András Csányi
On 19 December 2011 21:04, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package management. May I ask what would be the benefit of it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:32 PM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2011 21:04, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package management. Have a look at this thread:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package management. Have a look

[gentoo-user] DVD gives error but works fine

2011-12-19 Thread Dale
This is mostly for Joerg Schilling since he is the list guru for ALL things DVD but others with nice answers can reply too. ;-) Anyway. I have been making movie DVDs. Yea, I figured it out. It took a while too. Thing is, when I get ready to burn the DVD, I put in a nice shiney new

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD gives error but works fine

2011-12-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is mostly for Joerg Schilling since he is the list guru for ALL things DVD but others with nice answers can reply too.  ;-)   Anyway. I have been making movie DVDs.  Yea, I figured it out.  It took a while too.  Thing is,

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD gives error but works fine

2011-12-19 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Dale, We're operating in parallel today but using different tools. OK, based on Stroller's responses to my DVD Movie backup thread (or whatever it was called) I'm trying out dvdbackup + mkisofs + growisofs. So far the best (as measured by my ease of getting through it)

Re: [gentoo-user] (Solved) please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 20, 2011 2:58 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't