[gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello list, I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part): CFLAGS=-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Joshua Doll
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hello list, I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part):

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel da Veiga writes: I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part):

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/18/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This will also optimize for the cpu, but the code will run on any x86 CPU. emerge world --emptytree

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/18/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This will also optimize for the cpu, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/18/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/18/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instead of two emerge --emptytree it would be faster to just nuke the installation I agree. Just back up /etc, make a copy of your world file and any other config files you may need and start from scratch. At least then you KNOW for sure where

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 18:49:00 Alex Schuster wrote: What I want to know is, will my software, compiled with the above settings, run in the new processor? I think this will not work well, because your current system has Athlon-specific CPU instructions which the Intel machine dows not

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 20:38, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/18/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instead of two emerge --emptytree it would be faster to just nuke the installation I agree. Just back up /etc, make a copy of your world file and any other config files you may need

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:37:34 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: instead of two emerge --emptytree it would be faster to just nuke the installation Except you can continue to use the machine this way. -- Neil Bothwick Do not underestimate the power of the Force. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:49:00 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This will also optimize for the cpu, but the code will run on any x86 CPU. emerge world

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/18/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:49:00 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This will also optimize for the cpu,