Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, KH wrote: > why does > > #ls /usr/src/linux/arch/ > > show > > alpha/     blackfin/  h8300/     m32r/      mips/      ppc/       > sh64/      um/        xtensa/   > arm/       cris/      i386/      m68k/      parisc/    s390/       > sparc/     v850/     > avr32/    

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > oh, and for whatever reason wine performs better under 64 bit OS > rather than 32. Don't have any other proof then my own experience but > Diablo LOD runs much smoother once I've rebuilt my system with 64bit > with the same useflags and ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb ext KH: > why does > > #ls /usr/src/linux/arch/ > > show > > alpha/ blackfin/ h8300/ m32r/ mips/ ppc/ > sh64/ um/xtensa/ > arm/ cris/ i386/ m68k/ parisc/s390/ > sparc/ v850/ > avr32/ frv/ i

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: The x86_64 name is used by Red Hat

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Hal Martin
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On February 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit machine >>> I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I >>> guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On February 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit > > > machine > > > > I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I > > guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32 > > version, works gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Boris Fersing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:06:13PM -0500: > On Feb 12, 2008 8:06 AM, Benjamen R. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, "Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL > > > PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Boris Fersing
On Feb 12, 2008 8:06 AM, Benjamen R. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, "Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - > >> Intel's version of the A

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Wael Nasreddine wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, "Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - >> Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible. > >> Best place to check is Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200: > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > The x86_64 name is used by Red Hat and other distros. There are all > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > Let's say this processor supports 64 bits, what whould I gain from > > migrating to x86_64 I mean would it be faster??? I've neve

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > Let's say this processor supports 64 bits, what whould I gain from > migrating to x86_64 I mean would it be faster??? I've never > owned/worked on a 64bit machine before so excuse my lack of knowledge > > :) Please stop using the x86_64 nomencl

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Wael Nasreddine
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, "Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - > Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible. > Best place to check is Intel's website - here's what I found:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible. Best place to check is Intel's website - here's what I found: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sspec=sl9dv http://developer.intel.com/design/mob

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-11 Thread Boris Fersing
On Feb 11, 2008 10:17 PM, Wael Nasreddine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > It's been like 6 months I'm using the arch i686, but today I saw on this > page[1] something that confused me, saying that I have an x86_64 arch I have a > Toshiba A135-S4427 with Intel dual core 1.73Ghz here's the ou

[gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-11 Thread Wael Nasreddine
Hello, It's been like 6 months I'm using the arch i686, but today I saw on this page[1] something that confused me, saying that I have an x86_64 arch I have a Toshiba A135-S4427 with Intel dual core 1.73Ghz here's the output of /proc/cpuinfo CUT processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineI