[gentoo-user] emerge output, screenshots and the list Was: fcitx crash, libpng cairo?

2013-04-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 April 2013, at 06:14, Jackie wrote: ... Tried to downgrade libpng cairo today but no luck… I've here got the snapshot of the infomation got after masking libpng-1.6.1 cairo-1.12.14.Hell No!snapshot7_libpng_slot.png I'm looking at your problem now to try and help you with it, but

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge output, screenshots and the list Was: fcitx crash, libpng cairo?

2013-04-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 April 2013, at 11:11, Jackie wrote: … I am now glad to tell you that the problem was indeed due to cairo update,which caused fcitx's skin failed to load,thus th einput method failed to load normally.Luckily,upstream developers have delt with it and my problem was solved after I

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 12:18 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Saturday 13 April 2013 10:39:08 AM IST, Kvothe Tech wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi people! My old core2duo machine says slowly goodbye and I am at

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Philip Webb
130413 Tamer Higazi wrote: I am after 7 years buying myself a new developer machine well for a long time again. With intel I never had problems, all their systems were REALLY stable and they were really worth their money up to the last cent. There are 3 choices: Intel Xeon E5-2650 Core

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: I myself prefer AMD CPUs to Intel ones. Intel has this habit of 'segmenting' their processor features. E.g., Intel VT-x (Intel's buggy implementation of AMD-V) is not available across the board. If one needs to leverage VT-x for virtualization purposes, one must be

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi Dale! Am 13.04.2013 13:54, schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote: I myself prefer AMD CPUs to Intel ones. Intel has this habit of 'segmenting' their processor features. E.g., Intel VT-x (Intel's buggy implementation of AMD-V) is not available across the board. What is VT-x And also

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Alexander Schwarz
Am 13.04.2013 15:28, schrieb Tamer Higazi: The intel ones after it served me this 7 years well. However, I do not swear using intel, but I want to know if it makes sense or to buy a new intel cpu or it's only advertising in the cloud. I believe AMD is doing meanwhile stable cpu's as well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Rant/Warning: fun with awesome and lightdm

2013-04-13 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:23:35 +0700 schrieb Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: On Apr 9, 2013 11:18 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Update: I opened a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465288. There is a reference to the Awesome upstream bug which resulted in the change to

Re: [gentoo-user] fcitx crash----something to do with libpng cairo?

2013-04-13 Thread Erick Guan
check your ~/.config/fcitx/log if you are sure fcitx crashed. Feel free to talk at irc #fcitx On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Jackie jiangjun12...@gmail.com wrote: 在 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:47:56 +0800,Wang Xuerui idontknw.w...@gmail.com 写道: 2013/4/13 Jackie jiangjun12...@gmail.com: I am

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 8:29 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Dale! Am 13.04.2013 13:54, schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote: I myself prefer AMD CPUs to Intel ones. Intel has this habit of 'segmenting' their processor features. E.g., Intel VT-x (Intel's buggy

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Erick Guan
E3 1230v2 is enough for me. You don't have to spend a lot of money for CPU. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 13, 2013 8:29 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Dale! Am 13.04.2013 13:54, schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi Erick! Thank you very much for your great description that makes my decision easier. However, one last question On a modern AMD machine, would I have to enable hyperthreading support in the kernel as well, and should / must I double the cores at the MAKEOPTS flag ?! Tamer Am

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 13, 2013 11:57 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 13.04.2013 18:24, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Apr 13, 2013 8:29 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com mailto:th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Dale! Am 13.04.2013 13:54, schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 07:03:26AM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! My old core2duo machine says slowly goodbye and I am at this lever after 7 years for buying myself a new developer machine, that should serve me well for a long time again. With intel I never had problems, all their

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/13/2013 01:45 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: [snip] Three, AMD has no concept of Hyperthreading. Correct. Just match -j to the number of cores your CPU provides, and that's it. Well, YMMV. You can spend a lot of time adjusting -j on a per-system basis to account for things like I/O. Right

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/13/2013 01:50 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 07:03:26AM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! My old core2duo machine says slowly goodbye and I am at this lever after 7 years for buying myself a new developer machine, that should serve me well for a long time

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 02:44:20PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I'm currently holding out on my Core2 though, because Haswell is on the doorstep, and I first wanna see what the market has to offer. The CPU part might not gain much in performance, but the graphics part got a big boost and

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/13/2013 05:49 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 02:44:20PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I'm currently holding out on my Core2 though, because Haswell is on the doorstep, and I first wanna see what the market has to offer. The CPU part might not gain much in

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Am 13.04.2013 19:45, schrieb Pandu Poluan: One, I'm not Erick. Sorry Pandu Two, please don't top-post. Three, AMD has no concept of Hyperthreading. Just match -j to the number of cores your CPU provides, and that's it. okay. As I wrote, an AMD Quad Core provides actual 4 cores.

Re: [gentoo-user] fcitx crash----something to do with libpng cairo?

2013-04-13 Thread Jackie
problem solved now.I searched through Internet and got the information that the crash wad caused by the newer version of cairo fcitx,which led to a failure of th eload of fcitx's skin.Anyway,developers have had it fixed and after an update of fcitx to version 4.2.7-r1,everything is cool

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 14, 2013 1:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/13/2013 01:45 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: [snip] Three, AMD has no concept of Hyperthreading. Correct. Just match -j to the number of cores your CPU provides, and that's it. Well, YMMV. You can spend a lot of time