I'm (re)installing Gentoo on an older AMD notebook. The output from "less /proc/cpuinfo" includes...
processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor stepping : 3 microcode : 0x10000b6 cpu MHz : 2100.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt nodeid_msr hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save bogomips : 4189.59 TLB size : 1024 4K pages Now for the questions * In "make menuconfig", I'm not sure which of 2 CPU options to select in Processor type and features ---> Processor family (*****************) ---> ( ) Athlon/Duron/K7 ( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 Which one do I go with? * I believe that "pni" == "sse3" (with *TWO* "s") Is that correct? * The cpuinfo output shows "sse4a". Is that the same as the "sse4_1" USE flag, or is it different -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications