Re: [gentoo-user] STEAM
Den 31.01.2013 06:34, skrev Yohan Pereira: > On 30/01/13 at 11:05pm, Teodor Spæren wrote: >> Totaly agree with you! Now if I could only get TF2 to work > > TF2 works perfectly fine here. The only problem I'm facing (apart from > drop in productivity) is the cursor flip issue that Alexandre mentioned. > I have not really put a great effort into setting it up yet, but I will do so later! With best regards, - Teodor Spæren
Re: [gentoo-user] STEAM
Den 30.01.2013 22:28, skrev jdm: Big thanks to the guys and girls who got the STEAM overlay up and running. Its awesome. PS Along with Gentoo of course. Getting darn all done in the way of work though! Steam on Linux. Alas I can see the end of my dual booting days. Regards John Totaly agree with you! Now if I could only get TF2 to work With best regards, - Teodor Spæren
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!
> You may want to consider a swap file: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/ I have already done this. I had some problems trying to compile gcc, so I learned it then. > NB: I don't know how well it's going to help with Gentoo. It's been close to a > decade, if not longer, since I've used a machine with such limits, and we only > installed binary system to them. There is tinderbox for Gentoo, if that would > help any at all: http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ I don't know what tinderbox is, but I'll have to look it up. I thought that gentoo would be perfect for such an old system, except for the long compile times :3 > With all due respect, Gentoo is the only distro using a Gentoo patched kernel. > It's not really necessary, and NONE of the 8 comps in our shop runs any of the > gentoo provided kernel sources. Just get the kernel.org of your choice and: Yeah, that is what I thought! After doing an LFS install, I don't even know the benefit of the patched kernel. > > Change the version for whichever one you desire. Thanks :) I use curl, but I guess it is the same with some command diffrence. It seems that I have gotten the general idea. Since there are non who really can give me a reason it won't work I will go for a vanilla kernel. Thanks so much for the helpful answers. With best regards, - TheRedMood
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!
> From: nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem! > Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:32:54 +0200 > No surprise here, from what I can see, what's happening is that *emerge* > is running out of memory, it's not a compilation, so -pipe or MAKEOPTS > won't make any difference here. Are you, by any chance, running anything > else on the machine, or maybe you forgot to enable the swap? No, I am running a cli only liverescuecd. There is nothing that should take much swap. > Even then, unless emerge has changed a lot in the last few years, I > doubt you need that much memory to have emerge copy files to /. But > check the output of "free -m" or something like that to check whether 1) > there's something else using a lot of memory and 2) the swap is > effectiely enabled. Output of free -m: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 116 41 75 0 2 14 -/+ buffers/cache: 23 92 Swap: 486153332 > You can install the vanilla kernel, I think you can even use emerge for > that, but I also think your problem here is with emerge running out of > memory, not gentoo-sources being incompatible. I'd try to fix whatever > the emerge issue is as it will probably prevent you from installing > other packages, and that is effectively a major issue when you want to > use the system. That is my concern. If I get it working with a vanilla kernel, and then booting into the system, emerge do not work, it was all wasted. With best regards, - TheRedMood
RE: [gentoo-user] Ram Problem!
Ohh! Thanks a lot :) Still it would have been useful to know what was causing it to go out of memory.
[gentoo-user] Ram Problem!
Hello! I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I think is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu and the ram. It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. The command I issue is: "emerge gentoo-sources" and the output of the command is this: http://bpaste.net/raw/66293/ The only thing I can really read from the error message is that it runs out of ram. This surprises me because all it is really doing is moving the kernel sources into place? I asked around in #gentoo on irc.freenode.net and someone adviced me to turn of "MAKEOPTS="-j2" and "-pipe", but this doesn't fix it. The possible work around I have thought of is just getting the vanilla kernel from kernel.org, but the gentoo wiki advise against it, since gentoo-sources is a patched kernel. This is my first post to a mailing list, so I hope it is not to bad! :D With best regards, - TheRedMood
