[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Duncan
Marco Matthies posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:08:15 +0200: > BTW, thanks for the tip about the Radeon cards and open-source drivers, > i am using a fanless radeon 9250 at the moment and am very pleased with it! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco Matthies wrote: > > Maybe you should try thunderbird-bin? Also you might want to check your > CFLAGS, thunderbird seems sensitive to this (manages to trigger many gcc > bugs). > Hmm - thought I had tried that, but indeed dropping to just -O2 m

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks very much for the clue about equery. I'll have to look into why eix didn't catch it. Does it use a differern database possibly? I've never used eix myself so mybe someone else can give a more definite answer, but i believe it uses some sort of index (yes, apparently i

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/26/05, Marco Matthies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi Marco, > >I'm not finding wine-0.9 in portage at all. I guess my servers are > > just behind a bit. Guess I'll wait until tomorrow. > > You can check with 'equery list -p wine' (equery is part of gentoolkit) > to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Marco, I'm not finding wine-0.9 in portage at all. I guess my servers are just behind a bit. Guess I'll wait until tomorrow. You can check with 'equery list -p wine' (equery is part of gentoolkit) to see which versions are available in your local portage dir. From the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/26/05, Marco Matthies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > >I just downloaded the new 0.9 release. The build fails pretty > > quickly (first 2 minute or so) with the following failure on my AMD64 > > machine. Anyone tried this yet? > > Hi Mark, > > i just built wine 0

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the new 0.9 release. The build fails pretty quickly (first 2 minute or so) with the following failure on my AMD64 machine. Anyone tried this yet? Hi Mark, i just built wine 0.9 through portage, so you might try that route (just note that 0.9 seems t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Duncan wrote: Very good! =8^) I'll have to check them out again, next time I upgrade (altho that could be some time yet, it's been two years and I had hoped that with memory upgrades and now dual core, I could extend my upgrade cycle to five years... something that seems quite reasonable, with t

[gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I just downloaded the new 0.9 release. The build fails pretty quickly (first 2 minute or so) with the following failure on my AMD64 machine. Anyone tried this yet? gcc -m32 -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -D__WINESRC__ -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Duncan
Marco Matthies posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:22:05 +0200: > FWIW, the newer files do seem to use .zip and .pdf (i only checked for > my mobo though K8T Neo2)-- so maybe your mail had a positive effect on > them? ;) Though I agree a freedos image to do the b

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Duncan wrote: MSI isn't all that Linux friendly. When I was shopping for a dual Opteron board, I checked out the MSI site and rejected them because all the BIOS upgrades and etc were in MSWormOS executable format (probably self extracting zip), as was all the documentation. FWIW, the newer fil

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Grace ploting

2005-10-26 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 20:25, George Deligeorgis wrote: > Hi there everybody, > I've been working with grace-5.1.18 for quite some time know on an > AMD64 gentoo. This pavkage is masked with the ~amd64 keyword. > It is my understanding that we guys using this program are supposed to > repor

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Duncan
Lee Thompson posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:18:05 -0700: > I'm attempting a dual core upgrade on a MSI Neo2 > Platinum. It requires a BIOS upgrade which just won't > boot linux as far as I can tell. Anyone got a Socket > 939 Mobo which will run 64 bit gentoo

[gentoo-amd64] slightly [OT] xplanet and KDE

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Haney
Rather off-topic, but I thought I'd ask to see if someone had a quick answer. I'm running xplanet and want to change some options. I have KDE configured to run it and it runs great, but how do I change the options on it? Can I specify a config file in the 'command' line in the Advanced Optio

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dig package

2005-10-26 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 06:49, Billy Holmes wrote: > John Myers wrote: > > filenames | 381,200 | 27.1M > > are you storing the full pathname here? yes, but see below > if you broke up the path in another table, and referenced that to the > basename, you could probably save lots o

Re: [gentoo-amd64] syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1 /usr/lib64/libol.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

2005-10-26 Thread Craig Webster
Hi, > This worked great, thanks :) No problem. I had the same error message regarding the shadow libs a few days ago -- it seems that there's still a few packages in the AMD64 2005.1 CD that have this issue, but they'll hopefully be updated for 2005.2 or 2006.1 (or whatever the next AMD64 cd

Re: [gentoo-amd64] syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1 /usr/lib64/libol.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

2005-10-26 Thread Jonathan Resino
This worked great, thanks :) On 10/26/05, Craig Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > > /usr/lib64/libol.a(format.o): reloation R_X86_64_32S against `a local > > symbol' can not be used when making a shared obj

Re: [gentoo-amd64] syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1 /usr/lib64/libol.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

2005-10-26 Thread Craig Webster
Hi, > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > /usr/lib64/libol.a(format.o): reloation R_X86_64_32S against `a local > symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with > -fPIC > /usr/lib64/libol.a: could not read symbols: Bad value Try re-

[gentoo-amd64] syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1 /usr/lib64/libol.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

2005-10-26 Thread Jonathan Resino
I emerge sync'd and emerge -uvD world this morning and found some errors. looks like: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libol.a(format.o): reloation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

2005-10-26 Thread Florian D.
I was just curious if there are many others running thunderbird on stable amd64. Perhaps the problem does not occur with ~amd64. I would assume I´m running thungerbird on mostly stable amd64, just a few exceptions in package.keywords. No crash at all :-) that somebody tested the package on sta

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dig package

2005-10-26 Thread Billy Holmes
John Myers wrote: filenames | 381,200 | 27.1M are you storing the full pathname here? if you broke up the path in another table, and referenced that to the basename, you could probably save lots of space - especially since most applications install lots of files in a limited num

Re: [gentoo-amd64] sys-kernel/ck-sources

2005-10-26 Thread Billy Holmes
Luis Medinas wrote: desktop or server environments. Most of those kernel patches makes your system more responsive but it doesn't do any miracles. I recommend for exactly. It doesn't change your system into something that it's not - ie a super computer. However, those patches may seem to creat

Re: [gentoo-amd64] sys-kernel/ck-sources

2005-10-26 Thread Billy Holmes
Karol Krizka wrote: Would you say that gentoo-source handle this problem with around the same quality, or would you suggest ck-sources for a desktop only environment? ck-sources has a much different process scheduler than gentoo-sources. This process scheduler is what makes it more interactive

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Hi Richard, i have had no problems (never crashed) with thunderbird 1.07 on a mostly amd64 system, the only things from ~amd64 are a few apps where i installed newer versions. Maybe you should try thunderbird-bin? Also you might want to check your CFLAGS, thunderbird seems sensitive to this

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

2005-10-26 Thread Sebastian Redl
Richard Freeman wrote: Is anybody else having segfault problems with thunderbird after the latest upgrade (1.0.7)? I'm guessing there was a GLSA of some sort as this version was very rapidly made stable and the old version was removed from portage. So, now I'm stuck without a working version.

[gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Freeman
Is anybody else having segfault problems with thunderbird after the latest upgrade (1.0.7)? I'm guessing there was a GLSA of some sort as this version was very rapidly made stable and the old version was removed from portage. So, now I'm stuck without a working version. I guess I can just manual

Re: [gentoo-amd64] openoffice-bin toolbar icons

2005-10-26 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 21 October 2005 09:22, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > I had the same problem with openoffice 1.1.4 some months ago, I solved > it as stated here: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365639-highlight-openoffice+icons. >html > > Yesterday I upgraded the system (incl. openoffice and xorg), i

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-26 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:00, Neil Stone wrote: > Stuart Haas wrote: > > /opt/jre1.5.0_04 > > > > That's it. OO reports the vendor and version. Is it not working at > > all or is there a specific thing you use to test it? > > > > Stuart > > > >>Using what path ? > > when i provided the path t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-26 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 01:22, Neil Stone wrote: > > [blackdown-jre-1.4.2.02] "Blackdown JRE 1.4.2.02" >(/etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jre-1.4.2.02) > [sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.05] "Sun JRE 1.5.0.05" >(/etc/env.d/java/20sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.05) > [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02] "Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.02" >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-26 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 01:27, Chris Smart wrote: > > Would it be possible to build a 32bit java and install it onto the > amd64 system, and use that? ie, would it work if we simply ran a 32bit > jdk? sun-java is only 32bit isn't it? Sun's jdk is in the 1.5 taste also available as 64 bit for am

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Lee Thompson wrote: BTW, 10K RPM SATA drives give some good numbers with an odd error # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 4016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2007.87 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk re

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-26 Thread Jared Lindsay
Not sure if this was said already (didn't see it), but according to current roadmaps, apparently the 64-bit builds will come around in 2.0.2 (at least, according to the Gentoo Forums). Hope that comes soon! On 10/24/05, Neil Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Grace ploting

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Deligeorgis wrote: > Hi there everybody, >I've been working with grace-5.1.18 for quite some time know on an > AMD64 gentoo. This pavkage is masked with the ~amd64 keyword. > It is my understanding that we guys using this program are suppose

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Lee Thompson
I'm attempting a dual core upgrade on a MSI Neo2 Platinum. It requires a BIOS upgrade which just won't boot linux as far as I can tell. Anyone got a Socket 939 Mobo which will run 64 bit gentoo with a dual core? http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=89036.0 I've been running a few copies