Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite

2006-02-08 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 16:41, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: > On x86 this is not enabled since it interferes with debugging (info gcc > isn't too clear on this, it's mentioned on the description of '-O') - > is this different from amd64 (I'm still x86-only :/ )? x86_64 does not require fram

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite

2006-02-08 Thread Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:37:33 +0100 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duncan wrote: >> [ a book ;) ] > > You are referring a lot to the gcc manpage, but obviously you missed > this part: > >-fomit-frame-pointer >Don't keep the frame pointer in a register for function

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite

2006-02-08 Thread Duncan
Simon Stelling posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:37:33 +0100: > Duncan wrote: >> I should really create a page listing all the little Gentoo admin scripts >> I've come up with and how I use them. I'm sure a few folks anyway would >> likely find them useful. >>

[gentoo-amd64] DRI on a Radeon 9550 with Xorg 7.0

2006-02-08 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
Hi, I upgraded to Xorg 7.0 and everything seems to work very well except for 3D acceleration. When I run glxinfo I get: X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Sebastian Redl
Duncan wrote: ### udf (packet written optical) slow, but s/b b4 iso9660 if present. ### Completely off-topic, but thank you for this info. I wondered how to access DVD-RAMs in Linux. Sebastian Redl -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite

2006-02-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Duncan wrote: >>Nice. Now let us know your CFLAGS, and what toolchain versions you're >>running :D > > > You probably didn't notice, as I had it commented out on the main index > page as I don't have the page created to actually list them yet, but if > you viewed source, you'd have seen I have a

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Duncan
Richard Fish posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:40:11 -0700: > n 2/8/06, David Guerizec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So the directories sensible to fragmentation are IMHO, /var/tmp >> and /usr/portage, and they are the ones to put on different partitions. > > I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Bob Sanders
Richard Fish, mused, then expounded: > > Also, I didn't mean to deride xfs or xfs_fsr/fsr_xfs, so please don't > take it personally. It's just a problem with perception. Say "defragger" and everyone thinks that Norton Utilites' disk utils have been cloned for Linux. I didn't take it personally

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/8/06, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was never designed to work like a WinXX defragger. The man page states > exactly what it will do, and consolidating space is not part of it's > design. Yes, I've read the man page, and I understood it. Also, I didn't mean to deride xfs or

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Bob Sanders
Richard Fish, mused, then expounded: > > IMO xfs_fsr is a little brain-damaged in it's operation (won't > consolidate free space, requires enough space to fully copy a > fragmented file, etc). It is probably not worth running if you have a > sensible partition setup. > It was never designed to w

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/8/06, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As shipped, IRIX includes a cron job that runs xfs_fsr once per week. But the > typical IRIX customer tends to use the filesystem much more than most Linux > users. IMO xfs_fsr is a little brain-damaged in it's operation (won't consolidate free

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/8/06, David Guerizec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the directories sensible to fragmentation are IMHO, /var/tmp > and /usr/portage, and they are the ones to put on different partitions. I tend to agree with you. They should also be no larger than necessary. My current partition setup is:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Bob Sanders
Rob Lesslie, mused, then expounded: > According SGI, XFS is supposed to ship with a defrag tool (xfs_fsr) > but it does not seem to be included with xfsprogs on gentoo. > -- > Rob Lesslie > It's part of - xfsdump. As shipped, IRIX includes a cron job that runs xfs_fsr once per week. But the typi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Rob Lesslie
According SGI, XFS is supposed to ship with a defrag tool (xfs_fsr) but it does not seem to be included with xfsprogs on gentoo. -- Rob Lesslie -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hello, I to have noticed a 'slowing' affect. Naturally I dismissed fragmentation. Is this 'normal' and fixable? On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:54 +0100, David Guerizec wrote: > Hello, > > Le Lundi 06 Février 2006 19:50, Duncan a écrit : > > Fragmentation doesn't tend to be as much of an issue on Linu

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread David Guerizec
Hello, Le Lundi 06 Février 2006 19:50, Duncan a écrit : > Fragmentation doesn't tend to be as much of an issue on Linux, with "real" > filesystems, as on MSWormOS, particularly FAT/FAT32. I'm running all > reiserfs here, FWIW. It doesn't have a compaction tool (defrag, on > MSWormOS), but I've n

Re: [gentoo-amd64] xmms-wma inoperable

2006-02-08 Thread Rob Lesslie
> xmms loads the files, it can display wma header but when play is pressed > it speeds through the titles with no sound output. > I peeked around in the net and there seems to be some issue with the > libwma library... > Does any of you have a solution to this??? I am having the same trouble with