Re: [gentoo-amd64] CFLAGS for Core2?

2006-09-23 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 09:48 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > > "riced out"? I assume you mean something like fried, but I don't > > understand how bad CFLAGS can do anything except make your code run > > slower. > > My favourite example of how you can waste other people

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 September 2006 17:21, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?': > On Saturday 23 September 2006 19:52, Duncan wrote: > > However, the only difference (CFLAGS wise) that I'm aware of for the > > AMD

[gentoo-amd64] Re: vectorization (was: gcc4 CFLAGS)

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:30:36 +: > And I've found that module-init-tools won't compile with -combine either. > It complains about too many modules being passed. I did the same as you > and removed -combine while merg

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Jason Booth
On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Nope. SSE and SSE2, but not SSE3. According to /proc/cpuinfo, that is. The flag in cpuinfo is pni for "Prescott New Instructions". Cheers, Jason -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: vectorization (was: gcc4 CFLAGS)

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 14:13, Duncan wrote: > I stumbled across my first failure with -combine. The latest > (~amd64) logrotate ebuild (logrotate-3.7.2) fails with it, in the compile > phase of course, with an error to the effect of too many files passed to > cc1 or some such. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 September 2006 19:52, Duncan wrote: > However, the only difference (CFLAGS wise) that I'm aware of for the AMD > dual-cores is that they now incorporate SSE3, while my old 242s and I > presume your 246s don't. Nope. SSE and SSE2, but not SSE3. According to /proc/cpuinfo, that is.

[gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan
"Greg Bur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:55:59 -0400: > I put my workstation through its paces last weekend using Duncan's flags > and so far I've only run across one package that gave me problems and that > was Evolution. It didn't like th

[gentoo-amd64] Re: CFLAGS for Core2?

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan
Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:41:08 -0400: > Simon Stelling wrote: >> And we all like X freezing: >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80329 >> >> In short, yes they can break your system. Pretty easily even, if you

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:39:11 +: > Which model of Opteron are your CPUs? I have a feeling they differ from my > 246s, and I've been wondering how I ought to tune your helpfully explained > flags to suit my box. I'm

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/06, Stefan Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-23 10:01] : > I was unclear as to whether your suggestion works without the > vesafb stuff. It seemed that it might so I tried it but got this > error: ... So am I - but I see no reason why it shou

[gentoo-amd64] Wireless usb

2006-09-23 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I search a wireless card (better usb, but pci is ok too) that it works perfect with gentoo on amd64. I bought some time ago a card, but it doesn't work at all. I prefer to be sure about that I can buy, using your personal experience. My router ac

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/06, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:03, Mark Knecht wrote: > So you did essentially the > > emerge -e system > emerge -e system > emerge -e world > > steps that you did when upgrading gcc to get there? Er, the GCC upgrade guide [1] only mention

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-23 10:01] : > I was unclear as to whether your suggestion works without the > vesafb stuff. It seemed that it might so I tried it but got this > error: ... So am I - but I see no reason why it shouldn't work ... the resolution should not be a problem

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 14 September 2006 20:08, Duncan wrote: > Here's my CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS: ...etc. Which model of Opteron are your CPUs? I have a feeling they differ from my 246s, and I've been wondering how I ought to tune your helpfully explained flags to suit my box. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@g

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Stefan Wimmer
* Pawel Kraszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-23 09:09] : > Gott im Himmel! > > I didn't know that's possible - I love terminus font and I didn't realize I > could use it in console... Many, many thanks, Stefan, for enlightenment! > > Got to "fix" all my servers :) > Glad I could help yo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] CFLAGS for Core2?

2006-09-23 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Stelling wrote: > And we all like X freezing: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80329 > > In short, yes they can break your system. Pretty easily even, if you > don't know what you're doing. > Well, I didn't see much that looked dang

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:03, Mark Knecht wrote: > So you did essentially the > > emerge -e system > emerge -e system > emerge -e world > > steps that you did when upgrading gcc to get there? Er, the GCC upgrade guide [1] only mentions a single emerge -e system to go from 3.4.4 to 4.1.1,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/23/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cool. So you did essentially the emerge -e system emerge -e system emerge -e world steps that you did when upgrading gcc to get there? Thanks, Mark Yes, although I used emerge -eav system just so I had one more chance to think before diving

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/06, Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/22/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/22/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted > > below, on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700: > P.S. - I'm still curi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/22/06, Stefan Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-22 19:51] : > Hi, > Where do I learn about changing the size of the font used at boot > time so that I can see more lines while booting, and more lines when a > kernel crash occurs? > > Thanks

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/22/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/22/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted > below, on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:35:47 -0700: P.S. - I'm still curious about trying your compiler flags but now there is no

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Boot time font size question

2006-09-23 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia sobota, 23 września 2006 03:09, Stefan Wimmer napisał: > $> emerge terminus-font > $> vim /etc/conf.d/consolefont > $> CONSOLEFONT="ter-v12n" > $> /etc/init.d/consolefont restart Gott im Himmel! I didn't know that's possible - I love terminus font and I didn't realize I could use it in co

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Christoph Mende
DRI is hardware accelerated 3D rendering. You don't need it for music apps, but you most probably need it for your Windows games, without direct rendering you will use software rendering and get most likely get <5 fps in OpenGL games. It may be nice to have direct rendering for xine too, since xine

Re: [gentoo-amd64] CFLAGS for Core2?

2006-09-23 Thread Simon Stelling
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > "riced out"? I assume you mean something like fried, but I don't > understand how bad CFLAGS can do anything except make your code run > slower. My favourite example of how you can waste other people's time: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122208 Another buil