Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Dice R. Random
On 9/27/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think someone would really file a bug report for this It's true that my OCD about optimizing becomes painful when I see my flags overruled but I (still) can control myself ;-) Your cflags really aren't going to change much. It's better

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 28 September 2006 02:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 17:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': On Thursday 28 September 2006 00:03, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I also like:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 22:59, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': Dan Pasanen wrote: Ok, im not too sure about this, but i was wondering, i have dual core turion64's should that affect if im running -O2 or -O3? currently im running

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 21:55, Peter Davoust [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOP-POSTED about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?': On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 19:29 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 06:25, Christoph Mende [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 01:28, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 21:55, Peter Davoust [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOP-POSTED about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?': On Wed,

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Weird and unpredictable problem: emerge grinds system to a halt

2006-09-28 Thread Duncan
Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:30:54 +0300: Petter Haggholm wrote: The subject is fairly descriptive. Often -- but not always -- an emerge will render my system unusable. At a PORTAGE_NICENESS of 3, and fairly standard

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Weird and unpredictable problem: emerge grinds system to a halt

2006-09-28 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia czwartek, 28 września 2006 09:24, Petter Haggholm napisał: Without having tried it yet -- I need to finish some work first -- I'm curious about the MAKEOPTS thing, especially -j?. The other reply (so far) in this thread suggests -j1 and asserts that [-j2] has no sense anyway, if you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Weird and unpredictable problem: emerge grinds system to a halt

2006-09-28 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia czwartek, 28 września 2006 09:24, Petter Haggholm napisał: contrast to all the recommended settings I have seen so far -- standard procedure seems to be -j$(no. cores+1), I presume so that one make Ah, yes - one more thing. The estimation of -j for multi-core i've seen in various manuals

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Paul de Vrieze
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:11, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': -O3 don't do it. O2 is much, much safer and not really slower. It will prevent a lot of breakage. Bah! -O3 breaking just doesn't

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Weird and unpredictable problem: emerge grinds system to a halt

2006-09-28 Thread Petter Haggholm
Duncan wrote: Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:30:54 +0300: Petter Haggholm wrote: The subject is fairly descriptive. Often -- but not always -- an emerge will render my system unusable. At a PORTAGE_NICENESS of 3, and

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV?

2006-09-28 Thread Duncan
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:12:44 -0500: [1] Actually, I've seen a Debian package that claims to allow 64-bit konqueror to use 32-bit flash (and other nsplugins) but I don't know if that package is available for

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Creation of locales

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 22:48, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: `locale-gen --config /etc/locale.gen` is run by pkg_postinst() of sys-libs/glibc. Seems reasonable. What is the output of: # egrep -v '^#|^$' /etc/locale.gen It just happened that emerge -e world had reached glibc as I read

[gentoo-amd64] DVD problems

2006-09-28 Thread Gessy
Hi,The message: ATAPI device hda: error: Not ready -- (Sense Key=0x02) Incompatible medium installed -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x00) The failed Read subchannel packet command was: 42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 VFS: busy inodes on changed media attempt to access beyound and of

[gentoo-amd64] Re: DVD problems

2006-09-28 Thread Gessy
I forgot a little thing.I using gentoo linux a Athlon64 3500 and i compile my kernel 2.6.17-r4 according with gentoo handbook. When i boot my system from another linux distribution 32bits i don' t have errors. Thus, i guess it's because some configuration or kernel option on my gentoo(amd64).

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV?

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
Duncan wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:12:44 -0500: [1] Actually, I've seen a Debian package that claims to allow 64-bit konqueror to use 32-bit flash (and other nsplugins) but I don't know if that

[gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Haney
This might be a bit off topic, but I'm at my wits' end. I have a server that uses PAM/LDAP for authentication. A recent update broke PAM and took me a couple of days to fix. But now, when I ssh into the box, I get no output from any commands. su,ls,cat all just return to the prompt without

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Creation of locales

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 September 2006 15:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Obviously the error messages are less than optimal. What you need to do is remove the first entry (en_GB). The following three entries works for me (after the first is removed). Just run # locale-gen after having done that.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 03:35, Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:11, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': -O3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV?

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 10:37, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV?': Duncan wrote: However, I don't do slaveryware, and most freedomware has already been ported to amd64, so I compile it 64-bit. I'll likely be switching back to

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:27 AM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV? I didn't switch to Linux after a decade on slaveryware just to be enslaved by a

[gentoo-amd64] DVD problem

2006-09-28 Thread Gessy
Hi,The message: ATAPI device hda: error: Not ready -- (Sense Key=0x02) Incompatible medium installed -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x00) The failed Read subchannel packet command was: 42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 VFS: busy inodes on changed media attempt to access beyound and of

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Strange ssh behaviour

2006-09-28 Thread Duncan
Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:52:18 -0400: This might be a bit off topic, but I'm at my wits' end. I have a server that uses PAM/LDAP for authentication. A recent update broke PAM and took me a couple of days to fix. But now,

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV?

2006-09-28 Thread Duncan
Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:37:34 +0300: - and he sends you a wmv compressed clip... Now what? You gonna tell your friend Sorry, man, but I'm not gonna see your family 'cause I like my freedom! Come ooon! ;-)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: It's wrong-headed to deride or discourage users for using the features of their compiler when those functions are not erroneous. Instead, you should be leaning on the developers to fix the erroneous code. This looks like a false dichotomy to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor

2006-09-28 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Neil Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: Pdftk is free software (GPL). I'll let you know how I find it as I too have been trying for some time to find a friendly way of editing PDF files... I’ve used pdftk to encrypt PDF. It works fine, but lets you do such things incorrectly without alarms

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: It's wrong-headed to deride or discourage users for using the features of their compiler when those functions are not erroneous.

[gentoo-amd64] Re: First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Duncan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:16:38 -0500: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: It's wrong-headed to deride or discourage users for using the features of their compiler when those functions are not erroneous. Instead, you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: It's wrong-headed to deride or discourage users for using the features of their

Optimization flags (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: First Impressions)

2006-09-28 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: Well stated. One could compare -O2 to stable. Which to me is a little weird, because only -O is something you can count on from compiler to compiler. :) There is one optimization level that, from my viewpoint, guarantees bad code, and that’s no optimization,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Tolerance, Freedom, Prosthetics

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 15:08, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Tolerance, Freedom, Prosthetics': I am happy so long as seller A can offer product A, and seller B can offer product B, and seller C and offer product C ... and buyers X and Y can

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 10:52, Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour': [N]ow, when I ssh into the box, I get no output from any commands. su,ls,cat all just return to the prompt without showing me any output. Try running strace on a command on

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Haney
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 28 September 2006 10:52, Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour': [N]ow, when I ssh into the box, I get no output from any commands. su,ls,cat all just return to the prompt without showing me any output.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions': Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 15:48, Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 28 September 2006 10:52, Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour': [N]ow, when I ssh

Optimizations (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions)

2006-09-28 Thread Barry . SCHWARTZ
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: Now, I have to problem with developers closing some bug opened by a ricer out there that's added -ffast-math to their CFLAGS as WONTFIX/INVALID since it's not really a problem. All the parts provided by Gentoo (ebuild, source, compiler,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Strange ssh behaviour

2006-09-28 Thread felix
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:52:18AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: This might be a bit off topic, but I'm at my wits' end. I have a server that uses PAM/LDAP for authentication. A recent update broke PAM and took me a couple of days to fix. But now, when I ssh into the box, I get no output from

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:47 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Optimizations (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions)

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Optimizations (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: Now, I have to problem with developers closing some bug opened by a ricer out there that's added -ffast-math to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:32, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)': -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:31 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) On Thursday 28 September 2006 13:16, Bob Young

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:57 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:32, Bob Young

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Piotr Pruszczak
very very easy. to understand all this... OK, lets see the simple example. I have ATI card with x.org-7.1 drivers, nothing speciall - just poor BUT stable 2D 3D I probably COULD use closed-source driver BUT if my machine then will NOT work properly, I will achieve memory leaks etc (past

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Duncan
Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:32:00 -0700: [Duncan wrote...] My tough standards are my own to live by, if I can, nobody else's unless they want to adopt them as well. I'm not suggesting you should change your opinion or views

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hello, My google digging wasn't helpful this time. Perhaps I can't find the right search keywords. ;-( On a 32bit gentoo system appropriate codec comes with media-libs/win32codecs and such movies can be played by mplayer. On amd64 mplayer can't be emerged with

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Simon Stelling
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: No, they aren't. They can use another mechanic. Instead of having to consult *one particular entity* they can consult *any entity of a particular class*. They gain a choice, which means they have more freedom. Uhuh, I'm sure the Debian devs will gladly fix a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
Simon Stelling wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: 2) I really (I mean it) enjoy the discussion thread drift - slaveryware but aren't we supposed to open a new OT Thread or something? My concern is that this mails go to everyone on the list and this could be annoying for many people. I'm not sure what

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Duncan
Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:03:25 -0700: From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not freedom, they are still completely dependent on the mechanic they take the car

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:17 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Duncan
Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:55:31 -0700: Now we're getting off in to other discussions, companies purchase the CSS IP of other companies all the time, such developement polination is certaintly not dependent on OSS. This