Re: [gentoo-amd64] Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Alex Alexander
You can also solve the Qt blockage with something like: emerge -av1 `eix -I --only-names x11-libs/qt-` then continue with whatever you were doing :) bottom line is, if your emerge command tries to update only a part of your _installed_ Qt packages, you get blockers. -- Alex Alexander || wired

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Alex Alexanderalex.alexan...@gmail.com wrote: You can also solve the Qt blockage with something like: emerge -av1 `eix -I --only-names x11-libs/qt-` then continue with whatever you were doing :) bottom line is, if your emerge command tries to update only a

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Duncan
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0906100550w9fc59a0g64f0244abc1ee...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:50:24 -0700: I think the real problem I'm facing in the future is that emerge -e @system is building FAR too many things that shouldn't be part of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Haney
Duncan wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0906100550w9fc59a0g64f0244abc1ee...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:50:24 -0700: I think the real problem I'm facing in the future is that emerge -e @system is building FAR too many things that shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Markos Chandras
Duncan wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0906100550w9fc59a0g64f0244abc1ee...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:50:24 -0700: I think the real problem I'm facing in the future is that emerge -e @system is building FAR too many things that

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread Duncan
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2f22f6.8020...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:05:26 -0400: Thank you, Duncan. I share your preference for open source programs. [snip] It seems the two answers from others took care of most of your questions. FWIW, I don't use

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread John P. Burkett
Lie Ryan wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: However, that doesn't seem to be the issue here, which brings us to reason #2. The ati-drivers include a kernel driver, which must be compiled against a kernel that has been built so the proper parts of it are exposed for the drivers to use. The

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Duncan
Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org posted 4a2fbda2.4030...@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:05:22 -0400: Okay, I'm at a loss here, I've been using the ~amd64 version of portage, which supports sets, however I'm not able to do an 'emerge -pve @system' as I get:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: I think the real problem I'm facing in the future is that emerge -e @system is building FAR too many things that shouldn't be part of @system. Nearly half the packages on this computer (339 out of 815) are getting pulled

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Duncan1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0906100550w9fc59a0g64f0244abc1ee...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on  Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:50:24 -0700: I think the real problem I'm facing in the future is that emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread John P. Burkett
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/10/2009 06:05 AM, John P. Burkett wrote: Thank you, Duncan. I share your preference for open source programs. I'm not sure how the ati-drivers got on my machine or what they were doing. If my system functions without them, I'm happy to be rid of them. You

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel 2.6.29-r5: problem with fglrx

2009-06-10 Thread Herbert Laubner
How to do this with the patch. I have not done this up till know. Am 07.06.2009 um 20:05 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: There's a patch for this, but it results in the driver spamming dmesg with about a dozen of kernel data malformed per second. It also locks up the system here after an hour

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John P. Burkett wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: However, that doesn't seem to be the issue here, which brings us to reason #2. The ati-drivers include a kernel driver, which must be compiled against a kernel that has been built

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel 2.6.29-r5: problem with fglrx

2009-06-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Herbert Laubner wrote: How to do this with the patch. I have not done this up till know. go to bugzilla, the ebuild there has the patch. Just download the ebuild, put it in your overlay, put the patch into the files/ directory, run ebuild ... manifest, emerge the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Duncan1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0906100550w9fc59a0g64f0244abc1ee...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on  Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:50:24 -0700:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP OK, market's closed and machine's back into Gentoo. Figure I might as well post my complete /etc/make.conf file in case others see problems. I have a vague recollection that *maybe* I turned on the gnome and/or kde

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP OK, market's closed and machine's back into Gentoo. Figure I might as well post my complete /etc/make.conf file in case others see problems. I

[gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Greg
I've been having trouble determining if my processor has hyper-threading. I'm thinking that it does. I know that it isn't a dual-core. If it is a hyper-thread processor, I can't seem to figure out exactly how to enable the hyper-thread under linux. First, here's the CPU info from

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Greg! On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Greg wrote: I've been having trouble determining if my processor has hyper-threading. This is from a Xeon: flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Wil Reichert
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Gregjour...@raven.ontheside.net wrote: I've been having trouble determining if my processor has hyper-threading. I'm thinking that it does. I know that it isn't a dual-core. If it is a hyper-thread processor, I can't seem to figure out exactly how to enable

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, Greg wrote: I've been having trouble determining if my processor has hyper-threading. I'm thinking that it does. I know that it isn't a dual-core. If it is a hyper-thread processor, I can't seem to figure out exactly how to enable the hyper-thread under linux. no

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Greg
I'm not arguing as I know I don't know when it comes to this topic... I had read something recently about AMD 6 core processors which were not only 6 core but also performing hyperthreading or something compatible. So, am I understanding that no AMDs do the hyperthreading or something

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, Greg wrote: I'm not arguing as I know I don't know when it comes to this topic... I had read something recently about AMD 6 core processors which were not only 6 core but also performing hyperthreading or something compatible. So, am I understanding that no AMDs

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Greg
One final thought / question / observation along the same lines... This is what got me started on this line of thinking / research... I have experimented with posix threads and find repeatedly that even a multi-threaded application yields results the same as if I have coded a

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Duncan
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0906101349u35516e4dj81feca56ef55...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:49:26 -0700: Figure I might as well post my complete /etc/make.conf file in case others see problems. This comment has nothing to do with your case, but

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Big, ugly qt blockage

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Duncan1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0906101349u35516e4dj81feca56ef55...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on  Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:49:26 -0700: Figure I might as well post my complete /etc/make.conf file in case

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/11/2009 01:35 AM, Greg wrote: One final thought / question / observation along the same lines... This is what got me started on this line of thinking / research... I have experimented with posix threads and find repeatedly that even a multi-threaded application yields results the same

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Hung Dang
Greg wrote: One final thought / question / observation along the same lines... This is what got me started on this line of thinking / research... I have experimented with posix threads and find repeatedly that even a multi-threaded application yields results the same as if I have coded a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Hyper-threading an AMD64 3800+

2009-06-10 Thread Josh Sled
Hung Dang hungp...@gmail.com writes: Greg wrote: Is this normal? I thought even under a uniprocessor machine the threads were to time-slice like on a multicore. It is depend on your application and how you write your code. For example we can have a good speed up for dense matrix