Re: [gentoo-amd64] glibc update problem

2006-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:57, "Rupert Young (Restart)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] glibc update problem': > CPU 0: Machine check Exception 4 Bank 0: f60c2136 > > TSC 177daa0cc8aof ADDR 1af80e80 > > Kernal panic: Machine check Sounds like failing ram to me. -- "

[gentoo-amd64] Nocona / EM64T support?

2006-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Is anyone where successfully running an amd64 profile on a EM64T chip, like the nocona? Is this a supported configuration? Or, should EM64T users use a x86 profile, with a custom CHOST? -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't h

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:11, "Gavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub': > Hi, > I reinstalled and the boot partition wont mount. It is reiser, Reiser, eh? Some versions of grub have a problem with reiser's tail packing. Make sure you mount th

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 March 2006 07:13, "Gavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub': > Do you mean to 'touch' everything in /boot? Yes I added 'notail' to the > fstab entry. Should I make /boot ext2? Yes, something along the lines of: find /boot -type f -

Re: [gentoo-amd64] upgrading from 2005.0 x86, to 2006.0 amd64

2006-03-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 March 2006 09:11, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] upgrading from 2005.0 x86, to 2006.0 amd64': > On Friday 10 March 2006 14:51, Mike Williams wrote: > > At the moment it's happily running a 32bit kernel, with 32bit > > userland. From my experimentation

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub

2006-03-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 March 2006 20:58, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: /dev/hda1 won't mount from grub': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > excerpted below, on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:57:57 -0600: > > *I* run ext2/3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Am i being over optomistic ?

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 17:26, Neil Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Am i being over optomistic ?': > Any chance someone could email me a copy of the /proc/config.gz file > from an Athlon64 ? Isn't there a make defconfig target, for quickly accepting the defaults? There

Re: [gentoo-amd64] booted 32-bit chroot but cannot emerge

2006-03-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 March 2006 17:50, "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] booted 32-bit chroot but cannot emerge': > Hi, >Where is ARCH supposed to be set? ARCH should be set in the make.defaults of your profile (or one of it's parent profiles). > ARCH not set! > Are you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.16 and ndiswrapper

2006-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 17:37, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.16 and ndiswrapper': > I only found another late in the cycle, when I upgraded to 8 gigs of > memory from 1 gig. .15 and stable releases thereof work. .16 doesn't. > I haven't had time to trace that

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.16 and ndiswrapper

2006-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2.6.16 and ndiswrapper': > On Saturday 25 March 2006 17:58, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I'm running a Tyan Dual-Opteron Dual-PCIe board... If you've got a > > sim

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving to no-multilib profile

2006-04-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:29, Mike Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Moving to no-multilib profile': > Is there anything else I need to/should do before/after I move to the > profile? If you use grub, prepare to abandon it in favor of either the binary version or lilo, w

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving to no-multilib profile

2006-04-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 20 April 2006 06:18, Mike Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving to no-multilib profile': > Can grub not be compiled in 64-bit mode? No. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slig

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Giving up 64 platform

2006-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 20:53, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Giving up 64 platform': > Of course, folks like me would then want to rearrange the partitions a > bit, but given today's 200 gig plus hard drives, copying a few > partitions around is easier than s

Re: [gentoo-amd64] installed packages

2006-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 30 April 2006 14:53, Robert Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] installed packages': > whenever a needed ~amd64 package turns to stable, i want > that script to remove the entry from package.keywords. Why not just use a more specific atom, one which includes a parital

Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc-config (gcc32) infos

2006-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 May 2006 03:39, "Christian Aistleitner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] gcc-config (gcc32) infos': > I know that gcc-config is responsible for creating gcc32 and gcc64 and > actually calling the correct gcc with -m32 or -m64. However someone > using Fedora Core just to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install to a RAID set?

2006-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 06 May 2006 15:18, Nuitari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install to a RAID set?': > I would only use only actual real Hardware RAID such as an IBM ServeRaid > card. Or any one of the Areca line. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install to a RAID set?

2006-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 06 May 2006 15:47, Neil Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install to a RAID set?': > Now here is a thing, is it possible to build gentoo form the ground up > on a software RAID config.. i am pondering purchasing a gentoo server, > but i figure theres no p

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install to a RAID set?

2006-05-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 07 May 2006 06:06, "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install to a RAID set?': > I've found a card that seems ideal for my needs: one that will fit into > the 32-bit PCI 2.2 slots on this motherboard but doesn't cost more than > the pair of disks

Re: [gentoo-amd64] To Worrie or Not Worrie!

2006-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 12 May 2006 17:33, "Christopher E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] To Worrie or Not Worrie!': > some thing like this ... it seems to be moved This is due to the way portage installs software. In particular, I started noticing it around the same time we got the split kd

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg issue now after update!

2006-05-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 13 May 2006 11:53, B Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg issue now after update!': > Not to mention, I'm not sure how > you enable the SLI capability in Xorg. :-) You have to use the binary driver and pass a special option. X.org may still complain about t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install to a RAID set?

2006-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 05:47, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to install to a RAID set?': > Well, I tried the Software-RAID-HOWTO, and used a SuSE 9.3 DVD I had > lying around to create /dev/md0 to /dev/md5 on the /dev/sd[ab] disks > that are attached to th

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Advice Wanted! Setup Instuctions ...

2006-05-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 20 May 2006 10:19, "Christopher E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Advice Wanted! Setup Instuctions ...': > > I've only done the initial stage-1 setup, and now they recommend > > starting from stage three and just doing an emerge --emptytree, so I > > don't have

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Dual Head

2006-07-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:50, "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Dual Head': > On 7/13/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > slaveryware > > freedomware > > > Must we use such charged language around here? Duncan's had this discussion with a number of

Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1

2006-08-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 14:40, Andrei Slavoiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1': > --- BrĂ¡ulio Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64 > > -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m3dnow" > > First, -mtune is implied when you use

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mplayer

2006-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:13, "Lorenzo Milesi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Mplayer': > Does anyone of you use ~amd64 up up to date and have problems with > mplayer? I've masked off =media-libs/x264-svn-20060810 =media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre20060810 because they caused a dow

Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1

2006-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 31 August 2006 06:43, Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] About gcc 4.1.1': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Yeah, but -march might be filtered by the ebuild and -mtune not; I > > like using both of them. Similar to th

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: About gcc 4.1.1

2006-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:31, "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: About gcc 4.1.1': > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 31 > Aug > > 2006 07

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mplayer

2006-08-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:39, "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: Mplayer': > "Lorenzo Milesi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted > below, on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:13:54 +0200: > > Does anyone of you use ~amd64 up up to date and have problems wit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: About gcc 4.1.1

2006-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 01 September 2006 02:09, "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: About gcc 4.1.1': > The job of Gentoo ebuild Developers is to provide an ebuild that will > generate a package that (ideally) "just works", in a supported > environment (i.e. one of the sup

Re: [gentoo-amd64] few gcc upgrade questions.

2006-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 01 September 2006 04:36, Pascal BERTIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] few gcc upgrade questions.': > Second a small (and possibly stupid) question. > can you use --resume in a -e emerge (after having unmerged something > else) ? You can (for example to --skipfirst), bu

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?

2006-09-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 03 September 2006 14:39, "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?': > I don't have a Java installed as > none of the options Gentoo provides for that are freedomware and I don't > need it enough to bother researching it further. Actually, k

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?

2006-09-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:24, "Sebastian Redl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?': > On Tue, September 5, 2006 9:15 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Actually, kaffe (GPL-2 licenced) is now an

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?

2006-09-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 11:03, "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?': > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 05 > Sep > 2006

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lack of 'ondemand' power govenor

2006-09-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 07 September 2006 18:06, Brian Litzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Lack of 'ondemand' power govenor': > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:04:17AM +1200, Jamie wrote: > > Can anyone offer me any ideas on this, a day of Googling has not > > turned up anything I have f