Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine (with OpenGL) on AMD64

2006-12-29 Thread Marco Matthies
Troy Curtis Jr schrieb: Has anyone gotten wine compiled with opengl support on AMD64? My configure (using portage and several iterations of a manual configure) keeps warning me that no OpenGL libs were found but I DO have the non-free nvidia driver working and here is the output of all the rele

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT] AMD-V virtualization on Athlon64 X2

2006-11-16 Thread Marco Matthies
Etaoin Shrdlu schrieb: After some searches, it's still unclear to me whether my CPU, an AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+ (socket AM2) supports AMD-V hardware virtualization. Some sites say that only opterons have virtualization support, others say that all AM2 CPUs have virtualization. Even the AMD site i

Re: [gentoo-amd64] exec format errors

2006-08-28 Thread Marco Matthies
Jos van Gisbergen wrote: I'm trying to install gentoo on my athlon 3800+ x2 system, using stage3-amd64* but when I reach the "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash" point I get the error message "bash: exec format error". It seems *all* binaries on /mnt/gentoo/bin are not executable. Should I use x86 inst

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java memory management

2006-07-16 Thread Marco Matthies
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: When running Java on my gentoo amd64 box, 1gb of memory isn`t enough to run eclipse and tomcat, i get some OutOfMemory errors. Is there any known problem on memory management related to java and linux amd64? I`ve tried to use a 32bit vm, but the problem persists. Hi, my

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Generic CD burning question

2006-04-25 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Haney wrote: Is there an easy way to create a .cue file for an existing .img file without knowing all the specs for it? AFAIK .img doesn't really refer to a specific file-format, it is usually used as a file-extension for raw images of floppies and hard disks. Maybe running file(1) on it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64-bit or 32-bit?

2006-03-29 Thread Marco Matthies
Bertrand Jacquin wrote: The first exemple I wrote was in reality : CFLAGS="-m32" emerge -avt mozilla-firefox To be clear : I don't want a chroot, because it make be 2 gentoo to maintain and a lot of things unecessary ATM. I would like portage build for me a software in 32 bit mode. If it's a lib

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64-bit or 32-bit?

2006-03-28 Thread Marco Matthies
Bertrand Jacquin wrote: How could you compile mplayer or firefox in your 64 bits environnement to generate 32 bits binary ? I have multilib activated and I can't build mplayer with CFLAGS="-m32". It is needing something else ? I don't want too to have and maintain a 32 bit chroot. I'm assumin

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Hanging after a few days - 2.6.15-r7

2006-03-15 Thread Marco Matthies
Sorry that I can't give any useful hints to the actual discussion, just a quick answer to the linux books/resources question. As a side bar, I saw mention in this list before, I think by Duncan, a "recommended" book on the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, it seems I deleted that thread, so if someo

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-09 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Knecht wrote: Interesting, but I wonder whether a guitar player / chip designer type guy could set it up? Spartanic is not generally a good environment for the likes of us. Qemu at the moment is a command-line app, with the graphical output in a window, though I believe to have heard of g

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-09 Thread Marco Matthies
Thierry de Coulon wrote: I haven't tried qemu on Gentoo yet - my previous testing (with or without kernel module) showed a dramatic lack of speed (at least when powering a virtual machine running Windows). Current cvs / the next qemu version will allow more to be virtualized (and therefore re

Re: [gentoo-amd64] VMware Player on Gentoo question

2006-03-09 Thread Marco Matthies
Thierry de Coulon wrote: I just came accross an article takling about a new program names "parallels" (www.parallels.com) that is supposed to do the same thing as vmware while being less expensive. You might also want to check out qemu[1], which is free and is in portage -- the main differenc

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems with 32 bit binaries

2006-02-21 Thread Marco Matthies
Kevin Philp wrote: I am running a ~amd64 system and I update the system every few days with emerge sync && emerge -uavDN world [...] kryton kevin # ooffice2 1565: Hµÿÿ 1565: $¥ÿÿ/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice: line 233: 1565 Segmentation fault "$sd_prog/$sd_binary"

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrade from single to dual core CPU

2006-01-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 18:16 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 25 January 2006 17:59, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: I build with -j5 and 1GB of ram. If it ooms for you, you have a broken kernel, get a better one. (I use ck-sources, and have never seen an OOM

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrade from single to dual core CPU

2006-01-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Matthias Wolle wrote: "The Athlon 64 X2 masquerade as hyperthreading capable to benfit from hyperthreading optimizations." Intel processors will indicate Hyperthreading capability in bit 28 of edx and number of logical processors in bits 16-23 of ebx after issuing the cpuid instruction. [1][2

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc compile failed after 2005.1-r1 instalation [OT- html posts]

2005-12-09 Thread Marco Matthies
Bob Young wrote: I know that many share this opinion, and although I don't want to start a flame war, I do think there are some valid counter points in favor of html. Everyone is of course free to filter content based on his or her own preferences. However most of the reasons given against postin

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks very much for the clue about equery. I'll have to look into why eix didn't catch it. Does it use a differern database possibly? I've never used eix myself so mybe someone else can give a more definite answer, but i believe it uses some sort of index (yes, apparently i

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Marco, I'm not finding wine-0.9 in portage at all. I guess my servers are just behind a bit. Guess I'll wait until tomorrow. You can check with 'equery list -p wine' (equery is part of gentoolkit) to see which versions are available in your local portage dir. From the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help - Wine-0.9 build failure

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the new 0.9 release. The build fails pretty quickly (first 2 minute or so) with the following failure on my AMD64 machine. Anyone tried this yet? Hi Mark, i just built wine 0.9 through portage, so you might try that route (just note that 0.9 seems t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Duncan wrote: Very good! =8^) I'll have to check them out again, next time I upgrade (altho that could be some time yet, it's been two years and I had hoped that with memory upgrades and now dual core, I could extend my upgrade cycle to five years... something that seems quite reasonable, with t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Duncan wrote: MSI isn't all that Linux friendly. When I was shopping for a dual Opteron board, I checked out the MSI site and rejected them because all the BIOS upgrades and etc were in MSWormOS executable format (probably self extracting zip), as was all the documentation. FWIW, the newer fil

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Thunderbird segfaults

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Hi Richard, i have had no problems (never crashed) with thunderbird 1.07 on a mostly amd64 system, the only things from ~amd64 are a few apps where i installed newer versions. Maybe you should try thunderbird-bin? Also you might want to check your CFLAGS, thunderbird seems sensitive to this

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations

2005-10-26 Thread Marco Matthies
Lee Thompson wrote: BTW, 10K RPM SATA drives give some good numbers with an odd error # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 4016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2007.87 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk re

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mac-fdisk - anyone using it on AMD64?

2005-10-19 Thread Marco Matthies
Billy Holmes wrote: [cool patch snipped] Nice one, that was fast! I wish I had a mac hd to try it out :) Cheers, Marco -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] mac-fdisk - anyone using it on AMD64?

2005-10-19 Thread Marco Matthies
Hi Mark, well it's hardmasked for amd64 -- I'll point out the obvious things that might help making it compile: Mark Knecht wrote: In file included from fdisklabel.c:49: kernel-defs.h:19:1: warning: "_IOC_DIRBITS" redefined In file included from /usr/include/asm/ioctl.h:7, fr

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems compiling on Sun Java workstation with dual Opterons.

2005-10-19 Thread Marco Matthies
Hi, i've never experienced the same problem nor do I have a dual Opteron setup, but I'll try to help: Nestor Camacho III wrote: It would just stop compiling. Would not freeze, I was able to do anything else, but it would just stop processing what it was currently compiling. When I alt f2 into

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: mtrr: base is not aligned

2005-10-16 Thread Marco Matthies
Hi, i'm not an expert on this subject myself but i found it nonetheless interesting, here's what i found mostly by grepping and googling: Here's someone who is also getting these huge reported memory sizes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/12/35 Found it by googling for 983552MB, there's more there

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Questions about No Execute and security

2005-10-06 Thread Marco Matthies
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I just set 'ntpl' in my make.conf ;) Well, I have nptlonly in there... And no, I don't know anything about libraries and their address-space. Judging from my guesses, i don't have anything to brag about either ;) Anyway, good to know that Gentoo's configurabili

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Questions about No Execute and security

2005-10-06 Thread Marco Matthies
Hi Kevin, thanks for all the info, i'll give gentoo-hardened a go in the next few days. Cheers, Marco -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Questions about No Execute and security

2005-10-06 Thread Marco Matthies
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: and I get: strace gzip > /dev/null execve("/bin/gzip", ["gzip"], [/* 63 vars */]) = 0 open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3 mmap(NULL, 2261000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x2abc3000 Thanks for the reply. So it seems you w

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Questions about No Execute and security

2005-10-06 Thread Marco Matthies
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: to do this fancy jump-around stuff, you need to know exactly where which snippet resides in ram - one error and all your work is lost. So, and because on gentoo everything is compiled by yourself with a little bit different setting like the next gentoo user, it is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Questions about No Execute and security

2005-10-06 Thread Marco Matthies
Olivier Crête wrote: What you want is Gentoo Hardened [1]. They maintain a toolchain (gcc, etc) with the security oriented stuff. And also a security oriented kernel (hardened-sources) that includes stuff like address space randomization, stronger chroot, etc .. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Best Desktop Patchset for kernel

2005-10-06 Thread Marco Matthies
Duncan wrote: If that's changed, /please/ point me to a reference! I must have dropped out of the loop somewhere! Kay Sievers is now udev maintainer: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5669 Cheers, Marco -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Questions about No Execute and security

2005-10-06 Thread Marco Matthies
Hi, i came across this today -- sorry if it's old news to you but i hadn't heard about it and thought some of you might be interested as well: I saw a news item on heise (German computer magazine publisher) [1] that has a reference to an article by Sebastian Krahmer [2] that describes possib

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)

2005-09-20 Thread Marco Matthies
Marco Matthies wrote: You might want to investigate Ingo Molnar's realtime patches [1] (in > [snip] Hi Mark, apologies for not reading your other messages where you already said you had tried the rt-patches -- knowledge about them probably spread like wildfire in the audio communit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)

2005-09-20 Thread Marco Matthies
Mark Knecht wrote: xruns are a term specific to the Jack server (jack-audio-connection-kit) that tell us whether we've had and overrun or an underrun. It's would be off topic to go deeply into how Jack operates when talking to sound cards, but take it to mean something bad has happened with real-

Re: [gentoo-amd64] xorg Dual-Head Layout with nv-Driver?

2005-07-12 Thread Marco Matthies
Marcel Treis wrote: > Kyle Liddell wrote: >> Do you have sideband >> addressing or fastwrites enabled? > Well, i'm a bit ashamed to say, but i dont know where to get that info :| If you have the nvidia kernel module loaded, it should be available by cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status (not exactly

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Time drift is HUGE

2005-06-12 Thread Marco Matthies
Resending as it didn't seem to have gotten through the first time: > Thanks Marco, noapic worked beautifully. now my clock is very much in > tune with what time should be like, however, now, my box will not > recieve a dhcp ip address whenever i use this option to boot my kernel. > any suggestions

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Time drift is HUGE

2005-06-10 Thread Marco Matthies
Hi, I think i read somewhere (for example here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/1865.html) that enabling the noapic option (for the kernel, in grub.conf) can cure similar problems. I also saw some reports (found by googling for "noapic time drift" or "linux time drift") that s