[gentoo-amd64] Arch Testers Needed

2006-03-14 Thread Patrick McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The amd64 herd has been having trouble keeping up with the bugs lately, especially the stabilization bugs. We are looking for more arch testers, especially ones with stable systems that they can test packages on. If you are interested, look here for m

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Dual Core

2006-02-15 Thread Patrick McLean
Following the Handbook should work just as well for that system as it does for any other system. Please see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-amd64.xml for the current amd64 installation handbook. Ryan Rice wrote: > Hello All, > > I have an 8-way (16 core) AMD Opteron system,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64 or 32?

2006-02-09 Thread Patrick McLean
Bob Sanders wrote: > >> - standard desktop applications, as far as I am concerned, heavily rely on >> OpenOffice.org and that is still 32 bit > > Desktop apps are fine at 16-bit. Why go to 32-bit? > If you can convince OpenOffice to run in 64kb (the maximum amount of memory a 16-bit program is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b and latest hald ebuild

2006-01-24 Thread Patrick McLean
Try remerging k3b, you may want to do a revdep-rebuild to catch any other packages that depended on the old version of hal. Mark Haney wrote: Is anyone else getting the: k3b: error while loading shared libraries: libhal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when runn

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NFS on freebsd

2006-01-19 Thread Patrick McLean
Try with Trond Myklebust's latest NFS patchset from http://client.linux-nfs.org/ If that doesn't help, check your actual disk performance, if the disks in the server aren't fast, no NFS optimizations are going to help you. Failing everything else, ask on the lkml about it, they usually pretty

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: ~amd64 vs. ~x86

2005-11-29 Thread Patrick McLean
Duncan wrote: Tres Melton posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:15:13 -0700: So the issue is do ebuilds use CHOST or KEYWORD to key the build for. I don't know enough about portage to say for sure but I thought they all used CHOST. If there is one that uses the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

2005-11-02 Thread Patrick McLean
Michal Žeravík wrote: Antoine Martin wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my usb optical mouse connected to my laptop. After install that mouse works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not. An