Re: [gentoo-user] new CPU march=athlon-xp

2003-10-08 Thread Håvard Wall
I had some similar problems with freezing. It appeared after several months with a perfectly stable computer. I tried to blame it on everything, but it only became better after I swithed to the gentoo-sources kernel. Try that! It made stability wonders for me! mathieu perrenoud wrote: Hello,

Re: [gentoo-user] DMA messages at bootup

2003-09-23 Thread Håvard Wall
how about: rc-update add hdparm boot ? Dane Elwell wrote: Hey, I've added ide0=dma and ide1=dma to my kernel boot parameters, and dmesg shows this: Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda8 ide0=dma ide1=dma ide_setup: ide0=dma ide_setup: ide1=dma [...] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice - slower than death

2003-08-20 Thread Håvard Wall
rh wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:21:47 +0300 Theofilos Intzoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi rh! I remember that if I try to start ooffice when my [EMAIL PROTECTED] program is already running with nice 19 using all available cpu, ooffice took about a minute to start giving me an empty window!

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u system

2003-08-18 Thread Håvard Wall
emerge unmerge perl emerge unmerge dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker emerge perl emerge -uv system On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Ben Anderson wrote: This is my problem: emerge -u system Calculating system dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA trouble

2003-08-01 Thread Håvard Wall
Taylor, Bryant wrote: I think you fogot to include your dmesg output. The relevant lines from dmesg at boot time: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0 [...] Yenta IRQ list 0098, PCI irq11 Socket status: 3827 The additional

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems encoding MP2

2003-07-29 Thread Håvard Wall
Andrew Farmer wrote: At 29 July, 2003 Miguel Bl?zquez wrote: [...] Therefore, the distribution is not the problem. Any ideas? Is it posible that the tools 'toolame' or 'mp2enc' had been compiled with some parameter defined in /etc/make* and that parameter affects negatively? No, make options won't

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended CFLAGS for Dual Athlon MP 2200

2003-07-26 Thread Håvard Wall
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: To be certain my original CFLAGS was -march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -pipe which I changed to -march=athlon-xp -O2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe. Come to think of it the performance gain may be due to the omit-frame-pointer flag. Comments?

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended CFLAGS for Dual Athlon MP 2200

2003-07-25 Thread Håvard Wall
AMD XP/MP: 128KB L1 cache (64KB instructions, 64KB data) +512KB L2 cache =640KB total cache Intel Pentium 4 = 2GHz: 8KB L1 data cache + 12KB L1 instruction cache +256KB L2 cache =276KB total cache Intel Pentium 4 = 2GHz:

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Håvard Wall
Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells. I also need minimal

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install

2003-07-25 Thread Håvard Wall
Thanks, I will look at the emerge option -v. When should I clean the /usr/portage/distfiles and how? Actually, you should do an emerge -uvp kde first. This will list all the packages which will be installed. When a package gets installed, portage downloads the source in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?

2003-07-24 Thread Håvard Wall
Alex wrote: Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I will use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that can do X. I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how

Re: [gentoo-user] Ad-hoc networking on a Prism1?

2003-07-23 Thread Håvard Wall
Ian Delahorne wrote: I've got a Prism1 card here, and a PCI-CardBus-bridge. I want to run in adhoc mode on ESSID FOO with IP 192.168.42.42. I tried the following: modprobe orinoco_cs insert card. beep boop dmesg reports eth1 is alive and looks like an Intersil Prism 1 iwconfig eth1 mode Ad-Hoc

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge files on CD

2003-07-22 Thread Håvard Wall
Robert Storey wrote: Dear All, I'm new to Gentoo - so new that I haven't installed it yet. My big hangup is that I don't have broadband, and there is no hope of getting it where I live. One friend of mine (who does have broadband) has offered to download the whole lot of Gentoo emerge files and

Re: [gentoo-user] pcmcia-cs and network failure

2003-07-21 Thread Håvard Wall
Bill Spears wrote: #ifconfig eth0 up returns eth0: unknown interface: No such device My context is: A laptop with pcmcia support not set in kernel and emerge pcmcia-cs done. lsmod shows all the basic stuff: ds, pcmcia_core, i82365, xirc2ps_cs oddly, xirc2ps_cs is shown as