Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-23 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/23/2010 02:20 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood

Re: [gentoo-user] What app reads/converts Exchange .PST files?

2010-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:59 on Tuesday 23 November 2010, Walter Dnes did opine thusly: I'll be needing to convert a .PST file next week. I'd much rather prefer a quickie conversion rather than installing evolution... emerge -pv evolution [...delete honking big list...] Total:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-23 Thread Robin Atwood
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/23/2010 02:20 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos

Re: [gentoo-user] i486

2010-11-23 Thread Andy Wilkinson
On 11/22/2010 01:02 PM, James wrote: Hello, I want to set up a AMD AthlonXP on Compact Flash, just like I do my old pentium i586 systems. I'd really like to be able to move 4G Cf cards (set up generically) between old pentium, k6, i586, p4 and AthlonXP systems. (that's the goal not

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 21 November 2010 16:22:15 David W Noon wrote: What I suspect is in the remainder of that space is a hidden primary partition containing a transparent bootstrap that augments the BIOS and permits booting from a logical/extended partition. This would be similar to the old OS/2 Boot

Re: [gentoo-user] usb write delay

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: I'd like to reduce the time delay between a command or program's writing to a file on a flash drive and when ext2 actually writes the data to the drive.  How can I do this? In addition to Florian's tip, you can also

Re: [gentoo-user] What app reads/converts Exchange .PST files?

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 09:59 on Tuesday 23 November 2010, Walter Dnes did opine thusly:   I'll be needing to convert a .PST file next week.  I'd much rather prefer a quickie conversion rather than

[gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: make that i586 CFLAGS=-Os -march=??? -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} so that would be: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} Remember the purpose is to install a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:09:59 + (UTC), James wrote: (I forgot about the geode board.) The Geode is one I'm not too sure about. My Viglen MPC-L, which I think is a Geode LX, uses CFLAGS=-O2 -march=geode -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu % cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: make that i586 CFLAGS=-Os -march=??? -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} so that would be: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer

[gentoo-user] 200-line patch to kernel = superkernel

2010-11-23 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
FYI. If anyone understands the bash tweak, please explain :-) TIA 1. Original article: The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_2637_videonum=1 2. The alternative (or additional) bash tweak:

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-23 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:20:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: On Sunday 21 November 2010 16:22:15 David W Noon wrote: What I suspect is in the remainder of that space is a hidden primary partition containing a

Re: [gentoo-user] 200-line patch to kernel = superkernel

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:42 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o 7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com wrote: FYI. If anyone understands the bash tweak, please explain :-) TIA 1. Original article: The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_2637_videonum=1 2.

[gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: no, that would be CHOST=i586-pc-linux-gnu CHOST=i586-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} USE=-* -nls ncurses ssl crypt berkdb perl pcre \ python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog

Re: [gentoo-user] 200-line patch to kernel = superkernel

2010-11-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.11.2010 17:42, schrieb 7v5w7go9ub0o: FYI. If anyone understands the bash tweak, please explain :-) TIA 1. Original article: The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=linux_2637_videonum=1 2. The alternative (or additional)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:09:59 + (UTC), James wrote: (I forgot about the geode board.) The Geode is one I'm not too sure about. My Viglen MPC-L, which I think is a Geode LX, uses CFLAGS=-O2

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 17:18:56 David W Noon wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:20:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: On Sunday 21 November 2010 16:22:15 David W Noon wrote: What I suspect is in the

[gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread James
David W Noon dwnoon at ntlworld.com writes: Try using i686 instead. This clearly will not work with a k6 processor or the Geode LX. Recall, I want one set of settings for the make.conf file flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.07.2010 22:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 26.06.2010 19:58, schrieb Mark Knecht: Yesterday afternoon I tried emerge -j5 -DuN @world on an i5-661 machine I also built for my dad. loose followup: I consider buying a i5-661 on a DQ57TM board --- And I still haven't done it ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:36:49 +, David W Noon wrote: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=geode -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Try using i686 instead. flags : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 pge cmov mmx mmxext 3dnowext You have CMOV and MMX, as well as

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-11-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 19.07.2010 22:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 26.06.2010 19:58, schrieb Mark Knecht: Yesterday afternoon I tried emerge -j5 -DuN @world on an i5-661 machine I also built for my dad. loose followup: I

[gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
low-traffic? hmm?? At least when I check http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-amd64/date.xml Only recently noticed that ml and subscribed, not one mail so far ;-) S

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.11.2010 22:16, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I consider buying a i5-661 on a DQ57TM board --- And I still haven't done it ;-) That's quite a wait! ;-) Yeah, you know --- financial crisis and stuff :-) Yes, I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:10:02 +0100, James wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: i486: David W Noon dwnoon at ntlworld.com writes: Try using i686 instead. This clearly will not work with a k6 processor or the Geode LX. Recall, I want one set of settings for the make.conf file That part of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:12:53 + (UTC), James wrote: ???( and I have to vet against what the Geode LX can handle, as that is not yet clear to me either... besides I think all of these get set, automatically with the march=i586 setting, so as to be redundant.? The Geode LX runs badly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:36:49 +, David W Noon wrote: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=geode -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Try using i686 instead. flags : fpu

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: low-traffic? hmm?? At least when I check http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-amd64/date.xml Only recently noticed that ml and subscribed, not one mail so far ;-) S I haven't seen any traffic on that list since

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-23 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:10:03 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: On Tuesday 23 November 2010 17:18:56 David W Noon wrote: [snip] The number of primary/extended partitions is limited to 4, and the number of logical drives is

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.11.2010 23:54, schrieb Mark Knecht: I haven't seen any traffic on that list since late September. fits my looking-up-the-archives I think now that all new desktop processors are 64-bit everyone is running 64-bit but talking about it here. I only run 64-bit. In the old days the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:14 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, David W Noon did opine thusly: Errm, not exactly. SCSI/SATAs are limited to 15 (inc. one extended partition) and old (legacy driven) IDEs are limited to some 63 partitions if I recall correctly. If you use the new libata I

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 23:54:19 Alan McKinnon wrote: 16 for SCSI is plenty in real life, Well, you'd think so, but in my meddling days I hit my head on the ceiling. My other box, with whatever version of IDE was current then, had three more. and it's a hardware limitation not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:19 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Tuesday 23 November 2010 23:54:19 Alan McKinnon wrote: 16 for SCSI is plenty in real life, Well, you'd think so, but in my meddling days I hit my head on the ceiling. My other box,

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 23.11.2010 23:54, schrieb Mark Knecht: I haven't seen any traffic on that list since late September. fits my looking-up-the-archives I think now that all new desktop processors are 64-bit everyone is running

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 00:39:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:19 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: Just, if you happened to have 24 partitions, Windows would be ready to label them all. Foresight? Windows? Must be a mirage. No

Re: [gentoo-user] mailinglist gentoo-amd64

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 00:40:40 Mark Knecht wrote: I don't think I've ever seen him post here. (yet!) ...but my killfile is ready and waiting... -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] What app reads/converts Exchange .PST files?

2010-11-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:14:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Apparently, though unproven, at 09:59 on Tuesday 23 November 2010, Walter Dnes did opine thusly: I'll be needing to convert a .PST file next week. I'd much rather prefer a quickie conversion rather than installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i486

2010-11-23 Thread sam new
still do stage 1 installs? sounds good ,any guide or tutorial? On 24 November 2010 06:45, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:10:02 +0100, James wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: i486: David W Noon dwnoon at ntlworld.com writes: Try using i686 instead. This