From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQS6K-000386-1o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:03:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AEA6E063C for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:03:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A43E0682 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws8 with SMTP id 8so1480831vws.40 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:17:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/7tH6pTGeZOpgBGMOIzd9SGagaZTNbVXqnIp21bSd4U=; b=bGFCuFIIpnM5FPDN8rS+k2GG846qrDvWa8yMl0cQ2nl8E9dJj2z0txJapclnHsVJJf /XWXTRogjVIDJM56AiG3ng4Iz3qOs/bJXEjaPA88pH0UnyZLGwjC7zrY7q90D0XhFLOe JkIvCJ53vrERsqOiJVjkMzHA8CfOZQ3MdJTtQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=O+Zr46UMZn5MX/NFKt7AG2C7e/dYZKN9tDof4jOwIeSxYXsMKC3PiX1FWVdc11MVKu BdbQcz7jva2kfkMOptreSpgj8mIUaX5g/ubknhUge1apu2J7lxhCsjfCweSbWvp+JGIY R7H+D7/9cpSD/eJZxmhWAHVNyKXDFxx0UdD9c= Received: by 10.220.180.69 with SMTP id bt5mr2166070vcb.133.1291843041442; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-133-127.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.133.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s1sm153835vcc.3.2010.12.08.13.17.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:17:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:17:18 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9eed5702-2096-4c01-8b84-bdd0ef67657d X-Archives-Hash: 9fa94cb7cd177629c4a90e11ed3dfd81 Hi, First post here. I'm usually on gentoo user. I'm in the process of building a new system which will be 64 bit. I am looking for advice. I would like people to post things that I might run into that one wouldn't expect and some things that are different from x86. I was looking at something on my old rig and noticed the USE flag smp. I didn't know about that until I ran up on it. I learned something by pure dumb luck. I'm a long time Gentoo user. Installed it at the early stages of 1.4. I also use KDE and have fluxbox installed as a backup. The processor is a AMD Phenom II X4 955 @3.2Ghz. It will start out with one 4Gb stick of ram. I plan to expand that later. What are some things that I should watch for and enable that isn't so obvious for someone new to 64 bit? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)