From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbwLH-0002Gn-PA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:20:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B13AE0512; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FA8E0512 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from xdsl-195-14-206-213.netcologne.de ([195.14.206.213] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JbwLE-0000qG-70 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:20 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:17 +0100 id 000102EF.47E0F6F1.0000184F From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47A9618D.4060109@sbcglobal.net> <200803182220.39518.wonko@wonkology.org> <20080318221456.55a7b21e@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080318221456.55a7b21e@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803191220.16530.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 11e2572a-5977-4d22-af7e-97a53907145c X-Archives-Hash: bd04ff091c027ce4f4fd8ac832519ada Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too > > small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on > > LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink > > that to somewhere else. > > You could set $CCACHE_DIR, which seems less kludgy to me. Right. > > But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB? > > Because you have built your kernel with CONFIG_KITCHENSINK=m? > > % du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r) > 9.9M /lib/modules/2.6.24-tuxonice-r3 > > Hmmm, it's 22MB on my desktop, time to start pruning .config. Well, I think I did that. I copied the kubuntu config, but went through most options with menuconfig and deactivated a lot. I kept bluetooth, USB and DVB stuff, and some more, though, because I do not know yet which devices might be needed later. So, the original kubuntu .config has even much more stuff in it. Squashfs compression must be very good, or the whole CD would be filled with modules only. > % df -h / > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5 reiserfs 385M 189M 196M 50% / > > That includes /boot with two kernels. Looks like what I had expected. But that's okay, I created another, bigger root partition. I just think that the documentation could mention this. "Remember, if you are going to get your .config fram a CD like knoppix, your /lib directory will neeed at about 500 M, so be sure aour root partition is big enough" or something like that would have helped. Flash would be nice now. For some people it does work fine, but for others this still is not the case it seems. Using firefox-bin or wine might be workarounds, but I would not like that much - I like to use konqueror. The video driver problem seems to be sort of solved. Looks like a permission problem, the X user has direct rendering. I guess a Section "DRI" with Mode 0666 will solve that. Still, I wonder how to get a new xorg.conf. X -configure also fails on other machines with a similar error. Yet another probem we just saw is display of videos. Xine works fine, but with mplayer or vlc it seems like the frames are not all in correct order, the output skips back a little about once a second. Wonko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list