Re: [Sheflug] Help with xorg and gentoo

[Graham <josoap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 22:48, Wonkey Donkey wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm posting purely as an interest right now.
..

Steve

A couple of examples (not necssarily good ones :)

from an Acer laptop (Celeron M,  SiS VGA - no HW accel) using KDE:
USE="X gtk -gnome kde dvd alsa cdr cups mmx mmx2 openntpd ppd sse sse2 ssl 
symlink samba apache2 cgi cli gd dba server"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"

>From an LTSP server :
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -mmmx 
-mfpmath=sse"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS=""
USE=" X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cgi 
cli crypt ctype cups dba eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd ethereal exif 
expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif 
glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imlib ipv6 jpeg kde 
kernel_linux lcms libg++ libwww ltsp mad memlimit mikmod mng motif mozilla 
mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix 
python qt quicktime readline samba sdl server session simplexml slang soap 
sockets spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts 
type1-fonts udev userland_GNU vorbis x86 xml xml2 xmms xscreensaver xsl xv 
zlib"
FEATURES=""
VIDEO_CARDS="via ati vesa vga vmware radeon s3"
alsa_cards="via82xx"

>From a dual core Presler based PC:
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=""
USE=" X a52 aac aim alsa amd64 apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb 
bitmap-fonts cairo cdr chroot cli crypt cups dbase dbm dbus directfb dlloader 
dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss emul-linux-x86 encode esd exif fam ffmpeg 
firefox flatfile fortran -fuse gd gdbm gif glitz glut gmail gmailtimestamps 
gnome gnome-print gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 h323 hal httpd icq 
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog 
java jpeg jpeg2k kde -kdgraphics kernel_linux ldap libg++ lpr lzo lzw mad 
maildir mikmod mjpeg mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mplayer mysql ncurses netjack nls 
nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 
qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs samba sdl server session spell spl 
ssl svga tcpd transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb 
userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vorbis wma wmf xine xinerama xinetd xml xorg xv zlib"

I've been impressed with how well the Acer runs - it's only a 1.4 Celeron with 
768MB RAM. No 3D graphics, tho. Have to watch the dual screen output - I've 
just deleted your last post when the focus moved from one screen to the other 
by knocking the mouse. 

The LTSP server was thrown together very quickly when SATA drive failed on the 
server in use, and then backup machine failed the next day. Probably 
shouldn't mix SCSI and SATA...  Looks like I forgot to set "MAKEOPTS", (and 
is there really a -mmmx ?) but it actually runs pretty well for a Celeron 
2.6. 

I had higher expectations of the Dual Core Presler machines, but they don't 
seem to run particularly quickly - not much quicker that the Celeron, so may 
try one with the x86 install when I get time.   

It may be a coincidence, but the shorter the USE flag list, the better the PC 
seems to run.


I installed Compiz then Beryl on a home machine with a GeForce 5200, but find 
it irritatingly unstable - need to ssh into it and restart xdm too often as 
it just locks up. 

Hope that's of some use........... Graham

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