Making the switch to Gentoo64

breakerfall · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: Making the switch to Gentoo64

Hi

I've finally decided to make the switch! I've bought a new SATA disk that Gentoo will be installed to, using my old IDE drives to copy across files and configs once I'm done. I remember there were quite a few compatability options several months ago, but how's it looking now?

I don't do all that much on the computer, but as long as I can get everything working, I'll be happy. Does anyone have any experience using blender under G64? Do you use the normal i386 binary files they have available?

How about gaming? I remember issues with Q3 based games and I still like a game of Q3 and ET(F) rocks hardcore. Should that work alright? Oooh and Doom3 too.

I'm also going to assume that I will need to install a 32 bit binary version of mozilla / compile 32 bit mozilla in order to view flash, or has this changed?

Mplayer I presume works alright still and I've seen some comments about "multilib"? Does this remove the necessity of having to have a 32bit chroot in order to compile 32 bit source?

Thanks

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Oh and do you recommend using the 2004.3 or the 2005.0 release live disk?

frameRATE · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:16 am Post subject:

Doom3 works quite well natively under linux. As to AMD64 and SATA, I just finally got around to putting gentoo on my AMD64 tonight. And EVERYTHING is SATA. Even the DVD drive. After booting the live CD it doesn't seem to pick up any of the harddrives or the dvd drive which poses a problem (even with gentoo doscsi).. So I dont know. If you have immediate luck post it here.

I'll play with it some more tomorrow...
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Trevoke · Advocate Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 4099 Location: NY, NY

how about doataraid or dosataraid or whatever that option is?
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frameRATE · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:

I'll give that a shot today. My drive is just a 74 gig Raptor drive, no raid set up right now. But that may supply the right drivers so I'll give it a shot
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breakerfall · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I had problems getting the live disk to spot my Sil sata controller (damned video card's blocking the nforce ones) but using the noapic option at live CD boot and then loading the relevant module allowed me to access the drive.

Looks like I'm going 64bit - at least trying it. See what the ATI performance is like.