USE

[al]

Okay i'm confused?

Where is my USE thingy?Is it a config file(i did a search of my system with kfind and came up with nothing)

I see a lot of posts saying how you have to have this&that in your USE settings but don't know what it is.

I looked to see if there was a man page for it but there doesn't appear to be one.

I'm stumped!

[bsolar]

Your USE settings are in /etc/make.conf, and your CFLAGS too (to set optimizations, i.e. -march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe ....)

[al]

Damn that was a fast reply-i only went downstairs to look at my wifes new matrix2 winamp skin-not a patch on my glandamp skin!

Okay i just had a look at /etc/make.conf
My question is what flag would i put in for a Pentium4,or would the Pentium3 flag be sufficent?

Thanks mate!

[bsolar]

Here you'll find useful informations.

Also this is the thread for CFLAGS.

[al]

Well my flags were only set to i686,so it seems i've compiled my whole system this way

I guess i'm losing out on a lot of cpu power.I've now changed it to pentium4 but i think this will only affect future installed ebuilds.
Does this also affect progs i install the conventional way (./configure make & make install)?

Would it benefit me to do a re-install using the flag(i really don't want to as i only have an isdn line)?

[bsolar]

Your settings will affect every package you compile from the time you setted them.

About optimizations, if you want you can rebuild your whole system.
You don't need to download the packages again since they should be in /usr/portage/distifiles. Do

[al]

Wow great stuff,I'm glad i bumped into you!

I'm going to give it a go over the weekend.

I'll post up the results so as to show if i can see a notible difference or not.

Watch this space!

[bsolar]

OK, I hope everything will go well...

[krt]

You might want to emerge ufed and play with it before you do an emerge -e world.


its a nice little USE flags editor.. easier than remembering what each little settin g does
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[al]

Okay i did it.Everything was fine until i rebooted then my Xserver went down.As you can see it wont load the Nvidia kernel.I've tried to unmerge the kernel & glx module then merge them back in again but it still wont work.
I've even tried changing the module "nvidia" to "nv" in the XF86config file and putting a # in front of "load glx" but it still wont work.It seems like xfree just aint loading any modules at all.
Should i unmerge xfree then emerge again?It's just that its a big package and will probably take ages(60MB).
Here's my XF86log file:

XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 3 September 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.5.47 i686 [ELF]
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Feb 9 11:29:43 2003
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
(==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "samsung"
(**) | |-->Device "NVIDIA ti4200"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
(**) XKB: model: "pc101"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
(**) XKB: layout: "gb"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(--) using VT number 7

(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x00000000, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1039,0646 card 147b,c003 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1039,0001 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 1039,0008 card 0000,0000 rev 10 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:5: chip 1039,5513 card 147b,c003 rev d0 class 01,01,80 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:7: chip 1039,7012 card 1039,7012 rev a0 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:09:0: chip 1102,0002 card 1102,8027 rev 07 class 04,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:09:1: chip 1102,7002 card 1102,0020 rev 07 class 09,80,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:0d:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 10ec,8139 rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0253 card 1462,8700 rev a3 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) LoadModule: "scanpci"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a
(II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
(II) UnloadModule: "scanpci"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
[0] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0e (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 I/O range:
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0xe4000000 - 0xe5ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B]
(II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0xd0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x10000000) MX[B]
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:2:0), (0,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus -1 I/O range:
(II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range:
(II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range:
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) NVidia unknown chipset (0x0253) rev 163, Mem @ 0xe4000000/24, 0xd0000000/27, 0xd8000000/19
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
[0] -1 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
[1] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
[0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[6] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
[0] -1 0xe6002000 - 0xe60020ff (0x100) MX[B]
[1] -1 0xe0000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[3] -1 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[4] -1 0xe4000000 - 0xe4ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[5] -1 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[6] -1 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B]
[7] -1 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B]
[8] -1 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc7f (0x80) IX[B]
[9] -1 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[10] -1 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
[0] -1 0xe6002000 - 0xe60020ff (0x100) MX[B]
[1] -1 0xe0000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[3] -1 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[4] -1 0xe4000000 - 0xe4ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[5] -1 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[6] -1 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B]
[7] -1 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B]
[8] -1 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc7f (0x80) IX[B]
[9] -1 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[10] -1 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
[0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[6] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) All system resource ranges:
[0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0xe6002000 - 0xe60020ff (0x100) MX[B]
[6] -1 0xe0000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[9] -1 0xe4000000 - 0xe4ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[10] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[11] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[12] -1 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[13] -1 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B]
[14] -1 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B]
[15] -1 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc7f (0x80) IX[B]
[16] -1 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[17] -1 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a
(II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
(II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension FontCache
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "type1"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a
(II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.1
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) Loading font CID
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a
(II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.1.10
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.3123
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.3123
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.3
(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-3123 Tue Aug 27 16:00:08 PDT 2002
(II) NVIDIA: NVIDIA driver for: RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, Vanta,
RIVA TNT2 Ultra, RIVA TNT2 Model 64, Aladdin TNT2, GeForce 256,
GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 MX/MX 400, GeForce2 MX 100/200,
Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go, GeForce2 Integrated GPU, GeForce2 GTS,
GeForce2 Ti, GeForce2 Ultra, Quadro2 Pro, GeForce4 MX 460,
GeForce4 MX 440, GeForce4 MX 420, Quadro4 500/550 XGL,
Quadro4 200/400 NVS, NV18, NV18 , NV18 , NV18, NV18GL, NV18GL ,
NV18GL , 0x01F0, GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti 200, GeForce3 Ti 500,
Quadro DCC, GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce4 Ti 4400, GeForce4 Ti 4200,
Quadro4 900 XGL, Quadro4 750 XGL, Quadro4 700 XGL, NV28, NV28 ,
NV28GL, NV28GL , GeForce2 Go, GeForce4 440 Go, GeForce4 420 Go,
GeForce4 420 Go 32M, GeForce4 460 Go, GeForce4 440 Go 64M,
GeForce4 410 Go 16M, Quadro4 500 GoGL
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset GeForce4 Ti 4200 found
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
[0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0xe6002000 - 0xe60020ff (0x100) MX[B]
[6] -1 0xe0000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[9] -1 0xe4000000 - 0xe4ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[10] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[11] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[12] -1 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[13] -1 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B]
[14] -1 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B]
[15] -1 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc7f (0x80) IX[B]
[16] -1 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[17] -1 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
(II) resource ranges after probing:
[0] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0xe6002000 - 0xe60020ff (0x100) MX[B]
[6] -1 0xe0000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x4000000) MX[B]
[7] -1 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[9] -1 0xe4000000 - 0xe4ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[10] 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B]
[11] 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B]
[12] 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B]
[13] -1 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[14] -1 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[15] -1 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[16] -1 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B]
[17] -1 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B]
[18] -1 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dc7f (0x80) IX[B]
[19] -1 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[20] -1 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B]
[21] 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B]
[22] 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD0000000
(--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE4000000
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVdriver kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.

[bsolar]

I don't know a lot about nvidia support, I have a ATI radeon.

btw you should post a new topic since this is a different problem. I'm sure the nvidia users will be glad to help...

[al]

New posting added to "Multimedia"

[al]

Problem solved,I have X back(see my posting in multimedia for how i did it)

As for a difference in speed after running "emerge -e world" i can honestly say i can't see any.
I don't think my system is slower or faster

Maybe it's me.I don't know?