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.nox
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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: My warm welcome to Gentoo land |
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Just took me a little over 3 hours to compile Xorg and it's 140 dependencies after spending 2 days reading on circular dependencies and playing with USE flags and that's just the tip of the iceberg 
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kernelOfTruth
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Location: Vienna, Austria; Germany; hello world :)
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.nox
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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Ok I was too optimistic about Xorg-server installation. It is still running after 5 hours lol.
Thank you for the welcome ! |
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a.b.
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Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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Location: Anus Mundi, Germany
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| On what hardware? Either it's historic or you're doing something wrong. |
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.nox
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| a.b. wrote: | | On what hardware? Either it's historic or you're doing something wrong. |
It's probably the latter lol ! It ran for approximately 4 hours and fetched / compiled 140 packages.
I'm running it in a VM through VirtualBox on a Vista64 guest ( Practicing before plunging in ).
My specs are :
Lenovo T61 Laptop
Core2Duo 1.8hz 4mb L2
4gb PC5300 Crucial
80GB 5400rpm
Intel X3100 integrated GPU
How fast should the emerge have been ? I actually activated the VT-x hardware acceleration features of the CPU in VirtualBox. I'm trying to figure out how to copy from my guest to the host so I can post my here.
I guess this is heading to the support forums ? |
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steveL
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Welcome :-)
If you're doing it via virtualisation it's anybody's guess; has it finished yet? ;-) |
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.nox
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Location: Montreal, Qc, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:42 am Post subject: |
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So I installed Gentoo on my T61 and let me tell you, I don't know if it's because of some missing optimizations to Portage or the fact that I ran it in a VM , but DAMN ! TTis thing is it eating away the compile time ! Already 40% done of after 8 minutes !
I'm liking this...very much
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Took 46 minutes  fetched and compiled 134 packages. I don't know if thats slow or fast by peoples standard here but it sure kicks 4 hours in the butt lol. |
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isilia
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you specify VIDEO_CARDS in your make.conf file? |
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kaldek
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| .nox wrote: | So I installed Gentoo on my T61 and let me tell you, I don't know if it's because of some missing optimizations to Portage or the fact that I ran it in a VM , but DAMN ! TTis thing is it eating away the compile time ! Already 40% done of after 8 minutes !
I'm liking this...very much |
I'm running Gentoo 64-bit on my T61 (Nivida NV140 graphics), and it absolutely flies.
Annoyances:
- Time taken to get all the T61 hardware configured (media keys, fan speed control, etc)
- Lots of stuff I wanted to run required unmasking with ~amd64 keyword
- Some stuff only in overlays
- Knowing that at some point I'll forget about all the customisations I made when something breaks and I have to fix it. 
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