Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:02:20PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > ...and then use a bootup script to execute hdparm? At least I found that > necessary. If after configuring your proper IDE controller, configuring it for DMA, and configuring DMA by default, the kernel still doesn't do it by defaul

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-19 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:33:50PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: | This one time, at band camp, Geoff Crompton said: | > | > 'scuse my ignorance. How do you configure UDMA 100 (or the other | > modes)? | > | > Geoff Crompton | It's all in the kernel .config: | CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y | C

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Geoff Crompton said: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:43:24AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > > One other thing I noticed is that Gentoo brought up my disks in UDMA > > 100 mode, Debian did not. Ofcourse I went in to change this in > > Debian. Et voila, a speed increase th

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-18 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:43:24AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > One other thing I noticed is that Gentoo brought up my disks in UDMA > 100 mode, Debian did not. Ofcourse I went in to change this in > Debian. Et voila, a speed increase that I never thought of getting > before. > 'scuse my i

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 03:40:10PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I played around w/ gentoo a few months ago (and promptly came back to > debian (i missed apt) ). But i do miss the optimization i experienced > w/ gentoo (despite what everyone says, there was a very noticeable > difference i

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >two packages: pbuilder and pentium-builder. One makes a chroot for compilin >apps in the other wraps gcc and causes it to use machine level optimizations. > excuse my simplicity, but you could go into a little more detail (maybe an example?), i could probably fi

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 14:40, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I dont' really want to build everything from source (that takes way too > long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz, > (g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go > about this? > two