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I wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld writes: |
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> > > > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. |
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> > > |
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> > > Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300 |
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> > > onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will |
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> > > have to do the migration to 64bit then. |
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> > Wonko, |
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> > |
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> > If your graphics card uses up the rest of the memory, moving up to |
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> > 64bit won't help either. |
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> |
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> Shouldn't I have 4GB minus the amount of graphics memory then, instead |
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> of 3G minus that? |
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> But I plan to add more memory anyway. With at least 6GB, and better |
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> 8GB, the graphics memory will not matter that much then. But I have to |
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> go to a 64bit system for this. |
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So I did, I just installed Gentoo again and now I have the 64bit system. |
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Wooooow. The system is SO MUCH more responsive now. It's not only because |
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of memory - I just removed 2GB, and the system still was more responsive |
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than with 2.7GB and 32bit OS. With 32bit, I was not able to play videos |
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with mplayer when updatedb or emerge -p --depclean was running, now this |
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is no problem, even without [io]nice being used. |
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I do not know why this is - I did a setup quite similar to the existing |
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system. make.conf is the same except for compiler flags, world file is |
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nearly identical, kernel .config (2.6.33-tuxonice-r2) is identical except |
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for some 64bit specific stuff, /home did not change. |
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> > Check in your BIOS to see if you can reduce the amount your graphics |
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> > card uses. For 'normal' desktop use, around 64MB should be more then |
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> > sufficient and if you have 4GB physically in your system you should |
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> > then see more memory appear. |
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> Good idea! Thanks, I will have a look there. |
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Found it. I can select 128, 256 or 512 MB, and set it to 128 MB. |
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I hopped on my bike and went to the local hardware store in order to get |
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another 4 GB of memory... but it was too expensive. Over a year ago, I |
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paid 56 EUR for 4 GB, now I would have to pay 60 EUR for 2 GB. I'll wait. |
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Now for the 64bit problems. There are few, it's working better than |
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expected, but some things are weird. |
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- At the first login into KDE4, four of my eight desktops were missing the |
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background image. With every login, one came back, now I have them all. |
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This issue fixed itself somehow. |
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- My KDE4 is mostly in English now, not in German. kde-base/kde-l10n is |
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installed, LINGUAS is set to "de". Some things are in German, though - |
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some parts of the systemsettings application, for example. |
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Oh, and after just another login - it's fixed. What's going on here? Maybe |
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I should not write about other problems, and instead reboot a couple of |
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times? |
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- hibernate-ram does not work. When I resume, the display stays black. The |
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numlock key ativates the LED, but I could not switch to a text cnosole. |
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After Alt-SysRq-R, caps and scroll lock flash, I guess that means kernel |
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panic. Happened for two times, I won't try this anymore soon. I see |
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nothing in syslog. |
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- Fortunately, hibernate (suspend to disk with tuxonice) seems to work. |
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Did not try other yet, and the very first attempt stopped with the 'wacky |
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driver' message. But the 2nd and 3rd attempt succeeded. This worked |
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sometimes with the old system, but most of the times it aborted, I had to |
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try about ten times for one success. And sometimes the system crashed, so |
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I did not use this. |
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Next morning update: Resume did not work, I got a 'LUKS killed' message. |
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Oh no! I do not want to shut down the system every night again, I got used |
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to hibernation. I'll ask on the tuxonice mailing list, hopefully this time |
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someone can help me. |
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BTW, I did change the graphics memory size after this, so this change is |
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not the cause. |
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- There is some font problem. There is only one application (media- |
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tv/tvbrowser) in which the titles look bad, see the attachement (first |
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time I do this on a mailing list, but it's small). That's no |
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big problem, and I can activate antialiasing in tvbrowser, but I just |
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wonder why this happens, this system should be quite identical. A diff of |
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eix -I --only-names | grep font on both systems shows nothing. |
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- x11-libs/xview (from the science overlay) does not build, it has -amd64 |
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in KEYWORDS. I know about this already, and that I should not even bother |
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to try compiling it anyway. But I need this libraries for stuff I am |
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building. Linking 32bit libraries to applictions I build with a 64bit |
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compiler cannot not work, right? Is there any easier solution than to |
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chroot into a 32bit Linux? Which wouldn't be too bad, I still have my |
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32bit Gentoo, and I could just trim it down and keep it running. |
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There were more problems, but they got solved while composing this mail. |
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You wouldn't believe how often this happens to me, I start writing an |
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email to this list, gather information that you might need to help, and |
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solve the problem myself along this. |
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Wonko |