Re: Successful ruby setup and a problem

[Svetoslav S. <sv...@gm...>]

> > and more importantly the cpu is not 32bit, but 64 :-)
> > !!! you are the first non i386 ruby user !!!!
> 
> This is not true, yet. :-) The system is i386 version of Fedora Core 1.
> I am downloading the ISOs of FC1/x86_64 now...

sorry for the late reply,
and hope you are already 64bit :-)

> > isn't it great that ruby also works on other archs :-)
> > 
> 
> > which remainds me,
> > have you applied the x86_64 ruby changes ?
> 
> Where are they? The CVS contains arch/i386 but no other archs.

you might check the bk tree http://linuxconsole.bkbits.net/

attached is a bit older diff, it should be pretty trivial to merge

 
> >>>I've noticed that tuxracer doesn't like a compile going on at
> >>>the same time, but that's on a 333MHz processor. A dual cpu
> >>>setup fixed that for me.
> >>
> >>Playing a movie in Xine while rpmbuild --rebuild XFree86
> >>causes sound dropouts (very rare) and frame drops (even less)
> >>That's with the onboard AC97 sound card.
> > 
> 
> > 
> 
> > are all the apps compiled for 64bit?
> > i would expect no problems with such a beast CPU,
> > have you tried updating alsa ?
> > another soundcard?
> > i don't see such problems with 
> 
> > amd XP2700 
> 
> > 1024 MB DDR333 RAM
> 
> I only have 512M, but DDR400.
> 
> > sb audigy
> 
> I also have an SB Live! 1024.
> 
> > radeon AIW 7500 AGP 
> 
> > geforce4 440 PCI 

do you have the drops with the sb card ?
on-board sound tend to be problematic sometimes

> >>>>My main problem is that localhost:1.0 is destroyed by logging
> >>>>out on localhost:0.0.
> >>>
> >>>Destroyed how - logging out kills the other xserver too?
> >>
> >>The monitor goes black, looks powersave mode but it's not.
> >>Pressing Ctrl-Alt-BkSpace brings back the gdm login.
> > 
> 
> > have you tried disabling all DPMS stuff in XFree and kernel ?
> 
> That should not be a problem, as I said I can login/logout on
> display :1.0 any time I want, it does not bother display :0.0.
> It's logging out on :0.0 that confuses :1.0, its monitor goes blank.
> On :0.0 the gdm login screen comes back as it should on logout.

it might be some DRI bug :(
have you tried disabling DRI ?
 
> > some time ago my monitor used to go in power saving even as i type
> > and i think Andreas Schuldei had the same problem
> > i think disabling :
> > power managment --> APM ... --> enable console blanking ... 
> 
> > fixed it
> 
> I use ACPI on this machine.
and ?
you have totaly disabled APM ?

best,

svetljo

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