lol, well, I learned the hard way that integrated linux environments can be SLOW when building large binaries.
That's why you set up an ARM (or whatever) toolchain on your powerful x86 rig.
Whenever I'm compiling PPC code I always make sure to set up either distcc or just do all of the work on my x86 box. Every PPC I've seen (including the mighty Cell)
sucks ass at software compilation. Fortunately, Gentoo makes it so easy to set up alternate toolchains that a drooling retard could practically do it. Most of the other distros, not so much (though there are plenty of prefabbed ARM, SH, etc, toolchains for Win32).
It took me about 45 minutes (3 or 4 times to get it right) to compile PHP..... Not to mention however long it took to compile MySQL.
That's it?
You need to try compiling Linux 2.6 on a Pentium 120 (or, hell, compiling OpenOffice on
anything). It's an eye-opening experience, believe me.
Wooooooo.
Guys my laptop is awesome. Ubuntu 9.04 on there now.
Sweet. Glad you like it.
Everything works beautifully except the sound, but there have been many issues for many people with sound and Jaunty, so I'm not the only person. Even though I can't play music yet, I'm still really enjoying it.
Hop into a terminal and type in "
lspci | grep Audio" (note: it's case-sensitive). It should give you something like this:
00:09.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP73 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
The two information that you need to know are the first two. "00:09" in this case. Now, get some more information on that by typing in "
sudo lspci -vv -s 00:09" (substituting "00:09" with whatever it is on your box). Copy and paste the result here. It should look something like this:
00:09.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP73 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7518
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
Region 0: Memory at fcf78000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Masking: 00000000 Pending: 00000000
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel