I have an Athlon MP box. xosview doesn't seem to work - an strace shows it hanging just after reading the CPU line in /proc/stat. It works fine on my other two uniprocessor machines. It uses 100% of one CPU when this happens. Solution: the xosview-1.8.1-kernel-2.5+.diff patch is broken. Use this one instead: http://codex.sourcemage.org/stable/x11/xosview/xosview-disk-2.6.patch Moving that to /usr/portage/x11-misc/xosview/files and renaming it to xosview-1.8.1-kernel-2.5+.diff, then doing emerge xosview fixes the problem. It all works great now. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (case) /usr/portage/x11-misc/xosview/files# emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r 1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mo zilla/defaults/pref:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.2/share/config:/usr/share/ texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /us r/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf /xdvi/:/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu x/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://yt/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib aim alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups directfb dvd dvdr emacs encode esd ethereal evo flac foomaticdb gb gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib jabber jack java jikes jpeg kde la dccalcms ldap lesstif libg++ libwww mad mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi m sn mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl p lotutils png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usb videos wmf wxwindows x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv yahoo zlib"
Patch in CVS, it should hit the rsync mirrors within an hour. Thanks!