Maybe you'd be best of starting with i686 to familiarize yourself with what's possible. Then after a while change to 64-bit. It's still a challenge to get everything working, although there are plenty of nifty tools to make the life of the 64-bit desktop user pleasant.

The configuration files change with every release so double check those are correct.

It's working fine here, without any useflags.

You should get some log output.

So basicly you just want the gateway to be an access point. There should be plenty of tutorials for that.

For Xen I don't really see what your question is. You just need DHCP or assign ip's to the guests manually. The Xen script automatically creates bridges for the virtual nic's of the Xen guests.

What does syslog say?

I've been using sun-jdk and resin with mod_caucho for ages. Too bad there aren't any up-to-date ebuilds for it. However the latest release compiles without much pain again using the default method.

I've only got experience with its older brother 939Dual-SATA2.

The sata, nic and soundcard are supported as of kernel 2.6.14.

A 32bit chroot shouldn't be much different from a normal 32bit install. Are you using the same jdk for both environments?

I'd start by testing the memory of the system.

Java5 is a major change, that's why. They wrote their code for 1.4 not 1.5.

And when you try r2 or 1.14?

It should wait for you to read the license, exit the reader and press yes/no.

Newest cpu's should be complete, older models were missing a few obscure instructions.

It's working nicely on my Pentium D.

How did you install the sun java thingy?

You can unmask them but you need to dl the archive by hand from the Sun website and put it in your portage/distfiles dir, because of license agreements.

The uli network driver is of the tulip "family" so you'll need that one indeed. For Sata you can use the uli driver, for pata you can use the ali 15x3 (something like that ) driver.

Works fine on my X2, maybe revision D is still not new enough.

NUMA is only supported by Opteron cpu's.

I've got preemption on full aswell, with an X2 4200.

Both will work, just take the chost that's in the stage tar.

The cpu does the "emulation" for you when running a 32bit system. You only need a 32bit emulation libraries when running a 64-bit system because 32bit software can't bind to 64bit libraries.

So you can just compile a new kernel with drivers for the new hardware, replace all hardware and continue ...

I had that as well but it did work. I think emerging powernowd fixed it.

Ant is needed to build most of those packages.

Numa is only supported by opteron's afaik.

You can't disable agpgart when you enable IOMMU. Unselect that and you can disable the built in agp driver at the same place where you can select the intel one.

That's called affinity and it's not supported by default. You can patch your kernel if needed but it shouldn't be.