I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook
not excruciatingly slow?
Grant wrote:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook
not
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote:
Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while,
yet allow package-rN updates...
This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of
the man pages. But I can think of a method to do it
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote:
Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while,
yet allow package-rN updates...
This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of
the man pages.
On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote:
Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to
bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly
regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want
to do this. I'm not sure how much
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote:
Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to
bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly
regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want
to do this.
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:45:16 -0700, Grant wrote:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The atom syntax you want is package~ which means any -rN version
(including -r0) of the base version.
I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it
could be used at the end too.
You could grab a complete list
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to
bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly
regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would
want to do this. I'm not sure
Hi,
I'm using Clonezilla for my system backups, it's very easy to use and
restoring the backups actually works (that's normally the tricky part,
not copying everything to another medium) :-)
If it's just for data, I'm making a daily backup on a flash disk using
rsync and from time to time a
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:39:01 +0100, Geralt wrote:
If it's just for data, I'm making a daily backup on a flash disk using
rsync and from time to time a backup on an external hdd drive using
again rsync. If you tar it up, you can't store the differences only
anymore, so you have to decide first
On Thursday 12 March 2009 11:48:48 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The atom syntax you want is package~ which means any -rN version
(including -r0) of the base version.
I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it
* Saphirus Sage (saphirus...@gmail.com) [12.03.09 00:53]:
I've been trying to setup my laptop to enter ACPI S3 (suspend to ram)
when I close the lid. I currently have the scripts setup as such:
/etc/acpi/events/lid
event=button[ /]lid.*
action=/etc/acpi/actions/lid.sh
Looks normal.
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 18:41:58 Willie Wong wrote:
For future reference, it'd be nice if you trimmed the build log a
little bit.
Sorry. Duly noted
In any case, you are running K8, and on B.G.O. there are some
suggestions that the stable version of boost does not play well with
newer
All,
After sync'ing yesterday and getting a whole bunch of packages evince
had problems and gnome never got installed. Today after sync'ing I get
the following which doesn't make sense to me. Can someone help.
# emerge -uDNp world
!!! CONFIG_PROTECT is empty
These are the packages that would
dhk schrieb:
- app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.4 (Change USE: +cairo)
This line tells you what to do:
reemerge poppler-bindings with USE=cairo
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:45, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap
Justin wrote:
dhk schrieb:
- app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.4 (Change USE: +cairo)
This line tells you what to do:
reemerge poppler-bindings with USE=cairo
That worked, Thanks.
Grant schrieb:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook
not
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook
not excruciatingly
Grant schrieb:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook
not
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote:
Grant schrieb:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:30:13 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
Use ext2 FS. You don't want the journalling to cost you even more
performance and wear down the SSD.
No syslog, it will only wear down the disk with many small write cycles.
SSDs have more sophisticated wear-levelling than flash
Paul Hartman schrieb:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote:
Grant schrieb:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:52:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know
it could be used at the end too.
You must be English. Only an Englishman could point out a blunder like
that in such a subtle way as to make the other guy cringe
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook
not excruciatingly
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap
On Thursday 12 March 2009 21:43:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
It didn't occur to me that when putting
the tilde at the wrong end, you were talking out of the wrong end :)
I seem to be doing that a lot lately. You should have seen Tuesdays' blunder:
mysql UPDATE passwds set passwd=a_hash, status=NEW,
I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless
signals. It works great, but my girlfriend struggles to connect with
her built-in antenna. I do have a travel router (D-Link DWL-G730) so
I'd like to be able to do something like this:
WAN-my laptop-travel router-girlfriend's
on 03/12/2009 09:45 AM Grant wrote the following:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:26:45 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless
signals. It works great, but my girlfriend struggles to connect with
her built-in antenna. I do have a travel router (D-Link DWL-G730) so
I'd like to be
Justin wrote:
can oyu provide us our kernel config?
Thats the only problems I have with my netbook:
My fingers are incompatible with the size if the keyboard!
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Thanasis wrote:
on 03/12/2009 09:45 AM Grant wrote the following:
I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
possible) and/or swap
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes:
1. run xfce4 (already do)
2. compile with -Os (I was using -O2)
3. use ext2 (I was using ext3)
4. don't use laptop-mode (I didn't know it existed)
5. no syslog (does this mean don't even emerge a system logger like
metalog?)
6. use
Grant ha scritto:
I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless
signals. It works great,
May I ask which antenna? It's a long time I'm looking for something like
that but I keep being told that external antennas are often useless (I'm
thinking of the over-the-counter
I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless
signals. It works great,
May I ask which antenna? It's a long time I'm looking for something like
that but I keep being told that external antennas are often useless (I'm
thinking of the over-the-counter usb stuff)
m.
I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless
signals. It works great, but my girlfriend struggles to connect with
her built-in antenna. I do have a travel router (D-Link DWL-G730) so
I'd like to be able to do something like this:
WAN-my laptop-travel
Hi,
I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going to
take some sort of seminar over the net and asked me if there was a way
for him to record it - both audio and video. I don't know how the
seminar will be given, but my dad's in his 80's, isn't Gentoo
knowledgeable and if
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going to
take some sort of seminar over the net and asked me if there was a way
for him to record it - both audio and video. I don't know how the
seminar
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:28 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going to
take some sort of seminar over the net and asked me if there was a way
for him to record it - both audio and video. I don't know how the
A shell script is all you want.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:55 AM, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW drive
to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What
programs would you recommend to handle
* Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my
local network.
Let me suggest another idea:
Put a venti on the remote machine and push the tree to be backed
up with vac. Never think about maintaining incremental backups
anymore - just pull
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Andrey Falko ma3ox...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going to
take some sort of seminar over the net and asked me if there was a way
for
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Jake Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:28 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going to
take some sort of seminar over the net and asked me if there was a way
on 03/12/2009 11:54 PM Justin wrote the following:
can you provide us our kernel config?
Attached it.
(Acer Aspire ONE A110L Atom 1.6GHz/512 MB/8.9/8GB)
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.28-gentoo-r2
# Thu Mar 5 23:20:28 2009
#
# CONFIG_64BIT is not
46 matches
Mail list logo
