On Sunday 28 November 2010 23:57:07 Stroller wrote: > On 28/11/2010, at 7:18pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Anyway, did the ck kernel help in some way with your problem? > I will give this my full attention tomorrow, taking time to re-read > all posts and google. It might be a couple of days before I try CK's > sources, to be honest. Compilation takes a couple of hours on this > system, and I just know that I'm going to have to give it a little > attention.
After reading this thread I decided to give CK sources a go. Make oldconfig offered me one option, whose help message made it pretty clear I should set it. Otherwise the config was the same as I'd been using on Gentoo sources. Compilation took 9 minutes. After rebooting into KDE 4.5.3 I set some more emerges going: open office, pywebkitgtk, chromium. Switching to another desktop took 8 seconds to finish painting the screen. Not propitious. Once the other jobs had finished and only open office was compiling, response was much faster, even when it got to a threaded section and was using all four cores. Looks like a worthwhile experiment to continue. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
