Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 15:59 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: Still looking for a good pointer for building my own Kernel 4.2 wjth comprehensive explanations of each sub menu of menu config. For e.g. make oldconfig you can use the ?. Using this information with a search engine should give the wanted

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 18:35 +0200, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: Anyway, is a kernel configuration and (re)compilation really worth the pain and time ?? Is a custom kernel giving any benefit or speed-up apart from something marginal and more about the feeling than anything else ? I gave up

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
... this will build you a kernel with only the bare minimum needed to fulfill your current state; any modules not loaded at this time will not be built. you may still need to configure other features unrelated to modules. I'd be interested to know what size your kernel is when you do that. I

[arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Arno Gaboury
Hi everybody, after a few months of running ArchLinux, I feel more comfortable to fine tune my box, and will be happy to get some advices. I am far from being an expert, but usually manage to understand what I am doing and achieve my goals, even if it takes time and a lot of reading and

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/14/2012 11:01 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: Hi everybody, after a few months of running ArchLinux, I feel more comfortable to fine tune my box, and will be happy to get some advices. I am far from being an expert, but usually manage to understand what I am doing and achieve my goals, even

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Alex Belanger
My best advice is get on IRC and proceed point by point, they are very helpful; Myself I can help with the server stuff, xfce/compiz setup and a few others. On Jun 14, 2012, at 5:01 AM, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, after a few months of running ArchLinux, I

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
convert from MBR to GPT. I understand GPT is more convenient, As an exercise for the future for some OSs to use 2TB fair enough but if your doing it for convenience, please explain because MBR has become a proper well tested cross platform standard and GPT won't according to a recent thread on

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/14/2012 03:52 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: convert from MBR to GPT. I understand GPT is more convenient, As an exercise for the future for some OSs to use 2TB fair enough but if your doing it for convenience, please explain because MBR has become a proper well tested cross platform standard

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.comwrote: Still looking for a good pointer for building my own Kernel 4.2 wjth comprehensive explanations of each sub menu of menu config. I think that you will not find this one. The best explanation of most of these submenus

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/14/2012 04:18 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.comwrote: Still looking for a good pointer for building my own Kernel 4.2 wjth comprehensive explanations of each sub menu of menu config. I think that you will not find this one.

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Still looking for a good pointer for building my own Kernel 4.2 wjth comprehensive explanations of each sub menu of menu config. We can dream for comprehensive. I presume you know about uncommenting in PKGBUILD and/or using the new nconfig or xconfig and the search functions etc.. You still

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/14/2012 04:18 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: And then... without even noticing, you will have learned a lot about even the most arcane kernel options... Sounds good. I will then stick to your approach, as it makes

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread Jesse Juhani Jaara
to, 2012-06-14 kello 15:59 +0200, Arno Gaboury kirjoitti: Still looking for a good pointer for building my own Kernel 4.2 wjth comprehensive explanations of each sub menu of menu config. nconfig has this nice option (in the old menuconfig too, just don't remember the button in there) to press

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread arnaud gaboury
On Jun 14, 2012 5:03 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote: to, 2012-06-14 kello 15:59 +0200, Arno Gaboury kirjoitti: Still looking for a good pointer for building my own Kernel 4.2 wjth comprehensive explanations of each sub menu of menu config. nconfig has this nice option

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Anyway, is a kernel configuration and (re)compilation really worth the pain and time ?? Is a custom kernel giving any benefit or speed-up apart from something marginal and more about the feeling than anything else ? I gave up trying to make one just by lazyness on archlinux. I did that many