Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 6/16/19 8:37 PM, Manuel McLure wrote: For example, per IBM for AIX (https://developer.ibm.com/articles/au-aix7memoryoptimize3/): "A more sensible rule is to configure the paging space to be half the size of RAM plus 4GB with an upper limit of 32GB. In systems with more than 32GB of RAM, or

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 6/16/19 7:02 PM, Wols Lists wrote: So you didn't read what I wrote ... Par for the course :-( I did. I still hear people say it today. It's not old as in past tense. The basic Unix mechanism needs twice ram. I disagree. It's inherent in the design of the thing. Whether linux no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM Wols Lists wrote: > And those people who wrote your guidelines? Are they the same clueless > people who believe the twice ram rule is pure fiction? (As I said, it is > *historical* *fact*). And why should I believe people who tell me the > rule no longer applies, i

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 17/06/19 00:29, Grant Taylor wrote: >> Drives are cheap. The old "swap is twice ram" rule actually isn't an >> old wife's tale - the basic Unix swap mechanism NEEDS twice ram. > > No, it doesn't. Not any more. It hasn't for quite a while. So you didn't read what I wrote ... Par for the cours

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 6/16/19 1:14 PM, Wols Lists wrote: I'd have a single /home partition I was thinking of the other OS as more of a live distro copied to the system than anything else. I wasn't thinking that the OP wanted to actively use the alternate distro frequently. As such, I figure that most customi

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

Sadly, in my experience graphics cards draw a fairly steady current independent of usage (it varies a bit, but less than 20%).   Some of the newer cards may be better.  There are utilities for at least some cards to adjust the clock on the GPU  (normally used by mad gamers/miners to overclock). 

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

On 11/06/2019 20:21, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Plus, my current GT730 is passively cooled. Are there any RX cards that at least spin down the fans when I'm working on desktop (no plasma/gnome, simple Openbox with no heavy gpu requirements). I really like silence!:-) I can't hear mine at all right

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On Sunday, 16 June 2019 18:00:12 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/15/19 7:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > My question is: how much of the bootctl-installed image is essential > > for booting? In other words, if I install the ~amd64 kernel (5.1.9), > > what effect will that have on booting the

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 16/06/19 18:00, Grant Taylor wrote: > I don't know if it's better or not, but here's what I'd do. > > · I'd put each OS on it's own drive (if at all possible). > · I'd have a separate /boot and / (root) for each OS. > · I'd configure UEFI boot menu entries for each OS. > > That way, the onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.19.50 constant kernel hard locks / solved

On 6/16/19 5:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 6:15 AM Corbin Bird > wrote: > > Disclosure : > 1 : The CPU is a AMD FX-9590 ( Fam15h ) > 2 : Kernel command line parameter "eagerfpu=on" is being used. > > This kernel option was caus

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On 6/15/19 7:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Hi, The main system on this box is ~amd64 plasma, but I also have a small rescue system which is amd64, no desktop. I use bootctl from systemd-boot to manage the UEFI images. I don't have much experience with UEFI. But I do have some t

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade icu

Le 16/06/19 à 10:22, Alarig Le Lay a tapoté : > Hi, sorry for the delay. > > On mer. 12 juin 12:31:31 2019, netfab wrote: > > Try --autounmask-backtrack=y emerge option. > > Thanks a lot, it worked. > But why portage bothers about icu so suddenly? > Because app-office/libreoffice-bin package (h

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.19.50 constant kernel hard locks / solved

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 6:15 AM Corbin Bird wrote: > Disclosure : > 1 : The CPU is a AMD FX-9590 ( Fam15h ) > 2 : Kernel command line parameter "eagerfpu=on" is being used. > > This kernel option was causing constant kernel hard locks. > - > General setup --> [ ] CPU isolation. > - > Anyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put Happauge capture card firmware?

On 16/06/2019 04:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: > There should be a /lib/firmware containing all the firmware files. > See the linux-firmware ebuild for the exact location. Thanks. Installing linux-firmware and adding this file to my initrd in Dracut configuration solved my issue. signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put Happauge capture card firmware?

On June 16, 2019 8:03:41 AM UTC, Andrew Udvare wrote: >I get this error in my boot log: > >Jun 16 03:54:55 limelight kernel: cx25840 2-0044: Direct firmware load >for v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw failed with error -2 >Jun 16 03:54:55 limelight kernel: cx25840 2-0044: unable to open >firmware v4l-cx238

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade icu

Hi, sorry for the delay. On mer. 12 juin 12:31:31 2019, netfab wrote: > Try --autounmask-backtrack=y emerge option. Thanks a lot, it worked. But why portage bothers about icu so suddenly? -- Alarig

[gentoo-user] Where to put Happauge capture card firmware?

I get this error in my boot log: Jun 16 03:54:55 limelight kernel: cx25840 2-0044: Direct firmware load for v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw failed with error -2 Jun 16 03:54:55 limelight kernel: cx25840 2-0044: unable to open firmware v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw I can get this file, but I have not figured

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

On Saturday, 15 June 2019 16:22:50 BST Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 15 June 2019 14:04:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > The main system on this box is ~amd64 plasma, but I also have a small > > rescue system which is amd64, no desktop. I use bootctl from systemd-boot > > to manag