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Even today I found a person potentially interested by Linux and its world. If he come to me I'll do everything to explain what I have learned of Funtoo (and also Gentoo) ....... To do this, I am willing to start from 0 to remove and then install Funtoo ....... leave intact only the home :) Funtoo deserves ..... is my favorite distribution, and You are all very nice and kind, always ready to help those in need ..... But it is often difficult in the sense that many want as soon as possible "all set" to be used. Instead, my thoughts turn especially to those who intend to study informatic ...... explaining step by step how to build a distribution using the weapons developed by the magical "Portage". Then will move towards the distribution they want; anyway so even understand what makes an installer. And 'True ..... LFS is more didactic, there is also T2 Linux that can be considered very didactic ....... but I think that to carry out distributions of this kind should perhaps be more than one person only; while *too (particullary Funtoo :P, you can do it safely while you sleep at night :) but there are several steps that seem a little 'exaggeration. This is why for me the "Highlander Distro" is Funtoo: P (There are can be only one: D: D: D) Moreover, I always think that Portage is the best in terms of intelligence and understanding by what you're doing "emerging" your system without compromises, since the same portage helps you to also check the incompatibilities between dependencies. I apologize if perhaps I write too much about my appreciation of Funtoo ..... But really I "I completely lost my head" for this incredible operating system :) I hope my thoughts will please you. Thank you :) Sandro :)

Thank You for the reply :) so I leave the option autodefrag in my /etc/fstab (for btrfs filesystems). Thank you adessemond...... Good for All, You're very kind :)

What you have / have done is great ...... I'm sorry to be only an amateur and I'm not an expert in computer ...... but I Love Funtoo in any details. :) But I know a person which is expert in informatic; therefore could contribute a lot ........ In a few days will find me in my house. I hope to do it fall in love with Funtoo as I am ...... For now he uses Arch I know that Arch is a really good distribution, but does not have the "magic" of Funtoo :P Funtoo must never dies: P Thank you Daniel and Oleg Thank You for Your work :)

I'm already using the CFQ scheduler which is the recommended by Helps in kernel-config. Other parameters are for my cpu (core2/newer xXeon) and Preemptible desktop. sandro@ci7ht ~ $ cat /sys/block/sd[ab]/queue/scheduler noop deadline [cfq] noop deadline [cfq] My doubt is related of "defragmentation". My retailer of computers, me, tells that the disks ssd must not be defragmented. But this is true for Windows .... because he is not an expert on Linux (where I live boh .... I do not know how many people know and use Linux ....: () So I'd like to know if the autodefrag (for the SSD) is positive or negative option. Do you think That is a good solution? I'm using gentoo-sources-3.15.2 at this time. Do you think that there are better version for a desktop system (such as ck-sources)...... :rolleyes: Thank you very mutch for the responses :)

Hi to All; i've 1 Funtoo partitions on a ssd and another in an HDD and using btrfs on both. These options may be correct or there are some possible improvment or contain errors ? Thank You :) ci7ht ~ # grep btrfs /etc/fstab /dev/sda6 / btrfs noatime,compress=lzo,discard,ssd,space_cache,autodefrag 0 1 /dev/sdb2 /home btrfs noatime,compress=lzo,space_cache,autodefrag 1 2

I know that for example, /usr can not reside in a separate partition without using initramfs. I do not know if this is your case. I'd give it a try using genkernel (just to experiment and to better understand the degree to which exclusion is the specific problem).

Do You use genkernel ?

Ok, The problem is solved Thanks Very Much :)

Thanks to You Great Oleg :)

I'try to install Funtoo on a new machine. But.... I encountred this error >Calculating dependencies ... done!>>> Verifying ebuild manifests>>> Emerging (1 of 2) x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2 * gtk+-2.24.23.tar.xz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ]>>> Unpacking source...>>> Unpacking gtk+-2.24.23.tar.xz to /dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/work>>> Source unpacked in /dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/work>>> Preparing source in /dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/work/gtk+-2.24.23 ... * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/x11-libs/gtk+/files/gtk+-2.24.20-darwin-quartz-pasteboard.patch * ( gtk+-2.24.20-darwin-quartz-pasteboard.patch ) * ERROR: x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2 failed (prepare phase): * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_prepare * environment, line 4360: Called epatch '/usr/portage/x11-libs/gtk+/files/gtk+-2.24.20-darwin-quartz-pasteboard.patch' * environment, line 1576: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "Cannot find \$EPATCH_SOURCE!"; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2'`. * The complete build log is located at '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/work/gtk+-2.24.23' * S: '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/work/gtk+-2.24.23'>>> Failed to emerge x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2, Log file:>>> '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/temp/build.log' * Messages for package x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2: * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/x11-libs/gtk+/files/gtk+-2.24.20-darwin-quartz-pasteboard.patch * ( gtk+-2.24.20-darwin-quartz-pasteboard.patch ) * ERROR: x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2 failed (prepare phase): * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_prepare * environment, line 4360: Called epatch '/usr/portage/x11-libs/gtk+/files/gtk+-2.24.20-darwin-quartz-pasteboard.patch' * environment, line 1576: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "Cannot find \$EPATCH_SOURCE!"; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2'`. * The complete build log is located at '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/work/gtk+-2.24.23' * S: '/dev/shm/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.23-r2/work/gtk+-2.24.23' This is a bug ? Thanks for any suggestion :)

Ok.... Problem Solved with update of portage tree ! :P Thank You Grat Oleg, You're Magic :) Thank You for All & Da Svidania :)

Thank you for coming to my aid; however with the new updates, it all worked out alone.

Ok.... Solved. Thank You very much :)

Forgive me if I still write in this thread I thought was resolved; Unfortunately (I use Funtoo "stable"), you are just repeated incidents at kernel level. So I exposed the kernel 3.15.1 and compiled. Now after more than 10 start-ups of the system, I have not encountered problems. So at this point I think they have improved their situation at kernel level. I hope this information can help those who found himself in the same situation ...... and Funtoo never dies .... : -P :) :D

Hi to All (I hope not to bore you with my problems "trivial" and unimportant .....). But I've troubles to compile xfce4-meta. The system tell me: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "xfce-extra/xfburn".

Hi to All; my system is based on kde-meta. But i'd like to have also xchat-gnome; but it doesn't compile 'cause is blocked the compilation of libgnomeui (and libgnomeui has only one ebuild) There is another similar software (e. g. for kde) ? Thank You.

Ok; Solved using wicd :) The system is upated and totally consistent :P

I'm afraid to be a boring person because I have many questions. My system are using dhcpcd cabled for networking; but I could also use the wireless connection. And I'd like to use the wifi. The problem is that trying to use networkmanager (adding networkmanager as global USE flag I encounter troubles with dependencies). According to your thinking, do you think it is better to use it anyway even if networkmanager carries unsatisfied dependencies or at least temporarily, maybe try "wicd" or something else you do know? Thank you for any thoughts; however, now that I'm using dhcpcd (cabled connection), the system is perfectly consistent and coherent according to the "Magic Portage". Excuse me if maybe that this trouble is only a "trivial things". Peace & Love for All :)

Thank You Magic Daniel... I'm very happy for this.... Peace for All ! :) uhm yes.... Funtoo is like an Aston Martin DBS for me :P

Hi to all; excuse me but I don't know if that is the correct site for my thought: I've 3 Os on my system: win 8.1, Fedora 20 and Funtoo Linux. My father that borned in 1938 (and don't know about infomatics systems) tells to me that Funtoo is your preferred system for speedness and simplicity of usage :P I hope this information will please you :D to me is a satisfaction :) Hello to all ..... :)

Ok, I think I found the solution by downloading the firmware for my tv card "hybrid" hanging out on the Internet; I found an old archive related to Ubuntu "Karmic Koala". The file in question is dvb-fe-tda10046.fw Then I put this file in /lib/firmwre/ Then now i see this ouptput message: ci7ht ~ # dmesg|grep -i firm [ 7.819606] tda1004x: found firmware revision 0 -- invalid [ 10.138994] tda1004x: found firmware revision 0 -- invalid [ 10.138996] tda1004x: waiting for firmware upload... [ 16.389134] tda1004x: found firmware revision 20 -- ok

Hello to All; I dug up an old dvb-card "hybrid": ci7ht ~ # lspci |grep -i mult 06:02.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1) ci7ht ~ # lsmod |grep "saa\|tda" saa7134_alsa 10671 2 tda827x 9334 1 tda8290 13481 1 saa7134 169022 1 saa7134_alsa tveeprom 14225 1 saa7134 videobuf_dma_sg 7456 2 saa7134,saa7134_alsa v4l2_common 4130 2 tuner,saa7134 videodev 106116 5 tuner,saa7134,uvcvideo,v4l2_common,videobuf2_core videobuf_core 15111 2 videobuf_dma_sg,saa7134 i2c_core 19702 10 drm,i2c_i801,tuner,saa7134,tda8290,tda827x,nvidia,v4l2_common,tveeprom,videodev snd_pcm 68404 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,saa7134_alsa snd 56837 30 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device,saa7134_alsa ci7ht ~ # dmesg |grep "saa\|tda" [ 3.337509] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0, 2, 17 loaded [ 3.337660] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:06:02.0, rev: 209, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf7100000 [ 3.337666] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:f01d, board: Avermedia Super 007 [card=117,autodetected] [ 3.337678] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 40000 [ 3.473336] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 1d f0 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92 [ 3.473341] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff 20 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473345] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 32 32 01 01 43 88 ff 00 55 ff ff ff ff [ 3.473350] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473354] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 21 00 c0 96 10 05 32 15 76 8b 0c ff ff ff ff [ 3.473358] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473362] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473365] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473369] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473373] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473377] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473381] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473385] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473389] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473393] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.473397] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff [ 3.528414] tda829x 0-004b: setting tuner address to 60 [ 3.560463] tda829x 0-004b: type set to tda8290+75a [ 6.539961] saa7133[0]: registered device video1 [v4l2] [ 6.540004] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0 [ 6.544080] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded [ 6.544088] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xf7100000 irq 17 registered as card -1 Using Kaffeine does not work. In the past, I remember that I was using succesfully with Fedora that card but I had to download the firmware from the internet (and now i don't remember the site neither the filename of this firmware. I would like to make it work here on Funtoo so "elegant", and even manage the radio if possible :P I do not know whether to install linux-firmware or media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware or more elegantly if it is "manageable adding some variable in /etc/portage/make.conf. About kernel configuration, the situation is as follows: ci7ht ~ # zgrep FIRMWARE /proc/config.gz CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="" CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE=y CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM=y CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_FIRMWARE=y CONFIG_CYPRESS_FIRMWARE=m # CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE is not set CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y # CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE is not set But is better to compile firmwares "built-in" or "out" in /lib/firmware, or ir is the same ? Thank You for any suggestion.

Since it is a duplicate of a solved thread, could you delete that ? Thank You

And this time I overdid it .... I installed 16 GiB of RAM ..... that for a desktop are too many ........ But allow me to compile everything in RAM (including libreoffice) :)

Of course if I had a older cpu I installed the "binary" of chromium and also libreoffice. For example my system compile Libreoffice and chromium from sources in 45 minutes: sandro@ci7ht ~ $ qlop -gH chromium chromium: Mon Jun 9 06:50:53 2014: 27 minutes, 21 seconds chromium: Tue Jun 10 17:55:05 2014: 27 minutes, 43 seconds chromium: Tue Jun 10 22:49:28 2014: 45 minutes, 49 seconds chromium: 3 times sandro@ci7ht ~ $ qlop -gH libreoffice libreoffice: Mon Jun 9 07:18:14 2014: 45 minutes, 12 seconds libreoffice: Tue Jun 10 19:25:38 2014: 47 minutes, 18 seconds libreoffice: 2 times :)