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Hi, after managing to install stage3 MATE variant and enabling gfxcard-intel mix-in (for Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller, in particular a GLE960) + updating the entire system, i still get bad video performance on players like vlc (stuttering and high cpu usage). The high cpu usage, bad video quality and stuttering is a clear indication that there is very likely no hw acceleration involved or wrong/missing codecs. Any ideas what to fix or look at to find the cause? I had a live NomadBSD usb pen at hand and checked just for testing purposes the video output and quality there. Hw acceleration works out of the box and video quality was excellent, no stutter, no (too) high cpu usage. epro show: === Enabled Profiles: === arch: x86-64bit build: next subarch: core2_64 flavor: desktop mix-ins: mate mix-ins: gfxcard-vmware mix-ins: gfxcard-kvm mix-ins: gfxcard-radeon mix-ins: gfxcard-amdgpu mix-ins: gfxcard-nvidia mix-ins: gfxcard-intel === Python kit: === branch: next === All inherited flavor from desktop flavor: === workstation (from desktop flavor) core (from workstation flavor) minimal (from core flavor) === All inherited mix-ins from desktop flavor: === X (from workstation flavor) audio (from workstation flavor) dvd (from workstation flavor) media (from workstation flavor) mediadevice-audio-consumer (from media mix-in) mediadevice-base (from mediadevice-audio-consumer mix-in) mediadevice-video-consumer (from media mix-in) mediadevice-base (from mediadevice-video-consumer mix-in) mediaformat-audio-common (from media mix-in) mediaformat-gfx-common (from media mix-in) mediaformat-video-common (from media mix-in) console-extras (from workstation flavor) print (from desktop flavor) === All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-vmware mix-ins: === core-gl-kit:gfxcard-vmware (from gfxcard-vmware mix-in) === All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-kvm mix-ins: === core-gl-kit:gfxcard-kvm (from gfxcard-kvm mix-in) === All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-radeon mix-ins: === core-gl-kit:gfxcard-radeon (from gfxcard-radeon mix-in) === All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-amdgpu mix-ins: === core-gl-kit:gfxcard-amdgpu (from gfxcard-amdgpu mix-in) === All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-nvidia mix-ins: === core-gl-kit:gfxcard-nvidia (from gfxcard-nvidia mix-in) === All inherited mix-ins from gfxcard-intel mix-ins: === core-gl-kit:gfxcard-intel (from gfxcard-intel mix-in) core-gl-kit:gfxcard-intel-iris (from core-gl-kit:gfxcard-intel mix-in) lshw -C display: *-display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 0c width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:e0400000-e04fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:2000(size=8) memory:c0000-dffff Thanks in advance K.

Hi, trying to run anything gnome-* and some other gui applications on fresh install&update core2 gnome stage3 (gnome-stage3-core2_64-next-2023-01-30.tar.xz) crashes entire session and sends back to login screen. Impossible to enter places like gnome-control-center. Whatever needs to be "adjusted" has to be done via terminal/shell. Where to start to find the cause? tia K.

Hi folks, pretty new to funtoo. In general i am trying to solve all by my own, but now i got stuck in the very early stage of installing a funtoo system. I successfully installed one before reading this here: https://www.funtoo.org/Install/Introduction But now it fails for a new system with reasons unknown to me. Steps are - setup partitions on sda (sda1->ext2->/boot;sda2->swap;sda3->ext4->/) -download the stage3 gnome into /mnt/funtoo, package is this one: https://build.funtoo.org/next/x86-64bit/intel64-westmere/2023-01-31/gnome-stage3-intel64-westmere-next-2023-01-31.tar.xz - then dropping this (while in /mnt/funtoo) on terminal: fchroot /mnt/funtoo /bin/bash --login - terminal still stays at "livecd /mnt/funtoo", not "fchroot #" - running a "ego sync" succeeeds with 0 errors - dropping a "emerge -auDN @world" starts fine, but stops after some work and complaining about that i need at least 5 GIB to continue So, what i found out so far: - inside the fchroot (pretty sure something here failed) running a "cat /etc/fstab" reveals a "overlay / overlay defaults 0 0". If i am right, i should see the sample fstab here instead - "df -h /" says "overlay 1.8G 544M 1.3G 31%". - "grub-install --target=i386-pc --no-floppy /dev/sda fails with "grub-install: error: failed to get path of 'overlay'" What am i doing wrong here? Thanks in advance for any help K.

Hi, at first i wanted to build a system around the latest stage3 from the westmere build available here: https://build.funtoo.org/next/x86-64bit/intel64-westmere/2023-01-31/ But it failed always either on chrooting into the new system from the live system with a "Illegal Instruction" exception or failed with a manually created disk (copy stage3, create user, fstab etc.) from scratch and boot into the system from grub shell. Again here i got a kernel panic with "Atempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004". For 0x00000004, i again found some "Illegal Instruction" issue (this is for ARM cpu, but i guess the kernel exception code 0x00000004 will be same for all architectures on illegal instructions): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54303119/kernel-panic-with-exitcode-0x00000004-after-init I found several reports on that issue here: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-5730?jql=text ~ "westmere" https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-6327 https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-5730 all have something to do with lack of instructions (eg. aes,sse4_x) on lower end cpus. The actual westmere stage states in the build info that it is compiled with aes, sse4_x instructions. My P6200 definitly does not support it. cpuid2cpuflags gives me this: CPU_FLAGS_X86: mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 lscpu flags info also does not include any aes or sse4_x instructions So the question here is: What stage should i use to get best performance results on my P6200 cpu? The last comment from drobbins here says that one should use the intel64-nehalem stage3: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-5730 But having a look at the flags also show aes and sse4_x flags:' https://build.funtoo.org/next/x86-64bit/intel64-nehalem/2023-01-30/build-info.json So the question already asked in the title is: What stage3 to use for Pentium 6200 (westmere) to get best performance results? As a very, very new Funtoo user i didnt expect all these obstacles, but hey, if its too easy, its not fun 🙂 Thanks in advance K.

.... and can't install it. My internet connection is good.

Hi, I have just decided that KDE5 is to problematic for me and to try Cinnamon desktop environment. I am a long time user of KDE and new user of Gnome and new to the Gnome world. My problem is that I would like to creat a Google account and need to find the Gnome Online Account settings. I have followed the installation instruction on the Wiki and have the gnome-control-centre installed. The USE flag "gnome-online-accounts" is enabled in the installed package. I found some helpful hints on the Arch linux page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Evolution#Google_Contacts. But I fail to find the On-line Accounts module (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts). Help anyone? Any hints? Am I blind? Regards, Erik

This awesome forum platform, offers a "Mark Solved" button. It marks the answer with a nice and not to be overlooked tag BEST ANSWER. It's a pity not to use it, and, instead, edit by hand a thread's title to add the "Solved" word. It's a faster and cleaner way to manage "solved" threads, me thinks. Please, let us use it.