iandoug wrote:But I'm on version 31.3.0, which according to eix is the current stable version for AMD64

By chance, are you using a user agent switcher?

To answer your subject line: do not worry, it gets better. My first install took three attempts before I had a bootable system. That was not fun on a 1GHz G4.

It is good to see that Micro Center is still around. I remember their HUGE catalogues in the 80's.

It is my understanding that tablets have secure boot enables, which will make it difficult to install Linux. There are solutions, but I do not know how well they work.

What an interesting project. I have had an Acer A100 for a couple of years, but lost interest in it after I found that it was not very hackable. This might get me interested in tablets again.

The Doctor wrote:The official ISO lacks support for a large number of things. I kind of think that the System Rescue CD should become the 'official' install media.

I agree. The last time I did a Gentoo install I used the System Rescue CD and there was no functional difference.

My USB3 ports are "ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042"
I have the same interface and it has worked flawlessly. My experience is somewhat limited, but I have a 64GiB USB3 stick and I have not seen any corruption. I even formatted it with NTFS when I bought it (odd that there is less hastle to do it ...

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I recently had a similar dilemma at work. I built two servers on Dell R420 hardware. The servers we bought had 5 drives arranged as two RAID1 volumes and a hot spare. The install docs for the software that would be running on these servers wanted you to make 1 RAID1 volume for the OS ...

I guess you know by now which way this is going.

Be warned: Once you go to a dual monitor setup, you will never go back. You might even try to talk yourself into a third monitor.

I just built a new rig on an Asus M5A99X Evo R2.0 motherboard. I believe it will meet all of your criteria. It is an AMD AM3+ board with an nVidia 990 chipset and is $140 at Newegg. It works perfectly under Linux. Suspend and hibernate even works!

In my experience, this points to a hardware problem. You might be able to clean the mouse button by tapping on it several times a little harder than you normally would.

If that doesn't fix it, then the button is going bad and you have a new mouse in your future.

todd93 wrote:This is the motherboard I had.

How did suspend and hibernate work on that board?

LOL. This thread is six years old.

So, Gentoo will ultimately die because all things ultimately die.

Try deleting /var/tmp/kdecache-<your username>. I have had success with that when it happens to me.

I'm using 280.13 and I am pleased with it.

I copied the 275.09.07 ebuild to my overlay and renamed it to 280.13 and it successfully installed. It fixed the performance regressions I experienced upon upgrading KDE to 4.7. I like the new drivers very much.

I don't have an answer, but I like the Guru Meditation bit.

I also like your sig.

Your /var/log problem can be solved with logrotate.

If your card is like mine the second DVI output is DFP-2 instead of DFP-1. You will need to adjust your xorg.conf.

I love to recognize excellent threads and this is definitely one that riveted me. I think it will help many people. I feel motivated to get off my ass and build that email server I want to build.

If nouveau is compiled as a module you should be able to add it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. However the best way is to take it out of the kernel.

Any motherboard recommendations?

I currently use use an MSI board on my current X2 system. A quick Google search says that Gigabyte offers the best Linux support. I hope that means that sleep works, which is my first requirement (and a reaction to my MSI). I'm also want to be able to flash the BIOS ...

I actually never heard of znurt.org, but gentoo-portage is still around.

How about a screenshot that shows it the right way. Your layout looks interesting.

You can find one here.

I sure do miss the Amiga.