towel1,

May I suggest if you could listing each option you choose with reason in your own words. This way it could reach wider audiences not just only those familiar to F2FS. As I am don't use F2FS but very much want to move to for some of my devices. I know some of the standard options like 'rw ...

hey guys

yesterday I finally got audio working everywhere, by using ALSA exclusively (no PulseAudio, no PipeWire).
I recompiled Firefox with USE pulseaudio, using apulse[sdk] as dependency, and it is working alright so far

this is my current .asoundrc:

$ cat .asoundrc
defaults.pcm.!card Generic ...

hey guys

I installed Gentoo a few days ago, I formatted my entire SSD (besides EFI and swap) with F2FS.

so. let's talk about F2FS

for instance.

what are your F2FS mount options?

currently mine are:

defaults,rw,compress_algorithm=lz4:3,compress_chksum,atgc,gc_merge,lazytime,noatime,fsync_mode ...

On any distro my wifi works much better with IWD . This applies to old out-of-tree drivers and the newer in-kernel drivers for my Realtek USB wifi card.

BTW, what device are you using to connect to wifi? Is it an external USB adapter or is it embedded into the laptop?

Care to share the output of ...

I got a gut feeling that my WiFi works well when my laptop is running on battery, and that WiFi becomes unwieldy when AC adapter is connected and charging.

I will observe the next days.

edit: I'm 100% now that is the case. plug AC adapter = WiFi dies every five seconds. run on battery = perfectly ...

I got a gut feeling that my WiFi works well when my laptop is running on battery, and that WiFi becomes unwieldy when AC adapter is connected and charging.

I will observe the next days.

edit: I'm 100% now that is the case. plug AC adapter = WiFi dies every five seconds. run on battery = perfectly ...

flexibeast wrote:Have you also set `media.cubeb.backend` to `sndio`?

yeah, nothing gives

uuuh I missed some information
current profile:

$ cat /var/db/repos/local/profiles/death/parent
gentoo:default/linux/amd64/23.0/no-multilib
gentoo:targets/desktop

so it's OpenRC. what else.

$ sudo grep CFG80211 /efi/EFI/Gentoo/config
CONFIG_CFG80211=m
# CONFIG_CFG80211_DEVELOPER_WARNINGS is ...

In general, this sounds like 2 managers fighting for control of the same device.

We need more details of you networking setup and services to know what to look at.

thanks for replying although I was enormously vague.

for no reason at all, my connection has become more stable. but it has been ...

edit: solution below thanks to user Asch at: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8877869.html#8877869

hey guys

I have WiFi. and it sucks.
I have to go to $ nmtui, disconnect and reconnect my WiFi every 5 seconds, because it stops working if I try to open more than two tabs on Firefox.
or else my ...

the error is exactly the following line of previously shown Makefile:
find $R/ -print0 | cpio --null --create --format=newc > $@
must rather be:
cd $R && find . -print0 | cpio --null --create --format=newc > $@
otherwise, my custom initramfs, when unpacked, will have all files and dirs ...

solved . solution in a reply below: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8876535.html#8876535

hey fellas. merry christmas.

I'm installing Gentoo for the first time

my laptop has one NVME M.2 slot.

/dev/nvme0n1p1 is /efi, 1 GB
/dev/nvme0n1p2 is swap, 40 GB
/dev/nvme0n1p3 is root /, remainder of ...