jlc Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 I can't really say, I don't use accelerated graphics that much. When I was playing around with ATI DRI, (or was it my nvidia drivers... or Gatos for the ATI - I forget) -- anyway, one of them specifically said not to use the X DRM. I just have them loaded in X so I can run celestia every once in a while. 40° 54' N 117° 48' W Elko, NV. That's brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted July 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 It's all good - I've emerged xfree-drm and I have decent FPS scores Weird thing is they vary quite a lot - the first few are around 267 and then they jump up to aroun 1090 before dropping again. Any ideas why this is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Page 6 Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 I think it's fluctuations in the solar wind beating against your monitor :) sorry, couldn't help myself. cybrjackle: thanks, actually though, Elko is 40° 50' N 115° 47' W :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted July 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 Well, the first one is just telling you it can't locate your Real Time Clock module (did you make an RTC module/compile it in when you configured your kernel?). IMPORTANT!Be sure to read this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=79 OK - I just recompiled my kernel in the hopes of getting three things achieved: 1) USB keyboard working 2) getting rid of this rtc error message 3) Being able to get the computer to power off at shutdown Results are: 1) Followed the link static gave exactly and (once I realised which module to load) this works 2) Couldn't find where to configure this - I did see something about RTC and GMT, so I enabled it, but this didn't solve the problem :( 3) Haven't powered off yet - although I'm certain I used to have more options in the config under acpi or apm than I do now. Watch this space regarding this one Any advice anyone? :D Edit: All solved... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echylo Posted September 11, 2004 Report Share Posted September 11, 2004 aargh, I want a faster computer :P I wanna install Gentoo!! but It would take days, and my mum isn't happy with that fact :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 May seem like overkill here about etc-update - but - When I do a emerge -u world I first tar up the whole darn /etc directory. Its not that big and dont take but a second. Then I rename it to that days date and save it to a backup. That way if something goes wrong I can track the changes from one emerge -u to another. May seem like overkill but Ive killed my Gentoo system to many times being lazy with etc-update. "-5" anyone? I also agree about the Gentoo board. Im a member their but I dont post much, most have been asked already. Plus youll get a few RTFM or search the forum postings if you get a bit lazy. How many of you run ~x86? I do - and still rock solid. If find nitro-sources are best on my lappy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted September 12, 2004 Report Share Posted September 12, 2004 aargh, I want a faster computer :P I wanna install Gentoo!! but It would take days, and my mum isn't happy with that fact :P <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I found out by compiling my own kernel my computer got faster, I think it was the option of having the kernel set to use my P4. And also my ATI drivers if that has had anything to do with the speed. You should try to compile your kernel some time. It's fun, and it's well worth it. -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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