Gentoo is VERY slow

[rub3x]

If you're talking about model number for mother board its GA-7N400 with nVidia nForce2 chipset.


No it is NOT sata.

[Monkeh]

Grep your .config for AMD74XX, if it comes up with something, set it to y.

[rub3x]

Force linux # cat .config | grep AMD74XX
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set
Force linux #

Set to yes and recompile kernel?

[Monkeh]

Yep. That should work (I'm piecing this together from early 2.6 text kernels..).

[rub3x]

Ok Ill be back in about an hour cause i have to let this k3b emerge finish :-p

[variant]

your compiling software and complaining about lag? of course your system will lag when you are compiling seeing at that cause your cpu usage to reach 100% and stay there till the compile is done
if you dont like that then you can renice emerge with the renice command (man renice)

[Monkeh]

Yes, but this is extreme lag. I can sit here at 100% CPU usage, most of my memory gone. and happily surf. My xbox does pretty much what he's getting, and it hasn't got DMA on.

[rub3x]

Umm maybe you dont know what kind of lag it was? Anyways yes its fixed I tested it to the extreme, i extracted a 2 gig file while using emerge, with all my normal programs open and my load average was 1/4th of what it was. Also I felt no lag whatsoever so thanks a lot =]

[rub3x]

One more quick problem sound works as root but not as a normal user...i did usermod -G video rub3x and audio as well still says denied.."failed to open output plgun"

rub3x@Force ~ $ xmms

** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: Permission denied
ALSA lib confmisc.c:560snd_determine_driver) could not open control for card 0ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib confmisc.c:955snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3479_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib conf.c:3948snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Permission denied
ALSA lib pcm.c:2090snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

** WARNING **: alsa_setup(): Failed to open pcm device (default): Permission denied
xmms-mad-Message: failed to open audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin
rub3x@Force ~ $

[junkman4547]

The .... $ .... symbol indicates that you're a normal user and not root, which should be ... # .