Gentoo Users

Just want to know how nay are using gentoo in they're laptops.

I am running it for like 5-6 months and the only problems that i have are gnome freezes or X server when i view flash videos also sometimes when i open big files in gedit and i scroll down.

still have to find a way to ssh or get those infos to fix it. overall im enjoying every bit of it.

post also your configs and kernel version

im using vanilla kernel for like 2 months, its a bit slower but it feels more stable and i have less freezes.

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39.3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.39.3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Extreme_CPU_X9000_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3
sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1
sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA ~amd64 skype-eula dlj-1.1 Nero-EULA-US"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse4.1"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse4.1"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apm berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus doc dri dts dvd emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gdu gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hddtemp iconv icu ipv6 jpeg lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sdl session spell sqlite sse sse2 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

 

The freeze thing is video driver related. See SL proper way to install latest nvidia / amd video drivers there is a tweak for that.
You can also edit /etc/rc.conf " parallel="yes" would give you faster boot times.

CFLAGS can be set to point to CXXFLAGS all in one line.

Dual core Intel t2600 2.16ghz
MAKEOPTS="-j16 -s"
PORTAGE_NICENESS="12"
Another option here to keep it fluid is needed. see man make.conf 5 for details.

FEATURES add buildpkg also not sure if fixpackages is working with latest portage versions or beta version.

Adding binhost for ~amd64 or ~x86_64 is available and should speed up the compile times. See calculate linux, funtoo and google search for the bin servers, I will later boot into linux and see if I still have this info for you.

Got to run cua ltr.

 

Nice to see someone uses gentoo here.

Yes i belived that the freez is a driver issue but it just anoyes me a lot i lost a lot prolog code las week from that.

now i lost a day baking my laptop motherboard. i will take a look at those flags and things tomorrow and i will be back. hope my laptop wont fail me very soon.

and i am still new to linux but i went straight to gentoo. im using it about mm 5-6 months. still have to learn a lot im getting there i believe.

as for freezes is noveau better or its the same. or even worse as i read it has slow performance and glitches with kde.