james wrote: > > Hello Dale, > > Truthfully, I learned, after much pain, decades ago, to keep at least > (2) working gentoo systems, just to avoid catastrophic situations.... > > Used PC's, if running a minimalistic desktop, are pretty fast. Cross > compile and copy over the updates, or there are many ways to keep old > gentoo systems, active. > > I also picked up a recent laptop, with a 1G traditional Hard Drive, > for under $500.00. It's way faster than my '8350' AMD systems, until > the Kernel-10.0 + starts using the video cards for compiling > *everything* automagically. Kernel-10.x is suppose to be a > 'game-changer' for older hardware, speeding up compiling, tremendously. > > I put 'thermaltake-watercoolers 3.0' on all my chassis based gentoo > systems, at about $80/unit. Keeping the cpu cooled, allows for faster > speeds. My 8350's run at 4GHz and can easily gain 25% clocking to > 5GHz. I use sensors > to monitor temperatures: > > 'watch -n5 sensors -f' > > If I were you, I'd figure out a second, graphical Gentoo system, on > the cheap; as it can be used to fix most 'borked gentoo' systems, > particularly if the best tools are setup and ready, just for > gentoo_repair. > > > hth, > James > > >
I've got a spare mobo, memory for it and even my old 4 core CPU. I need a case and a video card to build a system. It's on my todo list, sort of. I got some hard drives laying around that should work as well. They are older small drives, 2 or 3TB drives. I guess I could use a stock CPU cooler but I'd likely buy a new one of those too. May even take the cooler on my current system and put on the spare and put the newer one on this one. I could get a more efficient one and run this 8 core CPU a bit cooler. Anyway. Maybe one day. Oh crap, power supply. Must have that too. I was going to watch a show while my download finished. I feel asleep. Anyway, I finally logged out and restarted elogind. Everything is back to normal so far. Another thing I noticed, when I went to login on the console, note console and Konsole, it to was slow to log me in. Console = ctrl + Alt + F1, 2 etc. Konsole = KDEs commandline program. They appear the same but sometimes work differently. Anyway, both are back to normal. I haven't tested the screen lock part yet but I have to go to a neighbors house and will lock the screen when I leave. I'll know when I get back later. So, if anyone runs up on this thread and are experiencing this type of issues, restart elogind. Rebooting would work if a windoze fan or going to a lower runlevel with the GUI not running and then restart it, using whatever tool manages services. Thanks to all. Dale :-) :-)
