From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7XY4-0005Hq-8K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:57:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B826E0B06; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D23E0B06 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBA466F42 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:56:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.447 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.447 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.848, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BEN1bk1LjGko for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E72467E2C for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N7XXk-0003gK-Ne for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:56:40 +0100 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:56:40 +0100 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:56:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it? Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:56:18 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87pr7rzlfx.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <39CFC182-B039-4D26-9880-DC26485DF8F2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <6D611A39-D2CB-4084-8EFE-B2EF74D9F445@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <87y6mgzkgq.fsf@newsguy.com> <200911090031.27031.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8MBJub5KsoSR7cKoHo+ckveEMf0= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 43319138-cd5e-4703-928f-af659337fb16 X-Archives-Hash: f86739f5264ec87047f1c20b67acc1db Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > configuring is easy. > > enable the hardware you have. > disable the hardware you don't have. > read the help to all options that are default on - do you really need it? > Really? > read the help to all options that are off but might be usefull for you. > change when you know it better (ondemand in, userspace governor out, > performance default governor for example). > > do it a few times, kernel configuring becomes very easy. Well Volker... you do have a way of cutting to the chase. For me... I find the reading of the documentation a lot more confusing than you apparently do. I often know no more about what it means after reading it than before. So anyway, thanks for your input on all this. You often seem to clarify things that I had confused myself needlessly about ;)