Sabayon: little success

Not much success yesterday.
I found a nice wallpaper and successfully configured Conky:

1. CPU Usage
2. Processes
3. RAM, Swap, HDD IO
4. HDD space
5. Wireless
6. Battery/AC
7. Sabayon world
8. Weather
9. Gmail

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I had a problem with Conky. Every time it was started manually everything was ok but when was started at login time by gnome session was always on top.

The fix: a small wrapper to start Conky after 10 seconds.

#!/bin/sh
sleep 10s
/usr/bin/conky

Save file in:

/usr/bin/conky.wrapper.sh

and modify the “Conky” entry in

System->Preferences->Sessions

to

/usr/bin/conky.wrapper.sh

This should fix the problem.

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Another issue was with CPU scaling governor.
After each reboot one core was running at 1GHz and the second one at 2GHz.
The fix is simple. Add the following 2 lines to

/etc/conf.d/local.start

echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Available options: conservative, ondemand, performance, powersave.

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I spotted 2 more problems:

1. While playing movies the window is flickering.
2. From time to time the entire system is freezing for a few seconds and System Monitor show a CPU spike.

First problem affects every OpenGL application if Compiz is running.
There are a few workarounds but no fix yet. Everyone is waiting for the 9.01 closed source ATI drivers (fglrx).

Workarounds:

1. Switch from Compiz to Metacity (every time a movies is played or OpenGL application is running). Fusion Icon is included is Sabayon by default so 2 mouse clicks are enough.
2. In CCSM unredirect full screen windows
3. In CCSM “Extra WM Actions” should be activated and a keyboard shortcut should be defined for “Toggle Redirect”. Whenever a window is flickering, hit that keyboard shortcut and it will stop flickering.
4. In your player change the output from xv to x11.

Personally i use the 1st one.

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I couldn’t find any solution for the system freeze, hibernate/sleep, etc.
Not yet but tomorrow is another day.

 

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