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On 28/06/15 14:41, Tom wrote: > On 28/06/15 06:41, Adrian Midgley wrote: >> Thanks. >> Given up on Nouveau for now. >> Running with the long duration driver from NVIDIA rather than the short >> one as above. >> >> Iceweasel does some segfaults and there is at least one page that >> provoked a hang of the whole system, but mostly it is a joy to use. >> >> The speed from a small SSD for system disk, and the big graphics card is >> very welcome. > Just as kernel 4.1 provides the answers - possibly possibly not > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-kernel-41-released > Tom te tom te tom I had a lot of problems recently with my heavily tinkered with system - eventually purged 95% of my PPAs and reinstalled a corrupted glibc and things have been fine since. Looks like I might be able to put off the dreaded migration to Arch for a while. Seems a bit weird that you're getting segfaults on IceWeasel - maybe flash or some other plugin related? Hardware accelerated flash is on by default and notoriously buggy, probably worth investigating. I'd also download or compile a Firefox Nightly and run with that for a while to see if it's fixed upstream. I ran Debian Sid as my main OS for ages and even Sid is so woefully outdated it's ridiculous! I ended up compiling tons of stuff in a local repo until it inevitably massively borked itself and I gave up and switched to Ubuntu. A decision I'm still regretting. Small SSDs suck: the 128Gb ones only have a single or dual controller to the NAND flash banks, thus slower throughput. Always buy a 512Gb or higher unit as they can have two or even four times the controller lanes and therefore throughput. Price/performance ratio is a no-brainer in this case. I didn't need a 512Gb SSD root disk for my workstation, but I bought one anyway as it has much higher throughput than the cheaper 128/256Gb models. I'll think of something to do with the extra space anyway (VMs). Waiting for https://pf.natalenko.name/ to update to the latest 4.1 before I rebuild my kernel again: I base my system on pf's awesome specs with a few more additional tweaks. Us apt users are still out in the cold regarding the much touted no-reboot kernel upgrades, pretty much all of the work is in RedHat/Oracle (ksplice) and OpenSuse (kGraft). Looking forward to vGPGPU support in Xen and eventually KVM though. Good times :] ghost@failbot:~$ uname -r 4.0-pf6-meowski+ ghost@failbot:~$ lsb_release -rc Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq