User talk:Mepho

2011-07 Nomination for Deletion of Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11 Intel‎
While this article may not meet all of the guidelines laid out in the wiki Style Guide, that alone is not merit enough for it to be nominated for deletion.

The criteria the admins on this wiki use for deleting articles is the amount of useful information they contain and this recently added, still under development article contains plenty more than many on the wiki.

We allow articles with minimal amounts of useful information and / or that breach style guidelines because if we didn't there would be no articles on this wiki. Leaving stub articles in tact encourages further additions by other users.

While your contribution to wikifying this article is noted, please avoid deletion nominations. It has been our experience that nominating new articles that may still be under heavy development can frequently deter users from contributing to the wiki, and that is not a desired outcome. --AllenJB 18:09, 11 July 2011 (GMT)
 * Noted, I got lil frustrated while I was trying to fix that article (have you seen original version?), there were appearant misinformations (I believe unwanted, otherwise he's damn good troll).

best of deleted parts:

Xorg and Firefox Memory Leak Bug
There is a nasty bug in the intel driver which makes Firefox memory leak and crash. To fix it, add the following line to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:- Option     "AccelMethod" "XAA" Which version of firefox? Which intel driver? What made him think firefox was leaking memory because of default acceleration method (EXA I believe)?

Window Manager
time emerge -q gnome-light gdm 122mins nano /etc/conf.d/xdm -->  DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" rc-update add xdm default What made him want others to use gnome? This information is in handbook, simple duplicate, off topic.

== Web Browser ==

echo "net-libs/xulrunner ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords echo "www-client/firefox ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords echo "net-libs/xulrunner -webm" >>/etc/portage/package.use echo "www-client/firefox -webm" >>/etc/portage/package.use echo ">=www-client/firefox-5" >>/etc/portage/package.mask emerge -pv firefox emerge -q firefox

Why the heck ~x86 on i3 machine? Why would other people have ~x86 on intel i3 laptop? Why would any1 want to disable webm? Why would any1 echo "www-client/firefox-5" into package mask after enabling xulrunner (and there is not firefox-5 package in portage, it'd be firefox:5)? Why to waste space with -pv and -q when one can use -avq (ok this one is actually making some sense unlike others).

Install the CUPS software...

emerge cups

If you get errors about printing 0 pages then install the 'Any to PostScript' filter...

emerge a2ps

I found this out for my Brother DCP-585CW printer by going to the cups web interface (http://127.0.0.1:631), choose Administration, and tick the Save debugging information for troubleshooting box and then looking at the log file which showed the following error...

[Job 14] /usr/local/Brother/Printer/dcp585cw/lpd/filterdcp585cw: line 57: a2ps: command not found Does not need much comment, this error and workaround was strictly related to *some* printer and it's driver, not related to ThinkPad at all.

If you want to get really flash, you can install the GPointing Devices Settings software to control what features you want - "tapping and scrolling? Yeah, whatever. I can have 3 mice on my laptop, so there." .... My laptop would not boot after finishing the kernel. The problem was that the current stage3 tarball (june 2011) with baselayout2 is broken. To fix it, follow these steps in this forum post:- ... I wasted 3 hours on this :-( Doubt any1 care in future about stage3 bug which is fixed for some time ago.

=== EXT4 Boot Huge Filesystem Bug ===

root filesystem mounted read-only: it is write protected'

Despite only have a 320Gb hard disk in the laptop, the kernel and udev insisted on having CONFIG_HUGETLBFS (for 2TB+ files) in order to correctly boot my ext4 filesystem!

I wasted 2 hours on this :-( Obviously, this is no bug and again, nobody cares how much time did he spend solving this (if he knew his kernel and hardware or used genkernel...). He did not even put this into his kernel section, where it belonged in first place!