Darter Pro 10 Mic Mute

As an update to the Fn-Mic (Mute/Unmute Microphone) not working. I contacted the System76 support and Aaron Honeycutt pointed me in the right direction. It requires a systemd change to […]

New System76 Darter Pro 10 with Gentoo

I decided to get a System76 Darter Pro 10. It was to replace my Thinkbook 14s which was over 5 years old. The Thinkbook had been a replacement for an […]

Gentoo Gnome 44 with Kernel 6.2.8

Gnome 44 is in the Gentoo repository, not stable yet. The transition was not as painful as my early transition to Gnome 43. The only issue so far has been […]

Gnome 42

I thought I would never reach a stable Gnome 42 install! The big issue was the mouse movement. Everything was fine under xorg, but mouse movement and overall screen image […]

Gnome 40

EDIT 16 May 21: gnome-40.0.ebuild is in portage emerge –autounmask-write =gnome-40.0 and etc-update should make it available – good luck! Also – I am having good luck with wayland enabled […]

HP Z820 Upgrades

Filling in the empty RAM slots with more ECC memory. Not bad for a 7+ year old space heater.

NUC7PJYH: Closing out Gentoo on the Intel NUC

Well, the NUC is done and everything to working. It is definitely not a speed demon, Geekbench scores prove it with a 158 Single-Core Score and 570 Multi-Core Score. I […]

NUC7PJYH: Gentoo UEFI Configure

This is no fun exercise. I did this over a year ago with my Asrock system, but of course did not record the exact steps, so I had to learn […]

NUC7PJYH: Installing Gentoo

Start This project was a real rocky start. I was having a hard time booting off the USB and more trouble with a USB keyboard attached. However, when I could […]

New Toy: Intel NUC 7 Essential Kit NUC7PJYH

I decided to start with an older, but a little higher end than the bottom NUC. At the time Walmart had the better price. On Ebay, a used unit can […]