{"id":1024,"date":"2015-03-16T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2015-03-16T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:46:12","slug":"workstation-mostly-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/03\/16\/workstation-mostly-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Workstation Mostly Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m, or at least my workstation, is functional again.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit ugly when I boot because I can&#8217;t get Plymouth to work properly no matter what I do.\u00a0 This is with Ubuntu 14.10, it worked with 14.04 and a 3.13.x kernel, but something broke in 14.10, I tried reverting to a 3.13.x kernel, no good.\u00a0 I read some others had success with a 3.18.x kernel, I&#8217;m running 3.18.9 now, still no good.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried pretty much every fix I can find to no avail.\u00a0 It just spits out a bunch of error messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would be happy without it and just the normal 4-penge boot and start-up messages, but it seems that lightdm depends upon it, so can&#8217;t do that.\u00a0 For now I guess I just have to live with the error messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On a plus side, I was able to really fine-tune the kernel to the hardware and work-load that I have and, until I run out of memory (I have 4GB on this box) it performs quite well.\u00a0 Once it goes into swap hell, well it performs like any machine in swap hell.\u00a0 I&#8217;d add RAM if this was an ordinary PC, but being a MacPro 1,1 it requires ECC registered memory which is 8-10x the price.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m, or at least my workstation, is functional again.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit ugly when I boot because I can&#8217;t get Plymouth to work properly no matter what I do.\u00a0 This is with Ubuntu 14.10, it worked with 14.04 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/03\/16\/workstation-mostly-working\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}