Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 03:26:06PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote This is a bit of a long shot. I run ArcaOS (modern version of OS/2) in QEMU. During the install phase it would come up in 1024 x 768 mode. But at reboot after install, it had video problems and refused to go beyond ancient VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:28:45 BST Stefano Crocco wrote: > I think it's simply a missing include directive. The attached patch made > qtcurve compile for me. Yes, looks like it. Now I just have to re-read the portage docs to see where to put it. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

2020-05-31 Thread Stefano Crocco
On domenica 31 maggio 2020 18:16:22 CEST Jack wrote: > On 5/31/20 12:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:36:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Still refining my plasma desktop, and recovering from bits of it having > >> been deleted upstream, I'm trying to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

2020-05-31 Thread Jack
On 5/31/20 12:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:36:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: Still refining my plasma desktop, and recovering from bits of it having been deleted upstream, I'm trying to install x11-themes/qtcurve, but I get this: In file included from

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 06:11:45PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > the compilation failed so I took the binary version 5.2.40, > which reproduces the same behaviour as with the previous > attempt. Why did the compilation fail ? Is it the same reason as Peter (qtcurve) ? -- Ashley Dixon

Re: [gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

2020-05-31 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 05:06:55PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:36:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Installing plasma-meta didn't help: I got the same error. BGO has nothing > > against qtcurve. Can anyone offer an insight? Perhaps it's time to report a > > bug. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread tuxic
Hi Ashley, the compilation failed so I took the binary version 5.2.40, which reproduces the same behaviour as with the previous attempt. Cheers! Meino On 05/31 05:54, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi Ashley, > > thanks for the hint ... I am currently recompiling... > ...will see then. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:36:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Still refining my plasma desktop, and recovering from bits of it having been > deleted upstream, I'm trying to install x11-themes/qtcurve, but I get this: > > In file included from >

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread tuxic
Hi Ashley, thanks for the hint ... I am currently recompiling... ...will see then. Cheers! Meino On 05/31 04:42, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 05:31:25PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Yep...even (re-) booting the newly created image works...the ReactOS > > logo

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 05:31:25PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Yep...even (re-) booting the newly created image works...the ReactOS > logo apearsand then instead of the desktop I get this black > void... > > I have not tested other systems yet. > It works fine with my old computer...but

[gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, Still refining my plasma desktop, and recovering from bits of it having been deleted upstream, I'm trying to install x11-themes/qtcurve, but I get this: In file included from /var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/qtcurve-1.9.0-r1/work/qtcurve-1.9.0/qt5/ style/qtcurve_p.h:28,

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread tuxic
Hi Ashley, On 05/31 04:03, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 03:26:06PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > I tried to install ReactOS into my Virtual Box which went fine so far. > > Booting itsself was no problem eitherbut instead of getting a desktop I > > got a simple uniform

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 03:26:06PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > I tried to install ReactOS into my Virtual Box which went fine so far. > Booting itsself was no problem eitherbut instead of getting a desktop I > got a simple uniform black screen. No error messages so far...nothingonly >

[gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread tuxic
Hi, I tried to install ReactOS into my Virtual Box which went fine so far. Booting itsself was no problem eitherbut instead of getting a desktop I got a simple uniform black screen. No error messages so far...nothingonly the black void. bugs.gentoo.org when searched for "ReactOS" or

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2020 23:34:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Here you go. I make no claims as to its suitability, or even > > uptodatedness > > ---8> > > Many thanks. After writing that I had another go using a different > approach, and it just fell into place. Combining your set and mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 10:37:55 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:29:10AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I already had -wifi -wireless. I didn't know about a networkmanager USE > > flag - it doesn't appear in use.desc. Setting it as you say did the trick > > - thanks. > Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:29:10AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I already had -wifi -wireless. I didn't know about a networkmanager USE flag > - > it doesn't appear in use.desc. Setting it as you say did the trick - thanks. Are you sure it doesn't appear in use.desc ? It does on my system;

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 09:43:54 BST tastytea wrote: > Setting USE="-networkmanager -wireless" in /etc/portage/make.conf should > fix that. Adding -wifi is probably a good idea too. I already had -wifi -wireless. I didn't know about a networkmanager USE flag - it doesn't appear in use.desc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated world -> KDE colours have gone feral....

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 08:12:00 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > A few days ago I did an "emerge -NuD world" on my KDE based desktop > machine. When I rebooted the machine, the colours had gone a bit weird. > I use the Nordic scheme which is dark but now, for example, when I open >

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread tastytea
On 2020-05-30 18:44+0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, […] Setting USE="-networkmanager -wireless" in /etc/portage/make.conf should fix that. Adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 00:19:21 BST Michael wrote: --->8 > Admittedly, like you I have also installed LVM which I don't want/need on > its own. It is pulled in by sys-fs/cryptsetup, needed by pmount, which I > use and may want to use with encrypted filesystems in the future. I'm not > sure if

[gentoo-user] Updated world -> KDE colours have gone feral....

2020-05-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, A few days ago I did an "emerge -NuD world" on my KDE based desktop machine. When I rebooted the machine, the colours had gone a bit weird. I use the Nordic scheme which is dark but now, for example, when I open Dolphin, the alternating horizontal stips/stripes that go from the