Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-31 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thanks Dave On Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 11:13 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello again, Peter. > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 15:47:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello Alan, > > On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: > > > > What I'm thinking here is that you might be installing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-31 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello again, Peter. On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 15:47:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello Alan, > On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: > > What I'm thinking here is that you might be installing a font which is > > bigger than the 8x16 standard that you appear to be booting with.

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello Alan, On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: > What I'm thinking here is that you might be installing a font which is > bigger than the 8x16 standard that you appear to be booting with. To > check this, would you please do: > > # file /lib/rc/console/font > > , which

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-31 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter, thanks for the reply. The photo was extremely helpful! On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 09:42:54 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Morning Alan, > On Thursday, 29 December 2022 19:50:18 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I've got a first version of a patch which attempts to handle GPM in > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED... THE HARD WAY] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 31 December 2022 06:07:35 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > The backup machine will be updated once a month "whether it needs it > or not". :) -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED... THE HARD WAY] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 03:36:38PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run > the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine > for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf > right now