Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 03:06:50PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > > Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to > do this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to > root, create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and > have rwx permissions,

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 4:38 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to do > > this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to root, > > create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and > > have rwx permissions,

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2024 08:09:01 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> x11-misc/xclip >>> >>> Or just select some empty space in an application, to overwrite your >>> previous selection. >> Well, since it works, something is acting as a clipboard.  It doesn't >> seem to be xclip in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread karl
Wol: > On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur. 🙂 Anyway, I > > never let > > it near my systems. > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( ... Still available and still working on non-uefi setups:

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Walter Dnes
> Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to do > this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to root, > create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and > have rwx permissions, and then exit root. After that I can do what > I want. So I

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Nuno Silva
On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote: > > There are 3 'cliboards', known as selections, I know of: > > 1. Primary - you select some text by holding down your left mouse button (or > Shift+arrow) and you paste it with your middle button (or Shift+Insert - > depending on application). > > 2. Secondary -

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 2:29 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card > > What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card > > [x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’: Input/output

[gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Walter Dnes
What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card [x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’: Input/output error This happens with both "jmtps" and "simple-mtpfs", so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 May 2024 08:09:01 -0500, Dale wrote: > > x11-misc/xclip > > > > Or just select some empty space in an application, to overwrite your > > previous selection. > > Well, since it works, something is acting as a clipboard.  It doesn't > seem to be xclip in my case. xclip is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Michael
Hi Alan, On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > My current rig is working well (hence the lack of posts to the list from > me), but > > The time is coming up for me to buy a new PC, the current one being > around 7 years old. It's served me well

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-05-15, Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur.  Anyway, I never let >> it near my systems. > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( > > Grub isn't that bad - it's just that insists on trying to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur.  Anyway, I never let it near my systems. I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( Grub isn't that bad - it's just that insists on trying to do everything itself - and if you've got at all a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 16:25 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > You'll need kernel 5.18 and Mesa 22 plus recent firmware. > > That article was almost 2 years old, so I'd be surprised if all those > are not stable in Gentoo by now. Mesa 22 is not. Only version 24 is stable :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:37:22 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote: > >> > The Clipboard may be stored in RAM or cache of any applications >> > which use this method. >> >> AFAICT, the clipboard contents is stored in the X server. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:37:22 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote: > > The Clipboard may be stored in RAM or cache of any applications > > which use this method. > > AFAICT, the clipboard contents is stored in the X server. When you > cut/copy something, the application

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-05-15, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > But in the doc on wiki.gentoo.org, I can't find any mention of inbuilt > graphics; all references are to graphics _cards_. Does Gentoo support > my intended processor's graphics, Technically, no. Gentoo doesn't. However, the Linux kernel, Xorg, and Mesa

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > So I'm looking at getting an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor, and using its > inbuilt graphics rather than buying a distinct graphics card. > > But in the doc on wiki.gentoo.org, I can't find any mention of inbuilt > graphics; all

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > My current rig is working well (hence the lack of posts to the list from > me), but > > The time is coming up for me to buy a new PC, the current one being > around 7 years old. It's served me well for that time, but nothing > lasts forever. Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:37:22 BST Michael wrote: > >> There are 3 'cliboards', known as selections, I know of: >> >> 1. Primary - you select some text by holding down your left mouse button (or >> Shift+arrow) and you paste it with your middle button (or Shift+Insert -

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote: > As far as I know the Primary selection is not stored anywhere - > other than within the application's memory space where the range of > characters have been selected. The xserver will call for this when > you middle click to paste it on another application's

[gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. My current rig is working well (hence the lack of posts to the list from me), but The time is coming up for me to buy a new PC, the current one being around 7 years old. It's served me well for that time, but nothing lasts forever. Also, it would be nice to be able to build

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:37:22 BST Michael wrote: > There are 3 'cliboards', known as selections, I know of: > > 1. Primary - you select some text by holding down your left mouse button (or > Shift+arrow) and you paste it with your middle button (or Shift+Insert - > depending on

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:09:01 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:56:04 BST Dale wrote: > >> There doesn't appear to be a xclip on here, not as a command anyway. > >> Could it be some other name? Maybe it changed? I'm sure it is > >> something. I just don't

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-05-15, Dale wrote: >> Or just select some empty space in an application, to overwrite your >> previous >> selection. > > Well, since it works, something is acting as a clipboard. It's part of the X server. Same for the two selections. > It doesn't seem to be xclip in my case. 

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-05-15, Dale wrote: > I thought that too.  I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then > looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there.  > > It wasn't there after I pasted it either.  It goes to a clipboard > somewhere but it appears it only remembers one entry then

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:56:04 BST Dale wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:44:49 -0500, Dale wrote: I thought that too. I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:56:04 BST Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:44:49 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I thought that too. I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then > >> looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there. It > >> wasn't there after I

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:44:49 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I thought that too.  I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then >> looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there.  It >> wasn't there after I pasted it either.  It goes to a clipboard somewhere >> but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:42:14 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 02/05/2024 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate > > /boot, and leave it unmounted during normal operation. The idea was that > > a successful hacker would not,

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:44:49 -0500, Dale wrote: > I thought that too.  I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then > looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there.  It > wasn't there after I pasted it either.  It goes to a clipboard somewhere > but it appears it only remembers

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:28:17AM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, >> […] >> remember either, or write notes to remember them.  I also wanted to >> avoid the desktop copy and paste, or clipboard, mechanism.  I'm not sure >> how that data is stored in the clipboard and how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 02/05/2024 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate /boot, and leave it unmounted during normal operation. The idea was that a successful hacker would not, supposedly, be able to corrupt the kernel ready for a reboot into their

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 02/05/2024 10:35, Michael wrote: Besides the automation this feature affords, I find it useful to know what a partition contains without having to mount it. On GPT labelled disks I make use both of the Partition Type UUID and the Partition Name. A quick glance at the gdisk output and if