Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-24 Thread Björn Fischer
Hi folks, my current profile is default/linux/amd64/17.1, but I already migrated to merged-usr some while ago (I know, that is not supported, really). Any advice how to migrate to 23.0? Cheers, Björn

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

2024-02-12 Thread Björn Fischer
On 2/11/24 03:14:49, William Kenworthy wrote: [...] It occurred to me fairly quickly after that press of RET that I could have done well with a COW snapshot facility, something which has been discussed at length on another recent thread. I even have LVM on my machine for its RAID capabilities.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-16 Thread Björn Fischer
Hi Philip, My user is in 'tty wheel usb input video' (among others). that shoud suffice. You need to use '-keeptty' for xinit and preselect a TTY. For myself I have put this into my bashrc and it works quite well: xinit () { local VT; local DISPLAY; VT=vt$(tty | sed

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

2023-01-27 Thread Björn Fischer
Klaus, [    0.760009] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: RAS: optional ras ta ucode is not available [    0.767012] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: RAP: optional rap ta ucode is not available [    0.767016] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: securedisplay ta ucode is not available It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

2023-01-27 Thread Björn Fischer
Hi Klaus, CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam19h.bin amdgpu/psp_13_0_5_toc.bin" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" [...] What firmware blobs of linux-firmware has to be installed  to support the gpu of a  ryzen-7900X? CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=? I do not use initrd nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to run multiple commands from single script in parallel?

2022-03-14 Thread Björn Fischer
Hello Joost, Is there a tool/method to execute multiple lines/commands simultaneously? Like having 3 or 4 run together and when 1 is finished, it will grab the next one in the list? probably, GNU Parallel is what you are looking for:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-10 Thread Björn Fischer
Hello Rainer, Big thanks to all kind people making suggestions. But up to now nothing helped. on my rig I can fully reproduce Nikos' statement. Additionally, on 5.15.16 "fs.protected_regular" defaults to "0" while on 5.15.27 it defaults to "1". Cheers, Björn

[gentoo-user] Rootless X without elogind

2022-02-16 Thread Björn Fischer
Hi folks, on my laptops and other private computers I normally just login on the virtual console and "startx" or "xinit" -- no fancy stuff like display managers. Recently I switched to rootless X (finally, after gentoo dropped "suid" by default on Xorg long ago). But I did not want to bloat my