mean above. What is a "distribution ISO"?
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documented anywhere (I stumbled across the info in a home-theater
forum). On my other LG, that doesn't work (there appears to be no way
to eliminate overscan).
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On 2020-10-29, Michael wrote:
> Heh! I recall horror stories of compiling linmodem to get it to work and
> every other version would fail to initialize the modem leaving me with no
> Internet connection. Yes, the good old days, you know - when sometimes in
> the
> evenings we would
On 2020-10-28, Michael wrote:
> I had an old desktop which during a lightning storm ended up with a
> blown PSU and a blown winmodem. The winmodem was unrepairable, but
> the PSU survived following the replacement of a single capacitor.
All Winmodems were 100% unrepairable fresh off the
On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote:
> On 14/10/2020 19:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote:
>>
>>> Does your mobo support NVMe drives? Just be aware my mobo is crap in
>>> that it says it supports two graphics cards, NVMe, etc, but if yo
On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote:
> Does your mobo support NVMe drives? Just be aware my mobo is crap in
> that it says it supports two graphics cards, NVMe, etc, but if you stick
> an NVMe in the second graphics card is disabled, or if you use both the
> NVMe slots you lose a couple of SATA
On 2020-10-14, Walter Dnes wrote:
> That's what "make oldconfig" is about. Copy over the previous kernel
> .config and use that as a starting point. Any additional ethernet
> drivers in the new kernel are defaulted to enabled.
I've been doing "make oldconfig" for almost 30 years. I've never
On 2020-10-13, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:13:34 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> > Try disabling CONFIG_IKHEADERS in your kernel config.
>> > I have it disabled on my system.
>>
>> Thanks. That fixed my problem. It seems that deleting stuff in
>> "make menuconfig" is 90% of
On 2020-10-09, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> If I have a desktop on a machine I go with mate when possible since I
> never liked unity when it was part of gnome. I ought to check in on lxqt
> since that's what Linus Torvalds was using last time I read about that.
I installed lxqt on a recent Ubuntu
On 2020-10-09, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> Especially with `grub-mkconfig`, you don't have to manually edit
> configuration
> files at all, which doesn't seem to be an option for users of LILO.
I always had a lot of problems getting grub-mkconfig to work. The
documentation about various options
On 2020-10-09, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I'd say you're better off using a UEFI boot manager. If you use systemd,
> add the boot USE flag to get its boot manager, formerly gummiboot. If you
> don't use systemd you can install the boot manager on its own as
> systemd-boot. Or try rEFInd. All are in
On 2020-10-05, Grant Edwards wrote:
[on a B450 tomahawk]
> It appears that I have a total of 6 USB hubs on the motherboard:
>
> $ lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
> Bus 006 D
On 2020-10-05, Jack wrote:
> Still not Gentoo specific, but I'm still trying to figure out if my
> motherboard (MSI B350 Tomahawk) is doing something funny with the
> USB connections. In theory, there should be USB3 connections both
> on the back IO panel and on the front case ports.
I don't
On 2020-10-02, Dale wrote:
> I dunno. I tested the installer thing when it was first announced
> years ago. It failed to install. It kept getting hung somewhere but
> with no output that I could find, I didn't know what was wrong or
> what to fix.
Isn't that how automated installers are
On 2020-10-02, Dale wrote:
> I was talking about the Gentoo installer.
Huh. Didn't know there was one. Is this it?
https://blogs.gentoo.org/chrisadr/2018/05/02/installer-a-basic-gentoo-system-anyone-can-install/
On 2020-10-02, Rich Freeman wrote:
> As far as the minimal CD goes, you an just create mountpoints, but
> really I'm not sure why anybody uses it in the first place.
I usually use it. When I've tried to use systemrescuecd, I usually
ran into issues: you couldn't follow the handbook
On 2020-09-30, Dale wrote:
> I've found that syncing and updating once a week is generally good
> enough. Generally, a "eix-sync && emerge -uaDN world" does the job.
What Dale wrote above is important. Gentoo works much better with
frequent updates. I update several times a week (though I
On 2020-09-29, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm having a peculiar problem with ftdi_sio. With one particular
> device, on one particular computer, the ftdi_sio driver always
> disconnects immedately (5-10ms) after connecting:
Never mind...
The Digilent application (waveforms) installs a
On 2020-09-29, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Other FTDI devices work fine on this machine. The Digilent device
> above works fine on other Gentoo machines with the same kernel
> version.
Booting the "problem" machine from systemrescuecd and plugging in the
Digilent device also works
I'm having a peculiar problem with ftdi_sio. With one particular
device, on one particular computer, the ftdi_sio driver always
disconnects immedately (5-10ms) after connecting:
[ 368.917946] usb 1-7: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[ 369.070822] usb 1-7: New USB device
On 2020-09-14, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 01:00:53AM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> $ pdftk
>> Done. Input errors, so no output created.
>
> Have you tried running with increased verbosity? Perhaps these "input errors"
> will be
Some time in the past month or two, pdftk has completely stopped
working. No matter what file I point it to or what commands I try, I
always get the message
$ pdftk
Done. Input errors, so no output created.
If the file doesn't actually exist, I do get the expected error:
$ pdftk
On 2020-09-08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hmm, I hadn't realised there were so many virtuals, I just looked and
> saw 186 of them.
Yea, I think they've been proliferating the past few years. I've
recently noticed quite a few times when "emerge -auvND world" does
nothing other than install a
On 2020-09-08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:12:38 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
>
>> > It seems odd that when there's multiple ways to satisfy a
>> > virtual there's now way to "configure" which one you want for when
>> > that virtual get's pulled in. Maybe I just haven't
On 2020-09-08, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 19:56 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Ah, so I should have installed rust-bin _without_ adding it to the
>> world file so that when the last package requiring rust gets removed,
>> rust will get removed by
On 2020-09-08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> There is a way, uninstall rust. virtual/rust requires only one of rust
> and rust-bin, if both are installed it will take rust meaning rust-bin
> gets depcleaned. If only one is installed, the virtual will take that. If
> neither is install, the virtual will
On 2020-09-07, Andreas K Hüttel wrote:
> That works, but pretty please try something else first!
>
> # make sure source-based rust is not in the world file
> emerge --deselect dev-lang/rust
>
> emerge -1 dev-lang/rust-bin
>
> It should be as easy as that. *If* all dependencies are fulfilled by
On 2020-08-29, Skippy wrote:
> At least I'm 99% sure that's what is going on. Since I don't know PHP I
> can hardly be certain about it.
The beauty of PHP is that even if you _do_ know PHP you can hardly be
certain about it. After decades of people trying (and failing) to
invent languages
On 2020-08-27, Grant Edwards wrote:
> How do you determine the cause of a downgrade?
>
> Today I did "emerge --sync" and "emerge -auvNDt world" with (I think)
> no configuration changes since the last update a couple days ago, and
> now emerge wants to downgrad
How do you determine the cause of a downgrade?
Today I did "emerge --sync" and "emerge -auvNDt world" with (I think)
no configuration changes since the last update a couple days ago, and
now emerge wants to downgrade xorg-server from 1.20.9 to 1.20.8-r1:
Calculating dependencies... done!
On 2020-08-27, Victor Ivanov wrote:
>> I want it to listen on 127.0.0.1 and on whatever IP addresses are
>> assigned to two specified interfaces.
> As far as I'm aware, I don't think OpenSSH allows for listening on a
> specific interface.
I'm pretty sure that's the case.
> You can, however,
I'm trying to figure out how to conifgure openssh sshd to listen on
specific interface(s). I know how to configure it to listen on a
specific IP address, but what do you do when using DHCP and don't know
what IP address is going to be assigned.
I do _not_ want it to listen on 0.0.0.0.
I want it
On 2020-08-24, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> >> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions
>
>> > No, don't do that!!!
>> > Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage.
>
>> Indeed -- I've done that. It's not fun. You certainly won't do it a
>> second
On 2020-08-24, Franz Fellner wrote:
> On Mo 24 Aug 2020 11:21:10 +0200, Hogren wrote:
>> Maybe try to :
>>
>> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions
>
> No, don't do that!!!
> Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage.
Indeed -- I've done that. It's
For several decades, I was a loyal AMD customer. But the last time I
upgraded my home desktop (2013), AMD just didn't seem to have anything
that could complete with the Core-i3/5 CPUs with integrated graphics.
The Intel HD-2500 GPU was plenty fast enough for everything I did back
then, so I went
On 2020-08-17, Wols Lists wrote:
> Can't you tell your server to forward all outgoing mail to your ISP's
> SMTP server? That way, you don't have to worry about all the spam
> issues, and it *should* just pass through.
With many ISPs that will only work if you want the e-mail to come from
your
On 2020-08-15, Sid Spry wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, at 5:06 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> > iptables -A OUTPUT -o -m owner --uid-owner plex -j DROP
>>
>> I can confirm, that did indeed work as desired.
>>
>> Even with the kernel
On 2020-08-14, tastytea wrote:
> rc-service runs the same service scripts that are in /etc/init.d/, so
> it's the same. However the manpage of rc-service(8) mentions that
> “Service scripts could be in different places on different systems”, so
> the most compatible way would be to use
I read through the iptables wiki page this afternoon to refresh my
memory on how you save rules so they get load on startup.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Iptables
There are some inconsitencies which I'm curious about.
### "rc-service iptables" vs. "/etc/init.d/iptables"
Most of the page's
On 2020-08-14, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I think this should work, but I need to rebuild my kernel with the
> iptables "owner" extension enabled:
>
> iptables -A OUTPUT -o -m owner --uid-owner plex -j DROP
I can confirm, that did indeed work as desired.
Even with the ker
On 2020-08-14, Alexey Mishustin wrote:
> Isn't this classic option suitable?
>
> groupadd noinet
> usermod -a -G noinet
> iptables -A OUTPUT -i -m owner --gid-owner noinet -j DROP
>and calling not
> Plex
>but
> sg noinet Plex
>(or whatever name the binary has)
Thanks for the
On 2020-08-13, Sid Spry wrote:
> Sorry, I meant go out of your way to select more than one
> interface. I'm genuinely confused anyone would ever do that let
> alone Plex.
I assume they're using some sort of SSDP library that by default spews
on all available interfaces.
> Yes, you're right (as
On 2020-08-13, Sid Spry wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> How does one hide a network interface from a badly-written application?
>>
>> I'm using Plex Media Server as a DVR, it it seems to have been written
>> by Windows programmers wh
How does one hide a network interface from a badly-written application?
I'm using Plex Media Server as a DVR, it it seems to have been written
by Windows programmers who assume that your computer exists for no
purpose other than running their program and their program alone. It
spews multicast
On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required
>>> by the 'atril' pdf viewer. [...]
>>
>> That's the result of a questionable decision by Atril m
On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required by
>> the 'atril' pdf viewer. [...]
>
> That's the result of a questionable decision by Atril maintainers.
> It's since been fixed, and the 'synctex' feature wh
On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote:
> [ usual whining ]
> Forty-nine new packages?!
>
> Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required by
> the 'atril' pdf viewer. Why does it suddenly require texlive?
> There's a 'dvi' use flag which understandably would
On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required by
> the 'atril' pdf viewer. Why does it suddenly require texlive?
> There's a 'dvi' use flag which understandably would require tex stuff,
> but that flag is not set.
Can some
I tried doing my usual emerge -auvND world this morning (I update once
or twice a week). This morning emerge says it needs to install 49 new
packages.
Forty-nine new packages?!
Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required by
the 'atril' pdf viewer. Why does it suddenly
On 2020-08-01, Grant Taylor wrote:
> Static IP address has some very specific meaning when it comes to
> configuring TCP/IP stacks. Specifically that you enter the address to
> be used, and it doesn't change until someone changes it in the
> configuration.
Right. That's what I was talking
On 2020-07-31, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 7/29/20 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> Aren't all IPv6 addresses static?
>
> No.
>
> SLAAC and DHCPv6 are as dynamic as can be.
Nit: DHCPv6 can be (and usually is) dynamic, but it doesn't have to
be. It's entirely possible to have a static IP address
On 2020-07-31, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 7/30/20 5:38 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
>> I'd be interested to hear from users who still need to pay extra
>> for IPv6.
>
> I'd be willing, if not happy, to pay a reasonable monthly fee to be able
> to get native IPv6 from my ISP.
>
> But it's 2020 and my
On 2020-07-31, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 7/29/20 5:23 PM, james wrote:
>> Free static IPs?
>
> Sure.
>
> Sign up with Hurricane Electric for an IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel and request
> that they route a /56 to you. It's free. #hazFun
If I had a week with nothing to do, I'd love to try to get
On 2020-07-29, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:59:11 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Pricing isn't based on cost. Pricing is based on what people are
>> willing to pay. People are willing to pay extra for a static IPv6
>> address, therefore static I
On 2020-07-29, Wols Lists wrote:
> ? I can understand a fee for a static IP4 - they've run out,
> after all, and people are fighting over them ...
>
> Don't ISPs get a 2^64 allocation of IP6 *network* addresses? They
> should just allocate one to your router and that's that! Still, I
>
On 2020-07-22, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> >> Users who do not wish to use logind interface or have rare hardware
>> >> that does not use KMS and because of that, require root privileges
>> >> to operate, can manually re-enable 'suid' and disable 'elogind' USE
>> >> flags in order to preserve the
On 2020-07-22, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:29:48AM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Yes, that's what I did months ago, and everything worked fine with
>> Xorg using the "suid" flag and without consolekit or elogind -- until
>> this morning, when
On 2020-07-22, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:00:21PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>>
>> Before I can try that, I apparently have to enable the elogind USE
>> flag because of somthing else that changed since I sync'ed yesterday.
>>
>> That
On 2020-07-21, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-07-21, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:47:25 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>>> Sync, re-emerge bind-tools and try again. The man pages are now
>>> downloaded as a separate tarball, so Sphinx a
On 2020-07-21, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:47:25 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> Sync, re-emerge bind-tools and try again. The man pages are now
>> downloaded as a separate tarball, so Sphinx and deps are not longer
>> needed.
>
> And lo! 17 packages were removed by
On 2020-07-21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:08:16 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > These are build-only dependencies so "emerge --depclean" can remove
>> > them after you install bind-tools.
>>
>> Except it doesn't. I did
On 2020-07-20, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> These are build-only dependencies so "emerge --depclean" can remove them
> after you install bind-tools.
Except it doesn't. I did an "emerge --depclean" after updating
bind-tools, and sphinx et al were not removed.
--
Grant
During my regular update, I see that net-dns/bind-tools is upgrading
from 9.14 to 9.16, and that's triggering the installation of _17_ new
packages (all apparently related to sphinx and Babel).
Is this sort of dependency bloat really necessary?
The "doc" flag for bind-tools is not set, so why
On 2020-07-18, Dale wrote:
> Thing is, the first bag of screws I ordered didn't have any size
> info only that they should fit a hard drive, SDD and possibly a
> laptop, if there is any difference between a hard drive/SDD going in
> a laptop as opposed to a desktop.
"Laptop" drives are
On 2020-07-08, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Today I decided to ssh into the install, and cut + paste stuff into
> an ssh xterm into the install. This went flying along really fast
> until I went to emerge after having updated make.conf. I got a slew
> of weird errors.
I've been installing Gentoo that
On 2020-06-23, Sid Spry wrote:
> Thanks for these. I do have a general question: has SMART actually shown
> anyone predictive capability?
Sort of. It noticed the initial failures and e-mailed me a warning
long before I would have otherwised noticed. I lost a couple files,
but without SMART I
On 2020-06-22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I'd run sync as well, just to be sure, although umount shouldn't return
> until everything is flushed to the card.
I suppose it's possible that the data _had_ been flushed to the card,
but was still the card's write buffers and had not been committed to
On 2020-06-15, Grant Edwards wrote:
> backblocks was designed to do what you want.
...
> babblocks would be a good start.
Geez, I can't even mistype "badblocks" consistently...
--
Grant
On 2020-06-15, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I finally bought a 8TB drive. It is used but they claim only a
> short duration. Still, I want to test it to be sure it is in grade
> A shape before putting a lot of data on it and depending on it. I
> am familiar with some tools already. I know about
On 2020-06-15, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
>
> With a system that has not been updated for over 3 years, I would suggest to
> Start from scratch and copy the config across.
That's definitely, by far, the fastest and easiest way to get to a
working, current system.
> If you do insist on trying to
On 2020-06-12, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 1. I prefer stable, but Zoom requires a lot of testing packages: too
>many for a mixed stable and testing system in my opinion.
Yea, after looking at what was required to install Zoom, I decided to
stick with the Kindle Fire for that. It will only
On 2020-06-11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:46:23 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > You may want to experiment by setting env variables for Chromium to
>> > restrict --jobs and --load-average so as to keep broadly within the
>> >
On 2020-06-11, Michael wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:32:50 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Besides the dependencies, Chromium itself is a very long build. 2.5
>> days on my oldish laptop, 1.5 days on all my other machines.
>>
> [...]
>
> You may want to ex
On 2020-06-11, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I have Chrome installed. I looked at Chromium. It wants even more
> stuff on top of what Chrome has pulled in! No way.
Besides the dependencies, Chromium itself is a very long build. 2.5
days on my oldish laptop, 1.5 days on all my other machines.
--
On 2020-06-10, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> I had it working in Firefox.
firfox or firefox-bin?
--
Grant
On 2020-06-10, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 05:41:18PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>
>> I've nevert gotten Netflix to work in anything except Chrome. [Though
>> I don't remember trying Opera.]
>
> I've got the sinking feeling that it's c copyright manag
On 2020-06-10, Mark Knecht wrote:
>On all of my Kubuntu machines I have no problem with Netflix in Chrome.
> The closest ffmpeg info I can give you with their package manager follows.
I've nevert gotten Netflix to work in anything except Chrome. [Though
I don't remember trying Opera.]
--
On 2020-05-30, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, [...]
> Is this going to be policy in future? Bloat the machine up with bells and
> whistles that are unwanted, and even actively disliked. Already I've been
> obliged to install encryption and LVM,
On 2020-05-27, Ashley Dixon wrote:
>
> These are likely due to a problem with your tool-chain as a whole, and
> not
> individual packages. See [1] and [2] for more discussion regarding this
> matter.
>
> Do you run a multilib profile ? Does /usr/lib contain anything at all ?
Yes. I have
On 2020-05-27, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I tried to emerge matplotlib today, and it failed because it's linking
> in 32-bit libraries instead of 64 bit ones:
>
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -march=native -O2
> -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG
>
I tried to emerge matplotlib today, and it failed because it's linking
in 32-bit libraries instead of 64 bit ones:
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -march=native -O2
-pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG
On 2020-05-26, Frank Tarczynski wrote:
> I'm building a video conference appliance using a Raspberry Pi 4 for
> my parents.
Sorry, no advice running Gentoo on RPi. I run OSMC/Kodi on an older
RPi, and it works fine, but I don't think there are any video
conference apps for Kodi.
But...
For
On 2020-05-21, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> There is also [1], which is a slightly improved version of Oberdiek's
> pdfcrop.
> It uses pure GhostScript and Perl to work around some of the caveats of
> pdfcrop,
> including preserving interactive content (such as hyperref links in
> TeX
>
On 2020-05-21, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:21:26PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Google has found various references to 'croppdf' which is included
>> in a package of texlive extra utilities on Ubuntu. Gentoo seems
>> have 38 different 'texlive' ebuil
I'm looking for a command-line tool to crop a multi-page PDF document.
I want to specify the crop window on the command line.
I don't want it to automagically remove all of the marginal
whitespace.
I don't want GUI where I have to draw a box.
Google has found various references to 'croppdf'
On 2020-05-13, Alan Grimes wrote:
> This is just fantasmagorically wonderful:
IIRC, I had the same error (building a different package). I just did
"emerge -C cmake" then did another 'emerge -auvND world', and it all
worked itself out.
--
Grant
On 2020-04-24, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:34:39PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2020-04-24, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote:
>> > The core of portage should be in C, imho.
>>
>> Why? I've been running Gentoo on multiple machines (genera
On 2020-04-24, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:27:16PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote:
>>
>> > portage must be in C and statically linked.
>>
>> Seems to argue in favor of a statically-linked dynamic language: The
>> runtime compiler can be static with install scripts
On 2020-04-10, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I took pause for a moment wondering if this was something I typed or
> not. ;-)
I know what you mean. :)
--
Grant (the other one)
On 2020-04-10, Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> On 4/10/20 10:08 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Yes, I'm aware I can add "--fuzzy-search n" to make it act sane, but
>> is there an environment variable or USE flag or _something_ to make
>> emerge --search do the righ
On 2020-04-10, Dale wrote:
> Equery used to behave like emerge does now, and maybe always has.
Really? Equery used to do fuzzy search by default, where it returns
package that don't actually contain the search string?
What I liked about emerge --search, is that it would show you both the
On 2020-04-10, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, at 12:08, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I really, really hate how emerge now returns bucketfulls of useless,
>> unrelated results when you do a search. WTF is the point of returning
>> a bunch of packages that don
I really, really hate how emerge now returns bucketfulls of useless,
unrelated results when you do a search. WTF is the point of returning
a bunch of packages that don't contain the search string when there is
is a package name that match the search string exactly?
Yes, I'm aware I can add
On 2020-04-08, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 4/8/20 7:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> NB: The cheap VPS instances that I work with do have static IP
>> addresses, but they share that static IP with a bunch of other VPS
>> instances. If you want your VPS to have a non-shared
On 2020-04-08, Grant Taylor wrote:
> If all you're after is a static IP and aren't worried about sending
> email from it, you can get a cheap VPS and establish a VPN from your
> house to it. Use the static IP of said VPS as your home static IP. }:-)
NB: The cheap VPS instances that I work
On 2020-04-07, Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 05:55:06 BST J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 5:54:25 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>> > On 2020-04-06 22:14, Dale wrote:
>> > > I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At
>> > > times tho, I'm only getting about 20
On 2020-04-06, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> I also had to remove the "XkbRules" option. Now the keyboard mapping
>> is back to "normal". 'Twould be nice if things like that were
>> documented somewhere, but I'm not sure where it would be...
>
> Take a look at the libinput(4) man page, which is
On 2020-04-06, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-04-06, Michael wrote:
>
>> Did you try '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf' ?
>
> My keyboard config is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf
>
> The control/capslock key mapping still works, but the keyboard layout
&
On 2020-04-06, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 6 April 2020 15:37:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I switched from evdev to libinput as recommeded by recent news, and
>> now my keyboard is hosed: a bunch of keys are unrecognized or send the
>> wrong thing. (Arrow keys don't wo
I switched from evdev to libinput as recommeded by recent news, and
now my keyboard is hosed: a bunch of keys are unrecognized or send the
wrong thing. (Arrow keys don't work, right-CTRL causes screen to
flash, pgup/pgdown don't work, etc.). Unfortunately, all of the
keyboard layout
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