[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

On 2017-02-21, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:50:41PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote >> On 2017-02-21, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > You'll need to run in 32bit mode when chrooting of course: >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

I even build for a low memory 486 system in the same way. > > You'll need to run in 32bit mode when chrooting of course: Why? Is this some odd restriction in portage? All of the normal development tools are quite capable of buildign 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit host running a 64-bit kernel.

[gentoo-user] Is this a dependency bug?

svg.org/ Description: A simple cairo based SVG converter with support for PDF, PostScript and PNG formats License: LGPL-3 Is this a dependency bug in the weasyprint ebuild? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! NANCY!! Why is a

[gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

ork problems on *buntu systems is uninstall NetworkManager. > Yes! Madness. What's wrong with good ol' wpa_supplicant and its GUI? Which is spelled "emacs /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! M

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get Emacs key bindings in Firefox?

On 2017-02-19, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I _used_ to have emacs key-bindings in Firefox, but for some reason > that stopped working and now I have Windows key bindings. It _may_ > have happened when I switched from XFCE to Openbox. > > After Googlin

[gentoo-user] How to get Emacs key bindings in Firefox?

I _used_ to have emacs key-bindings in Firefox, but for some reason that stopped working and now I have Windows key bindings. It _may_ have happened when I switched from XFCE to Openbox. After Googling a while, I've tried: $ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/gtk-key-theme "'Emacs'" $

[gentoo-user] Re: retext, PyQt, QtPrintSupport, and QObject

On 2017-02-08, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I usually try to avoid Qt apps, but I needed a way to preview markdown > text. One option was pandoc, but it needed to install 100+ packages > as dependancies. Another option was retext, which only required a few

[gentoo-user] retext, PyQt, QtPrintSupport, and QObject

s this is more of a Python question than a Gentoo question?] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I just went below the at poverty line! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: SOT (Slightlt OffTopic): Scriptable Documentation system (HTML/PDF) ?

ed,able} but I don't know > much more about it. That's texinfo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texinfo I've never really used it much. It doesn't seem to be widely used outside of the Gnu project itself. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: SOT (Slightlt OffTopic): Scriptable Documentation system (HTML/PDF) ?

's still nothing that beats (or even comes close to) TeX/LaTeX. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I feel better about at world problems now! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: How often do you reboot?

On 2017-01-30, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/01/2017 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've >> learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them >> occasionally (when I have

[gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

eboot" into the wrong xterm, or whatever. Or maybe those things don't happen to other people... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! GOOD-NIGHT, everybody at ... Now I have to go gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

ks B ] sys-boot/grub:0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking > sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1) You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub. > dev-lang/perl:0 > x11-base/xorg-server:0 > media-libs/giflib:0 > media-libs/libdvbpsi:0 > dev-libs/kpathsea:0 For those

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

al that's causing problems. It's often a _lot_ simpler/faster to uninstall a bunch of stuff, get the base system upgrade done, and then re-install things. [Keep a list of what you've uninstalled.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ONE LIFE TO LIVE for

[gentoo-user] Re: from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

On 2016-12-17, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But the VMS I like most are the FreeBSD ones; they run good > old-fashioned rc. It's been a while since I ran VMS, but it had little very resemblance to FreeBSD[1] and the init system was nothing like it the BSD one. :) [1] Unless

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother Printer

ided that backing up my /home partition and then reinstalling from scratch would be faster and easier. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! It's NO USE ... I've at gone to "CLUB MED"!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to find which driver I can use with a ATI v9800 fireball

On 2016-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > step 1: google: radeon gentoo wiki > step 2: read > step 3: follow instructions You forgot: step 4: give up and buy an nvidia card. ;) I've always had consistently bad luck with radeon under Linux. The last time I

[gentoo-user] Re: Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

On 2016-12-10, Kevin Monceaux <ke...@rawfeddogs.net> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 07:41:51PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I think he meant that from a "desktop productivity" standpoint, the >> two are the same: you have to close every single program yo

[gentoo-user] Re: Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

1 doesn't appear to be equivalent to a reboot on my desktop. > If I shut down X11, my uptime still keeps accumulating. I think he meant that from a "desktop productivity" standpoint, the two are the same: you have to close every single program you are using and then start over. -

[gentoo-user] Re: Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

uot;fresh install" as an upgrade takes a bit of planning and orginization. > The solution is always the copious use of patience and > understanding. Your sledgehammer approach is going to result in > vast amounts of pain. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't use opengl as normal user

On 2016-11-29, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can't use opengl direct rendering as a normal user, but it does work > via "sudo": > > $ sudo glxinfo | head -n15 > Password: > name of display: :0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > dir

[gentoo-user] Can't use opengl as normal user

? I already have three "Device" sections (one for each devices) in the main xorg.conf file. Am I really supposed to create another file with an extra "Device" section in it? I tried adding a single "dri" section to xorg

[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

e a smart way or I need to change e recompile each one? In /etc/portage/packages.use, remove the abi_x86_32 USE flags from the packages to which it was added to make acroread happy. Then do an "emerge -avND world" -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

On 2016-10-23, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 21:53:56 Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-10-23, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

On 2016-10-23, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one >> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print >

[gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread

For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet). Acroread is only

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/18/2016 08:57 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it >>> wasn't

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it > wasn't marked in the manual. Not all TVs can disable overscan. The last time was shopping, many of the Sony Bravias couldn't (that was a few years ago). On some

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I liked openbox though, so if LXDE refuses to handle multiple >> screens I may stick with openbox and try to find some other panel >> program that does work with multiple screens. I gave up on LXDE. I mes

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-25, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> And I find it very useful to be able to leave 2 of the screens as-is >> while I switch the third one to do something else. >> >>> The results of your searches and experiments seem to suggest that it >>> is n unusual configuration

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-09-23, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [need to pick new desktop environment -- which could just be a window > manager with a couple extra bits] [...] > Windowmaker seems

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-25, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:02:18 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > I'm curious. What is it you are doing that needs desktops on separate >> > X11 screens? >> >> I do software developme

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-25, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. >> I have a desktop with 2 displays connected. >> >> I also have a few virtual desktops. >> >> I would like each display to

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-25, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:13:48 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I may try MATE next, but I'm not optimistic. All references I can >> find to multiple screens in the MATE docs are not actually talking >&

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-23, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: [need to pick new desktop environment -- which could just be a window manager with a couple extra bits] So far I 've looked at windowmaker <https://windowmaker.org/> and LXDE <http://lxde.org>. Windowmaker seems

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

On 2016-08-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-24, waltd...@waltdnes.org <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45:26PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote > >> Would anybody care to make a recommendation? > > How about ditching "Desktop Environment" altogether and using a > "

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-24, David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de> wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >>Would anybody care to make a recommendation? > > Ever checked out WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)? The default config > is quite clunky though, but the

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

On 2016-09-24, Alecks Gates <aleck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/23/2016 06:45 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've been running XFCE for many, many years, and I was perfectly happy >> with it until 4.11 came out. Support for multiple displays[1] was >> broken in xfdeskt

[gentoo-user] Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

resize it. No fancy animation or translucency silliness. [1] I'm referring to separate X11 displays/desktops, not a single logical display spread across multiple physical monitors. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! FROZEN ENTREES may at

[gentoo-user] Re: Wastebin or trash?

nd moves > deleted emails into a different mailbox; not that I've ever seen a > mail server do that), Gmail's IMAP server doesn't do that exact thing, but it does have some similar, sometimes odd-seeming, behaviors due to behind-the-curtains stuff it does because IMAP mailboxes being mapped into G

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

On 2016-08-30, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:42:05 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > And why use exfat if you use linux? It is just not needed at all. >> >> I agree. If you want to transport something between Lin

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

d use "mount" options to handle the permission issues. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! JAPAN is a WONDERFUL at planet -- I wonder if we'll gm

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutter alternatives

imagemagick, just use 'import': $ import screenshot.png $ import screenshot.jpg $ import screenshot.eps $ import screenshot -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Wait ... is this a FUN at THING

[gentoo-user] Re: Choice of MUA

h lynx (or links, or w3m, I forget) by default and display the results in the normal pager. If I hit "p" it uses Firefox. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Maybe I should have at asked for my Neutron Bomb gmail.comin PAISLEY --

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults >> whenever you enter a character in the search fi

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

On 2016-07-16, Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> Same behavior with 47.0.1. Starting 47 in "safe mode" avoids the >> problem, but starting 47 in normal mode with all extensions disabled

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults > whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field. Same behavior with 47.0.1. Starting 47 in "safe mode&qu

[gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field. Anybody else see this sort of behavior? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! over in west

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

e won't know about. That said, after problems with various DNS servers on various networks, I usually default to using 8.8.8.8... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Does someone from at PEORIA have a SHORTER

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

On 2016-07-11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/07/2016 22:29, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-07-11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> why don't you go with the dns server addresses supplied by each >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

. I can recall many networks where the DNS servers returned by the DHCP server didn't work well at all, and things got a _lot_ better when I manually configured a couple working DNS servers (e.g. the Google ones at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). Around here, Comcast's DNS servers are famously bad. --

[gentoo-user] Re: Missing libtermcap.a

On 2016-07-09, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've got termcap-compat installed, but I seem to be missing libtermcap.a: > > $ equery files libtermcap-compat | grep lib > /usr/lib > /usr/lib/debug > /usr/lib/debug/usr > /usr/lib/deb

[gentoo-user] Missing libtermcap.a

get libtermcap.a installed? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! A dwarf is passing out at somewhere in Detroit! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

On 2016-06-25, Alan Grimes wrote: > So you want to be able to use your regular compilers. Of course the > compilers were written assuming that they will never run on or target > any operating system that doesn't work Just Like Unix. I know I shouldn't respond, but I just

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

, since I didn't really want to install KDE stuff. Openshot and Shotcut both required Qt, but not KDE. Flowblade would probably be next on my list to try, since it's Gtk based and wouldn't pull in the 30-40 packages that a Qt app does (or Dog-only-knows how many for a KDE app). -- Gran

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

On 2016-06-14, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > The git version of MLT installed fine, but shotcut failed to compile: > > cd src/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qmake > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/shotcut-/work/shotcut-/src/src.p

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

On 2016-06-11, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I > want to do is > > 1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out > at the end of each clip. > &

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

On 2016-06-11, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Right now I'm experimenting with mlt's "melt" command line editor. >> It seems to produce small, high-quality output files. I've figured >> out how to do video fade-in, fade

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

On 2016-06-11, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > >> Right now I'm experimenting with mlt's "melt" command line editor. >> It seems to produces small, high-quality output files. I've >> figured out how to do v

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

On 2016-06-11, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I >> want to do is >> >> 1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out >> at the

[gentoo-user] Recommend a simple video editor?

I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I want to do is 1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out at the end of each clip. 2) Superimpose a title at the beginning for a few seconds. Can anybody recomment a simple video editor?

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't install cairosvg

On 2016-06-01, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2016 22:05:24 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy >> "dev-python/cairocffi[python_targets_python2_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_3

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't install cairosvg

On 2016-05-31, Willie M <matthews.willi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/31/2016 03:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I can't install cairosvg. After an hour of googling and beating my >> head against the wall, I still have absolutely no idea why: >> >> # eselect

[gentoo-user] Can't install cairosvg

y "cairosvg" [argument]) I've tried dozens of settings for PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and have gotten exactly nowhere. Is there an English translation of the emerge error message available? -- Grant Edwards gr

[gentoo-user] Re: How to be a penguin.

On 2016-05-28, Alan Grimes wrote: [plonk] -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

On 2016-05-13, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I had never tried 4.9.3, and I'd been using 4.6 without problems > for some time, so keeping 4.6 seemed like the safe way to go. I still > don't understand what broke 4.6. I must have been using

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

(through the toolchain eclass) so there is no need for users to call this themselves anymore. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! If our behavior is at strict, we do not need fun! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

ond. Was > that part of the re-organization of the gentoo.org website? Tinderbox's owner pulled the plug on it a couple years ago. AFAIR, it didn't have anything to do with the website reort. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is a tatt

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

Did I miss an eselect news warning about this? Is this true for all packages that were previously installed in slots, or have gcc and a select few been chosen specially for this breakage? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I feel like I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

On 2016-05-13, Willie M <matthews.willi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6. > 4.9 most likely works if it is installed. Just have to tell gentoo to > use it. > > gcc-config -l $ gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

On 2016-05-13, Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6. >> >> I then removed 4.6 from the world file (but left it insta

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

On 2016-05-13, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2016 19:34:18 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Is one no longer allowed to have multiple gcc versions insalled? It >> seemd to be allowed earlier today... > > That's right, see the &quo

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I want to kill at everyone here with a cute gmail.comcolorful Hydrogen Bomb!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

longer allowed to have multiple gcc versions insalled? It seemd to be allowed earlier today... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like MY data-base at JULIENNED and stir-fried! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

On 2016-05-13, Willie M <matthews.willi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/13/2016 12:16 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I have no idea but I seen that star and thought about that it might be > that reason. It also wants to reinstall gcc-4.5 so make sure you > uninstall that. A couple

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

ouldn't need it and removed it, since it seemed to be for installing multiple versions within a slot. Why would one need "multislot" set? > So make sure you have that use flag enabled still for > all of your gcc versions. > > sys-devel/gcc multislot -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm ZIPPY the PINHEAD

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

On 2016-05-06, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > >> I'd like to to install winusb, and it appears to depend on grub-2: >> $ sudo emerge -av winusb > > Ok, so I've never used winusb, so excuse me for asking a few

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

On 2016-05-06, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2016 16:21:28 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> >> Thanks. That's good to know -- I'll definitely set things up so I'm >> >> not running winusb as root. >> > >&g

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

t; > Well, you could always reinstall grub-0 before rebooting, to make sure. I just created a systemsrescuecd bootable USB flash drive that can be be used to re-install grub-0 in the MBR if something does go wrong. But, running winusb as a non-privlidge

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: [...] >>> Yes, I know not to

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >> On Thursday 05 May 2016 19:45:53 Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.

[gentoo-user] Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

ub-2.02 is being installed in a new slot, one would assume it won't interfere with continue use of grub-0.97... Right? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Why is everything made at of Lycra Spandex? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Webcamviewer (or such) ?

what you do other than curse at Adobe and the web page developer... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like some JUNK at FOOD ... and then I want to gmail.combe ALONE --

[gentoo-user] Re: Calm

On 2016-04-16, John Blinka wrote: > I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for > prompting me to add my 2 cents. Same here. I switched all my "daily drivers" from Mandrake/Mandriva almost 15 years ago, and have no regrets. No more of the RPM

[gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

On 2016-04-16, Alan Grimes wrote: > I'm like I'M ALREADY UPDATING C TOO, YOU STOOPID STACK OF SHIT!!! > > Now I'm uninstalling packages like a madman hoping to clear through this... Doing things like a madman may, in fact, be the problem. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On 2016-03-23, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-03-23, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Most users in this day and age would probably reply "why do I need to >> start with different resolutions and colour depth

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

screen spread across multiple displays, and so on... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Look! A ladder! at Maybe it leads to heaven, gmail.comor a sandwich!

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On 2016-03-23, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +, Ian Bloss wrote: >> >> Don't kno

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +, Ian Bloss wrote: > >> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the >> magic sysrsc key to get control of input back from X > > Yes, I mentioned Alt-SysReq-R several posts ago.

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On 2016-03-21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:52:26 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe >> console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. > After all, it's not as though it

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On 2016-03-21, Alan Grimes wrote: > Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe > console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. [...] A bit hyperbolic perhaps, but I've always been a firm believer in the "boot to console and

[gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

of syncing portage again and was thrown back into > useflag hell: Have you considered just re-installing from scratch? I know it's tough to admit defeat, but when a base install takes less than an hour[1]... [1] Plus the overnight "emerge" command that builds all the

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories

On 2016-03-04, Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 03/03/2016 04:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I'm sure I'm just being stupid, but I don't understand the lists of >> affected and unaffected version numbers in Gentoo security >> advisories. >

[gentoo-user] I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories

.9.8z_p13, revision >= 0.9.8z_p14, revision >= 0.9.8z_p15 If it's true that versions >= 0.9.8z_p8 are unaffected, why is there a need to list that versions >= 0.9.8z_p[9-15] are unaffected? Are <> relationships betwen version numbers within the 0.9.8z_pNNN seriels not transitiv

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

On 2016-03-02, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > Budget seems unlikely to influence choice of graphics card maker. If budget is not an issue, then buy a couple different models from each brand and test them to see which one performs the best in your application. -- Gran

[gentoo-user] Re: Java 8 and remote access

On 2016-01-31, Grant wrote: > Sorry, I should have been more specific. I want to run a desktop Java > 8 app remotely. So you're asking how to set up some sort of remote desktop access? Wasn't there just a huge thread on this with a subject something like "allowing work

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

. But the display/mouse/keyboard part of it works pretty much the same. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I hope something GOOD at came in the mail today so gmail.comI have a REASON to live!!

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

On 2016-01-16, Daniel Frey wrote: > I would use VPN + an X server that can spawn sessions on demand. This > way it all stays internal on the work network. One caveat: the way X11 was intended to work in this situation is that you run the X11 clients on the secure machine in

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