Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Turner
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: What you can do is make Activities go away and never impinge on your life, that's what I do. I've had KDE here for years and like you never grokked what it even is when it first hit early in 4.x. I'm a grumpy old

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-25 Thread Greg Turner
The essence of your problem is: you need a working console during your boot sequence if you want to see anything. For an X86 'puter the main two ways to get that are: the VGA console, and the framebuffer console (CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, almost always works in a pinch unless you boot from EFI, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium browser plugins not listed

2014-05-24 Thread Greg Turner
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mike, I didn't know about ppapi - or that this is available as a separate package. Shouldn't it be drawn in as dependency by Chromium, or at least done so by some USE flag? www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins will

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-17 Thread Greg Turner
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: It seems to not detect or interpret correctly the fact that there are 2 physical devices in there and then the linux ... line for grub.cfg gets messed up, at least for me here. ACK, genkernel initramfs doesn't btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple monitor refresh rates and broken brains (was: fonts and bad eyes)

2014-05-17 Thread Greg Turner
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:21 AM, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: Oh, and _very_ importantly: get a _GOOD_ matt monitor if you haven't yet. Apologies, David, for hijacking your really good question-thread, which I'm also very eager to hear people's answers to. But, this reminds me of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-02-03 Thread Greg Turner
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Martin Vaeth mar...@mvath.de wrote: On fast processors portage's speed is not so much a big issue. What kind of processor have you got, and where can I get one? -gmt

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Greg Turner
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell me that there's

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel ricing thread take 2

2013-10-24 Thread Greg Turner
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: To build with other flags you set CFLAGS_KERNEL, so i've added a suitable -march to the standard ones for my system; export CFLAGS_KERNEL= -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-01 Thread Greg Turner
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: There are 3 (or more) computers which sync (sometimes daily) on my LAN at work: server, router, and workstation. server has issues almost all the time getting a rsync server (for lack of better way to state it).

Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-01 Thread Greg Turner
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/10/2013 20:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:15:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm interested in what the DEFAULTS are, ie, for a new/from scratch installation. Why? If ever there was a distro for