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

2023-01-27 Thread Julien Roy
Klaus Dittrich writes: > as I do not use a initrd or initramfs I am, as far as I know, forced > to compile the driver amdgpu into the kernel, not as modules to be > loaded. No, you can use modules even without an initrd. > I looked at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu#Unknown_firmware_blobs >

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

2023-01-27 Thread Julien Roy
Hello Klaus, Klaus Dittrich writes: > > The error happens with and without "amdgpu/psp_13_0_5_ta.bin" in > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE as I discoverd meanwqhile. Your issue is most likely that you are missing firmware in the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE setting. In my case there at 10 firmware blobs that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Julien Roy
Alan Grimes writes: > (dependency required by "media-libs/libsdl-1.2.60::poly-c" [ebuild]) This ebuild is from a different overlay, it's probably not helping. The first thing I'd try is disabling the overlay to see if this is the cause of the problem. -- Julien signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest remote desktop for Windows client?

2022-08-24 Thread Julien Roy
On 8/24/22 19:48, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2022-08-24, Grant Edwards wrote: Of course, there's still the inescapable brokenness of apps like Chrome and Firefox which insist only one instance per user can run at any time. Apparently the concept of multiple GUI sessions running simultaneously

Re: [gentoo-user] Easiest remote desktop for Windows client?

2022-08-24 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, On 8/24/22 18:03, Grant Edwards wrote: What's the easiest way to get a remote desktop working for a Gentoo server with a Windows 10 client machine? net-misc/freerdp has a server USE flag. I never used it, but from what I read, it can be used as a RDP server like you would a Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-14 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, On 8/14/22 18:44, Dale wrote: Thoughts?  Ideas? You might be interested in borgbackup [1] It takes delta backups and has de-duplication and compression to save some space. It supports encryption too. It's packaged in ::gentoo and you run it on whatever machine you want to backup and

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox woes

2022-07-31 Thread Julien Roy
Did you add the proper kernel modules for virtualbox? The Gentoo Wiki has a list of what you need to enable https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VirtualBox#Gentoo_guests On 7/31/22 10:08, Matthew Sacks wrote: It crashes then I shut it down yeah. Maybe a screenshot will help? Attached. Sent from Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] app-portage/repoman-3.0.3-r2 slot conflict

2022-07-24 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, On 7/24/22 21:51, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been getting a error message about repoman not being in good shape for a while.  I thought maybe it was something that would be fixed soon enough or it would spit out a error that makes sense to me.  Well, been a few weeks and it is still

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Jami

2022-07-21 Thread Julien Roy
GNU Jami is rather hard to do an ebuild for, from what I found out when I wanted to install it. There used to be an ebuild for it on an overlay somewhere, but then Jami changed their build method, and the ebuild never got updated as it was too complex. Luckily, though, some people packaged it

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome now requires wayland and jack audio?

2022-07-15 Thread Julien Roy
One of the side effects of using proprietary software : you can't control with which flags it gets built. With chromium-bin, there is a wayland USE flag, but nothing for jack. On 7/15/22 15:28, Grant Edwards wrote: It looks like www-client/google-chrome just added wayland and jack audio to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot has no space left.

2022-06-30 Thread Julien Roy
On 6/30/22 12:19, Guillermo García wrote: Hello guys, Sorry for not replying the first email i sent, however i got covid and i cannot reply you, i forgot the original mail i sent here so i make a new one. If you don't have the replies in your mailbox, you can find them on the mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove udev. What!?

2022-06-19 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, On 6/19/22 21:38, Dale wrote: Anyone have ideas on this?  I mess up something?  Catch the tree in a bad state?  Something else I'm not aware of?  It's not making sense to me yet.  :/ sys-fs/udev has been replaced by a USE flag on the sys-apps/systemd-utils package. When you updated

Re: [gentoo-user] I have no sound in my gentoo install.

2022-06-18 Thread Julien Roy
vices" it shows "no devices found". Thanks for your help. On 18/06/2022 17:58, Julien Roy wrote: Hello, Have you tried different devices? As Mark Knecht suggested, try to install media-sound/pavucontrol; it is a graphical tool for sound management. Your problem might be as sim

Re: [gentoo-user] I have no sound in my gentoo install.

2022-06-18 Thread Julien Roy
the alsamixer tool and also i unmuted the volume, nothing works. Regards. On 18/06/2022 17:36, Julien Roy wrote: Hello Guillermo, Without more information, it's impossible to help you. I will refer you to the Gentoo Wiki article about Pulseauddio. Have you followed this? https://wiki.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] I have no sound in my gentoo install.

2022-06-18 Thread Julien Roy
Hello Guillermo, Without more information, it's impossible to help you. I will refer you to the Gentoo Wiki article about Pulseauddio. Have you followed this? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio Specifically, check out the troubleshooting section. It contains useful information for

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-18 Thread Julien Roy
On 6/18/22 07:53, Peter Humphrey wrote: I did tell them that 91.10.0 is the latest version in the portage tree; By default, only the LTS/ESR release of Firefox is unmasked (or marked as stable), of which the latest version is 91.10.0, however, if you unmask it, you can use the latest Firefox

[gentoo-user] Open PGP signatures on Thunderbird

2022-06-16 Thread Julien Roy
Hello list, I recently configured Thunderbird to digitally sign my emails using my GnuPG key. It seemed to be working fine with the tests I made to my other email address, however, I noticed an email I sent to this list was unreadable from the archive [0]. Therefore, I assume something is

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-16 Thread Julien Roy
On 6/16/22 12:10, Peter Humphrey wrote: Having spent several hours at this today, I've concluded that the problem is caused by the Startpage add-on to Firefox. Specifically, startpage 1.3 and Firefox 71.10. Early in the stepwise setting everything up, I started Firefox, set its typefaces and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-15 Thread Julien Roy
On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for the next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's needed, now that a coarse grain hasn't helped. Hey-ho. Here we must go again... What is certain is that

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-14 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, I'm not sure if my previous email went through correctly, so I will try again: A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem: - Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide", - Install a different DE

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-14 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem: - Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide", - Install a different DE (or perhaps a WM would be faster), to see whether this is KDE-related, or system

Re: [Possible Malware Fraud]Re: [gentoo-user] PySimpleBuild + MariaDB C Client

2022-06-13 Thread Julien Roy
I once emailed him directly to tell him to stop sending those emails, back when he was sending them more frequently. I didn't get a response, but the emails seemed to stop for a while, though it seems he is starting it again. I suspect it's just someone who doesn't understand what a mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Source Python virtualenv in OpenRC script

2021-12-12 Thread Julien Roy
Thanks, I didn´t realize it was this easy! Regards, Julien Dec 12, 2021, 22:39 by man...@mclure.org: > > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 3:54 PM Julien Roy <> jul...@jroy.ca> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to create an OpenRC script to start a pytho