Re: [gentoo-user] dependancy poppler and xorg-server

2015-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:45:30 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: (x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.4-r1:0/1.13.4::gentoo, installed) pulled in by x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.13.4= required by (x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg-2: when getting stable? [SOLVED]

2015-01-28 Thread Thanasis
On 01/28/2015 12:07 AM, Jan Sever wrote: I found the bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510340 So marking as SOLVED. Thank you, Jan Sever P.S. Btw. poli in politics is from latin word polis = a place, not poly = many. But it's a nice parallel. Both a greek words, not latin.

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg-2: when getting stable? [SOLVED]

2015-01-28 Thread Jan Sever
On 01/27/2015 11:48 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:07:15 +0100 (CET), Jan Sever wrote: P.S. Btw. poli in politics is from latin word polis = a place, not poly = many. But it's a nice parallel. Yes, and a tic is a nervous twitch, the blood sucking parasite is a tick, but

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 21:36, Tom H wrote: My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was removed from UEFI. But IIRC the 'tree' output that you'd posted, you shouldn't have the leading '\EFI'. the EFI is under /boot/efi from my trial and error today - # ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 21:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:34:31 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Would you mind sharing the tree of your /boot ... ? I tried booting grub and it didn't work yet. To answer this and your previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat

2015-01-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I'm running 2.19-r1 , installed 140802 ; vulnerable are 2.18 . Linux systems are at risk only when admins don't keep versions upto-date. Unless the patch was backported, distros like debian stable are potentially

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 21:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was removed from UEFI. tried your command and rebooted, worked, thanks! I now have: # efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0008 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder:

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 20:47, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:34:31 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Would you mind sharing the tree of your /boot ... ? I tried booting grub and it didn't work yet. To answer this and your previous question. I already had a 1 GB ESP mounted at /boot. Grub's files live in /boot/EFI/GRUB2. --

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:50:19 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: To answer this and your previous question. I already had a 1 GB ESP mounted at /boot. Grub's files live in /boot/EFI/GRUB2. hmm. No luck here so far with chosing grub_uefi. It skips to gummiboot somehow. # efibootmgr

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 22:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: Which could be because Grub can't find it's files. It installed them in /boot/EFI/GRUB2 here. % ls -1 /boot/EFI/**/*.efi /boot/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /boot/EFI/GRUB2/grubx64.efi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 21:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was removed from UEFI. tried your command and rebooted, worked, thanks! You're welcome. Would you

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 21:36, Tom H wrote: My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was removed from UEFI. But IIRC the 'tree' output that you'd posted, you shouldn't have the leading '\EFI'. the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: thanks, I will go through this asap (hopefully tomorrow). Just in case someone else is motivated right now ;-) - mine (with definitely too much grub-content in there) should I go for it and format the ESP ... remount and re-install both

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghost cyber threat

2015-01-28 Thread James
Philip Webb purslow at ca.inter.net writes: 150127 Joseph wrote: Does anybody know more about this security flaw in the open-source Linux GNU C Library : http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/linux-makers-release-patch-to-thwart-new-ghost-cyber-threat/article22662060/?cmpid=rss1 Acc

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg-2: when getting stable? [SOLVED]

2015-01-28 Thread walt
On 01/27/2015 02:48 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: but when did jokes have to be linguistically accurate? When they're being compiled, silly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg-2: when getting stable? [SOLVED]

2015-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:10:12 -0800, walt wrote: On 01/27/2015 02:48 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: but when did jokes have to be linguistically accurate? When they're being compiled, silly. I never compile my own taglines, I let someone else do that and then steal them ;-) -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 20:47, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now Linux Boot Manager is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) And for the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:32, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 21:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was removed from UEFI. tried your command and rebooted, worked,

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/01/2015 01:28, walt wrote: Yesterday I installed 4GB more of RAM in this machine for a total of 8GB, and the machine soon began random segfaulting and even a kernel crash or two, so obviously I suspected the new RAM was faulty. I let memtest86+ run overnight and it found zero memory

[gentoo-user] Re: [Extremely OT] Ansible/Puppet replacement

2015-01-28 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alec at alectenharmsel.com writes: Assuming that disks are formatted, a stage3 has been freshly extracted, bossman is installed, and the role/config files are on a mounted filesystem, it should be similar to the role below: I think the list needs to be expanded, generically

[gentoo-user] USE=X

2015-01-28 Thread James
Howdy, So I was reading PGO (Planet.Gentoo.org) and Patrick's post got thinking. Yep, X was set in make.conf, like I have done for a very long time on any gentoo workstation. Now it may be time to rethink this flag. The gist of what I understand is that X is set, per profile, if appropriate. On

[gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-28 Thread walt
Yesterday I installed 4GB more of RAM in this machine for a total of 8GB, and the machine soon began random segfaulting and even a kernel crash or two, so obviously I suspected the new RAM was faulty. I let memtest86+ run overnight and it found zero memory errors. Today I exchanged the new RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] dependancy poppler and xorg-server

2015-01-28 Thread Adam Carter
The preferred option is to use x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and remove the separate mouse and keyboard drivers. OP, you will need CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV enabled in your kernel, but the ebuild will notify you if its not enabled.

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=X

2015-01-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/01/2015 20:54, James wrote: Howdy, So I was reading PGO (Planet.Gentoo.org) and Patrick's post got thinking. Yep, X was set in make.conf, like I have done for a very long time on any gentoo workstation. Now it may be time to rethink this flag. The gist of what I understand is that

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I rm`ed the ESP and started over. gummiboot boots fine again. I added some entries to /etc/grub.d/40_custom (some pointers to isos etc) and ran grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/grub_uefi/grub.cfg When I chose

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:55, Tom H wrote: You need a 'grub.cfg' in '/boot/efi/EFI/grub_uefi'. I've deleted your email with the 'tree' output. I'm going to have to look it up in the archives because you shouldn't have 'efi' in your path if the ESP mountpoint is '/boot'. forget the old mail. I

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 23:51, Tom H wrote: Why two EFIs? One of them's unnecessary but if you want to have both, you have to have them both in the efibootmgr invocation. I don't know why. What I did: cd /boot rm -fr * gummiboot install grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi

[gentoo-user] Digital Cinema 4k (4096x2160@60Hz) SST mode display and xf86-video-ati

2015-01-28 Thread wabenbau
Hi folks, has anybody experiences with 4k monitors and the open source ATI video driver? I wanna buy a LG 31MU97-B monitor. My GPUs will be a Sapphire Radeon R7 250E and in a second machine a Sapphire Vapor-X R9 280X. Does anybody know if the xf86-video-ati driver is capable to handle such high

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:40:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the default boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever key your motherboard uses, it

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This worked now : # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi cleaning up the entries ... I get # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi Installing for x86_64-efi platform. efibootmgr: Could not set variable

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:38, Tom H wrote: Try to add '--efi-directory=/boot' to your grub-install invocation although I wonder whether grub-mkconfig will find your kernels and initramfs's if they aren't in the root of '/boot'. Thanks. Got it already - # rm /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-type0-* #

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:40:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the default boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Am 22.01.2015 um 19:06 schrieb Tom H: Sure. My point was that anyone can claim that systemd is (un)popular in the embedded space. I don't know if it is popular; in embedded systems though the last thing you need are

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg-2: when getting stable? [SOLVED]

2015-01-28 Thread Thanasis
On 01/28/2015 05:12 PM, Jan Sever wrote: On 01/28/2015 1:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: Both a greek words, not latin. polis = city poly = many/much Thanks for correcting, I don't know why I had fixed in mind that polis is from latin and poly from greek. But I thought polis should be a city and

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now Linux Boot Manager is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) And for the records: renaming Linux Boot Manager to gummiboot was done by: # efibootmgr -b -B # efibootmgr -c -L gummiboot nice!

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: ... and if you have no need for multi-booting then the kernel efi stub is very simple to configure and still works reliably (with openrc and no initrd here). No need to install a separate boot manager. It's not just

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now Linux Boot Manager is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) And for the records: renaming Linux Boot Manager to gummiboot was done by: # efibootmgr -b -B # efibootmgr -c -L

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg-2: when getting stable? [SOLVED]

2015-01-28 Thread Jan Sever
On 01/28/2015 08:06 PM, Thanasis wrote: On 01/28/2015 05:12 PM, Jan Sever wrote: On 01/28/2015 1:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: Both a greek words, not latin. polis = city poly = many/much Thanks for correcting, I don't know why I had fixed in mind that polis is from latin and poly from greek.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now Linux Boot Manager is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) And for the records: renaming Linux Boot Manager to