Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Cellphone VFAT datestamps versus linux datestamps

2018-08-31 Thread james
On 8/29/18 8:45 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 08:22:31AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote >> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:39:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >>> Given this info, I can cobble together a short script. A "for" loop >>> cycles through "*.jpg". Read "CreateDate" from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 8/31/18 2:41 PM, Mick wrote: > > What I have not fathomed yet is how to compile into the mach_kernel the > vmlinuz and initrd the boot.efi uses to boot linux. :-/ > (Note that I am making assumptions that the Apple TV 1st gen can be treated kind of like a Mac.) You probably should try

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

2018-08-31 Thread Mick
On Friday, 31 August 2018 17:22:43 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 8/31/18 11:31 AM, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Would anyone have *recent* experience of installing and running Gentoo > > plus > > > Kodi on the above? It has a Pentium-M with Apple's 32bit EFI. > > It also has a GeForce Go

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

2018-08-31 Thread Mick
Hi All, Would anyone have *recent* experience of installing and running Gentoo plus Kodi on the above? It has a Pentium-M with Apple's 32bit EFI. There are a number of pages on the interwebs, but all I could find mentioning Gentoo are a few years old and superseded. The latest installation

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

2018-08-31 Thread Mick
On Friday, 31 August 2018 22:10:48 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 8/31/18 2:41 PM, Mick wrote: > > What I have not fathomed yet is how to compile into the mach_kernel the > > vmlinuz and initrd the boot.efi uses to boot linux. :-/ > > (Note that I am making assumptions that the Apple TV 1st gen

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

2018-08-31 Thread Jacques Montier
Le ven. 31 août 2018 04:48, Michael Jones a écrit : > try fsarchiver > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Philip Webb > wrote: > >> 180825 Philip Webb wrote: >> > Thanks for the replies : >> > it looks as if 'tar' mb adequate, but I'll think re it & make a test. >> >> I used 'tar -a' to copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using gentoo on POWER?

2018-08-31 Thread R0b0t1
Availability is okay. As long as you're not trying to run a prefix installation from AIX a almost everything should work out of the box. Programs that are heavily optimized may fail due to lack of code paths for POWER8/9 but that is fairly rare. Toolchain problems are most common. On Thu, Aug

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg on really old PC

2018-08-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-30, François-Xavier CARTON wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Gentoo on a really old PC (with a Pentium III and a > i815 graphic card). I've installed a minimal Gentoo system, and I'm > trying to get Xorg working. > > I've searched on the Gentoo wiki, and found that I should use an old >

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg on really old PC

2018-08-31 Thread François-Xavier CARTON
Le 31/08/2018 à 05:10, Walter Dnes a écrit : Given the inter-connectedness of linux libraries, you're not going to get an ancient version of mesa to work with a new Gentoo install. That's where Gentoo helps, being a source-based distribution :) Forget about OpenGL and undo the masks.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, > wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have > been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc > booted up. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 31/08/18 23:16, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, > >> This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, >> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have >> been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations,

[gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, A bit of an off topic question , mainly aimed at those who, shall we say, been there and done that. It is very common to find webpages stating that the BIOS that is in a PC is a mess with respect to the way things boot, device discovery etc. Looking back through the fog

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 8/31/18 11:31 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Would anyone have *recent* experience of installing and running Gentoo plus > Kodi on the above? It has a Pentium-M with Apple's 32bit EFI. Not exactly the same but I've tried converting old systems into usable ones with Gentoo involved. The

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Godzil
I really enjoyed (and still) Open Firmware which was used by Apple on the PowerPC macintosh (starting from the first PCI models up to the latest G5) It is a nice environment, with all the capabilities of UEFI with even more as it come for free and directly with a Forth interpreter (basically

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 8/31/18 11:31 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Would anyone have *recent* experience of installing and running Gentoo plus > Kodi on the above? It has a Pentium-M with Apple's 32bit EFI. It also has a GeForce Go 7300 which is still supported. 304.137 of the proprietary driver is still in the