Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Tinderboxes?

2020-04-26 Thread Viktar Patotski
Being honest, I also have some rather powerful hardware that is completely free over the night and weekends. I was also thinking if it's possible to build some additional QA using this box and "dev-python/ebuildtester". This is very good initiative and idea. In order to get it implemented it's

[gentoo-user] Misunderstanding fstrim...

2020-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. Seeing that I've had my "new" box for three years, now, I'm thinking it's about time to run fstrim. But how? I've got a pair of NVMe drives in a RAID 1 configuration. On the main partition, /dev/md126, I've got several LVM2 things. In the volume group(s?) I've got things like

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 4/26/20 10:23 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: >> >> That looks a lot like a linear programming problem, but package versions >> are discrete. So ignoring all of the details, it's believable that we >> have an integer programming problem, which is NP-complete. > > i'm dumb, and don't fully

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:52 AM wrote: > > Fstrim reports about 200 GiB of trimmed data. > > From the gut this looks quite a lot -- the whole > partition is 256 GB in size. > > Smartclt report for the drive: > Data Units Written: 700,841 [358 GB] > > Each week 200 GiB fstrimmed

[gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
Hi, jyst out of curiosity: I have a 512 MB NVMe SDD drive installed, which I had (currently) formatted with one 256 MB root partition. I bound /var and /tmp to hardisk. Currently I am doing one Gentoo update a day and I am running unstable. Just to get a feeling, how often I need to fstrim / I

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:16 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > How do you feel about building Alsa as modules instead of building it into > the kernel? When using modules you can blacklist other sound cards (the MB > audio stuff for instance) and you get a little more visibility into what's is >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-26 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:23 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > It's not outwardly a traveling salesman problem, but it's on the same > level of difficulty. If you look at RDEPEND in an ebuild, you'll see a > bunch of entries like > > cat/pkg <= version > > As the package manager recursively

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubles setting USE flag for inkscape

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/25 10:05, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > > ## !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-gfx/inkscape from @selected > > ## > > ## !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "media-gfx/inkscape" has unmet > > requirements. ## - media-gfx/inkscape-1.0_rc1::gentoo USE="jpeg nls openmp > > -cdr -dbus

Re: [gentoo-user] Misunderstanding fstrim...

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/26 03:26, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Seeing that I've had my "new" box for three years, now, I'm thinking > it's about time to run fstrim. But how? > > I've got a pair of NVMe drives in a RAID 1 configuration. On the main > partition, /dev/md126, I've got several LVM2

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:15 PM wrote: > > On 04/26 11:20, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:52 AM wrote: > > > > > > Fstrim reports about 200 GiB of trimmed data. > > > > > > > My suggestion would be to run fstrim twice in a row and see how fast > > it operates and what the

problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jack
On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: [snip] I'll keep searching for some audio chat package that works. mumble seems promising, but it requires an available server. zoom (which most people @work use) doesn't emerge. slack does emerge and vomits a totally unresponsive window (well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help working around a bug...

2020-04-26 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
Hi, On 25/04/20 11:27 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 4/25/20 11:20 AM, "Chris Phillips"@T O wrote: How do I override the ./configure options for emerge [-r] ? If it's a one-time thing, you can set the EXTRA_ECONF environment variable to contain the extra arguments to ./configure. The

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:31 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Well, this is the current state of affairs: > > --recording with "arecord -r 48 -fdat test.wav works > --playback "aplay test.wav" works > --playing a music file foo.wav with aplay works > --playing youtube doesn't work > --playing the

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:09 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > Mark, > > I recompiled the kernel with more stuff as module, but I just had an > idea to make sure the Behringer is the only card in the game: I > disabled HD audio in the

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/26 11:20, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:52 AM wrote: > > > > Fstrim reports about 200 GiB of trimmed data. > > > > From the gut this looks quite a lot -- the whole > > partition is 256 GB in size. > > > > Smartclt report for the drive: > > Data Units Written:

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind,

2020-04-26 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Majid, On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Majid Hussain wrote: > hi there, > i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. > what's accessibility like? > is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso > via espeakup provided? > I red this document, >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Mark, I recompiled the kernel with more stuff as module, but I just had an idea to make sure the Behringer is the only card in the game: I disabled HD audio in the firmware settings. So: both Opera and Chrome play Youtube. aplay plays

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > [snip] > I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I > use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not had any install > related problems. (I don't necessarily TRUST

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:06 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:34 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'll investigate what I can do sending files by hand. However on the USB only machine all the internal sound card hardware is blacklisted so modules aren't loaded. I don't know that I

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:34 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:09 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > > Since you use pulseaudio (per your latest post): can you send the > > contents of a wav file to an external DAC via toslink, without > > pulseaudio messing with the file?

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:23 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:06 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Some reading I did about people having problems similar to yours with discord > and zoom suggested that some of these aps are compiled to __only__ support > pulseaudio and

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jack
On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > [snip] > I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I > use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not had any install

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:50 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:23 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:06 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > > Some reading I did about people having problems similar to yours with discord and zoom suggested that some

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:03 AM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack > > wrote: > > > > The slack ebuild might go stable, but the zoom one seems to change too > often to last 30 days before an update, so stable seems unlikely. At >

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:43 PM wrote: > > To implement a dry run with a printf() is new to me... ;) > That is all they fstrim authors could do, since there is no dry-run option for the actual ioctl, and fstrim itself has no idea how the filesystem will implement it (short of re-implementing

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/26 09:58, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:43 PM wrote: > > > > To implement a dry run with a printf() is new to me... ;) > > > > That is all they fstrim authors could do, since there is no dry-run > option for the actual ioctl, and fstrim itself has no idea how the >

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/26 03:29, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:15 PM wrote: > > > > On 04/26 11:20, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:52 AM wrote: > > > > > > > > Fstrim reports about 200 GiB of trimmed data. > > > > > > > > > > My suggestion would be to run fstrim twice in