Re: [gentoo-user] =|

2018-07-29 Thread R0b0t1
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > I take great offence to anyone who tells me that it's MY fault. =| > It might not be your fault but what you are asking for is legitimately a lot of work. I know, I've done it. I gave up and just run the games on Ubuntu in a VM, or save that,

Re: [gentoo-user] =|

2018-07-29 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
PEBKAC!  Problem Exist Between Keyboard And Chair. "We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational and religious institutions instead of resolutely combating

Re: [gentoo-user] =|

2018-07-29 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
Here is the original post, my email provider was kind enough to put it in my spam folder.  i've included the address info etc., please forgive my iffy email provider (iffy for features, otherwise solid). /Begin original post

Re: [gentoo-user] =|

2018-07-29 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 16:41:43 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> I take great offence to anyone who tells me that it's MY fault. =| > For someone that spews out such hateful and ungrateful diatribes, you > seem awfully sensitive to the mildest of criticism passing in the other >

Re: [gentoo-user] =|

2018-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 16:41:43 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > I take great offence to anyone who tells me that it's MY fault. =| For someone that spews out such hateful and ungrateful diatribes, you seem awfully sensitive to the mildest of criticism passing in the other direction. BTW eclean-dist

Re: [gentoo-user] =|

2018-07-29 Thread Daniel Salas Rodriguez
It is your fault. EOT On 7/29/2018 1:41 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Look, this system was installed when I went 64 bit back in 2010... > > I put a great deal more work than I should into keeping it running. > > I use Eclean-dist every time to purge dead packages. I've learned that > this is a very

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-07-29 Thread gevisz
2018-07-28 15:24 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2018-07-27 23:02 GMT+03:00 Mick : >> On Friday, 27 July 2018 19:49:45 BST gevisz wrote: >>> 2018-07-27 18:29 GMT+03:00 Mick : >>> > On Friday, 27 July 2018 14:00:43 BST gevisz wrote: >>> >> 2018-07-27 15:44 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >>> >> > Updating world without

[gentoo-user] =|

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Look, this system was installed when I went 64 bit back in 2010... I put a great deal more work than I should into keeping it running. I use Eclean-dist every time to purge dead packages. I've learned that this is a very important step, often more important than the actual update step... I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Davyd McColl
On July 29, 2018 19:43:06 Alan Grimes wrote: Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: James Stevenson wrote: I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the library

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:04:41 +0100, Mick wrote: > > What in god's name are the linux ppl trying to build here?!?!?! > > > > It's certainly not a stable, usable, and reliable operating > > system... It's also not compulsory. > My systems are just so. > > But I don't run ~arch ... ;-) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:42:18 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: > > On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> James Stevenson wrote: > >>> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 > >>> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: > On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: >> James Stevenson wrote: >>> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 >>> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the >>> library path for launching some games but

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:34:10 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > And for the love of god, can someone PLEASE fix libcdio!! > ../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/utf8.c:350:3: error: #error "The iconv > library is needed to build drivers, but it is not detected" >  # error "The iconv library is

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:42 PM Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: > Seems your iconv library is broken or just not there. Have you tried > re-emerging it and then retrying? > > # emerge -v1 libiconv On Linux, iconv is built into glibc. libiconv is only necessary if you are using a different C

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Daniel Salas Rodriguez
On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > James Stevenson wrote: >> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 >> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the >> library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam >> from

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
James Stevenson wrote: > I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 > libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the > library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam > from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my

Re: [gentoo-user] iproute2 reference

2018-07-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 29 July 2018 12:17:39 BST Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 14:15:03 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm trying to learn how to use the "ip" command to manage routing on one > > of my boxes, which has two Ethernet interfaces. > > > > Can anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] iproute2 reference

2018-07-29 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 14:15:03 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to learn how to use the "ip" command to manage routing on one of > my > boxes, which has two Ethernet interfaces. > > Can anyone recommend suitable reading material? I don't mind paying for a > book,

Re: [gentoo-user] Building kernel with floppy support

2018-07-29 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 05:01:51 -0400 Shea Alterio wrote: > Hi everybody > > I've got a mini form factor Pentium 4 I just acquired. I have a huge amount > of floppy disks to make backup images of as well as write to new floppies. > Yeah I know, floppies suck, but i thought i could use Gentoo on it

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread James Stevenson
I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use but that's my whole

Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

2018-07-29 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:28:08 +0200 Davyd McColl wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to reply, Dr Valdés. > > Unfortunately, I would like to game now and then Whether nouveau is usable for games depends on a) game, b) your card, see [1] for a reference. For recent chip generations all 3D features

Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

2018-07-29 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:17:40 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > (1) What are people's experiences with Nouveau ? > -- does it work easily with various kernels ? Yes. > -- does it manage graphics stably & reliably ? Depends on your setup. For single monitor mode it is definitely yes. For