Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >On 08/12/2018 07:33, David Haller wrote: >> *Meh* >> >> I miss my Matrox Mystique (first model w/170MHz RAMDAC!) with a >> whopping 4 MB SGRAM, and not even a heatsink, just the plain naked >> chip, much less a fan, and it ran in a PCI slot,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >>> Peter Humphrey wrote: Have you tried gkrellm? It's very neat. Sits in a vertical strip at the side of your screen and shows a whole load of things all at once. I've been using it

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/2018 07:33, David Haller wrote: *Meh* I miss my Matrox Mystique (first model w/170MHz RAMDAC!) with a whopping 4 MB SGRAM, and not even a heatsink, just the plain naked chip, much less a fan, and it ran in a PCI slot, at about ~4.5W (or was it 5W?) theoretical max usage... As it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Dale
David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 08/12/2018 03:01, Dale wrote: >>> I just noticed the video card that is coming requires a power cable.  I >>> never had one that powerful before.  O_O >> You've been out of the loop it seems. GPUs have required

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, David Haller wrote: >On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >>Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Have you tried gkrellm? It's very neat. Sits in a vertical strip at >>> the side of your screen and shows a whole load of things all at >>> once. I've been using it for donkeys' years. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Dale
David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Have you tried gkrellm? It's very neat. Sits in a vertical strip at >>> the side of your screen and shows a whole load of things all at >>> once. I've been using it for donkeys' years. >> That's what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >On 08/12/2018 03:01, Dale wrote: >> I just noticed the video card that is coming requires a power cable.  I >> never had one that powerful before.  O_O > >You've been out of the loop it seems. GPUs have required power cables for >over a decade

Re: [gentoo-user] kstars and indilib

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: >I tried to compile kstars with useflag indi, but the provided version in >portage is too old: > >[build.log from kstars] >1.7.1 is required >1.7.1 is required > >I have no idea why it pretends to find indi-1.5.0, when 1.6 is installed :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Have you tried gkrellm? It's very neat. Sits in a vertical strip at >> the side of your screen and shows a whole load of things all at >> once. I've been using it for donkeys' years. > >That's what I generally use.  I don't see a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/12/2018 03:01, Dale wrote: >> I just noticed the video card that is coming requires a power cable.  I >> never had one that powerful before.  O_O > > You've been out of the loop it seems. GPUs have required power cables > for over a decade now. The GPU I use

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/2018 03:01, Dale wrote: I just noticed the video card that is coming requires a power cable.  I never had one that powerful before.  O_O You've been out of the loop it seems. GPUs have required power cables for over a decade now. The GPU I use actually needs *two* power cables and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 7 December 2018 12:41:06 GMT Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Friday, 7 December 2018 00:19:24 GMT Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I don't use lm-sensors either. KSysGuard sees the kernel sensors just > fine without it. You just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> If you want to see all of the installed packages that are affected, >>> you need to set CPU_FLAGS_X86 to an empty string: >>> >>>    CPU_FLAGS_X86="" >>> >>> and then do "emerge -puDN --with-bdeps=y

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you want to see all of the installed packages that are affected, you need to set CPU_FLAGS_X86 to an empty string:   CPU_FLAGS_X86="" and then do "emerge -puDN --with-bdeps=y @world". This is because CPU_FLAGS_X86 is not empty by

Re: [gentoo-user] I want a low-end usb laser printer with minimal config hassle

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 7 December 2018 18:46:54 GMT Manuel McLure wrote: > I'd highly recommend getting a networked printer that supports Port 9100 > instead of a USB one - this allows you to use the same printer for all of > your systems. Nonsense. You just don't need a network interface if you don't have

[gentoo-user] kstars and indilib

2018-12-07 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I tried to compile kstars with useflag indi, but the provided version in portage is too old: [build.log from kstars] -- Checking for module 'libindi' -- Found libindi, version 1.6.0 -- INDI version 1.5.0 found in /usr/include/libindi, but at least version 1.7.1 is required -- INDI

Re: [gentoo-user] I want a low-end usb laser printer with minimal config hassle

2018-12-07 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 12/07/2018 01:46 PM, Manuel McLure wrote: > The main thing you want to look for is PCL and/or PostScript compatibility. > And I'd highly recommend getting a networked printer that supports Port > 9100 instead of a USB one - this allows you to use the same printer for all > of your systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] I want a low-end usb laser printer with minimal config hassle

2018-12-07 Thread Manuel McLure
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:12 AM »Q« wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations for a low-end laser printer. I don't > need networking and I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, so > I'm probably looking for just a usb printer which works with cups. I'd > very much prefer one which doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] do I need plasma-meta to use KDE ?

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 7 December 2018 15:11:21 GMT Philip Webb wrote: > I've just updated all my installed pkgs ( c 112 ) for KDE > (apps frameworks plasma), except for 'plasma-meta', > which raises an error : > > Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > installed at the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 7 December 2018 12:41:06 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 7 December 2018 00:19:24 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> I don't use lm-sensors either. KSysGuard sees the kernel sensors just > >>> fine without it. You just need to add them in the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 7 December 2018 15:01:09 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 5:48 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 7 December 2018 10:17:17 GMT Andreas Fink wrote: > > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + > > > > > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > And today, of course, there's an

[gentoo-user] I want a low-end usb laser printer with minimal config hassle

2018-12-07 Thread »Q«
I'm looking for recommendations for a low-end laser printer. I don't need networking and I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, so I'm probably looking for just a usb printer which works with cups. I'd very much prefer one which doesn't require proprietary firmware to be loaded or

[gentoo-user] do I need plasma-meta to use KDE ?

2018-12-07 Thread Philip Webb
I've just updated all my installed pkgs ( c 112 ) for KDE (apps frameworks plasma), except for 'plasma-meta', which raises an error : Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed at the same time on the same system.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 5:48 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 7 December 2018 10:17:17 GMT Andreas Fink wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + > > > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > And today, of course, there's an upgrade. That's another reason I > > > ditched it. Is there a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 7 December 2018 00:19:24 GMT Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> I don't use lm-sensors either. KSysGuard sees the kernel sensors just >>> fine without it. You just need to add them in the KSysGuard options. >> Got it. I did some digging but I found it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:30:48AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > One last question for anyone who has done this recently.  When finished, > I'll have a FX-8350 CPU with 8 cores at 4.0/4.2GHz, 32GBs of memory all > on a Gigabyte 970 series mobo.  Would there be any point in upgrading to > a whole new rig

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 7 December 2018 10:17:17 GMT Andreas Fink wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > And today, of course, there's an upgrade. That's another reason I > > ditched it. Is there a way to force chromium to be not ~amd64 on a > > ~amd64 system? > > Yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Andreas Fink
On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > And today, of course, there's an upgrade. That's another reason I > ditched it. Is there a way to force chromium to be not ~amd64 on a > ~amd64 system? Yes, I do that with this entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords: www-client/chromium

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 6 December 2018 10:35:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 11:11:06 GMT Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:12:10 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > The main reason I've ditched chrome and chromium altogether is that they > > > insist on redirecting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 7 December 2018 00:19:24 GMT Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I don't use lm-sensors either. KSysGuard sees the kernel sensors just > > fine without it. You just need to add them in the KSysGuard options. > > Got it. I did some digging but I found it. I had to add a tab

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 19:17:22 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Sounds like I need to build a new kernel as well. I guess I could name >> one with FX in it to be able to tell it from the old one.  I do mine >> manually anyway, except for the dracut thingy.  > Or set LOCALVERSION in the

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 19:17:22 -0600, Dale wrote: > Sounds like I need to build a new kernel as well. I guess I could name > one with FX in it to be able to tell it from the old one.  I do mine > manually anyway, except for the dracut thingy.  Or set LOCALVERSION in the kernel config. Then the