[gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

2020-04-29 Thread jdm
Hi, I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by compiling EFIFB (no previous FB compiled in) the card has been working fine for 2 days booting normally. The machine then started not to boot, not even to get to BIOS (so you

[gentoo-user] transparent compression? (e.g. device mapper for compression)

2020-04-29 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - any nice way to have compression at the file system level, without using zfs? perhaps some kind of device mapper that compresses data? i find file system compression to speed up read/write to slow disks noticeably (e.g. sata). rgrds, cm.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to > > pick the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; > > no

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:24 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: [...] > Have I to go the PulseAudio route after all? > Hi Peter; I had refrained to comment in this thread since I had nothing to contribute regarding your original question. However, since you now ask if you should go to the PA route, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent users from shutting down while other users logged in

2020-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:19:29 +, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > I often have the kids working on my main ~amd64 PC (XFCE, OpenRC, > -consolekit) while I ssh into it doing some maintenance from an old PC. > Often they shut it down without telling me first, so I loose part of my > stuff. Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:25 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to pick > > the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; no > > applications. >

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent users from shutting down while other users logged in

2020-04-29 Thread Michael Jones
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:19 AM Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > I often have the kids working on my main ~amd64 PC (XFCE, OpenRC, > -consolekit) while I ssh into it doing some maintenance from an old PC. > Often they shut it down without telling me first, so I loose part of my > stuff. Is there a way

[gentoo-user] prevent users from shutting down while other users logged in

2020-04-29 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I often have the kids working on my main ~amd64 PC (XFCE, OpenRC, -consolekit) while I ssh into it doing some maintenance from an old PC. Often they shut it down without telling me first, so I loose part of my stuff. Is there a way to tell XFCE/elogind/PAM/lightdm/whoever to not allow shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to pick > the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; no > applications. Well, that was a hostage to fortune. Today, after a reboot and

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 23:41:59 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:29:18 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > Ah, so now we have more clues about what's going on.