Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:21:48 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 16:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > AMD have published Linux drivers on their website, but in RPM and .deb > > formats. I tried one anyway, but installation stops immediately with > > 'unsupported OS'.

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:44:50 +0100, Michael wrote: > > systemd-boot and refind both support everything on EFI. I am pretty > > sure GRUB does too, but I have no reason to use GRUB with EFI. My > > setup on this box is /boot on FAT32 and / (and everything else) on > > btrfs. I've also used the

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Jack
On 2021.08.31 16:20, Michael wrote: [snip] Is there some particular need to resize boot? Is there even a need to have a pool for it? It seems to me having a stand alone simple VFAT partition for / boot which doubles up as ESP with a /boot/EFI subdirectory will do the job, although I

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 20:54:14 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 3:44 PM Michael wrote: > > Please beware, I have not used zfs to date, only btrfs, so the above > > merely > > reflects my understanding rather than in depth experience of the > > difficulty in managing such a

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 3:44 PM Michael wrote: > > Please beware, I have not used zfs to date, only btrfs, so the above merely > reflects my understanding rather than in depth experience of the difficulty in > managing such a setup. To save you digging through the thread, the issue with zfs is

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 20:21:58 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:21:35 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > If you are multibooting frequently and getting into the UEFI boot > > > menu to change the boot order or running efibootmgr is too much > > > hassle, then a 3rd party boot

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:21:35 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > If you are multibooting frequently and getting into the UEFI boot > > menu to change the boot order or running efibootmgr is too much > > hassle, then a 3rd party boot manager will be useful. Your choice of > > GRUB, rEFInd,

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 1:51 PM Michael wrote: > > > > > In a small nutshell, you have a small EFI+boot partition, set to type > > 'EFI System' and formatted FAT32, then tell grub to use it as an EFI > > directory when calling grub-install. > > In simple(r) systems where you only boot the same OS

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird w/ Owl plugin for OWA?

2021-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
Does anybody have any experience using Thunderbird with the Owl plugin for connecting to Exchange OWA? https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/owl-for-exchange/ I've been thinking it might be a better option than hiri. https://www.hiri.com/ I've been using hiri for a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 15:33:07 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 10:04 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > What I probably should get around to is grokking EFI+linux. I'm not > > sure what the cleanest solution for that is these days - I've never > > actually set up EFI on

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start : solved

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
210831 Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 16:27, Philip Webb wrote: >> I just updated to the latest Xscreensaver-6.01-r1. > Did you mean -r3 ? Yes, a typo. >> I emerged it with USE flag 'elogind' & don't use Systemd. >> 'which xscreensaver-systemd' finds nothing >> nor can I see any

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 12:08:04 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would not > > have any effect. Anyway, let's try this in /etc/asound.conf: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-31 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 16:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > AMD have published Linux drivers on their website, but in RPM and .deb > formats. I tried one anyway, but installation stops immediately with > 'unsupported OS'. Not surprising, of course, but is there any way of porting > and archive

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-31 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Monday, 30 August 2021 16:08:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> Does anyone know whether AMD intend to make their navi cards usable with >> opencl under Linux? I have a Radeon Pro W5500, which is a navi 14 card, and >> from what I can see neither rocm-opencl nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 30 August 2021 16:08:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone know whether AMD intend to make their navi cards usable with > opencl under Linux? I have a Radeon Pro W5500, which is a navi 14 card, and > from what I can see neither rocm-opencl nor amdgpu-pro-opencl can

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:33:06 -0400, John Covici wrote: > or if there is a way to add zfs to the sysresc cd, I might do > that. There is, I posted a link last week. >> You can also add additional modules to sysrescd, so it may be easier to >> stick with that and add ZFS to it. >> >> Looking at

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start

2021-08-31 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 16:27, Philip Webb wrote: > > I just updated to the latest Xscreensaver-6.01-r1. Did you mean -r3? I've been on that for over a month, and the only other version available to me is 5.45-r4. > I emerged it with USE flag 'elogind' & don't use Systemd. > 'which

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 10:04 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > What I probably should get around to is grokking EFI+linux.  I'm not > sure what the cleanest solution for that is these days - I've never > actually set up EFI on linux, mostly because I'm not sure what the > best practice is. I can't

[gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
I just updated to the latest Xscreensaver-6.01-r1. If it starts at reboot, individual savers crash with a screen box saying ' crashed with Status 1'. If I stop the daemon, then restart it from CLI, I get : xscreensaver-systemd: 10:15:26: user bus connection failed: No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 9:33 AM John Covici wrote: > > Well, I never use a boot pool, I boot with ext4 and just do the root > on zfs. But, I was more interested in some external media, so I am > looking at that Linux Recovery file system to see if I can get that > working, or if there is a way

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:11:53 -0400, Robert David wrote: > > Hi John, > > my approach is to have EFI partition with staticly compiled grub, alpine > linux rescue system and kernel with tiny initramfs for zfs root. > > It works really well, only thing you need to consider is when upgrading >

[gentoo-user] Re: Motif compile fails

2021-08-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-08-28, Philip Webb wrote: > As part of updating to the latest stable Xscreensaver, > I tried to emerge its requirement Motif, which failed with this message : [...] > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Motif compile fails

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
210831 Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2021-08-28, Philip Webb wrote: >> As part of updating to the latest stable Xscreensaver, >> I tried to emerge its requirement Motif, which failed with this message : >[...] >> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Robert David
Hi John, my approach is to have EFI partition with staticly compiled grub, alpine linux rescue system and kernel with tiny initramfs for zfs root. It works really well, only thing you need to consider is when upgrading root pool, you will not be able to boot to previous BE with old zfs. Without

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-31 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would not > have any effect. Anyway, let's try this in /etc/asound.conf: > > defaults.pcm.card 1 > defaults.pcm.device 0 > defaults.ctl.card 1 > > On a reboot your

Re: [gentoo-user] how to run freerdp

2021-08-31 Thread n952162
On 8/31/21 9:45 AM, n952162 wrote: So, now that I've emerged xfreerdb, is there a reason it's better than rdesktop? Oh, I guess I know: USB support (etc.).  VirtualBox offers that, but only from their Oracle proprietary code.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to run freerdp

2021-08-31 Thread n952162
On 8/31/21 8:36 AM, n952162 wrote: On 8/30/21 9:29 PM, tastytea wrote: On 2021-08-30 21:10+0200 n952162 wrote: I just emerged freerdp-2.3.2 without issue, but there's no executable except /usr/bin/winpr-*, which I think just serve to set up an authentication system. There's no freerdp,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to run freerdp

2021-08-31 Thread n952162
On 8/30/21 9:29 PM, tastytea wrote: On 2021-08-30 21:10+0200 n952162 wrote: I just emerged freerdp-2.3.2 without issue, but there's no executable except /usr/bin/winpr-*, which I think just serve to set up an authentication system. There's no freerdp, xfreerdp, xfreerdp-server, or anything.