[gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 10/12/17 11:55, Wols Lists wrote: On 09/12/17 12:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm all in favour of Lennart-bashing, but let's keep the bashing to what he's responsible for. As far as I can tell, the most egregious thing he's responsible for is for wanting a well-designed system that works!

[gentoo-user] Re: Pentium 4, 32bit fails to update media-gfx/uniconvertor-2.0_pre379-r1

On 10/12/17 10:51, Mick wrote: Any idea were that "MagickWand" went hiding? [...] Should I file a bug, or am I missing some other package? This was fixed in 2.0_pre379-r2, so you should temporarily keyword that version until it goes stable.

[gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 09/12/17 11:51, Mick wrote: I've seen gnome-base/gnome-common pulled in on more than one systems, all of which have USE="-gnome" set: # emerge -uaNDvt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: [...] Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ]

[gentoo-user] Re: "The sound of Silence" by glibc

On 05/12/17 19:54, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, emerge -e @world installs glibc On my system this kills the build of pulseaudio...which in turn make my linux PC one of the most quiet ones...sigh Use "emerge -a --resume --keep-going". This should continue the world rebuild, and will not abort

[gentoo-user] Re: Harvesting failed compilation...

On 05/12/17 18:08, tu...@posteo.de wrote: after emerge -e @world --keepgoing I got this packages, which failed to compile, listed [...] make failed glibc failed libstd++ failed so...the less important packages so to say. And after fixing those -- if possible -- I guess that I doomed to start

[gentoo-user] Re: git wants a password to portage sync

On 05/12/17 12:40, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I use a central machine that all other gentoo machines pull portage updates from using emerge set up for git. Some 10+ physical and virtual machines work fine. A newly installed machine wants a git password to do the git pull where as no other machine

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a pre-compiled Linux distribution

On 24/11/17 00:01, Wols Lists wrote: On 23/11/17 18:45, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/11/17 19:11, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I'd like to recommend a Linux distribution to someone who needs an as simple Linux distribution as possible. Since I am going to help that person from time to time

[gentoo-user] Re: Looking for a pre-compiled Linux distribution

On 23/11/17 19:11, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to recommend a Linux distribution to someone who needs an as simple Linux distribution as possible. Since I am going to help that person from time to time, it should be as similar as possible to Gentoo. Which distribution would you

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

On 15/11/17 11:05, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: On 14/11/17 19:36, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> wrote: Unless you look at the assembly outpu

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

On 14/11/17 19:36, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-09-04-how-to-zero-a-buffer.html Of course, what would really solve the optimize-into-oblivion problem is a pragma that when invoked on a

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

On 13/11/17 13:38, Mart Raudsepp wrote: On E, 2017-11-13 at 12:44 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: explicit_bzero() is available in glibc. It's in . Interesting. Some Xorg stuff is using libbsd explicitly, but probably since before glibc gained this. This is new since glibc-2.25. Oops

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

On 13/11/17 09:17, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: On L, 2017-11-11 at 00:10 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: Well, most programmers probably won't care about this stuff anyway, and people who deal with cryptography tend to be more

[gentoo-user] Re: Any reason for "Missing digest" errors at the moment

On 13/11/17 06:43, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've just done an "eix-sync" and upon doing "emerge -NuD world", get a few screen fulls of: Missing digest for '/usr/portage/. where the packages are mostly from kde-frameworks, -5.40.0, and a few from kde-apps, -17.08.3.

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

On 10/11/17 11:54, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm trying to use memset_s() but the system (glibc?) doesn't know about it. I also tried to compile against musl, same result. There's precious little info about memset_s in the net. Does it exist at all? No man page. $ grep -r memset_s /usr/include

[gentoo-user] Re: Systemd

On 05/11/17 00:02, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com > > The only problem I have with systemd is that it's unable to reliably restore the ALSA mixer volumes/settings on startup. It fails 50% of the time. Which is very

[gentoo-user] Re: Systemd

On 04/11/17 21:23, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] The only problem I have with systemd is that it's unable to reliably restore the ALSA mixer volumes/settings on startup. It fails 50% of the time. Which is very an

[gentoo-user] Re: Compilation error mpv / libav

On 08/11/17 05:51, tu...@posteo.de wrote: I installed ffmpeg- and it compiles fines. Everything else failed again (for example mpv-). Why does an update of already ok installed applications break something in parts because the installation has components, which are mutually exclusive?

[gentoo-user] Re: Systemd

On 04/11/17 18:15, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: I have a short question to systemd. I would like to ask your experience in the changeover. Was it easy? Were there problems? Change or reinstall? What mean the profis here? I did both. Changed one system to systemd, re-installed one from scratch

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd: "local system does not support BPF/cgroup based firewalling"

Alright, thanks. Looks like I'll have to live with that message for a while. Which isn't a big deal. On 28/10/17 21:58, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com <mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > There is no such k

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd: "local system does not support BPF/cgroup based firewalling"

There is no such kernel option. On 28/10/17 21:21, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Do you have CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF enabled? Regards. On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com <mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm getting these at startup: systemd[1

[gentoo-user] systemd: "local system does not support BPF/cgroup based firewalling"

I'm getting these at startup: systemd[1]: File /lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service:33 configures an IP firewall (IPAddressDeny=any), but the local system does not support BPF/cgroup based firewalling. systemd[1]: Proceeding WITHOUT firewalling in effect! systemd[1]: File

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild finds nothing, while revdep-rebuild.sh wants to rebuild the whole system

Running the new revdep-rebuild finds nothing: $ sudo revdep-rebuild -i -- -a * This is the new python coded version * Please report any bugs found using it. * The original revdep-rebuild script is installed as revdep-rebuild.sh * Please file bugs at: https://bugs.gentoo.org/ *

[gentoo-user] Re: remove gnome/systemd

On 12/09/17 18:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote: After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be: 1. rebuild kernel with openRC support and install 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager 3. emerge -C systemd 4. change

[gentoo-user] Re: Chromium no longer displays content of TLS certificate

On 08/09/17 20:05, Mick wrote: Either chromium has stopped displaying the content of the TLS certificate of a web site I happen to visit, or it has made it quite complicated for the user to find it. Go to: chrome://flags/#show-cert-link Flip the flag. Restart Chromium. The certificate

[gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

On 04/09/17 23:58, Grant wrote: I'm getting strange results from xdpyinfo. I always get 96x96 DPI and the screen size changes along with the resolution. When I run 'xrandr --dpi 200x200' and check xdpyinfo, it reports correctly. But if I log out and back in to xfce4 without doing anything

[gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

On 04/09/17 23:26, Grant wrote: Is there a way to digitally discover the true height and width of your screen in mm? Yes. xdpyinfo shows the information: xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution If the information is wrong, that usually means one of two things (sometimes even both): a) the video

[gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

On 04/09/17 22:24, Grant wrote: My laptop's 13" screen has a native resolution of 3200x1800 which makes everything crazy small on-screen. Is there a good method for telling Xorg or xfce4 to compensate, or should I one-at-a-time my applications? Depends on your desktop. I'm not sure if XFCE

[gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

On 01/09/17 19:14, Grant wrote: My laptop's 13" screen has a native resolution of 3200x1800 which makes everything crazy small on-screen. Is there a good method for telling Xorg or xfce4 to compensate, or should I one-at-a-time my applications? Depends on your desktop. I'm not sure if XFCE

[gentoo-user] Re: systemD?

On 30/08/17 23:39, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: I do not want to start a whole systemd storm, glad i was offline for that.  however, in my case i'd really like to avoid systemd.  can i setup with out systemd, or do i need to remove and patch later. As others mentioned, openrc is

[gentoo-user] Re: Budgie

On 25/08/17 23:43, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Does anyone have experience with the Budgie desktop under Gentoo? Installation? Use? Reports would be nice. There's a wiki page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Budgie but I haven't tried it myself yet.

[gentoo-user] Re: No beep.

On 14/08/17 21:22, Alan Mackenzie wrote: However, during the building, I discovered to my disgust that there was no loudspeaker in my new case. You sure? These days, it's not shaped like a speaker anymore, but more like... a clip-on microphone? Not sure how to describe it. It's really small

[gentoo-user] Re: Restart agetty after update @world?

On 12/08/17 10:35, Matthias Hanft wrote: Hi, for weekly updates, I'm using the usual update commands, such as emerge -NDuv @world emerge -c revdep-rebuild -i In order to find out which services are still using old versions of updated programs/libraries, I add lsof | grep -w DEL | grep

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading to gcc-5 (on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

On 08/08/17 18:13, allan gottlieb wrote: gcc-config -l reports [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.3 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.4 * [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-5.4.0 The news item from 2015-10-22 suggests (I have gentoolkit-0.3.3) # revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc++.so.6' -- --exclude gcc Is

[gentoo-user] Re: maim screenshooting

On 30/07/17 21:04, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, I am shootin around the screen...experimenting... From here: https://github.com/naelstrof/maim I found this: "This is a basic, but useful command that simply screenshots the current active window. $ maim -i $(xdotool getactivewindow)

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

On 20/07/17 06:46, Dale wrote: First, I'm pretty clueless on what you are doing but notice something that just may be related. Do you have zsh installed on your system? It says zsh can't be found basically so perhaps it needs to be installed??? No, that message is just zsh printing the error

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

On 20/07/17 06:26, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What is the output of: $ eix -e glibc Does it list the "multilib" USE flag as enabled? Does /lib32/libc.so.6 exist? In addition, what is the output of: $ file /lib/ld-linux.so.2 It should be: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: symbolic link t

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

On 20/07/17 06:11, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 07/20 04:51, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 19/07/17 19:57, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, My Buspirate v36a needs a newer firmware. Unfortunately the flasher software is only available in 32bit and I run a 64bit modern Gentoo. Is this the tool? https

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

On 19/07/17 19:57, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, My Buspirate v36a needs a newer firmware. Unfortunately the flasher software is only available in 32bit and I run a 64bit modern Gentoo. Is this the tool?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

On 19/07/17 20:40, tu...@posteo.de wrote: the tool is statically linked and only the command "file" reveals its 32bit nature. Have you tried just running it? And as Mick mentioned, run your tool with linux32: $ linux32 ./tool It might just work without you having to do anything else.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

On 19/07/17 19:57, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, My Buspirate v36a needs a newer firmware. Unfortunately the flasher software is only available in 32bit and I run a 64bit modern Gentoo. By default, Gentoo is multilib. Meaning it runs 32-bit software too. What libraries does the tool need to

[gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

On 14/07/17 05:40, R0b0t1 wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Hi all! I'd like to remind you that $ date -d @15 is drawing close! Don't miss the moment :) Here it is! I missed it. Damn sleep. I need to quit sleeping, waste of

[gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

On 13/07/17 21:15, Kent Fredric wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:01:42 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: I'd like to remind you that $ date -d @15 is drawing close! Don't miss the moment :) watch -n 1 'echo $(( 15 - $( date +"%s") ))' Enjoy. watch -n 1

[gentoo-user] Re: media-sound/apulse / media-plugins/alsa-plugins

On 08/07/2017 09:41 μμ, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: How to solve this blocker? [blocks B ] Something is trying to install them. Add "-t" to your emerge command to see which package is depending on them.

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

On 29/06/2017 12:53 πμ, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:43:03 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: I dont like CTRL-V/CTRL-P that much...its a windows way. Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V pre-dates Windows. Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-C#In_graphical_environments

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

On 26/06/2017 07:45 μμ, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-06-26 19:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Sometimes the clipboard contents even disappear if you exit the application you copied from. Start Google Chrome. Select the URL bar. Press Ctrl+C. Quit Google Chrome. Try Ctrl+V somewhere. It's gone

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

On 26/06/2017 06:15 πμ, J. Roeleveld wrote: On June 26, 2017 3:19:49 AM GMT+02:00, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] Similar things happen with VMware. It seems that many applications do not set the clipboard contents in a way that VB or VMw can recognize. Never

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

On 25/06/2017 09:12 μμ, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On my Gentoo Linux box I am running Virtualbox and on that virtual box Linux again. When trying to cut text from a terminal or another text-based apolication and past that into a firefox running on the virtualized Linux it fails. But when I start

[gentoo-user] Re: e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

On 16/06/2017 11:59 πμ, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 06/16/2017 12:26:07 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you don't need the files on the stick (as you mentioned on another post), then I'd recommend formatting it using exfat. Works on both Linux and Windows. Emerge sys-fs/fuse-exfat and mounting

[gentoo-user] Re: e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

On 15/06/2017 06:26 μμ, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm trying to repair USB disk (64GB) originally formatted with ext4 I read the USB stick on Windows via some kind of windows ext4 driver now I can not open it on Linux box. e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1 64gb: recovering journal (just stays there

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

On 06/14/2017 06:05 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: So the MTP process crapped out again. I repeated this three times and cursed at KDE (it used to work, I haven't had to copy files off my phone in more than six months) and emailed them to myself. Same happens to me. And always has. I also tried

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

On 06/10/2017 09:24 PM, Toralf Förster wrote: On 06/10/2017 08:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm not seeing it :-P Well, not really documented, but I'd say to have (beside the user name) a different thing to indicate that this is the super user command line. It's in red, has

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

On 06/10/2017 11:50 AM, Toralf Förster wrote: On 06/10/2017 08:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there a rationale for this? Yes, please look into /etc/bash/bashrc (near to the end) ;) I'm not seeing it :-P

[gentoo-user] Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

I noticed that the root prompt does not include the full path of the current directory. Normal user: me@gentoopc ~ $ cd /usr/bin me@gentoopc /usr/bin $ However, for root: gentoopc ~ # cd /usr/bin gentoopc bin # So for users, I can see where I am ("/usr/bin"). For root, I cannot. It

[gentoo-user] Re: port forwarding

On 06/05/2017 07:28 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: My firewall (dd-wrt) does not opening specific port. In NAT(QoS) tab I have: forward from port 4569 to internal IP port 4569 (this is an asterisk IAX port); netstat -a |grep 4569 udp0 0 0.0.0.0:45690.0.0.0:* But

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Can I resize /dev/shm on the fly?

On 05/29/2017 10:13 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:05:02PM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote Ühel kenal päeval, E, 29.05.2017 kell 14:47, kirjutas Walter Dnes: I was using a chroot, and I bind-mounted the chroot's /dev and /proc and /sys on top of the host machine's directories.

[gentoo-user] Re: Which update broke VMWare?

On 05/25/2017 02:51 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I just confirmed i need both +bundled-libs and unset VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS to get it to work. Thanks! That works indeed. You just saved half my bacon :-)

[gentoo-user] Which update broke VMWare?

VMWare Workstation stopped working on ~amd64. And I don't know which of the updated packages broke it. Before I start reverting all emerges I made in the last 20 days or so (it's a BIG list according to qlop), has someone already figured out what broke it? When I say "stopped working", I mean

[gentoo-user] Re: tmp on tmpfs

On 05/24/2017 08:16 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith? I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like ext3, because the files there are normally so small that

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo rocks

On 05/20/2017 02:13 AM, Mick wrote: PS. You think that's bad? Try installing from Stage 1, over dial up and a day and a half later suffering a power cut without a UPS ... O_O More than a decade ago I did that, with mixed results: http://i.imgur.com/t55RyxV.jpg

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tux AWOL

On 05/18/2017 05:06 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 05/17/2017 03:35 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: It also enables me to finally use UEFI and suspend to RAM again with NVIDIA proprietary without a dead framebuffer after resume. ;-) I have had this problem for years and thought it was a bad card. Replaced

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tux AWOL

On 05/18/2017 05:06 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 05/17/2017 03:35 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: It also enables me to finally use UEFI and suspend to RAM again with NVIDIA proprietary without a dead framebuffer after resume. ;-) I have had this problem for years and thought it was a bad card. Replaced

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tux AWOL

On 05/14/2017 01:47 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: It's the first time I hear about plymouth. Visiting https://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/ I found zilch documentation. It's... complicated: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Plymouth

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?

On 04/25/2017 05:29 PM, lee wrote: since the usage of FTP seems to be declining, what is a replacement which is at least as good as FTP? I'm aware that there's webdav, but that's very awkward to use and missing features. Is this about security? Then the closest replacement is FTPS (aka SSL

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?

On 04/30/2017 10:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:09:16PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote On 04/30/2017 05:04 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sunday, April 30, 2017 2:18:42 PM CEST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Btw, I don't think that USE flag is useful for anything, unless you put

[gentoo-user] Re: htop wants cgroups

On 04/30/2017 08:33 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Kai Krakow wrote: Am Sun, 30 Apr 2017 09:26:16 -0700 schrieb Jorge Almeida : Well, it says "should be" enabled. It's not a requirement. You may not use some of htop's

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?

On 04/30/2017 05:04 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sunday, April 30, 2017 2:18:42 PM CEST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/30/2017 05:25 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: So much for that wiki entry. BTW, I ended up putting... sys-devel/gcc graphite ...in package.use. The "graphite" USE

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?

On 04/30/2017 05:25 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: So much for that wiki entry. BTW, I ended up putting... sys-devel/gcc graphite ...in package.use. The "graphite" USE flag means something entirely different for harfbuzz, i.e. build against media-libs/harfbuzz against media-gfx/graphite2 Btw, I

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?

On 04/28/2017 10:08 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: In the past, there used to be dire warnings about the difficulty of installing gcc with graphite. Have things become easier with 5.4.0? I don't remember any issues with it, even with 4.9.

[gentoo-user] Re: How do you manage manually compiled software?

On 04/28/2017 04:33 AM, Danny YUE wrote: Hi guys, I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your manually compiled software? I make ebuilds for them and put them in /usr/local/portage.

[gentoo-user] Re: Clang has gone walkabout

On 04/10/2017 03:58 PM, Simon Thelen wrote: Try running `env-update && source /etc/profile'. Your path should be extended by /etc/profile.env which is generated from /etc/env.d/10llvm-9995. Just logout/login. "source" will help in the current shell.

[gentoo-user] Re: Clang has gone walkabout

On 04/10/2017 12:13 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Do we have any clang users out there? I've had clang installed on my machine for ages and a simple "clang test.c" will result in an executable. I can even nearly build my whole machine using clang, so its up and running. I've now just

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia Drivers. =(

On 04/05/2017 05:15 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: I'm still running on my old kernel as I re-build my system, Nvidia drivers just barfed 381.09 was released today which supports kernel 4.10. But it might take a while until it's in portage. In general, I stick with LTS kernels ("Long Term

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

On 04/04/2017 04:07 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've googled fairly extensively on the subject and did not find a way described anywhere to return a disk to what is called its raw state. There's not such thing. When shipping, the disk might contain all zero-bytes, or random bytes. There may

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

On 04/03/2017 09:11 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't remember ever running into anything like this. I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the state it was in when new... Not sure what that state is, but at least no

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

On 04/04/2017 12:11 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Walter Dnes: ... This state of affairs seems to have evolved slowly. There wasn't one version where it worked for nobody, immediately followed by the next version that worked for everybody. Years ago, X would not run without an xorg.conf file.

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

On 04/02/2017 07:35 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/02/2017 06:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: My best guess is that the problem was due to a recent update to x11-base/xorg-server On both my systems it now requires USE="glamor". This may require changes to xorg.conf.

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

On 04/02/2017 12:18 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 23:35:59 -0500, Dale wrote: You do sometimes need some custom settings though. This goes in seperate *.conf files now, which must be inside the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. Some packages can place a config file there

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

On 04/02/2017 06:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: My best guess is that the problem was due to a recent update to x11-base/xorg-server On both my systems it now requires USE="glamor". This may require changes to xorg.conf. On my main desktop, with no xorg.conf, X does the detection and

[gentoo-user] Re: How am I supposed to block the KDE update?

On 03/15/2017 07:38 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On March 14, 2017 6:05:17 PM GMT+01:00, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: (The issue was that hovering over icons or other items would highlight them but they would stay highlighted forever even after the mouse moved somewhere else o

[gentoo-user] Re: How am I supposed to block the KDE update?

On 03/14/2017 06:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Eek. That's not nice. You have masked frameworks-5.32.0 and plasma-5.9.3 packages (presumably you got all of them), and you missed something in the huge chain that needs one or more of them. Oops, you are absolutely correct. In fact, what I didn't

[gentoo-user] How am I supposed to block the KDE update?

Updading to kde-frameworks 5.32 breaks my desktop. So I masked it. Meaning: =kde-frameworks/attica-5.32.0 =kde-frameworks/breeze-icons-5.32.0 =kde-frameworks/extra-cmake-modules-5.32.0 # ... and all the rest in /etc/portage/package.mask/kdeframeworks That worked for a couple days. Not

[gentoo-user] Re: No room left on /boot

On 03/05/2017 11:33 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: When I installed the system I followed standard, installation instructions, and allocated disk space accordingly in Gentoo installation instruction manual. I think it wasn't enough. What I my options to reduce kernel size or increase /boot

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

On 02/02/2017 10:49 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 02/02/2017 01:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:47:48AM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote On gcc-4.8.5 on my system boost-1.62.0-r1 was failing as well I switched to gcc-4.9.3 and it emerges just fine. I see

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

On 02/02/2017 06:31 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:47:29 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... nothing. Same here. I don't know why, but the way I solved it is by unmerging boost and then trying the update

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

On 02/02/2017 07:04 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: On 02/01/2017 05:37 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/02/2017 12:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2017 08:00 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 01/02/17 23:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there a way to disable the Gentoo branding in KDE

[gentoo-user] Re: boost-1.62.0-r1 blocked by nothing ??

On 02/02/2017 01:21 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... nothing. Same here. I don't know why, but the way I solved it is by unmerging boost and then trying the update again. When I unmerged both boost as well as boost-build,

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

On 02/02/2017 12:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2017 08:00 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 01/02/17 23:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there a way to disable the Gentoo branding in KDE? My launcher icon as well as my start screen got replaced with Gentoo-branded ones. Are you

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

On 02/01/2017 05:40 PM, Francesco Turco wrote: On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 16:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Do you have the 'branding' USE flag enabled? There is no such flag. On my system: $ euse -i -g branding global use flags (searching: branding

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

On 02/01/2017 08:00 PM, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 01/02/17 23:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there a way to disable the Gentoo branding in KDE? My launcher icon as well as my start screen got replaced with Gentoo-branded ones. Are you using the LiveDVD or similar variant? The only Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

On 02/01/2017 03:15 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On February 1, 2017 1:39:56 PM GMT+01:00, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: Is there a way to disable the Gentoo branding in KDE? My launcher icon as well as my start screen got replaced with Gentoo-branded ones. Do you have the 'br

[gentoo-user] Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

Is there a way to disable the Gentoo branding in KDE? My launcher icon as well as my start screen got replaced with Gentoo-branded ones.

[gentoo-user] Re: Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox

On 01/29/2017 11:23 AM, Jochen Kirchner wrote: Analog Surround 5.1 + Analog Stereo Input is selected in the configuration tab in pavucontrol Front left+right speaker volume is shown on firefox (CubebUtils: audiostream) under the playback tab But the sound is coming from the rear speakers.

[gentoo-user] Re: Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox

On 01/28/2017 09:57 PM, Jochen Kirchner wrote: while playing a mix on mixcloud.com the sound suddenly switched to rear speakers again :( Strange thing is: When I lower the volume from the front speaker on the device "pulseaudio" the rear speakers gets quiet. And when I lower the volume from

[gentoo-user] Re: Pulseaudio - Asus Xonar STX II 7.1 - 5.1 Surround - Front audio is coming from rear speakers in Firefox

On 01/27/2017 06:15 PM, Jochen Kirchner wrote: Hi fellow gentoo'ers, I'm running XFCE with pulseaudio. Hardware is Asus Xonar STX II with the 7.1 daughterboard Analog Surround 5.1 is selected in xfce4-volumed-pulse. If I do speaker-test -c 6 all is right. Front audio is put through the

[gentoo-user] Re: What has happened to the Gentoo tree?

On 01/27/2017 11:56 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Thanks Mick, thanks Neil, it turned out that eix (I'm using eix-99) was broken. I removed it and installed again. This fixed the issue. Or you forgot to run eix-update after doing emerge --sync?

[gentoo-user] Re: snafu: the update

On 01/26/2017 01:58 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: The linux kernel stalls stone cold dead in either direct from firmware or pass through grub mode. AFAIK, when you load the kernel directly from the EFI firmware,

[gentoo-user] Re: SNAFU!!!! Boot drive modernization.

I had the same issue. I fixed it by disabling GRUB's automatic UUID kernel parameter and using my own. /etc/default/grub: GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="root=/dev/sda5 rootfstype=ext4" Regenerate the grub config after editing it (grub-mkconfig). On 01/25/2017 04:38 PM,

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem matching latest kernel with latest Nvidia

On 01/10/2017 06:31 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: You might want to add "static-libs" to the use flags as well. Another useful utility gets built by it. There doesn't seem to be anything installed by it, except a static lib (libXNVCtrl.a) and some header files (/usr/include/NVCtrl). No executables.

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem matching latest kernel with latest Nvidia

On 01/10/2017 11:01 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 170109 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/09/2017 10:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: I had a previous thread re Kernel 4.9.0 + Nvidia 375.26 (now stable). I tried recompiling that kernel with DRM disabled, & remerged Nvidia 375.26 , but X won't s

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

On 01/09/2017 10:15 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 01/09/2017 12:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/09/2017 10:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 170105 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/05/2017 08:05 AM, wabe wrote: Make sure that you have also enabled CONFIG_DRM. CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y

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