Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread michael
it until Michael mentioned it. - -- gentux another 2 great advantages of etherape: 1. looks cool 2. i think our brains can better process a lot of information as visual patterns. i have to concentrate more to read all the fields in iftop or bmon, but a quick glance at etherape gives me a very

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2006-09-07 Thread michael
to those who wish to skip it. Good luck everyone, in finding the posts you wish, and the answers to your questions. Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade from 3.x to 4.x, when should I run revdep-rebuild?

2006-09-07 Thread michael
I'm upgrading my gcc from 3.x to 4.x. I've done the gcc switching, and now I'm updating my system. The recommended steps are: # emerge -eav system # emerge -eav world While emerging my system I received a message suggesting I run revdep-rebuild: warning - be sure to run revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread michael
Good one, Jean-Marc! I hope my experience is better than yours. I'm in the middle of this process on a live system, been building since Monday (it's an old 600MHz box) If you can read this email, my system is still running Michael On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: I would call

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread michael
What change did you have to make to CHOST? 386 to 686? or something more complicated? On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: For me, the problem was that I had to change CHOST...then I'll re-install from scratch. But I don't say Gentoo is bad, I say, I am bad at Gentoo ! On 9/8/06,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread michael
User I was attracted to Gentoo because it was different, and I'm attracted to things like that. Coming from a background of Slackware and Redhat, I fell in love with the ease of portage But I strongly believe one of the biggest strengths of Gentoo is this list. I have learned more from reading

[gentoo-user] missing profile files: how did that happen? what do i do?

2006-09-09 Thread michael
directory in it! and, upon further inspection, my /etc/make.profile is not a link, but rather a real directory with real files in it. what's going on here, and how do i get the 2006.1 profile? thanks, michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] dev-vcs/qbzr - bug or no?

2011-03-02 Thread Michael
to make this work, I need to emerge net-misc/x11-ssh-askpass. My question is: would this be considered a bug of some variety (missing dependency or flag?), or rather just something the user needs to figure out themself. Thanks, Michael

[gentoo-user] Failure to compile 2.6.39-gentoo-r3

2011-07-20 Thread Michael
Any ideas? -Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] Failure to compile 2.6.39-gentoo-r3

2011-07-20 Thread Michael
Hi, CONFIG_MICROCODE=y CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL=y # CONFIG_MICROCODE_AMD is not set CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE=y -Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarifying using the button to cause a shutdown

2012-09-12 Thread Michael
of acpid (daemon has to be running, of course) should shutdown your system. I think this should be what you want. If it fails, check your Kernel apci settings (like CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON), you found already the right wiki page. Michael Am Dienstag, 11. September 2012, 23:22:38 schrieb Andrew Lowe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 February 2020 14:30:26 GMT Robert Bridge wrote: > > On 29 Feb 2020, at 13:57, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Maybe something has changed in the last few years and swap is actually > > useful, but I'm skeptical. I always tend to end up with GB of free > > RAM and a churning hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-03-01 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 1 March 2020 10:46:17 GMT Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 29/2/20 11:31 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:17 AM Daniel Frey wrote: > >>> Yes, I'm aware linux does VLANs... I set up netifrc to do this (I > >>> already have some "smart" switches set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating chroot to VM

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 09:54:01 GMT Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > I want to do a crazy thing. I want to migrate my gentoo installation from a > chroot to a VM (both on the same host). The host is debian but I can only > use SSH. What do you suggest to do? There are VMWare applications to

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU speed scaling quirk (Intel; Dell i660)

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 00:28:21 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > I've cobbled together a script to select cpu governors and speeds. > One weird thing I've noticed is that reported cpu speed doesn't quite > match the selected speed. E.g. on my machine (yours will vary)... > > cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:59:53 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote > > > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get > > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and pasting HTML from web pages.

2020-03-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 March 2020 23:07:03 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I don't use LOo a whole lot but several months ago, I noticed a > problem. Sometimes I go to a electronic type website that has info on > circuits and how something works. Those pages usually contain text, > pics and such. I

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-04 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:09:45 GMT n952162 wrote: > Hi, > > I have 3 swap devices and files. At boot, it seems indeterminate which > ones get "mounted" (as swap areas). > > Does anyone have an idea why they're not all mounted? > > Here are the swap lines from my fstab: > > #LABEL=swap

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-04 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 09:24:31 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-04 10:10, Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:09:45 GMT n952162 wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have 3 swap devices and files. At boot, it seems indeterminate which &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-28 Thread Michael
On Friday, 28 February 2020 11:04:43 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/02/20 05:07, james wrote: > > For data storage, long term important stuff, you should employ RAID > > (1-10). We can get into that later, duplication of important data, via > > backups or extra storage is a good idea too. Backups

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-28 Thread Michael
On Friday, 28 February 2020 05:07:07 GMT james wrote: > On 2/27/20 9:53 PM, Dale wrote: > > james wrote: > >> 5G + gentoo + embedded toys, is going to be FUN FUN FUN. > >> > >> > >> Then I'll be off to other states, via a hacked out Redneck > >> camper.. and too many microProcessors > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:04:56 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:30:51PM +0000, Michael wrote > > > I haven't yet given Palemoon a spin and consequently have no > > experience of it. How does it compare to FF? I am curious as to > > security and

[gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-06 Thread Michael
I have lost count with the naming scheme of Intel's embedded spyware to know if this is yet another vulnerability, or something to convince me to throw away the last Intel powered box still in my possession (mind you its >10yr old):

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-06 Thread Michael
On Friday, 6 March 2020 13:48:00 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 3:50 AM Michael wrote: > > I have lost count with the naming scheme of Intel's embedded spyware to > > know if this is yet another vulnerability, or something to convince me to > > throw away t

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:57:33 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote > >> > >>> I have a banner that says that

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote > > > I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your > > organization". Oh yeah? I guess that would be gentoo. How can I break > > that relationship? > > Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and pasting HTML from web pages.

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 08:17:27 GMT Dale wrote: > madscientistatlarge wrote: > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > > > On Monday, March 2, 2020 5:35 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 10:29:39 GMT n952162 wrote: > > Well, I can change it. It's just that the next time I start firefox, I > have the old values back (and Amazon is pinned, again). Hmm ... interesting ... when I go to Top Sites on a new tab and click on the top right of a site at the Open

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:17:41 GMT netfab wrote: > Le 09/03/20 à 17:03, Peter Humphrey a tapoté : > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/mnt/nfs/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage # > > script on the client > > > > Result: > > * Mounting chroot dirs under /mnt/clrn ... > > mount.nfs: mounting

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-12 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 12 March 2020 00:13:53 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2020.03.11 19:00, hitachi303 wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > so ever since using the amd64 17.1 profiles (which is not that long > > for this PC) I have one problem. After updating xorg-server X won't > > start. > > > >

[gentoo-user] MySQL update could break things

2020-03-11 Thread Michael
Colleen posted a message a couple of weeks ago about mysql hanging at boot. I came across the same problem on an old PC a few days ago. Symptom: === Boot hangs as mysql service is started. Cause: = MySQL upgrade from an old 5.7 version to 8.0 has a lot of material changes, which

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:43:18 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:27:54 GMT Michael wrote: > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage > > > > or > > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Now it's AMD's turn ...

2020-03-08 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:04:02 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:23 AM Rudi wrote: > > While I usually side with AMD for their contributions to the Open > > Sourced community, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that even > > though they're funded by Intel the fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-03-07 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:57:37 GMT Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 2020-02-15 8:48 a.m., Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, at 15:03, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL. During the boot process > >> when it comes to the loading

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-HD-Quickport not recognized...

2020-03-14 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 14 March 2020 11:15:43 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a LogiLink QP0027 QuickPort. > This is a external 3.5/2.5" HDD "docking station". > > It has a power supply, a USB3.1 port, an ON/OFF switch. > > Normal doing would be: > Switch docking station off > Connect

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-HD-Quickport not recognized...

2020-03-14 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:44:55 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 03/14 02:38, Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 14 March 2020 11:15:43 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I bought a LogiLink QP0027 QuickPort. > > > Thi

[gentoo-user] The Intel sequel of vulnerabilities continues ...

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
What-ever I may buy in the future, I'll make sure it does not contain Intel inside ... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/10/lvi_intel_cpu_attack/ YMMV. :-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-15 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 15 March 2020 03:15:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Dale wrote > > > When doing upgrades, I agree it is always wise to look at all USE flag > > changes. Having USE flags is a Gentoo feature but if not monitored > > correctly, it can be a curse as

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyserver available

2020-04-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:36:04 BST gevisz wrote: > I have a long standing "gpg can't check signature: No public key" > error while running # emerge-webrsync > It appears because the webrsync-gpg feature has been set in my > make.conf however I do not want to switch it off. > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:01:45 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Friday, April 3, 2020 10:42 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > nullmailer is now configured, and test with`echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail > > -v m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is not working, with this > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Michael
On Monday, 13 April 2020 16:13:57 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > Trying to record with arecord produces a file that yields > noise or silence with aplay. I tried changing stuff in alsamixer... Yes, the first step would be to reduce or set to zero the Mic Boost in alsamixer and adjust the Capture

Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems after switching to elogind

2020-04-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 10:27:12 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > After the switch to elogind yesterday, chronyd now won't run. It complains > "Could not get user/group of ntp." I remerged chrony with USE=-ntp, but it > didn't help. I know that several people here use chrony, so

Re: [gentoo-user] complete switch from openssl to libressl on gentoo

2020-04-17 Thread Michael
On Friday, 17 April 2020 17:52:26 BST Dale wrote: > Tamer Higazi wrote: > > Dear everybody, > > > > I got my Gentoo system running compiled with openssl. > > I'd like to rebuild my entire system based on libreSSL. > > > > What best practices do you advise ? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet slow at times. Can't figure out why. ISP??

2020-04-07 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 05:55:06 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 5:54:25 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2020-04-06 22:14, Dale wrote: > > > I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At > > > times tho, I'm only getting about 20 or 30% of what I should. > > > > Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet slow at times. Can't figure out why. ISP??

2020-04-07 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 04:54:25 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-04-06 22:14, Dale wrote: > > I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At > > times tho, I'm only getting about 20 or 30% of what I should. > > Are you often on the phone at those times? May it be poor filtering? > > At

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet slow at times. Can't figure out why. ISP??

2020-04-07 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 06:56:04 BST Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 5:54:25 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >> On 2020-04-06 22:14, Dale wrote: > >>> I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At > >>> times tho, I'm only getting about 20 or 30% of what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-07 Thread Michael
This thread has been covered in depth for a while now, but I noticed something noteworthy. On Monday, 6 April 2020 19:13:06 BST Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > "Michael Orlitzky" , 06.04.2020, 19:35: > > On 4/6/20 1:32 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> The messages were

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a blank NVMe as a boot drive...

2020-04-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 April 2020 15:38:00 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:26:27 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Do I really need an image on an USBstick to boot into UEFI mode > > just to setup a system to boot into UEFI mode? > > Yes. The bootloader needs access to the EFI variables to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure keyboard layout for X11 libinput?

2020-04-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 April 2020 15:37:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > I switched from evdev to libinput as recommeded by recent news, and > now my keyboard is hosed: a bunch of keys are unrecognized or send the > wrong thing. (Arrow keys don't work, right-CTRL causes screen to > flash, pgup/pgdown don't

Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 April 2020 22:15:20 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 22:02:04 +0100, antlists wrote: > > > This isn't strictly true, the ESP must be vfat, but you can still > > > have an ext? /boot. > > > > This isn't true at all - you've got the cart before the horse. The > > original

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Michael
On Monday, 13 April 2020 18:09:25 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:29 PM Michael wrote: > > Yes, the first step would be to reduce or set to zero the Mic Boost in > > alsamixer and adjust the Capture volume. However, noise with arecord is > > usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-09 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 9 April 2020 09:53:07 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:49 AM, Michael wrote: > > I have not configured nullmailer to know its internals, but assuming you > > have not removed '127.0.0.1 localhost' from your /etc/hosts it should > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding fstrim...

2020-04-13 Thread Michael
On Monday, 13 April 2020 06:32:37 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > From the list I already have learned, that most of my concerns regarding > the lifetime and maintainance to prolong it are without a > reason. Probably your concerns about SSD longevity are without a reason, but keep up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox again - sad

2020-04-13 Thread Michael
On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:08:30 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > After the latest Firefox update (68.7.0), when I try to open the menu > with F10, sometimes Firefox crashes (about the 3rd time today now). > Does anyone else see that? Not here, on two boxen so far. F10 brings it up and takes it down

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST for Celeron J4105 processor

2020-04-08 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 06:43:44 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Odroid H2 with a Celeron J4105 processor which appears to > be a Gemini Lake, Goldmont Plus architecture > > Any idea what CHOST this should be? > > BillK I don't have one of those, but it is an x86_64 Quad

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Hardened profile and SELinux support active?

2020-04-08 Thread Michael
Hi Ihor, welcome to Gentoo. :-) On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 05:40:30 BST Ihor Antonov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am very new to Gentoo and I am currently migrating from Arch. > Gentoo attracts me with a freedom of system configuration and with multiple > supported architectures. > > I was

[gentoo-user] Firefox 68.6.0-r3 local URL parsing is borked?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
Something changed in the Gentoo /usr/bin/firefox script and parsing URLs with spaces in the file name fails to escape the spaces and opens all sort tabs while trying to resolve/search for each part of the URL string. Using /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox seems to parse the path correctly (when

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:29:06 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > currently i have two i3 tiles open on one of > my monitors: > > * one shows `journalctl -f`, which shows things > from smartd, sudo attempts, and maybe soon > also arpwatch. (btw, any other monitoring apps > that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-04 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 April 2020 20:48:12 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > wow, didn't know sendmail's syntax was so hard it needed a compiler > > > > :D thank you very much for your help. highly appreciated. > > I think that's an inaccurate statement. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-05 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:54:25 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 04/05 10:33, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:13 AM wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > currentlu I am preparing a new Gentoo Linux by compiling all > > > the application I had on my old system. > > > > > > Due to

Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Michael
Hi Meino, On Sunday, 5 April 2020 09:17:41 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > a new morning... :) > > Being on the way to install/setup the base system (mostly getting > stage3 uptodate) I came accross kinda inconsistency -- or at least > it looks like for me. > > The system uses a 3T

Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:56:55 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 01:52:52PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > This isn't strictly true, the ESP must be vfat, but you can still have an > > ext? /boot. However, it generally makes sense to have the ESP and /boot > > as the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended filesystem for an SSD drive and what mount setting to be used?

2020-03-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 27 March 2020 09:48:05 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi all, > > very good infos :) Thanks a lot! > > Fstrim cares for performance and not for lifetime of the SSD, doesn't > it? > > Cheers > Meino man fstrim: [snip ...] "Running fstrim frequently, or even using mount -o discard,

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended filesystem for an SSD drive and what mount setting to be used?

2020-03-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 27 March 2020 08:46:33 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 27 March 2020 05:34:58 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > hopefully in the next daus my first SSD drive will arrive > > (corona makes everything more difficult...). > > > > To prevent an "installed and works"-experience which

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-26 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:41:21 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:19 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > Web tabs are fairly highly sandboxed in most browsers. Suffice it to > > say something running in a web tab isn't going to be spying on your > > process list/etc. > > OK, fair

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 68.6.0-r3 local URL parsing is borked?

2020-04-03 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:33:33 BST Michael wrote: > Something changed in the Gentoo /usr/bin/firefox script and parsing URLs > with spaces in the file name fails to escape the spaces and opens all sort > tabs while trying to resolve/search for each part of the URL string. > > U

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:38:35 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:16 PM Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > On mer. 25 mars 11:51:33 2020, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Did someone try to install zoom? (relevant to many people during the > > > current crisis) > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:43:56 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: > > I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone > > have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? > > > > I've followed it this far: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:19:56 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid > systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance. What is "MTBR"? Mean Time Between Repair? :-/ I'll assume you mean MBR. > The setup will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zoom?

2020-03-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 27 March 2020 16:18:54 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:21:24 +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > > Someone up for an automated hex editor script to remove this shit? > > Alternatively I guess the time has come to simply hard-block > > facebook.com in DNS. This is easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] simple image annotation software

2020-04-01 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:42:48 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > What application would people recommed to add some simple annotations > to image files? For example, I'd like to add a few arrows, some text, > and maybe a box or oval or two. I sometimes do stuff like that from > the command line

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:25:08 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I’ve been using it for 5 years for a dual-boot system (2×64 G for Windows > and Gentoo). By the end of last year it became slower and slower when > writing. Especially eix-update became slw. My main suspicion is that it > was

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:19:45 BST antlists wrote: > On 02/04/2020 12:29, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > [question 1] i wonder how do you monitor your pc? > > While it doesn't look for problems, I always have xosview running on my > desktop. It tells me when the system is struggling, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:59:51 GMT Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 07:51, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Did someone try to install zoom? (relevant to many people during the > > current crisis) > > > > https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installing-Zoom-on-Lin >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > I personally don't think you need asound.conf until you prove that you have > a need to do some sort of non-standard configuration. That _might_ be > defining a different default card but KDE can do that for you in system > settings so

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubles setting USE flag for inkscape

2020-04-25 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 25 April 2020 17:02:05 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/25/20 11:55 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > ## ... PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6 python3_8 -python3_7" > > ## > > ##The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsat

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Michael
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. KDE supplies > pulseaudio. AFAIK it's part of the KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:01:51 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > I need the "virtual" card to be the default, so I did this: > > pcm.mbcard{ > type hw > card PCH > device 1 > } > ctl.mbcard{ > type hw > card 0 > } > pcm.usbcard{ > type hw > card CODEC > device 0 > } > pcm.output{ > type plug >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Michael
On Friday, 24 April 2020 12:13:53 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:39 AM Michael wrote: > > Applications can be rather particular regarding bitrate, bit sample > > formats, channel configuration and other options. I understand Firefox > > wants to hav

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Michael
I recall you having problems recording with this device before, but since you're now a step ahead let's have another go at this, in case I may be able to help. > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:57 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > ... desperately needed. > > > > The setup: > > -- a microphone connected

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 23 April 2020 10:46:29 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:19 AM Michael wrote: > > I recall you having problems recording with this device before, but since > > you're now a step ahead let's have another go at this, in case I may be > > a

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] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-05-01 Thread Michael
launch long_string_here --binary-syntax --close-stderr sddm 3962 0.0 0.0 3868 1948 ?Ss 15:37 0:00 /usr/bin/ dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session root 4030 0.0 0.0 54516 14020 ?S15:38 0:00 /usr/libexec/ sddm-helper --socket

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

2020-04-30 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 30 April 2020 16:15:54 BST Dale wrote: > Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > On Thursday, 2020-04-30 07:31:51 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> ... > >> [ebuild R] app-doc/gimp-help-2.8.2:2::gentoo 0 KiB > > > > Thanks for pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed,

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-01 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:09:47 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 01/05/20 21:29, Dale wrote: > > It gets really slow to respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. > > Just set swapiness to a low number. I think mine is set to 10. > > > > Given the cheapness of hard drives, I'm not sure why

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-01 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:08:24 BST Raphael MD wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 18:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 1 May 2020 21:50:02 CEST, Raphael MD wrote: > > >Hello! > > > > > >Could I turn my Linux swap off. > > >I have 32 GB of RAM memory, I suppose my system don’t need swap, > > >because >

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-02 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 2 May 2020 09:39:12 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 05/02 09:49, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > I think, I feel better if I repartitioning/reformat both drives, > > > though. > > > > It's not necessary, but if it makes you feel better by all means do so. > > > > > *GPT/MBR > > > From a

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-02 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 2 May 2020 09:53:06 BST Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: > > On 01/05/20 21:29, Dale wrote: > >> It gets really slow to respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. > >> Just set swapiness to a low number. I think mine is set to 10. > >> > >> Given the cheapness of hard drives,

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-02 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 2 May 2020 10:54:02 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > I'd be interested to know as a comparison if Nikos' and Dale's I/O > > unresponsiveness in swapping sees an improvement with the I/O scheduler > > for > > spinning drives set to bfq; e.g.: > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:32:04 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 04/28 10:43, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Morning all, > > > > The motherboard sound chip failed, so I bought a USB sound adapter [1]. > > Problem: no sound: firefox says it isn't working and KDE sounds don't > > 'appear'. I have all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: ALSA wizard...

2020-04-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:09:17 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:32 AM Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2020-04-26, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > >> On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Any chance apulse works? > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

2020-04-30 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:48:28 BST jdm wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:17:37 +0200 > > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 04/29 06:05, jdm wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen > > > freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by

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

2020-04-30 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:19:15 BST Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > > Basically I'd like that: > > > - if there is more than one user logged in, either locally via lighdm > > > or remotely via SSH, the shutdown XFCE button is grayed out. Once all > > > users except one have logged out, the button

Re: [gentoo-user] new hd: Security / hdparm / differences

2020-04-22 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 22 April 2020 13:34:10 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > In my system there is a 3T Winchester digital blue > > Model Number: WDC WD30EZRZ-00GXCB0 > Firmware Revision: 80.00A80 > > > I bougth a second one for backyp purposes > > Model Number: WDC

Re: [gentoo-user] Ungoogled-chromium, anyone?

2020-04-13 Thread Michael
On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:46:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I discovered this package today and wondered whether anyone here had any > experience of it. Interesting to see this project exists. I thought Chromium was essentially un-Googled, but obviously there's more there to

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding fstrim...

2020-04-13 Thread Michael
On Monday, 13 April 2020 12:39:11 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 1:32 AM wrote: > > fstrim clears blocks, which currently are not in use and which > > contents is != 0. > > > >... > > > > BUT: Clearing blocks is an action, which includes writes to the cells of > > the SSD. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate ST8000NM0065 PMR or SMR plus NAS SAS SATA question

2020-05-10 Thread Michael
According to this URL this drive claims to use perpendicular recording, so it is probably a PMR drive. https://www.disctech.com/Seagate-ST8000NM0045-8TB-SATA-Hard-Drive This finding is reinforced in this URL: https://www.disctech.com/Seagate-ST8000NM0045-8TB-SATA-Hard-Drive On Sunday, 10

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:33:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale wrote: > > > > > Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic. I use smplayer to > > send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card. I set > smplayer to send the audio to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:34:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:38 AM wrote: > > > > Background to my question: > > I am still searching for a equalizer solution, which does not > > uses the eq provided by the hardware (I am using a DAC, which > > does nothing else, than

Re: [gentoo-user] Trackpad nightmare: Elantech ETPS/2

2020-05-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 15:28:15 BST inasprecali wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2020 14:58:32 +0100 > > Victor Ivanov wrote: > > My laptop's trackpad is an ETPS/2 Elantech on a ThinkPad Yoga > > 260 (ca. 2016). Every so often it freezes and refuses to respond > > to any and all input. The freeze usually

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