Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Davyd McColl
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 14:23, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:21 AM Davyd McColl wrote: > > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 12:34, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: > >> > >> I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. > >> Followi

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Davyd McColl
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 12:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. > Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. > > I had to reinstall some packages "by hand", e.g. > I had to reinstall util-linux quite early. > I had to reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-02-28 Thread Davyd McColl
On 2019/02/28 10:36:35, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I have a little server box on my LAN, which I use as a git server. I'm having a bit of trouble with it pro tem so I decided to switch the git sync source on this box. I removed the entry pointing to the local server in

Re: [gentoo-user] fresh gentoo installation reboot fs read only

2019-02-22 Thread Davyd McColl
cuted grub-mkconfig Thanks for your edvises in the chat and the mailinglist you're welcome -- this list has been well helpful to me (and I've learned a lot by following it). I'm quite a fan of the Gentoo userbase -- so helpful! Must reciprocate when possible (: best, Tamer On 19.02.19 05

Re: [gentoo-user] fresh gentoo installation reboot fs read only

2019-02-18 Thread Davyd McColl
On February 19, 2019 00:27:34 Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people, I made a fresh systemd installation based and generated the kernel with genkernel. I am not capable to login after reboot. It is a EFI installation based on systemd I saw in the internet similiar posts, and I am stuck and not

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with virtual desktops in Plasma (partialy solved)

2019-01-28 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 29, 2019 8:17:53 AM Martin Mokrý wrote: Dňa 27. 1. 2019 o 11:07 Martin Mokrý napísal(a): I tried to create new user, and the problem remained. So it is not problem in my user configuration. It´s problem with the Wayland. I tried to run Plasma normaly and it works! Now how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with virtual desktops in Plasma

2019-01-27 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 27, 2019 11:22:28 Martin Mokrý wrote: Dňa 27. 1. 2019 o 9:38 Davyd McColl napísal(a): On January 27, 2019 10:29:57 Martin Mokrý wrote: > > Dňa 27. 1. 2019 o 9:14 Davyd McColl napísal(a): >> >> On January 27, 2019 10:01:18 AM Martin Mokrý wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with virtual desktops in Plasma

2019-01-27 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 27, 2019 10:29:57 Martin Mokrý wrote: Dňa 27. 1. 2019 o 9:14 Davyd McColl napísal(a): On January 27, 2019 10:01:18 AM Martin Mokrý wrote: > Hello. > I have problem with number of virtual desktops in Plasma. > In my configuration file .config/kwinrc are declared 7

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with virtual desktops in Plasma

2019-01-27 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 27, 2019 10:01:18 AM Martin Mokrý wrote: Hello. I have problem with number of virtual desktops in Plasma. In my configuration file .config/kwinrc are declared 7 desktops with names. But when I try to look at GUI system settings of virtual desktops, there is only 1. When I change

Re: [gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis:

2019-01-24 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 24, 2019 21:22:25 Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 1:39 PM Alan Grimes wrote: Some F-tard at Gentoo world headquarters left the portage tree in an inconsistient state, shrugged, and walked away. Comments like this are very unwelcome, and your general attitude

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing file so DIE; Seriously?!?!?!?

2019-01-23 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 24, 2019 6:25:48 AM Alan Grimes wrote: 99.999% sure this is not my fault yet my build gets killed dead by it, no "Okay, let's see what other things we can build", just DIE!!! Have you tried --keep-going? ## Verifying ebuild manifests !!! A file listed in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Turning off nVidia HDMI audio

2019-01-18 Thread Davyd McColl
On 2019/01/18 13:10:45, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, About year ago I updated my nVidia graphics card. The sound stopped working and it turns out the new card makes it's onboard, HDMI, audio appear before the motherboard sound hence no sound via the 3.5mm jack. I usually have all of my device

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-12 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 12, 2019 12:00:43 PM Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On January 12, 2019 8:02:48 AM UTC, Andrew Udvare wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2019, at 02:12, Dale wrote: Just for giggles, I used VLC for a bit to play a video. It has a fair

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-11 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 12, 2019 7:00:19 AM Dale wrote: Howdy, As some know, I recently bought a video card.  While not the most modern thing, it is a lot faster than my old one.  I have a question tho.  When I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high resolution or a medium resolution, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-02 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 3, 2019 8:59:09 AM Dale wrote: Davyd McColl wrote: On January 3, 2019 12:29:34 AM Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2019 22:45, Dale wrote: I changed some USE flags.  I figure that is one thing that would make Firefox different from say the average user who

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-02 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 3, 2019 12:29:34 AM Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2019 22:45, Dale wrote: I changed some USE flags.  I figure that is one thing that would make Firefox different from say the average user who just downloads Firefox from the website. Is there a reason you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-01 Thread Davyd McColl
And fwiw, I haven't had this problem with building from source either. And just recently switched to clang too, though Firefox was plenty speedy before so I'm not really noticing the gains that were advertised. -d On January 1, 2019 9:32:38 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/01/2019 06:45,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: You removed Weboob package over political reasons? Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Davyd McColl
On December 24, 2018 6:30:01 PM Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 11:25 AM Davyd McColl wrote: wtf is this toxicity? Not enough hugs from mommy? This discussion has nothing to do with Gentoo. Please refrain from dragging it out - it was cross-posted to about half a dozen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: You removed Weboob package over political reasons? Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Davyd McColl
On December 24, 2018 5:17:57 PM vsnsdua...@memeware.net wrote: Debian is not ruled by the men who actually write the software, but instead women. Just like in all the anglo-american conquered world. We, the men who actually do work, are treated as the same worker-slaves everywhere.

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

2018-12-03 Thread Davyd McColl
On December 3, 2018 11:32:46 PM Jack wrote: On 2018.12.03 11:27, Pouru Lasse wrote: I've got a bunch of scratched disc-based games (PS2, Xbox 360) that I'd like to check for errors. Is there any program for Linux that does this? I found and tried dvdisaster, but it only works for CDs, not

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma sound devices

2018-11-23 Thread Davyd McColl
On November 23, 2018 8:12:34 PM Mick wrote: On Friday, 23 November 2018 17:44:00 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Over the last few days I've trimmed my plasma setup - to slightly below the minimum, by which I mean that sound notification has stopped working. I can hear streamed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

2018-11-06 Thread Davyd McColl
On 2018-11-06 10:54:38, Samuraiii wrote: On 5.11.2018 17:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/11/2018 06:43, Alan Grimes wrote: How did they make it so that 40% of ordinary zip files I try to open with konqueror fail CRC (but work perfectly from the command line) It used to have nice large

Re: [gentoo-user] Android studio emulator without PulseAudio

2018-10-30 Thread Davyd McColl
Would apulse not do the trick? -d On 2018-10-30 11:15:14, Pouru Lasse wrote: Is it possible to run the emulator included with Android Studio without having PulseAudio installed? When I try to launch the emulator, it instantly crashes because it can't find libpulse.so.0. My QEMU package is

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Davyd McColl
Apologies - green is nvidia and red is amd. No special code - that's just their primary marketing colors. -d On October 28, 2018 17:03:32 Philip Webb wrote: 181028 Davyd McColl wrote: 181028 Philip Webb : Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. Or perhaps go team red

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Davyd McColl
Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. Not saying the grass is 100% greener there (heh) but at least you can't be held hostage with binary blobs. And they're cheaper. /2c -d On

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tab-grouping in Firefox

2018-10-21 Thread Davyd McColl
On October 22, 2018 7:26:53 AM Philip Webb wrote: 181015 Philip Webb wrote: The big question is whether I can still group tabs, whether directly with FF or via some add-on (whatever they're now called). I've now been using FF for a few days & can report my experience. There doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] external storage

2018-10-02 Thread Davyd McColl
Most newer external storage devices come formatted with ntfs these days, so if you just want to plug-and-play, I suggest installing ntfs-3g. File managers like dolphin and desktop environments like KDE will notice the device and allow you to mount and use them. Be aware, though, that ntfs-3g,

Re: [gentoo-user] libGL symlinks vs `eselect opengl`

2018-08-29 Thread Davyd McColl
g 2018 20:33:00 +0200 Davyd McColl wrote: > > The other day I installed Celestia for the entertainment of my son, who > is > > delighted with anything stellar / planetary. Celestia wouldn't start up, > > and, long-story-short, I tracked down the issue to the symlinks: > &

[gentoo-user] libGL symlinks vs `eselect opengl`

2018-08-22 Thread Davyd McColl
The other day I installed Celestia for the entertainment of my son, who is delighted with anything stellar / planetary. Celestia wouldn't start up, and, long-story-short, I tracked down the issue to the symlinks: /usr/lib64/libGL.so /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 which ultimately point to

Re: [gentoo-user] Layout problem in latest KDE apps

2018-07-30 Thread Davyd McColl
work, I'm afraid you've hit the limit of my helpfulness, fwiw. -d On July 31, 2018 03:01:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 30 July 2018 17:11:16 BST Davyd McColl wrote: Those spaces look like where I have icons. Perhaps try changing theme? And change back? Perhaps it's just a theming issue

Re: [gentoo-user] Layout problem in latest KDE apps

2018-07-30 Thread Davyd McColl
Those spaces look like where I have icons. Perhaps try changing theme? And change back? Perhaps it's just a theming issue. I also had a bunch of KDE updates last night, but I'm not seeing any odd behavior, even after a log out / log back in again. Not sure what versions yours are, but my KDE is

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Davyd McColl
On July 29, 2018 19:43:06 Alan Grimes wrote: Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: James Stevenson wrote: I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the library

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE: wtf

2018-07-28 Thread Davyd McColl
Whilst I use KDE, I haven't been brave enough to go full unstable on my system - I try to avoid ~amd64. So my KDE install is stable. And if seems your problems are ~-related, as shown by your mentioned version of kwindowsystem (5.48), unlike mine @ 5.46 (and equery concurs). So my advice to

Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

2018-07-23 Thread Davyd McColl
. That's like blaming a racing engine when it explodes on shitty fuel. The culprit is (unfortunately) Nouveau, no matter how much I wish it weren't so. And I wish it a whole heap. -d On July 23, 2018 21:25:39 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:18 PM Davyd McColl wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

2018-07-23 Thread Davyd McColl
. Which is why I went back to KDE, after being a GNOME advocate. But to each their own - if GNOME 3 makes all 7 of their users happy, that's good enough. -d On July 23, 2018 21:22:05 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:37 PM Davyd McColl wrote: Dr Valdés, I'd really

Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

2018-07-23 Thread Davyd McColl
Definitely Nouveau. I tried (really hard) to stick to proper open-source all the way. But the culprit became abundantly clear when I switched to proprietary and never again had a lockup. Ever. And there are plenty of other users on the interwebs with the same sad story. -d On July 23, 2018

Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

2018-07-23 Thread Davyd McColl
Dr Valdés, I'd really like to know more. Are you using a compositor; what desktop environment? If I had had the positive experience you speak of, I would adopt Nouveau in a heartbeat. Nvidia has clearly shown their lack of interest in the Linux community by shunning higher console resolutions,

Re: [gentoo-user] Something's messed up my mimetypes

2018-07-23 Thread Davyd McColl
Or, if you've gone the whole hog (like me), right-click an ISO in dolphin, choose "properties" and on the general pane, click "file type options". Here you can add / remove handlers and prioritize which one you would like by default. IIRC, this deals with mime types, so won't just affect

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam now not working too...

2018-07-23 Thread Davyd McColl
Perhaps just back up ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps and reset steam, then close steam and copy back your steamapps? I've done this on Windows before, for similar reasons. Haven't needed to with steam on Linux - and it just updated about 1/2 an hour ago. -d On July 23, 2018 18:17:45 Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] is anyone using Nouveau graphics driver ?

2018-07-23 Thread Davyd McColl
For what it's worth, my experience with Nouveau has been dismal. I use KDE plasma, which runs everything via accelerated graphics and I would encounter system-wide lockups within 2 hours, often much closer to within 10 minutes. Nouveau has better terminal support though, supporting the higher

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1

2018-07-08 Thread Davyd McColl
I have exactly the same kernel (4.14.52-gentoo) and nvidia-drivers (396.24-r1) and I don't experience this issue (though games requiring Vulkan crash out sporadically - there's an ongoing issue on the nvidia forums for this, where apparently it's already been fixed in some ancient fork, and

Re[6]: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning

2018-07-06 Thread Davyd McColl
ul 6, 2018 at 7:57 AM Davyd McColl wrote: @Rich: if I understand the process correctly, the same commits are pushed to infra and GitHub by the CI bot? I'm pretty sure the repos are identical (well, aside from whatever order they're updated in). I ask because prior to the GitHub incident, I d

Re[4]: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning

2018-07-06 Thread Davyd McColl
they are). So git is a better fit for me, I think. -d -- Original Message -- From: "Rich Freeman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: 2018-07-06 13:47:11 Subject: Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:34 AM Davyd McColl

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning

2018-07-06 Thread Davyd McColl
plain curious. -d -- Original Message -- From: "Mick" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: 2018-07-06 10:01:20 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning On Friday, 6 July 2018 08:29:26 BST Martin Vaeth wrote: Davyd McColl wrote: > 1) `sync-de

[gentoo-user] Portage, git and shallow cloning

2018-07-05 Thread Davyd McColl
I'm not sure if there's a better place to put this, so please feel free to tell me I should report it elsewhere (: After the recent GitHub fun, I changed from using the GitHub git source to git://anongit.gentoo.org/repo/sync/gentoo.git, as suggested by some on this mailing list. I completely