Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed

Am Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:33:35 -0500 schrieb Jack : > Some months ago, I borked a laptop HDD by trying to move a partition > in a way that left both the old and new partitions invalid. (For my > sanity, I've forced the details out of my memory, but the old and > new locations overlapped, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mount Android phone on Gentoo - Transport endpoint is not connected

Am Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:30:16 -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > I'm trying to access my android phone via Linux. > Installed: emerge -avq sys-fs/mtpfs I haven't heard about mtpfs yet, but maybe you could try ssh and/or sshfs. Just install the app SSHelper on your phone and sshfs on your

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS remote printing drives me crazy

Am Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:59:03 + schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > I select them on having a wired network port. But what about the price? Well, I guess it depends on the use case. I guess if I would need it on business I would consider this, too. > Wifi is slower than wired. > I prefer not to have

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS remote printing drives me crazy

Am Thu, 13 Sep 2018 03:13:45 + schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > Or simply via a network cable. Most printers don't have an ethernet port anymore these days. > Wifi isn't the most reliable option. I didn't have a problem yet with printing or scanning over Wifi. Heiko

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS remote printing drives me crazy

Am Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:50:36 +0200 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > On one machine - called SERVER - I have a USB printer which works > just fine with CUPS. Just one maybe stupid question. Does this printer have Wifi support? Then it would be a lot easier. If you would disconnect this printer from

Re: [gentoo-user] Epson L380 scanner+ printer

Am Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:20:21 + schrieb Francisco Ares : > Can anyone tell me how to set up the scanner part of an Epson L380? It's most likely done this way (at least for printers which need the open source driver ESC/P-R): - Install sane. - In /etc/sane.d/dll.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

Am Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:45:46 -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman : > If they did move netfilter to userspace, then it would most likely be more insecure because a userspace process can be easier bypassed, killed, hacked or whatever. That's a lot harder with the kernel if not impossible.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SUSPECTED SPAM] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

Am Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:15:59 -0500 schrieb "Walter Dnes" : > Is there something besides iptables? It seems to be like > systemd/perl/python, continuously expanding its scope. And no, I'm > not looking for an "easy-peasy front-end gui" that'll probably pull > in 90% of

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 19:08:25 -0600 schrieb Dale : > I hope that makes sense because it can be rather complicated if it > doesn't click as to what I'm describing.  It does. > Based on all the threads, I'm sticking with the old profile until next > week or maybe two weeks. 

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 15:16:26 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > what is about emerge -e @world --keep-going > instead? That would do something like a --resume --skipfirst automatically with the difference that it first recalculates the dependency tree in case another package would depend on the

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 09:09:37 -0500 schrieb "Spackman, Chris" : > emerge --resume --skipfirst `emerge --resume --skipfirst` is necessary if you don't use --keep-going y, a package fails to build and you want to manually resume the actual emerge. Not using --skipfirst wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 06:55:59 -0600 schrieb Dale : > I hope I understood what you meant with all this.  I disturbed quite a > few electrons and stuff with this.  lol I think you understood what I meant even if I didn't think about doing some other stuff with emerge in between

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

Am Sun, 03 Dec 2017 09:53:21 + schrieb Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>: > On Sunday, 3 December 2017 04:15:25 GMT Heiko Baums wrote: > > > Like I said before. emerge always calculates the dependency tree, > > which is a lot faster in case of `emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge does want to tell me...what?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 06:29:29 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > I already did this... There are two things which emerge can tell you with this message. 1. It can't find >=sys-devel/gcc-6.4.0 but only older gcc versions. 2. You have installed a package that depend on sys-devel/gcc-5.4.0-r3 or

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge does want to tell me...what?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 05:43:39 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > Hi, > > I started emerge -e @world > > and it stops with this message: > > The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: > (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details) > # required by @selected > #

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 04:45:59 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > Suppose one would do an emerge @world...and then BOOOM! a powerfailyre > would stop the whole thing. In such a case you should consider buying a UPS. Can't you do this over night or a weekend? And how often do you have a power

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 04:26:55 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > Delaying would not solve the problem as it is... Btw., if you're using the testing tree (e.g. ~amd64) you should do a gcc upgrade instead of rebuilding gcc as the news item says. Unfortunately the news item explicitly mentions

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

Am Sun, 3 Dec 2017 04:26:55 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > If the compilation will fail at a certain point (and it will fail, > since this is a complete new thing) -- would it be possible to resume > even some tweaks, hacks and patches (even certain recompilations) > would be needed in between?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

Am Sat, 2 Dec 2017 18:33:09 -0500 schrieb Michael Orlitzky : > You're seeing a lot of reports because there is a news item telling > people to switch to the new profile and run "emerge -e @world". Does this mean that "emerge -e @world" should be run or that the news item is

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

Am Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:48:57 +0200 schrieb Raffaele Belardi : > I might give Xfce a try. I did not find any definitive resource on the > web stating that LXDE is dead. There are some recent commits on the > sourceforge repo so it looks still alive (although not kickin').

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

Am Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:28:40 -0400 schrieb Mike Gilbert : > I would advise against this INSTALL_MASK setting. It is quite likely > to break things (like sys-fs/udev). No, it's not. I'd consider it a bug if systemd is not installed and another package that doesn't depend on

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

Am Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:55:22 +0200 schrieb Raffaele Belardi : > 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager You don't need to uninstall networkmanager except you want to uninstall it for some other reasons. It doesn't need gnome or systemd. > 5. emerge -N lxde-meta I'd prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] systemD?

Am Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:27:12 +0100 schrieb Mick : > BTW, if you run ps axf and come across '/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd > --daemon' don't panic. RHL advocates of monolithic stack for Linux > haven't taken over your machine, but that's how udev is packaged > these days

Re: [gentoo-user] Easiest way to block domains?

Am Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:38:42 -0400 schrieb "Walter Dnes" : > I'm running a Core2-duo desktop from 2008 with 3 gigs of ram. I > want to run it into the ground, not throw it away while it's still > functional. With Gentoo optimization, pluse using ICEWM, it's > generally

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel iwlwifi WiFi driver

Am Sat, 15 Jul 2017 11:20:52 +0200 schrieb Radoje Stojisic : > I've installed the Genkernel. Does Genkernel enables the iwlwifi > driver automatically? Or do I need the modify the kernel on my own? You can check if the firmware is included in the kernel config: grep

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.13.0 segmentation fault in settings dialog (Bug 621704)

Am 20.06.2017 um 13:35 schrieb Alexey Eschenko: > Hi. > > After writing to Gentoo Bugtracker (621704) I received recommendation to > use mailing list. > > What information do I need to provide? > > P.S. I have this problem on two of my Gentoo machines (laptop and desktop). > > P.P.S. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] disaster recovery - planning

Am 21.03.2017 um 00:15 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > Besides standard "data" backup, if I was to plan for a disaster > recovery; what to include in a backup system if I was to rebuild a new box? > > - /etc > - /var/lib/portage/world > - /usr/src/linux/.config > - /var/spool/fax/ (if needed) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Has someone managed to compile nvidia-drivers against a 4.10.*-Linux-kernel?

Am 18.03.2017 um 13:13 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > if someone has managed to compile the nividia-drivers > against one of the linux-4.10.* kernels I would > be glad fpr the information what version are compatible > with each other... :) It compiled with kernel 4.10.1 on my desktop but failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

her time nor energy to answer to this. You definitely have not understood the original philosophy of OpenSource and the difference between OpenSource and ClosedSource. It's not only about the open source code. There's a lot more about that. But like I said... No time and no energy. And the wall I wo

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

Am 21.12.2016 um 15:28 schrieb Rich Freeman: > udev and systemd operate based on text configuration files that are > declarative in nature. Seldom laughed as much. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

h, nobody is required to engage in > debates/arguments/etc here, or even read your posts. People choose to > participate in list discussions just as they choose what software they > want to maintain. There they are again: The apples and the oranges. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

Am 20.12.2016 um 19:28 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Now that you're running out of arguments... Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

they only need to be written once. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

can maintain openrc on any distro. Maybe they can't put it in > the official repository, that would be up to the people who control > those repositories. Oh! Now we're getting a little bit closer? Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

eudev!!! That's also true but not the only problem with systemd. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

ren't a Poettering fanboy? > People who prefer systemd will maintain > it, and people who prefer openrc will maintain that, and we can all be > happy. That's true for Gentoo, Slackware, Devuan, and maybe still Debian, but not for the other Distros like Ubuntu and its derivatives, Arch Linux, Redhat, Fedora etc. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

y working POSIX system. Btw., yes, systems without systemd boot a lot faster than systems with systemd. Same experience made someone else here on the mailing list. I forgot who it was. So, yes, I know exactly what I'm talking about. And, yes, systemd is broken by design and just a PITA. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

ev rules to get fixed eth<0,10> names after every boot. No systemd and no "predictable" names necessary. Nevertheless I'm still wondering what's so predictable at those incomprehensible, cryptic device names anyway. And I don't want to know that. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

an alternative > logger. Just twist it as you need it. > Why? Because you demand so? Because the Poettering fanboys and you always say so. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

Am 19.12.2016 um 10:37 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > No you don't. You know what I did or did not? Interesting! Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

Am 18.12.2016 um 05:44 schrieb Andrej Rode: > And why are you compiling your software on a low-power embedded > platform? I don't and I never said that. But compiling is more power consuming and takes quite a while, not only on embedded systems. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

Am 18.12.2016 um 00:17 schrieb Heiko Baums: > Btw., I hope that the Devuan people once will make a release for the Pi, > too. They already did. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

d than such a systemd service file, particularly you can separate the configuration to another file while you need to copy the whole service file to another place in which it won't be updated by the package manager if a new version would be released. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

f your computer is running 24/7 anyway. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

oof it. That's all. Btw., I've never seen that Poettering and his fanboys have proven anything they claim so far. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

st - almost every distro. As you can see, even the Poettering fanboys here refuse to explain how this can be done. Obviously they don't admit that they are proven wrong by this. Btw., I hope that the Devuan people once will make a release for the Pi, too. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

nd them for you. No he isn't offering a solution. He claims that nobody is forcing me to using systemd. Well, Gentoo isn't indeed, but the other distros are. I just asked him for a solution. I couldn't find one so far. But I guess you are also one of those Poettering fanboys when I read your ar

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

ng new. > Complaining on a mailing list isn't going to motivate somebody to help you. Now I'm complaining? Just twist my words so that it fits to your needs. There's still the question: How do I get rid of systemd on the mentioned distros? You said it is possible. Maybe I will get an answer someday. Honestly, I believe not. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

re for those outdated distro versions are even more outdated than the software for the latest releases. > I never said it was easy. Should be easy. Heiko Baums

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

my Raspberry Pi? You said no one is forcing me to use this systemd crap. So tell me how I get a full refund for systemd and how to switch to something usable. You said it's possible and easily done and I'm not forced to using it. So show me. A nice little howto for the distros I mentioned would

Re: [gentoo-user] imagemagick / graphicsmagick collision

Am 12.06.2016 um 12:05 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > My main desktop has been giving me these stupid error for a week now. > ANd I can't figure out what portage wants to do or how to stop it (other > than masking graphics magick): > > [blocks B ] media-gfx/graphicsmagick[imagemagick] >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] good alternative to Firefox extension "Ghostery"

Am 27.02.2016 um 07:14 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > with one of the latest updates the Firefox plugin/extension > "Ghostery", which blocks trackers mutated: > Before all setting were handled local, now everything can only > be done by creating an account at https://www.ghostery.com. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] The X11-trap: Once back on textconsole...and no one comes back ever...

Am 15.01.2016 um 13:27 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > This has worked for years and didn't changed anything from > which I think it could be related. > > How can I fix this? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564096

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox not displaying USB devices

Am 26.11.2015 um 21:14 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > I see. OK > clinic-amd ssh # modprobe vboxpci > clinic-amd ssh # lsmod | grep vboxpci > vboxpci11672 0 > vboxdrv 287977 4 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci > > Do I need to log OUT/IN as user? > Restarting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox not displaying USB devices

Am 26.11.2015 um 21:44 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > Which file is it? > > running lsusb as users show the printer is recognized: > Brother Industries > > $ lsusb > Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox not displaying USB devices

Am 26.11.2015 um 21:00 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > There is no need to add this module, it is already loaded: > > find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name '*.ko' > /lib/modules/3.10.7-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/hwmon/it87.ko > /lib/modules/3.10.7-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/hwmon/hwmon-vid.ko >

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox not displaying USB devices

Am 26.11.2015 um 19:23 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > > What else should I checked for? When the Windows 7 guest is running, click in the menu bar of Virtualbox guest window onto "Devices -> USB". Then check the USB device you want to use within the Windows 7 guest.

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox not displaying USB devices

Am 26.11.2015 um 20:14 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > > Yes, I think they are loaded. > > cat /etc/conf.d/modules > ... > modules="vboxdrv vboxnetflt vboxnetadp" Try adding vboxpci.

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox not displaying USB devices

Am 26.11.2015 um 20:55 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > I'll try adding to /etc/conf.d/modules > modules="vboxdrv vboxnetflt vboxnetadp vboxpci" > > But how to load the module without restarting the box? Run as root: modprobe vboxpci To check if it's already loaded run: lsmod | grep vboxpci

Re: [gentoo-user] cx23885 (DVBSky 950) under Gentoo 4.0.5 (SOLVED)

Am 28.10.2015 um 14:19 schrieb Tamer Higazi: > Thank you still for your support. Do you have any idea to get the > "scan-s2" application compiled, that I am capable to scan here in > Germany DVB-S2 channels and to have as result the "channels.conf" ?! Unfortunately I don't. I have a DVB-C

Re: [gentoo-user] cx23885 (DVBSky 950) under Gentoo 4.0.5

Am 26.10.2015 um 23:17 schrieb Tamer Higazi: > I do have a DVBSky S950 (PCI Express) in my gentoo system. > The poducer of this board told me that the kernel module is: cx23885 > which I don't find. Can somebody help me which modules to load ?! > > Where do I find those when I compile the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] cx23885 (DVBSky 950) under Gentoo 4.0.5

Am 27.10.2015 um 00:03 schrieb Mick: > I have neither cards, but can see there are DVBSky 950 drivers, firmware and > kernel patches here: > > http://www.dvbsky.net/Support_linux.html > > How to here: > > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVBSky I know those websites, and this driver didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] cx23885 (DVBSky 950) under Gentoo 4.0.5 (SOLVED)

Am 27.10.2015 um 00:34 schrieb Tamer Higazi: > Hi people! > > I have upgraded to the latest kernel 4.2.0 and selected all PCI boards > As option to choose which frontent, I selected automatic selection. > > I restarted now and it all runs the way I want. > > I have previously copied the

Re: [gentoo-user] Porblems with nvidia-settings vs. nvidia-drivers: Up-/downgrade race condition

Am 17.10.2015 um 13:07 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > previously I had emerged nvidia-settings seperately. This leads to an > problem with a recent update, because the nvidia-settings were > pulling in the old version of the nvidia-drivers and the update wants > the new version of the drivers. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Porblems with nvidia-settings vs. nvidia-drivers: Up-/downgrade race condition

Am 17.10.2015 um 18:46 schrieb netfab: > Le 17/10/15 à 18:29, Heiko Baums a tapoté : >> The dependency in those ebuilds need to be changed to have >> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers being installed with USE="tools" instead >> of pulling in media-video/nvidia-settings.

Re: [gentoo-user] Porblems with nvidia-settings vs. nvidia-drivers: Up-/downgrade race condition

Am 17.10.2015 um 18:22 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Update: I see at least the latest nvidia-drivers (358.09) includes > nvidia-settings. If that driver supports your hardware, you can unmerge > nvidia-settings, put nvidia-drivers back in world and the whole problem > goes away Unfortunately it

Re: [gentoo-user] Porblems with nvidia-settings vs. nvidia-drivers: Up-/downgrade race condition

Am 17.10.2015 um 16:59 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > The equery command found three more of those: > app-admin/conky-1.9.0-r3 (nvidia ? media-video/nvidia-settings) > sci-libs/vtk-6.1.0-r1 (video_cards_nvidia ? media-video/nvidia-settings) > sys-apps/hwloc-1.10.0-r2 (gl ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Porblems with nvidia-settings vs. nvidia-drivers: Up-/downgrade race condition

Am 17.10.2015 um 18:37 schrieb Heiko Baums: > Am 17.10.2015 um 16:59 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: >> The equery command found three more of those: >> app-admin/conky-1.9.0-r3 (nvidia ? media-video/nvidia-settings) >> sci-libs/vtk-6.1.0-r1 (video_cards_nvidia ? media-video/nv

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce Logout/Shutdown/Suspend

Am 14.09.2015 um 21:00 schrieb siefke_lis...@web.de: > siefke ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/90xsession > XSESSION="startxfce4 --with-ck-launch" And try to change this to: XSESSION=Xfce4 ck-launch-session was removed a long time ago and doesn't work anymore.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce Logout/Shutdown/Suspend

Am 14.09.2015 um 20:43 schrieb siefke_lis...@web.de: > gentoomobile conf.d # cat /etc/X11/Sessions/Xfce4 > ck-launch-session startxfce4 That's the problem. You need to remove ck-launch-session.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play audio CD with mplayer?

Am 12.09.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Walter Dnes: > I don't know why this is so difficult, because mplayer can handle just > about anything. Google searches turned up 2 commandline approaches, > neither of which work on my system. I want to play track 12 on an audio > CD, but for now I'll settle for

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

Am 26.08.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Walter Dnes: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

Am 18.08.2015 um 04:04 schrieb walt: I see the keyboard problem in mate and xfce4 (the only ones I use now). I've wondered about the same things but I don't know how to debug those possible scenarios. And which terminal emulator are you using? At the moment I'm waiting for my new keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

Am 16.08.2015 um 18:45 schrieb walt: I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: after running some command from a bash prompt (haven't tried zsh yet) the keyboard stops working. Almost like somebody unplugged the keyboard from its usb port (except that the LED on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 08.08.2015 um 19:05 schrieb walt: I just noticed that net-misc/netifrc installs two systemd service files, which puzzled me. Is this in preparation for virtualizing openrc? This is to provide systemd users with the corresponding service files like OpenRC users get the necessary init

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 08.08.2015 um 21:30 schrieb Rich Freeman: This was the subject of extensive discussion and a council decision. The rationale for not configuring the installing of small files via a USE flag is that it would greatly increase the number of packages that would depend on that flag, and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 08.08.2015 um 00:28 schrieb Rich Freeman: Udev installs into such a path, and currently does not depend on systemd (in fact, they block each other). They block each other because udev is part of systemd. So if you install systemd you already have udev and don't need the separate udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 07.08.2015 um 00:10 schrieb Rich Freeman: Like I said - if you want to go this route be prepared to tweak half your system to keep it working. Why would I need to tweak half my system? That sounds exactly like those Poetterix fanboys, particularly when they forced systemd on every user of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 07.08.2015 um 21:46 schrieb Heiko Baums: That has nothing to do with eudev or anything else. So if you don't want to have a systemd-free system Typo: Should obviously be without the don't.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 06.08.2015 um 22:01 schrieb Rich Freeman: You're defining really systemd-free in the same sense that the FSF defines a really free distro (they think Debian FOSS-only isn't good enough). Sticking with the base profile should get you an experience about the same as what you'd have gotten 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 06.08.2015 um 18:34 schrieb James: Or, We could also point them to existing gentoo derivatives for a test-drive:: pentoo, lilblue, sabayon, calculate etc etc first, if we are not going to roll more frequent live* images? That's not a good idea, at least not regarding Sabayon. They use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 06.08.2015 um 18:59 schrieb Jc García: OpenRC is there on the stage3, systemd isn't, if you don't think about systemd you get an OpenRC installation, I think it would confuse more people to talk about choosing init system(especially noobs) right at the beginning of the handbook. To get a

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?,

Am 06.08.2015 um 04:23 schrieb Felix Miata: After reading https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Media#Minimal_installation_CD which does not link to it until after its first mention I spent considerable time on http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/ trying to find one. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Am 16.07.2015 um 22:05 schrieb James: I spent days during early kernel upgrades getting grub2 happy. You only need to run `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg` after each kernel update. I'm using grub2 not for such a long time, but I made some kernel upgrades since I switched from grub-legacy

Re: [gentoo-user] splashutils users: how often does fbsplashd crash for you?

Am 31.05.2015 um 12:01 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: how often does fbsplashd crash for you? For me not once since it exists. fbsplashd.stati[599]: segfault at 7f24ceb9b000 ip 0050a6f0 sp 7f24ce35fd08 error 6 in fbsplashctl Are you sure that there's no other problem with your

Re: [gentoo-user] having problems getting burned cds to work

Am 26.05.2015 um 09:04 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: OK, I have a bit more info, I managed to burn the CD on another box and when I tried to mount it using this drive, it gave me in the logs May 26 02:41:59 ccs.covici.com kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 942680 May 26

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: having problems getting burned cds to work

Am 26.05.2015 um 15:53 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Hmmm, well I tried this and it was successful, so I wonder what is going on with cdrecorder? So you probably have found a bug in cdrecord. Have you tried to downgrade cdrtools to check if it works with previous, preferentially stable

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor what application installs

Am 25.05.2015 um 19:59 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everyone. I am gonna install MATLAB on my box. Is there any way to monitor what it installs on my machine? Thanks. Best way is to use an ebuild and install it with emerge. Then you can check what's installed with: equery files --tree

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

Am 24.05.2015 um 16:14 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) Many years ago I also looked

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

Am 24.05.2015 um 12:32 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Torrent client? rtorrent is quite good.

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

Am 21.04.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Mike Gilbert: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am 21.04.2015 um 01:27 schrieb Mike Gilbert: Better yet, upgrade to grub:2 already. Why? As long as grub legacy is working there's no need to upgrade. I'm still running

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

Am 21.04.2015 um 03:14 schrieb Joseph: I don't think grub is asking for it. I know it does, because grub-0.97 is 32 bit only software, and the package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r14 compiles grub from the sources with dynamic linking. So it needs 32 bit dependencies (packages with USE=abi_x86_32) incl.

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

Am 21.04.2015 um 03:30 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: I was looking to my world update and I saw that none of my emul-linux packages will be removed and there are some packages which depend on them such as nvidia-drivers and the C compiler! So any reason to do anything, or just let portage

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup wont use aes-xts:plain64

Am 21.04.2015 um 11:21 schrieb Marko Weber | 8000: Finally! ... i got it working! cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain -h sha256 -y -s 256 luksFormat /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-media2 But on writing a testfile of 4G with i get 22,9 Mb/sec. Is there a cipher/hash/keysize which alloows me a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

Am 21.04.2015 um 00:22 schrieb Joseph: I'm trying to update one of my amd64 (I use XFCE) and there are lot of package that require use flag: abi_x86_32 Which package is forcing new: abi_x86_32 flag? sys-boot/grub-0.97-r14 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Replace sys-boot/grub-0.97-r14 by

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

Am 21.04.2015 um 01:27 schrieb Mike Gilbert: Better yet, upgrade to grub:2 already. Why? As long as grub legacy is working there's no need to upgrade. I'm still running grub legacy, too.

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup wont use aes-xts:plain64

Am 20.04.2015 um 15:43 schrieb Marko Weber | 8000: # cryptsetup -c aes-xts:plain64 -y -s 512 luksFormat /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-media2 As I've already mentioned in my first answer, there is a typo in this command. Well, I actually didn't mention that it's a typo, but I gave you the correct

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup wont use aes-xts:plain64

Am 18.04.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Marko Weber | 8000: i try to crypt a partition with cryptsetup. Yes, in Kernel i had all need things i think. No, you haven't. You need to make those changes: CONFIG_CRYPTO_XTS=m CONFIG_CRYPTO_XTS=y CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_X86_64=m CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_X86_64=y

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup wont use aes-xts:plain64

Am 18.04.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Marko Weber | 8000: i try to crypt a partition with cryptsetup. Yes, in Kernel i had all need things i think. Depending on the password hash you're using (parameter -h) you need to make the appropriate changes here, too: CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1=m

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup wont use aes-xts:plain64

Am 18.04.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Ralf: No. Could you please explain why you think so? Even if your root partition is encrypted, your ramdisk could load the modules. Are you sure about that? Are you sure that the necessary modules are definitely put into the initrd and that the kernel will be

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