Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 Michael wrote: > On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote: > > What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? > > > > I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical > > login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK Graphical Problems

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 22:03:21 + z...@posteo.us wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 10:01:43AM +0100, jdm wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:14:40 +0100 > > jdm wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > At the weekend I updated my system and after reboo

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK Graphical Problems

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:14:40 +0100 jdm wrote: > Hi, > > At the weekend I updated my system and after reboot some of my apps > have lots of black black squares/rectangles all over the place, > covering all of the app window and making email difficult to write. > >

[gentoo-user] GTK Graphical Problems

Hi, At the weekend I updated my system and after reboot some of my apps have lots of black black squares/rectangles all over the place, covering all of the app window and making email difficult to write. Initially I thought this was a Wayland problem as using Wayfire but switched to X11 desktop

[gentoo-user] Kernel Time

Hi, I have read on distrowatch that Gentoo has released some Kernel related packages. So having a look round I can see gentoo-kernel gentoo-kernel-bin What are the differences between them? I assume that using these you no longer need to compile your kernel (if you don't want to)? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] custom mount fstab

On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:33:42 +0200 Tamer Higazi wrote: > Thanks Michael! > > I'll give it a try. > > > best, Tamer > > Am 3 Jul 2020 um 15:46 schrieb Michael: > > On Friday, 3 July 2020 14:33:52 BST Tamer Higazi wrote: > >> Hi people, > >> > >> I had a problem with docker on gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone willing to share a kernel .config file?

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:39:35 -0400 Jack wrote: > On 2020.06.18 17:45, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 CPU sitting in a Gigabyte X470 > > Aurus Ultra Gaming motherboard with 64GB of RAM and an nVidia > > graphics card. For some reason I've never been happy with

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:16:23 -0500 Dale wrote: > Jack wrote: > > sys-libs/gpm perhaps? > > That should be the one.  I have that installed and I use it on those > rare occasions when the GUI doesn't come up and I need to edit a > config file by pasting from a error to a file.  It comes in handy

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 12:05:13 -0400 Jack wrote: > sys-libs/gpm perhaps? > > On 6/6/20 12:01 PM, jdm wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have had to use the Gentoo Minimal Installation Cd to rescue my > > system due something going wrong with UEFI boot crazyness. Which is

[gentoo-user] Live CD

Hello, I have had to use the Gentoo Minimal Installation Cd to rescue my system due something going wrong with UEFI boot crazyness. Which is resolved now. What I have noticed is that you can use a mouse and copy/paste at the command prompt in what looks like framebuffer/tty session or whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

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 compiling EFIFB > > (no previous

[gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

Hi, I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by compiling EFIFB (no previous FB compiled in) the card has been working fine for 2 days booting normally. The machine then started not to boot, not even to get to BIOS (so you

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Tinderboxes?

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:20:38 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:17:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > >"BOINC is an open-source software platform for computing using > > >volunteered > > >resources." > > > > Considering the current situation, I switched my systems to > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Panel Mouse Problem

n two rows I get the > described effect: Hitting any of the four edges won't show the panel > but change the desktop, the mouse jumps to the opposite side. > > Am Sa., 22. Feb. 2020 um 13:10 Uhr schrieb jdm : > > > Hi, > > > > For the last three versions of plasma in

[gentoo-user] KDE Panel Mouse Problem

Hi, For the last three versions of plasma including latest 5.18 I am having a problem with panels. If I put autohide on and place the mouse on edge of the screen to get the panel to show my mouse (pointer) jumps to another part of the screen. It jumps out of the panel which hides again. This has

Re: [gentoo-user] XDM Start Faster

On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 22:27:40 + jdm wrote: > Hi, > > Over the last couple of weeks my wifi connection net.wlp5s0 doesn't > see to want to connect at boot up (It used to be very fast but now > taking 1min +). Therefore XDM (login screen slim) takes a long time > to start

[gentoo-user] XDM Start Faster

Hi, Over the last couple of weeks my wifi connection net.wlp5s0 doesn't see to want to connect at boot up (It used to be very fast but now taking 1min +). Therefore XDM (login screen slim) takes a long time to start up. And LXD daemon doesn't start at all. I have my rc.conf set to

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 06:09:47 +0100 jdm wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:59:23 +1000 > Adam Carter wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:28 AM jdm wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > For the last 2 months I have been getting a problem where

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:59:23 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:28 AM jdm wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > For the last 2 months I have been getting a problem where my machine > > locks and after 2 seconds goes to a black screen. The machine is > &g

[gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

Hi, For the last 2 months I have been getting a problem where my machine locks and after 2 seconds goes to a black screen. The machine is then unusable, ctrl-alt-delete F1 or sys rescue keys do not work and you cannot remote login. I initially thought this was a problem with lxd but then

Re: [gentoo-user] virt-manager qemu problem

On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 23:39:42 + Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 17 November 2018 10:55:21 GMT jdm wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to run virt-manager and or qemu with 3d acceleration > > using virtio-gpu options. > > > > When I start the vi

[gentoo-user] virt-manager qemu problem

Hi, I am trying to run virt-manager and or qemu with 3d acceleration using virtio-gpu options. When I start the virtual machine in virt-manager all I get is a screen of static (complete screen corruption of lines and blocks) I also get the same problem when trying to start from CLI with the

Re: [gentoo-user] claws-mail HTML

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 20:10:25 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:25:55 +0000, jdm wrote: > > > Does anyone know if claws-mail can read HTML? > > > > According to wiki enabling dillo use flag should work but this is no > > longer available. > >

[gentoo-user] claws-mail HTML

Hi All, Does anyone know if claws-mail can read HTML? According to wiki enabling dillo use flag should work but this is no longer available. Any suggestions. I'm sure I used to be able to read HTML emails. Thanks John

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

On Fri, 25 May 2018 05:29:28 + john wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2018 18:31:35 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:21 PM john wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 May 2018 23:20:36 +0100 > > > Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU KMS Problems

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:29:39 +0100 jdm <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:12:49 -0400 > P Levine <plevine...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM, jdm <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > > Any thouhgts much

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU KMS Problems

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:12:49 -0400 P Levine <plevine...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM, jdm <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > Any thouhgts much appreciated. > > I tried helping to diagnose a similar problem for a user on Reddit > recently,

[gentoo-user] AMDGPU KMS Problems

Hi All, A few months ago I bought a AMD RX 480 GPU and followed the Gentoo amdgpu guide and everything ran just fine with excellent graphics performance. At the weekend I upgraded my PC from a AMD 970 chipset to a x370 chipset (fx8300 to ryzen 1700x). I re-installed Gentoo but the first time I

[gentoo-user] AMDGPU

Hi, Just followed the amdgpu wiki guide to get my new graphics card up and running. Excellent wiki guide and had no issues. Now running with shiny graphics and throwing all that Steam has to offer at it. Many Thanks to the wiki authors. Will we always have to include binary blobs into the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

On Sunday 03 November 2013 17:10:14 Marc Joliet wrote: Am Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:42:17 + schrieb Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +, jdm wrote: I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

On Saturday 02 November 2013 16:31:21 Mick wrote: On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 00:02:26 jdm wrote: Hello, I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions? They run fine in Firefox. John D Maunder Are they flash or HTML 5 videos? Are your plugins configured as they should

[gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

Hello, I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions? They run fine in Firefox. John D Maunder

[gentoo-user] STEAM

Big thanks to the guys and girls who got the STEAM overlay up and running. Its awesome. PS Along with Gentoo of course. Getting darn all done in the way of work though! Steam on Linux. Alas I can see the end of my dual booting days. Regards John

[gentoo-user] lxc

Hello, I have recently been trying lxc and after a recent upgrade I get the following message: lxc-execute: No such file or directory - failed to create symlink for kmsg lxc-execute: failed to setup kmsg for 'jack' lxc-execute: failed to setup the container lxc-execute: invalid sequence

[gentoo-user] Hard drive change

I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on lvm. Is this the right approach or would you recommend another method? John D Maunder.

[gentoo-user] uefi gpt grub2

Over the last few days I have tried to set up using uefi gpt and grub2. After many hours of frustration I have gone back to grub legacy and mbr. I followed the Gentoo wiki and Arch wiki and several other sources of which I failed miserably. Is this technology fairly unreliable? I booted from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote : On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:08:18 +, j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and xscreensaver

Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues where left off. I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and xscreensaver

Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues where left off. I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but

[gentoo-user] Keyboard

Fellow Gentoers, I have just bought a nice and shiny new gaming keyboard Solid Year Keysonic KSK-6001 UELX The keyboard works at BIOS, grub and in Windows. But is totally unresponsive using Linux apart from Backspace(lol) After searching the net I found the issue was due to anti-ghosting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: move to xfce and forget kde and gnome

Lazlo my use flags for keeping kde and gnome away are -kde -gnome -qt4 I also have eselect profile set 1 You may have to use /etc/portage/package.use to get guis to some packages That may need kde or gnome Jdm Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

Survey answer Desktop and laptop gentoo. Both for personal use. Desktop hosts webserver for pictures and stuff (keeps the mrs happy) inc samba, kvm, etc Been using for 4 years and still haven't got a clue but mailing list has been great for tips and advice and sanity. Dual boot with windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kde-meta

Other packages emerge fine. Have emerge sync and update world plus emerge mplayer which all ok. Seen on forum to select desktop profile to get round this but have not tried yet. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From: Francesco Talamona

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kde-meta

Have run python-updater and python profile is set to 2.7. Looking at the forum a user had had a similer issue and got round this by changing profile to desktop. I always use base. When I get home I will try this and and kde profile. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original

[gentoo-user] Upgrade query

A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. I was going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages with march native Firstly would you reccommend cloning and if so what is best

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query

Thanks. Rsync sounds like a good option as I can boot pc with old hard disks installed. I assume that rsync works ok with ntfs? Jdm Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:18:53 To: gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce (window manager)

Sometimes found re emerge xfce packages have helped with problems in particular xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfdesktop xfwm4 Jdm --Original Message-- From: András Csányi To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] xfce (window manager) Sent: 20 Jul 2011 09:49 Dear All, I would like

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

Hmmm tried system rescue and startx works just fine. Copied kernel config from system rescue to guest and tried genkernel from live cd. Still the same error. Odd on, will try windows aaaghHh. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From: Albert Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

No unfortunately --Original Message-- From: Matthew Finkel To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm Sent: 16 Jul 2011 17:51 On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote: I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64 box. Everything is running well.

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Thunderbugs

There real name is thripids. And are a darn nuissance. They seemingly have stopped moving after being fried by watching youtube clips of the real Thunderbugs. Flashplayer actually has got some use after all. --Original Message-- From: Pandu Poluan Sender: Pandu Poluan To: Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues

Thanks Rudmer, This works well. Thanks for your help. I was under the impression that these rules were supplied but obviously not. Must have got them from somewhere else before but can't remember where. Many thanks Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From:

Re: [gentoo-user] Fbsplash

2011 00:02 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I wonder what 3.0 will be like Newer... ;-) Newer problems right? :-P Dale :-) :-) JDM

[gentoo-user] Claws-mail

After upgrading some x11 libraries yesterday my claws-mail broke with segmentation fault. Upgrading to latest testing version fixed the issue. Believe libxcb is the culprit here. Should this be reported as a bug or will the devs be aware? JDM

Re: [gentoo-user] Claws-mail

Thanks Neil. The startup notification problem makes sense as when I tried awesome that also broke claws-mail. JDM -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:11:44 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject

[gentoo-user] Phrases

Neil, Where do you get all those funky expressions from at the end of your emails? Is there a Genapp ebuild? JDM

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

Is there a Gentoo facebook site? Yeap, the turtle made me chuckle as well. JDM -Original Message- From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:59:36 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases JDM wrote: Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

Thanks Dale JDM -Original Message- From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:19:41 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases JDM wrote: Is there a Gentoo facebook site? Yeap, the turtle made me chuckle

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

yeah its not really the way to go but nevermind. Probably won't use it anyway. A little too complicated for my needs. Looking for something a bit simpler? JDM -Original Message- From: Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:03:01 To: gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

happy to be able to use it again on my desktop. Long life to Gentoo, indeed!!! JDM

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

15:30:12 john wrote: Gents [...] It may have escaped your attention, but we here aren't all gents. Just thought I'd mention it. -- Rgds Peter JDM

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

is not set # CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_KONE is not set # CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_KONEPLUS is not set # CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_KOVAPLUS is not set # CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_PYRA is not set JDM

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys

I used to get this when using ati-drivers (radeon). This has not happened for a good year though. Sysreq not responsive but you could ssh into machine. Ssh maybe worth a try. If you do not have radeon then the advise is close to meaningless. JDM -Original Message- From: Dale rdalek1

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for N WLAN adapter, PCI or PCIe

Tp-Link TL-WN951N Works well for me on both linux and windows. Linux drivers (atheros ath9k) are available in kernel sources. Found this very reliable and quite cheap on amazon JDM -Original Message- From: Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:07:20 To: gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Init

Thanks Dale. Will try tonight when I get home. After using Gentoo for a number of years you get used to doing things a certain. These mailing lists really help expand knowledge. Regards JDM -Original Message- From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:22:27 To: gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

use flags? Sent: 23 May 2011 10:10 On Friday 20 May 2011 09:17:48 JDM wrote: Try eselect profile list which should list available profiles including a gnome. You will need symlinks in USE flags in make.conf to get eselect to work and reemerged world. What do you mean? Symlinks in USE flags

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

to not having a suitable profile. I would like to select a different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current profile. JDM

[gentoo-user] Framebuffer

Genthinktank, How can you determine all the available frambuffer resolutions and colour depths on a particular host for vesafb. I normally set this through trial and error but there must be a command to determine these? JDM

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? JDM -Original Message- From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 07:58:34 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

Thnx, have followed advice. I am impressed. JDM -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:26 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!) On Mon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

will over new fans. Its oodles better than any of its contemicropories. JDM -Original Message- From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 08:46:32 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

He --Original Message-- From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org ReplyTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error Sent: 9 May 2011 11:36 Kfir Lavi writes: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: