Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-27 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, May 25, 2021, at 2:02 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:43:00 BST antlists wrote: > > On 25/05/2021 16:23, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > 4. I have the existing ESP mounted on /boot. It belongs to Windows and > > > cannot be enlarged beyond 100MB. > > > > I don't know

[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware supporting PCIe bifurcation

2021-05-10 Thread Sid Spry
I can't see an easy way to find this. If you buy a board and look in the manual sometimes it is there. Searching turns up a few boards that have the settings exposed but aren't really what I'd want. Ideally, small AMD board instead of a full sized Intel tower board. Is anyone aware of a complete

[gentoo-user] SMART Stats and nvme-cli on NVMe in USB Enclosure

2021-05-09 Thread Sid Spry
Hi. Smartmontools wiki has a list of supported VID:PID. https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices My device (0x152d:0x0580) is not on it but it is JMicron and close to some of the present VID:PIDs (they are usually allocated sequentially). Is there any hope? If my device will not

Re: [gentoo-user] File transfer via USB?

2021-04-22 Thread Sid Spry
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, at 9:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to figure out a convenient way to transfer files between a > Linux machine (running Gentoo) and a Windows 10 machine (which has no > internet access). IP connection between the machines is not allowed. > > Yes, I can shuffle a

Re: [gentoo-user] best CAD app for industrial machining/molding?

2021-04-18 Thread Sid Spry
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021, at 9:47 PM, caveman رجل الكهف 穴居人 wrote: > hi. > > i want to design complex shapes, and then > send them to some manufacturers. so my > drawings need to be very accurate, and > compatible with the manufacturers. > > plus, it would be nice to have the ability > of being

Re: [gentoo-user] IPsec

2021-04-06 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021, at 10:35 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: > But I've started to get some more experience using IPsec without IKE > recently. > Can you clarify why you need to use IPsec? If it is to support a commercial client you may be better off handing them a system based around BSD. More

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new USB question

2020-10-05 Thread Sid Spry
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Jack wrote: > Grant - thanks for the info. > > I'm curious about the pairing by PCI device - it's not clear if the > every root_hub is a real controller, or not. The specs of the board > say USB2: two ports on the back and two USB2 headers (so I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problem/questions (not Gentoo specific)

2020-09-24 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 7:11 PM, Jack wrote: > I've got a Ryzen 5 2600 in an MSI B350 Tomahawk motherboard. The specs > imply that the CPU produces four USB 3.0 ports and the chipset produces > 6 USB 2.0 and four USB 3.1 (although the last four are not available > with this motherboard. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-14 Thread Sid Spry
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, at 5:06 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-08-14, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I think this should work, but I need to rebuild my kernel with the > > iptables "owner" extension enabled: > > > > iptables -A OUTPUT -o -m owner --uid-owner plex -j DROP > > I can confirm,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-13 Thread Sid Spry
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-08-13, Sid Spry wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> How does one hide a network interface from a badly-written application? > >> > >> I'm using Plex Media Serve

Re: [gentoo-user] How to hide a network interface from an application

2020-08-13 Thread Sid Spry
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > How does one hide a network interface from a badly-written application? > > I'm using Plex Media Server as a DVR, it it seems to have been written > by Windows programmers who assume that your computer exists for no > purpose other than

Re: [gentoo-user] What is faster: amd64 or x86?

2020-08-11 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Remco Rijnders wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 07:46:36PM -0400, Jack wrote in > <46fdde47-4437-5aa4-926d-e42aaed8e...@users.sourceforge.net>: > >>On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Никита Степанов wrote: > >>>What is faster: amd64 or x86? > > > >Nikita, what

Re: [gentoo-user] What is faster: amd64 or x86?

2020-08-10 Thread Sid Spry
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Никита Степанов wrote: > What is faster: amd64 or x86? amd64. Theoretically if you dumped a lot of money into a modern x86 implementation it could be faster due mostly to a smaller die area.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX 5700XT (Navi 10) Driver Issue

2020-08-05 Thread Sid Spry
Well, gentoo-user ends up in a lot of search results, so I'll link my bug here for future suckers: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208811

[gentoo-user] AMD RX 5700XT (Navi 10) Driver Issue

2020-08-03 Thread Sid Spry
Anybody know more? Found a Qubes bug, https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5416. Reproduced below is the output from an attempted modprobe amdgpu. [ 338.377745] fb0: switching to amdgpudrmfb from EFI VGA [ 338.377842] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25 [ 338.377853]

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-28 Thread Sid Spry
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, at 9:24 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > Compare realtime it to measured CPU time. If one realtime second is > > shorter than a > > CPU second then you know the host is pausing your VM. There are other ways > > to > > check, but this should always work if you can contact an

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-27 Thread Sid Spry
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, at 11:21 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:23:46PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > > > Having performance issues on a linux vmware guest that doesnt run vmtools > > > because its an 'appliance', but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Sid Spry
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, at 5:02 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram > and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want > 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a > textconsole-only install

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

2020-07-03 Thread Sid Spry
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, at 9:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 3 July 2020 03:05:34 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > > On 02/07/2020 06:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > But then, > > > # bootctl set-default 30-gentoo-5.7.7.conf > > > Failed to update EFI variable: Invalid argument > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-30 Thread Sid Spry
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, at 5:31 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: james > > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 21:36 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo > > > > On 6/17/20 12:52 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-28 Thread Sid Spry
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 2:55 AM Robin Atwood wrote: > > > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:31:30 -0400 > > tedheadster wrote: > > > > > Robin, > > > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build a > > > new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-27 Thread Sid Spry
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, at 5:43 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > But, as I said, using more uids/gids in general means having more > separation. In general it only increases security, with the caveat > that it does potentially make auditing more complex. > Android's security model is uid per app. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-23 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:14 PM Sid Spry wrote: > > > > So if I'm understanding properly most drive firmware won't let you > > operate the device in an append-only mode? > > So, there are several types of SMR

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-23 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 12:26 PM, Dale wrote: > SMART can't predict the future so it can only monitor for the things > it can see. If say a spindle bearing is about to lock up suddenly, > SMART most likely can't detect that since it is a hardware failure that > can't really be predicted.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-23 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 11:38 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Which is better than not knowing until the drive is failed and > offline. :) > But redundant if the drive degration is obvious. In two cases I can think of drives only reported SMART will-fail after the drives had hard failed. In the

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-23 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, at 7:25 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:36 AM Michael wrote: > > > > Just to add my 2c's before you throw that SMR away, the use case for these > > drives is to act as disk archives, rather than regular backups. You write > > data you want to keep, once.

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-23 Thread Sid Spry
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, at 2:17 AM, Dale wrote: > David Haller wrote: > > I mentioned once long ago that I keep a list of frequently used > commands. I do that because, well, my memory at times isn't that great. > Here is some commands I ran up on based on posts here and what google > turned up

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit Memory Used By Portage/Firefox Build Causes OOM

2020-06-21 Thread Sid Spry
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, at 8:13 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 06:02:22PM -0500, Sid Spry wrote > > > > My immediate issue is cargo seems to ignore MAKEOPTS. Cargo > > also seems to select build parallelism itself. > > You can also set the lo

[gentoo-user] Limit Memory Used By Portage/Firefox Build Causes OOM

2020-06-21 Thread Sid Spry
Is there any way to limit the memory used by portage? I am suspecting setting a climit on the portage user is the easiest way. My immediate issue is cargo seems to ignore MAKEOPTS. Cargo also seems to select build parallelism itself.