[gentoo-user] No sound from audacity...

2020-06-26 Thread tuxic
Hi, got a strange problem with audacity: I did: Load a *.wav file into audacity (it contains sound as visible in audacity Menu->Select->Select all Press play bottom Nothing This is printed on the console: Expression 'framesAvail' failed in

[gentoo-user] Terminal weirdness...

2020-06-19 Thread tuxic
Hi, when updateing my repository of neomutt and build it it normally went fine and the executable can be used. This was the case til the release dated 1.5.2020. Afer that some hotkey commands were no longer recognized - the keypress itsself was recognized, but either the wrong function was

Re: [gentoo-user] Kind of sample player?

2020-06-15 Thread tuxic
On 06/15 10:28, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:10:21AM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > The only one I found in portage is 'linuxsampler', which fails to > > compile with a lot of "deprecated" messages. > > Could you elaborate more on this ? Linux Sampler is an active project

[gentoo-user] Kind of sample player?

2020-06-15 Thread tuxic
Hi, Trying to express what I am searching for: I have some samples of instruments play one or only a few tones. For each there is one sample per tone. I am looking for a software, with which I can play these samples controlled by a midi keyboard. The samples should be played in a way, that

Re: [Gentoo] : Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

2020-06-14 Thread tuxic
On 06/14 01:35, elu6-u...@spamex.com wrote: > [snipped] > >    Hi, > >    I want to split an audio file containing crow calls at points >    where no crow call is. The "silence" in between is not exactly >    "silence" but some low level noise. > > [snipped] > >    However, there is `mp3splt`,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

2020-06-14 Thread tuxic
On 06/14 11:45, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > >I want to split an audio file containing crow calls at points > >where no crow call is. The "silence" in between is not exactly > >"silence" but some low level noise. > > > >Searching the internet for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

2020-06-14 Thread tuxic
Hi Dale, hi Ashley, thanks for all the help and informations! :) In the meanwhile I found another way to split that file "as is" (flac remains flac) with audacity. Audacity contains a "sound finder" and "silence finder" analysis tool, with which it is possible to set marks/regions in the file,

[gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

2020-06-14 Thread tuxic
Hi, I want to split an audio file containing crow calls at points where no crow call is. The "silence" in between is not exactly "silence" but some low level noise. Searching the internet for "split audio at silence" and similiar gives me this link

[gentoo-user] "Procmail => maildrop" - Converter?

2020-06-12 Thread tuxic
Hi, does anyone know of a converter to convert .procmailrc to .mailfilter (or at least the recipies of it) ? Thanks a lot for any hint! Cheers! Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

2020-06-10 Thread tuxic
On 06/09 05:13, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: tu...@posteo.de > > Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 05:44 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with > > NVIDIA driver > > > > > > Hi, > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU load is different to 100% CPU load?

2020-06-09 Thread tuxic
On 06/09 07:06, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 5:17 AM wrote: > > > > What is the difference between 100% CPU load and 100% CPU load to > > create such an difference in temperature? > > How is X% load calculated? > > > > I think a lot more detail around what you're actually running

[gentoo-user] 100% CPU load is different to 100% CPU load?

2020-06-09 Thread tuxic
Hi, yesterday I md5summed my hole system with find.| xargsmd5sum With options I set xargs to use all 12 thread and use as much args per call as possible in one line. After a while I checked the CPU with glance and it shows, that all 12 cores/threads were "loaded" with 100% each

Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

2020-06-09 Thread tuxic
On 06/09 08:23, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5:43:33 AM CEST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > if even displaying the console login failed, then the hole display > > system has gone nuts...but since the boot process as such (that is: > > the bios prompt right after POSTing)

Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

2020-06-08 Thread tuxic
Hi, if even displaying the console login failed, then the hole display system has gone nuts...but since the boot process as such (that is: the bios prompt right after POSTing) is visible, I would say, that there is no physical problem (that is: cable connected to port 2 of the monitor while

Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

2020-06-08 Thread tuxic
Hi Raffaele, may be this could give some insight of was is happening. You said, you are able to ssh into your PC. I would try the following: Boot the PC, ssh into it and disable the start of X. Boot again: Are you getting the console login successfully? Can you check, whether /dev , /proc ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Got a json file from YouTube...

2020-06-05 Thread tuxic
On 06/06 05:29, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 05 Jun 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > >Is there something in portage, which is recommended to > >reformat/display this json-input into something more > >readable...? > > json_pp from dev-lang/perl which you should already have >

[gentoo-user] Got a json file from YouTube...

2020-06-05 Thread tuxic
Hi, via https://youtuberandomcomment.com/ ->Download all is it possible to download all comments of a YouTube-Videoas a json file, which contains exactly one, very long line. This is exactly the formatting I would prefer to read threaded comments ; Is there something in portage, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread tuxic
Hi Daniel, sorry for not understanding the whole setup ... Please see my inserted questions below: On 06/03 04:44, Daniel Sonck wrote: > It might be that your Qt5 is perhaps partially updated or out of date even, > but not sure. I do know that it can be a pain to compile due to Qt5

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread tuxic
Hi Daniel, thanks a lotcadence failed to compile... In file included from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qhashfunctions.h:44, from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qlist.h:47, from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qstringlist.h:41, from

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread tuxic
Hi Daniel, short question...what is catia (beside a CAD program by Dassault Systems... ;)... Can't find that in portage... Cheers! Meino On 06/03 03:47, Daniel Sonck wrote: > I just installed simplescreenrecorder as well. The same pulseaudio method > should also work for that by choosing the

[gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread tuxic
Hi, To record my screen with audio I installed obs and then simplescreenrecoder. Recording the video stream more or less works (I cannot record a firefox-window and need to record the full screen). But recording the audio from the source which will be replayed by firefox only give me a

[gentoo-user] Problem with socks syscall

2020-06-03 Thread tuxic
Hi, I experimented with torify of the TOR project today and failed host:/tmp>sudo torify aria2c --async-dns false http:aria2c http://example.com 1591180702 WARNING torsocks[20364]: [syscall] Unsupported syscall number 2. Denying the call (in tsocks_syscall() at syscall.c:604) 1591180702 WARNING

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-06-01 Thread tuxic
On 06/01 01:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 03:26:06PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote > > This is a bit of a long shot. I run ArcaOS (modern version of OS/2) > in QEMU. During the install phase it would come up in 1024 x 768 mode. > But at reboot after install, it had video

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread tuxic
Hi Ashley, the compilation failed so I took the binary version 5.2.40, which reproduces the same behaviour as with the previous attempt. Cheers! Meino On 05/31 05:54, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi Ashley, > > thanks for the hint ... I am currently recompiling... > ...will see then. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread tuxic
Hi Ashley, thanks for the hint ... I am currently recompiling... ...will see then. Cheers! Meino On 05/31 04:42, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 05:31:25PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Yep...even (re-) booting the newly created image works...the ReactOS > > logo

Re: [gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread tuxic
Hi Ashley, On 05/31 04:03, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 03:26:06PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > I tried to install ReactOS into my Virtual Box which went fine so far. > > Booting itsself was no problem eitherbut instead of getting a desktop I > > got a simple uniform

[gentoo-user] ReactOS with Virtual Box: B.O.D. Black Screen of (?)death(?)

2020-05-31 Thread tuxic
Hi, I tried to install ReactOS into my Virtual Box which went fine so far. Booting itsself was no problem eitherbut instead of getting a desktop I got a simple uniform black screen. No error messages so far...nothingonly the black void. bugs.gentoo.org when searched for "ReactOS" or

Re: [gentoo-user] Defining languages via USE flags for tesseract

2020-05-26 Thread tuxic
On 05/26 02:34, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 03:28:56PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > I want to include "de" (german) to the USE flags for > > app-text/tesseract and all I tried has not worked. > > > > How can I successfully define the language via USE flags > > for

[gentoo-user] Defining languages via USE flags for tesseract

2020-05-26 Thread tuxic
Hi, I want to include "de" (german) to the USE flags for app-text/tesseract and all I tried has not worked. How can I successfully define the language via USE flags for app-text/tesseract? Cheers! Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] handbrake fails to compile

2020-05-24 Thread tuxic
On 05/24 08:10, Pengcheng Xu wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: tu...@posteo.de > > Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2020 7:16 PM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] handbrake fails to compile > > > > On 05/24 11:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sun, 24 May

Re: [gentoo-user] handbrake fails to compile

2020-05-24 Thread tuxic
On 05/24 11:12, R wrote: > > tu...@posteo.de writes: > > > media-video/handbrake-1.3.2:0/0::gentoo fails to compile (I am on > > "unstable"). > > > > > Message was: > > > > * ERROR: media-video/handbrake-1.3.2::gentoo failed (compile phase): > > * emake failed > > Funny, when I `cat`

Re: [gentoo-user] handbrake fails to compile

2020-05-24 Thread tuxic
On 05/24 11:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2020 12:44:20 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > media-video/handbrake-1.3.2:0/0::gentoo fails to compile (I am on > > "unstable"). > > > > Searching online I found, that running perl-cleaner would fix that > > problem which I done: > > > >

[gentoo-user] handbrake fails to compile

2020-05-24 Thread tuxic
Hi, media-video/handbrake-1.3.2:0/0::gentoo fails to compile (I am on "unstable"). Searching online I found, that running perl-cleaner would fix that problem which I done: perl-cleaner --all - but without success. Message was: * ERROR: media-video/handbrake-1.3.2::gentoo failed (compile

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage load on the GPU?

2020-05-20 Thread tuxic
On 05/20 09:44, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday, May 18, 2020 8:22:52 PM CEST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 05/18 09:58, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > > On 2020-05-18 09:40, tastytea wrote: > > > > Another solution is to modify the priority yourself, with `renice > > > > --priority 15 $(pidof

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage load on the GPU?

2020-05-18 Thread tuxic
On 05/18 09:58, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On 2020-05-18 09:40, tastytea wrote: > > Another solution is to modify the priority yourself, with `renice > > --priority 15 $(pidof blender)` for example. The priority can be from > > -20 (very high priority) to 19 (very low priority). > > According

[gentoo-user] How to manage load on the GPU?

2020-05-17 Thread tuxic
Hi, sorry for the somehow vague subject line...no native speaker... With Blender I do a lot of experimenting and tinkering which involves rendering most of the time. With rendering comes ... waiting for the result. Often (I am trying to) watch videos, like tutorial about what I currently

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] BIOS Best settings (no o.c.) for RYZEN 5 3600 / MSI Tomahawk max ?

2020-05-16 Thread tuxic
On 05/16 01:04, Dale wrote: > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 05/16 12:46, Dale wrote: > >> tu...@posteo.de wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I am trying to figure out the best settings (performance wise) for a > >>> AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with a MSI Tomahawk max motherboard. > >>> > >>> I don't want to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] BIOS Best settings (no o.c.) for RYZEN 5 3600 / MSI Tomahawk max ?

2020-05-15 Thread tuxic
On 05/16 12:46, Dale wrote: > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to figure out the best settings (performance wise) for a > > AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with a MSI Tomahawk max motherboard. > > > > I don't want to overclock -- tweaking the bios is for finding > > the optimal setting in

[gentoo-user] [OT] BIOS Best settings (no o.c.) for ZEN 5 3600 / MSI Tomahawk max ?

2020-05-15 Thread tuxic
Hi, I am trying to figure out the best settings (performance wise) for a AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with a MSI Tomahawk max motherboard. I don't want to overclock -- tweaking the bios is for finding the optimal setting in oposite to waste performance via sub-optimal settings like not activateing XMP

[gentoo-user] jack vs jack2 USE-flag-wise?

2020-05-15 Thread tuxic
Hi, I want to set 'jack' as a default USE flag - bu my system is a multicore/multithreaded on...so I need not jack aka media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit but I think I need this one: * media-sound/jack2 Description: Jackdmp jack implemention for multi-processor

Re: [gentoo-user] KiCAD: More trouble...

2020-05-11 Thread tuxic
,On 05/11 03:38, tastytea wrote: > On 2020-05-11T06:58+0200 > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I got around the Python problems...but got new compilation hazards...: > > > > > > […] > > /var/tmp/portage/sci-electronics/kicad-5.1.4/work/kicad-5.1.4/common/lib_tree_model.cpp:78:14: > >

[gentoo-user] KiCAD: More trouble...

2020-05-10 Thread tuxic
Hi, I got around the Python problems...but got new compilation hazards...: cd /var/tmp/portage/sci-electronics/kicad-5.1.4/work/kicad-5.1.4_build/common && /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DGLM_FORCE_CTOR_INIT -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DKICAD_SCRIPTING -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU

[gentoo-user] kicad failed to compile after update

2020-05-10 Thread tuxic
Hi, this morning I had a massive update of my system. Beside others kicad failed to recompile with this message Calculating dependencies... done! * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being installed: * *

[gentoo-user] Sensor readout (new PC)

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
HI, Still updateing/configuring/correcting/completing my new PC... This time it is the sensors readout via 'glances' My setup: AMD Ryzen 5 2600. MSI Tomahawk Max, NVidia RTX 3600 SUPER Kernel 5.6.11 vanilla sys-apps/lm-sensors 3.6.0 Beforehand I did a sensors-detect and answered every item

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
Hi Walter, thanks for your input again. A said previously: This is not a problem of a high load, which needs to be handled. This is kinda temporary deadlock. Even if I would choose the best possible scheduler...the CPU would not get the chance to execute the code of the scheduler, because

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
On 05/06 04:19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 05/06 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:21 AM wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > while rendering with Blender the system performance (especially > > > graphic related stuff) lacks. That's not nice but it seems that this > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
On 05/06 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:21 AM wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > while rendering with Blender the system performance (especially > > graphic related stuff) lacks. That's not nice but it seems that this > > is the way it is designed. > > > > What makes me a little

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
On 05/06 02:47, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:16:33AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > It looks like blender is a heavy-duty program that bogs down your > > system. You could buy a new machine, or you could try the "nice" > > command. The tradeoff is that your system becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
On 05/06 09:16, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:21:00PM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote > > > Does everyone has the same problems probably already solved > > or any idea how I can those freezes? > > It looks like blender is a heavy-duty program that bogs down your > system. You

[gentoo-user] New PC hangs/lacks ?

2020-05-06 Thread tuxic
Hi, while rendering with Blender the system performance (especially graphic related stuff) lacks. That's not nice but it seems that this is the way it is designed. What makes me a little nervous are freezes of several seconds. It not onlu freezes but the whole graphical interface of everything

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

2020-05-05 Thread tuxic
On 05/05 10:34, 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 converting PCM into an

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

2020-05-05 Thread tuxic
On 05/05 11:22, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On 2020-05-05 10:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? > > Disclaimer, I do not use Jack. > > Firefox builds, in my personal experience, are intended to be used with > pulseaudio and only pulseaudio. Some

[gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread tuxic
Hi, to prevent a lot of installation and configuration effort only to recognize, that it does not work: Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? Cheers! Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver plus kernel info questions

2020-05-02 Thread tuxic
On 05/02 03:42, Scott Ellis wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:33 AM wrote: > > > > Unfortunatelu "something" is broken, when using the portage version > > of the driver. So I removed that driver and installed the same > > version as offered by nvidia directlu and that worked. > > > > There's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-02 Thread tuxic
On 05/02 06:31, Wols Lists wrote: > On 02/05/20 02:42, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 05/01 09:27, antlists wrote: > >> On 01/05/2020 09:03, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > >>> Hi Wol, > >>> > >>> data copied !:) > >>> > >>> I did a > >>> > >>> mdadm --examine /dev/sdb > >> > >> Except I pointed you

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-02 Thread tuxic
On 05/02 06:31, Wols Lists wrote: > On 02/05/20 02:42, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 05/01 09:27, antlists wrote: > >> On 01/05/2020 09:03, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > >>> Hi Wol, > >>> > >>> data copied !:) > >>> > >>> I did a > >>> > >>> mdadm --examine /dev/sdb > >> > >> Except I pointed you

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver plus kernel info questions

2020-05-02 Thread tuxic
On 05/02 11:53, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I mentioned in another thread that I was going to upgrade to a much > newer kernel.  I also have to make sure Nvidia supports that kernel.  > So, I went to the Nvidia site and did a search by model number.  This is > the output of lspci: > > > 01:00.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver plus kernel info questions

2020-05-02 Thread tuxic
On 05/02 11:53, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I mentioned in another thread that I was going to upgrade to a much > newer kernel.  I also have to make sure Nvidia supports that kernel.  > So, I went to the Nvidia site and did a search by model number.  This is > the output of lspci: > > > 01:00.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-02 Thread tuxic
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 discussion based on a "GPT or MBR for my system drive" in > > conjunction

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

2020-05-01 Thread tuxic
On 05/01 04:50, 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 > I’vea lot of RAM, is this true? > > Thanks > -- > M.S. Raphael Mejias Dias > ​Nuclear Engineer | Reactors > > Secure e-mail:

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-01 Thread tuxic
On 05/01 05:32, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 1 May 2020 17:00:56 BST Andrea Conti wrote: > > > GPT is fine too, but for a 1TB disk with a single partition it has > > absolutely > > zero advantage over MBR. > > I can think of one or two people who might demur there. > > -- > Regards, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-01 Thread tuxic
On 05/01 09:27, antlists wrote: > On 01/05/2020 09:03, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi Wol, > > > > data copied !:) > > > > I did a > > > > mdadm --examine /dev/sdb > > Except I pointed you at a utility called lsdrv, not mdadm ... :-) > > Cheers, > Wol > Hi Wol, Ouuouud...oh damn!

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-01 Thread tuxic
On 05/01 03:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 04/30 08:32, antlists wrote: > > On 30/04/2020 18:04, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > I copied the first 230GB of that disk to an empty partition of my new > > > system and run "testdisk" on itafter the analysis it came back > > > with "this partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-01 Thread tuxic
On 05/01 08:52, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > does my posting from this morning reached you ? > > ...I did not received anything back from the mailinglist... > > Nope. Just this night's response to Wol. > > (hmmm...ok, two send good news two times is not that bad in this times, I think... ;) Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/30 10:47, Wynn Wolf Arbor wrote: > On 2020-04-30 22:21, Andrea Conti wrote: > > It won't, as long as it recognizes it as a protective MBR. Which is the > > right thing to do, as a disk with a protective MBR and no valid GPT is > > inherently broken. > > True. It was more my intention to

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/30 08:32, antlists wrote: > On 30/04/2020 18:04, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > I copied the first 230GB of that disk to an empty partition of my new > > system and run "testdisk" on itafter the analysis it came back > > with "this partition cannot be recovered" but did not sau. whether the

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
Hi Wolf, thanks for your great input again! (see below) On 04/30 09:27, Wynn Wolf Arbor wrote: > All the following assuming that the disk was originally partitioned as GPT, > but after that exclusively accessed as an MBR disk. > > > PT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.5 > > > > Caution: invalid main

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/30 03:44, Andrea Conti wrote: > Hi, > > > > CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y > > > CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y > > > CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y > > That's all you need. > > > This could be the key. Sector sizes have been changing from 512 to 4096 > > over many years. If your kernel has been updated

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
Hi Wolf thank you very much for your analysis ! :) On 04/30 03:10, Wynn Wolf Arbor wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020-04-30 13:17, Wols Lists wrote: > > All I can suggest is to check the kernel and see if it's an option that > > has been disabled (512-byte sectors, that is). > > As far as I know the

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/30 10:55, Wols Lists wrote: > On 30/04/20 10:32, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > recently I switched from the old MBR-scheme to GPT on > > my new PC. > > > > I have two external USB-harddisk, which were partioned/formatted with > > a MBR-scheme/MSDOS partition (but were never used

[gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
Hi, recently I switched from the old MBR-scheme to GPT on my new PC. I have two external USB-harddisk, which were partioned/formatted with a MBR-scheme/MSDOS partition (but were never used to boot from. They are pure data containers). When I connect these to my new PC, only the device is shown:

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
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 FB compiled in) the card has been working fine for 2 days > booting normally. The machine then started not to

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread tuxic
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 the likely-looking options set in the kernel (5.4.28), modules > where

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-27 Thread tuxic
On 04/28 03:12, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:15:51 +0200 > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/root 246G 45G 189G 20% / > > Given that (Size - Used) is roughly 200G, it suggests to me that > perhaps, some process

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/26 09:58, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:43 PM wrote: > > > > To implement a dry run with a printf() is new to me... ;) > > > > That is all they fstrim authors could do, since there is no dry-run > option for the actual ioctl, and fstrim itself has no idea how the >

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/26 03:29, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:15 PM wrote: > > > > On 04/26 11:20, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:52 AM wrote: > > > > > > > > Fstrim reports about 200 GiB of trimmed data. > > > > > > > > > > My suggestion would be to run fstrim twice in

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/26 11:20, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:52 AM wrote: > > > > Fstrim reports about 200 GiB of trimmed data. > > > > From the gut this looks quite a lot -- the whole > > partition is 256 GB in size. > > > > Smartclt report for the drive: > > Data Units Written:

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

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/26 03:26, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Seeing that I've had my "new" box for three years, now, I'm thinking > it's about time to run fstrim. But how? > > I've got a pair of NVMe drives in a RAID 1 configuration. On the main > partition, /dev/md126, I've got several LVM2

[gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
Hi, jyst out of curiosity: I have a 512 MB NVMe SDD drive installed, which I had (currently) formatted with one 256 MB root partition. I bound /var and /tmp to hardisk. Currently I am doing one Gentoo update a day and I am running unstable. Just to get a feeling, how often I need to fstrim / I

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

2020-04-26 Thread tuxic
On 04/25 10:05, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > > ## !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-gfx/inkscape from @selected > > ## > > ## !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "media-gfx/inkscape" has unmet > > requirements. ## - media-gfx/inkscape-1.0_rc1::gentoo USE="jpeg nls openmp > > -cdr -dbus

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

2020-04-25 Thread tuxic
On 04/25 07:28, Remy Blank wrote: > tu...@posteo.de wrote on 25/04/2020 17:55: > > Beside other permutations I add this to package.use > > > > media-gfx/inkscape python_single_target_python3_8 > > Try this instead: > > media-gfx/inkscape PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_8 > > -- Remy > >

[gentoo-user] Troubles setting USE flag for inkscape

2020-04-25 Thread tuxic
Hi, while updateing/emergeing I got this message: ## !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-gfx/inkscape from @selected ## ## !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "media-gfx/inkscape" has unmet requirements. ## - media-gfx/inkscape-1.0_rc1::gentoo USE="jpeg nls openmp -cdr -dbus -dia

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

2020-04-22 Thread tuxic
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 WD30EZRZ-00Z5HB0 Firmware Revision: 80.00A80 Looks pretty simiiar to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation loop...

2020-04-18 Thread tuxic
Hi Dave, that works! :) Thanks a lot! Cheers! Meino On 04/18 10:14, David Fellows wrote: > >Hi, > > > >on my system are installed (beside other things, of course... :) > > > >[I] virtual/w3m > > Available versions: 0 > > Installed versions: 0(03:51:00 AM 04/18/2020) > >

[gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

2020-04-18 Thread tuxic
Hi, I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it in this manner works as exspected. Also the docs are of that opinion, too: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.mask BUT! host:/root>crossdev -t arm-none-eabi -

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio Equalizer for a DAC ?

2020-04-18 Thread tuxic
On 04/18 08:21, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:03 AM wrote: > > > Hi Mark, > > > > thanks for the links! > > > > for the first I want to avoid propietary / closed software if > > possible. > > > > The problem, which I tried to mention in my initial post was, that > > alsamixer

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio Equalizer for a DAC ?

2020-04-18 Thread tuxic
On 04/18 07:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 7:34 AM wrote: > > > > On 04/18 07:24, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 5:56 AM wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Hi Mark, > > > > could suggest an equaliser for jack...whatever it may be? > > > > Cheers! > > Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio Equalizer for a DAC ?

2020-04-18 Thread tuxic
On 04/18 07:24, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 5:56 AM wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Finally I got a FIIO E10K DAC running with my Gentoo Linux and ALSA. > > > > > Is there any equaliser software available, which processes the audio > > data instead? > > > > Is my configuration

[gentoo-user] Audio Equalizer for a DAC ?

2020-04-18 Thread tuxic
Hi, Finally I got a FIIO E10K DAC running with my Gentoo Linux and ALSA. Alsamixer displays a volume slider for PCM only. I can play several audio sources - so far so nice. Then I installed media-plugins/alsaequal, which installs fine. I changed my .asoundrc to: ctl.equal { type

[gentoo-user] Installation loop...

2020-04-17 Thread tuxic
Hi, on my system are installed (beside other things, of course... :) [I] virtual/w3m Available versions: 0 Installed versions: 0(03:51:00 AM 04/18/2020) Description: Virtual for the w3m web browser [I] www-client/w3m Available versions: 0.5.3_p20180125

Re: [gentoo-user] can't paste password from clipboard into ssh login in urxvt

2020-04-16 Thread tuxic
On 04/16 03:58, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > so i get my password loaded into the clipboard by > keepassxc. then i can paste it into various > terminals, like urxvt. > > but, the strange thing is that, i cannot paste it > into urxvt when it shows ssh's login prompt. > > i can paste the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about handling filenames with "illegal" characters...

2020-04-16 Thread tuxic
On 04/16 05:21, Francesco Turco wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, at 17:15, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Normally I would replace the asd* with the according > > > > find . -name 'asd*' -print0 | > > > > but I got in trpuble, because "do_something" > > now misunderstood the whole thing. > > What

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about handling filenames with "illegal" characters...

2020-04-16 Thread tuxic
On 04/16 11:29, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:19 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:15:45 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > > a loop like this > > > > > > for fn in asd* ; do > > > do_something $fn > > > done > > > > > > fails, when a file is named

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about handling filenames with "illegal" characters...

2020-04-16 Thread tuxic
On 04/16 04:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:15:45 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > a loop like this > > > > for fn in asd* ; do > > do_something $fn > > done > > > > fails, when a file is named like this: > > > > List of OSses allowing spaces in filenames.txt > >

[gentoo-user] Question about handling filenames with "illegal" characters...

2020-04-16 Thread tuxic
Hi, a loop like this for fn in asd* ; do do_something $fn done fails, when a file is named like this: List of OSses allowing spaces in filenames.txt . Normally I would replace the asd* with the according find . -name 'asd*' -print0 | but I got in trpuble, because "do_something"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sudden case fan problems by switching to new kernel...

2020-04-15 Thread tuxic
On 04/15 05:13, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-04-15 07:29, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > The configuration for kernel 5.6.3. (vanilla) works fine.for me. Then > > I changed to kernel 5.6.4 using the same configuration. > > > > Suddenlu the fan at the back of my PC case never stops from rotating

[gentoo-user] Sudden case fan problems by switching to new kernel...

2020-04-14 Thread tuxic
Hi, The configuration for kernel 5.6.3. (vanilla) works fine.for me. Then I changed to kernel 5.6.4 using the same configuration. Suddenlu the fan at the back of my PC case never stops from rotating at its highest speed. Changing back to kernel 5.6.3. and the problem is gone. On the internet I

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

2020-04-13 Thread tuxic
On 04/13 04:58, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:34 PM antlists wrote: > > > > aiui, the spec says you can send a command "trim 1GB starting at block > > X". Snag is, the linux block size of 4KB means that it gets split into > > loads of trim commands, which then clogs up all the

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

2020-04-13 Thread tuxic
On 04/13 08:18, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:55 AM Michael wrote: > > > > I have noticed when prolonged fstrim takes place on an old SSD drive of mine > > it becomes unresponsive. As Rich said this is not because data is being > > physically deleted, only a flag is switched

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

2020-04-13 Thread tuxic
Hi Michael, thank you for replying to my questions! :) On 04/13 11:06, Michael wrote: > 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

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