RE: [gentoo-user] anyone tried amdgpu (kernel module)

2015-12-19 Thread Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
issing something simple and it's not a kernel bug. Did you consult the wiki article shown below when configuring your system to use admgpu? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu Yes I have. The CIK parts kernel option is enabled. the only thing I find a b

[gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

2018-08-22 Thread nunojsilva
too much trouble, > since they tend to include most of the libraries they need bundled > with the package or linked statically with the executable. > > Apps packaged for RedHat or Ubuntu tend to rely on the host for far > more libraries (e.g. Qt or Gtk and underlying X11 stuff). Somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
of the participants are more interested in a ricing contest with other distros than, say, learning what pulseaudio does. Case in point: I flat out told you two things it does and you acted like you were still waiting for an answer. Here, let me repeat myself in case you really are interested in learning

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread n952162
if I've tried that combination, I'll do so now. ... you include -a.  Under what situation might I respond to the prompt with 'no'? On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 20:24, n952162 wrote: In an update with several slot collisions (see attachment), I'm zero-ing in on the simplest, where a package

Re: [gentoo-user] (Not Solved for me) anyone tried amdgpu (kernel module)

2015-12-22 Thread Mick
; /lib/firmware/amdgpu/fiji_sdma1.bin > > >>> /lib/firmware/amdgpu/fiji_smc.bin > > >>> /lib/firmware/amdgpu/fiji_uvd.bin > > >>> /lib/firmware/amdgpu/fiji_vce.bin > > >>> /lib/firmware/amdgpu/tonga_ce.bin > > >>> /l

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread n952162
the key, /Your CPU doesn't support the required SSE2 instruction. Either your CPU doesn't support that or you have not enabled it or disabled it for some reason.  This is where cpuid2cpuflags comes in handy.  If you can't tell what is going on still, post emerge --info for that package and also

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Hastie
. - 32-bit plugins for your web-browser of choice web browser of choice-bin is again what you want. OK, you use some flexibility in both of these, but the problem is only caused by closed source 32 bit binaries anyway. - kiss internet TV goodbye, because... - RealPlayer is distributed as a 32

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Roy Wright
Harry Putnam wrote: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer What the heck is a Windows Installer? *SCNR* Thirty five reboots and several hours Sorry, can't resist

Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users

2005-12-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
have been dealing for years with low quality widgets that give us a selection of states or locations that do not include us. Often we cannot purchase from companies that use such widgets. This is one of the worst I've seen. Why isn't there a Latitude/Longitude choice? 15oN 145oE, GMT+10 Alan Davis

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting drives, partitions udev, mtab fstab

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Linford
installed...what GUI tools for those apps were you refering to? In KDE it's controlled by kcontrol - that enormous config app with 1000s of selectable options. There's a selection near the top of the menu which asks you which icons to display on the desktop. Options include a large range of mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
are there so the *user*apps*and*libs* know what definitions of data structures to use. In very broad terms, someone takes the .h files out of a kernel release that are known to be stable and work well and make them available to user-space compilation. Gentoo puts them in /usr/include/{asm,linux}. Leave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Dale
' is a separate matter: you need to include it in your kernel, than you can simplify your drivers. HTH Evdev has been included in my kernels throughout this mess. It hasn't helped. The Gentoo doc on the upgrade was a bit scetchy about configuring HAL; now that I find that disabling HAL

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem

2010-05-22 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 22 May 2010 17:35:24 -0400 Kenneth Prugh wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 16:10:39 -0400 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: [...] What does `eselect java-vm list` say? Also, You might need to manually emerge dev-java/ant-junit. r...@osage ~ # eselect java-vm list

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
no bundled libs. when you change the tarball fucking change the version number. I forgot that one. Sun are INFAMOUS for that with the jdk.. and what Alan said. Some more: Don't depend on some arb version number of libs. Nothing worse than being forced to use some lib 4 versions behind current when

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
? In the authorized_keys file, you need to include a specification of command=insert command here. Which means that on log-in with the public key, the sshd will execute that command, and any other commands sent from the machine which originated the connection will not execute. So I'd imagine you can untar

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : DVD drive

2012-08-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I did give these arguments: There are variouy problems media compatibility of you use DVD+ with different drives. Your description runs counter to my

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:59:43 -0600, Dale wrote: work AROUND portage with a lot of things. This would include depclean. Which is why I think you shouldn't try to work around portage. It provides a clean way of doing this, overlays, use them. Then you have to update those too. As I

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread meino . cramer
should keep /etc/portage, /var/lib/portage and /usr/portage on the PC and not modifiable from the arietta. This way you only need to install the run time dependencies to the aritte. And install from bin pkg is really fast. Another alternative would be to use a USB to ethernet adaptor

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

2022-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
te does not work, either. > > > > > > Can you elaborate on what "does not work" means, both for traceroute and > > > ping? > > > > > > This is sounding like a name resolution issue. Dig will directly > > > query the name server you p

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread Joost Roeleveld
larger drives are managed by LVM. Simple (and complete answer): Yes, you can use LVM only for a subset of the drives you have inside a system. You will need to do it in the following steps though: - create PV, LVM and LV on the new drive - copy data over - create PV on old drive and add

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-04 Thread lee
it yourself (or download from somewhere). When you have the kernel image binary, the xen configuration for the host can be simple as: Compile it with what? Are the sources in stage3, or downloaded so that I can compile a suitable Gentoo kernel within the chroot? If you've never installed Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

2023-04-16 Thread Mitch D.
fig" generates a configuration file that Grub reads while the computer is booting, and generally tells Grub what options to include in the menu Grub displays. When you update your kernel, you want to update that menu, so you SHOULD rerun "grub-mkconfig" at this time. All EFI systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-21 Thread Grant
the proprietary nvidia drivers installed, that package messes with the simlinks to the dri libraries when you use eselect opengl set foo so maybe you have that set for the nvidia opengl version?  Check to see what those simlinks are actually pointing to. Bingo! Walt, you aced it, thank you. I can now

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
ython2 scripts to python3.  A script which     works under python2 gives me this under python3:     ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sqlite3'     Any ideas? You might need to add "sqlite" to the USE flags for dev-lang/python and reinstall. -- Manuel A. McLure WW1FA mailto:m

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: looking for email provider

2020-02-02 Thread Mick
do not need and immediately used this method to spam the world from "Mr. Viagra" and what have you. For this reason email ISPs introduced a number of 'email address verification' hoops you have to jump through, to be allowed to use a different email alias through their SMTP servers. >

[gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install

2012-09-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On my new install USERDIR is not working. When I try http://localhost/~gottlieb, firefox says you don't have permission to access /~gottlieb and the apache error log says client denied by server configuration: /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html The file permissions are ok since both file

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

2017-09-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
oot. > >> > >> I originally thought you were just booting an EFI stub kernel, in > >> which case you would have needed some kind of boot manager. > > > > I have three questions now: > > > > 1. Will Windows 10 install itself in the unpartition

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't recompile vmware modules

2006-07-24 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' Makefile:127: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version while kernel attempts to use gcc version 4.1.1. What is the output of: 1. cat /proc/version 2. gcc -v 3. gcc-config -l To me everything looks OK, but I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
important backed up somewhere else since it's still seen as experimental (I think). Of course. Pen drives are as such not very reliable, so backups are a must. If you're using it on random hardware and want X, you'll have to include the variety of video cards you might run into (Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] updating glibc-2.3.5-r2: segmentation fault... (part 2)

2006-02-15 Thread Rumen Yotov
what to do now. If I include those flags (hardened, hardenedphp and lm_sensors), compilation of glibc-2.3.5-r2 fails because of some segmentation error. If I remove those use-flags, compilation of gcc-3.4.4-r1 fails because of some other error. Does anybody have any idea how to get out

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Michael
98x1080/336+0+0 VGA-0 > >> 1: +HDMI-0 1920/1150x1080/650+1920+0 HDMI-0 > >> root@fireball / # > >> > >> > >> Since I have different ports, it is easy to see which is which. The > >> last bit is what you use in the command, not the first bits

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-06 Thread Grant Taylor
Really, though, you should take the time to appreciate an initramfs whether you decide to use one or not. You seem to be assuming that people /don't/ appreciate an initramfs / initrd. When for me personally, I do understand and appreciate what an initramfs / initrd does. Enough so that I know that

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
t for Tk GUI toolkit   - - wininst   : Install Windows executables required to create an executable installer for MS Windows.   + + xml   : Add support for XML files (My apologies, forgot to include the list on my previous reply) What is the output of `python --version` for the interpreter yo

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread cal
stall Windows executables required to create an executable installer for MS Windows.  + + xml   : Add support for XML files (My apologies, forgot to include the list on my previous reply) What is the output of `python --version` for the interpreter you are using to execute this script?

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-05 Thread Samuli Suominen
tell the necessary information required for solving it anyway. Remove anykind of Xfce masks and post complete output, and don't forget to use the --tree flag (-t) to see what is pulling in what. That is, if you still want help solving the issue. - Samuli

Re: [gentoo-user] tif libraries being ignored

2009-01-12 Thread Ted Miller
not seem to be using it. I have run emerge --update --deep --newuse world revdep-rebuild with no improvement Any insight into what I need to do to get this working will be greatly appreciated. Please be explicit (or include links to documentation) if I have to do anything unusual, but I will be glad

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] How to get WebDAV going on Apache?

2014-03-01 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 11:13:40 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 28 Feb 2014 16:31:39 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: You don't need moddav for owncloud. Owncloud implements it via php. Now I am confused. Do I need to add or remove a USE flag from php or owncloud? I can't advise on owncloud

Re: [gentoo-user] eclean-pkg strips everything out

2017-04-05 Thread Dale
e -d option. With -d, it only >>>> leaves the minimum needed to re-emerge the packages currently >>>> installed. It works the same way with -dist as well. From the man >>>> page: >>>> >>>> -d, --deep only keep the minimum fo

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-17 Thread daniel
compiler /usr/bin/gcc. Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r6/build/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. snip Would you like to skip

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wpa_supplicant troubles with newly installed gentoo

2016-05-30 Thread Jackson Darule
another >>>> wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was left by an >>>> unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need >>>> to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again. >>>> >>>> nl80211:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags

2006-03-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
, because after a while this list grows A LOT (just did it in my system and got a few hundred packages). One more thing I installed Gentoo 2006.0 with LiveCD and with some GRP packages which were on LiveCD should this fact be a problem when I change configuration of USE flags? And Whenever you

Re: [gentoo-user] ping!

2006-03-22 Thread Luiz Carlos Guidolin
. Since the actual protocol is version 4 there is no need to include a specific flag for it. And my suggestion is, use -ipv6 since you probably doesn't have the hardware for it. The second point is, will you be using your FTP inside you private network or will it be available

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-29 Thread Dale
tor, referred to as VGA within xrandr.  That is my main monitor.  The second monitor is is connected to a HDMI port, seen as same in xrandr, and what I watch TV with.  This is the output I started with to get good clues.  root@fireball / # xrandr --listmonitors Monitors: 2  0: +*VGA-0 1920/5

Re: [gentoo-user] My first initramfs

2013-11-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
kernel module. Or better stated: you already have the kernel modules, inside your kernel. What dracut does when you specify drivers (kernel modules), is only to include them in the initramfs. So even if you specify them in your dracut config file, since they are not available, dracut will print

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread n952162
/jinja dev-libs/libxml2 Since it seems sphinx is installed with a different set of python targets than what you're trying to update, you should include sphinx in that emerge command to let it update to the same python targets and solve the conflict. Regards, Arve I tried adding that but it didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???

2013-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
to search which other packages are required and install them manually. Is it not what we have use-flags for? Relax Jarry, take a chill-pill. It's Friday and weekend is almost here. Let me point out the mistakes you have made. You ran emerge --depclean blindly and let it do $WHATEVER. Or, you didn't

RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-17 Thread burlingk
' and how are they 'enhancend', when they are additional restrictions added about how I can use the software? -- Sounds like three of us agree on something at least. ^^;; The Four Freedoms: 0: The freedom to use software as you wish. 1: The freedom to study the code and modify it to meet

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/03/2013 15:40, Michael Mol wrote: IPv6 is wonderfully easy to use client-side and reasonably easy to plug into an existing network (the routers mostly know what to do already). The fun starts when you need to write an app that tracks and does range allocations at ISP scale, all while

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-13 Thread Mark David Dumlao
sswords on an as-needed basis to always use the current generated iteration. > If you do increment passwords, well, now you just introduced state > back in, and the "stateless" solution isn't really so. > > Password incrementing is an issue for any algorithmic solution - you &

Re: [gentoo-user] Random crash

2005-06-05 Thread Holly Bostick
GNOME (it won't pick up desktop colors, for example), and if Gaim is GTK 1, well... GTK-QT in my experience works much better with GTK 2 applications rather than GTK 1. First of all, have you set GTK applications to use the KDE color scheme in the KDE Configuration Center (Appearance and Themes

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
recreated by KDE. Whats the problem to use things that already exists? Why don't include software that is famous and liked by people insted of insist in their Kthings? You can't be serious right? Go back and find the original post from the founder of KDE as to why KDE was started at all. It's all

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors

2007-09-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
/dir1 /home/user/dir2 /home/user/file1 /home/user/file2 etc. Since you gave the --directory (aka -d) option, and * expansion does not include names starting with ., nothing else is printed. The --all option does not come into play at all here. A different story would be if you did not use

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-10 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, You have to be in 'wheel' group to su - to root, or was this for sudo. check. Could also use 'gpasswd' to add a user to a group, run man gpasswd. HTH. Rumen Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote: to check in what groups your user is in you can just type $ groups to change the groups, you have to do

Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

2007-06-23 Thread Urs Schuetz
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 19:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Philip Webb wrote: 070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote: I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system and cups-pdf. Why don't you use

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
: The kernel is not in stage3, you have to compile it yourself (or download from somewhere). When you have the kernel image binary, the xen configuration for the host can be simple as: Compile it with what? Are the sources in stage3, or downloaded so that I can compile a suitable Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Root device as UUID not properly detected

2015-10-07 Thread João Miguel
les in /proc and /sys). See sysctl for details. So I'm using 2. > > > > > 3. You don't use root_delay as boot option > > > > If that's what I think it is, I tell syslinux to wait 5 seconds. > > (turns out it's not what I thought it was, though I did try root_delay, it &

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006 livecd (x86)

2006-06-30 Thread Daniel da Veiga
in to the Live Gentoo Linux as root, the super user. You should have a root (#) But that's not the case for me . There was an intial log screen, but entering root there it still prompts me for the root passwd... Are you using the 2006.0 and following the old guide? Because what you refer is for manual

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-18 Thread William Kenworthy
all gentoo into something like a container - worked well but the android kernel I was using at the time didn't have some functioned enabled that fed into limiting some operations in the container. Easier and more practical would be to install LibreOS. You can build ii yourself and build/include yo

Re: [gentoo-user] 200-line patch to kernel = superkernel

2010-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
note that I use /bin/echo instead of the shell built-in echo. There is supposed to be a difference in write error detection between the both which is important to detect problems when you configure cgroups. # 2. Create '/usr/local/sbin/cgroup_clean' #!/bin/sh rmdir /dev/cgroup/cpu

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Lord Sauron
. Then add it or change it in bootloader, grub is easier on this one. ;-) I use grup. Then . . . . # reboot that should do it, if support is what you need. However, this will probably be more useful: # emerge -av acpid !--- -av means --verbose and --ask, so you can see what you're

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab question

2007-08-15 Thread Tim
not earth shattering! Thanks in advance. Regards, Colleen This is actually semi-easy. What you need is udev rules for each of the devices, so what you need first is some info. Do an 'emerge usbutils' then run 'lsusb -v'. This will output a bunch of info about the currently connected USB

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get a usb mouse working?

2005-11-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/18/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I just can't seem to get my new mouse working. Up until now I have used a ps2 mouse with no problems. Now I have a usb one and this is what I've done so far:- recompiled the kernel to include usb input devices checked that the mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-04 Thread Nils Holland
Alan McKinnon wrote: Interestingly, Ubuntu has always built for basic arches, and they seem to get away with it. IIRC they are now on i586 but for the longest time used i386. No performance issues. You might want to investigate how they do their builds and see if you can use their tricks

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Dale
been having health issues, again. It's been a rough week or so. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n

[gentoo-user] Re: Puzzled by zswap [Was: tmp on tmpfs]

2017-05-26 Thread Kai Krakow
> work without. But if you want to put some serious amount of data > > into tmpfs, you need swap as a backing device sooner or later. > > Looking at zswap, I have several questions > (even after reading linux/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt). > > 1. How does it know which swa

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to force a particular version of a dependency

2020-06-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
f readline will accept any version that >isn't masked/etc. So they're fine with v8. > >> >> The emerge that I used was this: >> >> emerge -auDv --verbose-conflicts --changed-use --keep-going >--with-bdeps=y --changed-deps --backtrack=100 @system > >Yeah, you might have to inc

[gentoo-user] Re: The state of public relations?

2015-07-24 Thread James
to include you in their strategic plans. I never mentioned anything about web broswers... so that's your idea. Distrowatch rankings just tell you what user agent strings are sent to them when people visit the site. That is about as useful a metric as asking who is paying the domain parking services

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
, although certainly is what Lennart (and probably Kay) wants. What I think will happen is that, if available, GNOME will use systemd. FreeBSD does not have udev, and GNOME works there (with diminished functionality). That's the future, I believe: you will be able to use GNOME without systemd

[gentoo-user] nonfatal() not supported error in glibc binary install

2014-10-04 Thread Bruce Schultz
: Called pkg_setup * environment, line 2870: Called eblit-run 'pkg_setup' * environment, line 987: Called eblit-glibc-pkg_setup * environment, line 843: Called glibc_run_test '#include pwd.h * int main(){return getpwuid(0)==0

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
Holly~ I wish I had know this before emerging gnome... :( What I may do (just because gnome is such a pig on compilation) is emerge firefox and thunderbird, and leave it as-is. I may as well explore the apps that gnome has been so gracious to include, and then, when I've discovered which

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
-gentoo.el. Funny that you mention this. There might be something similar brewing for users of Gnome where quite a few low-level parts will end up being mandatory for Gnome: ...but I'm increasingly seeing talk on the gnome side of the Gnome OS, to include pulse-audio, systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-23 Thread Jon Hardcastle
at the very least read the log (specially its tail) of the python emerge (emerge logs normally go to /var/log/emerge). And you did log the files installed by the manual python install, didn't you? And why did you try python 3.01 first? You should try a similar vesion to what you were

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
feedback from the list before I embark on a huge emerge -e world to include Xinerama support. There's a third option you haven't mentioned: two different displays rather than a large virtual display spread across two monitors. After reading up on the options, it's what I chose to do. Cons

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -e world' question

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Hartman
, Paul Read a few of the other posts, make sure that @world is including the system set. Either just use world with no @ or do a @system and @world. --depclean should have mentioned that when you ran it too. It does here but you may be on a different version than I am. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
I haven't tried setuid for the wvdial binary. I have joined the users to the groups dialout and uucp. I have also changed the owner of various binaries to include users, including wvdial. I followed someone's advice on the Inet and set pppd setuid for the group ppp which I also joined all users

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - slideshow-type screensaver with custom images

2006-05-13 Thread Willie Wong
like that is fairly trivial in linux: you just need to edit .xscreensaver and include a image display program. For example, if you install the image display program qiv, here's what it says in its man page: XSCREENSAVER SUPPORT To use qiv with xscreensaver, either type make install

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Webmail in portage without PHP?

2006-12-07 Thread Daniel Iliev
it myself I prefer SquirrelMail. If someday gentoo decides to include RoundCube in the portage, only then I'll think of using it in a production system. So, how do you, guys, secure non-portage applications? -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Colin
to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! I've always had good luck with cards that use the Orinoco chipset and the only time I've had to tinder with drivers was when I wanted to get Kismet working with the card. You should be able to pick one up for under $50. Check out http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
into this twice, first on my frontline machine, then on the stand-by. The solution was 'USE=-hal emerge xorg-server', then remerge all drivers. There was a Gentoo help doc re it, which gave this as the simplest option. 'evdev' is a separate matter: you need to include it in your kernel, than you can

[gentoo-user] Java problem

2010-05-22 Thread David Relson
of 'emerge --info =dev-java/ant-core-1.8.1', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =dev-java/ant-core-1.8.1'. !!! When you file a bug report, please include the following information: GENTOO_VM= CLASSPATH= JAVA_HOME= JAVACFLAGS= COMPILER= and of course, the output of emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing phpmyadmin output

2011-04-13 Thread Mick
On 13 April 2011 14:33, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 13 April 2011 12:25:01 Mick wrote: I assume that the page uses frames and the current print configuration (or lack of it) does not include the frame that you wish to print. Nice idea, but from the print

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-02 3:50 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-03-02 2:33 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: And you can use the --sort options for ps to sort by cpu or anything you

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Hartman
 wrote: And you can use the --sort options for ps to sort by cpu or anything you like (see the manpage) Even better, thanks Paul... watch -n1 ps aux --sort=-%cpu | gawk '{ if ( \$3  1.0 ) { print } }' does exactly what I want... Hmmm... is there an easy way to include the column headers

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.

2012-03-14 Thread William Kenworthy
, but dracut has several options to include arbitrary files on the initramfs. I'm sure genkernel has something similar; why don't you try to add the /usr missing files in the initramfs? Good luck. Is there a way to get a detailed log of what the initrd is doing/has done? BillK Good

[gentoo-user] Re: OOM memory issues

2014-09-18 Thread James
Kerin Millar kerframil at fastmail.co.uk writes: A new tunable, oom_score_adj, was added, which accepts values between 0 and 1000. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a63d83f#include/linux/oom.h FANTASTIC! Exactly the sort of info I'm looking for learn the pass, see what has been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Profile listings

2015-06-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
default} I still have some vintage gentoo systems running which have very few flags set and include (USE=-*) in make.conf. And a {state-machine/executive/rtos embedded(linux)}, just so we are on the same page. Would be interesting to know what you mean exactly by minimal

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux USB security holes.

2017-11-07 Thread R0b0t1
and more security releases are starting to look like the above, as the researchers and authors clamor for notability, which is increasingly hard to find. I think the article you found strikes a middle ground - the exploits are relevant in practice, but take a lot of work to use. Cheers, R0b0t1

[gentoo-user] in world update myodbc 5.3.10 will not emerge

2018-03-22 Thread John Covici
odbc_end': /var/tmp/portage/dev-db/myodbc-5.3.10-r1/work/mysql-connector-odbc-5.3.10-src/driver/dll.c:114:5: error: `my_thread_end_wait_time' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean `my_thread_end'? my_thread_end_wait

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-libs/guile-gtk-2.1-r3 fails to compile

2019-05-06 Thread Stefan Schmiedl
age/x11-libs/guile-gtk-2.1-r3/work/guile-gtk-2.1/gtk-glue.c:4: /var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/guile-gtk-2.1-r3/work/guile-gtk-2.1/gtk-glue.c: In function ‘sgtk_gtk_input_add_full’: /var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/guile-gtk-2.1-r3/work/guile-gtk-2.1/gtk-glue.c:3579:63: error: ‘scm_tc16_fport’ undeclared (fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-28 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
/* ~amd64 www-apps/jekyll ~amd64 www-apps/jekyll-* ~amd64 to package.accept_keywords, and then running `emerge www-apps/jekyll'. This is on stable, with a tree that is a couple weeks old for what it's worth. Then `jekyll new testsite && bundle exec jekyll serve' works for me

[gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

2023-09-20 Thread Grant Edwards
xattrs-include='*.*' -C / . > > Does that stop at file system boundaries (because you tar up '/')? I think > it must be, otherwise you wouldn’t use it that way. > But when copying a root file system, out of habit I first bind-mount it in a > subdirectory and tar/rsync from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot has no space left.

2022-06-30 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > > and don't forget to run "uname -a" to get your currently running > kernel version and make sure you don't delete that! > > "IF" "uname -a" isn't the latest version you have in /boot, some more > investigation as to

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr partition

2022-09-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
point. You > > can load more than one initrd at boot, so you can still apply microcode > > updates. For example, with systemd-boot > > > > title Desktop > > version 5.15.59-gentoo > > linux /vmlinuz-5.15.59-gentoo > > options root=LABEL

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-17 Thread Dale
confused as to what comes first but I got some pictures to look at now. That helps to picture what I am doing, sort of. Thanks to all for the advice tho. It's helping. Still nervous about / on LVM tho. :/ Dale :-) :-) I'll second the recommendation about naming ... I use separate partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-17 Thread Dale
still get them confused as to what comes first but I got some pictures to look at now. That helps to picture what I am doing, sort of. Thanks to all for the advice tho. It's helping. Still nervous about / on LVM tho. :/ Dale :-) :-) I'll second the recommendation about naming ... I use

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
addresses, then the cryptographic signature will show it, and the packet will be correctly identified as having been tampered with! http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=135325641430178w=2 It's hardly difficult to get around that now is it. Sure, you can use an IP-in-IP tunnel

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH question

2012-08-20 Thread Mick
to the port XX to the machine you are running the ssh command from, will redirect the connection to the machine2 host in the YY port. If you want to forward a local port XX to a remote port YY then Canek's suggestion will do what you want, assuming that the correct remote application

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas Schweikle
that are config-protected that have moved that way (well, less > so if you keep /etc whole). > > I think some of this hinges on just HOW old that system is. What was > the date that it was last updated on? > > Assuming it isn't older than 2015 I think the simplest safe app

[gentoo-user] basic trouble with sendmail config

2016-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
bove. # # This file is used to configure Sendmail for use with Debian systems. # # If you modify this file, you will have to regenerate /etc/mail/sendmail.cf # by running this file through the m4 preprocessor via one of the following: # * make (or make -C /etc/mail) # * sendmailconfi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
, the code does not know and the dev does not know. Only *I* know and *I* am the only person that can make this decision. Unix users tend to use it because (amongst other things) the system does not try and second guess us and pull a we know better than you stunt. If I want that behaviour, I'll migrate

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