Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox) [RESOLVED]

2020-02-26 Thread n952162
I finally understood, more or less, this web page:   https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186597 and added this line to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf and now I have sound from both the host and the guest:   options snd-hda-intel index=1,0 On 2020-02-19 10:06, n952...@web.de

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-26 Thread Michael Jones
When you say you have a remote portage. What do you mean? The actual portage tree, with all the ebuilds? Or something else? On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 18:08 William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, > > due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a > network share (moosfs,

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-26 Thread Michael Jones
You can separate the package directory and distfiles directory from the ebuild tree. PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage-distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage-packages" That lets you keep the ebuilds local to your laptop. On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:08 PM William Kenworthy wrote: >

[gentoo-user] mkvtoolnix: To use qt5 or not to use qt5 - that is the question (USE flag in-/valid?)

2020-02-26 Thread tuxic
Hi this command: emerge --selective=n @preserved-rebuild gives me this message when started: --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/mkvtoolnix: qt5 and eix said this: [I] media-video/mkvtoolnix Available versions: 37.0.0^t (~)42.0.0^t (~)43.0.0^t ***l^t {debug nls pch qt5

[gentoo-user] anything new in kernel 5.5.6 that makes boot slower (some extra file system checks?)

2020-02-26 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - is title right? if so, what is going on? rgrds, cm. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. (this is a lie obviously)

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-26 Thread Robert Bridge
> On 27 Feb 2020, at 00:08, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Hi, > > due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a > network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine. However, > being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very > slow and

[gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-26 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine.  However, being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very slow and network intensive through a vpn - again, it works but is even slower

[gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-26 Thread james
I'm thinking about setting up a pair of Rasp-Pi-4 as DNS servers with 4GB of ram. Is that enough ram for a DNS server? https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-4GB-Starter-MAX/dp/B07XPHWPRB https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Embedded_systems/ARM_hardware_list If 4GB is not enough, there are some

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-26 Thread William Kenworthy
PORTDIR="/mnt/mfs/portage" /mnt/mfs is a moosefs fuse mount shared full tree including distfiles, and separate package files for different hardware groups BillK On 27/2/20 9:56 am, Michael Jones wrote: > When you say you have a remote portage. What do you mean? > > The actual portage tree,

Re: [gentoo-user] mkvtoolnix: To use qt5 or not to use qt5 - that is the question (USE flag in-/valid?)

2020-02-26 Thread Franz Fellner
And another great one! Just have a look at package.use/mkvtoolnix and you will see your problem. # echo "qt5" >> /etc/portage/package.use/testuse # emerge @preserved-rebuild --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/testuse: qt5 If it isn't obvious: # man portage -> GLOSSARY -> DEPEND atom

Re: [gentoo-user] mkvtoolnix: To use qt5 or not to use qt5 - that is the question (USE flag in-/valid?)

2020-02-26 Thread Dale
tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi > > this command: > emerge --selective=n @preserved-rebuild > > gives me this message when started: > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/mkvtoolnix: qt5 > > and eix said this: > [I] media-video/mkvtoolnix > Available versions: 37.0.0^t (~)42.0.0^t

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager stopped to managed wired device

2020-02-26 Thread Jens Pelzetter
On 16.02.20 20:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 16 February 2020 08:34:22 CET, Jens Pelzetter > wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> as I just noticed NetworkManager has stopped to manage the wired >> connection on my notebook. Even putting managed=true into the >> configuration does not change