[gentoo-user] Virtual machines, and creating bootable images

2016-06-18 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
ven can do this) to an image that can be copied to a drive to produce a bootable drive. Anyone have some good starting points to think about this? Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for new messages) 250-505-6117 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku PO Box 27

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

2016-07-30 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
is that using the correct framebuffer drivers is as good, if not better than using the official nvidia ones. But as I don't believe I have had the opportunity to do so, I can't really say. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku On 2016-07-29 22:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > trying the new kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

2017-02-12 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
w the QC of these SSDs has been shown to be outrageously bad. =( > > So does anyone have any evidence of a current generation SSD lasting > more than 20 days? > -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for new messages) 250-505-6117 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku PO

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion for freenode

2016-09-03 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
e project (LedgerSMB) another which is much larger (Matrix chat protocol, and at least the software I am using myself (Synapse, Vector-Web, unplug currently)). Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku On 2016-09-03 21:37, Raymond Jennings wrote: > I think #gentoo-mentors should be filled by people willin

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM XSession list?

2016-10-18 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
Thank you. On 2016-10-18 10:58, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On 10/17/2016 10:42 PM, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote: >> I suspect that I probably ended up masking certain packages around the time >> that KDE5 was getting pushed out, but it seems that the "mess" I am >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

2016-10-18 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
the settings on the TV. > > Another option would be for the OP to post make/model of TV, maybe > there's a non-obvious way to change it on his TV - you just never know. > > Dan > -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@da

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting X11 to "underscan"...

2016-10-18 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
16 07:48:29 PM Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote: >> So far after much digging on the TV I haven't found a way to actually get it >> to do what I want. I'm not sure if it even can. I will look when I next >> get access to the system (currently in use by other members of the >> h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

2016-10-19 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
n. > > Several other brands also have some odd, trademarked, phrase for the > "disable overscan" feature, so keep an eye out for display modes with > odd names invented by a marketting person who never quite understood > what that mode actually does. > > If you ask abou

[gentoo-user] Getting X11 to "underscan"...

2016-10-17 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
that black bars are being added top, bottom, left, and right? These black bars are "outside" the interface. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for new messages) 250-505-6117 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku PO Box 270 Rossland, BC V0G

[gentoo-user] KDM XSession list?

2016-10-17 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
as Kodi on the system. And I'd like to know why, and to better differentiate them if there is a good reason that there are two of them. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for new messages) 250-505-6117 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku PO Box 270

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting X11 to "underscan"...

2016-10-17 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
f the edge of the screen. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku On 2016-10-17 16:47, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/17/2016 04:41 PM, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote: > > When I connect the iMac to our HDTV TV, I can set it to underscan. The > > reason that I would like to do that is because when I display at

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM XSession list?

2016-10-17 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
uot;. Though, your answer didn't address what I had intended to ask. Which was how to figure out what KDM is using for the session list. On 2016-10-17 19:36, Philip Webb wrote: > 161017 Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote: > > In my attempt to update yesterday I ended up uninstalling startkde, &

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No...

2016-10-16 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
to handle volume control through external speaker controls if practical. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku On 2016-10-15 23:48, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> [16-10-16 07:00]: > > On 161015-20:27+0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-25 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
in the cupboard machine. I'd like to know if other people have other solutions. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku On 2017-03-25 19:57, Stroller wrote: > Hello, > > In the next few weeks I need to move my email server (a very old Gentoo > installation) from the closet in my home, into the cloud s

Re: [gentoo-user] cron tab

2017-03-21 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
month, from > Mon-Fri. > > So why did this cron entry run today? > -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for new messages) 250-505-6117 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku PO Box 270 Ros

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: Permission Denied in CHROOT

2017-08-14 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
rpit sysrq > steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" > Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, > LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, > PORTAGE_COMPR

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

2017-07-14 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
ore that it went from signed int32 to unsigned int32. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for new messages) Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku PO Box 270 Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0 Canada ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues updating world on new install (gmp symptom)

2017-08-07 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
I intentionally changed, and trying to get what looked like the problem fixed, seems to have had no effect whatsoever. I'll go look at the wiki see if it explains it better. Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku -- Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com (Preferred address for n

Re: [gentoo-user] Unlocking Plasma desktop in Gentoo without systemd

2017-09-11 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
I had a similar (if not identical problem). This solution is a "difficult" solution, the reason I experienced this (if I understand) was that I was running KDE at the same time I was updating KDE. I can't remember if I simply rebooted, or if all it took was logging out, and logging back in.

[gentoo-user] Skype

2017-11-27 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
Is Skype "largely unusable" on Gentoo? It feels like about 3 days ago I was forced to upgrade because "this version is no longer supported" and to upgrade I had to keyword the latest version. If this keeps happening, to me, this is broken. And I'm not sure if the problem is that we are so far

[solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Skype

2017-11-27 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
Thank you, On 11/27/2017 10:02 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello, > > On Monday, November 27, 2017, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku > <jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com > <mailto:jigme.da...@datsemultimedia.com>> wrote: > >> I know, that when I was trying to figure out just "

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype

2017-11-27 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
On 11/27/2017 10:14 AM, Lex Luthor wrote: > Yeah, MS can have some pretty malicious practices. When they acquired > Skype they *removed* the E2E encryption. I am only using it for people I occasionally contact who are using it. Specifically there is a group who I am involved with is ~800 km

[gentoo-user] Emerging media-sound/supercollider fails with"multilib-strict check failed!"

2018-01-02 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku
a good way to end up reporting these kinds of things? I really wish this (and other packages which might have this problem) fixed. If this isn't the right place to put this, could someone tell me where, and if I need other information? Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku signature.asc Description: OpenP

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers,

2018-03-18 Thread Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku
Some time around when Spectre/Meltdown were announced, I started experiencing similar problems. I don't know "what's wrong" because so far I have found no answers. The best I can offer at this point is that on my system, it seems that it will work with Nouveau drivers much better than the system