Re: [gentoo-user] Has eclean changed recently?
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > For several years I've been running "eclean-pkg -d" and "eclean-dist -d" in a > weekly tidying routine, but recently it removed every single package, leaving > just the directory structure. And I'd just spent six hours building the > packages with emerge -eB too - I wasn't amused. > > Can anyone confirm this? > Works as expected here. I'm using this version of the package: gentoolkit-0.3.2-r1 I tested both dist and pkg and it worked fine. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage
Raymond Lillard wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (old at Linux) and like what I see so far. The only downside to Gentoo that I've found is that it takes forever to compile everything. I do appreciate that my system runs faster, it's just the price is two days and a fat pipe to do a fairly complete install. Most binary installs take me less than half of a day. I watched OpenOffice download and compile for over six hours before I gave up and went to bed. Many packages are offered as -bin packages such as openoffice-bin. You can alse use GRP packages (see handbook) or look at http://chinstrap.alternating.net/. Now on to my topic. I have noticed that the Samba version presently available in Portage is v3.0.10. That version was released more than six months ago. The latest released version of Samba (v3.0.14a), which contains several important bug fixes over v3.0.10, was released in mid-April. The next release of Samba will be v3.0.20. It presently is in the "rc" stage and will be released "real soon now". Being new to Gentoo, I don't know what the typical lag time between an upstream release and a Portage release is, but from the looks of the packages I have installed, it seems that Portage chases the upstream releases rather vigorously. Is there some specific issue with Samba? Has the Samba/Portage maintainer been unable to work on this? Does he/she need assistance? Should I just get v3.0.14a directly and maintain it outside the Portage system? I don't mind maintaining Samba outside of Portage, but before I do so, I would like to understand the present situation. Best, Ray You need to learn more about portage (read the portage manpage). mkdir /etc/portage echo "net-fs/samba ~*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge -av samba Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator
On Di, 25 Apr 17:47:22 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, currently I am using urxvt as my standard terminal application, which is FAST and reliable. But it only emulates 24bit colors if instructed so. It maps 24bit rgb to 256 color using a fast but not total correct formula to to do (which is no critism - its just the way ot is implemented). I googled qyite a bit to find 24color terminal emulators and the one, which came closer to what I want is sakure. But comparing the speed of sakura with urxvt (catting a long log file twice while measureing the time of the second cat) it shows that sakura needs six times more time than urxvt. Combining this with the compile sessions, which are one of the core features of Gentoo ;)))... What I want is the "fastest" possible (...) terminal emulator supporting true color (24bit). I dont need fancy configuring options (two exception: TABS! and lightweighted) and I dont want KDE stuff (or any other bloated thing with thousands of dependencies...) I am simply using openbox. What are your experiences? Any hint is heartly welcome! Thanks ! Cheers Meino PS: The terminal emulator dont need to be part of Gentoo necessarily...if it is compilable by a human being withoyt super powers... ;) I am using rxvt-unicode also as my main terminal emulator. Its true colour emulation bothers me also but just only a little bit. As a second one, xfce4-terminal runs here from time to time (seldom). A quick time/cat test with a gcc-5.4.0 log file (approximately 25 MiB) shows surprisingly that xfce4-terminal runs six time faster than rxvt-unicode. Maybe one reason is that urxvt looks for URLs and email addresses to colourising them. Maybe you can get a suggestion from [1]. References: [1] <https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728> -- Regards, floyd
Re: [gentoo-user] RYZEN 5: Hyperthreading or no hyperthreading...
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:11 AM wrote: > > On 03/27 06:04, Andrea Conti wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > Thread(s) per core: 1 <<<<< > > > Does my CPU hyperthread? > > > > Definitely not. > > > > Your kernel config is fine, chances are hyperthreading (aka "SMT mode") is > > disabled in your BIOS settings. > > > > andrea > > > > Hi Andrea, > > I checked that: The BIOS setting was set to use hyperthreading. > > But "Number of cores" was set to six. I changed that to 12 and > Voila! I got two threads per core. > > I think "Number of cores" is a little misleading, since there > are six physical cores (not threads) with a RYZEN 5. > > I feeling not that comfortable with this solution. > > Is there any way to check for the validity of this setting > beside a tool, which prints a "2" after the word "threads" ;) ? > > Cheers! > Meino > > cat /proc/cpu should give info for each thread. I've been running an i7 980 Extreme processor @3.33GHz here at home for about 12 years or so. It's 6 cores but shows 12 processors on both Gentoo and now Kubuntu. I generally run top and then hit '1' and 'z'. You can watch what percentage each core/thread is using. Time a BIG compile job twice, once with each kernel. If it's working you'll measure a significant difference in time. Note that it won't be 2x as you'll also be limited by disk read/write throughput, but you'll know it's basically working. On Gentoo make sure you're compile settings in (I think make.conf - I no longer run Gentoo much) are set to take advantage of all your cores and not limited to something smaller. Also watch overheating when using more cores/threads. On older PCs like mine when you possibly have dust in CPU coolers might not be as efficient as when they are new. HTH, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why
On 12/4/20 11:07 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:34, n952162 wrote: Forgotten about? I'm flattered! That would imply I understood something here ... Here's my python situation: $ sed -n -e '/^\s*#/d' -e '/python/Ip' * | sort -u */* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_7 >=dev-lang/python-2.7.16:2.7 sqlite >=dev-lang/python-3.6.9 sqlite >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.9-r1 python >=dev-python/PySocks-1.7.1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/certifi-10001-r1 python_targets_python3_7 >=dev-python/certifi-2019.11.28 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/cffi-1.14.0 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/chardet-3.0.4 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/cryptography-2.8-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 -python_targets_python2_7 >=dev-python/idna-2.8 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/isodate-0.6.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/ply-3.11 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/pycparser-2.20 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/pycryptodome-3.9.4 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/pyopenssl-19.1.0 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/requests-2.23.0 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/setuptools-50.3.0 python_targets_python3_7 >=dev-python/setuptools_scm-4.1.2-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/setuptools_scm-4.1.2-r1 python_targets_python3_7 >=dev-python/six-1.14.0 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/six-1.15.0-r1 python_targets_python3_7 >=dev-python/urllib3-1.25.8 python_targets_python3_6 >=virtual/python-cffi-0 python_targets_python3_6 dev-lang/python readline net-print/cups X python I would try simply removing all of those python_targets_python3_x lines, and add back only those that you actually need, with an explicit version (that is '=' instead of '>='). I had a long list of packages on 3_6 for a while, but it's been several weeks/months since I could remove them all. Regards, Arve How would I know which ones I need? Aren't those specified by the package author based on special needs? Otherwise, why would they be specified, instead of left to default? I can understand that if I have two packages depending on different versions of the same dependency, the older one is probably left over from an earlier update and could be removed ... although at first glance, I don't see that situation here.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap "make yourself" server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?
Jarry [10-12-15 19:08]: > Hi, > > a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. > Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so > he asked me to build one for him, from "consumer" components > (yes, I already warned him about "zero-support" consequences). > It should be some kind of "multi-purpose" server (web, ftp, > mail, dns, virtualisation, etc). His budget is ~600-700€ (for > cpu, mobo, ram), and he wants the best value for the money... > > Now, the crucial decision is what cpu (&mobo) I should use: > > A: Intel Core i7-950, 4x 3.06GHz (4 cores, + hyper-threading) > B: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition, 6x 3.30GHz (6 cores) > > Is it better to use phenom with 6 true cores, or i7 with > 4 real and 4 "fake" cores (hyper-threading)? Concerning price, > there is no difference, both of the above mentioned cpus cost > ~250€ here in Europe. > > btw, mobos for phenom have up to 4x dimm, while mobos for > core-i7 can have up to 6x dimm (that might be a valid point, > he is going to need a lot of memory). > > So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? > Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx? > > Jarry > > -- > ___ > This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! > Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. > I think the formula "performance/money" is fitted better by AMD than by Intel. If you take "performance" and "forget the money" Intel will be your friend. I myself choose an AMD Phenom X6 1090T (which can easily by pushed to be a 1100T by the way) on a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula. But a few days agao I heard Gigabyte would be more AMD friendly... I uses this mainly for rendering -- all cores can be used by Blender in parallel. Only my two cent ... you currency may vary. I DONT WANT to start a flamewar here! Its only my opinion I wanted to express :) Best regards, mcc PS: If the siftware you will use is not capable to put full load on the machine you will pay for more hardware than it is used. PPS: Hyperthreading uses unused parts of a core to run stuff which does not need the used parts of the same core. When you have 8 identical jobs running, there have to be 8 identical parts in the cores available otherwise there is nothing to hypethread. It depends heavily on the kind and mixture of jobs running on the machine whether hyperthreading is a win or a marketing joke... I myself (own opinion) feel better to have six physical cores capable of running six identical threads doing six things real parallel, than to guess, whether 4 of the eight threads Blender is showing me is /possibly/ waiting for getting access to an unused part of one of the four cores. Yes, I am an AMD friend since Intel way of "handling" the P90 floating point bug for their customers. And since this 15 (?) years this decision was ok -- at least for me. ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] RYZEN 5: Hyperthreading or no hyperthreading...
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:58 PM wrote: > > On 03/27 11:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:11 AM wrote: > > > > > > On 03/27 06:04, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > Thread(s) per core: 1 <<<<< > > > > > Does my CPU hyperthread? > > > > > > > > Definitely not. > > > > > > > > Your kernel config is fine, chances are hyperthreading (aka "SMT mode") > > is > > > > disabled in your BIOS settings. > > > > > > > > andrea > > > > > > > > > > Hi Andrea, > > > > > > I checked that: The BIOS setting was set to use hyperthreading. > > > > > > But "Number of cores" was set to six. I changed that to 12 and > > > Voila! I got two threads per core. > > > > > > I think "Number of cores" is a little misleading, since there > > > are six physical cores (not threads) with a RYZEN 5. > > > > > > I feeling not that comfortable with this solution. > > > > > > Is there any way to check for the validity of this setting > > > beside a tool, which prints a "2" after the word "threads" ;) ? > > > > > > Cheers! > > > Meino > > > > > > > > > > cat /proc/cpu should give info for each thread. I've been running an i7 980 > > Extreme processor @3.33GHz here at home for about 12 years or so. It's 6 > > cores but shows 12 processors on both Gentoo and now Kubuntu. > > > > I generally run top and then hit '1' and 'z'. You can watch what percentage > > each core/thread is using. > > > > Time a BIG compile job twice, once with each kernel. If it's working you'll > > measure a significant difference in time. Note that it won't be 2x as > > you'll also be limited by disk read/write throughput, but you'll know it's > > basically working. > > > > On Gentoo make sure you're compile settings in (I think make.conf - I no > > longer run Gentoo much) are set to take advantage of all your cores and not > > limited to something smaller. Also watch overheating when using more > > cores/threads. On older PCs like mine when you possibly have dust in CPU > > coolers might not be as efficient as when they are new. > > > > HTH, > > Mark > > Hi Mark, > > thank you for your explanations! :) > > /proc/cpu doesn't exist on my systemmay be you are referring to > /proc/cpuinfo? > > The problem was caused by a kernel misconfiguration by me. > > In the kernel setup there is a setting "Number of cores" which > I had set to six ... since my CPU has 6 physical core. > > Setting this to twelve (and blurring the syntactically border between > threads and cores thereby...) gives me twelves cores in top, htop > and such and (as an example) compiling the kernel is faster - > so it is not a display gimmick only. > > I think "Number of cores" is a misnomer...or am I wrong? > > Cheers! > Meino > Meino, Yes, /proc/cpuinfo. Sorry. Well yes, I guess the 'Number of cores' is a misnomer if you're trying to equate the language in the kernel against Intel/AMD marketing data for physical cores. 6 physical cores with or without hyperthreading is still 6 physical cores. However 6 physical cores (my processor) _WITH_ hyperthreading enabled is 12 _LOGICAL_ cores which is more what I think the kernel verbiage is about. Semantics I suppose. I'm glad you found it wasn't a gimmicky number. It really does work, within the limits of the hardware being able to figure out what one thread should be fetching or writing while the other thread is computing. It's not a perfect 2:1 like 12 physical cores might be, but it's a lot less silicon and therefore a lot less expensive. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about eix-test-obsolete output
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:25:52 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > This is all doable until now but I have about six different tools which > do their job more or less reliable to achieve all this. Having separate tools has the advantage that it is possible to improve or replace individual ones, such as eix superceding esearch, without having to worry about how all the other functions are handled. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 21: "Now, then ..." signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On 2007-09-29, forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I'm using cable, I figure if I need to, in 17 month I > can get a converter, or afford to buy a better card. If you're using cable, you may not need to. Cable companies are free to continue distributing analog signals as long as they want. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I need to discuss at BUY-BACK PROVISIONS visi.com with at least six studio SLEAZEBALLS!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A few suggestions for emerge world via cron
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:34:46 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > The only automation in my case is eix-sync followed by emerge -uND > --fetchonly @system @world It would be worth adding glsa-check to that list. Run it every day from cron to get mailed about any security risks. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one - who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] gentoo netheck
Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tavis Ormandy (21 Mar 2006) # masked pending unresolved security issues #125902 =games-roguelike/nethack-3.4.3-r1 Then I googled and view https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125902#c82. It turned out the bug has been existed for more than six years and is related to gentoo's group game policy. So can I just manually install nethack as a common user ?
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging GCC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Six wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Gentoo. I decided I wanted GCJ and > Objective C support in the GCC, so I recompiled it. Hmmm... I would try toying around with gcc-config and see if that solves your problem. Also, try 'source /etc/profile'. - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDCjIyA7Qvptb0LKURAnZhAJ4o+CCm6Clv/hrqN8245uF1U8a2ZQCfc6ze 6qdsL78CkfXNRUtXeV05nJY= =fBcD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE Conflageration
I finished installing Gentoo and Xorg successfully. When I went to install the KDE desktop I decided to install the whole thing by typing emerge kde-meta, which installs everything possible. After about six hours I got frustrated and shut of the computer. My question is is can I delete what I already did and start over and just do a basic KDE install? And if so, what directory can I find that I can delete KDE from? Thanks Will -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
> Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of > getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE > automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start > and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? config_ppp9=( "ppp" ) plugins_ppp9=( "pppoe" ) link_ppp9="eth1" username_ppp9="XXX" pppd_ppp9=( "noauth" "defaultroute" "holdoff 0" ) That works perfectly for me. It reconnects automatically. To start/stop the connection at will: yes, you have to start/stop the init.d-script. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation
On Wednesday 05 August 2015 10:43:28 Rich Freeman wrote: > Just to humor you I'll include an OpenRC version of my raid1 btrfs > install walkthrough. :) It has been a while since I've done one of > those... Me too please, Rich. I still haven't got this six-year-old MBR box to boot raid1 btrfs. Oh, and do you know why the handbook now says to include a tiny grub partition before the boot partition, even on an MBR system? -- Rgds Peter -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to glsa-check?
On 4/1/19 9:30 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > But obviously, it was never removed from gentoolkit. And not > surprisingly, the two copies have diverged over the years. > Went to file a bug, and someone beat me to it by six years: https://bugs.gentoo.org/463952 It sounds like the plan is to make all of glsa-check's features available via the portage API, and then update gentoolkit's copy of the tool to be a wrapper around that API.
[gentoo-user] Re: Libsld, what gives?
On 2022-11-16, Alan Grimes wrote: > Even though only 45 days have passed since my last update, I felt > like doing one tonight. Usually I should wait six months just to > save myself the aggrivation... (I'm looking to set up a local > bitcoin wallet because the exchanges are not to be trusted > anymore...) > > Naturally nothnig worked because, hey, this is gentoo One wonders why you continue to run Gentoo, since it's so awful and you hate it so much. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?
On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:11:18 P.M. AEDT Alan Grimes wrote: > Even though only 45 days have passed since my last update, I felt like > doing one tonight. Usually I should wait six months just to save myself > the aggrivation... No, waiting 6 months between updates *causes* aggrivation. Try updateing on a regular schedule, at 1 or 2 week intervals, and see if your experience improves. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
[gentoo-user] Re: Libsld, what gives?
On 2022-11-17, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:11:18 P.M. AEDT Alan Grimes wrote: >> Even though only 45 days have passed since my last update, I felt like >> doing one tonight. Usually I should wait six months just to save myself >> the aggrivation... > > No, waiting 6 months between updates *causes* aggrivation. Indeed. > Try updateing on a regular schedule, at 1 or 2 week intervals, and > see if your experience improves. He's been told this many times. He prefers to wait and complain. -- Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: Installation (or not) of Perl Getopt::Long
On 25 Dec 2009, at 16:21, Stroller wrote: > ... > Yet none of them, not even the Get::Long package that I've been experimenting > with, are installed on my system: > > $ eix -c -C perl Getopt -I > No matches found. > $ > > Can anyone explain, please, why this appears not to be installed? Yet how > it's working just fine? Ok, please ignore me: "Getopt::Std and Getopt::Long are both supplied with the standard Perl distribution. There are currently six other Getopt:: modules available on CPAN." http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/pm/getopt.html
Re: [gentoo-user] What's with this hald thing and why can't I rip CDs any more?
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change. > sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the > last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No > messages in dmesg. Have you tried a different ripper? This could be a problem with sound-juicer, not hal/dbus. -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as the pin fell out of the grenade. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: >> I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting >> to keep it that way. I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the >> long run. > > I can only imagine what will happen if he forgets that package.mask and then > removes it six months later:-) I too, have spent a couple of days wondering what was masking a package before remembering that it was me.
Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling
On 12/02/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recommend you look into memtest86 to check your ram, it's provided as a boot option on the gentoo boot cds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dan, Quite correct Funnily enough I had an Ubuntu LiveCD to hand with it on, so I used that instead. Is there a finite number of passes the program needs to make? I left it running for six hours yesterday and it had done something like 11+ passes without finding an error. Is that anywhere near long enough? Thanks Jeff
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:38 PM, James Wall wrote: > Two dozen??? How many computers do you have? > For audio work I have six. 2-3 sound cards/machine. Typically 1 card/machine is dedicated to junk system sounds. The others run Jack for more interesting audio work. (Recording live, soft-synths, etc.) Many cards are just older things I've had for years. They will continue to be useful until the machines die and I don't have PCI slots in new ones to plug them into. - Mark
[gentoo-user] Editing the "open with" dialog of PCMANFM
Hi everybody. I use PcManFM, its just perfect for everything but i wanna edit the options that appear in the "open with" sub-menu when i right click some file. For example, if I right click an image, it appears GIMP, Gpicview and like six times "Wine core", for some reason. So i wanna fix that. How? ^_^ Thanks in advance. -- Alex Barrios - Piensa como una persona de acción, y actúa como una persona que piensa. - Twitter > http://twitter.com/alexbariv GPG Pub > 0D843DCB Linux User > 383172 "Descubre! Disfruta! Comparte! openSUSE Linux."
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Simple and lightweight SMTP server
Mauro Faccenda wrote: On Monday 07 November 2005 13:38, Alexander Skwar wrote: On normal systems, I always use Postfix, but that's not really "lightweight" :) qmail six of one, half a dozen of the other in my mind as neither are monolithic binaries. qmail uses ucspi-tcp to start thing as needed and Postfix has its master process which basically does the same thing. I'd probably test both anyway just to be sure, but if there is no drastic difference I'd choose the one you're more familiar with. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from Gentoo...
Hi, since I have enough space on my harddisc and because there seems no solution for my dev-python/six-problem I want to install a new gentoo. I searched through different pages on the Gentoo site but only can find those, which will install via "and now boot the iso image" which I dont want. Is it possible to install a bare system from a tar-ball, chroot into that and do the installation work then? And: Where can I find such a tar-bar (I only find *.iso files) ? Cheers Meino
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0
On Monday 24 Apr 2017 14:36:01 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Speaking of long emerge times, so far this box has spent nearly six hours on > two systems simultaneously (one being a chroot for a slower machine) and > still hasn't finished. And qtwebkit has just failed; I'd better look into > that. I've had the odd rebuild failure here & there, don't bother re-emerging it until revdep-rebuild has finished. Any dependencies it needs would have been rebuilt by then and it should complete without problem. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Xvnc/vncviewer: Keyboard repeat does not work?!
Hi, to access my Beaglebone Black (embedded system) easily, here in the list I got the hint (*THANKS*) to use xvfb/xvnc/vncviewer(tigervnc). Everythings works fine...except for the keyrepeatiton. Regardless how heavily I hammer down the key...it does not work ;) Since everything else works fine...I have no idea what the reason for this problem... How can I fix that? Best regards, mcc PS: Mails/threads from over six years ago report this problem also -- and that it was fixed. Am I trapped in a time bubble? ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing
On Wednesday 05 November 2014 23:21:46 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > have you tried restarting plasma? Or switched screens? I don't know how to restart plasma, other than logging out and in again. I have six virtual desktops most of the time, and they're all equally blank. > i have occasionally lost programms from the task bar, switching desktops > brought them back. This sounds unlike my problem. Thanks anyway. PS. Sorry for the delay replying - some nasty, sticky stuff hit the fan and I've only just got it going again. -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eno1 became back eth0
On Thursday, 14 November 2019 23:17:16 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > I've also had interfaces randomly rename themselves (more than once.) > The second time it happened I forced the old behaviour and haven't had > any problems since... that was like six years ago now? (Or maybe more...) > > Dan +1, but I can't recall if it was a wireless or wired NIC which did this. I suspected a changed kernel driver for the device caused the name change, but I'm not sure. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?
Paul, On Thursday, 2022-11-17 17:52:17 +1100, you wrote: > On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:11:18 P.M. AEDT Alan Grimes wrote: > > ... > >Usually I should wait six months just to save myself > > the aggrivation... > > No, waiting 6 months between updates *causes* aggrivation. The last word you're using here was originally coined by Allan. Since I didn't find it in my dictionary, I assume it doesn't exist. So I would suggest using either "aggravation" or "aggrievation", another word I did not find in my dictionary, but which seems to fit even better ... :-) Sincerely, Rainer
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 13:55:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > Actually, I went to the latest version in the tree, 6.5, and got the > message it likely won't work. I went back to a version the message said > should work, 6.1. It still doesn't work. It may be the driver, it may > not be. What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log tell you? -- Neil Bothwick What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to their necks in sand? Not enough sand. pgpWb1DKyib0m.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Has eclean changed recently?
On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:16:53 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > For several years I've been running "eclean-pkg -d" and "eclean-dist > -d" in a weekly tidying routine, but recently it removed every single > package, leaving just the directory structure. And I'd just spent six > hours building the packages with emerge -eB too - I wasn't amused. > > Can anyone confirm this? No, I don't use eclean, but you can recreate your packages with quickpkg: quickpkg $(qlist -ICv | sed 's/^/=/') -- Neil Bothwick The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach. pgprKb6JrQOTE.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox
On Sunday, April 26, 2015 1:03:30 PM »Q« wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:49:27 + > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:23:53AM -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > Alan, I think Firefox relies on gstreamer for at least some of its > > > HTML5 playback capability, so USE="-gstreamer" may be at the root of > > > the issue. On the YouTube HTML5 page, do you get a "What does this > > > browser support?" section? If so, what does it say? > > > > Of the six boxes there, I have ticks (?check marks?) on > > o - HTMLVideoElement > > o - WebM VP8 > > I have exclamation marks on all the others, namely > > o - H.264 > ^ > This is the only one which I have but you don't, and HTML video plays ok > for me with Firefox 37.0.2. > > > o - Media Source Extensions > > o - MSE & H.264 > > o - MSE & WebM VP9 > > The MSE ones are disabled in all Firefoxen for now. They tried > enabling support recently, but uncovered so many bugs they had to > disable it right away. > > > It's frustrating that "HTML5" isn't mentioned in that list of six. > > HTML5 video encompasses several formats. "HTMLVideoElement" checked > just means the browser will recognize elements, and the others > are various formats. > > > I'll take your tip and try rebuilding with gstreamer enabled. Thanks! > > I hope it works! I just tried looking at which gst-plugins I have > installed, to figure out which might give H.264 support, but I can't > make sense of it. > Do you have the "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems" firefox add-on installed (I think it comes with firefox). I have it but I still don't have H.264 checked on that page and I can't play some H.264 videos like this one https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us. If you have it, do you mind disabling it to check if that's where you're getting H.264 support from? I have no problems playing youtube videos without it (both HTML5 and Flash) and I don't have gstreamer enabled on firefox. -- Fernando Rodriguez
Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why
On 12/4/20 8:52 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/4/20 11:07 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:34, n952162 wrote: Forgotten about? I'm flattered! That would imply I understood something here ... Here's my python situation: $ sed -n -e '/^\s*#/d' -e '/python/Ip' * | sort -u */* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_7 >=dev-lang/python-2.7.16:2.7 sqlite >=dev-lang/python-3.6.9 sqlite >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.9-r1 python >=dev-python/PySocks-1.7.1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/certifi-10001-r1 python_targets_python3_7 >=dev-python/certifi-2019.11.28 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/cffi-1.14.0 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/chardet-3.0.4 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/cryptography-2.8-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/docutils-0.16 -python_targets_python2_7 >=dev-python/idna-2.8 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/isodate-0.6.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/ply-3.11 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/pycparser-2.20 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/pycryptodome-3.9.4 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/pyopenssl-19.1.0 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/requests-2.23.0 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/setuptools-50.3.0 python_targets_python3_7 >=dev-python/setuptools_scm-4.1.2-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/setuptools_scm-4.1.2-r1 python_targets_python3_7 >=dev-python/six-1.14.0 python_targets_python3_6 >=dev-python/six-1.15.0-r1 python_targets_python3_7 >=dev-python/urllib3-1.25.8 python_targets_python3_6 >=virtual/python-cffi-0 python_targets_python3_6 dev-lang/python readline net-print/cups X python I would try simply removing all of those python_targets_python3_x lines, and add back only those that you actually need, with an explicit version (that is '=' instead of '>='). I had a long list of packages on 3_6 for a while, but it's been several weeks/months since I could remove them all. Regards, Arve How would I know which ones I need? Aren't those specified by the package author based on special needs? Otherwise, why would they be specified, instead of left to default? I can understand that if I have two packages depending on different versions of the same dependency, the older one is probably left over from an earlier update and could be removed ... although at first glance, I don't see that situation here. I guess you mean, remove them all and then let emerge tell me which ones I need. I'll try that. But isn't '=' more restrictive than '>=', promising me troubles earlier?
[gentoo-user] Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2
On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved > grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six > paragraphs > in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be > debugged, is better than four lines in a config file. This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask... Since I have no desire to experience this new 'improved' GRUB, but don't like LILO - how long will it be before I'll be forced to make a choice? Meaning, how long will legacy GRUB still be supported?
Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 2820SA - Slowwwwwwwwww?
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Paul Sobey wrote: I have a server running Gentoo X64 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 with an Adaptec 2820SA configured with a simple mirror. This card is a PCI-X card but due to an oversight on my part is plugged into a standard PCI slot on a PCI-E motherboard. Still, I'm getting some absolutely atrocious disk performance from it, a lot less than I would expect. Bonnie++ results are here: To reply to my own post, flashing the controller from 5.1 to 5.2 increased read performance six fold and doubled write performance. Result! Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:37:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> I have not tried this myself but you can try to copy $DISTDIR/svn-src
> to $WORKDIR and use 'ebuild name-of-the-ebuild.ebuild
> {install,qmerge}' to install it manually. See 'man ebuild' for
> reference.
I was about to try this when Alan's suggestion arrived, which worked.
However, this is just the sort of kludgy approach that appeals to me :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working
On Saturday 30 April 2011 19:53:21 Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > I use nfs about twice/year to transfer large files between > > machines -- so > > I'm quite an expert at praying to the computer gods to "please > > let > > this nfs > > mount work just this one last time and I'll never bother you > > again, I promise!" > > > > I'm lying, of course, because I intend to do it again six months > > from now. > > > > Why not just use scp of sftp since its so infrequent? > > New can of worms. o_O > scp is fucking easy to do. Even easier: pure-ftpd.
Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news
On Mon, 2 May 2011 11:16:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Does stable portage support the --autounmask option to emerge? > I use ~amd64 portage so I have supports that feature but what command > do I run today to unmask the version level they will make stable next > week? (For instance 0.7 instead of 0.8) I don't think that feature > looks into the future like that. The latest version of baselayout is over six weeks old, so I'd go for that. -- Neil Bothwick Celery is not food. It is a member of the plywood family. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] GRUB v2
Hello List, I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding and using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles here too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being dense, or maybe it was on another list. I want to try another distro on an oldish box, but its gentoo grub can't chain to the grub-2 on another boot partition - it reports an invalid executable format, or something like that. Looks like time to bone up on grub-2 as it's the Coming Thing. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
[gentoo-user] gentoo netheck
I'm sorry for the last email. My gmail made a mistake by sending an incomplete draft. Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Tavis Ormandy (21 Mar 2006) # masked pending unresolved security issues #125902 =games-roguelike/nethack-3.4.3-r1 Then I googled and view https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125902#c82. It turned out the bug has been existed for more than six years and is related to gentoo's group game policy. So can I just manually install nethack as a common user ?
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On 21/12/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All things considered, Mandrake is easier to install than windoze any day. You think about it, you set up the drives, select ALL the software you can fit and hit the install button. How easy is that? You only have to reboot once too. I counted six reboots the last time I installed XP for somebody. It took longer too. Then you get to install the software you had to buy, including anti-virus, adware protection, trojan watchers and all that. Yea, I pick Linux. Precisely. Jeff http://latedeveloperbasketcase.blogspot.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004
Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and thinks it has success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data from CD1 six times. This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - Steve B. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 4:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands down. IMO What about package management? Good point, since LFS has none built in, I guess Gentoo wins here as well. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi guys, Actually, BLFS has six different package management options. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:16:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > HP Deskjet 5550 works just fine > > I'll just weigh in here for Hewlett Packard, (although I am told that > if you want highest quality digital photo prints go for epson). I used to think that, having used the six colour Epsons. But I had big problems with jets blocking, so I bought a Deskjet 5150 and the quality of digital prints, with the photo cartridge, is superb. -- Neil Bothwick ... "Yummy," said Pooh, as he hilted his paw into the "honeypot". pgpgdQ0HEbpxY.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes
If only Gentoo were more complicated to administrate we'd have less time for discussing mathematical jokes (funny), html mail (a crutch of dubious usefulness for the inarticulate), and top posting (I blame Pine). Damn you Pooorrrageee!!! Since these subjects come up every six weeks (well the math is new) like clockwork, perhaps it is time to create a FAQ detailing the arguments and generally agreed on conclusions we'll all seen countless times. kashani, anxiously awaiting the drawn out discussion this may provoke, but willing to live with that if something actually gets done. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
On Sunday 23 April 2006 22:45, Sven Köhler wrote: > > (1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? > > ppp included the pppoe-plugin known from rp-pppoe. the pppoe-plugin > uses the kernel-mode PPPoE. There is no need for rp-pppoe anymore, > because ppp offers everything needed. Aah I see! Thanks for correcting me. :) Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? Thanks, Mrugesh pgp5KCL1QUvO3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 9/1/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Should hotplug be removed from the boot runlevel? Considering that the script is now (nearly) empty and useless, it doesn't really matter. It just clutters up your boot messages, you are are free to keep it if you want :-P Well, this is how the warning should be: * WARNING: The hotplug init script is now gone (dead but not yet buried). To deep-six it, remove it from your runlevels with rc-update. ;-) Thanks. Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?
On Wed, 30 May 2018 10:36:57 +0100, Mick wrote: > Thanks guys, I just rebooted and still every submenu entry under > 'Leave' is gone, except for 'Lock' and 'Logout'. This is weird. What > could be causing this? Check System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Desktop Session. is "Offer shutdown options" enabled? It could also be a permissions thing if your user no longer has permission to execute the shutdown and reboot commands. -- Neil Bothwick What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to their necks in sand? Not enough sand. pgplSIMaZZlkQ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS
>>> Any controller that claims RAID10 on a server with 6 drive bays should >>> be able to put all six drives in an array. But you'll get a three-way >>> stripe (better performance) instead of a three-way mirror (better fault >>> tolerance). > > I forget why I even brought it up. I think it was in order to argue that > 4 drives w/ spare is more tolerant that 6 drives in RAID10. To make that > argument, we need to be clear about what "RAID10" means. I'm extremely glad you did. Otherwise I would have booted my new hardware RAID server and been very disappointed. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions
On 04/27/2015 12:41 AM, Dale wrote: > What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a > larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half > dozen of the other thing? I just went through this myself, and I found a NAS with four drives in it. I actually got it as a part of some special, I couldn't even buy the four 2TB disks included in it individually for the price of the whole NAS. That reminds me, I should set it up. :-) Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms
On Tuesday 08 September 2015 19:42:08 Mick wrote: --->8 > So, the Linux renedering seems to be misleading the user. Have you noticed > the same? > > BTW, both Linux machines that I tried this on are running radeon drivers - > are these to blame? The AppleMac is running Intel graphics with its > 'retina' monitor. Is it a matter of somehow tuning the Xorg settings on my > Linux PCs? Have you calibrated your monitors? That seems to be the first thing to do. I bought a device six months ago and it's transformed my viewing experience: http://www.hughski.com/ (Usual disclaimer.) -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing
On Saturday 08 November 2014 12:44:46 Paul Klos wrote: > Op zaterdag 8 november 2014 09:52:32 schreef Peter Humphrey: > > On Wednesday 05 November 2014 23:21:46 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > have you tried restarting plasma? Or switched screens? > > > > I don't know how to restart plasma, other than logging out and in again. I > > have six virtual desktops most of the time, and they're all equally blank. > > You might try > > $ killall plasma-desktop && plasma-desktop & > > to restart you plasma session. Oh, well if that's all there is to it, I will - thanks. -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't create valid btrfs on NVMe
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > 4.1.30 - then I realised that sysrescd defaults to an older kernel (my > rescue version in /boot always boots to the alt kernel). I tried the alt > kernel, which is 4.4.17, and it worked! > Hmm, that longterm is starting to look somewhat mature. I might consider switching over myself. Usually I try to give them a good six months before I consider them ready for btrfs (they have a tendency to introduce regressions in new kernel versions; I gave up on tracking non-longterm ages ago). -- Rich
[gentoo-user] distcc: different arch (amd64, x86)
Hello list, since Ubuntu Hardy didn't like my notebook, I'm currently installing Gentoo (amd64) on it. This is my first Gentoo install in almost six years!! So. I have two other boxes (Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD X2 3800+) that also run Gentoo (x86) and I would like to use them as distcc hosts for my notebook. The question is: will it be possible to compile amd64 code using distcc on those x86 hosts? Will it be as simple as emerging distcc on the notebook and configure the distcc hosts? Many thanks in advance, Norberto This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:43:32 -0700, Keith Dart wrote: > I use syslinux everywhere, and on my desktop. It is already well > documented on their website and wiki. At the time I really needed to know all about isolinux, on a tight deadline, the wiki was down, and remained down for the next month's deadline too. I wish projects wouldn't rely solely on wikis for documentation, it should be installed with the program. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one - who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal
On 16 December 2006 17:47, Roman Naumann wrote: > Latin has the four cases Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and > additionally the Vocative and the Ablative. I haven't seen any other > languages with six cases. Russian. > @Uwe Thiem > Are you also German? You name sounds quite as if you're. Well, yes, I was born there. Have been living in Africa for so long by now that I don't consider myself German anymore. ;-) On the other, there are living about 20,000 German speaking people in Namibia. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal
Latin has the four cases Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and additionally the Vocative and the Ablative. I haven't seen any other languages with six cases. As you can imagine, it's quite tiring to learn Latin. :-\ Just for your information. There are languages with more cases for example the Czech language with 7, and the Finnsih language even uses 15 cases. I can't provide a case study for this languages, as i am German too, but Google brought up this links for those who are interested. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tschechische_Sprache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnische_Sprache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language http://www.helsinki-info.de/sprache.htm Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004
Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and thinks it has success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data from CD1 six times. This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - Steve B. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa problems - Using Alsa-driver and Ensoniq ens1371
> Hi, > Can confirm it works with Gentoo for more then two > years, till now. Are you saying it's not working for you too? > Check again the docs/config & unmute the > channels.Check the kernel-link. I've checked over the docs a few times, and made sure to unmute the channels. When I unmute PCM and set it to 100%, I hear a little fuzzy sound on my speakers, but still get no sound. What do you mean by check the kernel-link? Thanks, Bill > HTH. Rumen > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails
Philip Webb wrote: > I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, > when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 & 2 . Because on most machines inittab tells init to start agetty on the first six VTs, and X then takes the first free VT. > In fact, > I've suppressed higher-numbered TTY 3-6 in /etc/inittab . > Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session, > so perhaps the command to return uses the next free F key. In /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers you could set X to always start on VT7. Benno -- Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev blocks systemd etc
On 27/03/2013 22:41, Michael Mol wrote: > The case for systemd is twofold: ... > 2) Reduce the amount of CPU and RAM consumed when you're talking about > booting tens of thousands of instances simultaneously across your entire > infrastructure, or when your server instance might be spun up and down > six times over the course of a single day. I seems to me that this is rather a niche quite-specialized case (albeit a rather large instance of a niche case). In which case it would be better implemented as Redhat MagicSauce for their cloud environment where it would be exactly tuned to that case's need. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does > that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB? > Well, you could always use syslinux or something else. However, GRUB is probably your best bet. You should really consider moving to GRUB2 though. I don't know about legacy GRUB, but GRUB2 can handle your boot partition being on btrfs. I still left space on my drives for a boot partition anyway, since it will be needed when I move to EFI. -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems
On 11/02/2015 04:46 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 151101 Daniel Frey wrote: >> I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found another way >> to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic and that works trouble-free. > > Don't be coy ! -- What did you actually do which works (smile) ? > It's a driver for Laserjet printers, it won't work on deskjets AFAIK. The driver is foo2zjs: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ - it relies on ghostscript. I looked and it looks like that won't help you. I had so many problems with hplip randomly stopping working and refusing to reinstall I gave up on printing for six months before I found foo2zjs. Dan
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure
On 06/14/2017 06:05 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: So the MTP process crapped out again. I repeated this three times and cursed at KDE (it used to work, I haven't had to copy files off my phone in more than six months) and emailed them to myself. Same happens to me. And always has. I also tried every MTP tool in portage, and only found one (1) that actually works: sys-fs/simple-mtpfs And I suspect that might even differ from device to device. What works for one device will probably not work for another. In general, MTP support seems like a huge mess.
Re: [gentoo-user] processor speed
wrote: > any one have experiance with athlon, Phenom, and opteron? if so i'm > curios if it's worth a $15-20 expense. I'm using an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor. I bought it six or seven years ago when it was brand-new. It still works to my satisfaction. But of course recent CPUs (for example AMD Ryzen) are much faster. Therefore I wanna buy an AMD Threadripper next year. This should be an enormous speedup. :-) Use your preferred search engine and take a look at some benchmarks to compare the speed of your current CPU with the one you wanna buy. This should help you to make a decision. -- Regards wabe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Six non-Gentoo installs
On 10/14/2014 10:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-10-15, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >> The main problem (imnho) is that you think CentOS cares about >> configurability/multiple ways of doing things. > Oh, I don't think that -- it's pretty obvious that in the RedHat > world, choice is not an option. It's one prix fixe menu, and you can > either eat what's set in front of you or go hungry. Wasn't trying to talk down to you; you were just trying something "exotic". But yeah, it's the RedHat way or the highway which, as Rich mentioned, is great if you're looking for consistency and a support contract. Alec
Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr partition
On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 06:15:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > I switched to grub2 a while back. I've thought of using something else > but I don't have efi and most of the others are targeted at efi. If I > build a new rig, I'll likely use something else. I'll likely poke Neil > until he reveals what he uses or something. ROFL I use systemd-boot wherever possible, only falling back to GRUB if the BIOS is non-EFI. -- Neil Bothwick "God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to create England... just to try out his Practical Joke Weather Machine." pgpSOJzaUbvgO.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libsld, what gives?
On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:00:36 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-11-16, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Even though only 45 days have passed since my last update, I felt > > like doing one tonight. Usually I should wait six months just to > > save myself the aggrivation... (I'm looking to set up a local > > bitcoin wallet because the exchanges are not to be trusted > > anymore...) > > > > Naturally nothnig worked because, hey, this is gentoo > > One wonders why you continue to run Gentoo, since it's so awful and > you hate it so much. And I wonder why anyone bothers answering him. Let him stew in his own juice. -- Regards, Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Has eclean changed recently?
On Tuesday 01 Nov 2016 14:42:58 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > For several years I've been running "eclean-pkg -d" and "eclean-dist -d" > > in a weekly tidying routine, but recently it removed every single > > package, leaving just the directory structure. And I'd just spent six > > hours building the packages with emerge -eB too - I wasn't amused. > > > > Can anyone confirm this? > > Works as expected here. I'm using this version of the package: > > gentoolkit-0.3.2-r1 > > I tested both dist and pkg and it worked fine. Hmm. It's looking as though it works right for me sometimes, but not always. Time for some head scratching... -- Regards Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?
On 9/10/05, Frank Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... or which distribution to install during less than 4 days? > > Hi list, > > as I wrote yesterday I planned to complete installation after work > (started ``emerge --emptytree system'' in the morning). > > When I returned home from work I found in the logs, that ``emerge > --emptytree system'' failed at package 28 of 186 > > python-fcksum-1.7.1 > i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc bla...bla > ^ > | > +- ! > > gcc-config error: > could not run/locate "i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc" > > My architecture is i686 and it seems that 27 packages before > python-fchksum found the i686(that's SIX-eight-six)-pc-linux-gnu-gcc. > > Could be my fault. I had set up ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to "~x86". That's the first problem. Unless you want to deal with explosions, don't set your entire system to be unstable. That's a recipe for problems. Leave the global setting at stable. Then, if you need an unstable version use /etc/portage/package.keywords to set ~x86 for just the package you want to install. > > Today in the morning I started up from scratch. That's about an hour of > editing files, making file systems and so on, 1,5 hours of bootstrap.sh. > > ``emerge -p --emptytree system'' showed me, that it will install > python-fchksum with the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" too. So far, so good. > Yesterday I got a portage snapshot 20050907, today I got a portage > snapshot 20050908. Maybe the bug is fixed. So I started emerge system. > At least it didn't install two versions of gcc. That saved some time. It > ran 2,5 hours and ... > >... kabom ... > > Unfortunately I can't tell you if the python-fchksum failure has gone > away. I didn't reach this ebuild :( > I suggest starting from a stage3 build. I've installed many stage 3 builds and it nearly always works with no breakage. Once your minimal system up and running (always go for minimal on the initial emerge, then boot into your system, then emerge more) then you can easily do an emptytree emerge to re-build thingsif you *really* want to. I'm of the mind that starting with stage3 is perfectly fine. Eventually all of those packages will be updated and recompiled, so there's really no reason to do it manually right at the beginning. One more thing. What optimization setting(s) are you using? -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.
On 20/09/2023 19:05, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: In principle, a repeated space character in your passphrase could help reduce the computational burden of an offline brute force attack, by e.g. helping an attacker to identify the number of individual words in a passphrase. Due to the rotation, the Enigma encoded each subsequent letter differently, even if the same one repeated, which was (one of) the big strengths of the Enigma cipher. The flaws were elsewhere, for example that a character could never be encrypted onto itself due to the internal wiring and certain message parts were always the same, like message headers and greetings. And, as always, one of the biggest weaknesses was the operator. Enigma had three (or in later versions four) rotors. The code book specified the INITIAL "settings of the day" for those rotors. What was *supposed* to happen was the operator was supposed to select a random three/four character string, transmit that string twice, then reset the rotors to that string before carrying on. So literally no two messages were supposed to have the same settings beyond the first six characters. Except that a lot of operators re-used the same characters time and time again. So if you got a message from an operator you recognised, you might well know his "seventh character reset". That saved a lot of grief trying to crack which of the several rotors were "the rotors of the day". And given that, for a large chunk of the war, the radio operators were "chatty", you generally got a lot of six-character strings for which you had a damn good idea what the plain text was. So even where some of the operators were seriously crypto-aware and careful, once you'd cracked the rotors and initial settings from the careless, you could read every message sent by everyone (using those settings) that day. Along with other things like RDF giving subs positions away (although I'm not quite sure how much we had good RDF and how much it was a cover for us reading their location in status reports), it certainly helped us loads hunting them down. Cheers, Wol
Re: [gentoo-user] Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2
On 18 Jun 2010, at 17:17, Bill Longman wrote: ... And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be debugged, is better than four lines in a config file. Can someone possibly explain exactly what's wrong with GRUB2? I've just taken a look at the wiki guide link posted by Max Bräutigam, and it all looks exactly the same as current GRUB and no more complicated, apart from optional sections to change the resolution and font at the top of the config file. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] Re: Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in
On 09/28/2009 06:23 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: Hello: Apparently I have bodged the setup somehow on this system. Each time I plug in a flash drive, two Nautilus windows open up. If I plug three USB drives in, six windows open. I can't answer your question, sorry, but I've noticed something here that may or may not be related. In the gnome System::Preferences::Removable Drives and Media dialog, I have the "Browse removable media when inserted" box *not* checked, but I get a nautilus window anyway. So, I don't have double nautili, but I still have one more than I asked for. Does that checkbox do anything on your system?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition
> I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on > trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've > been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state > Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months ago). Maybe not in line with the OP, but I had the same issue last month with using kde3 and needing to switch. I tried kde4, but my video card is garbage and I didn't want to tinker to find the reason X was so slow I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster now! ~daid
Re: [gentoo-user] pam fixed now it's tcpdump
On Thursday 31 January 2008 21:44:19 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I can't think of a reason why anyone wouldn't want all of kdebase so > there's no need to emerge startkde explicitly I did install startkde on this box. Six packages would now be installed if I were to emerge kdebase-meta, namely kdebugdialog, ksysguard, ktip, klipper, knetattach and kpager. I don't miss any of those, so what do you think I'm losing by not installing them? I think that installing startkde is the first step on the road to a lean system, which I imagine is its purpose. Long may it continue! -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 2 May 2011 11:16:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > Does stable portage support the --autounmask option to emerge? > >> I use ~amd64 portage so I have supports that feature but what command >> do I run today to unmask the version level they will make stable next >> week? (For instance 0.7 instead of 0.8) I don't think that feature >> looks into the future like that. > > The latest version of baselayout is over six weeks old, so I'd go for > that. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick Life's a crap shoot. (As are all my index futures trades today.) Sounds good. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query
On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:01:10 j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: > A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual > core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. I was > going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages with march > native > Firstly would you reccommend cloning and if so what is best technology? > > Second is a complete reinstall a better option or safer? are you using ACLs? if not a good old cp -auv is sufficient. But.. why clone the system? This is a good chance to get rid of cruft and forgotten packages. A clean installation (and copied /etc) might not be a bad choice. -- #163933
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance
On 10/24/2011 08:28 PM, walt wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata outboard docking station. Not so good :( [...] Over at least six trials on each docking station I consistently get 105 seconds for USB and 84 seconds for e-sata, a 5:4 ratio in favor of e-sata. Doesn't look surprising to me. The USB protocol doesn't compare favorably with SATA. It's good for "dumb" data transfers, but lacks stuff like native command queuing and DMA operations. Most features supported by the actual hard disk can't be used when you connect it though USB.
Re: [gentoo-user] Not receiving emails
Thanks, I'll take a look. Though I'm not sure why I'm not seeing the user list email traffic. Thanks again. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi David! > >> I only recieved one email since signing up on this list yesterday. I >> expected to see more traffic. There's nothing going to spam, I'm not >> sure it I should repost or not. The forum doesn't seem to have it >> either. > > Your mails arrive just fine, I see six altogether. You can see them here, > for example: http://old.nabble.com/gentoo-user-f12640.html > > And your initial question about the initramfs has been answered already: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424579 > > Posted & mailed, > > Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:20:56 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb > > OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. > I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the > baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. I found it very straightforward. What's the worst that can happen? Your portage tree gets messed up, which can be fixed with emerge --sync. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one - who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke. pgpXPrxIuLaDE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
On Monday 24 April 2006 22:38, Sven Köhler wrote: > > Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of > > getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE > > automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I > > start and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? > > config_ppp9=( "ppp" ) > plugins_ppp9=( "pppoe" ) > link_ppp9="eth1" > username_ppp9="XXX" > pppd_ppp9=( > "noauth" > "defaultroute" > "holdoff 0" > ) > > That works perfectly for me. It reconnects automatically. > > > To start/stop the connection at will: > yes, you have to start/stop the init.d-script. Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? Thanks, Mrugesh pgpQMpG8ueFi1.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT - An annoying habit of logwatch (possibly cron?)
I have three computers on my network. All three of them have logwatch installed. Each one stays on pretty much all the time (I don't like rebooting - it takes too long.) Each morning I wake up and read my email. You'd think I'd get three logwatch reports - one from each computer, right? Nope. I get at least six, sometimes more. I look at the time stamps; the first ones are sent out at 3:00am. The next set it sent out at 3:05 with the exact same information. It's very annoying. How can I set it where I only get one logwatch report for each computer? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?
On 12/03/2017 03:30 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > However, you can delay switching to the new profile for a while. For how long? eselect news item tells me: "Please migrate away from the 13.0 profiles within the six weeks after GCC 6.4.0 has been stabilized on your architecture. The 13.0 profiles will be deprecated then and removed in half a year." As I see it gcc-6.4.0 is stable for amd64 already. I have a number of servers out there running profile 13.0, having to rebuild all their packages within the next 6 weeks has to be planned somehow and needs time and thought IMO.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:18:12 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > If you want to fix the bugs, then by all means soldier on. But if your > intent is to have a working system that boots, probably drop using > 4.14.x and go back to say 4.12.x ? But the whole 4.12 branch has been masked, so that won't do. Here, I've had to go back to 4.9.49-r1 (amd64, not ~amd64). But now I see 4.9.72 has been stabilised. I think I'll wait for some stabiliity in the kernel version offerings before I make another move. Three kernel compilations on six systems within a week are a few too many. -- Regards, Peter.
[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7
On 2017-12-31 00:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > But the whole 4.12 branch has been masked, so that won't do. Here, > I've had to go back to 4.9.49-r1 (amd64, not ~amd64). But now I see > 4.9.72 has been stabilised. I think I'll wait for some stabiliity in > the kernel version offerings before I make another move. Three kernel > compilations on six systems within a week are a few too many. FWIW, I find 4.9.73 (upstream, not gentoo) rock solid. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.
Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS
On 09/17/2013 09:21 AM, Grant wrote: >>> It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support >>> 6-disk RAID10 so ZFS looks very interesting. >> >> ?? RAID 10 simply requires an even number of drives with a minimum of 4. > > OK, there seems to be some disagreement on this. Michael? > Any controller that claims RAID10 on a server with 6 drive bays should be able to put all six drives in an array. But you'll get a three-way stripe (better performance) instead of a three-way mirror (better fault tolerance). So, A B C A B C and not, A B A B A B The former gives you more space but slightly less fault tolerance than four drives with a hot spare.
[gentoo-user] Re: !!!!
On 2015-08-19, John Campbell wrote: > How about "emerge --color=n --nospinner -p @smart-live-rebuild" Color > and spinners are the only things in portage that should be using curses. IMO, emerge should not be doing stuff like that for two reasons: 1) It's broken: the assumptions made about what colors are actually legible is wrong if you use terminals with white backgrounds. I have to turn off colors just to make the default output legible. 2) It introduces dependencies like this which should be minimized in something as central to the system as emerge. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I haven't been married at in over six years, but we gmail.comhad sexual counseling every day from Oral Roberts!!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:19:29 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a > pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. Actually, that's a good scenario for GRUB2. grub2-mkconfig can detect all Linux installations on a system, not just the running one, so you only need one GRUB to boot everything. That's why distro installers are so much better at setting up Linux dual booting these days, because GRUB2 makes it simple for them. -- Neil Bothwick What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to their necks in sand? Not enough sand. pgpES1qdIiqcS.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Incredible Attack from Mars! Emerge monsters towards earth to strike again!
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 03:49:06 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy > ">=dev-python/six-1.10.0[python_targets_pypy(-)?,python_targets_pypy3(-)?,python_targets_python2_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_4(-)?,python_targets_python3_5(-)?,-python_single_target_pypy(-),-python_single_target_pypy3(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_4(-),-python_single_target_python3_5(-)]". > (dependency required by > "dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency > required by "dev-python/numpy-1.10.4::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency > required by "media-libs/opencv-2.4.13::gentoo[python]" [installed]) > (dependency required by > "media-gfx/gmic-1.7.9::gentoo[opencv]" [installed]) (dependency > required by "@selected" [set]) (dependency required by > "@world" [argument]) What is the output from these commands? emerge --info | grep PYTHON eselect python list eselect python show -- Neil Bothwick Geordi, show these children the antimatter - Picard pgpkUfej0eMKG.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Emerge
Emerge won't update a single goddammned package on my system. My number theory code finished a segment of work, (after a month), and it's time to reboot the system to propagate updates to nvidia drivers and such, uptime = 81 days. I thought the hell emerge put me through last time would cover me for the next six months... =( Emerge seems to want to pretend it is possible to update packages without breaking anything. It's not. That's why there's revdep-rebuild. It is causing much much much more grief by refusing to do it's goddamned motherfucking job than it would be by giving revdep-rebulid a chance to do it's job. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.
Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: different arch (amd64, x86)
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_AMD64-x86-distcc On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 02:18 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hello list, > > since Ubuntu Hardy didn't like my notebook, I'm currently installing > Gentoo (amd64) on it. This is my first Gentoo install in almost six > years!! > > So. I have two other boxes (Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD X2 3800+) that > also run Gentoo (x86) and I would like to use them as distcc hosts for > my notebook. > > The question is: will it be possible to compile amd64 code using > distcc on those x86 hosts? Will it be as simple as emerging distcc on > the notebook and configure the distcc hosts? > > > Many thanks in advance, > Norberto > > > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:33:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > Also, I think emerge used to have the --digest option. Basically it > tells emerge to skip checking the digest. I didn't see it in the man > page so it may not be there anymore. It was dangerous, because it ignored digests for all packages emerged, not just the one. Instead use ebuild /path/to/ebuild manifest You should copy the ebuild to an overlay before doing this, or this will be undone at the next sync. -- Neil Bothwick "God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to create England... just to try out his Practical Joke Weather Machine." signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 18:40, M Daniel R M<4.maga...@gmail.com> wrote: > firefox: Here the problem is very very annoying, I've run firefox before > with many other Linux flavours and never..., never got to this status of > inability; once you've got about six tabs opened on the same frame > window, firefox gets close to hang, and you become unable to manage it > anymore, unless you have an infinite patience. Doing "top" from a CLI > shows a %CPU _over_ 100%, amazing!. At the end, you'll have to kill the > process from console. Have you tried running firefox with all your extensions and plugins disabled? Which version of firefox are you running and what use flags do you use? Ward
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset
On 13:41 Sat 29 Sep , Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-09-29, forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since I'm using cable, I figure if I need to, in 17 month I > > can get a converter, or afford to buy a better card. > > If you're using cable, you may not need to. Cable companies > are free to continue distributing analog signals as long as > they want. > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! I need to discuss > at BUY-BACK PROVISIONS > visi.comwith at least six studio >SLEAZEBALLS!! > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Good to know. Right now I'm down to finding a working app (mplayer only seems to work so far, and it doesn't seem to work quite right). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:42:38 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't think you'll need much processing power to > > parallel-fetch. I do it on every computer with a fast enough > > internet connection. The real limit is disk and network for > > downloading, not at all processor. > I think RAM is an issue also. I have been messing with a laptop with > 512MB > of ram, and it is nowhere near as quick as what I am used too. ^^;; parallel-fetch needs significant amounts of neither RAM nor CPU power, all it needs is enough to run an instance of wget in the background. -- Neil Bothwick Committee (noun): A life form with six or more legs and no brain. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer
Hi all This is a copy of the thread I recently opened on Gentoo forums[1]. I replaced my Phenom II cpu with a new 6-core AMD bulldozer. However, I noticed that all of my Gentoo virtual machines throw (compiler) segmentation faults when building or running any application. This happens on a Gentoo testing VM, on a Gentoo stable VM and on a brand new Gentoo installation. I have no idea where to look for that problem. System: Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor Host: Gentoo x86_64 testing (has not problem at all, so I presume HW problem is eliminated) Any ideas? -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:00:15 +0200, masterprometheus wrote: > For AMD I'd recommend to go for a 960T : > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103995 > It's a 95W and as a Zosma it's actually a 6-core. Most of those (not > all unfortunately) can be unlocked to a 6-core. Has Turbo functionality. That sounds like a poor gamble. A 3.0GHz CPu that I may be able to unlock to 6 cores for £20 less than a genuine 6 cores 3.2GHz 1090T. I either get slightly less for slightly less, or a lot less for slightly less :( -- Neil Bothwick "God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to create England... just to try out his Practical Joke Weather Machine." signature.asc Description: PGP signature
