Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:00 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 11/06/2019 13:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. > > Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. > > I'm not sure if switching to 17.1 would get me anything. I assume 17.0 >

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/06/2019 13:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. I'm not sure if switching to 17.1 would get me anything. I assume 17.0 will still be there for a long time to come?

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-11 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 10:56, Emmanuel Vasilakis wrote: > Hi! > > So, assuming I would get an RX550/560 card, how well do the amdgpu > drivers (open source) work? Are they ok for steam games? Do they provide > KMS (switching to a Ctrl+Alt+F1 is always garbled now). ? Are they > completely

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/11/19 7:56 AM, Emmanuel Vasilakis wrote: Hi! I'm running a pretty old PC. A Core2Duo E8400 and a GT730 nvidia card. Now, this is ok for what I need: work (emacs and bunch of terminals) and some little Kerbal Space Program. I'm thinking of upgrading some time in the next months to a

[gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-11 Thread Emmanuel Vasilakis
Hi! I'm running a pretty old PC. A Core2Duo E8400 and a GT730 nvidia card. Now, this is ok for what I need: work (emacs and bunch of terminals) and some little Kerbal Space Program. I'm thinking of upgrading some time in the next months to a 3600 AMD Ryzen when they are available, but in

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:42 AM Davyd McColl wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 14:23, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> I think a big part of that is that before I did ANYTHING I took a lot >> of steps to clean up... > > I guess YMMV. I regularly: > - emerge --sync > - emerge --update --newuser --deep

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Davyd McColl
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 14:23, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:21 AM Davyd McColl wrote: > > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 12:34, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: > >> > >> I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. > >> Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:21 AM Davyd McColl wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 12:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. >> Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. >> > > first off, `emerge -v1 /lib /lib32` didn't work out because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Davyd McColl
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 12:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. > Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. > > I had to reinstall some packages "by hand", e.g. > I had to reinstall util-linux quite early. > I had to reinstall

[gentoo-user] Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. I had to reinstall some packages "by hand", e.g. I had to reinstall util-linux quite early. I had to reinstall x11-libs/libva without the opengl USE flag, since it couldn't find