Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-driver, RTX 2060 SUPER. Blender and NO Optix...

2020-04-03 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On Apr 4, 2020, at 00:59, Dale wrote: > > tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have discussed this on www.blenderartists.org and they asked >> me to ask here to sort out, whether the problem is a Blender-thing, >> a Linux-thing or a GENTOO-thing. >> >> My setup is as follows: >> NVidia

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-driver, RTX 2060 SUPER. Blender and NO Optix...

2020-04-03 Thread Dale
tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > I have discussed this on www.blenderartists.org and they asked > me to ask here to sort out, whether the problem is a Blender-thing, > a Linux-thing or a GENTOO-thing. > > My setup is as follows: > NVidia RTX 2060 SUPER > > NVidia-drivers: > [I]

[gentoo-user] NVidia-driver, RTX 2060 SUPER. Blender and NO Optix...

2020-04-03 Thread tuxic
Hi, I have discussed this on www.blenderartists.org and they asked me to ask here to sort out, whether the problem is a Blender-thing, a Linux-thing or a GENTOO-thing. My setup is as follows: NVidia RTX 2060 SUPER NVidia-drivers: [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng keeps restarting every few minutes

2020-04-03 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, > >     Some years ago I built up a 32 bit raspberry pi gentoo userland and > now have 8 copies of it running on various devices - all with the same > problem. > > Syslog-ng is restarting every few minutes! I have been able to narrow it > down to a process named

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng keeps restarting every few minutes

2020-04-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     Some years ago I built up a 32 bit raspberry pi gentoo userland and now have 8 copies of it running on various devices - all with the same problem. Syslog-ng is restarting every few minutes! I have been able to narrow it down to a process named "supervise" as after killing it syslog-ng

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/3/20 4:01 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: If you want to become an ultra-professional, that's fine. If you just want to be able to send mail interactively from mutt... OK, that's a bad example now that mutt has built-in SMTP client capabilities. How about ... if you only want to get email

[gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-03, Grant Taylor wrote: > (20)ProTip: You really do want local outbound queueing /somewhere/ on box. > > You don't want your web application to error out when it can't reach > it's SMTP server. You don't want t loose that receipt for the > transaction that the customer just made.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: wow, didn't know sendmail's syntax was so hard it needed a compiler :D thank you very much for your help. highly appreciated. I think that's an inaccurate statement. First, m4 is a macro package, not a compiler. Second, the macros are used to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/2/20 8:23 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: It's very powerful but the configuration file format is almost impossible to understand, so people developed an m4 application that accepted a _slightly_ less cryptic language and generated the sendmail configuration file. The configuration file is far

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/2/20 6:26 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your time allows). Feel free to ask questions about sendmail. I'll do my best to answer. do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? or the command "sendmail"? In this context, ebuild as a reference to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 4/2/20 8:18 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional who already knows how to configure it (not joking). I take exception to that for multiple reasons: 1) Bootstrapping - you can't learn something without actually using it. 2) I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2020/04/03 at 11:16am, Petric Frank wrote: > Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user > normally looks at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) > see him not looking at the camera. > Idea: Use two cameras positioned left and right or top and bottom of > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Petric Frank: > But normal people aren't professional actors. I thought i could be > a technical solution. Making life easier in this corona-days with > increasing video conferences. Normal people just have to adapt to a worldwide pandemic and be damn grateful for existing video conferencing

[gentoo-user] Re: Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-03, Petric Frank wrote: > Idea: Use two cameras positioned left and right or top and bottom of the > screen. Combine the two video streams and generate a third stream having a > virtual camera positioned at the middle of the screen. Can you explain how that "combine" would be done in

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:44 PM Petric Frank wrote: > > i think eye contact is a good thing while working on the screen. > I think most people think that eye contact is a good thing most of the time. If you have any tips for actually doing it I suspect half of us on the list would benefit. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Ralph, Am Freitag, 3. April 2020, 17:41:20 CEST schrieb Ralph Seichter: > * Petric Frank: > > Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user normally > > looks at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) see him not > > looking at the camera. > > It may be

Re: [gentoo-user] aggregate logs into Elasticsearch

2020-04-03 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Stefan G. Weichinger: > My goal: > > collect logs of postfix, nginx into the docker-containers running ES, > Kibana .. and learn my way from there. If you are not dead-set on Elasticsearch et al, I propose considering MongoDB as an alternative. There are syslog Modules that allow logging into

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 05:41:20PM +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Petric Frank: > > > Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user normally > > looks > > at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) see him not looking at > > the camera. > > It may be bothering you,

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Petric Frank: > Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user normally looks > at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) see him not looking at > the camera. It may be bothering you, but that's not a problem in any real life sense. People can either live with it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-03 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 09:45:58AM -0500, Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: >>> Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go from BIOS or Grub to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 09:45:58AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > > > >> Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. > >> Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go > >> from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost

[gentoo-user] Unstable package "xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.14.2" segfaults

2020-04-03 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, when I installed my first Gentoo system on my laptop back in September I had to accept the "~amd64" keyword for quite a few "xfce-*/*" packages due to stable versions not being available at all for some packages, and due to several of these unstable packages requiring unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: how to inhibit binary distribution [RESOLVED]

2020-04-03 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 04:29:43PM +0200, n952162 wrote: > Okay, I discovered that > > /var/db/pkg/app-crypt/gnugp*/CONTENTS > > is, apparently the contents of the package *after* building - I don't > find /usr/bin/gpg in the tarball. That's just meta-data for Portage. You're probably looking

[gentoo-user] portage: how to inhibit binary distribution [RESOLVED]

2020-04-03 Thread n952162
Okay, I discovered that /var/db/pkg/app-crypt/gnugp*/CONTENTS is, apparently the contents of the package *after* building - I don't find /usr/bin/gpg in the tarball.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 68.6.0-r3 local URL parsing is borked?

2020-04-03 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:33:33 BST Michael wrote: > Something changed in the Gentoo /usr/bin/firefox script and parsing URLs > with spaces in the file name fails to escape the spaces and opens all sort > tabs while trying to resolve/search for each part of the URL string. > > Using

[gentoo-user] aggregate logs into Elasticsearch

2020-04-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am trying my first steps to collect and aggregate logs into a elasticsearch/kibana combo. I have them in a docker-compose stack and want to collect nginx and postfix logs for a start. So far I am confused by stuff like filebeat, logstash, fluentd ... brrr Could someone explain or even share

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 11:16:01AM +0200, Petric Frank wrote: > Idea: Use two cameras positioned left and right or top and bottom of the > screen. Combine the two video streams and generate a third stream having a > virtual camera positioned at the middle of the screen. How about looking at the

[gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, this is not exactly a gentoo issue. But due i am using gentoo i am asking here. Problem: Usually the camera is outside of the screen. The user normally looks at the screen. As result the communication partner(s) see him not looking at the camera. Idea: Use two cameras positioned left and

Re: [gentoo-user] static-libs for sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2

2020-04-03 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On ven. 3 avr. 00:13:38 2020, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > Probably an effect of fixed deps in: > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/dev-libs/elfutils?id=261f473f807caef944d126c23438181bdf699d6b > > You probably already have USE=static-libs for elfutils. You need > to track

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Nullmailer is also a good option with the added bonus of queueing > outbound mail while you're offline.: nullmailer is now configured, and test with `echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail -v m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is