Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread antlists
On 15/10/2020 21:07, Jack wrote: However, and I have no experience here, although some systems can boot in BIOS mode to a GPT partitioned disk, there may be extra hoops to jump through.  I'm sure others will chime in with additional information. I don't think my current system has EFI, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:07:50 -0400, Jack wrote: > In some sense, that's actually simpler, since you > don't need an ESP/EFI partition. Not really an issue if you use a separate /boot as the same partition does for both. > If your disk is formatted with an MBR > partitioning scheme (max four

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.15 15:19, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > [snip...] I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. portage is also upset. !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:48:01 > From: Jack > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > [snip...] > > I just found out efi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:00:36 > From: Walter Dnes > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:28:52PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:48:01 -0400, Jack wrote: > > I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. > > On the other issue, what do you mean that efi variables are not > available?  Is the system purely BIOS?  That is certainly possible if > it is an older motherboard.  If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:28:52PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote > I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. > portage is also upset. > !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in > '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf' > !!! !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread antlists
On 15/10/2020 17:31, Jack wrote: On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: Why do you need two graphics cards?  I've been driving two monitors off each of the last several graphics cards I've used - both nVidia and ATI, from simple PCI to PCIE needing the extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: [snip...] I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. portage is also upset. !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf' !!! !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:31:55 > From: Jack > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: > >On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: > >>Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: Why do you need two graphics cards? I've been driving two monitors off each of the last several graphics cards I've used - both nVidia and ATI, from simple PCI to PCIE needing the extra power connector. Because I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more cooperative?

2020-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:06:43 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > * sci-libs/tensorflow > > Available versions: (~)2.1.0 (~)2.2.0-r1 (~)2.2.0-r2 (~)2.3.1 > > {cuda mpi +python xla CPU_FLAGS_X86="avx avx2 fma3 fma4 sse sse2 sse3 > > sse4_1 sse4_2" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6 python3_7

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more cooperative?

2020-10-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/14/2020 08:05:39 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:44:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > I could be wrong but I don't think tensorflow 2 supports python 3.9 > yet... > > https://www.tensorflow.org/install/ It doesn't, at least not from the portage ebuild: % eix -e tensorflow *

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] .fetchmailrc syntax error

2020-10-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 08:53:00AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > It looks like I was being too specific and micro-managing things. > Like Captain Picard, simply say "Make it so", and let it figure things > out for itself. What finally worked, including handoff to procmail, was > > > poll

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] .fetchmailrc syntax error

2020-10-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 08:31:51AM +0200, David Haller wrote > > And you _should_ use TLS, IMHO! E.g.: sslproto 'TLS1.3+' > > See 'man fetchmail', search for '\-\-sslproto'. It looks like I was being too specific and micro-managing things. Like Captain Picard, simply say "Make it so", and let

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel bad scheduling from idle thread

2020-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
> > This is the first 5.4 kernel I have tried. I did a make oldconfig and > added a number of modules, but I would think the kernel would only > load the ones that are needed. I could not tell you the exact ones, > as I try to make the kernel somewhat general, so I may add things > which may not

Re: [gentoo-user] X Forwarding from virtual host

2020-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:20 PM Dan Egli wrote: > Okay, this is I HOPE a simple enough question. I have a virtual server > running on my Win10 Host (not my ideal O/S!) that has a full X environment > on it. I usually connect via Putty(ssh) using VirtualBox's Host Only > network. That's great for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] .fetchmailrc syntax error

2020-10-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: >[i3][waltdnes][~] fetchmail >fetchmail:/home/waltdnes/.fetchmailrc:1: syntax error at option > > Anybody have this working? The following was pulled by getmail as >"SimpleSSLretriever" on port 995. Here's what I'm trying that's >failing... >