Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-06 Thread Mick
On Friday, 6 April 2018 19:20:09 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 04/06/2018 11:58 AM, Mick wrote: > > I think you mean IKEv2 + IPSec? > > I don't remember IKE involved the last time I had to manually > set up an IPSec connection between two Windows systems (or Windows and a >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-06 Thread Mick
LS certificate in a way that MSWindows will not barf; e.g. IIRC, last time I looked at a Windows 7 IKEv2/IPSec VPN, the TLS certificates would only accept AES128 keys and SHA1. Anything more onerous would not be accepted by the MSoft TLS key manager. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
way I see it, the Saxons won the pronunciation war over the Vikings. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
old laptops I was hoping to get more mileage out of, at least until new generation CPUs become available. Preferably NOT Intel's. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
will be limited by what MSWindows offers/allows. Post with particulars when you get that far and we can troubleshoot it further. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
phs' first line ought to have a single space indent. When I was in primary school this was the prevailing style. With the advent of word processors the titles as well as the paragraphs became left-aligned with no space at their start, but this may have been a typesetting style BC (Before Computers). :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-04 Thread Mick
then you will likely be limited by whatever VPN software comes with IR. In all cases, make sure you use TLS RSA/SHA2 certificates for both client and VPN gateway authentication. Finally, check out Wireguard. It was designed from the ground up to overcome the complexity of previous VPN solutions. I have not tried it out yet, but will be next time I have to set up a VPN tunnel with a non-legacy router. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm ignoring "XTerm*titeInhibit: true" in .Xresources

2018-04-03 Thread Mick
I could do a copy/paste into a post. But I'd > like a clean solution rather than a clunky workaround. I don't know the answer to your question, but for mtr at least you could use the -r option to produce a report of the mtr output. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail message components

2018-04-03 Thread Mick
enu. There I discovered 'v' being the keybinding for 'View Source' and have been using it since. However, I often have to move the mouse onto the main window or preview pane, so right- clicking to view the source of a message always felt like a more natural approach. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail message components

2018-04-03 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 3 April 2018 22:52:51 BST Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. April 2018, 14:42:31 CEST schrieb Mick: > > or select to view HTML content on a per > > message basis > > FWIW, for just this particular task you can add the "Toggle HTML Display > Mode&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail message components

2018-04-03 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 3 April 2018 16:45:45 BST Manuel Mommertz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. April 2018, 14:42:31 CEST schrieb Mick: > > Hi All, > > > > After some recent KDE updates I noticed that Kmail-5.7.3 no longer shows > > the message components at the bottom of the p

[gentoo-user] Kmail message components

2018-04-03 Thread Mick
noticed the same? Any idea how I could restore this feature? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread Mick
k, etc. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

2018-03-23 Thread Mick
n still install grub legacy, but grub2 is relatively straight forward as long as you get the command syntax correct and you do not forget to run grub- mkconfig every time you install/remove a kernel. You may want to have a look at this page, if you haven't done so already: https://wik

Re: [gentoo-user] pdftk - replacement

2018-03-15 Thread Mick
contains a type face not present in the Linux OS, as is often the case with pdf forms dished out by various companies. The character size is then wrong and I haven't found an easy way of adjusting it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chromium-65.0.3325.146 compilation warnings

2018-03-12 Thread Mick
elieve I possess the abilities to be developer. :-) > GCC 7.3 and Clang 6.0 do support these options, but if you're using a > version that doesn't, it's of no consequence. Warning options do not > affect code generation. OK, I think it's clang what done it. I'm on gcc-7.3.0, but clang-5

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

2018-03-12 Thread Mick
stem it failed. I have not tried to install the same driver on a 32bit system, but could give it a go one of these days if it helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium-65.0.3325.146 compilation warnings

2018-03-12 Thread Mick
On Monday, 12 March 2018 08:27:31 GMT Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can see a few warnings pilling up on different systems when trying to > > emerge chromium-65.0.3325.146: > > > > warn

[gentoo-user] chromium-65.0.3325.146 compilation warnings

2018-03-12 Thread Mick
-option] 4 warnings generated. Does this mean I should be using a different gcc or CFLAGS? They mostly are: CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 10:27:11 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:32:50 AM CET Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 09:21:43 GMT gevisz wrote: > > > Ah, yes, /etc/init.d/modules-load > > > "loads a list of modules from systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread Mick
load.d /etc/modules- load.d" > So, I do not know how to disable this service. rc-update delete modules-load default -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ca-certificate to domain-name mapping question

2018-03-05 Thread Mick
you meant to ask, > You can go the other way, and see which ca was used to sign any cert that a > server presents, as that info is included in the cert presented by the > server. In this case, to examine the DN of the CA which signed a server certificate you need: openssl x509 -i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QEMU on a partition

2018-03-03 Thread Mick
hen the partition is initially mounted, but not thereafter. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Spectre_v1 mitigations

2018-03-03 Thread Mick
OSB (observable speculation barrier, Intel v6) Why would there be this difference and what does it mean? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Mick
On Friday, 2 March 2018 15:33:02 GMT R0b0t1 wrote: > You can pass a block device directly to QEMU, and this is recommended > for performance reasons. Does it make a measurable difference, after the guest OS has booted? I'll need to try this out. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Mick
d to set up CFLAGS in the guest's make.conf file to suit the *guest* platform and its CPU. Setting up "-march=native" won't work here. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SUSPECTED SPAM] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

2018-03-01 Thread Mick
or you. I am using vanilla iptables with simple hand-made scripts on a number of systems, so it shouldn't be too difficult to roll your own if your demands are relatively simple. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

2018-02-18 Thread Mick
rge @preserved rebuild > > allan It is probably easier to just run: emerge --update --pretend --exclude webkit-gtk @world -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: some spectre v1 code in 4.15.2

2018-02-13 Thread Mick
riding benefit of having BPF enabled at all in the first place? PS. I don't remotely assume I properly understand the BPF mechanism, I just want to test my understanding above. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] kernel 4.14.15-gentoo breaks Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card device

2018-02-09 Thread Mick
anyone noticed something similar? How do I troubleshoot this? -- Regards, Mick # lsusb -v Bus 002 Device 011: ID 413c:8156 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 = spectre_v2 fixed

2018-02-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 12:20:51 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 31/01/18 14:04, Mick wrote: > > Just to dilute my confusion on what I should do to keep desktops safe(r), > > would someone please clarify: > > > > Is it necessary to keyword gcc 7.3 + kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 = spectre_v2 fixed

2018-01-31 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 12:20:51 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 31/01/18 14:04, Mick wrote: > > Just to dilute my confusion on what I should do to keep desktops safe(r), > > would someone please clarify: > > > > Is it necessary to keyword gcc 7.3 + kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 = spectre_v2 fixed

2018-01-31 Thread Mick
kernel 4.15 and emerge kernel 4.15 with gcc 7.3, or wait until these versions have been stabilised in the tree? What gcc version shall I use to update @world from then on? PS. Some desktops are Intel, some are AMD and I also have 3-4 devices with ARM in them ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] rust 1.23.0 fails to install

2018-01-30 Thread Mick
file or directory > > I did not see a bug on bgo -- anyone knows how to fix? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. PS. Here on stable systems portage decided to uninstall all rust packages it had installed recently as firefox dependencies and then downgraded firefox to 52.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 = spectre_v2 fixed

2018-01-29 Thread Mick
the > > README, and a simple grep over the Makefiles also doesn't enlighten. > > > > I am not ready to activate a keyworded gcc for general use. > > You could pass CC=gcc-7.3.0 to the make command, like so: > > make -j6 CC=gcc-7.3.0 Shouldn't you have at least compiled your whole toolchain with gcc-7.3.0 first? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-25 Thread Mick
t what in the kernel configuration has gone awry. You must build the chipset and filesystem drivers in the kernel (not as loadable modules), which may even drop you in a command prompt to troubleshoot from there. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-25 Thread Mick
g-4.14.14-gentoo └── config-4.14.8-gentoo-r1 You should also set CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y in your kernel. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-25 Thread Mick
abel. > But when I boot without the USB-key inserted I always "lands" in the > Built-in EFI Shell - NO sign of GRUB. > > Any suggestions where I have gone wrong? > > KR The ESP needs to be formatted as vfat and the GRUB boot image grubx64.efi should be installed there. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Pointers are not supported: KDEDModule

2018-01-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 21 January 2018 20:33:54 GMT R0b0t1 wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to understand why X crashes at login, with this error in > > .xsession- errors: > > > > QDBusAbstractAdaptor: C

[gentoo-user] Pointers are not supported: KDEDModule

2018-01-21 Thread Mick
restart xdm the user able to login, but the first time more often than not fails as above. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv: no sound anymore...?

2018-01-20 Thread Mick
gt; (why it is accessing alsa here???) > > > Using for example zynaddsubfx (softsynth) via qjackctrl/jack I can > play sound. > Mpv does not show up in qjackctrl > > The situation does not change if doing anything of the above as root. > > Mplayer plays sound...but fails to play the video instead. > > Currently I dont know what the problem here. > > If anyone has any idea...heartly welcome... :) > > Cheers > Meino I'd start by running 'alsactl init' to (re)initialise alsa and see if it reports any errors. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium-63.0.3239.132

2018-01-19 Thread Mick
. I have an older system with only 4GB RAM > and it struggles to even build chromium at all. On my old i7 laptop it eats up all 4G of RAM and 4G of swap before it conks out. So, I dropped the jobs to 3 and --load-average to 2, added a swapfile to increase disk space and it now builds in around 13 hours. I have not used jumbo-build, but perhaps I should? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] gpg2 - error gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry

2018-01-17 Thread Mick
gt; gpg2 text.asc > ... > gpg: public key decryption failed: End of file > gpg: decryption failed: No secret key This says you don't have a private key configured. > In my other boxes I don't have any entry in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf > and it works OK even over ssh. > > Joseph An entry like those suggested for pinentry would be required for *GUI* applications to know which front end to use. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] gpg2 - error gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry

2018-01-17 Thread Mick
s a symlink to the pinentry GUI used by the system. In any case this file will be set up by /usr/bin/gpgconf, which is run when a GUI application calls gnupg, rather than edited manually by the user. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 57.0.4 without pulseaudio? Possible?

2018-01-14 Thread Mick
ing can start grinding the box to a halt. Since the move to profile 17.0 I found my old laptop comes to its knees on compiling larger packages like Chromium. If you also find swapping starts thrashing your drive and emerge moves nowhere fast as it becomes I/O bound, you should consider reducing the number of jobs with MAKEOPTS="-jX" where X is a lesser number than previously used and also reducing the --load-average to a low(er) number. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-12 Thread Mick
rboard (ASRock AB350 Pro4) on the 10th, and if I flash it grub > will no longer boot the linux kernel, and it is pretty slow overall, > but it will still boot memtestx86 just fine. I figured I'd wait a few > days and see if there is any further info on it. No Asus MoBo firmware updates here ...

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cleanup after USB backup drive unplugged?

2018-01-12 Thread Mick
call if eject includes the previous steps and therefore it is superfluous. I find some applications are reluctant to let go of filesystems on pluggable devices and umount can fail. In this case --lazy option of umount should work: umount -l /dev/ -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-11 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:46:08 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> wrote: > > On 01/09/2018 01:56 AM, Mick wrote: > > > > At this point, the only sure bet, is a non x86, x86_64, ARM, ARM64 CPU. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete?

2018-01-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 19:49:25 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/01/18 20:12, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:06:46 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 15:47:25 GMT Wolfgang Mueller wrote: > >>>> It looks as th

Re: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete?

2018-01-10 Thread Mick
to do with our old PCs, which will no longer receive Intel's microcode blessing? Are we to throw them away in a landfill and of course take our custom elsewhere, or will the kernel patches suffice for both bugs and all variants? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-57.0.4 won't accept TLS certificate exception

2018-01-09 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 11:50:56 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 11:34:24 GMT Mick wrote: > > I just noticed I am not able to override FF's protestations about the > > domain name of the loaded TLS certificate not matching the visited > > domain. Wh

[gentoo-user] Firefox-57.0.4 won't accept TLS certificate exception

2018-01-09 Thread Mick
l this pop up window. Of course the page will not load. How can I overcome this intransigence by the browser, who thinks it knows better what I wish to do? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-08 Thread Mick
CPU > architectures? > ( IBM RISC 6000, PowerPC, DEC Alpha, IBM System/390, Sun SPARC64, for > example ) > > Intel did try to make their "patch" mandatory for AMD CPUs ( with NO > disable switch ). > Why? > Think about it. > > Corbin So what affordable and available CPUs should one be looking into for a new desktop build? Also, laptops? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] microcode applied?

2018-01-08 Thread Mick
e first line above in your CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE and rebuild your kernel. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] microcode applied?

2018-01-08 Thread Mick
for my CPU was included in intel-ucode releases since 2017-01-01, is this the same unchanged microcode being released since the date reported in dmesg of 2013-08-20? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

2018-01-07 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 7 January 2018 12:06:28 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:51:33 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > > That was apparently after the white man tried to explain to him > > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > > "adv

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

2018-01-07 Thread Mick
> > > that only a white man could think that cutting a foot off the bottom of > > > a blanket and sewing it onto the top would give him a longer blanket. > > > > > That was apparently after the white man tried to explain to him the > > > > "advantages" of Daylight Saving Time. > > Yes. Which, of course it doesn't. Save anything, I mean. It 'saves' the socio-economic model whereby aggressively promoted consumerism attempts to secure a continuation of artificially enhanced cross-border trade, at ever increasing rates. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

2018-01-05 Thread Mick
ork on windows as well. > > Now to figure out how to tell Thunderbird to open links in Firefox and > which profile as well. It wants to open in Seamonkey and picks a > profile that is already open which gives the usual error about it being > in use. Hm. > > Dal

Re: [gentoo-user] Spectre CPU flaws

2018-01-04 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:50:59 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > New bug resurface. > What is the command to test AMD CUP's if flag: X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE is > enabled? > > From: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2 grep bugs /proc/cpuinfo -- Regards, Mick signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] iMON remote, evdev, X and Kodi stopped working

2018-01-03 Thread Mick
t I could be > missing? It looks like xf86-input-evdev 2.10.5 went stable back in March > 2017, and I'm pretty sure that the remote was working after that. Sometime in autumn I had a similar symptom with a (non-gentoo) box running kodi here. I had to reprogram the IR remote control handset, but wouldn't know how to go about it with yours ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6:

2018-01-02 Thread Mick
y messed up the removal of the symlink to /lib64? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernels are installed during the upgrade

2018-01-02 Thread Mick
el: kvm [5499]: vcpu0, guest rIP: 0xbbe67be4 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc2 data 0x :-/ -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Mick
gt; /usr/src/linux-4.9.49-r1/.config before you proceed with the last four steps I showed above. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Mick
lpdwrapper script. Or am I asking too much by companies who shy away from publishing openprinting code. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Mick
using the cups GUI interface doesn't have any effect on the driver configuration files which are by default set to PageSize=Letter and also messes up the created ppd file used by cups. I'm posting this here to save others time, should they come across the same problem. -- Regards, Mick signat

[gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-27 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 19:45:04 GMT Mick wrote: > TLDR: Why is the content of my /etc/papersize being ignored? Oops! It is not ignored: $ paperconf a4 Which leaves my problem unanswered. :-( > More detail below. > > On Friday, 22 December 2017 16:30:06 GM

[gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-27 Thread Mick
TLDR: Why is the content of my /etc/papersize being ignored? More detail below. On Friday, 22 December 2017 16:30:06 GMT Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:20:24 GMT you wrote: > > On Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:01:50 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-25 Thread Mick
out on the first attempt. It also broke udisks because I could no longer mount storage devices using the GUI. I've posted a bug, but nothing came of it other than the recommendation to try later versions - all of them borked. On my own laptop I've moved to lightdm. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

2017-12-24 Thread Mick
ecific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel It seems the blobs changed. The firmware_install message confused me by making me think this was the cause of not being able to initiate the graphics card when I tried to boot the new kernel, rather than the missing blobs. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page?

2017-12-22 Thread Mick
o me, but as you may have figured out, I'm no printing expert ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page?

2017-12-21 Thread Mick
g CUPS, the same brother driver and the default page size of A4. I'll have another poke tomorrow into the http GUI of the printer and then try to print with MSWindows to see what happens. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page?

2017-12-21 Thread Mick
or not. Thanks for your suggestions! -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page?

2017-12-21 Thread Mick
ared from the ppd file, but still the same error remains. Top of the page is cropped! Arrgh! -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page?

2017-12-21 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 21 December 2017 17:01:09 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2017.12.21 09:20, Mick wrote: > > I've been using a Brother "HL-3140CW" model with the > > net-print/brother- hl3140cw-bin-1.1.4 driver from the brother-overlay. > > > > Since I moved to profile 1

Re: [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page?

2017-12-21 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 21 December 2017 15:16:32 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 12/21 02:20, Mick wrote: > > I've been using a Brother "HL-3140CW" model with the net-print/brother- > > hl3140cw-bin-1.1.4 driver from the brother-overlay. > > > > Since I moved to p

[gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page?

2017-12-21 Thread Mick
ng similar? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon RV730 blobs changed

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:55:40 GMT Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 18:31:03 GMT Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [1.072525] [drm] Loading RV730 Microcode > > > [

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon RV730 blobs changed

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 18:31:03 GMT Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [1.072525] [drm] Loading RV730 Microcode > > [1.072679] radeon :02:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/ > > RV73

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:27:25 GMT Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What step am I missing to arrive at a bootable kernel with all necessary > > firmware? > > Are you using an initramfs?

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 16:03:02 GMT Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You are quite right, there is no firmware_install in the 4.14.7 release. > > What does this mean? How are we meant to install

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 15:28:03 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 12:22:29 GMT Mick wrote: > > Has something changed in 4.14.7-gentoo sources from its predecessors? [snip ...] > What firmware are you trying to install? This box needs firmware for th

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 12:52:16 GMT Floyd Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:22:29 + > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Has something changed in 4.14.7-gentoo sources from its predecessors? > > > >I'm getting this on two systems: &

[gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

2017-12-20 Thread Mick
target 'firmware_install'. Stop. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2017-12-18 Thread Mick
> That should work. If forced, using --exclude grub might could be > added. I've never tried that with the --resume command tho. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Let's not forget the '--keep-going y' option too. At the end it will print a list of all the packages that failed to emerge. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading a Firmware Module By hand?

2017-12-18 Thread Mick
ate kernel sources and firmware to the latest stable and see if this works too. >From there on you can move into ~arch to find the version at which things break. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading a Firmware Module By hand?

2017-12-17 Thread Mick
; > Thanks, > > Hunter Have a look in: # Generic Driver Options and then: CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="Put your firmware files in here, space separated" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] list of miscellaneous FAIL

2017-12-15 Thread Mick
@OP: Do us all a favour and go get yourself a binary distro. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc : autoload kernel modules

2017-12-14 Thread Mick
; > but in your case, "modules" will contain only the last thing you set it > to, namely modules="enhanceio_rand". Change your entries to: #Modules for enhanceio enhanceio enhanceio_lru enhanceio_fifo enhanceio_rand -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-11 Thread Mick
the majority of the population these OS remain the best suited choice. So, I think we should live & let live, but as gentoo users at least try to influence gentoo to retain a freedom of choice most binary distros have walked away from. Just my 2c's. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pentium 4, 32bit fails to update media-gfx/uniconvertor-2.0_pre379-r1

2017-12-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 10 December 2017 10:11:41 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/12/17 10:51, Mick wrote: > > Any idea were that "MagickWand" went hiding? > > [...] > > > > Should I file a bug, or am I missing some other package? > > This was fixed in 2.0_p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 10 December 2017 06:12:07 GMT R0b0t1 wrote: > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > On Saturday, 9 December 2017 12:00:12 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> Are you sure you need udisks? And policykit? > > >

[gentoo-user] Pentium 4, 32bit fails to update media-gfx/uniconvertor-2.0_pre379-r1

2017-12-10 Thread Mick
* environment, line 1050: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * "${@}" || die "${die_args[@]}"; Should I file a bug, or am I missing some other package? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 9 December 2017 10:34:32 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/12/17 11:51, Mick wrote: > > I've seen gnome-base/gnome-common pulled in on more than one systems, all > > of> > > which have USE="-gnome" set: > > # emerge -uaNDvt world &g

[gentoo-user] Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-09 Thread Mick
NGLE_TARGET="python3_5 -python2_7 -python3_4 -python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5 -python3_4 -python3_6" 69 KiB Total: 5 packages (1 upgrade, 4 new), Size of downloads: 2,180 KiB All systems are on profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma Why is gnome-base/gnome-common needed? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Puzzled with duration of chromium emerge under profile 17.0

2017-12-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 21:01:25 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-12-06, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I discovered that building Chromium with gcc-6.4.0 is taking an > > inordinately> > > longer time on a laptop with 1st gen i7 and 4G of RAM, e

Re: [gentoo-user] Puzzled with duration of chromium emerge under profile 17.0

2017-12-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:13:50 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/12/2017 21:10, Mick wrote: > > I discovered that building Chromium with gcc-6.4.0 is taking an > > inordinately> > > longer time on a laptop with 1st gen i7 and 4G of RAM, e.g.: [snip...] >

[gentoo-user] Puzzled with duration of chromium emerge under profile 17.0

2017-12-06 Thread Mick
tial increase in emerge times. BTW, on the i7 I had to increase swap because the 4,200,960 KiB swap partition was not enough to complete the compilation of version 62.0.3202.89, even after I shut down all applications and exited X. O_O -- Regards, Mick~ $ emerge --info www-client/chromium Porta

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to profile 17.0 complete, completely painless

2017-12-06 Thread Mick
`emerge -e world` finished, I just had to > rebuild it and it was fine. > > > Dan Are the maintainers picking up these patches to release a version bump for packages that won't emerge with profile 17.0? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Again, emerge -e @world related questions...

2017-12-05 Thread Mick
s. I just noticed chromium shows (pic) in brackets, which I assume it means forced. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

2017-12-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 10:21:49 GMT Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Quite inexplicable ... > > > > My kernel is 7.1M, System.map 3.4M and config is 114K. I usually leave a > > total of three kernels and associated files in my ext2 46M /boot partition &

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