Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

2022-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 16 July 2022 11:57:25 BST Dale wrote: > Basically, I can upload files as fast as I download them. Now I can upload > videos or something. ...or run a web server! -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2022-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 14 July 2022 14:36:42 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," > and there was light. Nice one! -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange UEFI boot behaviour

2022-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 12 July 2022 10:02:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 11 July 2022 17:19:50 BST Michael wrote: > > Check your BIOS* firmware settings for USB and enable xHCI. Perhaps this > > setting was toggled to auto, which may not work reliably. > > That was a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange UEFI boot behaviour

2022-07-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 11 July 2022 17:19:50 BST Michael wrote: > Check your BIOS* firmware settings for USB and enable xHCI. Perhaps this > setting was toggled to auto, which may not work reliably. That was a good idea, Michael. Indeed, some Auto settings had crept in. I haven't yet tried booting other

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange UEFI boot behaviour

2022-07-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:37:00 BST Michael wrote: > This is happening if the EFI firmware for some reason has re-scanned the > attached block devices to find bootable UEFI images. I've seen something as > simple as rebooting with, then without a bootable USB drive causing this. > Since the

[gentoo-user] Strange UEFI boot behaviour

2022-07-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, One of my machines uses bootctl to offer a choice of kernel to boot (I don't use anything else from systemd); it has these files in /boot/loader/entries: 08-gentoo-5.15.32-r1-rescue.conf 09-gentoo-5.15.32-r1-rescue.nonet.conf 30-gentoo-5.18.10.conf 32-gentoo-5.18.10.nox.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/nodejs

2022-07-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 23:19:54 BST k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Unfortunately it seems I cannon emerge nodejs due > to this error: > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../ > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > failed to set dynamic section sizes: memory exhausted > > I tried to stop

Re: [gentoo-user] I have no sound in my gentoo install.

2022-06-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 18 June 2022 19:35:54 BST Jack wrote: > In terms of replying to the list or the person who sent the message to > which you are replying, look at the "To:" field in your email software > before you hit "Send." You need to see the list address there. Your > email software probably

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 18 June 2022 13:30:16 BST Julien Roy wrote: > By default, only the LTS/ESR release of Firefox is unmasked (or marked > as stable), of which the latest version is 91.10.0, however, if you > unmask it, you can use the latest Firefox version, currently 101.0.1. > Though unmasking

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:10:38 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > ... I'll also report the problem to the developers. Done that. It seems that a newer version of FF is unaffected. Startpage in version 101.0.1does not kill the sound. I did tell them that 91.10.0 is the latest vers

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 17 June 2022 09:55:17 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 17 June 2022 07:35:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:28:26 BST Julien Roy wrote: > > > It's really weird that a Firefox add-on would cause system-wide sound to > > > stop wor

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:28:26 BST Julien Roy wrote: > It's really weird that a Firefox add-on would cause system-wide sound to > stop working! Well, it may not be system-wide, but yes - you see why I took so long to find it! > Anyway, glad that you figured it out :) -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:10:38 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:29:54 BST Julien Roy wrote: > > On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for > > > the > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:29:54 BST Julien Roy wrote: > On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for the > > next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's > > needed, now that

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 03:21:51 BST Julien Roy wrote: > A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem: Thanks for you help. > - Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to > this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide", The evidence points squarely

[gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I thought it was time to start a fresh thread, so here it is. I still have no working sound. I keep thinking I've fixed the problem, only to be proved wrong at the next reboot. The hardware is a USB dongle with a Unitek Y-247A chipset and I'm using an ordinary 3.5mm wired

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Searching the list archives

2022-06-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 12 June 2022 09:04:30 BST Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2022-06-12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Does any site out there offer a search function over its whole archive? > > Going through one month at a time is going to take for ever. >

[gentoo-user] Searching the list archives

2022-06-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Does any site out there offer a search function over its whole archive? Going through one month at a time is going to take for ever. -- Regards, Peter.

FIXED Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-06-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:22:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my new > Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth control > panel, and the sound device appears in the Audi

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 3 June 2022 09:53:22 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 3 June 2022 02:45:11 BST Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Early this morning Seamonkey could no longer fetch emails. It wouldn't > > accept the username and password. I did some searching and it seems > > that Google is disabling

Re: [gentoo-user] Change in sudoers format?

2022-05-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 26 May 2022 21:54:50 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I just ran an update and noticed that etc-update wants to change the > layout of /etc/sudoers, specifically... > > ## > > ## > ## User privilege specification > ##

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS connection refused

2022-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 20 May 2022 15:35:25 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > This machine is a compute-server for other machines on the network, which it > does by NFS-mounting the portage directories in a chroot. You may remember > that I've messed about a bit with USE fla

[gentoo-user] NFS connection refused

2022-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This machine is a compute-server for other machines on the network, which it does by NFS-mounting the portage directories in a chroot. You may remember that I've messed about a bit with USE flags and the like, but only on this machine, the compute server and NFS client. The other

Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 22:26:44 BST Wol wrote: > On 18/05/2022 15:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Somewhere around here I said I had too many USE flag staatements > > under/etc/ > > portage, so I removed package.use and just set whatever flags were needed > >

Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:02:21 BST Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 09:51:57 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 14 May 2022 17:34:58 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:22:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Is ther

Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 14 May 2022 17:34:58 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:22:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my > > new Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing arguments to BOINC

2022-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 09:32:25 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'll raise a problem with BOINC if I hear nothing here, but I just wanted to > check here. TiA. Never mind. I've raised a couple of issues with them. Sorry about the noise. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] Passing arguments to BOINC

2022-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm trying to get BOINC not to use the GPU on this machine, and it has a command-line option --no_gpus. Looking at /etc/init.d/boinc, I see that it allows for ARGS to have been set by the user. I've tried setting this thus: ARGS="--no_gpus" /etc/init.d/boinc start ...but

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:22:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my new > Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth control > panel, and the sound device appears in the Audio control panel, but testing

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 12 May 2022 14:49:07 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > Have you tried setting up a new user that doesn't use KDE? That would > help decide if kgremlins are at play. Good idea - thanks Neil. Don't hold your breath though... :) -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 09:17:32 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > This seems like witchcraft now. Apologies for the duplicate message. I'm still wrestling with sound, and creating user directories and recovering email backups. I'm leaning towards concluding that there's no way to have so

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 9 May 2022 15:38:30 BST Michael wrote: > On Monday, 9 May 2022 14:56:42 BST k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Peter: > > ... > > > > > What would help is some idea of how the whole BT system works, > > > > ... > > > > There are two incompatible types of bluetooth: > > Bluetooth Low Energy

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:57:03 BST Francisco Ares wrote: > Although the emerge lists is as huge as expected, it doesn't even start, > portage says there are cyclic USE flags that I should avoid at the first > moment, but may restore afterwards. > > But it doesn't say which are those USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 13:00:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > So now I just have to find out what's wrong with my plasma sound system. Sound works just fine (wired connection) if I create a new user account and log in there, but by the time I've finished adjusting everything to my preferen

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 10:26:13 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 09:17:32 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Indeed, and I've now replaced the speakers, the 3.5mm cable and the USB > > dongle - every sound component is new. When I tested it yesterday in the > > pl

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 9 May 2022 15:38:30 BST Michael wrote: > On Monday, 9 May 2022 14:56:42 BST k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Peter: > > ... > > > > > What would help is some idea of how the whole BT system works, > > > > ... > > > > There are two incompatible types of bluetooth: > > Bluetooth Low Energy

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 7 May 2022 20:32:19 BST Jack wrote: > Not a direct help, but maybe it will trigger some ideas - the only time > I've seen any message about bluetooth profiles has been with a pair of > noise-canceling headphones. They work fine for either "High Fidelity > PLAYBACK (A2DP Sink)" or

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 6 May 2022 08:59:33 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:37:12 BST Michael wrote: > > I've never had speakers blowing the audio chips driving them. I would > > have > > thought they would be protected electrically from such events occurring. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 6 May 2022 13:24:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > > Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. > > IMO, that's the logical conclusion. Whence my optimism in replacing them. > I've never had the audio chip on any computer fail -- ever. Nor have I > ever had a USB audio adapter

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:37:12 BST Michael wrote: > I've never had speakers blowing the audio chips driving them. I would have > thought they would be protected electrically from such events occurring. The sound chips have failed on both my workstations' motherboards over the last five years

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my new Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth control panel, and the sound device appears in the Audio control panel, but testing either speaker produces no sound. The Gentoo wiki was

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost keyboard shortcut to KDE button

2022-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:57:47 -00 Jack wrote: > On 2022.04.28 11:11, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > While playing with task bars etc. I've managed to lose the Left > > Windows key shortcut to open the task manager. > > > >

[gentoo-user] Lost keyboard shortcut to KDE button

2022-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, While playing with task bars etc. I've managed to lose the Left Windows key shortcut to open the task manager. How can I get it back? I asked this on the KDE User list eight days ago, but no reply. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and missing paste file option in right click menu.

2022-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 April 2022 13:55:05 -00 Dale wrote: > I tried to go back to a older version but it wants older versions of > other KDE packages too. I was wanting to see how it worked in the old > version again, compare things. Oh well. At least you got me a way to > make it work until they

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 21 April 2022 14:10:13 -00 Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 09:41 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > FWIW I dodge the librsvg (and therefore rust) dependency by using a > > binpkg for my desktop icons. > > Clever. Unfortunately for me I still need gimp and evince

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-boot on openrc

2022-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 18 April 2022 16:05:24 -00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > The machine is sick. I now have no mouse or keyboard after POST. They're > fine in UEFI BIOS setup, and they're fine after the default kernel has > finished booting - just not at boot menu time. And now it's perfectly all ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-boot on openrc

2022-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 20:17:47 -00 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 1:05 PM Martin Vaeth wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:42:35 -00 Martin Vaeth wrote: > > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >> > On Su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-boot on openrc

2022-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:05:18 -00 Martin Vaeth wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:42:35 -00 Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:54:50 -00 Rich Freeman wrote: > >> >> Can't y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-boot on openrc

2022-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:42:35 -00 Martin Vaeth wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:54:50 -00 Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Can't you just fix your USE flags with systemd-utils? Why revert? > > > > No, because the flag I'd need is 'boot

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a boot menu?

2022-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:38:23 -00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:12:29 -00 Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:52:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:33:01 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > Why not try r

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a boot menu?

2022-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:12:29 -00 Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:52:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:33:01 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Why not try rEFInd? It handles UEFI booting simply, without the > > > no-longer-needed

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a boot menu?

2022-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:33:01 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Why not try rEFInd? It handles UEFI booting simply, without the > no-longer-needed bloat of GRUB. Hm. If I'm reading the wiki right, it can't handle choice of run levels with a selected kernel. Or is that wrong? -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-boot on openrc

2022-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:54:50 -00 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:03 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 12:13:06 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > --->8 > > > > > It looks like this is cause my using mixed ke

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-boot on openrc

2022-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 12:13:06 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote: --->8 > It looks like this is cause my using mixed keywords, amd64 for udev and > ~amd64 for systemd-boot/utils. Does keywording udev-250 resolve the > blocks? Yes, after keywording several others, thus: ~sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles-249.9

[gentoo-user] systemd-boot on openrc

2022-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've been using bootctl from sys-boot/systemd-boot for several years, with some success, but I'm stuck after today's --sync. First I was told I had to keyword sys-apps/systemd-utils, so I did that, but now I get this, which I can't decode: Calculating dependencies ... . .

Re: [gentoo-user] ISO on /boot

2022-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 12 April 2022 11:56:53 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:05:12 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've seen people say they have a rescue ISO image in their /boot > > partition. I'd like to try this; is there any particular knack to it, > > or do I ju

[gentoo-user] ISO on /boot

2022-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've seen people say they have a rescue ISO image in their /boot partition. I'd like to try this; is there any particular knack to it, or do I just copy the ISO image into place? I'm using bootctl from sys-boot/systemd-boot. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up KDE config files

2022-04-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:02:46 -00 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some know, I've rearranged some hard drives and data recently. Got > the data moved into the new places. Given those changes, I'm also > having to adjust my backups as well. Before, I just backed up > /home/dale and told rsync

[ABANDONED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 16:50:03 -00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for > me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is heard > (I nearly said none appears :) . It worked a week ago, and it st

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:14:11 GMT ny6p01 wrote: > Just a shot in the dark, but is alsasound service starting correctly? It doesn't run at all, not even while I'm listening after restarting PA. I have alsa-lib, alsa-topology-conf, alsa-ucm-conf and alsa-plugins installed, but 'ps -ax |

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:47:22 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2022.03.25 12:16, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Have you also tried using a different browser? Yes. Konqueror behaves the same way. I had the site open in FF just now, but not playing, and I hadn't restarted PA. Then I opened the sam

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 17:49:59 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 25/03/2022 15:01, Jack wrote: > > That second icon in the upper left looks to me (squinting a bit) like it > > might be a life saver ring buoy, but that doesn't help me in guessing > > what generated it. Did you find anything in dmesg

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:34:30 GMT Michael wrote: > On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:16:10 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 25 March 2022 09:31:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I > > > went. I g

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 09:31:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I went. > I got almost to the end before finding the answer. Jump straight to the end > if you just want to see the fix, or read on for the detail. Hey, no

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
ter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 24 March 2022 09:43:49 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I'm about to try pavu[...] as you suggested. > > > > No dice. All that does is to allow me to set where I want each sound > > source to be sent, plus a few details. I still h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 March 2022 00:07:30 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/03/2022 18:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for > > me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is > > heard &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 24 March 2022 09:43:49 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm about to try pavu[...] as you suggested. No dice. All that does is to allow me to set where I want each sound source to be sent, plus a few details. I still hear nothing, and pavumeter shows nothing being output. I st

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:20:53 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > [...] if it's KDE then generally that implies pulseaudio and users can > have different configurations. How could that happen? The second user is fresh from the oven, and I'm pretty sure I've never touched PulseAudio at all. (I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 22:14:17 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > I still have a bit of my gentoo-users folder going back a few years. > One of the older threads I saved was actually talking to Peter in > 2005. I built my first Gentoo machine in 2001, about a year after > Daniel started the distro.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:20:53 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:15 AM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > > > > The machine is ~amd64 running Plasma. I log in via SDDM, but even if, > > instead, I log in first and then startx I still get no sound.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:00:44 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 9:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for > > me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is > >

[gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is heard (I nearly said none appears :) . It worked a week ago, and it still works if I log in as a new user. Windows 10 has no trouble with

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 19 March 2022 12:33:16 GMT Anna “CyberTailor” wrote: > On 2022-03-19 06:08, Dale wrote: > > Anna “CyberTailor” wrote: > > > The only secure lockscreen is XScreenSaver. > > > https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/ > > > > I have that installed here. Question now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 13 March 2022 08:03:04 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, gcc can't currently handle Rust, so yes > LLVM is needed. (Not Clang, because it isn't C :-) (Although Firefox > probably also uses loads of C, so Clang would be needed for that.) And that's why we have

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

2022-03-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 6 March 2022 11:07:54 GMT John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 05:20:07 -0500, > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:39:32 GMT John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. On my gentoo box, no application including ping can access > > > www.yout

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

2022-03-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:39:32 GMT John Covici wrote: > Hi. On my gentoo box, no application including ping can access > www.youtube.com. However, a dig is doing it correctly, so I can not > understand what is happening. A restart of named, gives me the same > result. This is very baffling

[gentoo-user] Make install changed behaviour?

2022-03-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I used to run 'make -j24 && make install && make modules-install' and I'd get kernels in /boot complete with version numbers in their names. Now I'm getting just vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old. Has the behaviour of 'make install' changed? If not, I must be doing something stupid again...

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall configuration

2022-03-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 14:54:24 GMT Michael wrote: > Have you seen this regarding the specific ethertypes: > > https://superuser.com/questions/1574757/unknown-ethertypes-0x88e1-and-0x8912 > -from-my-fritz-box Yes, it's from that site and friends that I've learned what little I have about

[gentoo-user] Shorewall configuration

2022-03-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I use net-firewall/shorewall to protect my machines; it's served me well for many years. My ISP gave me a FritzBox modem-router recently, in the hope of better media streaming, but it's spamming my LAN server with HTTP requests (port 80). The other machines are left alone; just

Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Installation Lists?

2022-02-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 28 February 2022 13:38:52 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:41:55 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > After reading the responses in the thread, this appears to be one way > > > to do it. Though I think adding it to a set could be a cleaner way? I &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Installation Lists?

2022-02-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 26 February 2022 16:41:55 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 26 February 2022 14:19:15 GMT Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: > > --->8 > > > After reading the responses in the thread, this appears to be one way to > > do it. Though I think adding it to a se

Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Installation Lists?

2022-02-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 26 February 2022 14:19:15 GMT Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: --->8 > After reading the responses in the thread, this appears to be one way to > do it. Though I think adding it to a set could be a cleaner way? I > haven't tried all of the suggestions yet. In passing, I thought I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Installation Lists?

2022-02-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 26 February 2022 12:10:49 GMT Michael wrote: > This is the page which explains how to build binary packages on one host and > then install them on other PCs, without having to re-complile/rebuild them > from source: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide > > It saves

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 February 2022 10:20:42 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:53:02 GMT Miles Malone wrote: > > The standard is #6-32 UNC for 3.5" harddrives, and most case-related > > stuff including motherboard standoffs. It's M3 standard for 2.5" >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 February 2022 18:14:09 GMT Steven Lembark wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 17:24:44 + > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I have a couple of vertically mounted easy-swap disk caddies in the > > back of my workstation, and I'm having trouble finding screws

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 February 2022 15:10:21 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:20:42 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Once again I must apologise for polluting a software list with common > > hardware. > > If it was common, you wouldn't have needed to ask the list w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 February 2022 10:55:41 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Once again I must apologise for polluting a software list with common > > hardware. > > I don't see this as polluting myself. It is computer related. I've > asked hardware question

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:53:02 GMT Miles Malone wrote: > The standard is #6-32 UNC for 3.5" harddrives, and most case-related > stuff including motherboard standoffs. It's M3 standard for 2.5" > harddrives, 5.25" optical drives, etc, etc. Useful info - thanks. > The lengths arent standard

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 20 February 2022 17:24:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > This has nothing to do with Gentoo, but I don't know where else to ask. > > I have a couple of vertically mounted easy-swap disk caddies in the back of > my workstation, and I'm having trou

[gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This has nothing to do with Gentoo, but I don't know where else to ask. I have a couple of vertically mounted easy-swap disk caddies in the back of my workstation, and I'm having trouble finding screws to mount the disk in the caddy. Clearance is nil, so the screws must be

Re: [gentoo-user] Module vboxdrv cannot be found

2022-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 28 January 2022 14:21:02 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > There was a young man from the border > Who had an attention disorder. > When he reached the last line > He would run out of time > And There was a young curate from Kew, Who kept a young cat in a pew. He taught it each week

Re: [gentoo-user] how to restart the network, no net.enp1s0

2022-01-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 21 January 2022 12:48:51 GMT n952162 wrote: > It used to be that you could restart the network with: > >rc-service net.enp1s0 restart > > which would use the link in /etc/init.d. But that link is now gone, > although the network works. Something fundamental has changed, I

[gentoo-user] How to find a bounced message

2022-01-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I got a bounced-message message yesterday, giving its number. How can I find it? The Gentoo archives site doesn't include a search function, nor message IDs. It was 197963 in case anyone knows what that was. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:54:13 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 1/15/22 3:33 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." > > Ya --->8 > Ergo, RFC 6762 does not preclude the use of the local to

[gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC 6762." That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local network? It used to be .prhnet, but then a program I tried a few years ago insisted on a two-component name, so I changed it to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: whats a good laptop for gentoo these days?

2022-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 9 January 2022 13:47:19 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > I'm looking at the NyX 15 AMD v2 for me, I want AMD and don't want more > than a 15" screen. I've had a 17" - it's too big for a laptop. Luggable, > maybe ... :-) I'm looking at their Gemini 17", which you've found is too big. In my

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a network printer

2022-01-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 13 January 2022 15:46:05 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:29:23 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I didn't think £50 was that expensive for a cartridge ... until I saw > > > it was only 1000 pages! £80 for 3000 - not superb but not bad. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a network printer

2022-01-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 13 January 2022 12:10:05 GMT Dale wrote: > I'm not going to tell you how many hours I spent trying all the > options. Or how long I googled. It took a while. I asked on here and > got some help but still took a bit. > > If that didn't help, I was going to take pics and send them

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a network printer

2022-01-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 13 January 2022 13:47:51 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 13/01/2022 12:10, Dale wrote: > > I'm not sure about yours but I am very pleased with features and the > > print quality. My only gripe is the cartridges and their cost. > > I didn't think £50 was that expensive for a cartridge ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a network printer

2022-01-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 23:31:56 GMT Dale wrote: > I have a very similar printer and this is my settings from CUPS: > > > Description:Lexmark C2325dw > Location:Local Printer > Driver:C2325dw - IPP Everywhere (color, 2-sided printing) > Connection:ipp://192.168.0.102 That

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