Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted cell 2 gentoo

James wrote: > Hello, > > I've been googling for some guides on setting up encrypted mail > on a gentoo system and specifically how you would set up the apple > or android phone on the other end. Lots to read. Guidance on the > applications (both cell phone and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:08:15 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > What I also don't want is too much crap that I don't need, e.g. a > > networkmanger. Although I set USE="-networkmanager" portage wants > > to install it when I type "emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 18/03/16 23:57, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > KDE 5 is absolutely nothing like KDE3. So by all means try it, but > > evaluate it on it's own terms. It's not a better KDE3, it's a whole > > different DE > > And full of bugs :-P > > Holy crap is it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Mick wrote: > On Friday 18 Mar 2016 19:29:29 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > What I miss most of all is the fantastic konqueror. It was way > > better than any other filemanager that I know. Of course I've > > tested the KDE4 konqueror and also dolphin but it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Alan Grimes wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > > So that needs rephrasing : "Why is AG using KDE 5 ? " (smile). > > Everything works for me using Fluxbox + some KDE 4 apps. > > The last good version of KDE was 3.5.x... then the flood came... (Qt > 4) and all the developer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Dale wrote: > waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Alan Grimes wrote: > > > >> Philip Webb wrote: > >> > >>> So that needs rephrasing : "Why is AG using KDE 5 ? " (smile). > >>> Everything works for me using Fluxbox + some KDE 4 apps. > >> The last

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Philip Webb wrote: > 160318 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Philip Webb wrote: > >>> So that needs rephrasing : "Why is AG using KDE 5 ? " (smile). > >>> Everything works for me using Fluxbox + some KDE 4 apps. > >> The

OT: Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2016 12:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Top Oxymorons Number 33: American history > > Top Oxymorons Number 1a: atonal music. I don't agree to the second statement. ;-) -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Dale wrote: > I still use Konqueror but I disabled some USE flags early on since I > didn't want some of the bloat. I think I had to enable some since > they were no longer a option but sort of forced. Anyway, this is the > USE flags for mine but since it is a short list,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Philip Webb wrote: > 160318 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Do you have installed the complete KDE4? If not, what packages > > do you have installed to configure the look and feel of your KDE > > apps ? > > None that I know of. > > >> I use Krusader & recommend it very

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Maybe I will try it again with KDE5. But this also depends on the > > dependencies. :-) I'm not sure if I'm willing to install the > > complete KDE environment for this test. > > KDE 5 is absolutely nothing like KDE3. So by all means try it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with switching KDE setup from i915 to radeon graphics

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello Fellows, > > My PC had been running on Intel graphics for 1½ years. Finally, I got > myself an AMD R7 370 today and installed it (together with a second > set of 16 Gigs of RAM ^^). I'm using a R7 250. It has probably an other architecture, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with switching KDE setup from i915 to radeon graphics

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello Fellows, > > My PC had been running on Intel graphics for 1½ years. Finally, I got > myself an AMD R7 370 today and installed it (together with a second > set of 16 Gigs of RAM ^^). I'm using a R7 250. It has probably an other architecture, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce2 logout/shutdown delayed for 2 minutes

wrote: > Manager, so I switched to the console from where I started the X > session (Ctrl+Shift+F1) and pressed Ctrl+C. Sorry. Meant Ctrl+Alt+F1. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce2 logout/shutdown delayed for 2 minutes

Zaam Wu wrote: > > I am not sure whether this is the right group to post this > message. But the issue does happen after a Gentoo @world update. > > After login into console, 'startx' will launch Xfce4 > desktop. Everything works like a charm. > > A few days ago: > > 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Elitebook 2540p

"siefke_lis...@web.de" wrote: > For SSD must set special option in kernel config? No. But you should insert the "discard" option into /etc/fstab. Otherwise you have to use fstrim from time to time. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Elitebook 2540p

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:42:05 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > For SSD must set special option in kernel config? > > > > No. > > > > But you should insert the "discard" option into /etc/fstab. > > Otherwise you have to use fstrim from time

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Elitebook 2540p

"siefke_lis...@web.de" wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:01:11 +0100 wrote: > > > Very sparse information. It would be helpful if you would tell us at > Yes sorry but with this kernel become crazy... > > > VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Elitebook 2540p

"siefke_lis...@web.de" wrote: > Hello, > > i has buy a newer laptop and now again the kernel make trouble. It > end ever with VFS unable ... so i think something is wrong in > SATA configuration. Very sparse information. It would be helpful if you would tell us at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of strigi

Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Has anyone managed to get rid of strigi, ie it not having to > be built, yet or is it a case of putting up with it building and then > finding how to turn it off? > > Regards, > Andrew It would be no problem to remove it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How do I dive into directory from GNOME-type menu?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > Btw: I don't think that Gimp is a Gnome app. It just has some > > dependencies that also Gnome has, but it can be installed and used > > without Gnome. > > GTK+, the base of GNOME, first started out as "Gimp ToolKit". > That's where the acronym "GTK" came

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How do I dive into directory from GNOME-type menu?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > This happens when I try to "Save As" from Gnumeric or Gimp or > AbiWord. I select a directory and try to navigate into it by left > clicking on the folder icon. Nothing happens. If I madly left-click > away on it for 15 or 20 seconds, the folder finally opens

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Simple video editing

Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm looking for a simple video editor to remove commercials from > recorded videos (MP4 format). I don't need fancy effects and I would > prefer not to transcode the video, just drop the bits I don't need. > MythTV does this very nicely with MPEG-1

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Manipulating a mobile external harddisk

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Is it advisable to try to longen the active time before the disk > goes idle to prolong the lifetime ? > Is it possible to do this with hdparm? I have three external USB disks. Two of them are going to sleep after a few minutes, one is always spinning. All of them

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking sites for some users

"J. Roeleveld" wrote: > Hi all, > > What do people use these days to filter out websites? > > I would prefer to have a white-list and block everything else. With > the option to bypass this filter for certain authenticated users. > > Reason: I don't want my daughter to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

lukash wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm reading on the internet that systemctl poweroff should work for > normal user if he is the only one logged in, he is logged in locally > and his session is active. I seem to be meeting these conditions: > > # loginctl >    SESSIONUID

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:33 PM, wrote: > > > > Sharing files can be done via SCP/SFTP. If a VPN connection is used, > > then even NFS or FTP are possibilities. > > I have 100 computers. I want a user on those 100 computers to be

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

Rich Freeman wrote: > I do sometimes wonder how the #1 server OS in the world somehow lacks > decent facilities for graphical remote login, and for sharing files > across the network. (For the latter NFS is a real pain to set up in a > remotely secure fashion - part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

lee wrote: > writes: > > > lee wrote: > > > >> Rich Freeman writes: > >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:38 AM, lee wrote: > >> >> Suppose you use a VPN connection. How do does the client > >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

lee wrote: > Rich Freeman writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:38 AM, lee wrote: > >> Suppose you use a VPN connection. How do does the client > >> (employee) secure their own network and the machine they're using > >> to work remotely

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

Grant wrote: > I'm considering allowing some employees to work from home but I'm > concerned about the security implications. Currently everybody shows > up and logs into their locked down Gentoo system and from there is > able to access the company webapps which are

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > I use the following script to boot up Gentoo on the guest. I cycled > through all 4 cards... > > #!/bin/bash > qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm \ >-cpu host -display gtk -vga cirrus \ >-drive file=gentoo32.img,format=raw \ >-drive

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect OpenCL is wrong.

Alan Grimes wrote: > Wrong, I say, WRONG! No reason to go into hysterics. Think of your blood pressure! ;-) > OpenCl is not OpenGL. It is more of a framework than an API. A high > end machine may have a number of different OpenCL hosts, the cpu, > vector cores

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

lee wrote: > Hi, > > what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? > > I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one > emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local > machine is relatively slow. Yet I can see some

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

lee wrote: > Hi, > > what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? > > I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one > emerge is running on) through distcc settings because the local > machine is relatively slow. Yet I can see some

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

lee wrote: > writes: > > > lee wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is > >> used? > >> > >> I have disallowed compiling on the local machine (which is the one > >> emerge is running

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

wrote: > > I used a pentium 4 laptop as client and two phenom2 quadcore pc as > server. I don't remember the settings that I used but I think it > was something about -j10 or so. Sorry, I think it was about -j16 (twice the totally amount of CPUs). -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes. > > I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced > portage and ran a world update -- 16

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes. > > I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced > portage and ran a world update -- 16

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QEMU/distcc combination question64-

Jonathan Callen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 01/02/2016 01:27 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:56:58PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote > > > >> For 32-bit distcc on 64-bit host there is no need to chroot or

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

john wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:05:12 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On 29/12/2015 11:01, Mick wrote: > > > On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 02:00:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > >> There is a kernel option DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE. It allows

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

john wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:05:12 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On 29/12/2015 11:01, Mick wrote: > > > On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 02:00:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > >> There is a kernel option DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE. It allows

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

Mick wrote: > On Monday 28 Dec 2015 21:05:56 john wrote: > > > Hmm, > > thanks, I have now tried an old monitor and its screen > > resolution was good (ie 1920x1080) so I think it's the monitor. > > I have a R9 280 radeon card which is pretty new but the monitor is >

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

john wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:41:57 + > Mick wrote: > > > On Monday 28 Dec 2015 09:11:10 john wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have installed Gentoo on to another partition in order to use > > > radeon drivers for desktop instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:48:28PM +, Ian Bloss wrote > > Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? > > I didn't bother enabling alsa except for packages that actually need > it. I've enabled it for libsdl, but not for sdl2, because I didn't >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Sort of solved] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:43:17AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > > > Have you installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting on the guest? > > Cannot be done on my machines. On 2 physical machines, and on the > Gentoo guest, I get... You don't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Sort of solved] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 06:26:18PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > > My Google search turned up > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7456850.html which suggested > VIDEO_CARDS="cirrus modesetting vesa", emerging world, and setting and > running CIRRUS in the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Sort of solved] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

wrote: > There is also a kernel option for a KMS enabled DRM driver for the > VMware SVGA virtual hardware (CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX). I think that the > performance of this driver is better than the performance of the > cirrus driver. I think that you also need

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:47:35AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > > > I'm now at the configuring-the-kernel stage of the Gentoo guest > > > install. I had originally expected to pull in the .config from > > > the host

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > I'm using a gtk window and not spice or vnc because this gives me > > the best performance. And I'm using vmware as VGA card emulation > > because it gives me the highest resolution (2368x1770). > > > > Performance is not super snappy but it's good enough for

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended pseudo-hardware for QEMU guest machine?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > I'm now at the configuring-the-kernel stage of the Gentoo guest > install. I had originally expected to pull in the .config from the > host machine, make a few tweaks, and get going. However, it appears > that multiple video and sound and network cards are

Re: [gentoo-user] Make QEMU guest visible to other machines on LAN

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > Apologies if this is a duplicate/triplicate. I don't think the > first attempts got through. Going through my backup provider > (dialup) this time. > > I have QEMU installed on a 64-bit Gentoo machine. I'm now > installing a 32-bit Gentoo guest. The "cdrom"

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

"J. Roeleveld" wrote: > >Since about three years I'm using four 3TB WD red HDs as storage > >drives > > > >and I bought two more some months ago. No failures with all of these > >drives so far. > > > >-- > >Regards > >wabe > > I've got 16 3TB WD Reds running 24/7 for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

Ian Bloss wrote: > I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would > recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand. > > I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for > their failure rate. A friend of mine is using

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

Dale wrote: > I think I'm leery of all drives now. I've had WDs fail, Seagate and > some other brand. I just keep buying bad stuff. :-( I'm glad I > don't have to buy pacemakers. :/ It seems that many many years ago HDs were more reliable then today. I have five

Re: [gentoo-user] libpcre && blender: Confusion?

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [15-12-06 08:24]: > > On 06/12/2015 05:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > from builder.blender.org I regularily download the daily > > > developers build of blender. > > > > > > In the last few days the

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

Peter Humphrey wrote: > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working > on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad > enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going the > whole hog. That's right. I talked

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been > > working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. > > It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries,

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > > > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font > > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system > > X was already installed before I installed > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Peter. > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no > > diagonal bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an > > eight too

Re: [gentoo-user] Autostart of an application for a headless embedded system

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Gentoo on my embedded system (Arietta G25, very tiny). > If this system is booted (no display, no monitor, only one LED) > an application (console only) should start, do its job and if done > shutdown the system. The application runs as root. > The

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile uses 100% CPU

the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > Thelma > > On 11/12/2015 08:22 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > > [...] > >> Though, I can not import the bookmarks, I'm on Firefox-bin-38.3.0 > >> There is no entry: Bookmarks ==> Manage Bookmarks > >> I have: Bookmarks

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile uses 100% CPU

the...@sys-concept.com wrote: [...] > Though, I can not import the bookmarks, I'm on Firefox-bin-38.3.0 > There is no entry: Bookmarks ==> Manage Bookmarks > I have: Bookmarks ==> Show All Bookmarks > where I can restore and backup bookmars. I've tried to restore > bookmarks from file:

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile uses 100% CPU

the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > Thelma > > On 11/12/2015 05:30 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:56:28PM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com > > wrote > > > >> I do agree, but I'm looking for a way to fix it. What file should I > >> delete from Firefox profile. I just want

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile uses 100% CPU

wrote: > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > [...] > > Though, I can not import the bookmarks, I'm on Firefox-bin-38.3.0 > > There is no entry: Bookmarks ==> Manage Bookmarks > > I have: Bookmarks ==> Show All Bookmarks > > where I can restore and backup bookmars. I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] All sorts of digest verification failures

Grant Edwards wrote: > After an emerge --sync that appeared to work with no problems, my > "emerge -auvND world" command is reporting that the Changelong files > are broken for about 2/3 of the packages it wants to update: > > !!! Digest verification failed: > !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS issue

Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, all. > > My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many > applications now support native translations. > > And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT" > (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/10/2015 11:13 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > What would take longer? > > brute-forcing your root-password or a 4096 byte ssh key? > > > > My password, by a lot. The password needs to be brute-forced over the > network, first of all. > > And a

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/10/2015 03:52 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > That's right. If an attacker has the full control over your machine > > then it doesn't make any difference. > > > > But if he can only see what you are typing, for example by a > > keylogger

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

Dale wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 11/10/2015 04:11 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> You can disable password login for that user on the server. Then > >> he can only login via ssh key. Only with the knowledge of the root > >> password it is not possible to gain

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Regarding better motherboard my preference is one that use 100% > Jpanese capacitors, if I'm not mistaken Gigabit is one of them. Nearly six years ago I've bought four Gigabyte Ultra Durable mobos equipped with solid state capacitors. Two of these boards are

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it > beeps at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months > go by. Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me? I _know_ > I'm shutting the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:: free pop3 mail box?

wrote: > James wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > I do not want gmail or any other big (brother) organization email. > > I just need a simple pop3 (small) email box, in case my > > (underconstruction) email server is not happy. Low traffic. > > Temporary

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:: free pop3 mail box?

James wrote: > Folks, > > I do not want gmail or any other big (brother) organization email. > I just need a simple pop3 (small) email box, in case my > (underconstruction) email server is not happy. Low traffic. > Temporary is fine too. > > Suggestions most welcome.

Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

Alan Grimes wrote: > > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you because > it's absolutely silent... "The Scream" is painted by Edvard Munch. Van Gogh (not Gough!) is well known for his paintings of sunflowers and cypresses. Yes I know, I'm a smart

Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

Lee wrote: > On Sep 29, 2015 11:17 AM, wrote: > > > > Alan Grimes wrote: > > > > > > > > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you > > > because it's absolutely silent... > > > > "The Scream" is painted by Edvard

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

lee wrote: > writes: > > > lee wrote: > > > >> writes: > >> > >> > lee wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last > >> >> message I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > >> Daniel Frey wrote: > >> > >> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > > > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > > > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up >

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

Daniel Frey wrote: > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up > having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.) Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10

Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I just noticed that the driver for my old printer no longer shows up > in cups, on one of my PCs. Comparison with other PCs shows that this > one does *not* have the hpijs USE set. > > Could someone who also does not have hpijs set in their

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

Grant Edwards wrote: > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with the command 'xclip > -o'. That doesn't work for highligted text in gtk-3 apps (meld, > evince, audacious, etc.). After

Re: [gentoo-user] portage directory ownerships?

james wrote: > Hello, > > So looking at /etc/portage/repos.conf, it seems root.root owns these > files; shouldn't it be portage.portage? and /usr/portage On my system /etc/portage/repos.conf is also owned by root:root > That got me thinking. Everywhere that portage

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

wrote: > Dale wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following: > > > > > > The following installed packages are not in the database: > > > > sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev > > -- > > > > Equery gives me this:

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

wraeth wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 14/09/15 13:46, Dale wrote: > > So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it. What the heck > > is this about? Anyone else ever run into this? Is there a way to > > "find" it?? Can I remove

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following: > > > The following installed packages are not in the database: > > sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev > -- > > Equery gives me this: > > root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev* > *

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

Mick wrote: > On the same hardware I noticed that a CMYK photograph converted to > sRGB looked mostly the same (indistinguishable) on Linux, but the > sRGB colours were brighter on MSWindows. > > I tried this by dual booting between MSWindows and Linux. > > Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a hardened profile?

Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/06/2015 04:15 PM, walt wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo > > > > That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop > > everything and select a hardened profile and re-emerge everything > > from scratch. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a hardened profile?

walt wrote: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo > > That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop everything > and select a hardened profile and re-emerge everything from scratch. > > But I have a feeling I'd soon be in big trouble if I did. Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a hardened profile?

Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Sunday, September 06, 2015 1:15:17 PM walt wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo > > > > That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop > > everything and select a hardened profile and re-emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict - xfce-base/libxfce4util

Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hmmm. libxfcegui4 is old compat code for legacy shit from 3 versions > back. I doubt you need it, and if you do, I suggest getting rid of the That's right. libxfcegui4 is not needed by XFCE any longer. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

lee wrote: > writes: > > > lee wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last message I > >> can see being that udevevents are being processed. > >> > >> This happens with an NVIDIA GTX770

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is proposing an ncurses update and I don't understand what it means

walt wrote: > This is on my one amd64 (stable) machine, so the following proposed > update should be safe and Just Work(TM), right? > > Maybe it will, but there is no way I'm going to let this upgrade > happen tonight when I'm tired from fighting all day with the > so-called

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

lee wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last message I can > see being that udevevents are being processed. > > This happens with an NVIDIA GTX770 connected to a 4k display via a > display port cable, and only when the monitor is configured to

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: All of them have freedb support and use cdparanoia as back-end. Cdparanoia is not a good choice, it has many flaws: - It is based on a 1997 cdda2wav and was never updated -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I do not use a xorg.conf file with the Kaveri APU. It just works with the following: I deleted my xorg.conf and X is still working without any problems. In /etc/portage/make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=radeon radeonsi ditto.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:10:28 +0200 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Kernel driver in use: radeon gigabytes snipped for readability Hi wabe. This whole radeon thing is so confusing I thought I'd mention one more very confusing detail that I had to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Lenovo X1 Carbon (3rd gen)

Ralf ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de wrote: Hi folks, i just got my brand new Lenovo X1 Carbon and trying to get Gentoo running on it. Beside some really big issues (HiDPI display, 2048x1152 resolution on a 14 display really sucks on linux, xrandr scaling is horrible, no scaling is

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 22 Aug 2015 03:08:41 waben...@gmail.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I'm seeing horrible performance from the xfce window manager (xfwm4) on my main, everyday machine, but not on an older backup machine or on any of the linux

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