Re: [gentoo-user] patching an ebuild file

2024-05-17 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Fri 17 May 2024 19:26:02 GMT, ralfconn wrote: > For my raspberry cross-compilation project I need to do simple > modifications locally to some ebuilds. > > I can edit the ebuild and then rebuild the manifest but on every update > I have to repeat. > > Is there a way to patch an ebuild in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-16 Thread Dale
ralfconn wrote: > Il 16/05/24 20:46, Dale ha scritto: >> Question.  How are the compiles times between the old FX-8350 and the >> newer Ryzen 9?  I currently have a FX-8350.  Plan to build to a new >> Ryzen something, maybe 5 at first.  Just curious what difference in >> speed you see. > I've not

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-16 Thread ralfconn
Il 16/05/24 20:46, Dale ha scritto: Question.  How are the compiles times between the old FX-8350 and the newer Ryzen 9?  I currently have a FX-8350.  Plan to build to a new Ryzen something, maybe 5 at first.  Just curious what difference in speed you see. I've not saved the merge times for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-16 Thread Dale
ralfconn wrote: > Il 15/05/24 16:23, Alan Mackenzie ha scritto: >> As a somewhat tangential question, would it be worthwhile getting water >> cooling in my new machine?  In particular, to reduce the noise it gives >> off while building large packages such as clang and rust?  Or is water >> cooling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-16 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:41:20 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Michael, > > On Thursday, 2024-05-16 09:26:39 +0100, you wrote: > > ... > > > > > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( > > > > > > ... > > > > > > Still available and still working on non-uefi setups: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-16 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Michael, On Thursday, 2024-05-16 09:26:39 +0100, you wrote: > ... > > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( > > ... > > Still available and still working on non-uefi setups: > > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-boot/lilo > > > > ... > > There's also 'sys-boot/elilo' for EFI

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-16 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Walter, On Wednesday, 2024-05-15 17:28:46 -0400, you wrote: > What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card > > What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card > > [x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’:

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-16 Thread ralfconn
Il 15/05/24 16:23, Alan Mackenzie ha scritto: As a somewhat tangential question, would it be worthwhile getting water cooling in my new machine? In particular, to reduce the noise it gives off while building large packages such as clang and rust? Or is water cooling only sensible for really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:42:16AM +0100, Nuno Silva wrote > Did anything change? Any tablet software upgrade? Did the MTP tool on > the computer side change? Or perhaps the kernel, if it can influence > this FUSE interaction somehow? Just the usual updates to world. > At this point I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-16 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 16 May 2024 10:42:16 BST Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2024-05-16, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 03:06:50PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > > > >> Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to > >> do this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su -

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-16 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 16 May 2024 11:13:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, May 15, 2024 at 07:08:11PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > Hi Alan, > > > > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > […] > > > So I'm looking at getting an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, May 15, 2024 at 07:08:11PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > Hi Alan, > > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > […] > > So I'm looking at getting an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor, and using its > > inbuilt graphics rather than buying a distinct graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 May 2024 20:55:53 -0500, Dale wrote: > > xclip is not a clipboard, it is a tool to manage the contents of the > > existing clipboards and selection buffers. > > > > > > > Well, just for giggles.  > > root@fireball / # echo "" | xclip > -bash: xclip: command not found >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-16 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 16 May 2024 01:10:32 BST k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Wol: > > On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur. 🙂 Anyway, I > > > never let it near my systems. > > > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( > > ... > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 03:06:50PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > > Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to > do this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to > root, create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and > have rwx permissions,

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 4:38 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to do > > this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to root, > > create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and > > have rwx permissions,

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2024 08:09:01 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> x11-misc/xclip >>> >>> Or just select some empty space in an application, to overwrite your >>> previous selection. >> Well, since it works, something is acting as a clipboard.  It doesn't >> seem to be xclip in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread karl
Wol: > On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur. 🙂 Anyway, I > > never let > > it near my systems. > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( ... Still available and still working on non-uefi setups:

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Walter Dnes
> Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to do > this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to root, > create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and > have rwx permissions, and then exit root. After that I can do what > I want. So I

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp cannot create directories on SD card on cellphone

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 2:29 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card > > What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card > > [x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’: Input/output

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 May 2024 08:09:01 -0500, Dale wrote: > > x11-misc/xclip > > > > Or just select some empty space in an application, to overwrite your > > previous selection. > > Well, since it works, something is acting as a clipboard.  It doesn't > seem to be xclip in my case. xclip is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Michael
Hi Alan, On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > My current rig is working well (hence the lack of posts to the list from > me), but > > The time is coming up for me to buy a new PC, the current one being > around 7 years old. It's served me well

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur.  Anyway, I never let it near my systems. I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( Grub isn't that bad - it's just that insists on trying to do everything itself - and if you've got at all a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 16:25 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > You'll need kernel 5.18 and Mesa 22 plus recent firmware. > > That article was almost 2 years old, so I'd be surprised if all those > are not stable in Gentoo by now. Mesa 22 is not. Only version 24 is stable :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:37:22 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote: > > The Clipboard may be stored in RAM or cache of any applications > > which use this method. > > AFAICT, the clipboard contents is stored in the X server. When you > cut/copy something, the application

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > So I'm looking at getting an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor, and using its > inbuilt graphics rather than buying a distinct graphics card. > > But in the doc on wiki.gentoo.org, I can't find any mention of inbuilt > graphics; all

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > My current rig is working well (hence the lack of posts to the list from > me), but > > The time is coming up for me to buy a new PC, the current one being > around 7 years old. It's served me well for that time, but nothing > lasts forever. Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:37:22 BST Michael wrote: > >> There are 3 'cliboards', known as selections, I know of: >> >> 1. Primary - you select some text by holding down your left mouse button (or >> Shift+arrow) and you paste it with your middle button (or Shift+Insert -

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:37:22 BST Michael wrote: > There are 3 'cliboards', known as selections, I know of: > > 1. Primary - you select some text by holding down your left mouse button (or > Shift+arrow) and you paste it with your middle button (or Shift+Insert - > depending on

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:09:01 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:56:04 BST Dale wrote: > >> There doesn't appear to be a xclip on here, not as a command anyway. > >> Could it be some other name? Maybe it changed? I'm sure it is > >> something. I just don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:56:04 BST Dale wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:44:49 -0500, Dale wrote: I thought that too. I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:56:04 BST Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:44:49 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I thought that too. I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then > >> looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there. It > >> wasn't there after I

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:44:49 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I thought that too.  I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then >> looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there.  It >> wasn't there after I pasted it either.  It goes to a clipboard somewhere >> but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:42:14 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 02/05/2024 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate > > /boot, and leave it unmounted during normal operation. The idea was that > > a successful hacker would not,

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:44:49 -0500, Dale wrote: > I thought that too.  I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then > looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there.  It > wasn't there after I pasted it either.  It goes to a clipboard somewhere > but it appears it only remembers

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:28:17AM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, >> […] >> remember either, or write notes to remember them.  I also wanted to >> avoid the desktop copy and paste, or clipboard, mechanism.  I'm not sure >> how that data is stored in the clipboard and how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 02/05/2024 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate /boot, and leave it unmounted during normal operation. The idea was that a successful hacker would not, supposedly, be able to corrupt the kernel ready for a reboot into their

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 02/05/2024 10:35, Michael wrote: Besides the automation this feature affords, I find it useful to know what a partition contains without having to mount it. On GPT labelled disks I make use both of the Partition Type UUID and the Partition Name. A quick glance at the gdisk output and if

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:28:17AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > […] > remember either, or write notes to remember them.  I also wanted to > avoid the desktop copy and paste, or clipboard, mechanism.  I'm not sure > how that data is stored in the clipboard and how good it is at erasing > it when

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 7:28 AM Dale wrote: >> First, I needed to generate a password. > Honestly, I'd stop right there, and think about WHY you're encrypting > your disks, and WHY you need a password to decrypt them. There are > many use cases and threat models to

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 7:28 AM Dale wrote: > > First, I needed to generate a password. Honestly, I'd stop right there, and think about WHY you're encrypting your disks, and WHY you need a password to decrypt them. There are many use cases and threat models to consider. I have a whole bunch of

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:35 PM Mark Knecht > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I've looked for a adapter.  I couldn't find one.  That's why I > connected to a old rig that had a set of molex cables I could use.  > Luckily I had a molex to sata

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
I have a lot of drives like that.  Simplest solution is to cut the orange wire on the drive power cable.  Only down side is that some ssd may require the 3.3V power so you might not want to modify all the power cables.  I just had to do this so my sas drives would spin up.  Before I did it the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 6:35 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > I've looked for a adapter. I couldn't find one. That's why I connected to a old rig that had a set of molex cables I could use. Luckily I had a molex to sata adapter. Do you know what they are called so I know what to search

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
> > > I've looked for a adapter. I couldn't find one. That's why I connected to a old rig that had a set of molex cables I could use. Luckily I had a molex to sata adapter. Do you know what they are called so I know what to search for? I'd buy a dozen or so just to have extras laying around.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > Dale wrote: > > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > > Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM Dale wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM Dale wrote: > > > Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has PWDIS and when it > > doesn't? Is there some term for it that shows in the specs and I'm > > missing it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM Dale > > wrote: >> >> > Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has PWDIS and when it >> > doesn't?  Is there some term for it that shows in the specs and I'm >> > missing it?  Or is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM Dale > wrote: > > > Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has PWDIS and when it > > doesn't?  Is there some term for it that shows in the specs and I'm > > missing it?  Or is there no way to really know?

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 2:12 PM Dale wrote: > Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has PWDIS and when it > doesn't? Is there some term for it that shows in the specs and I'm > missing it? Or is there no way to really know? I believe PWDIS is part of the SATA 3.3 spec so first filter

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM Dale wrote: >> I'm looking at buying another drive. I'm trying to avoid buying one >> with the PWDIS pin. I'm looking at the specs to see if it says anything >> about the feature, there or not there. I'm not seeing anything. This >> is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM Dale wrote: > > I'm looking at buying another drive. I'm trying to avoid buying one > with the PWDIS pin. I'm looking at the specs to see if it says anything > about the feature, there or not there. I'm not seeing anything. This > is what I'm looking at. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-09 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > Now to avoid buying another one of these drives again.  I really wish > sellers who should know would put in the description or list of features > that the drive has PWDIS.  After all, most buyers of small quantities of > drives likely can't use that feature.  The ones who do

Re: [gentoo-user] PERL_FEATURES

2024-05-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks, that helped a lot! Now I have set only those features in the PERL_FEATURES entry that were installed before - the warning has gone and I hoped the correct version of perl is installed now. Helmut On 05/07/2024 08:29:28 PM, Jack wrote: On 2024.05.07 12:33, Helmut Jarausch

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-07 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 6:04 AM Michael wrote: >> On Tuesday, 7 May 2024 08:50:26 BST Dale wrote: >>> I'm aware of what it is and the cable part. I was curious what it looks >>> like to BIOS and the OS when one is connected and that pin has the drive >>> disabled. From what

Re: [gentoo-user] PERL_FEATURES

2024-05-07 Thread Jack
On 2024.05.07 12:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, according to the NEWS from today one has to set PERL_FEATURES in /etc/portage/make.conf. But how to do that? I've tried PERL_FEATURES="debug ithreads quadmath" but emerging dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3 I get * As of dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3,

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 15:37, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024 13:22:47 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Yes, of course. When I said "emerge -c doesn't clean it" I meant > > > "emerge > > -c" (without arguments). I know how to unmerge a package, which in this > > particular case I

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 May 2024 13:22:47 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Yes, of course. When I said "emerge -c doesn't clean it" I meant > > "emerge > -c" (without arguments). I know how to unmerge a package, which in this > particular case I should have done years ago, but didn't, and forgot > about it.

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 13:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024 11:32:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Files in @world should only be wanted because you put them in there, so > you should be able to remove them. > > Yes, of course. When I said "emerge -c doesn't clean it" I meant

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 May 2024 11:32:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world > > > file, hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think > > > I had it > > > > emerge -c will remove packages that are in @world. It was probably >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 6:04 AM Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 7 May 2024 08:50:26 BST Dale wrote: > > > > I'm aware of what it is and the cable part. I was curious what it looks > > like to BIOS and the OS when one is connected and that pin has the drive > > disabled. From what I've read in

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 10:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2024 16:37:24 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world file, > > hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think I had it > > emerge -c will remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-07 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 May 2024 08:50:26 BST Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > See https://www.disctech.com/powerdisable > > > > BillK > > I'm aware of what it is and the cable part. I was curious what it looks > like to BIOS and the OS when one is connected and that pin has the drive >

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 2 May 2024 16:37:24 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > So, it seems I have at least one package which I wouldn't expect to > have: app-admin/xstow > > I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world file, > hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-07 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > See https://www.disctech.com/powerdisable > > BillK > I'm aware of what it is and the cable part.  I was curious what it looks like to BIOS and the OS when one is connected and that pin has the drive disabled.  From what I've read in some places, the drive doesn't power

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

2024-05-06 Thread William Kenworthy
See https://www.disctech.com/powerdisable BillK On 7/5/24 09:00, Dale wrote: Howdy, I ordered another hard drive, yup, I keep filling them up.  Anyway, it looks like a shucked drive but may not be.  I tried to find out if there is a way to know if a drive has that pin 3 problem or not but no

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-05 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> On Sunday, 28 April 2024 13:57:23 BST Dale wrote: >> >>> I just got to figure out how to make it so I can login as root via ssh >>> again. I set PermitRootLogin to yes in ssh config but still refuses. I >>> did it on my NAS box but can't recall what else I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 14:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:55:42 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I have > > /var/lib/bin > > in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > > Anyone with the same problem/weirdness? > > Nope. Have you tried 'grep -r var/lib/bin /etc' ? > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 15:07, Petr Vaněk wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I have /var/lib/bin in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > > Do you have app-admin/xstow installed? This seems to be the (only) > Indeed, I had it in the world file,

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Petr Vaněk
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I have /var/lib/bin in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > [snip] What could be setting this? (grep /var/lib/bin /etc/conf.d/* > returns nothing) Do you have app-admin/xstow installed? This seems to be the (only)

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:55:42 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > I have > /var/lib/bin > in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > That directory does not exist. Should it exist!? > What could be setting this? > (grep /var/lib/bin /etc/conf.d/* returns nothing) > > Anyone with the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 2 May 2024 00:45:29 BST Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > OK, so 'boot' is for the Linux /boot directory. I was just curious > > since I had never used one. When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate /boot, and leave it unmounted during normal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-02 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 2 May 2024 00:45:29 BST Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2024-05-01, Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: > The partition type code for 'swap' is wrong -- it should be > 8200. According to the gdisk help info Linux /home is supposed to be >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-02 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 May 2024 00:45:29 BST Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-05-01, Dale wrote: > >> Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> The partition type code for 'swap' is wrong -- it should be > >>> 8200. According to the gdisk help info Linux /home is supposed to be > >>> 8302, but I've always

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling environment for Rapberry

2024-05-01 Thread Alexandru N. Barloiu
On 4/30/2024 12:26 AM, ralfconn wrote: The crossdev environment on the desktop knows nothing about the packages installed on the Pi, so I copied /var/db/pkg from Pi to /usr/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/var/db/pkg on the desktop. I ran emerge --sync on the Pi and on the desktop approximatively at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-01 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-05-01, Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> The partition type code for 'swap' is wrong -- it should be >>> 8200. According to the gdisk help info Linux /home is supposed to be >>> 8302, but I've always used the same generic "Linux filesystem" type >>> for

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling environment for Rapberry

2024-05-01 Thread ralfconn
Il 01/05/24 19:54, ralfconn ha scritto: Il 01/05/24 19:05, Michael ha scritto: I've built the cross toolchain with 'crossdev --taget aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu' per wiki [2]. I've selected a 23.0-split-usr profile on the Pi since this is the one supported by the crossdev (or so I understood

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-01 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-05-01, Dale wrote: > >> OK.  One last update in case someone googles and runs up on this >> thread.  I'm using gdisk to display this, because I think it will do >> better in email.  If I use cgdisk, it is wider and will wrap more.  >> This is what the partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > One last update.  I found a video.  They were using gdisk but the > crucial part, he got it to display the partition layout.  It was like I > described as for as the alignment thing, tiny partition with ef02 and > then carry on as usual from there.  > > I need to do this on a disk

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling environment for Rapberry

2024-05-01 Thread ralfconn
Il 01/05/24 19:05, Michael ha scritto: I've built the cross toolchain with 'crossdev --taget aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu' per wiki [2]. I've selected a 23.0-split-usr profile on the Pi since this is the one supported by the crossdev (or so I understood from the error message when I tried with the

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling environment for Rapberry

2024-05-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 29 April 2024 22:26:49 BST ralfconn wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got me a Raspberry Pi4b to use as a PiHole [1]. As a first > step I put user-space Gentoo (i.e. aarch64 stage3) on it and now I am > trying to set up my desktop to cross-compile binary packages for the PI, > to keep the

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling environment for Rapberry

2024-05-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:26:49PM +0200 schrieb ralfconn: > Hello, > > I recently got me a Raspberry Pi4b to use as a PiHole [1]. As a first step I > put user-space Gentoo (i.e. aarch64 stage3) on it and now I am trying to set > up my desktop to cross-compile binary packages for the PI, to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

2024-04-30 Thread Sergey Filatov
On 30.04.2024 0:35, Michael wrote: On Monday, 29 April 2024 21:28:35 BST Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 29 April 2024 16:11:31 BST Dale wrote: Only bad side of IPv6, it's a lot of typing for all that. o_O There's a worse aspect: you have to undersand what you're doing. Or you

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

2024-04-29 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 29 April 2024 21:28:35 BST Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Monday, 29 April 2024 16:11:31 BST Dale wrote: Only bad side of IPv6, it's a lot of typing for all that. o_O >>> There's a worse aspect: you have to undersand what you're doing. Or you >>> can

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

2024-04-29 Thread Michael
On Monday, 29 April 2024 21:28:35 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 29 April 2024 16:11:31 BST Dale wrote: > >> Only bad side of IPv6, it's a lot of typing for all that. o_O > > > > There's a worse aspect: you have to undersand what you're doing. Or you > > can > > just tell

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

2024-04-29 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 29 April 2024 16:11:31 BST Dale wrote: > >> Only bad side of IPv6, it's a lot of typing for all that. o_O > There's a worse aspect: you have to undersand what you're doing. Or you can > just tell your firewall not to allow any IPv6 packets in or out at all. >

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

2024-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 29 April 2024 16:11:31 BST Dale wrote: > Only bad side of IPv6, it's a lot of typing for all that. o_O There's a worse aspect: you have to undersand what you're doing. Or you can just tell your firewall not to allow any IPv6 packets in or out at all. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

2024-04-29 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 28 April 2024 03:29:09 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:30:46 BST Dale wrote: > [snip ...] > Anyone ever seen this? Searching didn't help. This is a new kernel so maybe I missed something in there? >>> Yes, most likely. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] frei0r-plugins opencv ffmpeg Error: circular dependencies

2024-04-29 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 29 April 2024 06:07:04 BST Dale wrote: >> Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I'm installing Gentoo on that old Dell Inspiron still. I'm getting >>> close. I'm now at this. >>> >>> >>> * Error: circular dependencies: >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] frei0r-plugins opencv ffmpeg Error: circular dependencies

2024-04-29 Thread Dale
Hi, What it did, it caused a package to fail that the others depended on.  Once it failed, the others failed as well.  I did a search on the forum and found one thread that had the problem.  I do wish people would use better topic tittles than 'my emerge failed' or oh my upgrade stopped' or some

Re: [gentoo-user] frei0r-plugins opencv ffmpeg Error: circular dependencies

2024-04-29 Thread Michael
On Monday, 29 April 2024 06:07:04 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I'm installing Gentoo on that old Dell Inspiron still. I'm getting > > close. I'm now at this. > > > > > > * Error: circular dependencies: > > > > (media-plugins/frei0r-plugins-1.8.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] frei0r-plugins opencv ffmpeg Error: circular dependencies

2024-04-28 Thread Waldo Lemmer
Hi Dale, CFLAGS can't have an effect on dependencies. It is passed to make; emerge doesn't use it. Emerge does use CPU_FLAGS_*, but I don't know if those flags are used for any conditional dependencies. Regards, Waldo On Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 07:07 Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] frei0r-plugins opencv ffmpeg Error: circular dependencies

2024-04-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm installing Gentoo on that old Dell Inspiron still.  I'm getting > close.  I'm now at this.  > > >  * Error: circular dependencies: > > (media-plugins/frei0r-plugins-1.8.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > merge) depends on >  (media-libs/opencv-4.9.0:0/4.9.0::gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-04-28 Thread Wol
On 28/04/2024 17:40, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2024-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: With DOS disk lables, Grub uses empty space between the boot sector and the first partition as a location to store it's core image file. That empty space does not exist when using GPT disk label. When using a GPT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-04-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> On Sunday, 28 April 2024 19:39:16 BST Dale wrote: >>> Grant Edwards wrote: On 2024-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: > With DOS disk lables, Grub uses empty space between the boot sector > and the first partition as a location to store it's core image file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-04-28 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 28 April 2024 19:39:16 BST Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2024-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: With DOS disk lables, Grub uses empty space between the boot sector and the first partition as a location to store it's core image file. That empty

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-04-28 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 28 April 2024 19:39:16 BST Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> With DOS disk lables, Grub uses empty space between the boot sector > >> and the first partition as a location to store it's core image file. > >> That empty space does not exist

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-04-28 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> With DOS disk lables, Grub uses empty space between the boot sector >> and the first partition as a location to store it's core image file. >> That empty space does not exist when using GPT disk label. When using >> a GPT disk label,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-04-28 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 28 April 2024 13:57:23 BST Dale wrote: > >> I just got to figure out how to make it so I can login as root via ssh >> again. I set PermitRootLogin to yes in ssh config but still refuses. I >> did it on my NAS box but can't recall what else I had to do. > Just checking

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-04-28 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 28 April 2024 13:57:23 BST Dale wrote: > I just got to figure out how to make it so I can login as root via ssh > again. I set PermitRootLogin to yes in ssh config but still refuses. I > did it on my NAS box but can't recall what else I had to do. Just checking the obvious, did you

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