Re: [gentoo-user] Add hyperlinks to PDF?

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 11:36:44 -0700 Daniel Frey wrote:
> Is there any open source tool to add hyperlinks to a PDF? I've scanned a
> manual of mine to put on my tablet and used pdftk to assemble all the
> individual PDFs and generate bookmarks, but it doesn't seem to be able
> to add links.

I use xelatex to create PDF documents (pdflatex can also be used),
it has nice hyperref package which allows to manage PDF hyperlinks.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest kde Plasma appears to not autohide taskbar

[Andrew Lowe]

On 04/10/16 04:08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 02:35:13 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> 
>>  First and foremost would be "Where does the task bar store it's
>> config values such as Alignment and Visibility"? I've had a look in
>> ~/.kde4 and ~/.config and can't find anything - then again it is
>> currently 02:34 in Perth, Australia and waaay past my bedtime so I may
>> have missed something.
> 
> After changong it the only file modified here is ~/.config/plasmashellrc
> 
> 

Following on from this spot, changing the "Visibility" from "Always
Visible" to "Autohide" to "Windows Can Cover" to "Windows Go Below" sees
the variable

[PlasmaViews][Panel 1][Horizontal1680] -> panelVisibility

change from 0 to 3 depending upon the option chosen, 0 being "Always
Visible" and so on. In my case, my screen is 1680 wide, hence the label
name. It should be noted that this is not an instantaneous change, the
file appears to be rewritten periodically, every 30sec/1min or so.

The question now becomes, the variable is being changed but why doesn't
the Task Bar respect the change? Time to write a bug report?

Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:41:01 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > I'd use the KDE profile. The packages you install are still the ones
> > you want but the profile means the USE flags are already as you need,
> > and you can always tweak any you want different anyway.  
> 
> Reading eselect news I thought that the KDE profile and kde USE flag is
> due to be withdrawn with Plasma 5 going stable, did I get this wrong?

Sorry, I meant the plasma profile.


-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Andrés Becerra Sandoval]

2016-04-09 11:16 GMT-05:00 Marc Joliet :

> On Saturday 09 April 2016 10:35:44 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >kdepim applications have been not ported to Plasma 5 yet. You will not
> have
>
> >problem with those.
>
> [...]
>
>
>
> I happened to notice that the KDE overlay has versions for Plasma 5 (
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/tree/kde-apps/kdepim). From what
> I've been told from a friend using openSUSE I wouldn't want to switch to it
> just yet, though.
>
>
>
> HTH
>
> --
>
> Marc Joliet
>
> --
>
> "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
>
> don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
>
>
>


​Yes Marc, some libraries are ready, but not the applications.


-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Mick]

On Saturday 09 Apr 2016 21:03:09 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:12:51 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > I noticed to day that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon
> > have to deal with it.  I run a number of boxen with Gentoo on them.
> > Some of them do not run a full KDE desktop, only selected KDE apps,
> > some KDE meta packages including kdepim-meta.
> > 
> > For these boxen I have set:
> > 
> > [3]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop *
> > 
> > and USE=kde, -gnome in make.conf.  What would you recommend I do if I
> > still do not wish to install or run the full KDE desktop environment?
> > Are there any gotchas?
> 
> I'd use the KDE profile. The packages you install are still the ones you
> want but the profile means the USE flags are already as you need, and you
> can always tweak any you want different anyway.

Reading eselect news I thought that the KDE profile and kde USE flag is due to 
be withdrawn with Plasma 5 going stable, did I get this wrong?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest kde Plasma appears to not autohide taskbar

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 02:35:13 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:

>   First and foremost would be "Where does the task bar store it's
> config values such as Alignment and Visibility"? I've had a look in
> ~/.kde4 and ~/.config and can't find anything - then again it is
> currently 02:34 in Perth, Australia and waaay past my bedtime so I may
> have missed something.

After changong it the only file modified here is ~/.config/plasmashellrc


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest kde Plasma appears to not autohide taskbar

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 19:44:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > It's bugging me too.  For me, setting it to 'Always Visible' then back
> > to 'Auto Hide' cures it temporarily.  I've now turned off taskbar
> > notifications (System Settings » Applications » Launch Feedback) and
> > that seems to have fixed things, but it hasn't been long enough for me
> > to be sure.  
> 
> 
> autohide works correctly here, so to track this down we'd need to find
> out how my setup differs from you two fellows

It works correctly on my desktop all the time. On my laptop it
occasionally stops working, but changing the setting to something else
and back again fixes it. This happens so infrequently that I haven't felt
the need to investigate possible causes.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Plagarism prohibited. Derive carefully.


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:12:51 +0100, Mick wrote:

> I noticed to day that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon
> have to deal with it.  I run a number of boxen with Gentoo on them.
> Some of them do not run a full KDE desktop, only selected KDE apps,
> some KDE meta packages including kdepim-meta.
> 
> For these boxen I have set:
> 
> [3]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop *
> 
> and USE=kde, -gnome in make.conf.  What would you recommend I do if I
> still do not wish to install or run the full KDE desktop environment?
> Are there any gotchas?

I'd use the KDE profile. The packages you install are still the ones you
want but the profile means the USE flags are already as you need, and you
can always tweak any you want different anyway.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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[gentoo-user] plasma 5 virtual desktops with different backgrounds and widgets

[»Q«]

With Plasma 5, the option to have different backgrounds and widgets on
different virtual desktops is gone, and I miss it.  There is work being
done to get something like that back -- at least I think so, from
.  (Do not read that
bug report unless you're prepared to wade through an astonishing about
of whiny bugspam -- I just did, and my eyes are bleeding.)

AIUI now, the closest thing that can be done to get something like
distinct virtual desktops involves setting up different activities and
using the Activity Pager widget to switch between them.  Ideally, I
need a simple set of instructions on how to do that, written for the
user (me) to whom activities are a complete mystery.  I've searched,
but can't find anything close to that.  Does anybody know of a good
resource to help me?

[gentoo-user] Add hyperlinks to PDF?

[Daniel Frey]

Is there any open source tool to add hyperlinks to a PDF? I've scanned a
manual of mine to put on my tablet and used pdftk to assemble all the
individual PDFs and generate bookmarks, but it doesn't seem to be able
to add links.

All I'm trying to do is link to pages in the same PDF.

libreoffice imports a PDF but it doesn't import the bookmarks properly,
so on export everything is overwritten.

I'm not trying to modify the pages (i.e. the text) itself, just add links.

I'm currently compiling inkscape, but I've read it "imports" PDF so I'm
not so hopeful it will work as my experience with libreoffice wasn't so
good.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest kde Plasma appears to not autohide taskbar

[Andrew Lowe]

On 04/10/16 01:44, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 09/04/2016 17:45, »Q« wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:48:12 +0800
>> Andrew Lowe  wrote:
>>
>> [plasma 5 panels]
>>> Even though I have "Autohide" selected, the thingy won't
>>> autohide. This is a real pain as I have the task bar running across
>>> the top of the screen and not autohiding means that it sits over the
>>> title bar of apps that are full screen. Due to this I can't change
>>> the position or size of the apps windows. I've moved the task bar to
>>> the bottom of the screen and the behaviour persists, not autohiding.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else come across this problem and fixed it or got
>>> any idea as to how I can fix it?
>>
>> It's bugging me too.  For me, setting it to 'Always Visible' then back
>> to 'Auto Hide' cures it temporarily.  I've now turned off taskbar
>> notifications (System Settings » Applications » Launch Feedback) and
>> that seems to have fixed things, but it hasn't been long enough for me
>> to be sure.
> 
> 
> autohide works correctly here, so to track this down we'd need to find
> out how my setup differs from you two fellows
> 
> 

First and foremost would be "Where does the task bar store it's config
values such as Alignment and Visibility"? I've had a look in ~/.kde4 and
~/.config and can't find anything - then again it is currently 02:34 in
Perth, Australia and waaay past my bedtime so I may have missed something.

Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest kde Plasma appears to not autohide taskbar

[Alan McKinnon]

On 09/04/2016 17:45, »Q« wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:48:12 +0800
> Andrew Lowe  wrote:
> 
> [plasma 5 panels]
>> Even though I have "Autohide" selected, the thingy won't
>> autohide. This is a real pain as I have the task bar running across
>> the top of the screen and not autohiding means that it sits over the
>> title bar of apps that are full screen. Due to this I can't change
>> the position or size of the apps windows. I've moved the task bar to
>> the bottom of the screen and the behaviour persists, not autohiding.
>>
>> Has anyone else come across this problem and fixed it or got
>> any idea as to how I can fix it?
> 
> It's bugging me too.  For me, setting it to 'Always Visible' then back
> to 'Auto Hide' cures it temporarily.  I've now turned off taskbar
> notifications (System Settings » Applications » Launch Feedback) and
> that seems to have fixed things, but it hasn't been long enough for me
> to be sure.


autohide works correctly here, so to track this down we'd need to find
out how my setup differs from you two fellows


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Marc Joliet]

On Saturday 09 April 2016 10:35:44 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote:
[...]
>kdepim applications have been not ported to Plasma 5 yet. You will not have
>problem with those.
[...]

I happened to notice that the KDE overlay has versions for Plasma 5
(https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/tree/kde-apps/kdepim).  From what I've
been told from a friend using openSUSE I wouldn't want to switch to it just yet,
though.

HTH
--
Marc Joliet
--
"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup



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[gentoo-user] Re: Latest kde Plasma appears to not autohide taskbar

[»Q«]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:48:12 +0800
Andrew Lowe  wrote:

[plasma 5 panels]
> Even though I have "Autohide" selected, the thingy won't
> autohide. This is a real pain as I have the task bar running across
> the top of the screen and not autohiding means that it sits over the
> title bar of apps that are full screen. Due to this I can't change
> the position or size of the apps windows. I've moved the task bar to
> the bottom of the screen and the behaviour persists, not autohiding.
> 
> Has anyone else come across this problem and fixed it or got
> any idea as to how I can fix it?

It's bugging me too.  For me, setting it to 'Always Visible' then back
to 'Auto Hide' cures it temporarily.  I've now turned off taskbar
notifications (System Settings » Applications » Launch Feedback) and
that seems to have fixed things, but it hasn't been long enough for me
to be sure.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Andrés Becerra Sandoval]

2016-04-09 5:12 GMT-05:00 Mick :

> I noticed to day that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon have
> to
> deal with it.  I run a number of boxen with Gentoo on them.  Some of them
> do
> not run a full KDE desktop, only selected KDE apps, some KDE meta packages
> including kdepim-meta.
>
> For these boxen I have set:
>
>

> [3]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop *
>
> and USE=kde, -gnome in make.conf.  What would you recommend I do if I
> still do
> not wish to install or run the full KDE desktop environment?  Are there any
> gotchas?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick


​Hello Mick,

kdepim applications have been not ported to Plasma 5 yet. You will not have
problem with those.

Some applications migrated are:  ark, dolphin, gwenview, kate, konsole,
kwrite, telepathy, konversation, marble and most of games and educational
applications.
​


-- 
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[gentoo-user] Latest kde Plasma appears to not autohide taskbar

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
I've just done an "eix-sync" followed by an "emerge -NuD world" and
besides from gwenview not wanting to build, things appeared to go well.
I've rebooted and now noticed that the task bar, or whatever it's
called, now doesn't want to autohide. If I go to the  rhs and click on
the three little horizontal stripes, I get, amongst other things, the
option for "More settings". Selecting this gives a dialigue/panel that
lists the visibility options.

Even though I have "Autohide" selected, the thingy won't autohide. This
is a real pain as I have the task bar running across the top of the
screen and not autohiding means that it sits over the title bar of apps
that are full screen. Due to this I can't change the position or size of
the apps windows. I've moved the task bar to the bottom of the screen
and the behaviour persists, not autohiding.

Has anyone else come across this problem and fixed it or got any idea
as to how I can fix it?

Regards,
Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] to anyone and everyone

[Alan Grimes]

R0b0t1 wrote:
>
> Did you give it a dummy load when you scoped it?
>

Running the Unigine valley demo on modest settings.

-- 
IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.

Powers are not rights.

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 06:14:16 -0500, R0b0t1 wrote:

> It is a matter of unpacking the ISO. I got most of the way through doing
> this before giving up as the ISO has a lot of assumptions built into it.

It turns out to be a trivial task:

Loop mount the ISO
Copy the kernel, initramfs and filesystem files to /boot/sysrcd
Add this to /boot/loaders/entries

title   System Rescue Cd
version 4.7.2
linux   /sysrcd/rescue64
options subdir=sysrcd setkmap=uk rootpass=wasspord
initrd  /sysrcd/initram.igz

Reboot!

More details at 
http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Easy_install_SystemRescueCd_on_harddisk


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Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 06:14:16 -0500, R0b0t1 wrote:

> It is a matter of unpacking the ISO. I got most of the way through doing
> this before giving up as the ISO has a lot of assumptions built into it.

Reading your posts is like walking into a room partway through a
conversation. Can you please quote what and whom you are replying to to
give some context. I assume, but cannot be certain, that this was a
reply to my post. So unpacking the ISO sort of worked? It does have a
UEFI enabled kernel?
 
> I ended up just using GRUB.

That's what I'm doing now. I use bootctl by default but GRUB is installed
and available from the EFI menu if I need to boot from the ISO.


-- 
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[gentoo-user] Re: to anyone and everyone

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/04/16 07:54, Alan Grimes wrote:

Decided the corsair psu was not worth rma-ing, at similar expense so
decided to trash the company instead. =|


You get what you pay for ;-)

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/corsair-extends-select-psu-warranties-from-7-years-to-10-years.html

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

[R0b0t1]

It is a matter of unpacking the ISO. I got most of the way through doing
this before giving up as the ISO has a lot of assumptions built into it.

I ended up just using GRUB.

Re: [gentoo-user] to anyone and everyone

[R0b0t1]

Did you give it a dummy load when you scoped it?

Re: [gentoo-user] to anyone and everyone

[Mick]

On Saturday 09 Apr 2016 12:35:04 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Saturday, April 09, 2016 12:54:07 AM Alan Grimes wrote:
> > Corsair power supplies suck nuts.
> > 
> > Here's proof:
> > 
> > 
> > Testing a 12V rail, scope set to 100mv/horizontal line relative to how
> > you would normally look at a scope.
> > 
> > The computer was crashing, spent $50 RMA'ing a perfectly good video card
> > it seems. =\
> > 
> > Decided the corsair psu was not worth rma-ing, at similar expense so
> > decided to trash the company instead. =|
> 
> You call that proof with only 1 item causing "issues" when I have multiple
> systems with Corsair powersupplies that have been rock-solid for years
> without needing any replacements?
> 
> With the amount of product factories produce these days, having a few bad
> samples is only to be expected. Dishing a company just because you happened
> to get one of them is a bit lame.
> Better complain about the shop you got it from for not testing every single
> unit they sell.
> Or about the person who decided to use it without testing before RMA'ing a
> possibly correct working GPU.
> Oh wait, that's you. And we can't expect you to be the cause of any issues,
> can we?
> 
> --
> Joost

Corsair like other OEMs make different classes of gear.  The more expensive 
category usually have better capacitors and other innards.  Cabling and noise 
from the mains can also make a difference in the test results, with the 
cheaper PSUs performing less well in filtering all distortions out.  I think 
RMA'ing with a call to the supplier may be more effective in stopping the PC 
crashing.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] to anyone and everyone

[J. Roeleveld]

On Saturday, April 09, 2016 12:54:07 AM Alan Grimes wrote:
> Corsair power supplies suck nuts.
> 
> Here's proof:
> 
> 
> Testing a 12V rail, scope set to 100mv/horizontal line relative to how
> you would normally look at a scope.
> 
> The computer was crashing, spent $50 RMA'ing a perfectly good video card
> it seems. =\
> 
> Decided the corsair psu was not worth rma-ing, at similar expense so
> decided to trash the company instead. =|

You call that proof with only 1 item causing "issues" when I have multiple 
systems with Corsair powersupplies that have been rock-solid for years without 
needing any replacements?

With the amount of product factories produce these days, having a few bad 
samples is only to be expected. Dishing a company just because you happened to 
get one of them is a bit lame.
Better complain about the shop you got it from for not testing every single 
unit they sell.
Or about the person who decided to use it without testing before RMA'ing a 
possibly correct working GPU.
Oh wait, that's you. And we can't expect you to be the cause of any issues, 
can we?

--
Joost

[gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Mick]

I noticed to day that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon have to 
deal with it.  I run a number of boxen with Gentoo on them.  Some of them do 
not run a full KDE desktop, only selected KDE apps, some KDE meta packages 
including kdepim-meta.

For these boxen I have set:

[3]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop *

and USE=kde, -gnome in make.conf.  What would you recommend I do if I still do 
not wish to install or run the full KDE desktop environment?  Are there any 
gotchas?

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] to anyone and everyone

[Adam Carter]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Alan Grimes  wrote:

> Corsair power supplies suck nuts.
>
> Here's proof:
>
>
> Testing a 12V rail, scope set to 100mv/horizontal line relative to how
> you would normally look at a scope.
>

Is your sample size=1? If so, then the evidence does not support the
conclusion that "Corsair power supplies suck nuts". All you can say is that
"this Corsair power supply sucks nuts'. If you RMA then you get to test
another one, which would be interesting.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest verification failed:

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:03:05 -0500, »Q« wrote:
> > I tried a few with no joy. As it appeared to be only the  ebuild
> > causing the problem, I deleted the file and removed the corresponding
> > line from the Manifest.  
> 
> I tried a few with no joy, too, and now I've done as you suggest.
> Thanks for that -- I'd thought portage would complain if I did that.

It complains if you add or remove files, but by removing both the file
and its reference n the Manifest, everything stays consistent. Whether
being able to do that is a convenience or a security risk is a matter of
preference, but until Manifests are signed it is doable.

> I'm one of the nuts who has USE="-*", and I've finally hit a situation
> where it causes considerable headaches;

It was only a matter of time...

>  plasma 5 requires a lot of
> per-package USE stuff, all handled in the profile thanks to careful
> work from the devs.  Instead of trying to tackle it package-by-package,
> for now I've just copied the profile's package.use to
> my /etc/portage/package-use.  I think this will be too much for me to
> maintain as plasma 5 and the profile change, so when I get some time
> I'll be ditching USE="-*" in order to rely on the profile.  My fellow
> USE="-*" loonies who will have to move to plasma 5 might want to
> consider ditching USE="-*" first.

So you're using the supplied wheels now instead of removing them and
trying to reinvent your own square ones now? ;-)


-- 
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It's not a bug, it's tradition!


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Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 08:40:46 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > The usual complaint about GRUB2 is that it is too complex, so minimal
> > is good here. I  only have it installed to be able to boot my System
> > Rescue ISO in an emergency, I've not found a way to go that without
> > GRUB.  
> 
> I have used GRUB2 to boot ISO images from USB drives and internal
> drives without problem,

Yes, I do that allthe time. I also use it to boot ISO images from DVDs :)

> but Gummiboot is less fiddly to set up. 

Which is why I prefer it. But it is fine to have both installed and
available from the UEFI boot menu. I do this on my laptop to make sure I
can always boot a rescue ISO if I need to. For my other systems, there's
usually a suitable USB stick nearby.

> Unfortunately, you can't boot an ISO in true minimalist fashion just by 
> pointing to it with the EFI boot stub (the ISO needs to be mounted via
> a loopback function).

I know all that. What would be nice would be an EFI boot stub that took
care of that. It occurs to me that the System Rescue Cd kernels may be
UEFI compatible, so it may be a matter of unpacking the ISO into /boot to
be able to access it from gummiboot/bootctl.


-- 
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"It compiled? The first screen came up? Ship it!" -- Bill Gates


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Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

[Mick]

On Saturday 09 Apr 2016 08:22:16 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On 9 April 2016 06:43:50 BST, pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
> > Neil Bothwick  wrote :
> > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote:
> > > > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
> > > > This one is what your UEFI's loading at boot. The lack of any
> > 
> > other
> > 
> > > > files in /boot/efi/boot/ makes me suspect Grub's not actually
> > > > installed in quite the right spot for the UEFI layer to load it.

As long as the correct kernel was saved as /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi, or the 
MoBo set up to boot from /boot/efi/boot/my_NVMe_kernel_x64.efi, you shouldn't 
have a problem booting up using the EFI boot stub.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/efi-stub.txt


> > If
> > 
> > > > you pointed grub2-install at the right place (the second command
> > 
> > line
> > 
> > > > at [1]), I believe you should have grubx64.efi there as well.
> > > 
> > > Did you build GRUB with GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"?
> > 
> > Yes, as instructed in the wiki.
> > 
> > > As you're using EFI, you may find life easier if you dispense with
> > 
> > GRUB
> > 
> > > and use Gummiboot. I find it (or the systemd version) far more
> > 
> > friendly.
> > 
> > Maybe I should give it a go - thanks for the idea. I did consider it
> > but then I was deterred by its description as "minimalistic".
> 
> The usual complaint about GRUB2 is that it is too complex, so minimal is
> good here. I  only have it installed to be able to boot my System Rescue
> ISO in an emergency, I've not found a way to go that without GRUB.

I have used GRUB2 to boot ISO images from USB drives and internal drives 
without problem, but Gummiboot is less fiddly to set up.  With GRUB2 you need 
to pay attention in setting the path to the ISO correctly, or GRUB2 will error 
out of course.

Unfortunately, you can't boot an ISO in true minimalist fashion just by 
pointing to it with the EFI boot stub (the ISO needs to be mounted via a 
loopback function).

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] to anyone and everyone

[Mick]

On Saturday 09 Apr 2016 00:54:07 Alan Grimes wrote:
> Corsair power supplies suck nuts.
> 
> Here's proof:
> 
> 
> Testing a 12V rail, scope set to 100mv/horizontal line relative to how
> you would normally look at a scope.

So you didn't buy one of these then?

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2015/july/explanation-of-rmi-new-type-4-cables


> The computer was crashing, spent $50 RMA'ing a perfectly good video card
> it seems. =\
> 
> Decided the corsair psu was not worth rma-ing, at similar expense so
> decided to trash the company instead. =|

Clever thinking!  This should probably stop your PC crashing.

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

[Neil Bothwick]

On 9 April 2016 06:43:50 BST, pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
> Neil Bothwick  wrote :
> 
> > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote:
> > 
> > > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi  
> > > This one is what your UEFI's loading at boot. The lack of any
> other
> > > files in /boot/efi/boot/ makes me suspect Grub's not actually
> > > installed in quite the right spot for the UEFI layer to load it.
> If
> > > you pointed grub2-install at the right place (the second command
> line
> > > at [1]), I believe you should have grubx64.efi there as well.
> > 
> > Did you build GRUB with GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"?
> 
> Yes, as instructed in the wiki.
> 
> > As you're using EFI, you may find life easier if you dispense with
> GRUB
> > and use Gummiboot. I find it (or the systemd version) far more
> friendly.
> 
> Maybe I should give it a go - thanks for the idea. I did consider it
> but then I was deterred by its description as "minimalistic".

The usual complaint about GRUB2 is that it is too complex, so minimal is good 
here. I  only have it installed to be able to boot my System Rescue ISO in an 
emergency, I've not found a way to go that without GRUB. 
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Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

[peter]

pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote :

> Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk>
> wrote :
> 
> > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote:
> > 
> > > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi  
> > > This one is what your UEFI's loading at boot. The lack of any other
> > > files in /boot/efi/boot/ makes me suspect Grub's not actually
> > > installed in quite the right spot for the UEFI layer to load it. If
> > > you pointed grub2-install at the right place (the second command line
> > > at [1]), I believe you should have grubx64.efi there as well.
> > 
> > Did you build GRUB with GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"?
> 
> Yes, as instructed in the wiki.
> 
> > As you're using EFI, you may find life easier if you dispense with GRUB
> > and use Gummiboot. I find it (or the systemd version) far more friendly.
> 
> Maybe I should give it a go - thanks for the idea. I did consider it but then 
> I
> was deterred by its description as "minimalistic".

I did try it, and it worked like a charm! After five days of fruitless attempts 
to get grub to work, five minutes with gummiboot was all I needed.

Thank you Neil.

I'll write a Solved reply when I have my system built and can access the whole 
thread.