Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI booting again - FIXED

2020-10-19 Thread Michael
On Monday, 19 October 2020 17:10:57 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 19 October 2020 14:08:05 -00 Michael wrote: > > Are you saying calling 'efibootmgr -v' lists a different UEFI boot menu? > > No, I'm saying that I appear to be able to create a BIOS entry using > efibootmgr, but when I

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI booting again - FIXED

2020-10-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 19 October 2020 14:08:05 -00 Michael wrote: > Are you saying calling 'efibootmgr -v' lists a different UEFI boot menu? No, I'm saying that I appear to be able to create a BIOS entry using efibootmgr, but when I reboot and enter BIOS setup, the entry often isn't there. Or if it is,

Re: [gentoo-user] A How-to to keep Python on top of its game?

2020-10-19 Thread Dale
Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've just run emerge --pretend --depclean and it wants to remove > Python 3.6 - all good. But in turn it is leaving 2.7, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9. > > I'm fine with 2.7 as I have a specific use for that but three > versions in the 3.* series? Is there somewhere a How-to

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

2020-10-19 Thread Dale
gevisz wrote: > пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 02:18, Dale : >> On the modules or in kernel, I compile all mine in the kernel. The only >> modules I have is my nvidia video drivers. There's pro's and con's to >> each so whatever works and you like. > I actually asked a question not about the choice

[gentoo-user] A How-to to keep Python on top of its game?

2020-10-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I've just run emerge --pretend --depclean and it wants to remove Python 3.6 - all good. But in turn it is leaving 2.7, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9. I'm fine with 2.7 as I have a specific use for that but three versions in the 3.* series? Is there somewhere a How-to or FAQ or hints & tips that

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI booting again - FIXED

2020-10-19 Thread Michael
On Monday, 19 October 2020 13:08:35 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 11 October 2020 23:21:49 -00 pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: > > Can anyone please tell me precisely where 'efibootmgr -c ...' writes a > > boot > > record, or whatever it's called? My machine seems unable to store what I > >

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm fails to emerge

2020-10-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 03:22:00PM +0200, n952162 wrote: > I think I've run into similar kinds of errors before, which may have be > due to demanding too much from my vbox, so I tried setting -j1, but that It's possible, admittedly probable, that you're running out of memory. LLVM is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions - FIXED

2020-10-19 Thread antlists
On 19/10/2020 12:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: Mystery solved. It was a disk failure: a 256GB NVMe drive. It was 4.5 years old, which doesn't seem a long life to me. Doesn't sound old, but if it breaks in the fault-tolerance-management area, then you're stuffed. Bit like old MFM (pre-IDE) drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions - FIXED

2020-10-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 09:34:04 -00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 14 September 2020 09:38:10 BST antlists wrote: > > On 14/09/2020 08:48, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Just before this started, I booted Win-10 on /dev/sdb and ran its update > > > process. I don't use it for anything at

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

2020-10-19 Thread gevisz
пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 02:18, Dale : > > On the modules or in kernel, I compile all mine in the kernel. The only > modules I have is my nvidia video drivers. There's pro's and con's to > each so whatever works and you like. I actually asked a question not about the choice between "in kernel" or