On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 08:54:32PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:22:44 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > I believe grub only has to be set up once, unless you often change
> > boot drives, etc. If it's "set it and forget it" for a single-user,
> > single hard-drive system,
I took up Dan Egli's kind offer of offline help and with that, my XPS
8940 is now booting UEFI. Thanks Dan. I've logged in both at the
physical keyboard and via ssh from my current desktop PC. There's still
the usual grunt work setting up the regular user account and the usual
applications,
On 2020-12-27, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 09:53:27AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
>
>> I understand why someone used to GRUB would want to continue with
>> it on a UEFI system, but you have no experience of it so why are
>> you picking the boot manager that is hardest to
On Sunday, 27 December 2020 21:01:09 GMT antlists wrote:
> On 27/12/2020 18:51, Michael wrote:
> > Restarting the desktop using Xorg does NOT fix this problem. Otherwise,
> > both Plasma on Wayland and Xorg work fine - except the clipboard does not
> > work on Wayland (middle click won't paste
On 27/12/2020 18:51, Michael wrote:
Restarting the desktop using Xorg does NOT fix this problem. Otherwise, both
Plasma on Wayland and Xorg work fine - except the clipboard does not work on
Wayland (middle click won't paste selected text on another window).
This sounds to me like a
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:22:44 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I understand why someone used to GRUB would want to continue with
> > it on a UEFI system, but you have no experience of it so why are
> > you picking the boot manager that is hardest to configure, not to
> > mention the most bloated?
> >
This script:
equery -CN d libxml2 | sed -n -e '/^[ ]/d' -e 's/[^(]*(//' -e
's/)[^)]*$//' -e 's,[^/]*/,,' -e '/:/p' | sort -u
gets the package atom of each version of libxml2 in slot 2:
libxml2-2.4.12:2
libxml2-2.4.16:2
libxml2-2.6.21:2
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 09:53:27AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
> I understand why someone used to GRUB would want to continue with
> it on a UEFI system, but you have no experience of it so why are
> you picking the boot manager that is hardest to configure, not to
> mention the most bloated?
>
>
I tried launching Plasma on Wayland and noticed on Kmail the message preview
pane was black. As I move the mouse around or click on it, the black preview
window becomes transparent and the desktop wallpaper or other windows behind
Kmail appear, but it can flip back to black if I continue
On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:48:54 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've got two scripts in /usr/src that I run from /usr/src/linux.
> The script "makeover" is run just after "make menuconfig" and
> includes (amongst other things)
>
> make && \
> make modules_install && \
> cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 16:49:16 -0800, cal wrote:
> `parted` is only editing the partition table, not the filesystems
> applied to those partitions.
And remember the partition type should be set to EF00 in parted.
--
Neil Bothwick
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:07:58 +, antlists wrote:
> > UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant
> > of fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you
> > don't already know GRUB, I'd say start with something simpler.
> >
> >
> I got the impression
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