Re: [gentoo-user] qt4

> On 2020-01-18, at 03:17, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Is there a way to install qt4 without resorting to make a new > installation ? > > This code requires qt4: > https://github.com/thliebig/openEMS-Project Not from what I'm seeing. The README has an outdated line for Ubuntu but the

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

On 14/01/2020 17:05, Paul B. Henson wrote: > I recently installed a new server, and noticed that it is using > /var/cache/distfiles rather than /usr/portage/distfiles. looking at the > documentation, it seems that is the new default, and it says "new > installations" will use it. I have older

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-driver, RTX 2060 SUPER. Blender and NO Optix...

> On Apr 4, 2020, at 00:59, Dale wrote: > > tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have discussed this on www.blenderartists.org and they asked >> me to ask here to sort out, whether the problem is a Blender-thing, >> a Linux-thing or a GENTOO-thing. >> >> My setup is as follows: >> NVidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config for Docker

On 16/05/2020 13:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I can't find any of those. Any clues for the uninitiated? I am running Docker fine on 5.6.12 and I am missing a lot: - CONFIG_NF_NAT_IPV4: missing - CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER: missing - CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE: missing -

Re: [gentoo-user] a day of PAIN.

> On 2020-05-12, at 18:45, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Why is this not a forced-on setting for any machine with UEFI enabled? I > can't imagine that this would be unacceptable for more than 0.001% of > the install base. Because not every user has UEFI and many just use the BIOS compatibility layer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFFTOPIC}: Does the MSI Tomahawk MAX is able to boot from a M2 SSD?

> On Mar 19, 2020, at 23:29, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Beside speed and cost: > Is there any difference between using a M2 SATA SSD > or a M2 NVMe SSD? I can tell you there's a huge difference in speed as NVMe is essentially the same as plugging directly to PCI-E. m.2 SATA is basically for

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the fastest file system for microsd?

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 15:07 никита степанов wrote: > What is the fastest file system for microsd? Any file system without journaling and other extra parts. I would place my bets on ext2 in terms of raw speed. There is also FAT and exFAT which should be fast enough. exFAT is optimised for

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating Blue-ray video discs

On Fri, May 29, 2020, 05:02 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > A few weeks ago, I ran up on a deal on a Blu-ray burner. It's a LG and > smartctrl -i shows this: > > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Vendor: HL-DT-ST > Product: BD-RE WH16NS40 > Revision: 1.04

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth and KDE Connect

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 19:46 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Evening all, > > I've plugged in a new USB Bluetooth adapter, following the instructions in > the > wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bluetooth . The idea is to connect to > my > Android phone, but I'm only getting part way. > > After

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

On 02/07/2020 06:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > But then, > # bootctl set-default 30-gentoo-5.7.7.conf > Failed to update EFI variable: Invalid argument Probably the kernel is blocking write access to EFI. This is on purpose for safety as you can damage your firmware quite easily. systemd-boot and

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

On 25/06/2020 04:59, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone know how to fix Thunderbird UI fonts on a HiDPI > Gentoo/OpenBox system with no desktop? > A similar problem exists with Firefox but it can be fixed using a CSS > file (userChrome.css). However I can't get Thunderbird to work

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

> On 2020-06-25, at 13:40, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:43 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: >> >> On 25/06/2020 04:59, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Does anyone know how to fix Thunderbird UI fonts on a HiDPI >>> Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:02, Jack wrote: > Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. > > Jack I would keep GCC 9 for now. I've run into a few issues with GCC 10 compiling various packages so I have kept GCC 9 on my system. There's not some serious detriment to not using GCC 10 for 99% of people.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 5.7.x

On 08/06/2020 11:06, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > Is there something special for me to set in the kernel config to enable it to > find the root partition? I copied the config from 5.4.38, ran oldconfig and > followed most of the suggested answers; but it won't boot. Sounds like

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources 5.7.x [FIXED]

On 09/06/2020 12:07, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 15:56:52 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > # cat /boot/loader/entries/30-gentoo-5.7.1.conf > title Gentoo Linux 5.7.1initrd=/intel-uc.img > linux /vmlinuz-5.7.1-gentoo > options root=/dev/nvme0n1p4 initrd=/intel-uc.img net.ifnames=0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] custom mount fstab

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 09:34 Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi people, > > I had a problem with docker on gentoo and found the solution for all my > problems with a custom mount command: > > |sudo mount -t cgroup -o none,name=systemd cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd > Can anybody of you tell me how to add

Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

On 25/11/2020 07:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, if I try to save a web page containing an illegal character (like hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/) several browser show an error (attached image) and cannot recover from it. I have no chance to change the filename. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Nodejs overlay

> On 2021-01-31, at 18:17, Aisha Tammy wrote: > > On 1/31/21 8:49 AM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: >> I'm trying to package nodejs software and I made an overlay for it here >> https://github.com/Alessandro-Barbieri/node-overlay >> >> Could

Re: [gentoo-user] Nodejs overlay

> On 2021-01-31, at 19:20, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > The only thing a package manager does for you is that it allows one > person (the Gentoo developer, in this case) to invest a little bit of > time to save everyone else (the Gentoo users) a lot of time. When > software has been packaged

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows 10 Pro 64bit in Virtualbox

I use with a highly customised image made with NTLite where nearly everything is removed, especially things like the antimalware, Cortana, etc. This gives marginal gain in terms of boot up time, and general speed of the UI (even with all animations disabled). It does however reduce the memory

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Freezing/unfreezing (groups of) processes

> On 2021-02-05, at 02:45, Walter Dnes wrote: > > done < /dev/shm/temp.txt You don't need to write a temporary file. You can pipe this directly into the while loop: while read do ... done < <(ps -ef | grep ${1} | grep -v "grep ${1}" | grep -v pstop) Also to avoid the second grep in Bash at

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

> On 2021-02-09, at 03:43, n952162 wrote: > > If an update requires additional steps, shouldn't that have appeared in the > news? No because how it's done is totally dependent on your needs. There's no one correct way to do it. Even in common cases, some may choose to use certain kinds of

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

> On 2021-02-21, at 17:23, Grant Taylor > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm reading Kerberos - The Definitive Guide[1] and it makes the following > comment: > >> And to make matters worse, some Unix systems map their own hostname to >> 127.0.0.1 (the loopback IP address). > > This makes me think

Re: [gentoo-user] Video plays past end of time it shows

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 13:44 Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I have a video that does something weird. The video plays about 6 > minutes or so past the length it should. During that extended time, you > can't fast forward, pause or anything either. I've ran into this a > couple times with my deer camera

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setcap fails: (Operation not supported)

On 30/09/2021 13:58, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-09-30, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-09-30, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm trying to add NET_ADMIN capability to an executable that needs to create a tun inteface. AFACIT, this is the command to do that: $ sudo setcap cap_net_admin+ep

Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

> On 2021-09-24, at 05:58, Philip Webb wrote: > > While I was asleep yesterday, my machine reported on all 3 Konsoles : > > Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ... > : mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 4: 9d0b4c16001d011b > > Message from syslogd@ at Thu

Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

On 24/09/2021 06:48, Philip Webb wrote: 210924 Andrew Udvare wrote: On 2021-09-24, at 05:58, Philip Webb wrote: While I was asleep yesterday, my machine reported on all 3 Konsoles : Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ... : mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank

Re: [gentoo-user] mediatek mt7921: no AP?

I'm pretty sure none of these built-in wi-fis like that will support AP mode. They would much rather charge more for that feature.

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard compatibility...

On 16/11/2021 17:32, Jorge Almeida wrote: ROG Strix X570-E Gaming The name is in the model. X570 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] glabel - compatible thermal label printer

On 26/07/2022 16:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Is anybody using "glabel"? I'm looking for compatible thermal label printer that will works on Linux; and easy to install printer driver. My overlay provides the latest Qt version.

Re: [gentoo-user] KWallet refuses to auto open at login

Does a new user account work the way it is supposed to? On Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 07:33 Victor Ivanov, wrote: > Hello fellow penguins, > > I have to admit I'm at my wits' end with KWallet. This thing has been > driving me insane for the last couple of weeks, roughly since the > upgrade to Plasma

Re: [gentoo-user] InfluxDB python library?

On Wed, 10 May 2023, 03:51 J. Roeleveld, wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using a python script for the past 4 years to read out my solar > panels and write the data into InfluxDB to get nice graphs in Grafana. > > Unfortunately, the library I use to write to InfluxDB has a dead upstream > and >

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd unit executing but not persistent later in boot

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 21:32, Daniel Frey wrote: > What's even stranger is if I manually start it and restart lircd it works! Have you tried adding Before=lircd.service in the [Unit] section?

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