[gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

I have suspend/hibernate set up on a desktop ... it's been working fine for years. But recently, it's been occaisionally coming out of suspension some time after suspension without any intervention on my part. I am suspecting the mouse - I would prefer not to disable the mouse ... Is there an

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

On 5/4/23 17:24, tastytea wrote: On 2023-04-05 08:54+0800 William KENWORTHY wrote: I have suspend/hibernate set up on a desktop ... it's been working fine for years. But recently, it's been occaisionally coming out of suspension some time after suspension without any interven

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

On 6/4/23 19:20, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 6 April 2023 11:49:29 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 05:35:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: I have suspend/hibernate set up on a desktop ... it's been working fine for years. But recently, it's been occ

Re: [gentoo-user] Logic?

The rubygem / webkit problem has cropped up recently - do something like this 1. Mask webkit (I needed to do yelp as well on one system) 2. emerge any remaining updates so you can depclean 3. emerge --depclean (this removes old ruby versions and fixes the system 4. unmask webkit etc. 4. fini

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 16/4/23 06:47, Dale wrote: Howdy, I finally broke down and bought a SSD.  It's a Samsung V-Nand 870 EVO 500GB.  My current OS sits on a 160GB drive so should be plenty.  I plan to even add a boot image for the Gentoo LiveGUI thingy, maybe Knoppix or something plus my usual OS.  By the way,

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 16/4/23 15:18, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 16 April 2023 02:47:00 BST William Kenworthy wrote: look into mount options for SSD's (discard option) and "fstrim" for maintenance. (read up on trimmimg - doing a manual trim before the drive reaches full allocation (they de

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

On 28/4/23 21:21, Michael wrote: On Friday, 28 April 2023 13:54:37 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 28 April 2023 10:08:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: 230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

On 29/4/23 19:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: Filesystem choice is very much to do with your particular use case. I am not a fan of ext4 - lost too much data too many times.  I ve found btrfs and xfs much tougher, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

Checked your menu? XFCE has a "mouse and touchpad" under settings with a number of useful items including acceleration, double click timings etc. BillK On 15/5/23 04:33, Wols Lists wrote: I've been having grief with my mouse for a while, and all the help I can find is "how to adjust mouse spe

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

On 16/5/23 23:52, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 16 May 2023 01:03:31 BST Wol wrote: On 15/05/2023 18:25, Michael wrote: Check the attached screenshots, relevant to this laptop. There's pointer speed and scrolling speed for the USB mouse I have attached. I use libinput for years now and as far

Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

getmail can facilitate getting googlemail into postfix.  In my case, it fetches an mail then invokes sendemail to forward into postfix.  The docs for the google side of the equation are quite good. BillK On 20/6/23 16:30, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:29:52 BST the...@sys-concep

[gentoo-user] amavis/postfix and port 10025

Hi all,     I have been  using a gentoo mail gateway for many years - its currently running under LXC and is upgraded using a generic LXC "golden master" image with the various email related packages being installed and config files copied across roughly a month or

Re: [gentoo-user] amavis/postfix and port 10025

Inline: On 3/7/23 12:52, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sunday, July 2, 2023 4:16:54 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: Hi all, I have been using a gentoo mail gateway for many years - its currently running under LXC and is upgraded using a generic LXC "golden master" image with the var

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with location of git clone when bisecting with 9999-ebuilds

On 11/8/23 09:06, Morgan Wesström wrote: Thank you, Yixun. On 2023-08-11 02:23, Yixun Lan wrote: understanding git bisect should be enough to keep you going.. Yes, I actually just ended up doing what git bisect does but manually for now. 2) Can I tell emerge not to clean the build director

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

Welcome Back to the force :) BillK William Kenworthy On 1/9/23 02:15, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hello Gentoo'ers After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but eventually got fed up with h

[gentoo-user] attic

Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant find it on google - is it still around? * gentoo has moved dev-embedded/reedsolomon to dev-embedded/reedsolo (then removing the old ebuilds) breaking my homeassistant install easiest fix is a local copy until HA catches up.

Re: [gentoo-user] attic

On 3/9/23 18:29, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM Michael wrote: On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant find it on google - is it still around? Perhaps have a look h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: attic

On 4/9/23 16:04, Nuno Silva wrote: On 2023-09-04, William Kenworthy wrote: On 3/9/23 18:29, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM Michael wrote: On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic&q

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

On 5/9/23 22:58, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 22:54:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: It looks like remote-mounting /var/cache/distfiles might be the quick-n-dirty solution like Alan suggested. And I never have a need to h

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

On 7/9/23 11:09, Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 02:45:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale: Oh, creating a vdev was the trick.  Once that is done, expand the pool.  It's one of those, once it is done, it seems easy.  ROFL Note that people used to shoot themselves in the fo

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

Oh, forgot to mention the "this could be you" photo in that link :) BillK On 7/9/23 11:24, William Kenworthy wrote: On 7/9/23 11:09, Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 02:45:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale: Oh, creating a vdev was the trick.  Once that is do

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

per package env variables? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

That is where you set per package compiler parameters by overriding make.conf settings. BillK On 19/9/23 17:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 18 September 2023 23:44:50 BST William Kenworthy wrote: per package env variables? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env Apropos

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023 5:48:39 pm AWST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >(I assume this was addressed to me, though it was a reply to someone else.) > >On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 10:14:42 BST William Kenworthy wrote: >> That is where you set per package compiler parameters by overriding >> make.

Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

On 14/10/23 21:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:26:29 BST I wrote: Perhaps I should switch to getmail... On the other hand, I'd prefer to stick with fetchmail for my Zen POP3 account, since it's working well. Then I could use getmail to fetch my gmail mail. Would th

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

On 22/10/23 11:23, Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:20:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: Howdy, As most know, I had to restore from backups recently.  I also reworked my NAS box.  I'm doing my first backup given that I have more files that need to be added to the backu

[gentoo-user] updating glsa's

Hi,     I am using git for portage updates and exporting it over nfs for other systems  - I like to hold portage at a point so all systems are updated to the same level before updating it. However, I would also like to be able to use glsa-check on any newly issued glsa's.  Is it possible to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

On 11/11/23 05:15, Dale wrote: the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Thelma On 9/17/23 23:17, Dale wrote: Howdy, This is a work in progress and may take some time, financially if nothing else.  With hindsight, I wish I had done this before the price of everything went up but some things are gettin

Re: [gentoo-user] Debugging NFS mounts

On 18/11/23 15:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 17 November 2023 16:44:29 GMT I wrote: I'll try that - thanks. Damn fool - it was a firewall problem on the server. For some reason, the NFS destination port has changed. Sorry for the noise. Actually, NFS may have some ports dynamicly a

[gentoo-user] App windows not staying put!

Hi,     I have an odd problem with a server that's been repurposed as a desktop: 2 monitors, main is DP, secondary is HDMI, intel on board video with sddm and xfce4. The problem is the icons and app windows on the second monitor get pushed onto the main monitor when the monitors deep sleep o

Re: [gentoo-user] App windows not staying put!

On 25/11/23 16:35, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 25 November 2023 05:45:04 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I have an odd problem with a server that's been repurposed as a desktop: 2 monitors, main is DP, secondary is HDMI, intel on board video with sddm and xfce4. The problem i

[gentoo-user] OT: tablet mode

Hi,     I have a MS Surface4Pro being used as a gentoo laptop. At various times Ive tried setting up a soft keyboard so I can use it as a tablet - with mostly not really usable results, and Ive just realised my previous choices no longer work due to python moving on. So what soft keyboard, g

[gentoo-user] split-usr

Some years back I did the usr-merge and my laptop has continued on more or less ok. Now, I suddenly have a number of packages failing to build with internal collisions as they try and install (for example) a binary into /bin and /usr/bin and collide.  "emerge --info" is showing the split-usr f

Re: [gentoo-user] Asterisk - need some help

Yes, was caught out recently by the replacement of sip with pjsip - currently on v21.0.2 and working (sip only, simple home setup) Also had some weird problems with two versions installed (so asterisk started on old working version even though new one was installed - once I ran depclean it fail

Re: [gentoo-user] Asterisk - need some help

6 is the end of the line for me. On 2/2/24 16:39, William Kenworthy wrote: Yes, was caught out recently by the replacement of sip with pjsip - currently on v21.0.2 and working (sip only, simple home setup) Also had some weird problems with two versions installed (so asterisk started on old

Re: [gentoo-user] Asterisk - need some help [SOLVED]

mmunity support is almost not existent, few folks just bark at you if one mention still running ver. 16 I'll hang on to 16.30.1 as long as I can. On 2/2/24 20:55, William Kenworthy wrote: In v18 sip is still present but deprecated - after this its removed. There is a conversion script (sip

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make binary Asterisk package

man quickpkg On 4/2/24 15:47, Thelma wrote: How to make net-misc/asterisk-16.30.1 into binary package so I can install in on future gentoo boxes. I think asterisk ver. 16 (still in portage) is the last one still compatible with sip/iax code all future versions starting with ver.18 are conver

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

On 8/2/24 06:36, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:15:09PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entr

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

On 10/2/24 23:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, gentoo. I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is $ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm . But for some reason, I typed $ find . '*.elc' | xa

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

Is your efi fat32 formatted? (required) This usually means its another partition mounted to /boot/EFI BillK On 6/3/24 14:02, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item... Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option should e

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

I have a question about binaries and the new profile: I have a number of almost identical architectures that I build binaries for and share across the similar sytems e.g. arm, aarch64, amd64 etc. Is deleting the bin host storage (rm -rf ) enough on the buildhost so I can share/use the binaries

Re: [gentoo-user] Successfully upgraded to new profile 23.0

I use a buildhost for each of the 4 architectures I manage - binary emtytree installs are not to bad.  However the initial build for low power arm systems is measured in multiple days (for just the initial toolchain, not hours :(.  Only minor problems so far though which is good.  At least it c

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

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] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

On 10/6/24 18:03, Dale wrote: ... Interesting.  I thought the four port card in the NAS box was newer, at least a little bit anyway.  I may dig around for a card with display port outputs and see what I can find.  Hopefully something not to old. I don't need much.  Biggest thing, drivers that w

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird system freeze?

On 13/6/24 23:57, Dale wrote: Waldo Lemmer wrote: By the way, you should really just use the linux-firmware package if it has the firmware you need. You can plug the name of the firmware into https://portagefilelist.de to check if it does. I agree.  For firmware, this is the way to go.  I use

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU frequency governors and temperatures

On 14/6/24 20:16, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 10:49:57PM -0500, Dale wrote The biggest thing, find out what the exact specs are for your CPU. Then go from there.  That's your starting point tho. "grep model /proc/cpuinfo" returns 12 instances of... model

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

On 16/6/24 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > I still don't understand the efi thing.  I'm booted up tho.  I'm happy. > Now to get temp sensors and stuff to work.  I want to keep a eye on > temps for a bit.  I think the boot media was reporting the wrong info. > Even the ambient temp was to high for

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

... Now to ponder what comes next. Dale :-)  :-) Hi Dale, did I see in one of your early emails you created an xorg.conf for nvidia?  Have you followed the gentoo Xorg guide where it says to try first without that file?  I doubt the knoppix etc use a conf file and so must depend on the auto

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant: Wi-Fi works for all points, excluding one in the caffee

In this line it looks like a space after "Lali" ... BillK On 22/7/24 00:19, Vitaly Zdanevich wrote: wlp3s0: 3: a0:8c:f8:78:01:50 ssid='Lali ' wpa_ie_len=26 rsn_ie_len=24 caps=0x1411 level=-59 freq=243

Re: [gentoo-user] Web browser issues. Firefox and Seamonkey doesn't work, Chrome does.

On 4/8/24 16:11, Wols Lists wrote: On 03/08/2024 18:15, Dale wrote: Well, what I'd like to do, install a email program that fetches the emails and then stores them on my system.  Then I can have Thunderbird or any other email program connect to that and view, create, send or whatever emails.

Re: [gentoo-user] "Amount" of fstrim? (curiosity driven, no paranoia :)

On 27/4/20 11:14 am, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 04/26 09:58, Rich Freeman wrote: / on a btrfs raid10 (1x500G and 3x120G SSD) "fstrim -v /" about 2 hrs apart: rattus ~ # fstrim -v / /: 680.6 GiB (730744291328 bytes) trimmed rattus ~ # fstrim -v / /: 17.8 GiB (19087859712 bytes) trimmed rattu

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

I am afraid this is an ".. it depends" question. If you work with large images or data sets, swap can be really handy.  If you are doing a little programming, web browsing, reading email you will *probably* be ok, but why risk it? I have a 32gb ram in a master server for an mfs filesystem - it no

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

On 4/5/20 3:50 pm, hitachi303 wrote: > Am 04.05.2020 um 02:46 schrieb Rich Freeman: >> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:50 PM hitachi303 >> wrote: >> ... > So you are right. This is the way they do it. I used the term raid to > broadly. > But still they have problems with limitations. Size of room, wha

[gentoo-user] How can I force emerge to use python 3.6?

How can I force emerge to use python 3.6 when 3.7 is installed? - eselect list shows 3.6 is #1 and 3.7 as fallback so that doesn't work. I am trying to narrow down a failure which appears to be a combination of building packages that are stored on a moosefs network share and python 3.7 BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I force emerge to use python 3.6?

or any package. > > Your default interpreter choice (as reported by eselect) is likely not > respected by portage because the current profile defaults only build > portage against python 3.7. > > - Victor > > On 16/05/2020 02:32, William Kenworthy wrote: >> How can I for

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I force emerge to use python 3.6?

On 16/5/20 11:34 am, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:17 PM William Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi Victor, >> >> emerge crashes when it tries to add metadata during the merge stage >> in an emerge installed python module using 3.7 when the PKGDIR is o

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtek r8169 realtek.ko not loaded.

Easiest would be to put it in /etc/conf.d/modules and rebuild the initrd.  Genkernel picks it up from there.  You could also ask genkernel to add all built modules to the initrd via its config file. BillK On 17/5/20 4:07 pm, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there > > I just upgraded an older noteb

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtek r8169 realtek.ko not loaded.

uot;debug4" #module_ieee1394_args_2="debug5" # You should consult your kernel documentation and configuration # for a list of modules and their options. modules="forcedeth nouveau" On 17/5/20 7:29 pm, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Sonntag, 17. Mai 2020, 10:24:00 CEST sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo RPi boot to ram or read-only FS?

On 27/5/20 3:26 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 20:13:29 +0100, antlists wrote: > >>> Mounting the card with sync will significantly reduce the likelihood >>> of corruption, at a cost of reduced life. >>> >> Well, compared to a dead card, a reduced life is a small price to pay >>

[gentoo-user] OT: looking for info on USB3 to Mini-pcie WiFi module

Hi all,     I am looking for info on usb3 to mini-pcie wifi modules - some kind of adaptor?  There are a lot of mini-pcie to M.2 on ebay but reading up on mini-pcie it seems they may not be compatible.  Does anybody have an idea of one that would work - they are cheap enough to buy and test/throw

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive screws

No, there are a lot of different sizes used across brands - and there are metric and imperial threads which is likely the cause of your almost fitting ones. What standard? - if don't like it, wait a few minutes and another will come along ... :) BillK On 6/6/20 10:06 am, Dale wrote: > Howdy, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

In case no one has mentioned it, check out "stress" and "stress-ng" - they have HDD tests available. (I am going to have to look into that --ignite-cpu option ... :) BillK On 16/6/20 3:17 pm, Dale wrote: > David Haller wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >> [..] >>> While I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox in headless configuration broken after update: delayed echo [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

On 18/6/20 3:55 am, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 17 June 2020 21:32:19 CEST, Michael wrote: >> On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:31:42 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On 17 June 2020 19:01:54 CEST, Michael > > This brings another problem I have with KVM/QEMU: all howtos and documents I > find show long co

[gentoo-user] MS-Teams on XFCE4/Gentoo

Hi all,     I ve just installed MS-Teams from portage and do not have webcam video (it sees the USB code, but gives a black screen).  I also tried the linux download from MS and it behaves the same.  The camera works fine in teams on chromium, Firefox, zoom etc. under the same user. Has anyone an

Re: [gentoo-user] MS-Teams on XFCE4/Gentoo

On 18/6/20 2:23 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, June 18, 2020 7:58:00 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I ve just installed MS-Teams from portage and do not have webcam >> video (it sees the USB code, but gives a black screen). I also tried

Re: [gentoo-user] MS-Teams on XFCE4/Gentoo

On 18/6/20 3:33 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, June 18, 2020 9:09:08 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: >> On 18/6/20 2:23 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Thursday, June 18, 2020 7:58:00 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>

[gentoo-user] eselect not showing python3.7 or 3.8

I have been slowly fixing the mess that the python upgrade has made of my systems and have come across this: san0 ~ # eselect python list Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:   [1]   python3.6   [2]   python2.7 san0 ~ # equery l python  * Searching for python ... [IP-] [  ] dev-l

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

On 21/6/20 9:40 am, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote: > > Maybe when I have a moment I'll file a bug. > > Dan > Thanks for filing the bug.  One of my pet peeves is that the last few years gentoo has been going down

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout.

Hi Dale, I looked at Veracrypt and ran into the fact that it on windows Veracrypt MUST be installed by an administrator which is a blocker for using USB keys on computers I don't control (such as transporting files securely between locations - i.e., where there is potential to lose the usb key): s

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout.

On 6/7/20 2:37 pm, Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi Dale, I looked at Veracrypt and ran into the fact that it on windows >> Veracrypt MUST be installed by an administrator which is a blocker for >> using USB keys on computers I don't control (such as tran

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install

On 8/7/20 12:58 pm, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 7/7/20 10:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Thanks, I missed that.  I'll try again and see how it goes. > > If you continue to have problems, I would very much like to know the > particulars. > > My experience has been that changing the TERM environment var

[gentoo-user] Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?

Hi,     is there a way to change the MAKEOPTS setting on a running emerge?  I am using "-j 5 -l 4" whilst emerging gcc-9.3 but its creating too much pressure  on memory.  I expect the emerge to take many more hours but complete eventually - but reducing it to "-j2" will help other operations whils

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?

On 12/7/20 6:03 pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > echo bfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/schedule Thanks for the hints,     ive gone with schedtool and ionice for now (seems to be working) and will configure that as the defaults when this run finishes.  I have not built the bfq scheduler in this kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

I have used "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mailfiltering_Gateway/en"; or variations of for many years - currently on an lxc instance on a low power arm server.  Handles 1-200 emails (including spam) a day with potentially up to quite a few thousand.  I am using the configuration without mysql etc. 

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe not working

sorted it ... was ppp running through a vlan, not a vlan running through ppp :) BillK On 31/8/20 11:08 am, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Can someone suggest an openrc style network stanza for an iiNet NBN > pppoe connection? It has username/password/vlan2 parameters but I > can't even get a ppp0 node

[gentoo-user] python variables

Hi, I am still having problems with the python settings.  There a lot of articals online for python on Gentoo but they all seem to miss a simple point: a list of what the current default should be: should there be nothing in a properly configured system (all handled automaticly) PYTHON_TARGETS et

[gentoo-user] soft keyboard for touchscreen

Can someone recommend a guide to installing a touch screen aware soft keyboard in gentoo? I have tried a number of keyboards but the various guides do not say how to integrate a soft keyboard in to a window manager (I am using xfwm4 but could change) or login screen. I can manually start them, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] soft keyboard for touchscreen

systemd - I use openrc) BillK On 19/10/20 12:46 am, Mickaël Bucas wrote: > Hi William > > Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 03:05, William Kenworthy <mailto:bi...@iinet.net.au>> a écrit : > > Can someone recommend a guide to installing a touch screen aware soft > keyboar

Re: [gentoo-user] soft keyboard for touchscreen

Thanks,     I needed to add to the start session for xfce4 - now its started automaticly and connects to X when needed. Thnaks for the hints I needed to track it down. BillK On 19/10/20 1:44 am, Mickaël Bucas wrote: > > > Le dim. 18 oct. 2020 à 19:17, William Kenworthy &

[gentoo-user] New thunderbird filter messages

Hi all,     the old thunderbird mail reader had a handy "filter messages" field that made filtering mails in the header panel easy - this has disappeared leaving only global search or a very clumsy filter dialog.  Have they removed it, or is it hidden somehow? BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printer not being found

On 29/10/20 10:16 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > Before my trials with booting, and eventually rebuilding everything from the > ground up, my Lexmark C2425 printer was working fine. Now the KDE system > settings printer applet can't detect it, even though pinging it works. > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New thunderbird filter messages

Tkx ... its back! BillK On 30/10/20 2:47 pm, Remy Blank wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote on 30/10/2020 03:52: >>     the old thunderbird mail reader had a handy "filter messages" field >> that made filtering mails in the header panel easy - this has >> disappeared

[gentoo-user] cant change MAC address

Hi,     I am trying to change the mac address of a realtek wifi card using either mac_wlan0=""  in /etc/conf.d/net (which is in the handbook) or manually using ifconfig wlan0 hw ether  and its not working.  Is there another way or am I stuck? BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate gentoo system - errors

On 23/11/20 10:10 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 04:39:44PM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote >> Duplicating was easy, but when I try to recompile a kernel I get an error: >> >> make menuconfig >> HOSTCC script/kconfig/mconf.o >> : internal compiler error: Illegal instruction

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

On 19/12/20 6:20 pm, n952162 wrote: > On 12/16/20 11:59 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 11:34, Miles Malone >> wrote: >>> What's happening when you do emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y >>> --backtrack=100 @world ? Giving portage the flexibility to solve it >>> with some extra backt

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

On 21/12/20 8:20 am, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Somewhat related.  I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my > router and share it there.  The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports.  Is > it true that I can hook a NAS to the router?  I'd assume it can be > shared with anything connected to the r

Re: [gentoo-user] make broken on kernel 5.4.66-gentoo kernel

Did you cleanup first? run "make mrproper", the unpack your saved config then run "make oldconfig". BillK On 21/12/20 1:59 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > I made a few tweaks to the kernel config and tried to rebuild... and > the build died. I restored the original .config from /proc/config.gz > a

Re: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed

On 16/1/21 6:56 am, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 1/15/21 1:11 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>> From: the...@sys-concept.com >>> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2021 07:57 >>> To: Gentoo mailing list >>> Subject: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed >>> >>> >>> On b

[gentoo-user] network bonding in gentoo/openrc

Hi all,     how can I add/make active an interface that's to be part of a bonded connection without rebooting/restarting the bond?  I have two interfaces currently running in ieee802.3ad mode.  Usually I restart the interface or reboot when adding an interface but in this case I don't want to risk

Re: [gentoo-user] spam - different IP's

Check the IP's on https://www.abuseipdb.com/ or similar, or do a hostname and whois lookup The 3 IP's I checked all come from the same organisation/location (secureserver.net in the US) ... BillK On 4/2/21 3:07 pm, Adam Carter wrote: > On Thursday, February 4, 2021,

Re: [gentoo-user] spam - different IP's

On 5/2/21 6:10 pm, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 5 February 2021 01:48:09 GMT Adam Carter wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 6:07 PM Adam Carter wrote: >>> On Thursday, February 4, 2021, wrote: I'm perplex with this entry in apache log. I'm sure it was done by same person as the timing is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

Use a standard Gentoo aarch64 (arm64 ) package. Add a pi kernel, the /lib/modules directory and the /boot directory  from a raspian tarball. I did this on a pi 3B running in 64bit mode. Once I had a bootable system it was easy to modify and a fork from my first image is also running on a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Saving an image as black and white

save/convert to pdf - use gs from ghostscrpit to convert them (I use ebook for the target) which gives 10-20x reduction in size with only a small reduction in quality - perfect for emailing. I dont have the actual command string but I originally found the suggestion via google. BillK On 1/3/21

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