Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > wabe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > emerge wants to install eudev. Now I wonder if this is ok > > and if so, how I can do this without breaking my system. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thi

[gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

(>=sys-fs/eudev-1.3:0/0[abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (virtual/libudev-215-r1:0/1::gentoo, installed) -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:06:18AM +0200, wabe wrote > > Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday 08 June 2016 02:43:07 wabe wrote: > > > [...] > > > >But I wonder why portage wanna

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change from udev to eudev?

fy other applications of changes, somehow (but I'm > not sure that it actually does that). > > If you don't actually need any of that (you are working on an embedded > system where you only need root anyway, for instance), then you can > just use a bare devtmpfs without a device manager changing > permissions, adding links, etc. THX for all the information. Now I understand better what (e)udev is doing. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > wabe wrote: > > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> wabe wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> emerge wants to install eudev. Now I wonder if this is ok > >>> and

Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2016 02:43:07 wabe wrote: > [...] > >But I wonder why portage wanna change udev to eudev on my system. It > >seems that this is not the case for everyone else. I'm using a stable > >hardened gentoo syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for a Gentoo supporting/capable VPS besides Linode?

James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > wabe gmail.com> writes: > > > > > The big names (DO, Vultr, etc) don't seem to support Gentoo as a > > > choice, so I'm wondering if anyone has any preferences of service > > > that they use. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for a Gentoo supporting/capable VPS besides Linode?

ou must contact Claranet before they will provide you a test environment. http://www.claranet.com -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

age UNIX society" (THUS ) and > > I found that SO unixy...it put a BIG smile on my face. > > > > But "delete and destroy" is also VERY descriptive... ! ) > I've always thought it was something like data/disk duplication I thought it means data dump. :-) -- Regards wabe

[gentoo-user] Re: Need some help with switching KDE setup from i915 to radeon graphics

1-drivers/xf86-video-ati-7.6.1 glamor udev There is also a gentoo radeon wiki available on the net. I used it to get my card working. I can't remember the URL and I'm too lazy to search for it right now, sorry for that. ;-) P.S.: I posted this through gmame. I already posted my answer yesterday via my email client, but I can't see it on the list and I wonder why. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Optimum sound settings for QEMU VM?

waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 06:55:29PM +0200, wabe wrote > > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > > > The problem appears to be the "sdl" flag. It slows down things > > > by adding one more layer of middleware and overhea

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Optimum sound settings for QEMU VM?

wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 06:55:29PM +0200, wabe wrote > > > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > > > > > The problem appears to be the "sdl" flag. It slows

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Optimum sound settings for QEMU VM?

gtk2", I get playback that is indistinguishable from playback > on the host. Here is the build that works properly "emerge -pv > qemu"... I have all gtk and sdl flags enabled and don't have problems with the sound. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird 45.0 unreadable fonts

"gtk gtk3" from > "gtk gtk2". The next emerge update triggered a lot of new installs > and recompiles. I tried firefox with gtk3 USE-flag but it became unstable and crashed on several websites (reproducible). So I switched back to gtk2. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] NumLock puzzle

nlevel, but that makes no > difference. > > Can anyone suggest what I'm missing ? > I had the same "problem" under XFCE till I added this to my .xinitrc xsetleds +num -caps -scroll -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] NumLock puzzle

Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > 160524 wabe wrote: > > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > >> I've noticed that the NumLock key goes off after 'startx'. > >> My window manager is Fluxbox & I don't see any mention there > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] speech recognition?

very spoken word will be transfered to Google (bad enough), it will not be free of charge for ever. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] speech recognition?

: http://m.heise.de/developer/meldung/Google-oeffnet-seine-Spracherkennungs-API-fuer-Entwickler-3150287.html https://cloud.google.com/speech/ -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Kadu 2.1...OTR / Encryption defunct ???

Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > That's not the point. lol +1 -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Holy Quran in all languages Available

Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Meh, OP's the one posting this in a distro discussion mailing list And this was a bad idea. But IMO it was also a bad idea to respond. I think that we don't need any religious discussions here. Apart from that, top posting sucks. ;-) -- Reg

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a command as a nologin user

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13/07/2016 18:42, wabe wrote: > > Fernando Rodriguez <cyklon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> On 07/13/2016 07:10 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a command as a nologin user

Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 07/13/2016 07:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 12/07/2016 03:47, jens w wrote: > >> .procmailrc > >> :0 c > >> * !^X-Loop: n...@example.com > >> | formail -X "From:" |

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a command as a nologin user

testscript.sh The result is the file /home/nologinuser/envars.txt with this content: Wed Jul 13 18:10:01 CEST 2016 /home/nologinuser /usr/bin:/bin --- Wed Jul 13 18:12:01 CEST 2016 /home/nologinuser /usr/bin:/bin --- The ownership and the rights for /home/nologinuser/, /var/script-nologinuser/ and /var/script-nologinuser/testscript.sh are nologinuser:nologinuser and 700. So it seems, that it is possible to execute scripts without setting a shell in /etc/passwd. I don't know why it doesn't work for jens w. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] radius use flags

Julio Garcia Merlano <jugarmerl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unsubscribe please. If you wanna quit your subscription to this mailing list, you must send an empty mail to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org The subject of that mail doesn't matter. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound through headphones (OK through speakers)

allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13 2016, wabe wrote: > > > allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jul 13 2016, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a command as a nologin user

jens w <j...@lxsbbs.eu> wrote: > Am Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:59:16 +0200 > schrieb Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>: > > > On 12/07/2016 22:39, jens w wrote: > > > Am Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:17:42 +0200 > > > schrieb wabe <waben...@gmail.com&

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound through headphones (OK through speakers)

d down as expected with either headphones or > speakers selected. When mute is pressed the meter looks dead, as > expected. > > It also shows line-out is unplugged and headphones are plugged it. > > Any thoughts. I appreciate the help. Maybe the headphone amp or the headphone socket of your soundcard is broken. Plug the speakers into the headphone socket and test if you can hear something. For my experience you can do that without the risk of killing something, but of course I can give you no guarantee. :-) -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a command as a nologin user

ing mail, a script is executed. logfile has the same entry as > it is in other users. but the script do nothing. > > How executing a command as a nologin user? Is script.sh readable and executable for the procmail user? Does script.sh contain a definition for a command interpreter (something like #!/bin/sh)? -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

without problems with the "Vanilla Music" app (haven't tested other apps). I don't know anything about Google Drive (don't use any cloud services) so I cannot say if this would work on my device. If you wanna put the audio data into another container without recoding it, you can use for example something like that: ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 -acodec copy filename.m4a -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dependency conflict

"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 15. Januar 2017, 20:28:22 CET schrieb wabe: > > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I > > update my system: > > > > > > These are the packages tha

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

sed it as system disk on my gentoo machine. I also used it for my users mail and thumbnail directories and also for /log, /tmp, /var and the whole portage tree. Before I upgraded my gentoo machine to 16GB RAM I also used the SSD for portages temporary files. So it was really in heavy use. And is still running without problems. Before I installed the Corsair SSD into my Win machine, I used fstrim to increase the reserved space to 50%. I hope that it will run for at least another 6 years. ;-) -- Regards wabe pgp_2HmSIJKiB.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Different build options for specific packages

ther. I'm missing > something. My eyes ain't real good today, allergies, so I may be not > seeing something right. I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. Are you talking about emerging several packages at the same time and, if so, are you sure that -j defines how many packages are build simultaneously? I know that there exists a FEATURES option for make.conf called "parallel-install". But I never used this feature or read something about it, so all I know is that "-j" is an option for the "make" command. It defines how many jobs are running simultaneously when you compile a single program. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.12" is blocking x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.18-r1

(1.0.11) > and > emerge -uq x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau (1.0.12) > > But this is a video driver my box is using, and I'm logged into it > directly so if I unmerge the drive in use the xorg-server will crash > and I I'll be in a login prompt, isn't it? > > Is it better to do this upgrade over "ssh" from another box? You could also use a text console on the local machine. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Feb 2017 01:51:01 wabe wrote: > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Have you noticed a difference between mounting partitions on them > > > with the discard option, Vs running fstrim

[gentoo-user] strange dependency conflict

bz2} 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2} {doc +perl} Installed versions: 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2}(20:14:37 01/15/17)(doc perl) How can a package conflict with itself (same version)? -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dependency conflict

Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-01-15 11:28 AM, wabe wrote: > > > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I > > update my system: > > > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: strange dependency conflict

Remy Blank <remy.bl...@pobox.com> wrote: > wabe wrote on 2017-01-15 20:28: > > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I > > update my system: > > > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Online Banking: How can I add an eth0-interface for a guest (linux) in qemu via commandline

-iommu -net nic -net user > > That's it -- but I am open for suggestions to improve this command -- > for execution speed inside qemu for example... ;) On my system (AMD Phenom II X4 965) "-cpu host" together with "-smp 4" gives the best results on processing speed. For graphics output I use "-display gtk" and "-vga vmware". This is on my machine the fastest setting and gives me also the highest screen resolution. I also use the "hostfwd" option, so I can establish a ssh connection to the VM with the following command: ssh -p @localhost That's the whole command that I use to start a VM: qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -cpu host -smp 4 -m 4096 -enable-kvm -name banking-vm -net nic,model=virtio -net user,hostfwd=tcp::-:22 -localtime -hda /home//qemu/banking-vm.qcow2 -display gtk -vga vmware I don't know if this is optimal, but after many tests I found that it gives me the best performance on my system. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

DSL modem. I don't have any network problems and always maximum internet speed. I'm not a network expert and don't understand all the details. Also my English is not good enough to explain it in a better way. But to be honest, I'm not sure that I could explain it better in my native language. ;-) Probably there are other members on this ML that can give your more useful information about this topic. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

l encapsulation in your LAN then there should be IMHO no reason for lowering the MTU of your internal interfaces. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

-vf-dlopen -xinerama > -zsh-completion) I don't think that it is important but for the sake of completeness these are the USE flags for mpv (0.9.2-r1) on my system: X alsa bluray bs2b cli doc-pdf dvd enca encode iconv jack jpeg ladspa lcms libass libmpv lua luajit opengl oss sdl vaapi vdpau xscree

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the logfile you can see that I'm using a kernel parameter > "radeon.dpm=1". Without this parameter I had performance problems > with my GPU in the past. I should give some explanation about this parameter. It enables an older p

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

ce you can also try to tune it's values. This my mpv config file: vo=vdpau:deint=-3,opengl-hq:scale=spline36,xv hwdec=vdpau audio-device='alsa/iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0' audio-channels=auto P.S.: Sorry for the many replies. I better should turn on my mind before posting. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK+ circular dependency

ocess is dead slow anyway and I really don't care about a few minutes less ore more, I always use --backtrack=999. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to find which driver I can use with a ATI v9800 fireball

my screensaver (glslideshow) works. About two years ago I bought a Radeon R7 250. At the beginning I had some problems when I activated compositing, but after an driver update some weeks later it works flawless. After the latest driver update a few weeks ago, 2D performance increased a lot and is really perfect now, even with UHD resolution. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver missing symbols

gt; > I am thinking it needs something as a prerequisite but I can't grok > that line in the kernel. > > Dan Make sure that you have also enabled CONFIG_DRM. CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y If you use "make menuconfig" you can activate these settings by selecting: Device Drivers -> Graphics support -> Direct Rendering Manager -> Enable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] What Firefox (what browser) for Online-Banking?

se. I think a dedicated (virtual) machine for online banking is much more important than the use of a specific browser. -- Rergards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd good or bad?

pted mailbox today! https://tutanota.com It seems that you are not only come from a future time but also from a parallel universe with a completely different timeline. ;-) -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dependency conflict

n an > > unstable (~amd64) one. > > > > However you are right. Unmasking xmlto resolved the conflict. > > It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. I can only remember > maybe a half dozen times over the last 10-12 years. The devs do what > they can to minimize this, I would presume. After all, also devs are only humans. ;-) -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obsolete

n "emerge -Ca nano" showed I had no prior version installed. > So am still confused why is it has "-> 2.3.1-r2" > > I figured it must be a pointer to an older version but since I had a > newest version installed why pointer to an older version? > > man eix only shows "eix-test-obsolete" is equivalent to eix -tTc Maybe an eix-update will help. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many invalid recipients. (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

in: /etc/mail/aliases I have: > >>>> root:the...@sys-concept.com > >>>> > >>>> So why postfix is sending it to: <root@syscon7.localdomain> > >>> > >>> "man aliases" will probably give you the answer.

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many invalid recipients. (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

e: > root: the...@sys-concept.com > > So why postfix is sending it to: <root@syscon7.localdomain> "man aliases" will probably give you the answer. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

to rescye > some or all contents of that card? Any ideas other than > hoping for an alternate reality? You can try to recover some data with photorec (part of testdisk). Btw.: If it is a microsd card I would put it into an microsd-to-sd adapter. I made some strange experiences with different types of card readers when I used microsd cards directly without an adapter. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenGL problem after upgrading mesa and xorg-server

Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote: > On 170314-05:32+0100, wabe wrote: > > wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Since I've upgraded mesa (12.0.1 to 13.0.5) and xorg-server > > > (1.18.4 to 1.19.2), OpenGL programs don't wo

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of sys-fs/static-dev, or do I really need it?

n sys-fs/static-dev but this failed because of: !!! 'sys-fs/static-dev' (virtual/dev-manager) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. What can I do to solve this problem? Is it safe when I just unmerge sys-fs/static-dev? -- Regards wabe

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenGL problem after upgrading mesa and xorg-server

wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since I've upgraded mesa (12.0.1 to 13.0.5) and xorg-server > (1.18.4 to 1.19.2), OpenGL programs don't work any longer for > non-root users, even when these users are members of the group > "video". > > The USE flags for

[gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after upgrading mesa and xorg-server

s fine. I searched the web and also read the gentoo xserver wiki but couldn't find a solution. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of sys-fs/static-dev, or do I really need it?

Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 03:29:36 +0200, wabe wrote: > > > I'm using sys-fs/eudev and no static /dev. So I tried to deplcean > > sys-fs/static-dev but this failed because of: > > > > !!! 'sys-fs/static-dev' (virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

:-) > What a big coincidence. I read this threat about half a minute before 03:40 UTC and quickly entered the command you posted into a terminal window, only 6 seconds before the "magic moment" occurs. :-) -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 13/07/17 21:15, Kent Fredric wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:01:42 +0300 > > > Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox - LINGUAS value en_GB is not enabled using L10N use flags

en are: > > en_GB.UTF-8 > UTF-8 en_GB ISO-8859-1 > > And in /etc/portage/make.conf I have: > > LINGUAS="en_GB en" > L10N="en_GB en" Shouldn't it be en-GB and not en_GB? -- Regards wabe

[gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

"bogofilter doesn't work". Any help would really appreciated. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

M/L. I don't wanna lose also this possibility. I will wait for some time. Maybe someone else can give me a hint. If not, I will reboot the system. -- Regards wabe > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 10:22 AM wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

"J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On April 27, 2017 7:20:29 PM GMT+02:00, wabe <waben...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >it seems that my system is broken after recompiling everything with > >the new gcc5. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world (SOLVED)

package, which failed, was media-libs/libmypaint-1.3.0. After that, the system was broken. Now I resume the emerge process. 15 Packages are left. Right now media-libs/libmypaint-1.3.0 was successful compiled. Waiting for the rest. Thanks for all answers. -- Regards wabe Floyd Anderson &l

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world (SOLVED)

After restarting my machine everything works fine again. -- Regards wabe > Regards, > Rasmus > > > On 27 Apr 2017 7:43 pm, wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > > On April 27, 2017 7:20:29 PM GMT+

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > wabe wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > it seems that my system is broken after recompiling everything with > > the new gcc5. > > > > I even cannot execute any command or start new programs. It is also > > not

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

system has got itself into a state that has you > reaching for SysRq, a reboot is in order. Most of the keys are documented here: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Magic_SysRQ/ And even more in the kernel directory at Documentation/sysrq.txt. I will pin these synopsis onto the backside of my monitor. :-) -- Regards wabe pgpiR79ue9efn.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

q.rst’. This file doesn't exist on my system (not even the directory "admin-guide"). I can find it under: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt But in my case I even had no access to any file, because no command was working anymore. So I think it is better to have these information on a good old sheet of paper. ;-) -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Avi-player diplaying the current frame counter while playing ?

wo options to ~/.mpv/config If you do this you need a line for every option and you may not include the double hyphens. Btw.: If you press the . key while playing a video, mpv will switch to single frame mode. Every time you press this key again, mpv shows the next frame. You can use the space bar to continue/pause the video. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Avi-player diplaying the current frame counter while playing ?

software and thus maybe not what you are looking for. Avidemux can also be used as a video player but IIRC it can't show framenumbers but only the exact timestamp. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Voice synthesizers? (not neccessarily TTS!)

(I downloaded some high quality mbrola voices from the mbrola homepage). -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Voice synthesizers? (not neccessarily TTS!)

wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a (not neccessarily GENTOO) software, whith which > > it is possible to synthesize the human voice (male / female). > > > > It does not neccessarily need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

Maybe it could be that you can only use sizes that are available as bitmaps for the icon set you use. But I don't know, never checked this. Maybe you can also use arbitrary sizes because for many icon sets there exists a directory containing scalable icons in SVG format. I would check out if it is possible to tweak your XFCE settings in a way that everything looks good without the need to decrease the Xorg resolution. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this working correctly??

limits on gmail but I know sometimes, I have to > > go clean house on the google web mail site itself. It is supposed > > to delete after downloading but sometimes it doesn't for some > > reason. Who knows. > > GMail used to be at 1GB when they started. Already back then that > would not have been enough for me. My mailstore has been cleaned up > occasionally (spam and alert-mails being cleaned up regularly): > > mailstore1 ~ # du -sh /var/spool/imap/j/user/joost > 42G /var/spool/imap/j/user/joost That's really a lot. :-) And I thought mine is huge. ~ $ du -hs Mail/ 14G Mail/ -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this working correctly??

wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > OK. I'm nosy now. Can you folks share what email software you are > > using? Is it GUI based etc? Stable and doesn't change settings to > > something stupid like Seamonkey/th

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this working correctly??

uch later I switched to Kmail. Then to Thunderbird. And finally to Claws Mail. This is my favorite. And as long as the developers don't disimprove it I think I will stick with it. It has fantastic filter options and all what I need. It's fast and stable and has no problems to handle many thousands of mails. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] processor speed

ne you wanna buy. This should help you to make a decision. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] processor speed

Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:22 PM, wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm using an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor. I bought it six or > > seven years ago when it was brand-new. It still works to my > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

> better luck with KDE 5 / Plasma. > > > Won't I freak out if I'm an xfce4 guy and I try to switch to KDE? Is > there a better choice for HiDPI migration for people who like xfce4? I'm using XFCE with a 140 DPI display and it's working fine. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

t the first line is good for. It's some time ago that I did this and my memory isn't as reliable as it was 20 years ago. ;-) However some programs don't have a GUI that is ready yet for HiDPI displays. By example I have not found an option in Gimp to increase the size of its tiny toolbar icons. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

e the same problem, and > > I only have one kernel installed at ~5MB. > > I wonder how much space it needs in total now... > > Dan I'm using a hardened system with grub-0.97-r16 and have a 93MB boot partition. It contains eight kernels each about 6.7MB in size and the associated System.map files each about 2.2MB in size and I have still 13MB free space in boot. How could this be? -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] application to configure mouse

ou can use xset. But be warned, it has no GUI. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 02:20:14 GMT wabe wrote: > > Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote: > > > > On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Gentoo support more than 8 bits per color channel?

I don't know if Gimp could support more than 8bpc color output if the display would be able to. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems updating glibc-2.26-r7

ib anymore. How can I find out if I have > > x86 binaries installed? > > This should give you a good start: > > scanelf -M > 32 /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin /opt Thank you very much. So I find out that it is still grub that requires multilib on my system. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems updating glibc-2.26-r7

"Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2018, 20:11:51 CEST schrieb wabe: > > Hi folks, > > > > I have a problem and didn't find a solution yet. > > > > Upgrading glibc from 2.25-r11 to 2.26-r7 doesn't work. It says > > > > /va

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-7.3.0-r3 won't compile (RESOLVED)

P Levine wrote: > Add the following to */etc/portage/package.use*: > > dev-libs/boehm-gc abi_x86_32 > dev-libs/libatomic_ops abi_x86_32 > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:51 AM, wabe wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > every time I try to compile gcc-7 it

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

ere is no Gentoo package. I don't know if there is an Gentoo overlay containing Trinity, but I never used overlays and don't have time to fiddle around anyway. https://www.trinitydesktop.org -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with Xorg

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 29 November 2018 18:36:11 GMT wabe wrote: > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > On 11/28/18 12:40 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: > > > > > >> On Nov 28, 2018, at 15:09, Daniel Frey > > > > > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with Xorg

telimiting > > So about five minutes after boot the random number finished > initializing and the Xorg started right after. You could install sys-apps/haveged. I really don't know if this will solve your actual problem, but maybe it helps to speed up the random generation. -- wabe