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

2024-06-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 05:13:46PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 19:46:05 MESZ schrieb Dale: > > > >>>> Sadly, the CPU I got is for processing only, no video support it says. > >>> So you got an F mod

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

2024-06-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 15:40:48 MESZ schrieb Meowie Gamer: > vim has a WHAT?! You gotta tell me how to use that. Digraphs are graphs (i.e. characters) that are entered using two other characters. Basically it’s the same principle as the X11 compose key, but specific to vim. If you enter

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

2024-06-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 19:46:05 MESZ schrieb Dale: > >> Sadly, the CPU I got is for processing only, no video support it says. > > > > So you got an F model? > > I got the X model. It's supposed to be a wttle bit faster. o_O Well as we have been mentioning several times by now:

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

2024-06-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 04:05:17 MESZ schrieb Dale: > > DisplayPort supports daisy-chaining. So if you do get another monitor some > > day, look for one that has this feature and you can drive two monitors > > with > > one port on the PC. > > That's something I didn't know. I wondered why

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

2024-06-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 05:49:31AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:44 AM Dale wrote: > > > > I did some more digging. It seems that all the LSI SAS cards I found > > need a PCIe x8 slot. The only slot available is the one intended for > > video. > > The board you linked

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

2024-06-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 08:27:57AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I thought of something on the m.2 thing.  I plan to put my OS on it.  I > usually use tmpfs and compile in memory anyway but do have some set to > use spinning rust. Once I get 128GB installed, I should be able to do > that with all

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

2024-06-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 12:38:13AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I'll also max the memory out too.  I'm > unclear on the max memory tho.  One place shows 128GB, hence two 32GB > sticks.  The out of stock Newegg one claims 256GB, which would be nice.  > I'm not sure what to think on memory.  Anyway.  If

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, May 15, 2024 at 07:08:11PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > Hi Alan, > > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > […] > > So I'm looking at getting an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor, and using its > > inbuilt graphics rather than buying a distinct graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:28:17AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > […] > remember either, or write notes to remember them.  I also wanted to > avoid the desktop copy and paste, or clipboard, mechanism.  I'm not sure > how that data is stored in the clipboard and how good it is at erasing > it when

[i18n] [Bug 474572] Plasma5-pk-updates with mixed languages

2024-05-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474572 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment #7

[plasmashell] [Bug 486646] New: Wrong tooltip text in kcms/desktoppaths/ui/main.qml

2024-05-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486646 Bug ID: 486646 Summary: Wrong tooltip text in kcms/desktoppaths/ui/main.qml Classification: Plasma Product: plasmashell Version: 6.0.4 Platform: Arch Linux OS: Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling environment for Rapberry

2024-05-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:26:49PM +0200 schrieb ralfconn: > Hello, > > I recently got me a Raspberry Pi4b to use as a PiHole [1]. As a first step I > put user-space Gentoo (i.e. aarch64 stage3) on it and now I am trying to set > up my desktop to cross-compile binary packages for the PI, to keep

[dolphin] [Bug 486219] Dolphin crashes when dragging an item into the breadcrumb address bar

2024-04-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486219 --- Comment #1 from Frank Steinmetzger --- Created attachment 168957 --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=168957=edit New crash information added by DrKonqi DrKonqi auto-attaching complete backtrace. -- You are receiving this mail beca

[dolphin] [Bug 486219] New: Dolphin crashes when dragging an item into the breadcrumb address bar

2024-04-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486219 Bug ID: 486219 Summary: Dolphin crashes when dragging an item into the breadcrumb address bar Classification: Applications Product: dolphin Version: 24.02.2 Platform: Arch

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 07:26:30AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > If you don't play games, then definitely get integrated graphics. > > I'd add to this, you could still play many games, especially older games > > using > > a modern APU. The integrated graphics capability is broadly comparable > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 01:18:39PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM Dale wrote: > > > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > All AM5 CPUs have GPUs, but in general motherboards with video outputs > > > do not require the CPU to have a GPU built in. The ports just don't > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:04:15AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > The physical connector is called M.2. The dimensions of the “sticks” are > > given in a number such as 2280, meaning 22 mm wide and 80 mm long. There > > are > > different lengths available from 30 to 110 mm. M.2 has different “keys”,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 08:33:20AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > (moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev) > […] > We're going on almost 20 years since the Snowden revelations, and back > then the NSA was basically doing intrusion on an industrial scale. Weeaalll,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 08:23:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM Dale wrote: > >> My biggest thing right now, finding a mobo with plenty of PCIe slots. > >> They put all this new stuff, wifi and such, but remove things I do need, > >> PCIe slots. >

[gwenview] [Bug 485430] New: Rename file with F2: initial keyboard focus should be in the filename text field

2024-04-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485430 Bug ID: 485430 Summary: Rename file with F2: initial keyboard focus should be in the filename text field Classification: Applications Product: gwenview Version: 24.02.1

[i18n] [Bug 484993] Settings energy-saving mode mixed

2024-04-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484993 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|--- |FIXED Status|ASSIGNED

[i18n] [Bug 484993] Settings energy-saving mode mixed

2024-04-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484993 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added Ever confirmed|0 |1 CC

[konsole] [Bug 484890] URL hint numbering has offset

2024-04-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484890 --- Comment #1 from Frank Steinmetzger --- Addendum with a different observation. I just viewed a message in mutt and wanted to open an address from the message. This time the numbering started at 1, but the offset was 2. In detail: The mutt sidebar

[konsole] [Bug 484890] New: URL hint numbering has offset

2024-04-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484890 Bug ID: 484890 Summary: URL hint numbering has offset Classification: Applications Product: konsole Version: 24.02.1 Platform: Arch Linux OS: Linux Status: REPORTED

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 09:26:33PM -0500 schrieb Grant Taylor: > On 3/27/24 13:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi, > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes > > can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:33:43PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn: > Il 28/03/24 07:30, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: > > > Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you > > > move a > > > file around on one end, Unison will notice that because the file at the > > > new > > > location

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 01:08:03AM +0100 schrieb Alarig Le Lay: > On Wed 27 Mar 2024 20:37:27 GMT, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > +1 for Unison. I’ve been using it for many years now to synchronise between > > the four PC systems in my household. > > > > Unison creates

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:59:18PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > > Syncthing is also a good idea. The major difference: syncthing is a > > permanently running daemon, so changes are synced very fast (the > > interval is configurable, IIRC). OTOH, Unison is run individually by > > you. That’s why

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:42:07PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it > > synchronise in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:18:14PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn: > Il 27/03/24 19:58, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes > > can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 05:46:31PM -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes: > The province of Ontario does weekly Covid data updates which I > summarize and post on the DSLReports Canchat subforum, e.g. > https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33854514-#google_vignette Note the > data gap in the pink and brown

[i18n] [Bug 462458] Default window size ever so slightly too small to display tall/desktop view with German language

2024-03-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462458 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment #5

[Telly Skout] [Bug 481783] New: Move the main view with mouse dragging

2024-02-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481783 Bug ID: 481783 Summary: Move the main view with mouse dragging Classification: Applications Product: Telly Skout Version: 23.08.5 Platform: Arch Linux OS: Linux

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

2024-02-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
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 entries that drove > that have vanished :/

[kinfocenter] [Bug 480805] New: Battery charge graph shows no data when charge reaches 100 %

2024-02-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480805 Bug ID: 480805 Summary: Battery charge graph shows no data when charge reaches 100 % Classification: Applications Product: kinfocenter Version: 5.27.10 Platform: Arch Linux

[kinfocenter] [Bug 480804] New: Battery charge graph: layout flicker

2024-02-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480804 Bug ID: 480804 Summary: Battery charge graph: layout flicker Classification: Applications Product: kinfocenter Version: 5.27.10 Platform: Arch Linux OS: Linux Status:

[frameworks-baloo] [Bug 438074] baloo reindexing files on every start

2024-01-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438074 --- Comment #19 from Frank Steinmetzger --- (In reply to tagwerk19 from comment #18) > Watch out for indexing email files, particularly those encoded or with > attachments. For .eml files see Bug 460882; .mbox files can be absolutely > massi

[frameworks-baloo] [Bug 438074] baloo reindexing files on every start

2024-01-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438074 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment

Collision between accidental and tuplet

2024-01-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello list, while typing down the score from an old scan, I discovered a collision between an accidental and a tuplet spanner, or rather the number in it: \version "2.24" \language "deutsch" \relative c' { \tupletUp \times 2/3 { g'=''8 b4 } des8 h~ h4 r4 } Perhaps this is worthy of an

[frameworks-purpose] [Bug 478653] New: Pastebin sharing should not paste without confirmation

2023-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478653 Bug ID: 478653 Summary: Pastebin sharing should not paste without confirmation Classification: Frameworks and Libraries Product: frameworks-purpose Version: 5.113.0 Platform: Other

[okular] [Bug 476636] New: "Welcome" popup message after opening a document

2023-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476636 Bug ID: 476636 Summary: "Welcome" popup message after opening a document Classification: Applications Product: okular Version: 23.08.1 Platform: Archlinux OS: Linux

[okular] [Bug 476636] New: "Welcome" popup message after opening a document

2023-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476636 Bug ID: 476636 Summary: "Welcome" popup message after opening a document Classification: Applications Product: okular Version: 23.08.1 Platform: Archlinux OS: Linux

[okular] [Bug 476635] New: After opening a document, Okular moves the view down by a few pixels/mm

2023-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476635 Bug ID: 476635 Summary: After opening a document, Okular moves the view down by a few pixels/mm Classification: Applications Product: okular Version: 23.08.1 Platform:

[okular] [Bug 476635] New: After opening a document, Okular moves the view down by a few pixels/mm

2023-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476635 Bug ID: 476635 Summary: After opening a document, Okular moves the view down by a few pixels/mm Classification: Applications Product: okular Version: 23.08.1 Platform:

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

2023-10-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 02:29:26AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Dale wrote: > > > > Second problem.  The transfer speed is back to the old slower speed.  > > I'm pretty sure I am using the same old options on both ends.  Still, > > it's back to being slow again.  Some info: > > > > > > <<< SNIP >>> > >

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

2023-10-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
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 backups.  When I started the rsync, it's > starting from

[Merkuro] [Bug 453068] Pane for event details should always be visible, so the layout stays constant

2023-10-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453068 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |FIXED Status|NEEDSINFO

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:35:21PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > > >> Why don't you test throughput without encryption to confirm your > >> assumption? > > What does `c

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > It only does this when I'm copying files over. Right now I'm copying > > about 26TBs of data over ethernet and it is taking a while. Once I > > stop it or it finishes the copy, the CPU goes to about nothing, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 07:44:06PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Just as a update.  The file system I was trying to do a file system > check on was my large one, about 40TBs worth.  While running the file > system check, it started using HUGE amounts of memory.  It used almost > all my 32GBs and most of

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

2023-10-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 06:44:09PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47:31PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > >> On Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:59:04 BST Dale wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a way with the keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

2023-10-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:25:46PM +0200 schrieb Håkon Alstadheim: > > Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: > > > > Hello, > > > > For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel > > on a Dell XPS laptop starting from 6.1.41-gentoo (which is my current > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

2023-10-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47:31PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:59:04 BST Dale wrote: > > > Is there a way with the keyboard to switch to a desktop above 10? Even > > if it just switches up one at a time, that would work. Say switch to 10 > > and then keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 05:54:21PM +0200 schrieb ralfconn: > On 9/23/23 14:04, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > As most everyone knows, I redone my NAS box.  Before I had Truenas on it > > but switched to Ubuntu server thingy called Jimmy.  Kinda like the > > name.  lol  Anyway, Ubuntu has the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 02:30:32PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I read the other replies and I think it is caching the data, the drives > writes and catches up and then it asks for more data again. Tool tip: dstat It puts out one line of values every x seconds (x == 1 by default). With arguments you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

2023-09-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:57:00PM +0100 schrieb Victor Ivanov: > On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards > wrote: > > > > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and > > what the appropriate options are. > > I've done this a number of times for various reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 04:51:36PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a > > > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click. I then > > > shred the original. > > > > Just on a sidenote, once you’re on an SSD,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:49:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click.  I then > shred the original. Just on a sidenote, once you’re on an SSD, shredding has no use and is

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 01:28:09PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > I have a question tho. Can a person use a password/pass phrase that is > > like this: 'This is a stupid pass phrase.' Does it accept that even > > with spaces? I know file names can have spaces for a long while now but > > way

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

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:01:48AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > > The higher-end motherboards have switches, and not all > > > the lanes may be the highest supported generation, but I don't think > > > any modern AMD motherboards have any kind of PCIe controller on them. > > > > Here are the

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

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 09:17:45AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > Well they allow you to put larger cards in, but they don’t have the lanes > > for it. Somewhere else in the thread was mentioned that the number of lanes > > is very limited. Only the main slot (the big one for the GPU) is

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

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 04:43:02AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Wols Lists wrote: > > Oh, and to the best of my knowledge, you can combine a video card and > > an AGPU. BTW: it’s APU, without the G. Because it is an Accellerated Processing Unit (i.e. a processor), not a GPU. > I been on Newegg using

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

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 01:01:42AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > They have added a lot of stuff to mobos since I bought one about a > decade ago.  Maybe things have improved.  I just like PCIe slots and > cards.  Gives me more options. I definitely know the feeling. That is why I went with µATX instead

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

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 06:40:52PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> I tend to need quite a few PCIe slots.  I like to have my own video > >> card.  I never liked the built in ones. > > You’re just asking to be asked. ;-) Why don’t you like them? (I fear I may > > have asked that before). > > > > I get

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

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:20:56PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> […] > >> The downside, only micro ATX and > >> mini ITX mobo.  This is a serious down vote here. > > Why is that bad? µATX comes with up to four PCIe slots. Even for ten > > drives, > > you only need one SATA expander (with four or six

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

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:59:22PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > I have a four-bay NAS with server board (ASRock Rack E3C224D2I), actually my > > last surviving Gentoo system. ;-) With IPMI-Chip (which alone takes several > > watts), 16 GiB DDR3-ECC, an i3-4170 and 4×6 TB, it draws around

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

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:16:17AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:13 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > […] > > > The downside, only micro ATX and > > > mini I

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

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > […] > I've found a few cases that peak my interest depending on which way I go > with this.  One I found that has a lot of hard drive space and would > make a descent NAS box, the Fractal Design Node 804.  It's a cube shaped > thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain packages refuse to use binary from build save, the -k thing.

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:44:03PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, Hi instead of going berserk mode and wasting kWh on rebuilding “just in case it might help”, why not try and dig a little deeper. > A couple of my video players are not playing videos correctly. Whicch players? > I've > rebuilt

[kate] [Bug 474532] New: Git sidebar: error message after cancelling Open Commit

2023-09-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474532 Bug ID: 474532 Summary: Git sidebar: error message after cancelling Open Commit Classification: Applications Product: kate Version: 23.08.0 Platform: Archlinux

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:50:20PM +0100 schrieb Wols Lists: > Bear in mind a lot of systems are thermally limited and can't run at full > pelt anyway ... Usually those are space-constrained systems like mini PCs or laptops. Typical Desktops shouldn’t be limited; even the stock CPU coolers

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

2023-09-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
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 foot when lazily (or by accident) adding a single disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 01:53:21AM -0400 schrieb Philip Webb: > 230729 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. > > Claws mail is often mentioned hereabouts and I'd like to try it, > > but first I'd need to export KMail's 20-odd-year maildir history > > to mbox

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/x2goserver-4.1.0.3-r2

2023-07-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 08:50:47AM -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > x2goserver emerged with notice: > > ERROR: preinst > > Installation of a symlink is blocked by a directory: > '/etc/x2go/xinitrc.d' > This symlink will be merged with a different name: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting emerges

2023-07-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 12:42:13PM -0300 schrieb David M. Fellows: > while [ true ] ; do cat /proc/loadavg |logger; sleep 60; done A spec more elegant: while sleep 60; do ... ; done -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update requires restarting init process

2023-07-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 11:51:52AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > Just a heads up.  I almost missed this in all the other normal messages > emerge spits out.  I think this was because of a glibc update.  Anyway, > if you update your system, look for a message about restarting the init > process

[gwenview] [Bug 471326] New: Gwenview displays EXIF metadata twice/in duplicate

2023-06-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471326 Bug ID: 471326 Summary: Gwenview displays EXIF metadata twice/in duplicate Classification: Applications Product: gwenview Version: 23.04.2 Platform: Archlinux OS: Linux

[i18n] [Bug 471302] Wrong translation in german for open media file button

2023-06-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471302 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added Status|REPORTED|RESOLVED Resolution

[krunner] [Bug 470471] New: Search input field animation when opening krunner seems out of place

2023-05-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470471 Bug ID: 470471 Summary: Search input field animation when opening krunner seems out of place Classification: Plasma Product: krunner Version: 5.27.5 Platform: Archlinux

[Spectacle] [Bug 470468] New: Saving a second second screenshot from a Spectacle window keeps being titled as unsaved

2023-05-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470468 Bug ID: 470468 Summary: Saving a second second screenshot from a Spectacle window keeps being titled as unsaved Classification: Applications Product: Spectacle Version: 23.04.1

[gwenview] [Bug 462088] Don't show Gwenview in its own "Open With" menu

2023-05-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462088 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment #9

[gwenview] [Bug 470126] New: "Open with" menu has off-by one error

2023-05-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470126 Bug ID: 470126 Summary: "Open with" menu has off-by one error Classification: Applications Product: gwenview Version: 23.04.1 Platform: Archlinux OS: Linux Status:

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask: =app-text/evince-44.1 ~amd64

2023-05-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, May 02, 2023 at 01:37:50PM -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > Trying to emerge evince-44.1 but I get: > > Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask: =app-text/evince-44.1 ~amd64 > > What is it looking for? It is not looking for the ~amd64 at the end of the line. -- Grüße |

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

2023-04-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:03:01AM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments.  I still have systems that > > > use > > > ext4 and they "seem" reliable for light duty but I make sure I have > > > backups > > > and do not trust them with

[digikam] [Bug 427225] Showfoto GUI becomes unresponsive when used with the keyboard

2023-04-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427225 --- Comment #5 from Frank Steinmetzger --- I haven’t done much editing lately, but I will report back if I encounter the problem again. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.

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

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 02:04:52PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar

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

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
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 online tools much more convenient. I’ve

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

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 04:58:02PM +0200 schrieb tastytea: > > Does the transparent compression incur an overhead cost in processing, > > memory use, or disk writes? I feel like it certainly has to at least > > use more memory. Sorry if that's an RTFM question. > > it'll use more cpu and

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

2023-04-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 08:33:22PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I cleared the tmp files to give it a fresh start.  It still failed.  The > directory and files it complains about being missing, they are.  I went > to the ebuild to see what patches are supposed to be installed.  This is > the part of the

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

2023-04-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 04:29:59AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> I wonder.  Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > >> directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > >> size??? > > The 20 smallest: > > `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%s %n' | sort -n

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

2023-04-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:09:15PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > I wonder. Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > size??? I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, it > would be a really

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

2023-04-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:32:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > <<>> > > > > When formatting file systems, I usually lower the number of inodes from the > > default value to gain storage space. The default is one inode per 16 kB of

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

2023-04-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 01:00:33PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > I think technically they default to the physical block size internally > and the earlier ones, attempting to be more compatible with HDDs, > had 4K blocks. Some of the newer chips now have 16K blocks but > still support 512B Logical

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

2023-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:18:14AM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > If you use ext4, run `dumpe2fs -h /dev/your-root-partition | grep Lifetime` > to see how much data has been written to that partition since you formatted > it. Just to get an idea of what you are looking at on y

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

2023-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:05:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Given how I plan to use this drive, that should last a long time.  I'm > just putting the OS stuff on the drive and I compile on a spinning rust > drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live system.  That > should help

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

2023-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 09:53:18PM +0100 schrieb Wol: > On 18/04/2023 21:01, Dale wrote: > > > I just use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage (16GB, I'm on 32GB RAM.) Same. > /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. And on every disk I allocate a swap partition > equal to twice the mobo's max memory. Three drives

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

2023-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:45:46AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > And I don't know that formatting ext4 or some other FS to 16K > really helps the write amplification issue but it makes sense to > me to match the file system blocks to the underlying flash > block size. The problem is finding out

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

2023-04-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 02:27:53PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > ;-) (And shame on you for being 'a few months' behind on your updates) ;-) It’s my NAS (basically my media library), which only runs every few months due to its server hardware’s high power draw. -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

2023-04-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:28:01PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:26 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved, > > I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain > > files? My latest

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

2023-04-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 05:26:15PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > I'm wanting to be able to boot something from the hard drive in the > > > event the OS itself won't boot.  The other day I had to dig around and > > > find a bootable USB stick and also found a DVD.  Ended up with the DVD > > > working

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