Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel CPU flaws discovered

On 05/15/2019 01:26 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > Here we go again; > https://mdsattacks.com/ > > I notice a microcode update for skylake came through yesterday after being > unchanged since the late June 2018, so i'm guessing this is patched for > this issue. Just waiting for the gentoo sources ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA drive controller and Linux driver.

Ahh didn't see your reply. Hook it up via your motherboards sata ports to check. Those no name china brand controllers are almost always really shitty if you want a nice but affordable HBA for SAS/SATA get on with an LSI 2008 chipset you got ripped off paying almost $40 for that junk I paid only

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question

Here are some theories. * You gotta properly align the sectors for 4K advanced format * USB doesn't have NCQ which really slows things down. * Copying many small files is almost always slow since they are located on various parts of the drive not in a contiguous block (again see NCQ) * System is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

On 12/10/2018 05:54 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:33:10 -0500, taii...@gmx.com wrote: >> >>>> Not sure which country would be a reliable location though, I >>>> wouldn't trust Western European countries either. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

On 12/09/2018 01:57 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On December 9, 2018 6:23:07 PM UTC, "taii...@gmx.com" wrote: >> On 12/07/2018 06:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: >>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

On 12/07/2018 06:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> If you want to see all of the installed packages that are affected, >>> you need to set CPU_FLAGS_X86 to an empty string: >>> >>>    CPU_FLAGS_X86="" >>> >>> and then do "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] I want a low-end usb laser printer with minimal config hassle

On 12/07/2018 01:46 PM, Manuel McLure wrote: > The main thing you want to look for is PCL and/or PostScript compatibility. > And I'd highly recommend getting a networked printer that supports Port > 9100 instead of a USB one - this allows you to use the same printer for all > of your systems.

[gentoo-user] RaptorCS Blackbird - Owner controlled, open source firmware system on the POWER ppc64/ppc64le arch - a less expensive mATX TALOS 2

This is a much less expensive mATX variant of the TALOS 2 from the same people. It runs both little and big endian so both ppc64 and ppc64le. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Blackbird-POWER9-Pre-Orders https://raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html The only binary blob is the

Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card

On 10/17/2018 10:37 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > The SAS2008 is quite old. Are you sure it actually supports this? It does yes, lspci reports SR-IOV support and the marketing literature touts it along with the SAS 2308 and 3008 etc.

[gentoo-user] SR-IOV on a LSI Broadcom HBA/RAID SAS2008/SAS3008 card

LSI/Broadcom lists it in their marketing literature, the idea that you can assign drives to a VF and then that VF to a VM however it turns out they do not publish the code that makes it work. I was able to find some for MPT3 SAS3008 on an old repo but I can't find any for MPT2 for SAS2008 and I

Re: [gentoo-user] disable Intel Mgr Engine

Impossible - ME can't be disabled. Me cleaner only nerfs it by removing various modules, either BUP (init) still runs or the kernel still runs plus any option/mask roms. If you want a PC without black boxes either buy a pre-PSP amd board like KGPE-D16/KCMA-D8, g505s laptop and install

[gentoo-user] Anyone using gentoo on POWER?

It is my understanding that both little and big endian work on the regular "linux" POWER9 machines so that you can use gentoo which is ppc64 not ppc64le for some reason - and I was wondering what peoples experiences are with this? what is package availability like? any problems? etc etc. Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle

On 08/23/2018 10:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: >> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite >> a long while, actually. > >> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the >> system from scratch is absolutely not

[gentoo-user] The TALOS 2 Lite is now for sale - a very affordable OpenPOWER9 owner controlled workstation with open source firmware/hw init and documentation

In case anyone is interested I thought I would share. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Raptor-Talos-2-Lite https://raptorcs.com/TALOSIILITE/ They're really making strides for making high performance owner controlled, open source firmware systems very affordable - now they are

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

On 05/26/2018 07:51 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: > On 05/25/2018 08:50 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> > For me dmesg says; >> > [    1.538275] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000852 >> > >> > but i still have lwp in /proc/cpuinfo. Are you at 0x06000852 ? >> . >> This is my dmesg

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

The fam15h microcode update adds IBPB   * Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB)     * PRED_CMD MSR is available:  YES     * CPU indicates IBPB capability:  YES  (IBPB_SUPPORT feature bit) The question is what about the other stuff? IRBS, STIBP? This is very confusing due to zero

[gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

^title AMD has released them for all of the recent CPU's and I simply must have them. It seems the last update to amd-ucode on linux-firmware was in 2016, does anyone know whom I would contact about this who has the juice to do it? I need fam15h. AMD is being annoying and not releasing them to

[gentoo-user] AMD Opteron microcode updates for spectre

When is gentoo going to receive these? 0xDF372A17.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Hardened vs Kali Linux

/* loading hacking tools /* I met someone who said he games on kaliwhy? all the elite hackers use it - it is a very powerful linux that is perfect for dual-booting with windows 10 due to its high level of security.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [TOT: Total offtopic]

I have one from almost 10 years ago, whats the difference :[? how can you tell? I still like it though >:[ 0xDF372A17.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Re: [gentoo-user] [TOT: Total offtopic]

If you are unable to fix it yourself (but I think you can :D) Unicomp offers parts and repairs for Model M's (along with their kentucky usa made Model M's - they use the original tooling) 0xDF372A17.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and addons no longer supported question

I am sticking with ice-cat aka firefox 52 stable long term support but I do not know what I shall do when the long terms term is up.maybe switch to waterfox and hope their dev team is skilled enough to make a quality product (of course anyone with the skills should assist) Mozilla is really

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom? > Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new > directory, then close and burn the image. I have not figured out where to place them on the iso so that they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

On 03/21/2018 11:55 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:40 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: >> On 03/18/2018 05:33 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:24 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: >>>> Ev

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

On 03/19/2018 08:02 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: A virtual machine is useful largely because it isolates the VM from the real hardware, therefore it's not likely you can update firmware from a VM (you really shouldn't be able to). Actually you can update firmware from a VM, I

[gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

I am told to create a DOS usb flash drive with windows but I am un-able to do that. I have tried getting the required files in to a VM FreeDOS installation but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that, there is no actual way to load the cdrom drivers. Jesus christ it is 2018 and they

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

On 03/18/2018 05:33 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 4:24 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: Everyone please remember this is simply an exploit to obtain data off of AMD's version of ME which is a DRM mechanism added for hollywood and it requires physical access to rep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

Everyone please remember this is simply an exploit to obtain data off of AMD's version of ME which is a DRM mechanism added for hollywood and it requires physical access to reprogram the firmware thus this exploit has zero impact on anyone who doesn't profit off of DRM. ME/PSP are evil -

Re: [gentoo-user] A new AMD CPU weakness?

Here is a non-shortened link. https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/1558221/researchers-find-critical-vulnerabilities-in-amds-ryzen-and-epyc-processors-but-they-gave-the-chipmaker-only-24-hours-before-making-the-findings-public All the more reason to avoid the ME/PSP garbage and instead buy the

Re: [gentoo-user] A new AMD CPU weakness?

On 03/13/2018 08:54 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: https://v.gd/PZkiuR Does anyone know more details? A shortened link? really? not clicking that.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

On 03/08/2018 06:55 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/PCI_passthrough https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vfio.txt The one sticking point is that you need to figure out the layout of your PCIe lanes to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

On 03/07/2018 09:02 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:52 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: I bought a LSI-9211-8i / SAS 2008 controller which reports support for SR-IOV in lspci and I am wondering how I can use it. There is no info on the internet about this no

[gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

I bought a LSI-9211-8i / SAS 2008 controller which reports support for SR-IOV in lspci and I am wondering how I can use it. There is no info on the internet about this not even for their newer controllers where there is a lot of advertising about SR-IOV. The idea is that you can assign a

Re: [gentoo-user] USB ports reset/restart

On 03/05/2018 08:40 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Is there a way to reinitialize USB ports without restarting the computer? You can issue an FLR/function level reset if the hardware supports it. I am not sure how to do this but I know it is done when one assigns a device to a VM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

Is there a windows style application layer firewall? I get that it doesn't stop truly malicious programs but I am simply wanting to stop random programs doing connections without my consent which due to the lennart potterings's of the world now are not just a windows freeware problem.

[gentoo-user] Is anyone using a TALOS 2 or any OpenPOWER machine?

I am of curious as to peoples experiences with OpenPOWER machines and gentoo - is it as simple as using the ppc64 arch iso instead of x86_64? If anyone uses it for a workstation, what apps do you have? is there anything normal missing? (ie: that one would have on an x86_64 workstation) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 = spectre_v2 fixed

On 01/31/2018 04:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 30/01/18 23:43, Rich Freeman wrote: If you had some program that listened on a socket and accepted a length and a string and then did a bounds check using the length, it might be exploitable if a local process could feed it data. Even if the

Re: [gentoo-user] [off topic] Opteron CPU missing chips on the bottom

On 01/30/2018 09:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:51:31 GMT taii...@gmx.com wrote: I purchased a used g34 opteron off of fleabay (sold as working with no mention of this) and I noticed that it is missing some of the bits on the bottom Do you mean the pins that mate

[gentoo-user] [off topic] Opteron CPU missing chips on the bottom

I purchased a used g34 opteron off of fleabay (sold as working with no mention of this) and I noticed that it is missing some of the bits on the bottom and that most of them are crooked, I haven't tried it in my system yet and I am wondering should return it? or if there isn't any much risk of

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

So you know the RPI is not open source as the RPI foundation doesn't provide firmware sources. Proprietary firmware is required to boot and fully use the device as the RPI foundation only cares about open source when it is convenient to them. I would consider purchasing another device, of

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

On 01/13/2018 12:50 PM, Mick wrote: Thank you Taiidan for taking time to respond. Always man! On Friday, 12 January 2018 17:21:19 GMT you wrote: AMD says they are releasing microcode updates for their previous generation CPU's (Opteron, FX, etc) next week. So much better than intel throwing

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

On 01/12/2018 02:06 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: It shouldn't be. I'm not sure if Ryzen has anything equivalent to the Intel Management Engine. It does, it is called AMD PSP. Like ME it is closed source and it can't be disabled - no matter what people might claim.

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

AMD says they are releasing microcode updates for their previous generation CPU's (Opteron, FX, etc) next week. So much better than intel throwing older CPU owners to the wolves. In terms of what CPU to get - I would get either an AMD G34/C32 Opteron (pre-PSP) with a compatible libre firmware

[gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

I have several sandy/ivybridge CPU's and I was wondering if anyone knows as to if intel is releasing microcode updates for them. It sure would be funny if intel wanted you to buy a new CPU to fix a problem that was their fault to begin with.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

For the record I would also like to add that using the duplexer on some poorly designed printers cuts off the bottom or top of the page without any type of notification.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to harden a system

On 12/25/2017 06:33 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-12-24 14:44, taii...@gmx.com wrote: POWER 9: TALOS 2 (server/workstation, brand new and very high performance - the only brand new hardware that is legitimately libre) This is interesting, but can it run gentoo? There's a handbook edition

Re: [gentoo-user] How to harden a system

I would also consider purchasing a system with libre firmware and without ME/PSP such as: POWER 9: TALOS 2 (server/workstation, brand new and very high performance - the only brand new hardware that is legitimately libre) x86-64: (older, pre-PSP AMD - the best CPU's for C32/G34 are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 12/09/2017 05:45 AM, Mick wrote: On Saturday, 9 December 2017 10:34:32 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/12/17 11:51, Mick wrote: I've seen gnome-base/gnome-common pulled in on more than one systems, all of> which have USE="-gnome" set: # emerge -uaNDvt world These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

On my 16 core opteron I have to do -j32 or sometimes -j64 to be using everything all the time, is this normal? If I don't do this it won't be pegged at 100% all the time. I assume using a ramdisk would help with this? I wouldn't want to do a SSD as I assume it would excessively wear by doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a pre-compiled Linux distribution

On 11/23/2017 12:11 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to recommend a Linux distribution to someone who needs an as simple Linux distribution as possible. Since I am going to help that person from time to time, it should be as similar as possible to Gentoo. Which distribution would

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel ucode updates for ME issues?

On 11/23/2017 12:47 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: I think the information I outlined is a pretty good argument for assuming the ME can not be disabled. Even if true, there's not much to be done about it anyway Yeah it certainly can't be disabled (I argue this point on a regular basis to no avail), as in

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel ucode updates for ME issues?

or only $250 and $100 for a FX-8310 equivalent cpu. On 11/22/2017 11:18 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 6:03 PM, taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: Using ME cleaner would also solve the issue and you wouldn't need any more firmware updates when the next "bug" com

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel ucode updates for ME issues?

On 11/22/2017 12:42 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I notice that an update for sys-firmware/intel-microcode just come through on ~amd64, does that address the ME issues? http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-weve-found-severe-bugs-in-secretive-management-engine-affecting-millions/ Or will my NUC need a

Re: [gentoo-user] #gentoo experiences

On 11/19/2017 11:37 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: The way it's worded makes me think feedback was requested on the irc channels, but maybe I am wrong? Ha oh boy. Most people of my generation refer to things as a hashtag on "social" media, such as I just purchased a #brandX computer. I just woke up

Re: [gentoo-user] #gentoo experiences

On 11/19/2017 07:56 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: Hi all, I'm collecting information about people's experiences in #gentoo. Thanks! I'm interested in both good and bad experiences, with users, developers, and operators. Basically, anything that anyone would care to share would be much

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux USB security holes.

You can forward your USB controllers to a VM OR Disable them in the BIOS It is very easy to re-write a USB drive firmware via another virus on a poorly secured different computer so this doesn't really need physical access not that it would be difficult to simply have someone cause a scene

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

On 09/15/2017 05:03 AM, Radoje Stojisic wrote: Hi all, I am interested in doing something too. Do you talk about GPU Pass-through? Few months ago I wanted to try it myself but I own a Ryzen 1800x and just one GPU. Is there a way with only one GPU? I am always willing to assist with complex

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

Install it in a VM! If your system supports IOMMU for graphics devices here is something special you can do: I would instead consider purchasing an additional PCI-e graphics device and a PCI-e usb card then installing Windows in a VM with IOMMU-GFX, this way you can have your cake and eat

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

To me it seems as though it is more so a political change not so much a change done for some technical improvement (there aren't any). Mozilla is closer and closer with google, as evidenced by making telemetry opt-out rather than opt-in [1] and all the "safe" browsing and downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV for RAID/HBA's? anyone tried it?

On 07/03/2017 12:24 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On July 2, 2017 7:36:02 PM GMT+02:00, "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: On 07/02/2017 02:51 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On July 1, 2017 11:23:06 PM GMT+02:00, "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] SR-IOV for RAID/HBA's? anyone tried it?

On 07/02/2017 02:51 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On July 1, 2017 11:23:06 PM GMT+02:00, "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: I am wondering if anyone has tried this, apparently several LSI controllers support portioning out drives to VF's so the guest sees a controller w

[gentoo-user] SR-IOV for RAID/HBA's? anyone tried it?

I am wondering if anyone has tried this, apparently several LSI controllers support portioning out drives to VF's so the guest sees a controller with those drives attached to it. What was your experience like? and what controllers did you use? - Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo vs Raspbian on Raspberry Pi 3?

I would advise to buy an open source device such as beaglebone not a closed source RPI, bb also has higher performance options and is a better company. I was not at all pleased with the transfer speed of an RPI I tried out, the low end arm stuff is garbage (high end like appliedmicro is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

Worse, ideally you wouldn't be using SWIOTLB but I don't know how to disable this without re-compiling the kernel. On 05/21/2017 07:12 PM, Adam Carter wrote: [0.991863] iommu: Adding device :06:00.0 to group 12 [0.991982] iommu: Adding device :07:04.0 to group 12 [

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

FYI: IOMMU=pt means pass-through, as in no DMA protection. AMD_IOMMU is for the bulldozer and piledriver based systems, v2 is for the newer excavator and beyond stuff that has vAPIC On 05/16/2017 10:33 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: On 05/15/2017 09:59 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: On 05/15/2017 12

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

On 05/15/2017 10:59 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: On 05/15/2017 12:58 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: The 990FX / 790FX Chipset doesn't have a GART / AGP Aperature or IOMMU in it. The CPU contains the original K8 IOMMU ( v1 ) engineered / converted from a GART. The 8 and 9 series (not 7) does have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

On 05/15/2017 12:58 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: The 990FX / 790FX Chipset doesn't have a GART / AGP Aperature or IOMMU in it. The CPU contains the original K8 IOMMU ( v1 ) engineered / converted from a GART. The 8 and 9 series (not 7) does have an IOMMU, AMD-Vi v1.26. I have two 890 series

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with AMD_IOMMU

On 05/14/2017 01:31 AM, Adam Carter wrote: Tried kernels 4.10.13 and 4.11, with CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y CONFIG_IOMMU_API=y CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_IOMMU_IOVA=y CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU_V2=m Chipset is 990FX, and AFAICT the V2 is for the APU (bdver3 and 4

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

I am curious do you have the issue where the scanner light returns back to the docking area after every page scanned via ADF? it takes so long to scan with that problem and it wears down the gears. - Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] switching adapter - power supply

On 03/20/2017 01:36 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I have a small box "VIA Eden Processor 1200MHz" it runs my asterisk and hylafax but it is powered by those external 12V adapters (12V 5A). They don't usually last long, max 2-years or less. I have a spare unit: Switching Adapter Power

Re: [gentoo-user] ISP extorsion - how to negate / get around?

On 03/10/2017 02:50 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: Have a serious problem, might cost me any Internet access. My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum" 1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity. 2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me to update

Re: [gentoo-user] SHA-1 has just been broken

On 03/02/2017 06:26 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 03:42:24 -0500 taii...@gmx.com wrote: It is possible to have a reasonably secure system where the hard drive firmware (or any other devices) can't fuck around with the stuff on disk, although I highly doubt that the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] SHA-1 has just been broken

On 02/28/2017 12:05 PM, Miroslav Rovis wrote: On 170227-21:59-0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Miroslav Rovis wrote: Apologies for my not being able to reply sooner! On 170227-18:18+0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: And via a new private

Re: [gentoo-user] Streaming Live TV News channels

On 02/15/2017 09:36 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I was thinking of cutting the TV cord but I think Internet TV is not yet ready. Even my Shaw FreeRange TV will not play any Live TV News Channels on my Android TV box due to some kind of licensing issues. They will stream it to cell phone

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

I had a crucial SSD drive too and it failed in the warranty but as I didn't have the receipt they refused to honor it and said I was out of warranty as based on the date they sold it to the store not the day the store sold it to me. Apparently failures on my model were a very common thing due

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on a new laptop

On 02/04/2017 06:20 AM, Stefano Crocco wrote: On Thursday, 2 February 2017 09:28:05 CET Stefano Crocco wrote: Hello to everyone, I need to buy a new laptop and I'd like some advice. Currently, I'm thinking of buying an ASUS UX310UA-GL547T. Has anyone tried running Gentoo on it? If so, how did

Re: [gentoo-user] java replacement

On 01/25/2017 05:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: The java 8u112 download that the latest oracle java pulls in requires an invasive questionnaire to create an Oracle account to enable the download. I was using iced-tea at one stage but found the android sdk didn’t work well with it - is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] The final of free software

On 01/08/2017 11:44 AM, Dominus Mundi wrote: sume time ago i blessed sume gentooers with technological advantage to the future. I had good intentions but litel did i now that it would lead to the free software wars. Upon returning to my time I fund that free software was dead. Popular free

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

On 12/30/2016 11:43 AM, lee wrote: "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> writes: On 12/30/2016 08:39 AM, lee wrote: the...@sys-concept.com writes: I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, [...] If you want a rock solid machine with lots of cores

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

On 12/30/2016 08:39 AM, lee wrote: the...@sys-concept.com writes: I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply, - AMD FX-8350 Processor 4.0GHz w/ 16MB Cache

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

On 12/30/2016 07:54 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/12/2016 14:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:24:36 -0600, Dale wrote: Makes me drool a bit here. I want a 8 core CPU. The only downside, gkrellm won't have enough screen to show each core separately. That's a problem there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a VPS with little RAM

On 12/26/2016 03:45 PM, Francesco Turco wrote: Hello. I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some packages because the kernel killed gcc after a while. Please notice this VPS instance has only 768

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

On 12/19/2016 05:50 PM, Dale wrote: lee wrote: Daniel Frey writes: On 12/19/2016 10:15 AM, lee wrote: "Walter Dnes" writes: Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one ethernet port, and in the past it's always been

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SCSII Adapter ?

On 12/18/2016 10:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: taii...@gmx.com <taii...@gmx.com> [16-12-19 03:57]: On 12/17/2016 11:31 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I searched for this on the Web and the only one I found, which is available, seems to be a Windows-only product (needs Windows d

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SCSII Adapter ?

On 12/17/2016 11:31 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I searched for this on the Web and the only one I found, which is available, seems to be a Windows-only product (needs Windows drivers). May be someone on this list knows a solution: Is there any "something"-to-SCSII-adapter, which can be

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

On 12/17/2016 08:56 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running Pale Moon. In an xterm, I did... export SSLKEYLOGFILE=/dev/shm/sslkeylogfile.txt ...and launched Pale Moon manually from the commandline. nd visited a couple of https sites. I did get /dev/shm/sslkeylogfile.txt which begins with the

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

On 12/17/2016 04:57 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2016 19:20:03 Heiko Baums wrote: Am 17.12.2016 um 15:58 schrieb Rich Freeman: [...] If you don't think the guides on how to install Gentoo on a Pi are good enough, then play around with it until you figure it out, and then

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

What makes it better than icecat, iceweasel, foxcat, and so on? On 12/17/2016 12:59 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:27:08PM +0100, Miroslav Rovis wrote There, the few sentences, but the topic really is serious, will Firefox, from Firefox52, in my machine, and in people who

[gentoo-user] Boot freeze/kthreadd stack trace - AMD_PMU_INIT

Specs: blob free coreboot on a kgpe-d16 (amd opteron) Happens with both the livecd/usb and a kernel I compiled on another machine (however with that one I simply get a black screen and a bootloop) Other distros kernels work fine, it is just gentoo. The livecd and compiled kernel work fine on