Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-19 Thread Dragostin Yanev
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:12:46AM +0400, Andrew Savchenko wrote I'd like to recommend you this kernel gcc patch which enables -march=native support for kernel compilation: https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch Just select native and you will get both best performance and one

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.04.2014 22:12, schrieb Andrew Savchenko: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:11:05 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: I'm (re)installing Gentoo on an older AMD notebook. The output from less /proc/cpuinfo includes... processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop

2014-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 01:09:25AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote I don't let theebuild muck with lilo.conf,I edit it myself, so the root is no problem -- its an initrd anyway. I don't understand. The ebuild doesn't look at lilo.conf, rather, it tries to guess the root partition, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop

2014-04-19 Thread covici
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 01:09:25AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote I don't let theebuild muck with lilo.conf,I edit it myself, so the root is no problem -- its an initrd anyway. I don't understand. The ebuild doesn't look at lilo.conf,

[gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
I've got another thread going called... Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop. Before I file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault. Can people here do me a favour? If you have a Gentoo install CD or USB key handy, and are willing to reboot, can you

Re: [gentoo-user] Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 Apr 2014 19:43:25 Matti Nykyri wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:49:45PM +0100, Mick wrote: Can you please share how you create ECDHE_ECDSA with openssl ecparam, or ping a URL if that is more convenient? Select curve for ECDSA: openssl ecparam -out ec_param.pem -name

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-19 Thread Dragostin Yanev
Am 18.04.2014 22:12, schrieb Andrew Savchenko: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:11:05 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: I'm (re)installing Gentoo on an older AMD notebook. The output from less /proc/cpuinfo includes... processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model

[gentoo-user] Re: Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thanks to Joost Roeleveld and Brian Hesdorfer for helpful answers. Even before getting the new email, I googled on linux boot root delay and found the answer where previous Google search failed to yield results. That was an old Linux, Slackware 13.0 with kernel 2.6.29.6 where I remember trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I've got another thread going called... Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop. Before I file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault. Can people here do me a favour? If you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes wrote: I've got another thread going called... Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop. Before I file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault. Can people here do me a favour? If you have a Gentoo install CD or

Re: [gentoo-user] Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Joe User
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 19.04.2014 13:51, Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 Apr 2014 19:43:25 Matti Nykyri wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:49:45PM +0100, Mick wrote: Can you please share how you create ECDHE_ECDSA with openssl ecparam, or ping a URL if that is more

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes wrote: I've got another thread going called... Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop. Before I file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes wrote: I've got another thread going called... Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop. Before I file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my

[gentoo-user] xdriinfo: libGL is too old

2014-04-19 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, in search of the reason for the overlay problem reported previously I cam across this: solfire:/home/usersudo xdriinfo libGL is too old. [1]23732 exit 1 sudo xdriinfo solfire:/home/user and solfire:/home/userl /usr/lib64/libGL.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2014-04-19 11:23

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Encryption still works, at least for some attackers. The fact that burglars can pick locks doesn't mean that you should leave your door unlocked. FWIW I just checked my bank's website encryption ... they *still* use RC4!!! O_O I guess they are keen to make sure all these customers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Jonathan Callen jcal...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/12/2014 08:19 AM, Tom H wrote: You can have a gpt partition table with BIOS but if you want to boot from that disk, you need a bios_boot partition (which the OP has) for grub to embed a binary. Technically, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Apr 19, 2014, at 16:17, Joe User mailingli...@rootservice.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 19.04.2014 13:51, Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 Apr 2014 19:43:25 Matti Nykyri wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:49:45PM +0100, Mick wrote: Can you please share how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Apr 19, 2014, at 18:29, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Encryption still works, at least for some attackers. The fact that burglars can pick locks doesn't mean that you should leave your door unlocked. FWIW I just checked my bank's website encryption ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 16:29:34 Dale wrote: How does one find out what their bank uses? I'd like to check on what mine uses. I have Seamonkey and Firefox installed here IF it matters. Some banks have reverted to RC4 to protect against TLS v1.0 attacks from the BEAST. I don't think that FF

Re: [gentoo-user] Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Joe User
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 19.04.2014 17:38, Matti Nykyri wrote: On Apr 19, 2014, at 16:17, Joe User mailingli...@rootservice.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 19.04.2014 13:51, Mick wrote: On Thursday 17 Apr 2014 19:43:25 Matti Nykyri

[gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

2014-04-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-04-16, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user? (Please do not say NNTP) Mind if I ask why not? -- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-19 Thread Facundo Curti
2014-04-19 12:34 GMT-03:00 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com: On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Jonathan Callen jcal...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/12/2014 08:19 AM, Tom H wrote: You can have a gpt partition table with BIOS but if you want to boot from that disk, you need a bios_boot partition (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 14:17:56 Joe User wrote: On 19.04.2014 13:51, Mick wrote: It seems that many sites that use ECDHE with various CA signature algorithms (ECC as well as conventional symmetric) use the secp521r1 curve - aka P-256. I just checked and gmail/google accounts use it too.

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice uses openssl?

2014-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 02:29:35 walt wrote: Not long ago I started building my own libreoffice from their git repo because I wanted to bisect a recent libreoffice bug in localc. In the process of finding the bug I discovered that libreoffice ships its own copy of openssl along with many

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice uses openssl?

2014-04-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 18:18:39 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 02:29:35 walt wrote: Not long ago I started building my own libreoffice from their git repo because I wanted to bisect a recent libreoffice bug in localc. In the process of finding the bug I discovered that libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice uses openssl?

2014-04-19 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 19. April 2014, 19:19:41 schrieb Mick: On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 18:18:39 Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 02:29:35 walt wrote: Not long ago I started building my own libreoffice from their git repo because I wanted to bisect a recent libreoffice bug in localc. In the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 16:29:34 Dale wrote: How does one find out what their bank uses? I'd like to check on what mine uses. I have Seamonkey and Firefox installed here IF it matters. Some banks have reverted to RC4 to protect against TLS v1.0 attacks from the BEAST. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Dale
Matti Nykyri wrote: On Apr 19, 2014, at 18:29, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Encryption still works, at least for some attackers. The fact that burglars can pick locks doesn't mean that you should leave your door unlocked. FWIW I just checked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Joe User
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 19.04.2014 21:33, Dale wrote: Matti Nykyri wrote: On Apr 19, 2014, at 18:29, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Encryption still works, at least for some attackers. The fact that burglars can pick

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:24:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote I symlink /proc/self/mounts to /etc/mtab. But the handbook has grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts /etc/mtab. I re-checked the AMD64 install docs in Firefox {CTRL}F mtab in... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1

[gentoo-user] Re: Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-19 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/18/2014 01:49 PM, Brian Hesdorfer wrote: On 4/18/2014 1:38 PM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 18 April 2014 10:01:35 Brian Hesdorfer wrote: On 4/18/2014 9:05 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 18 April 2014 12:02:01 Thomas Mueller

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Dale
Joe User wrote: On 19.04.2014 21:33, Dale wrote: Matti Nykyri wrote: On Apr 19, 2014, at 18:29, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Encryption still works, at least for some attackers. The fact that burglars can pick locks doesn't mean that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 18:43:50 Matti Nykyri wrote: Well you can use ssllabs.com. I use it for debuging. Here is what Bank of America uses: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.bankofamerica.comhideRes ults=on Well, that's an eye-opener and no mistake. I see my bank is rated