Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On 2018-10-28, at 10:42, Davyd McColl wrote: > > Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. > My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. Not > saying the grass is 100% greener there (heh) but at least you can't be held >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Davyd McColl
Apologies - green is nvidia and red is amd. No special code - that's just their primary marketing colors. -d On October 28, 2018 17:03:32 Philip Webb wrote: 181028 Davyd McColl wrote: 181028 Philip Webb : Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. Or perhaps go team red.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
181028 Davyd McColl wrote: >> 181028 Philip Webb : Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. > Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. > My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. > you can't be held hostage with binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Davyd McColl
Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. Not saying the grass is 100% greener there (heh) but at least you can't be held hostage with binary blobs. And they're cheaper. /2c -d On

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/10/2018 15:53, Philip Webb wrote: I updated to xorg-server-1.20.3 yesterday & ran into trouble. It wanted to update to nvidia-drivers-396.54 , which doesn't support my graphics card ( Asus GT610 : bought 150914 ) : there was an error msg in Xorg.0.log to this effect. I tried 390.67

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On Oct 28, 2018, at 09:53, Philip Webb wrote: > > Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. > > Does anyone have comments or suggestions ? Upgrade to the 1050 or so and you won’t have to upgrade for years. I am still on my GTX 980 since 2015.

[gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

2018-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
I updated to xorg-server-1.20.3 yesterday & ran into trouble. It wanted to update to nvidia-drivers-396.54 , which doesn't support my graphics card ( Asus GT610 : bought 150914 ) : there was an error msg in Xorg.0.log to this effect. I tried 390.67 (which I had been using before yesterday)

[gentoo-user] Re: Why doesn't revdep-rebuild catch undefined symbol errors?

2018-10-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/10/2018 12:36, Andrew Savchenko wrote: revdep-rebuild catches libraries from removed packages (including removed older versions) still in use by other packages. Though with proper subslot dependencies revdep-rebuild is rarely needed. If for some reason library containing required symbol

Re: [gentoo-user] File conflict

2018-10-28 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 19:46:38 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to install platformio and got a file conflict: > > dev-embedded/sunxi-tools > > installs /usr/bin/pio > > as dev-embedded/platformio-3.6.0 > > tries also. > > The installation of platformio was aborted due to >

Re: [gentoo-user] app-shells/bash slotted?

2018-10-28 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 03:36:36 -0400 John Covici wrote: > Hi. I noticed when preparing to do my world update today that > app-shells/bash is now slotted. I wonder what the purpose of this is, > there seems to be no way to select the different versions and > upgrading bash broke dracut -- unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Why doesn't revdep-rebuild catch undefined symbol errors?

2018-10-28 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:30:00 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Trying to rebuild media-sound/pavucontrol or any other package that uses > dev-cpp/cairomm (like pulseeffects) will fail with: > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

2018-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 28 October 2018 09:05:59 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > oh YEAH...sometimes the """problem""" seems to imply > a vast complicate solutionand one do not even > assume that there is something that straight forward > as > > emerge --deselect cairomm > > . > GREAT! :) > > Cheers!

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

2018-10-28 Thread tuxic
On 10/28 08:49, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 28 October 2018 06:46:37 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 10/28 04:13, Adam Carter wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 4:08 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 3:41 PM wrote: > > > >> Hi, > > > > > > > >> while

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

2018-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 28 October 2018 06:46:37 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 10/28 04:13, Adam Carter wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 4:08 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 3:41 PM wrote: > > >> Hi, > > > > > >> while syncing/updateing my system, inkscape failed to compile: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

2018-10-28 Thread tuxic
On 10/28 08:05, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > [..] > >reemergeing cairomm fixes the problem! > > No wonder. The error was e.g.: > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib64/libcairomm-1.0.so: > undefined reference to

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

2018-10-28 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, tu...@posteo.de wrote: [..] >reemergeing cairomm fixes the problem! No wonder. The error was e.g.: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib64/libcairomm-1.0.so: undefined reference to `cairo_script_create' $ qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

2018-10-28 Thread tuxic
On 10/28 04:13, Adam Carter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 4:08 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 3:41 PM wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> while syncing/updateing my system, inkscape failed to compile: > >> > > > > Nikos posted about cairo issue recently that