Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
snip This happens to me when ssh'ing into various machines with a different console size.  With screen in xfce-terminal I use F11 to maximise/resize the screen to force the screen to redraw correctly. Is this a common key map to the redraw function and does it work for you? BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread tuxic
On 01/12 09:27, Franz Fellner wrote: > I am sure nconfig does the same thing as menuconfig and xconfig. > Concerning your issue with menuconfig: Is this with a new kernel? Do older > kernel versions still play well with menuconfig? > > Am Sa., 12. Jan. 2019 um 19:49 Uhr schrieb : > > > On 01/12

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Franz Fellner
I am sure nconfig does the same thing as menuconfig and xconfig. Concerning your issue with menuconfig: Is this with a new kernel? Do older kernel versions still play well with menuconfig? Am Sa., 12. Jan. 2019 um 19:49 Uhr schrieb : > On 01/12 07:47, Franz Fellner wrote: > > No issues here with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread tuxic
On 01/12 06:25, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-01-12, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > That's wprk ... but its kinda super retro...isn't it. > > What or where is the actual/iincompatibility..."who is to blame" > > (not meant seriously...only a workaround for my limited english) > > Well, if it

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-12, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > That's wprk ... but its kinda super retro...isn't it. > What or where is the actual/iincompatibility..."who is to blame" > (not meant seriously...only a workaround for my limited english) Well, if it works with all terminals other than your

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-12, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-01-12, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> > > > > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> > > > > > when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after >>> > > > > > a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But >>> > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread tuxic
On 01/12 08:10, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/01/2019 19:23, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 01/12 06:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > > On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-12, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> > > > > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> > > > > > when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after >> > > > > > a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But >> > > > > > since some interations of the linux kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 19:23, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 06:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread tuxic
On 01/12 07:47, Franz Fellner wrote: > No issues here with "make nconfig", like that more than menuconfig. > > Am Sa., 12. Jan. 2019 um 19:23 Uhr schrieb : > > > On 01/12 06:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > On 12/01/2019 18:10,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Franz Fellner
No issues here with "make nconfig", like that more than menuconfig. Am Sa., 12. Jan. 2019 um 19:23 Uhr schrieb : > On 01/12 06:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread tuxic
On 01/12 06:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after a short period of

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But since

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread tuxic
On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after > > > a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But > > > since some interations of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread tuxic
On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after > > a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But > > since some interations of the linux kernel this interface > > has become a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 10:15 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after > > a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But > > since some interations of the linux kernel this interface >

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But since some interations of the linux kernel this interface has become a mess: Line contents is offsetted all over the place. What

[gentoo-user] Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread tuxic
Hi, when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But since some interations of the linux kernel this interface has become a mess: Line contents is offsetted all over the place. I searched gentoos bugzila but with "menuconfig"

[gentoo-user] Re: Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 07:00, Dale wrote: It is nvidia based.  Question, how do I know it is using the video card to process as much of the video as it is supposed to be doing? You already corrected the vdpau USE flag thing. As for smplayer, you should select "gpu" (it might be named "opengl", depending

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/01/19 12:28, Mick wrote: > What about 'rsync -H' or 'tar --hard-dereference'? Don't they cater to hard > links in the fs? rsync and cp are both quite happy with hardlinks. They just keep a table of them in memory ... a 3TB disk full of hard links will fill your memory ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/01/19 00:55, Dale wrote: > Just how do you do backups? If cp -a and rsync would not work > correctly, what do you use? I'm just curious now. ;-) RAID. I know it's not meant as a backup, and if anything happens to the computer it could take out both drives, but at the moment I have two

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/systemd-239-r2 does not install completely

2019-01-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.11.18 um 10:09 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> # qlist -ICv systemd sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration-7 >>> sys-apps/systemd-236-r5 >> >> Since no one else has come up with anything less kludgy, and I >> assume you have already tried reinstalling systemd, I can only >> think of

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-12 Thread Davyd McColl
On January 12, 2019 12:00:43 PM Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On January 12, 2019 8:02:48 AM UTC, Andrew Udvare wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2019, at 02:12, Dale wrote: Just for giggles, I used VLC for a bit to play a video. It has a fair

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-12 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On January 12, 2019 8:02:48 AM UTC, Andrew Udvare > wrote: > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 12, 2019, at 02:12, Dale wrote: > Just for giggles, I used VLC for a bit to play a video. It has > a fair resolution and is a .mp4. It uses about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On January 12, 2019 8:02:48 AM UTC, Andrew Udvare wrote: > > >Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 12, 2019, at 02:12, Dale wrote: >> Just for giggles, I used VLC for a bit to play a video. It has a >fair >> resolution and is a .mp4. It uses about the same amount of CPU power >as >> Smplayer. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-12 Thread Andrew Udvare
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 12, 2019, at 02:12, Dale wrote: > Just for giggles, I used VLC for a bit to play a video. It has a fair > resolution and is a .mp4. It uses about the same amount of CPU power as > Smplayer. I can't tell any difference even with the same video. It > appears that