Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on an odroidH2 using eMMC

2019-12-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 17/12/19 6:31 am, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi,     has anyone successfully set up Gentoo on an odroidH2 using an eMMC? I have got as far as the pivot-root (so it loads and executes the intramfs) but fails to find the /dev/mmcblk0p[01] devices.  The sting is I copied the files it to a USB key

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on an odroidH2 using eMMC

2019-12-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi,     has anyone successfully set up Gentoo on an odroidH2 using an eMMC? I have got as far as the pivot-root (so it loads and executes the intramfs) but fails to find the /dev/mmcblk0p[01] devices.  The sting is I copied the files it to a USB key and that boots fine!  It appears that the e

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
On 12/16/19 20:52, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:25 PM n952162 wrote: It's strange ... on coming home, I see that my machine here can display all the usual filetypes and has *no* use flags: media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.8.11 I'm still curious what that "USE flags" section in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:09:27 - (UTC), Martin Vaeth wrote: > > eix reports USE flags for all versions in the tree > > Try eix -l Nice one! -- Neil Bothwick Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. pgp4BKMqb3_Ei.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread Martin Vaeth
Neil Bothwick wrote: > > eix reports USE flags for all versions in the tree Try eix -l

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:33:21 -0500, Jack wrote: > > Am I going to have to rebuild imagemagick for every file type I > > encounter? > Probably yes. As far as I can tell, the only safe way to see what USE > flags apply to a package is to either look in the ebuild, or do "eix > package." (M

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:25 PM n952162 wrote: > > It's strange ... on coming home, I see that my machine here can display > all the usual filetypes and has *no* use flags: > > media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.8.11 > > I'm still curious what that "USE flags" section in the package document > represen

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
It's strange ... on coming home, I see that my machine here can display all the usual filetypes and has *no* use flags:    media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.8.11 I'm still curious what that "USE flags" section in the package document represents. On 12/16/19 18:33, Jack wrote: On 2019.12.16 12:10, n95

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Python policy drives me crazy

2019-12-16 Thread Michael Cook
On 12/16/19 2:00 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Today's updating involves some package which causes rebuilding a package which needs Python2.7 and another one which needs python_single_target_python3_8 required by that mysterious @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ To emerge the Python2.7 pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Python policy drives me crazy

2019-12-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:00 PM Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Today's updating involves some package which causes rebuilding > a package which needs Python2.7 and another one which needs > python_single_target_python3_8 > required by that mysterious @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ > > To em

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Python policy drives me crazy

2019-12-16 Thread John Helmert III
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 08:00:41PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > To emerge the Python2.7 package (Scribus) I do need to set > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" > in /etc/portage/make.conf > which makes the whole update fail since the other packages needs > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_8" You do

[gentoo-user] Gentoo's Python policy drives me crazy

2019-12-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Today's updating involves some package which causes rebuilding a package which needs Python2.7 and another one which needs python_single_target_python3_8 required by that mysterious @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ To emerge the Python2.7 package (Scribus) I do need to set PYTHON_SING

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS/administration gives a blank window

2019-12-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-12-16 16:48, n952162 wrote: > After starting apache2 and cups, when I select the add-a-printer > selection item, a blank screen is displayed. Does anybody know why? Do you run apache2 just for the CUPS UI? That should not be necessary, CUPS has its own built in http server. At least tha

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread Jack
On 2019.12.16 12:10, n952162 wrote: I tried using imagemagick's display, and it gave me: display: delegate library support not built-in '' (X11) There's no X on the media-gfx/imagemagick web page. On a guess, I created a use file for imagemagick with X and now I get: display: no decode delega

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread Mick
On Monday, 16 December 2019 17:10:13 GMT n952162 wrote: > I tried using imagemagick's display, and it gave me: > > display: delegate library support not built-in '' (X11) > > There's no X on the media-gfx/imagemagick web page. > > On a guess, I created a use file for imagemagick with X and now I

[gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I tried using imagemagick's display, and it gave me: display: delegate library support not built-in '' (X11) There's no X on the media-gfx/imagemagick web page. On a guess, I created a use file for imagemagick with X and now I get: display: no decode delegate for this image format `JPG' Am I

[gentoo-user] CUPS/administration gives a blank window

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
After starting apache2 and cups, when I select the add-a-printer selection item, a blank screen is displayed.  Does anybody know why?

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager [RESOLVED](kinda)

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I rebuilt my kernel, taking AMDGPU out and using "ATI Radeon" instead.  Now X works for me, and even my power-off issue is gone. I don't think it has anything to do with firefox, really, or performance, but rather a problem with the driver and hardware coordination. According to the gentoo AMDGP

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager [RESOLVED](kinda)

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I rebuilt my kernel, taking AMDGPU out and using "ATI Radeon" instead.  Now X works for me, and even my power-off issue is gone. I don't think it has anything to do with firefox, really, or performance, but rather a problem with the driver and hardware coordination. According to the gentoo AMDGP

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager

2019-12-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 15 December 2019 21:11:30 GMT n952...@web.de wrote: > I recently reported that after rebuilding my kernel, my system doesn't power > down any more. My problems are actually much more severe. When I bring up > Firefox, my system grinds to a crawl, where it can take minutes to echo a > few

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager

2019-12-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 15 December 2019 21:11:30 GMT n952...@web.de wrote: > I recently reported that after rebuilding my kernel, my system doesn't power > down any more. My problems are actually much more severe. When I bring up > Firefox, my system grinds to a crawl, where it can take minutes to echo a > few