Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-16 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 7/15/24 5:54 AM, J. Aho wrote: > The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin > server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a > lot of the packages instead of fetching the binary files when they are > built. As noted earlier, it's more

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 16 July 2024 09:50:00 BST Michael wrote: > I recall having some trouble with bytemark in the past. Now you mention it, so do I, but I've been using it for quite a while now with no problems. I suppose servers come and go... -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-16 Thread Michael
On Monday, 15 July 2024 13:36:19 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 15 July 2024 10:54:37 BST J. Aho wrote: > > The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin > > server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a > > lot of the packages instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 July 2024 10:54:37 BST J. Aho wrote: > The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin > server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a > lot of the packages instead of fetching the binary files when they are > built. One way to come around

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread J. Aho
On 13/07/2024 14.50, Peter Humphrey wrote: Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin server, which makes things out of

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/07/2024 07:22, Dale wrote: >> Is this about the -1 or --oneshot option? > > Yes. > > Once your system is stable it's a damn good idea :-) > > Cheers, > Wol > > On my recent new rig build, once I installed everything from the world file from my old system, I added that

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Wols Lists
On 15/07/2024 07:22, Dale wrote: Is this about the -1 or --oneshot option? Yes. Once your system is stable it's a damn good idea :-) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Dale
Wol wrote: > On 14/07/2024 14:15, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Yes, I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=8 --load-average=8 >> --autounmask=n -- >> keep-going  --nospinner" >> >> Nothing contentious there, I'd have thought. > > I didn't think I had anything contentious - --once-only and that was > about

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 7/14/24 8:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 14 July 2024 07:05:04 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > >> As a matter of curiosity, why do you need to do any such thing at all? >> >> If there is no binary package available for portage yet, then portage >> will automatically build it from source

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-14 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 14 July 2024 10:44:30 BST Dale wrote: >> Well, this was about codec support. It seems I had none of them >> available. I likely enabled more than needed but if it isn't needed, it >> just ignores them, so I've read anyway. This is a sort list. >> >> [*] Support

Re: [gentoo-user] ldconfig segfaults after updating to 23.0 profil

2024-07-14 Thread Waldo Lemmer
FYI, Gmail sees this email as spam: > Be careful with this message > > The sender hasn't authenticated this message so Gmail can't verify that it actually came from them. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information. On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 9:12 PM Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Wol
On 14/07/2024 14:15, Peter Humphrey wrote: Yes, I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=8 --load-average=8 --autounmask=n -- keep-going --nospinner" Nothing contentious there, I'd have thought. I didn't think I had anything contentious - --once-only and that was about it. I think that was

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 14 July 2024 13:22:14 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 14/07/2024 13:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > It doesn't do that here. It tries to fetch the binary and bombs out when > > it can't be found. Then I have to edit make.conf to update Gentoo, then > > put it back as it was for the rest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 14/07/2024 13:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: It doesn't do that here. It tries to fetch the binary and bombs out when it can't be found. Then I have to edit make.conf to update Gentoo, then put it back as it was for the rest of the system. Do you have PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS or whatever it's

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 14 July 2024 07:05:04 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > As a matter of curiosity, why do you need to do any such thing at all? > > If there is no binary package available for portage yet, then portage > will automatically build it from source instead, which is exactly what > setting

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-14 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 14 July 2024 10:44:30 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 14 July 2024 06:08:27 BST Dale wrote: > >> I then plugged the TV into the new rig. KDE saw that right away and > >> popped up a screen wanting to know what to do. I just closed it and > >> went to KDE settings then

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-14 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 14 July 2024 06:08:27 BST Dale wrote: > >> I then plugged the TV into the new rig. KDE saw that right away and >> popped up a screen wanting to know what to do. I just closed it and >> went to KDE settings then Display and Monitor section. I arranged the >> monitors

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-14 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 14 July 2024 06:08:27 BST Dale wrote: > I then plugged the TV into the new rig. KDE saw that right away and > popped up a screen wanting to know what to do. I just closed it and > went to KDE settings then Display and Monitor section. I arranged the > monitors like I wanted, several

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread netfab
Le 14/07/24 à 02:18, Peter Humphrey a tapoté : > It works, but what's wrong with the way I tried it? Here is the explanation : https://bugs.gentoo.org/463964 > Currently, FEATURES=getbinpkg only works as a global setting. And from :

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Dale
Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 7/13/24 8:42 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a >> binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: >> >> # cat /etc/portage/env/nobinpkg.conf >>

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 7/13/24 8:42 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a > binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: > > # cat /etc/portage/env/nobinpkg.conf > FEATURES="${FEATURES} -getbinpkg" > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-13 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 11 July 2024 07:23:58 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> As far as I know SDDM is using the file(s) in /usr/share/sddm/scripts/ to >>> start a login GUI. I haven't looked into how far can these be tweaked for >>> a dual monitor setup and if they even have a

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 13 July 2024 15:49:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 13 July 2024 14:18:09 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: --->8 > > I don't know what you're doing wrong, but FEATURES is an additive > > variable, so adding the ${FEATURES} in there is not necessary. > > I've tried it without that

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 13 July 2024 14:18:09 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 14:42, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a > > binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 14:42, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a > binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: > > # cat /etc/portage/env/nobinpkg.conf > FEATURES="${FEATURES}

[gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: # cat /etc/portage/env/nobinpkg.conf FEATURES="${FEATURES} -getbinpkg" # cat /etc/portage/package.env sys-apps/portage nobinpkg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] IRC: "Error: You are banned from this server"

2024-07-13 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 13 July 2024 02:26:41 BST Ionen Wolkens wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 04:11:05AM +0400, Vitaly Zdanevich wrote: > > We had nothing bad in our conversations... > > From the whole server, not a channel? Don't know what happened but it > wouldn't be Gentoo-specific then given Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] IRC: "Error: You are banned from this server"

2024-07-12 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 04:11:05AM +0400, Vitaly Zdanevich wrote: > We had nothing bad in our conversations... From the whole server, not a channel? Don't know what happened but it wouldn't be Gentoo-specific then given Gentoo doesn't run IRC servers nor is part of the Libera staff. -- ionen

[gentoo-user] IRC: "Error: You are banned from this server"

2024-07-12 Thread Vitaly Zdanevich
We had nothing bad in our conversations...

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-11 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 11 July 2024 07:23:58 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > As far as I know SDDM is using the file(s) in /usr/share/sddm/scripts/ to > > start a login GUI. I haven't looked into how far can these be tweaked for > > a dual monitor setup and if they even have a 'primary' monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-11 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 July 2024 12:44:28 BST Dale wrote: > >> It sounds like you recommend me using xorg.conf and not xrandr. I was >> thinking that using both would also cause a clash. Basically, I need >> one tool to do this. That's why I picked xorg.conf for long term, >> xrandr

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-10 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 10 July 2024 12:44:28 BST Dale wrote: > It sounds like you recommend me using xorg.conf and not xrandr. I was > thinking that using both would also cause a clash. Basically, I need > one tool to do this. That's why I picked xorg.conf for long term, > xrandr is just for now or a

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-10 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 July 2024 06:00:41 BST Dale wrote: >> New subthread. Slightly new situation. > [snip ...] >> On the old LG monitor, when I first plugged up the new monitor, it >> wouldn't power up from standby. It wouldn't even when I connected only >> the new monitor. The

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-10 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 10 July 2024 06:00:41 BST Dale wrote: > New subthread. Slightly new situation. [snip ...] > On the old LG monitor, when I first plugged up the new monitor, it > wouldn't power up from standby. It wouldn't even when I connected only > the new monitor. The BIOS would beep that it

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-09 Thread Dale
New subthread.  Slightly new situation.  New monitor came in today.  It seems the truck from Memphis got delayed and didn't arrive in time for yesterday.  No idea why it took over 14 or 15 hours to travel what would take no more than 2 or 3 hours even by truck.  Maybe the truck broke down.  Oh,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emails are no indexable

2024-07-09 Thread Vitaly Zdanevich
In https://marc.info/robots.txt I see User-agent: * Disallow: / It looks bad. On 7/8/24 21:41, Michael wrote: On Monday, 8 July 2024 16:07:59 BST Vitaly Zdanevich wrote: Hi, I tried to google in "exact match" a few sentences from this email list - and nothing found. For example this

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts: was: New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-09 Thread Nuno Silva
On 2024-07-07, Jack wrote: > To how fonts are designed, many if not most modern fonts (such as > true-type) are specified internally by the commands to draw each > character, and you request the size in points. The conversion to how > many pixels to use is based on the DPI the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating profile

2024-07-09 Thread Dale
Thelma wrote: > On 7/8/24 17:07, Dale wrote: >> Thelma wrote: >>> I'm on profile: >>> default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (exp) * >>> >>> but it seems to me it is obsolete.  Has anybody switched to a new >>> profile? >>> How complicated is it? >>> >>> Gentoo instruction page is not very clear. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating profile

2024-07-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 09/07/2024 06:25, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 at 00:41, Thelma wrote: I'm on profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (exp) * but it seems to me it is obsolete. Has anybody switched to a new profile? How complicated is it? Gentoo instruction page is not very clear. ==> NEW

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating profile

2024-07-08 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 at 00:41, Thelma wrote: > > I'm on profile: > default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (exp) * > > but it seems to me it is obsolete. Has anybody switched to a new profile? > How complicated is it? > > Gentoo instruction page is not very clear. > ==> NEW

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating profile

2024-07-08 Thread Thelma
On 7/8/24 17:07, Dale wrote: Thelma wrote: I'm on profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (exp) * but it seems to me it is obsolete.  Has anybody switched to a new profile? How complicated is it? Gentoo instruction page is not very clear. ==>  NEW default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr        

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating profile

2024-07-08 Thread Dale
Thelma wrote: > I'm on profile: > default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (exp) * > > but it seems to me it is obsolete.  Has anybody switched to a new > profile? > How complicated is it? > > Gentoo instruction page is not very clear. > ==>  NEW default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr >              (added

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix error: External senders are prohibited to send to local recipient

2024-07-08 Thread Thelma
Thank you for the input. Yes, you are correct, in my case "postfix" was missing "sasl" flag. I needed to run: postmap hash:/etc/postfix/saslpass and add entry to: /etc/postfix/sender_canonical now it works; until Rogers decided to add something new. On 7/7/24 23:24, da...@vnecke.de wrote:

[gentoo-user] Updating profile

2024-07-08 Thread Thelma
I'm on profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop (exp) * but it seems to me it is obsolete.  Has anybody switched to a new profile? How complicated is it? Gentoo instruction page is not very clear. ==>  NEW default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr              (added "split-usr") My eselect profile

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 06:26:26PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > Back to the previous topic, I have not yet found a case where changing the > scale by means of the desktop settings, arrives at non-blurred fonts. The > clearest sharpest fonts are always rendered at the native monitor resolution, >

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 5:27 AM Dale wrote: > I don't know about cell phones but if using the youtube app, I'd think > it would know what you are using and the resolution too. To me, it > looks like it would be best for everyone to only download what is needed > and no more. It saves bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] Emails are no indexable

2024-07-08 Thread Michael
On Monday, 8 July 2024 16:07:59 BST Vitaly Zdanevich wrote: > Hi, I tried to google in "exact match" a few sentences from this email > list - and nothing found. For example this mirroring > https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user=171984189706185=2 - and nothing in > Google. Is it excluded from search?

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Michael
On Monday, 8 July 2024 15:52:03 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 8 July 2024 13:59:27 BST Wol wrote: > > On 08/07/2024 13:27, Dale wrote: > > > I don't know about cell phones but if using the youtube app, I'd think > > > it would know what you are using and the resolution too. > > > > BBC

[gentoo-user] Emails are no indexable

2024-07-08 Thread Vitaly Zdanevich
Hi, I tried to google in "exact match" a few sentences from this email list - and nothing found. For example this mirroring https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user=171984189706185=2 - and nothing in Google. Is it excluded from search? This is bad, because people google problems that are already

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 8 July 2024 10:56:44 BST Michael wrote: > The rule of thumb is to come as close as possible to the TV screen until you > start seeing different pixels. Then you back off a little bit and plonk > your armchair there. Correction: That's A rule of thumb. It's not what's recommended by TV

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 8 July 2024 13:59:27 BST Wol wrote: > On 08/07/2024 13:27, Dale wrote: > > I don't know about cell phones but if using the youtube app, I'd think > > it would know what you are using and the resolution too. > > BBC iPlayer, ITVx. Along with the other Freeview apps for Channels 4 and 5.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Wol
On 08/07/2024 13:27, Dale wrote: I don't know about cell phones but if using the youtube app, I'd think it would know what you are using and the resolution too. BBC iPlayer, ITVx. Along with the other Freeview apps for Channels 4 and 5. To me, it looks like it would be best for everyone to

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 8 July 2024 00:57:40 BST Dale wrote: >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 05:10:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale: It's hi res and a good deal. :-D >>> Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P >>> It’s about as much

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Wols Lists
On 08/07/2024 11:48, Michael wrote: Devices send a viewport size to the server to fetch scaled images and fonts as required, instead of downloading a huge resolution only for it to be consumed on the small screen of a phone or tablet. I'm not sure how the screen size information is shared

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Wols Lists
On 08/07/2024 10:57, Michael wrote: will show you what different resolutions the streaming server offers and you can then select the one you need/prefer. Of course this is conditional on yt- dlp being capable of parsing the stream you want to download and on the streaming server offering

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Michael
On Monday, 8 July 2024 00:57:40 BST Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 05:10:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> It's hi res and a good deal. :-D > > > > Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P > > It’s about as much as CRTs

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Michael
On Monday, 8 July 2024 00:14:59 BST Wol wrote: > On 07/07/2024 23:29, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > It also goes into the other direction: people these days™ watch 4K movies > > on their phones. Why, just why? Even if the screen can display it > > physically, their eyes cannot resolve that fine

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 July 2024 23:29:21 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 05:10:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > It's hi res and a good deal. :-D > > >>> > > >>> Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P > > >>> It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day,

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix error: External senders are prohibited to send to local recipient

2024-07-07 Thread david
Hello Thelma, depends on how these files are configured in your main.cf. If it says smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/saslpass and/or sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical you have to build the hashtables with postmap hash:/etc/postfix/saslpass and/or postmap

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 05:10:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> It's hi res and a good deal.  :-D  > Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P > It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day, close to 1024×768 at 17″. Well, I still

Re: Food was: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 2024.07.07 18:53, Dale wrote: >> Going to cook a box of mac n cheese for supper.  I haven't had that in a >> while.  ;-)  I wonder, what would it taste like with some basil in it.  >> ROFL  > Would be great if you made pesto out of the basil. > > I mostly add basil to tomato and

Food was: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Jack
On 2024.07.07 18:53, Dale wrote: Going to cook a box of mac n cheese for supper.  I haven't had that in a while.  ;-)  I wonder, what would it taste like with some basil in it.  ROFL  Would be great if you made pesto out of the basil.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Wol
On 07/07/2024 23:29, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It also goes into the other direction: people these days™ watch 4K movies on their phones. Why, just why? Even if the screen can display it physically, their eyes cannot resolve that fine detail, because the pixels are too small. What's worse, as

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 02:06:04PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: >> On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:09 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> >>> Well don’t mix up frame rate and scaling. 75 Hz vs. 60 is quite subtle, >> you

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 05:10:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > It's hi res and a good deal.  :-D  > >>> Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P > >>> It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day, close to 1024×768 at 17″. > >> Well, I still consider 1080P hi res.  That's

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 02:06:04PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:09 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > > > Well don’t mix up frame rate and scaling. 75 Hz vs. 60 is quite subtle, > you > > might not even

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 04:12:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > It's hi res and a good deal.  :-D  >>> Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P >>> It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day, close to 1024×768 at 17″. >> Well, I still consider

Fonts: was: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Jack
On 2024.07.07 17:06, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip...] So I understand the 14% calculation, but help me understand the underlying technology. Is the DPI how a font file, which I presume is some fixed size, like 25x25, gets scaled onto the screen? I'm not clear about the conversion from the font

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card temp and fan sensors.

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:54 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM Dale > wrote: > > > Well, I wouldn't mind finding the file that has the temps.  I have a >

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 04:12:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> It's hi res and a good deal.  :-D  > > Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P > > It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day, close to 1024×768 at 17″. > > Well, I still consider 1080P hi res.  That's what I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:09 PM Frank Steinmetzger > wrote: > > > > Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > > > Well don’t mix up frame rate and scaling. 75 Hz vs. 60 is quite > subtle, you > > might not even notice 90 Hz. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card temp and fan sensors.

2024-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:54 PM Dale wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM Dale wrote: > Well, I wouldn't mind finding the file that has the temps. I have a little simple script that uses cat, grep etc to get temps and fan info. nvidia-smi -q -d TEMPERATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> Michael wrote: >>> On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:11:23 BST Dale wrote: Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 6 July 2024 10:59:30 BST Dale wrote: >> Now the monitor on my main rig is a bit older too. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:09 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > Well don’t mix up frame rate and scaling. 75 Hz vs. 60 is quite subtle, you > might not even notice 90 Hz. But changing DPI from 80 to 70 will mean an > increase in fonts by 14

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/07/2024 21:08, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I read once where a person had a monitor that had a great picture at 60Hz refresh.  Even tho it would work at 75Hz, the picture wasn't as good.  It seems that something didn't like that 75Hz setting.  That person used the 60Hz setting.  Some things

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card temp and fan sensors.

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I got the new Nvidia Quadro P1000 video card in the other day.  I got it > > installed. > > > > > Any ideas?  Thanks. > > > > Dale > it's not much but nvidia-smi does show

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:11:23 BST Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >>> On Saturday, 6 July 2024 10:59:30 BST Dale wrote: > Now the monitor on my main rig is a bit older too. Maybe 6 or 7 > years???

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card temp and fan sensors.

2024-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > I got the new Nvidia Quadro P1000 video card in the other day. I got it > installed. > > Any ideas? Thanks. > > Dale it's not much but nvidia-smi does show a list of GPUs and has one temperature reading per GPU on my system nvtop

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card temp and fan sensors.

2024-07-07 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 7 July 2024 03:54:06 BST Dale wrote: >> Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: >>> With nvidia driver, you have to use nvidia-smi utility to get that >>> information. While the driver takes over the hardware, no other type >>> of software can access same sensors. So when using

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card temp and fan sensors.

2024-07-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 July 2024 03:54:06 BST Dale wrote: > Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > > With nvidia driver, you have to use nvidia-smi utility to get that > > information. While the driver takes over the hardware, no other type > > of software can access same sensors. So when using nvidia-drivers, no >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge notice

2024-07-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/07/2024 00:31, Thelma wrote: I have in my make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="mail" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="i...@domain.com /usr/sbin/sendmail" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="package \${PACKAGE} merged on \${HOST} with notice"

[gentoo-user] postfix error: External senders are prohibited to send to local recipient

2024-07-06 Thread Thelma
I have postfix running on two systems, identical configuration (I think) One system is sending mail, that is accepted by my provider Backup system is giving me error: /var/log/mail.log ... status=bounced (host mail.domain.com[69.xx.xxx.xxx] said: 550 5.7.1 ... External senders are prohibited

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card temp and fan sensors.

2024-07-06 Thread Dale
Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > With nvidia driver, you have to use nvidia-smi utility to get that > information. While the driver takes over the hardware, no other type > of software can access same sensors. So when using nvidia-drivers, no > ssensors command. > I been having . . . issues with the

Re: [gentoo-user] New bashrc

2024-07-06 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:31:08 BST Dale wrote: > >> Hope those files help. > Thank you Dale. In fact my problem turned out to be an invisible typo in a > bash script. You know, the sort that isn't there until the umpteenth time you > look, and there it is after all.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-06 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:11:23 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Saturday, 6 July 2024 10:59:30 BST Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM Dale > wrote: > > >> I tried it with those options

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge notice

2024-07-06 Thread Thelma
On 7/6/24 17:46, Jude DaShiell wrote: you could first pipe portage output to tee perhaps portage.log for a file to hold output then use grep on portage.log to find notifications in context sofollowing lines of notifications would be preserved. I've not used grep with lines of context before yet

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge notice

2024-07-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
you could first pipe portage output to tee perhaps portage.log for a file to hold output then use grep on portage.log to find notifications in context sofollowing lines of notifications would be preserved. I've not used grep with lines of context before yet so don't know how that feature would

[gentoo-user] emerge notice

2024-07-06 Thread Thelma
I have in my make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="mail" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="i...@domain.com /usr/sbin/sendmail" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="package \${PACKAGE} merged on \${HOST} with notice" It used to work, but ever since Rogers

Re: [gentoo-user] New bashrc

2024-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:31:08 BST Dale wrote: > Hope those files help. Thank you Dale. In fact my problem turned out to be an invisible typo in a bash script. You know, the sort that isn't there until the umpteenth time you look, and there it is after all. :) -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-06 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:11:23 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 6 July 2024 10:59:30 BST Dale wrote: > >> Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM Dale >>> > wrote: > >>> > >>> > I tried it with those options and without.

Re: [gentoo-user] New bashrc

2024-07-06 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Would someone please either post the new bashrc file here or send me a copy, > in which genfun_has_readline is defined? I seem to have lost mine altogether. > I > think portage may be being too clever in remembering config files that I've > not >

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-06 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 6 July 2024 10:59:30 BST Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM Dale >> > wrote: >>> >>> I tried it with those options and without. Neither changed anything. I originally tried it with no

[gentoo-user] New bashrc

2024-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Would someone please either post the new bashrc file here or send me a copy, in which genfun_has_readline is defined? I seem to have lost mine altogether. I think portage may be being too clever in remembering config files that I've not allowed it to update previously, and so not

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-06 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 6 July 2024 10:59:30 BST Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM Dale > > wrote: > > > > > > > I tried it with those options and without. Neither changed anything. I > > > originally tried it with no xorg.conf at all. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM Dale > wrote: > > > I tried it with those options and without.  Neither changed anything.  I > > originally tried it with no xorg.conf at all.  I was hoping maybe the > > Nvidia GUI thing would adjust things. 

Re: [gentoo-user] EDID file name for kernel?

2024-07-05 Thread Michael
On Friday, 5 July 2024 15:52:27 BST Jack wrote: > On 7/5/24 10:20 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > The monitor on this box is connected via a KVM switch, which may not be > > set to this machine at boot time. Then I get a default VT screen size > > which is too tall - it can't

Re: [gentoo-user] EDID file name for kernel?

2024-07-05 Thread Jack
On 7/5/24 10:20 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, The monitor on this box is connected via a KVM switch, which may not be set to this machine at boot time. Then I get a default VT screen size which is too tall - it can't show the last three lines or so. The kernel documents show that an

[gentoo-user] EDID file name for kernel?

2024-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, The monitor on this box is connected via a KVM switch, which may not be set to this machine at boot time. Then I get a default VT screen size which is too tall - it can't show the last three lines or so. The kernel documents show that an EDID data file can be read from

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-04 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 July 2024 10:22:33 BST Dale wrote: > >> Another update. I rebooted several times to make sure whether things >> would be consistent. Most of the time, it came up as it should. Some >> times, not so much. When I had just the new Samsung monitor connected, >> it

Re: [gentoo-user] ldconfig segfaults after updating to 23.0 profil

2024-07-04 Thread Dan Johansson
On 02.07.24 21:16, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:05:37 BST Dan Johansson wrote: On 27.06.24 21:37, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 27 June 2024 20:11:51 BST Dan Johansson wrote: Hello, After updating my system to a 23.0 profile, default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop/plasma

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