Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc [Was: Wayland! Beware of!]

2024-09-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Eli. On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:15:10 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 9/24/24 7:30 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: [ ] > >> It's possible you have installed another one of these packages too. If > >> you do, then virtual/service-manager will still be satisfied,

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc

2024-09-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Eli. On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:24:14 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 9/24/24 8:34 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>> The context of this discussion was an implication that the Gentoo > >>> maintainers wouldn't make a change "that made everyone's sys

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc

2024-09-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Arsen. On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 13:40:57 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: [ ] > >> So, @system requires you to have any one of: > >> - openrc > >> - openrc-navi (a testing fork with openrc user services) > >> - s6 > &g

[gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc [Was: Wayland! Beware of!]

2024-09-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Eli. On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 18:54:50 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 9/23/24 6:08 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> Do you have that little faith in the Gentoo Developers, that you think > >> we'd make a USE flag change that made everyone's systems suddenly br

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

2024-09-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Eli. On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 17:11:14 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 9/23/24 4:14 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I got a nasty shock earlier on this evening when I was updating my > > (still newish) system. Around (perhaps) 70 packages to be up

[gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

2024-09-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
em about this change. :-( -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fixed] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, everybody. On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 20:50:01 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 19:36:49 +0100, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 27 August 2024 17:05:26 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 14:49:14 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-27 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 19:36:49 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 August 2024 17:05:26 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 14:49:14 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 12:54:20 +0100, Michael wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-27 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, everybody. On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 14:49:14 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 12:54:20 +0100, Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 26 August 2024 11:40:43 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 22:04:05 +0100, Michael wrote: > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 12:54:20 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Monday, 26 August 2024 11:40:43 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Michael. > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 22:04:05 +0100, Michael wrote: > > I've had a reply from MSI's support. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 22:04:05 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 25 August 2024 20:37:37 BST Dale wrote: > > Alan Mackenzie wrote: [ ] > > > I'm convinced this isn't a problem in Linux. It's something having got > > > wedged in

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Dale. On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 14:37:37 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Dale > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 13:28:14 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>> Somehow I don't think that will work (which doesn't mea

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Dale On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 13:28:14 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Somehow I don't think that will work (which doesn't mean I won't try it). > > There is something in the motherboard which is throwing off the desired > > resolution

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 16:31:54 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 25 August 2024 13:33:14 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 20:36:11 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 16:40:38 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 20:36:11 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 16:40:38 +0100, Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:25:31 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 10:44:44 +0100, Michael wrote: [ ] >

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello again, Michael. On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 16:40:38 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 24 August 2024 14:25:31 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 10:44:44 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > Instead of resetting the firmware and losing all your MoBo settin

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 10:44:44 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 23 August 2024 17:21:42 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 22:44:47 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > Assuming the file is still available and built in the kernel as > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Dale. On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 13:44:36 -0500, Dale wrote: > Jack wrote: > > On 2024.08.23 12:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> I'm a bit fed up with all of this.  It's a new machine, but the > >> motherboard, an MSI B650 Tomahawk Wifi, has been around a

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Wol. On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 10:42:54 +0100, Wol wrote: > On 22/08/2024 17:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Yes, 6.6.47 has become the new stable Gentoo kernel, and I've now > > updated my old machine, and this worked without problem. This was > > mainly to test

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Grant. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 13:02:43 -, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-08-21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 00:30:25 -, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2024-08-20, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > I've just treated myself to a

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 22:44:47 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 22 August 2024 17:54:19 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > Thanks to everybody who helped me get my video going in the other thread. > > I've now got a more puzzling p

[gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

2024-08-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
IOS has saved the offsets in the CMOS or something. I don't know how to undo these saved settings. Would somebody please help me on this, too. Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 16:05:38 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 22 August 2024 15:46:41 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 22 August 2024 12:57:21 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to persuade portage to download the ebuild for &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 20:10:51 +0200, Peter Böhm wrote: > Hello Alan, > Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2024, 19:26:11 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > Nothing. No trace of anything on my blank screen. I hate it when > > people say that configuring a kernel is easy

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 14:03:10 +0200, Peter Böhm wrote: > Hello Alan, > Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2024, 13:15:22 CEST schrieben Sie: > > > Boot with our GentooLiveCD (*) and ask: > > > "dmesg | grep firmware" > > I've done that, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 12:37:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 21 August 2024 12:15:22 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Peter. > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 23:16:39 +0200, Peter Böhm wrote: > > > Hello Alan, > > > > Anyhow, I&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Grant. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 00:30:25 -, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-08-20, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I've just treated myself to a new machine based on a Ryzen 9 7900 > > processor. I chose the second newest generation so as not to get caught > > o

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 23:16:39 +0200, Peter Böhm wrote: > Hello Alan, > > Anyhow, I'm up to the stage of configuring the kernel, and I'm stuck at > > the bit where I need to specify the firmware to be incorporated into the > > kernel for the integr

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Wol. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 11:32:18 +0100, Wol wrote: > On 20/08/2024 22:16, Peter Böhm wrote: > > Hello Alan, > >> Anyhow, I'm up to the stage of configuring the kernel, and I'm stuck at > >> the bit where I need to specify the firmware to be inco

[gentoo-user] Do I need firmware for an integrated graphics unit?

2024-08-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
t all; maybe it's already fully contained in the processor. That's how good the doc is, after ~3 hours searching the web. So, rant mode off! Would a Gentoo expert please tell me where I can discover whether I need such firmware, and if so what. Many thanks in advance! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] Zombie seamonkey build...

2024-08-14 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm still using seamonkey as my e-mail as I have been doing with it and its predecessors since 1998 I am using the symlink trick to exploit the magic of dynamic linking to get the stale build of seamonkey to run against the updated library. I would like it to be able to build again at some

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone figure out how to boot kernel 6.9+?

2024-08-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Alan. On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 16:08:39 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > Because my system was booting reliably, the penguins decided it was time > to jack around with the bootup code. Kernel 6.9 panics on boot because > the way the root partition is configured changed utterly...

[gentoo-user] Anyone figure out how to boot kernel 6.9+?

2024-08-14 Thread Alan Grimes
Because my system was booting reliably, the penguins decided it was time to jack around with the bootup code. Kernel 6.9 panics on boot because the way the root partition is configured changed utterly... When I installed my new machine, the bootup changed to some crazy initramfs bs crap that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of issues with wayland

2024-08-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Wol. On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 23:08:42 +0100, Wol wrote: > On 06/08/2024 19:31, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > So, is it possible in Wayland to record a configuration of windows, > > their sizes and positions, then restore these on starting a program > > again? If not, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of issues with wayland

2024-08-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
n Wayland to record a configuration of windows, their sizes and positions, then restore these on starting a program again? If not, that would appear to be a design bug in Wayland. What am I missing? [ ] > have a lovely day > -- > Arsen Arsenović -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] kernel 6.9 panic....

2024-07-20 Thread Alan Grimes
Because I did everything precisely the same as I did last time I updated my kernel, nothing worked. =| Basically the old .config is coppied to the new kernel, and I run it with "make -j 60 ; make install modules_install " Now there are config changes, I just took the default on all changed o

[gentoo-user] Issues.

2024-06-27 Thread Alan Grimes
I had updated my machine, rebooted, keyboard started working, thought would never see the problem again... Had a power failure, came back on line, keyboard broken, power went down again, came back on line, keyboard broken. also X windows won't start my right hand monitor, workaround is to man

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Keep getting LC_ALL error during install.

2024-06-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Wol. On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 13:39:35 +0100, Wols Lists wrote: > On 17/06/2024 12:17, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Sadly, the FBR never made it into commercial deployment. > Was that the one with the heavy water moderator? So a thermal runaway > was impossible becaus

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Keep getting LC_ALL error during install.

2024-06-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
aneous users. The response time wasn't always what one might have desired, and neither was the robustness of the operating system. Sadly, the FBR never made it into commercial deployment. > -- > Regards, > Peter. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

2024-06-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Vitaliy. On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 21:25:23 +0300, Vitaliy Perekhovy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 03:53:35PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I think portage is at fault here - it should retain the older standard > > version of /etc/bash/bashrc so that users can resolve

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

2024-06-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Netfab. On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 19:52:32 +0200, netfab wrote: > Le 14/06/24 à 19:33, Alan Mackenzie a tapoté : > > Are these files freely available, anywhere, perhaps? > Else, everything is also available from gentoo.org : > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/g

[gentoo-user] Keyboard still...

2024-06-15 Thread Alan Grimes
Lets go back to square 1. The keyboard is the most fundamental device ever, it was invented about 80 years before anyone figured out how to connect it to a computer, before the computer even existed actually The fundamental AT 101 keyboard, or microsoft's gay variant the PC-104, and the

[gentoo-user] Arrow and edit keys?

2024-06-15 Thread Alan Grimes
A number of my softwarez requires the use of the arrow keys and can't use the numpad in edit mode to work around it. So who do I need to kill to get arrow keys to work in x11 again? -- You can't out-crazy a Democrat. #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

2024-06-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Mike. On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 17:19:31 +0100, Mike Civil wrote: > On 14/06/2024 17:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Right now, I have a problem. Is there any convenient way I can get the > > older standard file contents back again, so as to be able to do this > > 3-

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

2024-06-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Netfab. On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 18:22:11 +0200, netfab wrote: > Le 14/06/24 à 17:53, Alan Mackenzie a tapoté : > > Right now, I have a problem. Is there any convenient way I can get > > the older standard file contents back again, so as to be able to do > > this 3

[gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

2024-06-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
nt way I can get the older standard file contents back again, so as to be able to do this 3-way diff? Or any other suggestions? Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] major problem with X keyborad.

2024-06-09 Thread Alan Grimes
The standard control keys aren't working in X anymore, mainly the arrow keys and normal edit buttons, workaround is to use the numpad. Keys are functional as tested from normal linux console.  Problem started when I rebooted after the emptytree world build the other day due to the stupid profil

[gentoo-user] emerge pattern....

2024-06-06 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm trying to do the steps for the forced profile update even though things had been working perfectly Emerge has been doing really crazy things recently. It will start emerging a thousand packages but not install a single one of them. Then it crashes with a bunch of python garbage

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-03 Thread Alan Grimes
Dale wrote: The one I'm not sure about is the PCIe one which may break apart to fit different connectors.  I seem to recall that goes to a video card on systems with those expensive and power hungry video cards.  Since this mobo has built in video, is that the right thing? DUDE!!! You are bu

[gentoo-user] What's probing /dev/sr0?

2024-06-02 Thread Alan Grimes
Every few minutes my motorized cupholder kicks its motor... Which means **something** is kicking /dev/sr0 every few minutes checking for media... I need to know what it is and how to stop it... =\ -- You can't out-crazy a Democrat. #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-02 Thread Alan Mackenzie
ngle problem with my two Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB drives in these 7 years. [ ] > Dale > :-)  :-) > P. S.  I reported the memory error to Newegg, where it claims 256GB.  :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
hine? In particular, to reduce the noise it gives off while building large packages such as clang and rust? Or is water cooling only sensible for really heavy users such as gamers? Thanks for the upcoming answers! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS on kernel 6.8.1 considered a Bad Thing.

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
0n1p2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem .. On diffing the 6.7 and 6.8 .config files, I found a new pertinent item [*] Block layer debugging information in debugfs .. When I disabled this and rebuilt the kernel, my /boot mounted without problem. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.8.1 onwards.

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:47:43 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 12:20:29 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:00:37 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > [ ] > > Please note the co

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
4-04-01 15:12, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm trying to do > > # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild > > .. For this purpose, I created a temporary repository, filling it with > > ancient ebuilds recovered from /var/db/pkg. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Arsen. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Just after I first posted, I updated my system, with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged. So my qmail stopped working. I've now reinstalled and configured it. On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 17:48:18 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
April 2024 16:12:51 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > > I'm trying to do > > > > # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild > > > > .. For this purpose, I created a temporary repository, filling it with > > ancient ebuilds recovere

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
-). So I'm back in action. Thanks very much! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-01 Thread Alan Mackenzie
the pending profile update? I appear to be stuck. I hope I won't have to reinstall gentoo. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

2024-02-11 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Bill. On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 10:14:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 10/2/24 23:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. > > This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is > >

[gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

2024-02-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
27;t I? ;-( At least I do a weekly backup, though. So, in the end I managed to recover fairly well, thankfully. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] The hopeless futility of printing.

2024-01-29 Thread Alan Grimes
k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> Absolutely suprimo HP laser jet network printer. You didn't write what model, hard to help you then. It's a LaserJet Pro M453-4. When I was shopping for it, there was a $350 model with wireless, and a $450 model without wireless, I was like OMG, i DON'T HAVE TO WORR

[gentoo-user] The hopeless futility of printing.

2024-01-28 Thread Alan Grimes
I spent $450 for the most beautifulest printer ever made. Absolutely suprimo HP laser jet network printer. I even have a test page from linux to prove that it did work, once... After going through unholy hell, with help from this list, I got it to print a second time. Naturally, when I went ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to locate printer

2024-01-28 Thread Alan Grimes
Don't bother, printing always stops working the day after you get it set up on linux. It's easier to ssh int your linux machine from your windows machine and then print than it is to get linux to print in any useful way. =| Thelma wrote: On 1/28/24 11:46, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 28 Janua

Re: [gentoo-user] 'make install' hijacked by installkernel ?

2024-01-26 Thread Alan J. Wylie
lkernel ? I had to change the use flags sys-kernel/installkernel-dracut -systemd With "dracut", it now ran dracut automatically, duplicating my install script. With "systemd", it installed the new kernel in a subdirectory of

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.6 [was 6.3] onwards.

2024-01-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:00:37 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: [ ] Please note the corrected subject line. This version of the soft scrolling patch is for kernel 6.6.13, or thereabouts. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2024-01-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. [ First an older post, but without quoting >s on the lines. ] On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 18:56:27 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: The topic of this post is my kernel patch which enables soft scrolling on Linux tty's with and , and also enables the GPM mouse utility on those

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

2024-01-18 Thread Alan J. Wylie
seamlessly interact with MTP device files." -- Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is. Security is inversely proportional to convenience

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

2024-01-18 Thread Alan J. Wylie
m/Cyp/simple-mtpfs.git> but the Gentoo version is currently the same as that on github last time I pulled. [as root] simple-mtpfs --device 1 -o allow_other,ro /mnt/phone [as normal user, copy] rsync ... [again, as root] fusermount -u /mnt/phone -- Alan J. Wylie

Re: [gentoo-user] Debugging NFS mounts

2023-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
I chroot, env-update hangs for > ever. > Well, over an hour anyway. > > Is it possible to export /var in this way? I can't see anything else wrong. > Did you run mount inside the chroot or outside of it? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs filling up with nothing

2023-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 3:09 PM Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 19:08 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 16:17:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:10 PM Neil Bothwick > > > wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs filling up with nothing

2023-11-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
96 184 /tmp/#184 (deleted) So here I have one. To release the 1 file, kill the process holding it open Alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
There is a new item about this: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-12-01-systemd-usrmerge.html I did not read or act on any of the unread news articles, leaving it for later If only... On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 8:46 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 7:35 P

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 7:35 PM Michael wrote: > On Monday, 6 November 2023 17:26:45 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 6:56 PM Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 6 November 2023 16:16:50 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > At this point I see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 6:56 PM Michael wrote: > On Monday, 6 November 2023 16:16:50 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > New install here, recent .isos: > > install-amd64-minimal-20230806T163139Z.iso > > stage3-amd64-systemd-20230806T163139Z.tar.

[gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
inotify lame lapack libcaca lm-sensors lua lz4 lzma lzo magic matroska # modules mplayer mtp musicbrainz offensive rar rdp slang smp snmp szip # vdpau vim-syntax webkit xcomposite zip # -cdrom -gtk -sdl -semantic-desktop" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" == And so, in the words of the wise man, WTF? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 12:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/10/2023 21:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Michael Cook > <mailto:mackal.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I just --backtrack=100 and walked away, seemed to have figured &

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Michael Cook wrote: > On 10/11/23 09:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and > being blocked. > All

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:14 PM Philip Webb wrote: > 231011 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. > > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and > > being blocked. > > All the visibl

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:07 PM Cara Salter wrote: > On 10/11/23 09:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. > > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and > > b

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 3:59 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:43:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. > > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and > > being bloc

[gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
lazy and unwilling :-D Has anyone seen what the actual blockers are? I spotted okular, I suspect there are more. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2023-10-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Jorge. On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 18:08:20 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: >6.3.11-GPM.20231004.diff works fine with 6.5.5 (vanilla from >[1]kernel.org) Thanks for doing this testing. > > References > >1. http://kernel.org/ -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] An annoyance in GPM, and a fix for it

2023-10-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
# patch -p1 < 6.1.8-TRIPLE.20231004.diff , then rebuild the kernel. Install this kernel into your boot manager, and voilà - the problem is solved. :-) The usual disclaimer applies. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What to do about openssl

2023-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
That should not happen, and is probably happening because you have masked something deep in the dep graph that is required. Please post all your package.mask files, and provided if you have any of those Alan On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 7:15 PM John Covici wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:53

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about openssl

2023-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi John All version 1.x have been masked. They are very very old and have obsolete code. Upgrade to v3.x - this is what portage is telling you. Is there some reason you require v1.1.x? Do you have a local mask for openssl? Alan On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 5:34 PM John Covici wrote: > Hi. I j

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2023-10-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 18:56:27 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: The topic of this post is my kernel patch which enables soft scrolling on Linux tty's with and , and also enables the GPM mouse utility on those scrolled regions. Currently, the patch I posted some months ago wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

2023-09-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
that is excessive :-) Alan On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 9:59 PM Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I've googled for this several times when I got a few minutes. So far, I > don't see a way to do this. As some know, I'm on the path to building a > new rig. Some of you are abo

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo packages contain binary images?

2023-09-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
central host to then distribute binaries to other hosts. Alan On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 5:29 PM n952162 wrote: > Hello, > > When I do: > > $ equery list cmake > * Searching for cmake ... > [IP-] [ ] dev-util/cmake-3.22.2:0 > > Furthermore, I find no /var/tmp/portage/d

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 6:35 PM Jack wrote: > On 9/21/23 12:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:45:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > Not 100% back in the gen

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:45:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Not 100% back in the gentoo groove yet, forget some basic tools. > > > > Something pulled in ruby, I know not what. > > > > What commands

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:01 PM Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 13:45, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > > Hey Gentooers, > > > > Not 100% back in the gentoo groove yet, forget some basic tools. > > > > Something pulled in ruby, I know no

[gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hey Gentooers, Not 100% back in the gentoo groove yet, forget some basic tools. Something pulled in ruby, I know not what. What commands show me what installed packages have ruby as a dependency? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:03 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 18 September 2023 14:48:46 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey > > > > wrote: > > > It may be less complex than you think, Jack. I envisage a package being

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
tary package with the > environment > specified for it, and it doesn't start the next one until that one has > finished. > The dependency calculation shouldn't need to be changed. > > It seems simple the way I see it. > How does that improve emerge performance overall? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid opcode after kernel update

2023-09-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
you've got a sporadic RAM failure? Running the standard RAM test (the one you boot into, I've forgotten its name) for many hours might pin down the problem. > Thanks, > -- > Fernando Rodriguez -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:19 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/09/2023 22:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going > > so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad > > as openoffic

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
t; Hi Ramon, distcc is way more than I need. I'm not complaining about long compile times and wanting a solution, I was more curious about which packages these days take long compared to when I was last here 5/6 years ago Alan > > On 11/09/2023 23:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 11:23 PM Michael wrote: > On Monday, 11 September 2023 21:21:47 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > chromium has been

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going > > so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad > >

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