Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

2024-09-03 Thread corbin bird
On 9/3/24 19:39, Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2024-09-03, Dale wrote: I was trying to re-emerge some packages.  The ones I was working on failed with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault" or similar being the common reason for failing. In my experience, that usually means fa

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

2024-08-21 Thread corbin bird
I have kernels configured for three different video cards. AMD : sienna_chiclid, polaris10, navi31 --- all with firmware The good thing about this is if you add firmware not needed, it is ignored. If the added bin is older, it is also ignored. Try a build with the firmware suggested by Grant E

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.19.50 constant kernel hard locks / solved

2019-06-16 Thread Corbin Bird
On 6/16/19 5:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 6:15 AM Corbin Bird <mailto:corbinb...@charter.net>> wrote: > > Disclosure : > 1 : The CPU is a AMD FX-9590 ( Fam15h ) > 2 : Kernel command line parameter "eagerfpu=on" is being use

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 change errors, who's bug is it?

2019-06-14 Thread Corbin Bird
On 6/14/19 3:36 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 4:14 PM Corbin Bird wrote: >> >> Deleted those libs in /usr/lib32 and recompilied 'binutils-libs'. >> Got new libs in /usr/lib AND --> /usr/lib32. > > Is it actually installing these in lib3

[gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 change errors, who's bug is it?

2019-06-14 Thread Corbin Bird
Who's bug is this error? Remember the instructions : ( Gentoo news item ) - emerge -1v /lib32 /usr/lib32 - Every time that command was run it would recompile 'sys-devel/binutils'. Why? It was finding 'libiberty, liboppcodes, libbfd' from 'sys-libs/binutils-libs' in /usr/lib32. Deleted t

[gentoo-user] Kernel 4.19.50 constant kernel hard locks / solved

2019-06-14 Thread Corbin Bird
Disclosure : 1 : The CPU is a AMD FX-9590 ( Fam15h ) 2 : Kernel command line parameter "eagerfpu=on" is being used. This kernel option was causing constant kernel hard locks. - General setup --> [ ] CPU isolation. - Anything that accessed the FPU would cause the CPU's ( SMP ) to "loose syn

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with emerge error msg

2019-03-09 Thread Corbin Bird
Just as a test set the 'icu inspector' USE FLAGS for net-libs/nodejs, Then try this command, it should show how many packages would be pulled in and their USE FLAGS : emerge -pvt net-libs/nodejs On 3/9/19 4:24 PM, allan gottlieb wrote: > In trying to emerge chromium I received an error msg saying

Re: [gentoo-user] Flags for amd 6180se opteron

2019-03-09 Thread Corbin Bird
According to GCC : CPUs based on AMD Family 10h cores with x86-64 instruction set support. (This supersets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, enhanced 3DNow!, ABM and 64-bit instruction set extensions.) Best way to get that info : ( simplest way ) cat /proc/cpuinfo ( long form ) gcc -c -Q -marc

Re: [gentoo-user] layman config file setup?

2019-03-09 Thread Corbin Bird
On 3/8/19 7:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > So I ran "layman -d ALL" followed by "layman -a palemoon". Now... > > [i660][root][~] cat /var/lib/layman/palemoon/profiles/repo_name > palemoon > > ... but I still get the same warning! Some more info... > Apologies, if this a stupid question ..

Re: [gentoo-user] layman config file setup?

2019-03-07 Thread Corbin Bird
Have you added an overlay using layman? Gentoo's List : https://overlays.gentoo.org/ Add : layman -a Sync : layman -S I use the Palemoon overlay : /var/lib/layman/palemoon/profiles/repo_name contents of repo_name : palemoon When you add the overlay the directories and files are created in /va

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-06 Thread Corbin Bird
I don't think a straight 'drop-in/replacement' will boot. The CPU scheduler does change from 'fam10h' to 'fam15h'. The '3DNow!' && 'enhanced 3DNow!' ( used in fam10h ) instructions are dropped / removed in fam15h. Doing the 'emerge -e @world' with '-march=generic' is probably the only guaranteed

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-06 Thread Corbin Bird
My two cents worth : Update gcc before changing any hardware. With gcc somewhat current, try this on the replacement CPU. This gives a listing of all CPU supported compiler flags. Including -mtune / -march :) gcc -c -Q -march=native --help=target sample of output : -msse4

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question

2018-11-11 Thread Corbin Bird
A family member still uses a old SCSI Mustek flat bed scanner. ( Paragon 1200 SP ?? / last windows driver was for Win2K ). Works just fine. The Linux drivers are old, but nothing wrong with them. On 11/10/18 6:35 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm on the hunt for a scanner, flatbed type, and have

Re: [gentoo-user] A config file for the magical combo of....

2018-07-03 Thread Corbin Bird
On 07/02/2018 01:36 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday, 2 July 2018 19:20:29 BST Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 07/01/2018 03:04 PM, Mick wrote: >>> What do you mean "would not load"? From the live ISO? >>> >>> I had no such problem here on a bare metal install (

Re: [gentoo-user] A config file for the magical combo of....

2018-07-02 Thread Corbin Bird
On 07/01/2018 03:04 PM, Mick wrote: > What do you mean "would not load"? From the live ISO? > > I had no such problem here on a bare metal install (no Windows) with > sysrescuecd. You have to make sure the sysrescuecd is booting in UEFI mode > before you proceed with the installation. > > >> S

Re: [gentoo-user] A config file for the magical combo of....

2018-07-01 Thread Corbin Bird
On 07/01/2018 12:05 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to get a new computer working. I've decided to go the UEFI > route but something is being a bit obstinate. Would anyone have the > combination of a Gigabyte motherboard, x470 Ultra, with an AMD Ryzen 7 > 2700 CPU? Set up to ru

[gentoo-user] AMD Ucode Correction, Fam15h

2018-06-15 Thread Corbin Bird
FYI to all with an interest in AMD Ucode. AMD fixed the 'lwp' instruction(s) in a latter ucode update. -- 2018-05-18 linux-firmware: Update AMD cpu microcode * Add AMD cpu microcode for processor family 17h * Update AMD cpu microcode for processor family 15h *

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-28 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/27/2018 06:12 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > Also, are you saying that the sequence of events for you was; > - booted with new microcode, and lwp was missing from /proc/cpuinfo > - you had instability > - you rebuilt with -mno-lwp > - stability returned . - quickpackage'd 'sys-kernel/linux-firmware

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-26 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/25/2018 08:50 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > > For me dmesg says; > > [    1.538275] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000852 > > > > but i still have lwp in /proc/cpuinfo. Are you at 0x06000852 ? > . > This is my dmesg output : > . > [    1.111448] microcode: micro

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-25 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/24/2018 05:32 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > For me dmesg says; > [    1.538275] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000852 > > but i still have lwp in /proc/cpuinfo. Are you at 0x06000852 ? . This is my dmesg output : . [    1.111448] microcode: microcode updated early to new patch_level=0x060008

[gentoo-user] AMD microcode problem - Fam15h ( FYI )

2018-05-23 Thread Corbin Bird
FYI : Did the microcode update, compiled and installed the 4.9.101 kernel with it. After rebooting, I started having kernel hard lock problems. Before compiling / installing kernel 4.9.102, I made an addition to the CFLAGS var in make.conf : -mno-lwp ( 'lwp' is 'Light Weight Profiling' ) No kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-22 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/22/2018 03:41 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 2:47 PM, taii...@gmx.com > mailto:taii...@gmx.com>> wrote: > > The fam15h microcode update adds IBPB > >   * Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) >     * PRED_CMD MSR is available:  YES >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/20/2018 03:54 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting spontaneously. > It's doing this, perhaps, every three or four weeks. I think that when > I'm in X, the system usually reboots, when I'm on a tty, it hangs. --- > Other than

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/20/2018 06:46 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > How often does the linux-firmware package update? On a schedule or as > > needed? > > > There's a version bump request bug in for these and new AMDGPU > firmware. Hopefully it will get processed quickly. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/656136 . Thank You

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-20 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/20/2018 03:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > > > This has indeed been pretty frustrating. > > As far as I can tell there is no official AMD microcode update > page, or any > kind of official release notes.  I'm not sure where linux-firmware > actually > gets the microcode fi

Re: [gentoo-user] which microcode gets loaded?

2018-05-14 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/13/2018 10:39 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > from a previous thread I learned which micorcode file needs > to be loaded for the "fight against Spectre and Melddown"... > > Now two question came up for me: > 1.) WIth this particular micorcode loaded: Do I need to activate > the Spec

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-12 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/12/2018 07:21 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > Gentoo does have the newer microcode blobs stashed on a server ( > > somewhere ). > > That does pull in the blobs for : > > Fam10h ( microcode_amd.bin ) > > Fam15h ( microcode_amd_fam15h.bin ) > > Fam16h ( microcode_amd_fam16h.bin )

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-12 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/12/2018 03:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > ^title > AMD has released them for all of the recent CPU's and I simply must have > them. > > It seems the last update to amd-ucode on linux-firmware was in 2016, > does anyone know whom I would contact about this who has the juice to do > it? I need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mammoth emerge ...

2018-05-03 Thread Corbin Bird
. Chromium switched to 'clang++ v5.x' as its primary compiler. Why? The Chromium devs are using 'c++' features supported in gcc v8+. . So ... first compile run is with 'gcc' ... then Chromium is re-compiled with 'clang++'. That is what I am seeing ( console && log wise ). 2 Compile runs ... twice t

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Precision Workstation Overheating

2018-04-20 Thread Corbin Bird
wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:21 AM, Mick wrote: >> On Friday, 20 April 2018 12:55:13 BST Corbin Bird wrote: >>> Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses these processors ( Rhea Cluster ) and >>> has numerous heat failures. >>> >>> Due to poor cooling ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Precision Workstation Overheating

2018-04-20 Thread Corbin Bird
Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses these processors ( Rhea Cluster ) and has numerous heat failures. Due to poor cooling ... surprised? The cooling is not working right. Something is still wrong. On 04/19/2018 09:33 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Dell Precision T7600, two 16 thread Xeons, 192GB of RAM, two

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Precision Workstation Overheating

2018-04-19 Thread Corbin Bird
What are the Dell system specs? ( Heatsink on a CPU? How old is this system ? ) On 04/19/2018 08:22 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > I was compiling Gentoo, as is custom, but found my old new server to > be thermal cycling wildly. The fans will turn on full blast and > machine check errors will be genera

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/21/2018 03:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > >> Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom? >> Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new >> directory, then close and burn t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/21/2018 03:20 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 03/21/2018 04:44 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > >> Curious ... you cannot use 'FreeDOS' even as a bootable cdrom? >> Its very easy to open the image, tuck in two files and one new >> directory, then close and burn t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/20/2018 02:02 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 03/19/2018 08:02 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: >> A virtual machine is useful largely because it isolates the VM from the real >> hardware, therefore it's not likely you can update firmware from a VM (you >> really shouldn't be

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-19 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/19/2018 07:02 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > > A virtual machine is useful largely because it isolates the VM from > the real hardware, therefore it's not likely you can update firmware > from a VM (you really shouldn't be able to). > > The reason they still want us to upgra

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] audio controller compatible with Linux

2018-02-23 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/23/2018 03:21 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Can anybody suggest an audio controller / speakers that is compatible > with Linux (something that does not need Mac, iPhone or Windows etc). > For example, if I play the music on my Linux system or listen to an > audio I would like to stream

Re: [gentoo-user] New install .. no high res console during boot.

2018-01-31 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/31/2018 07:38 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > Installing gentoo-17 as guest in Vbox vm on solaris-11 HOST >(openindiana (powered by Illumos)) > > VBox 5.6.2 > Kernel-4.15.0 > grub2 > > I'm a litte confused about how to enable a high res framebuffer > console. >

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-29 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/28/2018 04:35 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: >>> ASPEED's AST2500 Display To Be Supported By Linux 4.11's DRM >>> >>> https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/x-org-drm/935002-aspeed-s-ast2500-display-to-be-supported-by-linux-4-11-s-drm > Thanks for that link, I will hav

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-27 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/27/2018 10:06 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: > According to the supermicro homepage The following Windows versions are > supported: 7 SP1, 8 Enterprise, 8.1 Enterprise, 10, Server 2008 R2 SP1, > Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. > > No PCI/PCIe cards installed (yet). > No special Video driver in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading podcasts via the command line?

2018-01-27 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/27/2018 06:38 AM, Stroller wrote: > Can anyone recommend a command line podcast downloader, please? > > Ideally I want to run it in a cronjob, saving .mp3 files which can be > uploaded to my Google Drive (using net-misc/drive). > > My priority is NPR's Planet Money podcasts - I think they'

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-26 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/26/2018 04:00 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: > On 26.01.2018 02:25, Johnson Steward wrote: >> Well, check if you have CONFIG_FB_EFI enabled in your config. > Good idea, but sadly, nope, that was not it. > > KR . Questions that may sound strange ... What version of Windows does your motherboard supp

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-24 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/23/2018 11:06 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > FYI, this is from 4.14.15's ChangeLog, doesn't appear to be in 4.9.78 > though. > > commit f41b2d7ee791e845147a3e3cafb25493dca6870a > Author: Josh Poimboeuf mailto:jpoim...@redhat.com>> > Date: Mon Jan 15 08:17:07 2018 -0600 > > objtool: Fix se

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-23 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/23/2018 11:35 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Abandoning ext4 over retpolines/etc seems a bit drastic. My guess is > that there is a bug in the latest kernel that will get fixed, or maybe > a bug in gcc (which needs to be patched for spectre anyway). > > These Spectre changes are being merged and

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-23 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/23/2018 11:59 AM, Wol's lists wrote: > On 23/01/18 17:35, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> Wonderful ... just finished a complete reload of Gentoo. Now have to >>> redo it again ... >>> ... the mistake? I used ext2/ext3 for the fs. >>> >> Abandoning ext4 over retpolines/etc seems a bit drastic.  My

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-23 Thread Corbin Bird
> The 4.9.77 announcement upstream did introduce a number of objtool > changes. See below. > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/17/198 > Josh Poimboeuf (4): > objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modules > objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks > objtool: Allow

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-23 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/23/2018 01:42 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 01/22/2018 11:56 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Alexander Kapshuk >>> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:51 PM,

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-22 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/22/2018 11:56 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 5:51 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: >>> Anyone else getting this error? ( kernel 4.9.77 ) >>> >>>> CC fs/ext4/mballoc

[gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

2018-01-22 Thread Corbin Bird
Anyone else getting this error? ( kernel 4.9.77 ) >   CC  fs/ext4/mballoc.o >   CC  fs/ext4/block_validity.o >   CC  fs/ext4/move_extent.o >   CC  fs/ext4/mmp.o >   CC  fs/ext4/indirect.o > fs/ext4/indirect.o: warning: objtool: ext4_clear_blocks()+0x242: can't > find jump dest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.14 has meltdown / spectre info in /sys

2018-01-21 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/18/2018 02:43 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown Strange, get this response from kernel 4.9.76-r1 > Darkstar ~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown > cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown: No such file or > directo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error for dev-lisp/clisp-2.49-r9

2018-01-14 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/14/2018 02:39 PM, Quico Jurado wrote: > Hello, > > After doing doing the upgrade to my 17.0 profile > (`default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop'), and recompiling all my packages > I ran into a problem while installing clisp. Basically is bailing out > on the configure stage, this is the relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc emerge error

2018-01-12 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/12/2018 04:14 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > echo "$VULKAN_SDK/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/vulkan-loader.conf Found out what was giving me an extra slash in the output "...x86_64//lib" The $VULKAN_SDK PATH had a slash at the end. Works now. Thank you. Corbin

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-12 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/12/2018 12:42 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday, 12 January 2018 17:47:46 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Corbin Bird > wrote: >>> On 01/11/2018 05:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>>> IMO Spectre is going to drive some microcode update

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc emerge error

2018-01-12 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/11/2018 08:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/01/18 15:28, Corbin Bird wrote: >>> Why are you setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH system-wide to begin with? Don't >>> do that. >> >> Unfortunately, I had to ( and didn't realize the implications. )

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-12 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/11/2018 05:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Mick wrote: >> Most vendors only sell Intel in their laptops. I could build a desktop I >> guess, but Ryzen is also affected by Spectre. With Intel's burning platform >> I >> want to jump off, but I'm not sure if s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc emerge error

2018-01-11 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/10/2018 01:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/01/18 19:55, Corbin Bird wrote: >> Is anyone else having a sys-libs/glibc emerge compile failure? >> >>> checking for python3... python3 >>> checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable... contains curre

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc emerge error

2018-01-11 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/10/2018 12:22 PM, Matthias Hanft wrote: > Corbin Bird wrote: >> Is anyone else having a sys-libs/glibc emerge compile failure? >>> *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't contain the current directory when >>> *** building glibc. Please change the environment variable

[gentoo-user] glibc emerge error

2018-01-10 Thread Corbin Bird
Is anyone else having a sys-libs/glibc emerge compile failure? > checking for python3... python3 > checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable... contains current directory > configure: error: > *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't contain the current directory when > *** building glibc. Please change the environm

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-09 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/09/2018 01:56 AM, Mick wrote: > On Monday, 8 January 2018 17:47:03 GMT Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 01/07/2018 02:46 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: >>> I have several sandy/ivybridge CPU's and I was wondering if anyone >>> knows as to if intel is releasing microc

Re: [gentoo-user] microcode applied?

2018-01-08 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/07/2018 09:24 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > Does the absence of a "microcode updated" message in dmesg imply that > the microcode was not updated? > > I believe my fam10/barcelona AMD CPU will use > amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin but there's no update message. > > I've checked the config against an

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

2018-01-08 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/07/2018 02:46 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > I have several sandy/ivybridge CPU's and I was wondering if anyone > knows as to if intel is releasing microcode updates for them. > > It sure would be funny if intel wanted you to buy a new CPU to fix a > problem that was their fault to begin with

Re: [gentoo-user] Fail to configure polari and gnome-documents with portage.

2018-01-04 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/04/2018 10:31 AM, Personal wrote: > Hi list. > > I can't install polari and gnome-documents using portage. Using > ./configure by myself there is no problem. I post the polari output: > Emerging (1 of 1) net-irc/polari-3.22.2::gentoo >  * polari-3.22.2.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

2018-01-04 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/04/2018 08:17 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: >> According to the Project Zero documentation having BPF JIT enabled >> is the key to the exploit. >> >> The way the docs read ... can it be assumed that by havin

Re: [gentoo-user] Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

2018-01-04 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/03/2018 09:34 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > Project Zero (Google) found it; > > https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html > > > > > Ph

Re: [gentoo-user] No beep.

2017-08-14 Thread Corbin Bird
On 08/14/2017 01:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've almost got my new(ish) machine up and running. In particular, I've > got an email server (s/qmail) running on it, the most difficult part of > bringing up a new box. > > However, during the building, I discovered to my disgu

Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions

2017-06-04 Thread Corbin Bird
On 06/04/2017 09:39 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 06/04/2017 02:17 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> I just had the experience of visiting a linux-related site >> (http://libv.livejournal.com/22968.html) and seeing a panel with ads >> about house appliances (from a site I had actually visited before). >> T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

2017-05-22 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/21/2017 06:12 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > > > [0.991863] iommu: Adding device :06:00.0 to group 12 > > [0.991982] iommu: Adding device :07:04.0 to group 12 > > [1.063849] AMD-Vi: Found IOMMU at :00:00.2 cap 0x40 > > [1.063962] AMD-Vi: Interrupt rem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

2017-05-19 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/19/2017 01:39 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Corbin Bird <mailto:corbinb...@charter.net>> wrote: > > On 05/16/2017 01:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > > Answer #1 : > > > > > > Asrock, Extreme6, 990

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

2017-05-16 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/15/2017 09:59 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 05/15/2017 12:58 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >>> The 990FX / 790FX Chipset doesn't have a GART / AGP Aperature or IOMMU >>> in it. The CPU contains the original K8 IOMMU ( v1 ) engineered / >>> converted from a GART. >>> > The 8 and 9 series (not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

2017-05-16 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/16/2017 01:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > Answer #1 : > > > Asrock, Extreme6, 990FX, UEFI, AMD FX-9590 > Gigabyte, GA-MA790FX-UD5P, 790FX, BIOS, AMD PhenomII x4 980 > > > Hi Corbin, > > I noticed i didnt have x2apic enabled on my 990FX / FX-8350 system, so > i've rebuilt/rebooted et

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

2017-05-16 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/15/2017 09:33 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-05-15 14:33, Corbin Bird wrote: > >> Gigabyte has long been known to ship 'broken for Linux' e820 firmware. >> 'e820' is basically the APG Aperature setup in the firmware. >> Gigabyte kills OR ove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

2017-05-15 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/14/2017 11:58 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-05-14 20:07, Corbin Bird wrote: > >> Background / System Info : 2 systems. >> Chipset 990FX, FX-9590 ( -march=bdver2 / Fam15h ) >> Chipset 790FX, PhenomII 980 ( -march=amdfam10 / Fam10h ) >> Gentoo x86_64, m

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with AMD_IOMMU

2017-05-14 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/14/2017 12:31 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > Tried kernels 4.10.13 and 4.11, with > CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y > CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y > CONFIG_IOMMU_API=y > CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT=y > CONFIG_IOMMU_IOVA=y > CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y > CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU_V2=m > Chipset is 990FX, and AFAICT the V2 is for the APU (bdve

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-28 Thread Corbin Bird
On 04/28/2017 02:08 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > In the past, there used to be dire warnings about the difficulty of > installing gcc with graphite. Have things become easier with 5.4.0? > Here's a "dry run" output... > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Argh, palemoon again ** 3 [Was: GCC 5.4.0]

2017-04-27 Thread Corbin Bird
On 04/26/2017 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:01:20AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote > >> That flag isn't mentioned here. > > I checked the source code. It forces the old ABI, so it should work, > compiled with GCC 5.4.0, even on a Gcc 4.9.4 system... > > [CentOS65][pmb

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is blocking an addition of fonts

2017-03-11 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/10/2017 07:24 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > I've added some fonts from outside portage this way: > > (Sorry that what follows is a bit of a confusing mess)

[gentoo-user] ISP extortion [ Partially Resolved ]

2017-03-11 Thread Corbin Bird
Thanks for all the responses. -- AirVPN seems to solve a most if not all of the filtering / blocking issues. ( Don't try their pre-built client / PATHs are wrong. ) -- "emerge-webrsync" was setup with GPG signature checking. What the ISP is doing looks to be ?attaching? / ?embeding? a "p

Re: [gentoo-user] ISP extorsion - how to negate / get around?

2017-03-11 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/10/2017 07:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: >> >> My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum" >> >> 1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity. > > Nothing you can do about th

[gentoo-user] ISP extorsion - how to negate / get around?

2017-03-10 Thread Corbin Bird
Have a serious problem, might cost me any Internet access. My ISP ( Charter ) merged with Time-Warner. New name "Spectrum" 1 # : Now I have intermittent connectivity. 2 # : And with the death of FCC privacy rules, the new ISP is forcing me to update their records ( for sale-of purposes ). This i

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-06 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/06/2017 01:27 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Which package contain "Helvetica" font? > > I'm using "flpsed" and apparently it is using Helvetica font, which > "eselect fontconfig list" is not showing anything that resemble "helvet" > "eix helvet" is not showing anything either. > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/05/2017 06:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird writes: > >> >> Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? > > I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. > > I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/05/2017 01:58 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Corbin Bird writes: > > [...] > >> Please clarify ... ... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ), >> ... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ), and/or specific xterm ( i.e >> "x11-terms/xterm" ). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

2017-03-05 Thread Corbin Bird
On 03/05/2017 06:41 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > I've been trying to get fonts to load into xterm most of the day. > > I'm not getting anywhere. > > for example:

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk-2.14.2 cant find sqlite3 symbols

2017-02-27 Thread Corbin Bird
refer /usr/local over the standard paths. > > anyway, thanks for your thoughts and sorry for the long turnaround. > > kelly > > > > On 02/07/2017 06:23 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 02/07/2017 09:55 AM, kelly hirai wrote: >>> >>> On 02/06/2017 06:31 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5 won't compile

2017-02-18 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/18/2017 12:41 PM, Mick wrote: > I'm stuck on this problem today. I ran @preserved-rebuild and this pops up: > > # required by @preserved-rebuild (argument) > # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Mart Raudsepp (16 Feb 2017) > # Old gstreamer 0.10 version, which is security vulnerable.

Re: [gentoo-user] mesa-12.0.1 fails to emerge

2017-02-08 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/08/2017 12:47 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 07 Feb 2017 18:24:06 Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 02/07/2017 05:02 PM, Mick wrote: >>> How could I go beyond this point? >>> >>> = >>> /var/tmp/portage/med

Re: [gentoo-user] mesa-12.0.1 fails to emerge

2017-02-07 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/07/2017 05:02 PM, Mick wrote: > How could I go beyond this point? > > = > /var/tmp/portage/media- > libs/mesa-12.0.1/work/mesa-12.0.1/src/gallium/state_track > ers/clover/llvm/invocation.cpp:212:75: error: no matching function for call > t

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU

2017-02-07 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/07/2017 01:49 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 07 Feb 2017 09:41:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Tuesday 07 Feb 2017 06:34:43 Mick wrote: >>> On Monday 06 Feb 2017 17:11:30 Corbin Bird wrote: >>>> On 02/06/2017 04:20 PM, Mick wrote: >>>>> On Mon

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk-2.14.2 cant find sqlite3 symbols

2017-02-07 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/07/2017 09:55 AM, kelly hirai wrote: > > > On 02/06/2017 06:31 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 02/06/2017 01:09 PM, kelly hirai wrote: >>> hello fellow gentoo-users, >>> >>>for about a month now, i have not been able to make >>> webkit-g

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU

2017-02-07 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/07/2017 12:34 AM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 06 Feb 2017 17:11:30 Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 02/06/2017 04:20 PM, Mick wrote: >>> On Monday 06 Feb 2017 21:39:08 jdm wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Just followed the amdgpu wiki guide to get my new g

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk-2.14.2 cant find sqlite3 symbols

2017-02-06 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/06/2017 01:09 PM, kelly hirai wrote: > hello fellow gentoo-users, > > for about a month now, i have not been able to make > webkit-gtk-2.14.[2,3] compile. it terminates at the linking step > complaining it cant find some sqlite functions. > > ./configure phase reports sqlite3 availability

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU

2017-02-06 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/06/2017 04:20 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 06 Feb 2017 21:39:08 jdm wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just followed the amdgpu wiki guide to get my new graphics card up and >> running. Excellent wiki guide and had no issues. Now running with >> shiny graphics and throwing all that Steam has to offer at it.

Re: [gentoo-user] bash-completion question(s)

2017-02-02 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/02/2017 01:19 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:34:50 -0600, Corbin Bird wrote: > >> The package "sys-boot/grub:2" popped this warning during updates : >> >>> Problems with installed bash completions were found: >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] bash-completion question(s)

2017-02-02 Thread Corbin Bird
On 02/02/2017 04:38 AM, Dale wrote: > Corbin Bird wrote: >> The package "sys-boot/grub:2" popped this warning during updates : >> >>> Problems with installed bash completions were found: >>> >>> grub: 'have' command is dep

[gentoo-user] bash-completion question(s)

2017-01-31 Thread Corbin Bird
The package "sys-boot/grub:2" popped this warning during updates : > Problems with installed bash completions were found: > > grub: 'have' command is deprecated and must not be used. > grub: incorrect name, no completions for 'grub' command defined. > grub-mkconfig: missing alias (syml

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of preserved-rebuild problems -- how to fix

2017-01-30 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/30/2017 09:31 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/01/2017 17:15, Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 01/30/2017 08:56 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 30/01/2017 16:55, John Covici wrote: >>>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:32:46 -0500, >>>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of preserved-rebuild problems -- how to fix

2017-01-30 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/30/2017 08:56 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/01/2017 16:55, John Covici wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:32:46 -0500, >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > [snip] > > >> But I found binutils-config and just switched from 2.25-r1 to 2.27, so >> I will see what happens. >> So, after removing the old ver

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of preserved-rebuild problems -- how to fix

2017-01-29 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/29/2017 08:02 AM, John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 08:41:59 -0500, > Responses in line. > > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 29/01/2017 12:11, John Covici wrote: >>> Hi. I am having a couple of preserved rebuild problems which I have >>> no idea how to fix. >> Ugh. Those problems are horr

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with gdbus-codegen

2017-01-26 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/26/2017 11:15 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Corbin Bird wrote : > > >> If you would please, run this command and post the output ( a test in >> other words ). >> >>> emerge -pvt dev-util/gdbus-codegen:0 > It wants to downgrade again, with the same ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with gdbus-codegen

2017-01-26 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/26/2017 09:35 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > (Sent via webmail while I continue wrestling with KMail...) > > Alan McKinnon wrote : > >> Does explicitly emerging gdbus-codegen-2.50.2 then re-running a world >> emerge give a different result? > peak ~ # emerj -1 =gdbus-codegen-2.50.2 > Calculati

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