Re: [gentoo-user] Why did Synaptics touchpad stop working?

2024-09-08 Thread Jack
On 9/8/24 10:20 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: This morning when I booted my Thinkpad T580, the Synaptics touchpad buttons didn't work at all, and the "pointer" function just barely worked: the response was slow and jerky with a noticeable delay. In order to get it working again, I had to enable some

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

2024-09-06 Thread Jack
On 2024.09.06 11:12, Michael wrote: [snip ] The second problem I started this thread with, related to the Kmail composer window inheriting the main Kmail window size and vice versa, seems to occur because both windows are identified having the same "kmail org.kde.kmail2" named Class. I

Re gkrellm: Was: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

2024-09-05 Thread Jack
On 2024.09.05 09:22, Michael wrote: Since I upgraded to KDE Frameworks 6 I have observed some rather unwanted window behaviours. 1. Window Interaction with Gkrellm [snipped lots ] The latest release of gkrellm seems to have been over three years ago, and unfortunately, I suspect there

[gentoo-user] edid problems

2024-08-25 Thread Jack
GPU is VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X]. Any thoughyts or suggestions? Thanks. Jack

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

2024-08-23 Thread Jack
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 fair while and bugs in its BIOS ought to have been fixed by now. Just because the latest available BIOS might have fixed a prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade problems with the latest llvm/clang

2024-07-24 Thread Jack
Sorry for the delay, but yes, after re-syncing, everything is working correctly. Thanks for the info. On 2024.07.23 17:52, Eli Schwartz wrote: On 7/23/24 5:37 PM, Jack wrote: > The latest eix-sync included clang and llvm 18.  Unfortunately, a full > emerge upgrade complains >

[gentoo-user] Upgrade problems with the latest llvm/clang

2024-07-23 Thread Jack
My profile is default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma (stable) * I find no relevant bug filed, and nothing related on the forums. What fine manual have I apparently neglected to read? Jack

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.

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

2024-07-07 Thread Jack
->Global Scale) And I'm really not sure where this scaling is applied relative the the points to pixels calculation of font size. Hope this helps more than confuses. Jack

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 EDI

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-29 Thread Jack
Have you tried downloading the EDID from the monitor so it can be loaded as firmware from disk, so the response speed of the monitor isn't a factor?  I had to do that once for a similar reason, but it was so many years ago I don't actually remember the details - in fact it might have been a big

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Jack
On 6/20/24 11:29 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:40:12 BST Michael wrote: On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm finding the system sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Jack
On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm finding the system stalling because it can't handle all its install jobs. I have this set: $ grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=30

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

2024-06-15 Thread Jack
On 2024.06.15 02:38, Vitaliy Perekhovy wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 04:54:09PM -0400, Jack wrote: > I don't have any such directory. What package does it belong to, or is > it a config setting for portage or another package? Yes, it is a configuration of portage itself. Ther

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

2024-06-14 Thread Jack
On 2024.06.14 14:25, Vitaliy Perekhovy wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 03:53:35PM +, 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 the differences > with a 3-way diff. Before replace

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem in new installation

2024-06-08 Thread Jack
On 6/8/24 5:51 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 8 June 2024 16:24:03 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: I've found it. /etc/profile.d had two suspect files: vte-2.91.csh & vte-2.91.sh. I don't know where they came from - perhaps another system of mine. I'll get rid of them and all should be well.

Re: [gentoo-user] MPV not compiling

2024-06-05 Thread Jack
On 6/5/24 11:58 AM, Matthew Brooks wrote: Can't work out how to reply to the message from John about this, as I wasn't subscribed to the list before, but I'm posting more details on mpv's compilation failure. The main error seems to be: locale.Error: unsupported locale setting I'm attaching th

Re: [gentoo-user] where is linux-firmware.log?

2024-05-27 Thread Jack
On 2024.05.26 07:11, Jude DaShiell wrote: I have tried a couple different things so linux-firmware and other packages can find the boot location and none of them have worked. I'm going with openrc and efi and gpt. originally I made an efi partition and mounted it mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/efi o

Re: [gentoo-user] PERL_FEATURES

2024-05-07 Thread Jack
On 2024.05.07 12:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, according to the NEWS from today one has to set PERL_FEATURES in /etc/portage/make.conf. But how to do that? I've tried PERL_FEATURES="debug ithreads quadmath" but emerging dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3 I get * As of dev-lang/perl-5.38.2-r3, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly corrupted file systems when resuming from hibernation

2024-04-16 Thread Jack
On 4/16/24 7:15 AM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 11:55:20 BST Dale wrote: If you update often, it shouldn't take long answer the questions. If you do like me and don't update often, it may take longer but no more time than it would if you updated often and added all the time togethe

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-03 Thread Jack
On 4/3/24 2:29 PM, Markus Gustafsson wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem I'm not quite sure how to tackle: every other startup or so results in a black screen. Usually nothing gets printed (no bios splash, not GRUB menu, no OpenRC prints), and the monitor goes to low power mode after a while (I h

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

2024-04-01 Thread Jack
If you are just going to unmerge it anyway, why not do so before emerging @preserved-rebuild? On 4/1/24 11:12 AM, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages

2024-03-29 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.29 15:53, n952162 wrote: I'd like to emerge *radicale*, but see it's masked for amd, etc.  I looked at the portage meta data and the ebuild to see if I could find out why it should be masked - it's just a python program, supposedly.  But I can't find out anything.  This warnings are un

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage-3 and profile 23.x

2024-03-25 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.25 17:48, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 25 March 2024 16:52:19 GMT Michael wrote: > The default OpenRC installation now assumes a merged-usr fs structure - > therefore make sure you select the appropriate profile in a new installation. That specifically says for a new installa

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-22 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.22 16:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:57:34 -0400, Jack wrote: > In this case, the offending package is dev-lang/rust, but this has > happened to me previously with other packages that require a lot of > space and time to build. > > The build fails

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-22 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.22 16:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:57:34 -0400, Jack wrote: > In this case, the offending package is dev-lang/rust, but this has > happened to me previously with other packages that require a lot of > space and time to build. > > The build fails

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal emulator to replace Konsole

2024-03-22 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.22 16:01, Dale wrote: Howdy, I've been using Konsole, part of KDE, for command line stuff ever since I started using Linux.  Linux is all I've ever used.  No windoze.  ;-)  While Konsole is good enough for almost everything, there is one feature I wish it had.  The ability to e

[gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-22 Thread Jack
; another attempt to compile still gives the same error about not enough space. Am I commenting the wrong line?  Have I missed something about where this check is atually done?  Is it actually possible to do what I'm trying to do? Thanks for any pointers or suggestions. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-sources-6.8.x , xen domU, netfront ] Reporting kernel bug -- Howto?

2024-03-17 Thread Jack
On 3/17/24 09:47, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: I get a stackdump booting the gentoo-sources-6.8.x kernels, and I'm wondering how to go about reporting. Pretty sure this can't be gentoo-specific, but kernel.org seems adamant that I should report to gentoo. gentoo-sources has lots of patches.  Upstrea

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-03 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.03 15:23, Wol wrote: On 03/03/2024 19:40, Jack wrote: On 2024.03.03 13:54, Wols Lists wrote: On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world whoops I mean "emerge --depclean" I'm t

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-03 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.03 13:54, Wols Lists wrote: On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world whoops I mean "emerge --depclean" I'm trying to get a clean system, and don't know what exactly is wrong, or what to try ... Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-27 Thread Jack
On 2/27/24 20:54, Adam Carter wrote: To clean up csv files I use excel's find/replace to swap the commas occurring within fields for something benign. How does this magic work? Different character sets within the same file? Is it possible to do this with shell scripting? Once Excel (or LibreOf

Re: [gentoo-user] is there something wrong with net-misc/inetutils?

2024-02-18 Thread Jack
On 2024.02.18 01:50, n952162 wrote: [snip...] Can you give some more information about that?  E.g. how one package can block another one? I removed net-ftp/ftp (good riddance): $ equery l net-ftp/ftp !!! No installed packages matching 'net-ftp/ftp'  * Searching for ftp in net-ft

Re: [gentoo-user] "xset dpms" not working

2024-02-18 Thread Jack
On 2/18/24 03:35, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:21:42PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote Regardless of the above, the monitor does not blank after 10 minutes (i.e. 600 seconds). If I run "xset dpms force off" from xterm (both as local user and as root), the display goes dark... for a

Re: [gentoo-user] is there something wrong with net-misc/inetutils?

2024-02-17 Thread Jack
On 2024.02.17 16:14, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 21:45, Arsen  wrote: Hi, n952162 writes: The inetutils on nixos runs fine.  I wonder why gentoo can't get it working ... Again, please post the relevant information about the build failure. I cannot reproudce it. Packages don't necessarily

Re: [gentoo-user] Asterisk - need some help

2024-02-02 Thread Jack
On 2024.02.02 12:53, Thelma wrote: On 2/2/24 10:09, John Covici wrote: On Fri, 02 Feb 2024 10:26:09 -0500, Thelma wrote: Anybody on the list using Asterisk? I need some help. Have save version of asterisk is working correctly on one computer but the other. I use asterisk all the time,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions. Availability and upgrading from old kernel.

2024-01-22 Thread Jack
On 1/22/24 04:17, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 at 23:39, Jack wrote: On 2024.01.21 15:51, Jack wrote: discussions about how many and which kernels (gentoo-sources, and possibly others) will ever get marked Stable. I believe it is something like only series marked "longter

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions. Availability and upgrading from old kernel.

2024-01-21 Thread Jack
On 2024.01.21 15:51, Jack wrote: On 1/21/24 14:55, Philip Webb wrote: 240121 Michael wrote: On Sunday, 21 January 2024 07:03:43 GMT Dale wrote: Currently I'm running 5.14.15 gentoo-sources kernel. This is no longer in the tree. You can update to the next stable release 5.15.142, or ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions. Availability and upgrading from old kernel.

2024-01-21 Thread Jack
On 1/21/24 14:55, Philip Webb wrote: 240121 Michael wrote: On Sunday, 21 January 2024 07:03:43 GMT Dale wrote: Currently I'm running 5.14.15 gentoo-sources kernel. This is no longer in the tree. You can update to the next stable release 5.15.142, or keyword 5.15.147, if you want to remain on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-21 Thread Jack
On 1/21/24 11:09, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 12:05:45PM +, Michael wrote Anyway, to take you forward you can: 1. Keyword the latest gnutls package in case the gnutls verification criteria have been loosened. 2. Copy the Root CA into the users ~/ and point muttrc to it: set

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

2024-01-18 Thread Jack
On 1/17/24 22:28, Philip Webb wrote: I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo. The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene. I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6. I've tried doing it with Manjaro & it works. It is vital to have Athene

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again

2024-01-06 Thread Jack
.  What else contributes to that estimate?  If that adjustment includes using the number of other builds going on at the same time, and their original and estimated build times, I can see lots of opportunity for shenanigans Jack.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -c being strange

2023-12-30 Thread Jack
On 2023.12.30 18:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 30 December 2023 21:10:10 GMT Jack wrote: > I have both wine-vanilla 8.0.2 (stable) and 8.1.2 (testing) installed. > "emerge -c wine-vanilla" would remove both of them. "emerge -c > wine-vanilla:8.21" refuse

[gentoo-user] emerge -c being strange

2023-12-30 Thread Jack
e-vanilla[abi_x86_32,abi_x86_64] Although it is perfectly happy with "emerge -c wine-vanilla:8.0.2". Is this a bug, or is it considered reasonable for portage to have a virtual absolutely insist on keeping the newest installed version if several slots are available? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrade virtualbox - slot conflict

2023-12-18 Thread Jack
On 2023.12.18 12:38, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm trying to downgrade virtual box from ver. 7 to ver. 6 but I'm getting slot conflict. How to resolve it? emerge -avq app-emulation/virtualbox [ebuild UD] dev-util/kbuild-0.1.9998.3499-r4 [0.1.9998.3592] [ebuild UD] app-emulation/v

Re: [gentoo-user] Wine problems

2023-12-12 Thread Jack
On 2023.12.12 16:55, stefan1@shitposting.expert wrote: [snip...] Tried doing the optimus thing. Just like without optimus, I start xorg but I see nothing. Xorg and dwm properly start, I tried typing in a terminal 'speaker-test' and it worked. So the problem there isn't that xorg freezes or

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Jack Ostroff
r needs to be a separate partition, or perhaps one or more of those utilities still requires a partition. Hopefully this isn't too far off base. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

2023-11-23 Thread Jack
May or may not help, but have you tried revdep-rebuild? On 11/23/23 16:51, Matt Connell wrote: First time I've seen this happen! Any time I emerge anything, I get portage telling me I have the following preserved libs: --- !!! existing preserved libs: package: app-arch/bzip2-1.0.8-r4 * -

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-23 Thread Jack
On 9/23/23 08:04, Dale wrote: Howdy, As most everyone knows, I redone my NAS box.  Before I had Truenas on it but switched to Ubuntu server thingy called Jimmy.  Kinda like the name.  lol  Anyway, Ubuntu has the same odd transfer pattern as the Truenas box had.  I'm not sure if the problem is on

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

2023-09-21 Thread Jack
On 2023.09.21 13:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: 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: >> &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

2023-09-21 Thread Jack
On 9/21/23 16:23, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-09-21, Victor Ivanov wrote: On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 23:58, Grant Edwards wrote: Just make sure you update /etc/fstab and bootloader config file with the new filesystem UUID or partition indices. I always forget one or the other until after I try

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

2023-09-21 Thread Jack
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 gentoo groove yet, forget some basic tools. > > Something pulled in ruby, I know not what. > > W

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-20 Thread Jack
On 9/20/23 12:18, Hoël Bézier wrote: Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:36:13AM -0500 schrieb Dale: In the real world tho, how do people reading this make passwords that no one could ever guess?  I use Bitwarden to handle website passwords and it does a good job.  I make up my own tho when encrypting d

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-18 Thread Jack
On 9/18/23 08:00, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, We've had a few discussions here on how to balance the parameters to emerge to make the most of the resources available. Here's another idea: One the one hand, big jobs should be able to use the maximum CPU performance and RAM capacity, but on

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

2023-09-17 Thread Jack
ngs) trying to produce a system that will attract users from "that other OS" who may take things like poor performance but full indexing for granted. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone used openmediavault with LVM?

2023-09-12 Thread Jack
On 9/12/23 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:45:21 BST Dale wrote: I currently have Ubuntu installed. I would have been done with it sooner but I had a typo in exports and it wouldn't allow me to mount the thing. Wrong IP for my main system. At least it's secure.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Jack
a rebuild after a version change of one of it's dependencies.  I don't remember why the downgrade was needed (I got hit by that also) but perhaps it was added to the tree as stable and then reverted to testing, but not soon enough? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find which .keep file creation is failing

2023-08-25 Thread Jack
On 2023.08.25 11:39, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 25 August 2023 16:28:16 BST I wrote: > Now what? I can't do without webkit-gtk. I have a precompiled package from before the mask was applied; is there a way to ebuild it in spite of the mask? # find /var/cache/packages/dev-lang -name ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-31 Thread Jack
On 2023.07.31 13:23, Matt Connell wrote: On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 20:16 +0300, Alexe Stefan wrote: > > Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire > > web > > engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people who > > knows full well what the answer is. > > Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-28 Thread Jack
oid if you like). I've been a happy user of Balsa for many years. It reads maildir as is, no conversion necessary. Can also use mbox and other formats, and does IMAP as well as POP3. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting emerges

2023-07-24 Thread Jack
to something less than the entire command on that line.  Try enclosing the command (but not the &) in something.  I leave it as an exercise to determine whether () or {} or some other closure is the right one. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Highlight certain packages being upgraded

2023-07-08 Thread Jack
What about piping the output of emerge through 'tee' into a file.  You can then grep that file for the package names you are interested in, and they will clearly be highlighted.  True, you will need to look at the portage output directly to decide whether or not to proceed, and then separately

Re: [gentoo-user] Highlight certain packages being upgraded

2023-07-08 Thread Jack
On 2023.07.08 13:02, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 03:33:30 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I was wondering.  Is there a way to highlight certain packages that are >> about to be upgraded?  Example, I like to know when some larger packages >> like Firefox, LOo, that excessivel

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

2023-07-05 Thread Jack
On 7/5/23 10:05, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:07:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:36:59 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:02:16 BST Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] Same problem as before, but now the three instances of gkrellm shimmer a

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-13 Thread Jack
On 6/13/23 20:21, Philip Webb wrote: My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc nor using 'startx' as root with Gentoo, but it refuses to start as user. I've had a series of errors : parse_vt_settings : can't open /dev/tty0 (permission denied) after adding my user t

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-13 Thread Jack
On 2023.06.13 04:52, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 01:01:43 BST Wol wrote: > On 10/06/2023 09:44, Michael wrote: Without sddm, you can run the startplasma-wayland stanza from a console, do your thing, logout and the console would have captured various logs - just as startx does. >

Solved for now: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland (wrong display settings)

2023-06-11 Thread Jack
On 2023.06.10 17:56, Jack wrote: Still some work to do, but much better now. In the sterr output when run as a new user where both screens are used, I saw Checking screens: available: (QScreen(0x55723012fa90, name="DVI-I-1"), QScreen(0x55723011a010, name="DVI-I-2")

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-10 Thread Jack
Still some work to do, but much better now. In the sterr output when run as a new user where both screens are used, I saw Checking screens: available: (QScreen(0x55723012fa90, name="DVI-I-1"), QScreen(0x55723011a010, name="DVI-I-2")) redundant: QHash() fake: QSet() all: (QScreen(0x55723012

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-10 Thread Jack
On 2023.06.10 13:07, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 10 June 2023 18:00:34 BST Jack wrote: > I have also had odd behavior with X and two monitors, but I always > managed to get it working without excessive effort. My most persistent > problem was if the right monitor was plugged

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-10 Thread Jack
On 2023.06.10 04:44, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 10 June 2023 01:19:06 BST Jack wrote: I've been running xorg (KDE Plasma) for years, and have been perfectly happy, but every now and then I have tried wayland, with less or even less success. My recent attempts give me a plasma sessi

[gentoo-user] some help with wayland

2023-06-09 Thread Jack
sion startplasma-wayland". Thanks for any pointers. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict. Need help. ffmpeg, kpipewire, handbrake, ffmpegthumbnailer and others.

2023-06-04 Thread Jack
On 2023.06.04 17:22, Dale wrote: Jack wrote: > On 2023.06.04 15:56, Dale wrote: > >> Doing my updates, most things updated but some still have conflicts.  >> Emerge is trying to tell me but I use Konsole and I think it messes >> up the ^ bit and points to the wron

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

2023-06-04 Thread Jack
On 2023.06.04 16:36, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-06-04, Jack wrote: > I may have an explanation.  How did you run ddclient when you got that > error?  I think its check for ownership is very specific, and if you > just run ddclient from command line as either yourself or root,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict. Need help. ffmpeg, kpipewire, handbrake, ffmpegthumbnailer and others.

2023-06-04 Thread Jack
On 2023.06.04 15:56, Dale wrote: Doing my updates, most things updated but some still have conflicts.  Emerge is trying to tell me but I use Konsole and I think it messes up the ^ bit and points to the wrong thing. I suspect the ^ assumes a fixed width font.

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ddclient?

2023-06-04 Thread Jack
start, in my case) the process is owned by ddclient, so the ownership matches.  Also - that is just a warning, not an error, so it should work anyway. Jack On 6/4/23 10:42, Grant Edwards wrote: Can anybody recommend a replacement for ddclient as a dynamic IP service updater? I've been t

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ddclient?

2023-06-04 Thread Jack
On 6/4/23 10:42, Grant Edwards wrote: Can anybody recommend a replacement for ddclient as a dynamic IP service updater? I've been trying to use it for decades, and there have been periods when it works as it's supposed to. But, usually it doesn't, and I'm sick of fighting with it. At the moment,

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Jack
On 5/31/23 12:30, Philip Webb wrote: Thanks to Michael for his helpful advice. I've narrowed the problem down somewhat, but Wifi still doesn't work on Gentoo, tho' it does on Mint + SR. The difference seems to be that when I enter 'lshw -class network' in Mint, I get "network | description : Wir

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-plasma seems to have lost its mind

2023-05-19 Thread Jack
On 2023.05.19 18:05, Jack wrote: (Although I admit I'm beginning to wonder about myself.) I've done a number of upgrades recently, and when I rebooted into kernel 6.3.3 yesterday, the boot seemed to go fine, but when I started kde-plasma, things did not go well.  I could vague

[gentoo-user] kde-plasma seems to have lost its mind

2023-05-19 Thread Jack
not provide anything solid to go on.  I do figure it's something in my configuration or I would have found other reports.  I'm mainly hoping someone can suggest what else I can try or where to look for hints, as I'm about out of ideas, beyond tracing back through all recent up

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

2023-05-15 Thread Jack
On 5/15/23 12:11, Wols Lists wrote: On 15/05/2023 03:51, William Kenworthy wrote: Checked your menu? XFCE has a "mouse and touchpad" under settings with a number of useful items including acceleration, double click timings etc. Yes. As I remember, KDE USED to have such a menu ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

2023-05-14 Thread Jack
On 5/14/23 16:33, Wols Lists wrote: I've been having grief with my mouse for a while, and all the help I can find is "how to adjust mouse speed", which is not my problem... and seems to be about the only thing that is adjustable ... Basically even something as simple as left click doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Jack
On 5/12/23 20:08, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 13 May 2023 00:53:49 BST Mark Knecht wrote: Anyway, I had a couple of thoughts: 1) If it's really a bug then as others have said report it up the chain and hope for a fix. https://bugs.gentoo.org/905933 2) If I wanted to solve the pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Jack
On 2023.05.12 12:23, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip .] One interesting point is that the first Gentoo page I found to look at the emerge man page shows LOAD as the value provided to the --load-average option, but nowhere does it specify anything other than it's a floating point value: I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Jack
On 2023.05.12 11:27, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 7:27 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 12 May 2023 15:13:08 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > > My opinion: load-average probably works, but we are misunderstanding > > the documentation. > > That's what bothers me the most - that

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Jack
On 5/12/23 09:16, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 12 May 2023 11:09:37 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 10:34, Peter Humphrey wrote: I have said several times that portage is ignoring that setting. I have it at 40, yet portage kicks off more packages at 72, and continues doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-11 Thread Jack
else instead of make.  Ninja does have a -l setting for load average, but I don't know if emerge passes any MAKEOPTS to ninja. That might be an interesting enhancement request. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-06 Thread Jack
kages that make no use of gcc, so the rebuild serves no point, and I miss rebuilding packages that use clang after an upgrade of it and related tools. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting after kernel upgrade

2023-04-11 Thread Jack
On 2023.04.10 20:14, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 4/10/23 17:29, Jack wrote: On 2023.04.10 18:22, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 4/10/23 15:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: After upgrading to newest kernel the X will not start. Is: make oldconfig  same as: make olddefconfig ? Xorg.0

Re: [gentoo-user] config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating

2023-04-11 Thread Jack
On 2023.04.11 09:14, Matt Connell wrote: On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 23:44 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > After update I get: > * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating. > > What is this, don't remember seeing it before. > > cfg-update -u > doesn't give me an option to view it. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting after kernel upgrade

2023-04-10 Thread Jack
On 2023.04.10 18:22, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 4/10/23 15:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: After upgrading to newest kernel the X will not start. Is: make oldconfig  same as: make olddefconfig ? Xorg.0.log showing; [   673.829] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_dr

Re: [gentoo-user] mailing list problem?

2023-04-06 Thread Jack
On 4/6/23 19:42, David M. Fellows wrote: I've recently gotten a few of my usual "Bouncing messages" messages >from the mailing list, but when I go to the archives to see if I can identify the problematic messages, I don't see anything since the middle of March. I've filed a bug (https://bugs.

[gentoo-user] mailing list problem?

2023-04-06 Thread Jack
53) a few days ago, but no response yet. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread Jack
On 2023.03.21 16:27, Morgan Wesström wrote: On 2023-03-21 21:04, Jack wrote: 1) Where's the appropriate place for these files in Gentoo and why? 2) If the appropriate place is either of those folders with a version number, how do I install the files there without hard coding the ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice appreciated regarding how to handle Perl modules correctly in an ebuild

2023-03-21 Thread Jack
On 2023.03.21 15:19, Morgan Wesström wrote: Dear list, I'm trying to create an ebuild for a ZFS snapshot/replication automation tool called Znapzend that I've been using on FreeBSD for some time and also would like to use in Gentoo. https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend The project homepag

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange DPMS behaviour

2023-02-06 Thread Jack
If you find that the EDID is really bad for one of the monitors, you should be able to find a correct copy and make that one available to X, although I don't remember how since I haven't needed to do so in years.  I believe it is a setting within/under Xorg.conf. Jack On 2/6/23 00:

Re: [gentoo-user] Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

2023-01-28 Thread Jack
ke the conversion to gkt+3 would be difficult, but to go to gtk+4 (I have no idea how far off this is) would essentially be a re-write. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bouncing messages

2023-01-18 Thread Jack
ly not surfaced anywhere except such messages.  In my case, I was usually able to to to the archive page for the list, and by displaying as messages (instead of threads) identify the one I never received. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for simple GUI MUA that works with ssmtp

2022-12-26 Thread Jack
On 12/26/22 20:43, Walter Dnes wrote: mutt has served me well over the years, but thanks to *BRAINDEAD CORPORATE IDIOTS* I need a GUI client to parse 100 K of HTML that replaces 1 page of text. These aren't just plain spammers, but businesses that I deal with regularly. It seems that plainte

Re: Living in NGL: was: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-18 Thread Jack
On 2022.12.18 11:17, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:49 AM Jack wrote: > > On 12/18/22 10:38, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Wipe the machine and start over with Gentoo from scratch... > > Wipe the machine and start over with Gentoo from scratch... > > Humm, I thin

Living in NGL: was: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-18 Thread Jack
On 12/18/22 10:38, Mark Knecht wrote: Wipe the machine and start over with Gentoo from scratch... Wipe the machine and start over with Gentoo from scratch... Humm, I think you should... Wipe the machine and start over with Gentoo from scratch... First there was Linux from Scratch. Next came Be

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