Re: [gentoo-user] git clone tricks

2015-09-04 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-09-04 11:51, James a écrit : hello, So I'm still learning the tricks of git.. I tried all sorts of things suggested on the net, but I cannot seem to find a way to clone this site: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gli.git/tree/ This site does not exist:: https://gentoo.org/proj/gli.g

Re: [gentoo-user] MIPS question

2015-09-01 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-09-01 11:11, Michel Catudal a écrit : What would be the HOST name for a MIPS achitecture that is 32 bit, little Endian and hardfloat. I have no interest whatsoever for a soft float system. I want a hardfloat MIPS gentoo for the MIPS creator. I am not sure if the one that Imagination

[gentoo-user] MIPS question

2015-09-01 Thread Michel Catudal
What would be the HOST name for a MIPS achitecture that is 32 bit, little Endian and hardfloat. I have no interest whatsoever for a soft float system. I want a hardfloat MIPS gentoo for the MIPS creator. I am not sure if the one that Imagination has is hard float or soft float. In the same light

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

2015-09-01 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-09-01 06:21, Bill Kenworthy a écrit : Hey! - I am not the only one doing this then :) And it was also because of a cross-compiler. When I looked at how much extra work this type fragmentation causes, and how little (or any!) advantage it gives makes one wonder about the designers sanity

Re: [gentoo-user] Advantages or disadvantages of use package.use as directory

2015-08-30 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-30 12:41, wraeth a écrit : I wonder if there is some advantage to leaving things as my installation has created them or should I revert to the old way where package.use is file... not a directory. There's no specific advantage to using separate files within a directory to using a sing

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-08-30 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-30 11:56, Peter Humphrey a écrit : On Sunday 30 August 2015 00:04:43 Philip Webb wrote: How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? How long between power off/on's ? I've long been in the habit of switching everything off while I sleep, then restarting a

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-08-30 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-30 00:04, Philip Webb a écrit : How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? How long between power off/on's ? I've long been in the habit of switching everything off while I sleep, then restarting after I've woken & got going again myself. However recentl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-29 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-29 16:56, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:00:51 -0400, Michel Catudal wrote: I'm installing openSUSE 13.2 into a VM right now and the *default* location for installing GRUB2 is a partition! So what's all the fuss about? Not all distributions are Micr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-29 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-29 12:57, Mike Gilbert a écrit : If you want an "OS-independent" boot loader, the syslinux family of boot loaders might be a good choice for you. Or keep using grub legacy. Just don't expect either of them to be able to boot Linux from ZFS, or ext4 on lvm on luks. That's where grub2 co

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-29 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-28 07:55, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Michel Catudal wrote: Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit : Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so they wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-29 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-28 07:24, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2015-08-27, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal wrote: I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on a partition and gave up. Is that bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-29 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-28 05:24, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for the bootloader during the install. I'm installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-27 23:36, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit : On Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25:01 PM Michel Catudal wrote: This is nonsense. I have never had a case where it would not boot when I have grub correctly installed on the partition. Install grub to a partition and do something like this: su

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-27 21:50, Rich Freeman a écrit : On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Michel Catudal wrote: You missed the point, I do not want some installation treating me like a child by denying an install to protect me against myself. If I mess up my system it is nobody's business but

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-27 20:31, Jeremi Piotrowski a écrit : On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Michel Catudal wrote: No one is asking them to do that. As mentioned before it works with some override. A solution to the problem would be to remove the arrogance toward people who want grub on a partition and remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit : Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so they work on whatever the fuck they want. The problem with FOSS is that we have too many idiots that like to rant abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-27 14:23, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit : I just got it to work with these steps: 1. Mount the partition to /mnt/usb 2. Run: #grub2-install --directory /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc --boot- directory=/mnt/usb/boot --force /dev/sdb2 Installing for i386-pc platform. grub2-install: warning: File

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-27 13:16, Alan Mackenzie a écrit : On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 04:50:15PM +, mcatu...@comcast.net wrote: The maintainers of grub are basically acting like dictators much like Microsoft. The whole point of using Linux was to have complete control of the PC. Who those morons think they

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-26 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-26 13:37, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit : This may not be complete and some of these may be possible to some extent with legacy grub: 1. Grub Legacy is 32-bit only, so you need 32-bit libraries or use grub- static. Grub2 is portable, even beyond Intel architectures. 2. Grub2 has been re

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-19 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-19 22:18, walt a écrit : I'm seeing horrible performance from the xfce window manager (xfwm4) on my main, everyday machine, but not on an older backup machine or on any of the linux virtual machines I run on virtualbox. The symptoms: moving a window with the mouse is so slow as to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules

2015-08-19 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-19 20:48, Michael Orlitzky a écrit : On 08/19/2015 08:37 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: What's the purpose of these quotes? Neither of them says it doesn't allow steps 1-3. Instead of doing selective reading you should read the whole thing. If that's too much just read the first few qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules

2015-08-19 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-19 20:04, Michael Orlitzky a écrit : On 08/19/2015 07:40 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: 1. Downloading the kernel source (making a copy of) it. 2. Patching it. 3. Linking it with closed source code. 4. Distributing the result. (If that's not what you have in mind, maybe we are at cros

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules

2015-08-19 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-19 19:14, Michael Orlitzky a écrit : On 08/19/2015 06:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Copyright law makes everything illegal. Downloading the source and reading it is illegal. Why wouldn't it be illegal? The copyright holders have made it clear that you have no license to do so. If I dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-17 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-17 03:17, netfab a écrit : Le 16/08/15 à 19:27, Michel Catudal a tapoté : the latest kernel from sunxi that supports the mali GPU (3.4.103) for my old Mele A2000G [offtopic] Latest up to date (3.4.108) can be found here [1]. It also embeds patchs and fixs from armbian [2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

2015-08-17 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-17 14:58, »Q« a écrit : On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:46:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage 1 :-) My second install was a stage 1, way back in the day when the stage 3s weren't fully usable out of the box yet. My first was a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-16 21:43, walt a écrit : On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:27:41 -0400 Michel Catudal wrote: But yes, kernel 3.18.19 still has my same keyboard halting problem, so I'm back to 3.14.50 until the ati-drivers package is patched. I'm sure gentoo-sources-3.18.20 will be availa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-16 17:07, walt a écrit : On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:48:04 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 16/08/2015 21:42, walt wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:58:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 16/08/2015 18:45, walt wrote: I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: after run