[gentoo-user] re-activating a netbook

2024-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
if that would work or how to trouble-shoot it ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

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

2024-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
/dev/libmtp... which is a symlink to /dev/bus/003/009 (or similar), which is not a block device & can't be mounted via 'mount'. KDE uses some version of Fuse to access it & offer its contents. HTH others. -- ========,,===

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

2024-01-26 Thread Philip Webb
ons I haven't chosen. The new kernel image is size 17633728 via 'ls -l /boot' : is that correct ? It does indeed boot & there are no changes in behaviour. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

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

2024-01-21 Thread Philip Webb
too-sources', which is what I've always used since 2003. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

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

2024-01-18 Thread Philip Webb
240117 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. Thanks for the many replies, which offer as many different methods.

[gentoo-user] downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

2024-01-17 Thread Philip Webb
olved, perhaps 'Media Transfer Protocol' (?). Does anyone have any suggestions how to get this to work on Gentoo ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

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

2024-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
nter.net (their name) for I/net + e-mail : I've used them happily for 15 years ; they are in Waterloo, Ont. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

[gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Philip Webb
ime has been that Qt pkgs block one another, st the only way out is to unmerge them all, then remerge them all. If anyone knows a better method, please let us know -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip W

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

2023-10-11 Thread Philip Webb
ime has been that Qt pkgs block one another, st the only way out is to unmerge them all, then remerge them all. If anyone knows a better method, please let us know. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip W

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-28 Thread Philip Webb
I've used very happily since c 1998 , well before Gentoo existed. I've also always used Mbox, not Maildir. Powerful, configurable, but also simple : the UNIX approach. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip W

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

2023-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
230614 Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:21:53 BST 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 :

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

2023-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
d" cases of the same error messages, but they don't seem to help my problem. Can anyone offer possible solutions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2023-06-10 Thread Philip Webb
r is upstairs over my head. FYI for anyone else who finds her/himself stuck in this way. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2023-06-02 Thread Philip Webb
230602 Michael wrote: > On Friday, 2 June 2023 07:16:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> #wpa_supplicant.conf 230601 >> >> network={ >> ssid="" >> bssid=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF >> proto=RSN >> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK >> pairwise=CCMP >>

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

2023-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
230601 Lee K wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> What is still not good is that that interface has "NO-CARRIER". >> Also, 'rc-status' after a reboot shows wpa_supplicant as STOPPED. >> >> 'rc-service -v

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

2023-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
230601 Lee K wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Thanks for all the help so far. > > > > I've solved the firmware problem. > > The needed files weren't in the latest stable version of linux-firmware > > nor in the

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

2023-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
password are correct in the conf file. It's approaching supper time & I've run out of ideas for today anyway. Any further advice is most welcome (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2023-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
way: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Chess/MT7921e So no progress today. I can try copying the firmware files from SR/Mint -- everything under /lib/firmware/ in SR/Mint & see if it helps. Your final note was a link to someone's pains using mt7921e, which he sad in the end was

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

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
nd it. Any more substantial advice is very welcome. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
230531 Jack wrote: > On 5/31/23 12:30, Philip Webb wrote: >> Also, under "configuration:", Mint says "broadcast=yes, driver=nt7921e, > Is there a typo?  Above says driver nt7921e (first letter N) >> driver_version=5.15.0-generic, firmware=__91-20220209 15

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

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
BTW there appears to be a pkg 'rfkill' : on Mint 'rfkill' reports "Bluetooth hci0 | wlan phy0", both unblocked. Any further advice wb most welcome (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT __

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

2023-05-30 Thread Philip Webb
230511 Michael wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:42:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Can anyone explain how I can get Wifi working >> at this early point in the installation process ? > 1. Check if the appropriate firmware is available, > otherwise fetch it from here and unta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raw tty font size

2023-05-27 Thread Philip Webb
230526 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-05-26, Philip Webb wrote: >> I can now boot into the embryonic Gentoo system in my new machine, >> which presents a raw TTY, whose font is too large, >> ie there are too few lines on the screen. >> Somewhere, there's a settin

[gentoo-user] raw tty font size

2023-05-26 Thread Philip Webb
fault font size ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : root partition mounted RO : SOLVED

2023-05-25 Thread Philip Webb
s mounted RW & I could proceed. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new machine : root partition mounted RO

2023-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
twice, incl globally. Could it be some kernel option ? 'grep' shows no 'read_only' or similar. Can anyone offer advice ? -- please read my desciption above carefully. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1 : SOLVED

2023-05-21 Thread Philip Webb
230520 Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 20 May 2023 10:54:21 BST Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2023-05-20, Michael wrote: >>> On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote: >>>> I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine >>>> & have got

[gentoo-user] problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1

2023-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
evices' as 'N'. I also tried a 'make clean'. The same error goes on happening. Since I don't have anything by Realtek for networking -- sound uses Realtek -- , I can't understand the behaviour above. Can anyone offer any advice ? -- ===

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

2023-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
230511 Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:01:51 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> There is another related question : is there a way >> to make both connections simultaneously & switch between them ? > If you configure them both in /etc/conf.d/net with different priorities

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

2023-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
= SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
get Wifi working at this early point in the installation process ? -- it's present on the Mobo, which is a Gigabyte X570S AERO G . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 >> & am at the point of designing the partitions. >> For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now

[gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Philip Webb
les. Ext4 seems to be used by well-known binary distros. What would others recommend ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT

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

2022-12-26 Thread Philip Webb
en it in Firefox. If there's no link, but it's presented as HTML, I copy-paste the URL to Firefox & open it similarly. Mutt is so good, I'm willing to take this slight detour rather than wade thro' the mud of a GUI client. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ? -- solved

2022-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
formatted the stick, copied the files it had before the damage, then discovered that it was in fact physically bad, so 'mke2fs' wasn't needed today. I used another formatted stick instead. Thanx to both + Jack as well. -- ====,,=

[gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ?

2022-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
doesn't seem to create filesystems. There is a utility 'sys-fs/genext2fs', which I emerged & looked at, but it's not clear whether it does the simple job I need. Can anyone advise ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands

2022-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
uld allow you to reconstruct the history of the commands. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : a lot clearer

2022-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
ndline mb better for security. Thanks for the advice so far : further comments are very welcome. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new machine : on-going frustration

2022-09-15 Thread Philip Webb
an accident or are PCIe's confined to AMD ? Intel seems to be a quite different world from AMD today. Does anyone have any useful advice or suggestions ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] (G)vim 9.0.0099 won't start : SOLVED

2022-08-21 Thread Philip Webb
220820 Philip Webb wrote: > Today, I updated to the latest stable Vim 9.0.0099 + GVim same > & it refused to open. No problem back with 8.2.4586. After some sleep & investigation, I found the problem, which is with Gvim. The gtk+ gtk+2 USE flags have been dropped for Gvim

[gentoo-user] (G)vim 9.0.0099 won't start

2022-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
PORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to make Gentoo LiveGUI ISO image GUI environment look like Windows 10/11?

2022-08-05 Thread Philip Webb
their own machines & want to choose their own selection of software to install in them. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : revised parts for comment

2022-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
stead. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new machine : probable parts for comment

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
hers which are 500 W & I can ask in the store, so I'm willing to assume "500" is a typo. Any further advice wb very welcome (smile to everyone). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-06 Thread Philip Webb
o review the info so far. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-02 Thread Philip Webb
n 2000, it was his 1st new body, since when he's been my computer spirit (smile). I'm a Classicist by training & wrote my PhD thesis on the philosopher. I have a mathematical side too ] -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2021-12-27 Thread Philip Webb
211226 Michael wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:42:41 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to login to a remote site using 'ssh'. >> The response I get is "Unable to negotiate with port >> : no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss".

[gentoo-user] ssh problem

2021-12-26 Thread Philip Webb
e helpful suggestions how to get past the blockage ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Any decent alternative to Thunderbird?

2021-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
s long been mature : give it a try. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] screensaver problem

2021-10-09 Thread Philip Webb
211009 Jack wrote: > On 2021.10.09 01:29, Philip Webb wrote: >> I have Xscreensaver started by .xinit & it runs as it should ; >> each saver is set to run for 3 min . >> When I'm asleep, I kill Xscreensaver >> & the monitor blanks after 5 min , wh

[gentoo-user] Re: screensaver problem : PS

2021-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
Sorry, I should add that my desktop is the latest stable KDE + Qt & Xscreensaver is the latest stable version 6.01-r4 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Univer

[gentoo-user] screensaver problem

2021-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
e screen blanks again. Instead, the savers should run continually till activity resumes. Can anyone suggest what is telling the monitor to blank after 5 min regardless of whether Xscreensaver is running or not ? -- ,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

2021-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
210924 Mark Knecht wrote: > On 2021-09-24, at 05:58, Philip Webb wrote: >> While I was asleep yesterday, my machine reported on all 3 Konsoles >> Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ... >> : mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 4: 9d0b4c16001

Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

2021-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
210924 Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 2021-09-24, at 05:58, Philip Webb wrote: >> While I was asleep yesterday, my machine reported on all 3 Konsoles : >> Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ... >> : mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 4: 9d0b4c

[gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

2021-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
is 6 years old & has always worked very well ; its CPU is an AMD. I plan to build a new machine in the next few months : should I accelerate my plans ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
210919 antlists wrote: > On 19/09/2021 08:03, Philip Webb wrote: >> Portage ought to be able to recognise when a set of pkgs >> are creating destructive circular dependencies among themselves >> & resolve the conflict by updating all of them together. > Until you h

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
210919 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:01:51 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> The patch is dated 'June 11', so it may take awhile yet to reach Gentoo. > 5.15.2 is already in testing, which explains why I was unable > to reproduce this in the way it hit you,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
Qt, which forces the user to unmerge the whole set, then merge the updates as a set too. Perhaps one of our hard-working unpaid devs is listening ... (smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : solved

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
210917 Philip Webb wrote: > It's only when I crop a PNG image in Gwenview > & save it in place (ie with the same name), that the colors are faded > & that's only when viewed with Gwenview, not eg with Feh. > The bad case does look like a Gwenview bug, > & in

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
210918 Jack wrote: > On 18/09/2021 12.10, Philip Webb wrote: >> There is an update available for KDE Frameworks. >> When I try to perform it, I get a conflict statement which begins >> >> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been &g

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
210918 J.O. Aho wrote: > On 18/09/2021 12.10, Philip Webb wrote: >> There is an update available for KDE Frameworks. >> When I try to perform it, I get a conflict statement which begins >> >>!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been &

[gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
des '5.85.0', so the requirement sb fulfilled. I don't remember seeing this before. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : bug submitted

2021-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
210914 Philip Webb wrote: > 210913 David Haller wrote: >> Gwenview uses color-management via media-libs/lcms, feh does not. >> See "Rendering intent" and "Color profile" under "Advanced" >> in Gwenview's configure dialog. HTH. > That

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
210914 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:07:42 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> So I can avoid the problem either by cropping only with Fotoxx >> or by renaming them whenever I do it with Gwenview >> or by converting PNGs to JPGs before cropping them. > The latte

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
KDE bugs tend to disappear into the ocean, if reported. Thanks for the comments. I will try redoing the faded versions, tho' that will mean getting them from the I/net again. Any further suggestions re causes of the bad case are welcome. -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
210913 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:14:11 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've tried changing all the various settings in Gwenview config >> separately, but nothing changes. > Have you tried logging is as a new user with default Gwenview config? No : why wo

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
210909 Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:25:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> I have cropped some .png images using Gwenview & the reduced versions >> are faded with Gwenview, but fully colored with Feh. >> I've tried using 'convert' to crea

[gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-08 Thread Philip Webb
wenview (Feh ok). Can anyone explain what has caused this ? Is there a way of correcting it, eg with Imagemagick ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toro

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start : solved

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
210831 Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 16:27, Philip Webb wrote: >> I just updated to the latest Xscreensaver-6.01-r1. > Did you mean -r3 ? Yes, a typo. >> I emerged it with USE flag 'elogind' & don't use Systemd. >> 'which xscreens

[gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
ve set the binary's permissions to SUID : root:526 /usr/bin> ls -l xscreensaver -rws--s--x 1 root root 51880 Aug 31 07:18 xscreensaver Can anyone offer advice ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Web

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Motif compile fails

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
210831 Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2021-08-28, Philip Webb wrote: >> As part of updating to the latest stable Xscreensaver, >> I tried to emerge its requirement Motif, which failed with this message : >[...] >> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux

[gentoo-user] Motif compile fails

2021-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
ut -- This looks as if the problem is with Gcc flags, which is rather technical. Has anyone else run into this ? Does anyone have suggestions ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
write the output to a file ? -- eg 'emerge --ask --depclean > '. Then you can look at the output at leisure, even on another machine. HTH -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
r a prettier boot menu. Or the OP could use Lilo, the simplest boot manager of all. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] xscreensaver-demo has vanished

2021-04-25 Thread Philip Webb
nerama} Installed versions: 5.45([2021-04-26 00:02:29])(gtk jpeg opengl -caps -gdk-pixbuf -gdm -locking -new-login -offensive -pam -perl -selinux -suid -systemd -xinerama) Can anyone explain what has happened ? -- ========,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt vs Fetchmail problem

2021-03-24 Thread Philip Webb
it's downloading, so if there's nothing, I don't have to do anything else. However, it wb helpful to find out what has gone wrong. It must be some pkg I updated since 210220. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Mutt vs Fetchmail problem

2021-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
itself is working, but when Mutt calls it, something goes wrong. Can anyone offer a suggestion what that might be ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
210321 Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 21:25 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> my question is, if I use the Wifi services, >> is whether I would need to add hardware to my machine > It depends on if your motherboard has an integrated Wifi chip or not. > I

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
w nothing re cell phones, tho' of course I'm quite willing to buy one (brand suggestions ? ). -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centr

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE has lost some desktop mouse actions : solved

2021-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
210127 Philip Webb wrote: > Some time ago, KDE lost the ability to assign to desktop Left-Click ; > now it has also lost the ability to assign to desktop Middle-Click ; > only desktop Right-Click remains, which cb assigned either to Context Menu > or to Applications Launcher, both

[gentoo-user] KDE has lost some desktop mouse actions

2021-01-26 Thread Philip Webb
assign an action to Left- or Middle-Click ? I am using the latest (210123) versions of Qt Frameworks Plasma. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update causes bizarre behaviour : solved

2021-01-26 Thread Philip Webb
210126 Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 07:52:53 GMT Philip Webb wrote: >> I manhandled a huge update of Qt + KDE last weekend >> & am now using Qt-5.15.2 Frameworks-5.77.0 Plasma-5.20.5 . >> The digital clock has disappeared from the panel. > Some pack

[gentoo-user] KDE update causes bizarre behaviour

2021-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
widget. Gwenview now presents my ~/pix/ directory as "Pictures", though its name remains the same in my file system. Has anyone else encountered these or other strange phenomena ? Does anyone have a suggestion how to get back to normalcy ? -- ,,======

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

2021-01-17 Thread Philip Webb
====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Differences between wget and browser file retrieval?

2021-01-14 Thread Philip Webb
worthwhile. Press reports are very shallow & the Ontario government doesn't appear to have any clear idea just where & how the virus is being spread between humans. HTH. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting Unix time to local time

2020-11-24 Thread Philip Webb
man-readable function th { date -d @$1 ; } eg the last line in emerge.log is "1606047812: *** terminating." , so I hilite the number & drop it into the function : th 1606047812 which gives the timestamp Sun Nov 22 07:23:32 AM EST 2020 HTH -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there any Gentoo User webinar ?

2020-09-30 Thread Philip Webb
maintaining our systems. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-29 Thread Philip Webb
onnel today, that may change in future. If the previous accounting mess has been resolved & the Foundation currently has plenty of cash, surely it's best to leave well alone for the present. -- ,, SUPPORT ___/

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-07-29 Thread Philip Webb
200729 i.Dark_Templar wrote: > 29.07.2020 20:11, Philip Webb пишет: >> I've removed every other pkg which might require Python-2.7, >> but am stuck with this : >> >> root:605 ~> emerge -cpv python:2.7 >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> dev

[gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-07-29 Thread Philip Webb
equirements : can anyone help ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging pycairo

2020-07-12 Thread Philip Webb
200713 Adam Carter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:32 AM Philip Webb wrote: >> root:543 ~> emerge -pv pycairo ... >> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped >> due to a dependency conflict: >> dev-python/pycairo:0 >> (dev-python/pycairo-

[gentoo-user] problem emerging pycairo

2020-07-12 Thread Philip Webb
4.0(3)^t([2020-05-09 19:57:48])(cairo -examples -test PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8") -- end of output -- Can anyone explain why Portage refuses to update 'pycairo' ? -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-22 Thread Philip Webb
long time since I did any programming, so No I'm not volunteering, but if we're lucky someone -- M Gorny ? -- will get it started & others will join in. Meanwhile, thanks yet again to all the devs for their unpaid work. -- ====,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] 'su' missing : solved

2020-03-12 Thread Philip Webb
200312 Philip Webb wrote: > My practice for many years has been to have a root terminal running, > which I start via 'konsole' + 'su'. After a system update + reboot, > I am confronted with : > > Warning: Could not find 'su', starting '/bin/bas

[gentoo-user] 'su' missing

2020-03-12 Thread Philip Webb
27; : might that be the cause ? BTW no-one else has physical access to this machine, so leaving a root terminal running does not endanger security. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with Fetchmail

2020-03-04 Thread Philip Webb
sity a/c ; when I commented the lines for the latter in .fetchmailrc , they stopped. Since I no longer expect to get mail via the UoT a/c, I can leave it at that, tho' perhaps I should amend my sig below. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with Fetchmail

2020-03-03 Thread Philip Webb
200303 Jack wrote: > On 2020.03.03 02:54, Philip Webb wrote: >> However, my ISP is now sending me an e-mail every 5 min , >> after Fetchmail checks for mail : >> >> From: "(Cron Daemon)" >> To: purslow@*** >> Subject: Cron test -e /var/run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with Fetchmail

2020-03-02 Thread Philip Webb
191211 Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > On 12/10/19 11:03 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> A few days ago, I updated Fetchmail to the latest stable 6.4.1 . >> Immediately, it stopped fetching mail from one of my mail forwarders ; >> the other one still worked, as I found by test-mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: octave won't run

2020-02-06 Thread Philip Webb
calculates '1+1' without any problems. So the solution to the OP's problem mb simply to unmerge lapack-reference . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Citie

Re: [gentoo-user] qtwebkit problem (solved)

2020-01-06 Thread Philip Webb
200105 Jack wrote: > On 1/5/20 5:01 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> In order to update to the latest stable PyQt5-5.13.2 , >> I was required to remerge qtwebkit-5.212.0_pre20190629 ; >> Towards the end of the latter compile, I suddenly found myself >> looking at a complet

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