Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk "renames" /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Sid S
Of course, there might be other causes, but if it just happened randomly I suspect the above is the most likely.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk "renames" /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Sid S
I came across this too. The misnamed device is still perfectly usable. If you boot from something with an unconfigured or misconfigured initramfs (such as the install CD?) and need to chroot into a system, deactivating the array and reassembling it, even using --scan, should name it properly. Conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Digital Cinema 4k (4096x2160@60Hz) SST mode display and xf86-video-ati

2015-02-02 Thread Sid S
I don't think anybody is capable of giving you a firm answer because nobody has done it. You would probably be the first. In fact, when double-checking the info I had found earlier, some of the searches gave your message in the first 3-4 results. Hi Mom! Cards which support UHD should support 4k.

Re: [gentoo-user] android development with Qt in a Gentoo box

2015-01-30 Thread Sid S
A bit ago I was surprised to find out that http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/android-support.html exists. You might look at it, I can't personally recommend it. See also http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/platform-notes-android.html. I tend to suggest people at least look at the Google provided workflow. There are "issues

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating dependencies...: Any way to make it faster?

2015-01-24 Thread Sid S
If the bottleneck is reading the information from disk you might upgrade the SD card or use a USB drive instead, which may have better random access performance. You could also store the portage tree on another machine with faster storage and access it over the network. If the bottleneck is actuall

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergeing Firefox 35.0 breaks Ghostery ... fixable?

2015-01-14 Thread Sid S
I might suggest Adblock Edge as an alternative. It seems to work. Also, if you choose an EasyList+EasyPrivacy subscription, it should do all of what Ghostery does. An equivalent extension to replace Ghostery would be Disconnect.Me (it does not have ties to an advertising company, if you cared).

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it wrong to install a specific version

2015-01-11 Thread Sid S
A package set is just a list of packages in a file under /etc/portage/sets. You can operate on every package in the set at once. https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/ch02.html If you merged the packages by version they won't be automatically updated. This includes the case where they are p

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox bookmarks

2015-01-09 Thread Sid S
Look at the contents of ~/.mozilla/firefox and ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini in particular. The solution should be obvious. Also, see: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_working-with-profiles, the first Google result. ಠ_ಠ

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

2015-01-06 Thread Sid S
> ...until it doesn't, and then what? The comment was slightly off-topic and mainly pointed towards his decision to disable SELinux on a distribution which had enabled it by default. On Gentoo, if you enable SELinux, see all of the AVCs and decide to nope right out of there, you are making an info

Re: [gentoo-user] setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

2015-01-05 Thread Sid S
You should be using xmodmap OR xsetkbmap OR the configuration file, not all three (though they shouldn't interfere with each other if configured properly - they'd just all be doing the same thing). If you wish to set Caps_Lock to be Control_L, you need to redefine keycode 66, not 37 (37 is Control

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

2015-01-04 Thread Sid S
> I was wondering if there was any harm in disabling the NSA SELinux support > in my gentoo-sources based kernel. There is no harm, but if you were interested a lot of packages come with policies by default. Currently there is no support for SELinux in Gentoo for the vast majority of desktop appli

Re: [gentoo-user] VMs - what technology would you advise?

2014-12-31 Thread Sid S
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Mick wrote: > Vbox seems to be coming last by quite some margin in the intel tests! I also > read this article and it looks that vbox is thankfully doing better on AMD; > but there are differences in the versions and kernels used between the two > articles: Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] VMs - what technology would you advise?

2014-12-31 Thread Sid S
Yes, in favor of KVM. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_haswell_virtualization http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1404_kvmboxt On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 31 Dec 2014 07:32:18 Sid S wrote: >> I would

Re: [gentoo-user] VMs - what technology would you advise?

2014-12-30 Thread Sid S
I would suggest QEMU/KVM takes the place of VirtualBox. I've not actually found anything it doesn't support, though VirtualBox is far more polished. Starting a VM will be as easy as running a shell script (or you can use virt-manager).

Re: [gentoo-user] pavucontrol - Pulseaudio Volume Control, save settings

2014-12-22 Thread Sid S
Sorry, I forgot to add you are probably going to want to set the default source.

Re: [gentoo-user] pavucontrol - Pulseaudio Volume Control, save settings

2014-12-22 Thread Sid S
Pulseaudio is started automatically by either your desktop environment or programs which make use of it. It's running under your user. To solve your problem, I would look at adding `pactl` or `pacmd` line to any startup scripts you might have available. Note I don't actually think you are experien

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts

2014-12-19 Thread Sid S
> I still use GRUB to boot ISO images, and have a sysrescd image in /boot > for this. With UEFI, you can have more than one bootloader installed. I > hadn't considered the possibility of UEFI booting to an ISO directly, I'd > be interested to know if it is possible. Typically one takes the content

Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying a file by a block number...how?

2014-12-18 Thread Sid S
find / -xdev -inum <#> If you know it is in a directory more specific than /, replace / with that directory. inodes are only meaningful to ext2/3/4, but you can use the fs tools to find out where it is on disk. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Poison BL. wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:24 PM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-18 Thread Sid S
> I'd like to use the internal card most of the time since I don't care > about 3D acceleration but I do care alot about power saving. When using > an external monitor I'd like to use the NVidia card. Currently my > solution is to reboot and change bios settings, being able to switch at > runtime w

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-16 Thread Sid S
Using nouveau doesn't imply the card will always be on. Assuming the firmware on the device turns it off and on, vga-switcheroo or bbswitch will send the proper ACPI commands to turn it off and on. When it is on the chosen driver will be used. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Erik Mackdanz wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-16 Thread Sid S
I got bumblebee to work on hardened w/ SELinux. It is definitely ready for use. Anyway, as has been explained, you basically HAVE to use optimus - if you would like to return your laptop and/or sue the laptop manufacturer for false advertising, now would be the time to do it. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-12-03 Thread Sid S
Ah, I apologize. I did not mean to quote anything (it happens automatically; I will start paying more attention to it). I was hoping he would remember his additions to the conversation at hand and could extrapolate on them.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-12-02 Thread Sid S
Hasufell, what are you referring to by attempts to make Gentoo more friendly to gaming? On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 1:38 PM, hasufell wrote: > Alan Mackenzie: > > So that > > instead of conceptualising a "branch" (as you would do with Mercurial, > > Bazaar, Subversion, or even CVS), you need to thin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-24 Thread Sid S
Oh. I've had to use that, even. I was thinking patches of ebuilds. (???) On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Sid S wrote: > > > >>Today, ebuilds don't even let a chance for an admin to apply a series of >

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Sid S
Regardless, it would probably be useful to contact the people from the Debian project who were interested in forking it. It's likely Gentoo would end up using a fair amount of their work at some point. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Sid S wrote: > The reason this question is so hard t

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Sid S
The reason this question is so hard to answer is because it is not a technical question, it is a moral and ethical one. The links presented start to approach the issue being discussed in this light but do not entirely accept the right question. I suspect this is because it seems rather absurd. We

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-24 Thread Sid S
>We didn't disband the team because we thought that having a >team focused on games wasn't a bad idea, but so far nobody else seems >all that interested so it seems as likely as not that there won't be a >games team in the future. Probably a chicken-and-egg thing. I want to play games on my Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-22 Thread Sid S
I will agree with the suggestion that Asus laptop keyboards are decent. On the higher end models the keys have a surprising amount of travel. As for keyboards with a trackpoint, I would suggest the TEX Yoda Trackpoint and the Miniguru keyboards. Sadly, neither is available with any regularity (the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread Sid S
In a similar vein, I would suggest https://system76.com/laptops. I found them after I purchased my laptop. Had I known, I likely would have gone with them and purchased their most expensive model. For the most part, what you want is relatively hard to get with a typical consumer computer. They've

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using a yubikey neo as Smartcard as well?

2014-11-15 Thread Sid S
No, but I was interested in getting one. Did you configure it properly? https://www.yubico.com/2012/12/yubikey-neo-composite-device/ https://developers.yubico.com/libykneomgr/ On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > I just got a yubikey neo that I would like to us

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Sid S
I was deciding whether to reply earlier, and my worst fears were realized: you plan to start this automatically with no human intervention. Here is a snippet which should do what you want: `nohup my-program > /dev/null 2>&1 &` Screen and tmux will/should work, but at the very least I would suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Sid S
I believe what you've said is correct... because I'm pretty sure I read it in the documentation. On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 09/04/14 20:44, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: >> >>> On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: >>> On 09/04/2014

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD recmmendation / input

2014-08-29 Thread Sid S
An SSD has the best performance return per dollar than most any other investment you can make (for a typical workload). It's actually rather unlikely you'll get a bad one if you stick to relatively known brands. ADATA has some cheap options that, while pretty low on the totem poll, will give you a

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-24 Thread Sid S
? > > I've only been running Gentoo for a couple of years, so sorry for > asking all these questions. Most of the time a build fails on my > machine it's because I've done something really, really stupid, so just > don't want to make the mistake of diving in w

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-22 Thread Sid S
by styling tags. Sorry about that. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On Tue, 22 July 2014, at 2:48 pm, Sid S wrote: > > ... > > The build log is kind of large, tell me if the whole thing is needed. > > The file you sent would have been half the size, if y

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-22 Thread Sid S
ems with this in the past on non-hardened... you > have IA32 emulation turned on in the kernel right? > > Also, not sure if this is just me, but the really long lines (like the > top 4) run off the end of my screen and I can't see them at all. > > Alec > > On Tue 22 Jul

[gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-22 Thread Sid S
Not sure what relevant information to provide. My system works and I can compile other ebuilds normally, except, it seems, gcc and glibc. Searching for the error in the tile doesn't give me much - what it does give me doesn't seem to apply to my instance of the error, or at least what I know about