Thanks,
I decided to uninstall, then do a sync and then install again but now
getting lots of soft blocks. Think I'll wait until it's not in testing.
John
On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:47:49 -0500
Dale wrote:
> jdm wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've installed KDE Pla
Hello,
I've installed KDE Plasma 6 (plasma-meta) and all packages have built
with no problem but whenever I start in wayland session it crashes out
after a couple of seconds of logging in. X sessions works with no
problems.
So wondering if this is problem with just my PC or a more general issue
a
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100
Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> > What happens when you get to the end of the handbook?
> >
> > I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical
> > login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows ho
On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 22:03:21 +
z...@posteo.us wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 10:01:43AM +0100, jdm wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:14:40 +0100
> > jdm wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > At the weekend I updated my system and after reboo
On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:14:40 +0100
jdm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the weekend I updated my system and after reboot some of my apps
> have lots of black black squares/rectangles all over the place,
> covering all of the app window and making email difficult to write.
>
> Initially
Hi,
At the weekend I updated my system and after reboot some of my apps
have lots of black black squares/rectangles all over the place, covering
all of the app window and making email difficult to write.
Initially I thought this was a Wayland problem as using Wayfire but
switched to X11 desktop
Hi,
I have read on distrowatch that Gentoo has released some Kernel related
packages.
So having a look round I can see
gentoo-kernel
gentoo-kernel-bin
What are the differences between them?
I assume that using these you no longer need to compile your kernel (if
you don't want to)?
I have trie
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:33:42 +0200
Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Thanks Michael!
>
> I'll give it a try.
>
>
> best, Tamer
>
> Am 3 Jul 2020 um 15:46 schrieb Michael:
> > On Friday, 3 July 2020 14:33:52 BST Tamer Higazi wrote:
> >> Hi people,
> >>
> >> I had a problem with docker on gentoo and found
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:39:35 -0400
Jack wrote:
> On 2020.06.18 17:45, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 CPU sitting in a Gigabyte X470
> > Aurus Ultra Gaming motherboard with 64GB of RAM and an nVidia
> > graphics card. For some reason I've never been happy with th
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:16:23 -0500
Dale wrote:
> Jack wrote:
> > sys-libs/gpm perhaps?
>
> That should be the one. I have that installed and I use it on those
> rare occasions when the GUI doesn't come up and I need to edit a
> config file by pasting from a error to a file. It comes in handy
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 12:05:13 -0400
Jack wrote:
> sys-libs/gpm perhaps?
>
> On 6/6/20 12:01 PM, jdm wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have had to use the Gentoo Minimal Installation Cd to rescue my
> > system due something going wrong with UEFI boot crazyness. Which is
Hello,
I have had to use the Gentoo Minimal Installation Cd to rescue my
system due something going wrong with UEFI boot crazyness. Which is
resolved now.
What I have noticed is that you can use a mouse and copy/paste at the
command prompt in what looks like framebuffer/tty session or whatever
t
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:17:37 +0200
tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> On 04/29 06:05, jdm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen
> > freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by compiling EFIFB
> > (no previous
Hi,
I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen
freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by compiling EFIFB (no
previous FB compiled in) the card has been working fine for 2 days
booting normally. The machine then started not to boot, not even to get
to BIOS (so you co
On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:20:38 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:17:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> > >"BOINC is an open-source software platform for computing using
> > >volunteered
> > >resources."
> >
> > Considering the current situation, I switched my systems to
> >
n two rows I get the
> described effect: Hitting any of the four edges won't show the panel
> but change the desktop, the mouse jumps to the opposite side.
>
> Am Sa., 22. Feb. 2020 um 13:10 Uhr schrieb jdm :
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > For the last three versions of plas
Hi,
For the last three versions of plasma including latest 5.18 I am having
a problem with panels. If I put autohide on and place the mouse on edge
of the screen to get the panel to show my mouse (pointer) jumps to
another part of the screen. It jumps out of the panel which hides again.
This has
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 22:27:40 +
jdm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Over the last couple of weeks my wifi connection net.wlp5s0 doesn't
> see to want to connect at boot up (It used to be very fast but now
> taking 1min +). Therefore XDM (login screen slim) takes a long time
> to s
Hi,
Over the last couple of weeks my wifi connection net.wlp5s0 doesn't see
to want to connect at boot up (It used to be very fast but now taking
1min +). Therefore XDM (login screen slim) takes a long time to start
up. And LXD daemon doesn't start at all.
I have my rc.conf set to rc_parallel="YE
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 06:09:47 +0100
jdm wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:59:23 +1000
> Adam Carter wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:28 AM jdm wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > For the last 2 months I have been getting a problem where my
&
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:59:23 +1000
Adam Carter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:28 AM jdm wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > For the last 2 months I have been getting a problem where my machine
> > locks and after 2 seconds goes to a black screen. The machine is
> &g
Hi,
For the last 2 months I have been getting a problem where my machine
locks and after 2 seconds goes to a black screen. The machine is then
unusable, ctrl-alt-delete F1 or sys rescue keys do not work and you
cannot remote login.
I initially thought this was a problem with lxd but then experien
On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 23:39:42 +
Mick wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 10:55:21 GMT jdm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to run virt-manager and or qemu with 3d acceleration
> > using virtio-gpu options.
> >
> > When I start the virtual
Hi,
I am trying to run virt-manager and or qemu with 3d acceleration using
virtio-gpu options.
When I start the virtual machine in virt-manager all I get is a screen
of static (complete screen corruption of lines and blocks)
I also get the same problem when trying to start from CLI with the
fo
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 20:10:25 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:25:55 +0000, jdm wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if claws-mail can read HTML?
> >
> > According to wiki enabling dillo use flag should work but this is no
> > longer available.
> >
Hi All,
Does anyone know if claws-mail can read HTML?
According to wiki enabling dillo use flag should work but this is no
longer available.
Any suggestions.
I'm sure I used to be able to read HTML emails.
Thanks
John
On Fri, 25 May 2018 05:29:28 +
john wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2018 18:31:35 -0400
> Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:21 PM john wrote:
> > > On Sun, 20 May 2018 23:20:36 +0100
> > > Mick wrote:
> >
> > > > On Sunday, 20 May 2018 21:54:32 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:29:39 +0100
jdm wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:12:49 -0400
> P Levine wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM, jdm wrote:
> > > Any thouhgts much appreciated.
> >
> > I tried helping to diagnose a similar probl
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:12:49 -0400
P Levine wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM, jdm wrote:
> > Any thouhgts much appreciated.
>
> I tried helping to diagnose a similar problem for a user on Reddit
> recently, blackscreen/freeze with AMDGPU on boot. After trying
&g
Hi All,
A few months ago I bought a AMD RX 480 GPU and followed the Gentoo
amdgpu guide and everything ran just fine with excellent graphics
performance.
At the weekend I upgraded my PC from a AMD 970 chipset to a x370
chipset (fx8300 to ryzen 1700x).
I re-installed Gentoo but the first time I s
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.
Many Thanks to the wiki authors.
Will we always have to include binary blobs into the kerne
On Sunday 03 November 2013 17:10:14 Marc Joliet wrote:
>Am Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:42:17 +
>
>schrieb Mick :
>> On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> > On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +, jdm wrote:
>> > > I think they are flash but I cannot pl
On Saturday 02 November 2013 16:31:21 Mick wrote:
>On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 00:02:26 jdm wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions?
>> They run fine in Firefox.
>>
>> John D Maunder
>
>Are they flash or H
Hello,
I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions?
They run fine in Firefox.
John D Maunder
Big thanks to the guys and girls who got the STEAM overlay up and
running.
Its awesome.
PS Along with Gentoo of course.
Getting darn all done in the way of work though!
Steam on Linux. Alas I can see the end of my dual booting days.
Regards
John
Hello,
I have recently been trying lxc and after a recent upgrade I get the
following message:
lxc-execute: No such file or directory - failed to create symlink for
kmsg
lxc-execute: failed to setup kmsg for 'jack'
lxc-execute: failed to setup the container
lxc-execute: invalid sequence number
Neil Bothwick wrote :
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:08:18 +, j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk
> wrote:
>
> > I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb.
> >
> > To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using
> > lvm as home swap var are located on lvm.
>
>
Over the last few days I have tried to set up using uefi gpt and grub2. After
many hours of frustration I have gone back to grub legacy and mbr.
I followed the Gentoo wiki and Arch wiki and several other sources of which I
failed miserably. Is this technology fairly unreliable? I booted from a
I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb.
To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as
home swap var are located on lvm.
Is this the right approach or would you recommend another method?
John D Maunder.
Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from
working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver
starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues
where left off.
I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but s
Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from
working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver
starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues
where left off.
I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but s
Fellow Gentoers,
I have just bought a nice and shiny new gaming keyboard
Solid Year Keysonic KSK-6001 UELX
The keyboard works at BIOS, grub and in Windows.
But is totally unresponsive using Linux apart from Backspace(lol)
After searching the net I found the issue was due to anti-ghosting
buil
Lazlo my use flags for keeping kde and gnome away are -kde -gnome -qt4
I also have
eselect profile set 1
You may have to use /etc/portage/package.use to get guis to some packages
That may need kde or gnome
Jdm
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From
Survey answer
Desktop and laptop gentoo. Both for personal use. Desktop hosts webserver for
pictures and stuff (keeps the mrs happy) inc samba, kvm, etc
Been using for 4 years and still haven't got a clue but mailing list has been
great for tips and advice and sanity.
Dual boot with windows 7
Have run python-updater and python profile is set to 2.7. Looking at the forum
a user had had a similer issue and got round this by changing profile to
desktop. I always use base. When I get home I will try this and and kde
profile.
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Other packages emerge fine. Have emerge sync and update world plus emerge
mplayer which all ok. Seen on forum to select desktop profile to get round this
but have not tried yet.
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-Original Message-
From: Francesco Talamona
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011
Thanks. Rsync sounds like a good option as I can boot pc with old hard disks
installed.
I assume that rsync works ok with ntfs?
Jdm
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-Original Message-
From: Albert Hopkins
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:18:53
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user
A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual
core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. I was going
to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages with march native
Firstly would you reccommend cloning and if so what is best te
Sometimes found re emerge xfce packages have helped with problems in particular
xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfdesktop xfwm4
Jdm
--Original Message--
From: András Csányi
To: Gentoo
ReplyTo: Gentoo
Subject: [gentoo-user] xfce (window manager)
Sent: 20 Jul 2011 09:49
Dear All,
I would like
No unfortunately
--Original Message--
From: Matthew Finkel
To: Gentoo
ReplyTo: Gentoo
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm
Sent: 16 Jul 2011 17:51
On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote:
> I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64
> box.
>
> Everything is running well. Ma
Hmmm tried system rescue and startx works just fine. Copied kernel config from
system rescue to guest and tried genkernel from live cd. Still the same error.
Odd on, will try windows aaaghHh.
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-Original Message-
From: Albert Hopkins
Date: Fri, 1
There real name is thripids. And are a darn nuissance. They seemingly have
stopped moving after being fried by watching youtube clips of the real
Thunderbugs.
Flashplayer actually has got some use after all.
--Original Message--
From: Pandu Poluan
Sender: Pandu Poluan
To: Gentoo
ReplyTo
Thanks Rudmer,
This works well. Thanks for your help. I was under the impression that these
rules were supplied but obviously not. Must have got them from somewhere else
before but can't remember where.
Many thanks
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-Original Message-
From: Rudme
Thanks Neil. The startup notification problem makes sense as when I tried
awesome that also broke claws-mail.
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:11:44
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Claws-mail
On Fri, 24 Jun
After upgrading some x11 libraries yesterday my claws-mail broke with
segmentation fault. Upgrading to latest testing version fixed the issue.
Believe libxcb is the culprit here. Should this be reported as a bug or will
the devs be aware?
JDM
2011 00:02
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>
>
>> I wonder what 3.0 will be like
>>
>>
> Newer... ;-)
>
>
Newer problems right? :-P
Dale
:-) :-)
JDM
Thanks Dale
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Dale
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:19:41
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases
JDM wrote:
> Is there a Gentoo facebook site? Yeap, the turtle made me chuckle as well.
> JDM
>
>
Here
Is there a Gentoo facebook site? Yeap, the turtle made me chuckle as well.
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Dale
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:59:36
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases
JDM wrote:
> Neil,
> Where do you get all those funky expre
Neil,
Where do you get all those funky expressions from at the end of your emails? Is
there a Genapp ebuild?
JDM
yeah its not really the way to go but nevermind. Probably won't use it anyway.
A little too complicated for my needs. Looking for something a bit simpler?
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Florian Philipp
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:03:01
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Su
s, I'm very happy to be able
to use it again on my desktop.
Long life to Gentoo, indeed!!!
JDM
15:30:12 john wrote:
> Gents
[...]
It may have escaped your attention, but we here aren't all gents.
Just thought I'd mention it.
--
Rgds
Peter
JDM
NFIG_HID_ROCCAT is not set
# CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_ARVO is not set
# CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_KONE is not set
# CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_KONEPLUS is not set
# CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_KOVAPLUS is not set
# CONFIG_HID_ROCCAT_PYRA is not set
JDM
I used to get this when using ati-drivers (radeon). This has not happened for a
good year though. Sysreq not responsive but you could ssh into machine. Ssh
maybe worth a try. If you do not have radeon then the advise is close to
meaningless.
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Dale
Date
Tp-Link TL-WN951N
Works well for me on both linux and windows. Linux drivers (atheros ath9k) are
available in kernel sources. Found this very reliable and quite cheap on amazon
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Adam Carter
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:07:20
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user
Thanks Dale. Will try tonight when I get home. After using Gentoo for a number
of years you get used to doing things a certain. These mailing lists really
help expand knowledge. Regards
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Dale
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:22:27
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user
use flags?
Sent: 23 May 2011 10:10
On Friday 20 May 2011 09:17:48 JDM wrote:
> Try "eselect profile list" which should list available profiles including
> a gnome.
>
> You will need symlinks in "USE" flags in make.conf to get eselect to work
> and reemerged wo
7;m hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome
> may be due to not having a suitable profile. I would like to select a
> different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current
> profile.
JDM
Genthinktank,
How can you determine all the available frambuffer resolutions and colour
depths on a particular host for vesafb. I normally set this through trial and
error but there must be a command to determine these?
JDM
Thnx, have followed advice. I am impressed.
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:26
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)
On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:57:14 -0400,
That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge?
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Tanstaafl
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 07:58:34
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)
On 2011-05-15 10:54 PM, Fe
will over new fans. Its
oodles better than any of its contemicropories.
JDM
-Original Message-
From: Dale
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 08:46:32
To:
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?
Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
He
--Original Message--
From: Alex Schuster
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
ReplyTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error
Sent: 9 May 2011 11:36
Kfir Lavi writes:
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Xi Shen
> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4
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