Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like

2006-04-30 Thread michael
inal asker (Ryan?) since he'll have the feedback from his wife, but if no one else wants to do it I'll do it. Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gentoo at linuxworld in san francisco this summer?

2006-05-03 Thread michael
Will Gentoo have a presence at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, in August? I think last year they had a booth in the .org pavillion. As a San Fransiscan Gentoo user, I'd like to be involved. To whom do I speak? Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam, spam, spam

2006-05-17 Thread michael
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On May 16 19:03, JimD (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup and use? I'd recommend spamassassin. I've tried all of the popular spam filters, including SA, dspam, and bogof

[gentoo-user] How can I get java compiler without x11?

2006-05-22 Thread michael
needs x11. Is there a way to get the java compiler without installing x11? Or am I misunderstanding something here? Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I get java compiler without x11?

2006-05-23 Thread michael
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Remy Blank wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm missing libdb so Apache won't run. emerge sys-libs/db failed due to missing the java compiler, javac. Add the following line to /etc/portage/package.use sys-libs/db -java This will disable the java USE flag for sys-libs

[gentoo-user] Gentoo presence at LinuxWorld this summer in San Francisco?

2006-05-24 Thread michael
Is there to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld? I'd like to help. Whom do I contact? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What is causing x11-terms/xterm to be dragged in?

2006-05-26 Thread michael
t +xv 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-base/opengl-update-3.0.0 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3 0 kB How can I find out what is requiring x11-terms/xterm-207? Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What is causing x11-terms/xterm to be dragged in?

2006-05-26 Thread michael
mal -mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-base/opengl-update-3.0.0 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3 0 kB How can I find out what is requiring x11-terms/xterm-207? Thanks, Michae

Re: [gentoo-user] What is causing x11-terms/xterm to be dragged in?

2006-05-26 Thread michael
rbis X xml2 xmms xv" AHA! but the man page for emerge says not to edit /etc/make.profile/make.defaults. How do I get X out of there? If in fact that's the cause of my problem? Michael Everything you put in /etc/make.conf should be based on the make.defaults, or possible

[gentoo-user] voodoopad for linux?

2006-05-31 Thread michael
not, perhaps it would be a fun project Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] voodoopad for linux?

2006-05-31 Thread michael
) and I was blown away. It's a bit like wikiwikiweb, but it's on your local computer, not through a server/browser setup. Surely such a thing must exist for Linux, but I haven't found it yet. Anyone here know? If not, perhaps it would be a fun project Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] voodoopad for linux?

2006-05-31 Thread michael
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:54:30 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found what I was looking for, and it's a very cool program. Do any of you have experience with this? http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/ I've been using it for a while, sin

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 6 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to m

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 6 June 2006 18:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about sftp? You only need to have ssh running. What kind of a client do you need to talk to an sftp server? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SFTP_clients plus, of course, the sftp b

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
This discussion is really off-topic. Please label it as such. The original post was regarding ftp servers. On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, DON"T let him use Frontpage. I used it once and have had to support a server with it for a class - - it creates junk, hides stuff (in

Re: [gentoo-user] Which process is using port 5060 ?

2006-06-15 Thread michael
I think fuser is what you want: EXAMPLES if fuser -s /dev/ttyS1; then :; else something; fi invokes something if no other process is using /dev/ttyS1. fuser telnet/tcp shows all processes at the (local) TELNET port. or fuser 80/tcp On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Dave S wrote: Hi all,

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-26 Thread michael
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Evan Klitzke wrote: On 6/26/06, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are using kde: konqueror sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path] Incidentally you can do the same thing in nautilus :-) Ctrl-L will bring up a location dialog, and then you can use sf

Re: [gentoo-user] What is this: http://en.fon.com/

2006-07-15 Thread michael
Well it's a little spammy in that it doesn't really address the original post but it does seem like an interesting project. I'd be interesd in what others think of this. Michael On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, there are several mails replied only with

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread michael
this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh sessions, so my focus may be a bit different from others. tcpdump (and ethereal/wireshark) of course can not

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread michael
t! I had almost forgotten all about it until Michael mentioned it. - -- gentux another 2 great advantages of etherape: 1. looks cool 2. i think our brains can better process a lot of information as visual patterns. i have to concentrate more to read all the fields in iftop or bmon, but a quick

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2006-09-07 Thread michael
educate newcomers. I might be accused of putting too much info in my subject, but I figure it's helpful to those who wish to skip it. Good luck everyone, in finding the posts you wish, and the answers to your questions. Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade from 3.x to 4.x, when should I run revdep-rebuild?

2006-09-07 Thread michael
I'm upgrading my gcc from 3.x to 4.x. I've done the gcc switching, and now I'm updating my system. The recommended steps are: # emerge -eav system # emerge -eav world While emerging my system I received a message suggesting I run revdep-rebuild: warning - be sure to run revdep-rebuild no

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread michael
Good one, Jean-Marc! I hope my experience is better than yours. I'm in the middle of this process on a live system, been building since Monday (it's an old 600MHz box) If you can read this email, my system is still running Michael On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread michael
What change did you have to make to CHOST? 386 to 686? or something more complicated? On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: For me, the problem was that I had to change CHOST...then I'll re-install from scratch. But I don't say Gentoo is bad, I say, I am bad at Gentoo ! On 9/8/06, Tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread michael
User I was attracted to Gentoo because it was different, and I'm attracted to things like that. Coming from a background of Slackware and Redhat, I fell in love with the ease of portage But I strongly believe one of the biggest strengths of Gentoo is this list. I have learned more from reading

[gentoo-user] missing profile files: how did that happen? what do i do?

2006-09-09 Thread michael
006.1 directory in it! and, upon further inspection, my /etc/make.profile is not a link, but rather a real directory with real files in it. what's going on here, and how do i get the 2006.1 profile? thanks, michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread michael
i use xubuntu on an old laptop, and it's quite snappy. although i'm sure you could get snappier results with gentoo On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Karl Huysmans wrote: Hi All, A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 M

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread michael
, and I wonder about the philosopical implications of liking what seem to be polar opposites. Human nature, perhaps. Regards, Michael "My other computer runs (Gentoo,Ubuntu)" Shiloh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-27 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 22:17:20 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 20:53 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I know I could plump for the -bin package. Maybe I should. > > I did, recently. > > Anecdotes/opinions/rant follows. Feel free to ignore, I just wanted to > vent be

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 09:58:57 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/04/21 23:00, Michael wrote: > > There's three options, I can think of: > > > > 1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above. > > > > 2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] why resizing newsboat's terminal won't show more text?

2021-04-28 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 10:04:19 BST caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote: > hi. when i open newsboat in a small window, it > fills it with text, and eats the remaining text > as expected (so that there is a single news item > per line. fine). > > but: > 1. on arch linux's package, when i

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-04-30 Thread Michael
On Friday, 30 April 2021 02:30:51 BST Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:58 PM Kai Peter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an issue with a machine where I'm not able to detect the real > > root cause. It hangs up totally. It seems like it was running out of > > memory - but why? Hopefully

[gentoo-user] No-multilib media-libs/opencv-4.5.0 fails to install

2021-05-06 Thread Michael
At some point in the install stage emerge tries to remove some python modules and fails: == rm: cannot remove 'modules/python3': No such file or directory === Half way it complains about CPU optimisations:

Re: [gentoo-user] No-multilib media-libs/opencv-4.5.0 fails to install

2021-05-07 Thread Michael
Thanks Rainer, On Friday, 7 May 2021 15:19:45 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Michael, > > On Thursday, 2021-05-06 19:25:11 +0100, you wrote: > > ... > > Half way it complains about CPU optimisations: > > == > > R

[gentoo-user] Re: No-multilib media-libs/opencv-4.5.0 fails to install

2021-05-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 6 May 2021 19:25:11 BST you wrote: > At some point in the install stage emerge tries to remove some python > modules and fails: > > == > rm: cannot remove 'modules/python3': No such file or directory > === > > > Half way it complains a

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling/loading problem

2021-05-11 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 11 May 2021 15:47:40 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm having problems with libreoffice. I thought at first it was a space > problem, after the recent thread on running out of it, but I now have /tmp > as part of /, not separate, and /var/tmp/portage on a 100GB partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus laptop & brightness keys

2021-05-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 May 2021 11:46:46 BST Emmanuel Vasilakis wrote: > Hi! > > I got a new Asus Zenbook laptop, with a ryzen 4500U processor. Most > things run great, except those brightness keys! > > Nothing is reported when pressing them, either with showkeys or > acpi_listen, so I can't bind them t

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-21 Thread Michael
On Friday, 21 May 2021 15:42:01 BST pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: > Hello list, > > Mynew machine has Win-10 installedon /dev/nvme0n1 with the ESP as partition > 1. I want to install Gentoo on /dev/nvme1n1. So far I haven't found a way > to set up a working boot arrangement. I've tried mounting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows 10 Pro 64bit in Virtualbox

2021-05-22 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 22 May 2021 22:14:28 BST Matthias Hanft wrote: > the...@sys-concept.com schrieb: > > Is anybody running Windows 10 Pro 64bit in Virtualbox? > > No problems so far - except that it's not very fast (which > means "pretty slow"). I'm still investigating some speed > improvements, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows 10 Pro 64bit in Virtualbox

2021-05-23 Thread Michael
> On Sat, May 22, 2021, 17:02 wrote: > > Is anybody running Windows 10 Pro 64bit in Virtualbox? > > Is it stable? > > Is it easy to resize? I forgot to mention stability and resizing ... In one case after a major update the Win10 desktop became terribly unstable, menus not showing up, everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows 10 Pro 64bit in Virtualbox

2021-05-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 May 2021 19:39:24 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Thank Michael for the update. It is handy. > When you are talking about "transparency" you mean inside Windows 10, isn't > it? Yes, under Settings > Personalization > Colors > Transparency Ef

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU -nographic Option with OVMF

2021-05-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 May 2021 02:01:15 BST Oliver Dixon wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to bite the bullet yesterday and switch from clunky, and generally > untoward, VirtualBox to QEMU/KVM for developing kernel modules. I have a > working Gentoo VM with all the bells and whistles I need/want (UEFI > booting,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 May 2021 14:11:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 21 May 2021 20:06:25 BST Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 21 May 2021 15:42:01 BST pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > Mynew machine has Win-10 installedon /dev/nvm

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-26 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:23:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Thanks for the offer, Michael, but let me clear a few things up first. > > 1. I don't use symlinks in /boot. This allows a simpler single boot partition (ESP) & filesystem set up (VFAT). > 2. I don't us

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-27 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 09:22:33 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 14:49:01 BST Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:23:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Thanks for the offer, Michael, but let me clear a few things up first. > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo

2021-05-27 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:05:07 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > It was nice to have a newer "hot backup" (XPS8940) to switch over to > quickly when an older machine started locking up occasionally. Now I > need a "hot backup" for the newer machine that I ordered last October. > Dell Inspirons seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Can Portage be used with FreeBSD or NetBSD?

2021-06-01 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 10:59:27 BST Thomas Mueller wrote: > Can Portage be used as a package manager with anything other than Linux? Yes, it used to be, but from what I know the *BSD projects were abandoned due to lack of maintainers. > I like some features of Portage; think it might be better

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 03:10:10 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:04:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Since wiping Windows voids the warranty, I'll run the new machine for > > > > > > several days under Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 08:32:47 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 22:10:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I always boot system rescue and dd the entries drive to somewhere > > > safe. That way I restore the original setup in the case of a warranty > > > claim - unless the failure is

Re: [gentoo-user] Would constant max CPU speed cause lockups?

2021-06-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:37:26 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2021-06-05 13:18-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop > > > > with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would > > default to 480p or at best 720p on Youtube.

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

2021-06-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 21:22:12 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 6/10/21 1:19 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > I'm trying to use the default "lightdm" for login but whenever I type-in > > the password it it puts me back to login screen (asking for password) I > > changed/updated the p

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

2021-06-11 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 22:42:10 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 6/10/21 2:38 PM, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 10 June 2021 21:22:12 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> On 6/10/21 1:19 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >>> I'm trying to use

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

2021-06-11 Thread Michael
On Friday, 11 June 2021 09:46:04 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Thelma, > > On Thursday, 2021-06-10 15:42:10 -0600, you wrote: > > ... > > In: /usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf > > I change to > > Numlock=on > > No! Directory "/usr/share/sddm/" contains the default configuration for >

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

2021-06-11 Thread Michael
On Friday, 11 June 2021 18:35:01 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > As for numlock it still not ON. > The solution I think is to install: "x11-misc/numlockx" and point to it the > configuration file. I but I have "numlock" in default run-level This is installed as a runlevel script to enable nu

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

2021-06-12 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 12 June 2021 15:43:18 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > it's been quite a while that I had problems doing my routine Gentoo up- > grade. This time package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" balked, and > in the build log I found this: > > * Package:dev-texlive/texli

Re: [gentoo-user] Warnings during google-chrome build

2021-06-12 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 12 June 2021 19:16:17 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Pale Moon is my "daily driver" web browser, but I need google-chrome > to handle Netflix DRM. Anyhow, I get some warnings at the end of the > build about... > > 1) Metadata location > > 2) USER_NS and sandbox > > Does everybody els

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

2021-06-13 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 13 June 2021 15:11:18 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > All, > > On Sunday, 2021-06-13 15:39:46 +0200, I myself wrote: > > ... > > > > > > $ sudo locale > > > > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > > > > ... > > > > Erm, is there a difference between "*.utf8" and "*.UTF-8"? Does case > > matter? > > Ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

2021-06-13 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 13 June 2021 18:10:46 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Michael, > > On Sunday, 2021-06-13 16:16:37 +0100, you wrote: > > ... > > $ grep -i en_gb /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED > > en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > en_GB ISO-8859-1 > > Same here. It would/should be

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

2021-06-13 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 13 June 2021 19:05:29 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:33:57 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 06:46:15AM +0200, Hund wrote > > > > > >Let me rephrase the question more generally... given a > > > >kernel "/boot/vmlinuz-fubar" how and where do I speci

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-21 Thread Michael
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 how long ago) I seem to > remember a page on setting up X, and a

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-25 Thread Michael
On Friday, 25 June 2021 08:50:32 BST antlists wrote: > On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: > > 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 o

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-25 Thread Michael
On Friday, 25 June 2021 20:15:22 BST antlists wrote: > On 25/06/2021 09:46, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 25 June 2021 08:50:32 BST antlists wrote: > >> On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: > >>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 > >>> > >>> Micha

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-26 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 26 June 2021 08:19:24 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 26/06/21 00:51, Michael wrote: > > Given your error, you appear to not have installed the requisite packages > > for the Plasma/KDE. It should have been installed as a dependency of > > plasma-workspace: >

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-26 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 26 June 2021 11:50:01 BST antlists wrote: > I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basically, a > full-weight normal desktop. [snip ...] > I've got this one selected, /desktop/plasma/systemd Select default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd (stable). Then upd

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:05:59 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: > > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work > > with > > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a > > bla

Re: [gentoo-user] Smplayer adjusting PCM level in Kmix.

2021-06-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:54:46 BST John Covici wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 23:52:51 -0400, > > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I've had this problem for a really long time. I've tried adjusting > > settings in Smplayer to stop it but so far, I have not found the magic > > combination or option

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 June 2021 12:52:39 BST antlists wrote: > On 27/06/2021 11:36, Michael wrote: > > You're meant to be running X11 as a non-root user. > > And if the only user on the system is root, which I'm logged in as :-) Then create a plain non-root user account and l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Smplayer adjusting PCM level in Kmix.

2021-06-27 Thread Michael
adjusts the PCM sound level in Kmix. > > > > I still use mplayer a lot, and it doesn't do that. Whenver I start > > mplayer the volume is always whereever I left it last. > > > > -- > > Grant > > I think it is a Smplayer bug. The idea Michael had wor

Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-29 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 29 June 2021 08:49:49 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/06/21 20:23, antlists wrote: > > On 26/06/2021 13:00, Michael wrote: > >> On Saturday, 26 June 2021 11:50:01 BST antlists wrote: > >>> I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basical

Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-06-29 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 29 June 2021 11:32:52 BST antlists wrote: > On 29/06/2021 10:44, Michael wrote: > > In Plasma this would be kwin, which acts as a window manager and a > > compositor. If you had installed Plasma in accordance with the URL I > > shared in previous emails you should

Re: [gentoo-user] deactivate (bluetooth) hardware based on irq/mac address

2021-07-03 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 3 July 2021 12:17:42 BST Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi people, > > I want to deactivate my bluetooth device on my mainboard when gentoo is > loaded. > I don't want to "blacklist" the driver, more I want to tell the kernel > to ignore this hardware. > > Is there a way to tell "gentoo" to d

Re: [gentoo-user] deactivate (bluetooth) hardware based on irq/mac address

2021-07-03 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 3 July 2021 12:59:24 BST Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi > > The problem is that the bluetooth circuit seems to be damaged, as I have > recently the same result on Windows (not only on linux. > > At Windows, I can deactivate the hardware at the "device manager", I > want this the same to be

Re: [gentoo-user] libbpf? BTF? blinking urxvt/fish?

2021-07-14 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 July 2021 14:41:08 BST caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote: > On Sunday, July 11th, 2021 at 13:11, Nils Freydank wrote: > > Hi caveman, > > > > you should really train your search skills :-P > > lel. more like train my cognition. I could do with a bit of the same! ;-) > > (1)

Re: [gentoo-user] pango, freetype, and harfbuzz: circular dependencies?

2021-07-17 Thread Michael
Hi Matt, On Saturday, 17 July 2021 17:19:46 BST Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hi, > > doing the weekly "emerge --sync" and "emerge -aDuv @world", portage > suddenly asks me to set the "harfbuzz" USE flag for "freetype". The > exact messages are > > --- cut here --- > > emerge: there are no ebuilds bu

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread Michael
On Friday, 30 July 2021 09:20:45 BST John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:20:59 -0400, > > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > On 7/29/21 9:10 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > It seems to me "dev-lang/perl-5.34" was made stable and it is causing a > > > problem.> > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 August 2021 12:10:12 BST n952162 wrote: > On 8/1/21 8:32 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 17:32 +0200, n952162 wrote: > >>* Verifying /var/db/repos/gentoo/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine > >> > >> ...!!! Manifest v

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 August 2021 22:17:35 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:01:40 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > I have this problem every month. Why does it fail? Is it just a > > > timeout because my network is slow? Can that be tweaked? > > > > I get th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 02:28:09 BST John Covici wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 18:42:29 -0400, > > Michael wrote: > > > > On Monday, 2 August 2021 22:17:35 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:01:40 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 11:49:23 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:55:46 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Anyhow, I recall using git to sync a live ebuild - from some repo > > and portage started downloading gigabytes of cruft. Presumably whole > > decades of

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED (hopefully) New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-08-04 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:24:31 BST antlists wrote: > On 21/06/2021 16:17, Michael wrote: > > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work > > with > > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a > >

Re: [gentoo-user] unregister_netdevice: waiting for ip6gre0 to become free. Usage count = -1

2021-08-08 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 8 August 2021 17:06:36 BST Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hello, > > After upgrading to 4.14.240-gentoo, I’m seeing “unregister_netdevice: > waiting for ip6gre0 to become free. Usage count = -1” being flooded by > syslogd. This box was running 4.14.194-gentoo before and I don’t have > any other

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-20 Thread Michael
On Friday, 20 August 2021 07:55:34 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > Apparently installing libffi-compat will un-hose my system where ALL > SOFTWARE that needs FFI thru python is broken, especially all portage > tooling... > > Is there a repository and walkthru for installing this? This may help: https:/

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-21 Thread Michael
On Friday, 20 August 2021 17:11:59 BST Andrea Conti wrote: > >> This may help: > >> > >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Fixing_broken_portage > > It will not help in this case, since what's broken is python and not > portage. > > If that won't work for whatever reason, chroot into

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-26 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:22:39 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 12:27:08 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:35:26 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > As the Firefox dir is all text files, I think, when you > > > > > > > > > > blow it away an

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure two net interfaces (one static and other dynamic)

2021-08-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 27 August 2021 17:39:27 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 16:52 +0200, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Installed Gentoo into VirtualBox and I want to have two network > > interfaces (on different networks with IP ranges) one with static IP and > > anoth

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 11:30:38 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a weird problem on my Lenovo P14s laptop. Before I applied a world > upgrade (based on August 22 state portage), the internal speaker of the > laptop worked fine, but now its all silent, although all mixer leve

Re: [gentoo-user] how to run freerdp

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 20:29:30 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2021-08-30 21:10+0200 n952162 wrote: > > I just emerged freerdp-2.3.2 without issue, but there's no executable > > except /usr/bin/winpr-*, which I think just serve to set up an > > authentication system. > > > > There's no freerdp, xfre

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 21:03:02 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Montag, 30. August 2021, 13:30:03 CEST schrieb Michael: > > There was a recent move to pipewire which could have jumbled audio devices > > around for you - but I am not familiar with how pipewire works, or why it

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 12:08:04 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would not > > have any effect. Anyway, let's try this

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 15:33:07 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 10:04 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > What I probably should get around to is grokking EFI+linux. I'm not > > sure what the cleanest solution for that is these days - I've never > > actually set up EFI on li

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 20:21:58 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:21:35 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > If you are multibooting frequently and getting into the UEFI boot > > > menu to change the boot order or running efibootmgr is too much > > > hassle, then a 3rd party boot ma

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 20:54:14 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 3:44 PM Michael wrote: > > Please beware, I have not used zfs to date, only btrfs, so the above > > merely > > reflects my understanding rather than in depth experience of the > > di

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-09 Thread Michael
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 create .jpg versions, > but while they're much smaller in Kbytes (good), >

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-09 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:00:50 BST 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. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse and keyboard don't respond

2021-09-10 Thread Michael
On Friday, 10 September 2021 09:15:25 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 21:29:51 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > libinput sees them both but it keeps saying > > libinput: Logitech G703 (my mouse) Failed to create a device for > > /dev/input/event23 and before that it says xf85O

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse and keyboard don't respond

2021-09-10 Thread Michael
On Friday, 10 September 2021 13:12:10 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:43:26 +0100, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 10 September 2021 09:15:25 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 21:29:51 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > > libinp

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Michael
On Monday, 20 September 2021 14:56:46 BST Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > Well, this was the suggested way to go, see > https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-05-05-python3-9.html > > But also when trying "emerge -1vUD @world" (be it with or without the > package.use settings), I get stuck in confl

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Michael
On Monday, 20 September 2021 15:52:03 BST Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:29:30 +0100 > > Michael wrote: > > Personally, I'd back up /home /etc and world file, plus any databases > > or websites if stored under /var/, then untar the latest stage 3 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-23 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 17:38:15 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've booted a kernel with no NUMA config, and it seems to run fine on this > single-socket Ryzen motherboard. I just get the one entry in dmesg: > > $ dmesg | grep -i numa > [0.297998] pci_bus :00: on NUMA node 0 > > Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-24 Thread Michael
On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:06:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:20:52 BST Michael wrote: > > Out of interest, have you tried booting a NUMA enabled kernel to see what > > dmesg reports? > > Yes, it's been enabled ever since I had

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