Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

On Sunday, 25 August 2024 14:53:21 BST Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > This is read-edid version 3.0.2. Prepare for some fun. > > Attempting to use i2c interface > > No EDID on bus 0 > > No EDID on bus 2 > > No EDID on bus 3 > > No EDID on bus 4 > > No EDID on bus 5 > > No EDID on bus 6 >

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

t thickens! If the resolution in the BIOS menu is also wrong and offset, it sounds like an MSI bug of sorts - "Try disabling CSM" in your UEFI settings: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/low-resolution-boot-uefi-bios.3530375/ https://superuser.com/questions/1209012/uefi-and

Re: [gentoo-user] edid problems

On Monday, 26 August 2024 00:37:24 BST Jack wrote: > While following the "New machine: Contents of display are offset around > 2 inches from the left hand side." thread, I thought I would try > get-edid myself. Unfortunately, I get > > This is read-edid version 3.0.2. Prepare for some fun. > Atte

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

On Monday, 26 August 2024 11:40:43 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Michael. > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 22:04:05 +0100, Michael wrote: [snip ...] > > OK, in the first instance disable the CMS in the UEFI settings and reboot. > > Some boards do not lose some of their cac

Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side.

On Tuesday, 27 August 2024 17:05:26 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, everybody. > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 14:49:14 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 12:54:20 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 26 August 2024 11:40:43 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/crontab - sending notification to a different user

On Saturday, 31 August 2024 20:11:34 BST syscon edm wrote: > >> MAILTO="sysc...@gmail.com" > > MAILTO="sysc...@gmail.com" > MAILTO='sysc...@gmail.com' > MAILTO=syscon8 > > I've tried single quote, double quotes, but it doesn't work; now even > without quotes I don't get email from cronie > After

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - how to pre start nfs client services

On Saturday, 31 August 2024 15:32:38 BST Daniel Frey wrote: > I have a few frontends on TVs and use automount on some NFS sources. > > However, I can't seem find a way to start the nfs client services on > startup. Wiki for NFS and other documentation says that systemd does > this automatically (a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to setup internal email sending

On Saturday, 31 August 2024 18:37:06 BST ralfconn wrote: > I did not have success making the mail client (thunderbird in my case) > read from a local mailbox so I ended up configuring the MTA (nullmailer) > to forward the messages produced by my local daemons or shell scripts to > one of the exter

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/crontab - sending notification to a different user

On Tuesday, 27 August 2024 21:14:56 BST J. Aho wrote: > On 27/08/2024 19.09, syscon edm wrote: > > That is not it. > > > > I changed in /etc/crontab > > MAILTO=sysc...@gmail.com Does it work if you try: MAILTO="sysc...@gmail.com" > > restart cronie but system is stil

Re: [gentoo-user] How to setup internal email sending

On Saturday, 31 August 2024 15:10:02 BST gevisz wrote: > I want to set up ZFS Event Daemon Notifications to be sent by ZED to > my user account locally. > It is said in ZFS Gentoo Wiki (see, > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS#ZFS_Event_Daemon_Notifications) > that to do this I have to set my email

Re: [gentoo-user] How to setup internal email sending

On Saturday, 31 August 2024 18:37:06 BST ralfconn wrote: > Il 31/08/24 19:09, Michael ha scritto: > > On Saturday, 31 August 2024 15:10:02 BST gevisz wrote: > >> I want to set up ZFS Event Daemon Notifications to be sent by ZED to > >> my user account locally. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/crontab - sending notification to a different user

On Saturday, 31 August 2024 21:56:59 BST syscon edm wrote: > In /etc/postfix/main.cf I only have: > > myorigin = gmail.com > > If I use: > myorigin = sysc...@gmail.com > > I get an error message; > Aug 31 14:28:02 i5 postfix/smtp[25841]: 1A31217E00EC: to= gmail.com>, OK, I expect you'd need to

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/crontab - sending notification to a different user

On Saturday, 31 August 2024 20:34:49 BST syscon edm wrote: > Sorry, the cron entry should be: > 55 12 * * * mv /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/* /home/thelma/mon/ > 1-5 is Monday to Friday > > mail.log: > > Aug 31 13:24:01 i5 postfix/qmgr[32301]: 0880F17E00EB: from=< > sysc...@gmail.com>, size=699, n

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

On Sunday, 25 August 2024 16:20:19 BST Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 07:42:05PM -0500, Dale wrote > > > >> I still use openrc. I'll look around and see what I can find. Now I > >> know what to look for. Thing is, not sure I use cgroups either, unless > >> it is on

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge - Tips and Tricks

On Monday, 2 September 2024 07:59:20 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 02/09/2024 06:11, Dale wrote: > > If you have a laptop where heat is a issue, you may want to do things > > different but if you can, that will give you the most stable system for > > updates. > > Another tip - if you run into any pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Wednesday 4 September 2024 23:07:17 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-09-04, Dale wrote: > > At one point, I looked for a set of four sticks of the memory. I > > couldn't find any. They only come in sets of two. I read somewhere > > that the mobo expects each pair to be matched. > > Yep, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

h! No, this is definitely excessive. This is what I have here on a Wayland Plasma desktop, with gkrellm, kmail, a text editor and a couple of terminals running: PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4257 michael

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Thursday 5 September 2024 01:11:13 BST Dale wrote: > When I built this rig, I first booted the Gentoo Live boot image and > just played around a bit. Mostly to let the CPU grease settle in a > bit. Then I ran memtest through a whole test until it said it passed. > Only then did I start worki

Re: [gentoo-user] The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies

On Thursday 5 September 2024 08:36:46 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I don't do emerge -e world very often but this is weird. This is the > > complaint emerge spits out: > > > > > > > > !!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied > > dependencies > > !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Thursday 5 September 2024 09:36:36 BST Dale wrote: > I've ran fsck before mounting on every file system so far. I ran it on > the OS file systems while booted from the Live image. The others I just > did before mounting. I realize this doesn't mean the files themselves > are OK but at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Thursday 5 September 2024 10:08:08 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 11:38:01PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > Some MoBos are more tolerant than others. > > > > Regarding Dale's question, which has already been answered - yes, anything > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Thursday 5 September 2024 11:53:16 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Thursday 5 September 2024 09:36:36 BST Dale wrote: > >> I've ran fsck before mounting on every file system so far. I ran it on > >> the OS file systems while booted from the Live im

[gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

Since I upgraded to KDE Frameworks 6 I have observed some rather unwanted window behaviours. 1. Window Interaction with Gkrellm DESIRED BEHAVIOUR: == I have Gkrellm started up by Plasma at login and placed at the top left of the screen. I can't remember where/how I set this up,

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

On Thursday 5 September 2024 16:08:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 5 September 2024 07:32:21 BST I wrote: > > Has anyone else seen grossly excessive CPU load since adopting the new > > Wayland way of doing things? /Top/ is showing 1300% going on kwin_wayland > > and the whole of the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

On Thursday 5 September 2024 15:34:06 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Since I upgraded to KDE Frameworks 6 I have observed some rather unwanted > > window behaviours. > > > > 1. Window Interaction with Gkrellm > > > > DESIRED BEHAVIOUR: > > ===

Re: Re gkrellm: Was: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

Thanks Jack, On Thursday 5 September 2024 21:30:54 BST Jack wrote: > On 2024.09.05 09:22, Michael wrote: > > Since I upgraded to KDE Frameworks 6 I have observed some rather > > unwanted > > window behaviours. > > > > 1. Window Interaction with Gkrellm > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

On Thursday 5 September 2024 20:00:12 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 5 September 2024 15:43:00 BST Iwrote: > > On Thursday 5 September 2024 13:47:29 BST I wrote: > > > ... Perhaps I should start recompiling things... > > > > After an emerge -e1 kwayland plasma-workspace and a reboot, kwin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Thursday 5 September 2024 19:55:56 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 06:30:54AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > Use rsync with: > > > --checksum > > > > > > and > > > > > > --dry-run > > I suggest calculating a checksum file from your active files. Then you don’t > have to r

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

On Friday 6 September 2024 02:02:55 BST Dale wrote: > For some reason, the second monitor has a plasma thing, where app menu > icon, virtual desktop, clock and such is, on the second monitor as > well. My TV screen has nothing. No desktop icons, plasma thingy or > anything. It just has a defaul

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

On Friday 6 September 2024 01:33:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 6 September 2024 00:21:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think I know what it is: the kernel's list of firmware blobs is empty. I > > don't know where they all went, but it shouldn't be too hard to find them. > > Indeed it

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland and CPU load

On Friday 6 September 2024 10:45:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 6 September 2024 10:10:47 BST Michael wrote: > > On Friday 6 September 2024 01:33:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Friday 6 September 2024 00:21:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

On Friday 6 September 2024 12:04:08 BST Dale wrote: > I might add, another odd thing that started after a recent update. When > I logout of KDE or when first booting and am on the sddm login screen, > my first monitor powers off. The second monitor stays on and has the > login screen as does the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Friday 6 September 2024 01:43:18 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Thursday 5 September 2024 19:55:56 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >> Am Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 06:30:54AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >>>> Use rsync with: > >>>> --check

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

On Friday 6 September 2024 12:40:25 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Friday 6 September 2024 12:04:08 BST Dale wrote: > >> I might add, another odd thing that started after a recent update. When > >> I logout of KDE or when first booting and am on the sddm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Friday 6 September 2024 21:15:32 BST Dale wrote: > Update. New memory sticks i bought came in today. I ran memtest from > Gentoo Live boot media and it passed. Of course, the last pair passed > when new too so let's hope this one lasts longer. Much longer. Run each new stick on its own ov

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Friday 6 September 2024 22:41:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 01:21:20PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > > > find path-to-directory/ -type f | xargs md5sum > digest.log > > > > > > > > then to compare with a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

On Friday 6 September 2024 20:37:59 BST Jack wrote: > On 2024.09.06 11:12, Michael wrote: > > [snip ] > > > The second problem I started this thread with, related to the Kmail > > composer window inheriting the main Kmail window size and vice versa, > > seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl-cleaner --reallall

On Saturday 7 September 2024 16:27:41 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > A recent thread here reminded me of this utility, and I've run it on four > machines since the latest perl update. In three cases it all went > swimmingly, but on the fourth it tried its damnedest to remerge dbus with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Saturday 7 September 2024 23:12:41 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 04/09/2024 01:39, Dale wrote: > > I've seen that before too. I'm hoping not. I may shutdown my rig, > > remove and reinstall the memory and then test it for a bit. May be a > > bad connection. It has worked well for the past coupl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Saturday 7 September 2024 23:48:43 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 05/09/2024 23:06, Michael wrote: > > There is also dm-verity for a more involved solution. I think for Dale > > something like this should work: > Snag is, I think dm-verity (or do you actually mean dm-integrity,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

On Sunday 8 September 2024 02:59:04 BST Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: > > On 04/09/2024 01:39, Dale wrote: > >> I've seen that before too. I'm hoping not. I may shutdown my rig, > >> remove and reinstall the memory and then test it for a bit. May be a > >> bad connection. It has worked well f

Re: [gentoo-user] xpra server on gentoo? Any gotchas?

On Friday 13 September 2024 10:16:14 BST n952162 wrote: > Hello all, > > when I run an xpra server on a gentoo box and attach via a client on a > nixos box, I get the following: > > /: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive)./ > /2024-09-13 11:04:03,232 Error: failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

On Thursday, 9 April 2020 09:53:07 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:49 AM, Michael wrote: > > I have not configured nullmailer to know its internals, but assuming you > > have not removed '127.0.0.1 localhost' from your /etc/hosts it shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyserver available

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:36:04 BST gevisz wrote: > I have a long standing "gpg can't check signature: No public key" > error while running # emerge-webrsync > It appears because the webrsync-gpg feature has been set in my > make.conf however I do not want to switch it off. > The app-crypt/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding fstrim...

On Monday, 13 April 2020 06:32:37 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > From the list I already have learned, that most of my concerns regarding > the lifetime and maintainance to prolong it are without a > reason. Probably your concerns about SSD longevity are without a reason, but keep up to da

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox again - sad

On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:08:30 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > After the latest Firefox update (68.7.0), when I try to open the menu > with F10, sometimes Firefox crashes (about the 3rd time today now). > Does anyone else see that? Not here, on two boxen so far. F10 brings it up and takes it down a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ungoogled-chromium, anyone?

On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:46:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I discovered this package today and wondered whether anyone here had any > experience of it. Interesting to see this project exists. I thought Chromium was essentially un-Googled, but obviously there's more there to

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding fstrim...

On Monday, 13 April 2020 12:39:11 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 1:32 AM wrote: > > fstrim clears blocks, which currently are not in use and which > > contents is != 0. > > > >... > > > > BUT: Clearing blocks is an action, which includes writes to the cells of > > the SSD. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

On Monday, 13 April 2020 16:13:57 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > Trying to record with arecord produces a file that yields > noise or silence with aplay. I tried changing stuff in alsamixer... Yes, the first step would be to reduce or set to zero the Mic Boost in alsamixer and adjust the Capture volu

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

On Monday, 13 April 2020 18:09:25 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:29 PM Michael wrote: > > Yes, the first step would be to reduce or set to zero the Mic Boost in > > alsamixer and adjust the Capture volume. However, noise with arecord is > > usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems after switching to elogind

On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 10:27:12 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > After the switch to elogind yesterday, chronyd now won't run. It complains > "Could not get user/group of ntp." I remerged chrony with USE=-ntp, but it > didn't help. I know that several people here use chrony, so wha

Re: [gentoo-user] complete switch from openssl to libressl on gentoo

On Friday, 17 April 2020 17:52:26 BST Dale wrote: > Tamer Higazi wrote: > > Dear everybody, > > > > I got my Gentoo system running compiled with openssl. > > I'd like to rebuild my entire system based on libreSSL. > > > > What best practices do you advise ? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > bes

Re: [gentoo-user] new hd: Security / hdparm / differences

On Wednesday, 22 April 2020 13:34:10 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > In my system there is a 3T Winchester digital blue > > Model Number: WDC WD30EZRZ-00GXCB0 > Firmware Revision: 80.00A80 > > > I bougth a second one for backyp purposes > > Model Number: WDC W

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

I recall you having problems recording with this device before, but since you're now a step ahead let's have another go at this, in case I may be able to help. > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:57 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > ... desperately needed. > > > > The setup: > > -- a microphone connected to

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

On Thursday, 23 April 2020 10:46:29 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:19 AM Michael wrote: > > I recall you having problems recording with this device before, but since > > you're now a step ahead let's have another go at this, in case I may be > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

On Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:01:51 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > I need the "virtual" card to be the default, so I did this: > > pcm.mbcard{ > type hw > card PCH > device 1 > } > ctl.mbcard{ > type hw > card 0 > } > pcm.usbcard{ > type hw > card CODEC > device 0 > } > pcm.output{ > type plug > slav

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

On Friday, 24 April 2020 12:13:53 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:39 AM Michael wrote: > > Applications can be rather particular regarding bitrate, bit sample > > formats, channel configuration and other options. I understand Firefox > > wants to hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubles setting USE flag for inkscape

On Saturday, 25 April 2020 17:02:05 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/25/20 11:55 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > ## ... PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6 python3_8 -python3_7" > > ## > > ##The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisf

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:32:04 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 04/28 10:43, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Morning all, > > > > The motherboard sound chip failed, so I bought a USB sound adapter [1]. > > Problem: no sound: firefox says it isn't working and KDE sounds don't > > 'appear'. I have all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: ALSA wizard...

On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:09:17 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:32 AM Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2020-04-26, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > >> On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Any chance apulse works? > > > > I don'

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > I personally don't think you need asound.conf until you prove that you have > a need to do some sort of non-standard configuration. That _might_ be > defining a different default card but KDE can do that for you in system > settings so my

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:29:18 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Ah, so now we have more clues about what's going on. KDE supplies > pulseaudio. AFAIK it's part of the KDE installati

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to > > pick the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; > > no applications

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent users from shutting down while other users logged in

On Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:19:15 BST Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > > Basically I'd like that: > > > - if there is more than one user logged in, either locally via lighdm > > > or remotely via SSH, the shutdown XFCE button is grayed out. Once all > > > users except one have logged out, the button i

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:48:28 BST jdm wrote: > 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 compi

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

On Thursday, 30 April 2020 16:15:54 BST Dale wrote: > Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > On Thursday, 2020-04-30 07:31:51 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> ... > >> [ebuild R] app-doc/gimp-help-2.8.2:2::gentoo 0 KiB > > > > Thanks for pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed, eve

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

:37 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch long_string_here --binary-syntax --close-stderr sddm 3962 0.0 0.0 3868 1948 ?Ss 15:37 0:00 /usr/bin/ dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session root 4030 0.0 0.0 54516 14020 ?S15:38 0:00 /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

On Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:09:47 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 01/05/20 21:29, Dale wrote: > > It gets really slow to respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. > > Just set swapiness to a low number. I think mine is set to 10. > > > > Given the cheapness of hard drives, I'm not sure why havin

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

On Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:08:24 BST Raphael MD wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 18:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 1 May 2020 21:50:02 CEST, Raphael MD wrote: > > >Hello! > > > > > >Could I turn my Linux swap off. > > >I have 32 GB of RAM memory, I suppose my system don’t need swap, > > >because > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

On Saturday, 2 May 2020 09:39:12 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 05/02 09:49, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > I think, I feel better if I repartitioning/reformat both drives, > > > though. > > > > It's not necessary, but if it makes you feel better by all means do so. > > > > > *GPT/MBR > > > From a di

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

On Saturday, 2 May 2020 09:53:06 BST Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: > > On 01/05/20 21:29, Dale wrote: > >> It gets really slow to respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. > >> Just set swapiness to a low number. I think mine is set to 10. > >> > >> Given the cheapness of hard drives, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

On Saturday, 2 May 2020 10:54:02 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > I'd be interested to know as a comparison if Nikos' and Dale's I/O > > unresponsiveness in swapping sees an improvement with the I/O scheduler > > for > > spinning drives set to bfq

Re: [gentoo-user] Trackpad nightmare: Elantech ETPS/2

On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 15:28:15 BST inasprecali wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2020 14:58:32 +0100 > > Victor Ivanov wrote: > > My laptop's trackpad is an ETPS/2 Elantech on a ThinkPad Yoga > > 260 (ca. 2016). Every so often it freezes and refuses to respond > > to any and all input. The freeze usually l

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:34:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:38 AM wrote: > > > > Background to my question: > > I am still searching for a equalizer solution, which does not > > uses the eq provided by the hardware (I am using a DAC, which > > does nothing else, than conver

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:33:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale wrote: > > > > > Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic. I use smplayer to > > send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card. I set > smplayer to send the audio to the TV

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

On Thursday, 7 May 2020 04:50:41 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Thursday, May 7, 2020 7:31 AM, Dale wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > OP, odds are the emerge failure is what triggered the problem. If it had > > completed without failure, it would likely have been a clean update. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

On Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:11:03 BST Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 6 May 2020 22:31:54 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> There used to be a package that caused some serious problems with > >> upgrades. It was really tricky but I can't recall the name of it since > >> it was ages ago. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate ST8000NM0065 PMR or SMR plus NAS SAS SATA question

According to this URL this drive claims to use perpendicular recording, so it is probably a PMR drive. https://www.disctech.com/Seagate-ST8000NM0045-8TB-SATA-Hard-Drive This finding is reinforced in this URL: https://www.disctech.com/Seagate-ST8000NM0045-8TB-SATA-Hard-Drive On Sunday, 10 May

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage just unmerged my openrc

On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:47:21 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Portage has just unmerged my openrc-0.34.11. I didn't ask it to. I'm > not very happy about this. > > I did > > # emerge -auND @world > > , and after dealing with five packages, it just warned me that openrc >

Re: [gentoo-user] Building packages in different prefix without rebuilding system packages

On Thursday, 14 May 2020 06:13:33 BST Dale wrote: > François-Xavier Carton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way of installing packages in a different prefix while still > > using system packages? I've tried setting EPREFIX, however doing that > > will install all dependencies in the prefix, even

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] BIOS Best settings (no o.c.) for RYZEN 5 3600 / MSI Tomahawk max ?

On Saturday, 16 May 2020 13:53:00 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 05/16 01:04, Dale wrote: > > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > On 05/16 12:46, Dale wrote: > > >> tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I am trying to figure out the best settings (performance wise) for a > > >>> AMD Ryzen 5

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

On Saturday, 16 May 2020 13:32:32 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > I guess the bug was caught and fixed. Thanks to all that read and > > Michael for trying to help. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > I have some more info and some doesn't mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:40:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:16:57 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:59:35 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:53:03PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > > > > > I see what you mean. I'm just

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate ST8000NM0065 PMR or SMR plus NAS SAS SATA question

On Sunday, 10 May 2020 21:52:54 BST antlists wrote: > On 10/05/2020 20:11, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> I did find a WD Red 8TB drive. It costs a good bit more. It's a good > >> deal but still costs more. I'm going to keep looking. Eventually I'll > >> either spend the money on the drive or find a

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate ST8000NM0065 PMR or SMR plus NAS SAS SATA question

On Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:31:48 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:40 PM antlists wrote: > > On 22/05/2020 19:23, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > A big problem with drive-managed SMR is that it basically has to > > > assume the OS is dumb, which means most writes are in-place with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Untrusted PGP signing key

On Sunday, 24 May 2020 18:36:28 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 24/05/2020 20:15, Consus wrote: > > I've got this today: > > $ sudo emerge --sync > > Checking signature ... > > gpg: Signature made Sun 24 May 2020 03:56:07 MSK > > gpg:using RSA key > > E1D6ABB63

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:34:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:16:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > > > > in this case "Merge this to pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

On Monday, 1 June 2020 01:51:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:28:45 BST Stefano Crocco wrote: > > I think it's simply a missing include directive. The attached patch made > > qtcurve compile for me. > > Yes, looks like it. Now I just have to re-read the portage docs to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:28:33 BST Dale wrote: > tedheadster wrote: > > Yes, you do need to capture the kernel output. > > > > The usual way is to hook up a serial cable to another computer and > > pipe the output to it. You interrupt the boot (usually by hitting > > or in GRUB), and then ed

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive screws

On Saturday, 6 June 2020 04:06:54 BST Dale wrote: > We have reds, purples, greens and all sort of color codes for hard > drives, maybe they need to color code their screws as well. :/ > > Now to go find a grab bag or something. This sucks. Yes, getting the thread wrong and damaging the female

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a hard drive's data. Best method.

On Saturday, 6 June 2020 08:49:54 BST Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 6 June 2020 06:37:23 CEST, Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I think I got a old 3TB hard drive to work. After dd'ing it, redoing > >> partitions and such, it seems to be working. Right now, I'm copying a > >> bunch

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a hard drive's data. Best method.

On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 07:59:19 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Same topic just new question. I use KDE and am wanting to have it so > the Device Notifier will allow me to mount the drive when I turn it on. I probably missed in earlier threads, but is this is an externally powered USB device?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

On Thursday, 11 June 2020 08:57:45 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 03:19:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I don't watch Netflix on my laptop, but I've just tried it in Chromium > > > and it seems to be working fine. I suspect it's either the widevone or > > > proprietary-codecs USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

On Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:32:50 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-06-11, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I have Chrome installed. I looked at Chromium. It wants even more > > > > stuff on top of what Chrome has pulled in! No way. > > Besides the dependencies, Chromium itself is a very long build.

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > >> On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: > BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least > ever few months? :) > >>> > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:42:52 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: > >On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > &

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:44:05 BST n952162 wrote: > On 2020-06-12 16:38, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > >>>> On

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:05:04 BST Jack wrote: > On 2020.06.12 10:38, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> What about some sort of tagging? Not bundling or packaging, just > >> occasional (quarterly?) labels, with a matrix indic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:17:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:09:41 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > >> If it's only once or twice a month, it's not worth fussing with. I > > >> swear there have been a couple times in the past few months when it > > >> got updated multipl

Re: [gentoo-user] Kind of sample player?

On Monday, 15 June 2020 09:10:21 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to express what I am searching for: > > I have some samples of instruments play one or only a few tones. > For each there is one sample per tone. > > I am looking for a software, with which I can play these samples > co

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