[gentoo-user] French binhost down

2024-09-26 Thread Alexis Praga
Hi, Just found out that http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ (French mirror that I use for binaries) is down. Is there anyone that can be notified for that ? http://gentoo.mirrors.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ works fine. Thanks, Alexis signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Gentoo before install on new laptop

2024-08-11 Thread Alexis Praga
e was Windows Secure Boot. I ended up disabling it as I could not setup Grub with it. Apart from that, quite happy with the process ! Alexis On Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 at 10:57 PM, Michael wrote: > > > Hi Alexis, > > On Tuesday, 6 August 2024 15:43:21 BS

[gentoo-user] Testing Gentoo before install on new laptop

2024-08-06 Thread Alexis Praga
Dear fellow Gentoo users, For the first time in 15 years, I have bought a new (and recent too !) laptop (Yoga 7 Gen 9). Is there a way to test Gentoo on it before installing it ? I was thinking of using the Live GUI usb to ensure the following works : - GPU (integrated AMD 780), especially with

Re: [gentoo-user] Bring back dev-build/bazel ?

2024-07-18 Thread Alexis Praga
l 17, 2024 at 09:05:44AM +, Alexis Praga wrote: > > > Dear mailing-list, > > > > dev-build/bazel has been removed last January along with tensorflow from > > distribution. While I cannot speak for tensorflow (but it seems a good > > idea), would it be doable

[gentoo-user] Bring back dev-build/bazel ?

2024-07-17 Thread Alexis Praga
Dear mailing-list, dev-build/bazel has been removed last January along with tensorflow from distribution. While I cannot speak for tensorflow (but it seems a good idea), would it be doable to add back only bazel ? Maybe as a -bin package to decrease maintainer burden. I occasionnally have to us

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting

2024-04-03 Thread Alexis Praga
Hi Vit, I have a dual boot with a 100Mb EFI partition. It works fine, except there isn’t enough place for both old and new kernels for upgrading. So I moved the old kernel from /boot into a safe directory before upgrading. Maybe not the best strategy but I didn’t dare resize it. Alexis On Wed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wifi issues with 6.1.66 kernel and rtl8723bu driver

2023-12-14 Thread Alexis Praga
issue. The update seems to have been made very recently, so thanks to the gentoo dev too. Best, On Thursday, December 14th, 2023 at 4:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 13/12/2023 22:34, Alexis Praga wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > After a recent update to

[gentoo-user] Wifi issues with 6.1.66 kernel and rtl8723bu driver

2023-12-13 Thread Alexis Praga
Hi, After a recent update to the latest kernel, I'm having troubles with a custom wifi driver [1], packaged using latest git into GURU. The laptop does recognize and connect to my wifi (that is, my iphone). But I cannot access internet and NetworkManager cannot be restarted or stopped (I have t