On 2025-03-17, Grant Edwards wrote:
> You /can/ use an embedded block list to install legacy BIOS boot mode
> grub using an MBR table without a BIOS Boot Partition, but don't do
> it. [,,,]
Oops, I meant to say "legacy BIOS boot mode grub using a GPT partition table...&quo
On 2025-03-16, Michael wrote:
> Ugh! I didn't provide a comprehensive answer - sorry. All this MBR
> nostalgia
> I've been trying to forget. LOL!
>
> If you are installing GRUB on a GPT disk, which is meant to boot on
> a legacy BIOS MoBo, you *must* create a BIOS Boot Partition (gdisk
> cod
le only to root.
$ ls -l /dev/uinput
crw--- 1 root root 10, 223 Mar 5 09:36 /dev/uinput
What's the best way to make that available to specific users?
Add a "uinput" group, change the group of /dev/uinput to "uinput",
chmod g+wr, then make specific users part of that group?
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On 2025-03-02, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:01:41AM -0600 schrieb Dale:
>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2025-02-28, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> We all know the Samsung m.2 sticks are really good. They are well
>>>> known f
On 2025-02-28, Dale wrote:
> We all know the Samsung m.2 sticks are really good. They are well
> known for the quality.
I can definitely agree with that. Over the years I've installed
probably close to fifteen Samsung flash drives. Some SATA, some m.2,
a couple USB 3.
They're all still worki
On 2025-02-28, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Since the official binhost introduction -- which automatically builds
>> app-office/liberoffice for gnome and KDE profiles -- there is decreased
>> value in pre-building it manually like this. At the same time, the
>> maintainer
fice-bin now bundles all its
> dependencies.
I take it that "the maintainers started thinking about" using upstream
binaries means they aren't actually doing it yet. So the Gentoo
maintainers are still building the binaries but have started bundling
all the dependencies?
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I did a routine update today (which I do most days):
emerge --sync
emerge -auvND world
emerge --depclean --ask
That last command removed 50 packages! [listed below]
It looks like that's allmost all the result of the libreoffice-bin
upgrade from 24.2.7.2 to 24.8.4. Looking at the tw
On 2025-02-20, whiteman...@paraboletancza.org
wrote:
> I want to build a PC with Gentoo and I need to know how much money
> should I spend on it.
>
> To clarify, I'll tell more for what I'm going to use PC:
> * computer will be mostly used for programming in languages like C, C++,
> sysadmin,
ion to get updated, and for
hardware feature support to get finished up.
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On 2025-02-21, Dale wrote:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards:
>>> On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote:
>>>>> Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess
>>>>> they're ei
've no clue how long a
complete device refresh cycle would take for any particular device, or
how long between refresh cycles you would want to tolerate.
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of.
Ask ffmpeg what's in the file. Then you'll _know_ what encoder(s)
were used and what USE flags you need.
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Grant
On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote:
> Well, it plays some older .mkv files already. These are some type
> of NEW .mkv files. I forgot to mention that point. I have a lot of
> other videos that are .mkv and they play fine, have for ages.
OK, so the problem isn't with the .mkv container format.
> It's
ake. Probably saves you a bunch of disk space also
There's no need for that unless for some reason you really do want
re-encode the streams. All of the popular, maintained players (vlc,
mpv, etc.) can handle the mkv container format.
mplayer has been abandoned for many years. The replacement is 'mpv'.
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ormatted with no problems on my PC."
Say "PC" a lot. In their mind "PC" == "Windows". It will never even
occur to them that you're running Linux.
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of Toshiba and Samsung internal and external SSDs
(M.2 and USB3), and they have absolutely solid. If possible by flash
products from manufacturers that actually make flash chips. You know
they're not putting the floor sweepings in their own products.
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Grant
On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> 250218 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> I recommend an external USB case with an NVMe SSD inside.
>> This may not be as compact and not as cheap,
>> but they are much much much faster and probably longer-lasting
>> than any USB stick, because their flash controllers
On 2025-02-18, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> It had an M$ partition when I bought it. I replaced that with 4
>> partitions because using a 2/3.2 port took > 10 h to write a 256 GB
>> filesystem & fail, whereas it took only 2 h 45 m to write a 64 GB
>> partit
On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> 250218 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
>>> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store.
>> Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb?
>> You only want one filesystem, right
nly want one filesystem, right?
Why bother with a partition table if you don't want to partition the
device?
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Grant
On 2025-02-17, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On my system, the only .so file that belonging to libreoffice-bin that
> links in libQt5X11Extras.so.5 is program/libvclplug_qt5lo.so
>
> It looks like on my system, the "gen" version of the vcl plugin is used:
>
> $ lsof | g
regardless of the filesystem.
I would only use them for archiving if you do multiple verify passes
on _everything_ after you've done a backup.
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Grant
On 2025-02-16, Jack wrote:
> On 2025.02.16 02:18, Grant Edwards wrote:
> [snip.]
>
>> I guess I could try removing qt11extras to see what breaks in
>> libreoffice. I assumed it just wouldn't run, but if it's some sort
>> of plugin that uses it, and I
> Which explains the conundrum.
I'm sorry, but I don't know what conundrum you're trying to explain.
The question I'm asking is:
* Should the libreoffice-bin ebuild list qtx11extras as a dependency?
If yes, then I'll file a bug report.
My question is based on the following fact:
* libreoffice-bin links in the qtx11extras library, but does not have
it as a dependency.
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On 2025-02-16, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 2/13/25 2:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Does this message from emerge --depclean mean that there's a
>> dependency on dev-qt/qtx11extras:5 missing from the libreoffice-bin
>> ebuild?
>>
>> Or have I managed to
On 2025-02-15, Michael wrote:
> On Saturday 15 February 2025 05:03:14 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Either that profile or something else you have in your world file
>> pulls in qtx11extras as a dependency, so depclean doesn't try to
>> remove it.
depclean was smart enough to detect that and not
remove qtx11extras (even though nothing on my system "depends" on it).
Hence my question: am I correct in my conclusion is that the
libreoffice-bin ebuild should (but does not) list qtx11extras as a
dependency?
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Does this message from emerge --depclean mean that there's a
dependency on dev-qt/qtx11extras:5 missing from the libreoffice-bin
ebuild?
Or have I managed to break something?
$ sudo emerge --depclean --ask
Password:
* Always study the list of packages [...]
Calculatin
en the system
isn't seeing the drive for some reason. If the system isn't seeing the
drive at all, there won't be a sym-link in /dev/disk/by-id etc.
I can't speculate as to why the disk doesn't show up if the USB drive is
attached.
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Grant. . . .
ed, lsmod does not report XFS kernel
module being loaded into the memory.
I would expect that XFS wouldn't show in the lsmod output if XFS is
complied into the kernel.
Remember, lsmod shows modules dynamically loaded into the running
kernel, not things complied in.
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Grant. . .
gs that come to mind that are pure speculation
if you're no longer in that configuration to be able to look. Not the
least of which is files in file systems on different devices; e.g. /boot
vs /. Have a file in the /boot directory on the / (root) file system
and it will be covered up when the /boot file system is mounted. Or
something like that.
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root.
Link - Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) ZFS native root install
-
https://dotfiles.tnetconsulting.net/articles/2016/0327/ubuntu-zfs-native-root.html
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On 2025-01-27, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2025-01-26, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>>> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with
>>>>> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple tim
On 2025-01-26, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with
>>>> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day --
>>>> always when in active us
.
Yesterday I downgraded mesa from 24.3.3 to 24.2.8, and it hasn't
frozen since -- though I also haven't been using it a lot since the
downgrade. If make it through a day of work tomorrow without a
lockup, then I'm going to blame mesa. During a normal work day last
week it would usually freeze a half-dozen times.
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On 2025-01-25, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with
>>> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day --
>>> always when in active us
On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with
> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day --
> always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable
> since assembled (about 5 years ago).
27;ve tried dropping back fomm kernel 6.1.121 to 6.1.118: no change.
Next, I suppose I should start rolling back X11 drivers?
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On 2024-12-05, Michael wrote:
> On Thursday 5 December 2024 23:01:36 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-12-05, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
>> All I've ever done for a kernel upgrades is to go into the new kernel
>> source dir and do the following:
>>
>> #
7;t actually remember the last time it
happened (it's been years).
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On 2024-11-08, k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> Grant Edwards:
>> I need to generate a broadcast UDP TFTP read request, and the usual
>> TFTP client tools I use (atftp, tftpy) can't do that. Does anybody
>> have a suggestion for an easy wat to generate such a request?
>
I need to generate a broadcast UDP TFTP read request, and the usual
TFTP client tools I use (atftp, tftpy) can't do that. Does anybody
have a suggestion for an easy wat to generate such a request?
All I need is to generate the initial request. I don't need to handle
the actual data.
tiple systems over NFS for years
and not had a problem. Granted, usually the systems aren't emerging at
the same time.
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Grant. . . .
On 11/5/24 10:27 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
What?!?!?! Network Manager can't be made to keep it's hands off of
/etc/resolv.conf so the workaround is to leverage file system features
to break Network Manager's hands when it tries to touch the file?
Clarifying, after some replies
quite similar to the chattr dance.
I'd go smack Network Manager with a bigger bat.
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will
> never be updated, is installed. And then we use them to process
> untrusted content from the network...?
And there seems to be plenty of crypto and ssh stuff in there, so
that's a bit scary.
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On 2024-10-25, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 2024-10-25 00:47:27, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> >
>> > Try net-dns/doggo[2]
>>
>> Cool, and it doens't want to install 4 other new packages like
>> bind-tools does. [OK, two are just account/group packag
#x27;t require me to
install a DNS server all of its extra faff?
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On 2024-10-24, Matt Jolly wrote:
> The commit that added 9.18.0[1] gives some context:
>
> >This is just a proxy for net-dns/bind. Splitting the ebuilds is
> >*way* too fragile and gains nothing because the same software gets
> >built again anyway, just thrown away at the end.
I'm just not ke
On 2024-10-23, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 10/22/24 11:20 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Yep. My bad. Both of the mirrors I had configured had stopped
>> working, and I didn't notice that amongst the other 404 errors. It
>> seems like I regularly have to pick a new
On 2024-10-23, Ionen Wolkens wrote:
> If in doubt, just remove GENTOO_MIRRORS entirely and use the default
> rotation.
I never knew that was an option!
On 2024-10-23, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 10/22/24 11:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> The Subversion 1.14.3 ebuild was stablized 22 hours ago, but it
>> doesn't actually seem to be available for download. Any ideas on what
>> happened?
> This mirror is broken so prob
The Subversion 1.14.3 ebuild was stablized 22 hours ago, but it
doesn't actually seem to be available for download. Any ideas on what
happened?
>>> Downloading
>>> 'http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/distfiles/subversion-1.14.3.tar.bz2'
URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy
--2024-10-22
ent) tries to do a reverse-DNS lookup to turn the client IP address
into a hostname for logging (or whatever). You could try adding the
client name/IP address to /etc/hosts on the server and vice/versa.
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On 2024-09-27, Dale wrote:
>> You do know about the msmtp man page, right?
>
> Well, if copying someone's known working config file doesn't work right,
> I'm not sure a man page is going to help much.
The working configuration I provided didn't have an alias (or aliases)
command in it.
> That s
On 2024-09-27, Dale wrote:
> OK. I added that line to the config file. Then it gives me this error.
>
>
> root@Gentoo-1 / # echo foo | msmtp -v bogus
> msmtp: /etc/msmtprc: line 5: unknown command alias
> root@Gentoo-1 / #
Sorry, my bad. It's aliases not alias:
$ man msmtp | grep alias
On 2024-09-27, Dale wrote:
>>> Sep 26 19:04:26 Gentoo-1 smartd[18737]: Executing test of to root ...
>>> Sep 26 19:04:36 Gentoo-1 msmtp[18815]: host=smtp.gmail.com tls=on
>>> auth=off from=rdalek1967gmail.com recipients=root errormsg='the
>>> server sent an empty reply' exitcode=EX_PROTOCOL
>> A
On 2024-09-27, Dale wrote:
> It says port 465 but it is using Oauth2 if that matters.
It doesn't.
> I'll admit, the last time I got this working, I followed a guide and
> it just worked. Once it worked, I left it alone. I was scared that
> if I touched it, it would stop working. LOL
>
> I c
On 2024-09-26, Dale wrote:
> I removed ssmtp and installed msmtp. I think I got the config set up
> but it is different so I may not have it right. It doesn't work tho.
> From messages.
>
>
> Sep 26 10:03:33 Gentoo-1 smartd[27728]: Executing test of to root ...
> Sep 26 10:05:40 Gentoo-1 msmtp[3
On 2024-09-26, Dale wrote:
> root@Gentoo-1 / # telnet smtp.gmail.com 587
> Trying 142.251.116.108...
> Trying 2607:f8b0:4023:1000::6c...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable
> root@Gentoo-1 / #
>
> Can't connect. Well, that explains a lot. It can't reach anything to
On 2024-09-26, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I just did a quick test, and sending via smtp.gmail.com using an app
> password worked fine from mutt. I don't have msmtp set up at the
> moment.
Ijust set up msmtp and it works too. Below is the msmtp config,
* If you want, replace "
On 2024-09-26, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> It looks like your network is broken. Try this:
>>
>> $ telnet smtp.gmail.com 587
>> Trying 209.85.145.109...
>> Connected to smtp.gmail.com.
>> Escape character is '^]&
On 2024-09-26, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2024-09-26, Dale wrote:
>
>> Sep 26 10:03:33 Gentoo-1 smartd[27728]: Executing test of to root ...
>> Sep 26 10:05:40 Gentoo-1 msmtp[30861]: host=smtp.gmail.com tls=on
>> auth=off from=rdalek1967gmail.com recipients=root errorm
s over the past couple decades.
Each time I started out trying to pick a domain (that was avaialable)
which I wanted to live with for the rest of my life. I could never get
past that step.
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I don't use it regularly, but I set it up several years ago and it was
working fine the last time I tried it (a couple months ago).
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Grant
On 2024-09-09, Jack wrote:
> On 9/8/24 10:20 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> This morning when I booted my Thinkpad T580, the Synaptics touchpad
>> buttons didn't work at all, and the "pointer" function just barely
>> worked: the response was slow and jerky
1725762317: >>> emerge (6 of 7) gui-libs/gtk-4.14.4-r1 to /
1725762557: >>> emerge (7 of 7) www-client/google-chrome-128.0.6613.119 to
/
I did boot into Windows yesterday at one point, but I do that fairly
regularly (a few times a month) and it has never caused any problems
in the past.
As I said, I've got it working again, but I'm baffled what caused it
to stop working.
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lly expected
my two (identically spec'ed) sets of two work. All the documentation I
could find said it should. It just didn't. :/
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On 2024-09-04, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 07:09:43PM - schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> […]
>> I plugged them in alongside the recently purchased pair. Wouldn't
>> work. Either pair of SIMMs worked fine by themselves, but the only way
>>
ad the motherboard specs and manual. I spent hours
tweaking different memory settings in the BIOS, but no joy. Now I've
got a backup pair of SIMMs sitting on the shelf.
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d some failing RAM that resulted in some
files getting corrupted.
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. So I took a picture of the failing memtest, e-mailed
> that to crucial and they sent me instructions what to do.
Yep, I got free replacement from Crucial once years ago also. It was
pretty easy, but it took a week or two.
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ning
memtest86 for a day or two.
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Grant
On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks wrote:
>
>> It might be worth seeing what a full update of world, with the
>> --emptytree flag says (though without actually doing the
>> rebuild). Sometimes including that will notice inconsistencies
On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks wrote:
> It might be worth seeing what a full update of world, with the
> --emptytree flag says (though without actually doing the
> rebuild). Sometimes including that will notice inconsistencies that
> a regular emerge doesn't spot.
I don't see anything. It still
On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks wrote:
>
>> While I'm not familiar enough with those packages to know for
>> certain, it sounds like they're probably *build* dependencies for
>> something, [...]
>
> I don't think
ps getting
installed/uninstalled. So that doesn't really make sense either.
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On 2024-09-03, Matthew Brooks wrote:
> While I'm not familiar enough with those packages to know for
> certain, it sounds like they're probably *build* dependencies for
> something, but not actual *runtime* dependencies, and so depclean
> prunes them, and then whenever the package that needs them
On 2024-09-03, Grant Edwards wrote:
> For the past 4 days or so, every time I do a sync and then
> 'emerge -auvND world', portage installs the following:
>
> qttools
> qtbase
> qttranslations
> xcb-util-cursor
>
> Afterwards, when I do 'emerg
For the past 4 days or so, every time I do a sync and then
'emerge -auvND world', portage installs the following:
qttools
qtbase
qttranslations
xcb-util-cursor
Afterwards, when I do 'emerge --depclean', it uninstalls them.
Any ideas why? It's getting a little annoying.
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Grant
On 2024-08-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>> That's a separate graphics card, isn't it? I'm trying to use the
>>> integrated graphics processor on my Ryzen 7900.
>
>> No, it's integrated into the Ryzen 5 3400G.
>
> Sorry, I didn't recognise the chip number. Is it a laptop chip rather
> than a deskto
On 2024-08-21, Wol wrote:
> On 21/08/2024 14:49, Michael wrote:
>>> That would involve me learning how to make and handle a modular kernel,
>>> something I'd really rather not have to do.
>
>> Well, there's nothing to it really. Just configure your kernel with the
>> drivers needed by your graphi
On 2024-08-21, Michael wrote:
> Alternatively, as Wol mentioned, you can set up your kernel graphics drivers
> as modules (temporarily) and inspect dmesg to find out what firmware is being
> loaded. Then use this information to add the firmware file names to be built
> in the kernel and also
ay to find out what you need is:
>
>> The other thing I'll throw in is do you actually want to load the
>> firmware into the kernel?
>
> Yes, I do.
Why?
It's a lot simpler letting it get loaded at boot time.
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On 2024-08-21, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Grant.
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 00:30:25 -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-08-20, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>> > I've just treated myself to a new machine based on a Ryzen 9 7900
>> > processor. I cho
On 2024-08-20, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've just treated myself to a new machine based on a Ryzen 9 7900
> processor. I chose the second newest generation so as not to get caught
> out with not quite debugged systems like I did the last time round.
>
> Anyhow, I'm up to the stage of configuring
.
> ...
>
> aside: there are pip manpages, funny you should mention that.
When installed on Gentoo using dev-python/pip?
> I could totally add another bdepend on sphinx for this! But I would have
> to package some things first. :(
No thanks, sphinx would pull in 10 more packages. :)
If I need pip documentation, I can google for it or look at the
rst.bz2 files install in /usr/share/doc...
Thanks for tolerating my whinging.
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Grant
7;re done updating.
I usually just leave bdeps installed. Otherwise that would remove 130
other packages as well (some of which take a looong time to build).
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cide they add dozens of new dependencies like
that. Why does pip suddenly need to format (or produce?) both markdown
and RTF when it's been able to get along fine without them for so many
years?
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parts to the nvidia drivers: the kernel module (which is
what you're seeing with lspci -k and lsmod) and the user-space Xorg
driver (which is presumably what you unmerged).
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configuration.
> * You can rename this file/directory to one of the following for
> * its configuration to apply to multiple versions:
> * ${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}/etc/portage/savedconfig/
> * [${CTARGET}|${CHOST}|""]/${CATEGORY}/[${PF}|${P}|${PN}]
>
> I admit that this is a bit hard to analyze...
Just a bit. :)
Sure would be nice if it was mentioned on whe Wiki page. Mayber later
today...
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On 2024-06-28, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
> Remove the date.so it becomes
> /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware
> then it applies to all of them and not the specified version.
Yes, that's the clue I was missing.
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hine never changes.
It seems like there ought to be a way to configure that required
firmware list and have the emerge -u "just work", but I can't find
it. Have I missed something?
Yes, I know...
Disk space is cheap.
Premature optimization ...
etc.
It still annoys me.
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On 2024-06-27, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I just finished a large update on my main rig. I have a lot of config
> files to update and some have new entries that are needed but I don't
> want to lose the ones I've already set. Usually, I just pick the new
> one and have a saved copy of the old conf
eed a init thingy?
Same question as always: does your kernel have enough built-in
drivers/modules to mount the root fileystem on /?
If yes, then you don't need an initrd.
If no, then you do need an initrd.
I don't think where /usr is matters, does it?
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Grant
On 2024-06-15, Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 June 2024 19:20:26 BST Alan Grimes wrote:
>> A number of my softwarez requires the use of the arrow keys and can't
>> use the numpad in edit mode to work around it. So who do I need to kill
>> to get arrow keys to work in x11 again?
>
> I don't under
issing
packages as I run into the need for them).
At some point, emerge -auvND will complain because some installed
package doesn't support 3.11 any longer — and then I'll upgrade to
3.12.
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On 2024-06-05, Arve Barsnes wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 20:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> What I found misleading (and tripped over) was the implication that
>> the three step migration process outlined in the news item had a
>> reasonable likelyhood of working for a larg
ee step migration and would have simply postponed the upgrade.
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