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] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 22 May 2021 at 00:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, so what does alsamixer tell you? On my system I hit F6, choose the card > and then F3 for Playback. I see the 7 channels. Hitting 'M' changes the mute > setting but all the volumes are at 0 and hitting '+' doesn't raise the > volume. It's b

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 13:21, Arve Barsnes wrote: > Eric's links were very interesting, and the pi people's solution > seemed to be something simple, but their fix seems to also be in > firmware, with a link to a giant, mostly binary, git commit. It made > me think, though, if there was something

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 5:47 AM Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 13:21, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > Eric's links were very interesting, and the pi people's solution > > seemed to be something simple, but their fix seems to also be in > > firmware, with a link to a giant, mostly binary,

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 16:14, Mark Knecht wrote: > Well, good news no matter how it happened. > > Hopefully it still works after a reboot. I guess we'll find out. Indeed. Might even have been a reboot that made it work, but at least I know my system and my TV has the capabilities I wanted. Cheer

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Dale
Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 16:14, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Well, good news no matter how it happened. >> >> Hopefully it still works after a reboot. I guess we'll find out. > Indeed. Might even have been a reboot that made it work, but at least > I know my system and my TV has the c

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 18:22, Dale wrote: > If you ever figure it out, please post what did it. I watch TV from my > puter too. Right now, I tell Smplayer to send audio to the TV by giving > it the device name like you did. Thing is, none of the entries in the > drop down menu in settings works

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Dale
Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 18:22, Dale wrote: >> If you ever figure it out, please post what did it. I watch TV from my >> puter too. Right now, I tell Smplayer to send audio to the TV by giving >> it the device name like you did. Thing is, none of the entries in the >> drop d

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 10:09 AM Dale wrote: > > Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 18:22, Dale wrote: > >> If you ever figure it out, please post what did it. I watch TV from my > >> puter too. Right now, I tell Smplayer to send audio to the TV by giving > >> it the device name lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > Dale and Arve, >    As I do home studio type recording using Linux I always find this > topic quite interesting but because of the more complicated setup of > my audio environment which makes use of a Hammerfall DSP card driving > the speaker but utilizes the internal Intel s

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 19:42, Mark Knecht wrote: > 1) instead of aplay -l please run aplay -L My aplay -L was more or less identical to Dale's on the HDMI part, except for going all the way to DEV 6. > 2) Also provide the output of > > cat /proc/asound/card2/codec#0 This was also more or less t

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

2021-05-23 Thread thelma
On 5/23/21 4:04 AM, Michael wrote: >> 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 terribl

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 Effects. > I've experimented with res

[gentoo-user] Re: openrc-run for containers

2021-05-23 Thread Damo
Hi, I've got the integration working how I imagined. It is using s6-svscan to manage the containers, hopefully not abusing something. General idea is to have supervision control over containers, ie to allow start up in a given runlevel, have the ability to manage dependency start between given con

[gentoo-user] USB WiFi dongle for gentoo based AP

2021-05-23 Thread William Kenworthy
Does anyone have experience with USB WiFi dongles? - I have purchased a couple of ones with different chip sets and cant find a satisfactory one: ralink 2870: just usable, but well known problem with errors when stressed. (IoT power switches are resetting and powecy

[gentoo-user] QEMU -nographic Option with OVMF

2021-05-23 Thread Oliver Dixon
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, NIC passthrough, SSH forwarding, NFSv4 support, etc.), but it's run