Re: [gentoo-user] 'su' missing : solved

2020-03-12 Thread Philip Webb
200312 Philip Webb wrote: > My practice for many years has been to have a root terminal running, > which I start via 'konsole' + 'su'. After a system update + reboot, > I am confronted with : > > Warning: Could not find 'su', starting '/bin/bas

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
's just over 10 years since I first started using it. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we get users more involved in specific testing?

2013-11-10 Thread Philip Webb
s with their decision-making. I would not be willing to install red-masked versions of anything. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-10 Thread Philip Webb
or suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Philip Webb
131211 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-12-11, Philip Webb wrote: >> My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up >> & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. >> I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. > Unless you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers 325.15 removal

2013-12-15 Thread Philip Webb
e. Have you sync'ed recently ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] how to find whether scanner supported

2013-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
at is the case ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] how to find whether scanner supported

2013-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
131224 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24 2013, Philip Webb wrote: >> I recently bought an HP 2510 printer-copier-scanner. >> It prints & copies, but Xsane can't find it as a scanner. >> I suspect the problem is that Sane-backends doesn't support it : >&

Re: [gentoo-user] how to find whether scanner supported

2013-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
131224 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I recently bought an HP 2510 printer-copier-scanner. >> It prints & copies, but Xsane can't find it as a scanner. >> I suspect the problem is that Sane-backends doesn't support it : >> how do I find out whether tha

[gentoo-user] how to create a multi-page PDF

2013-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
e-show pdf, but is there any simpler method ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a multi-page PDF

2013-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
131226 Randolph Maaßen wrote: > 2013/12/26 Philip Webb : >> I have a set of images of pages of a printed article, which I scanned ; >> there are jpg & pdf versions . I want to concatenate them into 1 pdf . >> I used to use 'pdftk', but it required Java, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a multi-page PDF

2013-12-26 Thread Philip Webb
131226 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > On Mittwoch, 25. Dezember 2013, 18:25:54 Philip Webb wrote: >> I have a set of images of pages of a printed article, which I scanned ; >> there are jpg & pdf versions . I want to concatenate them into 1 pdf . > Do you have imagemagick i

[gentoo-user] unwanted msgs from cron after upgrade

2013-12-29 Thread Philip Webb
ssl mda '/usr/bin/procmail -f - -d purslow' Can anyone suggest what might have changed to cause this nuisance ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unwanted msgs from cron after upgrade : solved

2013-12-30 Thread Philip Webb
131230 James wrote: > Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: >> Yesterday I did my usual Sat system update, emerging new versions of >> libassuan HTTP-Cookies dialog curl coreutils binutils procps virtual/man . >> Today after restarting the system, mail continues to be do

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package contains kdeinit4? Was: Purged gnome, lost X. :-(

2014-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
ble & works with KDE & other apps. I start X with 'startx' & have in ~/.xinitrc xscreensaver & kdeinit & startfluxbox -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Security

2014-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
ot password, ie sysadmin carelessness. HTH -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] eix per dir

2014-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
ription. My notes say : List pkgs w short desc'n : 'eix -Cc /'; pkgs in category ' FORMAT=' -- \n' eix -C media-gfx '. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'Heartbleed' bug

2014-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
eed.html -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] HP printing query

2014-04-15 Thread Philip Webb
o get the printer to respond. Is this something I have to allow for whenever I update those pkgs ? I can delete the old one as root, but can I rename the new one ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] More emerge oddity in chroot

2014-04-24 Thread Philip Webb
/usr/bin/emerge --nospinner -1 > apache-tools > Man ps says that the D means "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)" > Is my hardware dying ? It looks like hardware : how old is it ? what is its record ? -- ,,==== SUP

[gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
l/editor ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] HP printing query

2014-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
140417 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb am 16.04.2014 01:07: >> I ran into a problem trying to print yesterday -- solved for now -- , >> but would like to simplify things for the next occasion. >> What appears to have happened is that when I updated Hplip +

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
140428 Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:32:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I never use Nano -- Vim or Ed are available in a raw terminal -- >> & would like to unmerge it, but Portage tells me >> virtual/editor requires it & @system req

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-29 Thread Philip Webb
140429 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:17:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Yes, I can do 'emerge -C nano', but that is brute force & deprecated. > Deprecated? Really? I must have missed that. root:565 ~> emerge -C nano * This action can remove impor

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-29 Thread Philip Webb
140429 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 06:16:03 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: PW> Yes, I can do 'emerge -C nano', but that is brute force & deprecated. NB> Deprecated? Really? I must have missed that. PW> * This action can remove important packages! >

Re: [gentoo-user] infinite loop of with @preserved-rebuild

2014-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
so appears that Nvidia -- I'm using 334.21-r3 -- no longer requires the 'emul' deps, which I also unmerged without harm. The noxious lines no longer appear in Portage output. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//_

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
140429 Philip Webb wrote: > 140429 Neil Bothwick wrote: PW> The ebuild has a long list of possible editors, > incl Vim Ed Nano, but nothing singling out Nano. NB> Except that nano is first in the list and portage takes > the first available dependency as satisfying the virtual. PW&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
: my eyes are good enough with glasses, but its shapes are my favorite. Perhaps it's what I learned to read with (I don't remember learning to read). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk grumbles

2014-06-16 Thread Philip Webb
achine, so try juggling flags. HTH -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
w nothing re cell phones, tho' of course I'm quite willing to buy one (brand suggestions ? ). -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centr

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
210321 Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 21:25 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> my question is, if I use the Wifi services, >> is whether I would need to add hardware to my machine > It depends on if your motherboard has an integrated Wifi chip or not. > I

[gentoo-user] Mutt vs Fetchmail problem

2021-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
itself is working, but when Mutt calls it, something goes wrong. Can anyone offer a suggestion what that might be ? -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt vs Fetchmail problem

2021-03-24 Thread Philip Webb
it's downloading, so if there's nothing, I don't have to do anything else. However, it wb helpful to find out what has gone wrong. It must be some pkg I updated since 210220. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] xscreensaver-demo has vanished

2021-04-25 Thread Philip Webb
nerama} Installed versions: 5.45([2021-04-26 00:02:29])(gtk jpeg opengl -caps -gdk-pixbuf -gdm -locking -new-login -offensive -pam -perl -selinux -suid -systemd -xinerama) Can anyone explain what has happened ? -- ========,, SUPPORT

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

2021-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
r a prettier boot menu. Or the OP could use Lilo, the simplest boot manager of all. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-04 Thread Philip Webb
write the output to a file ? -- eg 'emerge --ask --depclean > '. Then you can look at the output at leisure, even on another machine. HTH -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []

[gentoo-user] Motif compile fails

2021-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
ut -- This looks as if the problem is with Gcc flags, which is rather technical. Has anyone else run into this ? Does anyone have suggestions ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Motif compile fails

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
210831 Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2021-08-28, Philip Webb wrote: >> As part of updating to the latest stable Xscreensaver, >> I tried to emerge its requirement Motif, which failed with this message : >[...] >> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux

[gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
ve set the binary's permissions to SUID : root:526 /usr/bin> ls -l xscreensaver -rws--s--x 1 root root 51880 Aug 31 07:18 xscreensaver Can anyone offer advice ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Web

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start : solved

2021-08-31 Thread Philip Webb
210831 Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 16:27, Philip Webb wrote: >> I just updated to the latest Xscreensaver-6.01-r1. > Did you mean -r3 ? Yes, a typo. >> I emerged it with USE flag 'elogind' & don't use Systemd. >> 'which xscreens

[gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-08 Thread Philip Webb
wenview (Feh ok). Can anyone explain what has caused this ? Is there a way of correcting it, eg with Imagemagick ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toro

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
210909 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. >> I've tried using 'convert' to crea

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
210913 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:14:11 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've tried changing all the various settings in Gwenview config >> separately, but nothing changes. > Have you tried logging is as a new user with default Gwenview config? No : why wo

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
KDE bugs tend to disappear into the ocean, if reported. Thanks for the comments. I will try redoing the faded versions, tho' that will mean getting them from the I/net again. Any further suggestions re causes of the bad case are welcome. -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
210914 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:07:42 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> So I can avoid the problem either by cropping only with Fotoxx >> or by renaming them whenever I do it with Gwenview >> or by converting PNGs to JPGs before cropping them. > The latte

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : bug submitted

2021-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
210914 Philip Webb wrote: > 210913 David Haller wrote: >> Gwenview uses color-management via media-libs/lcms, feh does not. >> See "Rendering intent" and "Color profile" under "Advanced" >> in Gwenview's configure dialog. HTH. > That

[gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
des '5.85.0', so the requirement sb fulfilled. I don't remember seeing this before. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
210918 J.O. Aho wrote: > On 18/09/2021 12.10, Philip Webb wrote: >> There is an update available for KDE Frameworks. >> When I try to perform it, I get a conflict statement which begins >> >>!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been &

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
210918 Jack wrote: > On 18/09/2021 12.10, Philip Webb wrote: >> There is an update available for KDE Frameworks. >> When I try to perform it, I get a conflict statement which begins >> >> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been &g

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : solved

2021-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
210917 Philip Webb wrote: > It's only when I crop a PNG image in Gwenview > & save it in place (ie with the same name), that the colors are faded > & that's only when viewed with Gwenview, not eg with Feh. > The bad case does look like a Gwenview bug, > & in

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
Qt, which forces the user to unmerge the whole set, then merge the updates as a set too. Perhaps one of our hard-working unpaid devs is listening ... (smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
210919 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:01:51 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> The patch is dated 'June 11', so it may take awhile yet to reach Gentoo. > 5.15.2 is already in testing, which explains why I was unable > to reproduce this in the way it hit you,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle : solved

2021-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
210919 antlists wrote: > On 19/09/2021 08:03, Philip Webb wrote: >> Portage ought to be able to recognise when a set of pkgs >> are creating destructive circular dependencies among themselves >> & resolve the conflict by updating all of them together. > Until you h

[gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

2021-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
is 6 years old & has always worked very well ; its CPU is an AMD. I plan to build a new machine in the next few months : should I accelerate my plans ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

2021-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
210924 Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 2021-09-24, at 05:58, Philip Webb wrote: >> While I was asleep yesterday, my machine reported on all 3 Konsoles : >> Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ... >> : mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 4: 9d0b4c

Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

2021-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
210924 Mark Knecht wrote: > On 2021-09-24, at 05:58, Philip Webb wrote: >> While I was asleep yesterday, my machine reported on all 3 Konsoles >> Message from syslogd@ at Thu Sep 23 19:38:11 2021 ... >> : mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 4: 9d0b4c16001

[gentoo-user] screensaver problem

2021-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
e screen blanks again. Instead, the savers should run continually till activity resumes. Can anyone suggest what is telling the monitor to blank after 5 min regardless of whether Xscreensaver is running or not ? -- ,, SUPPORT

[gentoo-user] Re: screensaver problem : PS

2021-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
Sorry, I should add that my desktop is the latest stable KDE + Qt & Xscreensaver is the latest stable version 6.01-r4 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Univer

Re: [gentoo-user] screensaver problem

2021-10-09 Thread Philip Webb
211009 Jack wrote: > On 2021.10.09 01:29, Philip Webb wrote: >> I have Xscreensaver started by .xinit & it runs as it should ; >> each saver is set to run for 3 min . >> When I'm asleep, I kill Xscreensaver >> & the monitor blanks after 5 min , wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Any decent alternative to Thunderbird?

2021-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
s long been mature : give it a try. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] ssh problem

2021-12-26 Thread Philip Webb
e helpful suggestions how to get past the blockage ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2021-12-27 Thread Philip Webb
211226 Michael wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:42:41 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to login to a remote site using 'ssh'. >> The response I get is "Unable to negotiate with port >> : no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss".

[gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-02 Thread Philip Webb
n 2000, it was his 1st new body, since when he's been my computer spirit (smile). I'm a Classicist by training & wrote my PhD thesis on the philosopher. I have a mathematical side too ] -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

2022-03-06 Thread Philip Webb
o review the info so far. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new machine : probable parts for comment

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
hers which are 500 W & I can ask in the store, so I'm willing to assume "500" is a typo. Any further advice wb very welcome (smile to everyone). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : revised parts for comment

2022-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
stead. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to make Gentoo LiveGUI ISO image GUI environment look like Windows 10/11?

2022-08-05 Thread Philip Webb
their own machines & want to choose their own selection of software to install in them. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] (G)vim 9.0.0099 won't start

2022-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
PORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] (G)vim 9.0.0099 won't start : SOLVED

2022-08-21 Thread Philip Webb
220820 Philip Webb wrote: > Today, I updated to the latest stable Vim 9.0.0099 + GVim same > & it refused to open. No problem back with 8.2.4586. After some sleep & investigation, I found the problem, which is with Gvim. The gtk+ gtk+2 USE flags have been dropped for Gvim

[gentoo-user] new machine : on-going frustration

2022-09-15 Thread Philip Webb
an accident or are PCIe's confined to AMD ? Intel seems to be a quite different world from AMD today. Does anyone have any useful advice or suggestions ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : a lot clearer

2022-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
ndline mb better for security. Thanks for the advice so far : further comments are very welcome. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands

2022-10-07 Thread Philip Webb
uld allow you to reconstruct the history of the commands. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ?

2022-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
doesn't seem to create filesystems. There is a utility 'sys-fs/genext2fs', which I emerged & looked at, but it's not clear whether it does the simple job I need. Can anyone advise ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ? -- solved

2022-11-17 Thread Philip Webb
formatted the stick, copied the files it had before the damage, then discovered that it was in fact physically bad, so 'mke2fs' wasn't needed today. I used another formatted stick instead. Thanx to both + Jack as well. -- ====,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for simple GUI MUA that works with ssmtp

2022-12-26 Thread Philip Webb
en it in Firefox. If there's no link, but it's presented as HTML, I copy-paste the URL to Firefox & open it similarly. Mutt is so good, I'm willing to take this slight detour rather than wade thro' the mud of a GUI client. -- ,,===

[gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Philip Webb
les. Ext4 seems to be used by well-known binary distros. What would others recommend ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 >> & am at the point of designing the partitions. >> For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now

[gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-10 Thread Philip Webb
get Wifi working at this early point in the installation process ? -- it's present on the Mobo, which is a Gigabyte X570S AERO G . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
= SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
230511 Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:01:51 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> There is another related question : is there a way >> to make both connections simultaneously & switch between them ? > If you configure them both in /etc/conf.d/net with different priorities

[gentoo-user] problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1

2023-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
evices' as 'N'. I also tried a 'make clean'. The same error goes on happening. Since I don't have anything by Realtek for networking -- sound uses Realtek -- , I can't understand the behaviour above. Can anyone offer any advice ? -- ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1 : SOLVED

2023-05-21 Thread Philip Webb
230520 Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 20 May 2023 10:54:21 BST Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2023-05-20, Michael wrote: >>> On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote: >>>> I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine >>>> & have got

[gentoo-user] new machine : root partition mounted RO

2023-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
twice, incl globally. Could it be some kernel option ? 'grep' shows no 'read_only' or similar. Can anyone offer advice ? -- please read my desciption above carefully. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : root partition mounted RO : SOLVED

2023-05-25 Thread Philip Webb
s mounted RW & I could proceed. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] raw tty font size

2023-05-26 Thread Philip Webb
fault font size ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raw tty font size

2023-05-27 Thread Philip Webb
230526 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-05-26, Philip Webb wrote: >> I can now boot into the embryonic Gentoo system in my new machine, >> which presents a raw TTY, whose font is too large, >> ie there are too few lines on the screen. >> Somewhere, there's a settin

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-30 Thread Philip Webb
230511 Michael wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:42:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Can anyone explain how I can get Wifi working >> at this early point in the installation process ? > 1. Check if the appropriate firmware is available, > otherwise fetch it from here and unta

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
BTW there appears to be a pkg 'rfkill' : on Mint 'rfkill' reports "Bluetooth hci0 | wlan phy0", both unblocked. Any further advice wb most welcome (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT __

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
230531 Jack wrote: > On 5/31/23 12:30, Philip Webb wrote: >> Also, under "configuration:", Mint says "broadcast=yes, driver=nt7921e, > Is there a typo?  Above says driver nt7921e (first letter N) >> driver_version=5.15.0-generic, firmware=__91-20220209 15

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
nd it. Any more substantial advice is very welcome. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
way: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Chess/MT7921e So no progress today. I can try copying the firmware files from SR/Mint -- everything under /lib/firmware/ in SR/Mint & see if it helps. Your final note was a link to someone's pains using mt7921e, which he sad in the end was

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine : progress

2023-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
password are correct in the conf file. It's approaching supper time & I've run out of ideas for today anyway. Any further advice is most welcome (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine : progress

2023-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
230601 Lee K wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Thanks for all the help so far. > > > > I've solved the firmware problem. > > The needed files weren't in the latest stable version of linux-firmware > > nor in the

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine : progress

2023-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
230601 Lee K wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> What is still not good is that that interface has "NO-CARRIER". >> Also, 'rc-status' after a reboot shows wpa_supplicant as STOPPED. >> >> 'rc-service -v

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-06-02 Thread Philip Webb
230602 Michael wrote: > On Friday, 2 June 2023 07:16:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> #wpa_supplicant.conf 230601 >> >> network={ >> ssid="" >> bssid=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF >> proto=RSN >> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK >> pairwise=CCMP >>

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine : solved

2023-06-10 Thread Philip Webb
r is upstairs over my head. FYI for anyone else who finds her/himself stuck in this way. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
d" cases of the same error messages, but they don't seem to help my problem. Can anyone offer possible solutions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

2023-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
230614 Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:21:53 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc >> nor using 'startx' as root with Gentoo, but it refuses to start as user. >> I've had a series of errors :

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-28 Thread Philip Webb
I've used very happily since c 1998 , well before Gentoo existed. I've also always used Mbox, not Maildir. Powerful, configurable, but also simple : the UNIX approach. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip W

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Philip Webb
ime has been that Qt pkgs block one another, st the only way out is to unmerge them all, then remerge them all. If anyone knows a better method, please let us know. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip W

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