[gentoo-user] Shenanagins....

, this is the definition of abusive covert experiments.  It has doubtless cost some people a bad day at best. --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain ec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

--"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." Tommy Douglas May 14, 2021, 15:15 by john.bli...@gmail.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

I've had the  same frustration.  There is an extension call "custom scroll bars".  The problem is due to a "feature" where web pages can decide on what a scroll bar looks like and how wide it is.  Apparently some web designers think they know what's best for others.  It's a flaw, not a "feature"

[gentoo-user] Raid web page

Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

SMR drive prices are hopefully dropping.  A couple of months ago I bought a couple of used Hitachi 4 GB drives, for my raid setup.  Being raid I got recertified drives on ebay.  They were about $65, up from about $50 for the same drives a couple of years ago.  Larger new drives are hopefully com

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

The switches themselves do that when they start to wear out.  I've had it happen to a number of mice/track balls.  Indeed I'll soon be replacing those switches on several track balls and I'll use better switches that have the same dimensions.  It may be worth trying to de-dust and de-dust bunny

Re: [gentoo-user] blue screen / no signal detected

Sounds like the cable failed.  Can you replace it or is it built in on one end?  The change is probably because it's bent different.  Sometimes failed cables sort of work when bent the right way, but not for long. --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their pol

Re: Re:[gentoo-user] meson causes system freeze

Sounds like it may be overheating, laptops do that when they get dirty (so do desktops).  It can be amazingly consistent about which point they freeze.  I've had it happen 3 times trying to install the os that shall not be named with some time between each occurrence.  Compiling uses a lot of re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma session saving

It could also indicate a problem with the power supply failing.  I've seen this a number of times and it often manifest as memory errors when testing the ram.   Any number of things in the computer can fail in ways that may not be so obvious.  Substitution trouble shooting may be needed, i.e.

[gentoo-user] SFP eeprom dumps

Does any one know of a source/file containing the eeprom dumps for sfp and sfp+ optical network modules?  I know it's out there but I haven't had any luck finding it through search engines etc.  With these files any sfp (especially those designed for universal use) will work with any router/

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and PWDIS or pin 3 power disable/reset.

I have a lot of drives like that.  Simplest solution is to cut the orange wire on the drive power cable.  Only down side is that some ssd may require the 3.3V power so you might not want to modify all the power cables.  I just had to do this so my sas drives would spin up.  Before I did it the d

Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe version 2, 3 etc and how to know which a card is.

For card specs I always do a web search with the model number, though you may have to put it in a slot to read that info.  Most of the cards I buy come from ebay, used, so I'm always looking up the specs.  If it's from a server looking up the part number from one of the labels should work. 

Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe version 2, 3 etc and how to know which a card is.

You probably need to adjust the bios, possibly starting with the fail safe or optimized defaults and then changing what you need to after everything is basically working. May 20, 2024, 14:26 by : > For card specs I always do a web search with the model number, though you may > have to put it

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie seamonkey build...

All things come to an end, and human created things rarely last a century, much less 5 centuries, usually within a couple/few decades at most.   Computer hardware and software are one of the more transient things we do.  That's why I love to use servers that have started to become obsolete,  t

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD or MoBo playing up?

You also might try a known good power supply as well.  You should definitely try the drive on another system if you can't do that, and/or try another drive with the current mother board.  With the errors being different over time it could easily be nearly any component in the system.  Symptoms

[gentoo-user] OT: PCI SAS CARDS

Are there any SAS drive controller cards that go in a PCI slot (Not PCI express).  I suspect it's a silly question but I'd like to find one. -- “The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!”

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions

I'm backing up my partitions maps to avoid such problems, I've had them before on spinning rust.  Also backing up the headers of luks partitions, loose those and your' really sunk! --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing some IP's from from being logged in apache

--"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." Tommy Douglas Jan 11, 2021, 17:09 by the...@sys-concept.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

It can also be a failing power supply, had this issue myself, first 1 of 3 drives was having trouble during boot, then the boot drive started having problems.  New power supply fixed it right up.  Nearly anything can cause boot problems depending on the motherboard etc.  If it's the power supply

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here use Proton email service?

I'm using it, for over 5 years now.  Generally very happy, great up time and fast bug squashing. The only real issue I have is it's become slower at log on (fine after that other than logging out) since they started offering calendars and other gadgets.  Slightly annoyed that their proxy servic

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here use Proton email service?

Proton does keep other people from reading your' email.  I've been stalked by google based on my interest/emails after they bought the provider I was using.  But yes, if your' scenario involves any thing the spooks might be interested in, you can bet the spy agencies can crack it, at least the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

usually in laptops which become dirty (they all do, and it's very difficult to take them apart and clean and reassemble) the hard drive is the first thing to fail completely.  A dying hard drive can easily slow/halt boot.  CPU/GPU are likely next along with the power supplies for those chips. 

Re: [gentoo-user] USB and fstrim

Most likely.  You also can't run smart test on them, unless you read the manual and jump through hoops.  I have had 1 external hard drive enclosure that actually communicated properly and that did support SMART without hoops.  I've had several others that didn't work easilly and I've never bothe