Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-18 Thread Dragostin Yanev
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:12:46AM +0400, Andrew Savchenko wrote > > > > I'd like to recommend you this kernel gcc patch which enables > > -march=native support for kernel compilation: > > https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch > > > > Just select native and you will get both best perform

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop

2014-04-18 Thread covici
Walter Dnes wrote: > I just finished installing Gentoo on an older AMD laptop. There was > one major problem that I hacked around, and things appear to be working > OK, but I still get warnings when installing lilo. > > When I first did the install, I got the warning message... > "Could not

[gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop

2014-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
I just finished installing Gentoo on an older AMD laptop. There was one major problem that I hacked around, and things appear to be working OK, but I still get warnings when installing lilo. When I first did the install, I got the warning message... "Could not determine root partition!". I r

[gentoo-user] libreoffice uses openssl?

2014-04-18 Thread walt
Not long ago I started building my own libreoffice from their git repo because I wanted to bisect a recent libreoffice bug in localc. In the process of finding the bug I discovered that libreoffice ships its own copy of openssl along with many other common opensource libraries. The libreoffice te

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 Apr 2014 21:27:28 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Friday 18 Apr 2014 19:08:21 Dale wrote: > >> I'm a little vague on some things but it seems the claim was that NSA > >> had some sort of backdoor that was built in from the beginning of the > >> project for encryption which sounded lik

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/fd0 dont exist, kernel configuration seems good

2014-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 01:22:47PM +0200, FERREC Romain wrote > Hello > > I'm new on Gentoo and I try to make my floopy drive working, so I > compiled my kernel with good options (floppy disk support and > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support enabled), and rebooted on "the kernel" of course. Is this an ol

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:12:46AM +0400, Andrew Savchenko wrote > > I'd like to recommend you this kernel gcc patch which enables > -march=native support for kernel compilation: > https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch > > Just select native and you will get both best performance and one >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-18 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Friday 18 Apr 2014 19:08:21 Dale wrote: >> I'm a little vague on some things but it seems the claim was that NSA >> had some sort of backdoor that was built in from the beginning of the >> project for encryption which sounded like it would include httpS and >> others. Again, the d

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-18 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:11:05 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm (re)installing Gentoo on an older AMD notebook. The output > from "less /proc/cpuinfo" includes... > > processor : 1 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD > cpu family : 16 > model : 6 > model name : AMD Athlon(tm)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 Apr 2014 19:08:21 Dale wrote: > I'm a little vague on some things but it seems the claim was that NSA > had some sort of backdoor that was built in from the beginning of the > project for encryption which sounded like it would include httpS and > others. Again, the details are fuzzy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-18 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Friday 18 Apr 2014 15:27:12 Dale wrote: >> >> >> On this topic about NSA, I read a article that claimed the NSA was able >> to view httpS traffic live or close to live since they had some backdoor >> access keys. I don't recall where the article was but since this is a >> knowledg

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-18 Thread Brian Hesdorfer
On 4/18/2014 1:38 PM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 18 April 2014 10:01:35 Brian Hesdorfer wrote: On 4/18/2014 9:05 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 18 April 2014 12:02:01 Thomas Mueller wrote: Is there a way to make Gentoo or other Linux allow extra time when root is on a USB device?

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 18 April 2014 10:01:35 Brian Hesdorfer wrote: > On 4/18/2014 9:05 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 18 April 2014 12:02:01 Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> Is there a way to make Gentoo or other Linux allow extra time when root > >> is > >> on a USB device? Any way to say "just a second

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 Apr 2014 15:27:12 Dale wrote: > Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2014, at 23:17, walt wrote: > >> On 04/17/2014 11:43 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: > >>> I don't know much about the secp521r1 curve or about its security. > >>> You can list all available curves by: > >>> > >>> openssl ecp

Re: [gentoo-user] Get bridge working for xen

2014-04-18 Thread Facundo Curti
2014-04-18 9:45 GMT-03:00 Joost Roeleveld : > On Wednesday 16 April 2014 23:17:27 Facu Curti wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:54:46AM +0800, AR wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Facu Curti wrote: >> > > Hi all! :) >> > > >> > > I'm following the gentoo wiki [1]. I can't find any mis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-18 Thread Dale
Matti Nykyri wrote: > On Apr 17, 2014, at 23:17, walt wrote: > >> On 04/17/2014 11:43 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: >>> I don't know much about the secp521r1 curve or about its security. >>> You can list all available curves by: >>> >>> openssl ecparam -list_curves >> I don't either, but I hope this guy

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-18 Thread Brian Hesdorfer
On 4/18/2014 9:05 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 18 April 2014 12:02:01 Thomas Mueller wrote: Is there a way to make Gentoo or other Linux allow extra time when root is on a USB device? Any way to say "just a second" or more like 15 seconds before aborting with the message that root part

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 18 April 2014 12:02:01 Thomas Mueller wrote: > Is there a way to make Gentoo or other Linux allow extra time when root is > on a USB device? Any way to say "just a second" or more like 15 seconds > before aborting with the message that root partition does not exist? > > In this case it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

2014-04-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 17 April 2014 16:32:34 James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user? > > > > I never could get the hang of reading mail in a browser > > Gmane is very nice. it mostly works. I noticed all the "WEFT" messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Get bridge working for xen

2014-04-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 16 April 2014 23:17:27 Facu Curti wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:54:46AM +0800, AR wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Facu Curti wrote: > > > Hi all! :) > > > > > > I'm following the gentoo wiki [1]. I can't find any mistake on config > > > files, but network does not w

[gentoo-user] Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
Is there a way to make Gentoo or other Linux allow extra time when root is on a USB device? Any way to say "just a second" or more like 15 seconds before aborting with the message that root partition does not exist? In this case it's an IDE hard drive in a USB enclosure. FreeBSD seems to handl

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/fd0 dont exist, kernel configuration seems good

2014-04-18 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:22 AM, FERREC Romain wrote: > Hello > > I'm new on Gentoo and I try to make my floopy drive working, so I > compiled my kernel with good options (floppy disk support and > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support enabled), and rebooted on "the kernel" of course. > > Normaly it should wo

[gentoo-user] /dev/fd0 dont exist, kernel configuration seems good

2014-04-18 Thread FERREC Romain
Hello I'm new on Gentoo and I try to make my floopy drive working, so I compiled my kernel with good options (floppy disk support and ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support enabled), and rebooted on "the kernel" of course. Normaly it should work, but my floppy drive is not listed in /dev as fd0 or floppy...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

2014-04-18 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 2014-04-18 02:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/04/2014 18:32, James wrote: alpine? (I guess is the current form/derivative of pine?REALLY? Alpine itself is now abandonware and replaced with some other *pine* app :-) No, Eduardo Chappa still does Alpine releases every now and then, 2.11