Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless keyboard mouse

2017-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On February 17, 2017 6:00:56 AM GMT+01:00, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >If I use wireless keyboard and mouse from same company can I use them >with three computers? > >My space is limited, and the boxes are close to each other; in addition >I have only one monitor. > >PC-1: PS/2(Keyboard+Mouse) +

[gentoo-user] Wireless keyboard mouse

2017-02-16 Thread thelma
If I use wireless keyboard and mouse from same company can I use them with three computers? My space is limited, and the boxes are close to each other; in addition I have only one monitor. PC-1: PS/2(Keyboard+Mouse) + DB9 Monitor PC-2: PS/2(Keyboard+Mouse) + DB9 Monitor I use KVM switch to contr

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config setting for console scroll back

2017-02-16 Thread Meino . Cramer
Harry Putnam [17-02-17 04:20]: > > In make menuconfig, under: > Device Drivers → Graphics support → Console display driver support > (700) Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB) > > I think the default was 64 but I like a big scrollback buffer. > > As you see I set 700 but really didn't have muc

[gentoo-user] kernel config setting for console scroll back

2017-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
In make menuconfig, under: Device Drivers → Graphics support → Console display driver support (700) Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB) I think the default was 64 but I like a big scrollback buffer. As you see I set 700 but really didn't have much of an idea what that would be in lines. Can a

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school > vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or at > least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg > but /etc/default/grub when you want to add kernel parameters.

Re: [gentoo-user] Streaming Live TV News channels

2017-02-16 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 02/15/2017 09:36 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I was thinking of cutting the TV cord but I think Internet TV is not yet ready. Even my Shaw FreeRange TV will not play any Live TV News Channels on my Android TV box due to some kind of licensing issues. They will stream it to cell phone b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:20:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > What can you tell me about how to get an initial hi-res frame buffer > during boot and after when in console mode? KMS takes care of that with real hardware, but not so much with virtual hardware. > I know how to do it in grub:0. But I

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: >> But no update-grub > > update-grub is an Ubuntuism, not part of standard GRUB. It's only a one > line shell script that runs > > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Even a large proportion of Ubuntu users would be able to manage without > it. yeah, I saw once I look

Re: [gentoo-user] grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:55:30 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Ran install-grub > (completed successfully) > > Attempted to run update-grub, but that script was nowhere to be found. > > qlist grub:2 |grep update shows its not part of grub:2 pkg. > > Just to make sure I re-installed grub:2 once mo

[gentoo-user] grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup:INSTALLING gentoo(amd64) in VBox vm guest - win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram Installing grub:0 was my first attempt, since I kind of know my way around that and have never used grub:2. But, ran into several problems concerning ncurses and gpm

[gentoo-user] Bluefish colours

2017-02-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Has anyone here any experience of Bluefish? I want to use it in website development but I can't. Its menus use a background of very pale grey and a text colour of white. Even with a magnifying glass I can't make out most of what it's showing me. How can I tell it to be like everyon

Re: [gentoo-user] custom kernel with nvidia-drivers

2017-02-16 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> >> As far as generating a custom config file based on what modules are >> loaded, you could try "make localmodconfig": >> It's purpose is described here, >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules: initramfs vs. /lib/modules

2017-02-16 Thread marco restelli
2017-02-15 16:19 GMT+01:00, Rich Freeman : >> >>> Anytime you see something like root=UUID=* that is being handled by an >>> initramfs. >> >> I understand that this parameter is passed by the kernel to the init >> script inside the initramfs which then uses "busybox findfs" to >> translate the UUID

Re: [gentoo-user] custom kernel with nvidia-drivers

2017-02-16 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As far as generating a custom config file based on what modules are loaded, you could try "make localmodconfig": It's purpose is described here, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/README?id=refs/tags/v4.9.9: Create a config based o