Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:13 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:41 AM Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM wrote: > > > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any > > > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with tha

[gentoo-user] Re: Courier-Authlib and S.A.S.L.

2020-03-28 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 19:23:24 +, Andreas Stiasny wrote: > When I compare the output of "grep -i sasl /etc/postfix/main.cf" to your > configuration the only noticeable difference is that you don't have the line > > smtpd_sasl2_auth_enable = yes Seems the T.L.S.\ encryption was the culprit.

Re: [gentoo-user] any experience with wayland?

2020-03-28 Thread Jack
Top posting because the previous parts of the thread are not really relevant, except perhaps for context of how I got here. Short version is I initially had trouble launching plasma under wayland, but eventually figured out (got a clue) how to do so without invoking startx. At the time,

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-28 11:07, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:43:56 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? I've followed it

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread antlists
On 28/03/2020 06:19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: From what I read on the internet: Everything bigger than 2TB needs to be GPT-formatted. Is there anything better than gparted for that job? gdisk? fdisk? Basically, I think pretty much all of the popular linux utilities have been updated. You cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Andrea Conti
> The BIOS of any machine old enough to be using FAT-style MBR cannot cope with > anything newer, so if you have one, you're stuck with it. The BIOS does not care about partitions at all: it just loads and executes whatever is on the first sector of the disk. As long as you are using a bootloade

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier-Authlib and S.A.S.L.

2020-03-28 Thread Andreas Stiasny
On 28.03.20 07:45, Oliver Dixon wrote: I've been attempting to create a Virtual Mail Server using Postfix, MySQL, and Courier, however I've hit a slight brick wall when dealing with the S.M.T.P.\ authentication. As advised at [1], is is generally preferable to use the unified Courier-Authlib int

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:40:49 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any > > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with that > > "MS-DOS" setup (technically it is more a MTB-setup. MSDOS refers > > to V/FAT, which needs to be used w

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:41 AM Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM wrote: > > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any > > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with that > > "MS-DOS" setup (technically it is more a MTB-setup. MSDOS refer

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM wrote: > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with that > "MS-DOS" setup (technically it is more a MTB-setup. MSDOS refers > to V/FAT, which needs to be used with UEFI in the first par

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

2020-03-28 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:47:37 AM CET Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:46:06 AM CET Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: > Dale (and others), > > I found the location where this setting is. > you need to go to "Configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 10:43:50 GMT Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:19:56 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid > > systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance. > > What is "MTBR"? > > Mean Time Between

[gentoo-user] Re: Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-28, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > The SSD: > > 1.) From the pure technical point of view: Is it possible to > format the SSD with a good ole MTB and boot the system > from it and mount the hardisc (GPT) as usual? Yes. From that point of view, there's no functional difference betw

Re: [gentoo-user] RYZEN 5: Hyperthreading or no hyperthreading...

2020-03-28 Thread tuxic
On 03/28 05:59, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:58 PM wrote: > > > > On 03/27 11:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:11 AM wrote: > > > > > > > > On 03/27 06:04, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > Thread(s) per core: 1 <

Re: [gentoo-user] RYZEN 5: Hyperthreading or no hyperthreading...

2020-03-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:58 PM wrote: > > On 03/27 11:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:11 AM wrote: > > > > > > On 03/27 06:04, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > Thread(s) per core: 1 < > > > > > Does my CPU hyperthread? > > > > > > > > D

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended filesystem for an SSD drive and what mount setting to be used?

2020-03-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Meino. On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 06:34:58 +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > hopefully in the next daus my first SSD drive will arrive > (corona makes everything more difficult...). Yes. I bought myself a backup Fritzbox (a router) on the last day before the shops were closed here. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:19:56 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid > systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance. What is "MTBR"? Mean Time Between Repair? :-/ I'll assume you mean MBR. > The setup will be

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:43:56 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: > > I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone > > have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? > > > > I've followed it this far: > > /et

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: > I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone > have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? > > I've followed it this far: > > /etc/acpi/events/lm_lid.sh >/etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh >

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread tuxic
On 03/28 08:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 07:19:56 +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > From what I read on the internet: > > Everything bigger than 2TB needs to be GPT-formatted. > > Is there anything better than gparted for that job? > > > > So I need to format the harddisc wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 07:19:56 +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > From what I read on the internet: > Everything bigger than 2TB needs to be GPT-formatted. > Is there anything better than gparted for that job? > > So I need to format the harddisc with a GPT. > > The SSD: > > 1.) From the pure techn