[gentoo-user] Nouveau test : back to Nvidia

Following my recent request for info + replies, I tried using Nouveau for a week & didn't have any basic problems, but it couldn't handle the 3D Xscreensavers, eg Gears + Pipes, so I've come back to Nvidia, which has always worked well enough, but tends to create problems matching Nvidia/Kernel ver

[gentoo-user] Mouse wheel makes firefox hang

Hello, After a recent system update I get this annoying strange behavior: when scrolling in a firefox or thunderbird window with the mouse wheel, the full X interface freezes for some seconds, then a system beep is emitted and the interface unfreezes, but most of the time the mouse cursor b

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel makes firefox hang

On Sunday, 26 August 2018 09:07:23 BST Hervé Guillemet wrote: > Hello, > > After a recent system update I get this annoying strange behavior: when > scrolling in a firefox or thunderbird window with the mouse wheel, the > full X interface freezes for some seconds, then a system beep is emitted > a

[gentoo-user] dev-libs/ucommon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi folks, I need dev-libs/ucommon but failed to compile: > emerge --info '=dev-libs/ucommon-6.0.3' Portage 2.3.40 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened, gcc-7.3.0, glibc-2.26-r7, 4.18.5-gentoo x86_64) ==

[gentoo-user] sys-process/psmisc 23.2 broke

Hi. 23.2 is broke and has a mandatory new format where you have to put -s before the signal when using killall. Killall is not finding existing process even though I have the name correct. Downgrading to 23.1-r1 fixes the problem. I just thought I'd let people know. -- Your life is like a pen

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-process/psmisc 23.2 broke

On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:34:42 -0400, John Covici wrote: > Hi. 23.2 is broke and has a mandatory new format where you have to > put -s before the signal when using killall. Killall is not finding > existing process even though I have the name correct. Downgrading to > 23.1-r1 fixes the problem.