Re: [gentoo-user] basic network

2005-05-31 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Shouldn't he also setup a dhcp server like dnsmasq on the gentoo box? That's what I did, was it an overkill? raf Red wrote: > > > luis jure wrote: > >>>hello list, i'm trying to setup my very first "network" at home. >>> >>>i have my desktop (gentoo linux) and a recently purchased laptop (stil

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver

2005-05-31 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
$HOME/.xscreensaver In particular, these two lines should do it: chooseRandomImages: True imageDirectory: ... Or run $ xscreensaver-demo despite the name it is an xscreensaver configuration GUI. raf Qv6 wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to customize xscreensaver to show personal photos in a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working with XDM

2005-06-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Bob Sanders wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:25:20 -0300 > Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>rc.conf to use xdm and everything works ok, but I have no sound, I >>tried command-line and X apps, and none has access to the alsa, oss or >>esound drivers. > > It's probably pam. Look as /de

Re: [gentoo-user] logs changed from bz2 to gz

2005-06-07 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Richard Fish wrote: > Hmm, I thought log rotation was controlled by logrotate, in which case > the default is gzip, but you can change it in /etc/logrotate.conf. > Maybe things work differently with sysklogd though...I am using syslog-ng. > sysklogd also (optionally) rotates logs, through the s

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: > lspci -v reveals: > :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X Motherboard > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22 > I/O ports at e000 > Capabil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: > >>Probably not the case, since lspci detects the 8237 chip, but did you >>enable the audio chipset in the mobo BIOS? > > Un, no, how do you do that? Since windoz was never installed, I > doubt this has been done... It is motherboard-specific, I can only tell you how I do it on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Holly Bostick wrote: > James schreef: >>## ALSA portion >>## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave >>## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 >>## OSS/Free portion >>## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 >>## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 > > All these entries are commented out, and not replicated later in the file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard

2005-06-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: > Ok it working in stereo playing a CD! My grub looks like this: > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 root=/dev/hda1 > snd-via82xx.dxs_support=2 > > cool? > > How is the 5.1 signal sent out to 4 speakers plus the subwoofer? Do I need to > patch the s/pdf out' jack to a preamp

Re: [gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del

2005-07-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
No, Billk, you aren't mistaken! Ow Mun Heng, in the tightvnc client (version 1.3dev5) hit F8 to get the menu, which has "Send CTRL-ALT-DEL" among the other options. >From the vncviewer man page: "You can use F8 to display a pop-up utility menu. Press F8 twice to pass single F8 to the remote s

Re: [gentoo-user] HTPC and Gentoo

2012-02-12 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/12/2012 12:53 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > So I've got Inara in position to be my HTPC box. Tried installing > MythTV, but I can't make heads or tails of how to have it do the > things I'd like it to do: > > * Play DVDs inserted into the DVD drive I don't use many DVD but I think it works for

[gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
After yesterday's sync I found mythtv's overlay not able to build anymore due to missing dependency: media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-headers is no longer present in the tree. A quick search shows that it has now become virtual/linuxtv-dvb-headers [1]. I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait >> for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How >> difficult would the latter be? >

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait >> for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How >> difficult would the latter be? >

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 08:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 > Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync the > portage tree and every time thereafter. > > Editing the ebuild is not the simplest route, it is a vastly more > complex route. Instead, put t

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 > Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> The change was done in the mythtv overlay >> (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would that be overwritten by a resync? >> I understood that overlay gets updated onl

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 02:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The MythTV overlay is not serviced by layman. Instead, it includes > a script called from /etc/portage/postsync.d/ to update itself > after every emerge --sync. > > Basically, there are two

[gentoo-user] X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-02 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I switched to 295.20-r1 and everything was fine. But I forgot to mask 295.40 and during ye

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 08:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/05/12 09:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video >> card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia >> driver causing a segfault

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 04:22 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> It'd be interesting to understand why I'm getting the segfault with the >> 295.40, but being a closed driver I suppose there is little I can diagnose. > > Emerge with --ggdb3, enable core dumps (I forget the particular > sysctl, sorry), and open up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 04:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> thanks, but I'd rather keep that as a last option because I have no >> guarantee of success with the 302.07 driver. > > There are no guarantees in life. Only wasted time, which in this case > amounts to 5-8 minutes for copying/editing and emer

[gentoo-user] Re: X segfault with nvidia-drivers-295.40 on GT520

2012-05-10 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/03/2012 08:33 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > One month ago I switched to an Nvidia-based (ASUS GT520, PCI-e) video > card on an ~amd64 box. I immediately had problems with the latest Nvidia > driver causing a segfault when X started (text console is ok) so I > switched to 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch List

2012-06-05 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/05/2012 01:37 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: > is there a option that i can build a list of Requirements to download of > a ebuild? > > I want build inkscape, but i has only mobile connection at moment. Can i > build a list which i can then later load in a cybercafe? > > In the Handbook i found

[gentoo-user] unable to compile seamonkey-2.9.1-r2

2012-06-07 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. Up to seamonkey-2.9.1 I was able to build from sources. emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with "collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]" and I see swap space being eaten up quickly towards the end of the build. gcc is 4.6.3, I also tried 4.5.3 with same res

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile seamonkey-2.9.1-r2

2012-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/08/2012 09:29 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Jun 8, 2012 1:16 PM, "Raffaele BELARDI" > >> I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. >> >> emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with "collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 >> [Killed]" and I see swap space

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile seamonkey-2.9.1-r2

2012-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/08/2012 09:29 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Jun 8, 2012 1:16 PM, "Raffaele BELARDI" > >> I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. >> >> Up to seamonkey-2.9.1 I was able to build from sources. >> >> emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with "coll

[gentoo-user] still problems with nvidia-drivers-295.40 and above

2012-06-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Some time ago I wrote about a problem I have with nvidia-drivers causing X to segfault for versions above 295.20 (including the beta 302.x series) on a ASUS GT520, PCI-e board. Now it's becoming a mess to update the system because 295.20 is no longer in-tree. Rather than fiddling with overlays I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cross compile Perl for ARM?

2011-10-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/14/2011 01:14 PM, czernitko wrote: > Hello! > I started playing a little bit with cross compilation for ARM > architecture. Using crossdev I created a toolchain for > arm-none-linux-gnueabi tuple. > Now I'd like to emerge some more packages, but perl constantly refuses > to emerge and it is n

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cross compile Perl for ARM?

2011-10-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/14/2011 05:15 PM, czernitko wrote: > AFAIK the biggest disadvantage of crossdev-created toolchain, compared > to other cross compilation tools, is that without usage of emulator > (like qemu-user) it is not possible to compile things that use in their > configure scipts checks that need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the parameters that the kernel support?

2011-10-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/19/2011 11:15 AM, Lavender wrote: > How can I find out what parametres the kernel supports when it is in > bootstrap? > It's documented in the kernel source tree: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mythtv problems

2011-10-26 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/26/2011 04:45 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On 10/26/11 09:23, Michael Sullivan wrote: >> camille ~ # mythbackend >> 2011-10-26 09:15:05.626 Using runtime prefix = /usr >> 2011-10-26 09:15:05.626 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv >> 2011-10-26 09:15:05.626 Unable to read configura

[gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I have two gentoo boxes, X has an ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD64 3500+ CPU, Y has a AMD64 X2 5600+ CPU. Since I need more juice on X I thought I could swap CPUs. After updating X's BIOS the system with the 'new' CPU boots up to the MythTv screen with no error but does not respond to the USB keyboard nor

[gentoo-user] multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Do I need to set any particular USE flag to enable multi-threaded decoding with mplayer, or is it just a matter of passing the appropriate 'threads=' on the command line? raffaele

[gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I'll answer myself: just pass the option. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html On 11/15/2011 08:58 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Do I need to set any particular USE flag to enable multi-threaded > decoding with mplayer, or is it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/15/2011 12:24 PM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 15 Nov 2011 09:55:55 Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> I'll answer myself: just pass the option. >> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start- >> 75.html > > Also

[gentoo-user] Re: swapping processor problem

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/15/2011 08:33 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > I have two gentoo boxes, X has an ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD64 3500+ CPU, Y > has a AMD64 X2 5600+ CPU. Since I need more juice on X I thought I could > swap CPUs. > > After updating X's BIOS the system with the 'new'

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/16/2011 08:11 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > Play with your BIOS settings. Look for things like legacy USB support. > Also, double-check that all the relevant USB drivers (UHCI, EHCI, > XHCI, HID, etc) are either built-into the kernel, or are loaded as > modules. Consider rebuilding your kernel. >

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/16/2011 08:34 AM, Dale wrote: > > I agree tho that checking those BIOS setting is a good start. If that fails, > boot a CD or something, chroot in, do a emerge -e system. Maybe make some > corrections to the kernel then try booting. Oh, I'd rebuild the input > drivers to, mouse and key

Re: [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem

2011-11-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/16/2011 09:23 AM, Dale wrote: > You could be right that it is a mobo CPU issue. When you are grasping > at straws, just grab all you can. Yep, that's why I wrote about it here, I see very good suggestions on this list. > Maybe check if there is a BIOS update available? Might be worth a s

[gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make automounting possible? According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my system. I found several suggestions on the net but none seems promising.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 11:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:11 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently >> manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make >> automounting possib

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 03:06 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:22:35 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> 3. uam: does not require fiddling with udev rules but cannot >> un-mount > > 3 is wrong, you can unmount with pmount, exactly the same as with > 1. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 04:54 P, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I thought that pcmanfm, the LXDE file manager, had a context menu > option to unmount. > Me too, and I think that a long time ago I did have it, but now it's not there. Probably I'd better try on the lxde mailing list. thanks, raf

Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/22/2011 10:40 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Here's an alternative: >> >> sed -r -e 's/-[0-9].*//' > > Nust a note: sed has no option -r and 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' is a "garbled" > command. A corrected version would be 's/\(.*\)-[0-9].*/\1/' > > So the main question is: why do you use a non-e

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

2011-12-01 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 12/01/2011 09:49 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:53:10 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > If you only want the main title and not all the padding (sorry > "extras") > > mplayer -streamdump dvd://1 > It doesn't work for copy protected discs. Also, here it would be: $ mplayer -du

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 12/16/2011 10:12 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Dual layer DVDs will only work, if the layer break is at the right place. > > I so far have not been able to get the layer break value from the IFO file. > > You need to use cdrecord -atip to get the layer break value and then use > cdrecord la

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/08/2012 02:03 PM, Norman Rieß wrote: > i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem > building binutils. What problem? I have no experience on Gentoo/ARM but some on buildroot/ARM. raf

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/09/2012 07:24 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: > Am 08.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: > I have a problem compiling binutils. > Full build log can be found here http://smash-net.org/temp/build_log.txt > > I tried tha vanilla flag and diabled zlib as suggested via google > s

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting apvlv running (My "excellent adventure")

2012-08-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/09/2012 02:06 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Walter Dnes [12-08-09 05:11]: >> Now epdfview is masked for removal in a few weeks. apvlv is the >> recommended lightweight alternative. After some screwing around and >> discovering an obscure bug in the apvlv ebuild, I finally got apvlv up

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 09/18/2012 11:03 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:53:53 -0500 >> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >>> When I moved in with my GF, her electric bill shoot up to the roof (I >>> brought my 46" LCD TV, PlayStation 3, and in total 5 computers and >>> other electronics).

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!

2012-10-23 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/24/2012 04:31 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I did an "emerge -NuD world", it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to > go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed. > This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I use as my terminal, > XTerm or UXTerm. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!

2012-10-23 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/24/2012 08:02 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > On 10/24/2012 04:31 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, >> I did an "emerge -NuD world", it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to >> go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed. >> Thi

[gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)

2013-01-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 01/07/2013 08:35 AM, Dale wrote: > As I understand it, /dev/hdxx is no longer > supported on current kernels. All hard drives are /dev/sdxx and optical > drives are /dev/sr0(1,2,3,4 etc). Not true, I'm using /dev/hd for all my PATA HD and DVD drives and /dev/sd for the SATA HDs. Systems are ~a

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)

2013-01-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 01/09/2013 10:01 AM, Dale wrote: > < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support **(DEPRECATED)** > Yes, I know it is unmaintained and deprecated, I'm looking for a rational reason to move to the SATA driver when the PATA one works well with my old drives. The PATA drives are probably going to die before the

Re: [gentoo-user] update broke X

2013-01-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 01/17/2013 07:47 MA, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Cinder wrote: >> Thank you Canek. I have always used nouveau driver. > > [ huge snip again ] > > Everything looks OK. You have the kernel configured to use nouveau, > and you have the X.org driver and the corr

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-304.64 build failure against vanilla linux-3.7.4

2013-01-29 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 01/27/2013 01:06 AM, staticsafe wrote: > I just grabbed vanilla 3.7.4 from kernel.org, the kernel build itself > went fine but when I did a modules-rebuild, the nvidia module failed to > build. As requested by the error message: I had the same problem, I had success with this: https://devtalk.

Re: [gentoo-user] rtorrent

2013-02-05 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/06/2013 07:25 AM, András Csányi wrote: > Good morning All, > > I would like to ask some help regarding color stuff of rtorrent. Where > can I find a how to or something? What I found is not working with my > rtorrent. > Looks like color support was dropped by the ebuild maintainer: https:

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-22 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/22/2013 10:39 AM, Joseph wrote: > In addition I get the flooring errors in Xorg.0.log > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > [ 288.401] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER > [ 313.863] (EE) > [ 313.863

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-22 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/22/2013 11:15 AM, Joseph wrote: > On 02/22/13 10:49, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> On 02/22/2013 10:39 AM, Joseph wrote: >>> In addition I get the flooring errors in Xorg.0.log >>> >>> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE >>> (WW) warning, (

[gentoo-user] Re: gdm fails to start - SOLVED

2017-09-04 Thread Raffaele Belardi
On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 10:16 +0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > I'm unable to start the gdm service on a recently installed gnome > desktop (~x86): the service continuously fails and restarts with the > errors below. If I disable the service and login into a text console, > startx w

[gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Raffaele Belardi
After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be: 1. rebuild kernel with openRC support and install 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager 3. emerge -C systemd 4. change profile to generic desktop (non-Gnome) 5. emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-13 Thread Raffaele Belardi
On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 18:31 +0200, Nils Freydank wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, 17:55:22 CEST schrieb Raffaele > Belardi: > > After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old > > workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be: &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-13 Thread Raffaele Belardi
On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 21:22 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/09/17 18:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old > > workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be: > > > > 1. rebuild ker

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-13 Thread Raffaele Belardi
On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 23:20 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:55:22 +0200 > schrieb Raffaele Belardi : > > > 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager > > You don't need to uninstall networkmanager except you want to > uninstall > it for some other r

[gentoo-user] no more googleearth in portage

2017-09-19 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome, although I missed the Gentoo news bit if there was one. For Android there is the really good Open Street Map application, are there any desktop alternatives in Portage for non-Chrome users? I know OSM has a web interface but I'd pref

Re: [gentoo-user] no more googleearth in portage

2017-09-26 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Urs Schütz wrote: > On 09/20/17 07:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote: >> I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome, although I >> missed the Gentoo >> news bit if there was one. >> >> For Android there is the really good Open Street

[gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

2017-11-21 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Hi, rebuilding system and world with gcc-7.2.0 on a 6-core AMD CPU I have the impression that most of the ebuilds limit parallel builds to 1, 2 or 3 threads. I'm aware it is only an impression, I did not spend the night monitoring the process, but nevertheless every time I checked the load was

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

2017-11-22 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > That being said: if you do a world rebuild you will have lots of packages > that spend ~40 seconds doing their autoconf run, only to build 2-3 sources > files. On an 8-core machine at work, I get good results using parallel > emerge jobs (emerge -jX). For your 6-core AMD

[gentoo-user] Re: is multi-core really worth it?

2017-11-28 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Hi, > > rebuilding system and world with gcc-7.2.0 on a 6-core AMD CPU I have the > impression that > most of the ebuilds limit parallel builds to 1, 2 or 3 threads. I'm aware it > is only an > impression, I did not spend the night m

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

2017-12-05 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Mick wrote: > > Quite inexplicable ... > > My kernel is 7.1M, System.map 3.4M and config is 114K. I usually leave a > total of three kernels and associated files in my ext2 46M /boot partition > and > they all used to fit in there. I tried to install grub-0.97-r16 on this > system a number

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

2017-12-05 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Wols Lists wrote: >> >> If a tmpfs fills up, the excess gets swapped out, but with 32GB RAM here I >> haven't yet seen any swap used at all - not even in an emerge -e world. > > Same here. Note that tmpfs defaults to half ram, so that would give you > a 16GB /var/tmp/portage. With 16GB ram here, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge does want to tell me...what?

2017-12-05 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 10:23:30 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I've been waiting for shouts of horror at that suggestion, but all's quiet >> so I'll see if I can remember how to set -fpic in the environment of >> palemoon. I'd have expected the ebuild do that though. >

[gentoo-user] switch to profile 17.0 complete, completely painless

2017-12-05 Thread Raffaele Belardi
One (~x86) LXDE system completed the switch with no problem, the other (~amd64) built all except two packaged (sdlmame and torcs) which did not build with gcc-7.2 even before the switch to 17.0. Gentoo devs and arch testers did a good job as usual. I'll do the switch on the Gnome system in the

Re: [gentoo-user] "The sound of Silence" by glibc

2017-12-05 Thread Raffaele Belardi
tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > emerge -e @world installs glibc > > On my system this kills the build of pulseaudio...which in turn make > my linux PC one of the most quiet ones...sigh: > >>From the compilation output of pulseaudio: > Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge does want to tell me...what?

2017-12-06 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 16:49:28 GMT Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >> Looks like your -fpic modification did not make it through. > > Do I have my syntax wrong, then? > > # cat /etc/portage/package.env > www-client/palemoon nopic > peak

Re: [gentoo-user] Make failed to compile: symbol __alloca not found...

2017-12-11 Thread Raffaele Belardi
tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > sys-devel/make-4.2.1-r1 failed to compile with this: > > Online I found articles which explain, why it is not recommended to > use alloca() at all: > RETURN VALUE The alloca() function returns a pointer to the beginning of the > allocated space. If the allocatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Make failed to compile: symbol __alloca not found...

2017-12-11 Thread Raffaele Belardi
tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 12/11 10:12, Raffaele Belardi wrote: >> tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> >>> sys-devel/make-4.2.1-r1 failed to compile with this: >>> >>> How can I recompile make -- it is still non-PIE and one of those >>> a

Re: [gentoo-user] Make failed to compile: symbol __alloca not found...

2017-12-11 Thread Raffaele Belardi
David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> On 12/11 05:13, David Haller wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib64\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/includ

[gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Raffaele Belardi
One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to dependency on deprecated QT4. I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild which adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I suppose this will not be sufficient to continue using/building the game. Onc

Re: [gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:13:32 +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >> One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to >> dependency on deprecated QT4. >> >> I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebu

Re: [gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-29 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:13:32PM +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote >> One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree >> due to dependency on deprecated QT4. >> >> I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia kernel module API version mismatch

2018-03-15 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Aleksander Okonski wrote: > Hey, > > I have run into a strange problem with my nvidia drivers and gentoo. I am > currently > running kernel 4.14.14 and I upgraded my x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers to 390.42 > from 390.25. > Once the new drivers were installed I rebooted my laptop. Once rebooted I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] crossdev arm-unknown-linux-gnu failed

2018-05-28 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 05:06:43AM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> too feed a STM32F103C8T6 MCU (Core-M3) with some code to execute, >> I want a compiler. For that I did a >> >> crossdev arm-unknown-linux-gnu >> >> . That one failed to build (gcc, binytils

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

2018-07-18 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the replies so far, which I've followed up with ideas of my own. > ... > > Further thoughts from anyone are very welcome. > Sometimes removing or renaming the .xsane directory (or whatever it's named, I'm not in front of my desktop now) from my home directory so

Re: [gentoo-user] pycharm-community vs pycharm-professional

2018-09-17 Thread Raffaele Belardi
András Csányi wrote: > Hi, > > Check this page: > https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html I'm not the OP but am interested in the topic and currently just a noob in Python. I'd use Python to develop programs for fun on an ARM-linux embedded board, with the ho

[gentoo-user] remote debugging python on embedded platform

2018-09-17 Thread Raffaele Belardi
(Moved from [pycharm-community vs pycharm-professional] thread) R0b0t1 wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Raffaele Belardi >> I'd use Python to develop programs for fun on an ARM-linux embedded board, >> with the host >> PC running Gentoo. I suppose that for d

[gentoo-user] abi_x86_32

2013-03-28 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I recently switched from no- to multilib. In yesterday's emerge I got tens of blockers due to conflict with emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20130224. I solved as suggested in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-953900.html?sid=f7a643eca8ec01540164578f372c374f and http://bugs.gentoo.org/461608 that is by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: abi_x86_32

2013-03-29 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 03/28/2013 08:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 28/03/13 20:39, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Like the forum post you linked says, instead of setting abi_x86_32 as >> a USE flag, what you can do in your make.conf is set: >> >> ABI_X86="64 32" >> >> (if you want to build both 32bit and 64bit) > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

2013-05-22 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 05/22/2013 09:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 21/05/2013 23:36, Dale wrote: >> Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> On 05/20/2013 07:08 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue. When I leave Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connecti

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so: No such file or directory

2013-06-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/02/2013 05:08 PM, Grant wrote: > I'm getting this in /var/log/Xorg.0.log on a very old desktop: > > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so failed > (/usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory) > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software render

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so: No such file or directory

2013-06-03 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/03/2013 06:18 PM, Grant wrote: >>> I'm getting this in /var/log/Xorg.0.log on a very old desktop: >>> >>> (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so failed >>> (/usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such >>> file or directory) >>> (EE) AIGLX: reverting to soft

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/dri/i810_dri.so: No such file or directory

2013-06-04 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 06/04/2013 01:24 AM, Grant wrote: >>> Thank you, that removed the error. I'm still getting the following >>> but I think that's expected? >>> >>> (EE) intel: Failed to load module "xaa" (module does not exist, 0) >>> >> >> What version of xorg-server? > > It's xorg-server-1.13.4 so the error m

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating binary packages before updating them

2013-07-29 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 07/29/2013 01:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up > first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many > important packages are being updated in a world update. Normally, I > have to manually quickpkg every one o

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD: Video->Yes, Audio-> But actor can be heard speaking!

2013-09-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 09/19/2013 05:36 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When >> playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and >> audio seem to be ok. With one

[gentoo-user] strange lxde block

2013-10-09 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (lxde-base/lxsession-0.4.9.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=lxde-base/lxsession-0.4.6.1 required by (lxde-base/lxde-meta-0.5.5-r3::gentoo, installed)

[gentoo-user] udev hanging

2015-05-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
I have an amd64 system with an old 3.3.x kernel. Recently (I think after last udev update to 217) the boot process became very slow due to "udev waiting for uevents to populate /dev". After a minute or so udev prints something about a lazy device (a TV tuner) then the boot continues. Yesterday

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev hanging

2015-05-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
walt wrote: > On 05/14/2015 10:56 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> I have an amd64 system with an old 3.3.x kernel. Recently (I think after >> last udev update to 217) the boot process became very slow due to "udev >> waiting for uevents to populate /dev". A

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for "text string"

2015-06-07 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: >> I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text >> string in them "Check/Money Order" >> >> I've tried: >> find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' >> it doesn't work. >> >> What is a b

Re: [gentoo-user] unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: > > Also, while we are at it, my seamonkey marks words as mispelled, > but there is not a "spellchecker" function to fix the mistakes, > so what am I missing in seamonkey ( I run lxde, if that matters). > If it's an addon I need, suggests as to the best (most complete) > usa english wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: > Raffaele BELARDI st.com> writes: > > >>> Also, while we are at it, my seamonkey marks words as mispelled, >>> but there is not a "spellchecker" function to fix the mistakes, >>> so what am I missing in seamonkey > >> To

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Arm64

2015-07-01 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: > So what I would like to do is just boot the board:: > > [ 8CORE ARMV8A SOC,1GB RAM,4GB EMMC,WIFI/BT ] > > with an existing gentoo image just to exercise (test) the hardware, > before installing it from scratch. Any and all suggestions > are most welcome. I don't have links to pre-bu

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