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Thx for the reply.

Can someone PLEASE remove the banner on each forum page for the SUMMER 2023 newsletter!? It's unfortunately indicative how this forum is apparently regarded by Funtoo's Admin staff. Not everyone wants Discord. I strongly despise "social" media for profit mass personal data harvesting platforms. If you don't pay, YOU are the currency 🙄 TIA!

How are you trying to install Funtoo? My experience suggest; install a bare base system -> reboot choose a desktop environment and install the basic components (for Gnome, use the gnome-core package or similar) -> reboot install applications you need, one at a time Alternatively, consider switching to Devuan. (<- link!) Still systemd-free, based on Debian so properly stable, also highly customizable and it has a fraction of the install time required for source-based distro's like Funtoo, particularly on older low-core-count hardware. Admittedly I'm not currently on Funtoo, but Devuan. I like the principles of Funtoo, but emerge only tells you you've done something wrong and gives you cryptic hints on how you may or may not solve it, while apt/dpkg offers mature conflict resolution for packages straight out of the box. It saves the end user sooo much time not having to resort to endless hours of searching for answers while not really knowing what question you should ask 🙄 But that's just my tuppence 😎

Did you perform ego -sync (syntax may be off, I'm not on Next, not running Funtoo at all TBH. I'm currently on Devuan Stable)

The official upgrade policy is to reinstall from scratch. It also mentioned that should you attempt to upgrade in place, you're basically on your own.

Recently I've upgraded my backup-server system and installed OpenRC instead of SysV. During the switchover process a command is given to populate the /etc/rcX.d/ directories from init.d. I forgot to do that (actually, I couldn't, as copy/paste didn't work) so now I'm after said command. The system works fine without it, but certain services are not started. TIA!

Here's the source (i.e. download page), go from there: https://musescore.org/en/download HTH!

I'll have a look tomorrow, now it's nap time 💤 Thx anyway!

It appears the certificate for build.funtoo.org is expired, I had to use the --no-check-certificate option for wget to get a stage3 to download. HTH!

First port of call to investigate: are Midi and the sound system actually installed, and working correctly? Next, are they started in the right order? Then, can the midi and sound system files be accessed by the application (in your case, Rosegarden), i.e. does it have sufficient permissions to read/write the required files. HTH!

I installed Funtoo 1.3 on a similar spec'ed machine (Shuttle all-in-one) way back in 2015-ish. It hasn't been updated since for that very reason. It resides in its box and has been for a fair few years now, with little prospect other then perhaps installing Devuan on it. Mind, it runs from an SSD of similar age but that didn't make a difference at all in compile times, sadly 😞

AMD has their Radeon GPU line and those are fairly good supported in Linux. Other manufacturers have gone under in the past decade. Intel recently launched their new GPU line up, with cards send to reviewers like LTT et all, but I've yet to see those in the wild. Now, like nVidia, finding one, especially at MSRP, is a bit of a problem. Even used cards command prices higher then when new. Blame cryptominers for that.

@drobbinsThx for the feedback. I'll await future developments, I haven't given up on Funtoo just yet! (which is why I'm still here 😉 )

I'm not sure this is within the realms of the Funtoo dev's, but better conflict resolution for emerge would be a great start. One of the things putting me off Funtoo (and straight back to Devuan) was the issue that portage drops out the moment it encounters a conflict (like multiple packages for a slot, etc). For all its flaws, perceived or otherwise, apt has really good conflict and dependency resolution mechanisms build in. Now, I'm aware there's a different design philosophy behind emerge/portage against apt, but dropping a user back to the cli with a cryptic error message stating a conflict has occurred and masking a package may resolve it and effectively leaving a system in limbo while updating/upgrading is not a great way to experience Funtoo for less experienced users. FYI: I've been using Linux as my daily OS since 2005 and experienced the "Dependency Hell" with Red Hat 8+9 and Suse (pre-Novell days), then I found Debian (Woody) and apt was such a relief. Stuck with Debian until systemd made it impossible (really-old Stable, IIRC Jessie) then eventually switched to Funtoo (2015) before finding Devuan a few years later (2018). Tried Funtoo again earlier this year, but still got issues with emerge/portage so now running Devuan once more. Thing is, I'm not smart enough to be a coder. If I were, I'd be a Funtoo dev for years. But as it is, my contributions are (severely) restricted to signalling something went wrong and that's pretty much it. HTH!

Probably best to use the generic 64 bit stage 3 image. Don't forget to install the AMD firmware package as you install the Radeon drivers for the GPU part of that APU. I'm no longer running Funtoo on my systems (mostly AMD APU's, plural!) as I was getting unresolvable (at least by me) dependency blocks as well as pretty long build times. Currently running Devuan, but if Funtoo improves in the dependency resolving dept I'd happily switch back. (which is why I'm still lurking here)