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  1. touchpad not working on Dell 7490 laptop

    in General Discussion

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    First thing that jumped to mind was the phrase "Xorg synaptics". I recall, when I had a laptop ages ago, that not having synaptic driver in xorg can cause havoc.
    A quick google brought this up - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Synaptics
    There is the later/newer libinput - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Libinput
    I'm not sure if these will solve your problems, but identify the need for the driver(correctly we hope) in /etc/portage/make.conf may pull in what you are missing.

    YMMV - https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1075806-start-0.html

  2. feedback (for devs)

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    1 hour ago, mrl5 said:

    I have a feeling that now the Funtoo Project is going in some weird direction (from end user perspective) that is different to what I was used to back in the days.

    You're not alone in this department. There's a direction...just not sure exactly to what destination.

  3. Multiple NIC Configuration Help

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    3 hours ago, safulkin said:

    ping 192.168.3.1

     

    is it ok? or 100% loss?

    ifconfig

    check that eth1 RX packets is not 0. if RX packets is 0 then cisco managed switch block all traffic, or cable plugged in wrong port, or something wrong with switch configuration for this port (something like VLAN, ACL)

    ping 192.168.3.113?

    is it ok? or 100% loss?

    arp -n

    any arp records for 192.168.3.0/24 network on interface eth1?

     

    100% loss is bad. Means card isn't talking.

    w/ ifconfig also ensure you don't see 169.x.x.x address. That's a "not connected" type address that NICs will assume if something isn't right.

    arp is good. Shows all external IP connections. Should see meaningful results.

  4. Multiple NIC Configuration Help

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    Looks like you have a decent start. You've defined the two openrc init files net.eth0 and net.eth1.
    Let's make sure you have those running at startup (rc-update add net.eth{0,1}) WIth dual nic's, I ran into a host of issues with conflicts in dhcpcd service. It wants to overwrite, take charge of stuff. I agonized over this part until I found it by accident. So `rc-update del dhcpcd default` removed the service.

    I run my own LAN sever providing dhcp. The NIC talking to ISP box has net.eth file that just contains the line "template=dhcpcd" and that's it. I do other configuration on ISP box but generally it only uses ISP supplied dhcp. The other NIC(LAN w/ static IP for downstream for network service) is configured with base ip address w/ netmask as well as domain name.

    I then  installed dhcpd (NOTE: different NOT DHCPCD - two different pieces of software) to manage LAN needs. In the `/etc/conf.d/dhcpd` file I have at the top `rc_need=net.ethX` where X is the LAN facing NIC. We tell openRC don't start the DHCP until you have this NIC card going. Also in the same file is the line `DHCPD_IFACE="ethX" (same as before).

    There's other dhcp and bind setup stuff... but you get the idea.

    The magic happens with `net-firewall/shorewall` - A nicer version of iptables. I used it's configuration to bridge the two NIC's. This occurs in its `/etc/shorwall/interfaces` who you marry up NIC to function one eth goes to WAN, other goes to LAN. And off to the races we go.

    Probably more information that you want. My suspicion is you have having issues with dhcpcd taking charge when you don't want it to. Disable the service and come back. We can go from there.

    BTW, IRC works too... ?

  5. Grub install and GRUB_GFXMODE

    in Installation Help

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    Okay... that worked. <blink><blink>

    Added a 'display' section to /etc/boot.conf 

    display {
	gfxmode 1024x768
}

    Executed `ego boot update`. Produced the desired result.

    @cardinal - just to clarify somethings in my head:

    a) /etc/boot.conf file surplants the /etc/default/grub file? Or rather, `boot-update` , or now `ego boot update` doesn't take settings from the /etc/default/grub file?
    (this would explain why changes to /etc/default/grub were not made to /boot/grub/grub.cfg and why grub-mkconfig made a mess of things but produced desired graphical output)
    b) This seems Funtoo specific...am I wrong?
    https://github.com/funtoo/boot-update/blob/master/doc/boot-update.8 answered this.
     

    Very much appreciate the insight you have given.

  6. Grub install and GRUB_GFXMODE

    in Installation Help

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    53 minutes ago, cardinal said:

    Hi digifuzzy,

    Please reference:

    https://github.com/funtoo/boot-update/blob/master/doc/boot.conf.5.rst#parameters 

    https://github.com/funtoo/boot-update/blob/master/doc/boot.conf.5.rst#display--gfxmode

    Verify the kernel boot command line from within running system: 

    
cat /proc/cmdline

     

    Wow! That's a really helpful tidbit! That never came up in Google searching. I must try this. News to follow.

  7. Grub install and GRUB_GFXMODE

    in Installation Help

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    Doing a fresh install of Funtoo into a virtualbox environment. Instructions followed carefully and subsequent install works well. Xorg has not been installed yet.

    From online search, grub2 has deprecated the use of 'vga=x' to change the console size. Recommended practice is to use the 'GRUB_GFXMODE=Horz X Vert' in the file /etc/default/grub.
    Change was mode locally to /etc/default/grub. Video mode was tested successfully from grub command line, 'videotest HorzXVert' as set in GRUB_GFXMODE.

    Neither 'boot update' nor the command, new that appeared in the install instructions, 'ego boot update' appears to affect whether GRUB_GFXMODE is being written.
    Is there some other action that needs to be taken?
     

  9. Cinnamon install unmet requirements

    in Installation Help

    Posted

    Doing a fresh install into a virtualbox environment. Goal was to test cinnamon environment.

    All steps from Funtoo Install page were done without problem.
    "First Steps" done: include setting profiles and mix-ins.
    X-org install completed and tested (note use VMSVGA video - easiest without need of extra drivers).

    Attempt to install cinnamon fails with error stating "unmet requirements".

    Indications are that ebuild specifies python targets for python 3.4 and 3.5 but latest uses 3.6.6.
    A quick look at a couple of other cinnamon ebuilds show python 3.6 target in ebuild.
     

    Bug? Ebuild missed in updates?
    How best to resolve?

     

    cinnamon_install_error.png

  11. Error with sync of gnome-kit branch

    in Portage Help

    Posted

    I was getting "head detached" messages and had taken the nuclear option of removing the meta-repo folder(  `rm -rf /var/git/meta-repo` ). While performing a sync, I observed the following message: 

    # ego sync
...
Syncing gnome-kit branch 3.26-prime
Already on '3.26-prime'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/3.26-prime'.
HEAD is now at 0bf7e35 Revert "FL-5907: move gexiv2 from gnome-kit"
Already up to date.
fatal: reference is not a tree: df17e1a16536abf02e5bf06fdfef14a2457e92bf
...
ERROR: There was an error syncing gnome-kit.
#

    Error message indicates to me a problem with a git tree reference. Maybe it's been already picked up by dev's but I thought it important to pass along.

  13. TTY (console) colour changed after OpenRC start

    in General Help

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    6 minutes ago, jhan said:

    When trying out new kernels it is always a good idea to leave the current and working kernel on the system as well, in case the new kernel does not work.

    For that I have two entries in the grub config. One for the new and one for the old. If the new one does not work I can simply reboot and boot the old kernel. No need for a rescue cd then.

    Please correlate this statement to the instructions I was given from palica above. Then detail how you would peel back the non-working kernel, please.

  14. TTY (console) colour changed after OpenRC start

    in General Help

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    @palica - I'm trying not to confuse the descriptions here. The desktop box(w/ Artix) is a separate machine. I included it's config as I thought it would be helpful comparison because it is not exhibiting the behaviour as the Funtoo box.

    I built the genkernel on Funtoo via SSH. Quite certain I followed the instructions you gave me accurately. It just didn't work.
    Cleaning up afterwards was messy - not up on all the details of kernel handling. Ended up un-merging and re-merging debian-sources. Made me appreciate what the folks at SystemRescueCD have done even more.

    I'm not sure what you're asking me to do next.

  24. TTY (console) colour changed after OpenRC start

    in General Help

    Posted

    Further experimenting...

    Used kernel boot parameters:
    nofb - no change to appearance - get 1920x1080 presentation grey text on white background
    nomodeset - get normal colours but old-style console display (80 cols x 2? rows)

    I then found an article about using setterm in the inittab.
    Experimenting with the setterm command I discovered there is some kind of colour masking in play.
      

    setterm -clear all -background cyan

    produced a screen with a purple background. Using `-background black` returned the screen to the white background.

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