Just a rant: Basic mime type files should be enabled by default but then again I guess keeping minimal use flags is the core principles of Gentoo.

I have pulseaudio globally disabled because I'm a petty bitch who never forgave Lennart Pottering for being such a tool. It's the same reason I have systemd globally disabled.

Anyway, yes: I'm running my audio on Ardour with Alsa as the audio driver. I suppose I could set up jack or pipewire to ...

It seems support for tensorflow is never coming to gentoo. The package was there for a brief time; it didn't work and then the support was dropped.
Surely, you can achieve AI goals through various wrapper packages and githubs that work out of the box but those are like pre-built tools.
Exploring AI ...

More help for you.
1. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1171512-highlight-.html
2. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1171489-highlight-.html

I gave these two threads a glace (both opened by me).
Basically you should use RADV (aka mesa) drivers (amdgpu as USE flag).
This installs both ...

I noticed that the Steam overlay said that the game is using only 2GB of VRAM when I use the open-source drivers for this game

Yes. I also had similar issue. You have to make changes to some files and also do some changes from within the game.
I guess my thread would be up here somewhere. Try ...

I fire up dead by daylight once in a while and it ran as smooth as before.
I am not sure if they are on UE5 or UE4.
About Squad, from my youtube channel I can see I played it
back in Nov 2024. I am not sure if it was UE5 that time or not.
This whole UE5 situation gives me anxiety because UE4 was so ...

I use/have been using PS5 controller with Steam on Gentoo.
It works in every game. I also have X box controller but it sucks.
It works on some and does not work on some other. Trying to fix it
had been fruitless so I decided to stick to PS5. Reason I have X box because
previous PS5 controller ...

This comment by Sam on bugs.gentoo.org seems like it might be relevant:

The issue is *if you use ~arch gobject-introspection*, then you need ~arch Vala.
Are you using a testing version of the gobject-introspection package, rather than the stable version?

I was not aware of vala and it was one ...

So I was migrating from py12 to py13 reading enews:

First, enable both Python 3.12 and Python 3.13, and then run the upgrade
commands:
STEP 1:
*/* PYTHON_TARGETS: -* python3_12 python3_13
*/* PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_12

Then switch PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and run the second batch of ...

There's also the built-in(?) X screen saver, which can be configured via 'xset s'.

Traditionally, I've had the following two lines include in my '.xinitrc' to stop any blanking/power-offing:

xset -dpms
xset s off
That written, it seems the default there for the screen saver might be 600 seconds ...

Also, my /sys/class/backlight/ folder is empty. Any recommendation?

Disabling DPMS is probably the wrong solution anyway, since it would remain disabled until reactivated, which the user would need to do after the game or set a watchdog process to restore later.

The display is probably being put into sleep mode by the screensaver, not by the X server itself. What ...

druggo wrote:I just simply turn off dpms:

Code: Select all

xset -dpms

This didn't work. I have a desktop computer not a laptop. Is this why it didn't work?

I have a X+dwm+openrc. setup dual monitor. If the system is idle (not pressing any keys on keyboard) for 15 or minutes then the display shuts down. Although this is not huge issue for me it becomes painful while playing Steam games. Since I use bluetooth PS5 controller for gaming, no keys are ...

I've tried building chromium sourced from git but it does not compile. Lot's of errors.
But the gentoo chromium build with no issue albeit taking hours. Is there a way for making changes to chromium
after it is extracted but before it is compiled when portage is building it?

Any suggestion is ...

asturm wrote:What do you not understand about the package.use conflict right at the end of your output?

Please read news items.
Please update your config files.

Thanks.

emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --ask --exclude app-text/poppler @world

* IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'librewolf'.
* IMPORTANT: 29 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news read to view new items.


* IMPORTANT: 5 config files in '/etc ...

The command equery g ffmpeg would show dependencies of ffmpeg but I was expecting it to output
only those dependencies which are installed, like how ldd does. What other command would show only
currently installed dependencies? Right now, I would do ldd, and reverse search the package but that is ...

Thanks. I will check that. Wish such kind of info was updated on gentoo's wiki? I don't know how Gentoo pages are managed but that could be a good thing to do.

Currently Gentoo has 24.1.7 and the official release is 24.2.6.
How fast Gentoo "generally" release versions from official tree?

I'm pleased to report that, with amdgpu-pro-opencl installed, Darktable does OpenCL at last. Sadly, it doesn't make the same improvement in rendering performance as I found in another machine with an NVidia GPU, but it's definitely working. Maybe on this machine there is a bottleneck somewhere else ...

[Administrator note: this post, and the first response, were originally attached to the topic Heads up - kernel-6.11.4 won't boot off my SSD , where this question is off-topic. The mismatched bold tags were in the original post. - Hu ]

[/b] mmm how are people getting kernel 6.11.xxx when gentoo ...

Despite what the gentoo page says https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDVLK
that RADV and AMDVLK can co-exists and simply switching them with environment variables will make application use particular implementation;
that is not correct.

This worked for "Sons of the forest" as I switched between two ...

cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_state
performance


power_dpm_state is set to performance. I realized amgpu for newer cards replaces dmp_state thing with powerplay profile.
/sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_* sysfs files to control.

I changed /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force ...

Yeah. So Wukong has/had an issue where it would select the wrong rendering device - I was never affected by it (vega64) but many were.
The use of "FORCE" in this case is just saying "no, you WILL use this rendering device".

The gfx driver stack consists of layers, at the bottom is your amdgpu ...