Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:20:43
Message-Id: 1cd1dc21-3b4f-13fb-cfe4-9e1302f515ac@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel? by Michael
1 Michael wrote:
2 > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote:
3 >> Michael wrote:
4 >>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote:
5 >>>> Michael wrote:
6 >>>>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote:
7 >>>>>> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option.
8 >>>>> Are you sure?
9 >>>>>
10 >>>>> This is what I see here on line 47:
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>> "status=LEVEL
13 >>>>>
14 >>>>> The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses
15 >>>>> everything but error messages, 'noxfer' suppresses the final
16 >>>>> transfer
17 >>>>> statistics, 'progress' shows periodic transfer statistics"
18 >>>>>
19 >>>>> I find this useful in seeing the transfer speed drop in real time as the
20 >>>>> cache gets saturated.
21 >>>> Ahhh, I didn't see the status part. It's sort of hiding in a
22 >>>> subsection. At least I know now that the version I have installed has
23 >>>> this option.
24 >>>>
25 >>>> I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror. It displays
26 >>>> like a webpage and is much easier to search through.
27 >>>>
28 >>>> Thanks for pointing that out.
29 >>>>
30 >>>> Dale
31 >>>>
32 >>>> :-) :-)
33 >>> Yes, I also liked the old Konqueror interface. Searching for keywords
34 >>> e.g.
35 >>> "progress" within man pages works if you preface the keyword with "/":
36 >>>
37 >>> /progress
38 >>>
39 >>> will find it and "n" or "Shift+n" will jump forward and backward to any
40 >>> other instances in the man page.
41 >> That doesn't work here. I can type in /progress but it just shows up at
42 >> the bottom.
43 > Yes, it shows at the bottom until you hit enter to execute the search. Then
44 > it highlights the next instance of the searched string. Just like Vim/Vi
45 > does. Hmm ... I wonder if I have set up some special environment parameter on
46 > my systems and forgotten about it. :-/
47 >
48 >
49
50 *cough cough*  I didn't hit enter.  Just did and it worked.  Now to get
51 that info to stick in this old dog's brain for next time.  ROFL
52
53 Dale
54
55 :-)  :-)