Re: [gentoo-user] Successfully upgraded to new profile 23.0

2024-04-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 4/8/24 07:03, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, the upgrade on my old laptop with two 2.7GHz Dual-Core Skylake proces- sors took slightly more than 2 hours for the manual upgrading of "bin- utils", "gcc" and "glibc", and slightly more than 21.5 hours for the fi- nal upgrade of "@world",

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd unit executing but not persistent later in boot

2024-04-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 4/6/24 18:38, Andrew Udvare wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 21:32, Daniel Frey wrote: What's even stranger is if I manually start it and restart lircd it works! Have you tried adding Before=lircd.service in the [Unit] section? OK, I have finally sorted out the IR keymap/lircd/irexec/LCDd

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd unit executing but not persistent later in boot

2024-04-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 4/6/24 18:38, Andrew Udvare wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 21:32, Daniel Frey wrote: What's even stranger is if I manually start it and restart lircd it works! Have you tried adding Before=lircd.service in the [Unit] section? I did, it made no difference. From what I can tell

[gentoo-user] systemd unit executing but not persistent later in boot

2024-04-06 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, Still new to systemd and am struggling with a custom unit file. Some background: I have a HTPC that requires loading a custom keymap in order for the remote to work. It sets up an alternate protocol that the driver supports but not defaults to. In short: # ir-keytable Found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: silencing distcc with systemd

2024-04-01 Thread Daniel Frey
it again, then prolly you got the new service file which is without -v. That prolly explains why some machines still have it, and some don't. On 4/1/2024 12:03 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 3/31/24 13:59, Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: think the distcc.service file has an extra -v (--verbose). if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: silencing distcc with systemd

2024-03-31 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/31/24 13:59, Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: think the distcc.service file has an extra -v (--verbose). if you remove that, it will behave as expected. I checked all the units on one of the machines still showing the problem and an extra '-v' is not present in any of the files. That's a

[gentoo-user] Re: silencing distcc with systemd

2024-03-31 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/29/24 22:38, Daniel Frey wrote: Hi all, I've moved a couple of machines from openrc to systemd. I have discovered this odd problem. On openrc, distcc was quiet during building packages. It would obey environment variable set in /etc/env.d: DISTCC_DIR=/var/distcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-03-31 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/31/24 07:59, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 31 March 2024 13:33:20 BST Rich Freeman wrote: (moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev) Thanks for bringing this to our attention Rich. Is downgrading to app-arch/xz-utils-5.4.2 all that is needed for now, or are we

[gentoo-user] silencing distcc with systemd

2024-03-29 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, I've moved a couple of machines from openrc to systemd. I have discovered this odd problem. On openrc, distcc was quiet during building packages. It would obey environment variable set in /etc/env.d: DISTCC_DIR=/var/distcc DISTCC_ENABLE_DISCREPANCY_EMAIL= DISTCC_FALLBACK=1

Re: [gentoo-user] After Update grub does not work anymore

2024-03-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/29/24 03:55, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi, After upgrading two Lenovo Laptops (UEFI, secure boot disabled), grub does not work anymore; instead it says "Welcome to Grub" ... And then immediately boots into bios setup. What did go wrong? I did the usual things: * emerge update world *

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microkernel update failing (trying to patch zenbleed)

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/3/24 13:48, Michael wrote: It could be AMD have not yet released microcode updates for the community. OEMs receive new microcode first and patch it in their MoBo BIOS/UEFI firmware. Eventually the CPU manufacturers release microcode for older CPUs no longer supported by OEMs. Since you

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/3/24 13:57, Dale wrote: I think most is in the .config directory now.  I have to say tho, I used to zap that thing about once a year, sometimes two, to correct some things that were weird but couldn't fix otherwise.  I think the devs try to make things forward compatible but no one is

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/3/24 11:31, Dale wrote: Since my last post, I did my weekly updates.  During that, I log out, switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs it, then back to default runlevel and log back in.  With the config file change, my monitors came up just like they should.  I

[gentoo-user] AMD microkernel update failing (trying to patch zenbleed)

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, I've always had problems updating the microcode for my AMD processor. I have various other Intel-based PCs and this has never been an issue. I have confirmed it's not updating: ~ # dmesg | grep -i microcode [0.201619] Zenbleed: please update your microcode for the most optimal

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: To provide a little more info on how this works.  This is how I did it. It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this.  It will fill in a lot of the info and when unsure, list the available options. First, I had to install the package xrandr.  My first problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-27 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2/25/24 10:17, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:35 AM Daniel Frey <mailto:djqf...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I probably should have added more details... I do have an nvidia card - > RTX 3070Ti. Monitors use 2x DP ports and 1x HDMI port. > > KDE behaves

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-25 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2/25/24 01:01, Michael wrote: I used to experience the same when using Xorg with AMD-Radeon graphics instead of Nvidia, but since I moved to Wayland the problem of losing screen settings has gone. One monitor is using the DVI port of the card and the other HDMI. It should be worth trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-25 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2/24/24 21:52, Dale wrote: I have two monitors too, sort of.  One monitor is for computer stuff, checking email, surfing the net etc etc etc.  The other monitor I use to watch TV with.  The output from the video card second output goes to a splitter so I can have the same video in both my

[gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-24 Thread Daniel Frey
After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors are (I have two side-by-side and one above the right monitor.) I go into System Settings, set it up and

Re: [gentoo-user] 'make install' hijacked by installkernel ?

2024-01-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
reading it! [1] https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.html -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again

2024-01-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
ot; > There are not by chance binary merges which took less than a minute? That might explain the differences. What is the output wihout the grep or filtering by merge time instead. -- Best regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

2023-12-05 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
then e.g. the package name. Within you have to place the patch file. -- Best Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

2023-11-30 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/29/23 00:20, Wols Lists wrote: On 29/11/2023 00:16, Michael wrote: Thanks Dan, will do.  I was planning to take it apart soon to replace the HDD with an SSD, so this would be the first thing to check.  I expect finding a replacement unit will be difficult.  Every Lenovo RTC battery seems

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

2023-11-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/28/23 03:38, Michael wrote: Over the last 8-9 months I noticed an old Lenovo G505s laptop is spending a long time in the POST process, before eventually the OEM logo shows up on the screen. Last time I timed it, it took 2.5-3.0 minutes. Normally it would only take ~20-30 seconds. Once

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Am 23. November 2023 08:08:47 UTC schrieb Dale : >Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> Looks like it is related to -march=native. >> >> See bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/838373 >> > >I'm not sure how you figured that out either.  I pasted the error message into the se

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Looks like it is related to -march=native. See bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/838373 -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

2023-10-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
rsync wont update the file on the destination because it is newer then the source. However in the end the result is the same as if using "--size-only". Don't nail me on this but the command could look like the following: find pathtobackup -type f -exec touch '{}' + -- Best regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

2023-10-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
rs which can affect performance. Had the same issue with a new SSD drive. Unfortunately I currently don't have access to the machine and I don't remember what needed changing but it could well be possible that you need different mount options, format the drive using other options, using different schedulers, etc. -- Best regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

2023-06-10 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Nikolay Pulev schrieb am 10.06.23 um 11:47: Thank you Daniel. You suggestion got me going. You are welcome! I hope it was the only problem. If yes then installing from scratch would have been a waste of time. It is never wrong to get to know your system better. Then in most cases you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

2023-06-09 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
he rsync-verify flag which pulls it in. # USE="-rsync-verify" emerge sys-apps/portage -- Regards Daniel

[gentoo-user] Announcement: PFL is looking for a new maintainer

2023-05-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1163382.html -- Best Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv no longer compiles

2023-03-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Am 17. März 2023 11:57:41 UTC schrieb John Covici : >On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:07:49 -0400, >Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> >> Am 17. März 2023 08:52:53 UTC schrieb John Covici : >> > >> >On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 03:03:37 -0400, >> >Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >&

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv no longer compiles

2023-03-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Am 17. März 2023 08:52:53 UTC schrieb John Covici : > >On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 03:03:37 -0400, >Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> >> Am 17. März 2023 06:42:11 UTC schrieb John Covici : >> >media-video/mpv-0.35.1-r1 will not compile -- here is a portion of the >> >buil

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv no longer compiles

2023-03-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
ne seen this or should I >file a bug? Do you have dev-python/docutils installed and if not does it compile if you install it? -- Best regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-15 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but managed differently. Should be less, since you already have

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange DPMS behaviour

2023-02-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2/6/23 08:00, Jack wrote: If you find that the EDID is really bad for one of the monitors, you should be able to find a correct copy and make that one available to X, although I don't remember how since I haven't needed to do so in years. I believe it is a setting within/under Xorg.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixing my font config

2023-02-06 Thread Daniel Frey
Oddly enough I just reinstalled on a new nvme over the weekend. I haven't had time to mess with fonts and this is what the default settings are (as I haven't changed anything): $ eselect fontconfig list Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled): [1] 05-reset-dirs-sample.conf [2]

[gentoo-user] Strange DPMS behaviour

2023-02-05 Thread Daniel Frey
I've been having this strange problem with my dual monitor setup. While I've figured out the nightmare of auto-detect not working at all with dual monitors and the inability to use nvidia's configure tool combined with Plasma's monitor option to fix the problem I've switched to nouveau and at

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/8/22 05:58, Dale wrote: I was thinking DAS was not a good option.  It seems like a feature removed and cheaper version of NAS. I think I've seen a couple Synology NAS boxes but I think even used they were a bit pricey.  Still, used could make that a option. Maybe.  It could fall

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pipewire not a dependency?

2022-10-01 Thread Daniel Sonck
. This was never an intent, pipewire was intended as an pulseaudio implementation by itself. So it doesn't need (and likely is incompatible running together with) pulseaudio in order to support pulseaudio clients. But it does need to be configured as such. > > Cheers, > Wol Regards, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome now requires wayland and jack audio?

2022-07-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2022-07-15 12:54, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:28 PM Grant Edwards mailto:grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > It looks like www-client/google-chrome just added wayland and jack > audio to the dependancies. So now I have to have Pulse _and_ Jack? > > -- > Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google pop3 authentication failure

2022-06-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
me. Now what? > It is only available if Two Factor Authentication is also enabled. Everything is documented on the support pages. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185839?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en -- Best regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] plasmashell becomes sluggish with 100% CPU usage

2022-05-24 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2022-05-24 13:20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyone noticed anything lately with plasmashell? I think it started happening after Qt was upgraded from 5.15.3 to 5.15.4. At login, the desktop is very unresponsive and sluggish. Mouse clicks take over a second to register. The plasmashell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2022-05-06 05:24, Grant Edwards wrote: Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. IMO, that's the logical conclusion. I've never had the audio chip on any computer fail -- ever. Nor have I ever had a USB audio adapter fail (though I've only used a couple of them over the years).

Re: [gentoo-user] which lenovo or huawei laptop?

2022-04-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2022-04-06 11:53, n952162 wrote: I bought a bottom of the line HP laptop and had only problems with unsupported chips.  I'd like to buy a lenovo or huawei now. Has anyone had bad experiences porting /gentoo/ to either? I bought a Lenovo P70 laptop back in 2018? and all hardware was

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2022-03-19 01:03, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been thinking.  Yea, that's dangerous.  lol  If I logout of KDE, or have the screen locked, ctrl+alt=L key sequence, how secure is that if I have good passwords that are virtually impossible to crack?  My login manager is sddm.  As a example, if someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or stopping binary emerges from being in emerge.log

2022-03-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
://bugs.gentoo.org/120899 -- Best Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Am 21. Februar 2022 19:58:00 UTC schrieb Steven Lembark : >On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:35:23 +0100 >Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/614866 > >Bug doesn't address it, but shouldn't using the alternate >lp library via "coinmp" sidestep the issue?

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
https://bugs.gentoo.org/614866

Re: [gentoo-user] How to degrade Gentoo system with webrsync method?

2022-01-10 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2022-01-09 05:13, gevisz wrote: Yes, masking some new package can work in this case. However, it is not so easy as it may seem because it is not the new version of tensorflow that I should mask in my case as on the day when the tensorflow recompilation failed its version remained the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Movie editing softeware

2021-12-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
/ozmartian/vidcutter -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?

2021-10-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 schrieb am 12.10.21 um 21:32: why? ty, cm. Portage should tell you why in the mask message! https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/d9f2e6c5b001239852b1c686bbab026b -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken update

2021-09-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 9/7/21 12:13 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 09:32:41 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: Why is it checking the build environment for a binary package? I was wondering the same. As it stands, I can't fix this problem. I tried editing the ebuild (removing the __thread check

[gentoo-user] Broken update

2021-09-07 Thread Daniel Frey
Well, I was updating a system and gcc got broken somehow, and it doesn't seem to be possible to fix it. Problem: # gcc -v gcc: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by gcc) OK, no biggie, I have a binpkg: # emerge -1Ka glibc pax-utils These are the packages that would

[gentoo-user] udev and IR receiver problem

2021-08-23 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, I've been struggling with an odd udev problem. Any udev experts on here? Some background: My 13-year-old HTPC finally kicked the bucket. After looking around, stock levels of PC parts around here are close to nonexistant. I had a newer donor board/ram/cpu around that's 5-7 years old.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.33-r1 crashes out at the start before building.

2021-07-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 7/7/21 11:16 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. Would somebody help me here, please. When I try to emerge glibc-2.33-r1, the very first phase of the build crashes out with: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -pipe -march=native -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed glibc-test.c -o glibc-test *

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-02 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/30/21 11:59 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, The subject line pretty much describes this.  How does one manage the system.map file in /boot?  Is it needed?  Should it be updated with each kernel?  I tend to keep 2 to 3 kernels installed.  I tend to keep 2 that I know are stable and one testing. 

Re: [gentoo-user] pango failed to build

2021-06-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/1/21 12:29 PM, n952162 wrote: on two different machines.  Is there some new USE variable I need? I hit this and had to rebuild a package, but I forget which one... I looked in my log and: 1622312280: *** emerge --oneshot --regex-search-auto=y Locale-gettext I had to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

2021-04-05 Thread Daniel Frey
On 4/4/21 6:41 AM, n952162 wrote: On 4/4/21 12:37 PM, n952162 wrote: After re-running quickpkg, I still get no "binary"s in the emerge output dependency tree. At some point, I started getting 304 errors here again. |304 Not Modified|

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodi 19 stabilization

2021-03-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/14/21 3:51 PM, Steve Evans wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:57:22 -0700 Daniel Frey wrote: Does anyone know if Kodi 19 is planning to be stabilized soon? I haven't been able to update TV frontends since October. (Before you say remove Kodi, don't bother - these are TV frontends

[gentoo-user] Kodi 19 stabilization

2021-03-14 Thread Daniel Frey
Does anyone know if Kodi 19 is planning to be stabilized soon? I haven't been able to update TV frontends since October. (Before you say remove Kodi, don't bother - these are TV frontends and their only purpose is to run Kodi!) I'm also not interested in unmasking a ton of things to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another USE flag problem

2021-01-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 1/4/21 7:32 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another USE flag problem

2021-01-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 1/4/21 4:15 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote: On Monday, 04. Jan 2021, 07:09:06 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 06:05, Bertram Scharpf wrote: As far as I see, I defined _exactly_ _one_ _of_ them: Please show what USE flags you've defined for either this package or LUA. Hard to

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

2020-12-21 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/21/20 6:09 AM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com.  I just removed it from

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVI-D / HDMI / VGA adaptors

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/14/20 10:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: I ordered a Dell XPS 8940 which arrived in October, but life got in the way, and I'm only now getting around to setting it up. First thing I noticed today is that Dell "had the courage to remove the VGA port" . It has HDMI and Displayport. I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] askterisk 11.25.3-r1 masked

2020-12-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Am December 6, 2020 10:08:45 PM UTC schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: >On 12/06/2020 03:00 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> Am December 6, 2020 9:23:07 PM UTC schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: >>> I'm looking at the output of "equery y asterisk" >>> and i

Re: [gentoo-user] askterisk 11.25.3-r1 masked

2020-12-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
on my system? It is masked on every system! As the mask says users should upgrade to newer versions! I guess https://packages.gentoo.org does not consider packages masked by profiles. You can give your feedback about it here: https://packages.gentoo.org/about/feedback -- Best regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Daniel Pielmeier schrieb am 06.12.20 um 16:39: k...@aspodata.se schrieb am 06.12.20 um 13:22: Thelma: ... IT WORKED! Great! Regards, /Karl Hammar Things like this should be handled in a bug report! Actually there is one [1] already. Don't know who opened it and if it was independent

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-06 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
and the bug opening suggest a relation ;-) [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/758491 -- Regards Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome mplayer replacement

2020-11-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/16/20 11:50 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 08:37, Dale wrote: Thanks for any tips. If you don't *need* any fancy interface, you can't go wrong with mpv. It is a fork of mplayer, has space to pause, arrow keys to move back/forward a minute (up/down) or 10 sec

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

2020-11-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/11/20 10:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:31:07 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: Or is this because nvidia-drivers depends on virtual/linux-sources? Even so, the presence of the single slotted version in world should be enough to satisfy the dependency. Exactly, and emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

2020-11-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/11/20 7:56 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote: Does anyone have any idea where to look next to see why this is being pulled in? You should probably just refer to your previous thread, because all the same info still applies. You need to mask gentoo

[gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

2020-11-11 Thread Daniel Frey
So now I have another machine that insists on pulling in another set of kernel sources, even though I like to do this manually. apollo ~ # emerge -auDNt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage being silly with kernel sources

2020-10-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/11/20 10:06 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 12:23 PM Daniel Frey wrote: The problem is it's always trying to pull in unstable packages when I have two slotted kernels in world: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.4.48 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.4.66 I tried masking kernels

[gentoo-user] Portage being silly with kernel sources

2020-10-11 Thread Daniel Frey
This is one of those frustrating times where portage is trying to do something silly. I have nvidia-drivers installed. It has a dependency to virtual/linux-sources. The problem is it's always trying to pull in unstable packages when I have two slotted kernels in world:

[gentoo-user] Environment variables on package granularity

2020-10-02 Thread Daniel Armbruster
cc -E" before running emerge. Instead of running the command again and again i.e. before every reinstallation of app-emulation/qemu, I'd like to set this environment variable for the package once (in e.g. a configuration file) and it's done for every future reinstallation. Regards, Daniel sig

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc is being built again??

2020-09-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 9/29/20 10:48 AM, n952162 wrote: 10 weeks ago, I updated my system and it took days to build.   I just started a new update of my system, and it looks like it will take at least more than a day again ... Why is gcc being rebuilt after 10 weeks, for example? I don't recall what flag it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local mail server

2020-07-31 Thread Daniel Frey
On 7/30/20 4:38 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: * Grant Edwards: Pricing is based on what people are willing to pay. People are willing to pay extra for a static IPv6 address, therefore static IPv6 addresses cost extra. Somewhere, and some people. I'd be interested to hear from users who still

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Thanks for filing the bug. Gah! I forgot about this! I filed a bug now, I hope I made it clear enough. Others can pipe in there with comments if they like. I did indicate the two potential proposals to correct the issue in the bug itself.

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound from audacity...

2020-06-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Am June 26, 2020 3:37:03 PM UTC schrieb "Matt Connell (Gmail)" : >On 2020-06-26 06:00, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> Also I only every see you asking questions but >> never trying to answer questions of others. > >To play devil's advocate, and at the risk of going off-

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound from audacity...

2020-06-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
her list participants. Just a friendly recommendation from me as over time this annoys me a little and probably I am not the only one here. If people are annoyed it is unlikely for them to help. So help yourself to make others help you. [1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1109266-start-0.html -- Best Regards Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/6/20 9:40 am, Daniel Frey wrote: On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote: Maybe when I have a moment I'll file a bug. Dan Thanks for filing the bug.  One of my pet peeves

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote: You just pointed out the ambiguity. Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before this change. Now new users get the fun of "Gee, which one is the one I actually want?&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/20/20 11:56 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: * Daniel Frey: I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and now it says it's an ambiguous requests with *both* the group and user of the same name. You need to emerge "media-tv/mythtv", not just "mythtv". Nothing ambiguous about it. Fu

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/19/20 9:04 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Inquiring minds want to know. What exactly do they accomplish, besides cluttering up a database somewhere? It's not the cluttering of databases that bother me, it's the creation of many ambiguous requests now. I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread Daniel Sonck
Yes, I realize it might not have been clear, as I got a bit confused by my own thought process as well. I will also answer in pieces related to your questions On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 5:31:43 PM CEST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > sorry for not understanding the wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread Daniel Sonck
It might be that your Qt5 is perhaps partially updated or out of date even, but not sure. I do know that it can be a pain to compile due to Qt5 changing. If it's too much of a hassle to get it to work, Catia could be replaced by QJackCtl, however then you will need to have the tweaks Cadence

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread Daniel Sonck
it: https:// github.com/gentoo-audio/audio-overlay/issues/47 On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 4:17:15 PM CEST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > short question...what is catia (beside a CAD program by Dassault > Systems... ;)... > Can't find that in portage... > > Cheers! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread Daniel Sonck
ing mixing it together before sending to SimpleScreenRecorder or OBS. The 2 tools I recommend to add would be cadence (for configuring Jack + ALSA) and catia (to setup the proper audio routing) possibly combined with some jack audio mixer to get a "virtual mixing panel". Hope this hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread Daniel Sonck
. Regards, Daniel On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 3:30:53 PM CEST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > To record my screen with audio I installed > obs and then simplescreenrecoder. > > Recording the video stream more or less works (I cannot record a > firefox-window and need to r

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for the same package: how to add a USE flag?

2020-05-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 5/20/20 12:06 PM, n952162 wrote: The command was: emerge -vu dev-qt/qtgui dev-qt/qtx11extras dev-qt/qtopengl dev-qt/qtprintsupport dev-qt/qtwidgets dev-qt/qtxml dev-qt/linguist-tools dev-qt/qtnetwork dev-qt/qtsvg dev-qt/qtcore The output to that is attached. I tried just emerging zlib with

Re: [gentoo-user] Update Gentoo recently is becoming difficult

2020-05-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 5/12/20 1:57 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 3:24 PM Daniel Frey wrote: On 5/12/20 10:54 AM, Joachim Gwoke wrote: Been having trouble with mainly calibre 4.9.1-r2 and have since kept it out of any emerges. Otherwise everything is alright with python 3.7 on my side I

Re: [gentoo-user] Update Gentoo recently is becoming difficult

2020-05-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 5/12/20 10:54 AM, Joachim Gwoke wrote: Been having trouble with mainly calibre 4.9.1-r2 and have since kept it out of any emerges. Otherwise everything is alright with python 3.7 on my side I believe mine was soundconverter, but now I'm not so sure. It wanted something other than 3.7,

Re: [gentoo-user] Update Gentoo recently is becoming difficult

2020-05-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 5/12/20 6:52 AM, Victor Ivanov wrote: Python has indeed been a bit of a mess recently for me as well, but I haven't had any major issues. Presumably, this could be attributed to the fact that since python migrations started I have been using the --changed-deps flag to emerge, which I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate ST8000NM0065 PMR or SMR plus NAS SAS SATA question

2020-05-10 Thread Daniel Frey
On 5/10/20 1:02 AM, Dale wrote: Hi Michael, I think it is too.  Your link shows about what the link I was looking at does. I did research the SATA and SAS connector issue again.  Seagate has a picture of both for comparison and the drive I was looking at is a SAS drive.  When I did more

Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

2020-04-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 4/18/20 10:56 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it in this manner works as exspected. Also the docs are of that opinion, too: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.mask BUT! * error: please convert

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

2020-04-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 4/5/20 11:21 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC. The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device. What

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix license error during install?

2020-03-21 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/20/20 6:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm having trouble installing Gentoo in a Virtual Box VM for testing. It is a x86_64 guest. I selected a hardened profile to test PaX, which means I selected 18 in 'eselect profile'. I'm at "Configuring the Linux kernel" in the Handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/4/20 12:14 AM, n952162 wrote: Yes, you're right: 01~>cat /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/policies.json {   "policies": {     "DisableAppUpdate": true   } } The prediction is, if I were to remove that file, the banner would go away.  I'll try that at some point. Thank you. It will

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-03-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/1/20 7:40 AM, n952162 wrote: "within the country"?  :-)  You must be American? No. Dan

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