Re: [gentoo-user] can't paste password from clipboard into ssh login in urxvt

2020-04-16 Thread David Abbott
gin prompt. > > i can paste the password loaded into the clipboard > from keepassxc if there is no ssh login. but just > can't when there is an ssh login prompt. > > any idea what's going on? > > rgrds, > cm. > > Did you try CTRL + SHIFT + V -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VLC stopped working: XML reader not found

2020-03-21 Thread David Abbott
to do with VLC suddenly blowing a gasket about XML? > > It doesn't appear to be related. I switched back to my old single-monitor > configuration, and VLC still segfaults the same way. > > -- > Grant > > Is the xml use flag enabled? -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer

2018-03-01 Thread David Abbott
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Roger Cahn wrote: > Hi, > > For my birthday (!) my children want to offer me a multifunction > printer, copier. > > I ask you for an idea which one they could buy. > > For example: Multifonction A3 HP Officejet Pro 7612 > > -gentoo amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to load driver: Nouveau

2017-08-28 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:00 AM, IceAmber wrote: > so, what should I do to locate the driver? > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Alexander Kapshuk > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 2:41 PM, IceAmber wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread David Abbott
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:19 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > David Abbott <dabb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:25 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: >> > David Abbott <dabb...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread David Abbott
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:25 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > David Abbott <dabb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:46 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: >> > Thanasis <thana...@asyr.hopto.org> wrote: >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot properly start gdm

2016-06-03 Thread David Abbott
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:46 AM, wrote: > Thanasis wrote: > >> On 06/03/2016 12:25 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >> I can login normally to a textconsole. >> > >> Try to login to a textconsole, and run: >> >> startx >> > > No joy there, either.

Re: [gentoo-user] libgpod comment bug

2015-12-13 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 1:51 PM, ddjones wrote: > I'm reemerging Amarok after adding the ipod flag and libgpod fails to install > due to bug 537968. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537968 > > There's a patch for the bug, which I've copied, but it's not being

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread David Abbott
and save those to the usb stick. Likewhoa just put this together for the LiveDVD media, he is the one who builds them; https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveDVD-Persistence-Mode -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-19 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 5:15 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Ok the latest release of livedvd is here: https://www.gentoo.org/news/20140826-livedvd.xml So my understanding is you can put this on a usb stick. Run gentoo live, download packages, set flags, install packages

Re: [gentoo-user] larry and znurt

2014-10-04 Thread David Abbott
info on Larry :) https://www.gentoo.org/news/20110630-larry-announcement.xml https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Artwork/Artwork -- David Abbott (dabbott)

[gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-21 Thread David Abbott
Hi Everyone, We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content to add to the Tip of the month section. Regards David [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/news -- David Abbott (dabbott) Gentoo Foundation Secretary http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and ModemManager

2014-04-25 Thread David Abbott
Manager... Apr 24 13:36:46 localhost ModemManager[215]: info ModemManager (version 1.0.0-r2) starting... Apr 24 13:36:47 heater systemd[1]: Started Modem Manager. Apr 24 13:36:47 heater NetworkManager[214]: info ModemManager available in the bus -- David Abbott

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using a python script cdnpayroll.py but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File ./cdnpayroll.py, line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I tried to remove the single quote from several places

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread David Abbott
tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage was not enough to re-compile gcc-4.7.3! You can configure emerge to build large packages outside of the tmpfs drive. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs HTH -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] @system updated but @word is an issue!

2014-01-20 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi people! I finally managed to update my @system profile completly. Now I want to update world, and I see that certain packages require python_single_target_python2_7 or python_single_target_python3_2 I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] MidnightCommander - exit in working directory

2013-12-30 Thread David Abbott
to exit in the current working directory instead of the directory it started in? Much thanks - Skippy From the ebuild elog; LOG: postinst To enable exiting to latest working directory, put this into your ~/.bashrc: . /usr/libexec/mc/mc.sh HTH :) -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager stays in inactive mode

2013-12-08 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 7:00 AM, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hi, I updated this week and since then I have problem with NetworkManager. It starts, but last message is WARNING: NetworkManager has started, but is inactive and the network is not set up :-( networkmanager-0.9.8.8

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64, Firefox = Java Plugin?

2013-03-16 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am looking for a useable howto/tutorial which describes howto install the java plugin for the current fireox. Where can I find one? Best regards, mcc I use icedtea; amd64testbox ~ # emerge -pv icedtea These are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The new Gentoo user and the Kernel

2013-03-05 Thread David Abbott
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:53 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:31:35 -0500 Henson Sturgill henson.gen...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new to Gentoo, but really loving the amount of control it provides (I'm guessing all Gentoo-users are control freaks?) During my initial install, I

[gentoo-user] dev-util/cmake-2.8.8-r3 | Bootstrap failed

2012-09-02 Thread David Abbott
Hi, When updating from cmake-2.8.7-r5 to the just stablized cmake-2.8.8-r3 I get; http://bpaste.net/show/43387/ but this works; http://bpaste.net/show/43385/ Thanks for any insight, David

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge Spamassassin

2012-07-04 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to emerge Spamassassin bit it failes due to missing dependencies, which I would exspect to be resolved by emerge itsself. I wanted, I will post the referenced logfiles also. How can I fix this? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: Hello, This question more than likely has been posted before, either to this or some other list.  If so, then please let me know and I'll start searching. I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 weather applet

2012-05-30 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I am one of those poor saps who decided to try gnome3 and its not pleasant at all ... its an even worse hit on productivity than early gnome2 over 1.4 was :( Apparently 3.2 has a weather app available, but I cant find

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 12, 2012 at 10:04 AM Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: and it still didn't bring me the desired result :( Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild   R    ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-11 Thread David Abbott
the best :) David [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~neddyseagoon/docs/oldtimers.xml -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with sound card

2011-10-24 Thread David Abbott
2011/10/24 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com:   * Looks like maybe you have 2 sound cards. Are you going through the correct card for output? It's not like that . I only have one sound card and one HD audio controller, I don't why there are card0 and card1.   * Did you go into 

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't play music?

2011-10-23 Thread David Abbott
2011/10/23 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com: [snip] The sound card driver I have built into kernel . When I used lspci, I can see that hda_intel is the driver for sound card. So what's wrong with it ? First use modules. This post [1] from the forum is about the mic but it walks you through

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome 3 is stable?

2011-10-21 Thread David Abbott
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Fri 21 Oct 2011 01:13:50 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:30 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: The gnome project's latest stable release is gnome 3.2 Why don't we have a proper method to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended printer?

2011-10-20 Thread David Abbott
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Michael J. Barillier blackw...@blackwolfinfosys.net wrote: I've wasted enough time beating on my current boat anchor of a printer hoping it'll start working.  linuxprinting.org is currently offline, so in the meantime does anyone have a suggestion for an

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-12 Thread David Abbott
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Oct 11 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For me, gnome 3.2 has

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-11 Thread David Abbott
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For me, gnome 3.2 has been quite a regression over 3.0. Weird; for me it works so much better than 3.0. Working OK here also, here is my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue

2011-10-10 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:31 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but was able to figure them out and got to the

Re: [gentoo-user] automount USB

2011-10-10 Thread David Abbott
2011/10/10 Michal Halenka michal.hale...@gmail.com: Hi I am looking fow a way, how to automount USB disks (or CD) by normal user. I find many ways (udev, hal, policykit, udisks, autofs), but I am just ordinary user, so I don´t know which one is deprecated (hal?), which one is easy to use,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread David Abbott
2011/10/6 Niccolò Belli darkba...@linuxsystems.it: Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. To see your default editor and pager; eselect editor list eselect pager list

Re: [gentoo-user] Android 2.2 USB tethering?

2011-10-05 Thread David Abbott
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-843255.html HTH, David

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the error messages during boot?

2011-09-05 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I rebooted a Gentoo system, and as I watched the boot-up messages, some errors appeared when it's starting the services. However, the screen scrolled too damn fast for me to read them. Where can I find the logs on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3 upgrade

2011-09-03 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, akio.tam...@gmail.com akio.tam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to upgrade from gnome 2 to gnome 3. However I could not find any procedure on google. At least a smooth one. I have already add the gnome overlay but still getting version 2.32 as the gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-07-31 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 31 July 2011, at 00:56, Sebastian Pipping wrote: ... I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3 engines are there.  My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme for GTK 3

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-26 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I was trying to record my desktop using: ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached screenshot, when I play it with mplayer.

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-18 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jun 17 2011, David Abbott wrote: I am currently connected with a Google Nexus One. I am going to attach two files, my current lsmod and /usr/src/linux/.config Also I use wicd to connect. I had to add the wired

Re: [gentoo-user]

2011-06-07 Thread David Abbott
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Abhishek Gupta cs1090...@cse.iitd.ernet.in wrote: Hello We need to setup a local repository for Gentoo, to serve the needs of our Academic institution IIT Delhi, India. Please tell me where can we request the access to the master repository for setting up the

Re: [gentoo-user] converting to gnome3--a trip report

2011-06-05 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 02.06.2011 19:33, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: 1.  Install the gnome3 overlay. thanks for your instructions, but I don't get any gnome3 overlay via layman ... how to do that? The overlay gnome doesn't seem to contain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] [FIXED] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread David Abbott
Its been fixed; http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-office/libreoffice/ChangeLog?view=markup

Re: [gentoo-user] Speech-synthesizer ?

2011-05-21 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:39 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org [11-05-22 01:29]: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 07:47:47PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, can someone recommend a speech synthesizer, which parameters like voice (child/adult/male/female...and

Re: [gentoo-user] Speech-synthesizer ?

2011-05-21 Thread David Abbott
This may help; http://espeak.sourceforge.net/voices.html This works for a woman's voice in English; espeak -v en+f4 hello

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Tether a Google Nexus One?

2011-05-04 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas?  I'm on Android 2.3.3. - Grant Works fine here, this should help; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-843255.html

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveDVD-11.0 questions

2011-03-20 Thread David Abbott
/ Von Usern fuer User  :-) -- David Abbott (dabbott) Gentoo http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-01-31 Thread David Abbott
This may help; http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/03/25/gentoo-tips-to-upgrade-your-really-old-installation/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Paste into vim keeping indention or original?

2011-01-28 Thread David Abbott
On 01/27/2011 12:53 PM, YoYo Siska wrote: BTW, if  - vim has access to X (you run it on your local machine or from    ssh -X or something similar)  - is compiled with X support (check with vim --version | grep +X11)  - and you :set mouse=a then you can paste by middle clicking in vim (not

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - No Sound

2011-01-22 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:16 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Can someone tell me why I don't have sound? What happens when you; modprobe snd-intel8x0 ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; modprobe snd-mixer-oss ; modprobe snd-seq-oss

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread David Abbott
=319829 -- David Abbott (dabbott) Gentoo http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

2010-12-18 Thread David Abbott
/downloads/IP_Passthru.png -- David Abbott (dabbott) Gentoo http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd segmentation fault and spamassassin will not emerge

2010-09-23 Thread David Abbott
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:32 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi.  I am getting a segfault when I try to start the spamd which is part of spamassassin.  I tried re-emerging the package and got the following: /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/spamassassin-3.3.1-r3/temp/environment: line 2405:

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread David Abbott
://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wicd [1] http://gentoo-pr.org/node/17 -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-02 Thread David Abbott
a patch for SOAP-WSDL. -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-02 Thread David Abbott
sensible approach to packaging the patch for the stock SOAP-WSDL, so updating will be easier to maintain. Just my 2c :) -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-02 Thread David Abbott
/show_bug.cgi?id=305621 - GrantSOAP-WSDL The patched Typemap created by hand works fine, but when you attempt to use a downloaded SOAP-WSDL and patch it failed for me, may need to manually create a patch for SOAP-WSDL. -- David Abbott (dabbott) I'm sure I'm confused because of my weak

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-01 Thread David Abbott
; then epatch ${FILESDIR}/${PN}.patch | die google patch failed fi } -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

2010-06-19 Thread David Abbott
version yet and looks like you found one of the reasons. -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome fail

2010-06-13 Thread David Abbott
parameters like --skip-first, --resume and --keep-going. Have Fun -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem

2010-05-22 Thread David Abbott
Set the default Java VM for the system java-config -c /opt/icedtea6-bin-1.8.0/bin/javac -- David Abbott (dabbott)

Re: [gentoo-user] script for sending mail with attachement?

2010-05-11 Thread David Abbott
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, my small mysql-database is archived every couple of hours, but all those backups (~5MB each) are still on the server, which I do not consider secure. I would like to have them sent to me per email. What I am looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes

2010-04-23 Thread David Abbott
to login and then enable ip pass thru to my router which is a linksys running DD-WRT; http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7073 This set-up has worked well for a few years without me having to do anything. HTH -- David Abbott da...@pythontoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes

2010-04-23 Thread David Abbott
. It defaults to 10 minutes and I just set it to 99 days, but I don't want it to expire even after 99 days. I have a static IP but I think this is the timeout between the modem/router and the Gentoo router. I have DHCP lease time once per day - Grant -- David Abbott da...@pythontoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread David Abbott
* I've installed padevchoser, but it only allows me to change the default device, and the setting seems to be ignored by skype. Thanks Alex Did you try pavucontrol and select your input and output devices? -- David Abbott da...@pythontoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 06:55 +1000, John H. Moe wrote: You need to enable Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) first. You don't need either of the 2100 or the 2200 modules; once you select Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) a new slew of options should come up, including the Intel Wireless Wifi option, and