[gentoo-user] grub 0.97-r18 fails sanity check, stage2 larger than 1MB

2022-01-21 Thread Skippy
I think emerge wants to rebuild grub because of a changed USE flag. [ebuild R] sys-boot/grub-0.97-r18::Skippy USE="ncurses -custom-cflags -netboot -static" KERNEL="(-linux%*)" 0 KiB When doing so it fails. * Sanity check failed: stage2 (/var/tmp/portage/sys-boo

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl has been very slow

2021-11-22 Thread Skippy
On 11/15/21 12:02, Ionen Wolkens wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:42:28AM -0700, Skippy wrote: On 11/15/21 09:14, tastytea wrote: snip When in gPodder i enable use of Youtube-dl I get the message Extension cannot be activated. Python module not found: youtube_dl That looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl has been very slow

2021-11-17 Thread Skippy
I've been short on time, but just wanted to jump in and say that it still seems to be working fine. If anything blows up I'll post on this thread. Thanks again to everyone for the assistance.

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl has been very slow

2021-11-15 Thread Skippy
On 11/15/21 09:14, tastytea wrote: snip When in gPodder i enable use of Youtube-dl I get the message Extension cannot be activated. Python module not found: youtube_dl That looks like it does not use the program, but the python module directly. You could try if symlinking

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl has been very slow

2021-11-15 Thread Skippy
On 11/6/21 14:51, tastytea wrote: snip The fork everyone is using now is yt-dlp (net-misc/yt-dlp). It downloads with normal speeds. The newest version of the ebuild installs a compatibility-wrapper so programs calling youtube-dl will automatically use yt-dlp instead. Kind regards,

[gentoo-user] MEGA sync problems

2021-10-08 Thread Skippy
nks. Skippy -- root # emerge --info '=net-misc/megasync-4.5.3::Skippy' Portage 3.0.26 (python 3.9.7-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1, gcc-11.2.0, glibc-2.33-r7, 5.7.15-gentoo x86

[gentoo-user] OT - looking for someone to fix PHP code - paid job

2020-08-29 Thread Skippy
figure I'll either get zero response to this, or 20 responses. *ha* Thanks much! Skippy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

2016-01-03 Thread Skippy
ied it. If it does not work, > look in manual for key-binding for "redraw" . > I didn't know about ctrl-L. Sure enough that works as well. Thank you. Good work around until I fix it otherwise. Skippy

[gentoo-user] OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

2015-12-29 Thread Skippy
in the MC terminal window and force the MC display up the screen, thus rendering it unreadable. I can fix this by exiting VLC and entering "clear" on the command line. Question is, can I hide all terminal messages when MC is running? Does my question & description make sense? Thanks much - Skippy

[gentoo-user] net.eth0 failed to start

2014-03-02 Thread Skippy
rather not experiment until I fix this. Additionally my laptop is using a nvidia legacy driver as it (the laptop) is older than dirt. So I'm gonna have to fix the problem on the laptop. Whew. Long winded. Suggestions please? Thanks. Skippy

[gentoo-user] OT - memory testing

2014-01-21 Thread Skippy
Gentoo, I think he's on Ubuntu. If you can suggest software we'll deal with the installation. Thanks very much - Skippy

[gentoo-user] MidnightCommander - exit in working directory

2013-12-30 Thread Skippy
in? Much thanks - Skippy

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

2013-12-30 Thread Skippy
of it. Solved and done. Thank you. -Skippy

[gentoo-user] amarok 1.4.10_p20090130-r4 crashes

2010-11-21 Thread Skippy
if that make any difference and it did not. It's crashing upon start and here is what I'm getting at the console: skippy $ amarok Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. kbuildsycoca running... DCOP

[gentoo-user] how to add an ebuild

2010-02-14 Thread Skippy
is altered. also tried ebuild xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2.ebuild manifest as man page says those are equivilant. Then eix-update. Then eix xorg-server - the version I am trying to add does not appear in the output. What am I missing here? Other than my sanity. :) Thanks, Skippy

Re: [gentoo-user] how to add an ebuild

2010-02-14 Thread Skippy
. :) Skippy On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:52:10 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote the words: On 14 Feb 2010, at 14:28, Skippy wrote: I'm needing to add an ebuild, but there is something I'm not doing right it seems. I have xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2.ebuild. The file that is. http

[gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Skippy
script in a directory full of vob files and end up with a set of wav files with the same file name as the original vob. If anyone knock out such an animal for me I'd be ever grateful and praise your name over and over. Thanks, Skippy

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: script to make wav fro vob

2009-12-15 Thread Skippy
Thank you Neil - songs are being sung in your name even now. Skippy On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:41:42 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote the words: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:23:26 -0700, Skippy wrote: mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null It would

Re: [gentoo-user] kde and qt - something strange

2009-11-08 Thread Skippy
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:55:24 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote the words: Skippy writes: The whole process so far is found at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6026707#6026707 Can anyone offer any ideas? Thanks so very much, Skippy Some ideas. Your output

Re: [gentoo-user] kde and qt - something strange

2009-11-08 Thread Skippy
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:52:20 +0100 Nagatoro nagat...@gmail.com wrote the words: On Friday 06 November 2009 13.13.17 Skippy wrote: Hi y'all. I've got a problem (a computer problem that is) that is driving me nuts. The folks at forums.gentoo have been helping me out, but not a solution yet

[gentoo-user] no audio input

2009-08-29 Thread Skippy
Greetings - I've got a new system, fresh install. Problem I've got in no audio input from the microphone. Trying to record into audacity will not work regardless of which alsa device I select, or mic/line in. If I try to record with rezound I'll get a message saying static ASoundRecorder*

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-10 Thread Skippy
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:40:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote the words: Did I mention that you should rather just work at getting X to work on your kit? Yea - that's what I was expecting, and afraid of, but I had to ask. Thanks! Skippy -- On The Fly Photography

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-10 Thread Skippy
still works fine and as far as I can tell, made no difference whatsoever. I think I'll have to try the -hal as well. But not gonna try this until I've backed up *ha* Skippy -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com Purchase from

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-10 Thread Skippy
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:21:48 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote the words: If you go with -hal, it shouldn't be a problem. It just works the old way. I am afraid that we will both face the music one day tho. I think there is a new thing in the pipe line but not sure when it will be

[gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-07 Thread Skippy
had to be restored from backups. Is there a way I can do a deep emerge and have the latest versions of Xorg masked? Or is such an action simply not possible without upgrading Xorg? Thanks much, Skippy --- skippy $ emerge -upvND audacity

Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

2009-07-28 Thread Skippy
,terminate:ctrl_alt_ bksp/merge Thanks so much for the specifics. These still haven't fixed my system. Does anyone know if this is something the Gentoo developers are going to fix down the road? Highly annoying, as others have already mentioned. Skippy

Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

2009-07-28 Thread Skippy
their timetable. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Yes, I get your point. I didn't mean to imply the Gentoo folks are doing this. I should have asked - is there some kind of work around or temporary fix that the Gentoo developers can implement until it's really fixed. :) Skippy

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok will not emerge - solved

2009-07-25 Thread Skippy
Found out the problem and fixed it. See the forum for details: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-781796.html I needed to prune old versions of gcc. Thanks y'all. Skippy

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok will not emerge

2009-07-24 Thread Skippy
Yes, I've run it multiple times. Since amarok will not compile it doesn't help much. Amarok is the only thing that needs to be rebuilt. Skippy On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:12:08 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote the words: On Mittwoch 22 Juli 2009, Adrian wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

2009-07-24 Thread Skippy
, this is driving me nuts! Skippy On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:44:59 +0300 (EEST) Igor Nemilentsev trez...@gmail.com wrote the words: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: AFAIK, the DontZap option applies to the key sequences Alt Fx to switch to a different terminal. No, the Ctrl+Alt