Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-09 Thread Marat BN
Chrome OS is made by Google to run specifically on the Chromebooks. I don't think it is intended for general computing and there is no enthusiast community around it like around other distros. The closest cousin to Gentoo would be Funtoo. It used to be that Gentoo Portage could only use rsyn

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

2016-11-29 Thread Marat BN
Original Message Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives? From: Alarig Le Lay To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: 11/29/2016 01:36 AM > On Tue Nov 29 10:19:15 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Hi Marat, >> >> thanks for your help and link!

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

2016-11-28 Thread Marat BN
I've been running the youtube-flash-player Firefox addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-player/ for several months now with decent results. It just reverts YouTube back to the old Flash video player. It's been working well for me. I'm not affiliated with it and I re

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

2016-07-12 Thread Marat BN
The solution I use when dealing with the problem of network software overwriting '/etc/resolf.conf' is to make that file immutable with 'chattr +i'. Not quite an answer to your question on nameserver prioritization, but could be useful to prevent your nameservers from being changed. -- Marat

[gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

2015-10-13 Thread Marat BN
e just being reported further down below. So I added them to '/etc/portage/package,mask' as well and the problem went away. -- Marat Original Message Subject: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package From: Marat BN To: gentoo-us

[gentoo-user] 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

2015-10-13 Thread Marat BN
Hello there, I'm having a curious problem trying to update my system. I issue the command: emerge --update @world -pv Portage comes back with the following: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool 2.x upgrade

2010-02-26 Thread bn
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:15:09 +0100, bn wrote: > >> I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among >> those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for >> work reasons, I don't feel like updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libtool 2.x upgrade

2010-02-26 Thread bn
Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: > On 02/26/2010 03:15 AM, bn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among >> those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for >> work reasons, I don't feel like u

[gentoo-user] libtool 2.x upgrade

2010-02-25 Thread bn
Hi, I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but more and more packages want to upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-16 Thread bn
Alan Mackenzie ha scritto: > Hi, gentoo, > > I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the > "Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide". Everything seems to be working fine, except > no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers. > > I've checked the obvious things: the speakers are plugged in

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in KDE-4

2010-01-12 Thread bn
Peter Humphrey ha scritto: > On Tuesday 12 January 2010 06:39:16 Dale wrote: > >> From your post, it appears that the kernel sees the card. However, the >> only time I have seen this error was when I didn't have the right driver >> for my sound card. Can you check again to make very sure you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mozilla-firefox - I'm lost

2010-01-11 Thread bn
Mick ha scritto: > 2010/1/11 walt : >> On 01/11/2010 01:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've tried (for the first time) to install the >>> source version of firefox >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.7 >>> with useflags >>> alsa bindist dbus gnome java linguas_de linguas_en sqlite

[gentoo-user] [OT] Kate autoindent doesn't autoindent since upgrade to kde 4

2010-01-07 Thread bn
Hi, I was a happy Kate user for Python programming. Now I have a slight but noticeable annoyance: it doesn't autoindent anymore when pressing return. I mean, if I write: def foo(): pass I used to find the cursor in the correct indented position. Now instead I find myself writing: def foo():

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 failure

2010-01-07 Thread bn
GerhardosG ha scritto: > Hi , > > on my gentoo-Laptopwith AMD - K8 the network > > is NOT running : > > ifconfig eth0 down > > ifconfig eth0 up > Disabling IRQ #5 > > Why ? > We will never know if you don't give some detail about your hardware, kernel configuration, etc. At th

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

2010-01-07 Thread bn
Neil Walker ha scritto: > bn wrote: >> Ehm, no, it disconnects randomly every about ~5 minutes, and then comes >> back. >> > > Most network problems can be traced to the cable or connectors. Have you > tried > a different cable? It was the cable, indeed. :) Thanks for the hint! m.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

2010-01-03 Thread bn
Neil Walker ha scritto: > bn wrote: >> Ehm, no, it disconnects randomly every about ~5 minutes, and then comes >> back. >> > > Most network problems can be traced to the cable or connectors. Have you > tried > a different cable? No, but before the kernel upgr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

2010-01-02 Thread bn
walt ha scritto: > On 01/02/2010 09:52 AM, bn wrote: >> Hi, >> I upgraded recently my Macbook Pro to gentoo-sources 2.6.31 and I have >> annoying network hiccups which I didn't have with the old 2.6.24. > > By that you mean the chip works, but prints error messa

[gentoo-user] sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

2010-01-02 Thread bn
Hi, I upgraded recently my Macbook Pro to gentoo-sources 2.6.31 and I have annoying network hiccups which I didn't have with the old 2.6.24. b.g.o. and google return me something on sky2-related hiccups, but only related to very old kernels (<2.6.23), but maybe you know better. (Hopefully) releva

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade or start over..

2009-12-27 Thread bn
Jon Hardcastle ha scritto: > Hi all, > > I have a gentoo circa 2008 install that i have pretty much the bare minimal > to keep up to date... i now have the problem that i need to upgrade mdadm, > lvm and probably a few other bits and pieces. This machine is used almost > exclusively as a windo

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] The Great Macbook Update 3: Qt-4.5.1 to Qt-4.5.3 blocks hell

2009-12-27 Thread bn
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:55:23 +0000, bn wrote: > >> ...I would like to update the thing piece-by-piece, to troubleshoot >> better whatever happens. > Start with a system update, then emerge --oneshot individual, > non-QT, packages to reduce the n

Re: [gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 3: Qt-4.5.1 to Qt-4.5.3 blocks hell

2009-12-27 Thread bn
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > Basically, the most important thing to sort out is those qt blocks. You > appear > to be running an arch machine as version 4.5.3-r1 wants to be merged, right? Yes, x86 (sorry, I forgot that) > Trying to merge just qt-gui (or any other individual qt apps) is not real

[gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 3: Qt-4.5.1 to Qt-4.5.3 blocks hell

2009-12-26 Thread bn
Hi, I have finally updated from kde 3.5 to kde-base 4.3 Everything smooth so far, but when I try to install, for example, kdeplasma-addons, a blocks hell comes out. This is the (long) output of emerge -tpuv qt-gui: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating

[gentoo-user] Re: The Great Macbook Update 2: How to brace for xorg

2009-12-25 Thread bn
bn ha scritto: > Further update: I am trying with xmodmap, but it seems it works in some > cases and others not (notably GTK applications ignore it, while KDE apps > use it). > > I've put xmodmap lines in my .xsession, kdm config, and I have identical > xmodmap both in my h

[gentoo-user] Re: The Great Macbook Update 2: How to brace for xorg

2009-12-25 Thread bn
bn ha scritto: > Ok, I updated, and (miracolously enough) xorg 1.6 + hal/evdev mostly works! > Only thing I have to put back in shape is the keyboard mapping. I have > seen how to force hal policy to use the IT mapping, but I lost most > customizations I needed: > - key F11 mimic

[gentoo-user] Re: The Great Macbook Update 2: How to brace for xorg

2009-12-25 Thread bn
bn ha scritto: > Hi, > > Second thread of help with my Macbook upgrade of essentials which I > don't upgrade since a long time. > > Now I have to prepare to jump from xorg-1.3 to xorg-1.6. I've seen > already there are a lot of horror stories in the mailing list an

[gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 2: How to brace for xorg

2009-12-25 Thread bn
Hi, Second thread of help with my Macbook upgrade of essentials which I don't upgrade since a long time. Now I have to prepare to jump from xorg-1.3 to xorg-1.6. I've seen already there are a lot of horror stories in the mailing list and a lot of weird instructions about hal, evdev etc. Before s

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] The Great Macbook Update 1: Audio

2009-12-24 Thread bn
Hi, Bruce Hill ha scritto: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:53:43PM +0000, bn wrote: > Which codec does your HDA Intel use? Then check if it's in your kernel: > > zgrep 'CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC' /proc/config.gz > > Your codec might not be easy to determine, such as mine

[gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 1: Audio

2009-12-24 Thread bn
Hi, I am updating my Macbook Pro installation. While many programs I updated often, the basics (Xorg, kernel, etc.) were taking dust since... well, a lot. I only found time with these holidays. This is therefore probably the first thread of a long series... To make it short: The machine is a late

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread bn
Erik ha scritto: > Alan McKinnon skrev: >> That's because you worded your question like a dumbass user asking someone >> else to do their homework for him. > > I did not mention anything related to homework or that I would still be > a student or anything like that. It was just a standard questio

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-03 Thread bn
Dale ha scritto: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:13 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> And maybe it will be easier to just do his own homework instead of >>> letting a computer do it for him. >>> >> Maybe the assignment is to write a program to solve the equation. >> >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread bn
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > On Wednesday 07 October 2009 06:34:06 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: >> Thanks all for the help. Finally the problem was solved by re-compiling all >> X11 drivers used, and most notably xf86-input-keyboard & xf86-input-mouse. >> I still think that any package update t

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread bn
Stroller ha scritto: > > On 12 Aug 2009, at 12:43, bn wrote: >>> ... >>> Yes, that seems to be the usual reason users leave Gentoo: >>> like owning a dog, you have to find time to maintain/exercise it. >> >> I am starting to be in trouble using G

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread bn
Ward Poelmans ha scritto: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 14:28, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: >>> Any advice on this kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup >>> laptop". >> Keeping the previous (working) kernel, and having a rescue disk around >> usually >> is enough to fix most kinds of breakages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread bn
Philip Webb ha scritto: > 090812 Alan E. Davis wrote: >> I'm a little reluctant to say this, but it's been a couple of months now >> since I switched back to Gentoo, and I want to shout out my pleasure >> that this system has been performing admirably well this time around, >> in comparison with ea

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

2009-07-29 Thread bn
Mike Mazur ha scritto: > I'd like to run a single command, passing it one of my xorg.conf files > (for instance), and have my screens configured on-the-fly. I looked at > the command-line options for nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig but > they don't seem to do what I want. I also looked at XRandR

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread bn
meino.cra...@gmx.de ha scritto: > Thank you for the hint. The programm says "unable to capture image". > Executing it as root does the same. Very strange. > ffmpeg could capture a video stream from my webcam, so the cam is not > the problem... Have you tried good old mplayer ? It can play the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam ? Help me please...

2009-07-25 Thread bn
meino.cra...@gmx.de ha scritto: > > Hi, > > To watch some birds I have bought a Logitech QuickCam Pro For > Notebooks WebCam. > > I have configurted the kernel for UVC and compiled a driver > as modulem which is stated to support my Cam. > > ...the only thing I need is an application to make

Re: [gentoo-user] The time has come (udev and kernel dependencies)

2009-07-22 Thread bn
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:37:28 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: > >> Does this mean that I need to install a new kernel to run udev-141 ? >> Ok, I should run a new kernel *anyway* ... at this point the question >> is: when I update the kernel, I can use the old udev-124-r1 unti

Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-13 Thread bn
William Hubbs ha scritto: > All, > > we have several open bugs on app-accessibility/festival and > app-accessibility/speech-tools. These packages have been around for a > long time, and upstream appears, at least so far, to be dead (my > maintainer says that he has been unable to contact them).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-25 Thread bn
Mark Knecht ha scritto: > No, I need a new kernel also. The kernel on this machine is 2 years > old. Also, I have about a dozen packages masked so I've unmasked those > and will need to get the whole machine up to date. There is something I didn't understand at all in this thread. Why did you nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-16 Thread bn
Mike Edenfield ha scritto: >> Which in turn, means? >> m. > > If you're asking what the meaning of the RESTRICT= options are, they're > listed in the man page for ebuild(5), including: Oh, ok, thanks, I was having a cursory look at eix man page but it's written in Martian, as many people are rema

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I get a tip for reading eix output?

2009-06-16 Thread bn
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: >> What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean? > > RESTRICT="test" > > You can find a clue in sub-section "Slots" under main heading "OUTPUT" Which in turn, means? m.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-14 Thread bn
walt ha scritto: > Heh. I laughed out loud when I read this link about dselect, especially > the quote from Andrew Morton who captured my sentiments exactly: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dselect Oh well but it's kinda obvious that dselect is HELL and no one uses it anymore I think. I though

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-13 Thread bn
walt ha scritto: > Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager. > > When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities > should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking. > > Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the > last few years. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /

2009-06-11 Thread bn
KH ha scritto: > I totaly do agree with you. There has been nothing indicated to give a > one out of one answer. In case someone is a noob, ( I am still one > because I don't no anything about how everything is working) what you > just wrote is the answer. Like what are your needs and what resurce

Re: [gentoo-user] Whats better for crossplatform applications?

2009-05-31 Thread bn
Alexander Pilipovsky ha scritto: > May be, it's not a "only Gentoo" question, but I want to write and start > applications under Gentoo and Windows. I saw Tcl/Tk library in work (as > example OOMMF: http://math.nist.gov/oommf/, but it, sometimes, unstable > under Windows XP). And it did not like me

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process

2009-05-27 Thread bn
Hung Dang ha scritto: > I often use Ctrl+F1 to F6 to back to the command line and if your X is > fine you can back the X screen using Ctrl+F7. Or if you want to kill > your X then Ctrl+Alt+Backspace may be helpful. Unless X freezes and steals your keyboard away. m. > Hung > > > Dale wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?

2009-05-22 Thread bn
Mark Knecht ha scritto: > Title sort of says it. I have an old machine that I'm setting up as a > Myth server. I didn't want X on the machine but I'm having trouble so > I emerged xdm and start it using /etc/init.d/xdm start. The drivers > get loaded but I get a black screen. No error message in t

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-19 Thread bn
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > On Monday 18 May 2009 22:14:43 bn wrote: >>> If you use Ubuntu, you've got to accept their eccentric & questionable >>> attitude to passwords, esp that they don't have a separate root password. >>> I find that a piece of chea

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-18 Thread bn
Philip Webb ha scritto: > 090518 bn wrote: >> Philip Webb ha scritto: >>> With binary distros, you are stuck with whatever their makers give you. >> whatever distro you're using, Linux is Linux. You're not locked out. >> If my xorg.conf doesn't work (

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-18 Thread bn
Philip Webb ha scritto: > 090518 bn wrote: >> Philip Webb ha scritto: >>> Hopefully, the OP has got some useful hints out of all this ... >> Yes. I'm kinda considering switching to Ubuntu. >> I love Gentoo, it's almost 4 years I'm using it, but I need

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-18 Thread bn
Philip Webb ha scritto: > 090518 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:00 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >>> The blurb tells me nothing, but if I follow its advice, I do get : >> I said there was help, I didn't claim it was helpful :) >> I got bitten by this one a while ago on a box using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-17 Thread bn
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > On Sunday 17 May 2009 19:10:05 bn wrote: >> Dale ha scritto: >>> I hope someone wins the debate soon and gets this to work and be "user >>> friendly". I'm about to make a fresh backup and try this again. I have >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-17 Thread bn
Dale ha scritto: > I hope someone wins the debate soon and gets this to work and be "user > friendly". I'm about to make a fresh backup and try this again. I have > upgraded my kernel to a really new version, 2.6.25. Sorry, nvidia won't > compile with anything newer that I have tried. Uh? las

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-17 Thread bn
bn ha scritto: > 2) What are the caveats and pitfalls I should be aware of when upgrading > to latest kernel? I confess that reading CHANGELOGs didn't help me too > much, quite confusing. I resume this thread because I read ofthings like that ("/dev/sr0 has disappeared"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-13 Thread bn
Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: > bn wrote: >>> You can keep both kernels and just use the bootloader to select which >>> one to boot into. So if your new kernel doesn't work just reboot and >>> use your old kernel again until you can work out whats wrong with t

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-13 Thread bn
Adam Carter ha scritto: >> Now I want to ask the list: >> 1) Does anyone have a recent kernel config for this kind of machine? > > Just copy your .config file to the new kernel source directory and run "make > oldconfig". This runs through the old config file and prompts you to select > what you

[gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread bn
Hi, My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade things only after having read things here and there on the ML and possibly elsewhere (Sti

[gentoo-user] Dispaly problems on external monitor

2005-12-01 Thread Vikas BN
Hi Folks,     I have a laptop Dell D610 at work and i installed gentoo   on that. I have a docking station and a DEll 1905FP external   monitor connected to the docking station through a DVI port.   I could install gentoo from the live-cd (minimal-iso) and the   display was showing up on the exte