Re: [gentoo-user] Problems to update caused by nvidia-drivers?

2018-03-09 Thread John Campbell
On 03/09/2018 08:42 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Looks like nvidia-drivers dont wants the update...or is there any way > around it -- except of masking the update? Mask it. Wait for Nvidia to update. xorg-1.19.901 doesn't work with nvidia 390.25...I've tried. The "901" version of xorg is

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-02 Thread John Campbell
On 02/02/2018 01:07 PM, Floyd Anderson wrote: > Hi Helmut, > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:34:23 +0100 > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most >> packages try to include >> which doesn't exit any more. >> And downgrading glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] gambas-3.10.0 installed from jorgicio overlay can't run

2017-12-09 Thread John Campbell
On 12/08/2017 11:04 PM, Kruglov Sergey wrote: > I installed the 'gambas-3.10.0' from the overlay 'jorgicio' > (http://data.gpo.zugaina.org/jorgicio/dev-lang/gambas/) > And I can't run it. In /usr/bin/gambas3 there is a link to > 'gambas3.gambas' and 'gambas3.gambas' not found. > Maybe somebody

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-22 Thread John Campbell
I don't know if this has been suggested yet, but I run cron on UTC, which doesn't do daylight saving time. It's an option in cronie to set the TZ for crontab. I just have to transcode times from local to UTC when setting up the job.

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation error mpv / libav

2017-11-07 Thread John Campbell
> I installed ffmpeg- and it compiles fines. > > Everything else failed again (for example mpv-). > > Why does an update of already ok installed applications > break something in parts because the installation > has components, which are mutually exclusive? > They weren't before

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation error mpv / libav

2017-11-07 Thread John Campbell
On 11/07/2017 05:01 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > I got a couple of depending compilation errors... > > Top of the stack seems to a problem with mpv / libav. > > Is there any known fix for that? > > Thanks a lot for any help in advance! :) I've got mpv- installed. I'm pretty sure

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a certain program...

2017-10-13 Thread John Campbell
On 10/13/2017 08:19 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> thanks for all the input! :) >> >> I am searching for a program called qcalc. I know bc and several >> others but -- sorry -- this time it has to be qcalc. >> >> Does someone knows about this specific program? >> >> Cheers >> Meino >> > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] no more googleearth in portage

2017-09-20 Thread John Campbell
On 09/19/2017 10:55 PM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome, although I > missed the Gentoo > news bit if there was one. > > For Android there is the really good Open Street Map application, are there > any desktop > alternatives in Portage for

Re: [gentoo-user] is zfs no longer compatible with systemd?

2015-10-08 Thread John Campbell
On 10/07/2015 11:51 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: In trying to emerge sysf-fs/zfs today I get the following [ebuild R *] sys-fs/zfs-::gentoo USE="rootfs -bash-completion -custom-cflags -debug (-kernel-builtin) -static-libs -test-suite" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_3"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-19 Thread John Campbell
Maybe emerge --quiet=y -a @smart-live-rebuild Smart live rebuild only deals with live ebuilds. How would it help in this case? It seems I miss-remembered from the first post, looking back I see it was revdep-rebuild, not smart-live-rebuild.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-18 Thread John Campbell
On 08/18/2015 06:38 PM, walt wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:03:31 -0700 John Campbell jdc@cox.net wrote: I haven't really been following this closely but I haven't seen any suggestion to use emerge -1 --quiet=y smart-live-rebuild to remove the offending curses output. Hopefully emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-18 Thread John Campbell
On 08/18/2015 05:29 PM, walt wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:52:53 -0400 Alan Grimes alonz...@verizon.net wrote: Like a stupid dumbfuck, I tried to update my machine today tortoise ~ # revdep-rebuild /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd and ssmtp not sending emails again.

2015-08-04 Thread John Campbell
On 08/04/2015 01:35 AM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I went through this before and I haven't changed anything so not sure why it isn't working now. I decided to test smartd to make sure that it would send me a email if a drive developed a problem. I added -M test to the line, restarted smartd and got

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo announces total website makeover :-)

2015-03-31 Thread John Campbell
On 03/31/2015 09:39 PM, Gevisz wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 02:46:39 +0300 Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 01:37:06 +0200 waben...@gmail.com wrote: This really made my day. :-) https://www.gentoo.org/news/2015/03/31/website-update.html The best design ever! So

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg

2014-06-15 Thread John Campbell
On 06/14/2014 10:10 PM, Dale wrote: John Campbell wrote: On 06/14/2014 07:10 PM, Dale wrote: I don't have a env directory in /etc/portage and there is no openjpeg-1.3-r2 available in the tree. I sort of think I know what you are talking about tho. I need to create that directory structure

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg

2014-06-14 Thread John Campbell
On 06/14/2014 05:12 PM, Dale wrote: media-libs/openjpeg:0 (media-libs/openjpeg-1.5.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =media-libs/openjpeg-1.3-r2:0[abi_x86_64(-)] required by (media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.3-r1:0/52.55.55::gentoo, installed) The multilib stuff is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg

2014-06-14 Thread John Campbell
On 06/14/2014 07:10 PM, Dale wrote: I don't have a env directory in /etc/portage and there is no openjpeg-1.3-r2 available in the tree. I sort of think I know what you are talking about tho. I need to create that directory structure for openjpeg-1.4-r1 and put ABI_X86=32 x32 in the file.

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer or ffmeg - that's the question

2014-04-28 Thread John Campbell
On 04/28/2014 01:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the recent upgrade to Gnome 3.12.1 includes app-misc/tracker-1.0 which forces me to decide between gstreamer and ffmpeg. It says The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: at-most-one-of ( gstreamer ffmpeg ) But many

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech MX620 mouse

2013-05-17 Thread John Campbell
On 05/16/2013 09:06 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Has anyone of you managed to map the Search button of the Logitech MX620 to another function? A client wants to use that button for panning drawings ... we fiddled with xmodmap etc but with no success so far. That button gives not button

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-02 Thread John Campbell
On 12/02/2012 12:41 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i run update and by gstreamer i become the error message: Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18 Install gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18 into /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18/image/

Re: [gentoo-user] blocked packages both required by the system sys-apps/openrc vs. sys-apps/net-tools?

2012-11-26 Thread John Campbell
On 11/26/2012 02:55 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/openrc-0.9.9.3 (sys-apps/openrc-0.9.9.3 is blocking sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908) net-tools requires openrc = 0.9.9.3. Your installed openrc, and proposed update, is too old. Upgrade to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-23 Thread John Campbell
On 12/23/2011 12:33 AM, Jarry wrote: But it was the same in the last week, and yet portage could live with it. Why it suddenly wants to uninstall something that is part of system profile? And at the same time it says it might damage my system. Really nice... I believe the base, default pager

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

2011-11-28 Thread John Campbell
On 11/28/2011 07:16 PM, James wrote: An old parallel port on an old pci card should do the trick, if all you needs is a parallel port. Some of those old Laserjet printer could be set up across a serial port, if nothing else works. I'd also check your computer's innards for a parallel

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

2011-04-01 Thread John Campbell
On 04/01/2011 08:09 AM, walt wrote: I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from nvidia complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce 6150SE. Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know. The good old nv

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread John Campbell
On 03/29/2011 08:01 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: While I've been quite pleased with mplayer as tweaked by Nikos Chantziaras to allow Multi threading on my core-I7 (Nvidia) (and I realize that MT will now be in the upstream distribution), I'm wondering if mplayer2 is now stable and better enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread John Campbell
On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor)

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread John Campbell
On 01/20/2011 01:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:35:09 -0800, John Campbell wrote: After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what drives are detected and which numbering is used. What must I do to be able to scroll up to see what is logged to the screen? (is there maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread John Campbell
On 01/20/2011 08:02 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: Dear list, I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. After the panic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-03 Thread John Campbell
On 12/03/2010 05:38 PM, Dale wrote: masterprometheus wrote: Thanks for confirming that the coolers will fit. I did some googling but it just wasn't making sense to me yet. I found a site later on that said most coolers used different adapters to work with different sockets if needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

2010-11-17 Thread John Campbell
On 11/17/2010 05:13 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 17.11.2010 13:54, schrieb Albert Hopkins: On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:52 +0100, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 17.11.2010 10:19, schrieb Joerg Schilling: This is why find -exec + exists since 20 years. Could you enlighten me about this? I look

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

2010-11-07 Thread John Campbell
On 11/05/2010 09:38 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task manager/kicker, as well as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 09:53 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? pykde4-4.5.1-r1 was removed from the repository, not masked. In order to keep 4.5.1-r1 you need to obtain a copy of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 05:30 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: The two main ones seemed to be disabling the deprecated ATA drivers and another one was disabling some sysfs options. But these changes didn't help in this case. At this point, I think Im better off sticking to the

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread John Campbell
On 08/02/2010 05:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the previous, working python

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread John Campbell
On 08/02/2010 06:20 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

2009-12-20 Thread John Campbell
On 12/15/2009 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the physical buttons. For example moving the wheel to the left reports button press 13 button press 6 button release 6 button release 13 Similar results for the

Re: [gentoo-user] livedvd v10.1 on eee PC

2009-10-17 Thread John Campbell
On 10/17/2009 07:55 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: In my case(asus 900a), whether I use startx at the boot prompt or let xdm start by default, the X window starts to open and I see a glimpse of the desktop but then the screen goes black and flickers and just the outline of the mouse cursor is