[gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches

2012-01-04 Thread v_2e
Hello! I have noticed that with portage version changes its behaviour regarding the automatic patch catching (from /etc/portage/patches, for example) also changes. Some previous versions of portage did apply the patches from that directory while the most recent one does not. I consider this

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-18 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:21:12 -0600 Dale wrote: > ... > I also pointed out that no law we pass here affects the > people overseas. Last I heard, when you got a few miles off shore, > our laws pretty much end. The people in other countries are going to > hack and steal and host whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600 Dale wrote: > Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I > do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > What about Yandex? It provides a search tool and a mail box with

Re: OT: [gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

2012-01-30 Thread v_2e
Hello! I was reading this thread and felt that the "graphite" USE flag seems familiar to me, but I just couldn't remember where I had seen it. So I checked and discovered that there are 2 packages with such USE flag on my system: $ equery hasuse graphite * Searching for USE flag graphite ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-15 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:58:20 -0500 Alecks Gates wrote: > Midori is quite minimal and has flash support last I checked. It's > very lightweight on the features, which can be good and bad :). > Personally I get tired of new chromium and v8 builds every week. I use Midori for my everyda

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread v_2e
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:37:19 -0800 Grant wrote: > > Does anyone know how to beautify it just a bit? Smoother fonts and > maybe just a bit of edge roundness? > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:51:18 -0800 Grant wrote: > > Ouch, is copy/paste in midori working for anyone? I seem to be bitten > by this

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:44:20 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > You need to edit the file to remove duplicates and redundant mirrors > (I can usually do it inside emacs in two minutes or less), and then > check what files you already have in /usr/portage/distfiles (with a > tiny bash

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:26:21 -0600 Maxim Wexler wrote: > ... The problem is syncing portage on another machine, my netbook, > ubuntu-based. > You could just download the portage snapshot and unpack it on your Gentoo machine. Regards, -

Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch List

2012-06-05 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:37:11 +0200 Silvio Siefke wrote: > Hello, > > is there a option that i can build a list of Requirements to download > of a ebuild? > I usually use emerge --pretend --fetchonly media-gfx/inkscape > files_to_fetch.txt or in a short form emerge -fp med

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get any microphone to work

2012-06-12 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:32:43 -0300 Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > Damn! > > I've been all morning struggling with this. > I have an analog microphone wired to my hda intel onboard sound card. > Also, I have a genius webcam (gspca_pac7302) with a builtin mic. > > I tried arecord but couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get any microphone to work

2012-06-13 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:05:45 -0300 Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > ... > I still can't get the webcam mic to work :-( > Perhaps, your webcam microphone appears as a separate device. Start 'alsamixer', press 'F6' and see a list of your sound cards. I'm not sure about it, but maybe your

[gentoo-user] iftop and 'ipv6' USE-flag

2012-06-13 Thread v_2e
Hello! During a recent upgrade, I noticed that 'net-analyzer/iftop' now needs 'net-libs/libpcap' with the 'ipv6' USE flag. It seemed strange to me and I decided to ask here. Does 'iftop' really needs IPv6? Can't it be optional? Thank you. Vladimir -

Re: [gentoo-user] iftop and 'ipv6' USE-flag

2012-06-13 Thread v_2e
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:11:45 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > It's an upstream bug, if they consider it one. From the Gentoo > ChangeLog: > > 30 May 2012; Lars Wendler iftop- > 1.0_pre2.ebuild: > Non-maintainer commit: We need libpcap with ipv6 support or else > iftop doesn't work at all

Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?

2011-11-14 Thread v_2e
There is a very small web server called "thttpd" which is very lightweight and lets start serving files very quickly. It runs on my home router machine with an old Pentium CPU and several megabytes of RAM and seems to consume about 500 kb of it. Regards, Vladimir On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:

[gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

2011-11-20 Thread v_2e
Hello! I decided to upgrade LibreOffice this week to the verstion 3.4.4. Before trying to build this package, emerge performed the pre-check of available space on my hard disk - 9GB. I did have this amount of free space on the drive, but I noticed that after about 8 hours of compiling it too

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

2011-11-20 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:07:33 -0500 Michael Mol wrote: > > I'll venture a guess that it may have approached 9GB either with some > short-lived files, or *would* have approached 9GB with a different USE > flag or other configuration combination. > ... > Ok, then I'll narrow my guess to t

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-03 Thread v_2e
Hello! There is no need to rebuild LibreOffice if you just want to start it with different front-end. This forum: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888618.html gives a fast solution to the problem - just define the "SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN" variable according to your needs. For example: S

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-21 Thread v_2e
Hello! So how can I install LibreOffice 3.5 to test it? Portage does not suggest me an update to 3.5 version any more. Thanks. Vladimir -

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-22 Thread v_2e
Hello! Today I tried to install LibreOffice-3.5. and it seems to compile fine, but fails to install. Here is one of the error messages: /var/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-3.5./work/libreoffice-core-3.5./bin/distro-install-file-lists Error: Failed to generate

[gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.5 bug hunting session

2011-12-25 Thread v_2e
Hello! Will the LibreOffice version in Gentoo Portage correspond to the 3.5.0beta2 version by December 28th for bug hunting session? Thanks. Vladimir -

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI Torrent client(s)?

2011-12-29 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:07:10 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > I'm wondering: what's your recommended CLI Torrent client(s)? And why? I've been using Transmission for more than 3 years now, and mostly on very old and not powerful PCs. For example, it runs on my Pentium-I processor with 48

[gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

2012-07-08 Thread v_2e
Hello! I noticed some strange messages in my ~/.xsession-errors log-file today. They look like this: profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base:Cannot create directory profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.6.1-r1/work/xfce4-session-4.6.1/xfce4-session/xfce4_session-ice-layer.gcda:Skip

Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

2012-07-09 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 11:36:21 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, wrote: > > Hello! > > I noticed some strange messages in my ~/.xsession-errors log-file > > today. They look like this: > > > > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base:Cannot create directory > >

Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

2012-07-09 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:51:32 +0800 microcai wrote: > You forgot to disable pgo when you compile some xfce-session . > What is 'pgo'? Thanks. Vladimir -

Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

2012-07-09 Thread v_2e
Hello again! On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 18:58:05 +0800 microcai wrote: > > profile guided optimize > > If you enable it , software will generate profile data when it runs. > of-course the profile data will be output to the *same* dir it got > compiled. That's why it write to /var/tmp > > But you are

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-20 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:24:42 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > I plan to build a new machine in the next few months: > it wb for regular desktop use, but performance is as important as > price. > > A quick look at what was available in April suggested > an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 ( 22 nm ) ; Phor

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-21 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:44:11 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 21.07.2012 07:55, schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:49:32PM -0500, Alecks Gates wrote > > > >> I'd pick AMD, and very likely one of their APUs if you don't need > >> intense graphics, as they see

[gentoo-user] 'profile' USE-flag - what for?

2012-07-23 Thread v_2e
Hello! Could somebody please explain me the role of "profile' USE-flag for a regular user's PC? "profile : Adds support for software performance analysis (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild)" * Is if of any use in such case at all? * If it is, what does it provide for a regular user?

[gentoo-user] Mouse does not work with kernel-3.5.0

2012-07-26 Thread v_2e
Hello! After upgrading to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.5.0 my mouse stopped working in X-session. Has somebody experienced a similar problem? What are the ways to fix it? Thanks! Vladimir -

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse does not work with kernel-3.5.0

2012-07-27 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:36:23 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:30:38 +0300, v...@ukr.net wrote: > > > After upgrading to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.5.0 my mouse > > stopped working in X-session. > > You haven't provided much information to go on so you're not goin

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse does not work with kernel-3.5.0

2012-07-28 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:35:14 -0700 Bryan Gardiner wrote: > > Does the mouse work if you try starting X with /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d > empty? Or maybe re-emerge xf86-input-evdev, -synaptics, -mouse? > Yes, I re-emerged all the drivers after X-server upgrade. > You should be able to che

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED - Mouse does not work with kernel-3.5.0

2012-07-28 Thread v_2e
Hello again! The problem is solved by adding the following kernel config option: CONFIG_HID_GENERIC=M This option was not present in the old configuration files, that is why simple 'make oldconfig' did not do the job. Thank you all for your responses and suggestions! Regards, Vla

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-12 Thread v_2e
Hello! In contrast to previous speakers with more or less successful LibreOffice 3.6.0.4 build, on my machine it does not build at all. After >10 hours of compiling (which is a bit longer than a usual time for 3.5) it said: -

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-12 Thread v_2e
Looks like developers have already caught this issue. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428328#c8 On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:50:31 +0300 v...@ukr.net wrote: > Hello! > In contrast to previous speakers with more or less successful > LibreOffice 3.6.0.4 build, on my machine it does not buil

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:50:40 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > Two days ago, my PC suddenly died, after working fine for half a > year. I used myrtcwake as usual to suspend to RAM, and it woke up in > the morning. But after two minutes, the screen went blank and > nothing, eve

Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-29 Thread v_2e
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:35:57 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > Hi all, > > Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro > > for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, > > SP13000, and want to whack some

[gentoo-user] Embed video into LO 4.0 presentation

2013-02-10 Thread v_2e
Hello! After a recent upgrade to LibreOffice 4.0.0.3 Impress refuses to import a video file in .mpg format. I had no such problems with LO-3.6 before. Maybe some dependencies have also changed -- I don't know. So, my question is: what is necessary to install in order to be able to embed video

Re: [gentoo-user] Embed video into LO 4.0 presentation

2013-02-10 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:52:41 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:47:58 +0200, v...@ukr.net wrote: > > > After a recent upgrade to LibreOffice 4.0.0.3 Impress refuses to > > import a video file in .mpg format. I had no such problems with > > LO-3.6 before. Maybe some d

Re: [gentoo-user] Embed video into LO 4.0 presentation

2013-02-11 Thread v_2e
Hello again! On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:59:51 +0200 v...@ukr.net wrote: > Hello! > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:52:41 + > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:47:58 +0200, v...@ukr.net wrote: > > > > > After a recent upgrade to LibreOffice 4.0.0.3 Impress refuses to > > > impor

[gentoo-user] Midori: Couldn't find a place to store the pinned certificate

2013-02-15 Thread v_2e
Hello! I am trying to access bugs.gentoo.org using www-client/midori-0.4.8 and here is what I get: bugs.gentoo.org/ Error granting trust: Couldn't find a place to store the pinned certificate pkcs11:library-manufacturer=GNOME%20Keyring I get the same message also for my own web-s

[gentoo-user] Turn backlight off with XScreensaver only when explicitly locked

2013-02-15 Thread v_2e
Hello! I am trying to make XScreensaver turn off the backlight of my laptop screen when I lock it, however I cannot achieve exactly what I want. I have the following situation: 1. If I set XScreensaver to activate the "Blak Screen Only" mode after some very-very long time (in order it not to s

[gentoo-user] LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-02-20 Thread v_2e
Hello! Since I have been unable to insert audio and video files into my LO-4.0 presentations since the time of upgrade, I just wanted to ask if somebody is more lucky with multimedia files in LO-4.0 on Gentoo. If somebody got this working, could you please share a recipe? Thanks! Vlad

Re: [gentoo-user] LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-02-20 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:10:40 + Mick wrote: > . . . > This seems to be a buggy issue for various versions and platforms. I > don't have java to be able to insert anything in Impress-3.6.4.3, it > just comes up with "The format of the suggested file is not > supported" when I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-02-20 Thread v_2e
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:51:08 + Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 20 Feb 2013 22:30:05 v...@ukr.net wrote: > > Hello! > > . . . > > I have no problems inserting (and playing) media files into > > LO-3.6.4.3 Impress, and I do not have Java installed. LO-3.6 plays > > nicely with media-plugins/gs

Re: [gentoo-user] LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-08 Thread v_2e
Hello everyone! I still cannot play any video or sound inside LibreOffice-4 even after upgrading to version 4.0.1.2. And I even have no clue where to search for the bug. Did somebody succeed in playing media files in LO (for example, in Impress presentations)? Thanks! Vladimir -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-08 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:00:02 -0800 walt wrote: > > I've never had problems playing media files in loimpress, so I all I > can do is guess. If you can play video files in LibreOffice-4.0.1.2, could you please tell me which related packages do you have installed? (like gst-plugins-li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-09 Thread v_2e
works on your system? There is a small video embedded into the slide. Here is a link http://ftp.wombat.org.ua/04-Sun-Activity.odp (740kB) Thank you! Vladimir - v_2e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-11 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:09:00 -0500 Dale wrote: > walt wrote: > > > > No, my 4.0.1.2 doesn't play your presentation. It displays a light > > brown rectangle and nothing else. I uploaded your odp to google > > docs and tried to play it but I've never tried that before so I'm > > probabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?

2013-03-13 Thread v_2e
Hello everyone! This time I'm just writing to ask anybody who tested my sample presentation and experienced the same problem that I do, to confirm my bugreport here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456980 in order to draw the developers' attention to this issue. Thank you! Vladim

[gentoo-user] PyQt5 depends on qtwebkit[printsupport]?

2015-06-22 Thread v_2e
Hello! I noticed that dev-python/PyQt5-5.4.1.ebuild requires the dev-qt/qtwebkit package to be built with the "printsupport" USE-flag even when the PyQt5 itself has this USE-flag turned OFF. Is this really necessary? Vladimir -

Re: [gentoo-user] Clickless screenshot...how?

2017-07-29 Thread v_2e
On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 10:58:50 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > to display tracking informations (abondomed delivery) to an oversea > seller I need to screenshot a dropdown menu. > Unfortunately this dropdown menu only drops down when touched with > the mouse pointer. > This in turn prohibis

Re: [gentoo-user] coolest mp3 player?

2014-01-02 Thread v_2e
software. My only doubt is whether these players are still available on the market or not. Sansa Clip+ is a rather old model. Regards, Vladimir - v_2e