Re: [gentoo-user] Clickless screenshot...how?
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 any other action with the mourse (changeing > the window for example). The only chance I see is hitting any > magical key combo, which is not part of firefox shortcut. > > Long blabla ... short question: > Is there any screenshooter available which can be fully > handled via *configurable* keyboad shortcuts? > I can suggest a somewhat different approach. You may execute this command in the terminal (requires ImageMagick, which is rather ubiquitous): sleep 3 && import -window root output.png which will grab the entire screen after 3 seconds and save the image into 'output.png'. This way you can open any menu and choose any element of the menu _before_ the 'import' command gets executed. You could also play with parameters a bit. For example, you could extend the waiting time if you need. You could also redirect the output to the 'display' command (also from ImageMagick) in order to check the screenshot out before saving it to file (it is possible to save file from the 'display''s menu): sleep 3 && import -window root - | display So, this is not exactly what you asked (no control via hotkeys), however, the task of assigning the hotkeys may be solved separately. For example, the XFCE and JWM desktops (as well as virtually any desktop environment out there) let one assign the custom hotkeys for any commands. So it is easy to link the commands I suggested above to any hotkeys you want. I use it in JWM a lot. I hope, my suggestion is useful. Regards, Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] PyQt5 depends on qtwebkit[printsupport]?
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] coolest mp3 player?
Hello! On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 17:16:22 + (UTC) james wrote: > Well, I have not kept up on mp3/wav/ portable players, > so your input as to a Gentoo friendly device is welcome. A miniture > video screen is not necessary, and keeping costs down is desired. > Google for this said device leaves me with this scant choices: > > Sandisk has the Sansa Clip + > I have been using this model for several years and I am just fond of it. It has a great hardware quality (at least, its playback part), and by installing the RockBox on it you obtain a very powerful software which you can even customize by yourself. It is also GNU/Linux-friendly, since the latest versions of RockBox feature the complete USB exchange support, and you can copy the files just like to a regular USB flash drive. I recommend this player to everybody, especially to the people who appreciate free 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
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?
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! Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?
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 > > probably doing something wrong. > > > > More informed opinions are welcome, of course :) > > That was what I got to. I thought maybe it was just me so I didn't > post. Guess it was not just me. > > Dale > Thank you for testing! That is exactly the problem. I am able to play this presentation in LibreOffice-3.6 on Gentoo and in LibreOffice-3.5 on Debian. I also tried to play it in LibreOffice-4 for Windows, and it went just fine. So, the problem seems to be related to either Gentoo libraries (for example, ffmpeg --> libav transition) or with my current configuration. Any other opinions/tests/suggestions? Thank you! Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?
Hello! On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:46:04 -0800 walt wrote: > > BTW I just upgraded lo to 4.0.1.2 and no one has sent me any > power-point files recently so I really don't know yet if they would > play properly or not. > Could you please check if my sample presentation 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 ?
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-libav, gstreamer and so on). And what USE-flags do you
turn on for libreoffice?
> Have you tried starting loimpress from a bash prompt and looking for
> error messages as it tries to open a presentation file?
>
I tried to launch Impress from the command line, but it does not give
any error messages. When I open the built-in media player ("tools" ->
"media player") and try to open some video or audio file in it, it just
tells me that the format is not supported.
Regards,
Vladimir
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Re: [gentoo-user] LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?
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] LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?
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/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13-r2, so I wonder > > why LO-4.0 does not. > > Ah! Was missing that plugin - this explains it. > Yes, but having the media-plugins/gst-plugins-libav-1.0.5 plugin for gstreamer-1.0.5 does not solve the problem for LibreOffice-4.0. It cannot recognize any multimedia files I try to open, although it supposed to work with gstreamer-1.x series as they claim. Oh, and by the way, I asked my friend who uses LO on a Windows machine and he told me that inserting multimedia files into LO-4 documents works just fine for him. So it really seems like a Gentoo-related problem (or maybe even more generally -- GNU/Linux-related problem). Isn't it connected to the recent switch from FFMpeg to Libav on Gentoo, by the way? Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?
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 an avi file. > 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/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13-r2, so I wonder why LO-4.0 does not. Regards, Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] LO 4.0 playing media with gstreamer-1.0.5 ?
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! Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] Turn backlight off with XScreensaver only when explicitly locked
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 start automatically) and then turn the option "Quick Power-off in Blank Only Mode" on, the backlight does not get turned off when I lock the screen, although XScreensaver starts and indeed makes it blank. 2. If I set "Power management enabled" just above the previous one and then set Suspend/Standby/Off times to some large values (for example, 720 min), XScreensaver turns the backlight off just after I lock it. But if I touch a mouse or keyboard (which calls the unlock dialogue), it does not turn the backlight off again after the unlock dialogue disappears. 3. If I set the "Off After" parameter to e.g. 1 min, XScreensaver does turn off the backlight on locking and about 1 minute after the last activity (that caused unlock dialogue to appear). But in this case XScreensaver also turns the screen off when I don't need it, i.e. when I just do not move mouse or touch keyboard for 1 minute -- even without the explicit screen locking. If I recall correctly, I had this feature working properly some time ago (probably a year or more). It did not blank the screen until I click the "Lock" button and did turn off the backlight again when the unlock dialogue disappeared. So could somebody please give me a hint on how to do the trick? Thanks! Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] Midori: Couldn't find a place to store the pinned certificate
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-site which uses HTTPS protocol. Could somebody please give me a hint on how to resolve this issue? Thanks! Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Embed video into LO 4.0 presentation
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 > > > 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 files into Impress presentations > > > and display those files? > > > > ISTR this question came up not too long ago. Have you searched the > > list archives? > > > Yes, I searched Gentoo-related lists and LibreOffice lists, but > unfortunately, did not find the answer. There were some reports about > earlier versions of LO, but in my case the earlier version worked > fine. > In fact I have found the same problem mentioned in this post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7229114.html#7229114 on Gentoo forums, but no solution is actually suggested there. The users say that the reason it happens is a transition from ffmpeg to libav, but this seems a bit strange to me, because I always believed that libav provides the compatible functions to those in ffmpeg, and it makes it possible for the applications written with ffmpeg functions in mind be built against libav. Am I wrong? Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Embed video into LO 4.0 presentation
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 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 files into Impress presentations and display > > those files? > > ISTR this question came up not too long ago. Have you searched the > list archives? > Yes, I searched Gentoo-related lists and LibreOffice lists, but unfortunately, did not find the answer. There were some reports about earlier versions of LO, but in my case the earlier version worked fine. Regards, Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] Embed video into LO 4.0 presentation
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 files into Impress presentations and display those files? Thank you! Vladimir. -
Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard
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 something light onto it. It will be > > working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence will be > > fiddled via ssh. Obviously there are the usual suspects, debian, > > centos, but does anyone have any recommendations viv a vis a > > stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu is to Ubuntu? > > > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > > If you want to do something lightweight, there's not much better you > can do than with Gentoo. > Yes, there is. Well, it actually depends on what we are currently calling "lightweight". Gentoo depends on Python heavily. And it makes it impossible to use with low-memory systems. There are a number of binary distributions specially targeted at old or small systems. As for me, I use DeLi(cate) GNU/Linux on my old PC acting as a headless file-server and torrent-client. [It has 64 MB of RAM (tested with 32MB as well), Pentium CPU@200MHz (tested with AMD K5)] Before DeLi(cate) I used DeLi itself. It worked fine, but the developers dropped the support. DeLi(cate) uses Arch package management system which works very fast. It is also easy to add the new packages which are absent in repository at the moment. My impression is that all lightweight distributions are usually Slackware-based or Arch-based. But of course, there are different variants of lightweight systems. Check out these pages, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Linux_distribution http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=Old+Computers&origin=All&basedon=All¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&status=Active Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?
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, even SysRq, gave a reaction. I tried booting a couple of > times again, and sometimes it did not even reach KDM. Now, I cannot > even run Grub (from my USB stick) any more, I only see a "GRUB" > string at the top right, then nothing happens. > > Booting with SystemRescueCD also freezes sometimes. If not, I can > make it freeze after seconds by running 'memtester'. > > Booting good old memtest86 ran for an hour and only found one error, > then I aborted, removed three of my four memory modules (4GB each), > and tried different ones in the first bank. Memtest86 again did not > find much errors, but froze once. Running memtester after booting > from SystemrescueCD again makes the thing freeze in seconds. It once > also froze while being in the BIOs setup. > If the system behaves in such an unpredictable way (freezing at a random point), I usually check the following things: - RAM; - bloated capacitors on the Motherboard; - bloated or dried capacitors in the power supply unit; If your PC is only half a year old, it is unlikely that the capacitors dried. But they could easily bloat, especially if they were of bad quality or situated near some hot surface like heat sinks. Testing the power supply needs not only visual analysis. It would be good to attach the oscilloscope to the output and see the voltage level. It should not have large peaks (voltage jumps). But this is usually true for the old units with dried capacitors, as I said. If I were you, I'd tried to temporarily replace the memory with a 100% working module, and if it does not help - replace the power supply unit (if you do not have the necessary equipment to test it thoroughly). And one more simple test: turn on the PC, enter the BIOS setup utility and keep it running in this state. If it runs ok for some time (like a couple of hours), I'd say the problem is in RAM. Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?
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 build at all. > After >10 hours of compiling (which is a bit longer than a usual > time for 3.5) it said: > --- > Oh dear - something failed during the build - sorry ! > For more help with debugging build errors, please see the section > in: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development > > > And the build log says: > ## Quote start ## > ... > subsequent_filters-test.cxx:740:Assertion > Test name: ScFiltersTest::testPasswordOld > assertion failed > - Expression: xDocSh.Is() > - Failed to load password.ods > > subsequent_filters-test.cxx:740:Assertion > Test name: ScFiltersTest::testPasswordNew > assertion failed > - Expression: xDocSh.Is() > - Failed to load password.ods > > Failures !!! > Run: 18 Failure total: 2 Failures: 2 Errors: 0 > > Error: a unit test failed, please do one of: > > export DEBUGCPPUNIT=TRUE# for exception catching > export GDBCPPUNITTRACE="gdb --args" # for interactive debugging > export VALGRIND=memcheck# for memory checking > and retry. > ### Quote end ### > > So, can anyone suggest a way to fix it? > > Thanks! > Vladimir > > - > -
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?
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: --- Oh dear - something failed during the build - sorry ! For more help with debugging build errors, please see the section in: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development And the build log says: ## Quote start ## ... subsequent_filters-test.cxx:740:Assertion Test name: ScFiltersTest::testPasswordOld assertion failed - Expression: xDocSh.Is() - Failed to load password.ods subsequent_filters-test.cxx:740:Assertion Test name: ScFiltersTest::testPasswordNew assertion failed - Expression: xDocSh.Is() - Failed to load password.ods Failures !!! Run: 18 Failure total: 2 Failures: 2 Errors: 0 Error: a unit test failed, please do one of: export DEBUGCPPUNIT=TRUE# for exception catching export GDBCPPUNITTRACE="gdb --args" # for interactive debugging export VALGRIND=memcheck# for memory checking and retry. ### Quote end ### So, can anyone suggest a way to fix it? Thanks! Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED - Mouse does not work with kernel-3.5.0
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, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse does not work with kernel-3.5.0
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 check whether your kernel recognizes your mouse > with something like: > > ~ $ grep -ie mouse -e synaptics -e touch /proc/bus/input/devices > N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" > H: Handlers=mouse0 event5 > N: Name="USB Optical Mouse" > H: Handlers=mouse1 event7 > I tried this and it turned out that with my old kernel (3.4.5) , I can see both Touchpad and USB mouse devices, whereas with the new one (3.5.0) I can see only Touchpad. I also discovered some difference in /var/log/messages log during re-attaching the mouse to USB port with two different kernels: 3.4.5 and 3.5.0. With 3.5.6 I get these messages (and mouse works): kernel: usb 1-3: new low-speed USB device number 3 using ohci_hcd kernel: usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0458, idProduct=003a kernel: usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 kernel: usb1-3: Product: Optical Mouse kernel: usb 1-3:Manufacturer: Genius kernel: input: Genius Optical Mouse as /devices/pci:00/:00:0b.0/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/input/input8 kernel: generic-usb 0003:0458:003A.0002: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Genius Optical Mouse] on usb-:00:0b.0-3/input0 With 3.5.0 I get only these: kernel: usb 1-3: new low-speed USB device number 5 using ohci_hcd kernel: usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0458, idProduct=003a kernel: usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 kernel: usb 1-3: Product: Optical Mouse kernel: usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Genius So it looks like the problem is not with X-server, but with the new kernel. I'm puzzled, because all the drivers I used with my old kernel are there for the new one. > Though I would think it's more likely a problem with upgrading your X > packages. The driver packages all need to be upgraded after the > server itself, and while I've always seen emerge get this right, I'm > not sure whether that's deliberate or a coincidence. > > Cheers, > Bryan > > -
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse does not work with kernel-3.5.0
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 going to > get much more than guesses and "it works for me" responses. > > Have a look for errors, marked EE, in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > Yes, I did grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log before posting. And there was no mention of a mouse. > How did you compile your new kernel, from scratch or with make > oldconfig? I suspect you may have missed something needed for evdev. > I did 'make oldconfig' as usual. > Did you update anything else at the same time? > Yes, I upgraded several packages. Among relevant are: x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.99.902 x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.1 x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.6.2 x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.7.2 x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.1 x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.1 sys-fs/udev-186 I also removed the previously existing '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/25-mouse.conf' file and tried without it. However it did not help. I have just booted my previous kernel-3.4.5, and the mouse works fine with the very same set of X-related programs and settings. -
[gentoo-user] Mouse does not work with kernel-3.5.0
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 -
[gentoo-user] 'profile' USE-flag - what for?
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? * Is it safe to turn it off? Thanks! Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?
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 seem to be able to handle most things > >> well and even some light gaming. > > > > How do AMD's and Intel's open source video drivers compare? > > > > Last time I tried to use AMD's open source driver, it worked well for > office applications and minor OpenGL (glxgears, desktop effects, etc.) > but it couldn't play a DVD on full screen (1920 * x) without frame > drops. (Yes, I tried tuning parameters with mplayer2). > > Intel's driver works well enough for this but it doesn't have much > head room, either. > > ATI's closed source driver works pretty well, too, nowadays. I had > trouble with xorg-server-1.12 but haven't investigated it, yet. > > Regards, > Florian Philipp > One of my friends uses ATI video card both on desktop and laptop machines and he told me recently that the free driver for ATI video chips ( http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ati ) is very good nowadays and is being actively developed. He also said that the performance of his video card with open-source driver in different modes is almost the same as with the proprietary driver. I just don't remember the exact video card model, unfortunately. And according to this article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NDE AMD releases the code for some newer chips as well. Which gives more chance for the new hardware to work good with GNU/Linux. Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?
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 ) ; Phoronix said it works with Kernel > 3.2 > + an Intel Z77 mobo (I usually buy ASUS) & that power/watt was > excellent. > If you are considering to buy an Intel CPU, I'd recommend you to pay some attention to such Intel' technologies as this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Intel_Insider_and_remote-control because it doesn't looks like an advantage to the end user, but rather as a security (or privacy) hole in one's system. > However, I'm quite willing to look at AMD or consider waiting a bit > till something newer from Intel reaches the regular market. Speaking of AMD processors, I remember one of my friends told that their A10-series a good. I didn't study any details of it, but if you are interested, you can check them out as well. > My current box dates from 2007 & my stand-by from 2002 : > the former has an Intel Core2 Duo, the latter an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ . > > I don't want to pay a premium price for a bleeding-edge device > which wb available at a more normal price a few months later. > I wb buying it from the local store (Canada Computers), not on-line. > > Does anyone have thoughts or advice ? > Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory
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 not running xfce-session as root, are you? so xfce-session > won't be able to create profile data. > No, I don't run it as root, of course. But I didn't enable the 'pgo'. Or didI? How can I figure it out? Thanks! On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:06:06 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Thanks, I just used this question to finally look up the man page of > the euses command, which I thought would give the description of use > flags. It turns out that it's simply 'euses pgo', which is much less > to type than my usual 'grep :pgo /var/portage/tree/profiles/use.*'. > Anyway, it returns that only firefox and torbrowser make use of this > optimization for gcc-4.5. > > About the free inodes question, use df -i for that. Thanks for the tip! I didn't know that. Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory
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
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 > > 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 > > 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-main.gcda:Skip > > . . . > > and so on. > > > > I haven't seen such messages before, that is why decided to ask > > here about what they mean. It is also strange that they mention the > > '/var/tmp/portage/' directory. Maybe something is wrong with > > installation system? > > > > Thanks. > > Vladimir > > Out of space? > > eclean-dist -pd possibly? > > Cheers, > Mark On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:29:15 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Or out of inodes. I've painstakingly learnt to host the portage build > directory on reiserfs instead of ext3/4. > > Rgds, I have enough free space on my '/' partition (although I'm not sure about free inodes). But in any case, why should Xfce create something in '/var/tmp/portage' at all? That's probably the main question. Thanks. Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory
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 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-main.gcda:Skip . . . and so on. I haven't seen such messages before, that is why decided to ask here about what they mean. It is also strange that they mention the '/var/tmp/portage/' directory. Maybe something is wrong with installation system? Thanks. Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] iftop and 'ipv6' USE-flag
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. > > I downloaded the latest iftop tarball and, > > 1 There is no ./configure option for ipv6 > > 2 Compiling it against libpcap without ipv6 support works, but it > crashes at runtime: > >$ sudo ./iftop >... >set_filter_code: ip6 not supported > Hm... That's bad. Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] iftop and 'ipv6' USE-flag
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] Can't get any microphone to work
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 webcam would be there, in which case you should just choose it and tune the volume for it. Good luck! Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get any microphone to work
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 capture anything from any of it, so I > guess I'm doing something wrong. But what? > ... My personal experience shows me that most of the time all the "silence in mic" is because of the muted (or very too quiet) or wrong selected recording device. I prefer to check this in 'alsamixer'. If you have several microphones on your PC, there should be a possibility to choose the device to record the sound from (on my system there are 'Line', 'Internal Mic' and 'Mic' options). If you choose a correct device, then check if it is not muted as well (a symbol 'M' in Alsamixer means 'muted'). If the device you need is un-muted, then raise the volume level (or maybe 'Mic Boost' as well). If none of the above helps, then perhaps your device wasn't properly set up. You need to specify you soundcard model by hand in some cases. For example, on my laptop I added the string options snd-hda-intel model="targa-8ch-dig" to the file '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf' and rebooted, after which I got an access to all of the features of my soundcard. Hope this helps. Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Fetch List
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 media-gfx/inkscape > files_to_fetch.txt And after that I download the files with wget as follows: cat files_to_fetch.txt | cut -d " "-f 1| wget -c -i - Note: if there are some errors during download, you may try to use different fields in 'cut' -- like "-f 2" or "-f 3" and so on. Hope, this helps. :) Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?
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] Goodbye to gentoo?
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 script). You get the list of files you need, and only select > those from the list of URLs, and then you have the files you need to > download. You go back to the wi-fi cafe, download the files on a USB > drive, and return home to put them on /usr/portage/distfiles. And then > you can upgrade world. > I just wanted to note that it may be unnecessary to edit a list of files in editor to remove the extra mirrors. I usually do: cat files-to-fetch.lst | cut -d " " -f1 | wget -c -i - and it downloads only using the first mirror for every file. It doesn't check for the existing files though. So it depends on the situation. I use my broadband Internet connection at work to fetch any number of files for my home PC. So it doesn't matter for me whether I download some files that I already have, but it may be important in your case. Perhaps, it would be useful if emerge had such a feature - to generate a list of files that do really need to be downloaded. Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?
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 bug which has no resolution: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/midori/+bug/707888 On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:42:21 -0800 Grant wrote: > > Flash isn't working for me either: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6901904.html > > Also bookmark support is super-buggy and I have to 'paxctl -m > /usr/bin/midori' to avoid crashing on some websites. > And otherwise Midori is a very cool browser. :) Well, to be serious, I'm also annoyed by this not-working "Ctrl+C" story. Still, as somebody pointed out, one may use "Ctrl+Insert" or "Ctrl+X" which seem to work most of the time. As for the "interface roundness", as far as I know, Midori may be compiled to use with either GTK2 or GTK3. The GTK2 interface looks more "round", I'd say. So, you may try USE="-gtk3" As for the bookmarking, it is also a long story, but the developers seem to work on this. At least, I noticed a couple of changes in bookmarks management for several recent releases. To be short, Midori is indeed a problematic browser, but still it has a nice (not all-inclusive, but exactly 'nice') set of features which make it the most convenient for me at the moment... well, except for that broken "Ctrl+C" thing... -
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?
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 everyday surfing. And it works faster than IceCat (which I use from time to time too). Its feature set may be not so rich as IceCat's (or Firefox') one, but I haven't even noticed something missing in it, in fact. Except maybe for the FTP protocol support. And also, Midori supports plugins and may be extended via them. Regards, Vladimir -
Re: OT: [gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff
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 ... [IP-] [ ] app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.1:0 [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-4.5.3-r2:4.5 But the description of this USE flag is different for these two packages: - - graphite : Add support for the framework for loop optimizations based on a polyhedral intermediate representation + + graphite : Enable support for non-Roman fonts via media-gfx/graphite2 So, is it normal to have the same USE flag for two different meanings? Thanks. Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
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 POP3 and IMAP protocols support free of charge. And by the way, they say that the mailbox size is also indefinite (well, at least theoretically :) ). Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.
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 they want as long as it benefits > them. They could care less what our laws are. They may be laughing > at us too. I know I could care less what laws they pass somewhere > else. > From what I know for sure, many people in different countries supported the opposition to these bills because they understand that this is not just a US problem. If it happens there, it can easily be repeated anywhere. And the point of opposing the US government decisions for people in other countries, to my mind, is to state there point of view *before* their local government try to do the same. And that's important. Regards, Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches
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 auto-patching feature quite useful and would like to use it, but currently I don't know how to do that. And also, is portage supposed to pick the patches up automatically or not in general? Thank you. Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] CLI Torrent client(s)?
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 MB of RAM without problems. I even tried to run it on 32 MB of RAM and succeeded. It is the most lightweight torrent-client I know of. And what is also pleasant about Transmission is its client-daemon structure which lets you use the UI of your choice. For example, I use the GTK interface on my local machine and the Web-interface on the remote PC. Good luck! Vladimir. -
[gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.5 bug hunting session
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] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?
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 package file lists Have you defined DESTDIR? All other error messages are also concerning the missing directory for installation. Is there an easy way to fix this without re-compiling the whole LibreOffice? If I understand correctly, it can be installed to this or that directory without re-compilation until I delete the temporary files. Or am I wrong? Thanks. Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?
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?
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: SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen lowriter SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kde4 lowriter SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk lowriter SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 lowriter I can confirm that at least with the "gtk" value the LO 3.5 interface is pretty stable. Still, LO 3.5.0.0 has a much more serious problem in my case: it cannot open several documents at a time. See, for example this bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392907 or this forum thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-904036.html Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space
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 the size required being dependent on > USE flag combinations. > Yes, I thought so too, but I use the same set of USE flags for quite a long time, and previous versions of LO really needed the stated amount of free space. At least, more than 6 GB. And the last version (3.4.4) not only needs about a half of the stated space, it needs *less* space than the previous versions. It may mean that the newer version is *substantially* reworked though, which is very good. :) Regards, Vladimir -
[gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space
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 took only ~4 GB on my HDD. First of all, I thought that it was compiling *really* slowly and that it hadn't even made a half of the job. However, after about a half an hour it finished with success and I noticed that altogether it took about 4.5 GB on HDD. So it checked 9GB (and earlier versions of LO indeed needed almost such amount of free space), but took only as much as 4.5 GB. The question is: why? P.S. Today I tried to install LO v.3.4.4 on the machine with about 6 GB of free space. Emerge performed its regular pre-check and refused to build the package. I changed the CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="9G" to CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="5G" in "libreoffice-3.4.4.2-r1.ebuild" and everything went fine. Regards, Vladimir -
Re: [gentoo-user] The LIGHTEST web server (just for serving files)?
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 09:36:22 -0500 Michael Mol wrote: > Isn't there a kernelland HTTP server? ISTR seeing the option. I don't > know anything about it, though. > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:10 AM, microcai > wrote: > > > > http://code.google.com/p/bashttpd/ > > > > run with systemd or xinetd > > > > > > > > 于 2011年11月14日 18:05, J. Roeleveld 写道: > >> On Sat, November 12, 2011 2:11 pm, YoYo Siska wrote: > >>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 07:40:08PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > During my drive home, something hit my brain: why not have the > 'master' server share the distfiles dir via NFS? > > So, the question now becomes: what's the drawback/benefit of > NFS-sharing vs > HTTP-sharing? The scenario is back-end LAN at the office, thus, a > trusted > network by definition. > >>> > >>> NFS doesn't like when it looses connection to the server. The only > >>> problems I had ever with NFS were because I forgot to unmout it > >>> before a server restart or when I took a computer (laptop) off > >>> to another network... > >> > >> NFS-shares can work, but these need to be umounted before network > >> goes. If server goes, problems can occur there as well. > >> But that is true with any server/client filesharing. (CIFS/Samba, > >> for instance) > >> > >>> Otherwise it works well, esp. when mounted ro on the clients, > >>> however for distfiles it might make sense to allow the clients > >>> download and save tarballs that are not there yet ;), though I > >>> never used it with many computer emerging/downloading same same > >>> stuff, so can't say if locking etc works correctly... > >> > >> Locking works correctly, have had 5 machines share the same > >> NFS-shared distfiles and all downloading the source-files. > >> > >>> And with NFS the clients won't duplicate the files in their own > >>> distfiles directories ;) > >> > >> Big plus, for me :) > >> > >> -- > >> Joost > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > :wq > > -
