Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread James Wall
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said: > >> Albert, >> Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my >> virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing >> your work. > > Cool,

[gentoo-user] VLC: Blackouts...

2011-06-27 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, wgen watching television (DVB-T) with vlc it ofen happens, that vlc "forgets" that there is something to display. For example: When screen aspect changes if the commercials ends and the program is proceeded. Or between scene changes or sometimes when there seems no "reason" at all... Soetime t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said: > Albert, > Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my > virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing > your work. Cool, now I at least know it works with vmware and virtualbox. I will pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2011-06-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 27 at 19:52 (-0400), Daniel D Jones said: > Can anyone explain why it takes so long for Firefox-bin to be unmasked? [etc.] Have you gone to bugs.gentoo.org and submitted a stabilization request?

Re: [gentoo-user] cups 1.3 -> 1.4 no more avahi?

2011-06-27 Thread Michael George
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:31:36AM +0100, Stroller wrote: > > On 26 June 2011, at 04:42, Michael George wrote: > > > I upgraded cups to 1.4.6 today and my Macs could no longer print to it. > > ? > > > > I'm not sure what I'm missing for the Macs to be happy like they were > > with 1.3 and avahi.

[gentoo-user] Firefox

2011-06-27 Thread Daniel D Jones
Can anyone explain why it takes so long for Firefox-bin to be unmasked? That's not intended to be a rant or finger-pointing, but a serious question. I can certainly understand the issues involved with ensuring that a complex package compiles on various systems with all sorts of different drive

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread James Wall
Albert, Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing your work. James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

[gentoo-user] Re: no cdrom (IDE)

2011-06-27 Thread walt
On 06/27/2011 09:28 AM, Alexey Mishustin wrote: > > Here is the output of my lspci -k: > > SATA IDE Controller #1 > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4 > Kernel driver in use: ata_piix > Kernel modules: ata_piix > SATA IDE Controller #2 > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Comput

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc ebuild is hogging CPU?

2011-06-27 Thread walt
On 06/26/2011 12:56 PM, walt wrote: > Anyone emerged gcc lately? I've been doing it all day (it seems) > so I finally used top to see if something besides gcc is using cpu. > > Sure enough, emerge is constantly using 50% cpu while the compiler > is using the other half. Well, so far I've tracked

Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF

2011-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 June 2011, at 13:21, luis jure wrote: > ... > yes, i tried emerging fontforge with the patch you proposed and after that > lilypond compiled OK. thanks!!! > >> Finally, report your success at bug 367425. > > done. Thanks! Did you try Lilypond 2.14.1? If so it'd be great if you could rep

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: kernel parameters

2011-06-27 Thread Remy Blank
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Can anyone point me to the parameter concerned? I can't find it with grep. Could it be CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP? -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 June 2011 17:33:45 Mick did opine thusly: > On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > thanks to all for your suggestion. > > Still not sure where to turn ... > > > > Stefan > > We can't know which one may best match your > needs/expectations/preferences. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: kernel parameters

2011-06-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 27 June 2011 17:57:00 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > Hello list, > > Some time ago I saw a comment in a kernel config help page saying to > enable this option if unexplained, random lockups occurred. I > didn't need to do that for Gentoo, but every other distro I've > tried locks up

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-27 Thread 4k3nd0
On 06/27/2011 06:33 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: thanks to all for your suggestion. Still not sure where to turn ... Stefan We can't know which one may best match your needs/expectations/preferences. You can spend some time looking at their docume

[gentoo-user] OT: kernel parameters

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Some time ago I saw a comment in a kernel config help page saying to enable this option if unexplained, random lockups occurred. I didn't need to do that for Gentoo, but every other distro I've tried locks up after a random interval - even the latest Fedora 15. I suspect I have a ch

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > thanks to all for your suggestion. > Still not sure where to turn ... > > Stefan We can't know which one may best match your needs/expectations/preferences. You can spend some time looking at their documentation to get an understandin

[gentoo-user] Re: no cdrom (IDE)

2011-06-27 Thread Alexey Mishustin
6/26/2011, "walt" вы писали: >I assume it's connected to a PATA disk controller like my dvd player is? > >#lspci -k [output edited] >00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. >VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) >Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> I'm very curious - did you happen to try appending something like >> >> init=/sbin/init 1 >> >> to the boot kernel command and seeing what happens? That might be >> instructive about where it's really getting to or wh

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 15:14:28 Leonardo Guilherme wrote: > This link was very helpful to me, maybe it can be to you: > > http://verb3k.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/how-to-do-proper-screencasts-on-linu > x/ This is excellent info. Just what I was looking for, with a lot of detailed explanation and

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: > I'm very curious - did you happen to try appending something like > > init=/sbin/init 1 > > to the boot kernel command and seeing what happens? That might be > instructive about where it's really getting to or what is stopping it > from proceeding. Mark, I rm'ed all of it a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
2011/6/27 Mick > On Monday 27 Jun 2011 12:08:17 Stroller wrote: > > On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: > > > >> Try passing "-sameq" > > > > > > WOW! Exceptional improvement in a single stroke! Thanks! :) > > > > > > Why is it that ffmpeg degrades the quality with default settings? What >

[gentoo-user] rkhunter --propupd not working since last updates installed

2011-06-27 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, I have had rkhunter installed for a long time, been working well, system was reporting clean... On Saturday I did an emerge -uDN world and installed the available updates (not a huge amount), then on Sunday morning, got a report about 6 files whose properties had changed, and I realized I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 12:08:17 Stroller wrote: > On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: > >> Try passing "-sameq" > > > > WOW! Exceptional improvement in a single stroke! Thanks! :) > > > > Why is it that ffmpeg degrades the quality with default settings? What > > does it assume that the set

Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF

2011-06-27 Thread luis jure
on 2011-06-26 at 22:06 Stroller wrote: >This isn't the best fix, IMO. i completely agree. by "solution" i meant a quick and dirty fix that allowed me in the short term to build lilypond. >IMO the correct fix for this is: yes, i tried emerging fontforge with the patch you proposed and after tha

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: >>> ... >>> ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg >>> >>> but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached >>> screenshot, when I play it with mplayer. >> ... >> Try passing "-sameq" > > WOW! Exceptional improvement

Re: [gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks Thanasis and Matthias. I didn't recognize that .gvfs is a mount point for an sshfs file system. Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Matthias Krebs
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have an annoying problem which I'd like to fix. > Something (probably some Gnome application) repeatedly creates the > folder > .gvfs  with permissions dr-x-- 2 jarausch users > > When I run tar (as root!) I get > tar: ./jara

[gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have an annoying problem which I'd like to fix. Something (probably some Gnome application) repeatedly creates the folder .gvfs with permissions dr-x-- 2 jarausch users When I run tar (as root!) I get tar: ./jarausch/.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied which sets an error return co

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:58:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyway, I'm downloading the latest stage3 I found (06/14) I'll explode > it in a test directory and see whats there. I've emerged so much > stuff now on the one I been working on that I hate to bugger it up if > there is much chance of sal

Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo

2011-06-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
thanks to all for your suggestion. Still not sure where to turn ... Stefan