Re: [gentoo-user] How to change from one harddrive to software raid

2011-03-30 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 30 March 2011 07:28:40 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 30.03.2011 05:02, schrieb Einux: > > Hi, > > > > I bought a new 1T harddrive which is exactly the same as my previous > > harddrive. So I'm planning to make a Raid-1 layout(for security > > reasons). But here's the problem: I've alrea

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 me

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread covici
John Campbell wrote: > 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 mpla

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) parame

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-30 Thread dhk
On 03/15/2011 08:42 AM, dhk wrote: > On 03/07/2011 11:15 AM, Mick wrote: >> On 7 March 2011 12:41, dhk wrote: >> >>> Here's an update. Yesterday morning I recompiled the kernel, but I took >>> most everything out that didn't look like one of the three audio cards >>> I've been trying to get worki

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread Dale
John Campbell wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with emerge after update world ?

2011-03-30 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
On Sunday 27 of March 2011 21:33:33 JM wrote: > eselect list is not correct. > > Use: eselect *python *list (or whatever other app you wish to select a > specific version of) > > Then: > eselect python set (with the number of the option you want which was > displayed from 'eselect python list').

[gentoo-user] New installation and problem with rp-pppoe

2011-03-30 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
Hello, I try today install Gentoo on my PC. Every thing go well until to install net-dialup/rp-pppoe then I got: >=x11-libs/cairo-1.10.0 [-qt4] How to resolve. If I add the 'qt4' flag to USE in /etc/portage/package.use this not work. If I set it globally in make.conf USE="qt4" - still not work.

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread covici
John Campbell wrote: > 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

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/30/2011 11:35 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? Other than what John said, if you're using SMPlayer, then the thread setting is in the config dialog: Options->Pr

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/30/2011 12:37 PM, Dale wrote: [...] I have it in the tree here: [-P-] [M~] media-video/mplayer2-2.0 (0) [-P-] [M ] media-video/mplayer2- (0) They are masked but it is there. Is that the same one? While I am at it, is the plain mplayer going to be phased out and the new mplayer2 take i

[gentoo-user] Printer setup: where is foomatic-rip?

2011-03-30 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, gentoo! I'm trying to set up my printer (a Samsung ML-1450 (which looks like an HP Laserjet)) according to the "Gentoo Printing Guide". There is no problem with the USB connection to it. I've got as far as printing a test page (in section 4). The page doesn't print. The error message in /v

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup: where is foomatic-rip?

2011-03-30 Thread William Kenworthy
rattus ~ # locate foomatic-rip /usr/bin/foomatic-rip /usr/lib/ppr/interfaces/foomatic-rip /usr/lib/ppr/lib/foomatic-rip /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip /usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.bz2 rattus ~ # equery b foomatic-rip --- Invalid atom in /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise/profiles/packag

Re: [gentoo-user] New installation and problem with rp-pppoe

2011-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:37:04 +0200, Andrzej Styczeń wrote: > What for is 'cario' and 'qt' needed if I install 'ppp' or 'rp-pppoe' in > console. I will be later install whole KDE (and then maybe is needed) > but not now, I think (?). > > I select profile for KDE, x86 machine. The KDE profile s

[gentoo-user] xml viewer?

2011-03-30 Thread James
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=264045 Hello, The url above shows me a raw xml file. :-( I just tried the link with several different web browsers to no avail. I guess "xml" is not an official protocol for web browsers? Did I miss a configuration issue before trying a given web brow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, dhk wrote: > > Another update.  It seem all I need to do to get sound back is run > alsaconf (take all the defaults) and reboot.  I'm not sure why it stops > working after two or three reboots, but if I run alsaconf again and > reboot it's back.  It never works ri

Re: [gentoo-user] xml viewer?

2011-03-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.03.2011 15:40, schrieb James: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=264045 > > Hello, > > The url above shows me a raw xml file. > :-( > > I just tried the link with several different > web browsers to no avail. I guess "xml" is > not an official protocol for web browsers? > Did I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-30 Thread dhkuhl
- Original Message -From: Mark Knecht Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:52 amSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No SoundTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgCc: dhk > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, dhk  wrote:> > >> > Another update.  It seem all I need to do to get sound back is

[gentoo-user] alsa-firmware +usb-usx2y

2011-03-30 Thread kelly hirai
anyone know why i can't get the usb-usx2y flag to turn on in alsa firmware? i can't find any links to the firmware cutter either. i know most of the original tascam us122 interfaces suffered from the capacitor plague, i'm hoping to get at least a midi interface from it. USE=usb-usx2y emerge -a --

text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound]

2011-03-30 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, it is written: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --Boundary_(ID_jiktZdPjr0/tEFWOw/bFvg) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > Content-disposition: inline > > - Original Message -From=3A Mark Knec

Re: text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound]

2011-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:42:45 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > In linux.gentoo.user, it is written: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > --Boundary_(ID_jiktZdPjr0/tEFWOw/bFvg) > > Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > > Co

[gentoo-user] Re: kvm and libvirt

2011-03-30 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 29/03/11, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > At the moment I have a running install of kvm. > I do all the virtual networking manually with help of tap adaptors and > bridges. > And I use LVM for the VMs disks. > > It is working very well, but to add a VM or to migrate it to another > host is laborio

[gentoo-user] How do I switch from jpeg to jpeg-turbo?

2011-03-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I unmerged media-libs/jpeg, and emerged media-libs/libjpeg-turbo. virtual/jpeg is installed. Everything seems to work fine, and revdep-rebuild is perfectly happy. But "emerge -uDNt world" wants to: [blocks b ] media-libs/jpeg:0 ("media-libs/jpeg:0" is blocking media-libs/libjpeg-turbo-1.

[gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello, list! I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: * vmware-tools * open-vm-tools * open-vm-tools-kmod What are the differences? And which one should I use if I want to use VMware's PVSCSI and VMXNET? Thank you for

Re: text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound]

2011-03-30 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:10:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > The mailer is irrelevant, this is a perfectly acceptable quoted-printable > message that reads fine when sent from the list. It's clearly the > mail2news gateway that is screwing things up by ignoring the MIME > information in the

[gentoo-user] Re: xml viewer?

2011-03-30 Thread James
Florian Philipp binarywings.net> writes: > Looks like it is Gentoo-Guide XML. You need www-servers/gorg to > transform it to HTML. > BTW: Sure, XML is a web protocol, but not this kind of XML. ;) thanks,, James

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread du yang
On Wednesday 03/30/11 17:14:00 CST, John Campbell wrote: > 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 "t

[gentoo-user] usb media reader

2011-03-30 Thread James
Hello, lsusb shows: Bus 001 Device 035: ID 05e3:0710 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 33-in-1 Card Reader OK, so I plug in a CF card and run fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 4110 MB, 4110188544 bytes 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 995 cylinders, total 8027712 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Secto

Re: [gentoo-user] usb media reader

2011-03-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.03.2011 19:52, schrieb James: > Hello, > > lsusb shows: > Bus 001 Device 035: ID 05e3:0710 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 33-in-1 Card > Reader > > OK, so I plug in a CF card and run fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sdb: 4110 MB, 4110188544 bytes > 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 995 cylinders, total 802

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/30/2011 08:47 PM, du yang wrote: On Wednesday 03/30/11 17:14:00 CST, John Campbell wrote: 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 mul

[gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Robin Atwood
I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a "

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Davide Carnovale
my acer aspire 5740d has an ati card that works, a sunyin (or something) webcam that works, intel hda audio works (although i had to fight for the mic to work) and wifi works too (don't recall what card it has...) never tested hibernation or suspend though... D 2011/3/30 Robin Atwood > I am in

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote: >I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone >else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware >worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about >WiFi/audio/webc

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread skiarxon
I got a Toshiba Qosmio F50 series. Camera wireless and sound work fine (actually after one kernel upgrade some months ago even the woofer suddenly worked). I have not ever bothered with the TV card that it is provided though but it won't be a problem I think.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread JM
My Acer Aspire One worked with very few modifications. Picked up my wifi card and usb camera (the one in the lid is actually usb), sound card and intel graphics driver (though I haven't yet tried X, only framebuffer, but I get framebuffer in 1024 by 768 on it). Touchpad works fine with gpm mouse d

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Hello, list! > > I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, > I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: > > * vmware-tools > > * open-vm-tools > > * open-vm-tools-kmod > > What are the differences? And which one shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:31:09 +0100, Robin Atwood wrote: > I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone > else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware > worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about > WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer poi

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I switch from jpeg to jpeg-turbo?

2011-03-30 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I unmerged media-libs/jpeg, and emerged media-libs/libjpeg-turbo. > virtual/jpeg is installed.  Everything seems to work fine, and > revdep-rebuild is perfectly happy. > > But "emerge -uDNt world" wants to: > > [blocks b     ] media-libs

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I switch from jpeg to jpeg-turbo?

2011-03-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/30/2011 11:02 PM, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I unmerged media-libs/jpeg, and emerged media-libs/libjpeg-turbo. virtual/jpeg is installed. Everything seems to work fine, and revdep-rebuild is perfectly happy. But "emerge -uDN

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 03/30/2011 02:46 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote: >>I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone >>else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware >>worked out of the box with

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-30 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Hello, list! >> >> I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, >> I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: >> >> * vmware-tools >> >> * open-vm-tools >> >> * open-vm-tools-kmo

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Jacob Todd
My thinkpad w510 'just works.'

Re: [gentoo-user] How to change from one harddrive to software raid

2011-03-30 Thread Einux
thank you guys, you've been helpful :) On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 30 March 2011 07:28:40 Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am 30.03.2011 05:02, schrieb Einux: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I bought a new 1T harddrive which is exactly the same as my previous > > > har

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread kelly hirai
thinkpad edge i5, intel gpu. x86_64 all good. On 03/30/11 14:31, Robin Atwood wrote: > > I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone > else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the > hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about >

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Kevin Coetzee
HP Probook 4710s just works. x86_64 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd (webcam) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller ATI Technologies Inc M92 LP [Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series] (x11-drivers/radeon-ucode and x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati) Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shilo