Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using

2011-12-10 Thread Francisco Ares
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Dale wrote: > fra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On , Dale wrote: >> > Francisco Ares wrote: >> > >> > Thank you all who replied my last messages. >> > >> > Now I am back to plain alsa, but no two programs can use it at the same >> time. Alsa drivers are built on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-10 Thread luis jure
on 2011-12-09 at 13:55 Michael Mol wrote: >I couldn't tell you if it's necessarily "good", but Audacity has a >noise filter. that's exactly what i was about to reply. and if you want to try a CLI tool, sox provides a similar utility. noiseprof [profile-file] Calculate a profile of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

2011-12-10 Thread luis jure
on 2011-12-09 at 18:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: >As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend? i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links interface was much better, although lynx seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 08.12.2011 17:11, LinuxIsOne wrote: > Ah, thanks for the nice suggestions, I would keep a note of it. I > would install in one old machine, You could use virtualbox to create a virtual PC and install Gentoo there. That would eliminate the required space for a second monitor, keyboard and mous

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I did this in the past. But recently I’m reassessing this, with Ubuntu > changing > the default look and the way it works with every other release (remember > the > hassle about window buttons to the left by default?). I can’t really >

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Virtualbox is mostly self-explaining so that should not be so much of a > problem. VB works from within another OS or needs memory of HDD?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > I just want to say that I love Gentoo Linux, have used it as my > primary OS for years on multiple computers and can't stand to use > anything else. I like having total control over everything. I truly > enjoy it, the Gentoo Way just feels li

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 10, 2011 8:50 PM, "LinuxIsOne" wrote: > - >8 snip > > I have come to conclusion that almost all Linux work almost in the same way since they have the same kernel, however, this is what I think. I don't mean to scare you, but most Linux distros work differently. First, there might be

[gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off

2011-12-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, sorry for the nebelous subject... The following happened to me. I have installed/configured pulseaudio according to this for a one-person desktop gentoo-system: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio When starting gwc (which is not in portage) and playing sounds, it works...once... Afte

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I don't mean to scare you, but most Linux distros work differently. > First, there might be differences in how they install a package. There's > RPM, apt, pacman, portage, and others. > Second, there are differences in the "init" system. Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-10 Thread meino . cramer
luis jure [11-12-10 13:28]: > on 2011-12-09 at 13:55 Michael Mol wrote: > > >I couldn't tell you if it's necessarily "good", but Audacity has a > >noise filter. > > that's exactly what i was about to reply. > > and if you want to try a CLI tool, sox provides a similar utility. > > noiseprof [p

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:46:16 -0500 LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Frank Steinmetzger > wrote: > > > > I did this in the past. But recently I’m reassessing this, with > > Ubuntu changing > > the default look and the way it works with every other release > > (remember the >

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:47:47 -0500 LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Sebastian Beßler > wrote: > > > Virtualbox is mostly self-explaining so that should not be so much > > of a problem. > > VB works from within another OS or needs memory of HDD? > VirtualBox is a program t

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan wrote: > And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros > introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel. RedHat is particularly bad about this. I maintain a couple Linux drivers that have to work with a wide range of kern

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkpad w/ core i5-2xxx ?

2011-12-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-12-06 23:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 06.12.2011 14:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> I currently look at the cheaper ones: Edge E520, L520, T420 ... > > Zooming in on a L520 w/ core i5-2430M and WXGA++ (higher resolution) > Any concerns or experiences? Got that one alread

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 11, 2011 12:02 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > > On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros > > introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel. > > RedHat is particularly bad about this. I maintain a co

[gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello all, I'm considering rolling out a new server with gentoo, but wanted to base it on the hardened profile, but the docs I've read so far all seem to be a bit vague about all the details. I've been using gentoo for a while on my hobby server, but I installed it about 8 years ago, and cho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Dec 11, 2011 12:02 AM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: >> On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> > And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros >> > introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-10 Thread meino . cramer
luis jure [11-12-10 13:28]: > on 2011-12-09 at 13:55 Michael Mol wrote: > > >I couldn't tell you if it's necessarily "good", but Audacity has a > >noise filter. > > that's exactly what i was about to reply. > > and if you want to try a CLI tool, sox provides a similar utility. > > noiseprof [p

Re: [gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm considering rolling out a new server with gentoo, but wanted to base > it on the hardened profile, but the docs I've read so far all seem to be a > bit vague about all the details. > > I've been using gentoo for a while on my

Re: [gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-12-10 3:07 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: You may be able to get a better response from the -hardened list, Dang, I had forgotten gentoo has a bunch of other lists... thanks, just subscribed... but I built a hardened server a few months ago without much difficulty. As far as I know, th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-10 Thread luis jure
on 2011-12-10 at 20:50 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >Gwc is a little fragile due the longer period it was not maintained >anymore. Its alsa interface simply does not work. > >But it clearly wins when it comes to denoising. It also supports the >removal of other audio artifacts. vielen dank für den

[gentoo-user] Two video problems: Mythtv and xscreensaver

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm having a problem on my personal workstation where mythfrontend will not display video when Watch TV is requested. The sound works just fine. When I issue a michael@camille ~ $ mplayer /dev/video0 MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: N

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:36:32AM -0200, luis jure wrote: > >As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend? > > i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered > links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links > interface was much better, a

[gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello, a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related stuff. I wanted to take a look at Octave, but this positively wants graphicsmagick, which is a fork of imagemagick as far as I can tell and which conflicts with imagemagick. Now some of the nam

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi Not sure how, but I have both installed. I recall having some dificulties... Let me look for them Francisco On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello, > > a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, Frescobaldi > and > some LaTeX related stuff. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi again Theese are my USE flags for both, probably the key is one of them, like, perhaps, having graphicsmagick independent of imagemagick: # emerge -pvD graphicsmagick imagemagick These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] media-

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, > Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related stuff. I wanted to take a look at > Octave, but this positively wants graphicsmagick, which is a fork of > imagemagick as far as I can tell and which conflicts with imagem

Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off

2011-12-10 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi I could not check the pulseaudio dependency for gws, as libsndfile does not have it. I have had pulseaudio for a year or so, and it was fine. I used it mainly because VirtualBox depended on it to emulate a sound car on its virtual machines. Then something broke, and I could not get any sound

Re: [gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 11, 2011 3:17 AM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2011-12-10 3:07 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote: >> >> >> You may be able to get a better response from the -hardened list, > > > Dang, I had forgotten gentoo has a bunch of other lists... thanks, just subscribed... > Don't forget gentoo-server! It's f

Re: [gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 11, 2011 12:48 AM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm considering rolling out a new server with gentoo, but wanted to base it on the hardened profile, but the docs I've read so far all seem to be a bit vague about all the details. > > I've been using gentoo for a while on my hobby se

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-10 Thread Lavender
> >See if you can access it using ssh from another PC. Then check >/var/log/Xorg.0.log for any error messages. >-- > I have checked my Xorg.0.log, there is no error message. I have a question,I read xorg.conf , I didn't find any area about Window Manage, so how xorg-server knowswhich WM to inv

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using

2011-12-10 Thread Dale
Francisco Ares wrote: Thanks, Dale, but now everything is working fine again. I left "genkernel" working overnight on my custom ".config", and now that I removed "/etc/asound.conf" and "/etc/asound.status" and rebooted, everything is working fine with just plain ALSA. As far as I know, "sdl

Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off

2011-12-10 Thread meino . cramer
Francisco Ares [11-12-11 03:30]: HI, Nice story of success, Francisco...but it does not answer my question. Sigh. Others, who want to report, that they do not have problems? Sigh... Best regards, mcc > Hi > > I could not check the pulseaudio dependency for gws, as libsndfile does not > ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:59:27AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger writes: > > It seems you can install graphicsmagick along with imagemagick, if the > imagemagick USE flag ist not set. That’s what came to my mind also while I was reading Francisco’s first answer. Rebuilding with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-10 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote: > I have checked my Xorg.0.log, there is no error message. I have a > question,I read xorg.conf , I didn't find any area about Window > Manage, so how xorg-server knowswhich WM to invoke when I use "X > -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf" ?BTW, among my class I am the

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A very small selection of all possible Unixes work the same. > Ubuntu and Debian are quite similar as they have common roots. > RedHat works rather like an old Fedora (and to some degree that's almost > exactly what it is). > Gentoo looks a

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > VirtualBox is a program that runs on a working system with a > functioning OS. Like all programs it needs resources like memory and > hard disk space. Unlike most programs it usually uses a LOT of memory > and hard disk space to be useful.