[gentoo-user] Re: minimal web server

2012-05-07 Thread James
Keith Dart dartworks.biz> writes: > > Re , James said: > > #copy running-config [http | https] > > Routers can usually also write to a tftp or ftp server. Those are > actually simpler to set up. > > To use HTTP you would also have to set up a POST handler. I've used tftp quite a lot in th

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal web server

2012-05-07 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > Our rancid stuff runs on FreeBSD (I banned Gentoo from all new > production installs 3 years ago...) so we mostly don't bother with > packages. Good old "./configure && make && make install" is what works > for us. OK, although Rancid is not exactly what I wa

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Some while ago, I wrote: [ mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M ] > Urs Schutz writes: > > > Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your > > disk... [...] > > I had a bad disk here, which resulted in slow IO, but

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Some while ago, I wrote: > > [ > mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a > dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M > ] > > > Urs Schutz writes: > > > Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your > >

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.05.2012 18:26, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster: >> Some while ago, I wrote: >> >> [ >> mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a >> dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M >> ] >> >>> Urs Schutz writes: Ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Backscatter and nikko

2012-05-07 Thread Markos Chandras
On 05/03/2012 10:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012, 16:36:14 schrieb Michael Mol: >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 03.05.2012 18:08, schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Michael Mol wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke: > Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help? > > # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt > # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt > # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt nice idea

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
> nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now? > > The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays keyboard > input? That is just idiotic. It was just an idea, but maybe there's something wrong on the hardware side? Broken cable, hard drive about to di

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 19:25:29 schrieb Michael Hampicke: > > nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now? > > > > The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays > > keyboard > > input? That is just idiotic. > > It was just an idea, but maybe there's

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Some while ago, I wrote: > > [ > mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a > dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M > ] > >> Urs Schutz writes: >> >> > Just an idea: Is the disk OK? Replace /dev/sda with your >> > di

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Hampicke writes: > Am 07.05.2012 18:26, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster: > >> Some while ago, I wrote: > >> > >> [ > >> mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I > >> do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M

[gentoo-user] Recommend a tftp server that works?

2012-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
Can somebody recommend a tftp server that works? I've got atftp installed and have been using the client for some time (after fixing a number of bugs). But, the atftpd server just plain refuses to do anything other than print out the help text and exit. It doesn't matter what options you specify

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a tftp server that works?

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
> Can somebody recommend a tftp server that works? For my BOOTP server I've been using net-ftp/tftp-hpa for quiet some time, which works great here. > But, when I try to install one of the other tftp servers, emerge > refuses. How to I tell emerge to go ahead and install, for example, > netkit

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a tftp server that works?

2012-05-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
> > Maybe use emerge --force or transfer the ebuild to a local overlay and > remove the blocking. I never understood why different tftp servers block > each other. I mean I can install pure-ftpd and proftpd at the time time too. > Sorry, I meant --nodeps instead of force. I tried it, and am now

[gentoo-user] asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?

2012-05-07 Thread Stroller
Can anyone reproduce this, please? The following steps conclude with a reboot: 1) `aplay -vv SomeFile.wav` - listen to some banging new tunes and satisfy yourself that your speakers and ears are working. Skip this step if you're already satisfied that your speakers are audible and that sound is

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: <<< SNIP >>> > Now this is really annoying. I watch small clips mostly, and can live > with that, and when I want to watch stuff with others, I copy the file to > tmpfs, which seems to help a lot. > > But now I found another solution: NOT USING KDE. > > When X crashed (trying

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a tftp server that works?

2012-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-05-07, Michael Hampicke wrote: > > >> Can somebody recommend a tftp server that works? > > For my BOOTP server I've been using net-ftp/tftp-hpa for quiet some > time, which works great here. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Right after posting, I finally got atftpd to work. The init.d sc

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > When I first built this rig, I ran into this issue as well. What I did > was tell smplayer, in my case, to cache more of the video. I have mine > set to cache 6Mbs and it plays fine even on HD videos. I have cache = 131072 and cache-min=20.0 in .mplayer/config. That's 128MB, this

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Some while ago, I wrote: > > > > [ > > mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I > > do a dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M > > ] [...] >OK, fire up two terminals. In one run top, hit 1

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 May 2012, at 21:43, Dale wrote: > ... > Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix > was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and > such. May be worth thinking about at least. I understood that issue as significantly different - in th

[gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread walt
On 05/07/2012 10:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke: >> Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help? >> >> # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt >> # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt >> # /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 15:56:20 schrieb walt: > On 05/07/2012 10:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 18:44:05 schrieb Michael Hampicke: > >> Maybe changing the kernel io scheduler will help? > >> > >> # /usr/src/linux/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt > >> # /usr/

[gentoo-user] Re: asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?

2012-05-07 Thread walt
On 05/07/2012 01:40 PM, Stroller wrote: > I'm also seeing that maybe alsa's default state is muted, so that the > muted state would be correct even if the sound state is not being > restored. I would say the default state is muted except for one very confounding discovery at my end, which may a bi

[gentoo-user] Re: I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-07 Thread walt
On 05/07/2012 04:13 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > And vanilla-sources just work. Stable. Even with suspend to ram and ati > drivers. That confuses me. Are you saying the gentoo-sources don't 'just work'?

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal web server

2012-05-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 05:32:54AM +0100, Stroller wrote > Consider this installation-free alternative: > http://www.google.co.uk/searchq=one+line+python+web+server This. Here's a Gentoo-specific script, which I saved as "~/bin/webd" that handles Python 2 and 3...

Re: [gentoo-user] asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?

2012-05-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 09:40:41PM +0100, Stroller wrote > I'm also seeing that maybe alsa's default state is muted, so that > the muted state would be correct even if the sound state is not being > restored. According to the Alsa-Project HDA Intel page http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.ph

Re: [gentoo-user] asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?

2012-05-07 Thread Stroller
On 8 May 2012, at 00:53, walt wrote: > … > After removing alsasound from /etc/runlevels/* (it was in only one level > but I can't remember now which one it was ;) I rebooted. > > I use startx, so right after a reboot there is no X session running yet, > and to my astonishment I find that pulseau

Re: [gentoo-user] asound.state bug? Can anyone else reproduce this, please?

2012-05-07 Thread Stroller
On 8 May 2012, at 01:35, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 09:40:41PM +0100, Stroller wrote > >> I'm also seeing that maybe alsa's default state is muted, so that >> the muted state would be correct even if the sound state is not being >> restored. > > According to the Alsa-Project