Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
Dale wrote: > >Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I >turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about >a >new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a >picture. No sound tho. I can't watch videos with no sound. I'll n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 01/11/13 at 07:43pm, Dale wrote: > > Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I > turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about a > new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a > picture. No sound tho. I can't watch vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 03:38:12 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Maybe you should consider to use ccache. It considerable reduces the > merge time if you have to rebuild a package. It also creates elusive build failures with some packages, which is why I stopped using it. > Tue Oct 22 22:05:3

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 09:27:38 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Maybe you should consider to use ccache. It considerable reduces the > > merge time if you have to rebuild a package. > > It also creates elusive build failures with some packages, which is why > I stopped using it. > > > Tue Oct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I > turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about a > new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a > picture. No sound tho. I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Flash+nspluginwrapper versus Gnash comparisons?

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/31/2013 10:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm getting rather annoyed with Firefox. I don't want to get into > that flamewar right now. I'm trying to migrate to UZBL. The latest git > version is a lot better than the stale stable version. The uzbl- > ebuild is broken (yes, I've filed a

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I > got the message below. > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N ] dev-scheme/guile-1.8.8-r1 USE="

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hey, what is with distcc? When i understand correct that can use to share the merge process. Can i use with diffrent arch? I use gentoo on netbook with atom and amd64 and some rootserver with same arch and a p4 with i686. The p4 is in same network but can this pc use with atom 64 bit? Has someone

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I >> got the message below. >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 05:33:34 -0500, Dale wrote: > Oh, while testing the sound, I found out I have my puter speakers > backwords. My left speaker claims to be right and the right speaker > claims to be left. That's side to side, not backwards :P > It's been that way for many years now. LOL C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 07:43:54PM -0500, Dale wrote: > > Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I > turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about a > new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a > picture. No sound tho.

[gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? * do you really have a problem with running revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every emerge? * do you think it's worth t

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
131102 hasufell had some more questions for users : > * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? Not recently : it used to happen more often. > * do you really have a problem with running > revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every emerge? No. > * do you think it's worth

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/11/2013 14:04, hasufell wrote: > Another round of questioning the users here. > > more specifically: > * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? Let's see, that depends. It mostly mostly on what is happening with poppler and icu today. Other than those, I don't recall any long-term

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 02.11.2013 um 11:55 schrieb Silvio Siefke : > Hey, > > what is with distcc? When i understand correct that can use to share > the merge process. Can i use with diffrent arch? I use gentoo on > netbook with atom and amd64 and some rootserver with same arch and a > p4 with i686. The p4

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 02.11.2013 um 09:35 schrieb Neil Bothwick : > > Impressive, I think I'll try enabling it for specific packages that > > will benefit and don't cause problems. > > On the other hand, after reading man make.conf, maybe it is not such a > good idea except in very limited cases. > > Warn

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>> As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I >>> got the message below. >>> >>> These are the packages that would be merged,

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 14:24:49 +0100 wrote: > Many years ago I used distcc. At this time I had some slower machines > (2 x AMD K5, 3x AMD K6) and distcc was really a booster for many > bigger packages, but it doesn't reduce merge time for small packages > and it also causes problems with som

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2013 07:04 AM, hasufell wrote: > Another round of questioning the users here. > > more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? > * do you really have a problem with running > revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 11/2/2013 07:04, hasufell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another round of questioning the users here. These are good, thank you. Short answer here is no. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? At least one of my machines is constantly want

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

2013-11-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 00:02:26 jdm wrote: > Hello, > > I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions? > They run fine in Firefox. > > John D Maunder Are they flash or HTML 5 videos? Are your plugins configured as they should be in Konqueror? PS. I don't think that there i

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/02/2013 05:04 AM, hasufell wrote: > Another round of questioning the users here. > > more specifically: > * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? A few times a year. To put this in perspective, I try to do major updates (-uDN world) once a month. I used to do this weekly but can't n

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/02/2013 05:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I got the message below.

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.11.2013 13:04, schrieb hasufell: > Another round of questioning the users here. > > more specifically: > * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? once every couple of updates? > * do you really have a problem with running > revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread thegeezer
On 11/02/2013 12:04 PM, hasufell wrote: > Another round of questioning the users here. > > more specifically: > * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? not enough to notice, mostly using server based installs not desktop > * do you really have a problem with running > revdep-rebuild/haskell

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:04:52 +0100, hasufell wrote: > * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? That's an unreasonable question. How do we know whether a rebuild was useless or not unless we skip it and then find that a single feature of a complex program no longer works properly, and to do

[gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! My @world update did not go well. It was much worse some while ago, so I just did an emerge -e @world, after manually removing stuff from /var/lib/portage/world until I got no complaints any more. I had to remove kde-misc/publictransport and kde-misc/plasma-emergelog for that. After mos

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/02/2013 02:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 11/02/2013 05:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with

[gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2013 02:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I have no facts to device either way. > but lets the user device when to do them. Neil, are you using a new auto-complete function of some kind?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

2013-11-02 Thread jdm
On Saturday 02 November 2013 16:31:21 Mick wrote: >On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 00:02:26 jdm wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions? >> They run fine in Firefox. >> >> John D Maunder > >Are they flash or HTML 5 videos? Are your plugins configured as the

[gentoo-user] layman - certificate problem

2013-11-02 Thread wabenbau
I just installed layman. After the installation I added "source /var/lib/layman/make.conf" to /etc/make.conf. When I'm now typing "layman -L" I get: * Fetching remote list,... * Warning: an installed db file was not found at: ['/var/lib/layman/cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.xml'] * R

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Flash+nspluginwrapper versus Gnash comparisons?

2013-11-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 05:43:21AM -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote > Have you checked to see if the sites you use have an interface for > mplayer or another media player? (Assuming they are streaming services > similar to Youtube) If not, it may be simpler to use nspluginwrapper. > Gnash compatibilit

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote > * One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies: > * > * > dev-lang/python-exec:=[python_targets_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_2(-),-python_single_target_python2_6(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/03/2013 02:27 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 11/02/2013 02:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 11/02/2013 05:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote