[gentoo-user] Opendedup
Hi, I just saw this on slashdot: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/28/0052234/Open-Source-Deduplication-For-Linux-With-Opendedup Anyone using it with gentoo? Experiences? Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg threads parameter
On 03/28/2010 04:02 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: On 03/27/10 21:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. First, mplayer uses its own bundled ffmpeg. It doesn't use media-video/ffmpeg at all. Furthermore, this is not what the threads USE flag does for ffmpeg. Thank you for replying!!! What would you guess the threads parameter is for ffmpeg? I've not found an explanation, and thought it might be the author catching up with Alexander Strange. http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html The normal ffmpeg probably (just guessing here) uses threads for asynchronous i/o, buffering etc.. ffmpeg-mt includes a H.264 codec that decodes (and encodes?) HD videos with multiple threads. Maybe there are even more codecs that they have multithreaded, and probably a lot of infrastructure code had to be changed as well. Bye, Daniel Those applications that allow you to specify an amount of threads assume you're using ffmpeg-mt instead of normal ffmpeg. ffmpeg-mt is a fork of ffmpeg and is not in Portage because it's still considered non-stable upstream. There's an ebuild in Gentoo Bugzilla for ffmpeg-mt and an mplayer that uses ffmpeg-mt as its bundled ffmpeg version. The mt mplayer ebuild can also be found in the wirelay overlay (it's in layman.) AH! I had switched from bugzilla to the overlay for mplayer (thank you for providing it); but was unaware that ffmpeg-mt had a separate ebuild. Where is it, please? So the same question, then, for ffmpeg-mt; if I replace ffmpeg with ffmpeg-mt after setting a default of 6, can you imagine any problems (other than it is not stable)? Thanks for the help! -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887op=get # gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] xlsfonts shows only a few fonts
hi, i have a lot fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts. and i even have all the fonts from m$ win7. but when i ran xlsfonts, i got only a few fonts listed. like this: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 6x13 cursor fixed i need more fonts, so i can setup emacs to display chinese. but there's no chinese font listed. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
[gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission
How to change permission on /dev/ttyS0 ? Which program controls it owner and permission? Is it possible to change it with hylafax? Currently I have: crw--- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 And I wan it to be: crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 I've tried adding a rule to 50-udev.rules in /dev but /udev is not running and when I try to restart it I get: The udev init-script is written for baselayout-2 Please do not use it with baselayout-1 -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:53:19 -0600, Joseph wrote: I've tried adding a rule to 50-udev.rules in /dev Don't add to the existing rules, it can cause problems on updates. Create your own rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules. but /udev is not running and when I try to restart it I get: The udev init-script is written for baselayout-2 Please do not use it with baselayout-1 That's because BL1 starts up udev automatically, the init script is only needed with BL2. -- Neil Bothwick OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] libvdpau (?)
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:29:06 -0300, Alex Kuster wrote: you can use the variable EXTRA_ECONF to pass parameters to ./configure and manually add vdpau, but I don't know if there's an option to modify that on a package basis (like /etc/portage/package.use ) .. instead of a global var ... without touching ebuilds ... Put EXTRA_ECONF+blah in /etc/portage/env/CAT/PKG -- Neil Bothwick If you got the words it does not mean you got the knowledge. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission
On Sunday 28 March 2010, Joseph wrote: How to change permission on /dev/ttyS0 ? Which program controls it owner and permission? Is it possible to change it with hylafax? Currently I have: crw--- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 And I wan it to be: crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 I've tried adding a rule to 50-udev.rules in /dev but /udev is not running and when I try to restart it I get: The udev init-script is written for baselayout-2 Please do not use it with baselayout-1 This is set by parameter DeviceMode: 0660 in file /var/spool/fax/etc/config.ttyS0. You are asked in the setup script. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission
Joseph wrote: How to change permission on /dev/ttyS0 ? Which program controls it owner and permission? Is it possible to change it with hylafax? Currently I have: crw--- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 And I wan it to be: crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 I've tried adding a rule to 50-udev.rules in /dev but /udev is not running and when I try to restart it I get: The udev init-script is written for baselayout-2 Please do not use it with baselayout-1 If you want to make sure udev is running, do this command: ps aux | grep udev If it returns nothing, then you can start it with this command: /sbin/udevd --daemon Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: xlsfonts shows only a few fonts
On 03/28/2010 08:33 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i have a lot fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts. and i even have all the fonts from m$ win7. but when i ran xlsfonts, i got only a few fonts listed. like this: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 6x13 cursor fixed Have you added all of the font directories to your xorg.conf? Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib/xorg/modules FontPath/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/TTF/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/baemuk-fonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/freefonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/fft-bitstream-vera/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/arphic-fonts/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/default/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/terminus/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/OTF FontPath/usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ EndSection
Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission
On 03/28/10 23:48, Robin Atwood wrote: On Sunday 28 March 2010, Joseph wrote: How to change permission on /dev/ttyS0 ? Which program controls it owner and permission? Is it possible to change it with hylafax? Currently I have: crw--- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 And I wan it to be: crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 I've tried adding a rule to 50-udev.rules in /dev but /udev is not running and when I try to restart it I get: The udev init-script is written for baselayout-2 Please do not use it with baselayout-1 This is set by parameter DeviceMode: 0660 in file /var/spool/fax/etc/config.ttyS0. You are asked in the setup script. HTH -Robin Yes, you are correct. I was able to find it as well: http://wiki.contribs.org/HylaFax I had a problem make it dial-up work in Windows XP running in VirtualBox when hylafax is running. I had to disable faxgetty ttyS0 in inittab or Windows XP dial-up will not work. But wvdial works OK when Hylafax is ON. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libvdpau (?)
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o 7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/26/10 17:08, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg. Setting the vdpau use flag seems to set the configuration flag, but also brings in the x11-libs/libvdpau libraries which I think I do not want, as my NVidia proprietary driver provides these libraries. AFAIK Nvidia split the vdpau off into libvdpau late last year sometime. On my system I use both nvidia-drivers and libvdpau without issue. libvdpau provides libvdpau.so while nvidia-drivers provides libvdpau_nvidia.so Here are my versions: x11-libs/libvdpau-0.3-r2 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15 Are you using older versions? I use ~amd64 so maybe if you run stable it has the older versions. AHA! THANKS! that explains a lot - including why they made libvdpau ebuild a requirement for ffmpeg. I didn't know that libvdpau ebuild is simply an open-source version of libvdpau.so. (The webpage describes a wrapper - duh, what's a wrapper? But I suppose that if libvdpau.so is the first in line, and subsequently loads other driver components, then it could be called a wrapper). Portage fell behind the NVidia driver releases a while back - probably before the split you described - so I then started installing drivers directly from NVidia.com, and not portage. (And NVidia continues to bundle libvdpau.so (proprietary?) along with the other components.) So when ffmpeg wanted to add a wrapper to the mix, I decided no thanks and started this thread - finally figuring out that I needed to remove the requirement from the ebuild. Having libvdpau.so, everything worked fine. Now that I know what it is, I've installed the libvdpau package and updated the portage NV drivers to current. If portage keeps current I'll use it; if portage again falls behind I should be able to use NVidia.com and ffmpeg will compile either way. Thanks again for your help. No problem. Also check out x11-misc/vdpauinfo it is a tool that shows the vdpau capabilities of your video card/drivers (which codecs mixer features are supported).
Re: [gentoo-user] xlsfonts shows only a few fonts
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i have a lot fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts. and i even have all the fonts from m$ win7. but when i ran xlsfonts, i got only a few fonts listed. like this: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 6x13 cursor fixed i need more fonts, so i can setup emacs to display chinese. but there's no chinese font listed. I believe XFS is deprecated and has been removed from Gentoo recently (at least in ~unstable). See the comments in this bug for info maybe something to help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293177
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Dale: I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. Is there a bug report files already? I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. If you are like me and don’t wanna create another bug tracker account just for one bug, I offer my help by filing the bug, if you want. ;-) If you wold like to that would be fine. I would just like some way to disable the random part of the slide show. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232517 :-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. (R. Heinlein) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission
On Monday 29 March 2010, Joseph wrote: On 03/28/10 23:48, Robin Atwood wrote: On Sunday 28 March 2010, Joseph wrote: How to change permission on /dev/ttyS0 ? Which program controls it owner and permission? Is it possible to change it with hylafax? Currently I have: crw--- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 And I wan it to be: crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 I've tried adding a rule to 50-udev.rules in /dev but /udev is not running and when I try to restart it I get: The udev init-script is written for baselayout-2 Please do not use it with baselayout-1 This is set by parameter DeviceMode: 0660 in file /var/spool/fax/etc/config.ttyS0. You are asked in the setup script. HTH -Robin Yes, you are correct. I was able to find it as well: http://wiki.contribs.org/HylaFax I had a problem make it dial-up work in Windows XP running in VirtualBox when hylafax is running. I had to disable faxgetty ttyS0 in inittab or Windows XP dial-up will not work. But wvdial works OK when Hylafax is ON. Presumably VirtualBox does not follow the Unix locking protocol: http://tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-serial.devices.html HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Dale: I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. Is there a bug report files already? I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. If you are like me and don’t wanna create another bug tracker account just for one bug, I offer my help by filing the bug, if you want. ;-) If you wold like to that would be fine. I would just like some way to disable the random part of the slide show. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232517 :-) Yeppie ! Thanks for filing that for me. Maybe it will pop up in a couple more releases. Surely it can't be hard to disable it. I would think it was harder to enable it. lol Thanks again. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xlsfonts shows only a few fonts
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:31 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Have you added all of the font directories to your xorg.conf? Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib/xorg/modules FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ ... FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ EndSection sure, i have all my fonts listed. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] xlsfonts shows only a few fonts
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I believe XFS is deprecated and has been removed from Gentoo recently (at least in ~unstable). See the comments in this bug for info maybe something to help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293177 if XFS is deprecated, what is the replacement? how can i get the fonts working in emacs? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I guess they're not really expected to be unknown, but they're harmless as long as you don't get disappearing icons. If you do, then this is for you: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288312 This came up quite a while back on the mailing list, and IIRC, the solution was that there is no solution :P great, i have not seen any broken icons yet. guess i can ignore them. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] xlsfonts shows only a few fonts
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I believe XFS is deprecated and has been removed from Gentoo recently (at least in ~unstable). See the comments in this bug for info maybe something to help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293177 if XFS is deprecated, what is the replacement? how can i get the fonts working in emacs? I don't know if it's causing your problem, but you can try to unmask XFS and see if it fixes it.
