[gentoo-user] Questions about recording webcam+mic on netbook

2012-10-05 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm getting really ambitious with my 3-year-old Acer netbook, now that open source Poulsbo video support exists. After tweaking the kernel, I've got the webcam+mic recording with the command... ffmpeg -y -f alsa -i plughw:0,0 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 output.avi

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD ''Vishera'' FX-Series CPU

2012-10-05 Thread Alain Didierjean
- Mail original - De: James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Envoyé: Jeudi 4 Octobre 2012 19:14:44 Objet: [gentoo-user] AMD ''Vishera'' FX-Series CPU Dearest FX-8350, Will I get lucky and be happy (price justified by performance enhancements) if we

[gentoo-user] mlmmj-foo

2012-10-05 Thread Gregory M. Turner
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Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

2012-10-05 Thread Dale
One more update I guess. I couldn't get this to work with serial. The driver for this thing appears to be USB only. I might could get it to work in dumb mode but I don't want that anyway. So, if you buy a model similar to CyberPower 1350AVRLCD, don't depend on using serial connections. One

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about recording webcam+mic on netbook

2012-10-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Oct 5, 2012 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm getting really ambitious with my 3-year-old Acer netbook, now that open source Poulsbo video support exists. After tweaking the kernel, I've got the webcam+mic recording with the command... Check out 'uvcview'.

[gentoo-user] Re: new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-04, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My new machine is working very well -- thanks again for the advice -- , tho' the sighing noise from the CPU fan is a bit trying (smile), I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD collapses, I can restore

[gentoo-user] layman printer trouble

2012-10-05 Thread Jamse
BACKGROUND -- OK, so I get a new Brother MFC-6710DW printer, which includes ethernet. Since there is not (hplip) package for Brother, I trying to use Layman to first add an existing Overlay and then set up the printer via Cups (localhost:631). Amazingly, I found an overlay that looks to

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about recording webcam+mic on netbook

2012-10-05 Thread James
Walter Dnes waltdnes at waltdnes.org writes: I'm getting really ambitious with my 3-year-old Acer netbook, now that open source Poulsbo video support exists. After tweaking the kernel, I've got the webcam+mic recording with the command... zoneminder use to be in portage

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD ''Vishera'' FX-Series CPU

2012-10-05 Thread James
Alain Didierjean alain.didierjean at free.fr writes: Any got Gentoo running on a new AMD Vishera (FX-8350) CPU based system (Oct, 23 2012 launch) ? I just built a FX-8120 system and installed gentoo on it. No problem. Just fast. The FX-8350 (Vishera) is suppose to have some serious

Re: [gentoo-user] layman printer trouble

2012-10-05 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05.10.2012 17:38, Jamse wrote: BACKGROUND -- OK, so I get a new Brother MFC-6710DW printer, which includes ethernet. Since there is not (hplip) package for Brother, I trying to use Layman to first add an existing Overlay and then set

[gentoo-user] Re: layman printer trouble

2012-10-05 Thread James
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruinehsen at fu-berlin.de writes: PROBLEM --- But I cannot use emerge to install it. # emerge brother-mfc6490cw-cups Calculating dependencies / * Manifest not found for '/usr/local/portage/net-print/brother-mfc6490cw-cups/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: layman printer trouble

2012-10-05 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05.10.2012 21:39, James wrote: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruinehsen at fu-berlin.de writes: PROBLEM --- But I cannot use emerge to install it. # emerge brother-mfc6490cw-cups Calculating dependencies / * Manifest not found for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-05 Thread Philip Webb
121005 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-10-04, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD collapses, I can restore everything from files stored on the HDD without re-installing. What do people who do incremental back-ups

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother MFC 7320

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: When in kernel usb printer compiled in, then must compile cups without usb. Now all run. Well done. Thanks for support. Silvio, Thank you for sharing. How did you figure out what the solution was? Chris