Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 15:37, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024 13:22:47 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Yes, of course. When I said "emerge -c doesn't clean it" I meant > > > "emerge > > -c" (without arguments). I know how to unme

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 13:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024 11:32:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Files in @world should only be wanted because you put them in there, so > you should be able to remove them. > > Yes, of course. When I said "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 10:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2024 16:37:24 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world file, > > hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think I had it &

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 14:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:55:42 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I have > > /var/lib/bin > > in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > > Anyone with the same problem/weirdness? > > Nope. Have you trie

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 15:07, Petr Vaněk wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I have /var/lib/bin in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > > Do you have app-admin/xstow installed? This seems to be the (only) > Indeed, I had

[gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have /var/lib/bin in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) That directory does not exist. Should it exist!? What could be setting this? (grep /var/lib/bin /etc/conf.d/* returns nothing) Anyone with the same problem/weirdness? Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS on kernel 6.8.1 considered a Bad Thing.

2024-04-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
directly from kernel.org) Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2023-10-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 7:59 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 18:08:20 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >6.3.11-GPM.20231004.diff works fine with 6.5.5 (vanilla from > >[1]kernel.org) > > Thanks for doing this testing. > Thank _you_ for making the patch :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2023-10-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
6.3.11-GPM.20231004.diff works fine with 6.5.5 (vanilla from kernel.org) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mcomix (really python)

2023-09-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 8:23 AM Nuno Silva wrote: > > > There's also for example qcomicbook, if you have Qt on your system. > Yes, I have QT and qcomicbook emerged just fine (no dependency forest). However, I found it useless: the menu lacks entries for custom zoom (I mean, something like "+"

Re: [gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 12:39 PM Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 13:12, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Nope. I don't run a Gnome system, and evince pulls an absurd bunch of > dependencies, even with most USE variables unset > > Sure, which is why I put in that c

Re: [gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 11:14 AM Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:51, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > $ mcomix foo.cbr > > 10:44:31 [MainThread] ERROR: You don't have the required version of the > Python Imaging Library Fork (Pillow) installed. > &g

[gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
to do with an error message like this?! I even uninstalled pillow and then re-emerged mcomix. Sure enough, it pulled pillow, as expected. No avail. Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 4:09 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > Sorry for any confusion. Time to unsubscribe from this list > I guess and leave you all to your beloved distro. > Please don't. I doubt someone is pissed off with you. Jorge Almeida > Bye, See above. > Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] quodlibet

2022-08-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 9:50 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 22:46:25 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > No "internet radio" in quodlibet? > > > > of which are set. What to do? > > This feature exists, according to > > https:

[gentoo-user] quodlibet

2022-08-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
g to https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/browse/iradio.html The ebuild doesn't seem to contain anything that would disable it. What to do? Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] sdr

2022-07-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
ckage in portage. So, the question is: is there some package providing similar functionality? Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:06 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > Compile time for Chromium currently seems to run about four hours on an > i7-9700. Well, that does it, then. chromium-bin is good enough, I think. But of course, the problem of obnoxious shortcuts remains... >

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 8:19 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > I don't know how to do that (I'm talking about several itens in the > > bookmarks bar, not a single menu with several links). But I'll try a > > clean config anyway, the bookmark issue can be dealt with later. > > There are import and

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:48 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 29 May 2022 21:49:21 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Until now, no improvement. (Note that I symlinked > > ~/.config/chromium-bin to ~/.config/google-chrome, otherwise I would > > lose all bookmar

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:47 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > New Hope! I've found this: > https://btechgeeks.com/change-chrome-keyboard-shortcuts/ > It seems that the "Shortcut manager" extension doesn't exist any more. It was supposed to allow editing the "default" shortcuts, something most pages say

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:33 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dnia 2022-05-29, o godz. 22:25:53 > Jorge Almeida napisał(a): > > > On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:16 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > > > > Maybe take

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:16 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > If non-free software is not of any concern for you, then maybe try > Vivaldi browser? It is based on the same engine and feels quite like > chromium but with many many more options (USE=widevine for netflix ;) ) > I have no concerns regarding

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 9:56 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dnia 2022-05-29, o godz. 21:49:21 > Jorge Almeida napisał(a): > > > So, is there a way to get rid of this, ahem, stuff? Ideally, I would > > remove/edit s

[gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
shortcuts, but I would settle for trashing it all. Is this an unwinnable fight? (And is the dichotomy chromium-chrome relevant at all?) Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] iscan-data with udev

2022-05-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm trying to emerge media-gfx/iscan, which requires media-gfx/iscan-data. The latter package has only one USE variable, "udev". When "udev" is disabled, the emerge succeeds, but of course udev must be there for a reason. With udev, it fails: make[1]: Leaving directory

Re: [gentoo-user] gcolor2...

2022-04-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 9:33 AM tastytea wrote: > > On 2022-04-16 09:10+0100 Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Uses GTK+ 2". Does this mean that GTK+ 2 is on its way out as well? > > It is on its way out, but there are still some packages blocking its > removal: <ht

Re: [gentoo-user] gcolor2...

2022-04-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:47:26 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > ... is gone, essentially. Any suggestion regarding some alternative? > > It's masked i portage and dead upstream, but that doesn't necessarily > mea

Re: [gentoo-user] gcolor2...

2022-04-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:08 PM Jack wrote: > > On 4/15/22 17:47, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > ... is gone, essentially. Any suggestion regarding some alternative? > > I can't tell if you are looking for recommendations or just what else is > out there. I just need some

[gentoo-user] gcolor2...

2022-04-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
... is gone, essentially. Any suggestion regarding some alternative? Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] zathura scroll bars

2022-04-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 1:59 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 14:14:39 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > I have those, and I have installed zathura through emerge with the > > > `doc` flag, but it should not be necessary to have it set... > &

Re: [gentoo-user] zathura scroll bars

2022-04-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 12:39 PM wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:25:42AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Scroll bars are AWOL in zathura. I have "set show-scrollbars true" in > > ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc. I also tried "set show-v-scrollbar true" >

[gentoo-user] zathura scroll bars

2022-04-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
urarc. My system is up-to-date, as of about 30m ago... In case some other gentooer uses zathura, would you share your current experience? Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] mediatek mt7921: no AP?

2022-01-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 6:53 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > > I'm pretty sure none of these built-in wi-fis like that will support AP mode. > They would much rather charge more for that feature. >

[gentoo-user] mediatek mt7921: no AP?

2022-01-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
with the same hw has a better experience and would share it. Otherwise, it may be useful as a warning. I know I will not purchase ASUS and/or Mediatek again. Jorge Almeida $ lshw *-network description: Wireless interface product: MEDIATEK Corp

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard compatibility...

2021-11-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:08 AM Julien Roy wrote: > > I use this motherboard, here's the output of lspci for the network cards: > > 04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a) > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE > Controller (rev

[gentoo-user] motherboard compatibility...

2021-11-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
..with linux: ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Anyone owns one of these? Any problems? (Wi-fi seems supported, according to Google; network cards? I couldn't find out which chipset[s] it uses) TIA Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-10-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 12:44 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 5:29 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > > attached. Please start again from a gentoo-sources without any previous > > traces of the scrollback patches, and apply that patch. _Surely_ i

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:51 AM Dale wrote: > > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: > > Hello, Wol and Dale > >> When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind > >> that ... snag is that's all extra

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: > Hello, Wol and Dale > When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind > that ... snag is that's all extra expense :-( > Surge protectors: I googled it and mostly got bad reviews. Do they _really_work? What would you

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
for which the previous patch has been applied with success as expected) and it happens the same. Damaged UPS or MO, maybe... Anyway, I'll try again when I manage to fix or replace the computer and I'll report then. Thanks, Jorge Almeida P.S. I just noticed you mention gentoo-sources. I use the vanilla kernel from kernel.org. Could that be a problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
+ not pass through this function. */ + concon_set_origin (vc); +#endif + while (!tty->flow.stopped && count) { int orig = *buf; buf++; Thanks, Jorge Almeida --- ./drivers/tty/vt/vt.c.orig 2020-12-13 22:41:30.0 + +++ ./driv

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
d hunk), and additionally apply this: > I may have missed some announcement from you, I'm using diff.20210405.diff. I wasn't aware of newer versions. Is there an URL to download it? I would try it before trying to apply the patch included in your message. Thanks, Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
Hello, gentooers in general and Alan in particular I've been using Alan Mackenzie's patch until kernel 5.13, with success. It failed with 5.14.4 --yes, I know, but it doesn't hurt to try :) Jorge Almeida Just in case it is useful: (Stripping trailing CRs from patch; use --binary to disable

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback is back again!

2021-04-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
ce in a while, and those occasions tend to be precisely the ones back scrolling will be most missed. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback is back again!

2021-04-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
> shared between all tty's, there's now a buffer for each tty. > I just tested it with kernel 5.11.11. Seems fine. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

2021-01-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
ead, as it's mentioned in this article. > >> > >Paywalled... :( > > Try this link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/842415/5bc3e39b4d4f52fe/ > Works. Thanks. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

2021-01-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:53 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/842415/ > > Take a read, as it's mentioned in this article. > Paywalled... :( Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 9:01 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 8:55 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > > > The initrd documentation can be a bit overwhelming. Still, much better I meant "The refind documentation", of course.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 8:55 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > One other thing, looking at the docs, it seems that refind requires > initrd. Am I reading it correctly? If so, I may as well go with grub. > Grub usually requires setting up stuff once. Initrd requires running > more often. > No. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 7:17 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > Thanks for the pointers. Are there any changes I have to make in my > linux kernel to boot UEFI? Note; legacy BIOS boot is *NOT* an option > on my new Dell XPS8940. It's UEFI boot only. > I'm not sure that it is really necessary for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI > mode properly. Learning about UEFI: https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ Suggestion: forget about grub; refind is the way to go (link above) Also: you don't need parted; gdisk is fine if you're OK with fdisk Cheers Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

2020-09-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 8:49 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > > When updating my refurbished Lenovo notebook, I saw that "rust" was > being pulled in as a dependency by system-bootstrap. My initial > reaction was WTF? I'm sure the kernel devs will say "because we said I had the same problem. rust is

[gentoo-user] openrc -o

2020-08-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
The synopsis in the man page for openrc says openrc [-n, --no-stop] [-o, --override] [runlevel] but the text says nothing at all about the -o flag. Anyone knows what it does? I assume it was an oversight. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: ALSA wizard...

2020-04-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:57 PM Michael wrote: > > > setup of pulseaudio is still sketchy, but it is encouraging. I don't > > know about apulse. I suppose its purpose is to use pure ALSA while > > tricking apps into believing they are interacting with pulseaudio? > > > > Yes. It is a solution

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: ALSA wizard...

2020-04-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:32 AM Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2020-04-26, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack > > wrote: > >> > >> On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Any chance apulse works? > > I don't use slack

[gentoo-user] ecasound

2020-04-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
lly. Bug? (upstream? in the ebuild?) Jorge Almeida

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:27 PM Jack wrote: > > > I just checked "emerge -pe zoom" and the only unstable qt listed is > qtdiag, which has no stable versions in the tree. In fact, of the 483 > packages listed, only five are unstable. If it pulls in lots of > unstable qt for you, I'd try to

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:03 AM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack > > wrote: > > > > The slack ebuild might go stable, but the zoom one seems to change too > often to last 30 days before an

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > [snip] > I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I > use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not had any install > related problems. (I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:23 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:06 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Some reading I did about people having problems similar to yours with discord > and zoom suggested that some of these aps are compiled to __only

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:34 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:09 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > > Since you use pulseaudio (per your latest post): can you send the > > contents of a wav file to an external DAC via toslink, without

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Mark, I recompiled the kernel with more stuff as module, but I just had an idea to make sure the Behringer is the only card in the game: I disabled HD audio in the firmware settings. So: both Opera and Chrome play Youtube. aplay plays

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:16 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > How do you feel about building Alsa as modules instead of building it into > the kernel? When using modules you can blacklist other sound cards (the MB > audio stuff for instance) and you get a little more visibility into what's is >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:16 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > You sound happier in this post. I hope we're making headway. Could you post > back a view of things at this point? > I wouldn't say happy, but at least I got to understand what the interface does (I was more or less convinced the RCA

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:19 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00EK1OTZC/ref=pe_3044161_189395811_TE_SCE_dp_1 > > > > > > OK, that device is pretty simple. If you set this device as the default > > > Alsa device can you get simple audio, from YouTube for example,

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:19 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > I hope you don't have to. I'm not the least bit confident about how a virtual > card is going to work with VM like Virtualbox. OK, that > > > > > > > I don't think I ever saw the name of the actual USB interface you're > > > using.

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:46 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > Do you have a Window license you can run in a VM? I suspect that might > > > work pretty well. I used to run Go2Meeting that way and never had any > > > trouble. > > > > I think I'm entitled to an unexpensive licence @work. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:08 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > Do you have a Window license you can run in a VM? I suspect that might work > pretty well. I used to run Go2Meeting that way and never had any trouble. I think I'm entitled to an unexpensive licence @work. Maybe that's the solution,

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 6:11 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I __ONLY__ meant for testing purposes. I understand discord is the result we > are working toward. Right now I don't know what the root cause of the failure > is so testing some other app and discovering it works would tell us the >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 5:27 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >If it's true that discord is so picky then I wonder if there would be some > value in testing your virtual sound card with some other app to ensure that > at least the basic Alsa needs are being met? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:06 PM Michael wrote: > > > I understand discord also offers a webRTC service, which ought to work with a > browser - so it should be down to the browser to communicate with Alsa. Been there, tried that... > Assuming of course the webRTC implementation by

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:39 AM Michael wrote: > > > Applications can be rather particular regarding bitrate, bit sample formats, > channel configuration and other options. I understand Firefox wants to have > 48000Hz or it won't play. So, even if your DAC can do 96000Hz, you may need > to

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:39 PM Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > This is becoming more common over time; I gave up on trying to avoid > Pulse a few years ago. > :/ Does it allow you to send the contents of a wav file to an external DAC without first messing with the contents? Thanks Jorge

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:11 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:02 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > > I need the "virtual" card to be the default, so I did this: > > > > Did you attempt making the virtual card default by

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:54 PM Michael wrote: > > > > > > > The setup: > > > > > -- a microphone connected to an audio interface, which connects to an > > > > > USB port in the computer. The interface works like a USB sound card, > > > > > at least regarding sound capture. It works: I can

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:38 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:04 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > (And, if memory serves, you were one of the first persons to help me, > > in a sound related question, many years ago!) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:19 AM Michael wrote: > > I recall you having problems recording with this device before, but since > you're now a step ahead let's have another go at this, in case I may be able > to help. Yes, this is not the same issue (the former problem was: I wasn't getting

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:42 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > Jorge, >Sorry for top posting. I'm at a site with limited capabilities at the > moment. Please forgive. Forgiving someone for trying to help me? :) (And, if memory serves, you were one of the first persons to help me, in a sound related

[gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
with discord can suggest something? Thanks Jorge Almeida $ cat /proc/asound/devices 1:: sequencer 2: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback 5: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture 6: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback 7: [ 0

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:18 PM Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > > Nothing should be statically linked, please stop spreading the disease. > Gee, maybe the musl project should commit suicide? If at least they had read the vulgata consciously before starting the project... > Il Mer 22 Apr 2020,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server

2020-04-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:07 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2020-04-14 21:36, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Yes, that seems right. I just added "-elogind" to make.conf and that's > > it. But I'm really curious about the framebuffer stuff. As for other > > stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2020-04-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:22 PM Dale wrote: > > Jorge Almeida wrote: > >>> "Use elogind to get control over framebuffer when running as regular > >>> user" > >>> > > If you have consolekit, PAM, elogind and such disabled, I'm not su

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2020-04-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 7:29 PM tastytea wrote: > > On 2020-04-14T19:16+0100 > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > "Use elogind to get control over framebuffer when running as regular > > user" > > > > Could someone explain what this entails? What happened

[gentoo-user] xorg-server

2020-04-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
gs/elogind I found "Use elogind to get control over framebuffer when running as regular user" Could someone explain what this entails? What happened before this USE variable was created? What will I miss if I disable it? Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:38 AM Jack wrote: > Mainly out of curiosity, have you tried connecting to the mike in > instead of the line in on your sound card? Yes, no difference!

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:10 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:48 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:52 PM Michael wrote: >> > >> >> > > ## arecord -l >> > > List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices *

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:52 PM Michael wrote: > > > ## arecord -l > > List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: Generic Analog [Generic Analog] > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: Generic

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:29 PM Michael wrote: > > Yes, the first step would be to reduce or set to zero the Mic Boost in > alsamixer and adjust the Capture volume. However, noise with arecord is > usually a result of incorrect bitrate? > > You could try: > > arecord -fdat -r 48 test.wav OK, I

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:23 PM Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > > I am not familiar with those products. Sorry. All I can say about it is > that there are 2 types of volumes. The ones for playback, and the ones > for capture. (see F4 in alsa mixer). Also see F6 to select the right > sound card if

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:22 PM Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > > > 3)? Wrong? > > It was gpl. Then they moved it to proprietary. Then they become > insignificant and changed it back. For me, that's sign enough that I > don't want anything to do with it. > OK, I understand... > > > > why would

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:07 PM Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > > OSS4 is a set of proprietary patches. You would need support in kernel, That's the problem... > and support at an application level to use it. Not sure if USE=oss will > work with OSS4, but one thing I know for sure is that you

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 2:47 PM wrote: > > > > There is this link: > >https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OSS > > That seems to say you can still install the real OSS. > > The first step is to build a kernel with it included: > >Device Drivers ---> > Sound card support ---> >

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:16 PM Dale wrote: > > I wasn't sure about it either. I was hoping it would provide kernel > modules that could be used or something like that. Might be worth > installing and then doing a equery f alsa-oss and see just what it does > include. If it won't help,

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 9:57 PM Dale wrote: > > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Is it possible to install it? > > Every random page I could find that was gentoo+oss4 related seemed > > old. I know the kernel does not support oss4 at all, any more than > > portage

[gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
Is it possible to install it? Every random page I could find that was gentoo+oss4 related seemed old. I know the kernel does not support oss4 at all, any more than portage does, but I don't know whether that means it is impossible to install. Anyone using it? Thanks Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] iSKN repaper?

2020-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
is this unresponsive site: https://developer.iskn.co/discuss/?sort=newest I'm assuming there are no drivers for linux, but it doesn't hurt to try... I know there are drivers for Wacom, but I read the nibs wear out quickly. Thoughts? Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:19 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Web tabs are fairly highly sandboxed in most browsers. Suffice it to > say something running in a web tab isn't going to be spying on your > process list/etc. > OK, fair enough. I would prefer a browser-only interface anyway, if possible

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:56 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 08:54, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:42 PM Michael wrote: > > > Have you looked at using WebRTC with Zoom, rather than installing their > > > code > &

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:42 PM Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:38:35 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:16 PM Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > > On mer. 25 mars 11:51:33 2020, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Did someone try to insta

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