Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Knecht
From Kindle so short... Paul. Thanks. I'll double check tomorrow but the specs online said the slots were pci express 2.0. The card is a one lane card but the box says it can do 533M/S but boxes do lie sometimes. I'll keep investigating and post back any new info. Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Hi there! Two days ago, my PC suddenly died, after working fine for half a year. I used myrtcwake as usual to suspend to RAM, and it woke up in the morning. But after two minutes, the screen went blank and nothing,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
From Kindle so very short response for now. 1) Was this disk previously used for 32-bit? 2) For 64-bit I've always used grub-static.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think. emerge grub-static and then do the install as per the boot loader instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine then. Good luck.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:42 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: SNIP Any suggestions are most welcome, even if private. I suggest anything not specifically Gentoo oriented be addressed offline. If someone wants to get in touch privately please

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, when i understand correctly so give it Gentoo Packages with can installed. Where can find this packages? Because i has clean my Netbook now from Sabayon and have installed Gentoo directly. But build Libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Howdy, I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:53:46 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: Yes thats was the question. Sorry for my english. Yes so i accept to build all from source, but Libreoffice from source on a Atom need not hours, need days. Only

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions or experiences are welcome. James Good luck. I don't envy you and I (attempt to) do this for a living at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP Hello Mark, I think I'll put the R stuff as research interest on a separate machine to evaluate... I'm Looking for some guidance on this (VM) subject, related to online stock trading. Should I set up a machine on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it. Of course... I just want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of use. But what you don't know about those failed drives is whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:54 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/07/2012 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Each Windows VM has it's own Windows license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox. Just curious

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: In the meantime, it is what it is. I completely understand Dale, and I'm not picking on you. Just get that second drive as soon as you can. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote: Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ... I wonder. Does anyone here know

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Kindle so hard to answer in depth. What about smartctl??? Let the drive test itself.

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I am pretty sure it is the hardware failing. I just booted from a disk using the nouveau drivers and had the exact same problem. Thanks everyone for your help! Before you throw the machine out can you

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Alex Schuster writes: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: $ ll /dev/disk/by-id ... ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 - ../../sda ... That's a whole drive right there. Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You are so

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 02 August 2012 16:50:36 Mark Knecht wrote: Dunno about the python-3.2 thing. Are you set to use 3.2 by default? (How aggressive of you!) ;-) I'm set to use 2.7 as default which I think is the overall

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. I have two nVidia video cards, one is a PNY 8400 GS PCIe and the other is a 6150 LE built onto the board. Problem is I want to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Hey Mark, What technical information would you like me to post? I am not to good with troubleshooting. Driver Version is x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-302.17:0 -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP To my eye this looks to be the part you should go looking for answers about. Others in the past seem to have had their machines hang with this sort of message. I would not go further forward than the 3.3.8

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not for others.(me) I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how to get to stable, if that is even possible.

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Knecht
That will likely work. You can also unmask many/most testing packages to the Rev you currently have installed and then likely continue updates running eix-test-obsolete along the way to clean up the unmasked over time. Good luck. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : proposed design

2012-08-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Thanks for all the advice so far. Here is the list of proposed pieces : CPU : AMD Bulldozer X4 FX-4170 4-Core 4,2 GHz 8 MB: 149.99 (CAD) Mobo : Asus M5A97 AM3+ DDR3 2133 6xSATA3 2xUSB3 USB2 : 99.99 Memory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP Amp meters are less than $50 USD. They clamp around the power cord, or any wires inside the computer you can fit the clamp around. SNIP hth, James I haven't read this thread but I do use one of these which costs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP MB power? Hard drive power? Hard disk power GPU power? DRAM power? The 5 above can easily become the dominant power hogs. I use an Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : AMD FX-4100 ?

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: SNIP Spinning disks consume surprisingly little power once they're up to speed. My GPU, by comparison, doesn't seem to reduce heat generation very much when relatively idle. Idle on a GPU (in Linux) might be more

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia NVS 5200M

2012-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 26 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: Check the nvidia site. It will tell you the exact driver Rev that supports this GPU. Thanks. I see that 295.53 supports the NVS 5200M. Am I right in believing that this means

[gentoo-user]

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Sent from my Kindle Fire

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia NVS 5200M

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Check the nvidia site. It will tell you the exact driver Rev that supports this GPU. Mark

Re: [gentoo-user]

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/26/12, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Sent from my Kindle Fire Email equivalent of pocket-dialing? -- :wq I don't have a clue where this came from. Sorry. Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:34 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tue, July 17, 2012 8:49 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIPPED == Requested video codec family [wmsdmod] (vfm=dmo) not available. Enable

Re: [gentoo-user] VFAT problem

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have a Garmin GPS with a 32GB SD card. If I attach my device to the USB port, a directory listing looks totally scrambled. A listing of the smaller (2GB) 'internal' storage device is just fine. And I

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP This is all on an amd64 system. I don't know what it's like in 32-bit x86 on Gentoo, as I've never run that form of Gentoo; I let multilib handle things there. -- :wq Correct me if I'm wrong please but as I remember

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by 64bit ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit. SNIP Lots of wmv files won't play in 64-bit. That's the only one I have trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by 64bit ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit. SNIP Lots of wmv files won't play in 64-bit. That's the only one I have trouble with. They

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP There are containers and codecs. Most containers are supported, leaving the codecs. Can you post the output of 'mplayer -identify $filename' on that file? Point me toward a samples archive and I'll post a file.

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: So the same old query again I guess. What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit processor? I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit for me. Why 32? ... Flash, win32 codecs, probably Wine but not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The system's font display problem

2012-07-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/07/12 16:14, 赵佳晖 wrote: Hi.all . Just now i just change my locale so i can use the fcitx. But after i reboot , the system's fonts display has problem. and my locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The system's font display problem

2012-07-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: SNIP Just double checking here. Is the file /etc/locale.gen now totally depreciated or is it still required? The install guide still has it in chapter 8 where the file /etc/locale.gen ends up looking

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP testing, kde, + kde-testing overlay but: /var and PORTDIR not on ssd. So you have these on a HDD? /var for large write count reasons and PORTDIR for size reasons? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HW-raid1 SSD?

2012-07-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building small server for VPS-hosting purpose (not decided yet, probably KVM or ESXi). Althought it is non production, reliability is still issue for me. I'm considering using two small SSD (ie. Intel 313, 24GB, SLC) in

Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

2012-07-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:33 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: SNIP No, I don't run it as root, of course. But I didn't enable the 'pgo'. Or didI? How can I figure it out? SNIP equery hasuse pgo then emerge -pv package-name Also, if your profile (or make.conf) turns it on then emerge --info might

Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

2012-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! I noticed some strange messages in my ~/.xsession-errors log-file today. They look like this: profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base:Cannot create directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. Good luck, Mark Answering from computer now. A couple of ideas: 1) Copy one of my world files

Re: [gentoo-user] Why sources 3.2.21 in emerge -vuDp world

2012-07-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Running gentoo as guest in Vbox on win7 64bit Attempting to update with: emerge -vuDp world Lists gentoo-sources in output like this: , | [ebuild NS] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.21 [3.3.4] USE=-build |

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want installed. Good luck, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo install script

2012-07-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Very rough, and very much a works-for-me thing, but I thought I'd share. https://github.com/mikemol/gentoo-install I wrote it to ease the pain of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, you should be fine renaming bzImage to vmlinuz. (Note the z. It's vmlinuz, not vmlinux) Well that fixed one thing already. lol I bet I would have named that wrong. ;-) vmlinuz. Weird. They did that to confuse me

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern  does

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht markkne

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: Hello, This question more than likely has been posted before, either to this or some other list.  If so, then please let me know and I'll start searching. I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... That's the first thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/24/2012 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern  does not match any installed version of binutils! exiting I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones.  I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? I guess it depends on

[gentoo-user] Re: eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern  does not match any installed version of binutils! exiting c2stable ~ # SNIP Confirmed bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Samuraiii samurai.no.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, yesterday I run emerge and run into problem with Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8. It won't compile (also broadcom-sta driver won't rebuild) I've read the thread 'Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4' but no help

[gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

2012-06-24 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list !!! Error: Pattern does not match any installed version of binutils! exiting c2stable ~ # All other machiness do something akin to: k2 ~ # eselect binutils list Installed binutils for

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Samuraiii samurai.no.d...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP To this (Thank you for such extensive help): No problem. Happy to help. I'm not posting here much any more.  I'm running Gnome 3 so xorg-server is at home by me for longer time (as unstable before)  mesa got

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird and chinese fonts

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Helvetica (yuck). SNIP http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Helvetica/70076125?trkid=2361637 ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get any microphone to work

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Ezequiel Garcia elezegar...@gmail.com wrote: Damn! I've been all morning struggling with this. I have an analog microphone wired to my hda intel onboard sound card. Also, I have a genius webcam (gspca_pac7302) with a builtin mic. I have on-going problems

[gentoo-user] Rather ugly portage output today...

2012-06-02 Thread Mark Knecht
c2stable ~ # emerge -fDuN @world Calculating dependencies \ * ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-4.5.3-r2 failed (depend phase): * EXPORT_FUNCTIONS: toolchain_pkg_prerm is not defined * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 541: Called source '/usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-4.5.3-r2.ebuild' *

[gentoo-user] skype package changes I don't understand

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
I love my Gentoo-devs, but what is the train of thought here? skype-2.2.0.35-r1 was ~amd64 yesterday. It's installed and working fine. Today 2.2.0.35-r99 is ~amd64, which is perfectly fine, but they've completely removed -r1 and now I'm required to unmask emulation packages that only came out

Re: [gentoo-user] skype package changes I don't understand

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I love my Gentoo-devs, but what is the train of thought here? skype-2.2.0.35-r1 was ~amd64 yesterday. It's installed and working fine. Today

Re: [gentoo-user] skype package changes I don't understand

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: SNIP if you use testing, you have to deal with such kind of situations. Using a known broken version is just stupid. There isn't a choice between those two. There is only a choice between: use unstable or stable. And

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

2012-05-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: SNIP sys-process/htop Huh? I only see the total amount of swap being used, but no entry per process. Hit F2, and go down to 'columns'. Anything

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

2012-05-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: SNIP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: For example:  Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters on this list. Yo Dale, You might want to re-calibrate your

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Ignas Anikevicius anikevic...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion invasivenor...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually.  The prices are coming down now.  I keep seeing these green

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Norman Invasion invasivenor...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 May 2012 14:01, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion invasivenor...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As some

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually. Hi Dale, One thing I wanted to point out about the task you have in front of you. There is a problem in your work statement here

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-05-09 4:47 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually.  The prices are coming down now.  I keep seeing these green drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On May 9, 2012 7:36 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: As for RAID, +100 to not use them. The WD Green drives do not support time-limited error recovery (TLER) and spin down based on their view of trying to save

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: The best answer at the time was some piece of low level software from WD called something like wdtwiddle or something WDTLER  :) Hey, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: SNIP My thoughts these days is that nobody really makes a bad drive anymore. Like cars[1], they're all good and do what it says on the box. Same with bikes[2]. A manufacturer may have some bad luck and a

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 wo...@wonkology.org 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

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

2012-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem. Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread. I run stable Gentoo + a few

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

2012-05-06 Thread Mark Knecht
SNIP I thought I'd report back that while Flash continues to crash on this machine only even with updates to both Firefox adobe-flash, I tried Google Chrome this morning and it works perfectly. I appears the root cause of this problem would be Firefox, not Flash or nvidia-drivers, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: [snip

[gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of comment people give is that this should be straight forward if 32-bit codecs are

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 1 May 2012, at 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: SNIP Can you play the WMV? The wmv extension usually indicates an ASF container, and the ASF container can have DRM. I see them every once

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: I just got access to these files today so until this morning I didn't even know what format they'd be in. Can you provide us with a downloadable sample, or are these files private? Technically they're private but

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway) they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but emerge won't enable the darn thing... You need to unmask the USE flag first, by adding

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol mike

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] fetch restriction bypass

2012-04-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:15:49 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I was thinking 'skip the fetch restriction check', but if the ebuild doesn't have the file path to retrieve, that's almost moot. It's _plausible_ one could calculate

Re: [gentoo-user] How to check what cause a use flag

2012-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:19 AM, AleiPhoenix (A.K.A Areverie) aleiphoe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all Recently when I'm trying sync and upgrade the whole system with emerge -DNnav --with-bdeps=y @system @world I've got erlang with wxwidgets use flag. On my another gentoo box, uprading erlang

Re: [gentoo-user] How to check what cause a use flag

2012-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: AleiPhoenix (A.K.A Areverie) writes: Hi, all Recently when I'm trying sync and upgrade the whole system with emerge -DNnav --with-bdeps=y @system @world I've got erlang with wxwidgets use flag. On my another gentoo

[gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

2012-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem. Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread. I run stable Gentoo + a few ~amd64 packages. My video adapter is an NVidia 463 GTX. Since the update to adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 a few weeks ago all Flash apps crash the plugin within

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

2012-04-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem. Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread. I run stable Gentoo + a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Qian Qiao qian.q...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 19:40, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't fix it. Off to find another solution. -- :wq Does sound like

[gentoo-user] Mic works, but doesn't work...

2012-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Ah, for a peaceful Saturday, but I guess not this one... I'm just starting to investigate this but maybe someone's worked on this sort of thing recently? The bottom line is that my mic for conferencing is working, in the sense that with headphones on I can raise the either the 'Front

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