[gentoo-user] Re: OT - New kernel and now xv won't work with mplayer

2012-04-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/04/12 03:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: So far I am very happy with 3.2.1-r2 on my PC except for one thing: xv doesn't seem to work anymore. Why 3.2.1-r2? Try 3.2.12 and 3.2.14. Many bugs were fixed since 3.2.1. If that doesn't help, try 3.3.3.

[gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/04/12 21:34, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:50:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered: [snip] So I removed linux-firmware, rebooted and got kmail back. We all noticed that you are using KMail once more, because you are sending

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/04/12 20:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Just browsed the changelog of glibc-2.15: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg00836.html When I read the NEWS section there with all that optimized stuff I wonder if it makes any sense to rebuild packages here after upgrading glibc?

[gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/04/12 17:25, Philip Webb wrote: 120421 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: You actually have to remove the offensive file from the dir, not simply rename it to 'xx70xx...' ! That's the same way files in /etc/portage/ works too. I do wish we could put a # on the front to make it ignore files.

[gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered

2012-04-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/04/12 18:55, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Also, make sure to emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware. Without it, RTL8111/8168B NICs will produce random connectivity hang-ups after a few hours; they need firmware that was previously part of the kernel itself but has now been

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

2012-04-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/04/12 21:13, Mark Knecht wrote: 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? Make sure the mic is selected as the capture source: * Run alsamixer in a terminal. * Press

[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: I switched to the Nvidia video driver

2012-04-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/04/12 09:39, Walter Dnes wrote: A couple of booby-traps for the unwarey... 1) There seemes to be a colour translation bug in recent versions of Flash that only shows with the Nvidia video drivers. Red and blue are swapped in Flash. If you see people with blue faces, and you're not

[gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/04/12 22:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: I upgraded to sys-auth/pambase-20120417 and sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1 and found I couldn't login to a new session or use su. Rebooting only made the problem permanent, I had to SSH in to revert to sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r2 and sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5.

[gentoo-user] Re: pambase/shadow warning

2012-04-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/04/12 00:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:57:45 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Good thing I don't have pambase installed :-P This is a recent build, so I thought I'd come out of the stone age and try using pam. That cave looks rather inviting right now... When I

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/ppl-0.12 breaks gcc?

2012-04-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/04/12 20:53, Doug Hunley wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:39, Michael Molmike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Doug Hunleydoug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:20, Michael Molmike...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using ccache? nope. no ccache, no

[gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/04/12 17:11, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: Since we're talking about video playback with open source drivers, any luck to intel onboard adapter users? I'm struggling with an HD3000 core i3 video adapter, can't playback 1080p without tearing. Tearing shouldn't occur when you use

[gentoo-user] depclean stopped working

2012-04-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
emerge --depclean seems to have bugged out for me: * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being installed: * * =dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8* pulled in by: * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-8.0.2.591240 * * dev-libs/openssl:0.9.8

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean stopped working

2012-04-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/04/12 18:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:01:43 +0300 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: emerge --depclean seems to have bugged out for me: * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being installed: * *

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean stopped working

2012-04-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/04/12 18:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 17/04/12 18:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:01:43 +0300 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: emerge --depclean seems to have bugged out for me: * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean stopped working

2012-04-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/04/12 19:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:41:55 +0300 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/04/12 18:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 17/04/12 18:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:01:43 +0300 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean stopped working

2012-04-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/04/12 18:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: emerge --depclean seems to have bugged out for me: * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being installed: * * =dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8* pulled in by: * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-8.0.2.591240

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 11:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 04/12/2012 09:09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: That was the previous laptop. This current one has an ATI card and I use ati drivers rather than fglrx for the same reason. What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ?

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 14:14, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary drivers perform better and save much more energy

[gentoo-user] Re: About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote: Howdy, Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/12 23:38, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Just being curious: I use my main workstation primarily for work. Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. I consider to chose nouveau drivers instead of

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 00:29, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: What are your recommendations? Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary drivers perform better

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 00:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary drivers perform better and save much more energy

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/12 00:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 02:43, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: Somewhat related question. I use the Nvidia drivers here and have not had any issues in a while. How does one use VESA if the Nvidia drivers fail? One used to change it in xorg.conf but most don't have

[gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote: With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast enough to keep up. E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer.

[gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/04/12 17:19, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote: With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast

[gentoo-user] Re: Extended file attributes: ext4

2012-04-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/04/12 19:34, Mick wrote: On Sunday 08 Apr 2012 16:56:23 David W Noon wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 17:26:03 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4: is it possible to go from an ext4-filesystem with no extended file attributes to one with extended

[gentoo-user] Re: Extended file attributes: ext4

2012-04-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/04/12 19:44, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com [12-04-08 18:40]: On Sunday 08 Apr 2012 16:56:23 David W Noon wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 17:26:03 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4: is it possible to go from an

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice about ati-drivers? [50% SOLVED]

2012-04-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/12 03:16, Michael Hampicke wrote: However, now that the firmware loading problem is fixed, my screen still goes black on bootup. But now it's instantaneous instead of 60 seconds delayed :( I'm back to functioning vesa mode if I boot with radeon.memset=0, but that's not really my

[gentoo-user] Re: Line-In input doesn't get forwarded as output

2012-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/03/12 15:54, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I upgraded to gentoo-sources 3.3, but it seems there's either a bug or feature in the kernel. ALSA doesn't seem to forward line-in input to the output, while the same happens with gentoo-sources 3.2.11. Anybody else facing this issue? If it's a

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-182 already

2012-03-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/03/12 16:35, walt wrote: There is another useflag I've never noticed before, the 'openrc' useflag, which is used by udev to install the openrc init scripts. I just noticed and set that useflag today when updating udev because I'm still using openrc. I don't know what would have happened

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/03/12 07:26, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Has anyone played around with the various better known compilers on Gentoo? By better known, I'm referring to gcc, Intel, llvm, pathscale. My situation is that I've just started my PhD which requires me to do Finite Element Analysis, FEA, and

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/03/12 16:11, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 03/19/12 17:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 19/03/12 07:26, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Has anyone played around with the various better known compilers on [snip] ... ... [snip] You don't need to change compilers. You can use whatever one you like

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing compilers

2012-03-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/03/12 19:24, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 03/20/12 01:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 19/03/12 16:11, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 03/19/12 17:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 19/03/12 07:26, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Has anyone played around with the various better known compilers on [snip

[gentoo-user] Re: Assistance if possible

2012-03-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/03/12 06:15, Colleen Beamer wrote: However, activitymanager can't be reinstalled because there isn't an upgrade to 4.8.1. Since I went about things the way I did, I can't get this package installed because everything else is upgraded to 4.8.1 and activitymanager's latest version is 4.7.4.

[gentoo-user] Re: Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/03/12 03:01, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 19/03/2012 02:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 19/03/12 02:36, Maxim Wexler wrote: As slow as my connection is, I've always been able to sync portage and use bash to write a link file which I can download at the free wifi in town. Now I can't even

[gentoo-user] Re: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/03/12 06:11, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: This item just appeared after eix-sync: HTPC ~ # eselect news read 2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking Title udev-181 unmasking AuthorWilliam Hubbswilli...@gentoo.org Posted2012-03-16

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Nikos. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon. No, we don't. I hope systemd arrives soon. It's the best init system I ever saw. What's so good about it? What

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/03/12 03:45, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Nikos. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I trigger kernel panic?

2012-03-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/03/12 21:45, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: Just to be sure, r e i s u b may be input in low case, without shift, right? Like hold Alt + SysRq and type r e i s u b then release Alt + SysRq? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/12 10:32, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've just been bitten by sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908. After reboot, the network doesn't come up: localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3463]: ERROR: interface lo does not exist localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3464]: Ensure that you have loaded the

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/12 20:05, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo are worse. What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it? Paul's answers covers it, but I'll give an explanation that is the reverse of a fanboi answer. The

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/03/12 00:34, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:29:10 +0200 Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES support in portage? IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that some devs started keeping

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/03/12 02:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:54:30 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyone care to offer an opinion on what it will take to get PROVIDES support in portage? IMO, it would take virtuals causing so many headachy breakages that some devs started keeping up

[gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

2012-03-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/03/12 22:56, András Csányi wrote: Dear All, I would like to ask some help! I would like to use gmail smtp to send my email from my domain which is sayusi.hu, and the email address is sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu. Unfortunately, gmail smtp always overwrite the sender email address. Doesn't the

[gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

2012-03-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/03/12 16:41, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-03-10, Andr??s Cs??nyisayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to ask some help! I would like to use gmail smtp to send my email from my domain which is sayusi.hu, and the email address is sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu. Unfortunately, gmail smtp always

[gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

2012-03-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/03/12 16:49, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mar 11, 2012 3:59 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com mailto:sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I would like to ask some help! I would like to use gmail smtp to send my email from my domain which is sayusi.hu http://sayusi.hu, and the

[gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

2012-03-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/03/12 17:18, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mar 11, 2012 10:08 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com mailto:rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/12 16:49, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mar 11, 2012 3:59 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com mailto:sayusi.a...@gmail.com mailto:sayusi.a

[gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

2012-03-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
. Here are the relevant headers of the email that arrived. my_other_address is what I used as From: Return-path: rea...@gmail.com Envelope-to: my_other_address Sender: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com From: my_other_address The OP mentioned that the problem is that he wants

[gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this comes to be, since I have

[gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/12 16:55, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: web browsers crash at sourceforge.net project pages

2012-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/03/12 16:06, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: Hello. On my ~amd64 systems some web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1, Midori 0.4.3, Opera 11.61 Build 1250) just crash when loading any sourceforge.net project page. Konquerer does not crash, though. I have already run revdep-rebuild, but the

[gentoo-user] Re: web browsers crash at sourceforge.net project pages

2012-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/03/12 17:09, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 04:24:33PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/03/12 16:06, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: Hello. On my ~amd64 systems some web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1, Midori 0.4.3, Opera 11.61 Build 1250) just crash when

[gentoo-user] Re: Autoloading modules..,

2012-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/03/12 06:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I heard -- not only in this list -- that loading modules, that supports hardware, is better than integration the according modules into the kernel. Nope. It's exactly the same. The only instance where it's better, is when you need to unload it

[gentoo-user] Re: Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 13:37, trevor donahue wrote: Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a major problem right now. I've been using gentoo for several months now and I simply lllooove it! So here's the thing. When I use gentoo for a long time, even without updating the current pack of installed software (emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox shows as Aurora

2012-02-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/02/12 08:42, Thanasis wrote: Installed www-client/firefox-10.0.1-r1 and it shows as Aurora in Help-About screen. Yeah, I had that problem too. It was an error in the mozconfig-3 eclass. This has been fixed, so simply resync your portage tree and rebuild firefox.

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/02/12 23:50, Willie Matthews wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? Plain ALSA? Or OSSv4? Both handle multiple audio streams just fine.

[gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Are there any tools that will: 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a corresponding tbz2 file in /usr/portage/packages? 2) Remove any older versions in /usr/portage/packages prior to me running a backup? I think app-portage/gentoolkit can

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27,

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 04:30, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 04:30, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
(Hmm, GMane acting up again. Sorry if this shows up twice; I've sent this yesterday.) On 25/02/12 04:00, Grant wrote: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me. When does that ever work? Oh

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/02/12 13:43, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: In that case, the benchmarks are useless. From my personal experience... a fresh i686 install on a 4 and 1/2 year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU was not able to keep up with the slowest available speed on NHL Gamecenter Live. Ditto for

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/02/12 16:04, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Nikos. On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 04:10:10AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 25/02/12 04:00, Grant wrote: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked

[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/02/12 16:48, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-02-25, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote: On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: user can watch. Flash

[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote: On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a PC user can watch their videos. Having

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/02/12 04:00, Grant wrote: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me. When does that ever work? You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you to text-only mode. There, you

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/02/12 04:00, Grant wrote: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me. When does that ever work? Oh crap, you said remote system. Somehow I missed that. Ignore my previous post since

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/02/12 12:44, Mick wrote: On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 10:22:40 Willie WY Wong wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:22:27PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems : it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage most/all of my 2 GB

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/02/12 21:42, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 23/02/12 12:44, Mick wrote: The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building from source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to resort to

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/02/12 22:11, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/02/12 12:44, Mick wrote: On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 10:22:40 Willie WY Wong wrote: The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building from source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to resort

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/02/12 22:24, Willie WY Wong wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:55:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: The PGO optimized build that Mozilla is shipping. You can also build with PGO from source, but that means building FF *twice* in a row (by enabling the pgo USE flag

[gentoo-user] Re: dog - man's best friend.

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/02/12 22:42, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I've set the threshold between the two cases at 60 lines. If your screen is a different size, change the two obvious bits. You can use the $LINES env variable to get the height of the current terminal. Another way to get them is with the tput

[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/02/12 22:49, James wrote: Adobe has announce no more Flash on Linux. What the the (gentoo) plan for those of us that want to still view websites that use FLASH from a gentoo workstation (besides using chrome)? What are the work arounds for web surfing without FLASH support?

[gentoo-user] Re: This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/02/12 00:59, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Willie WY Wongwong...@member.ams.org wrote: Actually, why is it that upstream does not provide 64bit binaries? (It always bothers me to

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/02/12 02:34, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/02/12 22:11, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/02/12 12:44, Mick wrote: On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 10:22:40 Willie WY Wong wrote: The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building from source

[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/02/12 05:22, Philip Webb wrote: 120223 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/02/12 22:49, James wrote: Adobe has announce no more Flash on Linux. The real news is no more Flash on Linux in 5 years. Isn't HTML 5 due to replace Flash long before then ? It's not compatible with Flash, so

[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote: On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works is a very powerful incentive; you do not abandon something that works

[gentoo-user] Re: maybe [OT]: how to make new dictionaries work on Firefox 9?

2012-02-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/02/12 13:55, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All I have had problems installing new dictionaries in Firefox since I left the old 3.X series. Now, on FF 9.0, it is still the same. I am able to install a new dictionary, just can't use it. I even tried and installed a manual and an auto

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/02/12 00:34, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile: [... big linking being done ...] collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 [...] Do you have enough memory on that machine, is swap space activated?

[gentoo-user] Re: [konsole] How to run a command, then leave the shell open?

2012-02-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/02/12 05:08, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 21 February 2012 18:36, Felix Kuperjansfe...@desaster-games.com wrote: Hi Hilco, answers and suggestions inline. Am 22.02.2012 03:03, schrieb Hilco Wijbenga: Hi all, Every morning I start konsole, type emerge --sync, and then go do other stuff.

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc and mplayer crash with nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/02/12 14:53, Bernd Butscheidt wrote: as told in the subject. Both crash instantly or after a few seconds when accessing or trying to play a video-dvd. Strange enough, xine doesn't seem to be affected. Seems to me to be related to: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404261 So I

[gentoo-user] Re: Downgrading gcc

2012-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/02/12 06:20, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to downgrade gcc from 4.5.3-r1 to 4.4.5. The Gentoo gcc UPgrade guide tells me, that ABI are only upward compatible which implies problems when downgrading and not upgrading. Nonetheless a downgrade is needed here and I want to go to

[gentoo-user] Re: Downgrading gcc

2012-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/02/12 06:38, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just re-emerge the older version e.g. emerge =...gcc-4.4.5 (... is the category). Then use eselect gcc or gcc-config to select the active gcc version. It's better to emerge it by using its slot: emerge gcc:4.4 so you can get updates normally for that

[gentoo-user] RFC: are you able to use elogv as a non-root user?

2012-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 months ago or a year ago), I stopped being able to use elogv as a regular user. Something had changed the permissions of the /var/log/portage and

[gentoo-user] Re: RFC: are you able to use elogv as a non-root user?

2012-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/02/12 04:00, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:28:11 +0200 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: This isn't an important issue, but it still bugs me a bit (curiosity killed the cat.) Some while ago (no idea when exactly, could be 6 months ago or a year ago), I

[gentoo-user] Re: In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/02/12 17:49, LK wrote: Hi, 12 In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Disable the Bootup logo option in your kernel: Device Drivers - Graphics support - Bootup logo Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. That is

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/02/12 12:48, LK wrote: Hi, How do i get rid of that? It takes one minute on boot, that is awful. If you boot with acpi=off, does the problem go away? What kernel version are you using? PS: How do i deamonize a service on startup? DHCPCD for example? It has a service. You add it

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/02/12 14:15, LK wrote: On 120214, at 13:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 14/02/12 12:48, LK wrote: How do i get rid of that? It takes one minute on boot, that is awful. If you boot with acpi=off, does the problem go away? What kernel version are you using? No it does not. After

[gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

2012-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/02/12 18:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Correct, there is however a really fast method using star -copy. This works because there are two decoupled processes,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Midi-masterkeyboard...and Linux?

2012-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/02/12 18:29, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, to aim at the right way of research I would like to know, wether it would be a) no problem at all b) a true problem near to an unsolveable challenge c) a thing of careful selection of the according hardware to connect a midi

[gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory during GCC compile

2012-02-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/02/12 23:33, Grant wrote: I'm trying to compile GCC on a remote system with 192MB RAM. It's completed successfully before but now it uses up all RAM. The compile doesn't stop but it must be thrashing. I have MAKEOPTS=-j1 in /etc/make.conf. Am I jeopardizing my HD by letting it swap on

[gentoo-user] Re: amarok fade down

2012-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/2012 06:02 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: In short, both GStreamer and VLC can do anything that Xine do, and they probably do it better. If something is not working properly, it probably is a problem with the integration with KDE (via phonon). This should be fixed by them in a short

[gentoo-user] Re: amarok fade down

2012-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/04/2012 05:04 PM, Stephane Guedon wrote: Hi all For a long time, my amarok doesn't fade down anymore each time I use vlc as phonon backend. As xine is said to be deprecated, I should switch. Does anyone of you use vlc as a phonon-backend and succeed in amarok fade down ? If no, what

[gentoo-user] Re: How to remove the clear screen just before login

2012-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/03/2012 08:55 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 120203 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I'm using openrc (0.9.8.4) and I don't use any (graphical) login manager. After some upgrade of openrc -- not too long ago -- something clears the screen just

[gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2012 07:36 AM, Dale wrote: When 3.1 came out, I changed jobs. Swapping 15 floppies is no fun to me. Funny, reinstalling fixed the problems back then and it still is the best way to fix windoze. I installed a Windows 95 beta from floppies :-) Microsoft shipped them DMF formatted

[gentoo-user] Re: JACK on a multiprocessor/-core system

2012-01-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/29/2012 05:16 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it possible to successfully run jackd as provided by Gentoo/Emerge/Portage on a multicore system ( AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor ) ? Thank you very much for any help in advance! It runs (of course), but the version in portage

[gentoo-user] Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/30/2012 05:48 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com mailto:mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info mailto:pa...@poluan.info wrote: My earliest new and shiny then would be a honkin' big

[gentoo-user] Re: advice about Gentoo (Oracle, Java, VMWare...)

2012-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: But... - Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW This isn't Java. To install Oracle's Java on Gentoo, simply emerge dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin and you're set.

[gentoo-user] Re: For those who complain

2012-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2012 10:51 PM, Dale wrote: Albert W. Hopkins wrote: [...] And sometimes those people are finding problems. Please don't feed the troll.

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