Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Webb
111215 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I need to add space to /var -- thank you, libreoffice -- , which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well ... phy vol:pvcreate /dev/sda8 ... I have long had my own extra var-type dir,

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:41:07 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well.

[gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm trying to make an older PC display high-def streaming video. It's a Dell Inspiron Desktop 530, with 2 gigs of ram, assembled and shipped August 2007. It has an Intel dual core (*NOT* a Core Duo) cpu like so (from /proc/cpuinfo). vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model

Re: [gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/16/2011 12:11:34 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm trying to make an older PC display high-def streaming video. It's a Dell Inspiron Desktop 530, with 2 gigs of ram, assembled and shipped August 2007. It has an Intel dual core (*NOT* a Core Duo) cpu like so (from /proc/cpuinfo).

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 16, 2011 5:05 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:41:07 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 16 December 2011 03:18:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is

[gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread James
Helmut Jarausch jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: I'm trying to make an older PC display high-def streaming video. You could try to install a recent kernel (3.1.5 for me) and enable the CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y (it's a staging driver, just search for it by entering / in the make

Re: [gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  I'm trying to make an older PC display high-def streaming video.  It's a Dell Inspiron Desktop 530, with 2 gigs of ram, assembled and shipped August 2007.  It has an Intel dual core (*NOT* a Core Duo) cpu like so (from

[gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/16/2011 04:13 PM, Michael Mol wrote: With an (old) $50 card, you can get an old Core 2 desktop system to serve as an HTPC. Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on the 2 CPUs just fine. A Core 2 desktop system is certainly not old.

[gentoo-user] iptables question...

2011-12-16 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I was reading up on some iptables rules in the gentoo security handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?part=1chap=12style=printable It mentions DROPing packets with an INVALID state. It sounded/sounds like a good idea, so I added the following rule: -A

[gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
For archive purposes is there a simple way for me to make a bit-for-bit copy retail DVDs I've purchased? Assume that I've got the right sort of DVD drive, I guess something capable of writing dual-layer DVDs. Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

2011-12-16 Thread Indi
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:40:01PM +0100, Tanstaafl wrote: Hope someone has an idea... You could try esmtp; Always seems to work for me when the others fail. Haven't tried what you're pursuing, but surely it can be made to work fairly easily... -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: For archive purposes is there a simple way for me to make a bit-for-bit copy retail DVDs I've purchased? Assume

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: For archive purposes is there a simple

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 not running (no pid file)

2011-12-16 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 13 Dec 2011 19:20:57 Todd Goodman wrote: * Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [111213 14:07]: Has anyone else noticed this sort of behavior from apache-2.2.21-r1: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Stopping apache2 ... [ ok ] * Starting apache2 ... * start-stop-daemon:

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is

Re: [gentoo-user] Please ignore above email; I hit send by mistake

2011-12-16 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 17:55:14 pk wrote: On 2011-12-14 07:32, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:12:10AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote Please ignore the above email. I hit send by mistake. Long story short... the R200 is not supported under Mesa Gallium. So a glxgears

Re: [gentoo-user] DBI connect dbname=template1 failed Permission denied

2011-12-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 December 2011, at 03:20, Joseph wrote: … The SQL-Ledger developer was helping me out on this and he can not figure it out either. I'm sure it is not SQL-ledger as it is working perfectly on my other computers. It could be apache configuration, but I don't see how? Wait. Stop. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 December 2011, at 14:27, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/16/2011 04:13 PM, Michael Mol wrote: With an (old) $50 card, you can get an old Core 2 desktop system to serve as an HTPC. Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on the 2 CPUs just fine. A Core 2

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-16, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. Interesting. So even something that just copies

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. [..] Interesting. So even something that just copies blocks of

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep the ripped version here to watch on the computer, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-12-16, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: For archive purposes is there a simple way for me to make a bit-for-bit copy retail DVDs I've purchased? Some time back, I was almost ready to do something big on my 1000+ dvd collection. I did a lot of research. I got stuck on the raid servers and

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I'm in the process of trying media-tv/xbmc instead - I believe it handles menus, but haven't got far enough to test that It does, I've been using it on my xbox for years. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K investment over the years. I

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 not running (no pid file)

2011-12-16 Thread Grant
Has anyone else noticed this sort of behavior from apache-2.2.21-r1: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart  * Stopping apache2 ... [ ok ]  * Starting apache2 ...  * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/apache2 is already running [ ok ] # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart  * apache2 not running (no

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: dvdbackup can recreate the ISO images, IIRC. No, dvdbackup just creates a readable mirror copy from the directory tree on the DVD. You need to use mkisofs -dvd-video to create a new ISO image that can be written to DVD. If you run a simple 'dd' on a DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-12-16, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want.

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 not running (no pid file)

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/16/2011 03:31 PM, Grant wrote: Thanks fellas, that makes perfect sense. Would it make sense for me to request a change to the initscript that waits until all threads have stopped before starting during a restart? Right now it's dumb in one direction, and I have a feeling that if it

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I have found writing dual-layer DVDs practically impossible. The failure rate is way too high - even disks which burned successfully are unreadable on another PC / player. Dual layer DVDs will only work, if the layer break is at the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:20:44PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote You could try to install a recent kernel (3.1.5 for me) and enable the CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU=y (it's a staging driver, just search for it by entering / in the make menuconfig environment). Then re-emerge the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:57:58PM +, James wrote Find the minimal flags and the optimum CFLAGS settings for your needs. Refine by testing. USE a fast hard drive. Avoid apps that soak up ram. Some video apps are ram_hogs... I'd be curious to learn what you finally figure out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:13:14AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote Use any nVidia card capable of full, in-hardware decoding of full h.264 AVC. I've got two GeForce 210s which I purchased because A) they were $50/pc two years ago, and B) they did exactly this. Then enable vdpau. (But that means

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well. Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits (reprinted below).

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I need to add space to /var (thank you, libreoffice), which is on lvm. Since my one volume group vg is getting low, I thought this would be a good time to extend it as well. Alan (McKinnon) has posted very helpful lvm bits

Re: [gentoo-user] DBI connect dbname=template1 failed Permission denied

2011-12-16 Thread Joseph
On 12/16/11 18:57, Stroller wrote: On 16 December 2011, at 03:20, Joseph wrote: … The SQL-Ledger developer was helping me out on this and he can not figure it out either. I'm sure it is not SQL-ledger as it is working perfectly on my other computers. It could be apache configuration, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] DBI connect dbname=template1 failed Permission denied

2011-12-16 Thread Joseph
On 12/16/11 18:57, Stroller wrote: On 16 December 2011, at 03:20, Joseph wrote: … The SQL-Ledger developer was helping me out on this and he can not figure it out either. I'm sure it is not SQL-ledger as it is working perfectly on my other computers. It could be apache configuration, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: One more thing. Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for libreoffice. The failures occurred with 13GB. Today's /mnt/junk success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has 50GB. Dang !! pkg_pretend() { if [[ ${MERGE_TYPE}

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: One more thing. Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for libreoffice. The failures occurred with 13GB. Today's /mnt/junk success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has 50GB. Dang !! pkg_pretend() {

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Fri, Dec 16 2011, Dale wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: One more thing. Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for libreoffice. The failures occurred with 13GB. Today's /mnt/junk success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-16 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I had 13GB left on /var when it died at which point /var had zero. I made a new partition (/mnt/junk) with nothing else on it and built libreoffice there. In another terminal I ran while true do df -h /mnt/junk | grep junk sleep 300 done df began at 0GB and grew

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Joerg Schilling wrote: This is interestingas some mkisofs users report that there are DVDs that look as if there is a need to introduce negative padding between some files. There's DVDs that look (to e.g. lsdvd) as if there were ~60 Tracks of various sizes used, with

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Stroller wrote: On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep the ripped