Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/04/2013 21:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. I've just removed pulseaudio from my main Gentoo system. Why? Several reasons: (i) It's a sound server, a description I don't understand. What does it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary layer of fat between

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike udev...) Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough to be

[gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread the guard
Sound started working in Counter-Strike 1.6 only after i installed PA

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-19 Thread Matthew Marlowe
General thoughts when building a home gentoo workstation that you want to last a _long_ time: - Quality, durability, and flexibility of the motherboard, power supply, and chassis are the most important items to focus on. You want a motherboard that is capable of lasting for 10yrs w/o problem, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hello, Gentoo. I've just removed pulseaudio from my main Gentoo system. Why? Several reasons: (i) It's a sound server, a description I don't understand. What does it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

2013-04-19 Thread Joseph
On 04/18/13 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/04/2013 14:34, Hartmut Figge wrote: Stroller: On 18 April 2013, at 02:12, Joseph wrote: I have uninstalled cups-pdf and when I go any program print there is still option: Print to file except that now 'Save to folder by default is empty field,

[gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend. Can someone point me to

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Jarry
On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend.

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread James
Canek Peláez Valdés caneko at gmail.com writes: https://plus.google.com/photos/115256116066287398549/ albums/5778609034682831121/5778849461325756466 And I just don't care. PA just works, in all my machines and media center. And it's all very nicely integrated with GNOME and it just works

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a new gentoo vm up and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Karl Lindén
2013/4/19 James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com: Canek Peláez Valdés caneko at gmail.com writes: Another question. Can the installation of PulseAudio and Jack coexist? Doable or a constant nightmare? Yes, they sure can coexist. I haven't found it completely optimal always, but here is some info. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Another question. Can the installation of PulseAudio and Jack coexist? Doable or a constant nightmare? There seems to be a a package to allow pulse to utilise jack. However if you are using jack for the high quality audio benefit then apparently you have to kill pulseaudio even if it means

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Jarry
On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it runs near-natively. Only the xend daemon need some 'tweaking' to run properly. Do a Google search for gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread James
Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk writes: Another question. Can the installation of PulseAudio and Jack coexist? Doable or a constant nightmare? There seems to be a a package to allow pulse to utilise jack. However if you are using jack for the high quality audio benefit then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I suggested he use Gentoo but I think he saw it as too much work. (comment for me?) All I use is gentoo or embedded (state machines) on embeddded hardware. My target is jack on embedded gentoo, but, I've run into resource limitations, so I'm waiting on my new Arm15 dev board in May.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Kvothe Tech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

2013-04-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 April 2013, at 15:00, Joseph wrote: ... SOLVED! x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.16 has bugs I dowgraded to x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12 and both Firefox and evince can print to pdf to any direcotry. Is there a bug filed for this? Stroller.

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p long list of packages

2013-04-19 Thread Joseph
Can someone explain me why am I getting long list of packages when I run: emerge --depclean . xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.10.2 pulled in by: xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10 requires =xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.10 xfce-base/xfwm4-4.10.0-r1 pulled in by: x11-themes/xfwm4-themes-4.10.0 requires

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 19.04.2013 00:02, schrieb Michael Mol: On 04/18/2013 05:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.04.2013 23:10, schrieb Michael Mol: [snip] Do you say that because you've tested the various orders and know that one application will not conflict with another if started before that, or do

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p long list of packages

2013-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:27:25 -0600, Joseph wrote: Can someone explain me why am I getting long list of packages when I run: emerge --depclean Please post the exact command you used and the complete output. -- Neil Bothwick Hors d'oeuvres: 3 sandwiches cut into 40 pieces. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.04.2013 15:43, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Take a look at this: https://plus.google.com/photos/115256116066287398549/albums/5778609034682831121/5778849461325756466 That's me selecting with a click of the mouse if I want to use Skype with the analog speakers from my laptop, or with

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat 20 Apr 2013 04:36:34 AM PHT, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 19.04.2013 15:43, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Take a look at this: https://plus.google.com/photos/115256116066287398549/albums/5778609034682831121/5778849461325756466 That's me selecting with a click of the mouse if I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.04.2013 23:06, schrieb Mark David Dumlao: Many bluetooth headsets have 2 modes of operation. There's a telephony mode, which allows for audio in and out, and there's a high quality audio mode, which only allows audio out. Very likely that you need to set the playback to telephony

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

2013-04-19 Thread Joseph
On 04/19/13 21:18, Stroller wrote: On 19 April 2013, at 15:00, Joseph wrote: ... SOLVED! x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.16 has bugs I dowgraded to x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.12 and both Firefox and evince can print to pdf to any direcotry. Is there a bug filed for this? Stroller. Yes, I file a but and it is

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage screwup

2013-04-19 Thread Steven J. Long
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:34:42PM -0600, Joseph wrote: On 04/18/13 22:10, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 18.04.2013 15:33, schrieb Joseph: What is going on with portage? All the older packages are being removed and and some of them are not even made stable. I've masked current one

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p long list of packages

2013-04-19 Thread Joseph
On 04/19/13 21:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:27:25 -0600, Joseph wrote: Can someone explain me why am I getting long list of packages when I run: emerge --depclean Please post the exact command you used and the complete output. -- Neil Bothwick Hors d'oeuvres: 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage screwup

2013-04-19 Thread Joseph
On 04/20/13 01:13, Steven J. Long wrote: [snip] If you want the option to rollback, you should use FEATURES=buildpkg[1] in general, and qpkg to make a binpkg from current system. qpkg is part of portage-utils, which is highly recommended. man q after you install it, and follow the instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p long list of packages

2013-04-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Joseph schrieb am 20.04.2013 03:09: On 04/19/13 21:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:27:25 -0600, Joseph wrote: Can someone explain me why am I getting long list of packages when I run: emerge --depclean Please post the exact command you used and the complete output. I