Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:32:00 -0800, walt wrote: I get this on my desktop but not my laptop. I have tried for ages to find out why it only fails on the desktop and gave up. Now I just chmod +x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper and it goes away, until the next update. Helmut is

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:37:39 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: The solution is to recompile pkgs like dev-libs/dbus-glib after dev-libs/glib upgrade (as noted by elog in the end of glib emerge) Propably 'emerge -e sys-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib' will do the trick if nothing else does I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/16/2014 11:36:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:37:39 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: The solution is to recompile pkgs like dev-libs/dbus-glib after dev-libs/glib upgrade (as noted by elog in the end of glib emerge) Propably 'emerge -e sys-apps/dbus dev-libs/dbus-glib'

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia and poor codec performance (sync)

2014-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/01/14 03:12, João Matos wrote: Dear list, I'm having problem to watch videos on Gentoo, since I can't remember. I got stripes all the time, but it get worse iv the scene is fast. A couple days ago, a friend borrowed my Nvidia gt 240, and I started to use my at-least-seven-year-old

[gentoo-user] How do I make connection attempts in Git timeout sooner?

2014-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
With overlays.gentoo.org being down, by update script takes a long time to complete. Instead of Git telling me immediately that it can't connect to the server, it just sits there for whole minutes doing nothing before it decides to abort. This is extremely frustrating. Is there a way to

[gentoo-user] How to convert and watch dav video file?

2014-01-16 Thread Gevisz
I have to watch a lot of dav video files and possibly convert them to a more common video format like avi or mp4. What are my options? Thank you. P.S. My vlc does not understands this format.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to convert and watch dav video file?

2014-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:19:52 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I have to watch a lot of dav video files and possibly convert them to a more common video format like avi or mp4. What are my options? Have you tried media-video/handbrake? It's straightforward to use and comes with plenty of preset output

Re: [gentoo-user] How to convert and watch dav video file?

2014-01-16 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:30:29 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:19:52 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I have to watch a lot of dav video files and possibly convert them to a more common video format like avi or mp4. What are my options? Have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] How to convert and watch dav video file?

2014-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/01/2014 15:21, Gevisz wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:30:29 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:19:52 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I have to watch a lot of dav video files and possibly convert them to a more common video format like avi or mp4. What are my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia and poor codec performance (sync)

2014-01-16 Thread João Matos
When using mplayer, I switched between all possible output. I used to use vdpau. I had the same problem with vlc and kaffeine. Nvidia vsync option also haven't work. 2014/1/16 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com On 16/01/14 03:12, João Matos wrote: Dear list, I'm having problem to watch

Re: [gentoo-user] How to convert and watch dav video file?

2014-01-16 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:01:14 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/01/2014 15:21, Gevisz wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:30:29 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:19:52 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I have to watch a lot of dav video files

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Jan 16, 2014 3:23 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:32:00 -0800, walt wrote: I get this on my desktop but not my laptop. I have tried for ages to find out why it only fails on the desktop and gave up. Now I just chmod +x

Re: [gentoo-user] How to convert and watch dav video file?

2014-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:45:14 +0200, Gevisz wrote: # eix handbrake [I] media-video/handbrake Available versions: (~)0.9.9 ** {fdk ffmpeg gstreamer gtk} Installed versions: 0.9.9(15:09:43 18/10/2013)(ffmpeg gstreamer gtk -fdk) Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:19:22 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Helmut is still using consolekit. Are you still using consolekit? Yes, it's the default for kdm so it is enabled on both computers. I don't think it will be the default for much longer; it's unmaintained code which

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia and poor codec performance (sync)

2014-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Ah, then you appear to have a different problem then the known Xv one. Have you tried mpv instead? It's the media-video/mpv package. It probably won't help, but it's worth a shot. (mpv is based on mplayer but note that it doesn't work with SMPlayer.) On 16/01/14 16:06, João Matos wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to convert and watch dav video file?

2014-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/01/2014 17:45, Gevisz wrote: Incidentally, there's nothing bad about installing that package's version. It's masked because it's in the source repo (all cvs/svn/git/etc sources are always masked so they don't get installed accidentally). But keeping them current is a pain.

[gentoo-user] xorg Configuration Acer Aspire One

2014-01-16 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, i have a Acer Aspire One D255 and has trouble with the Window Settings here special in xfburn. http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2014-January/032974.html A Answer there think it's because the xorg.conf is not correct, maybe is correct because i not use a xorg.conf. Now i has one

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-15 9:11 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: These are all virtualized under ESXi now so I did some reconfiguration and decided to add open-vm-tools for shutdown support through the host. All items for vmware are built into the kernel, and the VMs are working as they should.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/16/2014 11:55 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2014-01-15 9:11 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: Did you mean it doesn't seem to affect the GUEST shutdown? Yes, the guest shutdown seems to still be working. I've tested both manual (i.e. asking for a guest shutdown) and it works, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-16 Thread Jarry
On 16-Jan-14 22:17, Daniel Frey wrote: Yes, the guest shutdown seems to still be working. I've tested both manual (i.e. asking for a guest shutdown) and it works, and I've set up my APC ups to shutdown the host and all VMs, again all working. If you're interested in the howtos for the APC

Re: [gentoo-user] auvisio white star II

2014-01-16 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:03:26 -0800 Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: What's the output of `ls -lR /dev/dvb` ? What's the output of `dmesg | grep -i af9015` ? Anything relevant there? Have you tried to locate newer firmware? It run now, after i load other Firmware which linked

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I make connection attempts in Git timeout sooner?

2014-01-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:14:28PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote With overlays.gentoo.org being down, by update script takes a long time to complete. Instead of Git telling me immediately that it can't connect to the server, it just sits there for whole minutes doing nothing before it

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I make connection attempts in Git timeout sooner?

2014-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/01/14 00:38, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:14:28PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote With overlays.gentoo.org being down, by update script takes a long time to complete. Instead of Git telling me immediately that it can't connect to the server, it just sits there for whole

[gentoo-user] Converting to Hardened/Selinux

2014-01-16 Thread James
Ok, so I have a fresh install on a stable AMD system. I have decided to go the full hardened/selinux route. I found this guide to convert this newly installed system: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/selinux-handbook.xml?part=2chap=1 So the current version of python selected is

Re: [gentoo-user] auvisio white star II

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/16/2014 02:13 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: It run now, after i load other Firmware which linked in Ubuntu Forum. The Firmware from portage for dvb has some probs with download files. Should write as bug report or to package maintainer? For a couple cards that I have to use firmware the

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using open-vm-tools w/ESXi?

2014-01-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/16/2014 01:35 PM, Jarry wrote: BTW if all you want is safe shutdown, it can be done even without vm-tools (which I personally do not like at all). In vSphere-client I have suspend instead of shutdown (current state with memory snapshot is saved), from ESXi you'd have to play a little

[gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-16 Thread lovely2
I doubt this is a memory problem. I've just had the same problem with glibc-2.17 and python. I manually went back to glibc-2.16 and everything is fine again. I then tried re-emerging all the python versions with glibc-2.16 installed and then re-emerged glibc-2.17 and had the same problem. After

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-16 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 16/01/14 19:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:19:22 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Helmut is still using consolekit. Are you still using consolekit? Yes, it's the default for kdm so it is enabled on both computers. I don't think it will be the default for much