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

2011-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/16/2011 09:00 PM, Stroller wrote: 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

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

2011-12-17 Thread pk
On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote: Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is using so much. Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if you are using the same version, 32-bit/64-bit, CPU

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

2011-12-17 Thread pk
On 2011-12-16 19:54, Mick wrote: Please remind me, where do you set up vsync? On mine it seems to be on by default: $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i vsync [ 22796.516] (II) RADEON(0): SwapBuffers wait for vsync: enabled Hm... I thought this was about Intel GPU but apparently I

[gentoo-user] eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I just noticed the USE flag security in stable app-portage/eix. The description is hardly helpful: It fixes exploits but is not enabled by default. Why? What are the drawbacks? I couldn't find anything in a quick online search. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 16 December 2011 19:15:12 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

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

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, pk wrote: On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote: Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is using so much. Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if you are using the

[gentoo-user] Why is gnome-2.32.1-r1 requiring the gnome-3 nautilus and evince?

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I run gnome3 on a test laptop, but want to wait until intersession to install it on my real laptop. I will probably like gnome3, but had a bad experience a few months ago when gnome-shell repeatedly crashed so want to wait for a quiet time to do the upgrade. Anyway, weeks ago I installed the

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is gnome-2.32.1-r1 requiring the gnome-3 nautilus and evince?

2011-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/17/2011 06:22 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by gnome-base/nautilus-3.2.1-r1[previewer] Do you have the 'previewer' useflag set? I'm guessing that the older nautilus doesn't have that functionality, so the new version gets pulled

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

2011-12-17 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sat, Dec 17 2011, pk wrote: On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote: Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is using so much. Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if

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

2011-12-17 Thread James
Walter Dnes waltdnes at waltdnes.org writes: It has properly identified the cpu as core2. But mmx, sse, sse2, sse3 (aka pni), and ssse3 are disabled!!! I'll change my CFLAGS to... CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe I usually

[gentoo-user] KMail skips messages in some folders when clicking Next (or pressing +)

2011-12-17 Thread Dan Johansson
I upgraded to KMail 4.7.3 some days ago and now i have a small but annoying problem. I have configured KMail to When trying to find unread messages: Loop in All Folders and it mostly works as expected. BUT some folders/messages get skipped when I click Next Unread Message or press +. I have not

[gentoo-user] Re: eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread James
Florian Philipp lists at binarywings.net writes: Hi list! I just noticed the USE flag security in stable app-portage/eix. The description is hardly helpful: It fixes exploits but is not enabled by default. Why? What are the drawbacks? I couldn't find anything in a quick online search.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is gnome-2.32.1-r1 requiring the gnome-3 nautilus and evince?

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, walt wrote: On 12/17/2011 06:22 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by gnome-base/nautilus-3.2.1-r1[previewer] Do you have the 'previewer' useflag set? I'm guessing that the older nautilus doesn't have that

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question...

2011-12-17 Thread Hari Purnama
On 12/16/11 22:17, Tanstaafl wrote: 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

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

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Webb
111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote: 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and Webb suggested /z for extra space. So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8, created the mount point /mnt/junk and when

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

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, Philip Webb wrote: 111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote: 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and Webb suggested /z for extra space. So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8,

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question...

2011-12-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-12-17 11:34 AM, Hari Purnama h...@mapits.com wrote: Did you put the log-prefix rule before or after the LOG rule? After - the log prefix rule is last... Or why didn't you put it in a 1liner, say: -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state INVALID -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix (fw-drop):

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some sort? I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its own filesystems named HFS and HFSplus. I'm guessing that data disks burned with a Mac will use HFS, but I don't know

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-16, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Grant Edwardsgrant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Correct. If you use dd to copy an encrypted disk, the result will be missing something like 90% of the data. I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in

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

2011-12-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 December 2011, at 02:13, Joseph wrote: ... I see that LedgerSMB is 1.3 is it stable? Any version of LedgerSMB will be better than any version of SQL-Ledger. Is there direct migration from SQL-Ledger 2.8.35 No idea off the top of my head. The plan for LedgerSMB was to be compatible

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-17, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen TV. These players allow you to treat .iso files on the network just as if they were actual DVDs and give

[gentoo-user] -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
Here's the setup of my secondary machine.. It's a Dell Inspiron Desktop 530, with 2 gigs of ram, assembled and shipped August 2007. It has an Intel Core2 (*NOT* a Core2 Duo) cpu. From /proc/cpuinfo... vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name :

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

2011-12-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 December 2011, at 20:39, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-12-17, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen TV. These players allow you to treat .iso

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

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some sort? I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its own filesystems named HFS and HFSplus.  I'm guessing

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

2011-12-17 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] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 04:27:13PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on the 2 CPUs just fine. See the new thread -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative. This was not where I had expected to find the solution. -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: gcc -march=native -Q --help=target If that shows something disabled that cat /proc/cpuinfo shows as available, is it safe to turn it on? So far all I have found that is disabled that cpuinfo shows is mmx. I'm still looking tho. Also, I think the native setting is a

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

2011-12-17 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 04:27:13PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on the 2 CPUs just fine. See the new thread -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative. This was not where I had expected to find the

[gentoo-user] Re: -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/17/2011 11:07 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Then I ran gcc -march=native -Q --help=target and got a major shock. It's a long output listing of what -march=native thinks about my cpu. Here are some relevant items... -march= core2 -mmmx

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

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 December 2011 21:19:27 Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some sort? I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had

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

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2011 21:19:27 Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Do you know of any way to read a DVD that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.12.2011 16:38, schrieb James: Florian Philipp lists at binarywings.net writes: Hi list! I just noticed the USE flag security in stable app-portage/eix. The description is hardly helpful: It fixes exploits but is not enabled by default. Why? What are the drawbacks? I couldn't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: This adds some checks which can prevent certain exploits if e.g. the eix code has a bug. As I said, this description is hardly useful. If it fixes exploits, then why is it not enabled for non-hardened profiles per default? It

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

2011-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Yep. I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege of such a thing shouldn't be used as an indication of non-existence of such a thing. :)

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

2011-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:39:38 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The SageTv set-top box will happily play a DVD directory also (in addition to playing TV shows recorded by the SageTv DVR server software). Sadly, Google bought SageTv and shut them down. It's too bad. SageTv server +

[gentoo-user] Re: eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/17/2011 01:15 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I just noticed the USE flag security in stable app-portage/eix. The description is hardly helpful: It fixes exploits but is not enabled by default. Why? What are the drawbacks? I couldn't find anything in a quick online search. eix is

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

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: Photo-CD, perhaps? Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't lead me anywhere. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

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

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: Photo-CD, perhaps? Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't

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

2011-12-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Yep.  I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege of such a thing

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

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Yep.  I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted DVD -- but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:58:36PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote The output lies. It's a known issue. Use this instead: echo | gcc -dM -E - -march=native You should see stuff like: #define __MMX__ 1 #define __SSE3__ 1 The onboard GPU was initially incapable of handling

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: -march=                               core2 -mmmx                                 [disabled] -msse                                 [disabled] -msse2                                [disabled] -msse3                      

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

2011-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I guess you are saying that either the CSS keys are completely unnecessary, or that the DVD-RW drive can read but not write to the area where they are stored? I think, typically, when a DVD with copy-protection is

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-17, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 17 December 2011, at 20:39, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-12-17, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on