[gentoo-user] Using a USB printer in an mdev system.

2012-05-01 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. In an mdev system, getting USB device nodes working well enough to support USB printers is tricky. I have just added a section to the mdev wiki page (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev) explaining how to do this. Apologies for any misuse of wiki markup (at which I'm a beginner).

[gentoo-user] Re: fetch restriction bypass

2012-05-01 Thread James
Michael Orlitzky michael at orlitzky.com writes: On 04/30/2012 09:40 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: And, the cookies don't get set in a normal HTTP request. For this to make sense, you probably want to read, HTML request. Ok, I've got to think about all of this feedback and figure out what to

[gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of comment people give is that this should be straight forward if 32-bit codecs are

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of comment

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
You almost got it: $ eix -c w32 [N] dev-util/w32api (--): Free Win32 runtime and import library definitions $ eix -c win32 [N] media-libs/win32codecs ((~)20071007-r4): Windows 32-bit binary codecs for video and audio playback support It's also a use flag for vlc and mplayer (that's for my

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect sh set dash?

2012-05-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.04.2012 16:04, schrieb Marc Joliet: Am Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:20:41 +0200 schrieb Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net: Hi list! Hi, Now that eselect-sh has been stabilized, I'm wondering if anyone has tried setting dash as the /bin/sh symlink. Any experiences? I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 1 May 2012 08:52:04 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote about [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?: [snip] There is a library (libwmf) which advertises the ability to do this but I don't seem to be using it in any application right now: * media-libs/libwmf Available versions: 0.2.8.4-r4 {{X

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2012, at 17:37, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: You almost got it: $ eix -c w32 [N] dev-util/w32api (--): Free Win32 runtime and import library definitions $ eix -c win32 [N] media-libs/ ((~)20071007-r4): Windows 32-bit binary codecs for video and audio playback support

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer

2012-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:35:47 +0100 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi all This is a copy of the thread I recently opened on Gentoo forums[1]. I replaced my Phenom II cpu with a new 6-core AMD bulldozer. However, I noticed that all of my Gentoo virtual machines throw (compiler)

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2012, at 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of comment people give is that this

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 1 May 2012, at 17:37, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: You almost got it: $ eix -c w32 [N] dev-util/w32api (--): Free Win32 runtime and import library definitions $ eix -c win32 [N] media-libs/

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of comment people give is that this should

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 1 May 2012, at 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand

[gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
So /etc/profile contains the following message: # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/. export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano} export PAGER=${PAGER:-/usr/bin/less} Therefore I have created

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it doesn't seem to understand the

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Remy Blank
Stroller wrote: What am I doing wrong or misunderstanding, please? Rename your file to essential_defaults.sh. Only files with a .sh extension are sourced (assuming you are using bash). -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So far the most common solution

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2012, at 18:51, Michael Mol wrote: … I am certainly able to play back .wmv files here without win32codecs installed. Admittedly, I'm using xbmc to do that, and haven't recently tested using VLC or mplayer, but I would avoid installing that package unless I was sure I needed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2012, at 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote: … Since .mp4 video most always means h264 encoding, this means slow and dirty transcoding, which will inherently cause loss of video quality. You want to avoid transcoding if you can. … Hi Stroller, I subscribed to a trading service that

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
I just got access to these files today so until this morning I didn't even know what format they'd be in. Can you provide us with a downloadable sample, or are these files private?

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote: So /etc/profile contains the following message: # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/. export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano} export

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: Therefore I have created a plain text file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults [...] Yet when I log in, these environment variables are not set. The file is world-readable (mode 644), and I even tried setting the execute bit (`chmod +xxx`). It needs to be readable by your

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: SNIP Can you play the WMV? The wmv extension usually indicates an ASF container, and the ASF container can have DRM. I see them every once

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Dale
Mark, I have about every plugin/codec installed that I could find. Is this video publicly available? If it is, I'd be glad to download it and see what I can come up with. If not, you could email it to me, off list of course, and let me play with it. I might be able to get something out of it

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: I just got access to these files today so until this morning I didn't even know what format they'd be in. Can you provide us with a downloadable sample, or are these files private? Technically they're private but

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 1 May 2012, at 18:51, Michael Mol wrote: … I am certainly able to play back .wmv files here without win32codecs installed. Admittedly, I'm using xbmc to do that, and haven't recently tested using VLC or

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: SNIP Can you play the WMV? The wmv extension usually indicates an

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Using a USB printer in an mdev system.

2012-05-01 Thread pk
On 2012-05-01 13:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: In an mdev system, getting USB device nodes working well enough to support USB printers is tricky. I have just added a section to the mdev wiki page (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev) explaining how to do this. Apologies for any misuse of wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2012, at 19:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote: So /etc/profile contains the following message: # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2012, at 19:20, Remy Blank wrote: Stroller wrote: What am I doing wrong or misunderstanding, please? Rename your file to essential_defaults.sh. Only files with a .sh extension are sourced (assuming you are using bash). Many thanks! That's it. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2012, at 19:38, Alex Schuster wrote: … The file is world-readable (mode 644), and I even tried setting the execute bit (`chmod +xxx`). It needs to be readable by your user, more is not needed. Yeah, I thought not, but I thought I'd mention trying it. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway) they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but emerge won't enable the darn thing... You need to unmask the USE flag first, by adding -win32codecs to

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway) they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but emerge won't enable the darn

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway) they are hard

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Notice the

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0100, Stroller wrote So /etc/profile contains the following message: # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/. export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano}

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Maybe a 32-bit Gentoo chroot that doesn't maintain any desktop or X11,

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 2, 2012 2:48 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 1 May 2012, at 19:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote: So /etc/profile contains the following message: # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user #

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2012, at 01:51, Mark Knecht wrote: … Biggest issue for me is likely to be that I haven't done a 32-bit install in at least 6 years. No idea what to watch out for but I doubt it's any big deal. I don't think there's much difference. I've only started doing AMD64 installs in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 May 2012, at 23:52, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0100, Stroller wrote So /etc/profile contains the following message: # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

2012-05-01 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2012, at 03:26, Pandu Poluan wrote: Actually, if you look at the contents of my essential_defaults file, I'm not so interested in the pager as the MANPAGER setting. I find that after using `most` as my man-pager, it's quite horrible using `less` on a new system. For anything

Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

2012-05-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 2 May 2012, at 01:51, Mark Knecht wrote: … Biggest issue for me is likely to be that I haven't done a 32-bit install in at least 6 years. No idea what to watch out for but I doubt it's any big deal. I don't think there's much difference. I've only started doing AMD64

[gentoo-user] libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

2012-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
This issue seems to have come up with the latest update to 3.5.2.2. I cut rows from one doc then want to paste them into another and use paste special to shift rows down. Howerver, paste special doesn't appear in the context menu (it used to in the previous version), and if i choose it from the

[gentoo-user] Apache + mod_suphp

2012-05-01 Thread Carlos Sura
Hello Mates, Quick question: I've installed apache + mod_suphp (I am using on apache configuration: USERDIR), so, when I go to the path: http://localhost/~username/anything I get the following error: Internal Server Error Mismatch between target UID (81) and UID (1000) of file

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice 3.5.2.2 paste special fails

2012-05-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 14:52 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: This issue seems to have come up with the latest update to 3.5.2.2. I ... Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr ~/.libreoffice? ... always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then move it