Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:55:27 +0100, lee wrote: > > Firstly, things like Flash and Skype are not special cases, they are > > widely used and many of us have to use them, whether we like it or > > not. > > They are special cases. Flash never really worked, and when it does, > it's pretty much

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

On 01/12/2016 10:17 PM, lee wrote: Thanks for helping, I' try to answer in-line. Håkon Alstadheim writes: I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL [Quadro FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after kernel 3.14.*, so I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] snapshots?

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:43:12 +0100, lee wrote: > >> The relevant advantage of btrfs is being able to make snapshots. Is > >> that worth all the (potential) trouble? Snapshots are worthless when > >> the file system destroys them with the rest of the data. > > > > You forgot the data

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

Just for the record: Tried switcing off gfx_passthru, and over to device-model qemu-xen. This gave me another (virtual) graphics-card on this vm. After adding BusID "00:05:0" to the device section, I'm right back where I started :-( On 01/13/2016 10:19 AM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On

[gentoo-user] (Re-) Configuring X11 with two graphic cards (NVidia)

Hi, previously there were two graphic cards installed in my Gentoo box: Geforce GT 430 Geforce GT 560TI The first was used for desktop purposes only and the second was used only by Blender as "render engine". Then the Geforce GT 560TI went crazy and died and had to change it with another one,

[gentoo-user] Re: libxml2 conflicts

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:01:47 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > I use a directory for package.use, then autounmask puts its entries in > the last file in there, so I have a file called zzz-autounmask. It's > pretty easy to clean up, just delete/move it and run emerge -u @world >

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: No audio while playing HTML5-video (YouTube)

On 13/01/16 08:19, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 13 Jan 2016 08:00:11 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 13/01/16 07:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: default should be ~/.mpv/config Or "~/.config/mpv/config". I had the former file in which I added your suggested stanza, but youtube videos dragged from FF

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libxml2 conflicts

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:51:07 -0600, »Q« wrote: > > I use a directory for package.use, then autounmask puts its entries in > > the last file in there, so I have a file called zzz-autounmask. It's > > pretty easy to clean up, just delete/move it and run emerge -u @world > > again and it will be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:55:27 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > Firstly, things like Flash and Skype are not special cases, they are >> > widely used and many of us have to use them, whether we like it or >> > not. >> >> They are special cases. Flash never

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: No audio while playing HTML5-video (YouTube)

On 14/01/16 01:15, Mick wrote: I am on the stable tree, but have net-misc/youtube-dl-2016.01.0 at the moment. Our USE flags are the same. I will emerge the latest version of net- misc/youtube-dl tomorrow to see if this fixes it, but I somehow doubt it. I wonder if this problem is related to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: No audio while playing HTML5-video (YouTube)

On Wednesday 13 Jan 2016 22:06:02 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 13/01/16 08:19, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 Jan 2016 08:00:11 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 13/01/16 07:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> default should be ~/.mpv/config > >> > >> Or "~/.config/mpv/config". > > > > I had the

Re: [gentoo-user] libxml2 conflicts

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:52:15 + (UTC), James wrote: > Beside a specific resolution, I guess I'm curious as to other > gentoo-admin philosophies related to autounmask usage and keeping the > package.use file reasonable and as concise as possible. Suggestions? > I use a directory for

[gentoo-user] libxml2 conflicts

Hello, >> I really like using 'autounmask' with portage issues. So my package.use file has (2) sections. The first is where I list a package and then the use flag settings for that specific package, traditional usage of package.use, imo. The second section, below these entries is where

[gentoo-user] Re: libxml2 conflicts

Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > I use a directory for package.use, then autounmask puts its entries in > the last file in there, so I have a file called zzz-autounmask. It's > pretty easy to clean up, just delete/move it and run emerge -u world > again and it will be repopulated with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libxml2 conflicts

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:24:21 + (UTC), James wrote: > > I use a directory for package.use, then autounmask puts its entries in > > the last file in there, so I have a file called zzz-autounmask. It's > > pretty easy to clean up, just delete/move it and run emerge -u > > world again and it