Re: [gentoo-user] [SUSPECTED SPAM] ICEWM 1.4.x crashes after migration to profile 17.0

2018-01-26 Thread Jalus Bilieyich
Any logs, any other information you can give us? Help us help you. On 01/26/2018 07:00 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > So I just "upgraded" to profile 17.0 on on 32-bit Gentoo. By sheer > co-incidence "time emerge -e world" did 541 packages, and took... > > real541m40.408s > user607m12.164s

[gentoo-user] Re: how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/01/18 13:13, Raffaele Belardi wrote: One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to dependency on deprecated QT4. I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild which adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I suppose this will not be

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-26, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > So you know the RPI is not open source as the RPI foundation doesn't > provide firmware sources. Yes, I'm aware of that. [...] > I would consider purchasing another device, of which legitimately > open source low power ARM devices are a

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread taii...@gmx.com
So you know the RPI is not open source as the RPI foundation doesn't provide firmware sources. Proprietary firmware is required to boot and fully use the device as the RPI foundation only cares about open source when it is convenient to them. I would consider purchasing another device, of

Re: [gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:16:09 +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >> I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild which > >> adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I suppose this will not > >> be sufficient to continue using/building the game. Once the > >> dependencies will

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> Pre-transocoding from MPEG-2 TS to MPEG-4 h264 would be nice. > > So, that is a downside with Plex. I don't think you get that level of > fine-grained

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Pre-transocoding from MPEG-2 TS to MPEG-4 h264 would be nice. > So, that is a downside with Plex. I don't think you get that level of fine-grained control. You can't just pick the codec and features. You pick

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with >> Plex than with the others. >> > > I know nothing of TVheadend. MythTV on Android

Re: [gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:13:32PM +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote > One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree > due to dependency on deprecated QT4. > > I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild > which adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with > Plex than with the others. > I know nothing of TVheadend. MythTV on Android has always been kludgy at best, though I haven't touched it in

[gentoo-user] Re: Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: > >> The main backend options seem to be MythTV, Plex, and TVHeadend. > > You seem to understand the pros/cons fairly well. > > I moved from MythTV to Plex

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > The main backend options seem to be MythTV, Plex, and TVHeadend. > You seem to understand the pros/cons fairly well. I moved from MythTV to Plex about two years ago, but as a result of moving from DVR to

[gentoo-user] Opinions on DVR/PVR backend?

2018-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
I think it's about time to replace my SageTV DVR/PVR system, so I'm looking for opinions and recommendations for a DVR backend to run on a Gentoo desktop machine. Some Background... For many years, I ran a dedicated, combined frontend/backend MythTV system (usually a Debian install). Then I

Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about Pale Moon

2018-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 26 January 2018 13:20:04 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:43:31AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > This is with gcc 4.9.4, and I get the same with gcc 6.4.0. I've only > > just noticed that about -fPIC; haven't all those problems been fixed > > by now? > > This

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-26 Thread Corbin Bird
On 01/26/2018 04:00 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: > On 26.01.2018 02:25, Johnson Steward wrote: >> Well, check if you have CONFIG_FB_EFI enabled in your config. > Good idea, but sadly, nope, that was not it. > > KR . Questions that may sound strange ... What version of Windows does your motherboard

Re: [gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:13:32 +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >> One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to >> dependency on deprecated QT4. >> >> I already have a local overlay with a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:13:32 +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > >> One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to >> dependency on deprecated QT4. >> >> I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild which >> adds support for a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:13:32 +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to > dependency on deprecated QT4. > > I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild which > adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I suppose

[SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about Pale Moon

2018-01-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:43:31AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > > This is with gcc 4.9.4, and I get the same with gcc 6.4.0. I've only > just noticed that about -fPIC; haven't all those problems been fixed > by now? This may or may not be relavant. I build Pale Moon manually for my home

[gentoo-user] [SUSPECTED SPAM] ICEWM 1.4.x crashes after migration to profile 17.0

2018-01-26 Thread Walter Dnes
So I just "upgraded" to profile 17.0 on on 32-bit Gentoo. By sheer co-incidence "time emerge -e world" did 541 packages, and took... real541m40.408s user607m12.164s sys 216m2.437s Anyhow, both the current x11-wm/icewm-1.4.2 and x11-wm/icewm-1.4.0 crash back to the text console

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about Pale Moon

2018-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:23:56 GMT Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 16:30 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 12:08:12 GMT Arve Barsnes wrote: > > > Maybe check command line output? > > > > I get eight of these: "undefined symbol:

[gentoo-user] how to support a package going out of tree

2018-01-26 Thread Raffaele Belardi
One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree due to dependency on deprecated QT4. I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild which adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I suppose this will not be sufficient to continue using/building the game.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On 26.01.2018 02:25, Johnson Steward wrote: > Well, check if you have CONFIG_FB_EFI enabled in your config. Good idea, but sadly, nope, that was not it. KR -- Dan Johansson *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons!

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI-fails to boot

2018-01-26 Thread Dan Johansson
On 25.01.2018 20:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:28:49 +0100, Dan Johansson wrote: > >> The one thing that is not working is that I do not see ANY boot-messages >> on the console (it just says Loading Linux and Loading initial ramdisk >> ...), and I do not get a login-prompt