Re: [gentoo-user] OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment

2012-07-28 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I also use awesome, but have tried KDE 3 and 4, Gnome 2 and 3, XFCE, LXDE and some others. I found out that I want to know what are the programs that I run, so the meta + r shortcut combines perfectly, and make me think about what is that launcher software, that compositing software, that pdf

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-11 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the world file and other associated files. This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway

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] how to let different make version coexist?

2012-04-19 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
You can always mask greater versions, and then portage won't merge then. Just hope that nothing from now on depends on the new version.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sticks now mounting on /run/media instead of /media ?

2012-04-18 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
How do you mount them automatically? Isn't there a middle-man software that mounts removable drives? I'm pretty sure I never had a drive automount without kde or gnome managing them.

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-17 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Since we're talking about video playback with open source drivers, any luck to intel onboard adapter users? I'm struggling with an HD3000 core i3 video adapter, can't playback 1080p without tearing. I was impressed with this same adapter running a racing game on a colleagues macbook air, smooth

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ath9k: can't authenticate

2012-04-16 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I'm using WPA2 but tried even with no authentication, without luck. The authentication always times out. I'll try your configurations Zhu. I've tried wpa_supplicant before with similar configurations, without luck. I'll look at this carefully. Thank you for all your feedback. I'll come back today

[gentoo-user] Problems with ath9k: can't authenticate

2012-04-13 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
~amd64, kernel 3.3.0. 3.1.X worked somewhat ok, but I can't shake the feeling that under Windows this laptop of mine would work flawlessly. I'm not whining, just wanna find a comparable configuration, and solve my usability issues. Thanks -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ath9k: can't authenticate

2012-04-13 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:43, Robert David robert.david.pub...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Check in wicd settings which routing tool you use. Select route when using ip. I got some problems with wicd and ip. I just using similar ath9k card on 3.0.x with no problem. I always use wifi as module.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic?

2012-03-15 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Just to be sure, r e i s u b may be input in low case, without shift, right? Like hold Alt + SysRq and type r e i s u b then release Alt + SysRq?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] FOSS history books

2012-03-08 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2012/3/7 Andrés Becerra Sandoval andres.bece...@gmail.com: All of these are not entirely historical: - Hackers, heroes of the computer revolution, Steven Levy - Open Advice, Lydia Pintscher - Two Bits. The  Cultural Significance of Free Software, Kelty - The Power of Open, Creative Commons

[gentoo-user] [OT] FOSS history books

2012-03-06 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
, Ubuntu creation, Mozilla history, Google rising like a rocket. Anyone know a good recommendation in this subject? -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Awesome WM, io.popen() attempt to index io nil value

2012-03-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Repeat the question on awes...@naquadah.org. Subscribe to it as usual, awesome+subscr...@naquadah.org.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-28 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Wow. Thanks for all this knowledge.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-27 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I'm not here to discourage you of using Gentoo, but I'd take a look at ArchLinux.

[gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-27 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
not enough for my curiosity. Anyone does know where this came from? -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira

Re: [gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

2012-02-16 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
xorg.conf or another X.org init script. I love the idea that Xorg now just works (TM) without any configuration file, but it could generate something based on what it detected on the first time, or something. -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short summary or something. TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open source/linux/unix/free software history book? Something that mentioned the FSF foundation, the GPL creation, the XFree86 - X.org evolution, linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
boot messages flood the screen. -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

2012-02-15 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
ifplugd it should automatically let network start immediately at boot, and then do the actual connection in the background. It also handles unplug/plugging of the cable without you needing to do anything. wicd also has a daemon that does this. -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-14 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [14.02.2012. @12:41:25 -0800]: Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage?  Something minimal preferably but with flash support? - Grant Check Vimperator for Firefox, and also uzbl (uzbl-browser or uzbl-tabbed).

Re: [gentoo-user] problems, with, 'hibernate, to, disk', two, nvidia, cards, installed

2012-01-03 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Just for completeness sake, try downgrading the kernel to 3.1.5 or lower.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video editing advice on formats and size of file

2012-01-03 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Ok, I know what to do. I played a little with ffmpeg and avconv (ffmpeg's fork, libav, conversion utility) converting 3D YouTube videos to play at the Nintendo 3DS. Anyways, I'll pretend you're using ffmpeg, I prefer libav but ffmpeg is much more common (both are made available by portage, there

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources: can't make menuconfig with user? User can't access ncurses?

2012-01-02 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
su'ing, everything went better than expected. Was that normal behavior? I remember configuring my kernel as user before. Even compiling it as user. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Actually, -u doesn't mean update, means filter packages that are not updatable (are already the most recent version). It's a filter option, not an action. Portage doesn't work with actions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

2011-12-31 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 13:53, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote: I'm attempting to bring up a new system.  Processor is AMD Phenom 1055, running on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard.  Graphics card is an NVIDIA GEForce GTX550Ti. If I start X with twm, the xserver connection is made,

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Maybe some use flag inconsistency? Try adding --newuse or -N to your emerge. Try this: emerge -uavDN world. If this still just pulls phonon-gstreamer, then there should be some problem in the package itself.

[gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-29 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I've run my box with 2x2GB of RAM for a while, but a couple weeks ago one of my chips died, and now I'm stuck with 1x2GB. That's not that terrible, I'm using Gentoo all day, rarely switching to Windows 7 anyways, who really likes RAM. Anyway, for the last days, my machine has been really slow,

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-29 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Sorry for being so general, for not giving any real info. I'm new to system monitoring, I just learnt about iostat and swapon -s, now about vmstat. I mainly tried to catch anything unusual in top/htop. Trying to be more specifically, my system is a core 2 duo, dual core 3ghz processor, 4gb of ram

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-29 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not interested currently. My next system will have 16gb of ram, and I'll create an 8gb ramdisk on it to increase emerge performance. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with my system performance, disabling swap and compositing effects

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-09 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Yes, exactly. The first time you were missing CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR, it should point to /lib/firmware if you've emerged radeon-ucode.

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-09 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Wait a minute, an actual doctor installed and maintain Gentoo boxes?

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-09 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
By Lorenzo Badieri: [...] My high school was centered around humanities/classical studies: ancient greek, latin, philosophy; after high school, I managed to get into MED SCHOOL. So, no computer science/informatics at all. However, I was really curios about computers, and I messed up my family's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-07 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Yeah, I agree. Going back to Ubuntu bashing, I think that the multiple versions, multiple repositories, multiple software choices (gnome 2, then unity, for example, hal then no hal) get in the way of the newbie user. Gentoo solves that by making the user understand what he's doing, how he's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --jobs

2011-12-07 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
-v has nothing to do with quiet-build. You want to use --quiet-build=N. Also, emerge parallelization depends on the -j (--jobs) option, you should use emerge --jobs N other_options atoms. In your case, a -j7 should do the trick.

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure xorg Failed

2011-12-06 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Xorg is complaining that it couldn't open IPv6 sockets. Xorg uses sockets to handle the clients, that's what makes it work with remote clients. I'd guess that you tried to built a no-network box, but Xorg need sockets. It doesn't make much sense in a Gentoo world, but it was worth trying. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-06 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
The idea behind pulseaudio is live switching of streams. ALSA is great if you have only one audio card, but as soon as you introduce a bluetooth headset, a headphone, a HDMI display with sound output, ALSA can't handle real time stream redirection. Sure, you can use scripts to toggle .asoundrc

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
$ cat /etc/asound.conf pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } Do you have this?

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio

2011-12-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Yes, and also /etc/firefox/firefoxrc containing FIREFOX_DSP=padsp Thanks Francisco I can't reproduce this. I'm using ~amd64, firefox 8, pulseaudio 1.1. Do you have multiple sound cards or sound output devices? Maybe the sound is going to another sink that the one you expected? I'm under KDE,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
From the first post, you've ran, under grub, setup (hd0,0). This installs grub on the first partition boot loader, you want to install it on the DISK boot loader, on the MBR. Maybe gparted fixed that for you. The correct way would be to run: root (hd0,0) //indicate where grub stage 1.5 and 2 are.

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-12-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Are you sure you've re-emerged the package after adding the bzip2 use flag? Run eix app-crypt/gnupg to confirm.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Yeah, just for simplicity. This way you just have one extended file system driver that works for the second, third and forth version of the file system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure xorg Failed

2011-12-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Did you try to build a kernel without network facilities?

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...

2011-12-03 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I'd first do a ls /usr/portage/ | grep sound\|audio to find out audio categories within the portage tree.

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-12-03 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Try emerge -pv gnupg. Maybe the devs had masked the bzip2 use flag for some reason. Sorry, I'm not in Gentoo right now to assist you more.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/[ and coreutils

2011-11-07 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
What about [[? I've seen scripts using [[ instead of only one [. Whats the point/difference?

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND, where ?

2011-11-07 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 09:18, Felix Kuperjans fe...@desaster-games.comwrote: Am 15.10.2011 13:57, schrieb Jonas de Buhr: Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:54:48 -0700 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com: On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Alain Didierjean alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Apologize to everyone for my nonprofessional

2011-10-15 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Wow. Just wow. GREAT way to confuse and welcome the poor-English Chinese guy. Welcome Lavender. You are now officially recognized as a human being, not a bot. We'll be glad to help you with Gentoo. Please ignore all the FUD and discussion about /var needing (or not) to be in the root partition,