Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

2018-12-20 Thread Steve Dibb
On 12/4/18 3:31 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale wrote: So as usual, they are not very Linux friendly.  Figures.  I was hoping The main problem with Linux is that the drivers at SCSI level in the kernel are worse than they could be, so if you like to get better results, you should encourage

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

2018-12-20 Thread Steve Dibb
On 12/14/18 3:31 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Steve Dibb wrote: On 12/3/18 9:27 AM, Pouru Lasse wrote: I've got a bunch of scratched disc-based games (PS2, Xbox 360) that I'd like to check for errors. Is there any program for Linux that does this? I found and tried dvdisaster, but it only

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

2018-12-13 Thread Steve Dibb
On 12/3/18 9:27 AM, Pouru Lasse wrote: I've got a bunch of scratched disc-based games (PS2, Xbox 360) that I'd like to check for errors. Is there any program for Linux that does this? I found and tried dvdisaster, but it only works for CDs, not DVDs. Everything else seems to be Windows-only. -

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
kashani wrote: James wrote: Hello one and all, What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with vlc on amd64? Any wikis? I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can use win32codecs And if anyone wants to help me version bump the thing, e-mail me *off* list, plz Thanks Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-30 Thread Steve Dibb
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07. That's fine if you have 8GB of RAM... Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-18 Thread Steve Dibb
kashani wrote: In any case both recent versions of ffmpeg and mplayer in portage, 20061016 or better, have the newer ffmpeg real decoder. However I'm not sure it supports everything in real10 or whatever they're calling the Helix format. You can also skip installing win32/real codecs and

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernels and kernel patches

2007-01-11 Thread Steve Dibb
Michael Sullivan wrote: I like the newer kernels because ivtv drivers that work with them are in portage, and I'm not sure drivers that work with 2.6.11 are still in portage. They are still in there, and I doubt we'll be removing them anytime soon. ivtv v0.4.5 through 0.4.9 will work with

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
Robert Cernansky wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: This is interesting stuff that I didn't know. So if I've been using KDevelop 3.3.2 forever because 3.3.3, 3.3.4, and 3.3.5 are all ~x86, it's not necessarily because 3.3.5 is broken, just that nobody's certified it? How does this happen? KDevelop is a pretty big beast,

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable - suggestion for improvement

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Dibb
Daevid Vincent wrote: But as I read this thread, it seems that in effect, I won't really be getting a more stable system, I'll just be getting an older, out of date one, as nobody is actively monitoring packages and then flagging them as stable. :( The problem, like many other things, comes

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-04 Thread Steve Dibb
Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the process described)? They need to be in the tree for at least 30

Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

2007-01-04 Thread Steve Dibb
Steve Dibb wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the process described)? They need to be in the tree

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Dibb
Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Dibb
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:18:41 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I can't think of any method to get real numbers. Add sys-apps/gentoo-phonehome to all system profiles :) There's actually a gentoo-stats project in the works, for those that would like to (voluntarily) let us

Re: [gentoo-user] Something's killing my xfce panel/decorations

2006-12-13 Thread Steve Dibb
Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I have a stable (+unstable gtk) i86/xorg soundless installation with a bare bones xfce4 desktop. My only problem is that, after one two weeks, the xfce-panel disappears and newly started apps are missing the window decorations. They keep missing, even if I restart

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

2006-12-13 Thread Steve Dibb
Travis Osterman wrote: I needed to unmask ivtv by placing it in my /etc/portage/package.keywords as media-tv/ivtv. Now I'd like to have my system not ask me to ever upgrade it again until the newer version is required as a dependency of some other program. I thought that putting

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Helmut Jarausch wrote: So, the question: Is there a general source of information about warnings, actions to be taking, etc to be followed when upgrading certains critical packages. Generically, no. But User Relations has noted a need, and we are going to start working on something that

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning how to write a simple ebuild?

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: I've looked at the docs. I've posted on bugzilla a request for an ebuild. I don't anticipate to become a developer, but would like to gain insight into the process and the layout. The documentation at the following site should help you out:

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Then emerge --sync emerge -Neav world that is overkill, no need to re-emerge the entire tree. emerge -uD world will suffice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile error for Mythtv 0.19_p10505.

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Dibb
Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install the latest version of MythTv and I'm running into a compile problem. this is what I'm trying to compile: emerge -av mythtv [ebuild N] media-tv/mythtv-0.19_p10505 USE=alsa dvb dvd ieee1394 lirc

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Install/config support for audio on my T40

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Dibb
Greg Morin wrote: I've been working w/Gentoo now for a little. Networking, Gnome, OpenOffice, VMWare are working - my essentials are there... I'd like to get sound working, but not sure where to start - pointers? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
Hans de Hartog wrote: Hi, I'm currently evaluating some exotic packages in the portage tree and found out that they're almost 2 years old, don't compile or crash immediately. When I go to their home page or forums, I see that lots of new versions have been released. What to do about this? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
Hans de Hartog wrote: Philip Webb wrote: It would help if you listed the packages in question. Also thanks to Ryan and Steve to illustrate the situation in the not_so_common_packages scene. (BTW, how do I check for an overlay somewhere?) - freewheeling (dies in glibc with double free or

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Dibb
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, guys Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has recent news including the one from the subject of this

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Dibb
Iain Buchanan wrote: (I killed it :) So, firstly, why didn't that work? man mplayer -- exporting to MPEG is still not perfect. And secondly, how should I encode if I want to write the movie to a DVD, and have really good quality (close to the original dv)? Use ffmpeg. See the

[gentoo-user] Planet Larry: Gentoo User's Blogs

2006-08-06 Thread Steve Dibb
A few devs have setup an unofficial Gentoo project, a planet feed of blogs of Gentoo users. The site is available online right now at http://larrythecow.org/ The idea is simple -- we already have Planet Gentoo[1] and Gentoo Universe[2] which pull in blogs from the developers, but we'd also

Re: [gentoo-user] Planet Larry: Gentoo User's Blogs

2006-08-06 Thread Steve Dibb
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:45 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: A few devs have setup an unofficial Gentoo project, a planet feed of blogs of Gentoo users. The site is available online right now at http://larrythecow.org/ The idea is simple -- we already have Planet Gentoo[1