Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about a new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a picture. No sound tho. I can't watch videos with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 01/11/13 at 07:43pm, Dale wrote: Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about a new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a picture. No sound tho. I can't watch videos

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 03:38:12 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you should consider to use ccache. It considerable reduces the merge time if you have to rebuild a package. It also creates elusive build failures with some packages, which is why I stopped using it. Tue Oct 22 22:05:31

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 09:27:38 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Maybe you should consider to use ccache. It considerable reduces the merge time if you have to rebuild a package. It also creates elusive build failures with some packages, which is why I stopped using it. Tue Oct 22

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about a new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a picture. No

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Flash+nspluginwrapper versus Gnash comparisons?

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/31/2013 10:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm getting rather annoyed with Firefox. I don't want to get into that flamewar right now. I'm trying to migrate to UZBL. The latest git version is a lot better than the stale stable version. The uzbl- ebuild is broken (yes, I've filed a

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I got the message below. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-scheme/guile-1.8.8-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hey, what is with distcc? When i understand correct that can use to share the merge process. Can i use with diffrent arch? I use gentoo on netbook with atom and amd64 and some rootserver with same arch and a p4 with i686. The p4 is in same network but can this pc use with atom 64 bit? Has someone

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I got the message below. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 05:33:34 -0500, Dale wrote: Oh, while testing the sound, I found out I have my puter speakers backwords. My left speaker claims to be right and the right speaker claims to be left. That's side to side, not backwards :P It's been that way for many years now. LOL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 07:43:54PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about a new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a picture. No sound tho. I

[gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? * do you really have a problem with running revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every emerge? * do you think it's worth

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
131102 hasufell had some more questions for users : * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? Not recently : it used to happen more often. * do you really have a problem with running revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every emerge? No. * do you think it's worth the

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/11/2013 14:04, hasufell wrote: Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? Let's see, that depends. It mostly mostly on what is happening with poppler and icu today. Other than those, I don't recall any long-term

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 02.11.2013 um 11:55 schrieb Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de: Hey, what is with distcc? When i understand correct that can use to share the merge process. Can i use with diffrent arch? I use gentoo on netbook with atom and amd64 and some rootserver with same arch and a p4

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 02.11.2013 um 09:35 schrieb Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: Impressive, I think I'll try enabling it for specific packages that will benefit and don't cause problems. On the other hand, after reading man make.conf, maybe it is not such a good idea except in very limited

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I got the message below. These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

2013-11-02 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 14:24:49 +0100 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Many years ago I used distcc. At this time I had some slower machines (2 x AMD K5, 3x AMD K6) and distcc was really a booster for many bigger packages, but it doesn't reduce merge time for small packages and it also causes

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2013 07:04 AM, hasufell wrote: Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? * do you really have a problem with running revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 11/2/2013 07:04, hasufell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another round of questioning the users here. These are good, thank you. Short answer here is no. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? At least one of my machines is constantly

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

2013-11-02 Thread Mick
On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 00:02:26 jdm wrote: Hello, I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions? They run fine in Firefox. John D Maunder Are they flash or HTML 5 videos? Are your plugins configured as they should be in Konqueror? PS. I don't think that there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/02/2013 05:04 AM, hasufell wrote: Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? A few times a year. To put this in perspective, I try to do major updates (-uDN world) once a month. I used to do this weekly but can't now

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/02/2013 05:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world', I got the message below. These are

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.11.2013 13:04, schrieb hasufell: Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? once every couple of updates? * do you really have a problem with running revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread thegeezer
On 11/02/2013 12:04 PM, hasufell wrote: Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? not enough to notice, mostly using server based installs not desktop * do you really have a problem with running

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:04:52 +0100, hasufell wrote: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? That's an unreasonable question. How do we know whether a rebuild was useless or not unless we skip it and then find that a single feature of a complex program no longer works properly, and to do

[gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! My @world update did not go well. It was much worse some while ago, so I just did an emerge -e @world, after manually removing stuff from /var/lib/portage/world until I got no complaints any more. I had to remove kde-misc/publictransport and kde-misc/plasma-emergelog for that. After

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 11/02/2013 02:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 11/02/2013 05:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran 'emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y

[gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread walt
On 11/02/2013 02:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I have no facts to device either way. snip but lets the user device when to do them. Neil, are you using a new auto-complete function of some kind?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

2013-11-02 Thread jdm
On Saturday 02 November 2013 16:31:21 Mick wrote: On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 00:02:26 jdm wrote: Hello, I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions? They run fine in Firefox. John D Maunder Are they flash or HTML 5 videos? Are your plugins configured as they should be in

[gentoo-user] layman - certificate problem

2013-11-02 Thread wabenbau
I just installed layman. After the installation I added source /var/lib/layman/make.conf to /etc/make.conf. When I'm now typing layman -L I get: * Fetching remote list,... * Warning: an installed db file was not found at: ['/var/lib/layman/cache_ac494f50f5736be7871962c0dec7b3bb.xml'] *

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Flash+nspluginwrapper versus Gnash comparisons?

2013-11-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 05:43:21AM -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote Have you checked to see if the sites you use have an interface for mplayer or another media player? (Assuming they are streaming services similar to Youtube) If not, it may be simpler to use nspluginwrapper. Gnash compatibility

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote * One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies: * *

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 11/03/2013 02:27 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 11/02/2013 02:06 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 11/02/2013 05:29 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 11/02/2013 06:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/11/2013 12:49, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/27/2013 12:08 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: As I ran