Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 15:37, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024 13:22:47 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Yes, of course. When I said "emerge -c doesn't clean it" I meant > > > "emerge > > -c" (without arguments). I know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 13:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2024 11:32:43 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Files in @world should only be wanted because you put them in there, so > you should be able to remove them. > > Yes, of course. When I said "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 10:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2024 16:37:24 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world file, > > hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 14:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:55:42 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I have > > /var/lib/bin > > in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > > Anyone with the same problem/weirdness? > > Nope. Have you trie

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 15:07, Petr Vaněk wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I have /var/lib/bin in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > > Do you have app-admin/xstow installed? This seems to be the (only) > Indeed, I had

[gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have /var/lib/bin in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) That directory does not exist. Should it exist!? What could be setting this? (grep /var/lib/bin /etc/conf.d/* returns nothing) Anyone with the same problem/weirdness? Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS on kernel 6.8.1 considered a Bad Thing.

2024-04-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
directly from kernel.org) Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2023-10-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 7:59 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 18:08:20 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >6.3.11-GPM.20231004.diff works fine with 6.5.5 (vanilla from > >[1]kernel.org) > > Thanks for doing this testing. > Thank _you_ for making the patch :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2023-10-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
6.3.11-GPM.20231004.diff works fine with 6.5.5 (vanilla from kernel.org) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mcomix (really python)

2023-09-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 8:23 AM Nuno Silva wrote: > > > There's also for example qcomicbook, if you have Qt on your system. > Yes, I have QT and qcomicbook emerged just fine (no dependency forest). However, I found it useless: the menu lacks entries for custom zoom (I mean, something like "+" and

Re: [gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 12:39 PM Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 13:12, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Nope. I don't run a Gnome system, and evince pulls an absurd bunch of > dependencies, even with most USE variables unset > > Sure, which is why I put in t

Re: [gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 11:14 AM Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 11:51, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > $ mcomix foo.cbr > > 10:44:31 [MainThread] ERROR: You don't have the required version of the > Python Imaging Library Fork (Pillow) installed. &g

[gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
posed to do with an error message like this?! I even uninstalled pillow and then re-emerged mcomix. Sure enough, it pulled pillow, as expected. No avail. Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 4:09 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > Sorry for any confusion. Time to unsubscribe from this list > I guess and leave you all to your beloved distro. > Please don't. I doubt someone is pissed off with you. Jorge Almeida > Bye, See above. > Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] quodlibet

2022-08-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 9:50 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 22:46:25 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > No "internet radio" in quodlibet? > > > > of which are set. What to do? > > This feature exists, according to > > https:

[gentoo-user] quodlibet

2022-08-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
g to https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/browse/iradio.html The ebuild doesn't seem to contain anything that would disable it. What to do? Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] sdr

2022-07-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
ckage in portage. So, the question is: is there some package providing similar functionality? Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:06 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > Compile time for Chromium currently seems to run about four hours on an > i7-9700. Well, that does it, then. chromium-bin is good enough, I think. But of course, the problem of obnoxious shortcuts remains... >

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-30 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 8:19 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > I don't know how to do that (I'm talking about several itens in the > > bookmarks bar, not a single menu with several links). But I'll try a > > clean config anyway, the bookmark issue can be dealt with later. > > There are import and exp

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:48 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 29 May 2022 21:49:21 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Until now, no improvement. (Note that I symlinked > > ~/.config/chromium-bin to ~/.config/google-chrome, otherwise I would > > lose all bookmar

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:47 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > New Hope! I've found this: > https://btechgeeks.com/change-chrome-keyboard-shortcuts/ > It seems that the "Shortcut manager" extension doesn't exist any more. It was supposed to allow editing the "default" shortcuts, something most pages say

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:33 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dnia 2022-05-29, o godz. 22:25:53 > Jorge Almeida napisał(a): > > > On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:16 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > > > > Maybe take

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 10:16 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > If non-free software is not of any concern for you, then maybe try > Vivaldi browser? It is based on the same engine and feels quite like > chromium but with many many more options (USE=widevine for netflix ;) ) > I have no concerns regarding

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 9:56 PM w...@op.pl wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dnia 2022-05-29, o godz. 21:49:21 > Jorge Almeida napisał(a): > > > So, is there a way to get rid of this, ahem, stuff? Ideally, I would > > remove/edit s

[gentoo-user] chromium shortcuts?

2022-05-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
/edit some shortcuts, but I would settle for trashing it all. Is this an unwinnable fight? (And is the dichotomy chromium-chrome relevant at all?) Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] iscan-data with udev

2022-05-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm trying to emerge media-gfx/iscan, which requires media-gfx/iscan-data. The latter package has only one USE variable, "udev". When "udev" is disabled, the emerge succeeds, but of course udev must be there for a reason. With udev, it fails: make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/

Re: [gentoo-user] gcolor2...

2022-04-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 9:33 AM tastytea wrote: > > On 2022-04-16 09:10+0100 Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Uses GTK+ 2". Does this mean that GTK+ 2 is on its way out as well? > > It is on its way out, but there are still some packages blocking its > removal: <ht

Re: [gentoo-user] gcolor2...

2022-04-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:47:26 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > ... is gone, essentially. Any suggestion regarding some alternative? > > It's masked i portage and dead upstream, but that doesn't necessarily &g

Re: [gentoo-user] gcolor2...

2022-04-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:08 PM Jack wrote: > > On 4/15/22 17:47, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > ... is gone, essentially. Any suggestion regarding some alternative? > > I can't tell if you are looking for recommendations or just what else is > out there. I just need

[gentoo-user] gcolor2...

2022-04-15 Thread Jorge Almeida
... is gone, essentially. Any suggestion regarding some alternative? Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] zathura scroll bars

2022-04-10 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 1:59 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 14:14:39 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > I have those, and I have installed zathura through emerge with the > > > `doc` flag, but it should not be necessary to have it set... > >

Re: [gentoo-user] zathura scroll bars

2022-04-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 12:39 PM wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 11:25:42AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Scroll bars are AWOL in zathura. I have "set show-scrollbars true" in > > ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc. I also tried "set show-v-scrollbar true" >

[gentoo-user] zathura scroll bars

2022-04-09 Thread Jorge Almeida
urarc. My system is up-to-date, as of about 30m ago... In case some other gentooer uses zathura, would you share your current experience? Thanks Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] mediatek mt7921: no AP?

2022-01-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 6:53 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > > I'm pretty sure none of these built-in wi-fis like that will support AP mode. > They would much rather charge more for that feature. > https://www.524wifi.com/index.php/network-modules-adapters/wifi-6-11-ax-modules/wle3000h2-11ax-4x4-mu-mim

[gentoo-user] mediatek mt7921: no AP?

2022-01-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
meone with the same hw has a better experience and would share it. Otherwise, it may be useful as a warning. I know I will not purchase ASUS and/or Mediatek again. Jorge Almeida $ lshw *-network description: Wireless interface product: MEDIATEK

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard compatibility...

2021-11-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:08 AM Julien Roy wrote: > > I use this motherboard, here's the output of lspci for the network cards: > > 04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a) > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE > Controller (rev

[gentoo-user] motherboard compatibility...

2021-11-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
..with linux: ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Anyone owns one of these? Any problems? (Wi-fi seems supported, according to Google; network cards? I couldn't find out which chipset[s] it uses) TIA Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-10-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 12:44 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 5:29 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > > attached. Please start again from a gentoo-sources without any previous > > traces of the scrollback patches, and apply that patch. _Surely_ i

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:51 AM Dale wrote: > > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: > > Hello, Wol and Dale > >> When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind > >> that ... snag is that's all

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: > Hello, Wol and Dale > When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind > that ... snag is that's all extra expense :-( > Surge protectors: I googled it and mostly got bad reviews. Do they _really_work? What would you recommend

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
nel (for which the previous patch has been applied with success as expected) and it happens the same. Damaged UPS or MO, maybe... Anyway, I'll try again when I manage to fix or replace the computer and I'll report then. Thanks, Jorge Almeida P.S. I just noticed you mention gentoo-sources. I use the vanilla kernel from kernel.org. Could that be a problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
not pass through this function. */ + concon_set_origin (vc); +#endif + while (!tty->flow.stopped && count) { int orig = *buf; buf++; Thanks, Jorge Almeida --- ./drivers/tty/vt/vt.c.orig 2020-12-13 22:41:30.0 + +++ ./driv

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
eave it applied (with the > one failed hunk), and additionally apply this: > I may have missed some announcement from you, I'm using diff.20210405.diff. I wasn't aware of newer versions. Is there an URL to download it? I would try it before trying to apply the patch included in your message. Thanks, Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
Hello, gentooers in general and Alan in particular I've been using Alan Mackenzie's patch until kernel 5.13, with success. It failed with 5.14.4 --yes, I know, but it doesn't hurt to try :) Jorge Almeida Just in case it is useful: (Stripping trailing CRs from patch; use --bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback is back again!

2021-04-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
ed once in a while, and those occasions tend to be precisely the ones back scrolling will be most missed. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback is back again!

2021-04-05 Thread Jorge Almeida
uffer > shared between all tty's, there's now a buffer for each tty. > I just tested it with kernel 5.11.11. Seems fine. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

2021-01-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
ead, as it's mentioned in this article. > >> > >Paywalled... :( > > Try this link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/842415/5bc3e39b4d4f52fe/ > Works. Thanks. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

2021-01-21 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:53 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/842415/ > > Take a read, as it's mentioned in this article. > Paywalled... :( Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 9:01 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 8:55 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > > > The initrd documentation can be a bit overwhelming. Still, much better I meant "The refind documentation", of course.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 8:55 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > One other thing, looking at the docs, it seems that refind requires > initrd. Am I reading it correctly? If so, I may as well go with grub. > Grub usually requires setting up stuff once. Initrd requires running > more often. > No. I us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 7:17 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > Thanks for the pointers. Are there any changes I have to make in my > linux kernel to boot UEFI? Note; legacy BIOS boot is *NOT* an option > on my new Dell XPS8940. It's UEFI boot only. > I'm not sure that it is really necessary for refi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

2020-12-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
d > tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI > mode properly. Learning about UEFI: https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ Suggestion: forget about grub; refind is the way to go (link above) Also: you don't need parted; gdisk is fine if you're OK with fdisk Cheers Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

2020-09-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 8:49 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > > When updating my refurbished Lenovo notebook, I saw that "rust" was > being pulled in as a dependency by system-bootstrap. My initial > reaction was WTF? I'm sure the kernel devs will say "because we said I had the same problem. rust is pu

[gentoo-user] openrc -o

2020-08-29 Thread Jorge Almeida
The synopsis in the man page for openrc says openrc [-n, --no-stop] [-o, --override] [runlevel] but the text says nothing at all about the -o flag. Anyone knows what it does? I assume it was an oversight. Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: ALSA wizard...

2020-04-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:57 PM Michael wrote: > > > setup of pulseaudio is still sketchy, but it is encouraging. I don't > > know about apulse. I suppose its purpose is to use pure ALSA while > > tricking apps into believing they are interacting with pulseaudio? > > > > Yes. It is a solution

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: ALSA wizard...

2020-04-28 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:32 AM Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2020-04-26, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack > > wrote: > >> > >> On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Any chance apulse works? > > I don't use

[gentoo-user] ecasound

2020-04-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
g? (upstream? in the ebuild?) Jorge Almeida

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:27 PM Jack wrote: > > > I just checked "emerge -pe zoom" and the only unstable qt listed is > qtdiag, which has no stable versions in the tree. In fact, of the 483 > packages listed, only five are unstable. If it pulls in lots of > unstable qt for you, I'd try to figu

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:03 AM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack > > wrote: > > > > The slack ebuild might go stable, but the zoom one seems to change too > often to last 30 days before an upda

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > [snip] > I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I > use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not had any install > related problems. (I don&#

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 9:23 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 1:06 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Some reading I did about people having problems similar to yours with discord > and zoom suggested that some of these aps are compiled to __only__ s

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:34 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:09 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > > Since you use pulseaudio (per your latest post): can you send the > > contents of a wav file to an external DAC via toslink, without

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Mark, I recompiled the kernel with more stuff as module, but I just had an idea to make sure the Behringer is the only card in the game: I disabled HD audio in the firmware settings. So: both Opera and Chrome play Youtube. aplay plays music

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:16 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > How do you feel about building Alsa as modules instead of building it into > the kernel? When using modules you can blacklist other sound cards (the MB > audio stuff for instance) and you get a little more visibility into what's is >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:16 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > You sound happier in this post. I hope we're making headway. Could you post > back a view of things at this point? > I wouldn't say happy, but at least I got to understand what the interface does (I was more or less convinced the RCA p

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:19 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00EK1OTZC/ref=pe_3044161_189395811_TE_SCE_dp_1 > > > > > > OK, that device is pretty simple. If you set this device as the default > > > Alsa device can you get simple audio, from YouTube for example, ou

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:19 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > I hope you don't have to. I'm not the least bit confident about how a virtual > card is going to work with VM like Virtualbox. OK, that > > > > > > > I don't think I ever saw the name of the actual USB interface you're > > > using. Ca

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:46 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > Do you have a Window license you can run in a VM? I suspect that might > > > work pretty well. I used to run Go2Meeting that way and never had any > > > trouble. > > > > I think I'm entitled to an unexpensive licence @work. Maybe th

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:08 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > Do you have a Window license you can run in a VM? I suspect that might work > pretty well. I used to run Go2Meeting that way and never had any trouble. I think I'm entitled to an unexpensive licence @work. Maybe that's the solution, s

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 6:11 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I __ONLY__ meant for testing purposes. I understand discord is the result we > are working toward. Right now I don't know what the root cause of the failure > is so testing some other app and discovering it works would tell us the > v

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 5:27 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >If it's true that discord is so picky then I wonder if there would be some > value in testing your virtual sound card with some other app to ensure that > at least the basic Alsa needs are being met? > > https://www.ubuntupit.com/top

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:06 PM Michael wrote: > > > I understand discord also offers a webRTC service, which ought to work with a > browser - so it should be down to the browser to communicate with Alsa. Been there, tried that... > Assuming of course the webRTC implementation by discord/slack/

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:39 AM Michael wrote: > > > Applications can be rather particular regarding bitrate, bit sample formats, > channel configuration and other options. I understand Firefox wants to have > 48000Hz or it won't play. So, even if your DAC can do 96000Hz, you may need > to spe

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:39 PM Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > This is becoming more common over time; I gave up on trying to avoid > Pulse a few years ago. > :/ Does it allow you to send the contents of a wav file to an external DAC without first messing with the contents? Thanks Jorge

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:11 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:02 PM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > > I need the "virtual" card to be the default, so I did this: > > > > Did you attempt making the virtual card default by

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 5:54 PM Michael wrote: > > > > > > > The setup: > > > > > -- a microphone connected to an audio interface, which connects to an > > > > > USB port in the computer. The interface works like a USB sound card, > > > > > at least regarding sound capture. It works: I can record

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:38 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:04 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > (And, if memory serves, you were one of the first persons to help me, > > in a sound related question, many years ago!) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:19 AM Michael wrote: > > I recall you having problems recording with this device before, but since > you're now a step ahead let's have another go at this, in case I may be able > to help. Yes, this is not the same issue (the former problem was: I wasn't getting anything

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:42 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > Jorge, >Sorry for top posting. I'm at a site with limited capabilities at the > moment. Please forgive. Forgiving someone for trying to help me? :) (And, if memory serves, you were one of the first persons to help me, in a sound related

[gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
iliar with discord can suggest something? Thanks Jorge Almeida $ cat /proc/asound/devices 1:: sequencer 2: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback 5: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture 6: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playbac

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-22 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:18 PM Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > > Nothing should be statically linked, please stop spreading the disease. > Gee, maybe the musl project should commit suicide? If at least they had read the vulgata consciously before starting the project... > Il Mer 22 Apr 2020, 18:14

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server

2020-04-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:07 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2020-04-14 21:36, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Yes, that seems right. I just added "-elogind" to make.conf and that's > > it. But I'm really curious about the framebuffer stuff. As for other > &

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2020-04-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:22 PM Dale wrote: > > Jorge Almeida wrote: > >>> "Use elogind to get control over framebuffer when running as regular > >>> user" > >>> > > If you have consolekit, PAM, elogind and such disabled, I'm n

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2020-04-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 7:29 PM tastytea wrote: > > On 2020-04-14T19:16+0100 > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > "Use elogind to get control over framebuffer when running as regular > > user" > > > > Could someone explain what this entails? What happened

[gentoo-user] xorg-server

2020-04-14 Thread Jorge Almeida
seflags/elogind I found "Use elogind to get control over framebuffer when running as regular user" Could someone explain what this entails? What happened before this USE variable was created? What will I miss if I disable it? Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:38 AM Jack wrote: > Mainly out of curiosity, have you tried connecting to the mike in > instead of the line in on your sound card? Yes, no difference!

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:10 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:48 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:52 PM Michael wrote: >> > >> >> > > ## arecord -l >> > > List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices *

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:52 PM Michael wrote: > > > ## arecord -l > > List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: Generic Analog [Generic Analog] > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: Generic Al

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:29 PM Michael wrote: > > Yes, the first step would be to reduce or set to zero the Mic Boost in > alsamixer and adjust the Capture volume. However, noise with arecord is > usually a result of incorrect bitrate? > > You could try: > > arecord -fdat -r 48 test.wav OK, I

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:23 PM Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > > I am not familiar with those products. Sorry. All I can say about it is > that there are 2 types of volumes. The ones for playback, and the ones > for capture. (see F4 in alsa mixer). Also see F6 to select the right > sound card if

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:22 PM Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > > > 3)? Wrong? > > It was gpl. Then they moved it to proprietary. Then they become > insignificant and changed it back. For me, that's sign enough that I > don't want anything to do with it. > OK, I understand... > > > > why would you

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:07 PM Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > > OSS4 is a set of proprietary patches. You would need support in kernel, That's the problem... > and support at an application level to use it. Not sure if USE=oss will > work with OSS4, but one thing I know for sure is that you woul

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 2:47 PM wrote: > > > > There is this link: > >https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OSS > > That seems to say you can still install the real OSS. > > The first step is to build a kernel with it included: > >Device Drivers ---> > Sound card support ---> >

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:16 PM Dale wrote: > > I wasn't sure about it either. I was hoping it would provide kernel > modules that could be used or something like that. Might be worth > installing and then doing a equery f alsa-oss and see just what it does > include. If it won't help, uninst

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 9:57 PM Dale wrote: > > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Is it possible to install it? > > Every random page I could find that was gentoo+oss4 related seemed > > old. I know the kernel does not support oss4 at all, any more than > > portage does,

[gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-12 Thread Jorge Almeida
Is it possible to install it? Every random page I could find that was gentoo+oss4 related seemed old. I know the kernel does not support oss4 at all, any more than portage does, but I don't know whether that means it is impossible to install. Anyone using it? Thanks Jorge Almeida

[gentoo-user] iSKN repaper?

2020-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
I could find is this unresponsive site: https://developer.iskn.co/discuss/?sort=newest I'm assuming there are no drivers for linux, but it doesn't hurt to try... I know there are drivers for Wacom, but I read the nibs wear out quickly. Thoughts? Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:19 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Web tabs are fairly highly sandboxed in most browsers. Suffice it to > say something running in a web tab isn't going to be spying on your > process list/etc. > OK, fair enough. I would prefer a browser-only interface anyway, if possible

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:56 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 08:54, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:42 PM Michael wrote: > > > Have you looked at using WebRTC with Zoom, rather than installing their > > > code > &

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:42 PM Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:38:35 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:16 PM Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > > On mer. 25 mars 11:51:33 2020, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > Did someone try to insta

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