Re: [gentoo-user] The X11-trap: Once back on textconsole...and no one comes back ever...

2016-02-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger 
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:35:06AM -0500, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
> I ran into this one (1) time just after switching to the 4.4.0 kernel.
> I have an Intel HD4400 Integrated graphics card on an Asus Z87 MBoard.
> (Intel i915 driver)

I, too, started experiencing graphics problems with 4.4.0 on my Netbook with
a Sandy Bridge Celeron. It happened a few times after suspend to ram or even 
after
switching to a TTY and back to X.

X thus became very laggy or even unresponsive. I remember one evening on
which I had to reboot several times within an hour. On my Haswell PC I
occasionally get glitches in my window decorator (Crystal on KDE4).

Oooh.. there's a 4.4.1 patch available, I'll give it a spin. Because I
sometimes experienced strange system behavior, I made it a habit of always
running make clean before building a kernel, even on a patch-level upgrade.

> To escape, I used another device to log into the machine
> (ServerAuditor on my Android phone via wireless)
> and did a shutdown.

Reboot worked (via SSH or maybe three-finger-salute, can't remember
exactly), but very slowly.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

2016-02-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger 
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:48:47PM -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:

A bit OT, but:

> > Dale  wrote:
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong here.  Isn't flash supposed to be dying
> > > anyway? Why are so many sites still using it if they should be using
> > > HTML5? Isn't HTML5 supposed to eliminate flash??  
> > 
> > It's been *supposed* to be dying for years, and HTML5 video was hoped
> > to be the silver bullet that would finish it off.
> > [...] 
>   The other problem is that HTML5 sucks up more CPU for video.  My data
> point with an ancient underpowered Atom netbook watching a Youtube music
> video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA

That's one reason why I always download the video before watching. This will
also give me the opportunity to play at higher speeds and use my accustomed
keyboard shortcuts. Youtube may actually support the former, but other
sites... meh.

Thanks to the power of pentadactyl and shell aliases, ’tis a matter of very
few keypresses:
- press y in the browser (yank URL to clipboard)
- switch to a terminal, enter ,y (alias for youtube-dl) and insert the URL
- wait for download, play, enjoy
  (or start playing while still downloading, this is not Windows, after all)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage-utils-0.61 Bug or feature?

2016-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:38:28 -0600, »Q« wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:29:49 -0800
> walt  wrote:
> 
> > After today's update from 0.60 to 0.61 I noticed that the behavior of
> > qlop changed.  Until today the command 'qlop -l' lists every package
> > in /var/log/emerge.log in chronological order.
> > 
> > Today 'qlop -l' lists nothing unless you supply an argument, e.g.
> > 'qlop -l mesa', which lists every package with the string mesa in the
> > name.
> > 
> > Is this change deliberate?  (If so, I vote against it :)  
> 
> I dunno, and I'm still using 0.59, but if the change was
> deliberate, 'qlop -l -' or 'qlop -l /' should still work to list them
> all.

I thought the same, but it doesn't. qlop appears to need an exact package
name now

qlop -l portage-utils - works as expected
qlop -l portage-util  - no output

Fortunately, genlop still works.


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[gentoo-user] Re: portage-utils-0.61 Bug or feature?

2016-02-15 Thread »Q« 
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:29:49 -0800
walt  wrote:

> After today's update from 0.60 to 0.61 I noticed that the behavior of
> qlop changed.  Until today the command 'qlop -l' lists every package
> in /var/log/emerge.log in chronological order.
> 
> Today 'qlop -l' lists nothing unless you supply an argument, e.g.
> 'qlop -l mesa', which lists every package with the string mesa in the
> name.
> 
> Is this change deliberate?  (If so, I vote against it :)

I dunno, and I'm still using 0.59, but if the change was
deliberate, 'qlop -l -' or 'qlop -l /' should still work to list them
all.

[gentoo-user] portage-utils-0.61 Bug or feature?

2016-02-15 Thread walt 
After today's update from 0.60 to 0.61 I noticed that the behavior of
qlop changed.  Until today the command 'qlop -l' lists every package
in /var/log/emerge.log in chronological order.

Today 'qlop -l' lists nothing unless you supply an argument, e.g.
'qlop -l mesa', which lists every package with the string mesa in the
name.

Is this change deliberate?  (If so, I vote against it :)