[gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm trying to install lm_sensors using gentoo-wiki, but I came accros some dependency problem: # emerge --pretend lm_sensors These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0 [ebuild

[gentoo-user] high priority task as user (nice/ionice)

2009-08-23 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, with guvcview I capture video streams of some birds, which sometime arrive on the roof. When they do I press the record button of the guvcview application. The webcam I use is able to deliver 30fps at 640x320 pixel with audio via usb. Unfortunately while recording nothing else should use

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 09:42 +0200, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install lm_sensors using gentoo-wiki, but I came accros some dependency problem: # emerge --pretend lm_sensors These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Jarry
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 09:42 +0200, Jarry wrote: # emerge --pretend lm_sensors These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0 [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 14:45 +0200, Jarry wrote: [...] man sensord: DESCRIPTION Sensord is a daemon that can be used to periodically log sensor readings from hardware health-monitoring chips to syslog(3) ***OR*** a round-robin database (RRD) and to alert when a sensor alarm is signalled;

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Aug 2009, at 14:02, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... So if you believe there is a bug with the ebuild, you can submit a bug report to bugs.gentoo.org. As always, patches are welcomed. I assume that the RDEPEND was added because decode-edid.pl was supplied by upstream (at least this is how I

Re: [gentoo-user] high priority task as user (nice/ionice)

2009-08-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:20:08 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any chance to start guvcview with user rights AND to give the application higer priorities so that whatever guvcview wants from the system will be served as soon as possible to avoid stuttering videos? You can create a

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on -fstack-protector

2009-08-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:11:10 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: I'm wondering what you think about CFLAGS=-fstack-protector? Do you use it on security critical systems? Do you compile your kernel with it (2.6.30+)? Is the performance decrease noticeable? I might be

Re: [gentoo-user] high priority task as user (nice/ionice)

2009-08-23 Thread meino . cramer
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com [09-08-23 16:08]: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:20:08 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any chance to start guvcview with user rights AND to give the application higer priorities so that whatever guvcview wants from the system will be served as soon

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:05 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 23 Aug 2009, at 14:02, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... So if you believe there is a bug with the ebuild, you can submit a bug report to bugs.gentoo.org. As always, patches are welcomed. I assume that the RDEPEND was added because

Re: [gentoo-user] high priority task as user (nice/ionice)

2009-08-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Aug 2009, at 15:19, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... #!/bin/sh exec nice -n -10 ionice -c 1 capture-command ... This will give the whole 'capture-comand# the rights of root, which I want to prevent (see my posting). Instead I want to give it only higher priorities for I/O-usage and

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/23/2009 8:45 AM, Jarry wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 09:42 +0200, Jarry wrote: # emerge --pretend lm_sensors These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0

Re: [gentoo-user] high priority task as user (nice/ionice)

2009-08-23 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:19:14 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: This will give the whole 'capture-comand# the rights of root, which I want to prevent (see my posting). Instead I want to give it only higher priorities for I/O-usage and CPU-usage. It should still act with user rights for all

Re: [gentoo-user] high priority task as user (nice/ionice)

2009-08-23 Thread meino . cramer
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com [09-08-23 17:08]: #!/bin/sh exec nice -n -10 ionice -c 1 sudo -u user capture-command (with the same initial sudo-invocation) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net ...starts the capture command with user-rights, nice and ionice fail cause starte with

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on -fstack-protector

2009-08-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Mike Kazantsev schrieb: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:11:10 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: I'm wondering what you think about CFLAGS=-fstack-protector? Do you use it on security critical systems? Do you compile your kernel with it (2.6.30+)? Is the performance decrease

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flip video on gentoo

2009-08-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:12:53 -0400 7v5w7go9ub0o 7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have received a flip video, ultra series (records 60 minutes) digital camcorder for a present. This works fine on windows, but I would naturally much prefer to use gentoo. The windows

[gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

2009-08-23 Thread Yiannis
Hello, I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead of vt7(which was used till that time). All following sessions continue using vt8. Has anybody else noticed such behavior? Regards Yiannis

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

2009-08-23 Thread Lance Lassetter
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 05:32 +0300, Yiannis wrote: Hello, I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead of vt7(which was used till that time). All following sessions continue using vt8. Has anybody

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg uses vt8 instead of vt7 after logging out of gnome

2009-08-23 Thread Yiannis
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:35:49 -0500 Lance Lassetter la...@hometeal.net wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 05:32 +0300, Yiannis wrote: Hello, I have noticed this strange behavior on my gentoo box. After logging out of gnome, gdm and the subsequent gnome session use vt8 instead of vt7(which