Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using

2011-12-10 Thread Francisco Ares
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: fra...@gmail.com wrote: On , Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Francisco Ares wrote: Thank you all who replied my last messages. Now I am back to plain alsa, but no two programs can use it at the same time. Alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-10 Thread luis jure
on 2011-12-09 at 13:55 Michael Mol wrote: I couldn't tell you if it's necessarily good, but Audacity has a noise filter. that's exactly what i was about to reply. and if you want to try a CLI tool, sox provides a similar utility. noiseprof [profile-file] Calculate a profile of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

2011-12-10 Thread luis jure
on 2011-12-09 at 18:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend? i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links interface was much better, although lynx seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 08.12.2011 17:11, LinuxIsOne wrote: Ah, thanks for the nice suggestions, I would keep a note of it. I would install in one old machine, You could use virtualbox to create a virtual PC and install Gentoo there. That would eliminate the required space for a second monitor, keyboard and

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: I did this in the past. But recently I’m reassessing this, with Ubuntu changing the default look and the way it works with every other release (remember the hassle about window buttons to the left by default?). I can’t

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Virtualbox is mostly self-explaining so that should not be so much of a problem. VB works from within another OS or needs memory of HDD?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I just want to say that I love Gentoo Linux, have used it as my primary OS for years on multiple computers and can't stand to use anything else. I like having total control over everything. I truly enjoy it,

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 10, 2011 8:50 PM, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: - 8 snip I have come to conclusion that almost all Linux work almost in the same way since they have the same kernel, however, this is what I think. I don't mean to scare you, but most Linux distros work differently. First,

[gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off

2011-12-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, sorry for the nebelous subject... The following happened to me. I have installed/configured pulseaudio according to this for a one-person desktop gentoo-system: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio When starting gwc (which is not in portage) and playing sounds, it works...once...

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I don't mean to scare you, but most Linux distros work differently. First, there might be differences in how they install a package. There's RPM, apt, pacman, portage, and others. Second, there are differences in the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-10 Thread meino . cramer
luis jure l...@internet.com.uy [11-12-10 13:28]: on 2011-12-09 at 13:55 Michael Mol wrote: I couldn't tell you if it's necessarily good, but Audacity has a noise filter. that's exactly what i was about to reply. and if you want to try a CLI tool, sox provides a similar utility.

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:46:16 -0500 LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: I did this in the past. But recently I’m reassessing this, with Ubuntu changing the default look and the way it works with every other

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:47:47 -0500 LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Virtualbox is mostly self-explaining so that should not be so much of a problem. VB works from within another OS or needs memory

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel. RedHat is particularly bad about this. I maintain a couple Linux drivers that have to work with a

Re: [gentoo-user] thinkpad w/ core i5-2xxx ?

2011-12-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-12-06 23:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 06.12.2011 14:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I currently look at the cheaper ones: Edge E520, L520, T420 ... Zooming in on a L520 w/ core i5-2430M and WXGA++ (higher resolution) Any concerns or experiences? Got that one already,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 11, 2011 12:02 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel. RedHat is particularly

[gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello all, I'm considering rolling out a new server with gentoo, but wanted to base it on the hardened profile, but the docs I've read so far all seem to be a bit vague about all the details. I've been using gentoo for a while on my hobby server, but I installed it about 8 years ago, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 11, 2011 12:02 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros introduce their own

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-10 Thread meino . cramer
luis jure l...@internet.com.uy [11-12-10 13:28]: on 2011-12-09 at 13:55 Michael Mol wrote: I couldn't tell you if it's necessarily good, but Audacity has a noise filter. that's exactly what i was about to reply. and if you want to try a CLI tool, sox provides a similar utility.

Re: [gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.orgwrote: Hello all, I'm considering rolling out a new server with gentoo, but wanted to base it on the hardened profile, but the docs I've read so far all seem to be a bit vague about all the details. I've been using gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-12-10 3:07 PM, Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote: You may be able to get a better response from the -hardened list, Dang, I had forgotten gentoo has a bunch of other lists... thanks, just subscribed... but I built a hardened server a few months ago without much

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-10 Thread luis jure
on 2011-12-10 at 20:50 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Gwc is a little fragile due the longer period it was not maintained anymore. Its alsa interface simply does not work. But it clearly wins when it comes to denoising. It also supports the removal of other audio artifacts. vielen dank für den

[gentoo-user] Two video problems: Mythtv and xscreensaver

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm having a problem on my personal workstation where mythfrontend will not display video when Watch TV is requested. The sound works just fine. When I issue a michael@camille ~ $ mplayer /dev/video0 MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0:

Re: [gentoo-user] Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:36:32AM -0200, luis jure wrote: As the subject says: Which text browser do you recommend? i haven't used text browsers for some time now, but i definitely prefered links over lynx. if i were you, i would try both. for me the links interface was much better,

[gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello, a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related stuff. I wanted to take a look at Octave, but this positively wants graphicsmagick, which is a fork of imagemagick as far as I can tell and which conflicts with imagemagick. Now some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi Not sure how, but I have both installed. I recall having some dificulties... Let me look for them Francisco On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi again Theese are my USE flags for both, probably the key is one of them, like, perhaps, having graphicsmagick independent of imagemagick: # emerge -pvD graphicsmagick imagemagick These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R]

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: a number of packages depend on imagemagick, such as Inkscape, Frescobaldi and some LaTeX related stuff. I wanted to take a look at Octave, but this positively wants graphicsmagick, which is a fork of imagemagick as far as I can tell and which conflicts with

Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off

2011-12-10 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi I could not check the pulseaudio dependency for gws, as libsndfile does not have it. I have had pulseaudio for a year or so, and it was fine. I used it mainly because VirtualBox depended on it to emulate a sound car on its virtual machines. Then something broke, and I could not get any sound

Re: [gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 11, 2011 3:17 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2011-12-10 3:07 PM, Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote: You may be able to get a better response from the -hardened list, Dang, I had forgotten gentoo has a bunch of other lists... thanks, just subscribed...

Re: [gentoo-user] New Server, considering hardened, need pointers to tfm...

2011-12-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 11, 2011 12:48 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hello all, I'm considering rolling out a new server with gentoo, but wanted to base it on the hardened profile, but the docs I've read so far all seem to be a bit vague about all the details. I've been using gentoo for a

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-10 Thread Lavender
See if you can access it using ssh from another PC. Then check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for any error messages. -- I have checked my Xorg.0.log, there is no error message. I have a question,I read xorg.conf , I didn't find any area about Window Manage, so how xorg-server knowswhich WM to invoke

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering plain alsa [WAS:]: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using

2011-12-10 Thread Dale
Francisco Ares wrote: Thanks, Dale, but now everything is working fine again. I left genkernel working overnight on my custom .config, and now that I removed /etc/asound.conf and /etc/asound.status and rebooted, everything is working fine with just plain ALSA. As far as I know, sdl is

Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off

2011-12-10 Thread meino . cramer
Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com [11-12-11 03:30]: HI, Nice story of success, Francisco...but it does not answer my question. Sigh. Others, who want to report, that they do not have problems? Sigh... Best regards, mcc Hi I could not check the pulseaudio dependency for gws, as libsndfile

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick and Graphicsmagick blocking each other

2011-12-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:59:27AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Frank Steinmetzger writes: It seems you can install graphicsmagick along with imagemagick, if the imagemagick USE flag ist not set. That’s what came to my mind also while I was reading Francisco’s first answer. Rebuilding without

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build firmware into kernel

2011-12-10 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, Lavender wrote: I have checked my Xorg.0.log, there is no error message. I have a question,I read xorg.conf , I didn't find any area about Window Manage, so how xorg-server knowswhich WM to invoke when I use X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?BTW, among my class I am the only

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: A very small selection of all possible Unixes work the same. Ubuntu and Debian are quite similar as they have common roots. RedHat works rather like an old Fedora (and to some degree that's almost exactly what it

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: VirtualBox is a program that runs on a working system with a functioning OS. Like all programs it needs resources like memory and hard disk space. Unlike most programs it usually uses a LOT of memory and hard disk