[gentoo-user] Me-TV Problems with video quality

2014-12-07 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am using Me-TV to (try to) watch DVB-T broadcasts. And I am fighting against blocky artefacts and the stuttering of sound an d video. I googled a lot, but what I found partly dated back to 2008. It was said one should switch the vodeo driver from xshm to xv deinterlacing from standard to

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: automated code validation

2014-12-07 Thread Sam Bishop
In order to catch up a bit since I wasn't subscribed to the mailing list with this email at the time I found this thread. If anything sounds odd, read through to the end. I'm trying to top reply so I'm leaving my 'backstory' till the end. Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: James

Re: [gentoo-user] Me-TV Problems with video quality

2014-12-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 10:30:37 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am using Me-TV to (try to) watch DVB-T broadcasts. And I am fighting against blocky artefacts and the stuttering of sound an d video. That sounds like the result of a poor quality signal. Have you tried using different software

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to find out to what file(...) writes goes on a idle system...

2014-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:05 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-12-06 21:16]: Prong (1) includes all issues related to systemd. Probably embedded experience with systemd is rare, just guessing. Certainly I have none of that experience. So post to those iotop

Re: [gentoo-user] Me-TV Problems with video quality

2014-12-07 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [14-12-07 11:36]: On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 10:30:37 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am using Me-TV to (try to) watch DVB-T broadcasts. And I am fighting against blocky artefacts and the stuttering of sound an d video. That sounds like the result of a

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, December 04, 2014 07:11:12 PM lee wrote: Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes: On 2014-12-04 11:08, lee wrote: Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes: On 2014-12-04 02:14, lee wrote: snipped part already answered name = gentoobox kernel =

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:55:50 PM lee wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:39 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes:

Re: [gentoo-user] Print PDF or PS files

2014-12-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 7 December 2014 04:00:36 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: In: XFCE4 home folder menu: Edit - Configure Custom Action I have entered: Print PDF or PS files command: lpr %N However, the above command: lpr %N is only good if the PDF or PS files have standard Letter size format. If a PDF/PS

Re: [gentoo-user] samba and window 7 NTFS

2014-12-07 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 5 Dec 2014 23:16:37 + schrieb Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Friday 05 Dec 2014 16:11:26 Matti Nykyri wrote: On Dec 4, 2014, at 22:21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:15:07 +, thegeezer wrote: In order to format the USB stick to

Re: [gentoo-user] Print PDF or PS files

2014-12-07 Thread Joseph
On 12/07/14 14:49, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 7 December 2014 04:00:36 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: In: XFCE4 home folder menu: Edit - Configure Custom Action I have entered: Print PDF or PS files command: lpr %N However, the above command: lpr %N is only good if the PDF or PS files

[gentoo-user] [half OT] WLAN totally beginners question

2014-12-07 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am just starting to do the first steps in configuring WLAN. The problem is: This topic seems to be rich of terms, which I dont know yet how to evaluate: AP, WAP, WEP, FSK...and dozens more. Since my use case is very limited I want to configure just that without being urged to achieve my

[gentoo-user] Re: automated code validation

2014-12-07 Thread James
Sam Bishop sam at cygnus.email writes: In my mind. Gentoo has the kind of hook you speak of. We just havent refined it or done a good job showing it off to the world. The ebuild format is one of the most powerful packaging standards. An automatic test battery for Gentoo could possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automated code validation

2014-12-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:16 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Sam Bishop sam at cygnus.email writes: In my mind. Gentoo has the kind of hook you speak of. We just havent refined it or done a good job showing it off to the world. The ebuild format is one of the most powerful packaging

Re: [gentoo-user] [half OT] WLAN totally beginners question

2014-12-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, December 07, 2014 8:10:46 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am just starting to do the first steps in configuring WLAN. The problem is: This topic seems to be rich of terms, which I dont know yet how to evaluate: AP, WAP, WEP, FSK...and dozens more. Since my use case is very

Re: [gentoo-user] [half OT] WLAN totally beginners question

2014-12-07 Thread thegeezer
On 07/12/14 19:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am just starting to do the first steps in configuring WLAN. The problem is: This topic seems to be rich of terms, which I dont know yet how to evaluate: AP, WAP, WEP, FSK...and dozens more. Since my use case is very limited I want to

[gentoo-user] Re: automated code validation

2014-12-07 Thread James
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: liveUSB, where folks can download Gentoo Fever onto a usb stick and stick into their current hardware and boot up a killer code development system. Building a liveUSB version of Gentoo is almost completely orthagonal to building an automatic

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper

2014-12-07 Thread lee
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:44 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Omit the window decorations? I liked the picture, but actually I am not sure if that's what I want. I want a terminal that is on the background (wallpaper) of the screen, not in

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-07 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, December 04, 2014 07:11:12 PM lee wrote: Why is the networking complicated? Do you use bridging? Yes --- and it was terrible to begin with and still is very complicated. One of the VMs has a network card passed through to do pppoe for

Re: [gentoo-user] samba and window 7 NTFS

2014-12-07 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 06.12.2014 um 00:16 schrieb Mick: Same opinoin here. The in-kernel driver is only good for reading files and directories. If anything else is needed use ntfs3g. This is right, ntfs-3g is a safe way of accessing NTFS from Linux. Actually, while there is a NTFS-kernel driver, this driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automated code validation

2014-12-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:42 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: liveUSB, where folks can download Gentoo Fever onto a usb stick and stick into their current hardware and boot up a killer code development system. Building a liveUSB version of

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is depclean trying to remove python-3.4.1?

2014-12-07 Thread Adam Carter
afaik eselect means nothing to portage's dependency solver. Which is a bit dumb. I raised a bug for it; https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367611

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvt on i3wm as wallpaper

2014-12-07 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:46 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:44 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Omit the window decorations? I liked the picture, but actually I am not sure if that's what I want. I want a