Re: [gentoo-user] KMail

2012-02-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 07:47:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the upgrade and

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/10/2012 10:22:42 AM, Carlos Hendson wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:31 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Many thanks, the workaround mentioned in this link fixes the segment fault. Still, audio doesn't work, yet. It seems mplayer doesn't have the codec required for the WMV format.

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: Sorry, but now I'm completely confused. I've emerge mplayer2 and it DOES play video and SOUND ! But smplayer2 doesn't play sound - no idea why since it invokes mplayer2, doesn't it? Not as default. You have to define the player in the settings dialog. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/11/2012 11:12:38 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Helmut Jarausch writes: Sorry, but now I'm completely confused. I've emerge mplayer2 and it DOES play video and SOUND ! But smplayer2 doesn't play sound - no idea why since it invokes mplayer2, doesn't it? Not as default. You have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:09:04 -0800, Grant wrote: I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread:

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Grant
I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Grant
Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread:

[gentoo-user] Re: KMail

2012-02-11 Thread Jörg Schaible
Mick wrote: On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 07:47:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On 02/11/2012 01:09 AM, Grant wrote: Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3cdPage=1cdSort=newestcdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM I added the layman

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Richard Cox
On 02/11/2012 01:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to the following thread:

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox conard...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't receive any messages about Updating Player and they all played just fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 19:59:14 Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox conard...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't receive any messages about Updating Player and they all played just fine. However I then

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 19:59:14 Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be more militant... Nah!  

[gentoo-user] HTPC and Gentoo

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Mol
So I've got Inara in position to be my HTPC box. Tried installing MythTV, but I can't make heads or tails of how to have it do the things I'd like it to do: * Play DVDs inserted into the DVD drive * Hit streaming websites like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Youtube, etc. * Play video and audio

Re: [gentoo-user] HTPC and Gentoo

2012-02-11 Thread Alecks Gates
On Feb 11, 2012 6:54 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: So I've got Inara in position to be my HTPC box. Tried installing MythTV, but I can't make heads or tails of how to have it do the things I'd like it to do: * Play DVDs inserted into the DVD drive * Hit streaming websites like

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Grant
SNIP I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be more militant... Nah!  No need to apologise.  Respecting the wishes of the content creators when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Grant
I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried downloading