Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
120515 Philip Webb wrote: > 120515 Urs Schutz wrote: >> I just tried with fotoxx. >> This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. I've installed Fotoxx & it does a very good job ! >> The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg. There's no sign of it on my version : http://w

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2, chroot, initramfs

2012-05-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 15 May 2012 19:37, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm >> following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start >> which seems easy enough. Basically just emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2, chroot, initramfs

2012-05-15 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 15 May 2012 19:37, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm > following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start > which seems easy enough. Basically just emerge it, install and go. > > However... two different questions: >

[gentoo-user] Grub2, chroot, initramfs

2012-05-15 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start which seems easy enough. Basically just emerge it, install and go. However... two different questions: When I did this from a chroot, I just got the GRUB> prom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 15, 2012 7:50 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml > > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho. > Someone put alum in your water or something? > I blabbed that much??

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
120515 Urs Schutz wrote: > I just tried with fotoxx. I hadn't heard of that one : there are so many pkgs in media/gfx that it's difficult to be sure I've checked all photo editors. > This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image. It c~b any more manual than Imagemagick (smile).

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-15 Thread Urs Schutz
On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:50:33 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > I tried Hugin, but got nowhere. I set 6 points on each > picture, which are 2 overlapping parts of a single > original negative, but all it offered was a black screen; > I did follow the on-line help. > > Then I tried Imagemagick & got

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 15 May 2012 18:25:57 john wrote: > Would like to thank all guys and girls for posting. Even though I > post very little myself your posts are always excellent and there is > plenty to learn from just reading them. > > There are things I can do now which I never thought possible. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application

2012-05-15 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 May 2012 22:08:17 you wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2012 16:57:26 +0100 > Mick wrote: > > I am not sure if the problem is related to the tsocks LD_PRELOAD > > error. > > It almost certainly is, tsocks uses LD_PRELOAD to mangle it's magic so > that stuff works. I believe chromium has sev

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes: > On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Stroller writes: >> >>> I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. >>> >>> This has never failed me. >> >> For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to >> strange l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:01:00 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think: > > > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml > > > > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit > > tho. Someone put alum in your water or something

Re: [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application

2012-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 May 2012 16:57:26 +0100 Mick wrote: > On 15 May 2012 15:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:50:43 +0100 > > Mick wrote: > > >> $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12 > > > > This part is fine. > > > > I tried the next part. It didn't work nicely for me. > > Ah, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > On 15/05/12 20:08, Michael Mol wrote: >> There are going to be multiple sliders which affect your playback >> volume. Without seeing a list of your sliders, I couldn't really guess >> which, beyond 'Master', 'PCM' and 'Headphone'. There m

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Ignas Anikevicius
On 15/05/12 20:08, Michael Mol wrote: > There are going to be multiple sliders which affect your playback > volume. Without seeing a list of your sliders, I couldn't really guess > which, beyond 'Master', 'PCM' and 'Headphone'. There may be others; my > old Sound Blaster Live had a ton of internal

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > Dear all, > > It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I > could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is > that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and > this

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > On 15/05/12 17:52, Michael Mol wrote: >> I have a strong expectation that part of what you're hearing is system >> electrical noise. >> >> What happens when you set: >> >> * Master -> 100 >> * Headphone -> 100 >> * Everything else -> 0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Ignas Anikevicius
On 15/05/12 17:52, Michael Mol wrote: > I have a strong expectation that part of what you're hearing is system > electrical noise. > > What happens when you set: > > * Master -> 100 > * Headphone -> 100 > * Everything else -> 0 If I do not play anything while PCM is at 0 and Master and Headphone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-15 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dale wrote: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500 >>> Dale wrote: >>> For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters on this list. >>> >>> Yo Dale, >>> >>> You might want to re-calibra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500 >> Dale wrote: >> >>> For example:  Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters >>> on this list. >> >> Yo Dale, >> >> You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-) >> >>

[gentoo-user] OT: Hack your TV

2012-05-15 Thread James
Howdy, I could not resist this posting. As many of you know, I've been a real pain in the microprocessor lately Particularly about Arm, A15 and Samsung. Well in keeping with that tradition, it seems Samsung TV's are now supporting SSH into them and directly and hacking the firmware: http://

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > Dear all, > > It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I > could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is > that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and > thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Ignas Anikevicius
On 15/05/12 17:31, Alecks Gates wrote: > I would check the inputs in alsamixer and play around with them. I > had a problem similar to this for many months and it was due to some > funny input volume I didn't need, so I muted it. Thanks for replying, I have muted everything, except Headphones, Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Alecks Gates
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > Dear all, > > It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I > could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is > that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and > thi

[gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio

2012-05-15 Thread Ignas Anikevicius
Dear all, It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and this is regardless of the sound system or speakers/headphones I use. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-15 Thread john
On Mon, 14 May 2012 19:46:39 -0500 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500 > > Dale wrote: > > > >> For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top > >> posters on this list. > > > > Yo Dale, > > > > You might want to re-calibrate your stats en

Re: [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application

2012-05-15 Thread Mick
On 15 May 2012 15:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:50:43 +0100 > Mick wrote: >> $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12 > > This part is fine. > > I tried the next part. It didn't work nicely for me. Ah, thanks for this! It's reassuring to know that it's not just my system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application

2012-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:50:43 +0100 Mick wrote: > I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I can't seem to be able to > get tsocks, or proxychains working. > > I set up a socks server virtue of ssh dynamic port forwarding: > > $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12 This part is fine. I tri

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only -- DISK FAILURE

2012-05-15 Thread felix
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:33:48AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I have been using encfs to store most of my home dir for ages. I rebooted > Sunday morning (it's a ~amd64 system) to change kernel to 3.3.5 from 3.3.4, > and sometime overnight, after the nightly backups and mail archives had r

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-15 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote: > Stroller writes: > >> I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. >> >> This has never failed me. > > For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to > strange libtool errors. It took me some days unti

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! [...] > > Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin? > > I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the > same time you're trying to pl

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-15 Thread Space Cake
Thank you. It seems to be ok now [ebuild R ~] net-misc/curl-7.25.0-r1 CURL_SSL="gnutls* -openssl*" [ebuild R ~] net-libs/liboauth-0.9.6 USE="-curl*" >=net-misc/curl-7.24.0 -curl_ssl_nss -curl_ssl_openssl curl_ssl_gnutls ssl -nss ssh Laszlo On 2012. máj. 14., hétfő, 17.34.19 CEST,

[gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application

2012-05-15 Thread Mick
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I can't seem to be able to get tsocks, or proxychains working. I set up a socks server virtue of ssh dynamic port forwarding: $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12 Then I run: $ . tsocks on $ tsocks sh LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libtsocks.so" $ tsocks firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: > I wrote: > > Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about > > this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415241 > > I just found out it only happens when I start the video from within > Dolphin, and as my user. From the command line, or as another

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: > I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. > > This has never failed me. For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution: unset path. Libtool uses this

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 15, 2012 6:06 AM, "Paul Hartman" wrote: > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, wrote: > > > > It's a reiserfs, and df -i shows zeroes; I had never given any thought > > to reiserfs and inodes. Interesting. > > I thought reiserfs allocated new inodes as needed, with no practical limit. > T