Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:05:14 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This may help, may not. When I was playing with this a year or so ago, I found a HD test video on the internet somewhere. I'm pretty sure it was 1080p. I set smplayer to play and repeat the video and then I watched the CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:55:16 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: This sentence summarizes my understanding of your post nicely:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:05:21 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I don't use separate initr* files, the initramfs is built into the kernel, using the latest versions of the tools installed at the time the kernel was compiled. That gives a single bootable file that, if it works now,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:05:21 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I don't use separate initr* files, the initramfs is built into the kernel, using the latest versions of the tools installed at the time the kernel was compiled. That gives a single bootable file that, if it works now, should always

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:38:14 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Those are unreasonable, if somewhat unlikely, scenarios Ack! Too many uns s/unreasonable/reasonable/ -- Neil Bothwick With free advice you often get what you pay for. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-19 Thread Dale
Bruce Hill wrote: The youtube-dl program works for more sites than just YouTube. And I chose it for the links you provided, specifically because they were YouTube videos. Give /usr/share/doc/youtube-dl-2012.09.27/README.md.bz2 a read. The file fluctuated but the overall speed was 1.77M/s ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.12.2012 00:20, schrieb Walter Dnes: 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop. mplayer now has 5 video output modes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:55:16 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500 Michael Mol

[gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-19 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. On my system Portage uses the following two variables for compressing files in /usr/share/doc: $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS xz $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png It seems anyway that some files are not compressed: $ find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
with redhat's push to move everything into /usr - why not stop right there and move everything back into /? seperate /home, /var, /dev and /tmp makes sense (not counting proc, sys for obvious reasons). But the rest? Why /usr/lib? Just /lib would be fine. Remember how once there was a whole

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012, 23:02:41 schrieb Marc Joliet: Am Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:34:07 + schrieb Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk: [...] Going back in time his claim of pulse audio being good for professional audio was also completely off the mark. Seperating Gnome and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} open-source: chat, tasks, resources, code

2012-12-19 Thread Grant
XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick: pidgin, kopete, telepathy and a hots of others. Servers are another story. All of them that you can lay your hands on seem to suck big eggs big time. ejabberd is the only one I found stable enough to actually stay up for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} open-source: chat, tasks, resources, code

2012-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick: pidgin, kopete, telepathy and a hots of others. Servers are another story. All of them that you can lay your hands on seem to suck big eggs big time. ejabberd

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 07:48:45PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote remember this? a solution without a problem to solve, making a lot of people's lifes harder, dropped onto them by the godlike Lennart P.? http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2009/06/0218.html The thread was started by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:42:01 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: with redhat's push to move everything into /usr - why not stop right there and move everything back into /? seperate /home, /var, /dev and /tmp makes sense (not counting proc, sys for obvious reasons).

Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:41:30 +0100 Francesco Turco ftu...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hello. On my system Portage uses the following two variables for compressing files in /usr/share/doc: $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS xz $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES css gif

[gentoo-user] Installing swi-prolog and gnustep-base in the same time

2012-12-19 Thread Frank Schwidom
Hi, it seems, that swi-prolog and gnustep-base cannpot be installed in the same time because both packages share the same file /usr/bin/pl what is the best solution, to handle this situation? Regards

[gentoo-user] kernel 3.7 - internal 'udev'; signed lkms; file hash validation

2012-12-19 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Found this interesting: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-3-7-Part-3-Infrastructure-1755953.html Are there Gentoo guidelines on using these new kernel features? TIA

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 03:38:15PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote gl OpenGL Recommended. Should work okay without further tuning but offers a lot of them. Just play around. [...deletia...] 2) When I start up mplayer, the diagnostics include... MMX2 supported but disabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Surely not libs, those go in /usr/lib or /lib. If it's variable data somehow related to libs then someone needs to look up lib in a dictionary. I have to say I was shocked a while back when I found /usr/bin/firefox linking to a shell script at /usr/lib/firefox/firefox I'd be interested if

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-19 Thread walt
On 12/18/2012 01:07 AM, Francesco Turco wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:49, Dale wrote: If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it. There are lots of settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you need to. It's strange because all variables in my /etc/rc.conf file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-19 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:25:13PM -0800, walt wrote: that. There are some questions that require a group of old farts, and you have found one in this mailing list :) Something smells ... bad ... here. :( -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive (

Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-19 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:11:38 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:41:30 +0100 Francesco Turco ftu...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hello. On my system Portage uses the following two variables for compressing files in /usr/share/doc: $ portageq envvar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: with redhat's push to move everything into /usr - why not stop right there and move everything back into /? I originally thought this way, but they actually reviewed the technical and historical merits for

[gentoo-user] How do I remove a module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES?

2012-12-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I want to remove the connman module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES. I've put this in my make.conf: ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES = -connman But it doesn't work; emerge complains: Invalid '-' operator in non-incremental variable 'ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES': '-connman' So how does this work?

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I remove a module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES?

2012-12-19 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/19/2012 22:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I want to remove the connman module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES. I've put this in my make.conf: ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES = -connman But it doesn't work; emerge complains: Invalid '-' operator in non-incremental variable

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I remove a module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES?

2012-12-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/12/12 06:26, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/19/2012 22:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I want to remove the connman module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES. I've put this in my make.conf: ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES = -connman But it doesn't work; emerge complains: Invalid '-' operator in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I remove a module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES?

2012-12-19 Thread ckard
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/12/12 06:26, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/19/2012 22:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I want to remove the connman module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES. I've put this in my make.conf: ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES =