Re: [gentoo-user] linux kernel disabling irq 16

2015-07-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/11/2015 01:22 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: What's wrong with eix? It gives you a nice, easily understood list of all the current versions. If you don't use eix (like me) there's always eshowkw (available in the gentoolkit package.) It shows packages, slots, and keywording for all arch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins

2015-07-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/06/2015 06:40 PM, walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:41:07 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:01:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/01/2015 08:17 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support UEFI, which I have never used before. I have two questions. 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I downloaded the iso, verified it's integrity,

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/23/2015 10:50 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: Sent from my iPhone Regarding the touch screens/tablets, Gentoo has drivers for them. I've been using Gentoo on my tablet PC for years now. However there's no swipe capability. I've read someone

Re: [gentoo-user] After Updates System hang on system waits for uevents to be processed

2015-06-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/18/2015 02:53 AM, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: i found 2 mails here in list, but they talk about other problems there. (nvidia cards etc). any ideas how to solve this? server starts up after reboot, then it hangs on waiting for uevents to be prcocessed. DEVTMPFS is set YES in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/12/2015 12:32 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: With a Fujitsu Lifebook A530 that I lent from the University I had the problem that it can overheat and actually shut down. However, I semi-recently discovered thermald, which has (in its default configuration state) successfully kept it from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/07/2015 09:05 PM, James wrote: HAVIT® HV-F2056 15.6-17 Laptop Cooler - Three Quiet 110mm Fans at 1,000RPM, Last, I think some folks make a cooling pad for laptops. If you have agressive compile options (like mine MAKEOPTS=-j9 -l9) in your make.conf, slow them way down (-j1) etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/08/2015 11:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I browsed their udev rules and found some rules pointing in that direction but none specifically matching the PCI ID of my keyboard and the wildcards ... I am not sure. But they seem to do it specifically, yes - # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
So many replies! On 06/08/2015 11:22 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 08 Jun 2015 13:03:53 James wrote: Franz Fellner alpine.art.de at gmail.com writes: James wrote: There may be a generic processor fan you can mount/glue onto the chip for cooling. Make sure all other fans are running. Blow out the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/08/2015 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: are you sure it is overheating and not operating within spec? A lot of laptops have 'hot spots'. I've had this laptop for a really long time, and it's getting hot where I normally rest my right wrist while typing. I would have noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/07/2015 09:05 PM, James wrote: Last, I think some folks make a cooling pad for laptops. If you have agressive compile options (like mine MAKEOPTS=-j9 -l9) in your make.conf, slow them way down (-j1) etc. I picked up one of these in the store today:

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/08/2015 05:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2015-06-08 um 14:22 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Any chance this is a Logitech K520r wireless keyboard? I have one of these and it at times goes to sleep for several seconds. Logitech know about the problem but refuse to do anything. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 06/07/2015 10:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: So there is something else here that also plays a role Same here. Hi all, I may have a solution for you. I noticed this behaviour some time back, except I had two workstations - one worked, and one

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Same here. Can't seem to reply to myself, just posting back the nepomuk USE-flag did indeed fix it. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/07/2015 10:30 AM, Paul Klos wrote: Op zondag 7 juni 2015 10:17:24 schreef Daniel Frey: On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Same here. Can't seem to reply to myself, just posting back the nepomuk USE-flag did indeed fix it. Dan Interesting, I have indeed still enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/07/2015 10:31 AM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 07 Jun 2015 18:17:24 Daniel Frey wrote: On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Same here. Can't seem to reply to myself, just posting back the nepomuk USE-flag did indeed fix it. Dan Did you set it globally or only for some package, e.g

[gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-07 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of compiling ;-) ) I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2 1.6GHz chip and 4GB RAM, even though it only sees 3GB (that should tell you it's pretty

[gentoo-user] Update: OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-06-07 Thread Daniel Frey
Regarding my other thread started some time ago, I finally fixed it after a lot of experimentation. I had to do several things to make mdadm work properly with dracut/systemd: 1. I had to add rd.auto=1 to kernel options in grub; 2. Upgraded to mdadm-3.3.2-r1; 3. Installed dracut-041; 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual OS clock issues

2015-06-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/05/2015 03:29 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: The main problem is that Windows will change the local time twice a year on DST zones, aside from NTP how can Linux tell if the time is adjusted? Windows can be set to not do DST updates, I've set this option in the time control panel for both

Re: [gentoo-user] [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users

2015-05-22 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/22/2015 10:21 AM, Dale wrote: I have always copied mine over manually too. I keep quite a few spares laying around, just in case. I had one that got corrupted a long time ago. After I booted another kernel and looked at the one I was trying to boot, it was only a few kilo bytes

Re: [gentoo-user] [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users

2015-05-22 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/22/2015 02:19 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 22/05/2015 10:38, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 02:53:17 -0500, Dale wrote: So I'm the 3rd one in row to state that I haven't had any deleterious effects that I noticed. Make that 4. /raises hand: 5 /raises hand too

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/19/2015 09:35 AM, »Q« wrote: ctrl+k does the same thing for the search box. (And if the search box is hidden in your UI, ctrl+k opens about:home and puts the carat in its search box.) For browsers a lot of things are mousey, but for inherently type-y things, I really like the

Re: [gentoo-user] howto make github look nice

2015-05-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/18/2015 05:47 PM, James wrote: Howdy, One of the things I find ugly about github is the first appearance of the main (base) page of a given project. One thing I really like about sourceforge is how some projects look much more professional. I do not need (nor want) a lecture on why

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/17/2015 02:54 PM, Mick wrote: Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently. This is not a problem at all, because this address bar auto-highlighting in Chromium does not take over the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/27/2015 12:41 AM, Dale wrote: What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half dozen of the other thing? I just went through this myself, and I found a NAS with four drives in it. I actually got

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/26/2015 12:38 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: There is nothing to get out of, and there is no circular dep. I didn't mean a true circular dep, more like you want this and it wants that, repeat. :-) Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-25 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/25/2015 09:07 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, A novice asks the master Emerge: Is there Zen also in every upgrade, which will serve to Gentoo? Master Emerge moved a little bit and spoke: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

2015-04-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/20/2015 06:14 PM, Joseph wrote: I don't think grub is asking for it. Not grub specifically, but grub is probably built with ncurses support and ncurses needs it. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

2015-04-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/20/2015 04:27 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: Better yet, upgrade to grub:2 already. I only use grub2 on machines with EFI, and in my house that's only two... I can't stand how it tries to add things automatically. It actually got so annoying that I created a manual boot entry that is symlinked

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg command not found

2015-04-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/12/2015 04:08 PM, Dale wrote: There's been a discussion on the default switching back to ffmpeg on -dev too. I think I read that correctly. Yeah, I read that too - apparently they are going to a saner default, i.e. USE=-libav. Darnit, I just read this within the last week or so. Ah,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo announces total website makeover :-)

2015-04-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/01/2015 12:18 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: Nice. The load time is really fast :) Send the floppies to me. Can't wait to get installing ;) Ditto! I can finally dust off my 5.25 drive and use it for something! ;-) Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-04-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/01/2015 02:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Nice! Apart from the zap thing that Canek has already covered, I think it could be useful. Could you add a link to it to the main systemd page. I've added it to the See Also section at the end of the Systemd page. I didn't know where else to put it.

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-04-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/01/2015 02:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:53:39 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: Anyway, I've finally gotten around to putting together a short cheatsheet @ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet . Nice! Apart from the zap thing that Canek has already

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/01/2015 07:03 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? This is version 31.5.3, with just AdBlock Plus and YesScript added. I have remerged it and saw no difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-04-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/01/2015 09:26 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:19:18 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: I've added it to the See Also section at the end of the Systemd page. I didn't know where else to put it. That's where I was thinking of. It's not there right now, are edits moderated? I

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-03-31 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 10:20 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: The cheat sheets are useful for reference, but I'd strongly encourage anybody using systemd to get a decent understanding of the fundamentals. Oh, certainly - but going in completely blind and being stuck for 15 minutes trying to do a simple task

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-31 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/21/2015 02:46 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Could you run this immediately after booting: systemd-delta Just to check that the unit files you are using are not being overridden by something. OK, I've confirmed the poweroff target works fine but the reboot and shutdown targets

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-03-31 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/31/2015 07:05 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Thanks for doing this, I think it will help all the people switching to systemd from OpenRC in Gentoo. However, I think the zap command is a little misleading, even with the note stating that is no exactly the same. Duly noted, I've removed

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-31 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/21/2015 02:46 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: They are; basically everything nowadays is systemd aware. Even OpenRC can now use some of its configurations. Could you run this immediately after booting: systemd-delta I've finally gotten around to doing this:

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/23/2015 05:12 PM, Dale wrote: Is it me or does the search function at fgo pretty much stink? I find a lot of times I type in something and where it should show what I searched for, it is blank which means it kicked all my search terms out. Surely it ain't just me. o_O It's not just

[gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi list, In one of my earlier posts I mentioned I wasn't having any issues with systemd. Well, I guess I lied, although I didn't know about it at the time. My laptop works fine, no issues. My desktop, however, has an issue, but only while rebooting. I use mdadm to access my IMSM raid, and

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/21/2015 10:27 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: So why does `systemctl reboot` not want to work? I'm a little confused. What kind of initramfs are you using? Supposedly, the only difference between poweroff and reboot is that the former turns off the machine and reboot does a reset. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/18/2015 04:41 PM, walt wrote: On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Thanks to all who replied. I'm surprised by the variety of different results you

Re: [gentoo-user] getting blocks for system and world update not resolved

2015-03-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 09:11 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I have problems getting these blocks at a system update solved... I executed: emerge --backtrack=30 -fuDN @system @world Any ideas ?! ... ... ... [blocks B ] perl-core/ExtUtils-Install-1.670.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 06:15 PM, walt wrote: On 03/17/2015 05:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: Mozilla installs a privileged service that auto updates its software. Interesting. I didn't know about 'privileged services' in Windows. I hope M$ grants these 'privileges' carefully. You mean the user. Any app

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Anyone else see the same with firefox-36? I haven't tried, honestly. But I have had problems with Firefox not including

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-03-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/17/2015 06:56 AM, Bob Wya wrote: I've not seen any that are OpenRC specific... But this one is pretty decent for SysVInit vs. systemd... http://linoxide.com/linux-command/systemd-vs-sysvinit-cheatsheet/ Yeah I found one similar to that, but located elsewhere. Maybe if I have some time

[gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

2015-03-16 Thread Daniel Frey
Hey all, I've now converted two systems to systemd and so far haven't had too much issues with systemd itself, other than me constantly forgetting commands. Is there a nice table or chart somewhere that lists openrc commands with equivalent systemd commands? That would really help me from

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

2015-03-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/06/2015 11:57 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: I wasn't aware you had e1000e hardware - those are about as reliable as they come. I've used many of them and never had the slightest trouble at all. By all means study up on firmware and driver options - if you don;t know much about that area it's

Re: [gentoo-user] No 'libs' in world file?

2015-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/03/2015 10:06 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: And a lib is not necessarily always a direct dependancy. E.g. my HDHomerun OTA TV tuner requires the media-libs/libhdhomerun ebuild to be explicitly installed. Wait, really? I've had mine since 2010 and I've never had that package installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf migration lost overlay priority

2015-02-22 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/22/2015 03:26 AM, lee wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com writes: On a side note, someone should inform the portage devs that higher priorities should equal lower numbers. Don't do it the opposite way to the rest of the world, please :-P Why should low mean high? The rest of

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc implementation failure

2015-02-21 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/20/2015 05:19 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Looks like you are using pump mode. Disable it and use normal distcc. This was the cause. Just an update. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc implementation failure

2015-02-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/20/2015 05:19 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Looks like you are using pump mode. Disable it and use normal distcc. Yes, I read about how it works and enabled it. Of course I didn't think of that when these errors happened. I'll try disabling that shortly. Yes, there is. Create a file

[gentoo-user] distcc implementation failure

2015-02-20 Thread Daniel Frey
Well, I decided to try distcc once again and set up a few machine to do so. I have set the -march directive on each machine to its own (and not native), and set up the accesses. It seems to work on most packages. However, I've found that there's some packages that just don't work:

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

2015-02-05 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/02/2015 11:57 PM, bitlord wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:22:17 -0800 Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: I've been having a strange issue with my USB flash drives. I can't seem to copy much anything to them. It appears to copy and then hangs, then I get: [ 6841.490036] usb 2-6

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

2015-02-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/02/2015 11:57 PM, bitlord wrote: Not an expert, but check contacts (if ports are not used for a long time check if there is dust in them), if you use extension cable or a hub, try without it (power issues), or try different port (does it happen on all ports?) Tried several ports,

[gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

2015-02-02 Thread Daniel Frey
I've been having a strange issue with my USB flash drives. I can't seem to copy much anything to them. It appears to copy and then hangs, then I get: [ 6841.490036] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci [ 6848.540029] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

2015-01-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/27/2015 03:28 PM, walt wrote: My question is why didn't memtest86+ find any errors? Could it be that the first RAM I bought was actually okay but this machine didn't like it for some reason? Both were DDR3/1333MHz, just from different manufacturers. If the timing/voltage is set wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating dependencies...: Any way to make it faster?

2015-01-23 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/23/2015 08:20 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for my embedded systems I use gentoo. Their harddisks are simple microSDcards. When updateing or emerging especially the Calculation dependencies... is a step which needs a lot of patience of the user (me ;). I have a QX9650 and it

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/20/2015 09:58 AM, Dale wrote: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006Pre-fail Always - 114620384 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 053 051 036Pre-fail Always - 62752 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 088 088 000Old_age

Re: [gentoo-user] Get off my lawn?

2015-01-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/16/2015 03:25 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/ I find it amusing that in the second question he laments on how Upstart was a pain in the ass to deal with because Canonical made it difficult to contribute code. I recall not too long ago

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/29/2014 12:57 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: How did you remove the icon? I haven't found a way yet. I did it by the following (I think, anyway): 1. Open the Panel toolbox. (Click the cashew-looking thing to the right of the clock) That thing's so discreet I'd hardly noticed it. 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/28/2014 07:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have noticed any problem with Activities; but they

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing openrc after installing systemd

2014-12-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/26/2014 07:10 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Just curious; is this even possible? `emerge --depclean --ask --verbose sys-apps/openrc` gives: Calculating dependencies... done! sys-apps/openrc-0.12.4 pulled in by: @system requires sys-apps/openrc

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE setting sound input from USB, playback from motherboard chip.

2014-12-22 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/22/2014 09:56 AM, Joseph wrote: On 12/22/14 07:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com [14-12-22 07:16]: On 12/22/14 06:21, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com [14-12-22 06:18]: How to configure alsamixer and or XFCE4 to get playback from my

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam on Gentoo Logitech C270

2014-12-21 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/21/2014 06:49 PM, Joseph wrote: When I try to run: guvcview video device: /dev/video0 ERROR opening V4L2 interface for /dev/video0 unable to detect video devices on your system (0) ERROR opening V4L interface: Permission denied It can't open the device. You probably aren't in the

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts

2014-12-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/19/2014 07:22 AM, Mick wrote: I'll be taking my time to google, read and make appropriate selections, so please bear with me while I start relevant threads as necessary to complement my sparse knowledge in these topics. Starting from the top, with this thread I am trying to find out

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd.powerfail script

2014-12-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/11/2014 03:09 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm running apcupsd, I've added: apcupsd and apcupsd.powerfail scripts to rc level default and shutdown. On a slave machine do I run only apcupsd only or I need to add: apcupsd.powerfail to shutdown level as well? apcupsd.powerfail kills power to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

2014-11-30 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/30/2014 05:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: systemd isn't monolithic so I can only assume you are referring to the Linux kernel here :) systemd most certainly is monolithic as well as modular. You can't run journald without systemd and you most certainly can't replace journald with a third

Re: [gentoo-user] Does systemd work with mdadm?

2014-11-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/29/2014 12:19 AM, Mark Pariente wrote: mdadm works perfectly fine with systemd. I am running a 4-disk RAID-10 configuration and it gets assembled properly by systemd. I have the ARRAY ... definition in /etc/mdadm.conf and the /dev/mdXXX mount point in /etc/fstab and AFAICT that's all

[gentoo-user] Does systemd work with mdadm?

2014-11-28 Thread Daniel Frey
OK, I decided I'm going to try systemd to see what all the hubbub is about. I know there are people on here that use it so I'm hoping someone's can alleviate my concerns on it with mdadm. I use an IMSM container (Intel fakeraid) as I dual boot with Windows. This has happily worked for some time

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/20/2014 11:16 AM, thegeezer wrote: yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a prerequisite. does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the trackpoint style mini-joystick in the

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd to recycle power

2014-11-15 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/15/2014 09:05 AM, Thanasis wrote: However, in the even that power is restored between the UPS kill and the time it actually turns off the mains will still not be cycled. Why would this be so? That was a musing, it wasn't based on testing. On most UPS systems I've seen when the power

[gentoo-user] Mythtv artwork issues

2014-11-14 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, Back when I was running 0.26, mythtv would automatically download cover art, banners, and wallpaper. Since upgrading to 0.27, this hasn't happened. I did discover that 0.26 was dropping everything into the default storage group (i.e. my recordings directory) and the grabber was

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world problem with one package

2014-10-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 26/10/2014 8:58 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: Hello all, Since few, when i run emerge -auvDN world, i get hugin to re-emerge again and again (with r to force re-install)... [ebuild rR ~] media-gfx/hugin-2014.0.0-r1 USE=python -debug -lapack -sift LINGUAS=fr -cs -da -de -en_GB -es -eu

Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/14/2014 01:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Not really strange - I got something similar with dolphin too. I use NFS mounts in dolphin a lot (not using the built-in nfs kpart, it's a traditional mount). Double clicking through on folder names would often select everything from where the

Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly O/T] mysql problems

2014-10-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/14/2014 11:54 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, This may be slightly off topic, but I thought of asking here first. I noticed two problems, one specific to a particular database, the other more general. In reverse order: 1. I am getting this error when I start mysqld 141014

Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-14 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/13/2014 10:50 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: What do you mean with select Do all the entries become selected (marked) ready for delete/copy/...? Yes. It's been doing this since I upgraded to KDE4 with Dolphin. KDE3 was perfectly fine. I have seen this behaviour in a lot of different programs

Re: [gentoo-user] world update wants to downgrade genoo-sources

2014-10-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/11/2014 12:27 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: That's an awfully complicated command to see what's in the tree. Do you know about eix? eix gentoo-sources immediately shows you that the only stable version is 3.14.14 which is why portage is merging it. The fact that it's a new slot lower5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Handbook missing portage unpacking

2014-10-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/11/2014 01:37 PM, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time, like I always have done.

Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/07/2014 09:42 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Are you talking about the behaviour when you actually click on the foldername, instead of the? If yes, then that is as designed. No, I'm clicking on the . Sometimes I've expanded folders three to four levels deep and so it selects

Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 10/07/2014 11:26 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Why not use Dolphin as file manager? Dolphin is pretty buggy. I've found a few and one repeats itself frequently. I'm pretty sure I found an existing bug for the issue, but it's been happening to me since 4.0. (When viewing things in tree view and

Re: [gentoo-user] i965 (Valley View) video acceleration

2014-09-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/11/2014 10:34 AM, Grant wrote: When you get a chance, I'd be interested to know which opengl package has vaapi/vdpau USE and also your output for: # eselect opengl list - Grant Hi Grant, I haven't forgotten, just been really busy with work. Here's some info - Card: 00:02.0 VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] i965 (Valley View) video acceleration

2014-09-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/11/2014 10:34 AM, Grant wrote: When you get a chance, I'd be interested to know which opengl package has vaapi/vdpau USE and also your output for: Argh! My last post to the list - I played the 1080i with 5 channel audio (using 5-10%) with _mythtv_ not mplayer2. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] i965 (Valley View) video acceleration

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/10/2014 11:28 AM, Grant wrote: Daniel, no rush, but I'm still curious how you got mplayer2 accelerating. I tried everything up to mplayer2- with -vo gl but no accel. Hi Grant, Now that I think about it, I think that maybe mplayer2 wasn't accelerating. If it was, it was because

Re: [gentoo-user] i965 (Valley View) video acceleration

2014-09-09 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/08/2014 03:02 PM, Grant wrote: No luck. Weird. It's working in xbmc so I can't be far off. What could I be missing? Sorry I've been crazy busy. I hope tomorrow I'll have some time to power up the NUC and check some settings. I'll get the USE flags and my /etc/portage/package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] mini-PCIe SSD

2014-09-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/07/2014 11:55 AM, Grant wrote: I'm trying to use one of these mini-PCIe storage devices: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008KWEA88 in a Gigabyte Brix mini-computer but there isn't a /dev/sd* entry for it and it isn't in lspci. Any ideas? This may be a silly question - if you

Re: [gentoo-user] mini-PCIe SSD

2014-09-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/07/2014 12:28 PM, Grant wrote: I just checked and I'm using BIOS version F2 which is the latest available. My hardware revision is v1.1. It sounds like I may be out of luck. The device does have a SATA3 port but I was hoping not to cram an entire 2.5 SSD in there to cut down on heat

Re: [gentoo-user] i965 (Valley View) video acceleration

2014-09-07 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/07/2014 09:25 PM, Grant wrote: I can't seem to get video acceleration working on my Gigabyte Brix 2807 device which lspci identifies as Valley View. 1080p playback is still stuttery. I've tried every trick I know and Googled a lot. Could anyone throw me some suggestions? What kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Intel NUC install -- no display on OLED TV

2014-09-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/06/2014 02:21 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Yes, thanks, I heard about that already. It's for debian, but seems to list some general know-how for NUCs and mythtv: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1alWSZZ8tLYe4I-lmdrsAGT67xV77q4F4jivGeEzIklk/edit# I didn't actually search for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Intel NUC install -- no display on OLED TV

2014-09-05 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/05/2014 11:16 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I read about outdated BIOS-versions and the need/fix to connect something via DisplayPort and enter BIOS once ... to reset things or something. I don't have such a box ... just echoing something I read (as I play with the thought to buy a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Intel NUC install -- no display on OLED TV

2014-09-05 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/05/2014 01:12 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I'm planning on updating my aging media center. The Celeron+Intel video card are able to handle FullHD (1920x1080) video? My local OTA broadcasts are almost all 1080i, and mythtv handles that no problem with vaapi. I looked around and

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: When I installed grub2 I got no errors: grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it correctly. That installed to the MBR in legacy mode. Instructions are here:

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/04/2014 01:05 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm still lost with this grab2, very confusing. Gentoo official documentation did not mention any of this :-/ Official documentation did ask to create /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot partition but there was no instruction how to mount it or format it. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: When I installed grub2 I got no errors: grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD recmmendation / input

2014-08-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/28/2014 09:54 PM, Joseph wrote: No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I might consider it. Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how long? I have several SSDs. I currently use Kingston, Crucial, and Intel. A bit of background - I use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/12/2014 12:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Yes, I think it was dev-qt/qtsql that broke MythTV. I notice that dev-python/mysql-python was rebuilt at the same time, so that must have been missed too, whereas dev-perl/DBD-mysql was re-emerged right after mysql. It most definitely was, I

Re: [gentoo-user] --exclude gentoo-sources

2014-08-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/01/2014 01:19 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:58 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Howdy, I know I can use this option to protect kernel sources I want to keep around, from removal, via depclean. Well I not a proficient user, but I think that depclean

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-27 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/27/2014 04:30 AM, Grand Duet wrote: and also the output of the rc-update show command? # rc-update show alsasound | boot bootmisc | boot dbus | default devfs | sysinit

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