Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:20:19 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen vs Citrix XenServer

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I'm looking into virtualizing my servers (all 3 of them), and am a little confused as to the differences between Xen and XenServer... Think of it as a bit like the difference between Linux and a Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen vs Citrix XenServer

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Thanks for your response Michael... On 2012-01-01 11:51 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: While I haven't played with XenServer, I have played with its open

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out how to get it back.  I did google this, but didn't see anything relevant.  Any ideas? Thanks and Happy New Year. Colleen echo $PS1 If

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out how to get it back

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 15:46, Dale wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: On 01/01/12 14:58, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen Beamercolleen.bea...@gmail.com  wrote: On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: Using emerge --update foo adds foo to your world file. This is responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its way into one of my world files. Is there any reason to desire the current behavior?

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: What happens if you run xterm? In response, konsole was working just find earlier today - I had a command

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Michael Mol
--tree On Dec 31, 2011 10:30 AM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 09:59 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi, I'm getting an error when trying to emerge phonon-gstreamer on my amdfam10 system. The compilation error is 'undefined reference to 'typeinfo for

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 10:50 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: --tree Sorry - please could you be a little more verbose? :-) Sorry, had about ten second to tap that out on my phone. Add --tree to your emerge command-line

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730 Dale :-)  :-) Thanks for the link. I tried changing the use flags for phonon to -gstreamer vlc, but for some reason I'm still getting gstreamer

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

2011-12-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 14:52 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730 Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com  wrote: ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not interested currently. My next system will have 16gb

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Mick wrote: On Friday 30 Dec 2011 13:02:33 Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: For now I have masked KDEPIM 4.7 on all of my remaining boxen. This is too messy to have to fix more than once, if I can fix it at all that is! The only thing that's keeping me from mutt is the zillion shortcut

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Today I upgraded my kernel from 3.0.6 to 3.1.6 and promptly lost sound. This motherboard has Intel HDA. All the required modules are loaded, and I hear a thud as they're loaded, but alsaconf can't find the device. I tried recompiling all the alsa drivers into

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote: I guess you're going to need to provide some debug info. Maybe try a complete power down and not just a warm boot. Not finding the device at all is problematic. What's in lspci, etc.? Power cycle complete - no

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 17:18:35 Aljosha Papsch wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:00:11PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote: I guess you're going to need to provide some debug info

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 17:50:49 Michael Mol wrote: I'm inclined to think you have something in your asoundrc (either system-wide or user-local) Neither of those exists on my system. that's shunting ALSA clients over to Pulse, and that Pulse has

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote: ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not interested currently. My next system will have 16gb of ram, and I'll create an 8gb ramdisk on it to increase emerge performance. Other than

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 27 Dec 2011 08:42:29 Michael Hampicke wrote: I just tried to reinstall Gentoo on my laptop(x86) and after chrooting into my new install I tried to run env-update but got a command not found. I looked in sbin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Quick update...I now have two of these things set up in a distcc cluster with my Phenom 9650. ~530 packages in 228m 34s. There's an even larger initial explosion of parallel emerge jobs, but it spreads out very nicely...I

Re: [gentoo-user] Env-update missing

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: I thought the incantation is:   env-update source /etc/profile has this changed? No it hasn't, just looked in the gentoo handbook. I never can remember what command to run first, so I execute both of them two

Re: [gentoo-user] Build problems due to invalid libtool arguments

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 07:23:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote I notice that you have 'MAKEOPTS=-j4'. You wouldn't believe how many problems you can solve by changing to 'MAKEOPTS=-j1'. Yes, the build process may take a bit longer, but the final executable runs just as

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap

2011-12-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: On 28/12/2011 10:49 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 28, 2011 9:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote:       On Dec 28, 2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au

[gentoo-user] wicd

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Mol
So, after having plenty of trouble working on getting Gentoo set up to work with my new laptop, I'm finally able to run 'iwlist wlan0 scan' and see the 15 or so cells in immediate area. Rather than going straight wpa_supplicant or using NetworkManager on this machine, I thought I'd give wicd a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm in a Pickle

2011-12-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Colleen Beamer wrote: Thanks for this! Regards, Colleen This may help too.  This is from a post Neil made a long time ago: [QUOTE] Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual full

Re: [gentoo-user] Video editing advice on formats and size of file

2011-12-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: I been doing some testing on this.  I went to about the end of a 3 hour video.  By the time it gets near the end of the video, the sound is almost 1.4 seconds off.  I tested this by telling smplayer to adjust the

Re: [gentoo-user] Holiday greetings!

2011-12-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Joseph Davis jos...@uh.edu wrote: Just wanted to say thanks and Happy Holidays to everyone on the list, I love reading here! Cheers - Joseph Happy hollidays, season's greetings, etc. :) * /^\ //^\\ ///^\\\ | I had to fight hard to not let

[gentoo-user] Modifying ebuilds, and dependency thoughts between hugin and luminance-hdr.

2011-12-24 Thread Michael Mol
So, media-gfx/luminance-hdr uses hugin's align_image_stack by default. Except the ebuild doesn't list a dependency on hugin. I tried modifying its ebuild file to add the dependency, but Portage complained about a failed digest verification. So I don't know how to work around that. Then there are

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alex Schusterwo...@wonkology.org  wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury writes: On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote: Reemerge all xf86* packages Quite obvious as the log clearly

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 23 Dec 2011 05:12:47 Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury writes: On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote: Reemerge all xf86

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Mol
Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Mickmichaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: You need portage-2.2 to be able to use sets. Sadly, 2.1.10.11 is the latest marked stable for ~amd64. (Or was, last time I synced.) It'll be nice when it's available, though. I been using

Re: [gentoo-user] Video editing advice on formats and size of file

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Mol
Dale wrote: Howdy, I been trying to get this to work right for a goood while now. I'm confused here. I have some videos that I download that are split up. Some have two or three parts and a few 4 or 5. What I can't get is this, I can't seem to take say two 250Mb videos and make it come

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to set language with lightdm

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Mol
Michael Hampicke wrote: Hey there, I've been having some problems with GDM recently (freeze after reboot, freeze after suspend) so I thought I'd give lightdm a shot. So far everything works great, but I cannot set a language for a lightdm session. My system locale is set to en_US.utf8

Re: [gentoo-user] Video editing advice on formats and size of file

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Well, it took some experimenting but I finally figured it out.  I like to have never found the save video option under the file menu.  Why not hide it next time.  lol  I can't blame it on my glasses this time

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

2011-12-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: G.Wolfe Woodbury writes: On 12/22/2011 02:00 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote: Reemerge all xf86* packages Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server version, driver version mismatch) I looked right at

Re: [gentoo-user] switching production server from myswl to postgresql

2011-12-21 Thread Michael Mol
Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, this has been on my ToDo list for a while, and I'm thinking of tacking this over the holidays, since the office will be much slower than usual. The only databases I have in use are for my mail server, which means postfix, courier-imap (soon to be dovecot 2.1 once

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I'm guessing this is a sudo question, but I'm unfamiliar with the nuances of sudo (never had to use it before). I have a new hosted VM server that I want to allow a user to be able to edit files owned by

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2011-12-20 10:13 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: So, incidentally, would 'sudo passwd root'... Ouch... any way to avoid that? I guess the best way would be to simply give them access to the commands

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:31 PM, LinuxIsOne reall...@hmamail.com wrote: Hi, From where the word gentoo came into existence? Gentoo is a species of penguin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Penguin -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-shell, networkmanager, wifi re-connect

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 2011-12-20 20:18, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Question: have you tried associateting with the AP manually?  How long does that take?  Have you tried associating with other APs? Got it, maybe. Edited that

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmonad!

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
I use 'awesome', another tiling wm. No need to base it off of gnome or kde...Haven't tried xmonad, though. On Dec 19, 2011 8:44 AM, jorge espada espada.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of giving a try to Xmonad X11/window manager... anyone has experience or recommendations. Should I

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package management. -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 2011-11-26 17:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Thanks for quoting me, Michael ... but I also googled that command somewhere ... not my idea ... ;-) Just went to that URL to cut and paste the command, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:32 PM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 December 2011 21:04, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on other platforms

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: And by other, this time I mean Windows. Has anyone done something like Gentoo on mscc+Win32 or Gentoo on mingw+Win32? Portage would kick the pants off of Cygwin's package management. Have a look

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Using either Chromium or Firefox plus google-talkplugin in GMail has an echo when placing a call.  Noise cancellation doesn't seem to work at all.  There is a setting in GMail for turning Noise Cancellation either on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 12/18/2011 09:21 PM, Jason Weisberger wrote:   Can you hear yourself through the speakers when talking into the microphone?  If yes, that means you need to disable the loopback in alsamixer. I cannot hear myself,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Mol
Mic is USB? Set the mic on something like a rubber pad. Also, try wearing headphones, see if that helps. It sounds like you're dealing with normal feedback issues, and Windows' echo cancellation may simply be better than what you've got set up. ZZ On Dec 18, 2011 5:05 PM, Jason Weisberger

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some sort? I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its own filesystems named HFS and HFSplus.  I'm guessing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2011 21:19:27 Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Do you know of any way to read a DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: Photo-CD, perhaps? Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Yep.  I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted DVD -- but

Re: [gentoo-user] Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  I'm trying to make an older PC display high-def streaming video.  It's a Dell Inspiron Desktop 530, with 2 gigs of ram, assembled and shipped August 2007.  It has an Intel dual core (*NOT* a Core Duo) cpu like so (from

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: For archive purposes is there a simple way for me to make a bit-for-bit copy retail DVDs I've purchased? Assume

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificate - locale problem

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just tried to update my system but emerging app-misc/ca-certificate failed with this error: ---  File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py, line 178, in _unicode_encode    s = s.encode(encoding,

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificate - locale problem

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-Dec-11 16:56, Michael Mol wrote: I just tried to update my system but emerging app-misc/ca-certificate failed with this error: ---  File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py, line 178

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificate - locale problem

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 13, 2011 10:46 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just tried to update my system but emerging app-misc/ca-certificate failed with this error: ---  File

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg - fails to compile on amd64

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Im trying to install kino but ffmpeg fails to compile: Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.7.8/work/ffmpeg-0.7.8 ... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc is unable to create an executable file. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off

2011-12-11 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, mcc Well, it was my hope to inspire you to also get rid of pulseaudio.  Do you really need it? Is it a forced dependency to gwc ? gwc isn't in portage. -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio shuts off

2011-12-11 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:26 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [11-12-11 14:24]: On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, mcc Well, it was my hope to inspire you to also get rid of pulseaudio.  Do you really need

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I use LLVM?

2011-12-11 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  And no, it's not because I'm adventurous.  Background... I'm trying to revive an older Dell Dimension 530 (32 bit install) with a Radeon card that uses a binary blob from the radeon-ucode ebuild/download.  When trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 11, 2011 12:02 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros introduce their own

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Denoising software ?

2011-12-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:46 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, does anyone knows of good audio denoising software for Linux (OpenSource)? Thank you very much in advance for any help! I'm not an audio professional with experience with different tools, so I couldn't tell you if it's

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-12-09 Thread Michael Mol
if distcc is properly deferring jobs to the local host, but I got the impression the local machine was getting a doubled workload when I had 127.0.0.1 in/etc/distccd/hosts. ZZ On Nov 28, 2011 6:53 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Especially in the past, they have allowed their political views on Open Source / Free Software to interfere with the best user experience[3]. [3] The whole concept of 'restricted extras' is detrimental to

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 December 2011 15:10, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Don't take our word for it, go look for yourself. I could give you

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:35 AM, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: That's debatable; it generally means that the amount of time that passes before they realise that Linux is not Windows is increased. It definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: What is the simplest way to get a higher resolution screen when booting gentoo into console mode? I used to have something in /boot/grub/grub.conf that did that but I have forgotten the full syntax. My best guess is:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to increase console (text) screen resolution

2011-12-07 Thread Michael Mol
FWIW, uvesafb breaks if you use the -march=native unpacking trick on amd64; the special compiler v86d depends on doesn't like the --param parameter. That appears to be used by gcc to communicate details about CPU cache geometry. ZZ On Dec 7, 2011 7:19 PM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice on system monitoring

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:01 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com writes: Let's start with that dual-xeon box I was using to benchmark emerge -e @world, figure I'm looking for how better to tune my MAKEOPTS and EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS variables, and assume I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, I like gentoo and FreeBSD best for low-spoec hardware. What does low-spec hardware mean? Whatever the default setup of the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:40:03PM +0100, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM, LinuxIsOne linuxis...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Dual boot scenarios get tricky, it is vital to assume nothing. You left out a lot of info, so I have to make some reasonable assumptions. Reply with corrections if we're going to wrong route. You can only have one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: One point no one has mentioned and I've wondered from time to time myself is whether one can expect gentoo to continue into the future for a long while, as compared to the likely hood of opensuse or maybe debian that has

[gentoo-user] Advice on system monitoring

2011-12-04 Thread Michael Mol
I haven't yet needed to do this kind of system monitoring, so I'm very much a newbie here. Let's start with that dual-xeon box I was using to benchmark emerge -e @world, figure I'm looking for how better to tune my MAKEOPTS and EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS variables, and assume I'd like to get more

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-12-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote: Try emerge -pv gnupg. Maybe the devs had masked the bzip2 use flag for some reason. Sorry, I'm not in Gentoo right now to assist you more. Doesn't look like it, at least to my limited ability to follow

Re: [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Another plus point is the almost complete devel tools provided out of the box: the gcc suite. Now if I happen across an open source project that hasn't made it yet to the portage tree, I can just download and compile it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:11 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: [snip] Stupid question...Would using LZMA and a tarball reduce the size of your initeamfs? Not really.  I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:43 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them. When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Mol
Stupid question...Would using LZMA and a tarball reduce the size of your initeamfs? ZZ On Nov 30, 2011 7:30 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:26:56 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:07:35

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: I've got four 750GB drives in addition to the installed system drive. I'd like to aggregate them and split them into a few volumes. My first inclination would be to raid

[gentoo-user] Google Talk and 9999 versions

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '' version package. I vaguely recall that ''

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael,   Welcome to the world of what ever sort of multi-disk environment you choose. It's a HUGE topic and a conversation I look forward

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 05:10, schrieb Michael Mol: I've got four 750GB drives in addition

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 19:39, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 29.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Florian Philipp li

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 29-Nov-11 17:53, Michael Mol wrote: 1) First lesson - not all hard drives make good RAID hard drives. What makes a good RAID unit, and what makes

Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to the 'ricer special' CFLAGS The CFLAGS you showed me weren't any more ricer than -O2 -march=native. (I

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: emerge

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 11:32 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Unfortunately, striving for 2*N will inadvertently result in short bursts of 2*N, and this potentially induce a stall, which will be very costly. 1.8*N

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: [snip] FWIW, I strongly suspect that N should be your number of *logical* cores, not your number of physical cores. I believe most of the overhead

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: No, you've got some ugly flags in there. -fexcess-precision and -funsafe-math-optimizations

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 11/28/2011 06:59 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.11.2011 17:15, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/28/2011 02:29 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:28 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: With 100%

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 29, 2011 2:02 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, Michael

Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 28.11.2011 20:14, schrieb Michael Mol: Upstream devs might take issue with them, but I'm still not sure they should affect bug reports of build-time failures. I would *hope* upstream gcc is doing tests on its own

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently timing MAKEOPTS=-j16 -l13 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs --load-average=13 with 493 packages (base plus X plus XFCE and chromium, and, of course, USE flags), but I'll start another timed run with MAKEOPTS=-j16

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