Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.08.2013 00:44, schrieb Neil Bothwick: /etc/grub.d/40_custom Add you entries there, and change the number in the filename to have them appear before the autogenerated entries. Thanks for the pointer. Gotta play with that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Stroller
On 22 August 2013, at 17:08, hasufell wrote: … I was arguing from both sides. It is buggy, crashes a lot, consumes a lot of ressources and is able to slow down your whole desktop, mess with audio settings and whatnot. My granny never had these problems, using Skype on her PC. She uses it to

[DONE] Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook

2013-08-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Well, I returned the laptop to the university. It turns out the person who had it before me had the same problem of OS X not booting sometimes (with the original disk, not the new SSD we installed when I got it). When I got the laptop, I was in fact told that it wouldn't start, but we understood

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/13 13:21, Stroller wrote: On 22 August 2013, at 17:08, hasufell wrote: … I was arguing from both sides. It is buggy, crashes a lot, consumes a lot of ressources and is able to slow down your whole desktop, mess with audio settings and

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Marc Stürmer
Well... Nowadays RAM is so cheap that this is really no issue. Most recent Computers ship at last with 4 GB so what the Heck. That aside, jitsi runs on Java and the Java vm is not really leightweight either. the the.gu...@mail.ru schrieb: My granny never had these problems, using Skype

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/13 14:39, Marc Stürmer wrote: Well... Nowadays RAM is so cheap that this is really no issue. Most recent Computers ship at last with 4 GB so what the Heck. Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? - --

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 23.08.2013 14:50, the wrote: On 08/23/13 14:39, Marc Stürmer wrote: Well... Nowadays RAM is so cheap that this is really no issue. Most recent Computers ship at last with 4 GB so what the Heck. Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? Has it ever been

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:50:27 +0400, the wrote: Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? Hasn't that always been the case? What other reason would you have for buying hardware? The point is, Skype is there. no one

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 23.08.2013 13:42, the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/13 13:21, Stroller wrote: On 22 August 2013, at 17:08, hasufell wrote: … I was arguing from both sides. It is buggy, crashes a lot, consumes a lot of ressources and is able to slow down your whole desktop,

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/13 15:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: On 23.08.2013 14:50, the wrote: On 08/23/13 14:39, Marc Stürmer wrote: Well... Nowadays RAM is so cheap that this is really no issue. Most recent Computers ship at last with 4 GB so what the Heck.

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Marc Stürmer
No IT simply means that you are overwxaggerating the RAM usage and its importance a Lot. Most gentoo Users are Used to Compile their own Binaries. A Task which Uses quite some time, horse Power and RAM. Which means that the average computer running gentoo also should have enough Power to Run

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/08/2013 15:18, Marc Stürmer wrote: No IT simply means that you are overwxaggerating the RAM usage and its importance a Lot. Most gentoo Users are Used to Compile their own Binaries. A Task which Uses quite some time, horse Power and RAM. Which means that the average computer running

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/13 15:25, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: On 23.08.2013 13:42, the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/13 13:21, Stroller wrote: On 22 August 2013, at 17:08, hasufell wrote: … I was arguing from both sides. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-23 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 20/08/13 09:21, Grant wrote: This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. I think the issue here is that we are not understanding what the problem is. It happens with an

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 23.08.2013 15:21, schrieb Alan McKinnon: tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' I think your keyboard is broken. Your Shift key is doing odd things and typing CAPS when you obviously didn't intend More like of my virtual keyboard on my smartphone, anyways... nice to be back on my real keyboard once more again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the: Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? Do you really want to tell me that you are still working on a Pentium 133 with maybe 64 MB of RAM? I mean it has always been like that: people buy indeed hardware to match software

[gentoo-user] ntpd crashes, system set to UTC

2013-08-23 Thread Randy Westlund
Hey guys, I'm having some trouble with ntpd and my system clock. Every once and a while, my system time is wrong. In the past (not having time to look into it), I've just run ntp-client to correct it. Turns out that ntpd is crashing and `date` reports the UTC time, but thinks it's Eastern.

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread hasufell
On 08/23/2013 05:48 PM, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the: Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? Do you really want to tell me that you are still working on a Pentium 133 with maybe 64 MB of RAM? I mean it has always been like that:

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/13 19:48, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the: Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? Do you really want to tell me that you are still working on a Pentium 133 with maybe 64 MB of

[gentoo-user] Blue Fn Key Combinations not Sending Scancodes

2013-08-23 Thread Randy Westlund
Hey guys, I'm trying to make my blue Fn key combinations control by MPD server on the Raspberry Pi sitting on my speakers. This should be really easy with xbindkeys. I'm following this document: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys The problem I have is that the Fn key

[gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers

2013-08-23 Thread Randy Westlund
I'm looking for a better way to manage multiple WMs. I launch X with startx. I also use multiple window managers. I'm primarily on xmonad because I love tiling WMs, but I also keep xfce around for whever I developing a GUI or letting my fiancee use my machine. My procedure for starting

[gentoo-user] The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Stankevitz
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447566 This bug describes a problem people are having with nvidia/kernel. My question: Are regular nvidia users who run a completely stable system (with only stable nvidia-drivers and stable gentoo-sources) affected by any of this? I run a stable system

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 23.08.2013 19:58, hasufell wrote: On 08/23/2013 05:48 PM, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the: [ ... ] The point for Skype, last time I am going to repeat that, is that it works out of the box for the normal user and the large user base. And that is still wrong. If it

Re: [gentoo-user] The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Randy Westlund
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:45:46AM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Are regular nvidia users who run a completely stable system (with only stable nvidia-drivers and stable gentoo-sources) affected by any of this? I believe so. I run testing, but this just cleared up for me a few days ago when

Re: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers

2013-08-23 Thread Willie
I just started another Xfce session by typing startx -- :1. I am pretty sure you can also use startxfce4 without editing the file that you are editing. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Randy Westlund rwest...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a better way to manage multiple WMs. I launch X

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

2013-08-23 Thread hasufell
On 08/23/2013 08:09 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: On 23.08.2013 19:58, hasufell wrote: On 08/23/2013 05:48 PM, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the: [ ... ] The point for Skype, last time I am going to repeat that, is that it works out of the box for the normal user and the

[gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

2013-08-23 Thread Joseph
When I try to print to PDF with evince or firefox it will not print pdf file to a directory I specify only to my home directory. Does anybody know what to look for? It just happen after recent upgrade. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers

2013-08-23 Thread Philip Webb
130823 Randy Westlund wrote: I launch X with startx. I also use multiple window managers. My procedure for starting multiple managers is this: - log in - startx - login on tty2 - edit .xinitrc - startx -- :1 .xinitrc goes from: exec xmonad #exec startxfce4 to: #exec xmonad exec

Re: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Mair-Keimberger
You could actually pass an argument to startx. My .xinitrc looks like this: if [[ $2 == kde ]]; then exec startkde elif [[ $2 == awesome ]]; then setxkbmap de exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session awesome else exec startkde fi I've also created aliase for

Re: [gentoo-user] The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Klos
Op vrijdag 23 augustus 2013 14:09:59 schreef Randy Westlund: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:45:46AM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Are regular nvidia users who run a completely stable system (with only stable nvidia-drivers and stable gentoo-sources) affected by any of this? I believe so. I

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashes, system set to UTC

2013-08-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Randy Westlund rwest...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm having some trouble with ntpd and my system clock. Every once and a while, my system time is wrong. In the past (not having time to look into it), I've just run ntp-client to correct it. Turns out

Re: [gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

2013-08-23 Thread Willie
That is interesting. I have the exact same problem. Tried to save it to the desktop and it saved to my home directory.On the second try I typed in the directory that I wanted to save the file. Instead of output.pdf, I put /home/ill/Desktop/output.pdf. It's not a fix but it works. On Fri, Aug

Re: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers

2013-08-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
I've also created aliase for kde awesome (.bashrc): alias kde=startx kde alias awesome=startx awesome Means whenever i want to start kde or awesome i only have to execute kde or awesome. By default (startx) it would start kde. I've wondered how to run X simultaneously or concurrently with

Re: [gentoo-user] evince / firefox will not print to a specific directory

2013-08-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
That is interesting. I have the exact same problem. Tried to save it to the desktop and it saved to my home directory.On the second try I typed in the directory that I wanted to save the file. Instead of output.pdf, I put /home/ill/Desktop/output.pdf. It's not a fix but it works. I think

[gentoo-user] Can I build a ipv6 access point by hostapd and dnsmasq?

2013-08-23 Thread 东方巽雷
I have sucessfully build a ipv4 access point , 1)edit /etc/dnsmasq.conf and add interface=wlan0 except-interface=lo dhcp-range=10.0.0.2,10.0.0.9,12h 2)create a file name hostapd.conf: interface=wlan0 driver=nl80211 ssid=pqy hw_mode=g channel=8 wpa=3 wpa_passphrase=pqy5 3)create a file name

[gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:15:40 +0200 Paul Klos gen...@klos2day.nl wrote: Op vrijdag 23 augustus 2013 14:09:59 schreef Randy Westlund: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:45:46AM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Are regular nvidia users who run a completely stable system (with only stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: It looks like maybe the best way to tell which ebuilds support which kernels is to read the conditional for the ewarn message in each ebuild. If this sort of problem spreads it might be good to build into portage some kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] startx with multiple window managers

2013-08-23 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 $ xinit lxsession -- :1 ? - -- Stop talking and start compiling. Linux user #557897 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-23 Thread Grant
Just saying you should be using `udisksctl` command instead of the now obsolete `udisks` command udisksctl command = new udisks 2 udisks command = old udisks 1 OK, but first I need to figure out how to get gvfs to use udisks instead of gdu. by emerging gnome-base/gvfs from ~arch with