Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 11, 2012 1:15 PM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Stroller wrote > > > I'm sceptical over the benefits of upgrading a 4 year old PC (short > > of ripping most all the guts out and starting again). I know the > > industry has currently settled on PCIe, but

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >  I've posted a snapshot of the Dell's internals on my ISP's personal > webspace at http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/dell2.jpg  Is > the long black slot PCIe?  What's the short black slot? If you look closely, they are labeled on th

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Stroller wrote > I'm sceptical over the benefits of upgrading a 4 year old PC (short > of ripping most all the guts out and starting again). I know the > industry has currently settled on PCIe, but haven't bus speeds > increased in the last 4 years? Are al

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés > wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: >>> Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 >>> >>> >>> On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.04.2012 01:14, schrieb siefke_lis...@web.de: > Hello, > > > i have Vserver from Strato. I want installed Gentoo, because i like Gentoo. > I have found two Howtos, but what i not really understand, what is with the > Kernel and Grub, i can nothing read there. Or understand i something wrong?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Alecks Gates
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: >> Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 >> >> >> On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster >>> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 > > > On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster >> wrote: >> > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: >> > >> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Alecks Gates
Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > >>> Recently, PulseAudio got install

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > >>> Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon >>> version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, >

[gentoo-user] Heads up, remote root vulnerability discovered in Samba

2012-04-10 Thread Paul Hartman
"Samba versions 3.6.3 and all versions previous to this are affected by a vulnerability that allows remote code execution as the "root" user from an anonymous connection." "As this does not require an authenticated connection it is the most serious vulnerability possible in a program, and users an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon >> version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, >> which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon > version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, > which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I wouldn't > mind usi

[gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I wouldn't mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play movies, an

[gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-10 Thread siefke_lis...@web.de
Hello, i have Vserver from Strato. I want installed Gentoo, because i like Gentoo. I have found two Howtos, but what i not really understand, what is with the Kernel and Grub, i can nothing read there. Or understand i something wrong? Have someone experience with it? Thanks, Regards Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE compose key with Fluxbox

2012-04-10 Thread Philip Webb
120409 Mick wrote: > On Monday 09 Apr 2012 20:35:33 Philip Webb wrote: >> The gruesome details cb found in KDE bug 294949 . > I add the second keyboard as Option "XkbLayout" in my xorg.conf > and Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" > to be able to use Alt+Shift to activate it.

[gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/04/12 17:19, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote: With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast enough to keep u

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 April 2012, at 12:26, Walter Dnes wrote: > With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 > (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast > enough to keep up. E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to > play a 5 minute video before it h

Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4

2012-04-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 9 April 2012, at 13:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: … This means ext4 mandatory if you want to use it, and this (usually) means GRUB2, which is still considered beta. >>> >> … >> Interesting. Do you have extents enabled in the f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >>   With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 >> (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast >> enough to keep up.  E.g. a 20 or 25 second hea

[gentoo-user] Re: PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/04/12 14:26, Walter Dnes wrote: With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast enough to keep up. E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer.

Re: [gentoo-user] User can mount/umount but not write to top the new drive

2012-04-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:18:38 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 9 April 2012, at 20:59, Mark Knecht wrote: > > … > > In the past I've gotten around this by having root mount the drive > > and then change ownership to mark:users once it's mounted. Linux > > remembers I've done that once and no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 > (don't laugh), I get under 1Mb/sec so I won't laugh. I may cry tho. :-( Then again, this beats dial-up big time. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you und

[gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-10 Thread Walter Dnes
With the recent speed bump on my ADSL service from 5 megabps to 6 (don't laugh), I can now download 1080p Youtube Flash videos almost fast enough to keep up. E.g. a 20 or 25 second headstart will allow me to play a 5 minute video before it has to buffer. On some html5 videos (Firefox with USE="

Re: [gentoo-user] User can mount/umount but not write to top the new drive

2012-04-10 Thread Stroller
On 9 April 2012, at 20:59, Mark Knecht wrote: > … > In the past I've gotten around this by having root mount the drive > and then change ownership to mark:users once it's mounted. Linux > remembers I've done that once and no longer requires me to do anything > else as root. > > Is that truly

Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4

2012-04-10 Thread Stroller
On 9 April 2012, at 13:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> … >>> This means ext4 mandatory if you want to use it, and this (usually) >>> means GRUB2, which is still considered beta. >> > … > Interesting. Do you have extents enabled in the filesystem? Mine does: > > # tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4

2012-04-10 Thread Stroller
On 9 April 2012, at 15:09, Michael Mol wrote: > … > So, ext2's extended attribute set listed support for compression > (among other things), but it wasn't implemented. … > > Digging into the kenrel source for ext4 in linux-3.2.1.-gentoo-r2, > there are symbols defined for managing compression,