Re: [gentoo-user] synchronize portage files in a LAN
Crístian Viana wrote: hi, I have 7 computers in local network and I want them to have always the same portage files (the ones synchronized with rsync). of course I can use crontab to make them sync at a specific time but I'm wondering if there's a better alternative. I saw a wiki page which says to create one local rsync server and have the other 6 computers synchronize with it (by pointing the SYNC variable to the local rsync server). but I also thought NFS could be nice: I just have to sync one machine and everyone will always be "synchronized". what's the best approach for this case? thanks! -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] I think either way would work. The bad thing about a NFS is that you have to run emerge --metadata to update the files in /var. I think this is still correct. I always synced to my main machine. It is easier in my opinion. I seem to recall having to uncomment one line in the config file and start rsyncd. It worked. My thoughts at least. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] P55 Chipset Support
Jason Carson wrote: Hello everyone, I am considering upgrading to a 64 bit CPU but haven't decided on what I am going to buy. One of the motherboards I am looking at has a P55 chipset so my question is will the P55 chipset work with Gentoo? If so where in menuconfig do I configure this? Thanks How about a link to the mobo. I been googling but p55 is also a network card or something. Sort of hard to weed them out. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] synchronize portage files in a LAN
From: Crístian Viana To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 10:32 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] synchronize portage files in a LAN hi, I have 7 computers in local network and I want them to have always the same portage files (the ones synchronized with rsync). of course I can use crontab to make them sync at a specific time but I'm wondering if there's a better alternative. I saw a wiki page which says to create one local rsync server and have the other 6 computers synchronize with it (by pointing the SYNC variable to the local rsync server). but I also thought NFS could be nice: I just have to sync one machine and everyone will always be "synchronized". what's the best approach for this case? thanks! -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] -- The options you mentioned is the best...Just settup the rsync server on the machine you want it on and then setup a cront job to update it daily. Set your 6 hosts to use your local rsync server machine and create cron jobs for the 6 machines. Just make sure that their cron jobs are 5-10 minutes ahead of when the local rsync server updates it's files.
[gentoo-user] synchronize portage files in a LAN
hi, I have 7 computers in local network and I want them to have always the same portage files (the ones synchronized with rsync). of course I can use crontab to make them sync at a specific time but I'm wondering if there's a better alternative. I saw a wiki page which says to create one local rsync server and have the other 6 computers synchronize with it (by pointing the SYNC variable to the local rsync server). but I also thought NFS could be nice: I just have to sync one machine and everyone will always be "synchronized". what's the best approach for this case? thanks! -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
[gentoo-user] P55 Chipset Support
Hello everyone, I am considering upgrading to a 64 bit CPU but haven't decided on what I am going to buy. One of the motherboards I am looking at has a P55 chipset so my question is will the P55 chipset work with Gentoo? If so where in menuconfig do I configure this? Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:29:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:37:19 Mick wrote: > > I don't mean to hijack the OP's thread, but why would it be > > that although I > > have switched the darned thing off, it still keeps popping up > > every time I start kmail? > > Because you have akonadi backends configured in your KDE > resources. Start systemsettings, it's on the advanced tab, delete > the akonadi ones are replace them with native resources that go > direct to the same files. Thanks for the hint! It seems that although I had it configured so, something is not right. In particular kalarm comes up with this error when I click on edit: == Calendar “localdir-resource” cannot be made writable since it either was not created by KAlarm, or was created by a newer version of KAlarm == Trying to start akonadi also complains about: (7008)/ main: Unknown resource type: "notes" (7009)/ main: Unknown resource type: "alarms" This is my knotes local path: $ ls -la /home/michael/.kde4/share/apps/knotes/ total 1 drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Nov 22 22:56 . drwx-- 35 michael users 944 Nov 22 23:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 0 Nov 22 22:56 notes.ics and this is the kalarm: $ ls -la /home/michael/.kde4/share/apps/kalarm/ total 5 drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Nov 22 23:05 . drwx-- 35 michael users 944 Nov 22 23:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 104 Nov 22 23:05 displaying.ics For kalarm I have chosen "localdir-resource" and the path to the directory is as shown above. No matter what I do in terms of access rights kalarm always retains its "Read only" setting activated. I deleted it kalarm and then let kalarm to recreate it. Finally I created the directory "alarms" and tried pointing the resources path to it. No joy. Any suggestions? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] debugging SD card
On 11/22/2009 1:45 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, My netbook uses an SD card for additional storage. I suspect it of being buggy so I compiled the kernel with 'CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG=y'. Questions are: how do I use it to check the SD card? Is this the correct method? Maxim If you just want to test if it holds bit values correctly, I would write a repeating pattern to it with dd and read it back, and see if they match. That's all the advice I can give :( Marcus
Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either -- FIXED
> IIRC in a thread from a few months ago there was a tip about putting > the 'pause ' command into a certain config file, which I can't > recall. Or was it 'delay ' or 'time ' ? This was meant for > the hardware to catch its breath so to speak and allow the system to > find the SD card. This was about the same time I noticed that SD > support was missing from the kernel. So maybe it was the the delay I > added to that script, which may have disappeared in an etc-update > session, and not the SD support after all. Grabbing straws here ;( It was 'sleep ' and was meant to go just before the line starting 'ebegin' in /etc/init.d/checkfs which is no longer used in favo(u)r of /etc/init.d/fsck. So maybe SD support is extraneous. If I feel adventurous, next kernel compile time, I'll remove the support and see if it's really needed. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either
Could be baselayout-1. Please take a look at bug #291916 [1] [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/291916 Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:04:17 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 22 November 2009 22:26:36 Zeerak Waseem wrote: Hey, I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i change to another tty and start x as root, there are no such issues (also starting x as user from tty doesn't do anything about the keyboard not working). These are the packages the update pulled in: x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 11-libs/libvdpau-0.3 app-admin/eselect-1.2.8 www-client/opera-10.10_pre4742 I tried downgrading to a stable build of libX11 but that didn't seem to change anything. I'm using a laptop and don't have an extern keyboard at hand to test. What does more to boggle me is that the touchpad is functioning as it should. Do you have consolekit in USE? If so, is it configured properly? There's an elog about it, it displays when you emerge the relevant X package I do have consolekit as a useflag (default on profile it seems), but I'm not sure where to configure it, and what will a working configuration look like? (and thanks for the confirmation Dale :-) ) -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)
Zeerak Waseem wrote: Hey, I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i change to another tty and start x as root, there are no such issues (also starting x as user from tty doesn't do anything about the keyboard not working). These are the packages the update pulled in: x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 11-libs/libvdpau-0.3 app-admin/eselect-1.2.8 www-client/opera-10.10_pre4742 I tried downgrading to a stable build of libX11 but that didn't seem to change anything. I'm using a laptop and don't have an extern keyboard at hand to test. What does more to boggle me is that the touchpad is functioning as it should. Help? --- Zeerak Ps. I sent a mail out, however I'm not certain if i did it correctly, hence this mail. It made it to the list. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing
On Sunday 22 November 2009 22:59:18 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Alan McKinnon schrieb: > > I can attest to xorg-server-1.7.1 working just fine here with latest > > nvidia- drivers in the tree on amd64 > > I somehow think the use-flag "xinerama" might be responsible. > Do you use that one? > > I currently rebuild some pkgs without it ... nvidia-driver and multi-monitors will NOT work with USE="-xinerama" TwinView uses the xinerama protocol to do it's stuff, it doesn't mean it uses the xinerama app to render onto large screens composed of multiple monitors -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)
On Sunday 22 November 2009 22:26:36 Zeerak Waseem wrote: > Hey, > > I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me > wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password > and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i change to another > tty and start x as root, there are no such issues (also starting x as user > from tty doesn't do anything about the keyboard not working). > > These are the packages the update pulled in: > > x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 > 11-libs/libvdpau-0.3 > app-admin/eselect-1.2.8 > www-client/opera-10.10_pre4742 > > I tried downgrading to a stable build of libX11 but that didn't seem to > change anything. > > I'm using a laptop and don't have an extern keyboard at hand to test. What > does more to boggle me is that the touchpad is functioning as it should. Do you have consolekit in USE? If so, is it configured properly? There's an elog about it, it displays when you emerge the relevant X package -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)
Hey, I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i change to another tty and start x as root, there are no such issues (also starting x as user from tty doesn't do anything about the keyboard not working). These are the packages the update pulled in: x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 11-libs/libvdpau-0.3 app-admin/eselect-1.2.8 www-client/opera-10.10_pre4742 I tried downgrading to a stable build of libX11 but that didn't seem to change anything. I'm using a laptop and don't have an extern keyboard at hand to test. What does more to boggle me is that the touchpad is functioning as it should. Help? --- Zeerak Ps. I sent a mail out, however I'm not certain if i did it correctly, hence this mail.
Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > I can attest to xorg-server-1.7.1 working just fine here with latest nvidia- > drivers in the tree on amd64 I somehow think the use-flag "xinerama" might be responsible. Do you use that one? I currently rebuild some pkgs without it ...
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 20:02: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:27:26 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 14:48: >>> http://www.amd.com/us- >>> en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv >> Works fine with gecko-mediaplayer and download-helper. > > Yes, thank you. I've installed it now and it looks neat. > > Any luck with Apple Trailers? It doesn't ask me where to save the download. I am not able to play the Apple Trailers by clicking at the link to the movie (maybe a problem with the java script popup). When I open the link in a new window I can watch/download with gecko-mediaplayer like normal. Download-helper seems to have problems though. -- Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either
On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:18:17 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Is sdb an SD device? Is the module loaded? > > from the OP: > > "I've had > this problem before which I traced to the lack of support for SD cards > in the kernel. This time it's something else." That doesn't answer the question. If support is built as a module, is it loaded? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] overlays.gentoo.org having git issues?
On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:20:24 Justin wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 15:05:57 Mike Edenfield wrote: > >> None of my git-based overlays from overlays.gentoo.org have > >> been able to sync this morning. Is the server having > >> problems or is something wrong with my git? > >> > >> --Mike > > > > I only have one git overlay from o.g.o. - sunrise. > > sunrise is an svn overlay. Ah, yes. That would be because it meant to type qting-edge and did type sunrise... I blame it on noxious paint fumes while repainting a ceiling :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
On Sunday 22 November 2009 20:37:19 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:28:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:33:41 Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 03:41:35 sean wrote: > > > > Dale wrote: > > > > > I would also add, watch the USE flags. You may be able to > > > > turn some > > > > > > > off, that may help as well. > > > > > Dale > > > > > > > > Altering some USE flags was a big help. I had been altering > > > > them, but > > > > > > finally it worked. > > > > I went from over 300 packages down to 32. > > > > > > Would you mind sharing what these flags were. I have been > > > > trying to get > > > > > rid of akonadi in vane and have run out of flags to take out. > > > > You can't get rid of akonadi, at least not the server. It's a > > hard dependency of kdepimlibs. Currently, you can switch it off, > > but you can't avoid having it. > > I don't mean to hijack the OP's thread, but why would it be that although I > have switched the darned thing off, it still keeps popping up every time I > start kmail? Because you have akonadi backends configured in your KDE resources. Start systemsettings, it's on the advanced tab, delete the akonadi ones are replace them with native resources that go direct to the same files. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)
Hey, I did an update lat night and my keyboard stopped working. What makes me wonder though is that if x starts on it's own then i can type my password and i get in, and then the keyboard stops working. If i change to another tty and start x as root, there are no such issues (also starting x as user from tty doesn't do anything about the keyboard not working). These are the packages the update pulled in: x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 11-libs/libvdpau-0.3 app-admin/eselect-1.2.8 www-client/opera-10.10_pre4742 I tried downgrading to a stable build of libX11 but that didn't seem to change anything. I'm using a laptop and don't have an extern keyboard at hand to test. What does more to boggle me is that the touchpad is functioning as it should. Help? --- Zeerak
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
Mick wrote: On Sunday 22 November 2009 14:06:57 Dale wrote: I went to that link and downloaded the video with no problem at all. Once it started to playing, I hit the download button and saved it to my desktop. It plays fine with splayer which uses mplayer as the back end. It even converted it to a mp4 for me. Hmm ... sounds promising. Tried to download it but there was a problem - will try again later. Thanks. Just to clarify a little, you install Firefox and then install the add on from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 Maybe reading that link will help more than me typing. ;-) So far, I have been able to capture any video from any site that I wanted to. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:27:26 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 14:48: > > http://www.amd.com/us- > > en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv > > Works fine with gecko-mediaplayer and download-helper. Yes, thank you. I've installed it now and it looks neat. Any luck with Apple Trailers? It doesn't ask me where to save the download. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
Mick wrote: > > I don't mean to hijack the OP's thread, but why would it be that although I > have switched the darned thing off, it still keeps popping up every time I > start kmail? As the original poster of this thread, have fun, I found my answer, enjoy your discussion.
[gentoo-user] debugging SD card
Hi group, My netbook uses an SD card for additional storage. I suspect it of being buggy so I compiled the kernel with 'CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG=y'. Questions are: how do I use it to check the SD card? Is this the correct method? Maxim
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:28:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:33:41 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 03:41:35 sean wrote: > > > Dale wrote: > > > > I would also add, watch the USE flags. You may be able to > > turn some > > > > > off, that may help as well. > > > > Dale > > > > > > Altering some USE flags was a big help. I had been altering > > them, but > > > > finally it worked. > > > I went from over 300 packages down to 32. > > > > Would you mind sharing what these flags were. I have been > > trying to get > > > rid of akonadi in vane and have run out of flags to take out. > > You can't get rid of akonadi, at least not the server. It's a > hard dependency of kdepimlibs. Currently, you can switch it off, > but you can't avoid having it. I don't mean to hijack the OP's thread, but why would it be that although I have switched the darned thing off, it still keeps popping up every time I start kmail? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] overlays.gentoo.org having git issues?
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 15:05:57 Mike Edenfield wrote: >> None of my git-based overlays from overlays.gentoo.org have >> been able to sync this morning. Is the server having >> problems or is something wrong with my git? >> >> --Mike >> > > I only have one git overlay from o.g.o. - sunrise. > sunrise is an svn overlay. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either
> > Is sdb an SD device? Is the module loaded? from the OP: "I've had this problem before which I traced to the lack of support for SD cards in the kernel. This time it's something else." mw
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:33:41 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 03:41:35 sean wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > I would also add, watch the USE flags. You may be able to turn some > > > off, that may help as well. > > > Dale > > > > Altering some USE flags was a big help. I had been altering them, but > > finally it worked. > > I went from over 300 packages down to 32. > > Would you mind sharing what these flags were. I have been trying to get > rid of akonadi in vane and have run out of flags to take out. You can't get rid of akonadi, at least not the server. It's a hard dependency of kdepimlibs. Currently, you can switch it off, but you can't avoid having it. As to why you can't get rid of it, it has to do with what the KDE devs envisage for KDE-4, all of this is in public statements and blogs from around the time of the release of KDE-4.0. They want to build a totally integrated desktop, where all apps are aware of all other apps (where appropriate of course) and integrate with each other. So you can do things like have a message be received by kopete which fires off a plasma that does $NEAT_STUFF. Or, every PIM app hooks into the same backend store so you can see your mail history with someone in your address book and display it next to their tweets. These are just examples, the point is that KDE wants to give you a framework where other devs can hook this data up in ways not envisioned yet. You can see this vision by looking closely at the so-called "pillars of KDE-4" - plasma, semantic desktop, akonadi, nepomuk, strigi, et al. It's not all about flashy eye-candy, it's about connecting information in visual way. To do this, your PIM apps need a common backend storage - akonadi. To find stuff that is semantically linked, you need a search engine - nepomuk and strigi. It is simply not feasible to try and build software that can do this and also offer the feature to switch it all off. You could try and write such software, but it will be as buggy as hell. Given this vision for KDE-4, one must realize that the days of KDE-2 are long gone. KDE is no longer a bunch of apps with a common look and feel, so if you don't want the features of KDE-4, then you should not use KDE-4. Lucky for you, this is Linux and OSS, so there are plenty of other window managers and apps out there to chose from. At least one of them must satisfy your wish for an akonadi-less PIM system -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 14:48: > http://www.amd.com/us- > en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv > Works fine with gecko-mediaplayer and download-helper. -- Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
On Sunday 22 November 2009 14:06:57 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:47:57 Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for > > gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could > > also access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay > > it, etc. > > > > With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access > > directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at > > maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos > > the picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit > > clunky with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to > > watch a previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with > > mplayerplug-in). Is there a better alternative, more akin to the > > mplayerplug-in? > > If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab > those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really > well. > >>> > >>> Thanks Dale, but I have no problem with flash embedded videos - they > >>> don't use the gnome-mplayer. > > > > I think this is a mistake on my part: gnome-mplayer seems to be a > > dependency of gecko-mediaplayer. > > > >> There may be a misunderstanding on this. With the download helper, you > >> go to a site that has a video you want, instead of copying it from /tmp > >> or where ever it is stored, you click on a button and save it where ever > >> you want to save it. If you don't like the file format that it is in, > >> it will convert it for you too. > > > > Sure, but from what I figured this FF addon is only good for Flash > > embedded videos. I assume (because I can't download it right now) that > > it won't work with e.g.: > > > > http://www.amd.com/us- > > en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv > > I went to that link and downloaded the video with no problem at all. > Once it started to playing, I hit the download button and saved it to my > desktop. It plays fine with splayer which uses mplayer as the back > end. It even converted it to a mp4 for me. Hmm ... sounds promising. Tried to download it but there was a problem - will try again later. Thanks. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] overlays.gentoo.org having git issues?
On Sunday 22 November 2009 15:05:57 Mike Edenfield wrote: > None of my git-based overlays from overlays.gentoo.org have > been able to sync this morning. Is the server having > problems or is something wrong with my git? > > --Mike > I only have one git overlay from o.g.o. - sunrise. With my last sync, I received a console message that the overlay had moved from github.org to gitorius.org (or maybe it was the other way round... too lazy to check now... ) The offered solution worked just great - delete and re-add the overlay. Perhaps this is what you are experiencing? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] overlays.gentoo.org having git issues?
Mike Edenfield wrote: > None of my git-based overlays from overlays.gentoo.org have been able to > sync this morning. Is the server having problems or is something wrong > with my git? > > --Mike > Pushing and Pulling is fine here. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
Mick wrote: On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:47:57 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay it, etc. With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos the picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit clunky with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to watch a previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with mplayerplug-in). Is there a better alternative, more akin to the mplayerplug-in? If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really well. Thanks Dale, but I have no problem with flash embedded videos - they don't use the gnome-mplayer. I think this is a mistake on my part: gnome-mplayer seems to be a dependency of gecko-mediaplayer. There may be a misunderstanding on this. With the download helper, you go to a site that has a video you want, instead of copying it from /tmp or where ever it is stored, you click on a button and save it where ever you want to save it. If you don't like the file format that it is in, it will convert it for you too. Sure, but from what I figured this FF addon is only good for Flash embedded videos. I assume (because I can't download it right now) that it won't work with e.g.: http://www.amd.com/us- en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv I went to that link and downloaded the video with no problem at all. Once it started to playing, I hit the download button and saved it to my desktop. It plays fine with splayer which uses mplayer as the back end. It even converted it to a mp4 for me. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
On Sunday 22 November 2009 12:47:57 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for > >>> gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also > >>> access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay it, etc. > >>> > >>> With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access > >>> directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at > >>> maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos > >>> the picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit > >>> clunky with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to > >>> watch a previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with > >>> mplayerplug-in). Is there a better alternative, more akin to the > >>> mplayerplug-in? > >> > >> If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab > >> those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really > >> well. > > > > Thanks Dale, but I have no problem with flash embedded videos - they > > don't use the gnome-mplayer. I think this is a mistake on my part: gnome-mplayer seems to be a dependency of gecko-mediaplayer. > There may be a misunderstanding on this. With the download helper, you > go to a site that has a video you want, instead of copying it from /tmp > or where ever it is stored, you click on a button and save it where ever > you want to save it. If you don't like the file format that it is in, > it will convert it for you too. Sure, but from what I figured this FF addon is only good for Flash embedded videos. I assume (because I can't download it right now) that it won't work with e.g.: http://www.amd.com/us- en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv > Just as a example, I go to youtube and find a neat Jeff Dunham video. YouTube and the likes use Adobe Flash to stream content. > The misunderstanding may be on my part. Maybe I don't quite get what > you are doing. I don't really like the gnome-mplayer interface which is used by the gecko- mediaplayer plugin. I was looking for alternative plugins, but I suspect that there aren't any. Anyway, not a major issue. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] overlays.gentoo.org having git issues?
None of my git-based overlays from overlays.gentoo.org have been able to sync this morning. Is the server having problems or is something wrong with my git? --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
Mick wrote: On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay it, etc. With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos the picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit clunky with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to watch a previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with mplayerplug-in). Is there a better alternative, more akin to the mplayerplug-in? If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really well. Thanks Dale, but I have no problem with flash embedded videos - they don't use the gnome-mplayer. There may be a misunderstanding on this. With the download helper, you go to a site that has a video you want, instead of copying it from /tmp or where ever it is stored, you click on a button and save it where ever you want to save it. If you don't like the file format that it is in, it will convert it for you too. Just as a example, I go to youtube and find a neat Jeff Dunham video. I click for it to start playing the video as usual. Once it starts to play, I click on the little download button and then tell it to save it to my directory for videos. From that point on, I can play the video using mplayer or what ever. I currently use smplayer myself. I also noticed recently, it works with flash videos too. I don't know if it did this all the time or if it just started but it is nice especially since some videos get taken down sometimes. If it is on my system, I have it even if it gets removed later. The misunderstanding may be on my part. Maybe I don't quite get what you are doing. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:41:35PM -0500, sean wrote
> Altering some USE flags was a big help. I had been altering them,
> but finally it worked. I went from over 300 packages down to 32.
That's one of the reasons I lead off my USE in /etc/make.conf with a
"-*", and then enable only what I want/need. Mine is...
USE="-* X a52 aac bzip2 dga exif ffmpeg flac gif jpeg joystick mmx mng mp3 mpeg
nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl pcf png posix sdl sse sse2 ssse3
theora threads tiff truetype vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf xcomposite xpm
xv xvid zlib"
...plus a few application-specific flags in /etc/package.use. There
are also a bunch of flags set in your profile. If you don't negate them
in /etc/make.conf, they get applied. E.g.
/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults has
USE="berkdb crypt ipv6 ncurses nls pam perl python readline ssl tcpd zlib"
I don't want want/need ipv6 or nls or pam. I've been starting my USE
with "-*" since the day the developers "in their infinite wisdom"
decided to make ipv6 a default setting. Firefox and mplayer and other
apps that accessed the internet ended up sitting doing nothing for 45
seconds, waiting for the ipv6 DNS query to timeout, before sending an
ipv4 query, and doing what they were supposed to do.
The desktop profile has...
USE="a52 aac acpi alsa branding cairo cdr dbus dts dvd dvdr eds emboss
encode evo fam firefox flac gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal jpeg kde ldap
libnotify mad mikmod mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pdf png ppds qt3support qt4
quicktime sdl spell svg thunar tiff truetype vorbis win32codecs unicode usb X
x264 xml xulrunner xv xvid"
# This is added for GNOME/Xfce
USE="${USE} startup-notification"
# Adding this for bluetooth support
USE="${USE} bluetooth consolekit"
I don't want/need dbus, hal, emboss, fam, gnome, kde, ldap, quicktime,
thunar, startup-notification, bluetooth, or consolekit, thank you.
There may be additional stuff that cascades in by default. Gentoo is
about the user having control, which is why the "-*".
--
Walter Dnes
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for > > gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also > > access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay it, etc. > > > > With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access > > directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at > > maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos the > > picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit clunky > > with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to watch a > > previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with mplayerplug-in). > > Is there a better alternative, more akin to the mplayerplug-in? > > If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab > those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really well. Thanks Dale, but I have no problem with flash embedded videos - they don't use the gnome-mplayer. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?
I think that buying an SSD right now is not worth it. If you are going to buy one, get the intel G2 ones, but in my opinion it is always better to first max out your RAM in your PC. After all the SSD is going to help when you first boot your PC or open a program. After that everything is cached in RAM and there will be no speed difference. Only in the rare case that you use so many programs (that don't fit in cache) and compile things everyday (which messes up the cache) you are going to need it. Also you don't need to mess with many fstab/scheduler settings, it is not worth it imo. Just add "noatime" to your favorite file system and you are good to go. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, gentoo-users, > I hope not to bring up some boring ricer-topic ;-) > > I am thinking of getting one of those shiny new SSDs for my main > workstation. Not that I really *need* it, my box is performing well, I > admit that I am curious and somehow childish ... some way of getting > myself a christmas present or something like that ... > > anyway > > Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I > tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs. > > I definitely *know* that I will shake my head a few months later at how > I could spend that much money for those few and slow gigs of ssd ... but > ... (think 100$ for 128MB usb-stick ... you know ...) > > I think of using that ssd for my gentoo-os-partition(s) and I wonder if > one of you is already doing that. And I would like to hear of any > problems/blockers/sensations this brings. > > Thanks for any infos, I'd be happy to hear whatever your experience is ... > > Stefan > > >
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
Mick wrote: Hi All, I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay it, etc. With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos the picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit clunky with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to watch a previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with mplayerplug-in). Is there a better alternative, more akin to the mplayerplug-in? If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really well. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow samba transfers from gentoo to gentoo, any way to improve them?
I checked with various programs (not only standard explorer copy), and the speeds that are reported from W7 are real, they average at ~70MB/s. The best speed that I have achieved with gentoo, is using gnome gvfs with fuse (without fuse, if it is completely virtual it is worse) , but they are still 35MB/s max. The build-in kernel smbfs/cifs mounting are extremely slower which I don't understand. I am also using ext4 (on both server and client). The delayed allocation of ext4 afaik is worse than NTFS, so the probability of gentoo speeds being fake instead of Windows7, is higher. Something to add, commenting this line in my server smb.conf (which for a strange reason is default in gentoo): socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 Improved my Windows7 transfers from the ~50MB/s to ~70mb/s. Maybe I will try re-enabling the line, in case gentoo client likes it better. Any more ideas? On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:56 AM, App Des wrote: > > I have a gentoo server running stable fully updated, and I share a folder > > with samba on a gigabit network. > > > > The client dual boots Gentoo (stable again) and Windows 7. > > > > Under windows 7, getting a file from the server achieves around 70MB/s > > > > It is quite possible that Windows 7 is mis-reporting the transfer > speed. To put it in perspective, I would expect around 70-90MB/s from > a direct SATA2 connection to a hard disk, so to hear that network > transfers on gigabit are going around that speed makes me scratch my > head (and a little jealous). > > I can usually expect transfers of around 30-40MB/s from my server. > Maybe I'm just used to mediocrity? > >
[gentoo-user] mplayer plugin
Hi All, I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay it, etc. With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos the picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit clunky with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to watch a previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with mplayerplug-in). Is there a better alternative, more akin to the mplayerplug-in? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install
On Sunday 22 November 2009 03:41:35 sean wrote: > Dale wrote: > > I would also add, watch the USE flags. You may be able to turn some > > off, that may help as well. > > Dale > > Altering some USE flags was a big help. I had been altering them, but > finally it worked. > I went from over 300 packages down to 32. Would you mind sharing what these flags were. I have been trying to get rid of akonadi in vane and have run out of flags to take out. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
