Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel ricing
The fact of the matter is this. If I knew back then, what I know now, I would not even fart around with x86* architectures on keen issues of minimization. There is so much going on with ARM. Minimization is about low power. The paradigm shift to low power (the lowest heat) allows for for the greatest transistor concentration == smallest size. ARM has beaten them all, AMD sees the light and is working on a myriad of hybrid SOCs, design specifically for tight target implementations. Samsung is killing the world, with ARM and open source linux. NASDAQ:ARMH - Grant
[gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes
Hi all, I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video, the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further investigation reveals that File-Open, File-Save, File-Information and more don't display their dialogue boxes. Is anyone familiar with this package and know why this is happening, no dialogue boxes, and how to remedy the problem? Thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew
[gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.
On 2013-10-30, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:32:54PM -0500, Dale wrote Howdy, Quick question. I have a Nvidia GeForce GT 220 video card. It has a VGA and a HDMI connection. My question, if I hook a monitor to each port, they will both have the same pic right? Also, I have not hooked anything to the HDMI port yet, does it just work or do I have to set something for it to work in xorg.conf or something. But why would you want identical images? Google Xinerama. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo (yeah it's Ubuntu), for how to get a B-I-I-I-I-G two-screen-wide desktop. Or you can have a different desktop on each monitor. [I find that more useful than have a single big desktop that spans multiple monitors.] That's done by simply configuring separate X displays. I prefer to edit my xorg.conf to do that, but you can also use xrandr to configure multiple displays. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! The entire CHINESE at WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TEAM all gmail.comshare ONE personality -- and have since BIRTH!!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:03:34 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: But why would you want identical images? Google Xinerama. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo (yeah it's Ubuntu), for how to get a B-I-I-I-I-G two-screen-wide desktop. Or you can have a different desktop on each monitor. [I find that more useful than have a single big desktop that spans multiple monitors.] That's done by simply configuring separate X displays. I prefer to edit my xorg.conf to do that, but you can also use xrandr to configure multiple displays. I think Dale still uses KDE, in which case it can be handled by the KDE System Settings options. -- Neil Bothwick Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes
On 2013-10-30 16:44, Andrew Lowe wrote: I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video, the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further investigation reveals that File-Open, File-Save, File-Information and more don't display their dialogue boxes. I am not deeply familiar with it but I use it a lot, in version media-video/avidemux-2.5.6-r2, with the gtk interface. I have tried to also compile and use with the qt4 UI with less good results. I also found the 2.6.x version to be broken in several ways, but that was a few months ago. So although the 2.5.x version has security holes, I tend to not work on videos with unknown origin, so I am still using that. Maybe this helps you, Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] dbus failures
On Tue, Oct 29 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:42:35 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am recently getting wicd failures due to inability to connect to the system. I get a wicd popup msg saying to look in wicd.log. However there are no errors listed (full log below). I do get a popup from wicd saying The wicd daemon has shut down. The UI will not function properly until it is restarted. Also (probably starting at the same time) the gui from gnome concerning battery power is wrong. It says 100% on the top bar (which is correct) but when clicked, it indicates that both batteries are at 0% It sounds like DBus is not running. The wicd daemon does not need DBus, which is why your network connections still work, but the clients need DBus to talk to the daemon. The GNME battery applet may well use DBus too? Is DBus actually running? Is it in any of your runlevels? sudo rc-update -s | grep dbus It runs here, even though it is not in a runlevel, because something else depends on it. It is possible that you have either removed whatever was pulling it in or that the init script has changed and no longer depends on DBus. Or the dbus service is simply failing to start for some reason. Trying to start it from a terminal should identify which, if any, of these is the case. Yes dbus is in default runlevel. It must have been running since I had many entries in /var/log/messages mentioning it. For example. 9973:Oct 29 20:08:46 newlap dbus[2089]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Accounts' (using servicehelper). Canek is correct that I run gnome 3 (3.6 currently) and I am moving all my systems to systemd (my backup laptop runs it now) so that I can run gnome 3.8 and beyond. However, this error occurred on my main laptop, which still runs openRC (I will be converting it to systemd soon). Finally and *most significantly*, last night's update world seems to have changed the symptoms. * I no longer get the popup from wicd saying that it can't connect on the system bus * The wicd ui works fine. * Difference in messages sent to /var/log/messages - Before update world. Tries and fails twice. - Today. Tries and fails; retries and succeeds (see below). I guess I need to monitor this for a few more days. allan 10108:Oct 29 20:10:43 newlap dbus[2089]: [system] Activating service name='org.wicd.daemon' (using servicehelper) 10109:Oct 29 20:10:44 newlap dbus[2089]: [system] Activated service 'org.wicd.daemon' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 10277:Oct 29 20:11:08 newlap dbus[2089]: [system] Activating service name='org.wicd.daemon' (using servicehelper) 10278:Oct 29 20:11:08 newlap dbus[2089]: [system] Activated service 'org.wicd.daemon' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 11899:Oct 30 08:52:14 newlap dbus[2088]: [system] Activating service name='org.wicd.daemon' (using servicehelper) 11900:Oct 30 08:52:14 newlap dbus[2088]: [system] Activated service 'org.wicd.daemon' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 12017:Oct 30 08:52:30 newlap dbus[2088]: [system] Activating service name='org.wicd.daemon' (using servicehelper) 12018:Oct 30 08:52:30 newlap dbus[2088]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.wicd.daemon'
Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes
On 10/31/2013 12:29 AM, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On 2013-10-30 16:44, Andrew Lowe wrote: I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video, the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further investigation reveals that File-Open, File-Save, File-Information and more don't display their dialogue boxes. I am not deeply familiar with it but I use it a lot, in version media-video/avidemux-2.5.6-r2, with the gtk interface. I have tried to also compile and use with the qt4 UI with less good results. I also found the 2.6.x version to be broken in several ways, but that was a few months ago. So although the 2.5.x version has security holes, I tend to not work on videos with unknown origin, so I am still using that. Maybe this helps you, Peter. I'm using the QT4 interface so there could be something there. I'll have to follow up on the avidemux forums. Thanks, Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:03:34 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: But why would you want identical images? Google Xinerama. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo (yeah it's Ubuntu), for how to get a B-I-I-I-I-G two-screen-wide desktop. Or you can have a different desktop on each monitor. [I find that more useful than have a single big desktop that spans multiple monitors.] That's done by simply configuring separate X displays. I prefer to edit my xorg.conf to do that, but you can also use xrandr to configure multiple displays. I think Dale still uses KDE, in which case it can be handled by the KDE System Settings options. I do use KDE with Fluxbox as a backup.. I want to get another monitor but just not right now. I want one that I can flip 90 degrees so that it is tall instead of wide but only want Firefox to run on that. That'll have to wait for now. Right now, I just wanted to see about watching videos on my TV instead of my puter screen. My chair ain't that comfy. lol I caught a cable that will reach on sale for like 60% off and I couldn't pass it up. I just didn't realize that this card could run two displays with different content. I figured what was on one would be on the other. In the long run, this could be really nice. I gave that card a good dust bunny eviction when I had to swap mobos. It's a nice little card. It does really good for my simple stuff. Thanks all. When the cable comes in, I'll check into what comes next. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Avidemux does not display dialogue boxes
On 10/30/2013 04:44:02 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've just installed the video tool avidemux but when I load a video, the video loads, but there is no sound. A Google search offered a remedy which required opening the preferences dialogue box. I attempted to do this, but low and behold, no dialogue box will open. Further investigation reveals that File-Open, File-Save, File-Information and more don't display their dialogue boxes. Hi Andrew, I'm using version 2.6.5-r1 avidemux3_qt4 on ~amd64 AFAIR the maintainer of avidemux has given up gtk support. It works just fine, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:52:00PM -0500, Dale wrote I do use KDE with Fluxbox as a backup.. I want to get another monitor but just not right now. I want one that I can flip 90 degrees so that it is tall instead of wide but only want Firefox to run on that. I run 2 browsers, 960x1080 side-by-each, on a 1920x1080 display. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:14:30PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I run 2 browsers, 960x1080 side-by-each, on a 1920x1080 display. What size is that screen? Can you attach a screen shot? I have 1920x1080 on everything but this laptop (1440x900), and use 23 screens at work. Still, I just can't seem to like any setup with more than one thing on the screen at a time. My desktop has GKrellM with width 100 on the right hand side. Thanks -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.
Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:52:00PM -0500, Dale wrote I do use KDE with Fluxbox as a backup.. I want to get another monitor but just not right now. I want one that I can flip 90 degrees so that it is tall instead of wide but only want Firefox to run on that. I run 2 browsers, 960x1080 side-by-each, on a 1920x1080 display. Right now, I have a 22 inch monitor that I caught on sale. It's the wide type thing. Anyway, I have firefox taking up most of the space but also have pidgin tucked on the right side. When I can get me a 2nd monitor, I'll stick Firefox on the 2nd one that is turned to be tall. I'll keep everything else where it is. Right now, I'll just use the 2nd one to play videos and such on my TV. This is going to work out really nice it seems. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
