Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > Well, I'm a newb in video, but it was suggested to me by someone who uses > it, so I wanted to try. Mplayer comes with a program called mencoder, which will do your video encoding. Its a bit more "hands on" but it is excellent once you learn it.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao wrote: > [snip] >> >> Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series >> to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. >> And this website will prove me right: http

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao wrote: [snip] > > Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series > to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. > And this website will prove me right: http://www.thinkwiki.org/ > You gotta love it~ > > -- > @ghosTM55 > Mech

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/ mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sr0 I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/filesystems Trying msdos mount:

[gentoo-user] dmesg warning about mtrr: type mismatch and allocation failed

I'm running 64-bit Gentoo on an Intel 4-core i3 with an Intel integrated graphics controller. An excerpt from dmesg follows, with the video- related stuff. Note the two lines that I've split off. They mention the mtrr type mismatch and the allocation failure. Is this a problem and if so, what

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > I would appreciate suggestions on what ultraportable laptop to put > gentoo on. I am looking for a desktop replacement, therefore a > powerful yet very portable machine would be ideal. > > Thanks, > > -- > Valmor > > Thinkpad

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in >> Gentoo. >> It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find it. But >> there's >> a bug (#89432) filed

[gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

Hello, I would appreciate suggestions on what ultraportable laptop to put gentoo on. I am looking for a desktop replacement, therefore a powerful yet very portable machine would be ideal. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

Stroller wrote: On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in Gentoo. It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find it. But there's a bug (#89432) filed against it, with the last comment (#111) just 4

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xchat fails

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > I have xchat installed. An update is failing to install with error: > > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' or unhandled > argument `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' > > libpng is installed: > > /usr/lib$eix libpng > [I] media-libs/libpng > A

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in Gentoo. It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find it. But there's a bug (#89432) filed against it, with the last comment (#111) just 4 days ago. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in Gentoo. It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find it. But there's a bug (#89432) filed against it, with the last comment (#111) just 4 days ago. So where in the portage is handbr

[gentoo-user] emerge xchat fails

I have xchat installed. An update is failing to install with error: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' libpng is installed: /usr/lib$eix libpng [I] media-libs/libpng Available versions: (1.2) 1.2.44

[gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in Gentoo. It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find it. But there's a bug (#89432) filed against it, with the last comment (#111) just 4 days ago. So where in the portage is handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 > > schrieb Daniel D Jones : > > Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig > > command? I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a > > different name, then using --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

Nganon writes: > Hello all, > > My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something > that I started > to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two > main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most > efficiently. > > 1. Apart from users' h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

On 15 Aug 2010, at 19:14, James wrote: ... # dmesg | grep sr sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 So what happens when you try `sudo mount -v /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom/`? Didn't you think to t

[gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

Hello all, My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I started to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most efficiently. 1. Apart from users' home directories and the followings,

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 15 August 2010 22:35:01 Dale wrote: Also, this can carry on for a really long time. This can last over 30 minutes. I think I'd be getting tcpdump out about now... I'm going to try netstat next time. Waiting on it to start again. Dale :-) :-

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

On Sunday 15 August 2010 22:35:01 Dale wrote: > Also, this can carry on for a really long time. This can last over > 30 minutes. I think I'd be getting tcpdump out about now... -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

BRM wrote: - Original Message On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with Yahoo at these addresses: cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com I thought it was Kopete gettin

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

On Sunday 15 August 2010 21:34:33 Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with > Yahoo at these addresses: > > cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com > > rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com > > I thought it was Kopete getting some info, profile pics maybe, from

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

On Sunday 15 August 2010 22:55:23 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with > > Yahoo at these addresses: > > > > cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com > > > > rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com >

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

- Original Message > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with > > Yahoo at these addresses: > > > > cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com > > > > rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com > > > > I thought it was Kopet

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with > Yahoo at these addresses: > > cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com > > rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com > > I thought it was Kopete getting some info, profile pics maybe, from the

[gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

Hi folks, I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with Yahoo at these addresses: cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com I thought it was Kopete getting some info, profile pics maybe, from the server. Thing is, it does this for a really long time. I

Re: [gentoo-user] write failed on dvd with growisofs

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:27:27 +0200 li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > I am incurring a strange problem when trying to burn DVDs. When I > apply the command: > > # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0 -R -J test/ [...] I have the similar problem on standard kernel 2.6.34-gentoo-r1: # growisofs -Z /

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > Do you have something like /dev/dvd ? Where does it point to? Where > are you expecting it to point to? NO. Should I create it? Symlink to? I looked here at the CD rules for udev, but nothing I try is working. I'm not the keenest hack with udev (und

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 schrieb Daniel D Jones : > Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig command? > I > can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a different name, then > using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it would be nice to jus

[gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig command? I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file. It may be that I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Mumble doesn't work anymore

On 08/12/2010 07:56 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to start Mumble (version 1.2.2) aborts with: SSL: Added CA certificates from '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' No ciphers of at least 128 bit found Aborted Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Rebuilding qt-core fixed this.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check

> why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore > of > the mbr. > > And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the > new > harddisk has a different size? > Just tar up everything. > > Ok, so is this correct? Backup with tar; 1. boot from c