Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Stroller
On 21 September 2011, at 02:37, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/21/2011 12:07 AM, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 20 September 2011, at 16:11, James wrote: >>> ... >>> I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. >>> >>> Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 >>> and media-video/mplayer >>> Avail

Re: [gentoo-user] Confuzzled about bug severity

2011-09-20 Thread Dale
Mike Gilbert wrote: On 09/20/2011 12:34 AM, Michael Mol wrote: I've filed two bug reports today[1][2]. Now, when filing bugs, the dropdown for 'severity' includes "Critical: The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to lose data." One bug did cause data loss (a configuration wipe; I'm now amus

[gentoo-user] hardened-sources reverted to 2.6.39-r8 :(

2011-09-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hmm, just ran eix-sync followed by emerge -pvuD @world... And I was unpleasantly surprised when I see sys-kernel/hardened-sources going back from the currently installed (and booting) 2.6.39-r13 to -r8 Changelog does not described why -r13 is pulled. So, what should I do now? Should I recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] Confuzzled about bug severity

2011-09-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 09/20/2011 12:34 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > I've filed two bug reports today[1][2]. Now, when filing bugs, the > dropdown for 'severity' includes "Critical: The software crashes, > hangs, or causes you to lose data." > > One bug did cause data loss (a configuration wipe; I'm now amused I > can us

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/21/2011 12:07 AM, Stroller wrote: On 20 September 2011, at 16:11, James wrote: ... I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/mplayer Available versions: 1.0_rc4_p20101114 Any quick education on mplayer 2 would be appreciat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:13:36 +0100 James Broadhead wrote: On 19 September 2011 15:22, Alan McKinnon wrote: :-) Example: Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org. And forget all about playing music

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:13:36 +0100 James Broadhead wrote: > On 19 September 2011 15:22, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > :-)  Example: > > > > Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to > > display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org. > > > > And forget all about playing mus

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 September 2011, at 16:11, James wrote: > ... > I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. > > Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 > and media-video/mplayer > Available versions: 1.0_rc4_p20101114 > > > Any quick education on mplayer 2 would be appreciated. I believe this would

[gentoo-user] Keyboard

2011-09-20 Thread jdm
Fellow Gentoers, I have just bought a nice and shiny new gaming keyboard Solid Year Keysonic KSK-6001 UELX The keyboard works at BIOS, grub and in Windows. But is totally unresponsive using Linux apart from Backspace(lol) After searching the net I found the issue was due to anti-ghosting buil

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > And, as an Amarok user... searching my collection, finding song texts, > > rating songs, wikipedia information for artist, album or a specfic > > song, tagging, easy sorting of playlists, bookmarks, saving streams

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes: >> >>> Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: >>> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote >>> > >>> > > a

Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 9/17/11, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On 9/11/2011 the S&P 500 was within about .1% of where >> it was on 9/10/2001. The 'Lost Decade'... > > You lucky and prosperous bastards! Take a look at some major European > indexes over the same time span. DAX

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag 20 September 2011, 20:19:44 schrieb Thanasis: > on 09/20/2011 07:50 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: > > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: > >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > >> > >>> alsaplayer. Can't even ge

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > >> Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: >> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote >> > >> > > alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Thanasis
on 09/20/2011 07:50 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote >> >>> alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a >>> daemon or server.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > > > alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to > > > run a daemon or server. Just playing music. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a > > daemon or server. Just playing music. > > Or mpg321 or mpg123, both of which are c

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Tue 20 Sep 2011 08:41:13 PM IST, James wrote: > Howdy, > > I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. > > Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 > and media-video/mplayer > Available versions: 1.0_rc4_p20101114 > > > Any quick education on mplayer 2 would be appreciated. > > > James > >

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. I did find this: http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html I'm still interested in folks experiences or comparisons of mplayer1 and mplayer2 James

[gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread James
Howdy, I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/mplayer Available versions: 1.0_rc4_p20101114 Any quick education on mplayer 2 would be appreciated. James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?

2011-09-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Sep 20 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:57:03 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> When revdep-rebuild --library is suggested should we run it >> before or after the ordinary revdep-rebuild that we typically >> run after each update world? >> (That was actually my original

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:29:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Well, you have me convinced. I had assumed that a bland > > revdep-rebuild would catch everything including the library > > specified. Wrong, I see. > Would preserved-rebuild catch everything that the revdep-rebuild fails > to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?

2011-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:57:03 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > When revdep-rebuild --library is suggested should we run it > before or after the ordinary revdep-rebuild that we typically > run after each update world? > (That was actually my original question :-) You should run it first, because the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread James Broadhead
On 19 September 2011 15:22, Alan McKinnon wrote: > :-)  Example: > > Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to > display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org. > > And forget all about playing music. As requested: http://i.imgur.com/WbQHa.jpg

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:19:18 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: [snip] > > > Sounds like you need a SAN Storage solution like NetApp or HDS :-) > > > > I have those options too. But the team that runs the SAN charges and > > the rates are not cheap. > > > > Yeah, tell me about it. > > The day after we