[gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/16/2011 09:00 PM, Stroller wrote: On 16 December 2011, at 14:27, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/16/2011 04:13 PM, Michael Mol wrote: With an (old) $50 card, you can get an old Core 2 desktop system to serve as an HTPC. Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread pk
On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote: Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is using so much. Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if you are using the same version, 32-bit/64-bit, CPU etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Please ignore above email; I hit send by mistake

2011-12-17 Thread pk
On 2011-12-16 19:54, Mick wrote: Please remind me, where do you set up vsync? On mine it seems to be on by default: $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i vsync [ 22796.516] (II) RADEON(0): SwapBuffers wait for vsync: enabled Hm... I thought this was about Intel GPU but apparently I misread.

[gentoo-user] eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I just noticed the USE flag "security" in stable app-portage/eix. The description is hardly helpful: It fixes exploits but is not enabled by default. Why? What are the drawbacks? I couldn't find anything in a quick online search. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 16 December 2011 19:15:12 Stroller wrote: > On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more > > about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K > > investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, pk wrote: > On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote: > >> Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't >> use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is >> using so much. > > Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if you are usin

[gentoo-user] Why is gnome-2.32.1-r1 requiring the gnome-3 nautilus and evince?

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I run gnome3 on a test laptop, but want to wait until intersession to install it on my real laptop. I will probably like gnome3, but had a bad experience a few months ago when gnome-shell repeatedly crashed so want to wait for a "quiet time" to do the upgrade. Anyway, weeks ago I installed the pa

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is gnome-2.32.1-r1 requiring the gnome-3 nautilus and evince?

2011-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/17/2011 06:22 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by gnome-base/nautilus-3.2.1-r1[previewer] Do you have the 'previewer' useflag set? I'm guessing that the older nautilus doesn't have that functionality, so the new version gets pulled

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sat, Dec 17 2011, pk wrote: On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote: Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is using so much. Perhaps you should compare USE flags? And if y

[gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-17 Thread James
Walter Dnes waltdnes.org> writes: > It has properly identified the cpu as "core2". But mmx, sse, sse2, > sse3 (aka pni), and ssse3 are disabled!!! I'll change my CFLAGS to... > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" I usually try

[gentoo-user] KMail skips messages in some folders when clicking Next (or pressing +)

2011-12-17 Thread Dan Johansson
I upgraded to KMail 4.7.3 some days ago and now i have a small but annoying problem. I have configured KMail to "When trying to find unread messages: Loop in All Folders" and it mostly works as expected. BUT some folders/messages get skipped when I click "Next Unread Message" or press +. I have

[gentoo-user] Re: eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread James
Florian Philipp binarywings.net> writes: > > Hi list! > > I just noticed the USE flag "security" in stable app-portage/eix. The > description is hardly helpful: It fixes exploits but is not enabled by > default. Why? What are the drawbacks? I couldn't find anything in a > quick online search.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is gnome-2.32.1-r1 requiring the gnome-3 nautilus and evince?

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, walt wrote: > On 12/17/2011 06:22 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: >> #required by gnome-base/nautilus-3.2.1-r1[previewer] > > Do you have the 'previewer' useflag set? I'm guessing that > the older nautilus doesn't have that fu

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question...

2011-12-17 Thread Hari Purnama
On 12/16/11 22:17, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > I was reading up on some iptables rules in the gentoo security handbook: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?part=1&chap=12&style=printable > > > It mentions DROPing packets with an INVALID state. > > It sounded/sounds li

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Philip Webb
111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use > PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and > Webb suggested /z for extra space. > So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8, created the mount point > /mnt/junk and whe

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Dec 17 2011, Philip Webb wrote: > 111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use >> PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and >> Webb suggested /z for extra space. >> So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sd

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question...

2011-12-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-12-17 11:34 AM, Hari Purnama wrote: Did you put the log-prefix rule before or after the LOG rule? After - the log prefix rule is last... Or why didn't you put it in a 1liner, say: -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state INVALID -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix "(>fw-drop): " --log-ip-opt

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some sort? I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its own filesystems named HFS and HFSplus. I'm guessing that data disks burned with a Mac will use HFS, but I don't know about

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-16, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Grant Edwards> > wrote: > >> Correct. If you use dd to copy an encrypted disk, the result will be >> missing something like 90% of the data. >> >>> I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more >>> about t

Re: [gentoo-user] DBI connect dbname=template1 failed Permission denied

2011-12-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 December 2011, at 02:13, Joseph wrote: > ... > I see that LedgerSMB is 1.3 is it stable? Any version of LedgerSMB will be better than any version of SQL-Ledger. > Is there direct migration from SQL-Ledger 2.8.35 No idea off the top of my head. The plan for LedgerSMB was to be compatible

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-17, David Haller wrote: >>Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD >>Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen >>TV. >> >>These players allow you to treat .iso files on the network just as if >>they were actual DVDs and give you fu

[gentoo-user] -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
Here's the setup of my secondary machine.. It's a Dell Inspiron Desktop 530, with 2 gigs of ram, assembled and shipped August 2007. It has an Intel Core2 (*NOT* a "Core2 Duo") cpu. From /proc/cpuinfo... vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 December 2011, at 20:39, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-17, David Haller wrote: > >>> Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD >>> Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen >>> TV. >>> >>> These players allow you to treat .iso file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt wrote: > On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> >> Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some >> sort? > > > I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its own filesystems named HFS > and HFSplus.  I'm guessing that da

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:57:58PM +, James wrote > Find the minimal flags and the optimum CFLAGS settings for > your needs. Refine by testing. USE a fast hard drive. > Avoid apps that soak up ram. Some video apps are ram_hogs... > > I'd be curious to learn what you finally figure out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 04:27:13PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on > the 2 CPUs just fine. See the new thread "-march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative". This was not where I had expected to find the solution. -- Walter Dne

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: gcc -march=native -Q --help=target If that shows something disabled that cat /proc/cpuinfo shows as available, is it safe to turn it on? So far all I have found that is disabled that cpuinfo shows is mmx. I'm still looking tho. Also, I think the native setting is a sett

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any video optimization tips?

2011-12-17 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 04:27:13PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote Core 2 can be an HTPC even with a crap card. You can play 1080p on the 2 CPUs just fine. See the new thread "-march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative". This was not where I had expected to find the soluti

[gentoo-user] Re: -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/17/2011 11:07 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Then I ran "gcc -march=native -Q --help=target" and got a major shock. It's a long output listing of what -march=native thinks about my cpu. Here are some relevant items... -march= core2 -mmmx

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 December 2011 21:19:27 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt wrote: > > On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some > >> sort? > > > > I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2011 21:19:27 Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt wrote: > >> > On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> >> Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.12.2011 16:38, schrieb James: > Florian Philipp binarywings.net> writes: > >> >> Hi list! >> >> I just noticed the USE flag "security" in stable app-portage/eix. The >> description is hardly helpful: It fixes exploits but is not enabled by >> default. Why? What are the drawbacks? I couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > This adds some checks which can prevent certain exploits if e.g. the > > eix code has a bug. > As I said, this description is hardly useful. If it fixes exploits, then > why is it not enabled for non-hardened profiles per default? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > Yep. I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted > DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege > of such a thing shouldn't be used as an indication of non-existence of > such a thing. :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:39:38 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > The SageTv set-top box will happily play a DVD directory also (in > addition to playing TV shows recorded by the SageTv DVR server > software). Sadly, Google bought SageTv and shut them down. It's too > bad. SageTv server + set-to

[gentoo-user] Re: eix USE=security

2011-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/17/2011 01:15 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I just noticed the USE flag "security" in stable app-portage/eix. The description is hardly helpful: It fixes exploits but is not enabled by default. Why? What are the drawbacks? I couldn't find anything in a quick online search. eix is k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: > Photo-CD, perhaps? Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't lead me anywhere. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: >> Photo-CD, perhaps? > > Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding > photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't lead > me anywhere.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Yep.  I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted >> DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege >> of such a thing shouldn't b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> Yep.  I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted >>> DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:58:36PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > The output lies. It's a known issue. Use this instead: > >echo | gcc -dM -E - -march=native > > You should see stuff like: > >#define __MMX__ 1 >#define __SSE3__ 1 The onboard GPU was initially incapable of han

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > -march=                               core2 > -mmmx                                 [disabled] > -msse                                 [disabled] > -msse2                                [disabled] > -msse3                                [disabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I guess you are saying that either the CSS keys are completely > unnecessary, or that the DVD-RW drive can read but not write to the > area where they are stored? I think, typically, when a DVD with copy-protection is manufactured, it is sen

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-17, Stroller wrote: > > On 17 December 2011, at 20:39, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2011-12-17, David Haller wrote: >> Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen TV.