Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-11 Thread covici
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Hi there! > > > > Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon > > version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, > > which needs alsa-plugins built with the p

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 02:11:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Stroller wrote >> >> > I'm sceptical over the benefits of upgrading a 4 year old PC (short >> > of ripping most all the guts out a

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.04.2012 18:10, schrieb Silvio Siefke: > Hello, > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:53:22 +0200 > Florian Philipp wrote: > >> It's a "Linux-VServer." In this setup, all virtual private servers share >> the kernel of the host system (It's like a glorified chroot). You don't >> need grub. The host sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:53:22 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > It's a "Linux-VServer." In this setup, all virtual private servers share > the kernel of the host system (It's like a glorified chroot). You don't > need grub. The host system calls /sbin/init. I've followed this howto > for host

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 02:11:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Stroller wrote > > > I'm sceptical over the benefits of upgrading a 4 year old PC (short > > of ripping most all the guts out and starting again). I know the > > industry has currently settled on

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 13:51:28 schrieb Pandu Poluan: > On Apr 11, 2012 1:15 PM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Stroller wrote > > > > > I'm sceptical over the benefits of upgrading a 4 year old PC (short > > > of ripping most all the guts out and startin

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.04.2012 18:33, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 13:51:28 schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> [...] >> >> But the main point would be that the newest graphics cards are all released >> in PCIe version only, and future mobos will all support PCIe, so it's a >> future-safe inves

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 11.04.2012 01:14, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: > i have Vserver from Strato. I want installed Gentoo, because i like Gentoo. > I have found two Howtos, but what i not really understand, what is with the > Kernel and Grub, i can nothing read there. Or understand i something wrong? Be aware tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up, remote root vulnerability discovered in Samba

2012-04-11 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 10 April 2012 23:56, Paul Hartman wrote: > "Samba versions 3.6.3 and all versions previous to this are affected > by a vulnerability that allows remote code execution as the "root" > user from an anonymous connection." > > "As this does not require an authenticated connection it is the most > s

Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers?

2012-04-11 Thread Stroller
On 11 April 2012, at 17:33, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> >>> I've posted a snapshot of the Dell's internals on my ISP's personal >>> >>> webspace at http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/dell2.jpg Is >>> the long black slot PCIe? What's the short black slot? >> >> The long black slo

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:58:15 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > This is my /etc/conf.d/net (of course you have to adapt subnets): > > modules="iproute2" > modules="!ifconfig" > > config_venet0="83.169.5.6/32 broadcast 0.0.0.0" > routes_venet0="191.255.255.1/32 scope link > default via 191.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 07:29, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> http://arunraghavan.net/2012/02/gentoo-pulseaudio-alsa-update/ > > Damn, I read Gentoo Universe and I totally missed that. Cool, thanks, > I will remove the config file. Removed that one long ago, but went through masking and unmasking pulseau

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Just being curious: I use my main workstation primarily for work. Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. I consider to chose nouveau drivers instead of the nvidia-drivers-package. What are your recommen

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/12 23:38, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Just being curious: I use my main workstation primarily for work. Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. I consider to chose nouveau drivers instead of th

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:38:50PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Just being curious: > > I use my main workstation primarily for work. > > Ok, gnome3 needs some graphic acceleration, aside from that I can only > think of the occasional mythfrontend running on my desktop. > > I consider

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Alecks Gates
The only reason I really use nvidia-drivers is because of VDPAU. Otherwise I can't watch HD videos on my media center. VDPAU works great, and I hope nouveau supports it or something equivalent eventually. Mythtv probably uses it, though that's just a guess. Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >> What are your recommendations? > > Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a > KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The > binary drivers perform better and save much more energy. With > Nouvea

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com: > I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you update the > kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping everything up to date. But > I can't comment on the nvidia drivers since I've never tried them. Nouveau > works well eno

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS > fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary > drivers perform better and save much more energy. With Nouveau, your > GPU will be running full-on

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome without PulseAudio?

2012-04-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Canek Peláez Valdés writes: >> If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't >> already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still work? > > Of course. I have be

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb ny6...@gmail.com: > >> I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you update the >> kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping everything up to date. But >> I can't comment on the

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 00:29, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: What are your recommendations? Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary drivers perform better a

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, so im step by step near to run gentoo. I think the prob is the network config. The rc.log -> http://nopaste.info/443b0bc302.html So it seems so that gentoo start perfectly, but ping give no answers. root@h2025095:~# ip addr 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopba

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.04.2012 23:38, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Note however that it's not obvious which version of nvidia-drivers to > use. NVidia provides various different series of drivers. The drivers > are versioned 96.*, 173.* and 295.*, and each version series is intended > for different cards. > > I

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 00:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary drivers perform better and save much more energy. With

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:29:48 +0200 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Be aware that you are then using Gentoo on a shared server and that you > will have great impact on the performance of the other users on the host > if your are not careful. Yes thats right, it more traffic on the server. > I was onc

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: >> I was once contacted from strato because of the high load I put on the >> server but then I changed /var/tmp/portage to tmpfs and added >> >> PORTAGE_NICENESS="19" >> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" > > Ok its great idea, can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/04/12 00:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >> >>> Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS >>> fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary >>> drivers perform

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/12 00:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: >> >> Somewhat related question. I use the Nvidia drivers here and have not >> had any issues in a while. How does one use VESA if the Nvidia drivers >> fail? One used to change it in xorg.conf but most don't have a >> xorg.conf any more.

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau

2012-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/12 02:43, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: Somewhat related question. I use the Nvidia drivers here and have not had any issues in a while. How does one use VESA if the Nvidia drivers fail? One used to change it in xorg.conf but most don't have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, so i has 3 times try to run gentoo and now run it on my vserver. Thx for help and all nice new day. Regards Silvio