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> Topics (messages 138328 through 138377):
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer2 idle CPU condumption
>      138328 - Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
>
> [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application
>      138329 - Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
>
> [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues
>      138330 - Space Cake <spacecakex@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]
>      138331 - Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
>
> [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install
>      138332 - Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
>
> [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only -- DISK FAILURE
>      138333 - felix@×××××××.com
>
> [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application
>      138334 - Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application
>      138335 - Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails
>      138336 - john <jdm@××××××××××××.uk>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138337 - Ignas Anikevicius <anikevicius@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138338 - Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138339 - Ignas Anikevicius <anikevicius@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138340 - Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] OT: Hack your TV
>      138341 - James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails
>      138342 - Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails
>      138343 - Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138344 - Ignas Anikevicius <anikevicius@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138345 - Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138346 - Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138347 - Ignas Anikevicius <anikevicius@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Advice Needed: Conexant HD-Audio noisy audio
>      138348 - Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application
>      138349 - Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails
>      138350 - Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install
>      138351 - Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
>
> [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application
>      138352 - Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails
>      138353 - Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
>
> [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together
>      138354 - Urs Schutz <u.schutz@×××××××.ch>
>
> [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together
>      138355 - Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails
>      138356 - Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
>
> [gentoo-user] Grub2, chroot, initramfs
>      138357 - Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Grub2, chroot, initramfs
>      138358 - Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Grub2, chroot, initramfs
>      138359 - Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together
>      138360 - Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
>
> [gentoo-user] Grub2, chroot, initramfs
>      138361 - Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
>
> [gentoo-user] Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in
> background
>      138362 - Ignas Anikevicius <anikevicius@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application
>      138363 - Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in
> background
>      138364 - Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in
> background
>      138365 - Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in
> background
>      138366 - walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] gem install linecache19 fails
>      138367 - 1126 <mailinglists@××××××××××××××××××.de>
>
> [gentoo-user] Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in
> background
>      138368 - Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
>
> [gentoo-user] Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in
> background
>      138369 - Ignas Anikevicius <anikevicius@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in
> background
>      138370 - Ignas Anikevicius <anikevicius@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav
>      138371 - john <jdm@××××××××××××.uk>
>
> [gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav
>      138372 - Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?
>      138373 - Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
>
> [gentoo-user] In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop this?
>      138374 - Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop
> this?
>      138375 - walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
>
> [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together
>      138376 - Urs Schutz <u.schutz@×××××××.ch>
>
> [gentoo-user] Re: In X: <up> wants to "save screenshot". How do I stop
> this?
>      138377 - "G.Wolfe Woodbury" <redwolfe@×××××.com>
>
>
>
> Alex Schuster writes:
>
> > I wrote:
>
> > > Thanks. Another thing that happens to me only. I filed a bug about
> > > this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415241
> >
> > I just found out it only happens when I start the video from within
> > Dolphin, and as my user. From the command line, or as another user with
> > an unconfigured KDE desktop, it does not happen. Something is very weird
> > here. Maybe I should start over with a clean KDE environment, AGAIN. But
> > I really really hate to do this every once in a while. Can't these
> > things just work?
>
> The bug report got some updates, it's not Dolphin's or KDE's fault, but
> mplayer2's, happens whenever it is started from a file manager. Something
> with terminal keyboard controls enabled by the file manager, but with
> stdin not being connected to anything readable.
>
> It's fixed upstream: http://devel.mplayer2.org/ticket/146
> Meanwhile, option -noconsolecontrols also helps.
>
>        Wonko
>
> I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I can't seem to be able to get
> tsocks, or proxychains working.
>
> I set up a socks server virtue of ssh dynamic port forwarding:
>
> $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12
>
> Then I run:
>
> $ . tsocks on
> $ tsocks sh
> LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libtsocks.so"
> $ tsocks firefox
>
> or tsocks kmail, or tsocks <anything else>.
>
> The connection is not sent out via the server on 10.10.10.12.  The terminal
> that ran tsocks does not reveal anything in terms of a connection taking
> place, at least not when I run firefox.  With Chromium things are more
> revealing:
>
> $ . tsocks on
> $ tsocks sh
> LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libtsocks.so"
> $ tsocks chromium
> [4591:4604:405018909:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call
> method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
> ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/libtsocks.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be
> preloaded: ignored.
>
>
> Exporting like this, also fails to load it for chromium:
>
> $ export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libtsocks.so
> $ tsocks sh
> LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libtsocks.so"
> $ tsocks chromium
> [5052:5065:973215173:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call
> method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
> ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/libtsocks.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be
> preloaded: ignored.
>
>
>
> If I set up socks within the firefox application Advanced/Network
> settings, without using tsocks, the connection succeeds through the
> ssh tunnel.  Therefore I am confident that the tunnel itself is
> working as a socks5 server.
>
>
> This is what I have in /etc/socks/tsocks.conf
>
> server = 127.0.0.1
> server_type = 5
> server_port = 12465
>
> Similarly, I get no connection if I use proxychains.
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong here?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
> Thank you. It seems to be ok now
>
> [ebuild   R   ~] net-misc/curl-7.25.0-r1  CURL_SSL="gnutls* -openssl*"
> [ebuild   R   ~] net-libs/liboauth-0.9.6  USE="-curl*"
>
> >=net-misc/curl-7.24.0 -curl_ssl_nss -curl_ssl_openssl curl_ssl_gnutls ssl
> -nss ssh
>
>
> Laszlo
>
>
> On 2012. máj. 14., hétfő, 17.34.19 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 16:02:15 +0200
>> Space Cake<spacecakex@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Removing keywords from curl produces this
>>>
>>> brutal keywords # emerge --keep-going -upND world
>>>
>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>> emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
>>> "net-misc/curl[ssl,curl_ssl_**nss]".
>>> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your
>>> request:
>>> - net-misc/curl-7.25.0-r1::**gentoo (Change USE: +curl_ssl_nss, this
>>> change violates use flag constraints defined by
>>> net-misc/curl-7.25.0-r1: 'threads? ( !ares ) ssl? ( exactly-one-of (
>>> curl_ssl_axtls curl_ssl_cyassl curl_ssl_gnutls curl_ssl_openssl
>>> curl_ssl_nss curl_ssl_polarssl ) )')
>>> (dependency required by
>>> "net-libs/liboauth-0.9.6[curl,**nss]" [installed]) (dependency required
>>> by
>>> "gnome-extra/evolution-data-**server-3.2.3-r1[gnome-online-**accounts]"
>>> [installed])
>>> (dependency required by
>>> "gnome-extra/gnome-contacts-3.**2.2" [installed]) (dependency required
>>> by "@selected" [set]) (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
>>>
>>>
>>> eix output:[I] net-misc/curl
>>> Available versions: 7.21.4 (~)7.21.6 (~)7.21.7 (~)7.21.7-r2
>>> (~)7.22.0 (~)7.23.1 7.24.0 (~)7.25.0 (~)7.25.0-r1 {ares
>>> curl_ssl_axtls curl_ssl_cyassl curl_ssl_gnutls curl_ssl_nss
>>> +curl_ssl_openssl curl_ssl_polarssl gnutls idn ipv6 kerberos ldap nss
>>> ssh ssl static-libs test threads}
>>> Installed versions: 7.25.0-r1(12.34.47
>>> 2012-05-14)(curl_ssl_openssl idn ipv6 ldap ssh ssl threads -ares
>>> -curl_ssl_axtls -curl_ssl_cyassl -curl_ssl_gnutls -curl_ssl_nss
>>> -curl_ssl_polarssl -kerberos -static-libs -test)
>>> Homepage: http://curl.haxx.se/
>>> Description: A Client that groks URLs
>>>
>>>
>>> So, this is asking for curl_ssl_nss,
>>>
>>> But after I set this I'm getting this
>>>
>>> brutal ~ # emerge --keep-going -upND world
>>>
>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies /
>>>
>>> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-misc/curl from @selected
>>> ... done!
>>>
>>> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "net-misc/curl" has unmet
>>> requirements.
>>> - net-misc/curl-7.25.0-r1::**gentoo USE="idn ipv6 ldap ssl threads
>>> -ares -kerberos -ssh -static-libs -test" CURL_SSL="nss openssl -axtls
>>> -cyassl -gnutls -polarssl"
>>>
>>> The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
>>> ssl? ( exactly-one-of ( curl_ssl_axtls curl_ssl_cyassl
>>> curl_ssl_gnutls curl_ssl_openssl curl_ssl_nss curl_ssl_polarssl ) )
>>>
>>> The above constraints are a subset of the following complete
>>> expression:
>>> threads? ( !ares ) ssl? ( exactly-one-of ( curl_ssl_axtls
>>> curl_ssl_cyassl curl_ssl_gnutls curl_ssl_openssl curl_ssl_nss
>>> curl_ssl_polarssl ) )
>>>
>>> (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
>>> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2012. máj. 14., hétfő, 15.08.17 CEST, walt wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/14/2012 03:49 AM, Space Cake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> For several weeks I'm trying to solve dependency issues with curl,
>>>>> but I'm lost.. any idea?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That problem drove me nuts for months. I finally discovered by
>>>> desperate trial and error that un-setting the 'curl' useflag fixes
>>>> it. Finally!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The requirements are (from the error message):
>>
>> If USE=ssl then use exactly one of the following:
>> curl_ssl_axtls
>> curl_ssl_cyassl
>> curl_ssl_gnutls
>> curl_ssl_openssl
>> curl_ssl_nss
>> curl_ssl_polarssl
>>
>> You have the following set for curl (per eix):
>>
>> curl_ssl_openssl
>>
>> But the error message also says that this is required:
>> net-misc/curl[ssl,curl_ssl_**nss] by liboauth
>>
>> You cannot have curl_ssl_nss and curl_ssl_openssl both set for curl as
>> liboauth complains
>>
>> So, what you need to do is set
>>
>> USE="-curl_ssl_openssl curl_ssl_nss" for curl
>>
>> If you read my post carefully and see how all the bits fit the output
>> you supplied, it all makes sense. Portage output is not exactly
>> intuitive but it can be understood.
>>
>> Or you could unset USE="curl" for liboauth.
>>
>> I don't know if you'll be willing to switch from curl_ssl just to make
>> liboauth happy. That's your call.
>>
>
>
> Paul Hartman writes:
>
> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
> > wrote:
> > > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
> [...]
> > > Now, would this be an MPlayer problem, or one of Dolphin?
> >
> > I wonder if Dolphin is generating thumbnails/preview indexes at the
> > same time you're trying to play, causing resource contention.
>
> Sometimes it does that, but that would happen when I play from the command
> line, too. And now it even works from Dolphin, when it is set to open
> mplayer in a terminal. So this cannot be the problem. And even if it
> were, avoiding thumbnails would be a bad workaround only, such operations
> should not affect video playback.
>
> Maybe this is somehow related to the other problem I had with mplayer2
> only, using 100% CPU when idle, only when started from a file manager.
>
>        Wonko
>
> On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Stroller writes:
> >
> >> I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide.
> >>
> >> This has never failed me.
> >
> > For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to
> > strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution:
> > unset path.
> >
> > Libtool uses this variable without unsetting it before, and
> SystemRescueCD
> > defines it as environment variable, which is still available in the
> > chroot. This messed things up a lot.
> >
> > Apart from that, I really like SystemRescueCD.
> >
> >       Wonko
> >
>
> Did you do env-update && . /etc/profile after entering chroot?
> I always thought that setting the right environment variables was the
> purpose of that.
>
> I personally an Ubuntu-Live-Thumbdrive, because some time ago (2 years
> or so) it wasn't possible to install gentoo with LUKS on a btrfs volume
> from the gentoo minimal cd.
>
> The advantage of a live cd (especially for a beginner) is the
> possibility to read the manual and google problems while installing.
> Another possibility to do that would be an installation via ssh (works
> nice too).
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:33:48AM -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> > I have been using encfs to store most of my home dir for ages.  I
> rebooted Sunday morning (it's a ~amd64 system) to change kernel to 3.3.5
> from 3.3.4, and sometime overnight, after the nightly backups and mail
> archives had run, the encfs mounted partition became read-only.  I know the
> timing only by the cron jobs; the nightly mail backup moves files from the
> /home partition to the encfs partition, and it had not failed.  I unmounted
> the encfs partition, remounted, and it was read-only right from the get go.
>
> It's a failing disk drive:
>
>    May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600747] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>    May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600759] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=94761183, sector=94761183
>    May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600788] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0x25
>    May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600794] end_request: I/O error, dev hda,
> sector 94761183
>    May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600835] REISERFS error (device hda5):
> vs-13070 reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find
> stat data of [2511 633054 0x0 SD]
>    May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600840] REISERFS (device hda5):
> Remounting filesystem read-only
>    May 15 03:30:31 kernel: [80224.859713] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>
> > There are no errors in /var/log/messages of any sort since the 3.3.5
> boot.  The mount command showed both the encfs partition and the underlying
> regular partition as rw, not ro.
>
> I didn't see it the first time because I rebooted twice and only looked
> since the second reboot, after spending a while googling for hints and
> forgetting about the double reboot.
>
> --
>            ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.
>     Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com
>  GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E  6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license
> #4933
> I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of
> room o
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:50:43 +0100
> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but I can't seem to be able to
> > get tsocks, or proxychains working.
> >
> > I set up a socks server virtue of ssh dynamic port forwarding:
> >
> > $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12
>
> This part is fine.
>
> I tried the next part. It didn't work nicely for me.
>
> So what I do now is:
>
> Firefox + FoxyProxy
>
> and now I can set my proxy individually per site. All the internal work
> stuff accessed from home goes through the proxy, except the three sites
> only viewable from the outside; and everything else bypasses the proxy.
>
> Much better than trying to deal with a global proxy (although foxyproxy
> will do that too if that is what you need.
>
> And dispense with all the tsocks stuff.
>
> I see recent KDE now also supports socks. This is a nice new addition
> so konqueror can also use it.
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Then I run:
> >
> > $ . tsocks on
> > $ tsocks sh
> > LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libtsocks.so"
> > $ tsocks firefox
> >
> > or tsocks kmail, or tsocks <anything else>.
> >
> > The connection is not sent out via the server on 10.10.10.12.  The
> > terminal that ran tsocks does not reveal anything in terms of a
> > connection taking place, at least not when I run firefox.  With
> > Chromium things are more revealing:
> >
> > $ . tsocks on
> > $ tsocks sh
> > LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libtsocks.so"
> > $ tsocks chromium
> > [4591:4604:405018909:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call
> > method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
> > ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/libtsocks.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be
> > preloaded: ignored.
> >
> >
> > Exporting like this, also fails to load it for chromium:
> >
> > $ export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libtsocks.so
> > $ tsocks sh
> > LD_PRELOAD="/lib/libtsocks.so"
> > $ tsocks chromium
> > [5052:5065:973215173:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call
> > method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
> > ERROR: ld.so: object '/lib/libtsocks.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be
> > preloaded: ignored.
> >
> >
> >
> > If I set up socks within the firefox application Advanced/Network
> > settings, without using tsocks, the connection succeeds through the
> > ssh tunnel.  Therefore I am confident that the tunnel itself is
> > working as a socks5 server.
> >
> >
> > This is what I have in /etc/socks/tsocks.conf
> >
> > server = 127.0.0.1
> > server_type = 5
> > server_port = 12465
> >
> > Similarly, I get no connection if I use proxychains.
> >
> > Any idea what I am doing wrong here?
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnnon
> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>
>
> On 15 May 2012 15:45, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:50:43 +0100
> > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> >> $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12
> >
> > This part is fine.
> >
> > I tried the next part. It didn't work nicely for me.
>
> Ah, thanks for this!  It's reassuring to know that it's not just my
> system.  :-)
>
>
> > So what I do now is:
> >
> > Firefox + FoxyProxy
>
> Firefox is less of a problem for me because I can set it up to
> socksify everything.  It is Kmail that I am mostly interested in.
>
>
> > I see recent KDE now also supports socks. This is a nice new addition
> > so konqueror can also use it.
>
> Yes, but it does not work with the current stable kmail.  The new
> KDEPIM is such a nightmare I do not plan moving to it anytime soon.
> It screwed up one box that I tried it on and that's enough for me.
> :-(
>
> Did you have any success with proxychains?
>
> I am not sure if the problem is related to the tsocks LD_PRELOAD error.
>
>
> I also noticed that when I try to set up a proxy server in Chromium
> using the 'under the bonnet' tab, I get this:
>
> "When running Chromium under a supported desktop environment, the
> system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is not
> supported or there was a problem while launching your system
> configuration.
>
> But you can still configure via the command line. Please see man
> chromium-browser for more information on flags and environment
> variables."
>
> Trying the command line did not fix it:
>
> [4742:4753:1575546819:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call
> method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
>
> That's what made me think that something on my system is not set up
> properly.  :-/
>
>
> These are the libtsocks.so files in my system:
>
> # ls -la /lib*/libtsocks.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so -> libtsocks.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so ->
> libtsocks.so.1
>
> # ls -la /lib/libtsocks.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so ->
> libtsocks.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so.1 ->
> libtsocks.so.1.8
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42912 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so.1.8
>
> # ls -la /lib64/libtsocks.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so ->
> libtsocks.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so.1 ->
> libtsocks.so.1.8
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42912 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so.1.8
>
> I can't see why it would not load it, unless it should be trying to
> load the '/lib64/libtsocks.so' instead of the '/lib/libtsocks.so' on
> an amd64 system?  Shall I file a bug?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2012 19:46:39 -0500
> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500
> > > Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> For example:  Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top
> > >> posters on this list.
> > >
> > > Yo Dale,
> > >
> > > You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-)
> > >
> > > I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fifty bucks says
> > > Michael, Canek, Pandu and a couple more have all posted more than me
> > > this year
> > >
> > > [1] Well, that's my story and I'm sticking with it
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> >
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> >
> > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
> > Someone put alum in your water or something?
> >
> > ROFL
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
> >
>
> Would like to thank all guys and girls for posting. Even though I post
> very little myself your posts are always excellent and there is plenty
> to learn from just reading them.
>
> There are things I can do now which I never thought possible. Thanks
>
> --
> John D Maunder
>
> Dear all,
>
> It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I
> could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is
> that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and
> this is regardless of the sound system or speakers/headphones I use.
>
> The noise can be described, as high pitched, sandy texture noise
> heard during more expressive parts of the music or speech.
>
> I experience this on two Thinkpads (x200s and x200) and it very evident
> when I connected external speakers, they produced a lot of this noise,
> or maybe I just could hear it better, because of the frequency response
> of the speakers.
>
> Does anybody have some similar issues?
>
> My current audio setup:
>
>    * PulseAudio (but the problem is experienced with ALSA as well)
>    * MPD for music playing
>    * Conexant and other related modules compiled in, power-saving
>      features enabled.
>
> What I have tried to eliminate the noise:
>
>    * Various levels of Master,PCM,Headphone channels via Alsamixer
>    * Increase the sample rate in MPD settings.
>
> The noise can be clearly head when I Have the following setting on my
> Alsamixer:
>
>    * Master ~50
>    * PCM 100
>    * Headphone 100
>
> Does anybody has any thoughts on why am I experiencing this?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Ignas A.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Ignas Anikevicius
> <anikevicius@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I
> > could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is
> > that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and
> > this is regardless of the sound system or speakers/headphones I use.
> >
> > The noise can be described, as high pitched, sandy texture noise
> > heard during more expressive parts of the music or speech.
> >
> > I experience this on two Thinkpads (x200s and x200) and it very evident
> > when I connected external speakers, they produced a lot of this noise,
> > or maybe I just could hear it better, because of the frequency response
> > of the speakers.
> >
> > Does anybody have some similar issues?
> >
> > My current audio setup:
> >
> >    * PulseAudio (but the problem is experienced with ALSA as well)
> >    * MPD for music playing
> >    * Conexant and other related modules compiled in, power-saving
> >      features enabled.
> >
> > What I have tried to eliminate the noise:
> >
> >    * Various levels of Master,PCM,Headphone channels via Alsamixer
> >    * Increase the sample rate in MPD settings.
> >
> > The noise can be clearly head when I Have the following setting on my
> > Alsamixer:
> >
> >    * Master ~50
> >    * PCM 100
> >    * Headphone 100
> >
> > Does anybody has any thoughts on why am I experiencing this?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Ignas A.
> >
>
> I would check the inputs in alsamixer and play around with them.  I
> had a problem similar to this for many months and it was due to some
> funny input volume I didn't need, so I muted it.
>
> On 15/05/12 17:31, Alecks Gates wrote:
> > I would check the inputs in alsamixer and play around with them.  I
> > had a problem similar to this for many months and it was due to some
> > funny input volume I didn't need, so I muted it.
>
> Thanks for replying, I have muted everything, except Headphones, Master,
> Speaker and PCM outputs, which *are* necessary to get any sound out of
> my machine either with headphones or speakers. Muting speakers when only
> headphones were used did not help.
>
> Cheers,
> I.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Ignas Anikevicius
> <anikevicius@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I
> > could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is
> > that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and
> > this is regardless of the sound system or speakers/headphones I use.
> >
> > The noise can be described, as high pitched, sandy texture noise
> > heard during more expressive parts of the music or speech.
> >
> > I experience this on two Thinkpads (x200s and x200) and it very evident
> > when I connected external speakers, they produced a lot of this noise,
> > or maybe I just could hear it better, because of the frequency response
> > of the speakers.
> >
> > Does anybody have some similar issues?
> >
> > My current audio setup:
> >
> >    * PulseAudio (but the problem is experienced with ALSA as well)
> >    * MPD for music playing
> >    * Conexant and other related modules compiled in, power-saving
> >      features enabled.
> >
> > What I have tried to eliminate the noise:
> >
> >    * Various levels of Master,PCM,Headphone channels via Alsamixer
> >    * Increase the sample rate in MPD settings.
> >
> > The noise can be clearly head when I Have the following setting on my
> > Alsamixer:
> >
> >    * Master ~50
> >    * PCM 100
> >    * Headphone 100
> >
> > Does anybody has any thoughts on why am I experiencing this?
>
> I have a strong expectation that part of what you're hearing is system
> electrical noise.
>
> What happens when you set:
>
> * Master -> 100
> * Headphone -> 100
> * Everything else -> 0
>
> ...but you're not playing anything? If you hear anything, then what
> you're hearing isn't something you can really deal with without using
> an external sound card. Any USB sound card would do fine. (A pair of
> 'gamer' headphones I bought at Best Buy advertised USB support...and
> it turns out they were packaged with a tiny USB<->3.5mm sound
> adapter.)
>
> If you don't hear the characteristic sound you're describing, then I'd
> expect you're encountering clipping. That's when the logical amplitude
> of a signal is greater than the medium holding it, and that happens a
> *lot* with integer PCM mixing and amplification.
>
> Unfortunately, there's little to no standardization as to what '0' and
> '100' mean between audio chipsets, so the best you can really do here
> is crank all of your sliders to maximum, and decrease some of them
> until you no longer hear the clipping. (And then remember which
> positions on the relevant sliders that corresponds to; it usually
> means you're getting no amplification, but also no attenuation.)
>
> --
> :wq
>
> Howdy,
>
> I could not resist this posting.
> As many of you know, I've been a
> real pain in the microprocessor lately....
> Particularly about Arm, A15 and Samsung.
>
> Well in keeping with that tradition, it seems
> Samsung TV's are now supporting SSH into them
> and directly and hacking the firmware:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/samygo/
>
>
> Samsung is also very progressive on the A-15
> Arm development boards, which are sure to
> create quite a stir when they are widely
> available (soon I've heard):
>
>
> http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/03/07/samsung-exynos-5250-dual-core-cortex-a15-and-gaia-smdk-development-board/#ixzz1p5yR3p7B
>
>
> Samsung Galaxy Nexus cell-phone that runs SEandroid, natively:
>
> http://selinuxproject.org/page/SEAndroid
>
> Samsung is also moving aggresively to support
> open source drivers for (ARM) graphics chips:
>
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Open-source-driver-for-ARM-s-Mali-graphics-appears-1432447.html
>
>
> ARM is preparing for domination and is looking rather cool these
> days and Samsung is surely one of the most appealing
> (ARM) vendors for the open source community.
>
>
> enjoy,
> James
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500
> >> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> For example:  Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters
> >>> on this list.
> >>
> >> Yo Dale,
> >>
> >> You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-)
> >>
> >> I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fifty bucks says
> >> Michael, Canek, Pandu and a couple more have all posted more than me
> >> this year
> >>
> >> [1] Well, that's my story and I'm sticking with it
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> >
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> >
> > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
> > Someone put alum in your water or something?
> >
> > ROFL
> >
> > Dale
> >
>
> Jeez.... Am I _STILL_ showing up on this list of high posting people?
> I've honestly worked to get below number 10 and I cannot get there
> apparently... (Too many posts like this I suppose!) ;-)
>
> - Mark
>
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500
> >>> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> For example:  Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters
> >>>> on this list.
> >>>
> >>> Yo Dale,
> >>>
> >>> You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-)
> >>>
> >>> I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fifty bucks says
> >>> Michael, Canek, Pandu and a couple more have all posted more than me
> >>> this year
> >>>
> >>> [1] Well, that's my story and I'm sticking with it
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> >>
> >> http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> >>
> >> I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
> >> Someone put alum in your water or something?
> >>
> >> ROFL
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >
> > Jeez.... Am I _STILL_ showing up on this list of high posting people?
> > I've honestly worked to get below number 10 and I cannot get there
> > apparently... (Too many posts like this I suppose!) ;-)
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> >
>
>
> I'm wondering on this myself.  Should I take more meds or are the meds
> causing it?   < scratches head >
>
> o_O
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
> --
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
> how you interpreted my words!
>
> Miss the compile output?  Hint:
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
>
> On 15/05/12 17:52, Michael Mol wrote:
> > I have a strong expectation that part of what you're hearing is system
> > electrical noise.
> >
> > What happens when you set:
> >
> > * Master -> 100
> > * Headphone -> 100
> > * Everything else -> 0
>
> If I do not play anything while PCM is at 0 and Master and Headphone are
> at 100, then I do not hear anything. But if I start 'playing' something
> while still with PCM at 0 (no sound can be heard), then I start hearing
> irregular clipping sound.
>
> Is that what you expected?
>
> If I decrease the sound to a level where I stop hearing clipping, then I
> can barely hear the music. Although the same headphones play on my
> player fine.
>
> And It's a shame, that I indeed hear clipping. Are there any ways to
> increase the sound volume without increasing the mixer setting in ALSA?
> Would a different sound card help? Is there any way I can solve the
> problem without buying new hardware?
>
> Thanks a lot for help,
> I.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Ignas Anikevicius
> <anikevicius@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On 15/05/12 17:52, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> I have a strong expectation that part of what you're hearing is system
> >> electrical noise.
> >>
> >> What happens when you set:
> >>
> >> * Master -> 100
> >> * Headphone -> 100
> >> * Everything else -> 0
> >
> > If I do not play anything while PCM is at 0 and Master and Headphone are
> > at 100, then I do not hear anything. But if I start 'playing' something
> > while still with PCM at 0 (no sound can be heard), then I start hearing
> > irregular clipping sound.
> >
> > Is that what you expected?
> >
> > If I decrease the sound to a level where I stop hearing clipping, then I
> > can barely hear the music. Although the same headphones play on my
> > player fine.
> >
> > And It's a shame, that I indeed hear clipping. Are there any ways to
> > increase the sound volume without increasing the mixer setting in ALSA?
>
> There are going to be multiple sliders which affect your playback
> volume. Without seeing a list of your sliders, I couldn't really guess
> which, beyond 'Master', 'PCM' and 'Headphone'. There may be others; my
> old Sound Blaster Live had a ton of internal signal processing
> sliders, and anything that involves amplification presents that risk.
>
> Each one of those will likely have a threshold where you'll risk
> clipping if you go above it. I.e. if PCM and Headphone are at 50, but
> Master is above $master_threshold, you may hear clipping. Likewise, if
> Master and Headphone are at 50, but PCM is above $pcm_threshold, you
> may hear clipping. Similarly, 'Headphone'...
>
> There is probably a combination of settings which works best, and
> sounds fine. The trouble, of course, is finding the maximum safe
> threshold for each.
>
> Me, I'm fortunate; my Intel-HDA-compatible cards all tend to say
> things like "-5dB" or "+20dB" when I'm using the console Alsamixer,
> and I've established that as long as they say "0dB", I get the best
> signal I can get.
>
> > Would a different sound card help?
>
> Sure; you could use a card with more post-mixer amplification. Or a
> card with little to no mixing options. Or an external amplifier.
>
> > Is there any way I can solve the
> > problem without buying new hardware?
>
> You might try using something like PulseAudio, which may be doing
> internal mixing in the floating point space before it maps back to
> 16-bit linear PCM. My experiences with PulseAudio have generally been
> positive in terms of audio quality. The trickiest part is getting
> applications to pipe their audio through it, followed by getting
> direct access to the card's mixer settings if I need it. But
> "pavucontrol" as a mixer control for PulseAudio works reasonably well
> for the majority of circumstances.
>
> >
> > Thanks a lot for help,
>
> np.
>
> (Note: I CC'd this back to the main list, because somehow this one got
> sent to me directly. Channeling communications through the main list
> keeps the archives useful.)
>
> --
> :wq
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Ignas Anikevicius
> <anikevicius@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It's been quite a while since I noticed this annoying behaviour, but I
> > could not find any information what might cause this. So the problem is
> > that at lower volumes my HD-Audio with Conexant becomes very noisy and
> > this is regardless of the sound system or speakers/headphones I use.
> >
> > The noise can be described, as high pitched, sandy texture noise
> > heard during more expressive parts of the music or speech.
> >
> > I experience this on two Thinkpads (x200s and x200) and it very evident
> > when I connected external speakers, they produced a lot of this noise,
> > or maybe I just could hear it better, because of the frequency response
> > of the speakers.
> >
> > Does anybody have some similar issues?
> >
> > My current audio setup:
> >
> >    * PulseAudio (but the problem is experienced with ALSA as well)
> >    * MPD for music playing
> >    * Conexant and other related modules compiled in, power-saving
> >      features enabled.
> >
> > What I have tried to eliminate the noise:
> >
> >    * Various levels of Master,PCM,Headphone channels via Alsamixer
> >    * Increase the sample rate in MPD settings.
> >
> > The noise can be clearly head when I Have the following setting on my
> > Alsamixer:
> >
> >    * Master ~50
> >    * PCM 100
> >    * Headphone 100
> >
> > Does anybody has any thoughts on why am I experiencing this?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Ignas A.
> >
>
> Hi Ignas,
>   I've never used pulse-audio so I cannot help with that, but with
> plain Alsa I had a similar (but not identical) problem recently. In my
> case the distorted sound was primarily from my microphone and not, as
> I remember it, from playback. Turned out it was a control I hadn't
> looked at before called 'Digital' which apparently mixes audio in the
> sound chip and for whatever reason was very dirty sounding on the mic
> side.
>
>   Note that my audio is not Conextent but rather something called
> SupremeFX X-Fi (Creative Labs maybe?) so your results will almost
> certainly vary. A little machine info is below.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark
>
> c2stable ~ # lspci | grep Audio
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD
> Audio Controller
> 02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation GF100 High Definition Audio
> Controller (rev a1)
> 04:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio
> Controller (rev a1)
> c2stable ~ #
>
> c2stable ~ # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> vmnet                  32295  15
> vmblock                 9667  0
> vsock                  35510  2
> vmci                   55922  2 vsock
> vmmon                  56524  5
> vboxnetadp              4720  0
> vboxnetflt             13187  0
> vboxdrv              1760740  3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
> nvidia              12297407 104
> snd_hda_codec_hdmi     22531  8
> snd_hda_codec_analog    80332  1
> sky2                   42693  0
> i2c_i801                7674  0
> snd_hda_intel          21907  17
> snd_hda_codec          73637  3
> snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
> snd_hwdep               5508  1 snd_hda_codec
> snd_pcm                74632  7
> snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
> snd_timer              18381  5 snd_pcm
> snd                    58592  33
>
> snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore               6750  1 snd
> snd_page_alloc          7340  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> agpgart                31204  1 nvidia
> c2stable ~ #
>
> On 15/05/12 20:08, Michael Mol wrote:
> > There are going to be multiple sliders which affect your playback
> > volume. Without seeing a list of your sliders, I couldn't really guess
> > which, beyond 'Master', 'PCM' and 'Headphone'. There may be others; my
> > old Sound Blaster Live had a ton of internal signal processing
> > sliders, and anything that involves amplification presents that risk.
>
> [...] (some useful stuff snipped :))
>
> At the moment all the other sliders are at 0. So I do not know, maybe
> some other sliders are doing this...
>
> Also, ALSA can show the levels in dBs for my card... but I get sand even
> when I'am at gain of ~ (-11,-14)dB on all three sliders (Master, PCM,
> Headphone).
>
> > You might try using something like PulseAudio, which may be doing
> > internal mixing in the floating point space before it maps back to
> > 16-bit linear PCM. My experiences with PulseAudio have generally been
> > positive in terms of audio quality. The trickiest part is getting
> > applications to pipe their audio through it, followed by getting
> > direct access to the card's mixer settings if I need it. But
> > "pavucontrol" as a mixer control for PulseAudio works reasonably well
> > for the majority of circumstances.
>
> I am using Pulse :)... The problem with I have that it changes my PCM
> and Headphone levels without asking me... Therefore, if I change the
> levels manually on alsamixer and then use Pavucontrol, it just changes
> the PCM and headphone or speaker levels to max, which makes the sound
> crappy. Otherwise I am quite a happy Pulse user. :)
>
> Is there a way to set the limiting thresholds? Or maybe I am using two
> things at the same (ALSA and Pulse) and they are clashing and,
> therefore, I can not get good quality sound?
>
> >> Thanks a lot for help,
> >
> > np.
> >
> > (Note: I CC'd this back to the main list, because somehow this one got
> > sent to me directly. Channeling communications through the main list
> > keeps the archives useful.)
>
> I thought, that I have replied to both, list and you.. :) Well, thanks
> for that. :)
>
> Cheers,
> I.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ignas Anikevicius
> <anikevicius@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On 15/05/12 20:08, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> There are going to be multiple sliders which affect your playback
> >> volume. Without seeing a list of your sliders, I couldn't really guess
> >> which, beyond 'Master', 'PCM' and 'Headphone'. There may be others; my
> >> old Sound Blaster Live had a ton of internal signal processing
> >> sliders, and anything that involves amplification presents that risk.
> >
> > [...] (some useful stuff snipped :))
> >
> > At the moment all the other sliders are at 0. So I do not know, maybe
> > some other sliders are doing this...
>
> Not if they're at their minimum settings. :-|
>
> >
> > Also, ALSA can show the levels in dBs for my card... but I get sand even
> > when I'am at gain of ~ (-11,-14)dB on all three sliders (Master, PCM,
> > Headphone).
> >
> >> You might try using something like PulseAudio, which may be doing
> >> internal mixing in the floating point space before it maps back to
> >> 16-bit linear PCM. My experiences with PulseAudio have generally been
> >> positive in terms of audio quality. The trickiest part is getting
> >> applications to pipe their audio through it, followed by getting
> >> direct access to the card's mixer settings if I need it. But
> >> "pavucontrol" as a mixer control for PulseAudio works reasonably well
> >> for the majority of circumstances.
> >
> > I am using Pulse :)... The problem with I have that it changes my PCM
> > and Headphone levels without asking me... Therefore, if I change the
> > levels manually on alsamixer and then use Pavucontrol, it just changes
> > the PCM and headphone or speaker levels to max, which makes the sound
> > crappy. Otherwise I am quite a happy Pulse user. :)
>
> Run alsamixer in a terminal while playing with pavucontrol; you'll see
> Alsamixer update live while Pulse tweaks ALSA's mixer settings. It's
> useful if you want to get a feel for what exactly Pulse is doing.
>
> On my desktop system, I found that if I had the Pulse master volume
> control set to about 70%, Pulse would have my various sliders set to
> just about their maximum setting before I started getting clipping
> noises.
> >
> > Is there a way to set the limiting thresholds?
>
> No; the limiting thresholds I was describing are some value that just
> happens to be what it is because of the way your sound card mixes
> audio together.
>
> > Or maybe I am using two
> > things at the same (ALSA and Pulse) and they are clashing and,
> > therefore, I can not get good quality sound?
>
> Pulse is usually OK at managing ALSA in the background; you just have
> to do all your volume tweaking through pavucontrol if you intend for
> things to not change on you.
>
> [snip]
>
> >> (Note: I CC'd this back to the main list, because somehow this one got
> >> sent to me directly. Channeling communications through the main list
> >> keeps the archives useful.)
> >
> > I thought, that I have replied to both, list and you.. :) Well, thanks
> > for that. :)
>
> Might have been a quirk in my GMail interface, now that I look at it.
> Your earlier email looks fine. Something about the list's distribution
> pattern changed, so simply clicking "Reply" doesn't work; I now have
> to click "Reply All".
>
> Anyway, I'd try taking others' suggestions, too, and possibly poking
> whatever PulseAudio support groups exist. They'll be interested in
> your circumstance. If it's possible to use Pulse reasonably on your
> hardware, they'll want to figure out how to make that less difficult
> to do.
>
> Also, Mark noted that there were sliders he hadn't tweaked before when
> he was experiencing similar issues, and it's plausible Pulse isn't
> poking those at all. Try watching alsamixer to see what Pulse is up
> to, and see if Pulse is passing over some of those sliders.
>
> --
> :wq
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 16:57:26 +0100
> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > On 15 May 2012 15:45, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:50:43 +0100
> > > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> $ ssh -D localhost:12465 root@10.10.10.12
> > >
> > > This part is fine.
> > >
> > > I tried the next part. It didn't work nicely for me.
> >
> > Ah, thanks for this!  It's reassuring to know that it's not just my
> > system.  :-)
> >
> >
> > > So what I do now is:
> > >
> > > Firefox + FoxyProxy
> >
> > Firefox is less of a problem for me because I can set it up to
> > socksify everything.  It is Kmail that I am mostly interested in.
> >
> >
> > > I see recent KDE now also supports socks. This is a nice new
> > > addition so konqueror can also use it.
> >
> > Yes, but it does not work with the current stable kmail.  The new
> > KDEPIM is such a nightmare I do not plan moving to it anytime soon.
> > It screwed up one box that I tried it on and that's enough for me.
> > :-(
> >
> > Did you have any success with proxychains?
> >
> > I am not sure if the problem is related to the tsocks LD_PRELOAD
> > error.
>
> It almost certainly is, tsocks uses LD_PRELOAD to mangle it's magic so
> that stuff works. I believe chromium has severe issues with tsocks
> because of how it does it's sandboxing, but I honestly don't know how
> to get around that.
>
> On a properly setup Gentoo amd64 system, /lib is a link to /lib64, so
> the error you get is not a path error, the chromium binary really
> cannot (or will not) deal with tsocks.so
>
> I don't see anything wrong with the rest of your config. I honestly
> think you are dealing with a chromium feature not a chromium bug.
>
> Have you searched chromium-specific sites to see what others have to
> say?
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > I also noticed that when I try to set up a proxy server in Chromium
> > using the 'under the bonnet' tab, I get this:
> >
> > "When running Chromium under a supported desktop environment, the
> > system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is not
> > supported or there was a problem while launching your system
> > configuration.
> >
> > But you can still configure via the command line. Please see man
> > chromium-browser for more information on flags and environment
> > variables."
> >
> > Trying the command line did not fix it:
> >
> > [4742:4753:1575546819:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call
> > method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
> >
> > That's what made me think that something on my system is not set up
> > properly.  :-/
> >
> >
> > These are the libtsocks.so files in my system:
> >
> > # ls -la /lib*/libtsocks.so
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so ->
> > libtsocks.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 May 13
> > 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so -> libtsocks.so.1
> >
> > # ls -la /lib/libtsocks.so*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so ->
> > libtsocks.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 May 13
> > 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so.1 -> libtsocks.so.1.8
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42912 May 13 15:34 /lib/libtsocks.so.1.8
> >
> > # ls -la /lib64/libtsocks.so*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so ->
> > libtsocks.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 May 13
> > 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so.1 -> libtsocks.so.1.8
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42912 May 13 15:34 /lib64/libtsocks.so.1.8
> >
> > I can't see why it would not load it, unless it should be trying to
> > load the '/lib64/libtsocks.so' instead of the '/lib/libtsocks.so' on
> > an amd64 system?  Shall I file a bug?
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnnon
> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:01:00 -0700
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> > >
> > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> > >
> > > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit
> > > tho. Someone put alum in your water or something?
> > >
> > > ROFL
> > >
> > > Dale
> > >
> >
> > Jeez.... Am I _STILL_ showing up on this list of high posting people?
> > I've honestly worked to get below number 10 and I cannot get there
> > apparently... (Too many posts like this I suppose!) ;-)
>
> This gentoo stuff is addictive :-)
>
> Must be the personalities around here. I reckon that anyone who sticks
> around here and becomes a regular (regardless of their skill level) has
> something special going on inside.
>
> Gentoo-ers all have that DIY attitude, as if they would rather not wait
> around for someone else to do all their lifting for them.
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnnon
> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>
>
> Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes:
>
> > On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote:
> >> Stroller writes:
> >>
> >>> I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide.
> >>>
> >>> This has never failed me.
> >>
> >> For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to
> >> strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution:
> >> unset path.
> >>
> >> Libtool uses this variable without unsetting it before, and
> SystemRescueCD
> >> defines it as environment variable, which is still available in the
> >> chroot. This messed things up a lot.
> [...]
> > Did you do env-update && . /etc/profile after entering chroot?
> > I always thought that setting the right environment variables was the
> > purpose of that.
>
> Sure. But this only _sets_ some environment variables - it does not
> unset any other variables you already have defined.
>
> The error is in libtool - it uses a variable without unsetting it first.
>
>        Wonko
>
> On Tuesday 15 May 2012 22:08:17 you wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 May 2012 16:57:26 +0100
> > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am not sure if the problem is related to the tsocks LD_PRELOAD
> > > error.
> >
> > It almost certainly is, tsocks uses LD_PRELOAD to mangle it's magic so
> > that stuff works. I believe chromium has severe issues with tsocks
> > because of how it does it's sandboxing, but I honestly don't know how
> > to get around that.
> >
> > On a properly setup Gentoo amd64 system, /lib is a link to /lib64, so
> > the error you get is not a path error, the chromium binary really
> > cannot (or will not) deal with tsocks.so
> >
> > I don't see anything wrong with the rest of your config. I honestly
> > think you are dealing with a chromium feature not a chromium bug.
> >
> > Have you searched chromium-specific sites to see what others have to
> > say?
>
> I haven't yet, because it is not just Chromium that's not working as it is
> supposed to (although it is the most vocal app on the terminal when called
> with tsocks).  I haven't yet found an app which will work with tsocks at
> all.
>
> The fact that proxychains does not work at all (applications completely
> ignore
> it and run outside the tunnel) made me question the sanity of my set up.
>  Is
> there anything other than coincidence that would cause both apps to fail?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
> On Tuesday 15 May 2012 18:25:57 john wrote:
>
> > Would like to thank all guys and girls for posting. Even though I
> > post very little myself your posts are always excellent and there is
> > plenty to learn from just reading them.
> >
> > There are things I can do now which I never thought possible. Thanks
>
> Is this one case in which a me-too message is acceptable? Anyway, I
> second John's gratitude to you all.
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:50:33 -0400
> Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
>
> > I tried Hugin, but got nowhere.  I set  6  points on each
> > picture, which are  2  overlapping parts of a single
> > original negative, but all it offered was a black screen;
> > I did follow the on-line help.
> >
> > Then I tried Imagemagick & got a good result after a bit
> > of fussing. The commands I used were
> >
> >   convert -size 1000x760 canvas:black brum-canvas.jpg
> >   composite -geometry +0+0 brum-3070.jpg brum-canvas.jpg
> > brum-1.jpg composite -geometry +220-8 brum-3068.jpg
> > brum-1.jpg brum-2.jpg
> >
> > You can see the images at
> > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ : they are of
> > trams in Colmore Row, Birmingham in May 1953 .
> >
> > I still need to light/darken  1  image a bit to hide the
> > join, but as a proof of concept this shows it's feasible
> > with Imagemagick.
> >
> > Any further advice re Hugin is welcome: can anyone do it
> > with these photos ?
> >
>
> I just tried with fotoxx: This is a semi-manual process, but
> I liked the resulting image. The joint is less visible
> than on brum-2.jpg. It was easy to do an "unbend" after
> merging, and therefore the clock and the face on the image
> borders stay in the image. This was my first try to do a
> panorama in fotoxx, and it took me less than 5 minutes,
> much faster than with hugin. If you like I send you the
> image to your private mail.
>
> Urs
>
> 120515 Urs Schutz wrote:
> > I just tried with fotoxx.
>
> I hadn't heard of that one : there are so many pkgs in  media/gfx
> that it's difficult to be sure I've checked all photo editors.
>
> > This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image.
>
> It c~b any more manual than Imagemagick (smile).
>
> > The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg.
>
> That wb useful : no doubt, I could adjust one of them with Imagemagick,
> but eventually there wb  >= 100  similar merges to do,
> so some degree of automation wb very helpful.
>
> > It was easy to do an "unbend" after merging
> > and therefore the clock and the face on the image borders stay in the
> image.
>
> Not a problem with Imagemagick.
>
> > This was my first try to do a panorama in fotoxx
> > and it took me less than 5 minutes, much faster than with hugin.
> > If you like I send you the image to your private mail.
>
> Please do & thanks for this info.
>
> Does anyone else have suggestions re pkgs or methods ?
> -- it does look as if this rather simple task is fairly challenging,
> so others may benefit if it's on record here.
>
> I have emerged Gimp & will look at what it can do soon :
> it has 'layers', which look like what is needed.
>
> --
> ========================,,============================================
> SUPPORT     ___________//___,   Philip Webb
> ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|   Cities Centre, University of Toronto
> TRANSIT    `-O----------O---'   purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
>
>
>
> On May 15, 2012 7:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> >
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> >
> > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
> > Someone put alum in your water or something?
> >
>
> I blabbed that much??
>
> Gee... I purposefully stay away from piping up in threads related to CUPS,
> KDE, Gnome, and other desktop-only stuff, and still end up in the top 5??
> o_O
>
> Rgds,
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm
> following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
> which seems easy enough. Basically just emerge it, install and go.
>
> However... two different questions:
>
> When I did this from a chroot, I just got the GRUB> prompt upon
> rebooting... no menu or anything. I can manually type "linux
> /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3" and then boot into my system. When I run
> grub2-mkconfig from within the chroot, I don't get any "Found linux
> image" lines. It does not create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but rather
> grub.cfg.new. So I don't know if it's confused about where /boot is or
> what. Is there a trick to installing/updating grub2 config from within
> a chroot?
>
> Second, when running grub2-mkconfig from within my working gentoo
> system, it fails with "error: failed to get canonical path of
> /dev/root." which is apparently because I don't use an initramfs. I
> must manually run "ln -s /dev/sda3 /dev/boot" before it will work. Is
> there any trick to avoid having to do that every time? For now I have
> simply added that to my after-kernel-update script but I'm curious to
> know if grub2 knows how to handle this on its own somehow.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
> On 15 May 2012 19:37, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm
> > following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
> > which seems easy enough. Basically just emerge it, install and go.
> >
> > However... two different questions:
> >
> > When I did this from a chroot, I just got the GRUB> prompt upon
> > rebooting... no menu or anything. I can manually type "linux
> > /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3" and then boot into my system. When I run
> > grub2-mkconfig from within the chroot, I don't get any "Found linux
> > image" lines. It does not create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but rather
> > grub.cfg.new. So I don't know if it's confused about where /boot is or
> > what. Is there a trick to installing/updating grub2 config from within
> > a chroot?
>
> I don't really understand where the chroot comes into this but ... did
> you add the "-o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" part? I forgot that bit a few
> times and then couldn't figure out why my changes weren't taking
> effect. :-)
>
> > Second, when running grub2-mkconfig from within my working gentoo
> > system, it fails with "error: failed to get canonical path of
> > /dev/root." which is apparently because I don't use an initramfs. I
> > must manually run "ln -s /dev/sda3 /dev/boot" before it will work. Is
> > there any trick to avoid having to do that every time? For now I have
> > simply added that to my after-kernel-update script but I'm curious to
> > know if grub2 knows how to handle this on its own somehow.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> >
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Hilco Wijbenga
> <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On 15 May 2012 19:37, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm
> >> following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
> >> which seems easy enough. Basically just emerge it, install and go.
> >>
> >> However... two different questions:
> >>
> >> When I did this from a chroot, I just got the GRUB> prompt upon
> >> rebooting... no menu or anything. I can manually type "linux
> >> /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3" and then boot into my system. When I run
> >> grub2-mkconfig from within the chroot, I don't get any "Found linux
> >> image" lines. It does not create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but rather
> >> grub.cfg.new. So I don't know if it's confused about where /boot is or
> >> what. Is there a trick to installing/updating grub2 config from within
> >> a chroot?
> >
> > I don't really understand where the chroot comes into this but ... did
> > you add the "-o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" part? I forgot that bit a few
> > times and then couldn't figure out why my changes weren't taking
> > effect. :-)
>
> Hehe, yeah, I used that command. I'm installing it from chroot for the
> first time because gentoo's bootloader was not yet present on the
> machine (only Windows7).
>
> 120515 Philip Webb wrote:
> > 120515 Urs Schutz wrote:
> >> I just tried with fotoxx.
> >> This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the resulting image.
>
> I've installed Fotoxx & it does a very good job !
>
> >> The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg.
>
> There's no sign of it on my version :
>  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/brum-3.jpg
>
> >> It was easy to do an "unbend" after merging
> >> and therefore the clock and the face on the image borders stay in the
> image.
>
> They're on my image, but I can't find out how to turn it into a rectangle.
> NB there are noticeable curves at the R-hand edge not in the original:
> look at the sidewalk curve & at the building pediment.
> Any suggestions ? -- otherwise, this looks like the tool to use.
>
> --
> ========================,,============================================
> SUPPORT     ___________//___,   Philip Webb
> ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|   Cities Centre, University of Toronto
> TRANSIT    `-O----------O---'   purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
>
>
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> On 16.05.2012 04:37, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm
> > following the guide at:
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start which seems easy
> > enough. Basically just emerge it, install and go.
> >
> > However... two different questions:
> >
> > When I did this from a chroot, I just got the GRUB> prompt upon
> > rebooting... no menu or anything. I can manually type "linux
> > /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3" and then boot into my system. When I
> > run grub2-mkconfig from within the chroot, I don't get any "Found
> > linux image" lines. It does not create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but
> > rather grub.cfg.new. So I don't know if it's confused about where
> > /boot is or what. Is there a trick to installing/updating grub2
> > config from within a chroot?
> >
> > Second, when running grub2-mkconfig from within my working gentoo
> > system, it fails with "error: failed to get canonical path of
> > /dev/root." which is apparently because I don't use an initramfs.
> > I must manually run "ln -s /dev/sda3 /dev/boot" before it will
> > work. Is there any trick to avoid having to do that every time? For
> > now I have simply added that to my after-kernel-update script but
> > I'm curious to know if grub2 knows how to handle this on its own
> > somehow.
> >
> > Thanks, Paul
> >
>
> If I recall correctly you need to mount /sys for grub2 to sucessfully
> detect devices.
> mount -o bind /sys <path-to-gentoo/sys should suffice.
> proc and dev should be mounted according to the manual.
>
> If you use a /boot- partition mount it, when you are inside the chroot.
> Doing so it worked like a charm for all devices I installed that way
> (3 in the last 3 months, if I recall correctly).
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Hinnerk
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> Hello everybody,
>
> I was wondering if the following is possible:
>    - Add a lot of daemons to a newly created runlevel post-default
>    - Switch to it after the xdm is started (or after some time)
>
> I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial
> services are being started (e.g. fcron, bitlbee, ntpd to name a few).
> Maybe it is possible to somehow prioritize the initscripts?
>
> Another related question is that I come from Arch and there I could just
> give the *order* of the daemons/initscripts to start and some of them
> could be started and 'in background'. Is it possible to do that with
> openrc? I saw the rc_parallel option in rc.conf, but I do not know,
> whether I need anything else.
>
> Thanks for help,
> Ignas A.
>
> On 15 May 2012 23:19, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 May 2012 22:08:17 you wrote:
>
> >> I don't see anything wrong with the rest of your config. I honestly
> >> think you are dealing with a chromium feature not a chromium bug.
> >>
> >> Have you searched chromium-specific sites to see what others have to
> >> say?
> >
> > I haven't yet, because it is not just Chromium that's not working as it
> is
> > supposed to (although it is the most vocal app on the terminal when
> called
> > with tsocks).  I haven't yet found an app which will work with tsocks at
> all.
>
> OK, I just noticed that launching chromium from a terminal brings up
> this error, so it is not tsocks specific:
>
> $ chromium
> [4163:4174:213397467:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call
> method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
>
>
> > The fact that proxychains does not work at all (applications completely
> ignore
> > it and run outside the tunnel) made me question the sanity of my set up.
>  Is
> > there anything other than coincidence that would cause both apps to fail?
>
> Yep, it is a coincidence it seems:
>
>  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408427
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius
> <anikevicius@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I was wondering if the following is possible:
> >    - Add a lot of daemons to a newly created runlevel post-default
> >    - Switch to it after the xdm is started (or after some time)
> >
> > I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial
> > services are being started (e.g. fcron, bitlbee, ntpd to name a few).
> > Maybe it is possible to somehow prioritize the initscripts?
> >
> > Another related question is that I come from Arch and there I could just
> > give the *order* of the daemons/initscripts to start and some of them
> > could be started and 'in background'. Is it possible to do that with
> > openrc? I saw the rc_parallel option in rc.conf, but I do not know,
> > whether I need anything else.
>
> Be aware that the rc_parallel option has never been really supported,
> and it actually doesn't appear in the /etc/rc.conf of the one machine
> I have access to that still uses OpenRC.
>
> You may want to try systemd, it sounds like it does (out of the box)
> exactly what you want to.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>
> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius
> > <anikevicius@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> I was wondering if the following is possible:
> >>    - Add a lot of daemons to a newly created runlevel post-default
> >>    - Switch to it after the xdm is started (or after some time)
> >>
> >> I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial
> >> services are being started (e.g. fcron, bitlbee, ntpd to name a few).
> >> Maybe it is possible to somehow prioritize the initscripts?
> >>
> >> Another related question is that I come from Arch and there I could just
> >> give the *order* of the daemons/initscripts to start and some of them
> >> could be started and 'in background'. Is it possible to do that with
> >> openrc? I saw the rc_parallel option in rc.conf, but I do not know,
> >> whether I need anything else.
> >
> > Be aware that the rc_parallel option has never been really supported,
> > and it actually doesn't appear in the /etc/rc.conf of the one machine
> > I have access to that still uses OpenRC.
> >
> > You may want to try systemd, it sounds like it does (out of the box)
> > exactly what you want to.
> >
> > Regards.
>
>
> Just to add for the OP, this was discussed on -dev and it was removed,
> although you can still try it if you want, a good while back because it
> was causing problems.  I don't know anything much about systemsd but
> according to the devs, you shouldn't use the parallel option with openRC
> unless you want to keep up with the problems.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
> --
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
> how you interpreted my words!
>
> Miss the compile output?  Hint:
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
>
> On 05/16/2012 01:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote:
>
> > I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial
> > services are being started
>
> I can barely remember when I was young enough to care about saving
> a few seconds.  (But, good for you :)
>
> Have you heard of systemd?  Yet another evil conspiracy spawned by
> Lennart Poettering, father of pulseaudio and scourge of old fossils
> (like many of us here) who avoid any form of progress.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd
>
> My evil twin, Walter Dnes, has been agitating for systemd in this
> mailing list for months.  He actually knows how systemd works and
> can be persuaded to... well, I expect he'll be along shortly to
> tell you about it.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I do need the ruby-gem linecache19-0.5.12. Usually, there are two ways to
> install a gem, right? Via emerge and via gem install. But here, only one
> way works. dev-ruby/linecache only builds the
> ruby18-version
> of
> this gem, so I'm stuck with gem install. But gem install fails with the
> following error:
>
> trace_nums.c:(.text+0x22): undefined reference to `ruby_current_thread'
>
>
> I am using ruby-1.9.3p194, but tried with different versions as well.
>
> Does anyone have a clue what I can do to solve the problem and get
> linecache19-0.5.12 installed?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Christian.
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 09:40:26 +0100, Ignas Anikevicius wrote:
>
> > I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial
> > services are being started (e.g. fcron, bitlbee, ntpd to name a few).
> > Maybe it is possible to somehow prioritize the initscripts?
>
> Yes it is. The initscripts themselves have such a mechanism, using the
> before and after statements, for example making sure that network
> services are started after the network is brought up. You can add your
> own rules to the daemons' config files in /etc/conf.d or to /etc/rc.conf.
>
> To have bitlbee start after xdm either add
>
> rc_after="xdm"
>
> to /etc/conf.d/bitlbee or put
>
> rc_bitlbee_after="xdm"
>
> in /etc/rc.conf. Both have the same effect, it depends on whether you
> want to put all these settings together or in the individual services'
> config files.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Tact is for people who don't understand sarcasm.
>
> On 16/05/12 14:15, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 May 2012 09:40:26 +0100, Ignas Anikevicius wrote:
> >
> >> I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial
> >> services are being started (e.g. fcron, bitlbee, ntpd to name a few).
> >> Maybe it is possible to somehow prioritize the initscripts?
> >
> > Yes it is. The initscripts themselves have such a mechanism, using the
> > before and after statements, for example making sure that network
> > services are started after the network is brought up. You can add your
> > own rules to the daemons' config files in /etc/conf.d or to /etc/rc.conf.
> >
> > To have bitlbee start after xdm either add
> >
> > rc_after="xdm"
> >
> > to /etc/conf.d/bitlbee or put
> >
> > rc_bitlbee_after="xdm"
> >
> > in /etc/rc.conf. Both have the same effect, it depends on whether you
> > want to put all these settings together or in the individual services'
> > config files.
> >
>
> Thanks for the tip!, I will use this to see how much difference do I
> get. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Ignas
>
> On 16/05/12 13:13, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius
> > <anikevicius@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> I was wondering if the following is possible:
> >>    - Add a lot of daemons to a newly created runlevel post-default
> >>    - Switch to it after the xdm is started (or after some time)
> >>
> >> I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial
> >> services are being started (e.g. fcron, bitlbee, ntpd to name a few).
> >> Maybe it is possible to somehow prioritize the initscripts?
> >>
> >> Another related question is that I come from Arch and there I could just
> >> give the *order* of the daemons/initscripts to start and some of them
> >> could be started and 'in background'. Is it possible to do that with
> >> openrc? I saw the rc_parallel option in rc.conf, but I do not know,
> >> whether I need anything else.
> >
> > Be aware that the rc_parallel option has never been really supported,
> > and it actually doesn't appear in the /etc/rc.conf of the one machine
> > I have access to that still uses OpenRC.
> >
> > You may want to try systemd, it sounds like it does (out of the box)
> > exactly what you want to.
> >
> > Regards.
>
> I did know, that this was removed. If I experience problems I'll remove
> the option, but maybe I'll remove it all together.
>
> I have systemd installed as I wanted to try, but I do not like the way
> everything is managed. I like the idea of simple bash initscripts, which
> can be easily extended if needed. I can also write bash scripts, which
> configure my system the way I want (i.e. set battery charging thresholds
> or something similar).
>
> I do not care for a split second advantage, but I just do not see a lot
> of point in waiting for bitlbee to start before xdm so that I might need
> maybe a while after I boot into my computer.
>
> Thanks for suggestions to everybody.
>
> Cheers,
> Ignas
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have changed by use flag for ffmpeg to include theora. When i try
> emerge I get the following
>
> [blocks B      ] media-video/ffmpeg ("media-video/ffmpeg" is blocking
> media-video/libav-0.8.2)
>
>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>  * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
>  (media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>  pulled in by media-video/ffmpeg required by @selected
>
>  (media-video/libav-0.8.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
>  in by
>
>  >=media-video/libav-0.8.1[X,encode,-jpeg2k,-mp3,-sdl,-theora,-threads,-truetype,-vaapi,-vdpau,-x264]
>  required by (virtual/ffmpeg-0.10.2-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
>  merge)
>
>
> This happens for several use flags (mp3 aac)
>
>
> Does this mean that ffmpeg no longer supports mp3 x264 theora etc?
>
> And if I need to codecise an mp3 I cannot use ffmpeg?
>
> Or have I lost the plot?
> --
> John D Maunder
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 22:29:11 +0000
> john <jdm@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have changed by use flag for ffmpeg to include theora. When i try
> > emerge I get the following
> >
> > [blocks B      ] media-video/ffmpeg ("media-video/ffmpeg" is blocking
> > media-video/libav-0.8.2)
> >
> >  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> >  * installed at the same time on the same system.
> >
> >   (media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> >   pulled in by media-video/ffmpeg required by @selected
> >
> >   (media-video/libav-0.8.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
> >   in by
> >
> >=media-video/libav-0.8.1[X,encode,-jpeg2k,-mp3,-sdl,-theora,-threads,-truetype,-vaapi,-vdpau,-x264]
> >   required by (virtual/ffmpeg-0.10.2-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
> >   merge)
> >
> >
> > This happens for several use flags (mp3 aac)
> >
> >
> > Does this mean that ffmpeg no longer supports mp3 x264 theora etc?
>
> No, it means that ffmpeg and libav provide the same functionalityand
> thus cannot both be installed on the same machine at the same time,
> you need to pick one (libav is actually a fork of ffmpeg). See here:
>
>
> http://blogs.gentoo.org/scarabeus/2012/05/14/media-videolibav-stable-on-most-important-archs/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
>
>
> >
> > And if I need to codecise an mp3 I cannot use ffmpeg?
> >
> > Or have I lost the plot?
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnnon
> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>
>
> Hi, Gentoo!
>
> Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of
> <up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop.  This is
> regardless of which application is currently active.  This is
> particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll the
> screen.
>
> I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to the ?event
> library (I can't remember exactly what this was).
>
> I hate it when people do "clever" things like this.  How can I make it
> stop?
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
> > Hi, Gentoo!
> >
> > Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of
> > <up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop.  This is
> > regardless of which application is currently active.  This is
> > particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll the
> > screen.
> >
> > I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to the ?event
> > library (I can't remember exactly what this was).
> >
> > I hate it when people do "clever" things like this.  How can I make it
> > stop?
>
> I would downgrade to previous version of the evdev driver and see if
> it helps. Or disable/change the shortcut for print screen as a
> temporary workaround.
>
> On 05/16/2012 03:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hi, Gentoo!
> >
> > Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of
> > <up> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop.  This is
> > regardless of which application is currently active.  This is
> > particularly irritating in Firefox, where I want <up> to scroll the
> > screen.
> >
> > I suspect this might have been caused by a recent update to the ?event
> > library (I can't remember exactly what this was).
> >
> > I hate it when people do "clever" things like this.  How can I make it
> > stop?
>
> You did me a huge favor by asking that question, thanks!  While poking
> around in the keyboard settings applet I discovered a well-hidden option
> to disable the Caps-Lock key.  I hit that stupid thing by accident at
> least ten times/hour and say very vulgar things when it happens ;)
>
> The keyboard-shortcuts applet does have an option to change the screenshot
> hotkey, so maybe something changed it behind your back?
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 00:12:25 -0400
> Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
>
> > 120515 Philip Webb wrote:
> > > 120515 Urs Schutz wrote:
> > >> I just tried with fotoxx.
> > >> This is a semi-manual process, but I liked the
> > >> resulting image.
> >
> > I've installed Fotoxx & it does a very good job !
> >
> > >> The joint is less visible than on brum-2.jpg.
> >
> > There's no sign of it on my version :
> >   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/brum-3.jpg
> >
> > >> It was easy to do an "unbend" after merging
> > >> and therefore the clock and the face on the image
> > >> borders stay in the image.
> >
> > They're on my image, but I can't find out how to turn it
> > into a rectangle. NB there are noticeable curves at the
> > R-hand edge not in the original: look at the sidewalk
> > curve & at the building pediment. Any suggestions ? --
> > otherwise, this looks like the tool to use.
> >
>
> Transform -> Unbend Image
> Play with the vertical values, this is very easy, fast and
> intuitive. With brum-3.jpg the best combination was:
> vertical linear 5, vertical curved -16, Done
> and after that
> Transform -> Trim Image or even easier
> Transform -> Auto-Trim Image to get rid of the black areas.
>
> In the case of brum-3.jpg apply a little bit of
> Retouch -> Gamma Curves, (bend the left part of the curve
> a little bit to the bottom, and the right part to the top)
> to enhance the image contrast.
> Normally the image looses a little bit of sharpness during
> the panorama stitching. You can correct this with:
> Retouch -> Sharpen Image.
>
> But: If you would like to make an exhibit, then you get
> better image quality if you bring the negatives to an old
> fashioned photographer for direct enlargement on B&W photo
> paper.
>
> Urs
>
> On 05/16/2012 07:08 PM, walt wrote:
>
>> You did me a huge favor by asking that question, thanks! While poking
>> around in the keyboard settings applet I discovered a well-hidden option to
>> disable the Caps-Lock key. I hit that stupid thing by accident at least ten
>> times/hour and say very vulgar things when it happens ;) The
>> keyboard-shortcuts applet does have an option to change the screenshot
>> hotkey, so maybe something changed it behind your back?
>>
> Could you amplify a little bit and reveal exactly what applet you used and
> where the little option is located?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> G.Wolfe Woodbury
> aka redwolfe
>
>
>