[gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread

2016-10-22 Thread Grant Edwards
For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet). Acroread is only avail

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

2016-10-22 Thread Behrouz Khosravi
Try 'opengl', 'opengl-old'... But 'xv' should be just as good. Maybe there's some filter (deblocking/deringing/denoise) active with one but not with 'xv'. And I've IIRC used plain 'x11' (or was it 'xv'?) for a very long time. Try benchmarking yourself a bit, after you've found a setting where

[gentoo-user] Re: konqueror being used when I want dolphin

2016-10-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:23:33 -0500 schrieb »Q« : > When I use amarok to open a file manager, konqueror is called instead > of dolphin. In KDE5's System Settings, dolphin is set as the default > file manager, as it was once upon a time in KDE4's System Settings. > > I expect (and of course ICBW)

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-22 Thread Nils Freydank
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 13:39:54 CEST wrote Rich Freeman: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > [...] > > So, if you're staying in the same kernel series (4.4) you should just > be able to run make oldconfig and that's it. You can take a look but > I'd be shocked if you're eithe

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 4:04 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, October 21, 2016 11:04:19 AM Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Mick wrote: >> > https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails >> > >> > Are we patched? I'm running 4.4.21-gentoo >>

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

2016-10-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Behrouz Khosravi wrote: >> $ mplayer foo.mp4 | grep '^VO: ' >> VO: [gl] ... >> $ mpv foo.mp4 | grep '^VO: ' >> VO: [opengl] >> >> See 'mplayer -vo help' and 'mpv -vo help'. > >Thanks. It seems that mplayer is using "xv" and mpv uses "opengl-hq". mpv >work ok with "xv"

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, October 21, 2016 11:04:19 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Mick wrote: > > https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails > > > > Are we patched? I'm running 4.4.21-gentoo > > Not yet: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59762