Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 05:33 AM, Grant wrote: >>> I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a >>> while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm >>> trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has >>> actually come a long way since the last time I tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
You have dual core so 60% means: 50% (full one core) is for decoding, and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. You can't play the video correctly because your "decoder" is not multithreaded and uses just the one CPU at its fullest. Try using multithreaded version of mplayer "mplayer-mt" (in

Re: [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
Right click on a pdf file, select properties -> open with -> and select evince instead of acroread. That it the way to easily change default applications for gnome. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch < jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I've discovered balsa , a great m

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 12:35 PM, App Deb wrote: > You have dual core so 60% means: > > 50% (full one core) is for decoding, > > and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. Oh - didn't think about this - yes... you could be seeing the wrong thing in "top". If you have more than 1 CPU/Core you should push

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working

2010-07-07 Thread Jake Moe
On 07/07/10 15:50, Mick wrote: > On Monday 05 July 2010 23:46:54 Jake Moe wrote: > >> I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB >> working properly. I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified >> GRUB's menu.lst to use the framebuffer. However, even though ther

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working

2010-07-07 Thread Mick
On 7 July 2010 12:50, Jake Moe wrote: > On 07/07/10 15:50, Mick wrote: >> On Monday 05 July 2010 23:46:54 Jake Moe wrote: >> >>> I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB >>> working properly.  I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified >>> GRUB's menu.lst to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Mick
On 7 July 2010 12:27, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Use "htop" to see threads. As far as I know "top" won't show those. So > you can't check if your multi-threaded mplayer is really using more than > 1 thread/process. What do you get when you press upper case 'H' in top? -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working

2010-07-07 Thread Andy Wilkinson
On 07/05/10 15:46, Jake Moe wrote: > I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB > working properly. I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified > GRUB's menu.lst to use the framebuffer. However, even though there > doesn't seem to be any errors, I can't seem to get

Re: [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/07/10 12:45:05, App Deb wrote: > Right click on a pdf file, select properties -> open with -> and > select > evince instead of acroread. > > That it the way to easily change default applications for gnome. Unfortunately, not for me (Gnome 2.30) Before and after the above procedure I have g

Re: [gentoo-user] installing app-emulation/wine-1.1.44

2010-07-07 Thread Rod Hurford
Petri, a nudge in the right direction, many thanks. My thoughts had drifted towards the emul-linux-x86-* libraries being out of date and some of the discussion comments in the bug report you linked confirmed that it was most likely them. (I hadn't considerd them until now because I had thought I h

[gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread alain . didierjean
I log in thru kdm. As I'm french, I have an azerty keyboard. By default, kdm use a qwerty keymap. That's a problem when it comes to entering passwords. How do I get kdm launched with an azerty keymap ? (nothing relevant found in kdmrc).

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:56:17 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > I log in thru kdm. As I'm french, I have an azerty keyboard. By > default, kdm use a qwerty keymap. That's a problem when it comes to > entering passwords. How do I get kdm launched with an azerty keymap ? > (nothing relevant fo

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Neil Bothwick : > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:56:17 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > > I log in thru kdm. As I'm french, I have an azerty keyboard. By > > default, kdm use a qwerty keymap. That's a problem when it comes to > > entering passwords. How do I get kdm launched with an azerty

Re: [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
This is installed from wine applications, and yes unfortunately they can create a mess (like making the wine "notepad" the default text editor). You need to delete those mime applications that wine creates under your home folder. Try something like: rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine or

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:23:13 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > Set in in xorg.conf. there's a thread on the forums that deals with > > this using HAL fdi files, but those are not deprecated for Xorg. Whoops, don't know how that "not" crept in, HAL is deprecated for Xorg. > > http://foru

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

2010-07-07 Thread App Deb
Do you want to use libvirt with virtualbox? If not (say you want to use it with kvm or something else) try emerging libvirt without the virtualbox flag using package.use . Else try emerging virtualbox-ose or virtualbox-bin befire libvirt. But this is probably a bug? libvirt should have virtualbox

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le mercredi 07 juillet 2010 17:58:15, Neil Bothwick a écrit : > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:23:13 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > > Set in in xorg.conf. there's a thread on the forums that deals with > > > this using HAL fdi files, but those are not deprecated for Xorg. > > Whoops, don't kno

[gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Jarry
Hi, I would like to see in console current network transfer rate for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] with "top" command. Just single overall value in [bytes/second] or similar unit would be enough for me, averaged over certain short time interval (let's say 1 or 5 second

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Grant
> Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay > that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt : > media-video/mplayer-uau. > > It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates > a binary called "mplayer-uau" which can be installed at

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Grant
> You have dual core so 60% means: > 50% (full one core) is for decoding, > and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. > You can't play the video correctly because your "decoder" is not > multithreaded and uses just the one CPU at its fullest. > Try using multithreaded version of mplayer "mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:37:37 +0200 Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to see in console current network transfer rate > for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] > with "top" command. > > Just single overall value in [bytes/second] or similar unit > would be enough for me, a

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/07/2010 10:37 AM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to see in console current network transfer rate > for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] > with "top" command. > > Just single overall value in [bytes/second] or similar unit > would be enough for me, averaged over

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/07/2010 08:46 PM, Grant wrote: Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt : media-video/mplayer-uau. It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates a binary called "mplayer-uau

Re: [gentoo-user] Two openvpn tunnels... and /etc/init.d et al.

2010-07-07 Thread Steve
On 06/07/10 06:25, Eray Aslan wrote: i.e. make a soft link to openvpn init script and make a seperate conf file with the same name as the new init script in your config directory (usually /etc/openvpn). Init script starts openvpn with the correct config file. Many thanks, works perfectly... Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Two openvpn tunnels... and /etc/init.d et al.

2010-07-07 Thread Steve
On 06/07/10 06:25, Eray Aslan wrote: i.e. make a soft link to openvpn init script and make a seperate conf file with the same name as the new init script in your config directory (usually /etc/openvpn). Init script starts openvpn with the correct config file. Many thanks, works perfectly... Al

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working

2010-07-07 Thread Jake Moe
On 07/07/10 22:20, Mick wrote: > On 7 July 2010 12:50, Jake Moe wrote: > >> On 07/07/10 15:50, Mick wrote: >> >>> On Monday 05 July 2010 23:46:54 Jake Moe wrote: >>> >>> I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB working properly. I've set up ever

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working

2010-07-07 Thread Jake Moe
On 07/07/10 23:19, Andy Wilkinson wrote: > On 07/05/10 15:46, Jake Moe wrote: > >> I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB >> working properly. I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified >> GRUB's menu.lst to use the framebuffer. However, even though there >

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 03:01 PM, Mick wrote: > On 7 July 2010 12:27, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >> Use "htop" to see threads. As far as I know "top" won't show those. So >> you can't check if your multi-threaded mplayer is really using more than >> 1 thread/process. > > What do you get when you press upper

[gentoo-user] Re: current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread James
Jarry gmail.com> writes: > I would like to see in console current network transfer rate > for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] > with "top" command. iotop is very cool, but requires some accounting support to be set in the kernel... hth, James

[gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I was trying to slog through all the libpng problems on one of my machines last night but ran into a different issue late in the evening where cmake wouldn't build. I haven't been reading this list all that carefully and didn't find anything obvious with a quick Google search. (Other than so

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Kyle Bader
Iotop is for io and the kernel support is through netlink. Aside On 7/7/10, James wrote: > Jarry gmail.com> writes: > > >> I would like to see in console current network transfer rate >> for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] >> with "top" command. > > iotop is very cool,

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Kyle Bader
Misfire. Aside from trafshow and iftop you might look at iptraf On 7/7/10, Kyle Bader wrote: > Iotop is for io and the kernel support is through netlink. Aside > > On 7/7/10, James wrote: >> Jarry gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>> I would like to see in console current network transfer rate >>> for

[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates missing maildir directories. cu - Forwarded message from bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org - From: bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org Subject: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:37:37 +0200, Jarry wrote: > I would like to see in console current network transfer rate > for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] > with "top" command. There's also nethogs. -- Neil Bothwick Assassins do it from behind. signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] current network traffic rate, in real time (in console)?

2010-07-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to see in console current network transfer rate > for given interface, similar as I can see cpu-loading in [%] > with "top" command. > > Just single overall value in [bytes/second] or similar unit > would be enough for me, averag

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:19:14 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > Until your version of Xorg stops supporting HAL, when you will need an > > xorg.conf. > > You can also pass through udev ! How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you tell it to use a particular keyboard layou

[gentoo-user] Beautifying goot and halt process

2010-07-07 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, with my Linux I use a HP LW2475w lfatscreen monitor. When I halt the computer there is a point in the shutdown process when Linux shutoff X11 and switch to console. When this happens, a not-so-nice "colored flash" is seen most of the thime at the lower part of the screen. This looks like th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Grant
>>> Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay >>> that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt : >>> media-video/mplayer-uau. >>> >>> It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates >>> a binary called "mplayer-uau" which can be i

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautifying goot and halt process

2010-07-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:04:53AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > Is there any way to switch a flatscreen to console > without this "color explosions" ? > Thanks a lot in advance for any help! The command you want is "chvt". E.g... chvt 1 ...will change you over to text console 1, just

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautifying goot and halt process

2010-07-07 Thread meino . cramer
Walter Dnes [10-07-08 04:24]: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:04:53AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > > > Is there any way to switch a flatscreen to console > > without this "color explosions" ? > > > Thanks a lot in advance for any help! > > The command you want is "chvt". E.g... > > chvt

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 04:30 AM, Grant wrote: Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt : media-video/mplayer-uau. It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates a binary called "mplayer-uau

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautifying goot and halt process

2010-07-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:33:20AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > I think, switching to the console as such isnt the problem here as > it works. The problem is the switching process itsself. "To switch" > generates that flickering colors. May be turning off brightness, > switching and turnin

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautifying goot and halt process

2010-07-07 Thread meino . cramer
Walter Dnes [10-07-08 05:20]: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:33:20AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > > > I think, switching to the console as such isnt the problem here as > > it works. The problem is the switching process itsself. "To switch" > > generates that flickering colors. May be turni

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-2.8.1 build problems

2010-07-07 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was trying to slog through all the libpng problems on one of my machines last night but ran into a different issue late in the evening where cmake wouldn't build. I haven't been reading this list all that carefully and didn't find anything obvious with a quick Google