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

2011-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:43:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Photo-CD, perhaps? > > Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding > photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't > lead me anywhere. AFAIR, and I haven't used PhotoCD in a LONG time,

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

2011-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 08:10:54PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > The onboard GPU was initially incapable of handling 1080i video without > stuttering badly and dropping frames. After explicitly changing the > flags and rebuilding system+world+kernel, it displays 1080p videos > flawlessly. That's

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

2011-12-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/18/2011 12:34 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 08:10:54PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote The onboard GPU was initially incapable of handling 1080i video without stuttering badly and dropping frames. After explicitly changing the flags and rebuilding system+world+kernel, it dis

[gentoo-user] Can't log into KDE desktop

2011-12-18 Thread Lavender
Finally, finally I have the Xorg-server worked correctly and installde KDE Meta. I wanna say it is so difficult to have done these ! Now , I can start KDE, but after I input username and password, it only showed a panel with four icons( I think you guys who use KDE will see this everytime when KDE

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

2011-12-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick wrote: > You also don't have the hardware to create them. CSS keys are stored on a > separate area of the disc, an area that is not available on DVD-Rs, > which is why yo cannot copy a CSS-encrypted DVD with dd, it copies the > encrypted data but not the decryption keys. This is no

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

2011-12-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: > > > Photo-CD, perhaps? > > Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding > photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't lead > me anywhere. Illegal mode for this tra

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

2011-12-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> Yep. I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted >> DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege >> of such a thing shouldn't be used a

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

2011-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:49:34 +0100, David Haller wrote: > >You also don't have the hardware to create them. CSS keys are stored > >on a separate area of the disc, an area that is not available on > >DVD-Rs, which is why you cannot copy a CSS-encrypted DVD with dd, it > >copies the encrypted data b

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

2011-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 18 December 2011 12:45:44 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Illegal mode for this track is an error code that cannot happen with > DVDs... That eliminates one thing then. > It is unlikely that today photo-CDs are written. It is more likeky a > Picture CD. Ah. I haven't come across those. > If

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

2011-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 18 December 2011 13:58:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've tried every option I can think of in the kernel config but I still > get the same error. Any other ideas? Thanks for help so far. Hmm. It seems to register as an audio CD, and copying it in K3b creates a 640MB wav file. Now that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't log into KDE desktop

2011-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
2011/12/18 Lavender : > Finally, finally I have the Xorg-server worked correctly and installde > KDE Meta. I wanna say it is so difficult to have done these ! > Now , I can start KDE, but after I input username and password, > it only showed a panel with four icons( I think you guys who use KDE > w

[gentoo-user] [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Jason Weisberger
Using either Chromium or Firefox plus google-talkplugin in GMail has an echo when placing a call. Noise cancellation doesn't seem to work at all. There is a setting in GMail for turning Noise Cancellation either on or off, but it doesn't seem to do a darn thing. Anybody else run into this issue?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Jason Weisberger wrote: > Using either Chromium or Firefox plus google-talkplugin in GMail has > an echo when placing a call.  Noise cancellation doesn't seem to work > at all.  There is a setting in GMail for turning Noise Cancellation > either on or off, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Jason Weisberger
> Any chance your sound card supports looping its output back around as > a monitor capture device? I haven't the slightest clue. I have a SB X-Fi Gamer. The other piece of information I forgot to leave out was that I'm using a separate USB microphone, however I figured noise cancellation was do

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

2011-12-18 Thread Andrea Conti
> Could be. It could also be it's because of "-mfpmath=sse". AFAIK most video decoders (outside of reference implementations) are written using integer math only... -O3 is a much more likely candidate. andrea

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread walt
On 12/18/2011 08:52 AM, Jason Weisberger wrote: Using either Chromium or Firefox plus google-talkplugin in GMail has an echo when placing a call. How are you listening to the audio? Headphones, speakers, telephone? The only way I've used googletalk is to have it call my home phone before dia

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/18/2011 06:52 PM, Jason Weisberger wrote: Using either Chromium or Firefox plus google-talkplugin in GMail has an echo when placing a call. Can you hear yourself through the speakers when talking into the microphone? If yes, that means you need to disable the loopback in alsamixer.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Jason Weisberger
> How are you listening to the audio? Headphones, speakers, telephone? I'm using speakers and an external usb microphone at the moment. As I said, this same setup works perfectly in Windows 7. I'm sure that if I were to connect a headset the issue would go away, but that still doesn't explain t

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Jason Weisberger
> Can you hear yourself through the speakers when talking into the microphone? If yes, that means you need to disable the loopback in alsamixer. > > > > >> Noise cancellation doesn't seem to work >> at all. > > > Noise cancellation doesn't have anything to do with that. You're thinking of echo ca

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/18/2011 09:21 PM, Jason Weisberger wrote: > Can you hear yourself through the speakers when talking into the microphone? If yes, that means you need to disable the loopback in alsamixer. I cannot hear myself, the person on the other end can hear themselves. Still looks like loopback is

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 December 2011, at 03:07, Grant Edwards wrote: > ... >>> ? I absolutely dread going to >>> back to MythTv with a big, hot, noisy PC sitting next to my TV? >> >> I bought an eMachines 1401 recently - it's not as perfectly silent as >> the PlayOn (which is fanless), but it's *very* close. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/18/2011 09:21 PM, Jason Weisberger wrote: >> >>  > Can you hear yourself through the speakers when talking into the >> microphone?  If yes, that means you need to disable the loopback in >> alsamixer. >> >> I cannot hear myself, the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Jason Weisberger
> Another option is to use a small USB sound device. My headphones came > with one, for example. They can be really nice for reducing electrical > noise in the capture channel, too. > > They also occasionally crop up where you might not expect them. I > picked up an HP 'travel' USB hub some time ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Jason Weisberger
> Still looks like loopback is active. Try to find a slider called "Capture" in alsamixer and mute it. There might also be a setting called "input" which can be set to i2c, i2s, mix, etc. Play with these. I had the same problem with a Soundblaster Live 24-bit, and the problem was that it was se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Jason Weisberger
>> Still looks like loopback is active.  Try to find a slider called >> "Capture" in alsamixer and mute it.  There might also be a setting called >> "input" which can be set to i2c, i2s, mix, etc.  Play with these.  I had the >> same problem with a Soundblaster Live 24-bit, and the problem was that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] GMail calling has an echo in Linux, but not Windows

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Mol
Mic is USB? Set the mic on something like a rubber pad. Also, try wearing headphones, see if that helps. It sounds like you're dealing with normal feedback issues, and Windows' echo cancellation may simply be better than what you've got set up. ZZ On Dec 18, 2011 5:05 PM, "Jason Weisberger" wrot

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Libreoffice 3.4.99.1-r1 - Help content error

2011-12-18 Thread Fernando Antunes
Hi. When I try to read the help content for LibreOffice 3.4.99.1-r1 nothing is exibed and I receive this kind of error message on my console : error xsltParseStylesheetFile : cannot parse file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../help/main_transform.xsl Does someone know how to install those xsl mi

[gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:45:27PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > > On 12/18/2011 12:34 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > >This was only recently installed. Is it possible that the generic x86 > > code from the initial install was the problem? And that emerging > > system+world got me full optim

Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: It's probably the sum total of the effect of all the flags. I've renamed the thread, to be more accurate. Here's how things went... * right after the install (presumably with generic i686 code) the PC could not handle streaming 1080i video from my HDHomerun TV tuner * I misi

[gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't understand. The entire output is below. As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such dependencies in the ebuild for gnome-2.32.1-r1 and ther

Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't > understand. The entire output is below. > > As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring > packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such >

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Can't log into KDE desktop

2011-12-18 Thread Lavender
> >Does this help? > >http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-889262-view-next.html?sid=362067832d51d0cad5d2e8bd2199b84b > I afraid it is not so much helpful.

Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-18 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't > understand.  The entire output is below. > > As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring > packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong.  I don't see

Re: [gentoo-user] please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't >> understand.  The entire output is below. >> >> As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring >> packag

Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 19, 2011 7:20 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> It's probably the sum total of the effect of all the flags. I've renamed the thread, to be more accurate. Here's how things went... * right after the install (presumably with generic i686 code) the PC could not handle streaming 10

Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: Kind of like what I always do when I switch from -march=nocona to -march=native. (Usually I use -march=nocona to ensure seamless VM migration on my XenServer-equipped boxen, but for some VMs, i.e., those requiring me to wring out every last drop of performance, I go nativ

[gentoo-user] Re: A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/19/2011 08:15 AM, Dale wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Kind of like what I always do when I switch from -march=nocona to -march=native. (Usually I use -march=nocona to ensure seamless VM migration on my XenServer-equipped boxen, but for some VMs, i.e., those requiring me to wring out every las

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/19/2011 08:15 AM, Dale wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Kind of like what I always do when I switch from -march=nocona to -march=native. (Usually I use -march=nocona to ensure seamless VM migration on my XenServer-equipped boxen, but for some VMs, i.e., those requiring

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 12/16/2011 10:12 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Dual layer DVDs will only work, if the layer break is at the right place. > > I so far have not been able to get the layer break value from the IFO file. > > You need to use cdrecord -atip to get the layer break value and then use > cdrecord la