Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > ... or what the unbelievable lack of maturity of KDEPIM devs has landed us in: > > I have upgraded KDE on my old laptop to see what gives. Surprisingly, it was > not *too* bad; i.e. my old emails were not corrupted, deleted or otherwise > affected. I am doing the same on my sis

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira >>  wrote: >>> >>> ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not >>> interested currently. >>> My next system will have 16gb of ram, and I'll crea

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-30 Thread Mick
On Friday 30 Dec 2011 13:02:33 Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > The auto-migration did not work. It only worked partially for some mail > > account settings, but did not leave behind a workable system, with half > > the account settings missing. > > I had a problem with mysql stuff missin

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On 12/30/2011 07:32 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB. > What do you have for mount options in fstab? You can set the size with size= parameter. For example I have mine set to 10G: none/dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=10G

[gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Today I upgraded my kernel from 3.0.6 to 3.1.6 and promptly lost sound. This motherboard has Intel HDA. All the required modules are loaded, and I hear a thud as they're loaded, but alsaconf can't find the device. I tried recompiling all the alsa drivers into the kernel instead of a

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 December 2011 14:02:46 Paul Hartman wrote: > On 12/30/2011 07:32 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB. > > What do you have for mount options in fstab? > > You can set the size with size= parameter. For example I have min

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Mick wrote: On Friday 30 Dec 2011 13:02:33 Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: For now I have masked KDEPIM 4.7 on all of my remaining boxen. This is too messy to have to fix more than once, if I can fix it at all that is! The only thing that's keeping me from mutt is the zillion shortcut comma

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On 12/30/2011 08:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2011 14:02:46 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On 12/30/2011 07:32 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > >> > Hm. tmpfs defaults (at least on my system) to a capacity of about 3GB. > >> > What do you have for mount options in fstab? > >> > >> Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-30 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not interested currently. My next system will have 16gb of ram, and I'll creat

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Today I upgraded my kernel from 3.0.6 to 3.1.6 and promptly lost sound. This motherboard has Intel HDA. All the required modules are loaded, and I hear a thud as they're loaded, but alsaconf can't find the device. I tried recompiling all the alsa drivers into t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > > > Today I upgraded my kernel from 3.0.6 to 3.1.6 and promptly lost sound. This > motherboard has Intel HDA. All the required modules are loaded, and I hear a > thud as they're loaded, but alsaconf can't find the device. > >

[gentoo-user] Gnome 3 + Notification Daemon [OFFTOPIC]

2011-12-30 Thread Carlos Sura
Hello mates, I'm using now Gnome 3, Whenever I login and when I'm connected to my wifi router I get a notification message, I clicked "Don't show this message again". Is there a way to revert this action, I mean I want to be notified when connected to a network. But I clicked accidentally in "do

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome 3 + Notification Daemon [OFFTOPIC]

2011-12-30 Thread Carlos Sura
On 30 December 2011 08:51, Carlos Sura wrote: > Hello mates, > > I'm using now Gnome 3, > Whenever I login and when I'm connected to my wifi router I get a > notification message, I clicked "Don't show this message again". > > Is there a way to revert this action, I mean I want to be notified whe

[gentoo-user] Is it safe to get rid of python 2.x?

2011-12-30 Thread Jarry
Hi, after upgrading glib today I noticed new message from revdep-rebuild: - Not unmerging package dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3 since there is no valid reason for Portage to unmerge currently used Python interpreter. - And it removed nothing, despite of "Number removed:1" message. This is defi

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote: > I guess you're going to need to provide some debug info. Maybe try a > complete power down and not just a warm boot. Not finding the device > at all is problematic. What's in lspci, etc.? Power cycle complete - no difference. Switching back

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to get rid of python 2.x?

2011-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:04:05 +0100 Jarry wrote: > Hi, > after upgrading glib today I noticed new message from > revdep-rebuild: > - > Not unmerging package dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3 since there is no valid > reason for Portage to unmerge currently used Python interpreter. > - > > And it r

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote: > I guess you're going to need to provide some debug info. Maybe try a > complete power down and not just a warm boot. Not finding the device > at all is problematic. What's in lspci, etc.? Power cycle complete -

Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ...

2011-12-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:02:33 +0100 Alex Schuster wrote: > > The only thing that's keeping me from mutt is the zillion shortcut > > commands that I need to learn ... old dog/new tricks and all that. > > Claws is okay, except that it does not work with maildirs, the is some > import script or so

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Aljosha Papsch
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:00:11PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > I guess you're going to need to provide some debug info. Maybe try a > > > > > complete power down and not just a warm boot. Not finding the de

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 December 2011 17:18:35 Aljosha Papsch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:00:11PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I guess you're going to need to provide some debug info. Maybe try > > > > a > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 17:18:35 Aljosha Papsch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:00:11PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Friday 30 December 2011 14:34:16 Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I guess you're going to need to provide some debug

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 December 2011 17:50:49 Michael Mol wrote: > I'm inclined to think you have something in your asoundrc (either > system-wide or user-local) Neither of those exists on my system. > that's shunting ALSA clients over to Pulse, and that Pulse has a > misconfiguration. /etc/pulse/daemon.

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread walt
On 12/30/2011 09:35 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Setting the master volume to 100% just gave me a faint hiss in the speakers; no real sound, and no device detected by alsaconf. You mentioned that switching back to the old kernel doesn't fix the audio, but have you tried the old kernel since chang

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Mol
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 30 December 2011 17:50:49 Michael Mol wrote: > I'm inclined to think you have something in your asoundrc (either > system-wide or user-local) Neither of those exists on my system. > that's shunting ALSA clients over to Pulse, and that Pulse has a > misconf

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server

2011-12-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: [...] >> | Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" "M: >> | LOGIN PLAIN" Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" >> | "P:??XX??" "M: LOGIN PLAIN" >> >> ` > > Did you try just "M: PLAIN" without the "LOGIN" ? > > If PLAIN doesn't do i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server

2011-12-30 Thread Mick
On Saturday 31 Dec 2011 00:40:23 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mick writes: > > [...] > > >> | Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" "M: > >> | LOGIN PLAIN" Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:root" > >> | "I:hputn...@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" "M: LOGIN PLAIN" > >> > >> ` > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 December 2011 21:43:54 Michael Mol wrote: > Anyway, what are you using to try to play audio? A Pulse client? An ALSA > client? The BBC Radio 3 iPlayer, and of course the KDE start and stop sounds. I've recompiled several packages today, in particular phonon, phonon-kde and phonon-g

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 3.1.6 and loss of sound

2011-12-30 Thread Adam Carter
> In other news...So 3.1.6 just went stable for amd64. I wonder what's special > about that one that wasn't met by 3.0.{13|14} or 3.1.[0-5]. FWIW iwlagn is still broken in 3.1.6 (it broke in 3.1.5).