Re: [DNG] problem with KDE/plasma on Beowulf / pulseaudio too

2020-09-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:35:55AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote: > On 27/9/20 13:59, g4sra via Dng wrote: > > I have reservations about where QT5 is going, despite any issue with > > pulseaudio, now might be a good time to jump ship. I've been wondering about QT5, but haven't been able to pinpint what

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-09-27 19:11, Simon Hobson wrote: > You mean, like in the web hosting days before hostname headers where > you needed a different IP address for each hosted domain name ? That's > very 20th century and not a luxury most of us have. FWIW, Linode (where my sole server is hosted) gives me a

Re: [DNG] problem with KDE/plasma on Beowulf / pulseaudio too

2020-09-27 Thread aitor_czr
On 27/9/20 13:59, g4sra via Dng wrote: I have reservations about where QT5 is going, despite any issue with pulseaudio, now might be a good time to jump ship. +1 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Failed run live usb iso

2020-09-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-09-26 18:29, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > did you do a "sync" afterwards and waited till it returned? If not, > then the image was not written completely. You can monitor the writing > process with "watch iostat" (if you have sysstat installed) Or run dd with oflag=direct. I also try to

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-27 Thread Simon Hobson
Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: >> IIRC the specific complaint wasn't that they checked for rDNS, but that they >> matched it against the domain of the sender. That makes no sense at all, it >> prevents running more than one domain on one mail server. > Why would it? A configurable mail

Re: [DNG] problem with KDE/plasma on Beowulf / pulseaudio too

2020-09-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 06:25:26AM -0400, . via Dng wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a thinkpad laptop with a separate numeric keypad.  I was using > devuan ascii with KDE happily on this machine, but when I upgraded to > beowulf  I lost the use of the numeric keypad.  It appears to be > KDE/plasma

[DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf (SOLVED)

2020-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
Oops!  I forgot to add (SOLVED) to my last subject line. Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:34:33 -0700 From: Marc Shapiro To: dng@lists.dyne.org On 9/26/20 6:55 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Fri,

Re: [DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf

2020-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro via Dng
On 9/26/20 6:55 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:54:14PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: The issue that I am having is with sound.  My daughter reported that it was not working.  I tried playing a video (in Firefox) from my login and also got no sound. You've already

Re: [DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf

2020-09-27 Thread tekohax via Dng
On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:54:14 -0700 Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: The issue that I am having is with sound.  My daughter reported that it was not working.  I tried playing a video (in Firefox) from my login and also got no sound. I have since determined that pulseaudio was not running (it is

Re: [DNG] Failed run live usb iso

2020-09-27 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2020 Sat, 26 Sep 14:09:00 +0700 Budi via Dng scripsit: > Did download this: > [b]devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso[/b] > (1.2GB) > > and did: > [code]sudo dd if=devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso > of=/dev/sdc bs=4096[/code] did you do a "sync" afterwards and

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
On Sat 26/Sep/2020 23:19:33 +0200 Simon Hobson wrote: Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote: I also end up rejecting a lot of spam because it lacks a reverse hostname (it's easily the largest category). So it's not just a few such as ntlworld and gmx that check this. IIRC the specific complaint

Re: [DNG] problem with KDE/plasma on Beowulf / pulseaudio too

2020-09-27 Thread g4sra via Dng
On 27/09/2020 11:25, . via Dng wrote: --snip-- > so I resigned myself to using LXQT instead > of KDE. I have reservations about where QT5 is going, despite any issue with pulseaudio, now might be a good time to jump ship. I second 'TDE' (about as KDE as you can get without the nastiness), as has

[DNG] problem with KDE/plasma on Beowulf / pulseaudio too

2020-09-27 Thread . via Dng
Hello all, I have a thinkpad laptop with a separate numeric keypad.  I was using devuan ascii with KDE happily on this machine, but when I upgraded to beowulf  I lost the use of the numeric keypad.  It appears to be KDE/plasma that's at fault, so I resigned myself to using LXQT instead of KDE.