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

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 rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com  wrote: ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not interested currently. My next system will have 16gb

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 missing, so

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

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 mine set

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

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? You can set the

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, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.comwrote: ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk for swap, right? I'm really not interested currently. My next

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

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 pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org 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

[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

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

2011-12-30 Thread Carlos Sura
On 30 December 2011 08:51, Carlos Sura carlos.su...@googlemail.com 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

[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

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 mr.ja...@gmail.com 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. -

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 - no

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 wo...@wonkology.org 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

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 device

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 info.

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.

[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

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

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

2011-12-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 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 it, then

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 michaelkintz...@gmail.com 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

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

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).