Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, December 30, 2016 12:24:36 AM CET Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >>> As for the specs: >>> >>> - 8 core CPU: nice >> Makes me drool a bit here. I want a 8 core CPU. The only downside, >> gkrellm won't have enough screen to show each core separately.

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, December 29, 2016 11:45:30 PM CET Dale wrote: > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > On 12/29/2016 08:06 PM, Dale wrote: > >> the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >>> I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, > >>> Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). >

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, December 30, 2016 12:24:36 AM CET Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > As for the specs: > > > > - 8 core CPU: nice > > Makes me drool a bit here. I want a 8 core CPU. The only downside, > gkrellm won't have enough screen to show each core separately. That's a > problem there.

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, December 29, 2016 9:36:43 PM CET the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> On 12/29/2016 08:06 PM, Dale wrote: >>> the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive).

[gentoo-user] multiple monitor video resolution problem

2016-12-29 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi all, I have upgraded my old core2 to an i7 on a x58 gigabyte MB. Lots faster but I am still using my older nvidia card (GF119 [GeForce GT 610] Nouveau driver), storage and original gentoo install. The problem is that I have two monitors - a 1920x1080 on DVI and a 1280x1050 on

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread Dale
the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 12/29/2016 08:06 PM, Dale wrote: >> the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, >>> Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). >>> >>> - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply,

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, December 29, 2016 9:36:43 PM CET the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 12/29/2016 08:06 PM, Dale wrote: > > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, > >> Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). > >> > >> - IN WIN

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread thelma
On 12/29/2016 08:06 PM, Dale wrote: > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, >> Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). >> >> - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply, >> - AMD FX-8350 Processor 4.0GHz w/

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread Dale
the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, > Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). > > - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply, > - AMD FX-8350 Processor 4.0GHz w/ 16MB Cache > - Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 w/

[gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-29 Thread thelma
I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply, - AMD FX-8350 Processor 4.0GHz w/ 16MB Cache - Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 w/ DDR3, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan - Kingston

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > Thanks again to our developers who keep to the matchless Unix tradition, > and allow such great choice in Gentoo (also to the other, poetterware > side, as in choice, if you will)! > Well, the intent is to

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-29 Thread Miroslav Rovis
On 161229-05:13-0500, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:53 PM, lee wrote: > > Neil Bothwick writes: > >> > There are two ways to ensure that you always have the kernel's names: > > 1) Add "net.ifnames=0" to the kernel cmdline I use that all the time.

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer and pulseaudio - which is at fault?

2016-12-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/29/2016 11:37 AM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 29 Dec 2016 12:26:23 Corbin Bird wrote: >> On 12/29/2016 07:21 AM, Mick wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since >>> pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. This

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer and pulseaudio - which is at fault?

2016-12-29 Thread Mick
On Thursday 29 Dec 2016 12:26:23 Corbin Bird wrote: > On 12/29/2016 07:21 AM, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since > > pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. This > > is what I am talking about: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.0 + nvidia problem

2016-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On December 27, 2016 8:35:38 PM GMT+01:00, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: >On December 27, 2016 4:23:06 PM GMT+01:00, Philip Webb > wrote: >>I successfully configured, compiled & installed Kernel 4.9.0 (testing) >>& compiled Nvidia 375.26 (testing) to match ;

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer and pulseaudio - which is at fault?

2016-12-29 Thread Corbin Bird
On 12/29/2016 07:21 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since > pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. This is > what I am talking about: > > Sound level undesirable > == > Kmail pops up a

Re: [gentoo-user] At last! A Qt5 version of KMail-2 - but here be dragons!

2016-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
Sorry for double post... Kmail:5 doesn't show email as being sent Will check again after full synchronisation. (Mailfolder is quite large) On December 29, 2016 6:54:33 PM GMT+01:00, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: >On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:11:27 AM CET J. Roeleveld

Re: [gentoo-user] At last! A Qt5 version of KMail-2 - but here be dragons!

2016-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:11:27 AM CET J. Roeleveld wrote: > On December 27, 2016 3:38:28 PM GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >On Sunday, 18 December 2016 19:07:23 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> More important, how is the latest kmail behaving? > > > >My first

Re: [gentoo-user] At last! A Qt5 version of KMail-2 - but here be dragons!

2016-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:11:27 AM CET J. Roeleveld wrote: > On December 27, 2016 3:38:28 PM GMT+01:00, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >On Sunday, 18 December 2016 19:07:23 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> More important, how is the latest kmail behaving? > > > >My first

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get X running in Kernel 4.4.26.

2016-12-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On December 29, 2016 3:24:27 PM GMT+01:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >Hi, Gentoo. > >I'm having trouble with my kernel 4.4.26. It will do everything >expected of it except for running X Windows. > >I've checked I've got the kernel configuration set up as described in >the gentoo wiki

[gentoo-user] Can't get X running in Kernel 4.4.26.

2016-12-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. I'm having trouble with my kernel 4.4.26. It will do everything expected of it except for running X Windows. I've checked I've got the kernel configuration set up as described in the gentoo wiki documents, unless I've overlooked something. What happens is that I run "startx", and a

[gentoo-user] alsamixer and pulseaudio - which is at fault?

2016-12-29 Thread Mick
Hi All, My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. This is what I am talking about: Sound level undesirable == Kmail pops up a warning and the sound level is 100%. The first time. On

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:53 PM, lee wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: >> >> There is nothing wrong with wanting things to work as you do, but it >> requires input to do so. It you have to start editing files to make >> it work properly, there is little point

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 3:01 PM, lee wrote: > Tom H writes: >> AFAIK, you have three possibilities. >> >> 1) If you're renaming a NIC via its MAC address, you have to edit the >> config file thatlinks the NIC's names and its MAC address. >> >> 2) If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 1:35 PM, lee wrote: > Tom H writes: >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:07 PM, lee wrote: >>> >>> How is that more reliable? >> >> It's more reliable than using the kernel's names because the names >> won't change UNLESS

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 02:26:05 -0500, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> It's the best thing that the systemd developers have produced! >> >> Except they