Re: [gentoo-user] Loss of audio volume while using pulseaudio->jack connection...

2016-10-21 Thread Meino . Cramer
Marc Joliet [16-10-22 03:19]: > On Friday 21 October 2016 18:58:18 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > The alsamixer, which shows "dozens" (...) of bars before > > this hack only show one "pulseaudio bar" now...which I turn > > to 100% > > From alsamixer(1): > > -c, --card > > > Just in case

Re: [gentoo-user] Loss of audio volume while using pulseaudio->jack connection...

2016-10-21 Thread Marc Joliet
On Friday 21 October 2016 18:58:18 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > The alsamixer, which shows "dozens" (...) of bars before > this hack only show one "pulseaudio bar" now...which I turn > to 100% From alsamixer(1): -c, --card Just in case it is the soundcard's volume controls that needs adj

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Mick wrote: > > I haven't looked into exploits for this. At a practical level, what will it > take to compromise a PC? > You need to be able to run arbitrary code as a non-privileged user that has read-access to a file whose modification would allow elevation of

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 Oct 2016 13:39:54 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > > wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Andy Mender wrote: > >> Would a Gentoo .config work with the upstream "vanilla" 4.4.26 kernel? > >> I know Gentoo does some patching to the up

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Andy Mender wrote: > >> Would a Gentoo .config work with the upstream "vanilla" 4.4.26 kernel? >> I know Gentoo does some patching to the upstream sources and menuconfig has >> additional features there

[gentoo-user] Loss of audio volume while using pulseaudio->jack connection...

2016-10-21 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, I setup a jack/pulseaudio combo as described here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Musicians_Guide/sect-Musicians_Guide-Integrating_PulseAudio_with_JACK.html Now I can uses kaffeine, ZynAddSubFX, and HTML5 players (which insist on pulseaudio as it seems) without hiss and

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Andy Mender wrote: > On 21 October 2016 at 17:04, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Mick wrote: >> > https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails >> > >> > Are we patched? I'm running 4.4.21-gentoo >> > >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-21 Thread Andy Mender
On 21 October 2016 at 17:04, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Mick wrote: > > https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails > > > > Are we patched? I'm running 4.4.21-gentoo > > > > Not yet: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597624 > > Y

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

2016-10-21 Thread Behrouz Khosravi
$ mplayer foo.mp4 | grep '^VO: ' VO: [gl] ... $ mpv foo.mp4 | grep '^VO: ' VO: [opengl] See 'mplayer -vo help' and 'mpv -vo help'. HTH, -dnh Thanks. It seems that mplayer is using "xv" and mpv uses "opengl-hq". mpv work ok with "xv" but quality degrades a little, or at least I think that

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Mick wrote: > https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails > > Are we patched? I'm running 4.4.21-gentoo > Not yet: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597624 You're probably going to want to update to 4.4.26. It has been releas

[gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

2016-10-21 Thread Mick
https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails Are we patched? I'm running 4.4.21-gentoo -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

2016-10-21 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Behrouz Khosravi wrote: >You could test different video output drivers and also hardware decoding. [..] >> vo=vdpau:deint=-3,opengl-hq:scale=spline36,xv [..] >I tried testing some options in config file, but it didnt help. Why not check what output-driver you use with