Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers
On Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:21:46 BST Jack wrote: > I have a photive BT speaker that I've used successfully with plasma on > my Artix laptop. I can test later with my Gentoo desktop to confirm. I > don't remember if you use pulseaudio or not, but if so, I'd check > pavucontrol to see if it also thinks that device is active and being > used by whatever app is producing the sound, and also that the volume > meter is showing any output. > > Probably not relevant to you, but I've recently solved a long-standing > problem with audio (not just BT, also wired, but mostly with the mic) > where my system monitor (gkrellm, and specifically its gkrellmss plugin) > had grabbed the audio device, so although pavucontrol saw that the > device existed, it couldn't actually do anything with it, and the volume > meter didn't even show up. Solved in the short term by just disabling > that plugin. > > Jack > > On 5/5/22 11:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my > > new Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth > > control panel, and the sound device appears in the Audio control panel, > > but testing either speaker produces no sound. > > > > The Gentoo wiki was helpful in getting everything I need (well, I thought > > I > > had), but still I seem to be missing one link in the chain. > > > > (I still have the old M-Audio speakers with their line-in, but so far I've > > lost two motherboard sound chips and two USB dongles while using them, so > > I > > wanted to try something else.) I've never had speakers blowing the audio chips driving them. I would have thought they would be protected electrically from such events occurring. Anyway, more to the point, I had tried to configure a laptop to connect over bluetooth to an AVR, but I couldn't get it to work until I installed and used net-wireless/blueman. You may want to give it a spin. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd
On 5/5/22 1:24 PM, John Covici wrote: I do have a submit.mc file, but I have not changed this at all. What is strange to me is that if I do saslauthd -v should not I get everything that my Sendmail.conf has? I would not assume so. I say that based on my understanding of how SASL and Sendmail interact. In many ways, Sendmail and SASL are two entirely separate sub-systems. Sendmail (as I usually see it configured) wholesale outsources outsources testing authentication credentials. It does so by asking the completely independent SASL authentication daemon to test the credentials (nominally a username and password pair) to see if they are valid. SASL returns a yes / no to Sendmail. Sendmail alters what it does based on that answer. Since Sendmail and SASL are independent entities there is no reason for SASL to know anything about how Sendmail is configured. I can check an old backup and see if I have one for my sendmail.mc and get back. ACK -- Grant. . . . unix || die
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd
On Thu, 05 May 2022 12:52:45 -0400, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 5/5/22 10:39 AM, John Covici wrote: > > saslauthd is running, but it seems to ignore the Sendmail.conf . > > I think it's the other way around. > > Sendmail is told to support authentication via one or more > methods, one of which can be SASL and co. > > The actual SASL auth daemon just listens on a unix socket and / > or TCP port for clients to test authentication pairs, returning a > pass fail type message. > > > I used openssl s_client to connect to my sendmail, it was happy > > with the certs, but in response to the ehlo gives me no auth > > line at all. > > :-/ > > > Very strange. > > Very annoying, definitely. > > I don't know if it's strange yet or not. I think the strangeness > will be confirmed or refuted after finding out why Sendmail isn't > offering AUTH options. > > My favorite thing to turn to when things that used to work and > now don't is to restore a backup of the configuration file and > compare them. Can you do that with your sendmail.cf or > sendmail.mc file? > > There's also a chance that it's your submit.cf or submit.mc file > since we're talking about the MSA on port 587. (Unless you > aren't using the separate MSA which has been standard for 15+ > years.) I do have a submit.mc file, but I have not changed this at all. What is strange to me is that if I do saslauthd -v should not I get everything that my Sendmail.conf has? I can check an old backup and see if I have one for my sendmail.mc and get back. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Some symbols render incomplete in text mode
пн, 2 мая 2022 г. в 22:54, gevisz : > > пн, 2 мая 2022 г. в 15:04, Michael : > > > > On Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:46:45 BST gevisz wrote: > > > вс, 1 мая 2022 г. в 13:58, Michael : > > > > On Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:49:59 BST gevisz wrote: > > > > > > > Moreover, I am starting to suspect that > > > > > the problem with incomplete rendering letters > > > > > "in text mode" and the problem with symbols > > > > > in the youtube video player toolbar may be > > > > > separate ones as the latter is much more > > > > > reproducible and appears only in google-chrome > > > > > (have not noticed it in Firefox, for example, > > > > > though I quite rarely use Firefox to view youtube videos). > > > > > > > > I can't offer much help on this, but I'll share a similar experience. I > > > > have seen something like this happening on Chromium, running on > > > > Enlightenment desktop a few years ago. I recall it was affected by the > > > > scale set on the desktop 1.2:1 or something like that. I can't recall > > > > if > > > > this was also occurring on Plasma. I think I saw the same missing > > > > character problem on the title bar of the browser window. This was on > > > > English text (UTF8 encoding). Firefox and other applications didn't have > > > > a problem. At that time I recall Chromium's rendering of the > > > > menu/toolbar and window border was fighting against the desktop. Some > > > > update on Chromium eventually fixed things. So I blamed it on the > > > > interplay between the desktop, browser and graphics card/driver > > > > (radeon). > > > > > > Thank you for your input. My graphic card is also Radeon, > > > namely, built-in ATI Radeon X1250, and I use Awesome WM. > > > The problem appears mostly in google-chrome, but I saw it > > > also in Gvim, and currently it appeared also in the taskbar. > > > A properly cropped screenshot is attached to this message. > > > > I suspect some interaction between your window manager and graphics driver > > causes your character and symbol rendering problem. You may want to > > install a > > different window manager and see if the problem remains, > > Thank you. I will try another WM, probably XFCE4, which > I have used before Awesome (among other options) > and report my finding in this thread. > > > then approach the Awesome devs to help you with troubleshooting. > > It's not unusual for less mainstream WM devs to focus their code > > on NVidia/Intel, or whatever hardware and drivers they have at their > > disposal and miss out on such problems like yours until they are drawn > > to their attention. Today, I emerged xfce4-meta, started XFCE4 and spent a short period of time within it. For this short period of time, the "problem" with rendering symbols in youtube video player toolbar in google-chrome appeared in exactly the same way as it appeared within Awesome WM. I have also noticed the problem with rendering letters in google-chrome. However, it appeared a bit different: parts of letters in an html page were closed by small black boxes, however not everywhere but only on a side panel. At the same time letters of a word written on a button had exactly the same rendering problem as within Awesome WM. So, it seems that the problem is not specific to Awesome WM. It seems to me that the problem is somehow related to redrawing a frame. However, I am still not sure if it is a problem of software or hardware. I have not tried another google-chrome profile so far.
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd
On 5/5/22 10:39 AM, John Covici wrote: saslauthd is running, but it seems to ignore the Sendmail.conf . I think it's the other way around. Sendmail is told to support authentication via one or more methods, one of which can be SASL and co. The actual SASL auth daemon just listens on a unix socket and / or TCP port for clients to test authentication pairs, returning a pass fail type message. I used openssl s_client to connect to my sendmail, it was happy with the certs, but in response to the ehlo gives me no auth line at all. :-/ Very strange. Very annoying, definitely. I don't know if it's strange yet or not. I think the strangeness will be confirmed or refuted after finding out why Sendmail isn't offering AUTH options. My favorite thing to turn to when things that used to work and now don't is to restore a backup of the configuration file and compare them. Can you do that with your sendmail.cf or sendmail.mc file? There's also a chance that it's your submit.cf or submit.mc file since we're talking about the MSA on port 587. (Unless you aren't using the separate MSA which has been standard for 15+ years.) -- Grant. . . . unix || die
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd
On Thu, 05 May 2022 12:22:55 -0400, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 5/4/22 7:31 AM, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I have been using various clients to connect to my sendmail > > server using port 587 and using starttls to encrypt the connections > > and then using the plain mechanism to send the user name and password > > to authenticate. > > > > Last day or so this has stopped working -- I don't know that I changed > > anything (famous last words), > > Assume that your configuration is at least acceptable until you > have a reason to think otherwise. > > > So, after all that, anyone have an idea as to how to fix? > > Start with the simpler thing first. > > Is the SASL authentication daemon running? > > Did your (START)TLS certificate expire? Contemporary clients may > silently refuse to use expired certs. > > > Thanks. > > You're welcome. > > Feel free to poke things and respond with more questions / > details / errors / etc. > saslauthd is running, but it seems to ignore the Sendmail.conf . I used openssl s_client to connect to my sendmail, it was happy with the certs, but in response to the ehlo gives me no auth line at all. Very strange. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers
I have a photive BT speaker that I've used successfully with plasma on my Artix laptop. I can test later with my Gentoo desktop to confirm. I don't remember if you use pulseaudio or not, but if so, I'd check pavucontrol to see if it also thinks that device is active and being used by whatever app is producing the sound, and also that the volume meter is showing any output. Probably not relevant to you, but I've recently solved a long-standing problem with audio (not just BT, also wired, but mostly with the mic) where my system monitor (gkrellm, and specifically its gkrellmss plugin) had grabbed the audio device, so although pavucontrol saw that the device existed, it couldn't actually do anything with it, and the volume meter didn't even show up. Solved in the short term by just disabling that plugin. Jack On 5/5/22 11:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my new Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth control panel, and the sound device appears in the Audio control panel, but testing either speaker produces no sound. The Gentoo wiki was helpful in getting everything I need (well, I thought I had), but still I seem to be missing one link in the chain. (I still have the old M-Audio speakers with their line-in, but so far I've lost two motherboard sound chips and two USB dongles while using them, so I wanted to try something else.)
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd
On 5/4/22 7:31 AM, John Covici wrote: Hi. I have been using various clients to connect to my sendmail server using port 587 and using starttls to encrypt the connections and then using the plain mechanism to send the user name and password to authenticate. Last day or so this has stopped working -- I don't know that I changed anything (famous last words), Assume that your configuration is at least acceptable until you have a reason to think otherwise. So, after all that, anyone have an idea as to how to fix? Start with the simpler thing first. Is the SASL authentication daemon running? Did your (START)TLS certificate expire? Contemporary clients may silently refuse to use expired certs. Thanks. You're welcome. Feel free to poke things and respond with more questions / details / errors / etc. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
[gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers
Hello list, Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my new Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth control panel, and the sound device appears in the Audio control panel, but testing either speaker produces no sound. The Gentoo wiki was helpful in getting everything I need (well, I thought I had), but still I seem to be missing one link in the chain. (I still have the old M-Audio speakers with their line-in, but so far I've lost two motherboard sound chips and two USB dongles while using them, so I wanted to try something else.) -- Regards, Peter.
