Re: [arch-general] i915 Module Problem
On 07/09/2010 04:22 PM, Xiaochen Gao wrote: Dear All, Sorry for the spam. I am new to this list and I'm fairly new to Arch Linux. I encountered a problem when I tried to install and use Arch Linux 2010.05. It seems to be: if modules auto-load is set to yes or I manually set i915 to load in rc.conf, my computer will stop and chang to blank black screen. If I disable i915 the system will start without error, but only with low defination display. My computer is new lenovo Thinkpad X201, with i5-540 processor and integrated Intel HD Graphics. Here I'm wondering whether it is a i915 error, or BIOS or any problem of my computer? And can I have an alternative method to start my Arch Linux system with normal defination display? Thank you very much. Xiaochen Are you sure it actually hangs? On my laptop, during the boot process, when it says "Loading modules" the i915 module is loaded and the screen changes resolution. Sometimes this produces a blank screen, but the laptop doesn't actually hang. A few seconds later I can log in blindly and start x, which fixes the blank screen issue. A workaround is to put i915 and intel_agp in the initramfs. Details are on the intel wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel#KMS_.28Kernel_Mode_Setting.29
Re: [arch-general] python3 update
Le 20/10/2010 21:00, solsTiCe d'Hiver a écrit : Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 18:54 +0200, Clément Démoulins a écrit : And the dependencies must be updated from python to python2. also I guess something like python>2.6.5 should become python2>2.6.5 which does not make any sense since python2 in archlinux is>= 2.7 and then could be shortened into python2 , no ? Actually the last 2.6 version we had in extra provided 'python2', so you could still end up with a python2 dependency satisfied by 2.6.x on an outdated system :)
Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot
Le 10/11/2010 13:12, joker-...@yandex.ru a écrit : Please tell me the best way to allow non root user to use halt, reboot, shutdown e t.c. May be set group "power" to this binaries? $ ls -l /sbin/halt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15152 2010-10-02 13:26 /sbin/halt (Not only for me but in distro). No? You don't need to change permissions or ownership of /sbin/halt (or any other file). Set up sudo to allow members of a group of your choice to execute /sbin/shutdown This may interest you: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Allow_Users_to_Shutdown
Re: [arch-general] [core/filesystem 2010.10-1 -> 2010.12-1] breaks makepkg and firefox
Le 18/12/2010 22:14, Martín Cigorraga a écrit : Dear devs, guys: I've been struggling for the past three days trying to find what was breaking makepkg [0] script and preventing Firefox to launch. Thanks I do weekly backups of my system I found after trial& error -updating one package at a time- the responsable is the core/filesystem package. Is anyone else suffering this? I already tried to look for info in www.archlinux.org/packages but it's not listed there. Should I open a new ticket at the bugtracker? Thanks for any advice. 0. Here are some logs: makepkg output after installing new filesystem 2010.12-1: http://aur.pastebin.com/VzRUu6yN /etc/makepkg.conf (untouched): http://aur.pastebin.com/RnqjbYaX last pacman's log with filesystem 2010.12-1 package installed: http://aur.pastebin.com/rZtXgifP Two things please: - repaste that stuff with 'LANG=C' prepended to the command(s) - is this the package you're trying to install? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23363
Re: [arch-general] Kernel error
Le 08/01/2011 18:12, Jim Burton a écrit : Hi, starting today I have a problem booting my laptop, running Arch with everything up to date. I can boot into the fallback image, but when I boot into the main one, everything hangs after a few moments, with caps and num lock flashing and the keyboard inactive. The screen is displaying lots of stuff like [] ? kmap_atomic_prot +0xc8/0xf0 On IRC it was suggested I rebuild the image with mkinitcpio, which had no effect. Any ideas how I can diagnose and fix this? Also, what exactly is the difference with the fallback image? I can't tell the difference to the one I usually start. Thanks, Jim As far as I know, the difference between the two is that the fallback image is created without using the 'autodetect' hook; see the table here [1] for more. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#HOOKS -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] why the hurry???
Le 04/01/2011 19:09, Thomas Bächler a écrit : As a general rule: A udev update should be followed by a reboot or a manual udevd restart (both of which would fix your problem). Why not include that in post_upgrade() ? -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.28-1
Le 09/01/2011 04:12, Martín Cigorraga a écrit : BTW: I did need to enable [Testing] in pacman.conf in order to install new Kernel26-lts because ABS won't download it's files, are you aware of this? You need to enable the testing repo in /etc/abs.conf -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH 1/3] Use format strings when printing errors
Le 27/02/2011 19:25, Dan McGee a écrit :
- print("Error: " + package + " is empty or is not a valid
package")
+ print("Error: %s is empty or is not a valid package" % package)
That method of string formatting is deprecated in python 3. ;)
http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/library/stdtypes.html#old-string-formatting
http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/library/string.html#string-formatting
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Re: [arch-general] What happened to Powerpill?
Le 26/03/2011 12:28, Marek Otahal a écrit : Hi, anyone knows what happened to Xyne's powerpill [1] pacman wrapper? I started using it recently for it's aria2c multithreaded downloads but a couple of days it disappeared from community/aur and there's no trace. Thanks, marek [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Powerpill This: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115660 -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1
On 03/31/2011 08:40 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - latest stable patches - disabled /dev/kmem - added AMD_IOMMU support - kernel image is now xz compressed - NUMA is enabled on x86_64 - AUTOSCHED (aka the wonder patch) is enabled - aufs2.1 latest snapshot - added additional i915 patch - added radeaon kms fix greetings tpowa This is a bit overdue, sorry. -1 from me. My system locks up while resuming from hibernation. Upstream bug report is here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32652 -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] Default Bootloader for AIF
On 04/05/2011 03:56 AM, Brendan Long wrote: On 04/04/2011 05:01 AM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote: On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see logical partitions linked-list info) and supports multiple primary partitions. I'm not sure that it's a good idea to make GPT the default any time soon, since most tools don't support it very well yet, and most versions of Windows won't boot of it (much as I hate holding things back for worse operating systems, having a default that makes it impossible to boot Windows seems like a bad idea). Having it available in the installer would be really nice though. Even just including gdisk and syslinux on the install disk would make things a lot easier in some situations. FYI the installer/live installer already includes gptfdisk (gdisk) and syslinux. I don't believe that "lets worry about windows" is a good argument. If a user is installing arch they should be able to read documentation and determine which is the best for them MBR or GPT. I just booted off a USB stick to make sure, and the current installer[1] doesn't have gdisk (although it does have syslinux, which I didn't realize). [1] http://www.archlinux.org/download/ That will soon be one year old. The *current* installer is here: http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/ That's what everyone has been talking about. -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] Default Bootloader for AIF
On 04/05/2011 08:21 PM, Brendan Long wrote: On 04/05/2011 03:24 AM, cantabile wrote: On 04/05/2011 03:56 AM, Brendan Long wrote: On 04/04/2011 05:01 AM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote: On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see logical partitions linked-list info) and supports multiple primary partitions. I'm not sure that it's a good idea to make GPT the default any time soon, since most tools don't support it very well yet, and most versions of Windows won't boot of it (much as I hate holding things back for worse operating systems, having a default that makes it impossible to boot Windows seems like a bad idea). Having it available in the installer would be really nice though. Even just including gdisk and syslinux on the install disk would make things a lot easier in some situations. FYI the installer/live installer already includes gptfdisk (gdisk) and syslinux. I don't believe that "lets worry about windows" is a good argument. If a user is installing arch they should be able to read documentation and determine which is the best for them MBR or GPT. I just booted off a USB stick to make sure, and the current installer[1] doesn't have gdisk (although it does have syslinux, which I didn't realize). [1] http://www.archlinux.org/download/ That will soon be one year old. The *current* installer is here: http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/ That's what everyone has been talking about. Why are these not listed on the download page? Well, those are generated automatically and the release engineers don't want potentially broken images to appear on the official download page. It has been discussed on arch-releng but I don't remember the thread's title. -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] How to install a group when a package with same name exists?
On 04/22/2011 03:32 PM, Cédric Girard wrote: Hi, Today I wanted to install the group (xorg-apps). But there is a package with the same name. I did not find a way to tell pacman I wanted the group and not the package. I ended doing this: sudo pacman -S `pacman -Sg xorg-apps | sed 's!xorg-apps \(.*\)!\1!'` But there must be an easier way. Any thought about this? Regards, Somewhat offtopic: `pacman -Sgq xorg-apps` has the same effect as `pacman -Sg xorg-apps | sed 's!xorg-apps \(.*\)!\1!'` -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)
On 05/07/2011 09:21 PM, Gergely Imreh wrote:
On 8 May 2011 02:07, Ionut Biru wrote:
On 05/07/2011 08:41 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
On 05/07/2011 12:32 PM, Ionut Biru wrote:
On 05/07/2011 06:28 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
Ionut Biru wrote:
drop nonfree stuff, fix headers
Modified: PKGBUILD
===
--- PKGBUILD 2011-05-07 11:29:11 UTC (rev 122937)
+++ PKGBUILD 2011-05-07 11:51:04 UTC (rev 122938)
@@ -5,26 +5,28 @@
-depends=('bzip2' 'lame' 'sdl' 'libvorbis' 'faac' 'xvidcore' 'zlib'
'x264' 'libtheora' 'opencore-amr' 'alsa-lib' 'libvdpau' 'libxfixes'
'schroedinger' 'libvpx' 'libva' 'openjpeg')
+depends=('bzip2' 'lame' 'sdl' 'libvorbis' 'xvidcore' 'zlib' 'x264'
'libtheora' 'opencore-amr' 'alsa-lib' 'libvdpau' 'libxfixes'
'schroedinger' 'libvpx' 'libva' 'openjpeg')
- --enable-libfaac \
- --enable-nonfree \
Is faac support in ffmpeg causing trouble to other applications or was
changed for licensing reasons?
Greg
licensing. if you need faac you should use abs to recompile it
Will be also unlinked from mplayer?
mplayer doesn't use system ffmpg
The question was aimed at the fact thatt mplayer too has faac as depends...
As an opinion: I'd rather not want to recompile mplayer every time
there's an update, been there before because of other reason, it's not
much fun. Using mencoder to convert avis to mp4 to use on Android:
those _do_ require faac, as much as I can tell
Greg
You don't _have_ to use faac. You can process the audio separately with
nero's aac encoder[1].
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15897
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Re: [arch-general] Display Manager rc.d scripts
On 05/08/2011 08:19 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Hello, can anyone think of a reason the rc.d scripts are added to kdm, gdm and slim? They are not recommended by anyone& they are to be blame for occasional weird problems. The standard and IMO only way is to start them from inittab. They dont come from upstream& i dont know when they were added, i remember them being there ever since i started using Arch, they may come from CRUX or something. I am considering requesting them removal from all display managers. In [0] Pierre said some people want to keep them for backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility is desired only when something works correctly. Thoughts? [0]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20109 So, lemme get this straight. You don't like the daemon method, therefore it should be removed? "they are to be blame for occasional weird problems" — not good enough. On 05/08/2011 08:19 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >The standard and IMO only way is to start >them from inittab. Well obviously it's not the only one, whether you like it or not. Nobody is forcing you to use the daemon method, there is no "default" (as someone already said). On 05/08/2011 04:21 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Heiko Baums wrote: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_boot > Thats the worst wiki page i've ever seen, on any wiki. It's a public wiki, fix it, if you think it's bad. -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] Status of kernel26-2.6.39-1 in [testing]?
On 05/21/2011 05:01 PM, Marek Otahal wrote: Hi, I wanted to ask what's happening with current kernel in testing? I can get it from testing repositories for about two days, but haven't seen a sign-off thread yet. So, is anyone going to explain why there is no signoff thread for 2.6.39 ? -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] Status of kernel26-2.6.39-1 in [testing]?
On 05/25/2011 08:42 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Mittwoch 25 Mai 2011 schrieb cantabile: On 05/21/2011 05:01 PM, Marek Otahal wrote: Hi, I wanted to ask what's happening with current kernel in testing? I can get it from testing repositories for about two days, but haven't seen a sign-off thread yet. So, is anyone going to explain why there is no signoff thread for 2.6.39 ? Yes i can because it's not signoff ready, 5 modules are not compiling and aufs2 support is missing. greetings tpowa Understood. Thanks. -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'
On 05/25/2011 09:36 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 25 May 2011 23:38, Heiko Baums wrote: Linux3.0 can easily cause misunderstandings as Linux is usually used as a generic term for the whole system, the distros, etc. even if the correct naming of the whole system is GNU/Linux and Linux itself actually is only the kernel. I agree. I'd like for the package to be called simply 'kernel'. That fits in with our straightforward approach to package-naming (and packaging in general). As long as we can linguistically correlate the commands, for .eg: "I want a kernel for this system" == pacman -S kernel A derivative distribution or third-party repository which does not use the Linux kernel can then still provide a 'kernel' package. hurr durr Package names (ours at least) usually go by the project's name, as far as I can see. +1 for "linux" -- cantabile - proudly contributing to the bikeshedding :p "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'
On 05/26/2011 07:28 AM, XeCycle wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:20:46PM -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote: Perhaps we may provide alternative kernels? With names like these, we may get a brand new project named "Arch Operating System", providing Linux, BSD, Hurd or even more as kernels, and users are free to choose any one. Well, this is really interesting. It'd be the first OS to provide multiple kernels! I hope you're joking there. ;) http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kfreebsd-image-8-amd64 -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] On module blacklisting
On 06/11/2011 11:55 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Another thing, is it still possible to have the rc.conf network stuff as a one-liner or is this new format required? I just need to switch between dhcp and a static address from time to time and a one liner is more convenient to comment/uncomment. Sounds like a job for netcfg profiles. ;) -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] linux 3.0 kernel testing
On 06/16/2011 08:44 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
On 06/16/2011 10:57 AM, Christian Hesse wrote:
Madhurya Kakati on Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:38:35
+0530:
I want to test the linux3.0 kerne. Whats the most easiest way to test
it? Is there a AUR package? I couldn't find it.
kernel26-mainline 3.0rc3-1
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39965
Why is it named kernel26? Also i was checking out the PKGBUILD. Do i
have to compile and install the kernel headers and kernel docs? Also the
pkgname is kernel26-mainline. But the the line 69 is
package_kernel26() { but shouldn't it be renamed
package_kernel26-mainline() { ?
I don't want to mess up my existing kernel by installing it. I want to
install it as package named kernel26-mainline.
Also is there anyway to check what files a package will add or remove
from my system when I install it without actually installing it?
Thanks
You don't have to install it after makepkg is done. `tar tf
kernel26-mainline-blah.pkg.tar.xz` will list the contents. pacman can do
that as well (for specifics, see the manual).
The package was first uploaded on 17 Aug 2010, at that time there was no
linux 3.0.
You can tell makepkg to only build the packages you want from a split
pkgbuild (again, see the manual).
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Re: [arch-general] linphone breaks after mediastreamer update
On 06/19/2011 09:15 AM, Abd0 wrote:
hello dear archlinux friends
yesterday after an update linphone give me this error
linphone: error while loading shared libraries: libmediastreamer.so.1: wrong
ELF class: ELFCLASS32
i didnt find any topic about it
what can i do for it?
Best Regards,
abdo
lolz.
pkgdesc="A library written in C [...]"
arch=('any')
That looks so wrong. :D
I think you'll have to slap jelly1 a bit, he seems to be the last packager.
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Re: [arch-general] weird problem
On 06/19/2011 11:04 AM, jesse jaara wrote: yaourt -Rdd ati-dri libgl yaourt -S catalyst catalyst-utils. You should also change the lib32gl package to catalyst-utils as if you don't 32bit apps won't work :( That's not really a solution now, is it? If he wanted to use catalyst he would not have installed the open source drivers... Anyway, to answer the original message: When asked to replace lib32-libgl with lib32-catalyst-utils (and to remove libgl), say "no" to both, it _should_ tell you what package wants the catalyst stuff and then you can either remove that or fix it. Alternatively, run 'pacman -Qu' to see what packages would be updated. Look for lib32-* packages — one of them will depend on lib32-catalyst-utils. -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7-1, device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.85-3, dmraid 1.0.0.rc16.3-2, mdadm 3.2.2-2, v86d 0.1.10-2
On 06/30/2011 09:15 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
This is a huge release and should stay in testing for a while. I want to
point out two significant changes:
1) We now have a build() function instead of an install() function - the
latter was an unfortunate conflict with the install utility. The hooks
in the repository have been adjusted, but backward-compatibility code is
in place (a deprecation warning will be printed). All these packages
have conflicts=(mkinitcpio<0.7).
2) We now use bsdcpio instead of gen_init_cpio. This obsoletes the
gen_init_cpio package and adds a dependency on libarchive. This also
speeds up the image generation considerably.
Other changes include massive cleanups and fixes, code refactoring, and
changes that should finally make the -b (basedir) option useful.
Please test and sign off.
Here comes the full shortlog:
Dave Reisner (52):
init: don't attempt modprobe if $MODULES is empty
mkinitcpio.conf: s/raid/mdadm/
mkinitcpio: deprecate install() in install hooks
dmesg: remove install/hook
functions: cleanup and refactor add_binary
functions: refactor add_module
functions: remove add_device
functions: remove add_symlink2
use bsdcpio to create images
functions: refactor add_file
functions: document hook API
mkinitcpio.conf: note implicit support for lzop
mkinitcpio: use simple PEs instead of externals
mkinitcpio: allow specifying kernel ver as path to image
lsinitcpio: new utility to dump contents of images
Makefile: refactor and simplify
mkinitcpio: bashify preset build loop
use consistent vim modelines
declare all variables in mkinitcpio
mkinitcpio: refactor and bashify early path calculations
declare SAVELIST, QUIET, SHOW_AUTOMODS as faux booleans
mkinitcpio: remove cruft in getopts loop
overhaul output, introducing color
functions: refactor add_symlink
functions: simplify parse_hook
mkinitcpio: bashification, part 1/2
mkinitcpio: bashification, part 2/2
add -t option to specify alternate build directory
install/keymap: refactor and bashify
mkinitcpio: declare usage as a heredoc
remove support for -m to add a startup message
install/base: cleanup and simplify
functions: remove get_module_name
init: declare PATH, remove absolute paths
init: remove unnecessary variable declarations
mkinitcpio: allow overriding the compression method
mkinitcpio: only show usage on request
mkinitcpio.5: alphabetize options for easier nav
README: update copyright year, add self as author
mkinitcpio: catch errors in parse_hook
add a PKGBUILD for easier testing from the repo
mkinitcpio: allow absolute paths to preset files
install/{sata,pata,scsi}: cleanup and simplify
properly support $BASEDIR
install/autodetect: refactor and simplify hook
functions: support $BASEDIR in modprobe
Makefile: the Makefile itself is a dep for the manpage
functions: add missing 'command' before install
functions: s/basedir/BASEDIR/
functions: fix pathing issue with $BASEDIR
install/base: use private API call to add config
mkinitcpio: fix resolution issues with RTLD
Eric Bélanger (1):
Added usbinput to default hooks (implements FS#19328)
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (3):
Fix some install hooks due recent change in all_modules()
Add missing /etc/bash_completion.d in Makefile
Add asciidoc as makedepends in private PKGBUILD.
Sebastien Luttringer (6):
Add bash completion to mkinitcpio
Fix printing of bash usage when asking for a bad hook
Print pretty message if no help is defined in hook
Use error function instead of echo
Add lsinitcpio bash completion
Use _get_comp_words_by_ref in bash completion
Thomas Bächler (7):
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/seblu/arch-mkinitcpio
into working
Remove old '-m' option from bash completion.
emove old '-a' option from bash completion and fix '-s' option.
Merge branch 'working'
Add .gitignore file
install/keymap: fix installation ($buildroot -> $BUILDROOT)
Release version 0.7
One small problem with mkinitcpio: the -z flag doesn't do anything.
I had COMPRESSION="xz" in the config and tried -z lzop - compressed with
xz. I had COMPRESSION="lzop" in the config and tried -z lzma -
compressed with lzop. (Verified with lsinitcpio.)
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Re: [arch-general] X terminal redraw problem
On 07/23/2011 06:02 PM, Jon Gjengset wrote: Hi fellow archers! This is my first post to this mailing list, so please excuse my behavior if I have picked the wrong list =) For a couple of months now, I have been experiencing occasional "flickering" in my terminal emulator (urxvt, but also happens with xterm, roxterm and gnome-terminal). There are several forum threads on the same issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118648 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117202 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117423 The latter seems to be the biggest one... The problem is that every now and then, the terminal seems to "forget" to draw some of the text on the screen, leaving a mangled output consisting of some stale text cells (as in the character that was previously in that position is still visible) and some empty cells (the previous character was a space, and the new character was not printed). The problem seems to occur sporadically, but happens often enough to be a real nuissance. Highlighting any text in the terminal window causes the text to be immediately corrected. The problem also appears when using vim or terminal-based emacs (i.e. curses interfaces). Seems the problem is quite widespread, and affects both nVidia, AMD/ATI and Intel graphics drivers.. A bug in X perhaps? Could someone with a bit more know-how than me please have a look? Any help is greatly appreciated, Jon Sounds like the problem I've been having with atris [1] and scummvm [2]. Try those, see if you have any redraw problems (switch to fullscreen in atris; just start `scummvm` and move around the mouse). Also try linux 2.6.38.6 [3]. That one doesn't have the problem, the first 2.6.39 does. My graphics card is intel 965gm. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7671 [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=scummvm [3] http://schlunix.org/archlinux/core/os/ -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] quiet kernel parameter
On 07/28/2011 08:13 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Meyithi wrote: On 28 July 2011 16:55, Tom Gundersen wrote: Hi Jason, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Meyithi wrote: Does anybody know the difference between the quiet kernel parameter and loglevel=4 parameter? All of the info I can find states that they should be identical, and /proc/sys/kernel/printk is identical. They should be identical. Just look at the code: < http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=init/main.c;h=d7211faed2adfb295caf46bbb9c70835f622eabe;hb=HEAD#l201 . The quiet parameter just sets loglevel=4. Unless I'm missing something. I am however getting framebuffer corruption during boot when using quiet which doesn't occur when using loglevel=4. This is very odd. Any more info on this? Screenshots? Can you see a difference in dmesg? Cheers, Tom Apologies for the format of this post, was supposed to be a draft until I gathered a bit more info, but I accidentally sent the first message and was hastened. Anyway, there is a few things I'm looking into, firstly I'm using kernel26-ck with syslinux, and I also have intel_agp and i915 in mkinitcpio.conf for an earlier framebuffer. Using quiet seems to switch (or attempt to switch) to framebuffer earlier, my entire screen will go grey, then switch to black with a white box in the top left which looks to be 640x480 and then the boot messages will overwrite the white box and the system will commence to boot. Using loglevel=4, this does not occur. So there must be some difference somewhere, and although it's just initial framebuffer corruption it's fired up my curiosity. I've got a lot to try in order to pin this down, was just hoping somebody knew of any differences between quiet and loglevel=4 to save the fiddling. ah nice, i asked about this *exact* same thing back in May: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-May/020186.html ... unfortunately no one had an answer, and most said it wasn't happening to them, but you seem to have narrowed it down more maybe ... it happened on nvidia/ati/intel cards for me -- every single one of my systems in fact. i ended up just making a small mkinitcpio hook that ran first and cleared the buffer ... still a super brief period of corruption, but looked much better. the issue i had is identical to what you've described; interested to see what you find out. I have this as well. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) Also with i915 and intel_agp in the ramdisk (for the same reason), also using 'quiet'. I won't reboot though, so no idea if 'loglevel=4' is different. This is not a new issue. I've seen it with the previous two or three kernels as well (2.6.37 - 2.6.39). I wasn't using 'quiet' before that, and had no such white box on the screen. Stock arch kernel, by the way, x86_64. -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 -> linux move compat symlinks
On 08/06/2011 12:19 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: If you want it to be KISS, let's not provide any backward compatibility and add an install message telling people to change their bootloader. Excellent idea. ;) Users are expected to read pacman's output anyway (or suffer the consequences). -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] Issues with Firefox 6 not starting after update
On 08/21/2011 07:14 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Auguste Pop wrote: do you aware that the log file is about 36M? Yup. Wasn't sure what else to do with it. xz. It compressed a >400 MiB log file to <10 MiB iirc. (sorry for the off-topic) -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration
On 09/10/2011 07:27 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Hello all, Since my (unknown) neighbour finally got smart enough to lock me out of his wireless access point (still unencrypted, probably filters on MAC address now), I got a Vodafone USB internet key, and even managed to make it work. But I've the impression that my current configuration isn't really optimal. The key identifies as 19d2:1013, and usb_modeswitch changes this to 19d2:1015. At that point I also get a new network interface called 'usb0'. So my first idea was that all I had to do was to configure and bring up that interface, but using netcfg to do this results in a 'No connection' error. Some more googling resulted in the following wvdial config which indeed does the job: [Dialer vodafone] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0&C1&D2 +FCLASS=0 Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it" Modem Type = USB Modem Phone = *99***1# ISDN = 0 Username = prova Password = prova Modem = /dev/ttyACM0 Baud = 460800 [Dialer pin] Modem = /dev/ttyACM0 Baud = 460800 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = AT +CPIN="" The 'pin' target is required once after power up. The 'vodafone' target results in: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 --> Cannot get information for serial port. --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0&C1&D2 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0&C1&D2 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it" AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","web.omnitel.it" OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATDT*99***1# --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT*99***1# CONNECT 1440 --> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. --> Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best. --> Starting pppd at Sat Sep 10 17:52:39 2011 --> Pid of pppd: 4140 --> Using interface ppp0 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> local IP address 109.113.40.0 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> remote IP address 10.0.0.1 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> primary DNS address 83.224.70.77 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] --> secondary DNS address 83.224.70.54 --> pppd: �[05]�[08]@�[08]�[07]�[08] plus a new network interface 'ppp0' and a working internet connection - I'm using it to write this post. But there are some strange things: 1. The 'Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best.' line from wvdial looks suspect. 2. The fact that I have _two_ new network interfaces. The existence of the 'usb0' one seems to suggest I don't need pppd at all, but how then to bring it up ? Any information / suggestions to improve this will be appreciated. Also, if at all possible I'd like to put all this into a neat netcfg profile. TIA, This thread is relevant: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-June/014388.html -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] ejecting after cdparanoia
> blah blah blah Get your own thread(s), will you. cdda2wav vs cdparanoia has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic. (If you forgot what the topic was, have a look at the subject line...) -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone
On 09/27/2011 10:33 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed? TIA Jorge Almeida agetty(8) says: --noclear Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen is normally cleared). So try that and let me know if it works (don't remove -i). I'm also interested in this but I can't reboot atm. -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux Cheat Cube (english)
On 10/05/2011 08:38 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, I saw cheat cubes for Fedora and Ubuntu. However someone has created a cheatcube for archlinux but it is in Spanish. I was wondering if anyone could translate it into english. Here is the link for the Spanish cheatcube http://elblogdepicodev.blogspot.com/2010/03/arch-linux-cheat-cube.html Thanks. http://i.imgur.com/md30u.png -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux Cheat Cube (english)
On 10/05/2011 10:41 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, cantabile wrote: On 10/05/2011 08:38 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, I saw cheat cubes for Fedora and Ubuntu. However someone has created a cheatcube for archlinux but it is in Spanish. I was wondering if anyone could translate it into english. Here is the link for the Spanish cheatcube http://elblogdepicodev.**blogspot.com/2010/03/arch-** linux-cheat-cube.html<http://elblogdepicodev.blogspot.com/2010/03/arch-linux-cheat-cube.html> Thanks. http://i.imgur.com/md30u.png -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River If only you had used that much of your time& skills to actually translate the cube. :( But that would have been actually useful! Or... wait. All those commands have documentation, in English! -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River
