Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a Windows8 UEFI laptop

2014-05-02 Thread nhas...@gmail.com
Alan by any chance have you tried turning your computer on using the boot
menu button? I don't know what it's called but the new Lenovo computers
have a smaller power button located near the primary power button.  by
using this button to start your computer you will be presented with the
boot menu options such as which operating system to start and the option to
go into the bios settings.


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Alan E. Davis  wrote:

> I have never seen an option to boot the Arch iso using eufi boot.
>
> I may not have said that I want to dual boot.  I do need to do so.  If I
> boot directly back into Arch, will there be an option do dual boot?
> (Actually triple boot for the time being.)
>
> Alan Davis
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Mark Lee  wrote:
>
> > Salutations,
> >
> > Okay. Try starting ove again. Boot into the arch iso using uefi boot
> > (preferably but not necessary). Then set up your partitions (root, home).
> > For boot, mount the windows EFI system partition as /boot. Then install
> the
> > system. You won't need to install grub or gummiboot since you can boot
> the
> > efistub directly. I would create a folder in /boot named "arch". I would
> > then copy the *.img from /boot to /boot/arch and rename the vmlinuz-Linux
> > to vmlinuz-linux.efi. If you booted into uefi mode from the Arch iso, you
> > should be able to run efibootmgr. Run efibootmgr to see what entries you
> > have (you should at least have the windows entry). Then type something
> like
> > this : efibootmgr -d  > (probably 1> -L "Arch Linux UEFI" -l /arch/vmlinux-Linux.efi -u
> > "root= initramfs=/arch/initramfs.img rw quiet" -w. You
> > should be able to reboot if all went well and you will boot into Arch
> Linux.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mark
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: "Alan E. Davis" 
> > Sent: ‎5/‎1/‎2014 8:07 PM
> > To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" 
> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a
> > Windows8 UEFI laptop
> >
> > I don't understand what is the entry, or fallback entry, or "run the
> > entry."   I'm sorry.
> >
> > I'm going to try again later.  In fact, I may take the undesireable step
> of
> > installing from Manjaro or whatever is the shortcut way to install Arch
> > Linux these days.
> >
> > On the one hand, I don't care to learn about what's Micro$oft's latest
> > tortuous trick it has played on the users; and on the other hand, I do
> > value to learn the nuts and bolts of GNU/Linux.
> >
> > Thank you very much.  I am willing to give it one more try.  I might even
> > try to install grub in a partition, as apparently is what Ubuntu has
> > done.
> >
> > Thank you again,
> >
> > Alan Davis
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Micay 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 01/05/14 07:40 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > > > I took a chance, and nothing happened.   I installed gummiboot on
> > /boot,
> > > > where the kernel was.  But I didn't move the ubuntu kernel over.
> > > >
> > > > In the end, Windows still booted, and I was able to get back to a
> boot
> > > menu
> > > > from there, and boot ubuntu.  Not Arch.  Yet.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for now.
> > > >
> > > > Alan
> > >
> > > You need to explicitly run the entry (if you had the EFI stuff mounted)
> > > or the fallback entry (if you didn't).
> > >
> > >
> >
>


Re: [arch-general] No longer able to print

2014-06-10 Thread nhas...@gmail.com
I had a different problem but it might help. After upgrading to the new
CUPS I had to delete and re-add my printer before I was able to resume
printing.


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Squall Lionheart <
headmastersqu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Since about three weeks ago after an update, I have no longer been able to
> print using CUPS.  When I send a job to the print queue, it generates this
> message:
>
> stopped
> *"The PPD version (5.2.9) is not compatible with Gutenprint 5.2.10."*
>
> I was unable to find anything helpful through the search engines.  Was
> there a package split for older drivers, or perhaps something else I need
> to install to get this to work again?
>
> Running linux 3.14.6-1 and:
>
> $ pacman -Qs cups
> local/cups 1.7.3-3
> local/cups-filters 1.0.54-1
> local/libcups 1.7.3-3
>
> $ pacman -Qs gutenprint
> local/gutenprint 5.2.10-1
>
> $ pacman -Qs ppd
> local/foomatic-db 3:20140324-1
> local/foomatic-db-engine 3:20140324-1
>
> $ pacman -Qs hplip
> local/hplip 3.14.6-1
>
> Thank you
> Squall
>
> --
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>
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Re: [arch-general] Setup of HiDPI with awesome wm

2014-06-19 Thread nhas...@gmail.com
I'll admit that I'm not familiar with awesome wm, but I just wanted to let
you know that the new version of i3 that just hit Arch a few days ago now
supports HiDPI displays.  I'm looking forward to trying it when the Lenovo
Y50 w/HiDPI becomes available next month.


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:28 AM, tlux  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It's the first time I am requesting help through this distribution list. So
> excuse me if I am in the wrong place.
>
> So, here is my point:
> I have a lenovo T540p with a 3K screen display and, as
> one could image, I have very small fonts and icons which are barelly
> visible at
> normal distance from the screen. I've manage to increase fonts size in  my
> configurations files. However, from time to time I need to connect to a 19"
> monitor(1280x1024) and the result is terrible (to say the least).
>
> Is there someone who is in the same situation? and what is your workaround?
> Please note that I am using Awesome WM and thus cannot use the scaling
> factor(Gnome 3) as described here:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
>
> One option I thought of would be to create an udev rule that would detect
> the monitor's connection and trigger a script that would make all the
> necessary
> connfiguration changes. What do you guys think?
>
> Thanks!
>