Re: [arch-general] alternate dependencies?

2008-04-20 Thread Xavier
Neil Darlow wrote: Hi, Seeing the earlier post re. tetex and texlive perhaps there is a case for extending pacman to support alternate dependencies. By this I mean a package could depend on one of a choice of packages. The syntax could be something like: depends=( tetex|texlive ) where th

[arch-general] alternate dependencies?

2008-04-20 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi, Seeing the earlier post re. tetex and texlive perhaps there is a case for extending pacman to support alternate dependencies. By this I mean a package could depend on one of a choice of packages. The syntax could be something like: depends=( tetex|texlive ) where the individual depende

[arch-general] texlive (again?)

2008-04-20 Thread Jan Spakula
Hello Archers, I want to bring up the TeX distributions issue. Current status: - tetex in extra: unmaintained (upstream) though still usable, some parts are already getting outdated (pdftex, some latex packages); - texlive in community: firmicus keeps it pretty up to date, the dist itself

Re: [arch-general] kdelibs 3.5.9

2008-04-20 Thread Attila
On Montag, 21. April 2008 05:39 Jakub Schmidtke wrote: > Is there anybody using KDE in Arch at all? Yes i use kde and i use your patch without any problem. Thanks for it. > It has already been a month since submitting bug report about any KDE editor > based on Kate being severely broken in KDE 3

[arch-general] kdelibs 3.5.9

2008-04-20 Thread Jakub Schmidtke
Is there anybody using KDE in Arch at all? It has already been a month since submitting bug report about any KDE editor based on Kate being severely broken in KDE 3.5.9 (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9891 ) and even though kdelibs package was updated in the meantime, this bug hasn't been fixed. T

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread pyther
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Re: [arch-general] Multiple sound cards

2008-04-20 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
OK, it's all explained in the source code referred to by Johannes Goecke (see above). In version 2.6.23 a "catch all VIA VT8237" function was used to enable the on-board sound card -- which is why it worked for me. In version 2.6.24 this was removed. Instead the DMI code ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [arch-general] libSoundTouch.a but no libSoundTouch.so

2008-04-20 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Sunday 20 April 2008 19:05:35 Nigel Henry wrote: > Is this a bug, and if so, where should I report it? not really. the default config doesn't build shared. (for a good reason) you can enable it with ./configure --enable-shared > but then make complained that it couldn't find libtools, even thou

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 42, Issue 29

2008-04-20 Thread Keith
FWIW - This might belong on the forums; I've been meaning to post on the topic for a while, but life gets in the way sometimes, and I see the topic here, so... Karolina Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: s?ndagen den 20 april 2008 skrev Stephen Wilkinson: > Does anyone have any suggesti

[arch-general] new url for cvs.archlinux.org?

2008-04-20 Thread Attila
Hi, i read the informations about the new abs and the step behind to svn again but i'm too silly to find where i can look for the changes of a package as before under cvs.archlinux.org. Can someone post the new link or is this still under development? See you, Attila

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Dream Team
Le Sunday 20 April 2008 19:07:11 Dimitrios Apostolou, vous avez écrit : > Dream Team wrote: > > Le Sunday 20 April 2008 15:23:38 Erwin Van de Velde, vous avez écrit : > >> On Saturday 19 April 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >>> - Removed mactel patch > >>> > >>> The removal of these patches was beca

[arch-general] libSoundTouch.a but no libSoundTouch.so

2008-04-20 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm trying to build Psychosynth on "Don't Panic". There are are a few deps, some of which I need to build from source (OIS, Ogre, and CEGUI). Soundtouch is also a dep, and is available from the Archlinux repos, but running ./configure on Psychosynth, it failed to find the libsoundtouch lib. Loo

Re: [arch-general] Multiple sound cards

2008-04-20 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
I thought I'd check the changelog for 2.6.24 on www.kernel.org (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24) and found this: --8< commit 346ca04d050ac48ceb8e

Re: [arch-general] Multiple sound cards

2008-04-20 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
Thanks Karolina, I'd noticed that too, that the kernel (from 2.6.17 til 2.6.23) detected the on-board sound card even when it was set to "disabled" in the BIOS. I double checked the BIOS setting, and it is definitely enabled. Before kernel 2.6.17 I couldn't get the two cards working simultaneousl

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Dream Team wrote: Le Sunday 20 April 2008 15:23:38 Erwin Van de Velde, vous avez écrit : On Saturday 19 April 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote: - Removed mactel patch The removal of these patches was because a) there are no new patches available for 2.6.25 and b) I am trying to reduce the amount of

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
waldek schrieb: Hi Thomas, I've noticed that "loop" is not part of the kernel anymore, but available as a module. That was intentional. If you frequently use loop mounts, add the module to rc.conf: MODULES=(.. loop) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread waldek
Thomas Bächler wrote: > The new 2.6.25 kernel and most of the external modules are in [testing]. ... > I wish you all happy testing. Hi Thomas, I've noticed that "loop" is not part of the kernel anymore, but available as a module. cheers waldek

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Dream Team schrieb: I also am using arch on my mac, and I find this essential and should not be removed if you find 2.6.25 compatible patchs (I am sure that they will come out in not so many time) You see, that's my problem, they may come out sometime. On the mactel mailing lists, there is no

Re: [arch-general] Multiple sound cards

2008-04-20 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
söndagen den 20 april 2008 skrev Stephen Wilkinson: > Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this may have stopped > working in moving from 2.6.23 to 2.6.24? Is it no longer possible to > run two sound cards together? I got the same problem with my (only) built-in VIA sound chip. From kernel

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Dream Team
Le Sunday 20 April 2008 15:23:38 Erwin Van de Velde, vous avez écrit : > On Saturday 19 April 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > - Removed mactel patch > > > > The removal of these patches was because a) there are no new patches > > available for 2.6.25 and b) I am trying to reduce the amount of > > p

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Saturday 19 April 2008 18:30:00 Thomas Bächler wrote: > - Removed phc patch > - Removed mactel patch >I am trying to reduce the amount of > patching, finally. -- best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Arvid Ephraim Picciani

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Erwin Van de Velde schrieb: As far as I know, the mactel patch is required for some hardware support on intel-based mac systems and contains important fixes. This does not seem like one patch too many, but an essential one for all users who, like me, have mac hardware. Wouldn't you think tha

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Erwin Van de Velde
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote: > - Removed mactel patch > > The removal of these patches was because a) there are no new patches > available for 2.6.25 and b) I am trying to reduce the amount of > patching, especially if it only benefits a few people or can be > potentially danger

[arch-general] Multiple sound cards

2008-04-20 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
Hello All, I use two sound cards in my computer: * the on-board card (VIA 8237 chipset) * a SBLive! PCI card Until Kernel 2.6.23-ARCH I was able to use either card, in KMix and Skype for instance. But from Kernel 2.6.24-ARCH, only one card appears in KMix and Skype. Back when the two cards worke

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Attila
On Sonntag, 20. April 2008 12:30 Thomas Bächler wrote: > However, there seem to be problems with nvidia, according to Pierre. I > didn't notice anything, but then I only started kdm, didn't even log in. Okay, now i can say that nvidia 173.08 works and it seems that if you run /etc/start_udev the

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Attila
On Sonntag, 20. April 2008 12:30 Thomas Bächler wrote: > I think you misunderstood me, I only said I didn't do any updates on the > external module packages. I did however rebuild the ones that compiled > against 2.6.25. My error, i took only the section to quote and not to say that the modules w

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Attila schrieb: I didn't update any modules, so if there are new versions available for any, please inform their maintainers. The following modules are currently broken. I didn't do any research on those yet, so if anyone knows something, please let me know. I think you misunderstood me, I only

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread Attila
On Samstag, 19. April 2008 18:30 Thomas Bächler wrote: > I didn't update any modules, so if there are new versions available for > any, please inform their maintainers. The following modules are > currently broken. I didn't do any research on those yet, so if anyone > knows something, please let m