Re: [arch-general] vnc on display:0

2008-12-29 Thread sagar n
*It is not totally headless, sorry, it doesnot have a keyboard or mouse. But it does have a monitor which I use to watch media. So, I want to connect via vnc/anything and get to control it. So display:0 connection is crucial. I looked at nomachine, but I dont think it has :0 connection. As of now,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] libnl 1.1-1, iw 0.9.7-1, crda 0.9.5-1

2008-12-29 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> With 2.6.28, the new wirless regulatory infrastructure is there. The above >> packages are in extra (libnl) or testing (iw, crda). If we want proper >> wireless support, we nee

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] libnl 1.1-1, iw 0.9.7-1, crda 0.9.5-1

2008-12-29 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > With 2.6.28, the new wirless regulatory infrastructure is there. The above > packages are in extra (libnl) or testing (iw, crda). If we want proper > wireless support, we need these packages in core. It works like this: > > - Install crda >

[arch-general] ftpd problem on ftp.archlinux.org?

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Hi, today i have several failed connections to ftp.archlinux.org --- [gerh...@tux1 ~]$ LANG=C wget ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz --2008-12-29 21:18:15-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz => `core.db.tar.gz.7' Resolving ftp.archlinux.org... 209.85.41

Re: [arch-general] Slow startup of mc

2008-12-29 Thread Abdul Halim
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2008 06:44:15 am Sergej Pupykin wrote: >> It is bug-feature I think. >> As I understand it is dns resolving problem. >> mc try to resolve local ips. You may put it into /etc/hosts >> >> 127.0.0.1localhost.locald

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.2 and AUR Upgrading

2008-12-29 Thread Leonid Grinberg
>> I am interested in this with regards both to this question and >> to others -- e.g. the main repositories currently have Amarok 1.4 >> while AUR has 2.0. I am wary of installing it from AUR because when >> it is moved to the main repositories, I don't know if Pacman will know >> how to handle t

[arch-general] [signoff] grub-097-15

2008-12-29 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Please signoff for both arches - added ext4 support patch greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Scott Horowitz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Pierre Chapuis > wrote: >> >> To me, the only way to use an up-to-date mplayer is to compile it yourself >> on your machine (by using one of the AUR packages). >> >> Making a binary mplayer package is very d

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-29 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, Thanks a lot for those suggestions. These will do wonderfully for now. Both have packages in AUR, too! > [2] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/plasma-netgraph?content=74071 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19238 > [3] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/SystemMonitorN

Re: [arch-general] grub2 and the ISOs (Was: Re: [arch-dev-public] grub with ext4 support)

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:17:35 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler : > This is interesting: On many BIOSes, grub 0.x is unable to find the > CD drive and thus many people want us to use isolinux. Personally i prefer isolinux as a "better" solution for ISO bootloader, but grub's advantage is the grub shell

[arch-general] grub2 and the ISOs (Was: Re: [arch-dev-public] grub with ext4 support)

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Gerhard Brauer schrieb: - I could made a test ISO (archiso based, 2.6.28) with grub2. This boots fine in virtual machines (like virtualbox or qemu). But on real machines the cdrom (biosdisk module) wasn't found. I never see cd0 on real hardware, only the harddisks (looked with ls when ls-mo

Re: [arch-general] Slow startup of mc

2008-12-29 Thread Baho Utot
On Monday 29 December 2008 06:44:15 am Sergej Pupykin wrote: > It is bug-feature I think. > As I understand it is dns resolving problem. > mc try to resolve local ips. You may put it into /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost > 192.168.1.2myhostname > This

Re: [arch-general] Slow startup of mc

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:44:15 +0300 schrieb Sergej Pupykin : > It is bug-feature I think. > As I understand it is dns resolving problem. > mc try to resolve local ips. You may put it into /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost > 192.168.1.2myhostname > Yea

Re: [arch-general] Slow startup of mc

2008-12-29 Thread Sergej Pupykin
It is bug-feature I think. As I understand it is dns resolving problem. mc try to resolve local ips. You may put it into /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost 192.168.1.2myhostname Original Message Subject: [arch-general] Slow startup of m

[arch-general] Slow startup of mc

2008-12-29 Thread Abdul Halim
Hi. I just found out that mc (midnight commander) in extra repository is buggy in a sense that it will take around 7 secs or more to start. This happens to me on several machines. Other distro are reporting this issues too: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24038 To resolve this issue, I have downloa

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-29 Thread Bram Schoenmakers
On Sunday 28 December 2008 16:57:26 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Hi, > I think the system monitor is coming back in 4.2. but I don't have a handy > link for that. Yes, it will be included [1]. But as indicated somewhere else, a memory plot is still missing. [1] http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kd

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-29 Thread Bram Schoenmakers
On Sunday 28 December 2008 06:22:24 Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, > I was wondering if anyone knows of a good KDE applet for monitoring > system activty, similar to the GNOME one. > I'd really like to be able to see CPU load, memory usage and network > activity. > > I am running vanilla KDE 4.1.3

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub with ext4 support

2008-12-29 Thread Gerhard Brauer
Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:30:33 +0100 schrieb "Ronald van Haren" : > I will check into the grub2 issue in that case. I've played around last days with grub2 (Version from extra and svn) for putting it as the ISO bootloader and with ext4 FS. - I could made a test ISO (archiso based, 2.6.28) with gru