Re: [arch-general] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?

On Dienstag, 5. Mai 2009 02:00 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Currently the only package afected are poppler* (or at least that I > use/know). Thanks for this infos. > I was talking about kpdf, but this is an old example. In KDE4 Okular > uses shared lib poppler, not a private copy. The same ap

[arch-general] xorg crash with setxkbmap frequently use

Hi folks, X server crashes randomly with the following error: [xkb] BOGUS LENGTH in write keyboard desc, expected 5576, got 5592 Graphic card is Intel G965, driver xf86-video-intel, tried both from [extra] and [testing]. I'm using the Caps_Lock key to change the keyboard layout via a script. I

Re: [arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?

Ops, seems like you've already tried that. Guess I gotta go bed... On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Flavio Costa wrote: > pacman -Qo > > That way you can find out which package installed it. > > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:32 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > >> On Mon, May 4, 2009 9:08 pm, David

Re: [arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?

pacman -Qo That way you can find out which package installed it. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:32 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 9:08 pm, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Dunno? Can somebody take a quick check and see if they have this > stray > > .fdi > > file in th

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Don't modify any policykit or hal configurations, they are fine. All you >> need to do is register a session with consolekit. If you use KDM (KDE4 >> versions only) or GDM, t

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Don't modify any policykit or hal configurations, they are fine. All you > need to do is register a session with consolekit. If you use KDM (KDE4 > versions only) or GDM, this is done automatically. > I use kdm from kdemod3. I tried changin

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

On Monday 04 May 2009 13:36:03 you wrote: > [snip] > > I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but I've had > difficulty auto-mounting NTFS partitions as read/write. The reason seems > to be that auto-mount autodetects NTFS partitions as using the ntfs driver, > but in order to

Re: [arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?

On Mon, May 4, 2009 9:08 pm, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Dunno? Can somebody take a quick check and see if they have this stray > .fdi > file in their / directory. Nuttin. [dar...@darsys9 ~]$ sudo find / -name 20-ups-nut-device.fdi [dar...@darsys9 ~]$ DR

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

On Monday 04 May 2009 13:30:42 Christopher Daley wrote: > Do you have ntfs-3g installed? > Yep! [20:17 alchemy:/] # pmq syslog-ng syslog-ng 3.0.1-6 Now what? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facs

Re: [arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?

On 2009-05-04 20:08 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12367 2008-06-17 08:39 20-ups-nut-device.fdi Did you install this? When I searched with Google, I found this AUR link. Thomas

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

On Monday 04 May 2009 12:05:09 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > While I'm at it, where can I turn the default attempt to start 'eth0' > > off. > > in rc.conf: > > > # Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order) > # Declare each interface then list in INTERFAC

[arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?

Listmates, Picking around with mc, I saw a file that looked really out of place. In my / dir, I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi. Shouldn't that be in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. I plead the 5th, I don't know how it got there. This is on my x86_64 box. The date and time of the file are: -rw-r--r-

Re: [arch-general] Function keys not working?

On Mon, May 4, 2009 4:32 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> Not sure what happened but looks like all of a sudden the function keys >> (i.e., F1 through F12) are no longer working on my keyboard today. >> REALLY annoying. >> >> Tried using xev and it's responding with weir

Re: [arch-general] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?

Attila wrote: > On Montag, 4. Mai 2009 23:06 Jan de Groot wrote: > > >> Deactivating the patch can be done by fontconfig configuration, so you >> don't have to recompile freetype at all for this. >> > > That's what i have done and i'm satisfied with it but Gerardo speaks about > problems wi

Re: [arch-general] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?

On Montag, 4. Mai 2009 23:06 Jan de Groot wrote: > Deactivating the patch can be done by fontconfig configuration, so you > don't have to recompile freetype at all for this. That's what i have done and i'm satisfied with it but Gerardo speaks about problems with kpdf and poppler when this patch i

Re: [arch-general] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?

Jan de Groot wrote: > On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 22:44 +0200, Attila wrote: > >> On Montag, 4. Mai 2009 18:17 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >> >> >>> Personally in my machine, I recompiled this package without the patch, I >>> prefer the auto-hinting from freetype2, because fonts looks better (a

Re: [arch-general] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 22:44 +0200, Attila wrote: > On Montag, 4. Mai 2009 18:17 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > > > Personally in my machine, I recompiled this package without the patch, I > > prefer the auto-hinting from freetype2, because fonts looks better (at > > least on CRT), I know that thi

Re: [arch-general] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?

On Montag, 4. Mai 2009 18:17 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Personally in my machine, I recompiled this package without the patch, I > prefer the auto-hinting from freetype2, because fonts looks better (at > least on CRT), I know that this can be configured with fontconf, but > because some progr

Re: [arch-general] Function keys not working?

David Rosenstrauch wrote: Not sure what happened but looks like all of a sudden the function keys (i.e., F1 through F12) are no longer working on my keyboard today. REALLY annoying. Tried using xev and it's responding with weird key codes: F1 - keycode 244 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol) F3 - nothing

[arch-general] Function keys not working?

Not sure what happened but looks like all of a sudden the function keys (i.e., F1 through F12) are no longer working on my keyboard today. REALLY annoying. Tried using xev and it's responding with weird key codes: F1 - keycode 244 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol) F3 - nothing F11 - keycode 210 (keysym 0

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

Excerpts from David Rosenstrauch's message of Mo Mai 04 19:05:09 +0200 2009: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > While I'm at it, where can I turn the default attempt to start 'eth0' > > off. > > # Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order) > # Declare each interface then list in INT

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

Do you have ntfs-3g installed? On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:42 PM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2009 07:37:50 flashkot wrote: > > 2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez > > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > > > > > >

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

On Monday 04 May 2009 07:37:50 flashkot wrote: > 2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > > > >org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, > > > > result) > > > > Did you tried [0] ? > > > > [0] http://wiki.archlinux.org/

Re: [arch-general] kde3 Error: Could Not Determine R esource Status - Kmail??

On Monday 04 May 2009 10:34:05 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Anybody see this before and more importantly, How do I fix it? > > Use Thunderbird? :-) > > DR I got it fix auto-mysterious-magically Yes, it was imap and I don't exactly know what in the hel

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: While I'm at it, where can I turn the default attempt to start 'eth0' off. in rc.conf: # Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order) # Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES # - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it ... INTERFAC

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager or http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd Both explain how depending on what you are running. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:21:05 Jan Spakula wrote: >> Excerpts from David C. Ran

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:21:05 Jan Spakula wrote: > Excerpts from David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.'s message of So Mai 03 12:11:04 +0200 2009: > > (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi > > driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to > > know where t

Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:21:05 Jan Spakula wrote: > Excerpts from David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.'s message of So Mai 03 12:11:04 +0200 2009: > > (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi > > driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to > > know where t

Re: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer

Christopher Daley wrote: That board doesn't seem to have a PCI/PCI-E slots, so you'd have to splurge on a USB tv tuner card. But you could probably shove that motherboard into anything. It has an x1 PCI-express slot. The on-board graphics is an Intel X4500HD, how good is Linux support on thi

[arch-general] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?

Hi, Because it is being a topic of great interest to the licenses of the packages, I question, because I'm not good at anything legal issues: This package with this option enabled, not is problematic in legal terms? http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html Personally in my machine, I recompi

Re: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer

That board doesn't seem to have a PCI/PCI-E slots, so you'd have to splurge on a USB tv tuner card. But you could probably shove that motherboard into anything. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Roberto Malinverni < roberto.malinve...@dico.coop.it> wrote: > > -Messaggio originale- > > Mess

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. schrieb: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result) What gives?? Don't modify any policykit or hal configurations, they are fine. All you need to do is register a session with consolekit. If you use KDM (KDE4 versions only)

Re: [arch-general] kde3 Error: Could Not Determine Resource Status - Kmail??

David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: Anybody see this before and more importantly, How do I fix it? Use Thunderbird? :-) DR

Re: [arch-general] 3rd Arch install -- on my laptop -- a bit more of a challenge - ATI is the problem

David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, My 3rd install of Arch is on my x86_64 laptop (Toshiba 205D). Unfortunately I have an ATI Radeon 1200 in it and ATI - SUCKS. (Not to mention they have just royally screwed Linux over by dropping all support for the R300-R500 series cards while the last

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > >org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, > result) > > Did you tried [0] ? > > [0] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Auto-mounting_fails > > This also may help: http://wiki.ar

Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > >        I'm fighting with PolicyKit to mount my USB drives and --- it's > Winning! > >        I've modified /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to give all users and > myself > (david) explicit authority (as a member of

Re: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer

> -Messaggio originale- > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 21:33:14 +0200 > From: RedShift > Subject: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux > Message-ID: <49fdf17a.8040...@pandora.be> > Content-Type: text/plain; charse

[arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

Listmates, I'm fighting with PolicyKit to mount my USB drives and --- it's Winning! I've modified /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to give all users and myself (david) explicit authority (as a member of wheel and as me) and I've *restarted* hal and still no-go? My conf file look