Re: [arch-general] Help understanding which interface OpenOffice is using? [Solved]

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 12:38:37 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Try installing kdemod3-gtk-qt-engine. It makes Gnome/GTK apps use your > KDE settings. Its configuration screen gets added into the KDE control > center under Appearance & Themes -> GTK Styles and Fonts. > > If you look at my deskt

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-13 Thread Aren Olson
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 13:44, Andrei Thorp wrote: > Last I checked, you can't run 3D games inside of a virtual machine, > unless something's changed. Anyone confirm? > > -AT You can, with some hacking. However I have yet to successfully make this work with a win 7 VM. For XP in virtualbox, the

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 18:17:18 Andrei Thorp wrote: > I'm very cool with bypassing root-level security checks when > originating from the physical machine. > > Anyway, another thing you can do is put some scripts in your path that > override the application that you want to run and then just sudo

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-13 Thread Andrei Thorp
I'm very cool with bypassing root-level security checks when originating from the physical machine. Anyway, another thing you can do is put some scripts in your path that override the application that you want to run and then just sudo run it. I'm not really sure what PATH KDM (and therefore KDE?)

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-13 Thread ludovic coues
My connexion is ok now. I've just forget to read the part for wifi connexion in the wiki. Problem remain for 3D. Drive seems to don't work. I'll give a try again on wine. Thank a lot all ;-)

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-13 Thread ludovic coues
My connexion is ok now. I've just forget to read the part for wifi connexion in the wiki. Problem remain for 3D. Drive seems to don't work. I'll give a try again on wine. Thank a lot all ;-) 2009/5/13, Patrick Baumgart : > I think there is no need to bridge your network inside your machine. > Use

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-13 Thread Patrick Baumgart
I think there is no need to bridge your network inside your machine. Use the outwards interface (eth0) in your settings. Give in windows a "fresh" IP for your Virtualbox. Works fin on my side. I have all Linux "normal" built: wlan0 to get to the router. (example 192.168.5.1, Router: 192.168.5.100)

Re: [arch-general] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?

2009-05-13 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009 14:46:29 -0300 > Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > > . >> There's some time now that X Window has a hotplugging feature. You can >> disable it, probably is what you want. See >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David Rosenstrauch wrote: No idea whose issue this is. But I normally just do Alt-F2, and then say: kdesu BTW, the dialog box that kdesu pops up includes a checkbox to save the password ("Keep password"). So if that works as advertised that would solve your problem. Haven't tried this my

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: Listmates, When I need to run apps a root for configuration purposes like kate, or konqueror "File Management", I either put the command in the Alt+F2 run dialog or create a menu entry and then check [ ] run as different users and put 'root' in the different

Re: [arch-general] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?

2009-05-13 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Wed, 13 May 2009 14:46:29 -0300 Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: . > There's some time now that X Window has a hotplugging feature. You can > disable it, probably is what you want. See > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging for more > information. Thanks for reply, D

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: Now, I preface this with the fact that I have virtually no experience picking through the sound system in /proc, but it looks like I have "2"? codecs required (HDA Codecc 0 & 3). Actually, that makes 2 of us! :-) All I know is what I've learned from fixin

[arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Listmates, When I need to run apps a root for configuration purposes like kate, or konqueror "File Management", I either put the command in the Alt+F2 run dialog or create a menu entry and then check [ ] run as different users and put 'root' in the different user text box. Even though I

Re: [arch-general] Gnome update failed

2009-05-13 Thread Manolo
OK, thanks for the answers. Upgrade worked for me when I set locales to "en". Thanks!!! Manolo.

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:40:34 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > snd-hda-intel encompasses many different chipsets/codecs. Which one > does your card use? You can find out like so: > > [dar...@daroselin ~]$ grep Codec /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 > Codec: IDT 92HD71B7X > > > As far as general things

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 07:38:07 Damjan Georgievski wrote: > >        When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine. > > However, if I log out and then back it, most times the sound is gone -- > > dead. The sound will not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any > > ideas on what to

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-13 Thread Andrei Thorp
Last I checked, you can't run 3D games inside of a virtual machine, unless something's changed. Anyone confirm? -AT On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:25 PM, ludovic coues wrote: > hi listmate, > > I'm posting 'cause I have some problem when I bridge a connexion. > I wanna set up a virtual machine with

Re: [arch-general] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?

2009-05-13 Thread Paulo Santos
Sergey Manucharian wrote: It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't work anymore, or I'm missing something? [...] Is it a bug of a "feature" of the new X? It's a feature since Xorg 1.5.X, it's called Xorg Input Hotplugging. Now your keyboard layout settings should

Re: [arch-general] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?

2009-05-13 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > Hi folks, > > It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't > work anymore, or I'm missing something? > > --8<-- > Section "InputDevice" >    . >    Option "XkbRules"   "x

[arch-general] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?

2009-05-13 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't work anymore, or I'm missing something? --8<-- Section "InputDevice" . Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru,am"

[arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-13 Thread ludovic coues
hi listmate, I'm posting 'cause I have some problem when I bridge a connexion. I wanna set up a virtual machine with windws 7 to play eve online (no support for linux at this time, and I can't make it run on wine). So I've follow the wiki for setting up network with the virtual machine. But now,

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: Listmates, I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Sy

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>        When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine. However, if > I log > out and then back it, most times the sound is gone -- dead. The sound will > not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any ideas on what to check or > what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas on how to

Re: [arch-general] Radeonhd - Use EXA Accel instead of XAA Accel

2009-05-13 Thread Andrei Thorp
Huh, cool. Thanks for yet another useful bit of information :) -AT On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:17 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > >        If you use the radeonhd driver, use EXA acceleration instead of XAA. I > just > found out about this today and it is a 100% improvement i

[arch-general] Radeonhd - Use EXA Accel instead of XAA Accel

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Listmates, If you use the radeonhd driver, use EXA acceleration instead of XAA. I just found out about this today and it is a 100% improvement in speed, etc. over XAA acceleration. It isn't as fast as fglrx, but it is a world of improvement over the alternative. To make use of EXA acce

Re: [arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot

2009-05-13 Thread JM
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 01:30:20 Vincent Van Houtte wrote: >> Op Wed, 13 May 2009 00:49:50 -0500 >> >> >> The concept is nice - but you do know this is the old logo you're using, >> right? >> >> Vincent > > Yes, > >        Than

Re: [arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors [Partially Solved]

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 23:52:23 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > *WARN_ONCE* > File r300_mem.c function r300_mem_alloc line 225 > Ran out of GART memory (for 1048576)! > Please consider adjusting GARTSize option. >

Re: [arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 01:30:20 Vincent Van Houtte wrote: > Op Wed, 13 May 2009 00:49:50 -0500 > > > The concept is nice - but you do know this is the old logo you're using, > right? > > Vincent Yes, Thanks Vincent. I just grabbed it because this one had a really cool glass look I tho

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 03:37:26 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running > arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: > > > When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fi

Re: [arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update [Solved]

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Monday 11 May 2009 23:47:55 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > I have some additional information from the log file: > > May 11 23:37:42 alchemy kernel: opera[4657]: segfault at 0 ip > 7f0c25c36719 sp 7fff2fabd710 error 4 in > libstdc++.so.6.0.11[7f0c25b72000+f1000] Opera seems to be

[arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-13 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Listmates, I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Con

[arch-general] new Ruby on Rails page on the wiki

2009-05-13 Thread Sébastien Duquette
Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I created a Ruby on Rails page on the wiki. It's not really long but the basis is there to quickly set up a rails application. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RubyOnRails As always, please feel free to comment and edit the wiki. Sébastien Duquette