[arch-general] [signoff] nfs-utils 1.2.0-2

2009-06-16 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, new nfs-utils package with new .install message, please signoff for both arches. 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] bash remote host completion gone

2009-06-16 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:46 PM, prad wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:49:24 -0500 > Dan McGee wrote: > >> which also autocomplete >> without having to remove the "security" of host name hashing >> > dan, > i tried that too last night, but forgot to wipeout the known_hosts file. > > what exactly i

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 23:51:19 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 06:43:13 David C. Rankin wrote: > > What do I do with all the :: Replace kdemultimedia with > > kde-unstable/kde- meta-kdemultimedia? [Y/n] questions if I want to > > preserve my kdemod3 install? > > No idea

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-16 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 06:43:13 David C. Rankin wrote: > What do I do with all the :: Replace kdemultimedia with > kde-unstable/kde- meta-kdemultimedia? [Y/n] questions if I want to preserve > my kdemod3 install? No idea why pacman asks this anyway. If you answer "no" it wont work; so j

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 23:43:13 David C. Rankin wrote: > On Tuesday 16 June 2009 11:51:25 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > [kde-unstable] > > Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > > One more thing > > If I do a pacman -s -u > > What do I do with all the :: Replace kdemultimedia with > kde-uns

Re: [arch-general] bash remote host completion gone

2009-06-16 Thread prad
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:49:24 -0500 Dan McGee wrote: > which also autocomplete > without having to remove the "security" of host name hashing > dan, i tried that too last night, but forgot to wipeout the known_hosts file. what exactly is the benefit of host name hashing? is it to prevent other us

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 11:51:25 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > [kde-unstable] > Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist One more thing If I do a pacman -s -u What do I do with all the :: Replace kdemultimedia with kde-unstable/kde- meta-kdemultimedia? [Y/n] questions if I want to preserve

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 11:51:25 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Tuesday 16 June 2009 16:39:50 David C. Rankin wrote: > > and look for the kde-unstable repo. > > > > Where do I find this repo and do I need to do anything more than sync > > against the repo holding the 4.3 packages? Thanks. > > Just enab

[arch-general] Squirrelmail Gotcha

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
List, Most of you know this, but it caught me off-guard. With Arch (with good security) if you define your squirrelmail data and attachment directories outside your document root (which you should), then you must explicitly add the path to the parent directory of data & attachment to th

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 12:12:15 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > What I am pissed at AMD/ATI for is dropping all Linux driver support > > for all cards sold before 2007 (Everything before the 2400 series). This > > screwed a lot of loyal ATI users over and left a real bad

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 11:13:55 Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > What I am pissed at AMD/ATI for is dropping all Linux driver > > support > > for all cards sold before 2007 (Everything before the 2400 series). > > This > > screwed a lot of

Re: [arch-general] bash remote host completion gone

2009-06-16 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM, prad wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:05:51 -0400 > Daenyth Blank wrote: > >> Additionally, you probably want to delete any hashed lines so they can >> be regenerated later. >> > that did it! > > i tried what aaron suggested last night actually and just now, but it

Re: [arch-general] gcc version package is compiled with

2009-06-16 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:09 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > >> Baho Utot wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to tell which version of gcc an executable is >>> compiled with? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Hello :) >> >> Maybe can be a better way :) But this just works. >>

Re: [arch-general] gcc version package is compiled with

2009-06-16 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:09 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > Is there any way to tell which version of gcc an executable is > > compiled with? > > > > > > > Hello :) > > Maybe can be a better way :) But this just works. > > strings -a /the/file | grep -m1 GCC > > Good

Re: [arch-general] gcc version package is compiled with

2009-06-16 Thread Baho Utot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:09 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > Is there any way to tell which version of gcc an executable is > > compiled with? > > > > > > > Hello :) > > Maybe can be a better way :) But this just works. > > strings -a /the/file | grep -m1 GCC > > Good

Re: [arch-general] gcc version package is compiled with

2009-06-16 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Baho Utot wrote: > Is there any way to tell which version of gcc an executable is > compiled with? > > > Hello :) Maybe can be a better way :) But this just works. strings -a /the/file | grep -m1 GCC Good Luck! -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key

Re: [arch-general] unionfs

2009-06-16 Thread Baho Utot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 16:43 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:28 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Baho Utot > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:20 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> >>

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Dwight Schauer
Did you read the whole article? It may have been working, but not without some issues. It other words, it was not working 100%, it still had some things lacking. >From the article: "Once installing the patched Radeon driver, it immediately began working with our Diamond Radeon HD 4850 (identified

Re: [arch-general] unionfs

2009-06-16 Thread Baho Utot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 16:43 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:28 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Baho Utot > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:20 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> >>

Re: [arch-general] unionfs

2009-06-16 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:28 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Baho Utot wrote: >> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:20 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Baho Utot >> >> wrote: >> >> > On Mon

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Antony Jepson
On 2009-06-17, Ricardo Hernandez wrote: > ATI noo!!! hehe. As commented above i'm almost 100% sure you'll have > troubles. At least in my case, ATI 4850, i cannot use X at all. ATI has no > support for kernel 2.6.29 yet and arch have a patch for that but it does not > work for some card, for ex

Re: [arch-general] unionfs

2009-06-16 Thread Baho Utot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:28 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:20 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Baho Utot > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:28 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >> >> B

Re: [arch-general] bash remote host completion gone

2009-06-16 Thread prad
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:05:51 -0400 Daenyth Blank wrote: > Additionally, you probably want to delete any hashed lines so they can > be regenerated later. > that did it! i tried what aaron suggested last night actually and just now, but it never occurred to be that the known_hosts file was already

Re: [arch-general] bash remote host completion gone

2009-06-16 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 15:51, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, prad wrote: >> i had remote host completion: >> ssh hostna[tab] >> with my original debian .bashrc file. >> >> now with a new arch install it is gone and setting this >> export HOSTFILE=$HOME/.hosts >> doesn't br

Re: [arch-general] bash remote host completion gone

2009-06-16 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, prad wrote: > i had remote host completion: > ssh hostna[tab] > with my original debian .bashrc file. > > now with a new arch install it is gone and setting this > export HOSTFILE=$HOME/.hosts > doesn't bring it back even when i put the hostnames from /etc/hosts > i

[arch-general] bash remote host completion gone

2009-06-16 Thread prad
i had remote host completion: ssh hostna[tab] with my original debian .bashrc file. now with a new arch install it is gone and setting this export HOSTFILE=$HOME/.hosts doesn't bring it back even when i put the hostnames from /etc/hosts into that file. bash-completion is there and working just fi

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Dwight Schauer
Well, a few issues here. 1) Video card drivers for X for mostly user mode with a couple exceptions, the proprietary ATI and Nvidia drivers needs proprieteray closed source kernel module in order to make full use of the card. 2) If one does not care that their card is being fully utilized (both ou

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: What I am pissed at AMD/ATI for is dropping all Linux driver support for all cards sold before 2007 (Everything before the 2400 series). This screwed a lot of loyal ATI users over and left a real bad taste in my mouth. Forgive me if I'm ignorant on the specifics of

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-16 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 16:39:50 David C. Rankin wrote: > and look for the kde-unstable repo. > > Where do I find this repo and do I need to do anything more than sync > against the repo holding the 4.3 packages? Thanks. Just enabled it in your pacman.conf: [kde-unstable] Include = /etc/pacman.d/

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Dwight Schauer
Both old and new ones. Most of the problems I've ran into are with dual monitor setups that use compiz. I've so much wanted to go with and opensource driver solution, but I've wasted too much time/money researching trying. So no more. Maybe in a year of two the nouveau drivers will have matured. La

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > What I am pissed at AMD/ATI for is dropping all Linux driver > support > for all cards sold before 2007 (Everything before the 2400 series). > This > screwed a lot of loyal ATI users over and left a real bad taste in my > mouth.

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
Baho Utot wrote: I have a standard solution I now employ with all ATI desktop graphics cards that really works well. Open the case, remove the retaining screw for the card, remove the card, and then put an NVidia card in its place just a fast as you can. You can use the ATI card for ta

Re: [arch-general] unionfs

2009-06-16 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:20 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Baho Utot wrote: >> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:28 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> Baho Utot wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:46 +1000, Allan McRae w

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Ricardo Hernandez wrote: David, indeed old ati card are well supported, new ati card are almost no supported. 2009/6/17 David Rosenstrauch Are you referring to old ATI cards? Or new ones? Dunno ... I've used a number of ATI cards, and haven't had problems. I'm currently using a laptop with

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Ricardo Hernandez
David, indeed old ati card are well supported, new ati card are almost no supported. 2009/6/17 David Rosenstrauch > Are you referring to old ATI cards? Or new ones? > > Dunno ... I've used a number of ATI cards, and haven't had problems. I'm > currently using a laptop with a ATI Mobility Radeon

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Are you referring to old ATI cards? Or new ones? Dunno ... I've used a number of ATI cards, and haven't had problems. I'm currently using a laptop with a ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, and a desktop/server with a ATI Radeon 9200 SE - both without incident. DR Dwight Schauer wrote: I have to agr

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Dwight Schauer
I have to agree, ATI is big no no if you want a decent workstation setup. I've tried a whole lot to use ATI instead of Nvidia but it just never pans out. I've wasted a lot of money and a whole lot of time on ATI cards and just end up ripping the card out and putting in an Nvidia one. I don't even u

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Ricardo Hernandez
ATI noo!!! hehe. As commented above i'm almost 100% sure you'll have troubles. At least in my case, ATI 4850, i cannot use X at all. ATI has no support for kernel 2.6.29 yet and arch have a patch for that but it does not work for some card, for example my card. Xorg didn't recognize mi card eve

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-16 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:39 PM, David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 09:22:55 David C. Rankin wrote: >> >>> Now where can I get 4.3 Beta for Arch? or at least a good >>> howto on how to download the build dependencies need

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-16 Thread David C. Rankin
Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 09:22:55 David C. Rankin wrote: Now where can I get 4.3 Beta for Arch? or at least a good howto on how to download the build dependencies needed to build from source. I'll check the wiki ;-) Subscribe to arch-dev-public Pierre, Thanks, I was

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
David C. Rankin schrieb: Your alternative is to use the radeonhd driver. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe your card is supported. The radeonhd driver is really making progress and is a very good open-Source driver. I use it with laptop running Arch. Heat is a bit of a problem on my laptop

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Firmicus
> RedFlag (where the heck did this come from??) > Hum! Ever heard of China? ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux http://www.redflag-linux.com/en/about.php

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Baho Utot
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 23:21 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I am gathering info on this new system > > > > I just bought a new computer ($550USD complete) as I wanted to go 64 bit > > > > Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P motherboard > > AMD Phenom II X4 810 AM3 socket 2.6G > > 8GB Hig