Re: [arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

2009-08-21 Thread Nathan K. Bathory
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:16:03 -0300 Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:10 PM, wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:55:21PM -0300, Denis A. Alto? Falqueto > > wrote: > >> 5. rebuild your copy to make your own package > >> 6. uninstall the official nvidia package > >> 7. i

Re: [arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

2009-08-21 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:10 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:55:21PM -0300, Denis A. Alto? Falqueto wrote: >> 5. rebuild your copy to make your own package >> 6. uninstall the official nvidia package >> 7. install yours >> 8. cross your fingers... just kidding :) >> > I would suggest unin

Re: [arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

2009-08-21 Thread Nezmer
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:55:21PM -0300, Denis A. Alto? Falqueto wrote: > 5. rebuild your copy to make your own package > 6. uninstall the official nvidia package > 7. install yours > 8. cross your fingers... just kidding :) > I would suggest uninstalling the official package 1st as It's a kernel

Re: [arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

2009-08-21 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:41 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >        Before trying anything I would regret, I thought I would ask. Is it > possible? If so, how? Is "-d" OK here? Worst case, I just end up in runlevel > 3 reinstalling the current driver again, right? I would suggest the following: 1.

[arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I was going to test the nvidia driver fan issue by downgrading to the next older version of the driver with: [19:34 archangel:/srv/www] # pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-180.51-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-180.51-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz loading p

Re: [arch-general] rxvt-unicode patch

2009-08-21 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I try to write here, because of the bugs.archlinux.org problems. > > > > I've got a small patch for rxvt-unicode package to build from AUR, > something > > similar in cas

Re: [arch-general] rxvt-unicode patch

2009-08-21 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > Hello! > > I try to write here, because of the bugs.archlinux.org problems. > > I've got a small patch for rxvt-unicode package to build from AUR, something > similar in case of community/rxvt-unicode-color256! Those sed lines look to simply re

[arch-general] rxvt-unicode patch

2009-08-21 Thread Laszlo Papp
Hello! I try to write here, because of the bugs.archlinux.org problems. I've got a small patch for rxvt-unicode package to build from AUR, something similar in case of community/rxvt-unicode-color256! Best Regards, Laszlo Papp urxvt.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [arch-general] Weird png corruption issue from Gwenview using "crop" -> "Save As" -> to a smb share

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 10 August 2009 01:40:54 am ludovic coues wrote: > Firefox doesn't want to open the corrupt file, because it contain errors. > Maybe it's related to smb. > Have you try to simply "Save As" to the smb share ? > Ludovic, Sorry for the late reply, I've been a bit swamped. In answer

Re: [arch-general] Problems with install Iso

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 04:05:25 am richard terry wrote: > Hullo all, > > > I've used arch for many years and always been happy (I actually run it on > 5-6 machines which I maintain ok). > > My laptop got a libreadline file problem after upgrading, so after backing > up I just decided to re

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 21 August 2009 03:34:44 am Xavier wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM, dick_turpin wrote: > > Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >> He didn't ask for "source-code-level" clarification. He asked if anyone > >> has similar problems and/or knows a solution. Nvidia forums are a fine > >> bet t

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 21 August 2009 03:15:20 am RedShift wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > I have been chasing an issue on Arch having to do with the 8800GT in it. > > A couple of weeks ago there was a driver update from Nvidia that has > > caused the fans on my video card to really t

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread Xavier
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM, dick_turpin wrote: > Dieter Plaetinck wrote: >> He didn't ask for "source-code-level" clarification.  He asked if anyone has >> similar problems and/or knows a solution. >> Nvidia forums are a fine bet to seek that, but I don't see what's wrong with >> him asking

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread dick_turpin
Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > He didn't ask for "source-code-level" clarification. He asked if anyone has > similar problems and/or knows a solution. > Nvidia forums are a fine bet to seek that, but I don't see what's wrong with > him asking that here. > More importantly the email said it was 'Du

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:15:20 +0200 RedShift wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed fan speed increases > > on your NV cards here lately? If so, any solutions?? > > I suggest you take it up with nvidia, as only they have access to the > source code. Nothing much we can do abou

Re: [arch-general] nvidia card - fans are really cranked up after the latest driver update a week or so ago

2009-08-21 Thread RedShift
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I have been chasing an issue on Arch having to do with the 8800GT in it. A couple of weeks ago there was a driver update from Nvidia that has caused the fans on my video card to really take off. With all drivers before that there wasn't a noise issue. The bo