Re: [arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-07 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag 08 Dezember 2009 08:41:15 schrieb David C. Rankin: > Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail? Well the initial access to a folder (after kmail install) takes a few seconds, but after that it's usually fast. I just counted and I have about 51k mails. You should note that this also r

[arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Quick request for confirmation. I generally have used tbird in the past but when doing the kde4.3beta tests, I resolved to use kmail and I have pretty much stuck with it since May. The issue I am seeing is a slowdown in kmail that I guess is 4.3.4 related. Specifically I see a slowdown w

[arch-general] testing: xf86-video-ati, libdrm - transparency lost in kde4 w/compiz

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Testing xf86-video-ati-6.12.99.git20091207 libdrm-2.4.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz I noticed that the plasma-panel has lost transparency in kde4 when compiz is enabled. It's not uncommon for me to need to restart plasma-desktop to regain transparency, but with these two packages insta

Re: [arch-general] Mkinitcpio and tuxonice?

2009-12-07 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 07:13 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Ng Oon-Ee schrieb: > > Hi all, I've been holding the mkinitcpio package due to > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15240 > > > > A quick look into testing shows that I won't be able to update the > > 2.6.32 kernel due to dependencies on kli

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 03 December 2009 12:19:58 and regarding: > On 03/12/09 18:14, Arvid Picciani wrote: > [...] > > I'll add some additional points: > > - it's implementation is large broken. > how so? > > - most software depending on it, will crash when dbus > file bug reports and get developers to write

Re: [arch-general] Mkinitcpio and tuxonice?

2009-12-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ng Oon-Ee schrieb: Hi all, I've been holding the mkinitcpio package due to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15240 A quick look into testing shows that I won't be able to update the 2.6.32 kernel due to dependencies on klib invalidating my 'old' mkinitcpio package. Unfortunately I'm stuck here, sin

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules -> Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:34:42 and regarding: > Did you reboot during this time frame? Perhaps the alsa modules were > loaded, and when you finally rebooted (on the 20th?), they weren't > there to be re-loaded. Oh, yes, sorry for not including that. This is on my laptop so it get booted at

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 07 December 2009 09:05:18 and regarding: > I'm confirming this as well. Mine fails at radeon/R200_cp.bin, though. > Loading in rc.conf works alright but the GPU appears to get very hot. I > have no diode on it but it just tries to burn a hole through my laptop. > Again, KMS performance is

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 06:39 +0200, Christos Nouskas wrote: > Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's > > > custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided > > > packages are not the nightly builds of but ones > > > like xorg-

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's > > custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided > > packages are not the nightly builds of but ones > > like xorg-server? > > In the preceding conversations some have said they would

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Emmanuel Benisty
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 17:01, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> This is on the intel-gfx list and has been replied to by one of the devs. >> >> > > Sweet :D > actually, the thread is dead silent since my melt-your-cpu-git-bisecting result but I keep

Re: [arch-general] Mkinitcpio and tuxonice?

2009-12-07 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 04:57 +0100, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 08.12.2009 04:54, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > Hi all, I've been holding the mkinitcpio package due to > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15240 > > > > A quick look into testing shows that I won't be able to update the > > 2.6.32 kernel due

Re: [arch-general] Mkinitcpio and tuxonice?

2009-12-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 08.12.2009 04:54, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Hi all, I've been holding the mkinitcpio package due to > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15240 > > A quick look into testing shows that I won't be able to update the > 2.6.32 kernel due to dependencies on klib invalidating my 'old' > mkinitcpio package. Unfor

[arch-general] Mkinitcpio and tuxonice?

2009-12-07 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
Hi all, I've been holding the mkinitcpio package due to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15240 A quick look into testing shows that I won't be able to update the 2.6.32 kernel due to dependencies on klib invalidating my 'old' mkinitcpio package. Unfortunately I'm stuck here, since without this 'old'

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 05:29 +0200, Christos Nouskas wrote: > Ray Kohler wrote: > > > Suggestions: > > > > > > 1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or > > > -nodbus or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if > > > they lag behind the official ones. > > >

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Ray Kohler wrote: > > Suggestions: > > > > 1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or > > -nodbus or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if > > they lag behind the official ones. > > No, this isn't how pacman works. If his repo comes before the official >

[arch-general] scripts to analyze and manage /var/cache/pacman/pkg for installed/uninstalled & gen install scr for uninstalled

2009-12-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, With a number of arch boxes now, I routinely rsync the package cache from box to box for updates, etc. Today what started out as a "1-liner" to show what scripts in /var/cache/pacman/pkg were installed, uninstalled (what I called orphaned) and then to create summary files and create a scr

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 17:01, Thomas Bächler wrote: > This is on the intel-gfx list and has been replied to by one of the devs. > > Sweet :D

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Daenyth Blank schrieb: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 08:42, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: Just FTR, I have bisected the issue and found out this commit was to blame: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=181a5336d6cc836f05507410d66988c483ad0154 I've reverted it and reb

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 08:42, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: > Just FTR, I have bisected the issue and found out this commit was to blame: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=181a5336d6cc836f05507410d66988c483ad0154 > > I've reverted it and rebuilt 2.6.32. Issue

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-07 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Montag 07 Dezember 2009 schrieb Tom K: > Tom K wrote: > > Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas schrieb: > >>> Removing radeon from initramfs and putting it in MODULES section of > >>> rc.conf > >>> solves the problem. > >> > >> Hm, I hope you are happy this way until we know w

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Tom K schrieb: The requirement here is that firmware-dependent modules are loaded after the udev hook has been run i.e. after udevd starts. A simple solution, based on the one in the forum thread, would be a hook called e.g. fwmodules, where modules with this requirement are specified. Alterna

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-07 Thread Tom K
Tom K wrote: Thomas Bächler wrote: Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas schrieb: Removing radeon from initramfs and putting it in MODULES section of rc.conf solves the problem. Hm, I hope you are happy this way until we know what's going on ... the problem is certainly not that the firmware is not

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Christos Nouskas wrote: > Arvid Picciani wrote: >> http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ >> >> Let me know if this solution works for everyone >> and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that >>         site or the fact that it exists >> and/or if anything should be add

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Arvid Picciani wrote: > http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ > > Let me know if this solution works for everyone > and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that > site or the fact that it exists > and/or if anything should be added to it. > > Contributors very welcome :) Suggestions: 1. R

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 07.12.2009 05:54, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2009 08:51:23 and regarding: > >> Hi, I installed kernel26 and kernel26-firmware from testing, and I'm >> experiencing some problems with KMS. During system initialization, the >> system requests the firmware radeon/R300_cp.bi

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-07 Thread Tom
So, any news on this? I 'fixed' it by removing radeon from initramfs, but as has been pointed out, thats not really a solution!?

[arch-general] Low volume for kopete notifications

2009-12-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, I got a new computer and installed arch on it. I have restored my home directory from other machine, which has lived thr. kde3 -> kde4 transition and isn't exactly prestine. This is core2duo machine and the soundcard is 82801G HDA, as reported by lspci. I don't have pulseaudio insta

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-07 Thread Emmanuel Benisty
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > Roman Kyrylych wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 18:29, Emmanuel Benisty >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Bächler >>> wrote: What's your chipset? Allan's chipset? No such issues here on 945GM. >>> >>> Integ

Re: [arch-general] Different local setting of rc.conf and X

2009-12-07 Thread 大熊
2009/12/7 大熊 : > I need en_US.UTf-8 under console and zn_CN.UTF-8 under X > > So rc.conf: > >    LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" > > and ~/.xprofile: > >    exprot LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 sorry for typo :) export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 > > But after I login, the desktop is still en_US, Why? > -- 不是所有的特仑苏都是牛奶

[arch-general] Different local setting of rc.conf and X

2009-12-07 Thread 大熊
I need en_US.UTf-8 under console and zn_CN.UTF-8 under X So rc.conf: LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" and ~/.xprofile: exprot LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 But after I login, the desktop is still en_US, Why?

Re: [arch-general] Gajim 0.13.1-1 generate errors

2009-12-07 Thread Ionut Biru
On 12/07/2009 01:26 PM, Abdourazak Osmanov wrote: 2009/12/7 Allan McRae Two things: 1) bugs.archlinux.org is the place to file bugs 2) does rebuilding actually fix that issue? 1. Thanks for the info, I forgot about it. 2. Friday Gajim worked normally. maybe report that upstream. http://tr

Re: [arch-general] Gajim 0.13.1-1 generate errors

2009-12-07 Thread Abdourazak Osmanov
2009/12/7 Allan McRae > Two things: > 1) bugs.archlinux.org is the place to file bugs > 2) does rebuilding actually fix that issue? > 1. Thanks for the info, I forgot about it. 2. Friday Gajim worked normally.

Re: [arch-general] Gajim 0.13.1-1 generate errors

2009-12-07 Thread Allan McRae
Abdourazak Osmanov wrote: Hi! I refreshed my Arch today, and found that the file ~/.xsession-errors grows to infinity with messages: 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13

[arch-general] Gajim 0.13.1-1 generate errors

2009-12-07 Thread Abdourazak Osmanov
Hi! I refreshed my Arch today, and found that the file ~/.xsession-errors grows to infinity with messages: 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb: calling send on empty buffer and queue 13:45:13 (W) gajim.c.x.transports_nb

[arch-general] lastsync file on mirrors

2009-12-07 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
is it just me or did the lastsync format change? IIRC the lastsync file was 1 file in the root of the repo, with the date in it in string format. now the lastsync files are like so: /{core,extra,testing,...}/os/{i686,x86_64}/lastsync each containing a unix timestamp. note: no lastsyncfile for any