Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-24 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:55:22 +0100 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase : > My issue is that the cdrtools substitute cdrkit that Arch currently > officially provides is not actively developed (current to last stable > was around a year) and is technically inferior to cdrtools. I don't know anything about t

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-24 Thread Attila
At Montag, 25. Januar 2010 03:55 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > I know this is a going to be a probably tiresome discussion revived but > I'd like to get this over with. I've been meaning to do it for a while now. I support your opinion and use an own package for cdrtools but for me there was a rea

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread Ray Rashif
2010/1/25 Xavier Chantry : > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:04 AM,   wrote: >> >> It is the 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' that is very slow. >> Running emacs locally is perfectly OK. >> The previous install was F9, it used nv, and >> the same 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' worked perfectly. >> Nothing has changed on zita2

Re: [arch-general] chsh, linux32 and $PATH

2010-01-24 Thread Allan McRae
On 25/01/10 13:53, Allan McRae wrote: On 25/01/10 12:23, Tavian Barnes wrote: 2010/1/24 Dan McGee: You probably want a login shell, e.g. /bin/bash -l Thanks. That fixed the PATH issue I was having but it turns out that was not my real issue... see below I'd go with (untested): #!/bin/sh

Re: [arch-general] chsh, linux32 and $PATH

2010-01-24 Thread Allan McRae
On 25/01/10 12:23, Tavian Barnes wrote: 2010/1/24 Dan McGee: You probably want a login shell, e.g. /bin/bash -l Thanks. That fixed the PATH issue I was having but it turns out that was not my real issue... see below I'd go with (untested): #!/bin/sh exec linux32 /bin/bash "$@" This

[arch-general] Xscreensaver corrupts ext4 / partition

2010-01-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi all, I have 4 boxes, all with the same partitioning scheme and using ext4 for all of them. This weird thing has only showed up in one of them. Some time back while playing some video and with xscreensaver active, the timeout for xscreensaver expired and then password was required... Bad thin

[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-24 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
I know this is a going to be a probably tiresome discussion revived but I'd like to get this over with. I've been meaning to do it for a while now. My issue is that the cdrtools substitute cdrkit that Arch currently officially provides is not actively developed (current to last stable was around a

Re: [arch-general] chsh, linux32 and $PATH

2010-01-24 Thread Tavian Barnes
2010/1/24 Dan McGee : > > You probably want a login shell, e.g. /bin/bash -l > I'd go with (untested): #!/bin/sh exec linux32 /bin/bash "$@" -- Tavian Barnes

Re: [arch-general] chsh, linux32 and $PATH

2010-01-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > I am trying to seamlessly run an x86_64 kernel on my i686 machine.  I have > enough aliases that most things work right (prefixing with linux32), but > bash can not handle setting e.g. "./configure" as an alias and there is > always something I

[arch-general] chsh, linux32 and $PATH

2010-01-24 Thread Allan McRae
I am trying to seamlessly run an x86_64 kernel on my i686 machine. I have enough aliases that most things work right (prefixing with linux32), but bash can not handle setting e.g. "./configure" as an alias and there is always something I have missed. So, I came up with a cunning plan... Crea

Re: [arch-general] Why is makepkg not using rc.d/functions?

2010-01-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Andres Perera wrote: > Is it strictly because it shouldn't depend on initscripts, or is there > another reason? makepkg is not Arch specific. That would quite clearly break that non-dependency. -Dan

[arch-general] Why is makepkg not using rc.d/functions?

2010-01-24 Thread Andres Perera
Is it strictly because it shouldn't depend on initscripts, or is there another reason?

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:04 AM, wrote: > > It is the 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' that is very slow. > Running emacs locally is perfectly OK. > The previous install was F9, it used nv, and > the same 'ssh -X zita2 emacs' worked perfectly. > Nothing has changed on zita2. > > As far as I can see, the Arch

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread fons
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:27:26AM +0100, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:50 PM, wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Today I installed Arch on my desktop which previously had Fedora. > > All works well except > > > >  ssh -X zita2 emacs > > > > where zita2 is my laptop. > > > > It wo

Re: [arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:50 PM, wrote: > Hello all, > > Today I installed Arch on my desktop which previously had Fedora. > All works well except > >  ssh -X zita2 emacs > > where zita2 is my laptop. > > It works, but it is ex tre me ly slow, I can count > the lines being displayed when scrolli

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] pcmciautils-016-1

2010-01-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> Hi >> bump to latest version, please signoff. >> >> Changes to initcpio pcmcia hook were needed and added in git tree, >> on next mkinitcpio bump they will be included. >> - udev ru

[arch-general] problem with video driver ?

2010-01-24 Thread fons
Hello all, Today I installed Arch on my desktop which previously had Fedora. All works well except ssh -X zita2 emacs where zita2 is my laptop. It works, but it is ex tre me ly slow, I can count the lines being displayed when scrolling a page. This used to work perfectly before. Other apps do

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] pcmciautils-016-1

2010-01-24 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi > bump to latest version, please signoff. > > Changes to initcpio pcmcia hook were needed and added in git tree, > on next mkinitcpio bump they will be included. > - udev rules and helper programs are now installed to /lib/udev/ > > gre

Re: [arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

2010-01-24 Thread andrej . gelenberg
Hi, AlannY writes: Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux and I have another lame question. Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see, this makes big problem to some applications. I see: "none on /dev type tmpfs" in the output of mount program. This mount is not pla

Re: [arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

2010-01-24 Thread Ray Rashif
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:14 PM, AlannY wrote: >> Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux and I have another lame question. >> I see: "none on /dev type tmpfs" in the output of mount program. >> But nothing interesting found. >> I really don't want to mount tmpfs on /dev. How to don't do it? Class

Re: [arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

2010-01-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:14 PM, AlannY wrote: > Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux and I have another lame question. > > Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see, > this makes big problem to some applications. Really? What type of problems? Because you will have muc

[arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

2010-01-24 Thread AlannY
Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux and I have another lame question. Recently, I've found that Arch mounts tmpfs on /dev. And, as you may see, this makes big problem to some applications. I see: "none on /dev type tmpfs" in the output of mount program. This mount is not placed in /etc/fstab. So,

Re: [arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

2010-01-24 Thread Carlos Williams
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > See this bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17231?project=6 > > You should be able to continue booting by entering these commands > at the ramfs$ prompt: > udevadm trigger > exit > > It's not a fix but a workaround. And this bug really

[arch-general] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-01-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Quoted from http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17298 (which is also to be used for feedback, besides the threads on these mailing lists): So, now something can be tested. I recommend using it in conjunction with testing/udev only: [kill-klibc] Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686

Re: [arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

2010-01-24 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:43:42 -0500 schrieb Carlos Williams : > Every time I try and install Arch Linux 2009.08 Netinst .ISO disk on > my newly built PC hardware, I get the following error: > > Waiting for boot device... > Error: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds... > Falling back to int