Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 23:29 Heiko Baums wrote: > 2. What will happen if someone will use it accidentally wrong? Nothing > except, that there will be many .pacnew files in this directory which > can simply be renamed. So there won't be any serious bug. Oh, so if someone use 'usr/lib/*' t

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.30 on EEE and KMS

2010-02-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Except for wireless card (damn rt2860... I changed mine for an intel 4965!) the eeepc line is pretty good with linux, and specially with arch ;) Make sure to check out acpi-eeepc-generic from AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23318 Or even better, update to latest subversion ( http://c

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Mu investigations where that the BIOS controlled Fn+F2, but it could be the kernel module which I did not suspect at the time and so have not tested. On my EeePC 1000, bios previous to revision 1003 did not controlled Fn+F2; acpi-eeepc-generic needed to be used to enable/disable wifi. On newer bios

Re: [arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-18 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Xavier Chantry > wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: >>> >>> Downgrading libdrm makes X work again. Is this already being worked >>> on, or should I open a bug? If so, against which pa

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:20:11 +0100 schrieb Pierre Chapuis : > Recursion is a good idea but that's not what is usually expected from > *. I would suggest to use ** like in ZSH if it is implemented. Real > regular expressions support would solve all those problems but that's > probably overkill. It

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:52:37 +0100 schrieb Attila : > That is true and every example was a good example. But there is a > little risk that you got lazy if you don't document what you have > done and than including a complete directory with a lot of files > could end in a bugreport where people sea

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 19:30 clemens fischer wrote: > Not likely. Files named like something/other*, with the star being > a literal instead of a glob are very, very rare. There is no guarantee that this will be used in this way.-) > On the contrary, people have provided good examples

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread epinull
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:25:51PM -0800, epinull wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge wrote: > > > > > > Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this > > > > switch works without any soft support at all. S

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:25:51PM -0800, epinull wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge wrote: > > > > Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this > > > switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it > > > just can't be disabled. > > > > unless you instal

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread epinull
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge wrote: > > Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this > > switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it > > just can't be disabled. > > unless you install acpid and acpi-eeepc-generic. acpid puts acpi > event-handling in us

Re: [arch-general] CDROM cannot mount

2010-02-18 Thread clemens fischer
On Mon-2010/02/01-11:26 Thanos Zygouris wrote: > P.S.1 : Most of the CDs are bootable ones, writen with "cdrecord -v > speed=8 dev=/dev/scd0 -data -tao -multi". They boot normally though. I thought multi-session CDs must be "finished" or "finalized" before they can be fully used? clemens

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread kludge
> Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this > switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it > just can't be disabled. unless you install acpid and acpi-eeepc-generic. acpid puts acpi event-handling in userspace, so then you can /dev/null fn+f2. acpi-eeepc-generic

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread clemens fischer
Attila wrote: > At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 02:13 Dan McGee wrote: > >> No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- >> does it make sense to do so? > > Instead this makes something easier i must say that this could be > dangerous too because it could end in some str

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:34:09 -0600, Aaron Griffin > > wrote: >>> >>> No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- >>> does it make sense to do so? >> >> Yes, but it would also be nice to support recursion here as we

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread fons
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39:38AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Use the rfkill utility from core. It will display the rfkill devices and > modify their state. As James said, using the sysfs interface is > depreacted and it will disappear soon. (/me reads rfkill.c) Rfkill depends on the sysfs in

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.02.2010 02:19, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> Isn't this what rfkill is for? >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill > > You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state > controls the wifi

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-18 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:34:09 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list- >> does it make sense to do so? > > Yes, but it would also be nice to support recursion here as well. For > instance: > > NoExtract = /usr/share/doc/* > > should

Re: [arch-general] netcfg v2.5.2 in [core]

2010-02-18 Thread Jeroen Op 't Eynde
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:33:00 +0100, James Rayner wrote: netcfg v2.5.2 This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. ... Cont

[arch-general] netcfg v2.5.2 in [core]

2010-02-18 Thread James Rayner
netcfg v2.5.2 This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. Move to new auto-wireless/wired The new automatic connection has proper r

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:19 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > > Isn't this what rfkill is for? > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill > > You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state > contro