Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 31, Guilherme M. Nogueira did say: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook > wrote: > > > [ ... ] > > 99% of the time what I want is to just play the whole list in random order > > with an easy hot key to skip any I decide, upon hearing, that I'm n

Re: [arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Dwight Schauer
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 21:17, Piyush P Kurur wrote: >> You can install packages under a particular directroy using the command >> >> pacman -S pkgname -r /gateway/to/hell >> >> So using that you can actually build a chrooted environment and

Re: [arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 21:17, Piyush P Kurur wrote: > You can install packages under a particular directroy using the command > > pacman -S pkgname -r /gateway/to/hell > > So using that you can actually build a chrooted environment and work > your way up. Duh, now why didn't I think of that? Ther

Re: [arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Piyush P Kurur
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 05:31:31PM -0600, Brendan Long wrote: > Is there anything similar to debootstrap for Arch? Debootstrap basically > a command where you give it some options and point it to a partition and > it installs Debian (or a Debian-based distro) onto it. You can install packages unde

Re: [arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 19:31, Brendan Long wrote: > Is there anything similar to debootstrap for Arch? Debootstrap basically > a command where you give it some options and point it to a partition and > it installs Debian (or a Debian-based distro) onto it. > I bet you can smash AIF in the right w

[arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

2010-03-31 Thread Brendan Long
Is there anything similar to debootstrap for Arch? Debootstrap basically a command where you give it some options and point it to a partition and it installs Debian (or a Debian-based distro) onto it.

Re: [arch-general] Boot iso with grub2

2010-03-31 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Christopher Rogers wrote: > There has been a request for a findiso boot option so you can boot the iso > with grub2 on a usb stick. I have this feature in my archiso-live and it > works very well. > > Here is some code i have for it: > > _mnt_iso() { >    img="${1}

[arch-general] Boot iso with grub2

2010-03-31 Thread Christopher Rogers
There has been a request for a findiso boot option so you can boot the iso with grub2 on a usb stick. I have this feature in my archiso-live and it works very well. Here is some code i have for it: _mnt_iso() { img="${1}" #mnt="${2}" mnt="/tmpfs/mnt/findiso" msg "::: Mounting ${im

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Helgi Kristvin Sigurbjarnarson
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:17:15PM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: > > Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or > > gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could > > connect to Cisco switches wit

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: > Otherwise, you can just use GNU screen ("screen /dev/ttyUSB0", or > gtkterm. I've used both of them with a USB to serial adapter and I could > connect to Cisco switches without any problem. I just installed gtkterm and it worked perfect. My on

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.33 and friends

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Now that Pierre fixed lirc for us (neither tpowa nor I were able to do it due to time constraints), here is the signoff for 2.6.33 and the related modules. Please sign off, so we can finally move 2.6.33. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Marq Schneider
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:39, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Does anyone know how I can tell my Arch system that I have a USB to > serial adapter connected to my machine? If you don't need any of the modem features provided in minicom, I would recommend trying picocom from AUR [0]. It provides a very

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Leandro Costa
You can use minicom -s to enter the configuration menu, from there you can change your serial device. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Jost wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:39:06 -0400, Carlos Mennens > wrote: > > Guys, > > > > I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Thomas Jost
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:39:06 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Guys, > > I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be able to > connect to a Cisco switch via console serial cable using the Minicom > utility. My problem is I don't know how to tell Minicom that my serial > device is c

[arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-03-31 Thread Carlos Mennens
Guys, I have a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter. Now I am trying to be able to connect to a Cisco switch via console serial cable using the Minicom utility. My problem is I don't know how to tell Minicom that my serial device is connected to /dev/ttyUSB0 or maybe it already knows & I just don't know

Re: [arch-general] Problem mounting shares with latest smbclient-3.5.0-2

2010-03-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 07:35, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Montag 29 März 2010 schrieb Nigel Henry: > > I have smbclient-3.5.0-2, and did the suggested chmod +s on > > /sbin/mount.cifs, and /sbin/umount.cifs. The UID, and GID bits are now > > set on both, but I still can't mount shares from KDEm

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Helgi Kristvin Sigurbjarnarson
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:05:30AM -0300, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: > That is exactly what I do, with a collection of about 10.000 songs. > I use MPD and ncmpcpp frontend, which is great. > with ncmpcpp you just go with TAB to change from playlist to browser and > vice-versa > and press SPACE to

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Linas
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Linas wrote: >> >>> If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, >>> I guess that >>> this would work with pretty much all players: >>> find /path/to/music > music-list.m3u >>> $PLAYER music-l

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > [ ... ] > 99% of the time what I want is to just play the whole list in random order > with an easy hot key to skip any I decide, upon hearing, that I'm not in > the > mood for. > That is exactly what I do, with a collection of abo

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 30, Heiko Baums did say: > I don't know if it meets your requirements regarding the playlist, but > the best audio player I know is MOC (http://moc.daper.net). It has the > best sound quality of every player I know and is controlled by keyboard. > > You can set a "glo

Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install

2010-03-31 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2010/3/30 Alain Muls > > Then I used lshw and the card is loisted as > G96 [GeForce 9600 GT] > both under Ubuntu and Arch Linux. > > I uninstalled the nvidia and installed > pacman -S nvidia-96xx > nvidia-config > > and again no luck. > nvidia-96xx is an older driver for older chipsets. You shou

Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install (Ionut Biru)

2010-03-31 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Alain Muls wrote: > > That is exactly what I did. I am not a beginner and have read quite some > articles about Arch and I am aware of the fact that I have to follow > carefully all steps in this installation process. So pleas bear with me and > hep me over this pr

Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install (Ionut Biru)

2010-03-31 Thread Santhosh Joseph
Hi, Try Linux Display Driver Version 195.36.15 for GeForce 9600 GT. -Joseph

Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install (Ionut Biru)

2010-03-31 Thread Alain Muls
> > > On 03/30/2010 06:40 PM, Alain Muls wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am using Ubuntu since 2005 and I like it. The only problem is that each > 6 > > month I am spending some time to update. I have for that 2 root > partitions > > available. > > > > I heard about Arch Linux and its rolling release