Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 05/24/10 23:48, Adriano Moura wrote: This is actually normal. 64 bits systems uses 64bits per memory address, by default. That alone would make 64bits systems eat twice as much memory than a 32bit systems. Only for the memory-address part of the data (a.k.a. "pointers"). UTF-8 text will s

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Adriano Moura
Need to revise my text next time. Hope it's legible. 2010/5/25 Adriano Moura : > This is actually normal. 64 bits systems uses 64bits per memory > address, by default. > > That alone would make 64bits systems eat twice as much memory than a > 32bit systems. Of course you can program can be coded t

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Adriano Moura
This is actually normal. 64 bits systems uses 64bits per memory address, by default. That alone would make 64bits systems eat twice as much memory than a 32bit systems. Of course you can program can be coded to use 32bit variables, but hey, isn't the larger number representation one of the 64bits

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gary Wright wrote: > 2010/5/24 Frédéric Perrin : > >> On a 64 bit machine, in « char *p; », p will use 64 bits (8 bytes), >> instead of 4 bytes in a 32 bits machine [I'm talking about p, not about >> *p which doesn't look like it exists]. Gary Wright seems to be sa

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Gary Wright
2010/5/24 Frédéric Perrin : > On a 64 bit machine, in « char *p; », p will use 64 bits (8 bytes), > instead of 4 bytes in a 32 bits machine [I'm talking about p, not about > *p which doesn't look like it exists]. Gary Wright seems to be saying > that the impact is negligible. Nicky726 seems to be

Re: [arch-general] Script to check monitor blank state

2010-05-24 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Markus wrote: > Hello everyone, > > i would like to write a little script, that suspends my computer > if a few circumstances are met. > > One should be, that my screen should be blanked. I already did a google > search on this, but i only found howtos of getting i

Re: [arch-general] Script to check monitor blank state

2010-05-24 Thread Alexander Lam
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Markus wrote: > Hello everyone, > > i would like to write a little script, that suspends my computer > if a few circumstances are met. > > One should be, that my screen should be blanked. I already did a google > search on this, but i only found howtos of getting

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread b1
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:48 +0200, Frédéric Perrin wrote: > Le lundi 24 à 0:29, C Anthony Risinger a écrit : > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Keith Hinton > > wrote: > >> I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general > >> so figured this would be an okay place besides IR

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le lundi 24 à 0:29, C Anthony Risinger a écrit : > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Keith Hinton wrote: >> I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general >> so figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any >> help I needed. I wanted to find out ruffly how much

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:00 PM, wrote: > Hello all, > > over the past few months I have installed Arch on a number of > systems, all of them used for quite intensive audio work (think > of systems with > 1000 jack ports). All of them have worked > flawlessly, no latency problems even with the s

Re: [arch-general] A mirror question

2010-05-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/20/2010 07:38 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: Hi, I was wondering what the best mirror would be for someone living ni Ohio? The rit.edu mirror is in Western NY - probably not too far from you. I've used that one for a number of years and found it to generally be a reliable mirror. HTH, DR

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
On 05/24/10 at 08:58pm, Magnus Therning wrote: > Has anyone managed to get Mozilla Prism to run properly? > > The behaviour I see is that a .desktop file and a file in ~/.webapps are > created. Both look all right to my untrained eye. The behaviour when > double-clicking the .desktop file is as

Re: [arch-general] Off-topic: Good laptop to run Arch on?

2010-05-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/22/2010 11:33 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: What laptops should I have a look at? Is there some brand (Dell, HP, ...) that is more Linux friendly than others? My work laptop, a Dell Precision M4400, runs Arch fine. Had to install a few extra kernel modules (e.g., broadcom-wl), but everythi

[arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-24 Thread fons
Hello all, over the past few months I have installed Arch on a number of systems, all of them used for quite intensive audio work (think of systems with > 1000 jack ports). All of them have worked flawlessly, no latency problems even with the standard kernel. Today I installed one more, on exactl

[arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-24 Thread Magnus Therning
Has anyone managed to get Mozilla Prism to run properly? The behaviour I see is that a .desktop file and a file in ~/.webapps are created. Both look all right to my untrained eye. The behaviour when double-clicking the .desktop file is as expected though. I never end up where I intended, but al

Re: [arch-general] Strange suspend behaviour

2010-05-24 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 24.05.2010 20:08, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> I've set up my system so that when I close the laptop lid the computer goes >> into suspend mode. However, when I wake it up by pressing the power button >> the system >> starts, and after 3-5 sec it goes into suspend mode again. If I then press

Re: [arch-general] Strange suspend behaviour

2010-05-24 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> I've set up my system so that when I close the laptop lid the computer goes > into suspend mode. However, when I wake it up by pressing the power button > the system > starts, and after 3-5 sec it goes into suspend mode again. If I then press > the power button again, it starts and stays on. S

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Nicky726
Dne Po 24. května 2010 15:36:37 Keith Hinton at arch-general- requ...@archlinux.org napsal(a): > Hi all. > I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general so > figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any help I > needed. I wanted to find out ruffly how much memor

[arch-general] Strange suspend behaviour

2010-05-24 Thread Stefan Afradi
I've set up my system so that when I close the laptop lid the computer goes into suspend mode. However, when I wake it up by pressing the power button the system starts, and after 3-5 sec it goes into suspend mode again. If I then press the power button again, it starts and stays on. Suggestion

[arch-general] Script to check monitor blank state

2010-05-24 Thread Markus
Hello everyone, i would like to write a little script, that suspends my computer if a few circumstances are met. One should be, that my screen should be blanked. I already did a google search on this, but i only found howtos of getting it to work / disable it. It looks like xset q does not print

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-24 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Rasmus Steinke wrote: > > Jörg has a point. While of course being biased about his pet cdrtools, > cdrkit is not on par with cdrtools in any way. > Those updates you mention more or less only consist of small fixes, no > progess at all in that package. > > The ONL

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: AIF through proxy

2010-05-24 Thread Andre "Osku" Schmidt
i now tested this many times on VM (vbox) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Proxy_Cache everything seems to work ok. but i found some other issues with custom AIF profiles (in automatic mode) # aif -d ... gives me the aif usage info # aif ... -d runs aif but doesn't do any /var/log/aif