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

2010-05-25 Thread PT M.
I have an Acer 4736ZG runs arch fine, nvidia graphic. test the machine with a ubuntu cd is a good idea. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Gregory Eric Sanderson wrote: > I have a lenovo thinkpad T500 with optional intel 5100 AGN wireless card > and > HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-U20N dvd recorder, and o

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

2010-05-25 Thread Gregory Eric Sanderson
I have a lenovo thinkpad T500 with optional intel 5100 AGN wireless card and HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-U20N dvd recorder, and overall i'm quite satisfied. But I did get a few quirks : - Graphics card is a switchable intel/ATI gpu, and I had to force the BIOS to only use either ATI or Intel. The open-sou

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

2010-05-25 Thread Brendan Long
On 05/22/2010 09:33 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > [snip] > What laptops should I have a look at? > Is there some brand (Dell, HP, ...) that is more Linux friendly than others? > > /M I have an HP dv6 that works perfectly in Arch. After my first laptop, I realized (like some other people suggested)

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-05-26 00:32:22 +0200: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:42:54PM +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > > > Never heard of similar regression before. > > Can you try using > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=kernel26-nouveau-git > > and > > http://aur.archlinux.org/p

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-25 Thread Tavian Barnes
On 25 May 2010 16:32, wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:42:54PM +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > >> Never heard of similar regression before. >> Can you try using >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=kernel26-nouveau-git >> and >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=xf86-video-nouveau-g

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-25 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM, wrote: > > I don't mind having to tweak things, do a lot of configuration > manually, etc. etc., but I do expect things to work when they > go into core/extra, or at least have a fallback available. > There is none, AFAICS. > I don't know what you are saying. Ju

[arch-general] Problems suspending since 2.6.33

2010-05-25 Thread Michael Schaefer
Hello guys, since I upgraded for 2.6.33 several weeks ago, I encounter problems when suspending (or more precisely waking up) my machine. Since everything worked fine for month/years I first thought about a bug which might get fixed soon but while 2.6.33 is pretty settled and I couldn't find somet

Re: [arch-general] regression in nouveau ?

2010-05-25 Thread fons
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:42:54PM +0200, Xavier Chantry wrote: > Never heard of similar regression before. > Can you try using > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=kernel26-nouveau-git > and > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=xf86-video-nouveau-git > ? Would that be possible at all,

Re: [arch-general] extra/tomcat is out of date

2010-05-25 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
Hi, Tested on my x64 (and changed the pkgrel that was wrong): that works. So... anyone interested in this up-to-date version of a masterpiece of the Java world? :) Guillaume On 20 May 2010 12:11, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A new version of Tomcat 5 was released nearly a month a

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/25/2010 09:46 AM, Vincent Schut wrote: Hi, I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the configuration I have... Could

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 25/05/10 16:58, Jan de Groot wrote: Linux is not Windows, so you'll get away with it. You could put the harddisk in your new system and boot the new system with the fallback kernel option which includes an initramfs image with all drivers. You'll probably have to reconfigure X then. After boot

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:13:00AM -0300, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > What nice ideas to prevent new installations...! I didn't know that it was > that easy to transfer a installation among different hardware. It's one of the many reasons I love Linux. I do a bit of distro hopping. I'm running OpenS

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

2010-05-25 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
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 it to work / disable it. > > It

Re: [arch-general] Unable to install adobe air

2010-05-25 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On 5/25/2010 7:28 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Hi, > I am using archlinux 64bit. For the past few days i have tried every > package in aur to install adobe-air but have failed. So my last option > is to use a .deb package. Any way to in

Re: [arch-general] Unable to install adobe air

2010-05-25 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On 5/25/2010 7:21 PM, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > Hi Madhurya Kakati, > > You can install the package community/deb2targz 1-2. Then you can convert > any deb package. > Thanks will try that :) > 2010/5/25 Madhurya Kakati > > Hi, > I am using archlinux 64bit. For the past few days i have tried every >

Re: [arch-general] Unable to install adobe air

2010-05-25 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On 5/25/2010 7:34 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 05/25/2010 04:51 PM, Rafael Beraldo wrote: >> Hi Madhurya Kakati, >> >> You can install the package community/deb2targz 1-2. Then you can >> convert >> any deb package. >> >> 2010/5/25 Madhurya Kakati >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash:

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I > would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the > need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the > configuration I have... > > Could I just put my old harddisk (which is rel

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Rafael Beraldo
What nice ideas to prevent new installations...! I didn't know that it was that easy to transfer a installation among different hardware. 2010/5/25 Figue > El 25/05/10 15:46, Vincent Schut escribió: > > Hi, >> >> I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I >> would l

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Figue
El 25/05/10 15:46, Vincent Schut escribió: Hi, I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the configuration I have... Cou

Re: [arch-general] Unable to install adobe air

2010-05-25 Thread Ionut Biru
On 05/25/2010 04:51 PM, Rafael Beraldo wrote: Hi Madhurya Kakati, You can install the package community/deb2targz 1-2. Then you can convert any deb package. 2010/5/25 Madhurya Kakati -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am using archlinux 64bit. For the past few days i have t

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Rafael Beraldo
Hello, When I reinstall Arch Linux --- or any other Linux at all --- I often keep the configuration files in my home directory. I mean, for example, you can preserve the directory ~/.purple thus keeping your Pidgin configuration. So, what I suggest is that you do a clean installation and just cop

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:46 +0200, Vincent Schut wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I >> would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the >> need to do a full reins

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:46 +0200, Vincent Schut wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I > would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the > need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the > config

Re: [arch-general] Unable to install adobe air

2010-05-25 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I am using archlinux 64bit. For the past few days i have tried every > package in aur to install adobe-air but have failed. So my last option > is to use a .deb package. Any way to i

[arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread Vincent Schut
Hi, I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the configuration I have... Could I just put my old harddisk (which is rela

Re: [arch-general] Unable to install adobe air

2010-05-25 Thread Rafael Beraldo
Hi Madhurya Kakati, You can install the package community/deb2targz 1-2. Then you can convert any deb package. 2010/5/25 Madhurya Kakati > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I am using archlinux 64bit. For the past few days i have tried every > package in aur to install

Re: [arch-general] Building packages and more

2010-05-25 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:06:34AM -0400, Keith Hinton wrote: > I wonder who the author of the UnrealIRCd package presently Is? `pacman -Si unrealircd | grep ^Packager` "Packager : Evangelos Foutras " > What do you folks think? > I'd like to see the Anope stable/Citadle packages someday in

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-25 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 13:37, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: > On 05/25/10 at 08:58am, Magnus Therning wrote: >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 22:33, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) >> wrote: >> > On 05/24/10 at 08:58pm, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> Has anyone managed to get Mozilla Prism to run

[arch-general] Unable to install adobe air

2010-05-25 Thread Madhurya Kakati
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am using archlinux 64bit. For the past few days i have tried every package in aur to install adobe-air but have failed. So my last option is to use a .deb package. Any way to install .deb in arch? Thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

[arch-general] Building packages and more

2010-05-25 Thread Keith Hinton
Hi all. I've been looking into several packages that are not in the community repository of Arch Linux. One is the Anope latest-stable package. If any of you have ran an IRC server such as UnrealIRCd, wich is in arch, then you will know what Anope is. I don't have the time at present to package A

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
On 05/25/10 at 08:58am, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 22:33, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) > wrote: > > 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

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

2010-05-25 Thread Allan McRae
On 25/05/10 17:20, Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 17:05 +0200, Nicky726 wrote: I have experimentally found out, that 64 bit Linux distro uses like 40 -- 80 % more of RAM than 32 bit. Now it seemed to be both aplication and distro dependant, with Arch being on the better side. Though

Re: [arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?

2010-05-25 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 22:33, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: > 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 un

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

2010-05-25 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 17:05 +0200, Nicky726 wrote: > I have experimentally found out, that 64 bit Linux distro uses like 40 -- 80 > % > more of RAM than 32 bit. Now it seemed to be both aplication and distro > dependant, with Arch being on the better side. Though I've got to say again, > it >