Re: [arch-general] Bash Tcp

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 06/29/2010 09:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/29/2010 09:21 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using TC

Re: [arch-general] Last Updates w/kernel 2.6.33.4-1 -> 2.6.34-2 broke radeon driver for RS690M cards

2010-06-28 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/28/2010 04:44 AM, Damien Churchill wrote: On 28 June 2010 10:35, Paul Ezvan wrote: Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit : Guys, Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up updates, which included the kernel, really affected th

[arch-general] Totem leaves dvd mounted after quitting

2010-06-28 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, This may be normal, but I thought we had moved beyond having to manually unmount CD/DVDs after use -- so I have either messed something up or there is a lingering problem. The setup - new i686 install updated through today. I never watch DVDs on the computer, but my son wanted to wat

Re: [arch-general] Bash Tcp

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 06/29/2010 09:21 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using TCP connections :D But it seems /dev/tcp is not enable

[arch-general] Bash Tcp

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using TCP connections :D But it seems /dev/tcp is not enabled on bash ??? How do I enable that ? -- Regards,

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 06/29/2010 05:44 AM, Ross wrote: On 29/06/10 08:52, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-28 18:33:30 +0200: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely wrote: Works here too. Great, thanks. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 01:55:39 Caleb Cushing wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > > wrote: > > I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I > > want to get youtube working ASAP. > > chromium 5 suppport h264 and 6 (if you want to go there)

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 00:08:15 Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I > > want to get youtube working ASAP. > > > > To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to > > download the entire svn checkout) and built th

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Ross
On 29/06/10 08:52, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-28 18:33:30 +0200: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely wrote: Works here too. Great, thanks. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajanwrote: I have made a

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 6/28/10, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:09:11PM -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher >> wrote: >> > Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, >> > especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:09:11PM -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, > > especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the wiki, > > in place tha

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-29 00:09:11 +0200: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, > > especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the wiki, > > in plac

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, > especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the wiki, > in place that handle automatic mounting. There's also a unmounting part, > which afair removes

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-28 18:33:30 +0200: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely > wrote: > > Works here too. Great, thanks. > > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan > > wrote: > > > >>  I have made a patch for /usr/share/h

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want > to get youtube working ASAP. chromium 5 suppport h264 and 6 (if you want to go there) supports webm... I've read KDE 4.5 is supposed to have webkit support

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread John Black
On 06/28/2010 08:01 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:58:36PM +0200, John Black wrote: Yes, just boot from a live CD, mount your root partition and either chroot into it or use the live CD's pacman(8) binary (and the "--root" argument) if the non-bootable system's pacman doesn

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want > to get youtube working ASAP. > > To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to download > the entire svn checkout) and built the qt port. However the video element is > still missing, as tested on

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:58:36PM +0200, John Black wrote: > mhh is there a way to install package onto a non-bootable system > using pacman? Yes, just boot from a live CD, mount your root partition and either chroot into it or use the live CD's pacman(8) binary (and the "--root" argument) if the

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread John Black
On 06/28/2010 07:20 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/28/2010 08:20 PM, John Black wrote: maybe you hit into http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19733 ? mhh is there a way to install package onto a non-bootable system using pacman? I remember that binutils and glibc was updated, so if I could reverse

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread John Black
On 06/28/2010 07:20 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/28/2010 08:20 PM, John Black wrote: Here are the machine specs: OS: Arch i686 (2-3 months old) Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M (I think this has a 1GHz CPU) from this list you missed the cpu. It is embedded so there is no choice, the CPU should be a VIA

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 06/28/2010 08:20 PM, John Black wrote: Here are the machine specs: OS: Arch i686 (2-3 months old) Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M (I think this has a 1GHz CPU) RAM: 1GB Storage: LVM 2x 250GB special configuration: grub2, /boot on LVM installed: apache2, php5, mysql, samba, sshd Any takers :) ? from

[arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread John Black
Maybe someone could help me out. I would like to report a bug but I am not quite sure what happened. I made a parallel port micro controller programmer on Sunday. Since my desktop system does not have a parallel port anymore [noticed this after I was done :( ] I connected the programmer to my

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 10:03 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > >Depends on what you define as Arch. > >I've heard that Arch is what you make of it. Hehe. > >I don't know if you could disqualify it from a difference of one file. > > For me, part of it is th

Re: [arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > perl-date-iso8601 firstly this package seems to be in need of an update... at worst the uri for the 'home page' is wrong secondly given your error you need ( cut see Lukas Fleischer's comment) generally speaking (though not absolute) you can

Re: [arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601

2010-06-28 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:27:27PM +0300, Ionu?? Bîru wrote: > is this not the package that i need or the building is wrong? This is another package. I quickly built a perl-datetime-format-iso8601 package [1]. Didn't have any time to test it but I hope somehow it works anyway. [1] http://aur.arch

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > IIRC, Busybox shell can get notable speed boost by incorporating versions of > tools like sed into the same busybox executable, such that it often doesn't > have to fork and load other short-lived programs. I don't think it loads them into i

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 06/28/10 09:35, Victor Lowther wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper into bash instead of trying to po

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Victor Lowther wrote: > For me, part of it is that bash is used pretty ubiquitously as the > configuration and scripting language of choice. Changing that to posix sh in > one of the main config files would be a big shift. there seems to be a shift to dash as the

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely wrote: > Works here too. Great, thanks. > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > >>  I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force >> async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting

[arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601

2010-06-28 Thread Ionuț Bîru
Hi guys, i was working on updating mythtv and i have a problem finding the proper perl package. I'm not a perl guy myself and i found in aur perl-date-iso8601. The problem is that is not installed in the proper place. /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Date/ISO8601.pm and the check is done in

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Pálffy András Gergely
Works here too. Great, thanks. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force > async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting out flush and sync as > valid options from the list. > I checked the th

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
Actually I see the point of doing this. Arch is a modern distribution with the newest software around so why stuck with shell constructs which are probably dozens of years old? Lukas

[arch-general] [signoff] udev-158-1

2010-06-28 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, udev 158 Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Victor Lowther
On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Loui Chang wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2010 09:13 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Loui Chang wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Vic

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 09:13 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > > >On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing > >> wrote: > >>>On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther > >>> wrote: > Ques

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Victor Lowther
On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Loui Chang wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing > wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the other? (

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing > wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther > > wrote: > >> Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. > > > > why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper >

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 28 June 2010 19:11:09 Peter Lewis wrote: > Or alternatively, can you tell webkit to look for the separate phonon > that's not provided with Qt when it builds? Thats not possible. The webkit build system for qt port, looks for qt config only. There is no way to provide it. OK, this can

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 28 Jun 2010 at 13:36 Caleb Cushing wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > > wrote: > > So why is phonon support disabled in Qt? > > if memory serves correct from gentoo days it has to do with qt phonon > an kde phonon stepping on each others toes... however it

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Victor Lowther
On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper into bash instead of trying to posix-ify the scripts) Because arrays an

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther > wrote: >> Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. > > why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper > into bash instead of trying to posix-ify the scripts) Because w

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther wrote: > Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper into bash instead of trying to posix-ify the scripts) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > So why is phonon support disabled in Qt? > if memory serves correct from gentoo days it has to do with qt phonon an kde phonon stepping on each others toes... however it might be for different reasons in arch. -- Caleb Cushing http

[arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting out flush and sync as valid options from the list. I checked the thing, now I'm getting the old high speed USB transfer. Do take a look at it, and comment. -- Regar

Re: [arch-general] Last Updates w/kernel 2.6.33.4-1 -> 2.6.34-2 broke radeon driver for RS690M cards

2010-06-28 Thread Damien Churchill
On 28 June 2010 10:35, Paul Ezvan wrote: > Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit : >> Guys, >> >>       Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up >> updates, >> which included the kernel, really affected the radeon driver badly. It's >> almos

Re: [arch-general] Last Updates w/kernel 2.6.33.4-1 -> 2.6.34-2 broke radeon driver for RS690M cards

2010-06-28 Thread Paul Ezvan
Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit : > Guys, > > Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up > updates, > which included the kernel, really affected the radeon driver badly. It's > almost > like I am back running in framebuffer mode.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Inclusion of wvdial in the ISO

2010-06-28 Thread Jesse Jaara
I think there has to be some easy way to connect using a connection thats need some dialing, as here in Finland too these 3G usb modems are extreamly popular and lots of people whit no existing connection and even some whit exisiting connection are changeing to them. I don't know if the sofware