Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/17/2010 12:52 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Can you downgrade the -lts kernel and see if it works? If not, can you try downgrading some other packages also? Thomas, I'm going to work through the .xmodmap thoughts Jeff Cook had and then I'll downgrade LTS and see if that cures it. I'll re

Re: [arch-general] Need Help working on radeon/kernel bug - Where can I get .35rc kernel

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/17/2010 07:39 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31932 kernel26-rc Thanks Thomas :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/17/2010 05:38 PM, Jeff Cook wrote: I had this problem a while back. In my case, I had compiled a random git checkout from awesomewm and that had a bug that was the cause of the failure. If you're using any beta or development branches of your window manager, you might want to try stable. A

Re: [arch-general] Need Help working on radeon/kernel bug - Where can I get .35rc kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:36 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        On the kernel/radeon, Andreas suggested: > > "try a .35rc kernel if it's fixed meanwhile. if not ask on the upstream > radeon list and then probably file the issue to the Xorg tracker for > radeon." > > My question: > > (1)

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/17/2010 03:58 PM, Adriano Moura wrote: Does Xterm and the VT's works? if so, it must be something with the gnome terminal :) Yep, x-term and all other vt's work fine, gnome-terminal is the only one with the un-terminable illness :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 51

[arch-general] Need Help working on radeon/kernel bug - Where can I get .35rc kernel

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, On the kernel/radeon, Andreas suggested: "try a .35rc kernel if it's fixed meanwhile. if not ask on the upstream radeon list and then probably file the issue to the Xorg tracker for radeon." My question: (1) where would I look to find the Arch .35rc kernel? I got the rest :p

Re: [arch-general] donate for the improvement and development

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Dmitry Korzhevin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there any site which listed the current Arch Linux > project objectives, on which user can donate development or improvement > of this tasks? > > > - -- > Best regards, > Dmitry Korzhe

[arch-general] donate for the improvement and development

2010-07-17 Thread Dmitry Korzhevin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any site which listed the current Arch Linux project objectives, on which user can donate development or improvement of this tasks? - -- Best regards, Dmitry Korzhevin Tel: +38 (039) 295- Office Phone: +38 (044) 383-14-12 E-mail: dkorzh

Re: [arch-general] Nouveau problem

2010-07-17 Thread Jeff Cook
Try following the nouveau page on ArchWiki and asking in some nouveau-specific support channels, like #nouveau on freenode. 2010/7/17 Lukáš Jirkovský > On 17 July 2010 17:01, Lars Tennstedt wrote: > > Hello again, > > > > the graphics card on my old pc is a Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200. Before the >

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread Jeff Cook
I had this problem a while back. In my case, I had compiled a random git checkout from awesomewm and that had a bug that was the cause of the failure. If you're using any beta or development branches of your window manager, you might want to try stable. Also, try removing any .xmodmap or other suc

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread Adriano Moura
2010/7/17 David C. Rankin > On 07/16/2010 09:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> I have a strange problem. ctrl+c is completely broken on my system. It >> won't >> cancel Jack Schit. It is the strangest thing I've seen. I apologize if >> there is >> some archain Arch notice on this I a

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread C Anthony Risinger
IIRC it is being marked stable in 2.6.35. Stable schmable... works like a treat for me and many others; it's just a possible solution. C Anthony [mobile] On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:46 PM, "Евгений Борисов" wrote: > BTRFS is not marked stable by developers, so it can not used in > stable > arch. >

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Евгений Борисов
BTRFS is not marked stable by developers, so it can not used in stable arch. 2010/7/17 C Anthony Risinger > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > >> On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > >> > >> > On Sat

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang wrote: >> >> > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >> >> Oh, I do.  I would just prefer to work with the package management

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 12:15 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > > > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > >> Oh, I do. I would just prefer to work with the package management > >> framework, not work around it. > > > > I think this

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 43/48] Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

2010-07-17 Thread Jan Steffens
pkgrel=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) much simpler. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Victor Lowther wrote: > This builds straight out of a git checkout. > --- >  PKGBUILD |   23 +++ >  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD > ne

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:42 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther >>> wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On S

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 17 Jul 2010 11:06 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:42 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:42 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther > wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > >> > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrot

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >> > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: >> > > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/module

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: > > > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ > > > will be removed when the package is upgra

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Rafael Beraldo
2010/7/17 Ng Oon-Ee > When a kernel is updated kernel modules are as well. For example, nvidia > is pushed up one pkgrel because a new kernel is out. With your > suggestion the old kernel is saved as vmlinuz26-old. Which can't get a > graphical login because the old nvidia module is gone. > > I d

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:23:48PM -0300, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > 2010/7/17 Thomas Dziedzic > > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > > >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: > > >> > I think it

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
2010/7/17 Rafael Beraldo : > 2010/7/17 Thomas Dziedzic > >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: >> >> > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory >> /l

Re: [arch-general] Nouveau problem

2010-07-17 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 17 July 2010 17:01, Lars Tennstedt wrote: > Hello again, > > the graphics card on my old pc is a Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200. Before the > release of the version 1.8 of X.org I used the proprietary driver. Because > this is not possible anymore, I tried the nouveau driver and everything I > can get

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:23 -0300, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > 2010/7/17 Thomas Dziedzic > > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > > >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: > > >> > I think it's a ba

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Rafael Beraldo
2010/7/17 Thomas Dziedzic > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: > >> > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory > /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ > >> > will

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: >> > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ >> > will be removed when the package is upgraded

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 09:17 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: > > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ > > will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not > > exists. > > My solutio

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 07/17/10 01:49, David C. Rankin wrote: On 07/17/2010 12:01 AM, Corey Johns wrote: Try a new keyboard to help isolate the problem. I would, but this is a laptop :p For the record: All laptops I've seen have USB ports, and all modern separate-keyboards I've seen have USB plugs [unless the

[arch-general] Nouveau problem

2010-07-17 Thread Lars Tennstedt
Hello again, the graphics card on my old pc is a Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200. Before the release of the version 1.8 of X.org I used the proprietary driver. Because this is not possible anymore, I tried the nouveau driver and everything I can get is a blank screen. The vesa driver works correctly

[arch-general] nfs problem

2010-07-17 Thread Lars Tennstedt
Hello, I tried to set up a nfs server and a nfs client in my network. I followed the instructions from the arch linux wiki. The server's ip address is 192.168.0.100 and the client's one is 192.168.0.101. I inserted the option --no-notify in /etc/conf.d/nfs-common.conf on the server. Here are

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 43/48] Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 16:34 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 17.07.2010 16:13, schrieb Victor Lowther: > > Why do you think a .gitignore patch is needed? Unless someone does > > something silly like adding the tarball to the git repo git will ignore > > it anyways. > > You want to keep "git stat

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 43/48] Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.07.2010 16:13, schrieb Victor Lowther: > Why do you think a .gitignore patch is needed? Unless someone does > something silly like adding the tarball to the git repo git will ignore > it anyways. You want to keep "git status" clean, especially with __git_ps1. If there is nothing changed/to

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 07/17/2010 05:17 PM, Victor Lowther wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not exists. My solution is to hand-roll my own

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:05 +0400, Евгений Борисов wrote: > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ > will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not > exists. My solution is to hand-roll my own kernels and initramfs'es after removing the

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
2010/7/17 Евгений Борисов : > I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ > will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not > exists. > > 2010/7/17 ganlu > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 2010年07月17日 15:46, Ionuț B

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 43/48] Add a PKGBUILD for building initscripts-git for testing.

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 14:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > > This builds straight out of a git checkout. > > --- > > PKGBUILD | 23 +++ > > 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUI

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 44/48] Save error messages to /dev/tty9.

2010-07-17 Thread Victor Lowther
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 14:09 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 30.06.2010 23:47, schrieb Victor Lowther: > > --- > > functions |4 > > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/functions b/functions > > index 9ec8b5e..f1dce8a 100644 > > --- a/functions > > +++

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Евгений Борисов
I think it's a bad idea, because the directory /lib/modules/$oldVersion$ will be removed when the package is upgraded kernel. Trivial solution not exists. 2010/7/17 ganlu > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2010年07月17日 15:46, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > > On 07/17/2010 09:27 AM, Mad

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches

2010-07-17 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Mark Pustjens wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > >> On 07/17/2010 01:23 AM, Mark Pustjens wrote: >>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote: >>> >>> > On 07/16/2010 10:11 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: >>> > > Hi List, >>> > > > > Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package.

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] gdisk patches

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Pustjens
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 07/17/2010 01:23 AM, Mark Pustjens wrote: On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 07/16/2010 10:11 PM, Mark Pustjens wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Below a patch wich fixes two bugs in the gdisk package. They have been > > submitted uptream but

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/17/2010 12:58 AM, Jordan Windsor wrote: Works here, gnome-terminal 2.30.2-1 Thanks - sometimes, I think I just must be the lucky one :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 ww

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/17/2010 12:52 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Can you downgrade the -lts kernel and see if it works? If not, can you try downgrading some other packages also? Yep, I'll do that as a last resort, but finding that ctrl+c is only broken in gnome-terminal and it is OK in konsole, I'm suspecting

Re: [arch-general] What broke ctrl+c ??

2010-07-17 Thread János Illés
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 07:55, David C. Rankin wrote: > OK I've narrowed it down to gnome-terminal. If I use konsole (kde3 or kde4) > ctrl+c works just fine. > > Can anyone else try in gnome-terminal and see if ctrl+c is broken for you? > Just type 'ping whatever' and then try to kill ping with cr

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread ganlu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2010年07月17日 15:46, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 07/17/2010 09:27 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >> Hi, >> While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with >> the new >> one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new >

Re: [arch-general] Keep older kernel intact while upgrading to new kernel

2010-07-17 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 07/17/2010 09:27 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, While updating to a new kernel pacman replaces the older kernel with the new one. Is there someway to keep the older kernel in /boot and have new entries for new kernel in menu.lst while keeping old entries intact? no -- Ionuț