Re: [arch-general] iptables not working well?

2011-07-11 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Robert Marmorstein wrote: >> ... >> >> It might help you to LOG packets that are REJECTED.  Then if you continue to >> have issues, you should be able to see more directly what's going on. >> >> To do that,

Re: [arch-general] iptables not working well?

2011-07-11 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Robert Marmorstein wrote: > ... > > It might help you to LOG packets that are REJECTED.  Then if you continue to > have issues, you should be able to see more directly what's going on. > > To do that, add rules like directly before the ones with -J REJECT: > > ipta

[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.86-1

2011-07-11 Thread Eric Bélanger
Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.86-1 are in testing for an upstream update. Please test and signoff. Signoff from users are welcomed. Eric

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-11 Thread D. R. Evans
David Rosenstrauch said the following at 07/11/2011 03:43 PM : > > Hmmm ... your Xorg loading definitely seems to be happening differently > from mine. (See: http://www.darose.net/Xorg.0.log) I'm not sure why > yet. Perhaps with more info we can figure it out. > > How are you starting up X?

Re: [arch-general] iptables not working well?

2011-07-11 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> Your config looks ok, but to double check, paste the output of: >> iptables -L -nv % sudo iptables -L -nv Password: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 1 packets, 446 bytes) pkts bytes

Re: [arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/11/2011 07:50 AM, jesse jaara wrote: 2011/7/11 Matthew Monaco On 07/11/2011 12:30 AM, dmb...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/10/2011 07:44 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded. Are

Re: [arch-general] Xorg not working on AMD C-50 Fusion (Radeon HD 6250)

2011-07-11 Thread Nicolás Adamo
On 07/10/2011 03:40 PM, jesse jaara wrote: 2011/7/10 Nicolás Adamo On 07/10/2011 02:18 PM, Nicolás Adamo wrote: First of all, Thanks for so much reply! nomodeset was already in menu.lst wat wasn't there is fglrx in modules array @t rc.conf , but on other desktop machine it isn't necessary. Th

[arch-general] Still perl issues

2011-07-11 Thread Joel Hatsch
Hello *, still having perl issues after update. Saw on the mailing list that I'm not the first, but the suggested workarounds don't work for me. Code : #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use GD::Graph::lines; results in the already known Not a CODE reference at /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/DynaLoader.

Re: [arch-general] Arch base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Herb Miller Jr.
Very helpful, everyone. Thank you much. Herb -Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Axilleas P Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 4:39 PM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Arch base s

[arch-general] bpython/bpython2 in community-testing

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
I've renamed the current community/bpython to community-testing/bpython2. bpython is now the python3 version in community-testing. The reason for the wait is because of a crash that should be fixed in python 3.2.1: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23536 Please test and thanks for your time!

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/11/2011 05:11 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: David Rosenstrauch said the following at 07/06/2011 01:19 PM : Also, not sure if this matters, but it looks like you don't have any Xorg fonts installed. Try installing xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi and see if that helps. DR One other sugges

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-11 Thread D. R. Evans
David Rosenstrauch said the following at 07/06/2011 01:12 PM : > On 07/06/2011 02:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> On 07/06/2011 01:46 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >>> Guillaume Brunerie said the following at 07/04/2011 11:01 AM : It seems you have an Intel graphics card and that the driver does

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-11 Thread D. R. Evans
David Rosenstrauch said the following at 07/06/2011 01:19 PM : > On 07/06/2011 03:12 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> On 07/06/2011 02:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >>> On 07/06/2011 01:46 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Guillaume Brunerie said the following at 07/04/2011 11:01 AM : > It seems y

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-11 Thread D. R. Evans
David Rosenstrauch said the following at 07/06/2011 12:00 PM : > On 07/06/2011 01:46 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >> Guillaume Brunerie said the following at 07/04/2011 11:01 AM : >>> It seems you have an Intel graphics card and that the driver does not want >>> to start. >>> >>> Have you read the page h

Re: [arch-general] Arch base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Axilleas P
2011/7/11 Lukáš Jirkovský : > On 11 July 2011 20:01, Herb Miller Jr. wrote: >> Where can I find a snapshot of the Arch base system to facilitate deployment >> in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? >> >> Thank you, >> Herb >> > > Maybe you could use mkarchroot tool from the devtools

Re: [arch-general] Outdated install media (2010-05)

2011-07-11 Thread Darkbyte
Thanks for your explanation, what i worry about is the install media available for download from archlinux.org website, as it is more than one year old. I looked through the feedback site at http://www.archlinux.org/releng/feedback/architecture/1/ but wasn't able to find WHAT exactly failed for ea

Re: [arch-general] Outdated install media (2010-05)

2011-07-11 Thread Bogdan Ionuț
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 21:58, Darkbyte wrote: > Is there anything we could do about the extremely outdated install media? > you can create a custom iso yourself. http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/plain/README

[arch-general] Outdated install media (2010-05)

2011-07-11 Thread Darkbyte
Is there anything we could do about the extremely outdated install media? I right now got used to installing systems with the most recent iso's from http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2011.06.10/ and they worked for me. Is there any tests that need to be performed? - Armin

Re: [arch-general] Arch base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 11 July 2011 20:01, Herb Miller Jr. wrote: > Where can I find a snapshot of the Arch base system to facilitate deployment > in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? > > Thank you, > Herb > Maybe you could use mkarchroot tool from the devtools package. It's a script which ease crea

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > It would appear that on Jul 11, Thomas Bächler did say: >> This is no reason. Especially if you dual-boot, keeping the hardware >> clock in UTC is something to make your life so much easier. > > NOT dual-boot, Multi-boot, And I don't

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Ray Rashif
On 11 July 2011 23:20, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > Since I multi-boot AND do keep my hardware clock set to local time, I'm a > little bit concerned by this statement. It gives me two questions. I still use localtime and currently I have a dual-boot machine w/ Win7. No problems. But that may b

Re: [arch-general] Arch base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread jesse jaara
Download some core testing iso. Or just actually any arch core iso.

[arch-general] Arch base system snapshot available?

2011-07-11 Thread Herb Miller Jr.
Where can I find a snapshot of the Arch base system to facilitate deployment in a chrooted environment? Is such a thing available? Thank you, Herb

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 11, jesse jaara did say: > > Check the systemd wiki page it has info for setting windows to UTC time > It's not so much that Windows likes local time. It's that I insist on it... I MUCH prefer to manually set/verify the hardware clock's time with the bios set-u

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Buce
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > It would appear that on 2011-05-02, > www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-1/ did say: > > > We now strongly discourage the use of HARDWARECLOCK="localtime", as this > > may lead to several known and unfixable bugs. However,

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.07.2011 17:20, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook: > Since I multi-boot AND do keep my hardware clock set to local time, I'm a > little bit concerned by this statement. It gives me two questions. This is no reason. Especially if you dual-boot, keeping the hardware clock in UTC is something to m

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread jesse jaara
Check the systemd wiki page it has info for setting windows to UTC time

[arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on 2011-05-02, www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-1/ did say: > We now strongly discourage the use of HARDWARECLOCK="localtime", as this > may lead to several known and unfixable bugs. However, there are no plans > to drop support for "localtime". And it would appear

Re: [arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?

2011-07-11 Thread jesse jaara
2011/7/11 Matthew Monaco > On 07/11/2011 12:30 AM, dmb...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On 07/10/2011 07:44 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: >> >>> I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep >>> when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded. >>> >> >> Are you blacklisting this mo

Re: [arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/11/2011 12:30 AM, dmb...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/10/2011 07:44 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded. Are you blacklisting this module through the old syntax in rc.conf? The config

[arch-general] Alsa buffer_size without dmix?

2011-07-11 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Hello everypony, I want to increase my default alsa buffer_size of 8192 to 32768 because I'm sometimes getting small skips in my audio. Now, usually people use dmix for this. I'm using the upmix plugin, however, to listen to stereo music on my 7.1 system. Could any alsa wizards share the wis