Re: [arch-general] wireless driver broadcom b43 random success or failure

2016-04-11 Thread message
Dieter Wirz Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:45:07 -0700 echo b43 >> /etc/modules The directory file shows: b43 There is nothing more. The module is not loaded automatically, so I continue to start the wireless driver manually, as described before.

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Stephen
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:40:29 +0930 > Stephen wrote: > > > I'm sorry, but my mail client (mutt) certainly does show these as > > being threaded under, and not top level replies. I don't know why it > > would be showing up otherwise for you, because I've

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Doug Newgard
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:40:29 +0930 Stephen wrote: > I'm sorry, but my mail client (mutt) certainly does show these as > being threaded under, and not top level replies. I don't know why it > would be showing up otherwise for you, because I've replied direct to > yours each time. Top posting refe

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Stephen
I'm sorry, but my mail client (mutt) certainly does show these as being threaded under, and not top level replies. I don't know why it would be showing up otherwise for you, because I've replied direct to yours each time. I have a top level understanding of the process involved with AUR and packag

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Doug Newgard
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:47:16 +0930 Stephen wrote: > Appreciate the clarification - I was not aware that this was the case, > but it does make sense. Is this true of fetching updates as well, or > only in terms of rebuilding things? Thanks! Please stop top posting. Yes, it would include updates.

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Doug Newgard
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 07:43:10 +0200 SanskritFritz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Doug Newgard wrote: > > Everything *in the repos* that needed to was rebuilt against 3.20. The Arc > > theme is in the AUR, which you have to manage yourself. > > So then, for example qtcurve must be re

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread SanskritFritz
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Doug Newgard wrote: > Everything *in the repos* that needed to was rebuilt against 3.20. The Arc > theme is in the AUR, which you have to manage yourself. So then, for example qtcurve must be rebuilt? Should I file a bug report?

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Stephen
Appreciate the clarification - I was not aware that this was the case, but it does make sense. Is this true of fetching updates as well, or only in terms of rebuilding things? Thanks! On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:15:45 +0930 > Stephen wrote: > > > For what it

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Kyle Terrien
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > after the last upgrade GTK2 apps running in an openbox session need more > space, they became darker and in some windows even the fonts became > less good readable. The reason that I dropped desktop environments was > to get rid of chaotic designs and to keep a clear design an

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Doug Newgard
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:15:45 +0930 Stephen wrote: > For what it's worth, I was able to resolve this issue in the end by > simply removing + reinstalling my theme (which was Arc). Installing > Adwaita also worked. > > Removing and reinstalling solved the issue because it rebuilt against > Gnome 3

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Stephen
For what it's worth, I was able to resolve this issue in the end by simply removing + reinstalling my theme (which was Arc). Installing Adwaita also worked. Removing and reinstalling solved the issue because it rebuilt against Gnome 3.20. I'd only recently switched to Arch, and had therefore wrong

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Sujith Manoharan
Peter Hofmann writes: > This may be caused by "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf" which > is now shipped with fontconfig-2.11.95. You can override this either > system-wide or with a per-user configuration file. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration#Hintstyle > https:/

Re: [arch-general] Thinkpad 770 - Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)

2016-04-11 Thread Serge Hooge
Alright, I'll tackle those one-by-one. Jens Adam wrote: > ... to get the most obvious question out of the way: > > What's the exact processor type? > And do other i686-type distributions work okay? It's a Pentium II, i686-compatible. I've seen multiple reports of various distros working a-okay o

Re: [arch-general] Thinkpad 770 - Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)

2016-04-11 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 11 apr. 2016 23:17 schreef "Guus Snijders" : > > Op 10 apr. 2016 21:32 schreef "Serge Hooge" : > [...] > > I recently became an owner of a Thinkpad 770, which rather ancient by > > modern standards and decided to give it a spark of fresh life by > > installing Arch on it. > > > > The CD boots ok

Re: [arch-general] Thinkpad 770 - Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)

2016-04-11 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 10 apr. 2016 21:32 schreef "Serge Hooge" : > > I apologize for crossposting from the forum, but I am not getting any > replies there so far. > > I recently became an owner of a Thinkpad 770, which rather ancient by > modern standards and decided to give it a spark of fresh life by > installing A

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:14:48 +, Sajjad Heydari wrote: >My theme was broken as well, but switching to Adwaita worked. Actually Adwaita, which wasn't upgraded, does look different after the upgrade. I already used Adwaita before the upgrade. Perhaps I could fix the lightdm greeter by switching t

Re: [arch-general] Thinkpad 770 - Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)

2016-04-11 Thread Jens Adam
... to get the most obvious question out of the way: What's the exact processor type? And do other i686-type distributions work okay? (What's the minimum spec anyway nowadays, still CMOV? SSE?) --byte pgp8m8O6Jp2pN.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP

Re: [arch-general] Thinkpad 770 - Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)

2016-04-11 Thread Serge Hooge
> * reboot with the CD > * adjust /etc/mkinitcpio.conf > The HOOK line looks at me like the following: > HOOKS="base udev modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck resume" > Try to remove 'autodetect'; it may strip modules that are needed by > accident; 'resume' is necessary for s2disk. > * re-creat

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Peter Hofmann
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 06:54:20AM +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote: > For me, the recent fontconfig package in testing has changed the way > bold fonts are rendered. I have downgraded fontconfig manually since > I couldn't find a way to fix this. > > With 2.11.94: http://msujith.org/dir/img/before-f

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Sajjad Heydari
My theme was broken as well, but switching to Adwaita worked. I hope in future at least a warning message would be issued... On Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 11:42 PM Maarten de Vries wrote: > On 11 April 2016 at 21:05, D C wrote: > > > I'm with gurnaik on this one... Up until a few days ago, I had done

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 11 April 2016 at 21:05, D C wrote: > I'm with gurnaik on this one... Up until a few days ago, I had done weekly > updates on my arch system for the past 3 years without breakage. If doing > an update renders your system unusable, that's kind of an issue.. Luckily I > have a notebook backup. >

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread D C
I'm with gurnaik on this one... Up until a few days ago, I had done weekly updates on my arch system for the past 3 years without breakage. If doing an update renders your system unusable, that's kind of an issue.. Luckily I have a notebook backup. On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:16 AM, gurnaik wrote:

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread gurnaik
On 11/04/16 15:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:01:40 +0200, Qdaxfa wrote: Try doing more research on updates before installing them if stability is critical for you Such a disaster never happened for minimalist environments (openbox, jwm with an uncritical theme as Adwaita) with

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:01:40 +0200, Qdaxfa wrote: >Try doing more research on updates before installing them if stability >is critical for you Such a disaster never happened for minimalist environments (openbox, jwm with an uncritical theme as Adwaita) within all the years I'm using Arch Linux. T

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:31:07 +0200, Bjoern Franke wrote: >> But I found several other additional issues for GTK2 and GTK3 apps, >> most likely I'll restore my Arch Linux from a backup and stop >> upgrading as long as possible, since my production machine is >> totally broken at the moment. Not only

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Qdaxfa
On 2016-04-11 15:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:07:56 +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: I'm sure you could tell the difference there. Yes, I can, but I don't know against what to file bugs. GTK3 apps default to grotesque window sizes, don't remember region settings inside the windows

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:07:56 +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: >I'm sure you could tell the difference there. Yes, I can, but I don't know against what to file bugs. GTK3 apps default to grotesque window sizes, don't remember region settings inside the windows, became unreadable due to invisible text, e.

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, > But I found several other additional issues for GTK2 and GTK3 apps, > most > likely I'll restore my Arch Linux from a backup and stop upgrading as > long as possible, since my production machine is totally broken at > the > moment. Not only the look is ugly, it's really a broken install. Yo

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Martti Kühne
I'm sure you could tell the difference there. cheers! mar77i

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:07:30 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Evolution calender password request This is not related to the GTK2 and GTK3 issues, it's an issue for the new Evolution, caused by Yahoo/Rocketmail. But I found several other additional issues for GTK2 and GTK3 apps, most likely I'll resto

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Cool, some elements of GTK2 apps use a different font rendering than others and even positioning the mouse cursor is broken for some elements. I would like to report bugs upstream, but I don't know what exactly is the culprit.

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 06:54:20 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote: >For me, the recent fontconfig package in testing has changed the way >bold fonts are rendered. I also have a broken font rendering since yesterday and I'm neither using testing nor was fontconfig upgraded yesterday. [2016-03-29 08:01] [

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:17:19 +0930, Stephen wrote: >I've had a similar issue; can't see any highlights hovering over >things anymore (i.e. tray icon for pulseaudio or network manager, >can't adjust things in pulseaudio window, etc). In the meantime I noticed all kinds of broken GTK2 and GTK3 apps.