Re: [arch-general] Nvidia backlight control - acpi_video0/brightness changes - display doesn't?

2016-11-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/17/2016 04:31 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > Laptop: HP 8760w, Quadro 3000M, nvidia-340xx packages. > > The driver works perfectly (no errors in Xorg.0.log), but I have no way to > control the screen brightness. I've followed the suggestions in: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/in

[arch-general] Nvidia backlight control - acpi_video0/brightness changes - display doesn't?

2016-11-17 Thread David C. Rankin
All, Laptop: HP 8760w, Quadro 3000M, nvidia-340xx packages. The driver works perfectly (no errors in Xorg.0.log), but I have no way to control the screen brightness. I've followed the suggestions in: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks but I still have no backlight

Re: [arch-general] 'invalid radix64 character 2D skipped' with pacman-key --refresh-keys

2016-11-17 Thread Christian Rebischke
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:49:01PM +0100, Christian Rebischke wrote: > gpg: invalid radix64 character 2E skipped > gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=11) > gpg: read_block: read error: Invalid packet > gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2064 bits) > > The full output is here: > > https://

[arch-general] 'invalid radix64 character 2D skipped' with pacman-key --refresh-keys

2016-11-17 Thread Christian Rebischke
Hello everybody, Does some of you encount problems with `pacman-key --refresh-keys` like me? I can't refresh my keyring due to some strange error messages: gpg: invalid radix64 character 2E skipped gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=11) gpg: read_block: read error: Invalid packet gpg: mpi larg

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur uptodate.

2016-11-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:53:56 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >As for your question, search the yaourt manpage for the `--devel` >switch... most other AUR helpers should have something similar. "--devel With -u or --sysupgrade, search an update for devel packages."

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur uptodate.

2016-11-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:18:27 -0500, Matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: >I ran the talking arch script which Kial has been working and when >doing so, I got the aur helper running. The simple thing is this. I >want to switch to espeak NG and yes I am aware of espeakup git. I >know that I can in

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur uptodate.

2016-11-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 11/17/2016 10:18 AM, Matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > I ran the talking arch script which Kial has been working and when > doing so, I got the aur helper running. The simple thing is this. I > want to switch to espeak NG and yes I am aware of espeakup git. I > know that I can i

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur uptodate.

2016-11-17 Thread Matthew dyer via arch-general
Hi, I ran the talking arch script which Kial has been working and when doing so, I got the aur helper running. The simple thing is this. I want to switch to espeak NG and yes I am aware of espeakup git. I know that I can install this. I am going to assoom then that if espeak NG ias in the a

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

2016-11-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:28:35 +, Travis Collins wrote: >On Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 6:26 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> Oops, I need to correct this, assuming the dependencies shouldn't >> be available by official repositories, then 'makepkg -s', IOW pacman, >> can't resolve the dependencies ;). > >Ha,

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

2016-11-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:26:23 +, Travis Collins wrote: >unless I am horribly mistaken, makepkg won't handle AUR dependencies I noticed that my information was not entirely correct a few seconds before you sent your reply :D. Yes, as mentioned by the man page, makepkg does use pacman to resolve

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

2016-11-17 Thread Travis Collins via arch-general
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 6:26 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Oops, I need to correct this, assuming the dependencies shouldn't > be available by official repositories, then 'makepkg -s', IOW pacman, > can't resolve the dependencies ;). > Ha, just replied with the same. Thanks for confirming though, I w

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

2016-11-17 Thread Travis Collins via arch-general
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016, 4:26 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > It doesn't harm to read comments and to take a look at the PKGBUILD when > using yaourt. When not using yaourt there anyway is no need to install > dependencies manually, see > > man makepkg > > and > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/ > > Re

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

2016-11-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:25:43 +0100, I wrote: >When not using yaourt there anyway is no need to install >dependencies manually, see > > man makepkg Oops, I need to correct this, assuming the dependencies shouldn't be available by official repositories, then 'makepkg -s', IOW pacman, can't resolve

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

2016-11-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:24:58 -0500 (EST), Jude DaShiell wrote: >Did you ever download a package from aur before? If not you can get >and set up yaourt on archlinux The OP already pointed out that yaourt is installed, this is the reason why I gave hints how to use yaourt and that I mentioned that