Re: [arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-26 Thread Ian
I don't think I have the knowledge to solve your problem, but what is the problem you are having? So far you have just described your partition scheme and that you are stuck somewhere. Which wiki page are you referring to? On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:17 PM, mick wrote: > I've been trying to ins

Re: [arch-general] makepkg as root

2015-01-02 Thread Ian D. Scott
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 08:12:12PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > In the past I sometimes had no reason _not_ to run makepkg as root, when > I wanted to compile from ABS, located in /var/abs/. I'm aware about the > drawback, that actually isn't relevant for my kind of computer usage + > several avai

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Fleming
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:30:06PM -0400, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: > >> If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr > >> superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved > >> out > >> of /usr, not moved in. > > > > well no > > the point is to

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Fleming
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:19:59AM +0800, Ken CC wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I laugh away this trouble. > > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? > > anyone likes to answer this question? > > > > -ken I beleive its a que

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-06 Thread Ian-Xue Li
date period. And, it has really GOOD manual. -- Li Ian-Xue http://b4283.ath.cx

Re: [arch-general] Replace dcron once again?

2010-11-12 Thread Ian-Xue Li
/man3/bitstring.3.gz 4.0K/usr/share/man/man5/fcron.conf.5.gz 12K /usr/share/man/man5/fcrontab.5.gz 4.0K/usr/share/man/man8/fcron.8.gz 4.0K/var/spool/fcron/systab.orig 272KTotal It comes down to only 272 KiB, I think this is very acceptable. -- Li Ian-Xue http://b4283.ath.cx

Re: [arch-general] Benchmarks (GUI)

2010-10-08 Thread Ian-Xue Li
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Manne Merak wrote: > Anyone know of some reliable benchmark utilities I can use to > evaluate display cards? and different drivers (mostly Nvidia on KDE > 4.5). You can try glxgears for a start. Or Phoronix Test Suite. -- Li Ian-Xue http://b4283.ath.cx

[arch-general] changed locale behavior /etc/rc.sysinit

2010-09-15 Thread Ian-Xue Li
nue 53 fi 54 test -x $profile && . $profile 55 done 56 unset profile 57 fi -- 李彥學 (Li Ian-Xue) http://b4283.ath.cx A student.

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-21 Thread Ian-Xue Li
there would be two instances of such processes as below. [events/0] [events/1] [events/2] [events/3] [cpuset] [khelper] [netns] [async/mgr] [pm] . . . I wonder if this is normal... -- 李彥學 (Ian-Xue Li) http://b4283.ath.cx A student.

[arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Ian-Xue Li
d harm the filesystems. I really like to hear some experiences whether that you have been using ACPI S3 kernel suspension for quite some time now, and feels it is really stable and safe to use, or that, you had ran into troubles using them. -- 李彥學 (Ian-Xue Li) http://b4283.ath.cx A student.

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Ian-Xue Li
mend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over different types files. Overall, if you don't care any of the above, mpd with any suitable player (I use ncmpcpp) is a must-try combination. ps: xmms2 has similar configuration to mpd, but mpd is definitely more popular. -- 李彥學 (Ian-Xue Li)

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

2009-12-21 Thread Ian-Xue Li
ell. if you had a ati card with KMS enabled, try to add "nomodeset" to the kernel line in grub. -- Ian-Xue Li

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-26 Thread Ian-Xue Li
ghtweight browsers like dillo or netsurf. -- Ian-Xue Li

[arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-18 Thread Ian-Xue Li
er if this is true (in the sense that anyone once had a problem with pbzip2), because myself had never run into one of them. If so, it really a shame to abandon such a good tool though... -- Ian-Xue Li

Re: [arch-general] CUPS won't detect my usb printer

2009-11-15 Thread Ian-Xue Li
-r' if it works (printer detected), block this module in rc.conf. -- Ian-Xue Li

Re: [arch-general] kernel vga setting problems

2008-06-23 Thread Ian Snow
On Monday 23 June 2008 15:56:04 Aaron Schaefer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is it that after the last few upgrades with pacman I can't use > > any 'vga=nnn' setting anymore in my grub menu.lst? I used to > > use 'vga=792' 'vga=795', if memo