Re: [arch-general] What happened to Powerpill?

2011-04-06 Thread Jeff Cook
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Please, someone restart powerpill development. It was awesome. I had > to remove it in order to upgrade to pacman 3.5 but now I can't find it > anywhere. > The developer's post on the forums indicates that he's been working on a far better

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-1

2011-03-19 Thread Jeff Cook
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Richard Schütz wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Jeff Cook >>  wrote: >>> Having issues here with ath9k, much slower than it was with 2.6.37. >>> Found this bug re: Ubuntu on Launchpad, haven't checked the kernel >

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-1

2011-03-19 Thread Jeff Cook
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Jeff Cook wrote: >> Hi guys, >> please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. > > Having issues here with ath9k, much slower than it was with 2.6.37. > Found this bug re: Ubuntu on Launchpad, haven't checked the kernel > tracker: http

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-1

2011-03-18 Thread Jeff Cook
> Hi guys, > please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. Having issues here with ath9k, much slower than it was with 2.6.37. Found this bug re: Ubuntu on Launchpad, haven't checked the kernel tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/735171

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-12-08 Thread Jeff Cook
>> > Really please, please don't top post. >> > http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/ >> >> Who cares! it takes too long to scroll down through the past fifteen >> generations to get to the relevant part of the message. > > Well, it takes me one keystroke. Get a better mail client. Whenever

Re: [arch-general] Benchmarks (GUI)

2010-10-11 Thread Jeff Cook
2010/10/11 Cédric Girard : > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jeff Cook wrote: > >> I usually just run gtkperf. I haven't tried PTS yet but it's hard for >> me to trust anything that comes out of Phoronix. >> > > > Please explain ? Phoronix is just real

Re: [arch-general] Benchmarks (GUI)

2010-10-11 Thread Jeff Cook
I usually just run gtkperf. I haven't tried PTS yet but it's hard for me to trust anything that comes out of Phoronix.

Re: [arch-general] some notes on the radeon gallium driver

2010-10-06 Thread Jeff Cook
My understanding is that r300g is the new default in Mesa 7.9. See http://www.mail-archive.com/mesa-com...@lists.freedesktop.org/msg23390.html . Does this mean that Arch will automatically switch to it on release of Mesa or will extra steps be required?

Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.9 - This traing is going to hell.

2010-09-30 Thread Jeff Cook
The only problem I've had is slow nvidia rendering with the stable drivers. Upgraded to nvidia-beta and all is better now. For those who might not know, you can upgrade to nvidia-beta by doing this: 1. Install a pacman wrapper that searches AUR too, I use clyde. 2. sudo clyde -Rd nvidia nvidia-ut

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread Jeff Cook
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Guus Snijders wrote: > On 29-09-10 05:24, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> Guys, >> >> For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the >> packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here >> is the press release: >> >> http://www.

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

2010-07-18 Thread Jeff Cook
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:58 PM, David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > 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 cau

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] pidgin memory leak?

2009-05-29 Thread Jeff Cook
Perhaps you'll find more interest on the pidgin mailing lists. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: > Also try msn-pecan to see if maybe that one works better. > > -J > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:55 AM, ludovic coues wrote: > >> if pidgin is a problem, you can give a try