Re: [arch-general] ncmpcpp 0.6beta2-1

2014-09-14 Thread Manolo Martínez
Thanks a lot for the info! > - the play, stop, pause, toggle, etc... command line arguments has > been removed on purpose. See [1]. The workaround I am using now is to > install mpc [2] and use it in all my scripts that was using the related > ncmpcpp's command line argument > >

Re: [arch-general] ncmpcpp 0.6beta2-1

2014-09-14 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 09/15/14 at 12:34am, lolilolicon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:14 AM, tlux wrote: > > - the key bindings functionality has been redesign so as to use a bindings > > file located at /usr/share/doc/ncmpcpp which may be copied to your > > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory and then amended

[arch-general] ncmpcpp 0.6beta2-1

2014-09-14 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hi, Since the upgrade of nmcpcpp to 0.6beta2 yesterday, custom keybindings no longer work, and the commandline subcommands (most importantly for me, `ncmpcpp toggle`) have stopped working as well. Downgrading to 0.5.10 solve these issues. Perhaps the package should stay at the last stable releas

Re: [arch-general] Vim clipboard option

2014-08-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/21/14 at 10:34am, Daniel Micay wrote: > The vim package only exists to avoid some dependencies. If it linked > against X libraries, there wouldn't be much point in having it. That makes sense. Thanks, Manolo pgpXyVkwr0fgJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Vim clipboard option

2014-08-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/21/14 at 11:17am, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:39:50AM +0200, Yamakaky wrote: > > Hi > > > > It's good to have a real vim package, but the `clipboard` option is now > > disabled (see `vim --version`). Is there any reason ? I use it a lot via the > > "+ register. > > I

Re: [arch-general] Vim clipboard option

2014-08-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/21/14 at 07:39am, Yamakaky wrote: > It's good to have a real vim package, but the `clipboard` option is now > disabled (see `vim --version`). Is there any reason ? I use it a lot via the > "+ register. I too find this disappointing. The only reason I have gvim installed is in order to use th

Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Manolo Martínez
> If you would still like to use Skype it is possible to set PulseAudio up as a > temporary pipe to ALSA [1]. > > [1] > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_as_a_minimal_unintrusive_dumb_pipe_to_ALSA That's very useful. I wish I could convince my dad to switch to

Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/23/14 at 04:57pm, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to > audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them > and they can't hear you. That makes sense :) What a drag... Thanks, Manolo

[arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, Pacman warns that Skype 4.3 only works with Pulseaudio. As far as I can tell, that is not true. I don't use PA, and Skype works. Manolo --

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 03/13/14 at 03:59am, Mark Lee wrote: > While I don't know of any specific instructions on the Arch wiki, you can > install Arch Linux onto a usb stick like a regular {H,S}DD. In my case, I > made three partitions. The first was an NTFS partition for using the usb > stick as a data transferring d

Re: [arch-general] Zsh, tmux, and paths

2013-03-14 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 03/13/13 at 09:46pm, Ivan S. Freitas wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Manolo Martínez > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've noticed that, if one modifies the PATH environment variable in > > .zshenv, tmux fails to notice this. That is, `echo $PATH` yiel

[arch-general] Zsh, tmux, and paths

2013-03-13 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I've noticed that, if one modifies the PATH environment variable in .zshenv, tmux fails to notice this. That is, `echo $PATH` yields different results within and without tmux, with the former being the default path, and the latter the path as modified by .zshenv. When I update PATH in .zsh

[arch-general] Filesystem and /etc/shadow

2012-10-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, The update to filesystem-2012.10-2 brings with it a new /etc/shadow. This is one of the cases in which inspecting the diff between what I have and the .pacnew doesn't give any insight (to clueless users such as me). Could anyone provide a summary of what we should change in our current /et

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-27 Thread Manolo Martínez
Thanks everyone for the illuminating responses. IgnorePackage and IgnoreGroup seem to be what I need, after all. Cheers, Manolo On 09/26/12 at 09:10am, gt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just had a mi

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 09/25/12 at 08:16pm, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Manolo Martínez > wrote: > > Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it is > > going to > > substitute a package that has been ABS'd? > > Why not put

[arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS way. Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I was wondering: Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it

Re: [arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop

2012-09-21 Thread Manolo Martínez
e grub default 2 windows when you are going to the shop > On Sep 20, 2012 9:55 PM, "Manolo Martínez" wrote: > > > On 09/20/12 at 10:46pm, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf < > > ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>wrote: &g

Re: [arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop

2012-09-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 09/20/12 at 10:46pm, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 20:38 -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: > > Do you create a new user for them, you > > > give them your user and password and hope

[arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop

2012-09-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
Just a quick question. What do you guys do when you have to leave your laptop at the repair shop? Do you create a new user for them, you give them your user and password and hope for the best, ask them to use a live CD? What? Manolo --

Re: [arch-general] Polkit and systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/15/12 at 12:25am, John K Pate wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:13:33 -0400 > Manolo Martínez wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > If I'm not wrong, systemd makes consolekit superfluous. This is what I > > thought it took for polkit to work with systemd: &

[arch-general] Polkit and systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, If I'm not wrong, systemd makes consolekit superfluous. This is what I thought it took for polkit to work with systemd: * compile polkit with --enable-systemd * enable the systemd polkit service * that's it? But that's not it. Although polkit seems to work in console, it does not work in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux 4.05-5 does not boot

2012-08-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/09/12 at 06:26pm, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 09.08.2012 18:23, schrieb Manolo Martínez: > > On 08/09/12 at 11:18am, Leonid Isaev wrote: > >> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:35:04 -0400 > >> Manolo Martínez wrote: > >>> Is it safe to change an existing /

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux 4.05-5 does not boot

2012-08-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/09/12 at 11:18am, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:35:04 -0400 > Manolo Martínez wrote: > > Is it safe to change an existing /boot from ext2 to ext4? > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext4 > Is the information on the move from ext3 to ext4 valid for the issue at hand? M

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux 4.05-5 does not boot

2012-08-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/09/12 at 06:08pm, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 09.08.2012 17:58, schrieb Baho Utot: > > It is not 10 year old information it was published just after ext4 came out > > > > google is your friend. > > It is still outdated information. After ext4 came out, it took a few > months until Google sta

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux 4.05-5 does not boot

2012-08-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 08/09/12 at 05:27pm, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 09.08.2012 17:12, schrieb Jonathan: > > In the past I have seen ext2 saves time during boot vs ext3.Having a > > journal is no use since the files are rarely changed and the > > filesystem is mostly opened read only. The journal takes up some > > s

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 07/25/12 at 01:47am, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > to reiterate the above ... it works fantastic. the Pandaboard runs 9 > custom unit files (1/2 of which are just mods to the shipped unit > files): > > u.dhcpd4.service > u.dnsmasq.service > u.fwknopd.service > u.hostapd.service > iptables.servic

Re: [arch-general] rc.local.shutdown equivalent in systemd

2012-07-24 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 07/24/12 at 12:44pm, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Rodrigo Rivas > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:31 AM, James Nelson wrote: > > > >> On 07/23/12 20:10, Manolo Martínez wrote: > >> > > [Unit] > >> De

[arch-general] rc.local.shutdown equivalent in systemd

2012-07-23 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, I've decided to try systemd and see for myself. Anyway, I need to remove a module before shutdown, which rc.local.shutdown did nicely for me. I know there is an initscripts-systemd packages that would allow me to keep using rc.local.shutdown, but the wiki discourages its use and recommends

Re: [arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

2012-07-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 07/20/12 at 10:45pm, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Manolo Martínez > wrote: > > On 07/20/12 at 09:31pm, Florian Pritz wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:15:47 -0400 Manolo Martínez > >> wrote: > >> > On 07/20/12 at 02:5

Re: [arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

2012-07-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 07/20/12 at 09:31pm, Florian Pritz wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:15:47 -0400 Manolo Martínez > wrote: > > On 07/20/12 at 02:56pm, Daniel Wallace wrote: > > > All of those changes were discussed by the devs on arch-dev-public > > > > I, for one, thought t

Re: [arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

2012-07-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 07/20/12 at 02:56pm, Daniel Wallace wrote: > All of those changes were discussed by the devs on arch-dev-public > > filesystem -> > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-June/023014.html > > grub -> > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-June/023147

[arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

2012-07-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 07/20/12 at 03:27pm, Norbert Zeh wrote: > I > think the reason why you are having a much more serious issue is that it seems > you haven't updated your system in a long time. So now you're running into > dealing with two slightly tricky upgrades (filesystem + glibc) at the same > time. I've h

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/26/12 at 09:19pm, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > If it wasn't huge before then you were either running nouveau or vesa > framebuffer on the console and Nvidia in the desktop. This warning is > likely due to the fact that running a framebuffer and Nvidia used to > crash linux. It can probably? be ign

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/26/12 at 12:55am, Karol Babioch wrote: > I have only the following criticism: Given the relatively low cost of > getting a signed certificate from Microsoft (to my knowledge it will > cost about 100 USD), it might fail to achieve what it is proposed to. > Obviously Microsoft will try to preve

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/25/12 at 05:59pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > We > already know, that UEFI can't be disabled for every hardware :(. That's what I thought, too. Also: the point is not just whether there are technical ways around Secure Boot, but whether this will raise the technical entry barrier to FOSS, making

[arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-22 Thread Manolo Martínez
Is Arch going to sign [this petition](http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement)? I, for one humble user, would like it (us, whatever) to. Manolo --

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: > For the mutt users, just press "#" to decouple the message from the parent > thread. :-) Not in my .muttrc. What option is this? I might have unbound the key for some reason :) > > Manolo

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/20/12 at 09:28am, Squall Lionheart wrote: > Your welcome. I will post a message to everyone when I roll out my next > version since it's a huge improvement over the current one with a lot of > very powerful and user friendly features, as well as efficiency > improvements. > It'd be nice if

[arch-general] Lyx (was Re: Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch))

2012-04-30 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/30/12 at 09:16pm, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > On 30 April 2012 17:35, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > > > 2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick : > > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 > > > Gour wrote: > > > > > >> we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. > > > > > > To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use L

Re: [arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/17/12 at 05:17pm, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > 2012/4/17 Bartłomiej Piotrowski : > > On 04/17/2012 05:13 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Manolo Martínez > >> wrote: > >>> After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it do

Re: [arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/17/12 at 05:14pm, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > On 04/17/2012 05:13 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Manolo Martínez > > wrote: > >> After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of > >> font > &g

[arch-general] dmenu 4.5

2012-04-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hi, After updating dmenu to 4.5 yesterday, it does not honour my choices of font and size. I haven't had the time to look into it yet, just wanted to give the heads up. Cheers, Manolo

Re: [arch-general] usb disk not visible

2012-04-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 04/09/12 at 06:04pm, Andrea Crotti wrote: > I have a problem with an external USB disk here, which is a WD 500Gb > bought last year. > > Recently I decided finally to format it to ext3, since I'm using Linux > everywhere, but now I don't seem to see it from my dell latitude. > > On my mini del

Re: [arch-general] plugins for zathura

2012-03-13 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 03/13/12 at 07:43pm, Keits wrote: > On 11:08 Tue 13 Mar , Jarek Sedlacek wrote: > > The following package are in the AUR: > > > > zathura-djvu-git zathura-girara-git zathura-pdf-mupdf-git > > zathura-pdf-poppler-git zathura-ps-git > > > > Installing those should let it view most files. > > za

Re: [arch-general] DST in New York

2012-03-11 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 03/11/12 at 02:09pm, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Manolo Martínez, Sun 2012-03-11 @ 14:00:32-0400: > > I see, thank you. I've just moved from hwclock to ntpd and it is > > sinchronising correctly. Are you using hwclock? > > I'm using ntpd. If your time skew occurre

Re: [arch-general] DST in New York

2012-03-11 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 03/11/12 at 12:01pm, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Manolo Martínez, Mon 2012-03-12 @ 05:52:51-0400: > > Hi, this morning we had DST kick in in New York. When I woke up (8:30) > > the clock showed 4:30. I have > > > > HARDWARECLOCK="UTC" > > TIMEZONE="A

Re: [arch-general] DST in New York

2012-03-11 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 03/11/12 at 01:19pm, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Martin Zecher, Sun 2012-03-11 @ 12:35:58-0400: > > Do you use systemd? > > No, just initscripts. Same here --

[arch-general] DST in New York

2012-03-11 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hi, this morning we had DST kick in in New York. When I woke up (8:30) the clock showed 4:30. I have HARDWARECLOCK="UTC" TIMEZONE="America/New_York" in rc.conf. I've since changed the time manually, but wanted to give the heads up, in case there is somethng somwehere that needs fixing. Cheers, M

Re: [arch-general] Gringotts, alternatives?

2012-03-02 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 03/02/12 at 10:00am, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > If all you need to store securely are text files, and you are a Vim > user, you can use Vim's built-in Blowfish encryption support. > > :set cryptmethod=blowfish > > Then use the :X command to set a key and encrypt the current buffer. I didn't

Re: [arch-general] [solved] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-12 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 12/10/11 at 12:31pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > today I've got some time for my Arch Linux. Thomas, your hint does the job. > Parallel to your reply I found > ifconfig eth0 up > netcfg pppoe > which does job too. > Just curious: I thought that netcfg raised eth0 itself? M

Re: [arch-general] ACPI bug in kernel 3.1?

2011-11-20 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/20/11 at 11:35pm, Carlchristian Eckert wrote: > >If plain pm-suspend works fine, this means that the lid close event is > >triggered twice: on close and open. You can verify whether it is true by > >replacing pm-suspend with logger "Some message" in handler.sh and see if > >there > >are two

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-17 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/17/11 at 09:08pm, Bastien Dejean wrote: > Manolo Martínez a écrit : > > > As it is now, the standalone vim cannot copy to and from the X clipboard. > > I wrote the following functions to circumvent the problem: That is a very nice idea. Thanks for the suggestion. It&#

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-16 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/16/11 at 07:09pm, Ray Rashif wrote: > Since recently, I've been using my own build of vim. I realised I > could do with some convenience after all these years and set up > omni-completion with supertab context for python. If you build in > python3 interpreter the completion does not work, so

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-16 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/16/11 at 08:44am, Jason Melton wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Manolo Martínez > wrote: > > don't want gvim, but we find copying and pasting to and from the clipboard > > useful. > > > > If you install gvim, you can still run "vim" i

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-15 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/15/11 at 05:46pm, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > John K Pate, Tue 2011-11-15 @ 22:09:57+: > > ctrl-ins, shift-ins, middle-click should all still work. At least they > > do for me, and I don't have gvim installed. Or do I have something > > else installed that makes them work? > > He was probabl

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-15 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/15/11 at 11:57pm, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 15 November 2011 22:00, Manolo Martínez wrote: > The policy had already been revised when the split was made to have > vim and gvim. Vim had to become lightweight as many people were > complaining about its bulk. > > Thanks for th

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-15 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 11/15/11 at 03:09pm, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > >Any chance that the policy on compile flags to use for vim could be revised? > > > >Thanks > >Manolo > > > You could search the archives, why this happend, else just use ABS. > Thanks for your reply, Jelle. I am using ABS atm. I (or rather a cert

[arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-15 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello everyone, As it is now, the standalone vim cannot copy to and from the X clipboard. For a vim that does this, one needs to install gvim, which pulls a number of dependencies that you don't really need if you don't use the GUI. I guess the rationale for this is that people using vim in conso

Re: [arch-general] Monitoring changes to [core], [extra], [community]

2011-10-28 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/28/11 at 01:46am, Bernardo Barros wrote: > Or even better, write a haskell program to p0arse the data and to that =)) Sorry, yes. Haskell script, of course :) --

Re: [arch-general] Monitoring changes to [core], [extra], [community]

2011-10-28 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/28/11 at 10:36am, Magnus Therning wrote: > monitor. The ideal solution would allow me to get a notification > whenever a package that requires ghc to build is updated, but that's > probably a bit much to hope for :) > Couldn't you just write a little python script that parses the packages fe

Re: [arch-general] coping with damaging updates

2011-10-27 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/27/11 at 12:25pm, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On (10/27/11 18:48), Manolo Martínez wrote: > -~> On 10/27/11 at 11:24am, Leonid Isaev wrote: > -~> > you should let console-kit do the permission granting. In fact, on a > modern > -~> > linux system you only have to

Re: [arch-general] coping with damaging updates

2011-10-27 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/27/11 at 11:24am, Leonid Isaev wrote: > you should let console-kit do the permission granting. In fact, on a modern > linux system you only have to be a member of 1 group: users. And wheel?

Re: [arch-general] update

2011-10-11 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 10/11/11 at 11:39am, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Martin wrote: > > [spanish] Carlos, probablemente la demora con pacman no tenga nada que ver > > con gnome. Lo más probable es que tu mirror esté funcionando lento. Prueba > > esto: https://wiki.archlinux.

Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration

2011-09-10 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 09/10/11 at 04:27pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Since my (unknown) neighbour finally got smart enough to > lock me out of his wireless access point (still unencrypted, > probably filters on MAC address now)- Or maybe he was just being a good neighbour and got tired of having his bandwidth abuse

Re: [arch-general] Down doesn't stick

2011-09-02 Thread Manolo Martínez
I use arch + openbox and I don't. M On 09/02/11 at 09:16pm, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Patrick Burroughs > wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:26, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> Good point. In a TTY there is no problem. It's an X thing. Maybe I > >> should try the openbox

Re: [arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery

2011-08-13 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello, thanks everyone for your help, and the very interesting suggestions. I'm afraid my problem was more mundane. It appears to be an effect of the interaction of some modules with the latest kernels. In my case, it can be bypassed by rmmodding ehci_hcd at shutdown. More information, links t

Re: [arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery

2011-08-12 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hi, Carl, thanks. In my case any of these commands, when on battery, brings the computer to an unresponsive state -- I wish it would reboot! Anyway, as I say, I was hoping that a difference of behaviour between A/C and battery would be indicative of malfunction in some particular piece of softw

Re: [arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery

2011-08-09 Thread Manolo Martínez
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to ask you for help with a weird piece of behaviour of my arch box (now 3.0, but it was the same with older kernels): * Shutdown works OK when on A/C, but, when on battery, the computer ends up with fan

[arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery

2011-08-08 Thread Manolo Martínez
Hello everyone, I would like to ask you for help with a weird piece of behaviour of my arch box (now 3.0, but it was the same with older kernels): * Shutdown works OK when on A/C, but, when on battery, the computer ends up with fans on and the On button light on. In this state it is totally