Re: [arch-general] iPad - FLOSS on the iPad - data transfer between an Arch PC and an iPad

2012-01-27 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
ernet connectivity (and Linux might have problems with bluetooth in this regard). For wireless devices, look at this list: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB A device supporting hardware access point mode would be best. I used an old one from the list (a Zydas ZD1221) and it worked fine, but I didn't try to run an access point. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] pacman 4 in [core]

2012-01-16 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
s to a commit by dreisner: upgpkg: pacman 4.0.1-4 - disable sig checking by default http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pacman&id=d2e1fdaeb778c08e7be9da54602778a88ab7c792 -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] ABS: [community] and [multilib] missing

2012-01-12 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Mauro Santos (2012-01-12 09:58): > I have just updated the ABS tree and the [community] and [multilib] > directories are missing, is this intentional or a problem? > > grep -v ^# /etc/abs.conf | grep -v ^$ > [ "$ABSROOT" = "" ] && ABSROOT="/var/abs/" > SYNCSERVER="rsync.archlinux.org" > ARCH="x86_

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-16 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
> I feel less strongly and think it's not worth the effort? Remember how others wrote that bottom posting forces us to contemplate on the quoted parts? I don't know if you did, but I don't understand what you are saying and, incidentally, you forgot to quote Alan's statement, without which Piyush's reply is obscure. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-16 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
fficult to understand who you are talking with, what you are replying to and what do multiple lines of "+++" mean. Thought I'd simply ignore them, but since this is kind of on topic... -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] USB Buffering Issue

2011-12-02 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Paul Gideon Dann (2011-12-02 14:44): > On Friday 02 Dec 2011 16:31:47 Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > > There can't be any corruption after a successful unmount. > > 1. Run sudo umount /path/to/mounted/dir; echo returncode=$? > > 2. If you see 'returncode=0' on t

Re: [arch-general] USB Buffering Issue

2011-12-02 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
ve. 4. Attach your USB drive. 5. If you see data corruption, it's one of: * faulty/misbehaving USB dongle (test with another USB device); * bad filesystem on your USB device (test with a freshly created one); * a bug in Linux kernel (report upstream). The 'flush' and 'sync' mount options are not needed under normal circumstances (as in don't use if you don't know what you are doing). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-21 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Bernardo Barros (2011-11-21 11:43): > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Thorsten Töpper > wrote: > > Seriously, it's probably meant like this but your mail reads like a > > "Hey why don't you learn $INSERT_LANG_HERE and rewrite your whole > > system." > > > > Hello Thorsten, no, you got it wrong.

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard Autorepeat

2011-10-14 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
`setxkbmap`)... This is very annoying, yes. Perhaps someone has found some time to investigate this or has seen a related bug report? -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.0.6-2

2011-10-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
en very low power is needed because it causes severe slowdowns and noticeable latencies. Normally Speedstep should be used instead. " -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] GTK X Clipboard Keyboard Bindings

2011-09-21 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Jesse Jaara (2011-09-21 12:37): > Ctrl+v will paste the ctrl+c/x selected text or menu->copy/cut , dunno about > the mouse paint no buttons Unix style copy Ctrl+v for clipboard Shift+insert for selection (though some programs do behave strangely, e.g. chromium) -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Adopting start-stop-daemon in archlinux

2011-09-08 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
ccessfully argue that it is all awesome. Continuing the minilogd example, I think that if you decide to use it, start-stop-daemon shouldn't be bundled with initscripts, but should be a separate package (and it has 32 votes in AUR). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Issues with Firefox 6 not starting after update

2011-08-21 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
. I'll give that a spin though. Did you try running a vanilla version from getfirefox.com (e.g. [1])? Download, unpack, cd and run ./firefox. [1] http://mozilla.cdn.leaseweb.com/firefox/releases/6.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-6.0.tar.bz2 -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Wiki entry for GPGPU / OpenCL / CUDA

2011-08-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
ati (if at all possible)? Btw., the heading "OpenCL libraray" should be "OpenCL library". -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD.proto improvements

2011-07-22 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
C Anthony Risinger (2011-07-22 11:25): > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Rogutės Sparnuotos > wrote: > > C Anthony Risinger (2011-07-21 16:42): > >> ... the motivation of this message is to encourage adding some > >> routines to the makepkg library, simil

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD.proto improvements

2011-07-21 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
it just isnt very pretty IMO. I am sure you didn't ask, but I use $SRCDEST/scm for this, do not define sources=() and run this in build(): cp -r "$SRCDEST/scm/$pkgname" "$srcdir/" -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.12-2, initscripts-2011.06.3-1, net-tools-1.60-16, udev-171-2, yp-tools-2.12-2, ypbind-mt-1.33-2, iproute2-2.6.38-3

2011-06-08 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
p' needs a lot more typing > > than ifconfig needs, at least for the stuff I use more often. > > You should use just use "ip addr" rather than "ifconfig" (which saves > you one character ;-) ). > > -t Or, rather, "ip a" for addreses and link status (like /sbin/ifconfig) "ip r" for routes (like /sbin/route) -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] "whitebox" on bootup after KMS kicks in

2011-05-28 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
C Anthony Risinger (2011-05-28 12:16): > On May 28, 2011 8:41 AM, "Rogutės Sparnuotos" > wrote: > > > > C Anthony Risinger (2011-05-28 00:02): > > > does anyone else experience ? > > > > > > i've been getting this for sometime -- on

Re: [arch-general] "whitebox" on bootup after KMS kicks in

2011-05-28 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
th radeon KMS (built-in) under 2.6.38.3. Actually, I can even see the "PCI Device Listing ..." table from the BIOS when I switch to tty1. No white boxes on another PC with radeon, Arch's kernel26 and initramfs. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Dmenu vs. KMS

2011-04-30 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Stan (2011-04-30 07:25): > On 03:01 Sat 30 Apr , Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Does it happen every time? I'm thinking about dmenu_path, which causes a > > delay when it's run, but I don't see the connection to gfx drivers.. > > > > Yes. But with long lines(>50 symbols, i think). If i continue pr

Re: [arch-general] base stuff

2011-04-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
omoyo (Which I can never find any information on.), or > just leave MAC off altogether if you're not doing anything altogether mission > or security critical. Home desktop users would probably be better off > ignoring > MAC. An interesting read, thanks. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Upstart

2011-01-21 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
systemd, > so this would be quite premature. > > Thanks for your comments. Hmm, it's good for systemd to have found a maintainer with such a positive attitude as yours :) If you keep it up, I can imagine systemd entering community and/or becoming the default. Hopefully not before it is ready - as this seems to have been the main problem with pulseaudio. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Upstart

2011-01-21 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
ed as official, > so the packages itself contain the units, replacing the sysvinit. Why would you reply to a thread about Upstart to talk about systemd? Anyway, systemd is far from done. Run from AUR if you need and wait until it is at least stable and doesn't have dependencies like util-linux-ng-git. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Systemd

2011-01-21 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
> whether sshd should list "network" which is arch's /etc/rc.d/network > script as a dependency. Some of them are not so sweet. In fact, most of the advanced functions (e.g. on demand service startup, fine tuning dependencies) are difficult to grasp and the help is scattered over a handful of man pages. All of the advertised features of systemd bring a lot of complexity with them. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Systemd

2011-01-20 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
systemd uses ~25 small binaries instead of a couple of shell scripts like /etc/rc.sysinit. The source of these binaries is lacking comments. Consequently, you have to be very good with C to improve anything. Read: the boot process becomes opaque. Enterprise scale administration becomes easier at the cost of system simplicity. There can be no KISS in an environment running systemd, dbus, policykit etc. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support

2010-08-23 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
in in the > repo without some widely used browser ? <...> 64bit Opera can use 32bit Flash (but the 32bit flashplugin needs a bunch of lib32-* packages from community, which have packaging problems as mentioned by Jan). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1

2010-08-19 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
USB keyboards, mice, joysticks, graphic tablets, or any other HID based devices to your computer via USB, as well as Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and monitor control devices. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Update to 2.6.34.3-1 & LTS 2.6.32.18-1 killed dmraid box??

2010-08-18 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
gs.archlinux.org/task/20499 It's strange that the kernel locks up so soon. The bug report won't be useful until you test the newest kernel releases (2.6.34.4 or 2.6.35.2). For the report to be interesting to Arch developers, you should test against 2.6.35.2, because 2.6.34 has been superseded by it. If only a testing machine is affected, you could simply wait until 2.6.35 leaves testing/, update and see what happens. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins

2010-08-17 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
that. Some will need > simple patching. > > - change your dependencies to python2 > > - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env > python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them > to python2. Me wonders what is planned for e.g. pyqt, which is available for both, python2 and python3? Thanks, -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Update to 2.6.34.3-1 & LTS 2.6.32.18-1 killed dmraid box??

2010-08-17 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
David C. Rankin (2010-08-17 08:20): > On 08/17/2010 05:53 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > >David C. Rankin (2010-08-17 00:48): > >>On 08/16/2010 10:17 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > >>> After boot to the normal 2.6.34 kernel, the box kept automatically > >>

Re: [arch-general] Update to 2.6.34.3-1 & LTS 2.6.32.18-1 killed dmraid box??

2010-08-17 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
is secondary to the boot fail issue, but I thought I > would ask. As always any help would be appreciated. If you need X only for testing, use a simpler driver: xf86-video-vesa xf86-video-nv xf86-video-nouveau (probably won't work with an older kernel) -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Initialize /etc/mtab by copying /proc/mounts

2010-06-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
and especially when you have very large numbers of mounts things will be much faster with that symlink, but some information is lost that way, and in particular using the "user" option will fail. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Initialize /etc/mtab by copying /proc/mounts

2010-06-09 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
correct, but some tools might become confused. > Another way would be to grep -v ^rootfs from /proc/mounts when creating > mtab. I am entirely unsure what the "right way" is here. Not that I know the right way, but am running Arch with /etc/mtab copied (or symlinked, on another system) from /proc/mounts for more than a year now, without any problems. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] pkg-proxy ?

2010-05-17 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
search. > > do you mean a general mirroring tool ? > as i didn't found anything pkg specific mirror tool... > > and wouldn't a mirror tool require my server to have ALL > core/extra/community packages ? how big are those repos ? <...> I don't really remember your initial question, but I use one package directory for 3 computers by simply having a central /var/cache/pacman, which I then mount read-write with samba. To use it from the installer, you would have to install 'smbclient' after booting. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [toolchain] gcc 4.5 breakage

2010-05-06 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
setup, or nobody is compiling kernels with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y on x86_64 with gcc-4.5 (building with gcc-4.4 works)... All this is probably unrelated to http://gcc.gnu.org/PR43987, but perhaps it will save some time for someone, as your post about busybox helped me. I'll wait for a ne

Re: [arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!

2010-04-28 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook (2010-04-28 08:28): > It would appear that on Apr 28, Rogutės Sparnuotos did say: <...> > > wvdial will not touch any of your network related configs (only the ppp > > ones), so if you will not use any other tools, your broadband will be > >

Re: [arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!

2010-04-28 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
t; Could someone point me at the URLs of the other 'dialup' related documents > that are supposed to be in the Arch Linux Wiki (since searching for 'dialup' > didn't help me)? Did you search for ppp? -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] package manager overlay script

2010-04-15 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
kg-query -S" alias sea="aptitude search" alias rem="aptitude purge" elif [ -f /etc/exherbo-release ]; then alias list="paludis -k" alias owns="paludis --full-match -o" function rem() { paludis -u --with-unused-dependencies -p $@ && \ read -q '?Continue [y/N]: ' && \ paludis -u --with-unused-dependencies $@ } fi -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Hacking into HAL's mount process

2010-03-14 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
AL (and the topic): - just put a custom udev rule under /etc/udev/rules.d/ (sample attached). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos # automount vfat on removable devices (/dev/sd? -> /media/sd?) ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][1-9]", ATTRS{removable}=="1", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}==&q

Re: [arch-general] groupmod / pam bug - Arch hit by http://bugs.gentoo.org/300790

2010-03-02 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
David C. Rankin (2010-03-01 17:03): > On 03/01/2010 12:32 PM, jwbirdsong wrote: > >> Quick Question: > >> > >>How do we change group information while this bug is there? Do we > >> disable pam > >> or do we just edit /etc/group in the interim? > >> > >> > > Patch shadow your self w/ aforeme

Re: [arch-general] groupmod / pam bug - Arch hit by http://bugs.gentoo.org/300790

2010-03-02 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Ng Oon-Ee (2010-03-02 08:55): > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 00:56 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 06:03:54PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > > > Step 1: > > > ... > > > ... > > > HTH, > > > > Very much, thanks ! > > > > I was imagining some way to get individual p

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Samba package sizes

2010-02-27 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2009-December/152549.html -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

2009-12-11 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
. That'd cover this case here - get > the db files from archlinux.org and use other servers for packages. Having DB files in a central place would do much trust wise. Currently, one has to totally trust a mirror, because a mirror has total control over the contents of binary packages and their checksums. But I guess this is what the past discussion was about? -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-27 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Arvid Picciani (2009-11-27 08:02): > Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > >With what you wrote above - no, no options. > > > >It sounds like you dump software as soon as you encounter any annoyance. > > point, sadly the annoyances usually come in large bulk as feature >

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-26 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
tivity do you see with Firefox? How do you measure it? I don't see any problems on my side. What sites were incorrectly rendered with webkit? Also, there's dillo. Small and fast, but no CSS floats, no javascript. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-18 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
vlad (2009-11-18 18:47): > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:56:59AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > > > Daenyth Blank wrote: > > >> > > >> I just saw a link on reddit this morning for "notmuch", a sup-inspired > > >> mail reader. Might be worth lo

Re: [arch-general] Trouble with RaLink RT2561/RT61

2009-11-08 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
e (and a reboot was needed - rmmod/modprobe didn't help). Kernel log says this about the chip: phy0 -> rt2x00_set_chip: Info - Chipset detected - rt: 0301, rf: 0003, rev: 0002561c -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] Problem with hard disk - not arch related

2009-11-07 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Dario (2009-11-07 01:52): > ciao! > > In data sabato 07 novembre 2009 00:23:13, Rogutės Sparnuotos ha scritto: > > There's no clever advice I could give you, but I vaguely remember having > > similar problems and similar logs some time ago (perhaps when kernel > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] makechrootpkg: Use the host's SRCDEST and PKGDEST if they are defined

2009-11-05 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
> though, I can't imagine a reason for such a thing. This wouldn't work for SRCDEST="/path/to/dir" SRCDEST='/path/to/dir' But sed should be able to do it: SRCDEST=$(sed -nr "/^SRCDEST=/{s/[^=]+=(['\"]?)(.+)\1/\2/p}" /etc/makepkg.conf) -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-10 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
r you tried downgrading your kernel: $ pacman -S kernel26 and/or $ pacman -S kernel26-lts Did you try running /sbin/cryptsetup.static instead of cryptsetup? Might module loading be delayed because of some obscure reason? $ lsmod|grep -i aes Have you got some exocitc cpu with hardware AES encryption? -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/~thomas/autowifi = 404

2009-09-19 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Xavier (2009-09-19 13:14): > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Rogutės Sparnuotos > wrote: > > G'day, > > > > Anyone (Thomas?) knows where autowifi has gone? > > http://www.archlinux.org/~thomas/autowifi gives 404 Page Not Found. > > >

[arch-general] archlinux.org/~thomas/autowifi = 404

2009-09-19 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
G'day, Anyone (Thomas?) knows where autowifi has gone? http://www.archlinux.org/~thomas/autowifi gives 404 Page Not Found. -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] since the fglrx legacy driver is now static - any will to make a run at getting it to work?

2009-09-01 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
the driver would be to downgrade to xorg-server-1.5 (along with its dependencies, of which there might be a handful). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] news item draft: /dev layout cleanup

2009-08-01 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
> these. I can do that tomorrow if people agree? > > Allan As someone has already mentioned, it would be nice to mention the reasons for this (vc/*->tty*) change to please curious users... Why is this needed? Are /dev/vc/* going away? -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] which package provides /usr/bin/udevinfo ?

2009-07-05 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
o i am a bit confused. Does archlinux not provide udevinfo or has it > been moved to other package ? Just try udevadm: $ udevadm info -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] xorg crash with setxkbmap frequently use

2009-05-25 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: >> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469572 >> [2] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20081 > > Thanks for the useful information, Rogutės! > > Probably instead of using setxkbmap in shell script I'll write a simple >

Re: [arch-general] xorg crash with setxkbmap frequently use

2009-05-05 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
the bug would be avoided, but I'm just trying to avoid using setxkbmap for the time being. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469572 [2] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20081 -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

Re: [arch-general] gran paradiso crashes permanently

2009-03-21 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
lem still exists. > > So even with a clean config firefox crashes. Are you running the testing repo? Is everything up to date? Don't other programs segfault (e.g. try painting something with gimp :)? Did you try running memtest86+ (pacman -S memtest86+)? No hardware problems recently? -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos