Re: [arch-general] PA over JACK: excessive work?

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 06:53:05PM -0300, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote: > Hi, I'm using PulseAudio over JACK and noticed in htop that while not > doing nothing PA works much more than when idle alone, is this > normal/right? > > This is what I do: > Close everything that uses audio. Start J

Re: [arch-general] Applet to change audio output device

On October 17, 2020 4:33:09 AM PDT, "Jörg Jellissen" wrote: >Hello, > >is for the gnome desktop an applet available for quick change my audio >output device? > >Currently i must change it all the time on "Settings" and "Audio". >But this is not optimal for me. > >I search for a faster variant > >

Re: [arch-general] Samsung NVMe set up

A couple of notes: On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:21:33PM -0700, Alan E. Davis via arch-general wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I built a new machine with a Samsung SSD 960 EVO NVMe >

Re: [arch-general] Disable auto-detection of a specific monitor

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 01:23:20AM +0200, Maxence Sartiaux wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to know if there's a possibility to disable the > auto-detection of a specific monitor / output. > > I explain my case, i have three monitor & a KVM PCI-Passthrough setup > for gaming. > > When i start my

Re: [arch-general] NILFS: A filesystem designed to minimize the likelyhood of data loss

On January 9, 2017 7:39:26 AM PST, Alexander Rath wrote: >Hello! > >I'd like to share a link to this description/tutorial about NILFS2: >https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nilfs-a-filesystem-designed-to-minimize-the-likelyhood-of-data-loss/15091 > >Did anybody try to install Arch on a NILFS2-formatted p

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:50:54PM -0400, Francis Gerund via arch-general wrote: > Rather than telling us how our community *should* work, why don't you > > > make some effort to learn how it actually *does* work? > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Arch_ > > Linux_distributio

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 01:22:44PM -0400, Francis Gerund via arch-general wrote: > > The point is that the official Arch Linux support channels (forums, > > mailing lists, etc.) are only for official Arch projects. Any derivative > > projects, be they custom installers, distro derivatives, or anyth

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:26:35AM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > > > On Sep 22, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Mauro Santos via arch-general > > wrote: > > > > Third party installers are not supported in any shape or form. Threads > > asking for support about derivative distros or third party installers on

Re: [arch-general] Mirror issue

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 07:20:46PM +, Jordyn Carattini via arch-general wrote: > I keep getting http error 502 from the archlinux.polymorf.fr, I've > been getting this error for the past month. Also sorry if I'm not > posting this in the right place. You'll need to contact the operator of tha

Re: [arch-general] bitcoin-qt out-of-date

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:48:37AM +0800, Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Kwang Moo Yi via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > On 01/09/16 20:32, Chi Hsuan Yen via arch-general wrote: > > > >> Yep that's my expectation. There were sever

Re: [arch-general] Laptop cooling fan does not work

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:14:47PM +0200, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > Downgrading the Nvidia driver does not seem to be a good idea, as version > 367.35 has a dependency on linux<4.7. > > As both, the graphics driver and the Linux OS, need to be downgraded > simultaneously, this will not show which c

Re: [arch-general] Laptop cooling fan does not work

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 07:38:51PM +0200, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > Hi, > > this should provide the Linux stuff versions: > > core/libutil-linux 2.28.1-1 [Installiert] > core/linux 4.7.1-1 (base) [Installiert] > core/linux-api-headers 4.7-1 [Installiert] > core/linux-firmware 20160730.6bc2c60-1 [I

Re: [arch-general] Laptop cooling fan does not work

On August 23, 2016 12:56:40 PM EDT, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: >Hello, > >since my latest update (containing linux kernel) my cooling fan does >not >work any more - what can I do? > >Kind regards >Peter Well, you could start by providing details. What laptop? What kernel versions? Have you downgra

Re: [arch-general] MSI AMD R7 260x fan speed with AMDGPU

On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 12:33:46PM +0300, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general wrote: > When the fan needs some push to start, then you probably have faulty > capacitor. You can send it for repair on electrician. > As for your question, maybe lm_sensors might show gpu fan speed. Just for the record,

Re: [arch-general] Removal of the Dasher package

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:48:24PM +, Germano Corrêa via arch-general wrote: > Hello! > > I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the wrong > place... > > I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in > the official repositories (it was in

Re: [arch-general] Where is the ISO?

On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 10:29:39PM -0400, Kevin Dodd via arch-general wrote: > According to everything on the Arch Linux Downloads page: > https://www.archlinux.org/download/ > archlinux-2016.07.01-dual.iso should be available. > > The torrent tracker keeps saying "torrent not found". Via DHT and

Re: [arch-general] Newbie

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:52:38AM -0600, Billy Brawner wrote: > Hey Ralf! > > As new as I am to Arch, I doubt I'll have much to contribute to the wiki, > but I'll take a look. I've been on linux for about a year now so I have > some more general Linux knowledge. > > Thanks! > Billy The Arch Wik

Re: [arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide

On February 1, 2016 11:57:01 AM EST, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: >Hi, > >I have read the dangers of mounting efivars as writable recently, and I >think >there should be an entry in the archlinux installation guide and >beginner's >guide which should say exactly what is said in the warning in [1], and

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 09:06:57PM -0500, D C wrote: > XFCE, is that really future-? It looks dated as heck, not bashing it or > anything, just saying. If Gnome Shell wasn't my long term desktop I would > prob use XFCE. Gnome shell only comes alive tho if your machine isn't slow > as Fu*% Depends

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 01:34:51AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If I wouldn't use command line, then I would use engrampa instead of > file-roller, since I like menus. FWIW AUR provides engrampa-thunar. > However, I agree that spacefm is the better choice and even if I would > use Xfce4, then I wou

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

>Thunar, the file manager >doesn't allow to split the window and requires Gnome's virtual crap to >provide mount functionality and so on and so forth. I can recommend using xfce with pcmanfm as the file manager instead of thunar. I prefer it for a variety of reasons, including its integration wit

Re: [arch-general] best practices for rebuilding packages

On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 06:52:58PM +0100, Michał Zegan wrote: > Hello. > > If I have a package build from aur that depends on a library, and the > library is updated, and package from aur requires rebuild, is it possible to > somehow track and automate that? > In other cases maintaining such confi

Re: [arch-general] systemd-networkd and netctl with multiple interfaces

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:47:25AM +0100, Bennett Piater wrote: > Hello! > I installed Arch on my new Thinkpad T450s over the weekend. > Everything works well, but I have a question: > > I use systemd-networkd to manage my network interfaces and netctl for > the connections. I set everything up ac

Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:14:29PM +0200, Neven Sajko wrote: > On 15 September 2015 at 20:53, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > ( 2/70) upgrading ncurses > > [##] 100% > > ( 3/70) upgrading readline > > [##] 100% > > /usr/bin/bash

Re: [arch-general] unable to load virtualbox kernel module

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:52:43PM -0400, James wrote: > > I just installed virtualbox yesterday and I rebooted and can't load the > kernel module. > > I reinstalled the package: > $ sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules > > >(1/1) reinstalling virtualbox-host-modules > >[#

Re: [arch-general] Firefox display problem

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:08:17PM -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > This display problem started as soon as I installed the system. Of course, > I almost immediately installed firefox-noscript upon install also. > > I didn't think of javascript blocking being the problem, as it would not > occur to

Re: [arch-general] Connection through USB to TTL Serial Cable

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 09:41:13PM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > I tried these commands: > $ cu -s 115200 -l /dev/ttyS0 > cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use > > $ cu -s 115200 -l /dev/ttyS1 # ( also S2, S3 ) > Connected. > cu: Got hangup signal > > Disconnected. > > dmesg gives me no ifnormation about suc

Re: [arch-general] swap and tmpfs

On April 23, 2015 9:52:11 AM CDT Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Hi, > >this line in fstab > >$ grep tmp /etc/fstab >tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G 0 0 > >usually is commented out. One time it was needed, when building a >kernel failed. Today building Firefox failed. I'll try w

Re: [arch-general] Arch linux doesn't recognises micro SD card

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 07:58:13PM +0100, Csányi Pál wrote: > > 1: Your SD card is damaged / broken. To test this, try it in > > a known-working reader. Note that Windows will not understand Linux / > > RPi partitions (but should be able to at least see the boot partition). > > I can mount it's fi

Re: [arch-general] Arch linux doesn't recognises micro SD card

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 06:41:24PM +0100, Csányi Pál wrote: > I tried these steps by using Gparted too, but at this step Gparted > can't read partitions from the during read on > > /dev/mmcblk0 > > Gparted gives the error message: > I/O error during read on /dev/mmcblk0 > > What can I do to solv

Re: [arch-general] Organising a Bug Squashing Day

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:38:54PM +0100, Helene Tindon wrote: > Hi! > > I'm an IT student in Paris, fairly new to Archlinux, and I would like to > organise a Bug Squashing Day. Problem is, I have no idea who I should > contact to do things properly. > Shall I send this message to the > arch-dev-

Re: [arch-general] Preferred CHOST

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 04:28:13PM -0500, vixsomnis wrote: > Considering USB as a standard is vulnerable (BadUSB malware that infects > the firmware of the USB device), you'd be safer having your "off the > net" computer just connected via ethernet cable to your anonymous > computer, and making sur

Re: [arch-general] Preferred CHOST

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 06:55:51AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Sean, actually you tells us that we should care about security holes in > Mutt/1.5.23 to attack you ;) and since you're replying to Arch general > email, you're likely using Arch Linux. This likely is a trick, you're > running Alpin on

Re: [arch-general] Preferred CHOST

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 01:53:25PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If somebody should fear an attack, than it's wiser even not to > mention what version of Claws Mail, GTK and what architecture is used. > This can be done by the account settings. > Configuration > Edit accounts... > Edit selected acco

Re: [arch-general] Out-of-date sbcl has fairly serious ASDF bug

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:09:27AM -0500, Drake Wilson wrote: > (I originally attempted to send this to arch-dev-public, but apparently > that's only for > making discussions from a relatively closed circle visible? The list > descriptions > on the listinfo page were very ambiguous; if even thin

Re: [arch-general] Laptop overheating causes decreased CPU performance until reboot (even after cooling)

> The root cause of the heating, is bad physical heatflow design in general > (My fans are already on max usually in these cases). I've taken some > measures for cooling though occasionally temperature levels still peak. You may want to look into a laptop cooler. > I can understand if the CPU sca

Re: [arch-general] Laptop overheating causes decreased CPU performance until reboot (even after cooling)

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 05:14:27PM +0530, Anish Shankar wrote: > Hi, > I have a dell 1564 laptop with an i5-M430 cpu, running arch linux. For a > long while now I've had issues with very degraded CPU performance if my cpu > temperature is very hot till around ~95 degree Celsius. The problem is that

Re: [arch-general] Migrating from 64 to 32 bit

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 02:02:18AM +0200, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > I wanted to change the wiki and noticed my AUR account not working there. Did > I > miss anything or do I need two accounts? > -- > Friedrich Nope, two different accounts. --Sean

Re: [arch-general] Reconfiguring grub 2

On July 4, 2014 4:36:55 AM EDT, "Alexey M. Kosorotov" wrote: >04.07.2014 14:03, Csányi Pál пишет: >Hi, > >> I tried followings: >> # pacman -S grub >next, enter the command: > ># grub-install --recheck /dev/sda > >where /dev/sda is you boot device > >and next: >> # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 05:53:21PM +0300, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > On May 4, 2014 4:27 PM, "Temlin Olivér" wrote: > > > > > It will just hand it to the VM (windows) via VGA passthrough (either Xen > > or > > > KVM will be used). > > > Is that impossible to do with my NVidia? > > > If it is possibl

Re: [arch-general] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

On April 14, 2014 2:28:05 AM EDT, Dany De Bontridder wrote: >Hi, > >You want to connect linkedin with a mailing list ? > >D I suspect he made the rookie mistake of giving LinkedIn his gmail credentials. -- --Sean

Re: [arch-general] Configuring enabled services

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:13:08AM +0200, Gesh wrote: > On March 19, 2014 9:16:57 PM GMT+02:00, Ary Kleinerman > wrote: > >> There's not really much magic going on. Are you aware of: > >> > >> /etc/systemd/system > >> > >> This contains symlinks that do already pretty much what you describe, > >a

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS scrub from systemd unit

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:35:38PM -0400, Mark Lee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 03/19/2014 10:34 PM, Sean Greenslade wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:42:46PM -0400, Mark Lee wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > &

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS scrub from systemd unit

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 09:42:46PM -0400, Mark Lee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 03/19/2014 09:40 PM, Sean Greenslade wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 01:06:18AM +, Mauro Santos wrote: > >> On 20-03-2014 00:41, Sean Greenslade w

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS scrub from systemd unit

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 01:06:18AM +, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 20-03-2014 00:41, Sean Greenslade wrote: > > Hi, folks. I've been noodling over this rather odd issue I've been > > having, and I thought I'd get a second opinion on things. > > > > So

[arch-general] BTRFS scrub from systemd unit

Hi, folks. I've been noodling over this rather odd issue I've been having, and I thought I'd get a second opinion on things. I've got a server with four hard disks, set up in two (separate) BTRFS RAID1 mounts. I just recovered from a bout of SATA signalling issues (which BTRFS did a marvellous job

Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux on a Panasonic toughbook U1

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 07:05:09PM +0100, Alfredo Palhares wrote: > Since my thread on the forums did not got very much attraction here it goes, > > I have a Panasonic Touchbook CF-U1 > I suspect the reason that you did not get attention is a rather lengthy email without a clear issue that needs

Re: [arch-general] Wacom CTL480S support

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:34:17PM +0100, J. ~marahin M. wrote: > Indeed I have. > > I have followed the basic *automatic* instructions listed at Arch's > wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wacom_Tablet), yet no > luck. > > xsetwacom --list devices > > returns nothing for me, though lsus

Re: [arch-general] Wacom CTL480S support

ve you tried it yet? Because my CTE-650 works fine out of the box, and there's a whole archwiki page devoted to tweaking them. --- --John "Sean" Greenslade

Re: [arch-general] LVM + mdadm no longer works on boot

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:55:20PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 21.10.2013 03:34, schrieb Sean Greenslade: > > And now, after another system update, the problem has vanished. > > There was a kernel update, so I'm willing to believe that it was > > just some str

Re: [arch-general] LVM + mdadm no longer works on boot

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 09:55:43PM -0400, Sean Greenslade wrote: > I can say with certainty that the madadm assembly happens in the initrd, > but I can't find any log messages pertaining to the LVM scan, even on > successful boot. There is the following line that occurs before th

Re: [arch-general] truecrypt, loop and /etc/modules-load.d/truecrypt.conf

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:39:56AM -0700, John Davis wrote: > Hello > > I used the wikipage to address the problem where loop module does not load. > > > > # tee /etc/modules-load.d/truecrypt.conf <<< "loop" > > {{Note|As of udev 181-5, the loop device module is no longer auto-loaded, > and th

Re: [arch-general] LVM + mdadm no longer works on boot

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:55:43AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 15.10.2013 21:37, schrieb Sean Greenslade: > > Hi, all. I'm running a small fileserver that has three SATA drives set > > up in RAID5 via mdadm. That RAID holds one LVM pv which is split up into > > sev

[arch-general] LVM + mdadm no longer works on boot

ere? I'm trying to understand how systemd makes it all work together, but I'm rather confused by it all. Thanks, --Sean Greenslade

Re: [arch-general] arch wiki xen installation questions

ined / sourced from a MAC that is >not your >> own. >> >> --- >> --John "Sean" Greenslade >> > >Hello Sean, > >Ahh, I did not know that. I could have sworn that when I used vmware >on >windows, I was able to share the wifi connection. How

Re: [arch-general] arch wiki xen installation questions

o be ethernet in order for brctl to use it. If I remember correctly, this is due to wifi not being "routable," that is, you cannot proxy packets destined / sourced from a MAC that is not your own. --- --John "Sean" Greenslade

Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:34:00AM -0400, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:27:11 -0600 > Chris Moline wrote: > > > I installed > > anything-sync-daemon but I have no idea what to sync. Is there a tool > > that can tell which dirs are being used the most? I'd rather not guess > > and

Re: [arch-general] Broadcom B43 problems

On Mar 26, 2013 11:56 AM, "Curtis Shimamoto" wrote: > > On 03/26/13 at 01:37pm, Julien Pecqueur wrote: > > Which card did you bought? > > > > Cordialement, > > > > Julien Pecqueur > > There was a mention above about buying a Realtek card. I just want to > mention that my experience with Realtek w

Re: [arch-general] Broadcom B43 problems

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Julien Pecqueur wrote: > Which card did you bought? > > Cordialement, > > Julien Pecqueur http://www.amazon.com/HP-RTL8188CE-Wireless-639967-001-640926-001/dp/B008U5B8B2 Not this exact card, but close to it. I got mine on ebay, any of the common realtek chipsets

Re: [arch-general] Broadcom B43 problems

On Mar 26, 2013 7:55 AM, "Magnus Therning" wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:32:52AM +0100, Julien Pecqueur wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have the dame wireless chipset and it "works" on my Archlinux > > setup (64bits, GNOME, b43-firmware and network manager). > > > > I sa y "works" because i can us

Re: [arch-general] Cannot chroot '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:32 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Attempting to fix the test box that updating left unable to boot, I cannot > chroot to fix the system. I've booted from the install medium and done the > normal mount of the existing system under /mnt: > > mount /dev/sda6 /mnt >