Re: [arch-general] talkingarch

2019-10-26 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy adérito, Accessibility based projects like Tarch and F123Light are not official Arch Linux releases. Bug reports, feature requests, etc for those projects do not belong on this list. If you are familiar, for example with Vinux, you can not ask support questions about it on the Ubuntu lis

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I wonder if there shouldn't be two base packages. maybe a base-minimal for containers, and a base like the original. I worry that the new method will be confusing for people coming to Arch for the first time, and it kind of makes things a bit more strenuous for the bare metal user. Of

Re: [arch-general] Input, Uinput, and udev problems with user access

2019-09-09 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 08:27:43PM +0200, Arch Linux General wrote: What kind of keyboard is it?? You mention xterm, so you're running XOrg I presume? I got it working, for some reason the uinput module was not loading, so I loaded it explicitly. Thanks, Storm -- signature.asc

Re: [arch-general] Input, Uinput, and udev problems with user access

2019-09-09 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 10:55:35AM -0400, Arch Linux General wrote: I would check the pacman logs, /var/logs/pacman.log and see what was updated between the last time it ran without problems, and now. Does the system reboot automatically? The kernel was updated on 7/9/19, perhaps last ni

[arch-general] Input, Uinput, and udev problems with user access

2019-09-09 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, Up until yesterday evening, the following setup would allow the Fenrir screen reader to access the tools it needs to read without root access in terminal emulators like Xterm: groupadd --system input groupadd --system uinput echo 'KERNEL==\"event*\", NAME=\"input/%k

Re: [arch-general] Print Woes

2019-09-03 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:09:12PM -0400, Aaron Laws wrote: Is that all the detail you get? Look into logs to get a better error message? These lines are from my error log: E [03/Sep/2019:09:39:48 -0400] [cups-deviced] PID 21904 (cups-brf) stopped with status 13! E [03/Sep/2019:10:02

[arch-general] Print Woes

2019-09-03 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, A few updates ago, cups stopped working with my printer. It said the ppd file was corrupted, but I litterally printed something right before the update then it broke right after. I added cups and hplip to a new computer with a fresh install of Arch, and have gone through localhost:631,

Re: [arch-general] Xterm and .Xresources

2019-08-10 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy Ralph, Thanks for the help. My TERM reports as Linux. Should I export it as xterm? Thanks, Storm On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 01:57:28PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Storm, I found that if I export TERM=vt220 that most keys do work If you start an xterm(1) and find TERM is `xterm' then

[arch-general] Xterm and .Xresources

2019-08-07 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I am trying to get Xterm to work in practically the same way as the console, just with a bit better font support. I have searched the net and created an extensive .Xresources file, which is attached to this message. It is supposed to fix all the function keys, the six pack, and even the

Re: [arch-general] Xorg Weirdness

2019-04-26 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:10:30AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Storm, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/520546 has a lot of investigation on the issue, and tracks down several things that have triggered it on Ubuntu, including on upgrading a particular package due

Re: [arch-general] Xorg Weirdness

2019-04-23 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Andy Pieters wrote: Ooh I have had this happen to me once before, but I did a reboot to make it go away. Are you getting this problem every time when you boot or is this the first time? It happens every time. I read about someone having a similar issu

Re: [arch-general] Xorg Weirdness

2019-04-23 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 05:21:42PM +, Arch Linux General wrote: That sounds vaguely like your X session has gotten stuck in raw mode. You might try running the following from an xterm: sudo kbd_mode -s -C /dev/tty$(sudo fgconsole) Thanks, that helped quite a bit, so it is definitely on t

[arch-general] Xorg Weirdness

2019-04-23 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I have just set up a new computer. I have X set up and am running ratpoison because I like it and to save on resources. This setup mirrors my other computer. Unfortunately, on this computer, if I have X started, whatever I type in my console affects the X session. So, as I type this me

[arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependancy on eSpeak

2019-02-13 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Hi, I'm having some issues with installing brltty. The problem is, it depends on espeak but I'm using the espeak-ng from community and it is giving me the unresolvable conflicts problem for that reason. I don't think that brltty actually needs espeak at all, and it could probably be listed as

Re: [arch-general] Help with wav files

2018-06-16 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy Pete, There are a few things you can use. Probably the easiest, for your specific task, is a utility called mp3splt. extra/mp3splt 2.6.2-2 [installed] Commandline tool for splitting mp3 and ogg files without decoding HTH Storm On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 10:53:58PM +0100, Arch Linux Gener

[arch-general] Espeak in official repositories needs an overhaul

2017-12-09 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, As far as I know, the original espeak project has been abandoned. I have heard the original developer passed away, but I can not confirm that one way or the other. The latest developments have been added under a fork of the project called Espeak-ng: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak

Re: [arch-general] Problem updating Fenrir from AUR.

2017-10-23 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, Sorry, that was my bad. It's all fixed now. Let me know if you have any more problems with it. On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 04:20:12PM -0400, Arch Linux General wrote: Hi all. Yesterday, I notesed that Fenrir got a miner update in the AUER and when trying to update, I receive a message for

[arch-general] Login Statistics Similar to Centos

2017-08-29 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I recently was playing with a Centos server. One of the things I found interesting about the experience is the information presented on login: Last login: Tue Aug 29 17:38:48 EDT 2017 on pts/0 Last failed login: Tue Aug 29 17:47:31 EDT 2017 from 116.31.116.18 on ssh:notty There were 37 fa

Re: [arch-general] Increase console size regardless of screen size

2017-08-27 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, The stty command did chage the variables, even reported by tput, but the actual size did not change. Thanks Storm On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 06:35:30PM +0200, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: On 08/27/2017 04:14 PM, Storm Dragon via arch-general wrote: Howdy, I am blind, and don't even h

Re: [arch-general] Increase console size regardless of screen size

2017-08-27 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
setup lol. Thanks Storm On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 10:50:29AM -0400, brent s. wrote: On 08/27/2017 10:14 AM, Storm Dragon via arch-general wrote: Howdy, I am blind, and don't even have a screen connected to this computer. For some reason, my console size is 30 lines and 80 columns. I've not

[arch-general] Increase console size regardless of screen size

2017-08-27 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I am blind, and don't even have a screen connected to this computer. For some reason, my console size is 30 lines and 80 columns. I've not seen this small of a console before. they usually have 50+ lines and over 100 columns. I have searched for quite a while, but not found anything abou

Re: [arch-general] (Off-topic) Command-line torrent download tool

2017-07-24 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I'm glad there's now something other than rtorrent. Rtorrent works usually, but there are some torrents that just refuse to work with it, hopefully this new, in development CLI tool will fil in the gap. Are you planning to make a PKGBUILD for it in the AUR, or do you want someone else to

Re: [arch-general] arch health

2017-04-20 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I offered once to learn all the stuff needed to become a TU to help out with package maintenance. The offer still stands, if someone is willing to talk with, help with training, and finally sponsor me. The offer still stands. I could work on Arch related stuff several hours per week if need

[arch-general] python-txaio

2017-04-17 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I noticed that python-txaio was marked out of date last month. The older version is now causing another package, python-autobahn, to not function. I was able to fix this for myself just by installing from abs. I worry though, that newbies may not know how to fix this issue for themselves.

Re: [arch-general] interested in becoming a TU

2016-08-15 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:06:26AM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: Looking at things, none of your AUR packages are really candidates for Community. The guideline is 10 votes. So let's look at the accessibility side of things. I was going to suggest contacting the maintainers of the packages you are

Re: [arch-general] interested in becoming a TU

2016-08-15 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 04:37:21PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:21:29 -0400, Storm Dragon via arch-general wrote:, I am interested in becoming a TU. Oops, the above was the wrong quote and link. "Addition of a TU The addition of a TU may occur at any time. In ord

[arch-general] interested in becoming a TU

2016-08-15 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, I am interested in becoming a TU. I have several packages in the AUR, including magic-wormhole{,-git}, rndsig, libsonic-git, rsgames, etc. My main area of interested, in maintinaing packages as a TU, would be accessibility related items, E.G. orca, speech-dispatcher, espeakup. Before I ac

Re: [arch-general] Question regarding storm dragon's install script. When trying to tell my vm to run the script, I keep getting the message, bash, no such file or directory. Anyone here that is using

2016-08-11 Thread Storm Dragon via arch-general
Howdy, The existing instructions should be valid, and yes, it is 2 & symbols. Those mean, if the last command executed successfuly, do the next instruction. If you want to break it down into a more readable series, it could be ran as: curl -s https://stormdragon.tk/scripts/vm.sh > vm.sh When you