Re: [arch-general] 11 minutes mode

2012-07-31 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Myra Nelson [31.07.2012 18:43]: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >>> Anybody knows how to make sure that the kernel will not mess with the > >>> hard

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

2012-07-22 Thread Uli Armbruster
* fredbezies [22.07.2012 07:00]: > Hello. > > I've read all the arguments of Tom and Ionut. Here is my own $0.02 on > it. When I started using archlinux back in end of 2008, the winning > point was this file. A centralized one where you can set up a lot of > single options. > > It is *far* simpl

Re: [arch-general] Glibc 2.16.0-2 in testing killed my system.

2012-07-08 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Jan Steffens [07.07.2012 17:48]: > Updated lib32-glibc in [multilib-testing]. Just install glibc last. > $ pacman -Syu --ignore glibc > $ pacman -S glibc Thanks, that did the trick :)

Re: [arch-general] Glibc 2.16.0-2 in testing killed my system.

2012-07-07 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Tom Gundersen [07.07.2012 15:55]: > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 3:42 PM, fredbezies wrote: > > I upgraded a few minutes ago my archlinux + testing installation. As I > > cannot install glibc (because of some AUR software which had links or > > binary in /lib), I made the mistake of forcing installat

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

2012-01-16 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Karol Blazewicz [16.01.2012 23:33]: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Mauro Santos > wrote: > > On 16-01-2012 21:52, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> > >> Your question is probably about signatures. We're not entirely there > >> yet, but as pacman 4 brings lots of other fixes and improvements, it w

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-11 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Uli Armbruster [10.11.2011 14:53]: > * Taylor Hedberg [10.11.2011 13:50]: > > Uli Armbruster, Thu 2011-11-10 @ 07:45:11+0100: > > > I can confirm this behavior, however I'm not sure if it's software > > > related. I have the impression that this happens

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-10 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Taylor Hedberg [10.11.2011 13:50]: > Uli Armbruster, Thu 2011-11-10 @ 07:45:11+0100: > > I can confirm this behavior, however I'm not sure if it's software > > related. I have the impression that this happens here only if the > > laptop is cold (e.g. because I c

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-09 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Taylor Hedberg [10.11.2011 01:55]: > Since updating to Linux 3.1 yesterday, I've been having strange problems > with the display on my laptop. The first reboot after updating the > kernel went normally, but every subsequent boot since then has had > problems. > > This is a Dell Latitude D620 la

Re: [arch-general] no desktop: howto change default browser?

2011-09-11 Thread Uli Armbruster
* clemens fischer [11.09.2011 20:35]: > Hi, > > when using eg. "evince" to view a PDF document, links open in > "epiphany", which seems to be a gnome default browser. > > I need to change this, but all the links the comes up > with hint at using menus like "system -> ... -> browser". I only ru

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

2011-08-28 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Uli Armbruster [27.08.2011 14:34]: > * Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi [27.08.2011 09:12]: > > On 08/27/2011 12:42 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > > >Hi, > > >My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen > > >drive or even from one hard d

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

2011-08-28 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Qadri [28.08.2011 01:13]: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Uli Armbruster < > uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > This happens on my machine as well. The reason is, that the kernel swaps > > much more with linux 3.0 than 2.6.39. It moves program

Re: [arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.

2011-08-27 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi [27.08.2011 09:12]: > On 08/27/2011 12:42 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > >Hi, > >My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen > >drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor > >slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I m

Re: [arch-general] problems with vim

2011-08-20 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Karol Blazewicz [20.08.2011 13:26]: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Uli Armbruster > wrote: > > > > This was caused by vim-bufstat-git from the AUR. I actually don't need > > this, so I'll leave it off the system for now and file a bugreport. > > &g

Re: [arch-general] problems with vim

2011-08-20 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Martti Kühne [20.08.2011 00:25]: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Uli Armbruster > wrote: > > My problem is, in vim the right and left arrow keys don't do anything in > > command mode > > What locale, what keyboard setting, what terminal > emulator/conso

[arch-general] problems with vim

2011-08-19 Thread Uli Armbruster
Hi list I wanted to ask here first, because it might be a configuration problem on my side, which I tried to, but couldn't figure out. My problem is, in vim the right and left arrow keys don't do anything in command mode (in insert mode everything's normal). The up and down arrow keys work as

Re: [arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Norbert Zeh [18.08.2011 21:44]: > Karol Blazewicz [2011.08.18 2122 +0200]: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > > Am Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:44:23 -0300 > > > schrieb Norbert Zeh : > > > > > >> I have a strange problem with ejecting CDs from my CD drive. > > >> > > >> As root

Re: [arch-general] Dmenu vs. KMS

2011-04-28 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Stan [27.04.2011 17:54]: > Hi, guys. > > Have some troubles with dmenu(4.2.1-1), stock kernel(2.6.38.4-1) and > perhaps xf86-video-ati(6.14.1-1): dmenu lags. Vertical listing is really > pain in the ass(latency ~1 sec) and with blob everything works just > fine. If anyone has the same here i'll

Re: [arch-general] pacman: -Ss search results weird

2011-04-22 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Marek Otahal [22.04.2011 23:19]: > Hi, > regarding the recent 'default syslog' discussion I wanted to check what is > Arch up to now...I came to interesting results concerning pacman's search > behavior. > > [marek@beruska ~]$ pacman -Ss syslog > core/perl 5.12.3-1 [12.06 MB] (base) [install

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.5-1

2011-04-13 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Tobias Powalowski [09.04.2011 23:14]: > xfsprogs-3.1.5 (30 March 2011) > - Polish translation update, thanks to Jakub Bogusz > - xfs_repair now warns if running in low memory mode > - Phase 2 of xfs_repair is now multithreaded > - xfs_quota no longer attempts to g

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] util-linux 2.19-3

2011-02-22 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Ionuț Bîru [22.02.2011 14:43]: > On 02/22/2011 03:41 PM, Uli Armbruster wrote: > >I did get the following output when I updated. > > > >Proceed with installation? [Y/n] > >:: Retrieving packages from testing... > > util-linux-2.19-2-i686 1388.8K 9

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] util-linux 2.19-3

2011-02-22 Thread Uli Armbruster
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 02/22/2011 02:13 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Am 22.02.2011 12:35, schrieb Ionuț Bîru: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> The util-linux-ng project has been renamed back to util-linux. >>> >> >> Why 2.19-3? Shouldn't it be -1? >> > > because tpowa uploade

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] new build of mutt in [testing]

2011-02-16 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Gaetan Bisson [16.02.2011 13:13]: > Hi everyone, > > I have made a new build of mutt with two significant changes: > > 1. Use ncurses rather than slang. (Slang made sense before, but ncurses > supports Unicode now, is more featureful and popular, and MuttWiki > recommends it as a solution to m

Re: [arch-general] Welcome to Arch

2011-01-10 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Nicolás Reynolds [10.01.2011 00:25]: > El 09/01/11 08:15, dario dijo: > > Acabo de instalarme Arch 2010.05 desde cd y la verdad que me sorprendió > > muchísimo su dinámica para instalarlo (no es complicado con un poco de > > ayuda a la hora de instalar GNOME) y su velocidad, vengo de cansarme de

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.4-1

2010-11-26 Thread Uli Armbruster
On 11/25/10 at 09:44pm, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi bump to latest version, > > please signoff both arches, > thanks > greetings > tpowa > > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tp...@archlinux.org Signoff i686, everything's fi

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-22 Thread Uli Armbruster
That won't happen! And I hope you know that python2 isn't gone, it's still available. All the package maintainers have to do is change the sheband. Of course that needs a little bit of work, but that's really not the biggest deal! If there are AUR packages which haven't done these changes yet, p

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread uli . armbruster
* Ng Oon-Ee [28.09.2010 21:07]: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 20:19 +0200, uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com wrote: > > * Ionuț Bîru [28.09.2010 17:41]: > > > On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote: > > > > I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling > > > > these types of scenarios.

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-28 Thread uli . armbruster
* Ionuț Bîru [28.09.2010 17:41]: > On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote: > > I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling > > these types of scenarios... > > > > I've seen this come up with several packages > > > > If I install mplayer and x264 from pacman, but then pul

Re: [arch-general] Te agregué como amigo en Facebook

2010-09-27 Thread uli . armbruster
* Mauro Santos [27.09.2010 22:34]: > On 09/27/2010 09:01 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > > Hola, General: > > > > He creado un perfil en Facebook donde puedo publicar mis fotos, vídeos y > > eventos, y quiero agregarte a mis amigos para que puedas verlo. Para ello, > > necesitas registrarte en Fa

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.3-1

2010-09-12 Thread uli . armbruster
* Tobias Powalowski [09.09.2010 09:40]: > Hi bump to latest version, > > please signoff both arches, > thanks > greetings > tpowa > > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tp...@archlinux.org signoff i686, everything has been wor

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.34-1

2010-05-17 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Ignacio Galmarino [17.05.2010 16:23]: > ATI KMS is not working. All i get is garbage on the screen. > > x86_64 > > Ignacio ATI KMS is working fine here on i686 with radeon % lspci | grep ATI 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] But I'll c

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.2-1

2010-05-16 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Tobias Powalowski [16.05.2010 21:44]: > Am Freitag 14 Mai 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > > Hi bump to latest version, > > xfsprogs-3.1.2 (6 May 2010) > > - Fix missing thread synchronization in xfs_repair duplicate > > extent tracking. > > - Fix handling of dynamic attribute for

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-05 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Raghavendra D Prabhu [05.05.2010 22:09]: > Preload never worked for me, may be the performance improvment was too > low for me to notice. You can also try readahead-list but I am skeptical > about that too. Afaik preload is supposed to preload frequently used applications, right? So I guess it

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-21 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Thomas Bächler [21.04.2010 09:41]: > Am 21.04.2010 09:34, schrieb Jan de Groot: > > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:52 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: > >> has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about > >> buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything > >> will b

Re: [arch-general] HTML5, Youtube and chromium-browser

2010-03-20 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Philipp [20.03.2010 19:42]: > Excerpts from Gaurish Sharma's message of 2010-03-20 16:50:14 +0100: > > > Anyone managed to get youtube videos working in HTML5/h.264 format on > > chromium > > browser? > > How can you do that? It asks me for flash in most webkit browser I tried, > uzbl and a

Re: [arch-general] Problems with Xorg

2010-02-15 Thread Uli Armbruster
* bardo [15.02.2010 17:01]: > 2010/2/15 Uli Armbruster : > >> WTF is this shit? > > > >Have you been hacked?? > > Nah... just look at the headers =) Yeah, I see it now

Re: [arch-general] Problems with Xorg

2010-02-15 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Florian Pritz [15.02.2010 16:58]: > On 02/15/2010 04:56 PM, Uli Armbruster wrote: > > * Aaron Griffin [15.02.2010 16:53]: > >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Aaron Griffin > >> wrote: > >> > >> WTF is this shit? > > > > Have you

Re: [arch-general] Problems with Xorg

2010-02-15 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Aaron Griffin [15.02.2010 16:53]: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Aaron Griffin > wrote: > > WTF is this shit? Have you been hacked??

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [LAU] A sound decision]

2010-02-12 Thread Uli Armbruster
* hollunder [10.02.2010 17:50]: > Excerpts from Uli Armbruster's message of 2010-02-10 13:11:50 +0100: > > * hollunder [10.02.2010 12:45]: > > > Well, there are also lots of people who have complaints about macs and > > > pt, but pt sure has good marketing. I doubt a networked setup such as > > >

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Smith Dhumbumroong [11.02.2010 08:48]: > If you use POP3, try Claws Mail. It got everything you needed (mail, > newsgroup, etc.) and are quite lightweight and very stable. > +1 Claws Mail was and still is my favorite GUI Mail application. Now I use mutt, but that's not what you are looking for

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [LAU] A sound decision]

2010-02-10 Thread Uli Armbruster
* hollunder [10.02.2010 12:45]: > Well, there are also lots of people who have complaints about macs and > pt, but pt sure has good marketing. I doubt a networked setup such as > his would be possible with pt. Well, I don't know if it's possible to set up a comparable networked setup with protoo

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [LAU] A sound decision]

2010-02-10 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Ng Oon-Ee [09.02.2010 23:46]: > Forwarding the below, for those interested. fons, you'd maybe like this? > > Forwarded Message > > To: linux-audio-u...@lists.linuxaudio.org > > Subject: [LAU] A sound decision > > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:26:36 -0200 > > > > http://www.itwire.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Thomas Bächler [03.02.2010 11:12]: > Am 03.02.2010 10:32, schrieb Uli Armbruster: > > uresume is needed for uswsusp (from [community]) > > Good to know. This hook used glibc anyway, so there is no adjustment > needed to the new initramfs. Less work for me. > > > In

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-03 Thread Uli Armbruster
2010/2/2 Thomas Bächler : > Am 02.02.2010 22:51, schrieb Uli Armbruster: >> I use your kill-klibc repo on i686 and I just want to confirm, that it works >> with >> >> % cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf >> MODULES="" >> HOOKS="base udev pata uresu

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

2010-02-02 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Thomas Bächler [02.02.2010 19:13]: > Am 24.01.2010 18:05, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > Quoted from http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17298 (which is also to be > > used for feedback, besides the threads on these mailing lists): > > > > So, now something can be tested. I recommend using it in conjun

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.1

2010-02-02 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Tobias Powalowski [31.01.2010 09:42]: > Hi bump to latest version, > xfsprogs-3.1.1 (29 January 2010) > - Fix various blkid topology support problems in mkfs.xfs. > - Fix various build warnings. > - Add automatic build dependency calculations. > - Cleaner build system out

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-30 Thread Uli Armbruster
Just some words from my point of view: Like some of you guys - most of you I guess.. - I don't really like Jörg's way to articulate. He has his arguments, which are really good ones, but it always becomes a discussion like this. I saw this in the german Ubuntu forums, before I switched to Archl

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoff xfsprogs 3.0.5-1 both arches

2009-10-26 Thread Uli Armbruster
Hi Because last time a user signoff for xfsprogs was required, I'm doing this now again. I rebootet, right now there's a xfs_fsr running and everything seems to be just fine. If there are more things I should test or run to be sure everything is ok, please just tell me. So signoff i686 Greetz

Re: [arch-general] octave and scilab startup error

2009-10-24 Thread Uli Armbruster
Seems like I have to read it a bit more carefully ;-) * Allan McRae [24.10.2009 01:47]: > Uli Armbruster wrote: > >Hi > > > >First of all, I have [testing] enabled and I'm on 32bit. > > > >I wanted to take a look at these two alternatives of matlab. Both

[arch-general] octave and scilab startup error

2009-10-23 Thread Uli Armbruster
Hi First of all, I have [testing] enabled and I'm on 32bit. I wanted to take a look at these two alternatives of matlab. Both of them don't work here, both are complaining about a missing library error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such fi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.0.3-1

2009-10-11 Thread Uli Armbruster
I use xfs on / and /home and my external drive, absolutely no problems so far. Signoff for i686 * Tobias Powalowski [10.10.2009 20:11]: > Am Samstag 12 September 2009 schrieb Dan McGee: > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > > Am Montag 07 September 2009 schrieb Tobia

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.2-1

2009-10-07 Thread Uli Armbruster
Ok, I got it now. Putting radeon into MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf wasn't enough, I had to put intel_agp in there as well. Now it works this way. But there's still something to discuss: When my mkinitcpio.conf looks like this MODULES="intel_agp radeon" BINARIES="" HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.2-1

2009-10-07 Thread Uli Armbruster
% dmesg|grep radeondrmfb fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device I guess that means that everything is fine here. All I actually wanted to say is, that putting radeon into MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf causes problems here. But I'll do more tests, maybe I find out new stuff. * Damjan Georgievski [07

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.2-1

2009-10-06 Thread Uli Armbruster
Andi wrote: >Radeon state: With new xf86-video-ati 6.12.4 driver simply add "radeon" to the >modules array in mkinitcpio.conf and recreate the initrd. That's all for kms. I tried this and it didn't work for me. When I did my first reboot with 2.6.31.2-1, it worked with this mkinitcpio.conf MODU

[arch-general] qtconfig from [testing] doesn't show Gtk+

2009-07-11 Thread Uli Armbruster
Hi I run [testing], so my version of qt is 4.5.2-2. A few moments ago I installed a qt program, but I'm not able to select Gtk+ in qtconfig, only Desktop Settings (default) CDE Cleanlooks Motif Plastique Windows I'm not sure since when this started to happen, I rarely use qt apps, but I think