Re: [arch-general] Converting to 64

2010-05-28 Thread pyther
On 05/28/2010 11:47 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: 5-10% that too if you compile lots of stuff. otherwise for browsing and all no noticeable increase. On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote I have 1gb RAM. Can you give an approximate % increase in performance if I switch to 64

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread pyther
On 05/07/2010 11:54 AM, Nathan Wayde wrote: On 07/05/10 15:48, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Johannes Held wrote: http://www.archlinux.org/news/495/ * If you have gvim installed, the update will inform you that vim conflicts with gvim. This is the expected behav

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread pyther
On 04/09/2010 09:41 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: Nothing has been done on documentation yet. Feel free to use the documentation from Fedora to add information to the Xorg input hotplugging wiki page. Alright! I've attempted to clean up the wiki and update it to reflect changes in 1.8. There was

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread pyther
On 04/09/2010 05:20 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: In case there's anything related to hwd in there: kill it. We don't support hwd as X.org configuration tool. The best autoconfiguration tool you can get is Xorg -configure, and these days even that is not needed anymore. Done. Any opinion on the

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread pyther
On 04/09/2010 09:41 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 09:34 -0400, pyther wrote: Has there been any work on a wiki entry for Xorg 1.8? I don't see anything on the main wiki. I just don't want to duplicate efforts. Cheers! Nothing has been done on documentation

[arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread pyther
On 04/04/2010 04:56 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: Things todo before this merges to extra: - Add documentation about input configuration to our wiki, as hal is deprecated now - Ask nvidia for a driver that works without ignoreABI, I'm sure they can give us a timeframe for that - Add xorg.conf.d confi

Re: [arch-general] DR - Other dark theme aficionados - "just black" for FF 3.6, simple & clean

2010-03-10 Thread pyther
list, in my opinion. http://bbs.archlinux.org Also linking directly to the theme download instead of a preview isn't very smart. How do we know what we are downloading? ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] zen kernel

2010-02-15 Thread pyther
On 02/15/2010 12:22 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: On 02/15/2010 07:12 PM, Otávio Módolo wrote: i don't really asked for it. don't misunderstand things. 2010/2/15 Ionut Biru On 02/15/2010 07:05 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 02/15/2010 10:31 PM, Otávio Módolo wrote: really don't know if this

Re: [arch-general] Pacman upgrade fails due to file conflits

2010-02-15 Thread pyther
On 02/15/2010 08:42 AM, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: Just `rm' those files, problem solved! Sébastien Leblanc That isn't always the best solution... Did you install gstreamer stuff manually? If you run pacman -Qo on any of those files does pacman return anything? ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-07 Thread pyther
On 02/07/2010 06:03 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Okay, this is it. The busybox-based mkinitcpio is entering testing now. BACK UP YOUR OLD (WORKING) INITRAMFS (kernel26.img) FILE! Also, do NOT use this if you have root on NFS, it is NOT IMPLEMENTED yet. Known issues: If you use 2.6.33 and enable the

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pa cman -Syu on 2/2/10 (corrected i686)

2010-02-03 Thread pyther
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:46:48 -0600, "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 02/03/2010 11:13 AM, pyther wrote: >> On 02/03/2010 09:37 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> >>>> Guys, >>>> >>&g

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

2010-02-03 Thread pyther
On 02/03/2010 12:42 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Devs, I don't know whether this is something Arch can set or if it is kde that sets the powerdevil suspend default. We need to see if it is possible to disable the 'suspend' after 30 minutes on the first page of the powerdevil settings beca

Re: [arch-general] multiple i586 update segfaults during pacman -Syu on 2/2/10

2010-02-03 Thread pyther
On 02/03/2010 09:37 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 02/03/2010 12:39 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, During update tonight, I received multiple segfaults during system update package installation. Given the kde44beta packages involved, I suspect kde will be dead. Follow-up: x86_64, 36

Re: [arch-general] i586 phonon/qt dependency conflict

2010-02-03 Thread pyther
On 02/02/2010 09:05 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 02/02/2010 04:32 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 02.02.2010 23:10, schrieb David C. Rankin: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-February/015269.html I guess I could be helpful and actually respond with Pierre's p

Re: [arch-general] Why taking so long?

2010-01-30 Thread pyther
wiki guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Custom_Kernel_Compilation_with_ABS ~pyther

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

2010-01-27 Thread pyther
On 01/27/2010 11:18 AM, kludge wrote: On 01/27/2010 09:49 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:17:01 -0500 schrieb pyther: Look at the high-profile case of cdrtools vs cdrkit, though; it is huge. You stated that sun spent 3 months looking into it. If for some odd reason

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

2010-01-27 Thread pyther
main devs have decided they don't want to take the "risk." Why don't you create a repo with cdrtools for arch? It isn't hard to do. That way anyone who wants to use cdrtools would have an easy way to obtain updates, etc... pyther

Re: [arch-general] First Time Arch w/ Gnome Installed

2010-01-26 Thread pyther
On 01/26/2010 02:26 PM, Damien Churchill wrote: 2010/1/26 Carlos Williams: This is my 1st time ever installing Arch Linux with GDM / Gnome desktop environment. I did not install 'gnome-extra' package because I don't want all the useless applications. I prefer to only install what I need. I a

Re: [arch-general] nitrogen libpng rebuild information

2010-01-22 Thread pyther
On 01/22/2010 12:52 PM, pyther wrote: As nitrogen is currently orphaned I am sending this message here in hopes to avoid duplicate efforts. Two issues: -Nitrogen won't build against libpng 14 -Nitrogen crashes with "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'G

Re: [arch-general] nitrogen libpng rebuild information

2010-01-22 Thread pyther
On 01/22/2010 01:51 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: On 01/22/2010 08:47 PM, pyther wrote: Would someone (that is using testing) be so kind to test nitrogen out for me? Just run it and see if it loads up or not (it shouldn't need to be rebuild against libpng). I rebuilt gdk-pixbuf and gtk2 and it

Re: [arch-general] nitrogen libpng rebuild information

2010-01-22 Thread pyther
On 01/22/2010 12:52 PM, pyther wrote: As nitrogen is currently orphaned I am sending this message here in hopes to avoid duplicate efforts. Two issues: -Nitrogen won't build against libpng 14 -Nitrogen crashes with "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'G

[arch-general] nitrogen libpng rebuild information

2010-01-22 Thread pyther
efully be applied to git in the next few hours. With this said, I suggest that we wait for nitrogen 1.5 to be released. Even if we were to patch 1.4.2 we would still have the issue of the gdk::PixbufError crashes. ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] New kernel/updates - Is the timezone information messed up for dual-boot configs?

2009-09-22 Thread Pyther
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:17 PM, David C. Rankin > wrote: >> Listmates, >> >>        I have been chasing my tail on the madwifi issue and I think I have >> found the >> problem. It's not madwifi at all, it's the timezone handling. >> > > WTF does

Re: [arch-general] Incorrect downloads page (WAS ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues)

2009-09-17 Thread Pyther
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:06:41 +0300 > "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Tom K wrote: >> > Why are you using 2009.02? 2009.08 was released last month. >> > >> > T. >> >>     Sorry. I'm using 2009.08. >>

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Apologies for the RSS spam

2009-09-15 Thread Pyther
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Andrew wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> Still working out some kinks with the new server changes. I have >> disabled the rss2email job for now. >> >> Cheers, >> Aaron > > > I just wanted to make sure arch-announce will be coming back sometime and > hasn't been forg

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Remove usblp module from kernel26?

2009-09-07 Thread Pyther
y be a few people that use this in arch. Those who do use it can compile usblp. It just seems to be more logical and cleaner to remove the module if there is only a very small user base. ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic

2009-05-16 Thread pyther
f with direct paths to the device nodes (ex. /dev/sda2, etc). If you can get this to work then start switching back to disk-by-uuid. ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] i686 extra repo - busted?

2009-04-16 Thread pyther
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:32:23 +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > did you try pacman -Syy? You have a partial/incomplete database, extra > repo works. Yep, somehow my database got messed up! Strangely the rss feed for updated showed only x86_64.

Re: [arch-general] i686 extra repo - busted?

2009-04-16 Thread pyther
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:25:52 -0500, Jeffrey Parke wrote: > pyther wrote: >> I'm guessing something is wrong with the extra repo on i686! Did Allan >> break it? >> I tried three different mirrors including ftp.archlinux.org >> >> R2D2:~ $ sudo pacman -Sl ext

[arch-general] i686 extra repo - busted?

2009-04-16 Thread pyther
1.1.1-1 extra alacarte 0.11.10-1 extra allegro 4.2.2-1 extra alltray 0.70-1 extra alpine 2.00-3 extra alsa-lib 1.0.19-1 extra alsa-oss 1.0.17-1 extra alsa-utils 1.0.19-1 extra alsaplayer 0.99.80-2 extra amarok-base 1.4.10-3 This is the whole listing! ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel-legacy vs xf86-video-intel

2009-04-09 Thread pyther
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:35:45 -0700, Andrei Thorp wrote: > Perhaps if you feel up to the task, you can still set this up on your > local system via abs. > > Cheers, > > -A"G"T > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 18:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote:

Re: [arch-general] Make arch-announce read only?

2009-04-02 Thread pyther
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:10 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:30 PM, pyther wrote: >> >> I was wondering if we could make arch-announce a read only list. Sort of >> like the dev mailing list. Anyone who tries to respond to an announcement >>

Re: [arch-general] Sick of xf86-video-intel? Use the fram ebuffer device!

2009-04-01 Thread pyther
ome of you, > > Pierre Do you have any type of 3D rendering with the framebuffer X server? If so what do you get in glxgears (yes I realize this is not a benchmark tool)? pyther

[arch-general] Make arch-announce read only?

2009-03-31 Thread pyther
Thank you." I do not filter the arch-announce mailings for obvious reason and I do not think I am alone. It is very annoying to see replies in my inbox. ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-18 Thread pyther
; On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:37 AM, pyther wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:39:46 -0500, "Preston C." >> wrote: >> > Got it! It was /sdc . Thanks. >> >> Please! Please! Please, search first and if searching fails, please use >> the &

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-18 Thread pyther
questions, but as redshift stated use a search engine first! Cheers, ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] which video card driver- proprietary...

2009-02-12 Thread pyther
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:43:11 -0500, "Preston C." wrote: > Thanks Alessandro. Do you know if I should remove libgl for the > nvidia-utils ? Yes you should remove libgl for nvidia-utils. From my understanding both nvidia and ati provide their own libgl libraries, thus the conflict. BTW you shoul

Re: [arch-general] thunar-thumbnailer

2009-01-26 Thread pyther
s the maintainer of the package. ~pyther On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:02:47 -0200, Marco Antonio Gomez wrote: Using Openbox + Thunar + Thunar thumbnailer in Arch (completely updated), I noticed that thunar-thumbnailer, since last week, does not generate video thumbnails anymore. AFAIK, the problem is relat

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-2

2009-01-07 Thread pyther
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:00:08 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:54 -0500, pyther wrote: >> I just wanted to let the devs know that 2.4.x causes Xorg to crash >> with >> Kernel 2.6.28, so some users might have issues. It doesn't matter to >> me

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-2

2009-01-07 Thread pyther
-T I just wanted to let the devs know that 2.4.x causes Xorg to crash with Kernel 2.6.28, so some users might have issues. It doesn't matter to me either way just wanted to let that information be known. Thanks, pyther

Re: [arch-general] vnc on display:0

2008-12-30 Thread pyther
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:13:35 +0530, "sagar n" wrote: > *It is not totally headless, sorry, it doesnot have a keyboard or > mouse. But it does have a monitor which I use to watch media. So, I > want to connect via vnc/anything and get to control it. > > So display:0 connection is crucial. I looke

Re: [arch-general] Does anyone receive two copies of same m essage on the arch-announce list?

2008-12-22 Thread pyther
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:52:04 +0100, "Jordy van Wolferen" wrote: >Got the same problem >Is there already a bug report? There wasn't until I created one just now: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12539 I posted here because I wanted to make sure it wasn't an issue with me.

[arch-general] Does anyone receive two copies of same m essage on the arch-announce list?

2008-12-22 Thread pyther
5:02. This has been happening for a few months now. I've checked the mail headers and each email is being delivered to the same address. Does anyone else have this problem or am I just lucky? ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] Archive xorg-server 1.4 on Arch Server

2008-11-16 Thread pyther
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:10:04 +0100, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 15:00 -0500, pyther wrote: > > There's no such thing as a 90% performance drop, glxgears is not a > benchmark. As for vsync, it means that your framerate is tied to your

Re: [arch-general] Archive xorg-server 1.4 on Arch Server

2008-11-16 Thread pyther
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:51:07 +0100, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 13:55 -0500, pyther wrote: >> I have updated to Xorg-server 1.5 from testing. However I get >> extremely low >> fps (60fps) when running glx-gears. The error I get in th

[arch-general] Archive xorg-server 1.4 on Arch Server

2008-11-16 Thread pyther
ions and people who upgrade a chance to downgrade to regain performance. Hopefully I was clear in my explanation if not feel free to ask me any questions. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Thank you, ~pyther

Re: [arch-general] Cannot log in to arch website

2008-11-14 Thread pyther
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:07:52 -0330, Daniel Diamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travis Willard wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Daniel Diamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> Is there som

Re: [arch-general] Wlan Linux Broadcom binary drivers from [arch-dev-public]

2008-10-05 Thread pyther
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:48:49 -0400, pyther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 18:41:54 +0200, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would love to see these in core. From what I have read of the license, we > are allowed to distribute them; however

Re: [arch-general] Wlan Linux Broadcom binary drivers from [arch-dev-public]

2008-10-05 Thread pyther
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 18:41:54 +0200, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php > just found this on the net, would you guys like to see this drivers in > core? > > If a native english speaker could look at the license of the binary blob

Re: [arch-general] Outdated Wicd

2008-09-01 Thread Pyther
James Rayner wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Pyther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have updated the wicd package build, daemon script, and install script. All the files are now in /usr /etc and /var using standard paths /usr/bin/wicd-client contains both the tray and gui elemen

Re: [arch-general] Outdated Wicd

2008-08-31 Thread Pyther
course I can not guarantee it won't blow up your system! ~Pyther pkgbuild-wicd-1.5.1.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: [arch-general] Firefox 3 Beta 5 has No Print Margins tab

2008-05-18 Thread pyther
> 2008/4/19 Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Unlike the Windows version, I find that the Linux version of Firefox 3 Beta >> 5 has No Print Margins tab. Anyone else confirm this? I downloaded it from >> the Mozilla website. > > I cannot confirm this because I don't use Firefox under Linux but it's

Re: [arch-general] ClamAV should be update to 0.93

2008-05-04 Thread pyther
> * Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sonntag, 4. Mai 2008 12:47 Tino Reichardt wrote: >> >> > If they don't have the time to be a maintainer for some package, they >> > shouldn't be the maintainer of it! >> >> For me this is definitely too hard. And unfair because archlinux is a >> distribut

Re: [arch-general] ClamAV should be update to 0.93

2008-05-03 Thread pyther
> * Tino Reichardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> clamav should be updated. > > Why does the update of clamav take so long ? > > Should I build a new package ? > > > -- > regards, TR > > Because the developers have a life, if you need a new package use abs and compile it.

Re: [arch-general] Arch64 specific mailing list?

2008-04-23 Thread pyther
s work the same way on 32/64bit. If there is a problem it is mostly within compiling a package. There was a point in time where I had arch 32 on one machine, arch 64 on another, and I noticed practically no difference. ~Pyther

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]

2008-04-20 Thread pyther
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Re: [arch-general] RIT.EDU New Mirror

2008-04-05 Thread pyther
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:33:13 -0500, Simo Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:20:15PM -0400, Lee R. Burton wrote: >> http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux >> Supports ftp and rsync as well, I would like to make it an official > mirror. (do you all do push mirroring?) >> Loca

Re: [arch-general] How to create archlinux install CD?

2008-04-04 Thread pyther
All the packages are compiled for the i686 arch, so you would have to recompile every single package you would want to use. IIRC there use to be a port out there for i586 but I have no idea if it still exists. On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:39:50 +0200, Karolina Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-03-31 Thread pyther
ar to Arch Linux as possible. Any help would be great! Thank you, Pyther

Re: [arch-general] Java applets in Arch64

2008-01-24 Thread pyther
Ondřej Kučera wrote: Hello, I need to be able to use java applets on my Arch64 box. From what I found on the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ) it should work out of the box in Konqueror but unfortunately it isn't the case for me. I tried the following two pages containing ap