[arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated

2010-08-12 Thread Harry Strongburg
Hello, this mirror has an old lasysync of 1279951267. Googling this number returns a few results for other mirrors at this time. What does it mean? Lastly, what mirror is the "most trusted"? I trust vt.edu, their uptime has been wonderful until it stopped updating packages. I don't want to use t

Re: [arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated

2010-08-12 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Harry Strongburg wrote: > Lastly, what mirror is the "most trusted"? I use kernel.org I don't know that it's "most trusted" but... -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.com

Re: [arch-general] Fw: [arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!

2010-08-12 Thread Mario Figueiredo
On 11-08-2010 18:03, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:41:06 +0100, Mario Figueiredo wrote: This would definitely get me interested in Testing. Right now my Linux knowledge is limited and thus Testing is a no-go zone. If however I could have a guarantee that Testing offers the same

Re: [arch-general] Fw: [arch-dev-public] [staging] repository: Let's give it a try!

2010-08-12 Thread Guillaume Brunerie
2010/8/12 Mario Figueiredo > On 11-08-2010 18:03, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:41:06 +0100, Mario Figueiredo >> wrote: >> >>> >>> This would definitely get me interested in Testing. >>> Right now my Linux knowledge is limited and thus Testing is a no-go >>> zone. If however

[arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
I have a nice del mini 10" with archlinux and XFCE4 It works great after I updated the kernel the audio and the camera started to work, which is nice. BUT - I think the 3d still doesn't work, I followed the guide (using intel-dri drivers) and video now runs smoothly, but glgears is still very

Re: [arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated

2010-08-12 Thread Ivan S. Freitas
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Harry Strongburg wrote: > Hello, this mirror has an old lasysync of 1279951267. Googling this number > returns a few results for other mirrors at this time. What does it mean? > > Lastly, what mirror is the "most trusted"? I trust vt.edu, their uptime has > been

Re: [arch-general] mirror.cs.vt.edu outdated

2010-08-12 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 08/12/2010 06:12 PM, Ivan S. Freitas wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Harry Strongburg wrote: Hello, this mirror has an old lasysync of 1279951267. Googling this number returns a few results for other mirrors at this time. What does it mean? Lastly, what mirror is the "most trusted"

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Ray Rashif
On 12 August 2010 22:56, Andrea Crotti wrote: > - I think the 3d still doesn't work, I followed the guide (using >  intel-dri drivers) and video now runs smoothly, but glgears is still >  very slow. >  Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know >  for sure if 3d is activat

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread JM
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > Use networkmanager + nm-applet instead. IIRC nm-applet pulls in half of Gnome and networkmanager does not have a desktop-agnostic graphical frontend. Alternatively you could try wifi-radar. Also, if you believe your hardware is poorly supporte

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
Ray Rashif writes: > Get a 3D game. I could play UrbanTerror on 800x600 and low details at > 24+ FPS on an Acer AspireOne. Mm something less big and easier to install :D? Downloading tuxkart, let's see. Strange because it looks faster then before but not fast as the 3d would be enabled. Ok tuxk

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:56:33PM +0200, Andrea Crotti wrote: > Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know > for sure if 3d is activated or not? glxinfo |grep "^direct rendering: "

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread didier gaumet
Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:31:16 +0200, Andrea Crotti wrote about problems with his wireless card often deconnecting. hi, I have had a similar problem (non-US citizen) and after having setup crda, it works now like a charm (of course depending on signal quality). Quote from http://wiki.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
Alessandro Doro writes: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:56:33PM +0200, Andrea Crotti wrote: >> Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I know >> for sure if 3d is activated or not? > > glxinfo |grep "^direct rendering: " I already looked at that and I get "Yes"! But I can't

[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

2010-08-12 Thread Mathias Huber
Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Andrea Crotti
didier gaumet writes: > Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:31:16 +0200, > Andrea Crotti wrote about problems with his > wireless card often deconnecting. > > hi, > I have had a similar problem (non-US citizen) and after having setup > crda, it works now like a charm (of course depending on signal quality).

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Reardon
Worked for me on the latest mirrorlist release. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Mathias Huber wrote: > Dear Archers, > > is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like > ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? > > While pacman works fine with this format, rankmi

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread Ray Rashif
On 13 August 2010 00:16, JM wrote: > IIRC nm-applet pulls in half of Gnome and networkmanager does not have > a desktop-agnostic graphical frontend. Alternatively you could try > wifi-radar. Also, if you believe your hardware is poorly supported do > bug the upstream about it. $ pactree network-m

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

2010-08-12 Thread Erik Johnson
Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://arch

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

2010-08-12 Thread Mathias Huber
Hi Erik, Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server =

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Reardon
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson wrote: > Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and > I get this: > > # 2010-08-12 15:33 > # generated by reflector > # ranked by rankmirrors > Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch > Server =

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] sudo-1.7.4.p2-1

2010-08-12 Thread Florian Pritz
On 11.08.2010 04:58, Allan McRae wrote: > Upstrema update. Upstream moved the location of the timestamp files, so > everyone will receive the sudo lecture on first usage. > > Signoff both, > Allan User signoff both Some defaults changed too. (1 timestamp per tty or behavior of -s, maybe more I

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

2010-08-12 Thread Allan McRae
On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson wrote: Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, and I get this: # 2010-08-12 15:33 # generated by reflector # ranked by rankmirrors Server = ftp://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/archli

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format

2010-08-12 Thread Jason Reardon
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 13/08/10 07:09, Jason Reardon wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Erik Johnson wrote: >> >> Can you post a copy of the output? I'm using reflector and rankmirrors, >>> and >>> I get this: >>> >>> # 2010-08-12 15:33 >>> # generate

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.1-1

2010-08-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/11/2010 04:25 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Upstream update, please test and sign off. We should probably be able to move this to core by the end of the week unless major problems occur. Please also sign off on 2.6.34.3 (see http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-August/0

Re: [arch-general] Some problems with a dell mini

2010-08-12 Thread didier gaumet
Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:51:02 +0200, Andrea Crotti a écrit : > Great thanks a lot, I didn't restart the system but starting the > service I get a "nl80211 not found" error. I don't use Archlinux anymore and thus can't be affirmative but I think this is not really a problem because this feature is

[arch-general] bash - pathname expansion controls 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob' on broken?

2010-08-12 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I'm either misunderstanding how to control expansion of wildcards on the command line when passing the parameter containing the wildcard as a cli option to a script or the bash controls to allow that are broken. I want to set up a little script alias to search /var/abs for packages and

Re: [arch-general] bash - pathname expansion controls 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob' on broken?

2010-08-12 Thread mike rosset
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:06 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        I'm either misunderstanding how to control expansion of wildcards on > the command line when passing the parameter containing the wildcard as a cli > option to a script or the bash controls to allow that are broken. I want

Re: [arch-general] bash - pathname expansion controls 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob' on broken?

2010-08-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/13/2010 01:15 AM, mike rosset wrote: quote command arguments like you would normally do. ie. $ myscript "*pacman*" Nope: 01:32 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh "pacman*" Search: pacman-foo -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 759

Re: [arch-general] bash - pathname expansion controls 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob' on broken?

2010-08-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/13/2010 01:32 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/13/2010 01:15 AM, mike rosset wrote: quote command arguments like you would normally do. ie. $ myscript "*pacman*" Nope: 01:32 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh "pacman*" Search: pacman-foo Mike, I'm sorry, that was a short answer. My