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

2008-11-16 Thread Jan de Groot
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 the terminal is > "Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic." That's not a bug, it's a

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

2008-11-16 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 15:00 -0500, pyther wrote: > I'm a bit confused. Can you explain to me about this Vsync thing? > > When running xorg-server 1.4 I was able to get ~650fps. I have not > changed > my xorg.conf since switching to xorg-server 1.5 where I get a max of > 60fps. There's no such thi

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

2008-11-16 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 12:00 -0800, Amanai wrote: > > dev status? How many stoppers are there? Any idea when it will move? My stopper list: - time - xf86-input-synaptics should have better documentation about hotplugging configuration before it's thrown at our users - nvidia-7xxx All other stoppe

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

2008-11-17 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 21:05 +0100, José M. Prieto wrote: > 2008/11/16 Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 12:00 -0800, Amanai wrote: > >> > >> dev status? How many stoppers are there? Any idea when it will move? > > > > My stoppe

Re: [arch-general] Subversion server is down?

2008-11-21 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 07:54 -0700, Tim Gelter wrote: > Hey all - > I just tried browsing the SVN entries for kernel26 in testing at > http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/kernel26/repos/core-x86_64/ and > received the following error: > "An Exception Has Occurred > > packages not found! The wrong

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: /etc/cron.hourly/ntp isn't working.

2008-11-26 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 21:03 -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: > I'm using openntpd > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 21:01 > Subject: cron: /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly > To: root > > > /bin/stty: standard input: Inappropri

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: /etc/cron.hourly/ntp isn't working.

2008-11-26 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 10:18 +0100, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > Maybe you want ntpdate instead of ntp. It's not daemon and it > sysnchronizes clock everytime it's run. Note that ntpdate will push a date/time change directly on every run, which causes clock jumps. This is something you don't want for s

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.5 upgrade screen problem.

2008-11-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 16:29 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Also, the server flag: > > Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" > > Doesn't help getting this solved... Input devices have nothing to do with video devices. I think it's a conflict between your framebuffer console and xorg which causes this p

Re: [arch-general] Someone shoot sergej

2008-12-01 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 14:10 +0300, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > > you are > > knowing the lack of resources, why you don't proposed to move your > > pkgs which have a small use to unsupported (i think 20% of your > > packages or more)?, as I said, starting just with sergej should be a > > > If disk s

Re: [arch-general] pm-utils not working

2008-12-04 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 22:31 +0100, Sentinel wrote: > Hellou, > > I tried to look for somebody with a similar problem on the arch forum, > but with no success, that is why I'm writing here. > > After a recent upgrade when a click on the shutdown menu in gnome the > hibernate and suspend buttons

Re: [arch-general] Xorg change and intel drivers make me sad.

2008-12-05 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 11:44 -0800, Daniel Quinn wrote: > What is the "Arch way" out of this? I heard that the new kernel that > isn't in > the tree yet is supposed to fix this, and there's also the fact that > the old > config worked just fine. I'd like to go back, but I'm unsure as to > how to

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard's keymap now changed since evdev upgrade

2008-12-06 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 17:45 -0400, Will Siddall wrote: > Hey all, I say I'm pretty comfortable with everything in arch now, but > this keyboard issue is starting to drive me nuts. Not too long ago, > the change from using kbd to evdev was made and ever since then, my > keyboard is all messed up.

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard's keymap now changed since evdev upgrade

2008-12-07 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 18:20 -0400, Will Siddall wrote: > Right, but I'm not using KDE, I'm using Gnome. I've tried using an > Evdev-managed keyboard, and I've tried using a generic pc105... all > with no luck. Plus, I've already upgraded to 1.5.3-3. The same that applies to KDE(mod) also applies

Re: [arch-general] X crashes after upgrade to intel

2008-12-18 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 01:29 +0100, ert256 wrote: > Hello > After system upgrade, and configuring intel driver, X crashes width > message : > > Backtrace: > 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x813017b] > 1: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x51) [0x80d8cb1] > 2: [0xb7f8f420] > 3: [0xb7f8f420] > 4:

Re: [arch-general] Help need with pkgbuild failure

2009-01-03 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 21:42 -0500, Baho Utot wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2009 09:22:10 pm richard terry wrote: > > I used to be on this list till my last email address, died, so re-joined. > > I posted this with a file attachment yesterday and it didn't reach the > > list, so here it is again, w

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

2009-01-07 Thread Jan de Groot
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 > either way just wanted to let that information be known. No problems here, 945GM G33 Q35 All

Re: [arch-general] Problem building Player with pkgbuild

2009-01-08 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 22:57 -0500, Christian Babeux wrote: > echo -e "#include \n#include \n#include > \n#include " >> config.h > > But now it fails with : > > speechproxy.cc:96: error: ‘strdup’ was not declared in this scope > > The strange thing is that strdup is declared in string.h... It's

Re: [arch-general] [PATCHES] About /var/run/ and /var/lock/ checks in daemons

2009-02-11 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 05:51 -0200, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Hi people! > > I interested to make Arch Linux suitable for use with a /var/run and > /var/lock that are mounted as tmpfs. But this also helps, in the case > that not mounted as tmpfs, to make more simple "purge function" for > the

Re: [arch-general] HAL issues

2009-02-12 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:11 -0800, Zack wrote: > This will likely fix the problem for you. Put this in > /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and restart hal, /etc/rc.d/hal restart. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Remem

Re: [arch-general] [PATCHES] About /var/run/ and /var/lock/ checks in daemons

2009-02-12 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:42 -0200, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > I know that Arch Linux don't support these directories as tmpfs or > "all > empty" by default, but with these trivial patches to rc-script can > support it. > Not only this is usefull for "tmpfs", maybe for other things. Having ini

Re: [arch-general] HAL issues

2009-02-13 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:37 -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Wait, I am using KDE (vanilla 4.2, not kdemod) not SLiM. Should I do > something analogous for KDE? KDE 4.2 has native consolekit integration when using kdm, so in that case there's nothing you have to change. If you want to use startx, y

Re: [arch-general] HAL issues

2009-02-13 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:30 -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > So, though I am using KDE, I am actually doing it through GDM. Is > there a way to get GDM to integrate it? > > 2009/2/13 Jan de Groot : > > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:37 -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > >> Wait,

Re: [arch-general] mpd 0.14 requires curl, glib && glib seems to be outdated

2009-02-16 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:31 +0100, Vincent Van Houtte wrote: > Dear ML, > > mpd has been flagged out-of-date, so I'm encouraged to post my problem > here instead of on the bugtracker. > > Installing mpd on a bare system does not resolve all dependencies, > since I had to install: > - curl (libcur

Re: [arch-general] xterm and xorg-apps

2009-02-19 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:05 -0800, Andrew Przepioski wrote: > How come xorg-apps is a dependency for xterm? Been a lil' curious for > awhile and have tried figuring it out, but found nothing so I figured > I would ask here. xorg-apps contains luit, which is some kind of dependency to xterm. I'm no

Re: [arch-general] libxxx.so.yy not found

2009-02-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 10:24 +0300, Alexey Ramodin wrote: > Hi all, > > Once i've upgraded some pkgs I have some errors that a program cannot start > because a lib is not found. > For example I need libkrb5.so.22 but: > $ ls /usr/lib/libkrb5.so > > lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 17 2009-01-08 02:40 /

Re: [arch-general] Problemas con x and intel 82815 chipset

2009-02-26 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:40 -0200, rapaz rico wrote: > HorizSync28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors > VertRefresh 50.0 - 54.0 # Very conservative. May flicker. Remove these lines, or make sure they match your monitor. The logs indicate your screen supplies valid m

Re: [arch-general] Problemas con x and intel 82815 chipset

2009-02-27 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 08:57 -0200, rapaz rico wrote: > It worked perfectly, i really thank you. > I just comment the lines about the monitor sync and x started ok. > One more question, for further problems, where exactly did you see in > log file that i had to do that Jan de Gr

[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

2009-03-02 Thread Jan de Groot
The upcoming version of xorg-server will have a lot of workarounds and patches removed. Doing so, the package becomes easier to understand, as even its maintainer has no idea what is happening anymore. When upgrading to xorg-server-1.6, you will see these file conflicts on most systems: error: fai

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

2009-03-02 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 01:23 +, Chris Bannister wrote: > Its a feature not a bug :P [1] > > [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=507746#p507746 Yes, and I hate it. Yesterday I locked up my window manager trying to run compiz, and the only thing left to do was typing "su -", entering

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

2009-03-02 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:09 -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: > I'm having problems with the intel drivers and OpenGL. With OpenGL > sceensavers, I don't really know how to describe it but I can guess > what's on the screen but it's garbled. With some OpenGL games, I get > a black screen. I get the fol

Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up

2009-03-03 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:21 +0100, Dan Vratil wrote: > Hi, > this happens to me sometimes too. I found out, that I just have to > switch > to console, restart HAL daemon and it works again, so I'd say it could > be > problem in Xserver, but I'm really not sure about it. > > Dan Could be a problem

Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up

2009-03-03 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 02:54 -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Actually, it's a laptop. Usually it's PS/2 then. This can be anything actually. evdev driver problem, ACPI problem with your laptop, kernel bug, etc.

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

2009-03-04 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 11:14 +0100, Georg Grabler wrote: > Hmh, I'm not using a xorg.conf either, and still X freezes with the > new > driver and the arch stock kernel. > > Strange, I've filed a bug report at freedesktop for the intel driver > now, > let's see what they can tell us about this probl

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Linuxtag 2009

2009-03-09 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:22 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:12:34 +0100 > Andreas Radke wrote: > > > Am Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:02:12 +0100 > > schrieb Tobias Powalowski : > > > > > Hi guys, > > > just saw this > > > http://www.linuxtag.org:80/2009/ > > > 24. till 27. June in

Re: [arch-general] DST and suspend

2009-03-11 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 20:24 -0600, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > Hi folks, > > I wonder if anybody else is experiencing such a problem. > Here in USA the Daylight Saving time started from the last Sunday, and > my box has switched the clock properly. But then I found that every time > when I suspend

Re: [arch-general] Xorg - Latest in repos

2009-03-15 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 17:19 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > I have just installed arch onto a new SATA drive and isused a pacman > -Syu to fetch the latest updates. > > I then continued on with alsa-utils then onto xorg > > Used pacman -S xorg to install xorg > > I then ran Xorg -configure which prod

Re: [arch-general] pacman bug? (can't replace dir with file)

2009-03-23 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:08 +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files) > test: /test exists in filesystem I think it has to do something with this: [...@server ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/vte error: cannot determine ownership of a directory The point

Re: [arch-general] libsoup 2.26.0-1 dependencies in [testing]

2009-03-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:48 +0200, JM wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that libsoup in [testing] depends on gconf, is that really > necessary? Libsoup is a dependency for some desktop-agnostic applications > such as Midori (through its dependency on libwebkit) or hardinfo (currently > in AUR). > > R

Re: [arch-general] Fatal Error

2009-03-31 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 10:04 -0700, arunix wrote: > when i come back with the command ctrl+alt+backkey(backspace) it > shows me error You know that CTRL+ALT+backspace is not the clean way to close X? What happens is that X gets killed while all applications are still running. This produces a lot of

Re: [arch-general] libconfig error

2009-04-04 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 09:14 +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: > Hi, > just did a pacman -Syu and one of the packages gives an error on install > but still seems to install. Is this error harmless and ok to ignore? System > is x86_64. > Besides the missing .install file in CVS, the .install scriptlet tr

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD: mkdir or install?

2009-04-06 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:25 +0200, Ali H. Caliskan wrote: > Hello fellow Arch Linux devels and users, > > I'm wondering if it's inappropriate to use "mkdir -p" in PKGBUILD instead of > "install". I've seen quite many official PKGBUILDs that use mkdir instead of > install, whose very structure I've

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

2009-04-09 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 18:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Is it possible to make these packages not conflict each other? > So that one could have both installed and alternate when needed? This is not possible, as they have file conflicts. I'm not interested in patching a whole driver up to gi

Re: [arch-general] mysql won't start after upgrade

2009-04-12 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:00 -0300, Douglas Soares de Andrade wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > Delete this file: > > /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0 > > If this not work, try read the following threads: > > http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?22,144428,241055#msg-241055 > http://venublog.com/2008/04/23/simple

Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

2009-04-21 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:31 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Christos Nouskas wrote: > > 2009/4/21 David C. Rankin : > >>In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories > >> (packman & > >> videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or se

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 15:40 -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: > junit is a makedepends for bcprov so it needs to stay in extra. Which is a depend for azureus... something else using it? Maybe we should move them together then.

Re: [arch-general] Move junit from Extra to Unsupported

2009-04-21 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 21:47 +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > 2009/4/21 Jan de Groot : > > Which is a depend for azureus... something else using it? Maybe we > > should move them together then. > are you sure bcprov is an azureus' dependence? I'm the maintainer of > vu

Re: [arch-general] libsoup 2.26.0-1 dependencies in [testing]

2009-04-23 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:17 +0200, JM wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:48 +0200, JM wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I noticed that libsoup in [testing] depends on gconf, is that really > >> necess

Re: [arch-general] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!

2009-04-23 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:17 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > So... continuing the story, I had heard about Arch some time ago as > > being a > > Slackware derivative, and I had always planned on trying it. So from > > distrowatch, I went to their top-ten, found sla

Re: [arch-general] Crud! Rebooted Can't Login - No Mouse or Keyboard with kdm??

2009-04-23 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 21:37 +0200, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: > On Thursday 23 April 2009 20:31:45 Andrei Thorp wrote: > > > "When HAL initializes it will check > > for the presence of D-Bus and load it automatically. If you have dbus > > in your list of daemons, remove it, since it can cause proble

Re: [arch-general] What's with kdemod packages and kdemod plasmoids?

2009-04-23 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 23:23 -0700, Alexander Kotlerman wrote: > I've got a question for everyone: > > Why is it that kdemod is not cleanly packaged in arch linux? I mean, I try to > install kdemod-extragear group but I can't beacuse there are conflicts: > packages like kdemod-extragear-bespin, k

Re: [arch-general] system-config-printer without executable?

2009-04-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:48 +0200, hollun...@gmx.at wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:35:14 +0300 > Samed Beyribey wrote: > > > > Other users report to have a system-config-printer.py there but > > > such a file doesn't exist on my system. > > > > > It's in system-config-printer-gnome package. > >

Re: [arch-general] system-config-printer without executable?

2009-04-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:51 +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > 2009/4/24 : > > Right. So there's no way to use this standalone? > > "Pygtk CUPS Configuration" led me to believe it was possible and > > there's no dependency indicating that it's useless without gnome or kde. > No. That packages only co

Re: [arch-general] libsoup 2.26.0-1 dependencies in [testing]

2009-04-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 23:01 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > gconf only depends on orbit2>=2.14.17 gtk2>=2.16.0 libxml2>=2.7.3 > policykit>=0.9 libldap>=2.3.43 > It has no dependencies on "ugly" gnome libs (libgnome, libbonobo) so > non > gnome users shouldn't have problem with it. But it has

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild with query about gcc-gcj and related packages

2009-04-26 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:33 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. April 2009 11:27:29 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > I think among the Arch userbase, virtually nobody uses anything older > > than 2.6.27. We always announce to be "bleeding-edge", so IMO there > > should be no problem in suppor

Re: [arch-general] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?

2009-05-04 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 22:44 +0200, Attila wrote: > On Montag, 4. Mai 2009 18:17 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > > > Personally in my machine, I recompiled this package without the patch, I > > prefer the auto-hinting from freetype2, because fonts looks better (at > > least on CRT), I know that thi

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-05 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:11 +0200, bs wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Tobias Kieslich wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration > > pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view/rview}" > > before you run "sudo pacman

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-06 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:54 -0300, André Ramaciotti wrote: > Hi, > > Just a question about this new vi package. Am I the only one having > problems when openning UTF-8 files? I can't even type words with > diacritics or vi will abort. For example, try to create a file with > the following and then

Re: [arch-general] Must i do the toolchain update or can i wait

2009-05-06 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 22:50 +0200, Attila wrote: > On Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 22:07 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > > At least gcc-libs of 4.4 is not compatible with the one from 4.3. So some > > apps mght stop working when compiled with 4.4 and running on a system with > > 4.3. > > Hmm, than the update

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-06 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 15:40 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > > Le Wed, 6 May 2009 14:53:43 -0500, > > Aaron Griffin a écrit : > > > >> Might be worth seeing if we can find a patch to fix the crash at least. > > > > Patching might be a good idea

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 16:42 +0200, ludovic coues wrote: > for me, a bug tracker is for tracking bug. For an upstream issue, the > bug is spotted, reported to the bug tracker, and flagged upstream. > Why it'll be closed at this point ? > > While there no patch to correct the bug, the bug is still h

Re: [arch-general] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?

2009-05-18 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 04:51 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates: > > I have been throught http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics, and > even added the section on howto calculate your VideoRam value, but I didn't > find anything about generating an initial xorg.conf f

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

2009-05-19 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 02:51 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Yes, that is the total 22 byte contents that crashed kmail. And this > is a RC > release??? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14698 I think that says all. KOffice 2.0RC isn't a release candidate, and 2.0 isn't a stable usable re

Re: [arch-general] libdrm stuck at 2.4.9

2009-05-20 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 15:25 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Does anyone know why the i686 version of libdrm is stuck at version > 2.4.9 (the x86_64 is up-to-date at 2.4.11)? > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=libdrm > > I don't mind it much, since I've compiled my own package, but each > ti

Re: [arch-general] dictionary for evolution

2009-05-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 20:26 +, Baho Utot wrote: > What dictionary does evolution use for spell checking? > > It tells me I have only the Turkish available, but since I don't know > Turkish I need to change this to something I know about. > > Thanks Evolution uses enchant, which works with as

Re: [arch-general] namcap

2009-05-25 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 06:50 +, Baho Utot wrote: > I tried namcap a freshly built fakeroot from the latest abs sync > > Here is what it said > > namcap fakeroot-1.12.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz > fakeroot E: Dependency detected and not included (bash) from files > ['usr/bin/fakeroot

Re: [arch-general] libarchive - bsdtar producing weird archives?

2009-05-27 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:55 +0200, Michael Towers wrote: > The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally > garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me > to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with > bsdtar and sometimes got similarl

Re: [arch-general] syslog-ng build error

2009-05-27 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 21:13 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > In any way, I would like to know the opinion of the developers. If you > continue with the current compilation of syslog-ng (mixed) or move to > a > fully shared. I would say: fully shared. Doing so would introduce eventlog (108K)

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 11:28 +0200, RedShift wrote: > IMNSHO .install scripts should never ever add users or groups, let > alone remove them. Everything that would need a user for itself should > default to "nobody". Yes, this imposes, though small, a security risk > but any decent server admin will

Re: [arch-general] [gnutls] Rebuild list (soname bump)

2009-05-28 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 10:41 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > This is the list of current dependency (at least at dynamic shared > library level) of gnutls-2.6.6 -> 2.8.0 > The release notes state that though symbols have been removed from the export list, the supported ABI hasn't been chang

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 18:47 +0200, ludovic coues wrote: > That > > 2009/5/28, Jan Spakula : > > Excerpts from ludovic coues's message of Do Mai 28 17:09:52 +0200 2009: > >> A solution in pacman, getting rid of user adding in .install script, > >> can allow security like asking user to confirm crea

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 08:37 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > > I think I can safely speak for most of the developers when I say Arch > will *never* get in the business of restarting daemons. Ever. If we do > it is a bug, because the implications of it are just too great. Think > about upgrading the httpd

Re: [arch-general] Funny locale settings, Gnome versus command line

2009-06-03 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:21 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > How do I get the Gnome clock to start the week on Monday? By fixing the locale definition in glibc. Really, this has been fixed by other distributions a long time ago, but I think the patch was lost on some upgrade we did to our glibc pac

Re: [arch-general] Funny locale settings, Gnome versus command line

2009-06-03 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:58 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:21 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> How do I get the Gnome clock to start the week on Monday? > > > > By fixing the loca

Re: [arch-general] Funny locale settings, Gnome versus command line

2009-06-03 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:46 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:58 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:2

Re: [arch-general] gstreamer naming

2009-06-04 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:43 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > Hello, > I've a question - why are gstreamer packages named gstreamer0.10 and > not gstreamer? I can see it also in Debian, but I don't see any sense > in appending version to the package name. > > Lukas "stativ" This is because we used

Re: [arch-general] Installing packages with different glibc

2009-06-11 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 04:53 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 22:05 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 19:45, Baho Utot wrote: > > > Does it create complications if I install packages built with a newer > > > glibc-2.10.1-2 on a system with an older glibc-2.9-7? >

Re: [arch-general] building vorbis-tools

2009-06-11 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:00 +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > ==> Finished making: vorbis-tools 1.2.0-3 i686 (Thu Jun 11 10:56:54 CEST 2009) > > Did you remove srcdir? > autoconf 2.63-1 > > build() > > { > > cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver > > autoconf > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --withou

Re: [arch-general] Installing packages with different glibc

2009-06-11 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:48 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > This is > not often the case in glibc, but there's many more problems with C++ > programs and the standard C++ libs. Usually glibc and libstdc++ are backwards compatible. ABI doesn't change so programs compiled against older versions wil

Re: [arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-13 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 12:01 +0200, bardo wrote: > I was requested by a user to create a /var/log/mldonkey/ directory and > put log files there, owned by the daemon-configured user, however I'm > not too fond of the idea of having user-owned files in a system > directory like /var/log/, even though

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions

2009-06-14 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 18:46 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > I have encountered many packages in extra that don't compile with > gcc-4.4.0. The easy way to fix them is to compile them with gcc-3.4 The easy way to fix them is by reporting bugs. Bugfixing most of these packages is very easy and takes us

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions

2009-06-15 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 09:07 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Baho Utot schrieb: > > I can do thatif you can stand all the bug reports :) > > > > My script just finished and it found another 400+ that didn't build, > > that will take some time to go through to find the ones that didn't > > build

Re: [arch-general] New 64 bit computer

2009-06-16 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:09 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > What I am pissed at AMD/ATI for is dropping all Linux driver > support > for all cards sold before 2007 (Everything before the 2400 series). > This > screwed a lot of loyal ATI users over and left a real bad taste in my > mouth.

Re: [arch-general] gcc version package is compiled with

2009-06-16 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:09 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > Is there any way to tell which version of gcc an executable is > > compiled with? > > > > > > > Hello :) > > Maybe can be a better way :) But this just works. > > strings -a /the/file | grep -m1 GCC > > Good

Re: [arch-general] gcc version package is compiled with

2009-06-17 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 21:07 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Rare, this is not related to what "libc" used, is just an assembler > label (.ident) that GCC put in the output .s file. > > What are the commands that you use to build the library? Compiling an > executable/library with toolchain-

Re: [arch-general] dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this!

2009-06-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 10:16 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Just forgot one question, is /dev/sda also shown in /dev tree if dmraid is > used? > thanks > greetings > tpowa That looks logical to me. dmraid is just RAID using the devicemapper/lvm subsystem. When I use LVM on a machine, I will get

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 12:06 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, Devs: > > > > I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. > > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but > personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire bo

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Re: dmraid-1.0.0rc15 in testing, need you help on this! (possible Bug on Delete)

2009-06-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 14:48 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Huh??? Why wasn't nvidia_ecaejfdip9 deactivated. I have > deleted the partition > in cfdisk, tried to activate it (y) and deactivate it (n) and still it > is > there. Is this a bug? Or do I need to erase the metadata in some othe

Re: [arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

2009-06-23 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:14 +0200, Xavier wrote: > The only problem is that you can not always upgrade just one package. > Sometimes you also need to upgrade a set of related packages. > And in case of big rebuild, that set might be the whole testing repo. > > As long as you are skilled enough to

Re: [arch-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?

2009-06-24 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 11:10 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > See the source code, is "old" BSD, or maybe the author forgot to > update > > the license ? for example tftp/main.c uses 4-clause and uses > readline. > > You think we should just remove the package? We have alternate tftp > implementatio

Re: [arch-general] epiphany does not add url during ssl acceptance

2009-06-27 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 07:06 -0400, Adam Stokes wrote: > Just curious if anyone else is running into this small problem? > > Basically when adding an exception to a unverified ssl site I have to > manually put the url into the location text field rather than it > populating automatically like firef

Re: [arch-general] Is it a bug ? (device-mapper PKGBUILD)

2009-07-01 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:00 +0300, nez...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi , > I was looking at the device-mapper PKGBUILD . I'm not sure but the last > line looks problematic : > > # fix device-mapper link bug > ln -sf /lib/libdevmapper.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libdevmapper.so" || return 1 > > What If device

Re: [arch-general] epiphany does not add url during ssl acceptance

2009-07-01 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 15:15 -0400, Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote: > Yes I have seen this... I've been too lazy to check if it was my problem > or a bug, but now I can confirm it. > > I don't use epiphany that much, just to log in to the campus network and > don't screw up my firefox tabs. > > I ass

Re: [arch-general] libtiff dependency broken - x86-64

2009-07-11 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 22:19 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Installing libjpeg, libmng and libtiff from testing with pacman -U > then allows a system update to proceed normally. After which you have a broken system because many things link to libjpeg and have a version in testing that has been re

Re: [arch-general] Building librpcsecgss for x86_64

2009-07-12 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 07:28 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > Anyone know what this error is about? > > What package gives gssglue? > > I am building in a clean chroot and it fails > Building outside clean chroot works Does it fail some commands before running ./configure? We patch librpcsecgss so it do

Re: [arch-general] Argouml and libjpeg

2009-07-17 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:07 +0200, Dario wrote: > Hi! > > I don't know if this could be useful, anyway when I try to export an image of > a diagram in Argouml, it crashes and I get the following interesting stack > dump: > > com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter.initWriterIDs(Ljava/lan

Re: [arch-general] x86_64/parrot. libreadline.a and -fPIC problem

2009-07-22 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 14:28 +0400, Sergej Pupykin wrote: > Hi, > > I need help to build parrot for x86_64. > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libreadline.a(readline.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 > against `rl_get_previous_history' can not be used when making a shared > object; recompile with -fPIC > /usr/l

Re: [arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?

2009-07-28 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:44 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 > > After the link is made, kcontol will start, but any attempt to > access the panel or taskbar settings (among others) results in a > complete kcontrol crash. The backtraces are

Re: [arch-general] where is xorgversion.m4

2009-07-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:44 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > I can't build the radeonhd driver any longer due to a missing > xorgversion.m4. I have both > > m4 1.4.13-1 > xorg-util-macros 1.2.2-1 > > installed but I can't find the xorgversion file. Any ideas? > That file

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-30 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:23 -0300, Will Siddall wrote: > Just so everyone knows what I'm doing, here is what I'm doing: > $ls -al ~ | tail -n 5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 myusername users222118 2008-11-28 10:23 > untitled.JPG > -rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername users 172 2008-03-12 12:14 wmamp3 > drwxr-xr-

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-145-1

2009-08-03 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:42 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Is there a way to build udev without requiring this call? The > discussions with the minimal kernel version for our glibc did not > even > venture beyond the .24 version... Udev is replaceable with static dev or even older version without

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