On 03/09/10 18:03, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
poppler-qt3 doesn't even seem to exist in any of the repos anymore. And
KDE3 is pretty much a dead project at this point anyway. (I don't even
think it's possible to build it on Arch anymore.) Probably best if you
don't rely on it for anything.
insta
On 03/12/10 10:34, Aaron Griffin wrote:
More-over, I think it is a bad idea. The only reason people want
commenting on closed bugs is so that they can argue with the
developers - give reasons why the bug shouldn't be closed. That's what
a reopen request is for. If that fails, then it's time to di
On 03/14/10 12:30, Ray Rashif wrote:
Anyway, a slightly off-topic complaint I have is that my 32GB Cruzer
is slow as hell to write to at just a measly 3MB/s.
My SanDisk Sansa Clip in mass-storage mode is excessively slow (also,
Linux used to have difficulty mounting it in USB 2.0 mode and eith
On 03/14/10 13:05, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:58:34 -0600
schrieb Aaron Griffin:
So you wanted to add a comment totally unrelated to the bug itself to
the bug? Isn't that polluting the bug report? What happened here is
exact
On 03/16/10 14:12, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 03/16/2010 01:58 PM, Thayer Williams wrote:
Welcome aboard and glad you're getting things sorted out. Once you
have used a rolling release distro, everything else just seems silly.
Reinstall every six months? No thanks!
I enjoyed the 6-month rein
On 03/17/10 14:42, Denis Kobozev wrote:
Hi archers,
It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with
pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring
packages? Is it as dangerous?
the most likely danger with small version skews is if a library is
upgraded,
On 03/19/10 01:17, Preston C. wrote:
My mistake. So I just 'pacman -S patch'?
That works! so does 'pacman -S base-devel' which will get you some other
miscelleneous tools that you have man-pages for too :)
-Isaac
On 04/08/10 07:21, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
My take on it is that while it's always a good idea to be using a
current install medium, with Arch it only matters that your system is
able to become current via update. The release of a new install set in
itself should never be a reason to reinst
On 04/10/10 01:36, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
if you don't mind running old versions of software... which I do...
I take it that you don't feel that "pacman -Syu" or if applicable
something like "yaourt -Syu –aur" Will bring your Arch system as fully
up to date as installing the latest Ubunt
On 04/18/10 10:13, Arvid Picciani wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:22:28 -0700, Rob Bean wrote:
Has anyone else stripped HAL completely out of their Arch install?
Thats exactly why heresy was started. ( http://hereticlinux.org/ )
Its archlinux minus hal/dbus/rapekit.
Search the list for "Whats
On 04/20/10 10:51, Ray Kohler wrote:
One thing you must avoid is to boot on one kernel version, install a
kernel upgrade, then suspend and resume on the newer kernel. That will
cause problems, so if you upgrade the kernel, you need to do a real
reboot next time. Other than that, it seems to work
On 04/20/10 10:37, Ian-Xue Li wrote:
I've been using pm-suspend for temporarily shutting down the computer
for later use, but now I raised the question whether it is safe or
stable to do so at a constant basis. That is, seldom real reboots and
often just suspend.
me too, sometimes
As you know
On 05/02/10 15:27, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
rollback support and friends are
very cool (this just saved me the other day actually) and i think
would provide a great benefit to the arch rolling model.
it could save one from pacman running out of disk space when installing
something (which pres
On 05/05/10 13:55, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote:
If I remember correctly, the .32 series has a bug with Intel cards that
causes screen flickering and the patch that corrects this was only merged in
the .33 series
my Intel card (945) has flickering bugs with .32 as well as .33 . (Sure
it is tru
On 05/05/10 19:10, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
subvolumes can be mounted two ways via a mount option:
1) subvol=
2) subvol=
1 can only be used if the subvolume is in the root of the FS, i.e.
/__active would work, but /root/__active would NOT... the mount option
cannot have slashes and i don't kno
On 05/06/10 11:49, Sergey Manucharian wrote:
Hi folks,
Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and
everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels.
Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen
remains black in both X and text console. Nothing
On 05/07/10 04:13, Christoph Rissner wrote:
Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen
remains black in both X and text console. Nothing can bring it back,
What about suspending again, perhaps waiting a few seconds, and resuming
again? Does that have a chance to help? (
On 05/17/10 06:13, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Hi guys,
kernel 2.6.34 first test run ...
kernel is working fine for me (graphics = Intel 945) , in fact somewhat
improved from the 2.6.33 version.
On 05/18/10 18:25, Jan Steffens wrote:
I could make PulseAudio installation significantly easier by putting
specially-built packages (e.g. sdl-pulse, openal-pulse) into
[community] and grouping them in a "pulse" group.
This group would also include a "pulse-asoundrc" package containing a
pulse-c
On 05/21/10 04:29, Joerg Schilling wrote:
"Armando M. Baratti" wrote:
Arch Linux Wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning#Command-line_CD-burning
(see "Burning an iso image")
The URL you mention gives bad advise as it encourages you to use software that
is unmaintained since man
oh by the way, I started using 2.6.34 kernel and haven't personally had
any graphical issues since (it's in Testing -- make sure to get both
kernel and firmware, but AFAICT it works fine to download/install those
two packages without using any other part of Testing, at least this time
around)
On 05/24/10 23:48, Adriano Moura wrote:
This is actually normal. 64 bits systems uses 64bits per memory
address, by default.
That alone would make 64bits systems eat twice as much memory than a
32bit systems.
Only for the memory-address part of the data (a.k.a. "pointers"). UTF-8
text will s
I think ATI KMS (kernel mode-setting) was merged or enabled in 2.6.33?
That would explain why this kernel; why the same issue happens
suspending from the console; why that graphics-quirk doesn't work the
same (I don't have s2ram installed since I use pm-suspend (via GNOME),
but I guess that's w
On 05/26/10 17:01, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
KMS was advertised mainly with he following features:
- TTY in native resolution and hence nicer to look at
- shorter delay when switching from X to TTY
- can implement power-saving features
- ability to run X as non-root
- ...probably some more thin
On 05/30/10 04:50, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
@nilesh you might try out #archlinux on irc.freenode.net. Its realtime
chat and a great way of getting problems sorted out.
yes, Nilesh, you should try use the IRC channel, it's probably a better
place to ask lots of questions without annoying people (
On 05/31/10 00:18, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
Nope. I have 24 addons in Firefox. Just cannot leave firefox.
:)
then a thought--
Do you use very many tabs or windows simultaneously? If so, check
Firefox's RAM usage -- e.g. for me, firefox making my system slow is all
about it using up a lar
On 06/22/10 19:49, Allan McRae wrote:
Also, as established earlier in the thread, some of our packages have
patches for security issues that a a couple of years old because
upstream has not made a new release. So the whole probably be fixed by
upstream in less that a week and a point release made
On 06/28/10 09:35, Victor Lowther wrote:
On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther
wrote:
Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome.
why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper
into bash instead of trying to po
On 07/13/10 10:26, David C. Rankin wrote:
Can anyone think of the possible mechanism that would cause a kernel to
boot once after rebuilding the initramfs, but then be corrupt for every
boot thereafter??
Do you rebuild the initramfs on 2.6.32?
Do you let the machine sit for a minute, shut-down
On 10/27/2011 04:15 AM, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:49:13 +1000
schrieb Mick:
Following yet another update that has disabled user control of USB
sticks, cameras, etc. and blocked user from shutting down from the
desktop (in my case xfce4), I am at the end of my tether.
Remove ck
On 11/22/2011 02:41 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
I using testing / staging repos does this already: you try out
[testing], if it doesn't work, you disable it and run 'pacman -Suu'.
Would using different sync dbs and a separate cache turned into a
local repo make it easy enough to be practical?
Al
On 11/29/2011 05:20 PM, clemens fischer wrote:
With tmpwatch one gets to choose files not accessed or modified for
a certain period, and it needs no config file. Arch-tmpfiles, OTOH,
would require such a thing.
Then again, a simple "find -atime + -exec /bin/rm
'{}' +" does about the same as t
On 01/13/2012 09:48 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
The fsck hook is highly recommended for everyone, not just those with a
separate /usr. Running fsck in early userspace means the device can be
checked before it's even mounting -- any and all repairs can be
performed without the need for a reboot.
Cur
On 02/01/2012 03:40 PM, Tim Stella wrote:
Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos
will work with html5.
Embedded videos from youtube do work (sometimes; increasingly often as
Google/YouTube becomes more confident about its HTML5 support, I think,
but it s
On 07/17/10 01:49, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 07/17/2010 12:01 AM, Corey Johns wrote:
Try a new keyboard to help isolate the problem.
I would, but this is a laptop :p
For the record: All laptops I've seen have USB ports, and all modern
separate-keyboards I've seen have USB plugs [unless the
On 08/14/10 17:46, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Latest kernel is in testing,
please signoff for both arches.
Signoff x86_64 , it seems to be working fine for me
(I had the impression that it might be heating up my laptop more than
normal, but then I was doing backups last night, and I'm feeling a
On 08/15/10 13:07, Isaac Dupree wrote:
On 08/14/10 17:46, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Latest kernel is in testing,
please signoff for both arches.
Signoff x86_64 , it seems to be working fine for me
Also, I think the ath9k regressions (randomly losing the wireless
connection) that .33 and .34
On 08/15/10 17:45, David C. Rankin wrote:
What type of video card do you have?
Intel 945 class -- it's one of the first to get KMS and the support is
excellent by now. I never ever get slow graphics (although I don't play
games much... IIRC extremetuxracer works fine...)
If you can identi
On 08/16/10 12:55, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
I'm having fan noise issue since latest kernel update. While system does run
smooth, there's a notable increment of noise from the fan that seems to be
running a little faster. On the other hand the videocard cooler seems to run
as silent as ever.
Kernel
On 08/15/10 16:57, Isaac Dupree wrote:
On 08/15/10 13:07, Isaac Dupree wrote:
On 08/14/10 17:46, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Latest kernel is in testing,
please signoff for both arches.
Signoff x86_64 , it seems to be working fine for me
Also, I think the ath9k regressions (randomly losing
On 08/31/10 17:31, Thomas Bächler wrote:
I wonder why we write news announcements about these things. People
don't seem to read them and ask anyway, so why bother writing the news?
How about because I read and therefore ask less, and same for several
other people? And am informed ahead-of-tim
On 09/01/10 00:25, Rafael Beraldo wrote:
The thing is, 128 keeps the hard disc spinning down a lot. In fact, 254 is
quite noiseless, but as from 253 the clicking sound returns. I read this bug
page [3] but found nothing new. It is worth remembering that, sometimes,
when I'm watching a movie or TV
On 11/07/10 13:57, Kaiting Chen wrote:
I'd like to go with fcron because it seems to work very well for most
people, has a lot of features while having a small dependency tree.
I think fcron is kind of heavy for most users.
looking at various recent x86_64 from [core], group 'base', in kilo
On 11/07/10 18:23, Matthew Monaco wrote:
Anyone have issues changing from Xorg to one of the tty's? I've got a
radeon r600.
No problems on my Intel 945 (aside from the long-standing "sometimes
randomly, on boot after mode-setting but before entering X for the first
time, it doesn't display an
On 11/10/10 00:40, David C. Rankin wrote:
Normally that is a "Hey stupid, you have a drive failing... go fix it"
issue.
But it's not. smartctl is fine on all drives -- "no errors logged". Nothing in
syslog or dmesg, and the disks are clean.
I suppose you've looked around the smartctl F
On 11/11/10 20:26, Alex Matviychuk wrote:
Thanks to this thread I decided to look at both dcron and fcron. First
google result for dcron led me to this:
(As Loui noted, many of those points are changed by the passage of seven
years. Distros probably use different crons now; and fcron has impro
On 11/12/10 01:51, Auguste Pop wrote:
...
I hope python3 won't die this way, so that all the previous efforts in
transition to python3 will not go in vain. Maybe we just took the
transitional leap too early when nobody is ready except us.
As you note, "nobody is ready except us" -- we are ready
On 11/14/10 09:32, Jim Pryor wrote:
...
I would certainly understand and could not reasonably object to any
distro's demoting dcron to an unofficial package. But as I said, I I
will fix dcron anyway, I hope within the very near future. I'll announce
here when I believe the git version has the ne
On 12/06/10 12:43, Andreas Radke wrote:
The former ooo-build project "go-openoffice" is deprecated by
upstream developers in favor of the upcoming LibreOffice (LibO).
It's time to drop it from our repos while we are rebuilding all
OpenOffice branches for the icu-4.6 .so-bump.
Please use the van
On 01/19/11 14:03, Yaro Kasear wrote:
And comments about Ubuntu and their competence are entirely relevant to this
discussion, as Upstart is entirely their creation. Would you rather I talk
about people who had nothing to do with its code? The Ubuntu devs are behind
Upstart, they're not that grea
On 01/28/11 09:32, Jakob Gruber wrote:
Another aspect of this is security. Right now, any dev / TU could
theoretically check in a correct PKGBUILD but upload a binary package
with *insert malicious content* in it to the repos with a very low
probability of anyone ever noticing. A (mandatory) cent
On 02/20/11 18:28, David C. Rankin wrote:
The question is "Can I do something in the PKGBUILD to tell pacman
- if the file is already there -> overwrite it?"
Please don't. Put it in your release notes instead. Don't silently
overwrite user-written files!
You might look into configuration
On 03/02/11 12:37, Divan Santana wrote:
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 08:18:06 Matthew Monaco wrote:
I recently noticed then when playing DVDs and other audio files through VLC
that the audio skips frequently. It doesn't get out of sync, just goes
mute for a split second.
I tried the past few ver
On 03/03/11 00:08, Matthew Monaco wrote:
What output are you using? I'm on HDMI. Here is what happens in VLC with
a verbosity of 2 for every skip:
Built-in laptop output (both internal speakers and headphone jack work).
lspci calls it "Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High
De
On 03/02/11 17:37, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
Running Gnome, knotify 4 is killing my system. From top, it is taking
over 90% of the cpu:
13123 david 20 0 155m 40m 17m S 91 1.3 60:06.32 knotify4
Can this 'feature' be turned off when I'm in a desktop other than kde4?
I don't think you want t
On 03/25/11 02:46, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Hi guys,
please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches.
It's a security update too so it would make sense,
to move in .38.1 to [core] soon.
Or try/upload 2.6.37.5 for those security reasons! Given the amount of
hardware that I have that people report
On 03/29/11 20:00, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 03/29/2011 06:56 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 03/29/2011 12:26 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
doesn't vbox have to be rebuilt everytime the kernel changes or
something? or the guest additions? or both?
Oh, yes,
If not rebuilt - you won't be able t
On 04/02/11 02:45, Partha Chowdhury wrote:
My ISP is running a transparent proxy server on port 80 as I found out
from this thread
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-March/019172.html
Now from last two or three days, I keep getting pop-up ads from a
particular domain on ev
On 04/04/11 00:00, Brendan Long wrote:
On 03/28/2011 03:43 AM, Cédric Girard wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
If you have 10 files to download, powerpill allows for 1 file from
mirror A, another from mirror B, and chunks of that large 68MB file
from mirrors C, D, and
On 05/25/11 11:42, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Wed, 25 May 2011 17:38:33 +0200
schrieb Heiko Baums:
I guess the best name is kernel30.
Forgot to mention that the kernel package is called kernel... in every
distro I know.
BTW, Debian and Ubuntu switched to calling their linux-kernel-related
packa
On 08/02/11 12:52, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:38 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
... out of curiosity, if the original reason for having a `kernel26`
package was to also have a `kernel24` (from what i read -- wasn't
On 10/18/2011 03:59 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
And does Google really need to know everything?
The forum content is public - Google already knows that.
Your search isn't - I am using DuckDuckGo now for that reason - they
have an excellent non-tracking policy. I used to use "Scroogle" but
DuckDu
On 01/03/2014 10:37 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
Using -j$(cpunum) is a sane default that saves a lot of time to users.
I agree, but for the record, 'nice' and scheduling are no panacea in my
experience. It's fine for CPU loads, but compilations are also
disk-heavy (which mattered when I used a
On 01/03/2014 04:10 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Isaac Dupree
wrote:
On 01/03/2014 10:37 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
Using -j$(cpunum) is a sane default that saves a lot of time to users.
I agree, but for the record, 'nice' and scheduling are no pan
On 01/03/2014 04:03 PM, Mark Lee wrote:
On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 15:55 -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote:
On 01/03/2014 10:37 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
Using -j$(cpunum) is a sane default that saves a lot of time to users.
I agree, but for the record, 'nice' and scheduling are no pan
On 04/09/2014 01:27 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
Problem 2: Users are confused whether they should install packages from the
repos or using cabal-install. This in turn sometimes causes them to install
some packages from official repos, some from the aur, and some using
cabal-install
Explanation: Pa
On 06/30/2014 08:54 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> How on Earth do I import all my tunes in an orderly and organized
> manner? Windows is out of the question here, since my computer doesn't
> have enough metal to run it properly.
If Apple kept the ID3 metadata in the files intact, a program (such as
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