Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-29 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is > saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. > > What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered > "the best" now-a-days? What kinds of netbook

Re: [arch-general] CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set

2009-10-22 Thread James Rayner
> Sascha Siegel schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> can someone tell my whats the reason for building the arch-kernel with >> "# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set"? >> >> Thank you! > > Optimizing for size sacrifices performance. Read the gcc documentation > about the -O{1,2,3,s} options. I remember a few

[arch-general] netcfg v2.5 in [testing] - auto wireless configuration has changed

2009-11-14 Thread James Rayner
netcfg v2.5rc1 This is easily the biggest release since 2.0. Many new features and some significant changes under the hood. There are also a few features which have had changed options and this needs to be noted. The most notable is that net-auto has been removed in favour of the net auto wireless

Re: [arch-general] Setting LD_PRELOAD cripples Firefox

2009-12-03 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:57 +0100, "ndlarsen" wrote: > Mojn. > > Strange issue here. Intended to use libtrash on my system. I added > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libtrash.so.3.2 to /etc/profile to set it > systemwide, LD_PRELOAD pointing to /usr/lib/libtrash.so.3.2 is needed in > order to get l

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40 +0200, "Hussam Al-Tayeb" wrote: > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. > Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra binaries or > plugins. Those extra not so used binaries or plugins have extra > dependencies (let's call them

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:00 -0500, "Daenyth Blank" wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:51, ianux wrote: > > They provide ArchLinux 2009.08 in both 32 and 64 bit with > > their own kernel with grsecurity (2.6.31.5-grs) > How well does this integrate? Arch doesn't have any > officially-endorsed grsec

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-30 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:34 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > You should try the testing version of netcfg instead: > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/any/netcfg-2.5.0rc2-1-any.pkg.tar.gz > > Will this allow to

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-02-01 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:36 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:37:54AM +1100, James Rayner wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:34 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > >

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:19 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > > Isn't this what rfkill is for? > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill > > You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state > contro

[arch-general] netcfg v2.5.2 in [core]

2010-02-18 Thread James Rayner
netcfg v2.5.2 This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. Move to new auto-wireless/wired The new automatic connection has proper r

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts hack-a-thon?

2010-03-02 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:29 +0100, "Xavier Chantry" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Pierre Schmitz > wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 09:39:19 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > >> Personally, I would like to > >> remove everything but basic ethernet support from initscripts (that > >> would a

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan" wrote: > > I don't have seven mouse buttons. > The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using > drivers mouse and kbd. > If I stop hal, and then start Xorg, it doesn't work. I've to hard reset > my box. That's because you ha

[arch-general] netcfg update & bug fixes

2010-11-20 Thread James Rayner
Hi all, I've fixed most (~14) of the bugs from flyspray for netcfg. I have not implemented any feature requests yet. The code is available here: git://github.com/iphitus/netcfg-updates.git PKGBUILD and package here: http://rayner.id.au/~iphitus/netcfg-git/ I have yet to test many of them, but

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Deprecation of net-tools

2011-06-09 Thread James Rayner
That is correct. net-utils could be made an optdepend, or the support could just be removed entirely. IIRC the iproute/netutils code was separate and equivalent. It's been a while since I've looked though. On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:11 -0600, "Thomas S Hatch" wrote: > Does netcfg still need net-tools

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Deprecation of net-tools

2011-06-10 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:19 +0200, "Rémy Oudompheng" wrote: > On 2011/6/9 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > Does netcfg still need net-tools? or can it be an opt depends? It was my > > understanding that it only used ip unless specified otherwise. > > Actually, I think it only depends on net-tools because

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Deprecation of net-tools

2011-06-10 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:05 +0200, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:51 PM, James Rayner > wrote: > > The only reason net-tools was still a requirement was setting hostname. > > A change similar to initscripts [2] at line 121 of > > src/conn

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-20 Thread James Rayner
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:34 +0200, "Rémy Oudompheng" wrote: > On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > >> > >> netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. > >> > >> - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used > >

Re: [arch-general] [netcfg] Getting rid of wireless_tools

2011-06-20 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:13 +0200, "Rémy Oudompheng" wrote: > Hello, > > wpa_supplicant is supposed to provide most of the wireless_tools > functionality. I have set up a branch of netcfg that replaces all uses > of wireless_tools by wpa_supplicant. > > http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/net

Re: [arch-general] Anything to manage user daemons?

2011-06-20 Thread James Rayner
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:15 +0800, "XeCycle" wrote: > Hello. I need to start several programs after login and > after startx. Now I write these directly in my .bash_profile > and .xinitrc; but I'm not satisfied with this. They cannot > be easily stopped after logout. To do that I think I'd > record

Re: [arch-general] Change kernel version or module dir at bootprompt?

2007-11-30 Thread James Rayner
On Sat, December 1, 2007 04:46, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > Hello, > > i've searched a while and found nothing. And AFAIK there isnt't an > chance to do this. But maybe one of you know a trick, a magic... > > Is it possible to change either the kernel version (what uname -r says) > or the location of t

Re: [arch-general] out-of-date python-cheetah, python-formencode

2008-01-28 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, January 29, 2008 10:52, adam wrote: > > The maintainers were contacted but I haven't heard back in several > days. Can we please orphan these packages so that I may have them > updated? > Saturday evening to now isn't long. Nor have you contacted me regarding my package (python-cheetah).

Re: [arch-general] out-of-date python-cheetah, python-formencode

2008-01-29 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, January 29, 2008 23:44, adam wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 11:01 PM, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, January 29, 2008 10:52, adam wrote: >> > >> > The maintainers were contacted but I haven't heard back in several >> > days. Ca

Re: [arch-general] network manager cannot connect to AP with a hidden ssid

2008-06-19 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:54 AM, metin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ? It's just an inherent bit of suckyness with networkmanager. You can try filing a bug with them, but don't expect much response. Or give the 0.7 SVN a go. James

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux Gaming Repository

2008-06-29 Thread James Rayner
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:02 PM, DaNiMoTh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/28 Chris Bolton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hey all! >> >> A few of us have put together an arch gaming repo, which is basically a >> collection of some of some of the popular games in [unsupported], to >> save archers compil

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Multilib on Archlinux x86_64

2008-07-08 Thread James Rayner
> It's about the technical purity. It's this that makes us different from the > other distro's. Otherwise we're just on the road to the next ubuntu. And if > you really want 32 bit stuff running on x86-64, just use a 32 bit chroot and > don't bother with the multilib stuff. It's not at all about t

Re: [arch-general] [SPAM] [arch-dev-public] two patches for rc.d/network

2008-07-16 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:12 PM, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Rayner wrote: >> >> 1) 0001-add-some-useful-error-messages-to-wireless-code.patch >> Makes the wireless code in rc.d/network output some useful errors and >> a tad more robust, rather

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-08 Thread James Rayner
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some days ago I ran the updates for my Don't Panic install, which said that > KDE 3.5.9 was being upgraded to KDE4. I let this go ahead having asked on the > list if there were likely to be any problems with KDE4. > > I also h

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag, 9. August 2008 03:35 James Rayner wrote: > >> So maybe it'd be a good idea to file bugs about this "virtually unusable" >> DE. > > I can speak only for me and the whole

Re: [arch-general] Outdated Wicd

2008-08-31 Thread James Rayner
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 elements now and > /usr/lib/wi

[arch-general] netcfg v2.1

2008-09-17 Thread James Rayner
netcfg v2.1 is mostly a bug fix release, however there are some important changes and new features. - Remove driver specific hacks/quirks. They now need to be enabled manually using the QUIRKS=() array. - auto-wireless has been moved from net-profiles to a separate daemon net-auto. - A new option

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.1.1 problem

2008-09-29 Thread James Rayner
2008/9/28 Ondřej Kučera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > after upgrading netcfg from 2.0.6 to 2.1.1 I can no longer connect to my > wireless router (luckily downgrading back solves it). I know I should file a > bug report and I will, I only wanted to ask what information is relevant, > for output

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] request for dbus in core

2008-10-13 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Paulo Matias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:49 AM, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> my support for [core], as an upcoming netcfg version will take >> advantage of the wpa_supplicant dbus interface. >&g

Re: [arch-general] New 2008.10 archboot test iso/img files

2008-10-21 Thread James Rayner
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag 20 Oktober 2008 schrieb Roman Kyrylych: >> 2008/10/20 Victor Quinault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hi just found that the link was broken. The good one should be (I >> > guess) http://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Election Night

2008-11-05 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch 05 November 2008 11:26:28 schrieb RedShift: >> Aaron "Hussein" Griffin wrote: >> > So no one break the server tonight! Allan, I'm looking in your >> > direction :) >> >> Obama has won. But the real challenge has

Re: [arch-general] problems with ivman? hal? pmount?

2008-12-04 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on switching from KDE to openbox, and I'm playing around > with ivman automounting. After reading the wiki page[1] & following > the instructions, I find that I still can't get USB devices to > automount as a user.

[arch-general] netcfg testing and git packages

2009-02-16 Thread James Rayner
Hi The release beta cycle wasn't working well for netcfg. Small changes, bugs and many FR's got held up far too long while other work happened. To try and help get netcfg development going smoothly again I've uploaded some netcfg git PKGBUILDs to the AUR to use instead of -beta releases. This wa

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-20 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot wrote: > I know the bug tracker is for bugs and not help, when I used to file bug > reports I did so because some thing didn't work (for example compiling a > package under the current arch gcc version). Yes maybe I didn't fully > understand the issue.

Re: [arch-general] Problems with netcfg

2009-02-25 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Cristopher Thomas wrote: > > networkmanager definitely isn't controlling wireless.  I uninstalled it and > disabled the daemon in /etc/rc.conf. > I've tried wep, but switching to wap was the only way I could get a > connection at all. > > Not gonna lie.  I wouldn't

Re: [arch-general] Problems with netcfg

2009-02-26 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Vincent Van Houtte wrote: > During my tests I also tried the wpa_supplicant in testing, and since > this version is not compatible with netcfg, I cannot use netcfg at the > moment. Fixed in git. For 2.1.2, just remove the -w argument from wpa_supplicant in the fun

Re: [arch-general] Problems with netcfg

2009-02-27 Thread James Rayner
The problem appeared to be a simple typo in the config file, however the OP has given up. *shrug* On 2/27/09, Geir Erikstad wrote: > 2009/2/26 Cristopher Thomas : >> I'm giving up on this for now.  I set up wicd to verify that my driver was >> not >> to blame and it worked on the first try, so I'

Re: [arch-general] Problems with netcfg

2009-02-28 Thread James Rayner
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Cristopher Thomas wrote: > On Friday 27 February 2009 19:13:47 James Rayner wrote: >> The problem appeared to be a simple typo in the config file, however >> the OP has given up. *shrug* >> > > I don't know about it being a typo.

Re: [arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.

2009-03-18 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Ali H. Caliskan wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Arch since few months and I enjoy using it everyday that > goes by. However, during that time, while helping Arch users on the forum, > I've encountered some issues concerning upgrades and broken packages. I > person

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ttf-ms-fonts (WAS: Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] New feature: files verification)

2009-03-31 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Eric Bélanger schrieb: >> >> If the packaging problem is simply  the files being  installed in >> /tmp, that can be easily fixed. Instead of installing the files in >> /tmp, just install them somewhere else (/usr/share/ttf-ms-fonts/ ?) >> wh

Re: [arch-general] Proposed netcfg expansion

2009-04-20 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Andrei Thorp wrote: > Ah, I see. > > Well, in that case, guess there isn't really anything to be done, > aside from perhaps updating a netcfg example to include this. > > This is why I like to ask first :) > I have an FR to add an example for this. I believe I hav

Re: [arch-general] WPA2 - How to set with ACX card??

2009-04-29 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > >        My second Arch box is now complete (well almost:-) This time a desktop > box > with a zytel wireless lan adapter using the TI acx chipset and its firmware 2 > is the acx111_2.3.1.31/tiacx111c16 firmware slice. The car

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way > bugs are handled in Arch. > > I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about > the awesome package in community. > > The package maintainer just c

Re: [arch-general] Eee binary repo?

2009-07-04 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > I've seen quite a few Eee-related packages on AUR.  Is there a > recommended repo with binary versions I can use? > > Ideally I'd like to avoid havig to compile on my Eee, I'd also like to > avoid having to install a 32-bit desktop system jus

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [idea] global link database for all packages

2009-07-04 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > I collected it together from several (old) HOWTOs back in 2001 and there's a > wiki page on Arch (originally written by your's truly) - sad that netcfg > doesn't include support (or does it?). > There's some vague support, though I have no

Re: [arch-general] makepkg security

2009-07-09 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Alessandro Doro wrote: > ¹ Really theoretical, assuming that the user: >  · read the PKGBUILD, >  · trust the package source. Yeah... I think I'd be somewhat suspicious if I saw a PKGBUILD calling sudo. sudo -k wouldn't be very effective either. What if I run sud

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux on Freerunner

2009-07-09 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Alper KANAT wrote: > Hey There, > > I've never heard of BeagleBoard. As a user of it, have you tried playing HD? > I really would like to have one if can play various formats of digital video > and of course on Arch! Apparently HD capable: http://beagleboard.org/ha