Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

2009-08-25 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Would your script needs a shebang? 2009/8/25 Sven-Hendrik Haase > On 25.08.2009 12:51, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > >> the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this command every > >> > > minute without a problem > > i think you mis-read your log. and it should tell you that cron is > > looki

Re: [arch-general] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-08-26 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Just append "-X" to your ssh command for X forwarding. You can add "-C" for compression too. 2009/8/25 Daenyth Blank > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 18:34, David C. > Rankin wrote: > >Is there anyway to get around this limitation other than opening > some type of > > remote desktop? Some way

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-17 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It is running LXDE. It is slow to boot, but I suspend without problems (its up since a couple of month with suspend+resume each morning). It is running slow, but this machine is now my alarm clock, and it works perfectly stream

Re: [arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

2009-09-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
2009/9/18 Dimitrios Apostolou > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > > I'm using Arch on a old Sony Vaio: pentium II 200MHz with ~64MB of ram. It >> > > Cool, especially since you have desktop software on it... How did you > manage to install with only

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I have a 1000 and I really like it. Came with Xandros, but wiped it for Arch ;) 8GB SSD + 32 GB second SSD. I run KDE 4 and develop parallel code on it without any problem. I upgraded to 2GB of ram, really easy to do and it does _not_ void the warranty. I also switched the wireless card. The rt286

Re: [arch-general] ERROR - Installing texlive: map file `ams-bsr-interpolated.map' has not been found

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16420 and http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16422 2009/10/1 Firmicus > A Rojas a écrit : > > David C. Rankin wrote: > > > > > >> List, > >> > >> The new texlive packages seem to have an error in them. The following > >> errors occurred during the upgrade: > >> > >

Re: [arch-general] ERROR - Installing texlive: map file `ams-bsr-interpolated.map' has not been found

2009-10-02 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Thanx a lot Firmicus for your work ;) 2009/10/2 Firmicus > Nicolas Bigaouette a écrit : > > See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16420 and > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16422 > > > > Both fixed. > F > > > 2009/10/1 Firmicus > > > > >

Re: [arch-general] TeXLive problems

2009-10-02 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
It should be solved... Maybe your mirror is not yet sync? 2009/10/2 Juan Diego > I have the same problem here > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Firmicus wrote: > > Piyush P Kurur a écrit : > >> I am having problems with the texlive package. I tried to install > >> the package texlive-most and

Re: [arch-general] Plasma segmentation faults

2009-10-06 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
2009/10/6 Guilherme M. Nogueira > As for myself, I was using KDEmod before and now I'm just not in > the mood to change from KDEmod to arch KDE. I don't know if there will be > any issues and I wouldnt like then to happen now, as we're in the middle of > the semester and I have a lot of important

Re: [arch-general] Intel AG 4965

2009-10-16 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I would suggest trying some lower level tools, like netcfg or even wpa_supplicant directly, to see if it is the driver or the tool... 2009/10/16 Alan Hoffmeister > Tom K wrote: > >> Flavio Costa wrote: >> >>> Maybe the output of NetworkManager's log would be helpful too. >>> Try "# tail -f /var/

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

2010-02-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Mu investigations where that the BIOS controlled Fn+F2, but it could be the kernel module which I did not suspect at the time and so have not tested. On my EeePC 1000, bios previous to revision 1003 did not controlled Fn+F2; acpi-eeepc-generic needed to be used to enable/disable wifi. On newer bios

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.30 on EEE and KMS

2010-02-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Except for wireless card (damn rt2860... I changed mine for an intel 4965!) the eeepc line is pretty good with linux, and specially with arch ;) Make sure to check out acpi-eeepc-generic from AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23318 Or even better, update to latest subversion ( http://c

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-03 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
KDE's output to terminal is new in 4.4. Before that, I could launch any kde from the command line and continue to work from it. Since the upgrade I'm just flooded. Could that be a build issue? Debuging output making its way into a final package?

Re: [arch-general] There's no need for acpid

2010-09-17 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
> > #!/bin/bash > > while read event; do >case "$event" in >ac_adapter*) >/usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto > /dev/null 2>&1 >;; >esac > done < /proc/acpi/event > > Just a question, does the read event in the loop blocks? I guess so,

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
It might have to do something with a module not being included in the initrd? Just guessing...

[arch-general] xfce4's terminal does not understand unicode/utf8?

2011-01-17 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Hi all, I have set LOCALE="fr_CA.utf8" in rc.conf since I installed Arch some years ago. Since then, I was using KDE and I could see utf8 characters in the terminal. I've switched to Xfce 4.6 some weeks ago but now I get "??" in the terminal whenever I use UTF8 characters. When I type "locale" lo

Re: [arch-general] wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here or on the trinity site?

2011-01-31 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
> > I still need to know what to do with the PKGBUILDs I have so far. I don't > know > if I should upload them as part of the wiki, or just provide links to them > on > another site. I'll create the links once I know where you guys want me to > put > them. I can just leave them on my server (it's n

Re: [arch-general] What happened to Powerpill?

2011-03-28 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I guess it would make sense if your own bandwidth is bigger then the mirror's... 2011/3/28 Cédric Girard > 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

Re: [arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem

2011-07-07 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I've found somebody who tried to implement his own ICD loader: https://github.com/Max-E/libclicd It was not updated for many months, and may be missing a lot of feature. It might be easier to create a package that just provides /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so taken from one of the different implementation.

Re: [arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem

2011-07-07 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
> > Although that libclicd thingy looks outdated and/or incomplete, > I like the testapps/list_platforms.c utility. It would be nice to have > something > like that in (a possible) wrapper ICD loader package (the > /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so). > > AMD has a similar (more verbose) utility called 'clinfo'

Re: [arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem

2011-07-08 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
> > @Nicolas: > You pointed out that the nVidia ICD loader (libOpenCL.so) is only > 1.0 (outdated), > that is correct, but the ICD specs only require 1.0, so 1.1 possibly > should not be needed. > See specs: > http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/extensions/khr/cl_khr_icd.txt > I think it requires 1

Re: [arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem

2011-07-09 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
> > I made a simple PKGBUILD just to demonstrate: > http://codepad.org/iK2oBo0W > Looks fine to me! I'll try it later on.

[arch-general] Kernel PKGBUILD proposition: Ease custom kernel compilation.

2008-12-07 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Hi all! Since a couple of years of using Arch, I often wanted to compile a custom kernel, as many others did. There is many, many, many! forum threads about that, a couple of wiki pages too, with questions and howtos. Many efforts has been put to create new PKGBUILDs[1-2] to ease the effort of th

Re: [arch-general] "ArchLinux on Eeee PC 901" in "freiesMagazin 12/2008"

2008-12-07 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
The pdf only version is located here: http://freiesmagazin.de/ftp/2008/freiesMagazin-2008-12.pdf Arch is at page 21. For a page it seems it is explaining how to boot the USB installation. The interesting part is about encrypting the home folder with dm-crypt. The last part seems to be about insta

Re: [arch-general] Kernel PKGBUILD proposition: Ease custom kernel compilation.

2008-12-08 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
e patches which are not yet included. I opened a bug report at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12384 2008/12/8 Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Daenyth Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2

Re: [arch-general] Kernel PKGBUILD proposition: Ease custom kernel compilation.

2008-12-08 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Thats another story... I agree that the PKGBUILD is huge. There is probably a reason for that. It is true it is not the easiest one to read. Maybe another bug report? 2008/12/8 RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> * lots

Re: [arch-general] silent fsck at startup

2009-01-23 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
It is silent for me too, I'd like to know how to put it verbose. 2009/1/23 Charly Ghislain > On Friday 23 January 2009 16:12:26 Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > > Is there any switch for fsck (during startup) to be somewhat verbose > > like displaying the progress of filesystem check ? > > It does for me,

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.2.0 in [testing]

2009-01-23 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I installed it (and with everything from testing... is there a way to _just_ update testing/kde and not all packages??). I switched to run level 3, backed up my ~/.kde4, updated, then switched back to rl 5. It looks really nice! Here are my comments: 1) Strigi is said to be suspended, but I can he

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.2.0 in [testing]

2009-01-23 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
So I checked in systemsettings under "Keyboard & Mouse/Global Shortcuts" but "KDE Components" is empty... I cannot change de shortcuts... I tried importing the default kde4 one or resetting to defaults, but did not changed anything... 2009/1/23 Nicolas Bigaouette &g

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.2.0 in [testing]

2009-01-23 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Yeah you are right... I had my own repo before testing which was blocking some stuff. I can see that there was around 20MB left to download for other packages I missed. It will probably fix the shortcuts problem (I hope!) 2009/1/23 David Rosenstrauch > Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > >>

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

2009-02-12 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I also have these as tmpfs: /var/cache/songbird /var/cache/firefox /var/lock /var/log /var/run /var/tmp /tmp I created a simple daemon to sync the files. I don't need patching: just add it to the daemon array. I don't care about all except for logs. Here is the small daemon: #!/bin/bash now=`date

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

2009-02-16 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I totally second that. It is really frustrating as a bug reporting user to end the discussion like this. It really looks like a "shut-up and stop annoying us" thing... I know it did not gave me the motivation to open other bugs. I don't see why the discussion should be closed when the bug is. As

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.7-2

2009-03-09 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Thank Tobias! ;) I installed testing/kernel26 and testing/kernel26-firmware and running without issue. I recompiled it, and still running fine. I also tested the custom package compilation by appending -custom to the pkgname: it is running fine too without problem. Thanx for the inclusion! :D bi

Re: [arch-general] DST and suspend

2009-03-10 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I though arch was saving the clock state at shutdown, so the computer's internal clock was in sync with what the OS had. But maybe the bios has a DST hardcoded in it? 2009/3/10 Sergey Manucharian > Hi folks, > > I wonder if anybody else is experiencing such a problem. > Here in USA the Dayligh

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

2009-03-31 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I did not liked the idea first, but now I see the benefit of it. I think we should also drop some unsuportted packages that keep crufting the repos since some time. I would suggest going back to Arch's root: BSD. Why not an OpenBSD kernel? Linux is not developped actively enough... ;) 2009/3/31

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.1-3

2009-04-08 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I think its not new... I think it reports the last (root) scan results. If you never scanned, its empty, but if you did, it will print the same results. 2009/4/8 Pierre Schmitz > Am Mittwoch, 8. April 2009 17:20:16 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > > Known issues: > > - ipw2200 seems to have some is

Re: [arch-general] Small laptops running archy?

2009-04-14 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I have an EeePC 1000 and it works fine with Arch. It's running KDE 4.2 without problem. You'll always need to tweak those small machines since they are not that powerful. For example you might want a lighter DE then KDE, like XFCE or LXDE. Are you talking about darcs, the distributed revision contr

Re: [arch-general] Small laptops running archy?

2009-04-14 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
t; It's optimized for the system and rather nifty from what I hear. My > friend tried it with great success. > > -AT > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette > wrote: > > I have an EeePC 1000 and it works fine with Arch. It's running KDE 4.2 >

[arch-general] Corruption with new intel driver

2009-04-14 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Hi all, I just fully upgraded on two of my machines. These packages related to xorg were updated: [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.1.2-1 -> 2.2.1-1) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-keyboard (1.3.2-1 -> 1.3.2-2) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-mouse (1.3.0-1 -> 1.4.0-2)

Re: [arch-general] Corruption with new intel driver

2009-04-14 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
és > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:13:46 PM > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Corruption with new intel driver > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 22:51, Nicolas Bigaouette > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just fully upgraded on two of

Re: [arch-general] Corruption with new intel driver

2009-04-17 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I reported my problem upstream[1] and someone suggested adding: Option "ExaOptimizeMigration" "off" Maybe it can help for you... [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21191 2009/4/17 Sergi Pons Freixes > El Thursday 16 April 2009 13:43:58 李业 va escriure: > > The new X server will a

Re: [arch-general] Corruption with new intel driver

2009-04-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
t; Device "Device0" EndSection (adapted from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Without_xorg.conf ) 2009/4/18 Sergi Pons Freixes > El Friday 17 April 2009 16:16:19 Nicolas Bigaouette va escriure: > > I reported my problem upstream[1] and someone suggested adding: >

Re: [arch-general] Bit of a snag in starting kde3 - No devices detected - driver prob?

2009-04-22 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I prefer also having a runlevel for X rather than a kdm daemon. But instead of changing inittab, I append "5" to the kernel line in grub. That way, if something goes wrong at boot, I can always remove the 5 from the booting, with a default run level of 3. I like being able to choose to load X or no

Re: [arch-general] Bit of a snag in starting kde3 - No devices detected - driver prob?

2009-04-22 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
It is indeed a minor usage. But when you need it, it can save your life ;) 2009/4/22 Aaron Griffin > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David Rosenstrauch > wrote: > > Daenyth Blank wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:28, David Rosenstrauch > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> David C. Rankin wrote:

Re: [arch-general] Bit of a snag in starting kde3 - No devices detected - driver prob?

2009-04-22 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
If you want KDE to start when you startx, put "startkde" in your .xinitrc. As for the nv driver, its not a kernel driver, its an Xorg driver. It's been drop since it sucks . Instead try nouveau: pacman -S extra/xf86-video-nouveau 2009/4/22 David C. Rankin > Holloway wrote: > > Hey there, >

Re: [arch-general] Bit of a snag in starting kde3 - No devices detected - driver prob?

2009-04-22 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
nvidia is the closed-source driver. He was asking for the "open-source" nv, which I think has been dropped by Arch, IIRC. xf86-video-nouveau is a reversed engineered driver that should provide 2D and 3D capabilities, something nv was not able to do. 2009/4/22 David Rosenstrauch

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] (partially) Inactive

2009-05-07 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Have you guys heard of corkscrew? I can tunnel ssh through an http proxy server... In my unversity they block completely your net account if you don't report your MAC address to them. When you do, they give you a static ip. For desktop thats fine, you give them the MAC when you buy your machine, se

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
You still need to log-out/log-in for gpasswd group add, right? 2009/5/14 Attila > On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2009 18:51 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > > What is the concern with editing /etc/group by hand? The group man page > > doesn't even reference usermod as a way to manipulate group asso

[arch-general] KDE stoped working

2009-05-27 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Hi all, I'm using KDE 4.2.3 on all my (up-to-date) machines. My workstation crashed an hour ago so I had to reboot. But then KDE would not launch anymore. I'm clueless of what could have gone wrong... I login normaly via KDM, launched as runlevel 5 (inittab). KDM works: I can enter my login infor

Re: [arch-general] network-plasmoid-svn on extra? (WAS: KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi)

2009-05-27 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
That plasmoid worked for me until NM was updated a month or so ago. Since then, I have the same issue: it sits there without doing something useful... Until it at least works, don > Andrea Scarpino wrote: > >> On 27/05/2009, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> >>> How about adding this to extra? It seem

Re: [arch-general] KDE stoped working

2009-05-27 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
> i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, > E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, IGD_GM, IGD_G, 965G, G35, > 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, > Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset, > Intel Integrated G

Re: [arch-general] KDE stoped working

2009-05-27 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Did that too, without success... 2009/5/27 Andrea Scarpino > On 27/05/2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > > So the problem is not that it is failing to load i810 or vesa, the server > > just tries to load them but they are not used. > Yes, I am stupid -.-' you said KDM wor

Re: [arch-general] KDE stoped working

2009-05-27 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I tried putting "xterm" only in my .xinitrc. Once xterm is launched (without window management..., but otherwise works fine), if I launch manually /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher it tells me I should not run that manually, that it is started automatically by kdeinit4. If I then try /usr/bin/kded4

Re: [arch-general] KDE stoped working

2009-05-28 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
in my case (your case could be different): > > mkinitcpio -p kernel26-kms > > 3. install xf86-video-intel-newest from aur > > Im not sure which step was the one that actually fix it, but now Im > running kde fine > > I hope it works for you too > > Good luck &

Re: [arch-general] KDE stoped working

2009-05-29 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
effects... I'll see for the bug report. Even with this, KDE is a great desktop IMO. 2009/5/29 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > On or about Wednesday 27 May 2009 at approximately 15:08:51 Nicolas > Bigaouette > composed: > > Did that too, without success... > > >

Re: [arch-general] Solved : Re: Light-weight SMTP "server"

2009-06-05 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I did something similar but using ssh. Instead of vpn'ing to your home server, you could ssh to it and remote forward a port to your ISP's smtp server, like this: ssh m...@home.-r 22025:smtp.isp.com:25 or something like this. You then only need ssh on the server; no vpn (for that) nor stmp relays..

Re: [arch-general] okular print preview error

2009-06-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
No, but that check box should disable it if there is any DRM in the pdf (which might not be the case for most pdf!) Maybe verify if the disk hosting /tmp is full? Try "df" to see if it is... 2009/6/14 prad > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:12:52 +0200 > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > > Did you disable DRM

Re: [arch-general] ext3 driver for windows

2009-07-31 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I'm having the same configuration for my external drive: a small fat32 partition with these tools, and the big ext3 with the rest. I did not really tested them though, as I never connect the drive to a windows machine. Do these tools support ext4? 2009/7/31, Alessandro Doro : > On Fri, Jul 31, 20

[arch-general] AUR upload

2009-08-07 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Hi all! I'm trying to update a PKGBUILD of mine in aur[1], but I get an empty page a minute or so after clicking submit and nothing is updated... Am I forgetting something?? The PKGBUILD is relatively simple[2]. I even simplified it when bumping the version. namcap does not report anything on it

Re: [arch-general] AUR upload

2009-08-07 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
ts to verify something... Thanx 2009/8/7 > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:21:38 -0400 > Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > I'm trying to update a PKGBUILD of mine in aur[1], but I get an empty > > page a minute or so after clicking submit and nothing

Re: [arch-general] AUR upload

2009-08-07 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Wow... Thanx to this problem, I realized HD my server was full! Thats why I couldn't upload it correctly ;) I've made some cleanups and the archive is back... But no, I was not trying to upload an empty one 2009/8/7 Loui Chang > On Fri 07 Aug 2009 14:53 -0400, Nicolas Big