[arch-general] Merge /bin to /usr/bin?

2012-01-30 Thread Stephen E. Baker
change, outlined at: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge I wondered if this was something Arch was considering as well. Stephen E. Baker

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally i

Re: [arch-general] Muting internal speakers

2012-06-18 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 15/06/2012 8:30 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Still not on my laptop, but I searched around, posted it a while back on the pulseaudio wiki. Here it is http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/FAQ#How_do_I_switch_the_default_sound_card.2C_moving_all_applications.3F Again, not sure if by now

Re: [arch-general] Muting internal speakers

2012-06-18 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 18/06/2012 9:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 15:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 08:34 -0400, Stephen E. Baker wrote: it involves being able to identify which device your usb sound device is. "So run: udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sda (replace sda wit

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-24 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 24/07/2012 11:08 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:07:50 +0200 Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:40:51 +1000 schrieb Gaetan Bisson : Yes, I don't like those Windoze like ini files of systemd, too. One thing I noticed is that the only people who usually bash Windows ar

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-25 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 25/07/2012 5:54 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: [snip] Why do I have to tell systemd in all of those init scripts what "service" has to run before or after this "service"? In DAEMONS in rc.conf I just have a list of daemons I want to have started in one single line. And the order in which they hav

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-27 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 27/07/2012 9:29 AM, Mike wrote: On 27/07/12 13:57, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 27/07/12, Mike wrote: I'm aware of that, but that doesn't mean one can't fix them. Nobody said, that the code base of sysvinit shouldn't be modified. It would have been fixed for a long time if it were easy enou

Re: [arch-general] some notes on the radeon gallium driver

2010-10-06 Thread Stephen E. Baker
> My understanding is that r300g is the new default in Mesa 7.9. See > http://www.mail-archive.com/mesa-com...@lists.freedesktop.org/msg23390.html > . Does this mean that Arch will automatically switch to it on release > of Mesa or will extra steps be required? As I understand it the PKGBUILD will

Re: [arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch

2011-04-13 Thread Stephen E. Baker
> > Has upstream accepted that patch? > > > The corresponding bug report is: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 > > It seems there is still some work to be done before the patch can be > accepted upstream. Based on my reading, the patch cannot be accepted upstream because it vio

Re: [arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

2012-08-14 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 14/08/2012 4:08 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some way to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? Yes: http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/log/r

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-15 Thread Stephen E. Baker
7;s very unfortunate that the noise to signal ratio has gotten to the point where we have one less way of communicating with the devs. There are very few avenues already. Sorry to see you (and the others devs, and the TUs) go. Stephen E. Baker

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Stephen E. Baker
ome partition that I use to fake a small drive for one of my old wine games. This error caused it to boot to a root console where I could see the file system in error. I haven't yet tried to debug the line, but once I commented it out I was able to boot my system. Stephen E. Baker [snip] Again thanks for a sane thread :) +1

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Stephen E. Baker
h or without systemd (wedge strategy). True, the devs will eventually not want to be burdened with it, but that doesn't mean you couldn't support a version in your own repository or the AUR no matter what anyone else does. Yes, it is a lot of work. Stephen E. Baker

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 17/08/2012 8:34 AM, Stephen E. Baker wrote: The other issue I hit was that it didn't like one of my fstab entries, for a loop back file system in my home partition that I use to fake a small drive for one of my old wine games. This error caused it to boot to a root console where I coul

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 23/08/2012 4:14 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: [snip] Is systemd ready? Where is the evidence? https://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics shows that about 14% of arch users who are using pkgstat have systemd installed. It is not default and not depended on by anything, so that means a

Re: [arch-general] systemd native files in etc

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen E. Baker
t, locale.gen, and many other files are always configured and included in packages. I don't necessarily mind the decision but I can't believe it was that simple. Was there any discussion about this somewhere? Stephen E. Baker

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

2012-08-27 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 27/08/2012 9:39 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:30:46 +0200 schrieb Joakim Hernberg : I don't run gnome, but kde is just as bad in this case :( Try Xfce. ;-) http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/consolekit/ would suggest that xfce is not safe in this regard. lxde is

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 29/08/2012 11:04 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 29/08/12||11:20, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: YES, this is a bug. I already commented the module in my default.pa, and now the message has gone. But pulse audio is still not able to play soun

Re: [arch-general] is it possible to disable bold(bright) color under console?

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 04/09/2012 3:14 PM, Xeslaro wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:33:53PM +0200, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: You are not telling wich console are you using... Are you in some kind of virtual terminal? Or in the linux console? If the latter, are you using the old VGA console or the new FB console? -- Ro

Re: [arch-general] Pacman and Systemd's automount

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 04/09/2012 11:08 AM, Daniel Wallace wrote: On Sep 4, 2012 11:04 AM, "Guillermo Leira" wrote: Hello! I have enabled systemd, and since then, I see the following: [root@guillelinux ~]# LANG=C pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date commu

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-11 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 10/09/2012 6:57 AM, Kyle wrote: According to Thomas Bächler: Let me also express part of my personal opinion, which others might disagree with: If you wanted high quality software, why did you install GRUB? If you want a decent bootloader, use syslinux. Actually, at least from where I'm si

Re: [arch-general] Systemd and time synchronisation problems

2012-09-12 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 11/09/2012 5:22 PM, mike cloaked wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:06 PM, mike cloaked wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: 2) When chrony is not running, systemd-timedated runs periodically to adjust the hardwa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping bluez4

2013-11-13 Thread Stephen E. Baker
le workarounds but none of them are ideal for the end user to be doing: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166362 - Stephen E. Baker

[arch-general] out of memory while allocating z_stream

2014-05-10 Thread Stephen E. Baker
Hello, As of yesterday I cannot boot, regardless of whether I choose the regular or failback kernel from the boot loader. I haven't been able to find anything on google, so I was hoping someone here might know what's going on. Last time my system was up I installed updates including the lat

Re: [arch-general] out of memory while allocating z_stream

2014-05-10 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 2014-05-10 9:24 AM, Stephen E. Baker wrote: Hello, As of yesterday I cannot boot, regardless of whether I choose the regular or failback kernel from the boot loader. I haven't been able to find anything on google, so I was hoping someone here might know what's going on. La

Re: [arch-general] [solved] out of memory while allocating z_stream

2014-05-10 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 2014-05-10 9:24 AM, Stephen E. Baker wrote: Hello, As of yesterday I cannot boot, regardless of whether I choose the regular or failback kernel from the boot loader. I haven't been able to find anything on google, so I was hoping someone here might know what's going on. La

Re: [arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

2014-06-21 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 2014-06-21 9:16 AM, Fred Schiff wrote: Does a media center actually need a graphical login manager? No, but I've found it simpler to use a light DM (lxdm and now lightdm) than to keep up with the proper way to initialize a session. Back before systemd I use to ck-launch-session dbus-launch e

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-19 Thread Stephen E. Baker via arch-general
On 8/19/2016 6:21 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Hunter Connelly via arch-general wrote: Here's an example I found on Reddit in the thread about this on /r/linux. Both of the following commands find the size and name of the three largest files in a directory. Bash:ls -l | sed 's/ \+/,/g'