November 2008 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] speakers don't turn off when headphones inserted
by Scott Weisman 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Hello, I just obtained a Fujitsu P7120 notebook (a very nice model, by the way). Overall, I am getting this working with Arch just fine (although I would definitely appreciate pointers from anyone else who has installed Arch, especially as I have been using a desktop until now and haven't had the need to configure notebook-type features). One problem I am having that I don't know how to fix is that when I plug in headphones, the speakers don't turn off. Alsamixer shows that the headphones and speakers have separate controls, something I have never seen in a notebook before. While cool, I would really love to have this automatically toggle as expected. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks, Scott

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Agus Setiawan 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

-- Regards, Agus Setiawan http://mysetiawan.net

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[arch-general] pysol/python broken?
by Javier Vasquez 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hi all, I'm trying to run pysol, but as soon as I get to load a game, pysol crashes: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/app.py", line 529, in mainloop self.runGame(id, random) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/app.py", line 626, in runGame self.menubar.updateFavoriteGamesMenu() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/tile/menubar.py", line 884, in updateFavoriteGamesMenu self.updateGamesMenu(submenu, games) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/tile/menubar.py", line 809, in updateGamesMenu menu.delete(0, 'last') File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2670, in delete if c in self._tclCommands: TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pysol", line 32, in <module> sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/main.py", line 374, in main app.mainloop() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/app.py", line 529, in mainloop self.runGame(id, random) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/app.py", line 626, in runGame self.menubar.updateFavoriteGamesMenu() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/tile/menubar.py", line 884, in updateFavoriteGamesMenuJavier. -- Javier self.updateGamesMenu(submenu, games) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysollib/tile/menubar.py", line 809, in updateGamesMenu menu.delete(0, 'last') File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2670, in delete if c in self._tclCommands: TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable Before that, when just running pysol, there were other errors regarding no having a sound device, which is OK since I don't, :) However these other errors when loading any game make pysol crash... Thanks Javier.

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[arch-general] xorg-server 1.5 upgrade screen problem.
by Javier Vasquez 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi all, By reading "http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging", the upgrade on xorg-server to 1.5 was not hard for the input devices. I'm using the Hal approach. However I have trouble with the screen. I'm using the mach64 driver with 1280x1024 mode and 24 bits depth, and whenever I try to switch to console (with atyfb @ 1024x768) all I get is a balck screen and the monitor complaining with out of sync... Also when terminating my X session, exiting fluxbox (I use startx to get into X), I get the same thing, so I never can get back to console. Any one experiencing the same thing? Any suggestions? I don't remember reading about it in the Xorg_input_hotplugging page, :) Thanks, -- Javier

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?
by Gerhard Brauer 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Am Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:00:20 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org>: > Pierre Schmitz schrieb: > > The simplest solution would be if we sign the db files > > (automatically) on gerolde. Of course this is less secure than > > signing every single package by its packager; but on the other side > > it would be easy to implement and there would be no overhead for > > packagers. > > If this is to provide any security, we need to stop using md5! md5 is > okay when trying to detect corrupted downloads, however it is > possible to find collisions and thus build a "bad" package that has > the same md5 as the good package. For myself i don't accept the "md5sum is bad" argument as a "stopper" for each idea to provide a pacman secure concept ;-) Current situation is: Everyone who offers a mirror could provide a manipulated pacman or bash package. He could reduce the content of a binaray to a simple rm -rf, fdisk or something. He only has to tar "his" package and edit the core.db.tar,gz If we sign our db files as a minimum! security: This would make package manipulating more difficult. Content changes of pacman or bash packages (*.pkg.tar.gz) with getting the same md5sum or sha checksum is surely not impossible - but much more difficult as in our current situation. So let's mak a first step! Gerhard >

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[arch-general] dmapi build failure
by Baho Utot 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

The abs build fails with the following: === build === make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'. ./install-sh -o root -g root -m 755 -d /home/scrat/CORE/dmapi/pkg/usr//share/doc/dmapi ./install-sh -o root -g root -m 644 README /home/scrat/CORE/dmapi/pkg/usr//share/doc/dmapi make[1]: *** No rule to make target `install-lib'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/scrat/CORE/dmapi/src/dmapi-2.2.8' I have made a patch to fix this # #PKGBUILD.patch # --- PKGBUILD~ 2008-11-28 09:39:31.817672035 -0500 +++ PKGBUILD 2008-11-30 08:18:47.876723158 -0500 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ autoconf ./configure --prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr make || return 1 - make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr/ install install-lib install-dev + make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr/ install install-dev # the static lib install -D -m644 libdm/.libs/libdm.a $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/libdm.a # and the header file, please

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] RFC: crda PKBUILD
by Sujith 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Thomas B,bd(Bchler wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: > > Couldn't we set it as a dep of the wireless tools? That seems like it > > would install for the right people then. Considering you want to shut > > things off in the kernel, this will make some (most? no idea) wireless > > non-functional without this, right? It seems an optdepend of kernel26 > > would be easy to miss To set a new regulatory domain, 'iw' is required. 'iw' should be added to core too. > I think I remember that the wireless stack will fall back to a default > (minimal) set of channels if crda is missing (which is not too different > from the current behaviour). That's right, WORLD regulatory domain would be chosen if CRDA is missing. But it has a limited set of channels than what people were using so far, so expect a rash of 'wireless not working' bugs. :) The best method to accommodate the new regulatory infrastructure would be to set the country code on bootup, with the user's choice stored in /etc/rc.conf. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] kDE 3.5.9
by Baho Utot 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Is there a way to get the abs build files for kde 3.5.9? Is the svn repos tagged at 3.5.9 ? If so how? I would like to build them for a new computer of mine that has an old graphocs card and cpu.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.27.7-1
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version please signoff for both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup
by Grigorios Bouzakis 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Allan McRae <allan.mcrae(a)qimr.edu.au> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I have created a table of candidates for removal from the extra repo based > on <1% usage in the pkgstats results. I have gone through and flagged for > keeping packages which are i18n, makedepends, or otherwise needed (in pacman > testsuite, using on gerolde). See the list here: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Extra_Repo_and_Pkgstats > > There is probably other categories of packages we should keep (e.g drivers) > and there are some fonts which might be considered i18n related so can you > all go through the list a cross out the ones to be kept and giving the > reason. > > In a couple of weeks time I will remove all the orphaned packages remaining > on that list and contact the maintainers of the rest so they can decide what > to do with their packages. > > Cheers, > Allan Hi Alan, Can i give some other extend to this? I can understand why you limit the list to only packages with 0.xy usage, but i think theres much more to cleanup than just those packages. Orphan or not.. Just by looking at the statistics, for which we owe a huge thanks to Pierre, its obvious that more than 50% of the packages in extra have 10% or less usage. Most of which are below 5%. While at the same time there are many packages in community with >10%. Those should definately go in extra. Most of the developers use em too. Also , many packages in extra, some of which are long unmaintained upstream, many multimedia & games packages come to mind but not limited to these. Those could go to community and even be left unmaintained with a small portion of good will. Anyway, all i am saying is dont focus only on packages having 0.xy usage. Greg

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