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

[arch-general] libSoundTouch.a but no libSoundTouch.so
by Nigel Henry 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

I'm trying to build Psychosynth on "Don't Panic". There are are a few deps, some of which I need to build from source (OIS, Ogre, and CEGUI). Soundtouch is also a dep, and is available from the Archlinux repos, but running ./configure on Psychosynth, it failed to find the libsoundtouch lib. Looking in /usr/lib, libsoundtouch has a libSoundtouch.a file, but no libSoundTouch.so file, which I presume is why ./configure for Psychosynth cannot find the library. Is this a bug, and if so, where should I report it? I did also download the soundtouch tarball from their site, but with configure, and make problems. ./configure complained that it couldn't find automake-1.9, which is true, as the version installed is automake-1.10. I created a symlink from automake-1.9 pointing to automake-1.10, then ./configure ran to completion, but then make complained that it couldn't find libtools, even though it's installed in /usr/bin. Make said it was looking for libtools in ../libtools, but I'm clueless as to where that is. Any help on that? Any help/suggestions welcome. Nigel.

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 42, Issue 29
by Keith 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

FWIW - This might belong on the forums; I've been meaning to post on the topic for a while, but life gets in the way sometimes, and I see the topic here, so... Karolina Lindqvist <karolina.lindqvist(a)kramnet.se> wrote: > s?ndagen den 20 april 2008 skrev Stephen Wilkinson: > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this may have stopped > > working in moving from 2.6.23 to 2.6.24? Is it no longer possible to > > run two sound cards together? > I got the same problem with my (only) built-in VIA sound chip. From kernel 2.6.24 and onwards, the chip has to be enabled in the bios. I had it disabled before. Check your bios settings, and enable the card if it is disabled. Before linux ignored bios settings, but it look likes it does not do that anymore. > Karolina I have 2 ASUS mobo's: an A8V-MX, and a A8N-E. I first bought and built a system around the former (using Arch), maybe 2 years ago. Sound worked fine. It has an onboard Realtek ALC850, but I have an old PCI-based ESS Solo ES1938S card (ES1939 drivers worked fine) which has always provided superior performance to on-board chips (in 2-channel mode, at least, which is fine with me - I don't use my computer as an MP3-player; I only need sound for YouTube/Flash, etc). It has also worked with every system I've build the past 6 years or so. Since the A8V doesn't have a PCI-E graphics slot, and I'd obtained an NVidia 6600GT, I bought the A8N and built a system around it (and the ES1939). No problem with sound. 8 months or so back, the A8N apparently burned up. It would start to boot, the do a full power reset, reboot, rinse and repeat. I couldn't even get to BIOS. I pulled everything out, including the 6600GT (used an old PCI S3 Virge DX for video). No change. I know it wasn't the P/S; I'm using the same P/S in the system I'm typing on ATM. I rebuilt my system, using the A8V and my OLD GeForce2 MX 400. Worked fine - but no sound (using the ES1939). I finally pulled the ES1939 out, enabled the on-board sound chip. STILL no sound. This goes back 6-8 months, I try sound again with every kernel update; nothing's ever changed. The manual which came (in the same, unopened box) with the A8V states the on-board sound chip is a Realtek ALC650; 'cat /proc/asound/cards' reports it as a 'ALC655'. 'lspci' reports a 'VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 70)'. my rc.conf MODULES array: 'MODULES=(mii via-rhine ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-mpu401-uart snd-ac97-codec snd-hda-intel snd-via82xx soundcore)' I don't understand why snd-mpu401-uart, snd-ac97-codec, snd-hda-intel, and snd-via82xx are ALL loaded, especially snd-hda-intel. That makes NO sense to me. In addition to the ES1938S, I also have a SoundBlaster Live! Gold (CT4620) complete with a CT4660 Digital/MIDI daughter-card (which I don't need). I've re-installed Arch numerous times with and w/o the ES1938, SoundBlaster (with on-board sound disabled), and nothing seems to work. I switched from KDE to Xfce4 a few weeks back (and like it), but would gladly return to KDE if I could get sound working. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I've spend MANY hours, read the wiki's, etc, with no progress whatsoever (note I DO get a 'hum' when I first plug in my speakers, but nothing after that). I would be happy with ANY of these hardware solutions, as long as I have sound. All the appropriate entries in /dev/snd and /proc/asound are present, alsa is in my DAEMONS array in rc.conf. TIA.

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[arch-general] New abs and /var/abs/community
by Karolina Lindqvist 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

With the new abs, community disappeared from /var/abs. Do I need to do something special to get it? after abs shakti:~$ ls /var/abs core extra local README testing unstable shakti:~$ grep REPOS /etc/abs.conf # REPOS to be parsed by abs (in this order) REPOS=(core extra unstable community testing) shakti:~$

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel26 2.6.25-1 enters [testing]
by Thomas Bächler 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Thomas Bächler schrieb: > I didn't update any modules, so if there are new versions available for > any, please inform their maintainers. The following modules are > currently broken. I didn't do any research on those yet, so if anyone > knows something, please let me know. > > - atl2 (Simo, could you have a look, you must probably update it) Stupid me: I was talking about aufs, not atl2. atl2 is fine.

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[arch-general] Banshee needs an update
by Alec Hussey 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Hello, I was glad when you guys (or Jan de Groot, whichever) decided to push the banshee alpha out to extra. However, it is missing many pretty essential features and it now far behind the releases put out by the banshee developers. I think that either we need to keep up or provide two seperate versions of the package until a final release of 1.0 is made. Thanks! Alec Hussey

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[arch-general] Mcpp in extra has no maintainer
by Grigorios Bouzakis 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

As subject. It is also out of date.I assume its kth5's package since it is a dependency to xorg-server-utils. Greg

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[arch-general] 2008.04-RC Images are out
by Simo Leone 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Crosspostingissocool http://www.archlinux.org/news/389/ Enjoy.

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[arch-general] libmms update in extra
by Dragonlord 16 Apr '08

16 Apr '08

Hi, I've made a new package in AUR - mimms, which depends on libmms from extra repo. But libmms is flagged out of date and mimms needs the new version to compile and run. Can someone please update the libmms PKGBUILD in extra? There is no maintainer for libmms, so, if this package isn't needed by any other packages, you can also move it to unsupported and I'll take care of it. mimms with the libmms v0.4 works fine, just a bit testing from my side. Thanks D

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[arch-general] Way of flaging out of date?
by gan lu 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

In my opinion, Arch is the best distro can really do bleeding edge with stablility, thank devs for their excellent work. However due to some reasion (saying shortage of time, man power, instersts etc), some applications can't be updated in time. We can certainly flag it out of date in the web page easily, but is there a way we can record when it was flaged at the first time and count how many people (useres) want to flag it (like enable people to vote, but of course only send a remind email at the first/person )? Just my idea, I am not a programmer so don't blame me not to do it real by myself.

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[arch-general] Transition to the new perl policy
by Ondřej Kučera 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hello, I was trying to figure out why something doesn't work with a certain perl module and even though later I found out that the problem is somewhere else, I noticed that there still are some files and directories in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current. The packages responsible for this (on my machine) are: perl-compress-zlib perl-parse-recdescent perl-term-readline perl-io-compress-base perl-io-compress-zlib perl-compress-raw-zlib Is this considered a bug, shoud I file a bug report? If so, one for each package, or just on report listing them all? Also, there are these following five files that no package owns. error: No package owns ./x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DCOP/Object.pm error: No package owns ./x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DCOP/DCOP.bs error: No package owns ./x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DCOP/DCOP.so error: No package owns ./x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DCOP/.packlist error: No package owns ./x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DCOP.pm This really confuses me because I never (and I mean really never) install anything any other way than via pacman. It is perhaps related to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8466, although I'm not sure how come they're without an owner now. Maybe it is because they used to be in site_perl/5.8.8 (and site_perl/current was only a symlink), whereas now they're in site_perl/current which is a regular directory now (and kdebindings still "owns" them in site_perl/5.8.8). Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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