January 2009 - 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] Lancelot in KDE 4.2
by Leonid Grinberg 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi all, It appears that Lancelot (http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/main) is broken in Arch. Running "lancelot" opens no menu. According to [1], this is caused by a lack of /usrshare/dbus-1/services/org.kde.lancelot.service However, I have that file in the directory. Moreover, I discovered that lancelot seems to be provided by two different packages. One of them is "kdeplasma-addons". The other is "lancelot". Both, I think, are maintained by Pierre. Reinstalling kdeplasma-addons doesn't seem to fix the problem, and installing lancelot without --force is impossible, since it tries to create files that are already there (this is despite the fact that lancelot and kdeplasma-addons are not marked as conflicting with each other). If you do include --force, it gives you missing library errors, but this seems like a bad approach anyway. Does anyone know what can be done about this? -- Leonid Grinberg [1] http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/faq#menu-doesnt-open

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[arch-general] State of bluetooth (bluez4 in Arch)
by Damjan Georgievski 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

What's the status about the bluez4 packages in Arch? Especially since the new KDE4 should be released soon. Also the new kdebluetooth4 is out [1], and it seems to require bluez4 and "the latest kdebase4-workspace package is needed (solid-bluetooth with bluez4 support)" I've continued to maintan my bluez4 packages here [2] but further work is needed by KDE and Gnome packagers to integrate this. Also .. does anyone know if obex-data-server and the bluez project obexd are interchangeable? [1] http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kdebluetooth4?content=84761 [2] http://damjan.softver.org.mk:8080/git/arch-bluetooth/ -- damjan

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[arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2
by Leonid Grinberg 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi everyone, I have recently upgraded to KDE 4.2 (vanilla, not kdemod) and have noticed an odd glitch. Every once in a while, with no pattern I can discern, the font in the title bar of a window will have garbled text in it [1]. When I took that screenshot and was about to save it, I noticed that the file chooser dialogue also had the glitch, as did the text in the dialogue [2]. The fonts are Sans Serif 10 bold. Does anyone know why this would happen? -- Leonid [1] http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/998/garbledzr9.png [2] http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2577/garbled2sw8.png

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[arch-general] kernel oops after recent upgrade
by Ryan Sims 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Just upgraded to kernel26 2.6.28.2-1, and now I get an oops when trying to mount my ntfs drive at boot. After boot, I could manually mount everything else, but "mount /mnt/ntfs" hangs unkillable. Since /mnt/ntfs was first in fstab, nothing else mounted; I have since commented out that line and everything's fine. Attached relevant kernel dmesg...can anyone shed any light on this, or should I open a bug? -- Ryan W Sims

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Re: [arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2
by Robert Howard 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Have you tried playing with the GlyphCache settings to the driver? This used to be a solution to some similar troubles in the past. -----Original Message----- From: Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg(a)gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:20 PM To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2 > This seems to be a bug with the nvidia drivers. You might want to try 180.25. Hmm, it seems to only be in AUR? Do you know when the nvidia package in the repos will be updated? -- Leonid

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[arch-general] phonon: gstreamer support will be dropped
by Alberto Gonzalez 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi, [ This is in response to the thread in arch-devel here: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-January/009971.html ] Regarding gstreamer support in phonon I'd like to add my 2 cents: When you install KDE, you get the xine-phonon backend (and only the xine-phonon backend) by default. If someone wants to use gstreamer he must explicitly install it and then go to KDE control center and choose gstreamer. So it's not so much that you're dropping support for it (it is not supported by default anyway), it's rather the ability for anyone who wants to use it to be able to do it what you're removing. What's the advantage of that? Some people like xine better, some don't. If you use a laptop and care about battery life you have to dislike xine for sure. In KDE3 I had to disable the sound system. In KDE4 I had to switch to gstreamer backend. At least in KDE 4.2 they have fixed this to certain extent (i.e., no more 100's of CPU wakeups per seconds on an idle desktop). However, I encourage you to simply open Dragon player and leave it there idle while looking at powertop (and compare the same while using gstreamer backend). You can also play an mp3 in a phonon-based player and see the difference between xine and gstreamer. By the end of the day, discussing the strengths of each backend is not so interesting. Xine is the default and that's good. But why remove the freedom to change it to gstreamer for those who want it? As far as I know, allowing to use gstreamer doesn't affect in any way to those using xine, does it? Gstreamer has its problems, but it's used by all the gnome people (most Ubuntu/Fedora users and more) so it's can't be that bad. Not as to not allow users to use it if they want to. Thanks, Alberto.

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[arch-general] kernel26 x86_64 without virtio?
by Ingo Becker 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi, i have noticed that the virtio-* kernel modules for kvm paravirtualization in the kernel26 x86_64 package are missing. They are included in the i686 package but not in the x86_64 version. Whats the reason for that? greets Ingo

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[arch-general] kdebindings 4.2 missing from extra
by Atanas Zhelev 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hi, it seems kdebindings 4.2 wasn't moved to extra. When upgrading pacman picks kdebindings-4.1.3-1 and that leads to conflicts. (36/36) checking for file conflicts [##################################################################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) /usr/share/apps/plasma_scriptengine_ruby/applet.rb exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings' /usr/share/apps/plasma_scriptengine_ruby/data_engine.rb exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings' /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-scriptengine-ruby-applet.desktop exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings' /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-scriptengine-ruby-dataengine.desktop exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings' Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. -- Atanas

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