Arch-general November 2009

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[arch-general] [signoff] pcmciautils-016-1
by Tobias Powalowski 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Changes to initcpio pcmcia hook were needed and added in git tree, on next mkinitcpio bump they will be included. - udev rules and helper programs are now installed to /lib/udev/ greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] wchan info in ps
by Dimitrios Apostolou 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

Hello list, is anyone actually getting WCHAN information from either ps or top? To try it just use "ps opid,wchan,cmd". I only get dashes, any idea why? Thanks, Dimitris

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[arch-general] ftp.archlinux.org rate limiting
by Phillip Smith 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi all, Could someone share the details of how the 50kbps rate-limit is implemented on ftp.archlinux.org? I know Google gives me plenty of results for rate-limiting with iptables and tc but I've never had much success with tc, and the ftp.archlinux.org rate-limiting seems to work perfectly... So why try reinventing the wheel? :) Cheers, ~p

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[arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID
by Carlos Williams 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

I have been struggling with successfully installing Arch Linux on my PC with just two S-ATA drives. I am using the LiveCD / Netinst "2009.08". The only partition I want for RAID is simply /home. I have two identical disks and am partition as follows: /dev/sda1 = 2048 (bootable) */boot* /dev/sda2 = 40960 */* /dev/sda3 = 102400 *RAID* /dev/sdb1 = 2048 *Swap* /dev/sdb2 = 40960 */var* /dev/sdb3 = 102400 *RAID* Then I create the RAID after I run "cfdisk" utility: mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 Once that is done, I run "/arch/setup command from the comand prompt and enter the system installer as normal. I have simply already created my disks, all I do from the installer now is assign a file system and mount point. It recognizes the RAID /dev/md0 partition I created using mdadm utility. Everything is fine but when I install Grub on /dev/sda and reboot the machine, I always fail to boot. I get some strange error that tells me to type "Control-D" for maintenance mode or something like that. If I do everything like I did above but don't create a RAID partition, Arch installs perfect! What am I doing wrong? The Arch Wiki is not helping me at all. I have spent a week trying to follow the Wiki with help from the forums and to no avail I have given up. I can't see this being that hard. I think I bork something up when I install Grub but I get no errors and it tells me I installed Grub successfully on /dev/sda. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80776 Thanks for any help in getting me a working Arch Linux system with RAID.

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[arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules -> Gone?? (kernel bug?)
by David C. Rankin 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Guys, This is really strange. Sound used to work on my laptop, now it is just -- gone. The hardware hasn't changed (obviously): 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at f8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- but, there is NO /sys/module/snd -- Huh? [01:06 alchemy:~] # lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t (returns nothing, there are no snd modules at all) Further, there is no sound dev: [01:06 alchemy:~] # l /dev/snd (nothing...) I've been throught the alsa wiki and it is still gone. I've tried adding the right module, but it isn't even on the system anymore: [17:21 alchemy:/etc/modprobe.d] # modprobe snd-hda-intel FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found. [17:45 alchemy:/media/disk/david] # modprobe snd_hda_intel FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found. Additinally, KDE prompts me to delete removed sound device HDA ATI SB, ALC268 Digital... Running SuSE 11.2 on the same box (different hard drive) shows the following modules are configured for sound (works fine): 08:39 alchemy:~/.kde4/share/config> lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss 60032 0 snd_mixer_oss 22728 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq 78528 0 snd_seq_device 10460 1 snd_seq snd_hda_codec_realtek 317868 1 snd_hda_intel 37088 2 snd_hda_codec 111112 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 11216 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 117808 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 32152 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 97608 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 12600 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm Here is the hwinfo output from the suse install: 21: PCI 14.2: 0403 Audio device [Created at pci.310] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4383 Unique ID: 5Dex.CWqchpyBRV6 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:14.2 Hardware Class: sound Model: "ATI SBx00 Azalia" Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc" Device: pci 0x4383 "SBx00 Azalia" SubVendor: pci 0x1179 "Toshiba America Info Systems" SubDevice: pci 0xff08 Driver: "HDA Intel" Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel" Memory Range: 0xf8700000-0xf8703fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (461488 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00004383sv00001179sd0000FF08bc04sc03i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Now how do I get the sound to re-appear in Arch?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] dcopserver problem
by richard terry 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

Hi list, Last few days or so of weeks having huge problems with kde4 after the last upgrade. Apps just hang, clicking on the toolbar > no reponse for eons. messages were around kbuildsycoca: WARNING's...... I looked on the forums/net and they seemed to indicate that typing dcopserver_shutdown, followed by kdeinit would fix the problem, which it sort of does temporarily. I wondered what could be going on and how to fix it permanantly. Any helip appreciated. Richard

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[arch-general] usable browser?
by Arvid Picciani 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi, ever since ff3 turned firefox into unusable, i'm on the quest to find a usable browser. Chromium was quite decent for a while (after fixing the dbus dependency) despite it deadlocks when you mouse-move tabs (fortunately i dont do that anyway), but recently it started timing out on every second request. The answer from google was: deactivate your windows firewall, so well.. back to searching a browser. Basicly each and every firefox clone/fork/based browser has the same issues as firefox (100% disk i/o all the time even when idle), so those don't work. webkit based browsers can't render half of the internet properly. i wonder if somone cloned chromiums webkit thing and made a brwoser of it? uzbl is quite decent, i wish they'd use chromes rendering. opera would be awesome if it didn't have billions of popups and their "Upgrade to opera10" popup really made me uninstall opera. any options left? -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies

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[arch-general] Single Person ISP?
by Brendan Long 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP". Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem). Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it. -Brendan Long

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[arch-general] kmail spellcheck reporting no errors when there plainly are errors - can someone confirm?
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Guys, With KMail Version 1.12.3 Using KDE 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3), kmail isn't catching any spelling errorssss. Eggsample: lsdfjhosijg Spellcheck with kmaaail: "Spell check complete." WTF?? If you can confirm, I'll bug it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies
by Phillip Smith 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi all, So, there's currently a frustrating chain of dependencies: digikam -> kdepimlibs -> akonadi -> mysql So to manage my digital photos, I need a relational database system...! On a desktop system that I don't use for development, it's a bit annoying to have to have mysql taking up space, downloads during updates etc. Is there anyway we can get around this particular chain of deps? It's not a major issue, but just "one of those things" ;) Cheers, ~p

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