December 2009 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS
by Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hi, I installed kernel26 and kernel26-firmware from testing, and I'm experiencing some problems with KMS. During system initialization, the system requests the firmware radeon/R300_cp.bin, waits a couple of seconds and then proceeds normal initialization. But when I log into X, DRI isn't enabled. Checking dmesg, I see that the kernel couldn't load R300 firmware, therefore disabling GPU acceleration. My problem is the same of this post: http://old.nabble.com/kernel-2.6.32-experiences-td26458040.html. Thomas said that mkinitcpio automatically inserts firmware listed in modinfo module in the initramfs image. When I run modinfo radeon | grep R300, it shows me 'firmware: radeon/R300_cp.bin'. So it should be available to kernel at the time of requesting it, shouldn't it? Has someone any idea to help solving that problem? Thanks in advance. -- Gabriel Morrison

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[arch-general] Udev rules
by Majikinszzz 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi I'm coming from an ubuntu background where this line in the udev.rule file worked. SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0fd1", ATTR{idProduct}=="1000", ATTR{bConfigurationValue}=="1",RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/%b/bConfigurationValue'" However this does not work in Arch and I'm really struggling to understand the udev wiki and udev rules - its going a bit over my head at the moment. I have experimented with trying this line from looking at other udev rules: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1000", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fd1", RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/%b/bConfigurationValue'" the device is then recognised but /var/log/messages then shows and endless looping of the device be connected and disconnected. I'm not sure what to do. Please can someone help? M Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!

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[arch-general] Udev rules
by Majikinszzz 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi I'm coming from an ubuntu background where this line in the udev.rule file worked. SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0fd1", ATTR{idProduct}=="1000", ATTR{bConfigurationValue}=="1",RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/%b/bConfigurationValue'" However this does not work in Arch and I'm really struggling to understand the udev wiki and udev rules - its going a bit over my head at the moment. I have experimented with trying this line from looking at other udev rules: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1000", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fd1", RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/%b/bConfigurationValue'" the device is then recognised but /var/log/messages then shows and endless looping of the device be connected and disconnected. I'm not sure what to do. Please can someone help? M Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!

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[arch-general] speaking of Thunderbird 3.X - great new thread summary view
by David C. Rankin 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Guys, If any of you had done as I did and abandon thunderbird in favor of another mua and haven't looked at thunderbird 3.0 yet, you are in for a real treat if you view messages with threading. There is a new thread summary you are presented with when you select a collapsed thread that displays the first 3-4 lines for each message in the thread -- and -- gives you the option to delete the entire thread after reviewing the summary with a single click. Very handy when needing to quickly pick through a long thread to find the relevant info: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/moz/tbird-thread-summary.jpg -- 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] Quanta - Installed w/kde4, but ssh/sftp/fish upload choices are gone??
by David C. Rankin 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Listmates, With my latest install, I didn't install kde3, but I did install quanta since that is what I use to maintain my home site. Tonight is the first time I've actually used quanta since the fresh install of arch to my laptop. I didn't notice the problem until I went to upload changes and got an error about my server being unavailable?? Checking further in 'Project -> Upload Project -> Edit' I notice the only transfer methods available in the listbox are 'file', 'ftp', 'webdav', 'webdavs'. Err... no ssh, fish or sftp anymore? I suspect the kde3 kio-slaves are missing and that quanta hasn't been updated to make use of the kde4 stuff. Obviously, I can use ftp... until I tried to. When I pressed upload, it was like I was trying to upload 200Mib instead of the actual 20k that needed. It was simply crawling along. Has anyone managed to get the project -> update configured to work correctly in quanta on kde4. If you did, how? What's the trick? I would hate to have to install kde3 just to get the quanta upload feature back. What say the experts? -- 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] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16855 # added CONFIG_PM_DEBUG http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17106 # added CONFIG_MMIOTRACE Arch Linux changes: - splitted kernel-headers to extra package If you want to build external modules please install: pacman -S kernel26-headers Please change your PKGBUILDS to makedepend on this package. - added xen support to 64bit kernel - changed intel kms enabled by default - changed to new firewire subsystem: http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration Please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] kernel26 in [current] cries for love when new kernel version hits [testing]
by Emmanuel Benisty 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi, As far as I can remember i.e. quite far but also super blurry, as soon as a new kernel version hits [testing], the [current] version won't be updated anymore (it may have happened when _huge_ security issues had been discovered). Today, we're stuck at .31.6 when .31.8 is out. Not a complain as I have all the tools to build any kernel I'd like to run (1 machine running Arch stock kernel out of 4 anyway) but well, just sayin'... Cheers.

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[arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?
by Xavier 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

I just noticed a bump of cpufrequtils to 006-2 : http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/cpufrequtils/ What do you do with the bugs ? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10959 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14083 Both are valid bugs, annoying, and trivial to fix ...

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[arch-general] Inkscape maintainer MIA?
by Marti Raudsepp 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi arch-general, I'd like to point your attention to the Inkscape package: Inkscape version 0.47 was released on November 25. This is a very significant release that many Inkscape users have been waiting patiently. However, the Arch Linux Inkscape maintainer, Tobias Kieslich, seems to be missing in action. Looking at his FlySpray activity, his last comment seems to be dated November 18. Can anyone please look into resolving this? Regards, Marti

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[arch-general] I know of $repo, is there a $arch too?
by Magnus Therning 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

This is the second time I'm being stupid when modifying my mirrorlist and I by accident put in a i686 repo on a 64-bit machine. I can report that running 32-bit sudo on a 64-bit machine is fraught with problems :-) So, just to work around my stupidity I was wondering if it is possible to put something like $arch in the mirrorlist, so I can stop writing out i686/x86_64? That would at least take care of this problem for the system repos. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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