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

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version fixed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13232 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12361 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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[arch-general] which video card driver- proprietary...
by Preston C. 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

I have a GeForce 7600 GS. I do not know which command to run because I do not know which driver to use. Should I use nvidia-96xx or nvidia-173xx or nvidia ? Thanks.

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[arch-general] foomatic 4.0.0 hits testing
by Andreas Radke 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

New Foomatic 4.0.0 has hit the testing repo. The ppd pkg got dropped, a new nonfree package has been added. See the announcement for major changes, esp. pdf printing workflow. http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?21,8139,8139#msg-8139 Please report if you can still print with your favorite spoolers and drivers/ppds. -Andy

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[arch-general] kernel-2.6.28 & pccard problem
by Rumen Yotov 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hi, Recently installed archlinux so this is my first email here. Can't configure the network (no eth0), dmesg gives me errors while initializing pccard services (a laptop with pcmcia lan card). A search in Bugzilla doen't result in something relevant (USB-issues mostly). Thanks for any suggetions how to proceed. Rumen PS:plan to boot with another kernel (with net-support) but it's using hda instead of sda (fstab), but will try anyway.

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[arch-general] Step 3: Configure X- B: Input hotplugging
by Preston C. 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

I am working on the beginners guide and have read some information on input hotplugging, and was wondering if it was really necessary to do Step 3- section B in the Beginners Guide? If so, I don't really understand exactly what commands to run and which order to run them? Thank you for any help.

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Zack 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Downloading xorg-server xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-keyboard xf86-video-intel xorg-xinit ttf-dejavu and xterm used to be about a 30 mb download, with 91 packages to install. I just did it today, and it the download was in the low 20s, and there were only about 60 packages. Did anything change, or am I just crazy. Zack

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[arch-general] configuring ALSA...
by Preston C. 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi again. I am writing this time because I am not exactly sure where to put a line in a file? -first I run this: nano /etc/modprobe.conf -then I need to add this: options snd-pcsp index=2 I am not sure where to put this- options snd-pcsp index=2 ? When I open the file using nano there are only three lines and it looks like this: # # /etc/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels) # Yes I am somewhat new at this, :-). Thanks again.

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[arch-general] cdrecord instead of wodim
by Avramucz Péter 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi! What would you say to a wodim -> cdrecord transition? I have a bug here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13181 . And Joerg Schilling wrote me, that cdrecord is still developed. So, what do you say?

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[arch-general] exists in filesystem...
by Preston C. 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

I am following the Beginner's Guide to try and get AL installed, and have come across a problem. I made it to the part about updating the system, before the installation of ALSA and X. Here is the problem: Two nights ago I ran pacman -Syu . For some reason it did not install properly, possibly because I did not have the network setup right at the time, because of an update to pacman. Nevertheless, I finally got around to trying again tonight, and the update this time was not 100+ MB it was 27 MB. I imagine this is because Arch Linux saved the updates downloaded the other night. Now tonight, when I ran the command pacman -Syu, after downloading 27 MB of updates, pacman was in the process of installing them and then, at the very beginning, pretty much on every package downloaded, it said that the files "exists in filesystem". Any help on fixing the exists in filesystem problem on pretty much every package, I think, would be very helpful. Thanks, Preston

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[arch-general] [signoff] ndiswrapper / ndiswrapper-utils 1.54-1
by Tobias Powalowski 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi 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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