November 2010 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]
by Χρήστος Κώτσαρης 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Regarding phonon being dropped, after some googling it seems i was mistaken, what i had read was that Qt framework is dropping phonon, not KDE. But still, i believe it would be sane to drop phonon in KDE too and replace it with Pulseaudio, it is the best choice. No need for 2 sound servers when one could do the trick. Plus, in case someone says Phonon can switch sound cards without the app restarting, everytime i try it Amarok and others crash, so yes, it needs restarting...

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[arch-general] archlinux hardware question
by Jude DaShiell 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.

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[arch-general] Pulseaudio
by Christos Kotsaris 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Well Morgan Gangwere since all of us Arch users understand this greatly important need to play a 13 year game on an 11 year old machine, we should rollback all changes and send pulseaudio in AUR where it belongs. I mean, we can't leave behind every cheap computer user who can't be bothered to buy even a 5 years old used machine, can we? I mean, Linux is about supporting antics isn't it? We should accomondate those needs, because we might lose this kind of user. He might just go and install Windows 7 on his coppermine. I mean, Windows always supported 11 year old pcs, why Arch wont? Please developers, reconsider.

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[arch-general] problem with usb device recognition
by Scott Weisman 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

Hi Archers, I have a Logitech Quickcam 9000. It works great under Linux. Suddenly, it seems to have stopped working so great. I now get errors like this: Nov 28 22:29:07 gulliver kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled Nov 28 22:29:07 gulliver kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2 I just upgraded and rebooted, as I saw a new kernel was available and thought that might solve the problem. But it still persists. Any suggestions? Scott

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36.1-3
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.36 series for both arches, Latest and greatest moved to testing, including most patches from the stable queue of 2.6.36.2. In 2.6.36.1-3 the usb issues are fixed. Please signoff for both arches that we can move everything soon. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - Tomoyo support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21533 - Apparmor support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21533 - Build RTC support into kernel: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21137 - changed cpu support to 64 on x86_64 - added hugetables support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20862 - disabled RDS modules due to security concerns: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21510 - pcieaspm enabled greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Latest xf86-video-intel: X issues
by mwnn 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Hi, After upgrading to the latest xf86-video-intel package I am facing the following problems: - XDM is not visible (only the mouse pointer shows up; Even though I am able to login by entering my username and password). - Windows do not move fluently. There is a clearly visible drag. Regards, mwnn

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[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff both arches, thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] wireless-regdb 2010.11.24-1
by Thomas Bächler 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Upstream update, please sign off.

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[arch-general] KDE 4.6beta1
by Stefano Avallone 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

I noticed that Andrea is already building and uploading packages for KDE 4.6beta1 to kde-unstable... wow, huge thanks! I just wanted to let you note that the (new) package kdeplasma-addons-runners- events has not been built, maybe because it is not listed in the pkgname section of the PKGBUILD. I discovered that by chance, because pacman says: warning: cannot resolve "kdeplasma-addons-runners-events", a dependency of "kde-meta-kdeplasma- addons" Many thanks for your great work, Stefano

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.77-1
by Eric Bélanger 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.77-1 are in testing. Please test and signoff. Signoffs from users are welcome. - Minor upstream update. ChangeLog below. Version 2.02.77 - 22nd November 2010 ==================================== Allocate a pool for dummy VG in _pvsegs_sub_single. Add PV and LV segment types and functions to liblvm. Add set_property functions to liblvm. Remove tag length restriction and allow / = ! : # & characters. Support repetition of --addtag and --deltag arguments. Add infrastructure for specific cmdline arguments to be repeated in groups. Split the_args cmdline arguments and values into arg_props and arg_values. Fix fsadm no longer to require '-f' to resize an unmounted filesystem. Fix fsadm to detect mounted filesystems on older systems. (2.0.75) Extend cling allocation policy to recognise PV tags (cling_by_tags). Add allocation/cling_tag_list to lvm.conf. Regenerate configure with 'autoreconf' for --enable-ocf. (2.02.76) Version 1.02.58 - 22nd November 2010 ==================================== Fix _output_field crash from field_id free with DEBUG_MEM. (1.02.57)

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