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

[arch-general] 2.6.33 and Thinkpad x200 => random freezes
by Lukas Grässlin 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hi there, it seems that there are some problems with 2.6.33 and my thinkpad x200. The system randomly freezes completely. That means the mouse and the keyboard aren't working and the screen is just frozen. This is no Xorg crash and I do not really know if its a kernel panic, because the num led doesn't blink. There is absolutely nothing in the logs. Not even a single hint. So I downgraded to 2.6.32 and I had no freezes since yesterday. (But I cant say 100% that its ok, but i think so). I have a guess that it has something to do with wireless lan and battery running, but this is vague. Does anybody here has similar problems? Regards, Lukas http://lg.ath.cx/downloads/misc/dmesg http://lg.ath.cx/downloads/misc/lspci http://lg.ath.cx/downloads/misc/lsusb

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[arch-general] Latest NVIDIA en kernel update
by Manne Merak 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

I see there are some discussions going on the nvidia, KDE and arch forums about the performance of KDE 4.4 and latest nvidia driver, no results yet as I can see. My current setup with 190.53 works fast and snappy (no special xorg param); but updating to anything later drops performance by a factor, so I resisted upgrading nvidia. Now with the latest kernel update I cannot keep the 190.53 driver. Anyone have a solution for performance tweaking the latest KDE and nvidia combo? (I dont want to get too out of sync with the updates). Manne

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ifenslave-1.1.0-5
by Allan McRae 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

On 19/04/10 16:50, Allan McRae wrote: > Last rebuild in 2008 and upstream recommends building against current > kernel... > Fixed include path > > Signoff both, > Allan Anyone? User signoffs are good.

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[arch-general] announce: latest snapshot of the "TalkingArch" CD for blind users
by Chris Brannon 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hi all, I'm proud to announce the April 2010 snapshot of my TalkingArch CD for blind users. This is more-or-less equivalent to the netinstall CD, with one major difference. The system provides spoken feedback as soon as you boot with the disk. I made some improvements to the project since the last release in the fall of 2009. First, I now provide an x86_64 image, as well as an image for i686. I learned that I could use qemu to build the 64-bit version. Second, the CD now includes a brltty package, for people who wish to use braille displays. Here's the link to my project: http://the-brannons.com/tarch/ If you're blind, please check it out. Likewise, if you know anyone who might be interested, please spread the word. -- Chris

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[arch-general] A peculiar LDAP setup
by Piyush P Kurur 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hi, We have configured a set of machines to authenticate against an LDAP database. For some machines we do not want the users to login via their normal shell but some custom program runs for them. For example if some one tries to login to the smtp server via ssh, they get authenticated via LDAP but their default shell fo smtp should be say a program that sets up the email forwarding. More generally is there a way, by mucking around in the pam config or ldap config to ignore certain fields in the ldap database and fill it with some default values. Is there a way to achieve this apart from inelegent ways like copying the ldap database locally and creating a /etc/passwd file ? Best Regards ppk

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[arch-general] CUPS backend for both libusb-based and usblp-based access
by Andreas Radke 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

I know users with multidevices have a serious problems with recent 1.4.0 update because they can only use either the scanner or the printer. I've just found this patch from Till Kapeter, the main OpenPrinting(foomatic) developer and Debian cups package maintainer. http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3357 I assume this could solve all outstanding issues. But sure this is not the current upstream way. And I cannot test it in any way because I don't have such a device. This is to show affected users a possible way to recompile our cups packages with this patch. If it really solves the trouble we might think if it should be done manually (we could put the patch into svn though). That would receive my vote. Or if we could trust Debian here and provide stuff that is not the upstream way but - if proved - solves all the trouble. I couldn't provide any help but doing building the packages. Please test the patch and post your opinions. http://www.cups.org/strfiles/3357/usb-backend-both-usblp-and-libusb.dpatch -Andy

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.33 and friends
by Thomas Bächler 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Now that Pierre fixed lirc for us (neither tpowa nor I were able to do it due to time constraints), here is the signoff for 2.6.33 and the related modules. Please sign off, so we can finally move 2.6.33.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] bridge-utils 1.4-3
by Allan McRae 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

On 19/04/10 17:03, Allan McRae wrote: > Last rebuild was over a year ago. > > Signoff both, > Allan Anyone? User signoffs are fine.

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[arch-general] Raising identical task against multiple packages?
by Magnus Therning 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Is there a way to raise an identical task against multiple packages in FlySpray? I'd like to raise a task against all binary haskell-* packages, but I'd rather like to avoid wearing out my mouse doing it ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] libgrss, new to archlinux PKGBUILD
by andrew james 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

low is a PKGBUILD that builds libgrss. the library was found as an optional dependency with tracker. http://live.gnome.org/Libgrss/ current vers 0.4.0 # Maintainer: andrew james <andrew at systemssingular com> pkgname=libgrss pkgver=0.4.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A library to ease management of RSS/Atom/Pie feeds" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://live.gnome.org/Libgrss/" license=('LGPL3') depends=('glib' 'libxml2' 'libsoup') source=(http://gtk.mplat.es/libgrss/tarballs/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) md5sums=('c145ce89a8287519e6366ce9c3c15de7') build() { cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver ./configure --prefix=/usr make || return 1 make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install }

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