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[arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch
by Kirill Churin 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Can this patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=33142 be applied to Arch's xorg? It solves famous problem https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 with broken keyboard input for users who use multiple keyboard layouts without any noticeable side-effects. It's known this patch has been applied in Ubuntu. -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflexing(a)reflexing.ru, ICQ: 8163230, Skype on demand.

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[arch-general] [signoff] texlive-bin 2011.1-1 and texlive-* 2011.*
by Rémy Oudompheng 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hello, TeXLive 2011 has been officially released. Packages in [testing] have been updated to reflect this. * biblatex-biber is not packaged and depends and a whole lot of Perl packages. You can find it on AUR, or some for some developer to package it and its dependencies * eptex format generation fails, I don't understand how to fix it, so if anyone has an idea... Rémy.

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[arch-general] Ethernet stopped working after update
by dmbuce＠gmail.com 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

My card: # lspci | grep -i ethernet Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) After doing pacman -Syu, ethernet on my desktop stopped working. The card on my laptop is the same, at least according to lspci, and is working fine. When I upgraded, there was a change in syntax in rc.conf for defining the network, but I'm just attempting dhcp for now before I try to set up a static ip: interface=eth0 address= netmask= gateway= I've tried resetting the router and switching from the kernel's r8169 driver to the r8168 driver from the aur. I compiled the aur driver on my laptop and transferred to the desktop on usb -- as long as they're both x86_64, this shouldn't be a problem, right? Regardless of my choice of driver, ethernet on the laptop works fine, and doesn't work at all on the desktop. If I set up ethernet manually using ifconfig to define the address/netmask/broadcast/etc (making sure the routes are correct), everything appears to work fine until I try to ping the router and get "Destination Host Unreachable". And the kicker is that the light on the router for the port I have my ethernet cable plugged into will light up for the laptop, but not the desktop. Given this and the other behavior, I'm inclined to think it's a hardware issue, but this hardware is only several months old, and having this happen right after an upgrade seems unlikely to be a coincidence. Anything else I can try short of reinstalling or getting a replacement from the manufacturer?

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[arch-general] Atheros WiFi only working after reboot from windows
by Vic Demuzere 15 Aug '11

15 Aug '11

Hi there, I have a really strange issue with my Atheros WiFi card since re-installing Arch. It doesn't manage to connect to my wireless AP, except when I first boot windows and then reboot to Arch. So it looks like Arch doesn't manage to start the card properly. Output from dmesg is the same in both cases, and the card correctly shows up in lspci. [sorcix@morpheus ~]$ dmesg | grep ath ath9k 0000:01:0b.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x30 ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map ath: Country alpha2 being used: AM ath: Regpair used: 0x30 ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control' Registered led device: ath9k-phy0 I tried netcfg, networkmanager and manually using wpa_supplicant. When I didn't boot windows first, the card seems to connect to the AP, and then disconnect again. wlan0: deauthenticating from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx by local choice (reason=3) It then starts looping trying to reconnect. After first booting into windows, it simply connects and stays connected. Everything works fine then. Note that it always works fine in windows, so it isn't a hardware problem. Does anyone else have this problem, or knows how to fix it? -- vic(a)demuzere.be :: http://vic.demuzere.be :: PGP: 0x6690CF94 My software never contains bugs, it just develops random features.

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[arch-general] The OpenCL ICD problem
by Ionut Biru 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Forwarding discussion to arch-general mailing list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The OpenCL ICD problem Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:48:52 +0200 From: Vojtěch Král <kral.vojtech(a)gmail.com> Hello, I'm writing to you because of a problem which has arisen with the OpenCL Arch packages. To introduce myself shortly: My name is Vojtech "kralyk" Kral (Czech Rep., EU) and I currently maintain AMD APP SDK (aka amdstream) and Intel OpenCL SDK in AUR. I'm sending this to maintainers who maintain involved pkgs. People that might be also interested are in Cc, please let me know should you find this mail too spammy/annoying :) The problem in question is a conflicting file, namely /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so (and possibly so version symlinks too). This file is currently provided by these packages (that I know of): nvidia-utils [extra], lib32-nvidia-utils [multilib], amdstream [AUR], intel-opencl-sdk [AUR], lib32-nvidia-utils-173xx [AUR] and lib32-nvidia-utils-beta [AUR]. The thing is this conflict should be resolved so that it would be possible to install OpenCL implementations from multiple vendors at the same time on the same system (as requested by the standard from Khronos) while still providing this so file to satistfy dependencies for other either existing pkgs (such as pyopencl) or possible funture ones. This should be done in compliance with the ICD standard, see http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/extensions/khr/cl_khr_icd.txt However, it should hopefully not be that difficult, since most of the packages already comply to the standard by providing appropriate *.icd file in /etc/OpenCL/vendors. And those that don't should be updated accordingly (lib32-nvidia-utils-beta maybe? Not sure.) Also, the standard requests the ICD loader - which is in fact usually the libOpenCL.so library - to be able to enumerate all the ICDs on its own. So this so file is pretty much independent on the vendor it is supplied by, providing the vendor a) follows the standard correctly b) is sane :-) Therefore, a sollution might be to simply pick one of available ICD loaders (a thin one preferably) and make it a dependency for other pkgs. I'm not saying this is an optimal sollution, I'm merely leaving it to your consideration. Feel free to suggest other possibilities. Let me know what you think... Best Regards, Vojtech "kralyk" Kral

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[arch-general] quiet kernel parameter
by Meyithi 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Does anybody know the difference between the quiet kernel parameter and loglevel=4 parameter? All of the info I can find states that they should be identical, and /proc/sys/kern -- Jason Steadman http://www.meyithi.com/ http://twitter.com/meyithi

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Re: [arch-general] iniitcpio root device check [SOLVED]
by Dwight Schauer 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: >>Ok, I renamed "9p_mount_handler" to "ninep_mount_handler" and updated >>mount_handler= accordingly, and rebuild the initcpio images. >> >>Still no joy... :) >> >>I went so far as to rename 9p to ninep in >>/lib/initcpio/{install,hooks} and the HOOKS string, and rebuilt the >>initcpio images, but that did not help. >> >>Dwight > > Let's try this one more time. You're missing a pointer to your install > script. Part of the build function needs: > SCRIPT=ninep > > or whatever you're calling it... > > d > That did it! Thanks. Now I can start the session automatically without intervention. Dwight

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[arch-general] iniitcpio root device check
by Dwight Schauer 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

I have an arch linux install running in qemu using a 9p virtual root filesystem (root filesystem is just a sub directory on the host). This is the line I use to launch it: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -virtfs local,path=$(pwd)/wn-root,security_model=mapped,mount_tag=wn-root -smp 2 -m 1024 -kernel ./wn-root/boot/vmlinuz26 -append 'rootfstype=9p rootflags="trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L" root=wn-root ro rootdelay=10' --initrd ./wn-root/boot/kernel26-fallback.img -net vde -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52:54:00:00:EE:03 Immediately after "::Running Hook [resume]" though I get: Root device 'wn-root' does'nt exist. Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device 'wn-root'. At that point I'm dropped into the recovery shell, I exit that, it complains, but continues to boot fine as it the existence in /dev/ of a 9p filesystem source is not needed. I did not find anything in mkinitcpio.conf to disable this check, which in this case is not needed, as the root filesystem is mounted without any problem. Using 9p for a kvm root filesystem is useful for cases where something like Linux containers (LXC) is not sufficient to accomplish some task. For the most part this is working fine, still have some 9p filesystem oddities to work through. For instance, syslog-ng won't start and using makepkg on some packages results in "cat: -: No such file or directory" (that error does not occur when that arch install is chrooted into and build run from inside the chroot). The 9p issues are not relevant to the initcpio workaround I'm looking for though. Dwight

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[arch-general] [signoff] netcfg 2.6.6-1
by Rémy Oudompheng 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hello, I have prepared the netcfg 2.6.6 release. I have let go the previous signoff thread because of several outstanding issues, which I think are now resolved. NEWS except ----------- version 2.6.6 - fix wrong rc scripts names in suspend hook (FS#20330) - fix wireless failure when using wpa-config and a custom ctrl_interface path (FS#24949) - bash-completion: add -r to option list (FS#25188) Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-general] 2011.07-3 archboot "2k11-R4" ISO hybrid image released
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hi Arch community, Arch Linux (archboot creation tool) 2011.07-2, "2k11-R4" has been released. To avoid confusion, this is not an official arch linux iso release! Homepage and for more information on archboot: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot Forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123412 Summary: - bump to latest kernels, plain bugfix release. Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository. Please check md5sum before using it. Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives. Please get it from your favorite arch linux mirror: - https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2011.07/ - <yourmirror>/iso/archboot/2011.06/ Have fun, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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