January 2012 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Arch & ILOM on a Sun Fire X4100
by Robert Wall 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi guys! I have the opportunity to get a sweet deal on a Sun Fire server to replace my somewhat-antique workstation. Most of the hardware looks like pretty standard stuff (AMD Opterons, standard RAID 0/1, SAS drives, etc.), but there's something that's throwing me. Sun apparently has something called ILOM ("Integrated Lights-Out Management"). Nearest I can tell, this is a subsystem that monitors drives, power supplies, and misc. other things within the system. I would *think* that this should all function separately from (and not interfere with) the installed OS, but I can't seem to pin that down concretely. Does anybody have any experience with this ILOM stuff? Any chance this server would be a Bad Place to run Arch? Any information you guys could share would be greatly appreciated!

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]
by Timothée Ravier 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Le 26/01/2012 08:24, Andrea Scarpino a écrit : > Hi all, > overnight the mirrors synced the latest stable release of KDE. > > I had no many time to work on it, so I pushed it in [testing] just to be sure > everything's ok. As I can't send to arch-dev-public, I'm sending this here: This release seems good to me. (signoff x86_64 ?) I've been using the packages available in kde-unstable, and I must say the packaging is well done! Good job! Tim

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[arch-general] iPad - FLOSS on the iPad - data transfer between an Arch PC and an iPad
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi :) I won a MC770FD/A iPad 2 Wi-Fi 32GB Black. I'm uncertain if I should retain or sell it. The iPad was delivered today and I still didn't configure it. I don't need all those consumer toys and I don't like proprietary software, especially I don't like Apple regarding to the company's policy. It would be nice to have something for reading, instead of wasting money for ink cartridges, if I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Perhaps an iPad could be useful for drawing. Running Qt linguist also would be comfortable to do translations, when I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Additionally it would be good to have a portable audio recorder, since my DAT recorders are broken. Believing information from the Internet, running Linux on the iPad 2 shouldn't be possible and even original Linux apps that are available for MacOs shouldn't work on an iPad too. I wonder if Qt linguist and some FLOSS audio software would run on an iPad under it's iPad OS? Since my PC has got a wired connection to an ADSL modem (PPPoE), the PCI slots are used by 2 TerraTec EWX 24/96 cards used as MIDI interfaces and the PCIe slots are used for a RME HDSPe AIO card for audio and a GeForce 7200GS graphics, I only could connect the iPad by USB to the PC and Internet, because there are no free slots on my mobo. Because I never used Wi-Fi or Bluetooth I wonder if those elCheapo USB 2.0 solutions will work with kernel ex 3.0-rt or at least with kernel ex 3.2 without rt patch. http://www.reichelt.de/WLAN-Adapter/0/16/index.html?;ACTION=2;LA=2;GROUPID=… http://www.reichelt.de/index.html?ACTION=2;GROUPID=4321;SEARCH=Bluetooth Any hints are welcome, Ralf

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[arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0
by Madhurya Kakati 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, I am trying to compile android 4.0 with the help of an article I found online[1]. When I execute a command I get the following error: $ python2 ~/bin/repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86 File "/home/papul/android-x86/.repo/repo/main.py", line 149 except DownloadError, e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I think the problem is with python2. [1] http://hyper-choi.blogspot.com/2012/01/andorid-x86-ics-on-qemu.html -- Madhurya Kakati () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] New PC and data copying -- am I doing this right?
by Kwpolska 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

I bought a new PC. I'm going to get it a bit later, I need a plan for data movement. I created this, can someone please tell me if it's okay, and, if it's not, what should I change? 01. Remove the OLDPC drivers from Arch on OLDHDD. 02. Connect the NEWHDD to the OLDPC. 03. Create the appropriate partitions on the NEWHDD (with new sizes, EXCEPT Shared [NTFS]) 04. Copy (dd) some partitions from OLDHDD to NEWHDD (Arch, Home, Shared) 05. Use fsck on Arch and Home on NEWHDD (just in case.) # Should I do something to get them to work with the new sizes? # 07. Resize Shared (NTFS) to the approperiate size. 08. Boot into Windows twice in order to check it. 09. Install GRUB on NEWHDD, shut down OLDPC and connect the NEWHDD to the NEWPC. 10. Install NEWPC drivers to Arch on NEWHDD. (audio/video) 11. Install Windows 7 on the NEWPC. 12. Connect the NEWHDD back to the OLDPC. Re-install GRUB. 13. Boot into Windows XP on the OLDHDD. Copy some bigger Steam games to the NEWHDD. 14. At long last, profit. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 | Arch Linux x86_64, zsh, mutt, vim. # vim:set textwidth=70:

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[arch-general] Nouveau: 16bit Color Depth?
by Bastien Dejean 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, I tried the nouveau driver and I noticed gradients were rough, I thought it might be related to the color depth but I didn't found any relevant option in the nouveau manual, so I tried passing depth parameters to startx but it didn't help. Any hints? Greetings, -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

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[arch-general] /usr on a seperate drive
by P NIKOLIC 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi . Well still fighting it how does one go about putting /usr on a seperate drive i can not seem to get it right just complains about /usr mounted unable to e2fsck cannot continue and falls to maintenance mode i cant unmount the drive because it contains /usr how do im get rount that one these days .. Pete .

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[arch-general] audio gone west
by Peter G Nikolic 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi .. Well getting almost back to rights now but i now have no audio using an external usb soundcard that was working fine before the KDE update wreaked havoc Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x0d8c C-Media Electronics, Inc. idProduct 0x0102 CM106 Like Sound Device bcdDevice 0.10 iManufacturer 0 iProduct 2 USB Sound Device iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: i dare not include the entire output way too long i have been thru the Pulse Audio Volume Control Pulse Audio Preferences KDE System setting multimedia in the PAVC i can actually see the bar moving with the audio everything seems ok just no sound the speakers/amps are ok not sure where to look next Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.2-1-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.8.00 (4.8.0 00:31:20 up 56 min, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.09, 0.13

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[arch-general] Google earth
by Peter G Nikolic 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi Does anyone have a method of getting google earth to work i HAVE tried the stuff in AUR it fails completely the packages it complains about are all out of date and have so many deps that are also out of date it is like chasing your own tail up your own backside I have looked at the AUR wiki and found nothing of relevance to getting a working google earth Thanks Pete . -- Powered by Kernel: 3.2.2-1-ARCH KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) 13:11:12 up 20:20, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.09, 0.07

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[arch-general] Wine 1.3.37-1.1
by Ralf Mardorf 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi :) regarding to the "fixme"s I googled "You can ignore these, they are harmless", but I didn't found information about the error(s). [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ WINEARCH=win32 winecfg wine: created the configuration directory '/home/spinymouse/.wine' fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xc9e8cc, overlapped 0xc9e8b0): stub wine: configuration in '/home/spinymouse/.wine' has been updated. [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi wine Name : wine Version : 1.3.37-1.1 - Ralf

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