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

[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] A little script to deploy dot files
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '13

[Inspired by tomd123@bbs.archlinux.org](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134622), I have wrote a small script to deploy the dotfiles acrossing viarous hosts, may be you guys are interested to have a look. Github: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy Thoughts and advices are very welcome, cause my bash skills are still need much improving, there must be some ugly workaround. Regards, Techlive Zheng

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[arch-general] Unable to add fonts to X
by D. R. Evans 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

I couldn't find a more appropriate place to ask this question. Please feel free to point me to such a place if one exists. ---- Using a completely up-to-date 32-bit arch system, I am trying to make some fonts available to X. My understanding of the process is: 1. Put the fonts in a directory. 2. Since these are scalable fonts, run mkfontscale in the directory. 3. Run mkfontdir in the directory. 4. run xset +fp <directory name> So what I did: 0. Created the directory ~/.fonts. 1. Put the fonts in ~/.fonts. At this point the contents of the directory looks like this (sorry about the wrapping): lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 39 Apr 22 17:08 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -> /home/n7dr/fonts/CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.afm -> /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.afm lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -> /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb 2. Ran mkfontscale in ~/.fonts. This created the file fonts.scale, which had the following contents: 33 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp437 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp850 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp852 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp866 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-13 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-5 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-e CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-ru CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-u CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-uni CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-cp1252 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 3. Ran mkfontdir in ~/.fonts. This created the file fonts.dir, which was identical to fonts.scale. 4. One piece of documentation I read said that X automatically includes ~/.fonts in its path, but running xset q did not include ~/.fonts in the directory list. So I ran: xset +fp /home/n7dr/.fonts But now we come to the problem. This command returns: xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax But: a. the directory obviously exists, and it has permissions rwx for the user. b. The directory contains the file fonts.dir c. The syntax looks OK. So what is xset complaining about? (I suspect that the problem lies in the *contents* of fonts.dir, since if I create a dummy version of the file, I don't receive the error. But since the file was automatically created, I don't know what might be wrong, nor how to correct it. Maybe my suspicion is wrong, though.) Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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[arch-general] Upgrading password hashes
by Kevin Chadwick 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

I know arch tries to keep to upstream but their seems some discrepencies that you may or may not be aware of so thought I'd share. The crypt man page says glibc may not support blowfish (stronger than nists recommendation) and that seems true when used via the commandline (very short output). The arch wiki says you can use a library from AUR. There is also a sha512 arch wiki which says you should edit pamd.d/passwd from md5 to sha512 but the default seems to already be sha512, maybe it tries both as some distros default is now sha512 so no need anymore. It seems if you simply edit /etc/default/passwd to blowfish and reset your password, sha512 is used e.g. encrypted password beginning with $6 in /etc/shadow not $2 (blowfish) and logins work fine. I guess the /etc/default/passwd config file may be futurised or the config written before changing to SHA which was easier to implement and the wiki is out of date with the code?? -- Kc

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[arch-general] Source control on /etc
by Don deJuan 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in my config history at the minimum. I have seen the package etckeeper and it does not seem to really fully be setup to work with pacman. Both AUR packages are very outdated. Would I just be best off just copying the ones I change and then push the changes to a separate dir that is under control of say git? What methods do you employ? Thanks for any info or tips on this. :)

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[arch-general] shutdown problems
by G. Schlisio 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

hi all, since a few days, i experience some problems on shutdown. i'm running kde and systemd on a fully upgraded system. when shutting down via kde controls (ctrl-alt-del oder button), i am logged off and presented the login screen, but no shutdown occurs. i tried to change the shutdown command from '/sbin/shutdown -h -p now' to '/sbin/shutdown -h now' but that made just no difference. if i use these commands on bash, it shuts down as expected, not showing the login screen. is this somewhat systemd-related? hints appreciated… georg

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[arch-general] linux-3.4.0-1 enters [testing]
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges The x86_32 switch is not yet enabled. Please report any issues that arise. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance + Other optimizations
by Sergi Pons Freixes 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

2012/5/31 Martin Cigorraga <msx(a)archlinux.us>: > From my subjective own experience, it don't, the only thing I don't > activate when my laptop is plugged is the mouse switch since it instructs > the system to turnoff the USB port whenever there's no activity on it and > that can be very annoying, believe me xD I've been playing interactively with the tunables, and completely agree about how annoying is the auto suspend for the USB mouse :P. I'll probably make all the others permanent. > Combining Powertop 2 with Liquorix kernel, Ulatencyd, e4rat, preload and > some more fancy tweakes here and there -sysctl.conf, grub kernel line, > etc.- I have a feather-light, lightspeed KDE SC full suite with every eye > candy effect on and the best part is my notebook -Pavilion dv7-4287cl- > reminds _cool_ all the time. Sounds really nice. I've never heard about the kernel and software you mention, and after reading about them it sounds really interesting. Do you have any reference (website/blog/wiki/whatever) with these optimizations, apart from the Arch Wiki?

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[arch-general] UEFI secure boot
by Genes MailLists 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Matthew Garret(Redhat) has written[1] an updated and interesting blog on this topic; which of course will impact arch too ... sharing in case anyone hasn't seen it: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html gene/ [1] Also discussed some in fedora ML

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[arch-general] pm-suspend stuck at uhci_hcd
by Manne Merak 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hi, Couple of updates ago suspend to RAM stopped working. Looking at the pm-suspend.log (below) file shows that it gets stuck at unloading uhci_hcd? I can unload and load the module by hand just fine. Anyone else have this? Manne ------- Wed May 16 21:06:10 SAST 2012: Running hooks for suspend. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: Linux hanslaptop 3.3.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 13 09:59:18 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux Module Size Used by fuse 59284 2 vboxnetadp 6727 0 vboxnetflt 16787 0 hidp 11791 1 rfcomm 28730 8 bnep 7254 2 usbhid 31477 0 btusb 10047 4 bluetooth 150114 28 btusb,bnep,rfcomm,hidp hid 66633 2 usbhid,hidp uvcvideo 60797 0 videobuf2_vmalloc 1736 1 uvcvideo videobuf2_memops 1562 1 videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_core 18103 1 uvcvideo videodev 72205 1 uvcvideo media 8513 2 videodev,uvcvideo snd_hda_codec_idt 48318 1 nvidia 10925239 44 snd_hda_intel 20080 2 arc4 1118 2 iwl3945 49250 0 iwlegacy 42390 1 iwl3945 b44 22954 0 ssb 41732 1 b44 joydev 7663 0 snd_hda_codec 79405 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt uhci_hcd 19712 0 mac80211 336883 2 iwlegacy,iwl3945 firewire_ohci 27283 0 firewire_core 44257 1 firewire_ohci r852 9032 0 sm_common 6510 1 r852 nand 42135 2 sm_common,r852 nand_ecc 3192 1 nand nand_ids 3629 1 nand dell_wmi 1217 0 sparse_keymap 2532 1 dell_wmi ehci_hcd 38640 0 serio_raw 3709 0 pcmcia 31438 1 ssb mii 3439 1 b44 iTCO_wdt 10773 0 mtd 26317 2 nand,sm_common snd_pcm 60499 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel snd_page_alloc 5901 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel sdhci_pci 8683 0 cfg80211 153196 3 mac80211,iwlegacy,iwl3945 sdhci 20362 1 sdhci_pci mmc_core 73191 3 sdhci,sdhci_pci,ssb i2c_i801 6992 0 psmouse 69902 0 i2c_core 16845 3 i2c_i801,nvidia,videodev wmi 7259 1 dell_wmi dell_laptop 9400 0 iTCO_vendor_support 1545 1 iTCO_wdt crc_itu_t 1095 1 firewire_core usbcore 122751 6 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,uvcvideo,btusb,usbhid pcmcia_core 10241 1 pcmcia snd_hwdep 4970 1 snd_hda_codec intel_agp 8688 0 intel_gtt 11193 1 intel_agp agpgart 22159 3 intel_gtt,intel_agp,nvidia r592 10291 0 snd_timer 15158 1 snd_pcm snd 45013 10 snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt memstick 5616 1 r592 soundcore 4986 1 snd usb_common 622 1 usbcore rfkill 12600 4 dell_laptop,cfg80211,bluetooth dcdbas 4340 1 dell_laptop evdev 7310 21 thermal 6563 0 battery 5053 0 button 3614 0 ac 1796 0 video 9819 0 vboxdrv 195748 2 vboxnetflt,vboxnetadp cpufreq_powersave 674 0 acpi_cpufreq 5145 1 mperf 1027 1 acpi_cpufreq processor 23476 3 acpi_cpufreq ext4 384604 1 crc16 1091 2 ext4,bluetooth jbd2 60590 1 ext4 mbcache 4345 1 ext4 sd_mod 25867 3 sr_mod 13148 0 cdrom 30504 1 sr_mod pata_acpi 2388 0 ata_generic 2391 0 ahci 17689 2 libahci 16783 1 ahci ata_piix 18616 0 libata 145743 5 ata_piix,libahci,ahci,ata_generic,pata_acpi scsi_mod 112765 3 libata,sr_mod,sd_mod total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2067496 1125712 941784 0 83492 693888 -/+ buffers/cache: 348332 1719164 Swap: 2104508 0 2104508 /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: success. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend: /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend: success. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01laptop-mode suspend suspend: /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01laptop-mode suspend suspend: success. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/11netcfg suspend suspend: /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/11netcfg suspend suspend: success. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: success. Running hook /etc/pm/sleep.d/50-hdparm_pm suspend suspend: /etc/pm/sleep.d/50-hdparm_pm suspend suspend: success. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55wicd suspend suspend: /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55wicd suspend suspend: success. Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: Unloading kernel module uhci_hcd...

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