August 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] Systemd screen brightness
by Michael Nawrocki 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Hey everyone, I'm trying to get my laptop backlight keys (fn+f6/f7) to adjust the brightness of my toshiba laptop backlight. Previously, I had entered the following in my /etc/acpi/handler.sh to handle the acpi events generated when those keys were pressed: video/brightnessdown) echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) -1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ;; video/brightnessup) echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) +1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ;; However, as I am working on migrating to systemd, acpid no longer runs and hence does not handle these events. How can I write a similar handler into systemd? Thanks, Mike

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[arch-general] Wayland and Archlinux
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X? Other bleeding edge distros mentioned they will be adopting it [1], [2] I am not saying Archlinux should follow, just asking if there is (was) any discussion about it. [1]: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November/145273.html [2]: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 -- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. #include <stdio.h> int main(){printf("%s","\x4c\x65\x6f\x6e\x69\x64\x61\x73");}

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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] Mime backup program
by Squall Lionheart 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hello, A few weeks ago there was a thread regarding the best "Arch" way of backing up /etc and I mentioned that I wrote a backup program that works very well for that. I promised I would let everyone know when my new version became available, and today is that day. I don't have an AUR package yet, however an installer is provided and a "Quick Setup" can be found in the README. The package contains full documentation and I am willing to answer questions via email. This is a very powerful and fully featured program and I welcome any feedback. http://code.google.com/p/mime-backup/ Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual

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[arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound
by Kyle 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Working from the command line in a text-only console using espeakup, all is well, and sound works as it should. However, starting GDM mutes my sound card. If I go back to the text console and run sudo systemctl start alsa-restore Again, all is well in the text console until I login with GDM. I am expecting to hear Orca speaking at this point, but I hear nothing. In order to get Orca to speak, I must run gnome-terminal from within GNOME and then do sudo systemctl start alsa-restore again. Once I do this, I have sound until I shutdown the computer. I have tried xdm and lxdm also, and while they themselves don't cause me to lose sound at the text console, I am for some reason unable to login and use GNOME from either of these display managers. I also tried commenting out load-module module-device-restore in /etc/pulse/default.pa, as was a possible work-around in a much older version of PulseAudio that mentioned /etc/pa.conf, which I translated to /etc/pulse/default.pa since there is no /etc/pa.conf, but this also doesn't solve my problem. I should note that although I am using systemd commands to restore sound, this problem is not related to systemd, as I was experiencing the same issue before I migrated to full systemd yesterday. I am currently running Arch on a USB flash drive connected to a Dell Optiplex from about 2003 or 2004, but I can't find the exact model, as lshw is only giving me Dell Computer Corporation as the vendor name with no model number, and it doesn't even say Optiplex anywhere, although I remember reading it somewhere a couple of years ago. The computer was given to my family several years ago, but it's basically been a spare box until recently when my newer and better designed box passed away due to human error. This is why I unfortunately don't have the full information about this machine. The sound card is listed by lspci as 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) and uses the snd_intel8x0 kernel module. I am currently running linux-lts 3.0.40-1, pulseaudio 2.1-1, pulseaudio-alsa 2-1, alsa-utils 1.0.25-3 and gdm 3.4.1-2. I would appreciate any help anyone can provide, and will be happy to answer any questions I may have missed here. ~Kyle

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[arch-general] Journalctl error with systemdAssertion 'size > 0' failed at src/journal/mmap-cache.c:615, function mmap_cache_get(). Aborting. zsh: abort journalctl
by Aurko Roy 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Hi, I have been getting the following error whenever I try to run journalctl: Assertion 'size > 0' failed at src/journal/mmap-cache.c:615, function mmap_cache_get(). Aborting. zsh: abort journalctl Initially I thought it had something to do with the new sealing key functionality of systemd, so I ran journalctl --setup-keys which ran without a problem. However this error persists even after generating the sealing keys, so now I'm not so sure if they're related. I'm running systemd 189-3 (with systemd-sysvcompat 189-3) from the testing repo with permanent logging enabled (I have a /var/log/journal directory created). Does anybody have an idea what could be causing the problem? I apologize if this is some standard issue that may have been covered on the wiki, in which case I would greatly appreciate if someone were to point me in the right direction. TIA. -- Aurko Roy GPG key: 0x20C5BC31 Fingerprint:76B4 9677 15BE 731D 1949 85BA 2A31 B442 20C5 BC31

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[arch-general] How to align partitions?
by Stayvoid 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Hi, I'd like to know how to create aligned partitions on a 160GB disk which uses a 512B sector size. (Partition table: msdos) I've got the theory [1, 2], but I can't make it work. I'd like to have three partitions: 1. ext3 ~ 100mb /boot 2. linux-swap ~ 1GB swap 3. ext3 (for the rest of the system) How to adjust the sizes? I'm planning to encrypt swap and the third partition with dm-crypt (not LUKS). Separate /boot is needed to mount and decrypt them after booting. [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838522.html [2] http://superuser.com/questions/349887/gnu-parted-how-to-deal-with-the-error… Thanks

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[arch-general] libsystemd to systemd
by Mathieu R. 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Hello, Last update (10 minutes ago) asked me if y want switch from libsystemd to core/systemd. I agreed, and on next reboot, networkmanager was not started automaticly from rc.conf. it work well if y start it by hand (/etc/rc.d/networkmanager start). can you please help me to get it started at boot again ? -- Mathieu R.

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