May 2014 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Fwd: Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop
by Delcypher 05 May '14

05 May '14

> I tried several times, without any change to the boot menu. The SDD device > (perhaps a specific part) and also a "windows boot manager" are items in > a menu when rebooting with Advanced Startup from Windows. > > The steps I used were: > > - Ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > - changed the permissions of that file to +w > - re-ran grub-mkconfig Why are you doing this? You generally shouldn't need to set the +w on /boot/grub/grub.cfg. It should be set correctly for from the beginning. Remember you should be root or using sudo when running grub-mkconfig to write to /boot/grub/grub.cfg $ ls -l /boot/grub/grub.cfg -rw------- 1 root root 6209 Apr 22 18:29 /boot/grub/grub.cfg > Each time I ran this, it saw the Arch partition. And each time I > booted, this was not found in the grub menu at boot time. It was shown as 1. You should check the contents /boot/grub/grub.cfg actually contains the menu entries for Arch Linux 2. If you do see Arch Linux the menu entries in /boot/grub/grub.cfg but then don't see them at boot then that mostly likely means /boot/grub does not contain the grub files you are actually using at boot time (i.e. your /boot is mounting the wrong thing!). Either that or the menu you're looking at when booting isn't even GRUB!

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[arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?
by Dimitris Zervas 05 May '14

05 May '14

Hello fellow archers, I have an ASUS GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II 2GB and 2 monitors. I love gaming (battlefield and dayz for now, but several game generally, which are not wine-compatible and won't ever be. DirectX 11 and sh*t.) and I want to be able to play on my Arch (dual boot is NOT a solution for me.). I want to achieve GPU passthrough. GT9800 (my old graphics card) on one monitor for linux and GTX660 on the other monitor used by windows. I've tried several months ago to go with Xen GPU passthrough but failed (I did not have much time). I will start all over again in a month and try, KVM gpu passthrough and then (if it fails) xen again. Both KVM and Xen, have better support (if not only) for ATi graphics cards than Nvidia (for the specific chip that I have). Is that true? If yes, I am thinking of selling my NVidia and buying a slightly better ATi. Which one to buy? Thank you for your time :)

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[arch-general] Xbmc not boot
by Maykel Franco 04 May '14

04 May '14

Hi, I have installed archlinux + xbmc follow this step: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Linux_on_Arch_… But I power on the machine: [root@arch-xbmc-test ~]# systemctl status xbmc * xbmc.service - Starts instance of XBMC using xinit Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/xbmc.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2014-05-03 23:30:35 CEST; 1min 28s ago Main PID: 180 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) May 03 23:30:35 arch-xbmc-test systemd[1]: Started Starts instance of XBMC using xinit. May 03 23:30:35 arch-xbmc-test systemd[180]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user xbmc by (uid=0) May 03 23:30:35 arch-xbmc-test systemd[1]: xbmc.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC May 03 23:30:35 arch-xbmc-test systemd[1]: Unit xbmc.service entered failed state. xmbc not boot... Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop
by Steven Grace 04 May '14

04 May '14

On 05/03/2014 07:56 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > This is an interesting suggestion: > > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delcypher <delcypher(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> dy installed Ubuntu successfully you probably >> have a working boot manager from that install. So why not just use >> that to boot into Arch Linux? I think Ubuntu uses GRUB2 so you can >> have Ubuntu regenerate the menu entries and hopefully it would detect >> Arch Linux on its own. If not you'll have to look up how to add the >> menu entries manually. I haven't been following this thread very closely, so forgive me if I've misunderstood the question. I have a somewhat similar setup except that I have an older, non-UEFI machine. I recently created an Arch installation but I also have three Xubuntu installations. The GRUB 2 installation belongs to one of the Xubuntu installs. The way I add the Arch installation from Xubuntu is: * I mount the Arch partition in Xubuntu using the file manager. It gets mounted under /media/. * From a terminal ($ prompt), I enter: sudo update-grub When I reboot, the Arch installation is now visible in GRUB. Note that this procedure has to be repeated when Xubuntu software updates bring in a new kernel, etc., as that runs "update-grub" behind the scenes. I hope that helps.

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Re: [arch-general] Select page style in Firefox 29.0
by Ralf Mardorf 03 May '14

03 May '14

Hi, does somebody know where I can select the page style in Firefox 29.0? If a page does use grey text on black background, I want to turn off the page's style, to get black text on white background. I guess there's no way to get back the menu bar, or is it possible? I haven't seen such an option in the preferences and Internet research was without success. Regards, Ralf

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Re: [arch-general] OT: Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop
by Ralf Mardorf 03 May '14

03 May '14

> > Would you stop breaking the thread? This is the third time you've > > broken this thread alone. > > > > Not to mention top posting, but I'm not sure if there's a policy on > > that here. You need to explain that. The thread is a hidden thingy in the mail's headers, it's not the subject. In the header are In-Reply-To/References and some people sort their mails grouped by threads. Top posting is unwanted, consider to use inline posting or bottom posting and _remove_ irrelevant quotes. There's a mailing list archive, so IMO it's better to remove a little bit too much of the text, than to keep too much.

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[arch-general] nvidia optimus with intel/nouveau and bumblebee + bbswitch
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 03 May '14

03 May '14

Hi all, I have a Dell Latitude E6430, with the Optimus thing and a dual graphic card: Intel & Nvidia. (I did know I got that until now) I installed bumblebee and bbswitch I enabled bumblebeed at startup I installed "intel" and "nouveau" Xorg drivers I setup nouveau to be early loaded The BIOS only allow me to check or uncheck "Optimus". When unchecked => The OS boots with Intel ("intel" driver) when checked => The OS boots with Nvidia ("nouveau" driver) To potentially enable the 2 cards, I have to setup "check" that option. When this option is checked (the system boots on the Nvidia card) "xrandr" only lists 1 provider: nouveau. I cleaned /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* to not mention any GPU related instructions. I get stuck on this, because whatever documentation I read, as long as xrandr lists only 1 provider I cannot try any solution to get 3 screens when I want to (I use a xrandr GUI to enable what I want). Note that I dont want to have 3 screens all the time. Where should I check further in order to get xrandr to list the 2 poviders I need? Thank you.

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[arch-general] netctl/systemd - permission error in dmesg - need fixing?
by David C. Rankin 03 May '14

03 May '14

All, Checking dmesg, I found the line: [ 2.865094] systemd[1]: Configuration file /etc/systemd/system/netctl(a)rlf_network\x2dstatic.service is marked world-inaccessible. This has no effect as configuration data is accessible via APIs without restrictions. Proceeding anyway. Checking /etc/systemd/system, I find the file with 0600 perms: -rw------- 1 root root 200 Dec 5 10:44 netctl(a)rlf_network\x2dstatic.service Checking /etc/netctl, the netctl file originally read IS world readable: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424 Dec 4 08:20 rlf_network-static What is causing systemd or netctl to create the file in /etc/systemd/system with 0600, thereby causing the dmesg entry? Does this need to be fixed? (if so, I'll file - but is this a bug?) I found a similar, but unrelated thread here: http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6953 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] VMware 10.0.2, kernel 3.14.2: recompiling vmware modules modules
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 03 May '14

03 May '14

Hi all, As reported by the forum thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1410987 I encounter the same problem. Unfortunately, the topic has been closed because of trolling, but would you know a quick workaround (staying with this kernel)? I need VMware workstation for work too :-)

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Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a Windows8 UEFI laptop
by Mark Lee 02 May '14

02 May '14

Salutations, Okay. Try starting ove again. Boot into the arch iso using uefi boot (preferably but not necessary). Then set up your partitions (root, home). For boot, mount the windows EFI system partition as /boot. Then install the system. You won't need to install grub or gummiboot since you can boot the efistub directly. I would create a folder in /boot named "arch". I would then copy the *.img from /boot to /boot/arch and rename the vmlinuz-Linux to vmlinuz-linux.efi. If you booted into uefi mode from the Arch iso, you should be able to run efibootmgr. Run efibootmgr to see what entries you have (you should at least have the windows entry). Then type something like this : efibootmgr -d <efi disk id ( probably /dev/sda) -p <parition # (probably 1> -L "Arch Linux UEFI" -l /arch/vmlinux-Linux.efi -u "root=<location of root> initramfs=/arch/initramfs.img rw quiet" -w. You should be able to reboot if all went well and you will boot into Arch Linux. Regards, Mark -----Original Message----- From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs(a)gmail.com> Sent: ‎5/‎1/‎2014 8:07 PM To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a Windows8 UEFI laptop I don't understand what is the entry, or fallback entry, or "run the entry." I'm sorry. I'm going to try again later. In fact, I may take the undesireable step of installing from Manjaro or whatever is the shortcut way to install Arch Linux these days. On the one hand, I don't care to learn about what's Micro$oft's latest tortuous trick it has played on the users; and on the other hand, I do value to learn the nuts and bolts of GNU/Linux. Thank you very much. I am willing to give it one more try. I might even try to install grub in a partition, as apparently is what Ubuntu has done. Thank you again, Alan Davis On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/05/14 07:40 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > I took a chance, and nothing happened. I installed gummiboot on /boot, > > where the kernel was. But I didn't move the ubuntu kernel over. > > > > In the end, Windows still booted, and I was able to get back to a boot > menu > > from there, and boot ubuntu. Not Arch. Yet. > > > > Thank you for now. > > > > Alan > > You need to explicitly run the entry (if you had the EFI stuff mounted) > or the fallback entry (if you didn't). > >

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