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[arch-general] kde dark themes
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 21 May '09

21 May '09

kdeusers, If you haven't tried a dark theme for your kde desktop yet, you are missing out on some really cool looks. I toyed with dark themes over the years, but never really found one that worked. After being inspired to try again by senior Rosenstrauch posted one to the list, I took another look and came up with something I really like. It consists of color-themes for kde, emerald, and kate/kwrite. Other than that you just need to change the foreground color for konqueror and any of your web browsers, etc. I'll just post the links to the themes since you can't post it all here. Give it a shot, I bet you will like it. Small screenshots of the desktop theme and kicker background: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/screenshots/kde-dark-them… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/screenshots/kickersteel.j… kde color-schemes (import under kde control center -> colors): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/color-themes/dcr-Blue.kcs… emerald theme for compiz (import in emerald theme manager): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/emerald/dcr%20Dark%20Blue-Gra… kate/kwrite/quanta color scheme (put in ~/.kde/share/config): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kateschemarc A kicker background (kde control center -> Desktop -> Panel -> Appearance): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kicker/kickersteelarch2.p… There are a few alternate themes and backgrounds in the above directories, so you can pick and choose if you like. And DR, since you started this whole thing, and I appreciate it, if you notice the "R" icon on my kicker panel that is set atop flames, I've put two sizes on the server (40x40 and 140x140) just in case you have a use for them ;-) See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/icons/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] pan crashes with bug report
by Baho Utot 20 May '09

20 May '09

pan is crashing when I try to send a reply to any news group This is the bug report from bug-buddy System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 9 12:47:43 UTC 2009 i686 X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Vendor Release: 10601000 Selinux: No Accessibility: Disabled GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks Icon Theme: gnome GTK+ Modules: canberra-gtk-module, gnomebreakpad Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0 ----------- .xsession-errors (76 sec old) --------------------- camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Trash Unmatched element: citerefentry Unmatched element: refentrytitle Unmatched element: citerefentry Unmatched element: refentrytitle ** (evolution:4230): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s ** (evolution:4230): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Drafts camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Kumusta camel-imap-provider-Message: Unable to load summary: no such table: Trash -------------------------------------------------- MDRawHeader Any help with this?

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[arch-general] :: Starting acpid -- acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 20 May '09

20 May '09

Listmates, I am chasing down an issue with the radeonhd driver to force downclocking of the gpu. In my Xog.0.log I am receiving the message: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) I have installed acpid, but acpid will not start and gives the following error: [10:24 alchemy:/home/david] # /etc/rc.d/acpid start :: Starting acpid [BUSY] acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy [FAIL] What's the trick with acpid? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Can't compile digikam 0.10 on archlinux.
by Markus Golser 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi I try to build digikam 0.10 on archlinux. I have kdegraphics 4.2.3-1 installed and still can't compile digikam sudo abs cp -r /var/abs/extra/digikam/ /tmp cd /tmp/digikam/ makepkg PKGBUILD -- The C compiler identification is GNU -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found. -- Looking for Q_WS_QWS -- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found. -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC -- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found. -- Found Qt-Version 4.5.1 (using /usr/bin/qmake) -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libXft.so;/usr/lib/libXau.so;/usr/lib/libXdmcp.so;/usr/lib/libXpm.so - found -- Looking for gethostbyname -- Looking for gethostbyname - found -- Looking for connect -- Looking for connect - found -- Looking for remove -- Looking for remove - found -- Looking for shmat -- Looking for shmat - found -- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE -- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found -- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so -- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H -- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H - found -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found -- Found Threads: TRUE -- Found Automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4 -- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl -- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT -- Performing Test _OFFT_IS_64BIT - Failed -- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT -- Performing Test HAVE_FPIE_SUPPORT - Success -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_W_OVERLOADED_VIRTUAL - Success -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY -- Performing Test __KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY - Success -- Phonon Version: 4.3.0 -- Found Phonon: /usr/lib/libphonon.so -- Found Phonon Includes: /usr/include/KDE;/usr/include -- Found KDE 4.2 include dir: /usr/include -- Found KDE 4.2 library dir: /usr/lib -- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler -- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4 -- checking for module 'lcms' -- found lcms, version 1.18 -- Found lcms version 1.18, /usr/lib/liblcms.so -- Found JPEG: /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/libz.so -- Found PNG: /usr/lib/libpng.so -- Found TIFF: /usr/lib/libtiff.so -- Found Jasper: /usr/lib/libjasper.so -- Check Kdcraw library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kdcraw library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- PKGCONFIG() indicates that libkdcraw is not installed (install the package which contains libkdcraw.pc if you want to support this feature) -- Check Kexiv2 library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kexiv2 library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- PKGCONFIG() indicates that libkexiv2 is not installed (install the package which contains libkexiv2.pc if you want to support this feature) -- Check Kipi library in local sub-folder... -- Check Kipi library using pkg-config... -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- Found libkipi release < 0.2.0, too old -- Found gphoto2: -L/usr/lib -lgphoto2_port;-L/usr/lib -lgphoto2 -lgphoto2_port -lm -- checking for module 'libkdcraw>=0.4.0' -- package 'libkdcraw>=0.4.0' not found -- checking for module 'libkexiv2>=0.5.0' -- package 'libkexiv2>=0.5.0' not found -- Found KdepimLibs: /usr/lib/cmake/KdepimLibs-4.2.3/KdepimLibsConfig.cmake -- WARNING: you are using the obsolete 'PKGCONFIG' macro use FindPkgConfig -- Found LensFun: /usr/include -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- digiKam 0.10.0 dependencies results <http://www.digikam.org> -- -- Qt4 SQL module found................ YES -- libjpeg library found............... YES -- libtiff library found............... YES -- libpng library found................ YES -- libjasper library found............. YES -- liblcms library found............... YES -- libkipi library found............... NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:175 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkipi library >= 0.2.0. You need to install libkipi first -- libkipi website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libkexiv2 library found............. NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:185 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkexiv2 library >= 0.5.0. You need to install libkexiv2 first -- libkexiv2 website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libkdcraw library found............. NO -- CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:195 (MESSAGE): digiKam needs libkdcraw library >= 0.4.0. You need to install libkdcraw first -- libkdcraw website is at http://www.digikam.org/sharedlibs -- -- libgphoto2 library found............ YES -- libkdepimlibs library found......... YES (optional) -- libmarblewidget library found....... NO (optional) -- -- digiKam will be compiled without geolocation using Marble widget support. -- -- liblensfun library found............ YES (optional) CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:269 (MESSAGE): digiKam will be compiled............ NO (Look README file for more details about dependencies) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

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[arch-general] Firefox bug that may be Arch specific
by Emmanuel Benisty 20 May '09

20 May '09

Hi List, Just for information, there has been already two bug reports in Bugzilla that mention a bug in the display size of textboxes. Until now, only Archers seems to suffer from this bug and one of the mozilla developers has marked this issue as specific to Arch. Therefore, I thought it could be interesting to let Arch developers and users to be informed about this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491114 Thanks+regards.

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[arch-general] Marking a package as a dependency
by Magnus Therning 20 May '09

20 May '09

I just recently bothered reading part of pacman's man page and found that I probably should have performed a `pacman -U --asdeps mypkg.tar.gz` as I installed dependencies for packages I build manually. However I didn't, so can I retro-actively change the reason-for-installation of an already installed package without re-installing it? (No, I couldn't decipher whether the man page already tells me how to do this :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 20 May '09

20 May '09

Listmates, I'm building a local repo for boxes to update via the lan instead of redownloading. I have my repo on my local server as: arch/ x86/ x86_64/ I have moved all files for my two x86_64 boxes to the arch/x86_64 dir and I am filtering with a script to eliminate dups by moving the lesser numbered packages to arch/x86_64/oldpkgs. Testing the script before the actual move of packages, I ran across this anomaly in some filenames: (script output) [1] <snip> ttf-isabella-1.003-3.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs ttf-isabella-1.003-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tunepimp-0.5.3-5.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs tunepimp-0.5.3-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz tzdata-2009f-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs tzdata-2009g-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz unrar-3.8.5-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs unrar-3.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz <snip> As shown above, there are multiple packages where the earlier version did *not* contain the x86_64 designation where the current package now does. Are these the same packages? If so why did earlier packages not have the x86_64 and when was the architecture added? Are all packages now going to have the architecture specified? Footnotes: [1] Filtering done by a simple look ahead and the output created as follows: PKGFILES=( $(ls -1 /home/backup/archlinux/x86_64) ) for ((i=0;i<${#PKGFILES[@]}-1;i++)); do if [[ ${PKGFILES[$i]%%-[[:digit:]]*} == ${PKGFILES[$i+1]%%-[[:digit:]]*} ]]; then echo -e "${PKGFILES[$i]} -> oldpkgs\n${PKGFILES[$i+1]}\n" fi -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] broken john package
by Sébastien Duquette 18 May '09

18 May '09

The package for john is broken, it is missing files that make it unusable. I filled a bug report (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14422) a month ago and other users complained about this issue. The current maintainer is andrea and the package was last updated on april 8th. Can someone please fix this ? Thanks, Sébastien

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[arch-general] netcfg SCAN patch
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, a typing error on src/connections/wireless. [ ]s -- Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto Robinho robsonpeixoto(a)gmail.com Telefone: (19) 8821-0396 Computer Science Master's degree student, University of Campinas Archlinux-br Developer Team - http://archlinux-br.org Linux Counter #395633

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[arch-general] error dumped to terminal: kdeinit4: ... /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 on kdemod3?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 18 May '09

18 May '09

Listmates, Here is a curious one. I am getting KDE4 errors dumped back to the screen on my KDE3 (kdemod3) screen hours after kdiff3 was run from the terminal? Here is what is getting dumped back to my terminal through stderr on my x86_64 install: kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" kbuildsycoca4(25149) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" Anybody ever seen something like this before. It looks like it will be a kdemod issue related to the fact that kdiff3 was built against the kde4 runtime, but I thought I would ask hear to see if anyone else has seen something like this before? I have a bug open with kdemod: http://www.chakra-project.org/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=271 where additional details can be found. The times associated with running kdiff3 and then the above error messages have me confused. Specifically I ran kdiff3 and got the following output on stdout at 2:12 am: 02:12 alchemy:~/tmp/cursor/xcursorgen-1.0.2/mycursors> kdiff3 QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/k3b.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/filelight.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). <snip> Then hours later, I received the stderr messages: [05:15 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4 (21983)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line <snip> [09:05 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Now I'm not trying to run kdeinit4, that just what is coming back trough stderr and my prompt just happens to have a timestamp in it to help gage time. Is there anything I can do with kdiff3 to prevent the call to kdeinit4? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 18 May '09

18 May '09

Listmates: I have been throught http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics, and even added the section on howto calculate your VideoRam value, but I didn't find anything about generating an initial xorg.conf for the intel card. Currently I have no xorg.conf and things are working, but not as fast as they could. I would like to configure the card to use UXA accell, but I need an xorg.conf to tweak. Anybody know a quick way to create one? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Xpdf pl3 PKGBUILD
by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto 18 May '09

18 May '09

PKGBUILD for xpdf pl3 [ ]s -- Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto Robinho robsonpeixoto(a)gmail.com Telefone: (19) 8821-0396 Computer Science Master's degree student, University of Campinas Archlinux-br Developer Team - http://archlinux-br.org Linux Counter #395633

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[arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 17 May '09

17 May '09

Listmates, I am in a fist-fight with grub again most likely due to /dev/disk/by-uuid and I'm losing the battle. First, the situation. I'm moving and resizing partitions from an 80G drive to a 500G drive. No issues there. The partitions setup is: /dev/sda1 WinXP /dev/sda2 Extended /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 / /dev/sda7 swap /dev/sda8 /boot After moving and resizing the partitions windows boot fine and Arch boots until it gets to kinit and then throws a kernel panic. I have updated the disk/by-uuid labels in /boot/grub/menu.lst and in /etc/fstab, but still the kinit error. As far as my grub install goes, the system boot to the grub menu and it is reading /boot/grub/menu.lst because I can boot XP from the grub menu, but not boot Arch. Gurus... What to check? Throw a brother a bone.... Where else is the disk by-uuid stuff hidden? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Bugs again
by Damjan Georgievski 17 May '09

17 May '09

Sorry to bring this again, but something has to change in the way bugs are handled in Arch. I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about the awesome package in community. The package maintainer just closes the bug, not solving it, claiming it's upstream, and not even investigating the problem. He suggests I ask upstream. Ok, I play a good citizen, I do ask upstream, we find the problem, a sollution is found - it turns out the PKGBUILD was wrong from the begining - but still I submit a patch to awesome so that building it is much easier. I request reopening the bug .. it's a small text-area, not very usable, so I just write "New information" .. since the bug was closed with "You may want to ask upstream why they install those files by default.". And then I get the answer: Reason for denial: You need to be more specific that "New information" in a reopen request... Now, it's not like I enjoy hanging out in the bug system opening bugs, investigating them, hoping to improve ArchLinux's packages.. and I don't see how I could've deserved this behaviour. The bug report shouldn't have been closed in the first place, since the problem was not even solved. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me know if this should go to forums instead of here. Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is. The simplest way I have found is to: (1) install cups & cups-pdf from extra; (2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups (Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot) (3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select: Administration -> Find New Printers Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF) Make: Generic Driver: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer Done! Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose "CUPS-PDF" as the printer and then select the checkbox for "print to file", hit print and enter the filename.ps and 'print' Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the background, you are simply stopping the process with "print to file" before the ps2pdf utility is called. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] gparted dependency failure `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, Attempting to run gparted from the local drive (after installing all listed optional dependencies of gparted) to resize a partition on a usb drive disclosed a dependency failure: [09:33 supersff:/home/david/linux/partition-copy] # gparted /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /usr/sbin/gpartedbin) Hmm should this be reported as a bug or chocked up to stupidity on my part? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] System Upgrade - networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 16 May '09

16 May '09

Listmates, I don't know how to handle this dependency error and I want to make sure I don't break my kdemod3 install by replacing libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager. I presume it would be a 1-for-1 drop-in replacement, but I thought I would ask first. Anybody know? :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core 33.5K 104.4K/s 00:00:00 [#############################################] 100% extra 384.2K 127.0K/s 00:00:03 [#############################################] 100% community 361.9K 132.0K/s 00:00:03 [#############################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager? [Y/n] n resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager. Remove libnetworkmanager? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: networkmanager: conflicts with libnetworkmanager -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] problem while bridging network
by ludovic coues 16 May '09

16 May '09

hi listmate, I'm posting 'cause I have some problem when I bridge a connexion. I wanna set up a virtual machine with windws 7 to play eve online (no support for linux at this time, and I can't make it run on wine). So I've follow the wiki for setting up network with the virtual machine. But now, I'm starting my computer with eth0 and vbox0 bridged, but I can't use my wifi connexion on wlan0. If I delete the bridge with a «brctl delbr br0», I can connect to the wifi through wlan0, but my VM haven't any network. To be exact, I can connect me to my personnal network, but this have no internet connexion. Weird. If any one might help me with this, it would be nice. -ludovic

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[arch-general] Themes for Gnome
by S Andrews 16 May '09

16 May '09

Where can I find themes for gnome, I am looking for Graphite theme

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[arch-general] Did new kernel version removed vesa FB?
by Javier Vasquez 16 May '09

16 May '09

Hi, I few minutes ago I upgraded a arch box (x86_64), and to my surprise, something that was working before, loading the kernel with parameter "vga=0x37D" is no longer working (nothing happens). The new version is 2.6.29.3-1. The resolution for nvidia quadro fx 570m is "1920x1200", but the nvidiafb module has never worked, so I need to use the vesa FB... Well I tried a other vga modes, like 0x31B, 0x307, and then the screen goes blank and freezes... I don't know what happens, but it seems like the vesafb which used to be compiled built-in, is not longer working properly... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] Running setserial from rc.local
by Sergi Pons Freixes 15 May '09

15 May '09

With the new Xorg, I need to run the command: setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig At every boot to get the stylus working in a Tablet PC. I have put the line in /etc/rc.local, as it contains "all the things which are not daemons that you want to run at boot". But it is not working. KDM (therefore, X) starts without using the stylus. If I switch to a terminal, run the command, and the return to X, the stylus is recognised. Any clue about what is I am doing wrong? I know that the command can not be executed from an X terminal (this is why I switch to a "normal" terminal), but running it from rc.local should work, right?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Get notified on website updates
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 May '09

15 May '09

Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 18:19:12 schrieb Abhishek Dasgupta: > >> Some other similar programs: >> * http://jue.li/crux/ck4up/ >> > > I did not know about this, but it looks really nice. Its a little more complex > and it does not display what has changed. > > On the other hand being able to define some regexp might be usefull. > > Hi, I personally use it, is very simple, this is my config file [#1] Can control with a regex, what part of page you watch :) a sample run (striped) $ ck4up -k sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… -k is for not touch the internal database if you run with -d (debug) can see all matches: $ ck4up -kd <snip> sudokuki-0.9.12.tar.bz2 sudokuki-0.9.12.tar.gz sudokuki-0.9.11.tar.bz2 sudokuki-0.9.11.tar.gz <snip> sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… <snip> run with -v to be verbose: $ ck4up -kv rewrite ........ ok netpipes ....... ok xjobs .......... ok <snip> sudokuki ....... diff: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180199&package_id=208… dbm ............ ok papyrus ........ ok lsyncd ......... ok <snip> another interest parameter is -p that show the config file with all macros expanded Enjoy! [#1] http://djgera.pastebin.com/f4202cba5 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Get notified on website updates
by Grigorios Bouzakis 15 May '09

15 May '09

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:13:09PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hello, > > maybe you are familar with the following problem: > > You want to get notified when there is a new upstream release. The problem is > that not all projects offer rss feeds or an announce mailing list. And if they > do they are sometimes too verbose or don't cover the updates you like. > > So needed something to watch a certain website and tell me if anything > changed. There are a lot of webservices, firefox plugins etc..; but they are > all too complicated and just don't offer what I need. > > So I though it would be quite easy to write something myself using cron and > lynx. So I after a few minutes I had a simple Bash script whih just does the > job. > > It loops through an url list and prints the diff to the previous run. Running > this by cron I get an email including the diff everytime one of the observed > websites are updated. > > Maybe someone else has some use for it, too. And perhaps I'll even create a > git repo for it; though I don't think I should add much more "features". ;-) > > http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/src/w3watch/ > Frugalware has been doing similar stuff for a long while but they have an up2date field in their build scripts. See for example: http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git@frugalware.org/msg20141.html They recently converted that to a Flasttar function: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git;a=blob_… The source is somewhere in here: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob… -- Greg

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[arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent??
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is almost completely transparent?? This is really strange and I can't explain what is happening, so a picture (screenshot) is worth a 1000 words: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vb-transparent2.j… [139k] As you can see, the Virtualbox window background is almost 100% transparent as well as some parts of the applications running in it. This can make it quite challenging to get things done. I am using the radeonhd driver. I tried it with compiz running and then again with kwin. It made no difference. Other than virtualbox being transparent, everything else was OK. Any ideas on this one?? cc: radeonhd list -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Radeonhd - Use EXA Accel instead of XAA Accel
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, If you use the radeonhd driver, use EXA acceleration instead of XAA. I just found out about this today and it is a 100% improvement in speed, etc. over XAA acceleration. It isn't as fast as fglrx, but it is a world of improvement over the alternative. To make use of EXA acceleration, simply enable it in your xorg.conf in the device section. Example: Section "Device" BoardName "RS690M" Driver "radeonhd" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "GARTSize" "256" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "no_dri" "no" Option "UseFastTLS" "1" Option "no_accel" "no" Option "mtrr" "off" VendorName "ATI" EndSection -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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