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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] file-5.01
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 06 May '09

06 May '09

Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > >> Upstream bug fix release. >> >> > > file 5.02 is out. > > And now 5.03 :) -- 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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[arch-general] kde control center "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" causes ooo buttons to disappear
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 06 May '09

06 May '09

Listmates, I have an interesting one for you, in openOffice, all of the icons on the toolbars and all of the text of the context menus disappear when I click on a document in writer. If I brush the mouse over the toolbar or menu, the icons/text reappears while the icon or text has focus, but then disappears again when the focus leaves. I have a number of illustrative screenshots here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing1.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing.… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing1… http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing2… Version Information: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-about.jpg The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the same document and all of the buttons started disappearing. Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix it? -- 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] Alsa state and my front speakers
by Magnus Therning 06 May '09

06 May '09

I had no problems at all configuring the basic setup for Alsa, everything worked perfect. At the end I issued `alsactl store` and rebooted hoping that my settings would be restored on boot. They were, almost; all settings except the unmute of the front speakers. This forces me to go in and use `alsamixer` each time I boot, just to unmute the front speakers. I've had a look at the the file `/etc/asound.state` but can't make heads or tails of it. Any suggestions on how I can get my front speakers to be unmuted on boot? /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] [signoff] jfsutils 1.1.14-1
by Tobias Powalowski 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi update to latest version, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

Listmates, I'm fighting with PolicyKit to mount my USB drives and --- it's Winning! I've modified /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to give all users and myself (david) explicit authority (as a member of wheel and as me) and I've *restarted* hal and still no-go? My conf file looks like this: <config version="0.1"> <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> <match group="users"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </match> <match user="david"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config> No matter what I do I get: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result) What gives?? -- 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] Corruption with new intel driver
by Nicolas Bigaouette 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi all, I just fully upgraded on two of my machines. These packages related to xorg were updated: [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.1.2-1 -> 2.2.1-1) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-keyboard (1.3.2-1 -> 1.3.2-2) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-input-mouse (1.3.0-1 -> 1.4.0-2) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-video-intel (2.4.3-1 -> 2.6.3-3) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.1.0-1 -> 2.2.0-1) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-server-utils (7.4-3 -> 7.4-4) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-server (1.5.3-5 -> 1.6.0-3) [2009-04-14 12:36] upgraded xorg-utils (7.4-2 -> 7.4-3) Unfortunately, I am facing some screen corruptions, as seen on this screenshot: http://nbigaouette.inrs-emt.homelinux.net/linux/arch/xf86_video_intel_corru… The only way to make it disappear is to force a redraw. It is not sufficient to hide the window and make it appear again. If the corruption appears inside the text of a KDE editor, moving the cursor to the corrupted line should change its background color and thus force a redraw. Or if it appears in toolbars, I need to mouse over the toolbard to refresh it. This happens on both of my computers. One is an asus eeepc 1000: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) The other is a Dell Optiplex 755 desktop: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) Both are using kwin's compositing and no xorg.conf. These are what might look suspiscious from /var/log/Xorg.0.log: [...] (II) intel(0): Comparing regs from server start up to After PreInit (WW) intel(0): Register 0x61114 (PORT_HOTPLUG_STAT) changed from 0x00000000 to 0x00000b00 [...] (II) intel(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 4669436 kB available (WW) intel(0): DRI2 requires UXA [...] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:02.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 10 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:00:02.0 (II) [drm] loaded kernel module for "i915" driver. [...] exaCopyDirty: Pending damage region empty! What could be the cause of that? Thanx!

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[arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

Listmates, Picking around with mc, I saw a file that looked really out of place. In my / dir, I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi. Shouldn't that be in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. I plead the 5th, I don't know how it got there. This is on my x86_64 box. The date and time of the file are: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12367 2008-06-17 08:39 20-ups-nut-device.fdi [20:05 alchemy:/] # pacman -Qo 20-ups-nut-device.fdi error: No package owns 20-ups-nut-device.fdi Dunno? Can somebody take a quick check and see if they have this stray .fdi file in their / directory. It looks like a 'network ups tools' (nut) policy, but why it's in / escapes me. -- 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] freetype2 with enabled tt bytecode interpreter, license issues?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi, Because it is being a topic of great interest to the licenses of the packages, I question, because I'm not good at anything legal issues: This package with this option enabled, not is problematic in legal terms? http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html Personally in my machine, I recompiled this package without the patch, I prefer the auto-hinting from freetype2, because fonts looks better (at least on CRT), I know that this can be configured with fontconf, but because some programs/libs based on xpdf libs (example poppler*, kpdf), look at headers at compile time instead of using fontconfig I recompile these packages too. Searching in the bug tracker i found this old ticket http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/2033 Citation from ftoption.h: /* Define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER if you want to compile */ /* a bytecode interpreter in the TrueType driver. Note that there are */ /* important patent issues related to the use of the interpreter. */ /* */ /* By undefining this, you will only compile the code necessary to load */ /* TrueType glyphs without hinting. */ /* */ /* Do not #undef this macro here, since the build system might */ /* define it for certain configurations only. */ Thanks for your time. -- 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] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

On Monday 04 May 2009 13:36:03 you wrote: > [snip] > > I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but I've had > difficulty auto-mounting NTFS partitions as read/write. The reason seems > to be that auto-mount autodetects NTFS partitions as using the ntfs driver, > but in order to get full functionality, you need to use the ntfs-3g driver. > Mounting as root, explicitly using the ntfs-3g driver, works. > > HTH, > Dave Moore Yes, I think that is exactly what the problem is. I didn't want 'rw', all I wanted was read-only. So I just created a directory as a mount point and did 'mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /mountpoint'. It worked just fine. I'll play around to find a way to get this (politely put 'dad-gum') hal/dbus/PolicyKit to do what a simple 'mount -t ntfs' had done for years.... -- 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] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 05 May '09

05 May '09

Listmates, The laptop install (Toshiba 205D) went great accept where I am stuck with video drivers for my ati card, and the last little nit of getting wifi to start automatically. First the easy one, the wireless: (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to know where to put the pieces to have it start automatically. Basically, it takes 3 commands to get my wifi going: ESSID=${1:-skyline} IFACE=${2:-wlan0} iwconfig ${IFACE} essid "${ESSID}" wpa_supplicant -i${IFACE} -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -B >> /var/log/wpa_start.log 2>&1 sleep 2 # This doesn't count as a command dhcpcd wlan0 My question is "Where do I put this stuff to make it happen when I start Arch?? (2) No Compiz with the radeon driver. I know there must be a trick or two that will make this work. Heck, I even got compiz working on the intel card, so I know the ATI card (X1200) will do it (it does it with the fglrx driver on openSuSE). However, I don't know what the tricks are to getting it working on the stock radeon driver. Any other ATI Arch users know any more about this?? Here is my current xorg.conf: # Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/speedo" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts" FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts" InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata" InputDevices "/dev/input/mice" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on" Option "IgnoreABI" "on" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "kbd" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical" Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "Name" "Touchpad" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "Vendor" "Synaptics" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor[0]" VendorName "TOSHIBA" ModelName "TOSHIBA 17IN TRUEBRIGHT" UseModes "Modes[0]" DisplaySize 367 230 HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0 Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool" Option "DPMS" Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900" EndSection Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Screen" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection Device "Device[0]" Identifier "Screen[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" EndSection Section "Device" BoardName "RV350 NP" # BusID "1:5:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" # Option "GARTSize" "32" VendorName "ATI" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen 0 "Screen[0]" 0 0 EndSection Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" Option "DAMAGE" "true" 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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[arch-general] Function keys not working?
by David Rosenstrauch 05 May '09

05 May '09

Not sure what happened but looks like all of a sudden the function keys (i.e., F1 through F12) are no longer working on my keyboard today. REALLY annoying. Tried using xev and it's responding with weird key codes: F1 - keycode 244 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol) F3 - nothing F11 - keycode 210 (keysym 0x1008ff43, XF86Launch3) Anybody know WTF is up and how to fix? Is this something having to do with the recent upgrade to xf86-input-evdev? Tnx, DR

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[arch-general] kde3 Error: Could Not Determine Resource Status - Kmail??
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 04 May '09

04 May '09

Listmates, Every minute or two I have this large and annoying dialog appear on the screen complainting about something related to kmail. The difficult part about it is it does *not* tell you what it is complaining about. The only thing close to a description it gives is "Could not stat resource". Huh? I have a screenshot of it here: ( 50K ) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kontact-err.jpg The text of the error states: <quote> Error while getting folder information. Could Not Determine Resource Status An attempt to determine information about the status of the resource Mail, such as the resource name, type, size, etc., was unsuccessful. Technical reason: Could Not Stat Resource Details of the request: URL: (unknown) Date and time: Sunday 03 May 2009 04:30 pm Additional information: Mail Possible causes: The specified resource may not have existed or may not be accessible. A protocol error or incompatibility may have occurred. Although unlikely, a hardware error may have occurred. Possible solutions: Retry the request and ensure your authentication details are entered correctly. Contact your appropriate computer support system, whether the system administrator, or technical support group for further assistance. Anybody see this before and more importantly, How do I fix it? -- 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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Re: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer
by Roberto Malinverni 04 May '09

04 May '09

> -----Messaggio originale----- > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 21:33:14 +0200 > From: RedShift <redshift(a)pandora.be> > Subject: [arch-general] The ultimate Home Theater / media center computer > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Message-ID: <49FDF17A.8040406(a)pandora.be> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > * Motherboard: Asus P5N7A-VM > http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8YiUFvK51IergAqY&templete=2 > > + Powerful on-board graphics (nVidia 9300) > + Supports 16 GB of RAM > + eSATA port > + Optical audio output > + HDMI, DVI and VGA video output > + Gigabit ethernet > + Solid caps > > - nVidia on-board graphics (requiring proprietary driver) > - On-board graphics use system memory > - Crappy realtek audio codec I just stumbled upon this: http://hometheatrepcguide.com/mini-itx-motherboard-and-case-how-small-can-a- htpc-get/ Roberto -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto.

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[arch-general] 3rd Arch install -- on my laptop -- a bit more of a challenge - ATI is the problem
by David C. Rankin 04 May '09

04 May '09

Listmates, My 3rd install of Arch is on my x86_64 laptop (Toshiba 205D). Unfortunately I have an ATI Radeon 1200 in it and ATI - SUCKS. (Not to mention they have just royally screwed Linux over by dropping all support for the R300-R500 series cards while the last driver ATI released [the 9.3 driver] is crippled as hell for many cards) I'm currently working to get the radeon driver up and going and when I'm done I'll look into compiling the last good fglrx driver (8-9 release) for Arch. I'm not that great of a programmer, so if there are any Arch programmers here that want to take a look, I could sure use the help. The package I will work with is the September '08 driver package you can obtain at the ati site under previous releases: ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run You can extract the files with: ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --extract If anyone wants to take a look, 2 sets of eyes are always better than 1. -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] libraw1394 rebuilds
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 03 May '09

03 May '09

Jan de Groot wrote: > I'm pusing libraw1394 to testing. This release has a sobump and requires > rebuild of some packages. I've done most packages, but vlc and kdebase > are also on this list. Both packages are in testing at this moment, > without versioned dependencies, so I don't plan to rebuild these myself. > Please rebuild vlc and kdebase when libraw1394 is in testing. > > Hi Jan, The pkgs vlc-0.9.9a-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz and vlc-0.9.9a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz don't needed libraw1394, is listead as depends in PKGBUILD but at least isn't needed at dynamic library level This is the list of packages that depends on soname "libraw1394.so.8" extra/dvgrab-3.3-1 extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-0.10.14-1 extra/kdebase-4.2.2-1 extra/kino-1.3.3-1 extra/libavc1394-0.5.3-2 extra/libdc1394-2.0.3-1 extra/libiec61883-1.1.0-1 extra/ptlib-2.6.1-1 community/cinelerra-cv-20090421-1 -- 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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[arch-general] makepkg problem
by Juan Diego 03 May '09

03 May '09

hello I'm trying to create a source pkg for an aur package and I'm geting this error: $ makepkg --source ==> Making package: mpd-devel 0.15_beta1-1 i686 (Sun May 3 16:02:54 KST 2009) ==> Creating source package... -> Adding PKGBUILD... -> Adding install script... -> Adding mpd.init... -> Adding mpd.install... ln: creating symbolic link `/home/xxxxxx/mpd/srclinks.SKgroBqtf/mpd-devel/mpd.install': File existsy I have this files as my source files: PKGBUILD mpd.init mpd.install any ideas why is this? thanks

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[arch-general] thinkpad t61 and not able to adjust brightness
by Adam Stokes 01 May '09

01 May '09

So pressing the fn home/end for brightness alters : /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness doing an: echo '100' >/proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness My .config for the kernel is set to: CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_VIDEO=y CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL=m CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m lsmod shows: thinkpad_acpi 70316 0 rfkill 11444 4 iwl3945,thinkpad_acpi led_class 4344 3 iwl3945,sdhci,thinkpad_acpi nvram 7868 1 thinkpad_acpi dmesg shows: thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.22 thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 7LETA7WW (2.07 ), EC 7KHT24WW-1.08 thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad T61, model 6464Y1E thinkpad_acpi: ACPI backlight control delay disabled thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by default... thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one. kernel is 2.6.29-ARCH anyone know why the brightness still refuses to work? -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition
by David C. Rankin 01 May '09

01 May '09

Listmates, I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display. I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding to the existing login greeter the 'hostname' of the machine it is running on. What prompted this suggestion was the situation where I had an archlinux box connected vi xdmcp to my laptop on tty8. After a day or so of working on my local box, I switched back over to tty8 and the question immediately came to mind "Which Archlinux install is this?" because there was no way to immediately tell. (Don't get me wrong, I only have 2 Arch installs, so the answer wasn't critical) But the point to be made, and the basis for this suggestion, is that it would be nice to have the host information available. Just a small addition to the dialog, after or under the Archlinux logo, that says something like "on: host.domain.com". That way, you know at a glance who you are dealing with. Obviously, this is just a minimal enhancement, but the path to perfection is taken one step at a time. Anybody adverse to something like this? -- 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] Trouble Building Xorg-Server (Modified PKGBUILD)
by kludge 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

greets, all! ever since the release of xorg-server 1.5.3, i've been using a modified PKGBUILD to build xorg-server sans hal and dbus. (not gonna try justifying it again; that'd just lead to yet another flame war.) i've never had a problem until the 1.6.1-1 PKGBUILD, which adds the lines: libtoolize --force || return 1 aclocal || return 1 autoconf || return 1 automake --add-missing || return 1 these added lines produce: libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. libtoolize: linking file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. hw/dmx/doc/Makefile.am:24: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/dmx/doc/Makefile.am:27: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/Makefile.am:24: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/Makefile.am:27: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL ==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting... my modified PKGBUILD is attached. please note that i *have* tried reverting my changes (the commented patches), to no avail. as i'm pretty clueless vis-a-vis makefiles and the autoconf system, could somehow point me in the direction of a fix? many thanks, kludge # $Id: PKGBUILD 21903 2008-12-17 20:32:54Z jgc $ # Maintainer: Alexander Baldeck <kth5(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: Jan de Groot <jgc(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=xorg-server pkgver=1.6.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="X.Org X servers" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('custom') url="http://xorg.freedesktop.org" depends=('libgl' 'libxfont>=1.4.0' 'openssl>=0.9.8j' 'libpciaccess>=0.10.5' 'libxv>=1.0.4' 'pixman>=0.14.0' 'xcursor-themes' 'xkeyboard-config>=1.5' 'xorg-server-utils' 'xorg-fonts-misc' 'xbitmaps' 'diffutils') makedepends=('libx11>=1.2' 'mesa>=7.4' 'xf86driproto>=2.0.4' 'xtrans>=1.2.3' 'libxkbfile>=1.0.5' 'randrproto>=1.3.0' 'renderproto>=0.9.3' 'xcmiscproto>=1.1.2' 'bigreqsproto>=1.0.2' 'resourceproto>=1.0.2' 'videoproto>=2.2.2' 'compositeproto>=0.4' 'scrnsaverproto>=1.1.0' 'libxinerama>=1.0.3' 'xf86dgaproto>=2.0.3' 'recordproto>=1.13.2' 'libgl>=7.4' 'glproto>=1.4.9') #optdepends=( 'xf86-input-evdev: to provide input device hotplugging' # 'hal>=0.5.11: to provide input devices for hotplugging' ) options=('!libtool') provides=('x-server' ) # 'xorg-server') conflicts=('catalyst-utils<=9.2') groups=('xorg') install=xorg-server.install source=(${url}/releases/individual/xserver/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 xorg-redhat-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch hal-wait.patch) md5sums=('ed0878bf32a24d4948c3b8a122a39eff' '1a336eb22e27cbf443ec5a2ecddfa93c' 'f16d2caef84e1a9c4075b6c5e145512d') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" # Get rid of the ugly pattern patch -Np3 -i "${srcdir}/xorg-redhat-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch" || return 1 # Fix dbus config path - removed b/c no dbus config'd # sed -i -e 's/\$(sysconfdir)/\/etc/' config/Makefile.* || return 1 # Revert waiting for hal, assume hal won't show up when initial connect fails # commented out b/c no hal config'd # patch -R -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/hal-wait.patch" || return 1 libtoolize --force || return 1 aclocal || return 1 autoconf || return 1 automake --add-missing || return 1 # --enable-config-{dbus,hal} switched to --disable # to disable hotplugging and dependencies ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-ipv6 \ --enable-dri \ --disable-dmx \ --enable-xvfb \ --enable-xnest \ --enable-composite \ --enable-xcsecurity \ --enable-xorg \ --enable-xephyr \ --enable-glx-tls \ --enable-kdrive \ --enable-install-setuid \ --disable-config-hal \ --disable-config-dbus \ --enable-record \ --disable-xfbdev \ --disable-xfake \ --disable-xsdl \ --disable-static \ --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-default-font-path=/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1 \ --with-xkb-path=/usr/share/X11/xkb \ --with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb \ --with-dri-driver-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri || return 1 make || return 1 make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1 rm -rf "${pkgdir}/var/log" || return 1 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/etc/X11" || return 1 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/var/lib/xkb" || return 1 # Needed for non-mesa drivers, libgl will restore it mv "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" \ "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.xorg" || return 1 install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" install -m644 COPYING "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/" || return 1 }

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[arch-general] WPA2 - How to set with ACX card??
by David C. Rankin 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Listmates, My second Arch box is now complete (well almost:-) This time a desktop box with a zytel wireless lan adapter using the TI acx chipset and its firmware 2 is the acx111_2.3.1.31/tiacx111c16 firmware slice. The card is detected and works fine it think... I can open kwifimanager and it has my access point associated and I can watch the generic packets blip by and watch the strength meter do its thing, but I cannot authenticate :-( My system is WPA, and no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find anything in Arch that would all me to configure the wireless as anything other than WEP. Bummer. Wep isn't allowed within 500 feet of anything I deal with. After spending a little time playing with aircrack, if you haven't already, you will definitely feel the same. Most wep secured wireless networkss can be cracked in less than 30 seconds. (why do you think I'm never without a wireless connection -- no matter where I go;-) So what tools are available to configure this acx111 card to use WPA-TKIP or WPA2? In that other Linux OS, the knetworkmanager utility did a great job with the Atheros bashed card in my laptop, XP has no problems with the card (this box is dual boot) so I know the hardware works fine. Any suggestions? -- 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] libraw1394 and libdc1394 update
by Rick W. Chen 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Hello, I am requesting package updates to libraw1394 and libdc1394 in extra. The new versions v2.0.2 and v2.1.0 respectively have support for the new experimental FireWire stack (not built by default in kernel26), Juju[1]. The old stable stack is still supported by the new packages, so they should still work with kernel26. Attached are the PKGBUILDs for each package, with trivial changes (version and md5sum). [2] shows there is no maintainer for libraw1394 so I'm posting them here. Thanks 1. http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration 2. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libraw1394/ -- Rick

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[arch-general] Issue with system time
by Dan Vratil 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Hi, in last few weeks I noticed a serious (for me) problem with my system. It simply does not update the date/time after boot up. In BIOS the time is correct, but when I boot Linux, the system time is set exactly to time when I turned it off last time. It's quite annoying to always have to set up the time manually. In rc.conf I have HARDWARECLOCK set to "localtime" and Time Zone to "Europe/Prague". I was trying to set automatic time sync in KDE System Settings, but it fails to connect to time server. I use KDE 4.2.70, so it might be bug there, but it does not bother me, the main problem is that my system refuses to update (load from BIOS?) time after boot up. Any ideas? Thank you very much Dan -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil progdan(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870

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[arch-general] Policykit, uid like a service, and gid like a user
by Magnus Therning 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

I noticed after installing policykit that it created a new user and group (both called policykit). The thing that surprised me was the uid was 102 while the uid was 1001. Should a system service like that really have a uid below 1000 (like other service accounts) and a gid above 1000 (which is what users are given). Looks to me like it might be a bug, but thought I'd get some input on it before raising my first bug against an Arch package :-) /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] Setting xkb options (xkb_symbols) via hal?
by Magnus Therning 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Judging from my findings on the interwebs it is possible to pass options for the X11 keyboard via hal's policies. This seems very useful for system-wide keyboards settings. However, I'm having problems making them stick. I can do the setup via xkbcomp, and the relevant line is xkb_symbols { include "pc+gb+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_alt)+level3(enter_switch)+compose(menu)" }; but how do I pass that onto the evdev keyboard via hal? /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] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi update to latest version, please signoff for both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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