- Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] Netflix in Arch?
by Sebastiaan Lokhorst 12 Oct '14

12 Oct '14

Just because there still seems to be some confusion: Plugin-free Netflix requires Embedded Media Extensions (EME).[1] This is supported by all major closed-source browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome. This includes Chrome on Arch (available in the AUR), without the need for any user-agent hacking or plugins. EME however requires a closed source component, therefore it is NOT available in open-source browsers, such as Chromium and Firefox, and likely _never_ will be. In the future, it might be possible to use some kind of closed-source plugin to support this in open-source browsers, but there is none at the moment. (there was some discussion about this with Firefox, see [1] for more details) So basically, at the moment you have two options to use Netflix on Arch: (1) install a closed-source browser (i.e. Chrome) with EME, where it will work out-of-the-box, or (2) install a open-source browser with all kinds of hackery such as Pipelight. I hope that this clears things up. Sebastiaan [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions

4 3

[arch-general] [ArchWiki] Why isn't MediaWiki upgraded to 1.23?
by Dario Giovannetti 11 Oct '14

11 Oct '14

MediaWiki 1.23.0 (LTS) was released last June, and it's now at 1.23.5 [1], however the ArchWiki is still using the legacy 1.22 version, and 1.23 is being pushed to a separate "mw-1.23" branch [2]. Has the reason for this been discussed publicly, or can it be made public in this thread? [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23#Release_schedule [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/vhosts/wiki.archlinux.org.git/ Thank you

2 2

Re: [arch-general] packages and configuration required to send, e-mails from php.
by AIS Information 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

On 10/09/2014 10:04 PM, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > I'm setting up an apache, php, drupal 7 site and need to be able to send e-mails from the site but getting lost trying to find out what I need as far as system packages, php extensions and how to configure them all. I've tried a couple of scripts for php and they report they have succeeded but the test mail never arrives in my inbox. > > I suspect that php & drupal are working but I need something in the way of a mail server set up for them to work through. > > The Postfix was package was installed as a dependancy of something I installed but the help files seem to me to require a sound understanding of e-mail systems and their jargon which I don't have. > > Is there some kind soul out there who has the time and knowledge to help me get this working? > > mik i would agree with the recommendation of looking at the logs, but i would suggest that you probably don't need any mail related packages at all if all you want to do is send from the drupal webapp. I'm not super familiar with drupal but most of the established cms' have addons/modules/apps/extensions that have smtp sending built in. All you have to do is configure it to use an external email address for sending and it will send. So i would suggest you see what drupal has for it's built in (or added) mailer module. Like the other person said though, if you want to recieve mail then you're talking about setting up a mail server. you shouldn't need anything(packages) to send from the cms, assuming the cms has all the php extensions it requires and is configured correctly. you may need to consult the documentation of the script that the mailer addon uses though as some have quirks. good luck.

1 0

[arch-general] Top-posting
by Marcel Korpel 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Please, people, it's only two months ago that this was posted: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2014-August/036950.html Please, stop top-posting, the netflix discussion is hard to follow with several people top-posting comments to earlier mails (and other people adhering to the rules). Thanks in advance! Marcel

2 1

Re: [arch-general] Netflix in Arch?
by Andrew M 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Starting with Chrome 38, DRM can be managed by HTML5. Firefox and other browsers have not implemented this yet because the code for this is closed source. I believe you still need to use a plugin such as user agent switcher, as Netflix will not play natively on linux machines. On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Don Harper <duck(a)duckland.org> wrote: > On 2014-10-10 11:59 AM, Daniel Micay wrote to To > arch-general(a)archlinux.org: > > On 10/10/14 11:52 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > I noticed the announcement today that Ubuntu now supports Netflix > > > streaming, due to new features recently added to the Chrome browser. > > > > https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/ > > > > Does this work on Arch's version of Chrome as well? Are additional > > > package installations required? > > > > Thanks, > > > > DR > > > It should work out-of-the-box in Chrome, but Chromium doesn't come with > > the PPAPI plugin for EME. I don't know how feasible it is to get that > > plugin working in Chromium. For the Pepper Flash plugin, it's as simple > > as dropping the shared object into the directory and adding 2 cli flags. > > I just updated to the latest google-chrome in the AUR (38.0.2125.101-1) > and it just works. Prior version (36 something) did not work. > > d > > -- > Don Harper, RHCE email: duck(a)duckland.org > Just a systems kinda guy... http://www.duckland.org > > Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off > your goal. - Henry Ford >

2 1

[arch-general] Removing compiler flag from CMake output
by Marcel Korpel 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Hi, As I already feared, someone tried to build mysql-connector-c++ [1] against libmysqlclient 5.6.20-1, which results in the following error: …/driver/mysql_metadata.cpp:1216:74: error: ‘dynamic_cast’ not permitted with -fno-rtti How do I remove that compiler flag from CMake output? I already tried adding -frtti to CXXFLAGS in makepkg.conf, but this didn't change the compiler flags. I also tried to add it as an environment variable to the cmake call in PKGBUILD and add a set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-frtti") at several places in …/CMakeLists.txt, but to no avail, CMake keeps saying -- MySQL CXXFLAGS: -I/usr/include/mysql -fPIC -pipe -msse4.1 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fno-strict-aliasing -DBIG_JOINS=1 -felide-constructors -fno-rtti -g -DNDEBUG And why isn't this a problem when building against libmariadbclient 10.0.14? Regards, Marcel [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mysql-connector-c%2B%2B/

2 2

[arch-general] packages and configuration required to send e-mails from php.
by mick 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

I'm setting up an apache, php, drupal 7 site and need to be able to send e-mails from the site but getting lost trying to find out what I need as far as system packages, php extensions and how to configure them all. I've tried a couple of scripts for php and they report they have succeeded but the test mail never arrives in my inbox. I suspect that php & drupal are working but I need something in the way of a mail server set up for them to work through. The Postfix was package was installed as a dependancy of something I installed but the help files seem to me to require a sound understanding of e-mail systems and their jargon which I don't have. Is there some kind soul out there who has the time and knowledge to help me get this working? mik

3 2

[arch-general] Regarding CUPS in [testing]
by Savya 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

The CUPS package in testing changes the names of two systemd service/socket files from cupsd.service and cups.{socket,service,path} to org.cups.cupsd.{socket,service,path}. It is indeed quite frightening to try to print something and to find out that cups.socket does not exist. Can this transition be eased over through a cups.install or something? -- Cheers! Savya

2 2

[arch-general] virt-clone change qcow2 to raw, fully reproducible.
by An Nguyen 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hello all, I am having a problem with virt-clone on Arch Linux always changes a QCOW2 image into RAW. I've seen this bug being reported to RedHat at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795400. The last status seems that the bug was fixed upstream in Fedora 17. However, on ArchLinux, virt-clone still converts any QCOWS2 image into RAW. I would like to know if this is a known ArchLinux's specific bug or this is another issue with upstream. Regard. An. -- Nguyễn Châu An || An NGUYEN Linux Technician & FOSS Advocate ------- OpenPGP KeyID 2048R/8F77A48C Key Fingerprint 7652 B403 749F F173 227D 4865 FB71 EC95 8F77 A48C

2 2

[arch-general] Fast User Switching does not seem to work
by constantine 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hello all! I am not sure this is the appropriate mailing list, and I have also posted to intel-gfx(a)lists.freedesktop.org (without any solution) and systemd-devel(a)lists.freedesktop.org Please indicate if you recommend me posting the problem to another list. I am encountering a peculiar problem with Fast User Switching or Kernel Mode Setting and I do not know how to troubleshoot it. Suppose the following tty2,3 or VTs: 1. Ctrl+Alt+F2: logged in user in console (no X) 2. Ctrl+Alt+F3: logged in user in console (no X) 3. Ctrl+Alt+F4: logged in user in Desktop Environment (X) 4. Ctrl+Alt+F5: logged in user in Desktop Environment (X) >From 1 to 2, or 2 to 1 there is no delay. >From 1,2 to 3, or 1,2 to 4 there is no delay. >From 3,4 to 1,2 there **is** delay. >From 3 to 4, or 4 to 3, there **is**delay. In words: when I run two (or more) Virtual Terminals switching between them (Ctrl+Alt+F4-5, etc.) takes 2+ seconds. (The VTs are either simply initiated with startx from tty2 and tty3 and having only TWM, xorg-clock and xterm as their open windows OR as different displays with KDisplay Manager (kdm) in :0 and :1) I am using an intel graphics driver so I suppose KMS should be enabled by default and this seems to be the case, but there still are delays swithing between VTs. I have followed the instructions at http://carlosbecker.com/posts/how-to-enable-kms-on-i915-graphiccard-archlin… https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_mode_setting https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics after a fresh Arch Linux installation, but I am still experiencing the problem. I am certain it is not a hardware related issue, because I can fast switch in ubuntu, but not in Arch linux. My Arch uses systemd and Ubuntu upstart. Last, I am aware of the systemd's on-demand "feature" of spawning terminals but I think it is not related to this, since I think I correctly "pre-spawned" them. How can I make switching between VTs as instantaneous as possible? PS: $ sudo cat /sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset 1 ### Note: ### Before starting the "process" of enabling KMS (which I suppose it should be enabled in the first place, right?) this value was: -1 $ uname -a Linux myhostname 3.16.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 6 08:22:27 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lsmod | grep -e drm -e 915 -e kms crc32_pclmul 12915 0 scsi_mod 142915 4 uas,usb_storage,libata,sd_mod i915 864879 8 button 12909 1 i915 i2c_algo_bit 12744 1 i915 video 17995 1 i915 drm_kms_helper 49262 1 i915 drm 258005 10 i915,drm_kms_helper i2c_core 50152 5 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit intel_gtt 17848 2 i915,intel_agp $ sudo lspci -vvnn | head -28 | tail -21 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0152] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device [1849:0152] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 40 Region 0: Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at f000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee0f00c Data: 4181 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 $ head -10 /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 4.919] X.Org X Server 1.16.1 Release Date: 2014-09-21 [ 4.919] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 4.919] Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.1-1-ARCH x86_64 [ 4.919] Current Operating System: Linux myhostname 3.16.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 6 08:22:27 CEST 2014 x86_64 [ 4.919] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=af9a90ee-5db2-4abf-b8be-006a65e9f09e rw quiet video=SVIDEO-1:d [ 4.920] Build Date: 21 September 2014 10:53:13AM [ 4.920] [ 4.920] Current version of pixman: 0.32.6 ### Note: ### As kernel parameters I have also tried video=SVIDEO-1:d, i915.modeset=1, and nothing, but neither works.

1 0