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[arch-general] Proprietary nvidia driver for different kernels
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi :) until now I switch between the FLOSS nv driver and the proprietary nvidia driver at startup, depending to the kernel I boot. IOW I use the nv driver with kernel-rt and the proprietary with 3.5.3-1-ARCH. If I try to boot the kernel-rt, I get a black screen. [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia-rt | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia-utils | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi xf86-video-nv | grep Ver Version : 2.1.20-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ grep DAEMONS /etc/rc.conf # DAEMONS DAEMONS=(!69switch_xorg.conf hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond acpid dbus networkmanager rtirq) Any ideas? The graphics is a GeForce 7200 GS. The nv driver is ok, but I have to readjust the monitor if I switch from nvidia and soon or later it will be dropped. The vesa driver won't provide the needed resolution and noveau

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[arch-general] courier-maildrop package failed installation
by Jude DaShiell 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

I tried that delivery agent and authgen library failed to install and later I couldn't get it started. Fortunately procmail posed no similar problems on installation. Is courier-maildrop not supported for amd64 k8 athelon machines? If that's the case that would explain this failure. I can install that on an i386 type machine and I may just to test this hypothesis. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel(a)shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash

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[arch-general] ABS and pacman
by Manolo Martínez 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

Hello, I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS way. Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I was wondering: Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it is going to substitute a package that has been ABS'd? Manolo --

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Re: [arch-general] Unsubscribe (was: testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot)
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote: > This might be helpful > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=arch+wiki+email+filter I'm really tired of this nonsense, so I'll unsubscribe. No need to answer me, because I'll not see it. Not that it will be any loss for Arch per se, but I really think that the Arch community is one of the best things in Arch itself. Unfortunately, this channel is corrupted by trolls that don't diferentiate the time to answer with helpful content and the time to stay quiet. Destroying the list by being reckless is a real shame. I'll just leave this here, if anyone is interested: http://archlinux.me/brain0/2012/09/10/yet-another-systemd-comment/ -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? For more information, please read: http://idallen.com/topposting.html ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop
by Robbie Smith 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hi everyone TL;DR: I've just bought a new HP Pavilion g6-2103ax, and I'm having difficulties trying to figure out how I can dual-boot it with Windows 7 (which was preinstalled). Windows *still* defaults to using MBR partitions, and even though the system is UEFI, HP have used some trickery somewhere to make it boot from BIOS. To make matters worse, the disk table already has four partitions: SYSTEM: 199 MB NTFS Windows C drive: ~ 450 GB NTFS HP Recovery partition: 18.5 GB NTFS HP_TOOLS: 99 MB FAT32 The SYSTEM partition seems to contain the Windows bootloader, or something along those lines. The HP Recovery partition contains the software necessary to do a factory reset, and HP_TOOLS contains some UEFI applications (some system diagnostic things). C drive is Windows. What I was thinking of doing was shrinking C drive, and deleting the recovery partition to make space for Arch. But on my first attempt, parted bricked the table, and whilst I was able to recover it, Windows refused to boot. I obtained recovery disks to restore it, but they are completely non-interactive so cannot be used to rescue Windows, only reset to factory initial state. Due to the arrangement of the partitions, I don't think creating an Extended partition will work (they need to be the last one in the table, don't they?), and while I've read GRUB2 can use /boot in LVM, I'm not sure whether this will work. Also, I've never used GRUB2 before, and its configs look formidable compared to Syslinux. Ideally I'd switch to GPT, but Windows needs to be booted in UEFI mode for this, but I have no idea how to enable this as there's neither a switch in the BIOS settings, nor settings in Windows. Can anyone advise me on how I could overcome these issues? Has anyone had any experience with new HP g6 models?

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[arch-general] Upgrading an old system
by Guillermo Leira 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hi! I have just finished upgrading a system that was powered off (broken battery) since February 2011. Just for the fun of doing so. I couldn't help saying it... I'm quite proud of this achievement. ;-) Guillermo Leira

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[arch-general] Bind mount /dev from fstab with systemd
by Mauro Santos 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

I've been trying to (r)bind mount /dev from fstab and it is failing for some reason that I can't figure out. I have tried to mount it on demand, only when accessed, since the chroot where I need it is not used very often, to try and achieve that I've tried the following line in fstab: /dev /path/to/chroot/dev none rbind,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 0 This didn't work, trying 'ls /path/to/chroot/dev' seems to hang forever and the output from journalctl says: systemd[1]: Job dev.device/start timed out. systemd[1]: Job extra-chroot-centos-dev.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'. systemd[1]: Job dev.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. I have also tried mounting it on boot using: /dev /path/to/chroot/dev none rbind 0 0 Which also doesn't work and makes the boot process stop, the machine is still responsive to ctrl-alt-del and reboots cleanly but there is no indication of why it stops. Bind mounting /proc and /sys when accessed works fine, also mounting manually with 'mount --rbind /dev /path/to/chroot/dev' works just fine, I am out of ideas and google doesn't know either, any tips or pointers are welcome. -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] Eject and Util-linux conflict
by Victor Silva 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Folks after trying to update today I got the following error: util-linux and eject are in conflict According to this: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-July/023320.html I could just go yes but pacman suggests me to answer no. I've found nothing on the boards nor webpage. Have anyone had this situation? Regards, vfbsilva

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[arch-general] Systemd and startx
by Mauro Santos 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

So far I am only testing how systemd behaves in my system and what changes I need to do before I permanently make the switch. So far the first problem, which doesn't seem to be covered in the wiki, forum or google searches, is that if I switch to a tty after starting X I get just a blank screen. I also get a blank screen and no prompt after I logout from the DE. The conditions that seem to trigger the problem are: I don't use any login managers so I use startx to start my DE of choice (xfce). I have increased the number of available ttys as described here [1] and after booting everything seems to be working fine, since I have the expected number of ttys and I can login at each one of them. Getting local permissions was also taken care of by following [2], for testing purposes I use 'startx -- vt1 &> xlog.log' and I've confirmed that it works as expected. The problem: After starting X, if I switch to any of the ttys with ctrl-alt-f* I get only a blank screen, this includes the ttys that have not been used to start X. After logging out of the DE I get a blank screen at all ttys, including the one used to start X. The machine is otherwise still responsive. Any clues, tips or pointers on how to get this to work are welcome. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Q:_How_do_I_change_the_number_… [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Login -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] Random X server crashes
by Aurko Roy 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

Hi, Occasionally (while using google chrome) my X server crashes completely and takes me back to the tty login. Examining the journal entries reveals the following highlighted in red: Sep 23 17:03:33 myarchbox kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: fail ttm_validate Sep 23 17:03:34 myarchbox kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: validate vram_list Sep 23 17:03:34 myarchbox kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: validate: -12 I am using the nouveau driver for my Nvidia graphics card. The problem is difficult to reproduce as it happens quite randomly - for instance I might be opening some particular website and it will crash. If I insist on opening the same website again it might crash a second time but it will work the third time or so. Is this a universal experience of using nouveau on Nvidia cards or is it something that is only afflicting my computer? Thanks. -- Aurko Roy GPG key: 0x20C5BC31 Fingerprint:76B4 9677 15BE 731D 1949 85BA 2A31 B442 20C5 BC31

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