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[arch-general] Alps touchpad problems
by mike cloaked 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

I am trying to get a laptop touchpad working properly with arch fully up to date as of today. The machine is a recent Dell Vostro and has an Alps touchpad. I can't get vertical scrolling to work in KDE, and the mouse cursor occasionally moves erratically. I have seen previous posts some time back recommending installing the psmouse-alps package from AUR, and indeed it would appear that the 3.3 kernel may have a working psmouse module. However for the moment with kernel 3.2.5 the touchpad is detected as P/S 2 Generic - instead of the correct detection. I have tried installing psmouse-alps and rebooting but it made no difference so I uninstalled it again. the Xorg log has: [ 16.850] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/inpu t/event8) [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchal l" [ 16.850] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' [ 16.850] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: always reports core events [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event8" [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found relative axes [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found x and y relative axes [ 16.850] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Configuring as mouse [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 [ 16.850] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8/event8" [ 16.850] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE, id 12) [ 16.850] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: initialized for relative axes. [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0 [ 16.851] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [ 16.851] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [ 16.851] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0) [ 16.851] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [ 16.851] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. Does anyone have current experience with this issue and know the best way to work around the problem until the 3.3 kernel is released? Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] thinkpad_acpi out of date?
by Genes MailLists 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Hi: (1) Fully updated with test repos. Thinkpad W520. I have kernel 3.2.5-1. I see this in logs: lap3 kernel: [282571.053156] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard event received lap3 kernel: [282571.053160] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040 lap3 kernel: [282571.053161] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this event happened to ibm-acpi-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net (2) lsmod shows thinkpad_acpi is running. I found in /lib/modules was kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko.gz and possibly kernel/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.ko.gz The first one seems to be version 0.24 but I cannot tell if its the 0.24-20110604 version or earlier - at least by poking at the .ko. (3) http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibm-acpi/files/thinkpad-acpi/0.24-20110604/ Suggests this is/may be fixed in this version - could our version of thinkpad_acpi be out of date? Thanks gene

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[arch-general] Where are the i686 community-testing updates?
by Karol Blazewicz 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/3/?repo=Community-Testing&sort=-last_upda… Is it a bug or are they coming out later?

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[arch-general] Ad hoc
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

The PPPoE connection works after running '# ifconfig eth0 up && netcfg pppoe' as usual. After preparing ad hoc [1] I loaded the module by '# modprobe rtl8192se'. Then I tried to run 'newlan -n', but it doesn't work [2]. 1. How can I run 'newlan'? 2. Do I need to reboot to load the firmware? 3. Do I have to change the lines modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_pci autocreate=adhoc to something like modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_usb autocreate=adhoc when using an USB device? [root@archlinux src]# modprobe -r ath_pci FATAL: Module ath_pci not found. [root@archlinux src]# modprobe ath_usb autocreate=adhoc FATAL: Module ath_usb not found. [root@archlinux src]# modprobe ath_pci FATAL: Module ath_pci not found. Rebooting now without a starting the adhoc script or loading the module at startup ... Regards, Ralf ********** [1] **************************************** [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ cd /usr/src [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33927923/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.t… [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ su [root@archlinux src]# tar -xzOf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz \ > rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/firmware/RTL8192SE/rtl8192sfw.bin > \ > /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin [root@archlinux src]# ls /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin -hAl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75K Feb 9 10:19 /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin [root@archlinux src]# exit [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ne/newlan/newlan.tar.gz [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ tar xzf newlan.tar.gz [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ cd newlan [spinymouse@archlinux newlan]$ makepkg -si [spinymouse@archlinux newlan]$ cd .. [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ leafpad adhoc [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ cat adhoc #!/bin/bash ####### this part should change or simply be removed depending on the network card #recreates the ath0 interface in ad hoc mode modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_pci autocreate=adhoc wlanconfig ath0 destroy wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode adhoc ####### #starts the ad hoc server ifconfig ath0 down iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc iwconfig ath0 channel 4 iwconfig ath0 essid 'mine' ifconfig ath0 10.0.0.1 up #forwards the ad hoc network to the router iptables -A FORWARD -i ath0 -o eth0 -s 10.0.0.0/24 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" ********** [2] **************************************** [root@archlinux src]# sudo newlan -n mynewprofile This application was designed for ArchLinux, to run anyway add --force. [root@archlinux src]# sudo newlan --force -n mynewprofile WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --help This application was designed for ArchLinux, to run anyway add --force. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --force --help WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --force -n mynewprofile WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information.

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Re: [arch-general] the problem about app's popup menu
by Northwoods 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Then it is a bug and should be reported to gnome devs. There is not much I can help. In fact I wouldn't bother) Gehong Zhu <zhugehonghn(a)gmail.com> wrote: >在 2012-02-09四的 02:53 -0500，mountpeaks@lavabit.com写道： >> > äºŽ 2012å¹´02æœˆ09æ—¥ 01:30, Northwoods å†™é“: >> >> Zhu Ge Long, could you make a screenshot, its difficult to say. Maybe >> >> your fonts are way big. >> >> >> >> æœ±æ ¼å®<zhugehonghn(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi,guys: >> >>> I have a question about gnome-shell popup menu,I found actives bar >> >>> will block app's popup menu when popup menu too long. is it my setting >> >>> have some problem?? >> > http://imagebin.org/197986 >> > you can see actives bar block list >> > >> Ok, I didn't notice anything out-of-ordinary on your screenshot, seems >> like its ok since the focused application is on top layer and overlaps the >> bar. I don't think that is a bug. >> 你会放心点儿:) >> >> >ok,beacause actives bar is transparent , please notice list top >position,if actives bar isn't transparent, you will not see the top of >list > >

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Re: [arch-general] the problem about app's popup menu
by Northwoods 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Zhu Ge Long, could you make a screenshot, its difficult to say. Maybe your fonts are way big. 朱格宏 <zhugehonghn(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi,guys: > I have a question about gnome-shell popup menu,I found actives bar >will block app's popup menu when popup menu too long. is it my setting >have some problem??

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[arch-general] Wi-Fi rtl8192s
by Ralf Mardorf 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi, does anybody know if the first driver mentioned here [1] is ok, in other words, won't there be dropped connections? [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup#rtl8192s Anybody using a Sempre WU300 on Arch Linux with kernel 3.0-rt, to connect an iPad 2 to the Internet? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Can't rebuild audiofile 3.2 from PKGBUILD?
by David C. Rankin 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Guys, I have almost survived the updates from today, but the last issue I have is audiofile 3.2->3.3 kills sound in trinity and kills basket-notepads. I am trying to rebuild from the 3.2 pkgbuild, but the build fails: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu -o power power.o ../libaudiofile/libaudiofile.la libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -o .libs/power power.o ../libaudiofile/.libs/libaudiofile.so /usr/bin/ld: power.o: undefined reference to symbol 'log10@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'log10@@GLIBC_2.0' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line /lib/libm.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [power] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/abs/audiofile/src/audiofile-0.3.2/examples' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/arch/pkg/abs/audiofile/src/audiofile-0.3.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... I am using the pkgbuild from: http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk/PKGBUILD?h… I can see the main problem is: /usr/bin/ld: power.o: undefined reference to symbol 'log10@@GLIBC_2.0' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'log10@@GLIBC_2.0' is defined in DSO /lib/libm.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line but how do I modify the PKGBUILD to account for this? Shouldn't audiofile be backwards compatible from 3.3->3.2? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Phonon backends not loading
by Kacper Żuk 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

All Phonon based apps (I've tried Kadu, Phonik (aur), and my little app) fail to initialize Phonon backend: WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ). I have backends installed: [kaz@Dmitrij ~]$ pacman -Qs phonon local/phonon 1:4.6.0-1 local/phonon-gstreamer 4.5.1-1 local/phonon-vlc 0.4.1-1 I've tried with only one backend installed (tried both...), but it still doesn't work. I'm using testing repo if that matters. Is it something with my configuration or is it a bug in Arch Linux?

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[arch-general] Beep no longer works
by Sébastien le Preste de Vauban 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

#beep Could not open /dev/tty0 or /dev/vc/0 for writing open: No such file or director beep 1.3-2 Before update beep was working ok.

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