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[arch-general] mail archive link
by Peter Nikolic 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi folks Someone sent me a link to the mail archive a couple of hours ago it seems i got canned by mistake can some kind sole resend it please . Thanks Pete

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[arch-general] [AUDIO] Terrasoniq phase X64 - ice1712 - configuration
by Lars Madson 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi Archers, I just received that external sound card, Terrasoniq Phase X64. It seems to be supported in the kernel using module ice1712. I've been reading about how to make it work in the last days. the closer I've been to see "it" was by listing some stuff (sorry for imprecision I forgot how since then), the card would appear with a number like this : 4ugxvhgblabla. I just installed alsa-tools-ice1712 1.0.25-1 But it cannot sees it. Alsaconf shows an ISA P-n-P card...can it be the Terrasoniq? I don't know really where to start, as making a rule in udev to launch a .sh script, but I guess first I should find a way to see that card pluged somewhere, it's usb. also how to tell my kernel to load ice1712 maybe. Any advice are welcome!! Thanks Laurent

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[arch-general] Bugreport: nvidia-rt and /lib/modules
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi :) nvidia-rt was updated Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:42 +0000, but there's still the /lib/modules issue. Also directories for kernels that were removed by updates, are still present. There's less content in those dirs. So, nvidia-rt doesn't work. Regards, Ralf PS: [spinymouse@archlinux #linux-rt]$ ls /lib/modules 3.0-rt 3.1.9-1-ARCH 3.1.9-2-ARCH 3.2.2-1-ARCH extramodules-3.2-ARCH [spinymouse@archlinux #linux-rt]$ ls /boot grub initramfs-linux.img initramfs-linux-rt.img vmlinuz-linux initramfs-linux-fallback.img initramfs-linux-rt-fallback.img syslinux vmlinuz-linux-rt [spinymouse@archlinux nvidia-rt]$ makepkg -s ==> Making package: nvidia-rt 290.10-1 (Sun Jan 29 09:59:47 CET 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10-no-compat32.run... [snip] ==> Starting build()... You must have Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10-no-compat32 Verifying archive integrity... OK Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 290.10... patching file nv-linux.h Hunk #1 succeeded at 265 (offset 3 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 852 with fuzz 2 (offset -2 lines). patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \ echo; \ echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ echo " include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\ echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \ echo; [snip] ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... ==> Tidying install... -> Purging unwanted files... -> Compressing man and info pages... -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... ==> Creating package... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Adding install file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: nvidia-rt 290.10-1 (Sun Jan 29 10:01:31 CET 2012)

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[arch-general] Arch & ILOM on a Sun Fire X4100
by Robert Wall 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi guys! I have the opportunity to get a sweet deal on a Sun Fire server to replace my somewhat-antique workstation. Most of the hardware looks like pretty standard stuff (AMD Opterons, standard RAID 0/1, SAS drives, etc.), but there's something that's throwing me. Sun apparently has something called ILOM ("Integrated Lights-Out Management"). Nearest I can tell, this is a subsystem that monitors drives, power supplies, and misc. other things within the system. I would *think* that this should all function separately from (and not interfere with) the installed OS, but I can't seem to pin that down concretely. Does anybody have any experience with this ILOM stuff? Any chance this server would be a Bad Place to run Arch? Any information you guys could share would be greatly appreciated!

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.8.0 hits [testing]
by Timothée Ravier 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Le 26/01/2012 08:24, Andrea Scarpino a écrit : > Hi all, > overnight the mirrors synced the latest stable release of KDE. > > I had no many time to work on it, so I pushed it in [testing] just to be sure > everything's ok. As I can't send to arch-dev-public, I'm sending this here: This release seems good to me. (signoff x86_64 ?) I've been using the packages available in kde-unstable, and I must say the packaging is well done! Good job! Tim

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[arch-general] iPad - FLOSS on the iPad - data transfer between an Arch PC and an iPad
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi :) I won a MC770FD/A iPad 2 Wi-Fi 32GB Black. I'm uncertain if I should retain or sell it. The iPad was delivered today and I still didn't configure it. I don't need all those consumer toys and I don't like proprietary software, especially I don't like Apple regarding to the company's policy. It would be nice to have something for reading, instead of wasting money for ink cartridges, if I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Perhaps an iPad could be useful for drawing. Running Qt linguist also would be comfortable to do translations, when I won't sit in front of my PC's monitor. Additionally it would be good to have a portable audio recorder, since my DAT recorders are broken. Believing information from the Internet, running Linux on the iPad 2 shouldn't be possible and even original Linux apps that are available for MacOs shouldn't work on an iPad too. I wonder if Qt linguist and some FLOSS audio software would run on an iPad under it's iPad OS? Since my PC has got a wired connection to an ADSL modem (PPPoE), the PCI slots are used by 2 TerraTec EWX 24/96 cards used as MIDI interfaces and the PCIe slots are used for a RME HDSPe AIO card for audio and a GeForce 7200GS graphics, I only could connect the iPad by USB to the PC and Internet, because there are no free slots on my mobo. Because I never used Wi-Fi or Bluetooth I wonder if those elCheapo USB 2.0 solutions will work with kernel ex 3.0-rt or at least with kernel ex 3.2 without rt patch. http://www.reichelt.de/WLAN-Adapter/0/16/index.html?;ACTION=2;LA=2;GROUPID=… http://www.reichelt.de/index.html?ACTION=2;GROUPID=4321;SEARCH=Bluetooth Any hints are welcome, Ralf

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[arch-general] python problems while compiling Android 4.0
by Madhurya Kakati 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, I am trying to compile android 4.0 with the help of an article I found online[1]. When I execute a command I get the following error: $ python2 ~/bin/repo init -u http://git.android-x86.org/manifest -b ics-x86 File "/home/papul/android-x86/.repo/repo/main.py", line 149 except DownloadError, e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I think the problem is with python2. [1] http://hyper-choi.blogspot.com/2012/01/andorid-x86-ics-on-qemu.html -- Madhurya Kakati () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] New PC and data copying -- am I doing this right?
by Kwpolska 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

I bought a new PC. I'm going to get it a bit later, I need a plan for data movement. I created this, can someone please tell me if it's okay, and, if it's not, what should I change? 01. Remove the OLDPC drivers from Arch on OLDHDD. 02. Connect the NEWHDD to the OLDPC. 03. Create the appropriate partitions on the NEWHDD (with new sizes, EXCEPT Shared [NTFS]) 04. Copy (dd) some partitions from OLDHDD to NEWHDD (Arch, Home, Shared) 05. Use fsck on Arch and Home on NEWHDD (just in case.) # Should I do something to get them to work with the new sizes? # 07. Resize Shared (NTFS) to the approperiate size. 08. Boot into Windows twice in order to check it. 09. Install GRUB on NEWHDD, shut down OLDPC and connect the NEWHDD to the NEWPC. 10. Install NEWPC drivers to Arch on NEWHDD. (audio/video) 11. Install Windows 7 on the NEWPC. 12. Connect the NEWHDD back to the OLDPC. Re-install GRUB. 13. Boot into Windows XP on the OLDHDD. Copy some bigger Steam games to the NEWHDD. 14. At long last, profit. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 | Arch Linux x86_64, zsh, mutt, vim. # vim:set textwidth=70:

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[arch-general] Nouveau: 16bit Color Depth?
by Bastien Dejean 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi, I tried the nouveau driver and I noticed gradients were rough, I thought it might be related to the color depth but I didn't found any relevant option in the nouveau manual, so I tried passing depth parameters to startx but it didn't help. Any hints? Greetings, -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

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[arch-general] /usr on a seperate drive
by P NIKOLIC 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hi . Well still fighting it how does one go about putting /usr on a seperate drive i can not seem to get it right just complains about /usr mounted unable to e2fsck cannot continue and falls to maintenance mode i cant unmount the drive because it contains /usr how do im get rount that one these days .. Pete .

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