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[arch-general] Monitor not going to "power save" mode in suspend
by Madhurya Kakati 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Hi, I am using pm-utils to suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk. In both the suspends my LCD monitor goes black but doesn't go to the "power save mode" i.e the light doesn't turn orange. This happens only in archlinux though. On Windows when i standby (suspend) the monitor properly goes to "power save mode". Also in both the OS I can't wake up from suspend-to-ram by pressing any key on the key board or moving the mouse. I have to press the power on button on the CPU cabinet. I guess theres a BIOS setting to enable that but i can't seem to find it. Please tell me how to solve both the problems. My motherboard model is Biostar TA785G3 HD and BIOS is AMI BIOS. Thanks.

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Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.9 - This train is going to hell.
by Evgeny Burmentyev 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

As for me, I didn't even notice, that something changed with 1.8 -> 1.9 upgrade. Everything was working, works and hopefully will be working as intended. From performance demanding things I use mplayer (1920x1080 videos through HDMI on my big TV screen), psx emulator and perhaps something else. No performance decrease detected. I use Lenovo Thinkpad SL500 with Intel GMA 4500MHD.

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[arch-general] xorg 1.9 breaks
by kurrata 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

latest xorg update (1.9) breaks it with nvidia-173xx drivers (173.14.27-3). Easy fix, just install previouse xorg

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[arch-general] Booting Arch under Xen via pv-grub. Was: Re: [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.7-1
by Roman Kyrylych 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:49, Liu Yu Fei, Eric <hoveringnowings(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I cannot boot on i686 pv-grub Xen... Is there any special setting in > mkinitcpio.conf? My mkinitcpio.conf has: MODULES="xen-blkfront xen-kbdfront xen-netfront evtchn xenfs" HOOKS="base udev autodetect filesystems" Hosted on Linode. There was some issue with pv-grub in the past which they patched, not sure how the situation is with vanilla pv-grub now. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-general] [community] package needs rebuilding, bug report?
by Ng Oon-Ee 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Hi all, With the move of [gnome-unstable] stuff to [testing], some [community] packages (gnome-media-pulse, gnome-settings-daemon-pulse) are out-of-date, others (xiphos) no longer run due to depending on earlier versions of libs. Is that bug-report worthy, or can I assume the maintainers are aware?

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[arch-general] Does Anyone have a "dial-in' server working on arch with pppd?
by David C. Rankin 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Guys, In the past I have set up 'dial-in' servers in my home to share the cable internet connection when I'm at sites with no internet connections. This has worked great for years on SuSE. The way it works is: _______________ _____________________ | other box | dials modem on server and | Server w/modem & | | kppp dialer |<----------------------------->| cable internet | | | gets an IP and starts ppp | hylafax-adaptive | --------------- | answer, handles | | data call, starts | Internet<---------->| pppd session and | | internet out ttyS1| --------------------- I have tried a number of times to get this to work on Arch and I'm drawing blanks. I have set /etc/ppp/options, chap-secrets, pap-secrets as I have run them in the past, but they never start ppp. I'm beginning to think that something is wrong with the current pppd package. If somebody has a running config or ideas about how to make this work with arch, I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thanks. -- 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] scp bash-completion hangs
by Matthew Monaco 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Anyone experiencing any issues with bash-completion for scp? When attempting to scp a local file to a remote machine, and I try to tab complete the local filename, bash just hangs until I ctrl-c. Might be be trying to complete the file on a non-existent remote server or something like that?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] new package: qt-assistant-compat
by Andy McMillan 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

>Hi, > >I've just added a new package to our svn: qt-assistant-compat. This is >a compatibility package for the deprecated qt assistant version which >was removed from qt since 4.7.0. >Some packages still need it (at least my qtiplot package does, but I'm >sure there are others) though, so it will be there if you need it. >Obviously I'll remove it again if said packages are updated to the new >qt online documentation system. Binary packages will follow if I find >some building time. > >Ronald I haven't been following qt development so I'm not sure what is involved in updating to the new system, but I presume this should be reported as a bug to upstream devs for packages that it applies to? Also I built qt-assistant-compat since I needed to use qtiplot today. It builds pretty fast and didn't seem to cause any problems with the old version of qtiplot (didn't bother rebuilding qtiplot for the new dependency) Andy

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[arch-general] strange issue about mount
by Adamzyg 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

hi, I found some strange issue about mount. My portable hard disk has some partitions like below: * Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System* */dev/sdb1 * 63 91747214 45873576 7 HPFS/NTFS* */dev/sdb2 91747215 194145524 51199155 7 HPFS/NTFS* */dev/sdb3 194145525 312576704 59215590 7 HPFS/NTFS* first, I mount /dev/sdb1 like this *$ sudo /bin/mount -t ntfs -o noatime,utf8,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 * *mount: warning: /media/sdb1 seems to be mounted read-only.* *$ echo $?* *0* * * I check the /etc/mtab, *$ tail -5 /etc/mtab * *devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0* *shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0* */dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw,noatime 0 0* */dev/sda4 /home ext4 rw,noatime 0 0* */dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs ro,noatime,utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0* * * sure, i can not create file in the dir /medie/sdb1 *$ pwd&&touch haha* */media/sdb1* *touch: cannot touch `haha': Read-only file system* * $ id uid=1000(adamzyg) gid=1000(adamzyg) groups=1000(adamzyg),92(audio) * Question 1: mount with -o rw does not work, why? second, if I continue mount /dev/sdb2 like this: *$ sudo /bin/mount -t ntfs -o noatime,utf8,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 /dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2* *$ echo $?* *0* * $ tail -5 /etc/mtab shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/sda4 /home ext4 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs ro,noatime,utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0 /dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2 ntfs rw,noatime,utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0 Strange: I also can not create file in /medie/sdb2 $ pwd&&touch haha /media/sdb2 touch: cannot touch `haha': Permission denied * Question 2: mtab show rw, why can not create file? Question 3: twice mount with same option, why first ro, another rw? ------------------- information abount ntfs mount --------------------------------- Mount options for ntfs iocharset=name Character set to use when returning file names. Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain unconvertible characters. Deprecated. nls=name New name for the option earlier called iocharset. utf8 Use UTF-8 for converting file names. uni_xlate={0|1|2} For 0 (or `no' or `false'), do not use escape sequences for unknown Unicode characters. For 1 (or `yes' or `true') or 2, use vfat-style 4-byte escape sequences starting with ":". Here 2 give a little-endian encoding and 1 a byteswapped bigendian encoding. posix=[0|1] If enabled (posix=1), the filesystem distinguishes between upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented as hard links instead of being suppressed. This option is obsolete. uid=value, gid=value and umask=value Set the file permission on the filesystem. The umask value is given in octal. By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else. Best Regards.

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[arch-general] Cairo and XCB
by Damjan Georgievski 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Does anyone have reproducile tests that show the problems in Firefox/Thunderbird with cairo when cairo is built with --enable-xcb? I just built cairo with: --enable-xcb --enable-xlib-xcb=no This should leave the normal cairo xlib backend intact (i.e. the same as when built with --disable-xcb). So far everything is working fine for me, but even before, with Cairo 1.8 everything was working fine, so I'd like to doublecheck about those issues. -- damjan

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