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[arch-general] meld in [testing] lower version than meld in [extra]
by Ng Oon-Ee 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21100 Bug submitted.

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[arch-general] PostgreSQL 9.0.0 PKGBUILD
by Jan Steffens 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Diff to 8.4.4-5 attached. It seems to work.

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[arch-general] UbuntuOne
by Samir 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

I've noticed that there are some UbuntuOne related packages in aur, but many of them are very out of date. In theory, I'm told that we should be able to get UbuntuOne working under any Linux distro..I was wondering if there was any reason for the current state of the aur packages. Is there a technicaly issue that prevents us from having more updated packages? -- Samir

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[arch-general] some notes on the radeon gallium driver
by Stefano Avallone 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hi, just if anyone is interested... I compiled mesa 7.9 and tried the radeon gallium driver on a X300 ati card. It works pretty good. For instance, now I can use the blur effect of kwin 4.5, while I couldn't with classic mesa 7.9 driver. I don't play games, so I cannot tell what is different with games... Maybe we might have an ati-dri package in [testing] that ships r300g instead of r300c... Stefano

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Python rebuild on its way to [testing]
by Ng Oon-Ee 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Just a question on this topic - does the new [staging] mean that [testing] should always be complete (ie. not having any unupdated-for-lib-bump packages)?

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[arch-general] Extracting deb packages
by Christian 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi, what is the most easiest and convenient way in the console to extract a .deb package? Many thanks, Christian

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[arch-general] Question about pacman and installing Gnome
by Christian 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi all, I had to do a reinstall of my machine so I did that and for some reason, Gnome doesn't start proprely. I am visually impaired so I can't see the screen until I have logged into Gnome and started Orca, the screen reader for Gnome. Here is what I do. pacman -S xorg xf86-video-ati xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse gnome gnome-extra gnome-system-tools Then I did: pacman -S gamin pacman -S gdm I have however got a protocol error so I had to restart some of the downloads above, but will pacman check the packages so that they are completely downloaded? Anyway, I then did: /etc/rc.d/hal start /etc/rc.d/gdm start and I did all of this as root. Then I can read that the screen goes into the graphical environment since BRLTTY and Speakup, the console screen readers tell me that. I wait for about 30 seconds before I login as my user but nothing happens when I press enter after I have entered my password. Have I missed something? This is like I did before. I have added my user to the video group as well as the others recommended on the beginners guide. Any thoughts? Many thanks, Christian

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[arch-general] KDE and output to two monitors
by Ondřej Kučera 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hello, from time to time I connect my laptop (1280x800) with another display (usually an old 19" at 1280x1024). My preferred configuration is to set both displays to their natural resolution with the laptop display being set to be "left of VGA1". I do this all via KDE system settings. It always used to make the KDE panel and all windows stay on my laptop display, until I grabbed a window and moved it rightwards. However, since a couple of days or weeks ago (unfortunately I'm not sure which upgrade changed this) no matter what I do the KDE panel appears on the external display, so does my wallpaper and so do some of the windows (most, but not all of them). This doesn't really work for me much, does anyone know what to do to return to the previous behavior? Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[arch-general] RPM Question
by Lew Wolfgang 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi Folks, New Arch user here. I really like it! Another Arch user recommended it to me after I started noticing quality issues with another of the main distributions. I'm currently working on a test install to see if Arch will function in a very restricted environment. So far I've successfully installed KDE and configured for a true IPv6 network. Yet to be done is support for Common Access Cards and their USB readers. I've been having issues with pcscd but I'm not ready to ask for help yet. I also tried fake-raid but gave up in favor of the much simpler JBOD (two disks) config. But I ran into a problem installing something called HBSS from McAfee. This is a package for Windows that is nothing more than a root-kit that allows remote administrators to set policy, remove/block programs, report versions, etc. Unfortunately management mandates that non-Windows systems also run it. So McAfee labored mightily and emitted a Java port of the Windows package that gives minimal reporting capabilities for Linux installs. It works on all the major distros but fails to install on Arch due to an RPM dependency. Their install script just fails saying it can't find rpm. The script contains much ugliness and is McAfee proprietary, so I doubt hacking it will be productive. So the question is: can Arch be configured/tricked into an rpm install? Thanks for a great distro, and your wiki is amazing! It's a little light on IPv6 info, but I might be able to help there later. Regards, Lew Wolfgang

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[arch-general] Problem with keyboard in Gnome
by Christian 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

Hi all, I have got everything up and running, but I am having a problem. I want to use the swedish keyboard layout in Gnome but what file to specify that in? In the console I have svlatin1 and country is sv_se. Any tips? Many thanks, Christian

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