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[arch-general] Catalyst-test
by Madhurya Kakati 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

Hi, I haven't upgrade to Xorg 1.8 yet. The problem is that i am using catalyst-test driver i.e fglrx on my system. So i wanted to know if there will be any problems if i upgrade to Xorg 1.8. The reason i am asking this question is because of this "To get it work with xorg-server >= 1.8 (when it will arrive in [extra] repo) you need patched xorg-server, you may get it from [catalyst-test-xorg18] repo, more here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=740353#p740353"

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[arch-general] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.69-1
by Eric Bélanger 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Hi, lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.69-1 are in testing. Changes: * Upstream update * Moved dmeventd man page from lvm2 to device-mapper package Please test and signoff. Users signoffs are welcomed. Eric ChangeLog: lvm2: Version 2.02.69 - 30th June 2010 ================================ Fix vgremove to allow removal of VG with missing PVs. (2.02.52) Add metadata/vgmetadatacopies to lvm.conf. Add --metadataignore to pvcreate and vgextend. Add vg_mda_copies, pv_mda_used_count and vg_mda_used_count to reports. Describe --vgmetadatacopies in lvm.conf and other man pages. Add --[vg]metadatacopies to select number of mdas to use in a VG. Make the metadata ignore bit control read/write metadata areas in a PV. Add pvchange --metadataignore to set or clear a metadata ignore bit. Refactor metadata code to prepare for --metadataignore / --vgmetadatacopies. Ensure region_size of mirrored log does not exceed its full size. Generate liblvm2app exported symbols from header file. Preload libc locale messages to prevent reading it in memory locked state. Fix handling of simultaneous mirror image and mirrored log image failure. device-mapper: Version 1.02.51 - 30th June 2010 ================================ Generate libdevmapper exported symbols from header file.

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[arch-general] help unravelling dmesg
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

I was wondering if someone might be able to explain this to me. I was reading the output from dmesg, and found the following entry. CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it. I'm still learning my way around as far as system administration goes. I'm not familiar with nf_conntrack. I tried adding net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to the end of my /etc/sysctl.conf file, but the messagestill persisted after re-boot. Can anyone point me to an explination (A) what the message means? (B) if I need to worry about it? (C) how to activate nf_conntrack_acct if I so choose? I'm not doing anything fancy here, just running arch on a laptop. As I said, I'm still learning, but not apposed to expanding my limitte knowledge of linux. _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28…

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Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

>Message: 9 >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:48:37 +0200 >From: Philipp ?berbacher <hollunder(a)lavabit.com> >Subject: Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate >speedup >To: arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> >Message-ID: <1277916464-sup-8123@eris> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >Excerpts from Aaron Griffin's message of 2010-06-30 17:55:40 +0200: >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have no idea where the number came from, but both 80 and 132 are >> >> standard column widths used for normal and wide terminals. >> > >> > should be 78 columns I do believe that's the standard for kernel/git >> > it allows for email comments more easily apparently. >> >> No, physical terminals went to 80 columns. The 78 number was likely >> related to editor chrome, such as line numbering... I'm not sure of >> the details. >> >> I believe email typically has 78 width due to the fact that "> " is >> expected for replies. > >I also read about 72, and it's my current setting for vim when editing >mails, but I have no idea where that comes from... I'm not sure if this helps or not. When i learned the fortran 77 standard, it utilized columns 7-72, anything in column 1 signified a comment, col 2-5 were reserved for labels, col 6 marked a continuation line, and columns 73-80 had significance I can't recall. The strict layout had historical significance related to punch-cards, which I believe ran 80 columns wide. The f90 standard I believe expanded the usable codespace to 132 columns, but I'm not sure exactly how that number became astandard. I think the punch-card thing might be where the 80 column value comes from though. I'm just not sure which is the chicken and which the egg. _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28…

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[arch-general] perl-xml-parser vs. perlxml: dependency probs
by Lou Garou 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Is anybody else getting dependency errors involving the attempted replacement of perlxml by perl-xml-parser? I've got libxml-perl and perl-sml-dom both requiring perlxml, thus stopping the replacement. Should I just sit tight and let the backroom boyz fix it?

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[arch-general] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.1.2-2
by Thomas Bächler 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

This version fixes the location of the pkgconfig file (shame on me to overlook that before). Please sign off.

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[arch-general] html5 and flash was x86_64 flash debacle
by Caleb Cushing 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

sorry in order to speed up gmail I cleared all my mailing list archives so I can't reply to that thread now. http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html youtube talks about what's missing from the <video> tag. I just thought maybe some people on here would be interested. I don't actually wish to continue the argument. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] Xorg 1.8, Nvidia 6200 Videoseven monitor
by Peter Cannon 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Hi All I have a Videoseven 19" monitor L19FM and an Nvidia 6200 graphics card the monitor's capabilities are never recognised properly by any Linux distribution so usually I use the Nvidia-settings tool. I have upgraded to Xorg release 1.8 to do so I had to remove the Nvidia-173xx driver and installed xf86-video-nv. X bombs out with the xorg.conf file in place (/etc/X11) so I moved the xorg.conf file to xorg.conf.old and X will start but only in 800x600 This is my /var/log/xor.0.log http://www.pastebin.org/367717 I tried putting my original xorg.conf http://www.pastebin.org/367716 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ as 20-nvidia.conf obviously changing the devices sections to "nv" rather than "nvidia" I get an "Out of range" message on the monitor, black screen but I wouldn't say X has bombed as such. Usually this means the refresh is wrong however as the information in the file used to work under nvidia-173xx I cant see that its that. I have HAL and udev in the daemons array of rc.conf I also use GDM which again is in the list of daemons. Any help would be appreciated.

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[arch-general] Xorg 1.8, Nvidia 6200 Videoseven monitor
by Peter Cannon 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Hi All I have a Videoseven 19" monitor L19FM and an Nvidia 6200 graphics card the monitor's capabilities are never recognised properly by any Linux distribution so usually I use the Nvidia-settings tool. I have upgraded to Xorg release 1.8 to do so I had to remove the Nvidia-173xx driver and installed xf86-video-nv. X bombs out with the xorg.conf file in place (/etc/X11) so I moved the xorg.conf file to xorg.conf.old and X will start but only in 800x600 This is my /var/log/xor.0.log http://www.pastebin.org/367717 I tried putting my original xorg.conf http://www.pastebin.org/367716 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ as 20-nvidia.conf obviously changing the devices sections to "nv" rather than "nvidia" I get an "Out of range" message on the monitor, black screen but I wouldn't say X has bombed as such. Usually this means the refresh is wrong however as the information in the file used to work under nvidia-173xx I cant see that its that. I have HAL and udev in the daemons array of rc.conf I also use GDM which again is in the list of daemons. Any help would be appreciated.

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[arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt
by Shridhar Daithankar 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Hello, I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to download the entire svn checkout) and built the qt port. However the video element is still missing, as tested on http://html5test.com. Digging into webkit build system, I discovered that it has disabled video/audio element support for qt port because the installed qt does not support phonon. from http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/qt/repos/extra-i686/PKGBUILD, phonon support is explicitly disabled during qt build. I searched around but could not find a reason for the same. I really do not want to build(more importantly maintain) my own qt build. So why is phonon support disabled in Qt? -- Regards Shridhar

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