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[arch-general] i915 Module Problem
by Xiaochen Gao 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

Dear All, Sorry for the spam. I am new to this list and I'm fairly new to Arch Linux. I encountered a problem when I tried to install and use Arch Linux 2010.05. It seems to be: if modules auto-load is set to yes or I manually set i915 to load in rc.conf, my computer will stop and chang to blank black screen. If I disable i915 the system will start without error, but only with low defination display. My computer is new lenovo Thinkpad X201, with i5-540 processor and integrated Intel HD Graphics. Here I'm wondering whether it is a i915 error, or BIOS or any problem of my computer? And can I have an alternative method to start my Arch Linux system with normal defination display? Thank you very much. Xiaochen

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[arch-general] Rsync not handling spaces in directory names
by Jordan Windsor 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

I'm unable to get rsync to handle a particular directory which contains spaces within its name. Here's the command I run and the output: [jordan@archpc Program Files]$ rsync -rve 'ssh -p 2222' Steam archlap:/mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program\ Files jordan@archlap's password: sending incremental file list created directory /mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program Steam/ Steam/AppUpdateStats.blob Steam/CSERHelper.dll Steam/ClientRegistry.blob Steam/GameOverlayRenderer.dll Steam/GameOverlayRenderer.log Steam/GameOverlayUI.exe Steam/GameValidation.log Steam/Steam.dll Steam/Steam.exe Steam/SteamUI.dll Steam/SteamUI_1289.mst Steam/Steam_61.mst Steam/Support.url Steam/ThirdPartyLegalNotices.doc Steam/WriteMiniDump.exe Steam/dbghelp.dll Steam/mss32_s.dll Steam/steam.ico Steam/steam.log Steam/steam_1289_assert_2010_7_6T17_13_2C0.mdmp Steam/steam_1289_assert_2010_7_8T16_47_28C0.mdmp ^CKilled by signal 2. rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at rsync.c(543) [sender=3.0.7] I killed the program before it continued, It created a directory on the destinations with the name "Program" when it should have sync'd the Steam folder within the "Program Files" directory. Here's the output of ls -l in the destination directory parent: [jordan@archlap drive_c]$ ls -l total 1572 drwxr-xr-x 3 jordan users 4096 Jul 10 13:26 Program drwxrwxr-- 6 larissa users 4096 Jul 10 12:55 Program Files -rwxrwxr-x 1 larissa users 1588224 Jun 16 17:42 SteamInstall.msi drwxrwxr-x 4 larissa users 4096 Jun 16 17:27 users drwxrwxr-x 14 larissa users 4096 Jun 19 21:08 windows drwxrwxr-x 2 larissa users 4096 Jun 16 23:49 winetrickstmp [jordan@archlap drive_c]$ The jordan users is part of the "users" group and has the correct permission. Thanks!

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[arch-general] Blanks screen after boot
by Philipp 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Hey, I have this problem since a while but it got a lot worse with the last two kernel versions. Now there's an about 50/50 chance to see the user login or simply not see it. I don't have any login manager set up, so after boot there's simply the user login and after that I issue startx. It all works just fine,even if I can't see a thing, and once I issued startx everything goes back to normal, the screen isn't blank anymore. The machine has an Intel chipset, and I guess it's related to that and/or KMS, but that's as far as my guess goes. Maybe one of you knows something about that kind of issue? -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

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Re: [arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Thank you to all who have replied. When i had read the man page I missed the part about bash sourcing ~/.bash_profile first for log-in shells only, I took it to be universal. some other responses interspersed below. >Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:12:06 -0500 >From: C Anthony Risinger <anthony(a)extof.me> >Subject: Re: [arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration >To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> >Message-ID: ><AANLkTilj7lPsMZLZg7XFZnpYhgnqaPyk3MidkPPGqQau(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >2010/7/8 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee(a)gmail.com>: >> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 13:00 -0300, Hilton Medeiros wrote: >>> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:47:03 -0400 >>> <aerospace1028(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > <snip> >> You could also set things in .profile instead? I've read before that >> this is the 'proper' way to put env stuff etc. > Most of what I did was create a short ~/.bash_alias file and load it in a ~/.bash_profile, for the time being, moving the three lines of code to ~/.bashrc works. I plan to go through the man page again and review the preference order for .bashrc .profile and .bash_profile. >i could be wrong, as i've heavily customized these scripts, but i >believe by default the only thing .bashrc does (in arch) is source >.bash_aliases if it exists; so put aliases there. > The default appears to be that .bashrc: checks for an interactive session, sets the prompt and aliases the ls command. .bash_profile: references and loads settings in ~.bashrc Since bash_profile called bashrc, that was where I put my call to bash_alias. For the time being, shifting it over to .bashrc appears to work. >take a look at: > >/etc/profile* >/etc/bash* >~/.profile >~/.bash* by default I don't have a ~.profile. Not sure if that's right or not. I originally installed from the speakup modified install CD. Again, thank you to everyone who helped out. It appears my confusion was over the order for .bashrc, .profile and .bash_profile in a log-in vs. non log-in shell. I've got everything working now, but I'll still go back and re-read the appropriate section of the manual for my own interest. _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID2…

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[arch-general] indicator-appmenu in Arch?
by Magnus Therning 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

I did a quick search, but found nothing. Does anyone have a PKGBUILD for Application Menu[1] already? /M [1]: https://launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration
by aerospace1028＠hotmail.com 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

greetings, I noticed the other day that some of the settings I configured in my ~/.bash_profile aren't implimented when using the gnome-termianl. For the most-part, it's not too big a deal; some of it just aliases system admin stuff that I do from the text consoles (tty1-6) anyhow. Just for curiousity, i poked around the wiki and the various settings areas on my computer (/etc, /usr/share and such) trying to find if the gnome-terminal had it's own set of configuration files. Does anybody know where i should look to find howto customize the start-up behavior for gnome-terminal? Also, is it normal for gnome-terminal to not read ~/.bash_profile, even if the default shell is bash? thank you:-) _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:…

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[arch-general] Why does pacman 3.4 reacts so slow to SIGINT?
by Lukas Grässlin 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi there, since the update from pacman 3.3 to 3.4 it reacts really slow to a SIGINT (Ctrl+C) while syncing or installing a packet. With 3.3 it immediately stops. Not a hugh problem, but I would know why it is so. Regards, Lukas -- Lukas Grässlin Collax GmbH . Basler Str. 115a . 79115 Freiburg . Germany p: +49 (0) 89-990 157-23 Collax - Flexible IT. Geschäftsführer: Bernd Bönte, Boris Nalbach Amtsgericht München, HRB 173695 USt-ID: DE270819312

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[arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi. I'm not that sure what's happening. But I just acquired an HP Pavilion desktop. (My Sister's Hubby just bought a new win 7 box and let me recycle his old xp box... I told him right away that I'd found the problem he was having with the old box, it was running windows...) Anyway it's got AMD 64 processor with a gig of ram, and integrated NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE (which could be the problem for all I know. But since I don't give a tallywack about 3d acceleration I doubt I'm supposed to need to know much about tweaking NVIDIA graphics. Anyway I promptly used gparted to squeeze the existing winxp installed to the 200 gig sata harddrive down to only 70 gig, & attached an ide seagate 250 gig drive I'd had left over from my former (defunct) desktop which had died about a year ago. Making room for multiple Linux distros. Because PCLinuxOS features a "mylivecd" script that's designed to make it easy for non-experts to make fully configured and installable live cd/dvd images of their running PCLinuxOS installation, PCLinuxOS got the first install. But Arch was supposed to be the 2nd. I installed the core system from an archlinux-2010.05-core-dual.iso But since I already have a 64 bit Arch on my laptop I thought I'd try the i686 image on the desktop... Then I set up my user partitions via udev rule (I've named all my partitions cause something like LABEL=Arch_desk-7, & LABEL=PCLOS_desk-3 are much more human readable than any UUID={string} will ever be). Anyway, I updated the new Arch system and kept working on customizations. I kept getting interrupted so it was a couple of days later that I was comfortable enough to reboot. It does reboot, but right after the bootup screen says something about waiting for UDev events the monitor goes blank. (I expect this to happen cause the arch on my laptop does the same thing except with the laptop, the screen returns to life a moment later with a new screen font that holds true until it enters runlevel: 3 where the font I defined in my rc.conf finally takes over... But on this new desktop which has a nice Sony flat screen monitor, when the screen goes blank, the Sony monitor flashes a pop-up notification about no signal, which is quickly followed by a notice that it's going to power save mode... And the new arch system never sends it any more output to wake it up. No mater what I do to the keyboard or mouse. And no matter how long I wait either. I tried just waiting... Went to bed, got up late the next day. Still no monitor output... But Arch itself is NOT hung up. It will respond to the three fingered salute with a reboot, and I even one time blindly logged in as root to the console and blindly typed: shutdown -h now Which resulted in a powerdown. But I still don't have any idea what's killing my monitor output. I can use my PCLinuxOS installation's root account to examine/edit *ANY* file. But I don't have a clue what to look for. Suggestions anyone??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] [signoff] udev-159-1
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Hi guys, udev 159 ======== Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] mercurial in Extra out of date
by PT M. 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

It's been a week since mercurial 1.6 released, extra/mercurial 1.5.4-1 is still in the repository. -- Arch Linuxer, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net

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