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[arch-general] arch way for ip aliasing
by Adam Stokes 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Does one exist or are we still putting them in rc.local? Thanks -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes(a)gmail.com )

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[arch-general] how to mount external hdd
by Preston C. 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

I think that this is a simple question. How do I mount an external hard drive before I log into my desktop? Thanks

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[arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?
by Damjan Georgievski 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

I find it pretty frustrating that once bugs are closed in http://bugs.archlinux.org/ you can no longer add comments. The only option you have is request re-opening of the bug, which, I guess, would then frustrate the maintainer who closed the bug. Adding comments to already closed bugs makes sense to me, since the *discussion* is almost always not over when it's (too hastily?) closed. Sometimes you want to add comments that strengthens the case for closing the report, which also means the report will not be re-opened in the future. Sometimes you need to supply more information. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Guest speaker
by Colin Conrad 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Hello, I am writing on behalf of the Dalhousie University OSUM (http://studentdevelopers.ning.com/group/dalosum) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We are having an Linux "Infofest" on March 14th, 2009 from1PM to 4PM, where by the general public could come out and hear why they should try Linux instead of Windows. This will be followed by an Installfest two weeks later. We would like someone from the ArchLinux team to come out and talk for an around 45 minutes about ArchLinux and what advantages it has over the commercial OSs out there. The person who is willing to do so can e-mail me directly at: cmconrad79(a)gmail.com Cheers, Colin

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[arch-general] xterm and xorg-apps
by Andrew Przepioski 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

How come xorg-apps is a dependency for xterm? Been a lil' curious for awhile and have tried figuring it out, but found nothing so I figured I would ask here.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.3-2 replacing man
by Alessandro Doro 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Andreas Radke wrote: > Anything else to improve? Replacing man with man-db will leave the old whatis databases on the system, with no package owning them. On my system: /opt/java/jre/man/whatis /opt/java/man/whatis /usr/local/man/whatis /usr/man/whatis /usr/man/it/whatis /usr/share/man/whatis /usr/share/man/it/whatis A warning about the issue? A solution could be a man package update with an uninstall script that take care of this, then go on with man-db.

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[arch-general] About: size of the "display"...
by Alessandro Doro 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:52:17PM +0100, Gerhard Brauer wrote: >> For us maybe a grub entry with parameter vga=ask is the best, so >> users >> could select their resolution. >> But IMHO we should "design" our bash dialogs in a way that they >> also be >> usable on a normal 80x25 console.. > > Yeah I agree we should design things to fit within 80 columns. > I find longer lines are generally harder to read and edit than shorter > lines as well. > The dialogs should also be resolution agnostic. And if the installer will be internationalized, dialog design will be trickier. A hard job indeed.

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[arch-general] Ruby 1.9 upgrade and some more
by Kessia 'even' Pinheiro 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Hi all, I'm doing a recompile of ruby for version 1.9. The needed are, in that order: - recompile ruby to version 1.9 (no change) - recompile vi and vim [applying the new patch's until version 108, arch today only apply 65] and applying a patch for make compatible with ruby1.9, it's done already. - move rails to community - removing rake and rubygems dependency - drop rake and rubygems from community to /dev/null [ruby now provides both] - verify which packages needed ruby and check compatibility -- Kessia Pinheiro Computer Science Student - Brazil, UFBa Linux System Administrator Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User #389695 http://even.archlinux-br.org --- X Fórum Internacional Software Livre - fisl10 24 a 27 de junho de 2009 PUCRS - Porto Alegre - Brasil

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[arch-general] Weird acpid issue
by Leonid Grinberg 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Hello, My laptop has ACPI running to detect, among other things, the lid state, so that it can shut off the screen if it is closed. However, every once in a while, the functionality simply doesn't work -- I close the lid and the computer doesn't respond. Running /etc/rc.d/acpid restart makes it work again, only to fail again in a few days. I am running ACPI 1.2 on 2.6.28. Any ideas? -- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg lgrinberg(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] [ARCH-GENERAL] alsaplayer gtk2 interfacelost?
by Javier Vasquez 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

My alsaplayer configuration file includes: % cat ~/.alsaplayer/config # # alsaplayer config file # # Only edit this file if the application is not active. # Any modifications might (will!) be lost otherwise. # http.buffer_size=1048576 main.default_interface=gtk2 main.default_output=alsa main.fallback_interface=text main.period_count=8 main.period_size=4096 main.play_on_start=false But when I run alsaplayer with verbosity I get: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Interface plugin: TEXT interface v1.1 Nothing to play. I'm not sure why the text interface was started. I tried changing the fallback interface to gtk2, and things fail like: % alsaplayer --verbose AlsaPlayer 0.99.80 (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsaplayer.org> and others. Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12 Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3 Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1 Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0 Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2 Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2 Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1 Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01 Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1 Failed to load text interface. This is bad (gtk2,gtk2,/usr/lib/alsaplayer) Any idea why gtk2 alsaplayer interface doesn't seem to work? The package is i686: % pacman -Qs alsaplayer local/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1 ... Thanks, -- Javier

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