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[arch-general] /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolc.conf.tail
by timetrap 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi, this is my first message to arch-general. I have been helping a user on the forums who needs multiple search domains in his /etc/resolv.conf file. His original question was this: "Our DHCP isolates clients to a separate subnet than the servers. As such, unless you fully qualify the server name, you can't find the server. A work around is to put the IP in the hosts file, but there are just too many servers to do that with. Another option is to add the search domain(s) in the to the end of the search line in resolv.conf, however that file is re-written by dhcpcd, so changes are quickly lost. Is there a way to add on search domains to what DHCP hands your system?" I have done some research and found that the BSDs have a particularly nice solution to this; /etc/resolv.conf.tail Basically, it does this: #!/bin/bash if [ -f /etc/resolv.conf.tail ]; then cat /etc/resolv.conf.tail >> /etc/resolv.conf fi I am still new to arch, and I don't know who exactly deals with this portion of the distro. Is this something that can be made standard? It seems like a very simple fix. Very useful too. Here is the forum posting: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=388345#p388345 --timetrap

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.25.10
by RedShift 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Thomas Bächler wrote: > Just a bump to .10 and a minor configuration change (AOE added). It is > built with gcc 4.3.1, so if any binary modules break, please tell me. > It may be smart to wait for GCC 4.3.2 to come out, because of this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451068 Glenn

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Re: [arch-general] community/mc-utf8 to extra/mc
by Gerhard Brauer 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:01:09PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Sergej Pupykin wrote: >> >> I see that mc with utf8 support is in extra now, so I delete mc-utf8 >> from community and ask someone who can do it: >> >> please reassign http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10376 to the new maintainer. > > Do you know if this bug is valid for the new mc in extra. If so I will > move/reassign it. Yes it also under mc 4.6.1-5. But this is a very minor thing, and i noticed that this only occurs whit german locale (ok, i don't tested others). But with LANG=C this doesn't happend. So it's maybe a (german) locale issue (false translation character in .po ?). > Allan Gerhard -- Kernel panic: Could not determine whether bit was one, zero or sqrt(1/PI)... (J.K. in d-u-g)

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[arch-general] kernel vga setting problems
by Ralph Alvy 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Why is it that after the last few upgrades with pacman I can't use any 'vga=nnn' setting anymore in my grub menu.lst? I used to use 'vga=792' 'vga=795', if memory serves me here. I keep ending up with a message at boot time that tells me the video mode selected is no recognized.

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Re: [arch-general] usb keyboard and mouse
by Sergej Pupykin 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

I try usbhid (as Celti say) driver and it seems it works, but I file a bug anyway. I think 2 more drivers would not be unnecessary. I don't try Emulate3Buttons=false, I'll do it today with mouse driver..

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[arch-general] community/mc-utf8 to extra/mc
by Sergej Pupykin 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hello, I see that mc with utf8 support is in extra now, so I delete mc-utf8 from community and ask someone who can do it: please reassign http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10376 to the new maintainer.

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[arch-general] usb keyboard and mouse
by Sergej Pupykin 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hi, All! Today I remove usb->ps/2 connector from my mouse because new MB has no ps/2 and I got the problem $ zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep "USB_MOUSE|USB_KBD" # CONFIG_USB_KBD is not set # CONFIG_USB_MOUSE is not set recompillng kernel with CONFIG_USB_KBD=m CONFIG_USB_MOUSE=m and modprobe usbmouse resovle it. Should I file a bug or I miss something and there is a more proper way to set this up?

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[arch-general] [gcc-4.3] segfault when runnung -O3 compiled c++ code
by Maik Beckmann 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hi, Can someone confirm that this http://codepad.org/I313t7BN compiled with g++ -O3 test.cpp -o test gives a segfault when trying to run it via ./test ?? I mailed to the gcc-help list regarding this issue: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.help/24804 Thanks, -- Maik PS: I'm on arch64, no testing no unstable.

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[arch-general] Archlinux Gaming Repository
by Chris Bolton 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

Hey all! A few of us have put together an arch gaming repo, which is basically a collection of some of some of the popular games in [unsupported], to save archers compilation time. Visit our wiki (http://arch-games.twilightlair.net) for more information.

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[arch-general] system call numbers on amd64
by Michael Krauss 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

Hello arch users! I am running Arch64: [mickraus@gandalf lib]\$ uname -m x86_64 Looking into /usr/include/asm/unistd.h, it uses unistd_64.h on AMD64. According to this file the _exit syscall has number 60. But on my machine I have to use syscall 1 instead, as listed in unistd_32.h. Here is an example code for nasm (the version in extra repo is far deprecated by the way, had to compile a newer version by myself): ; tiny.asm BITS 64 GLOBAL _start SECTION .text _start: mov eax,1 mov ebx,42 int 0x80 This works. But changing the 1 to 60 breaks. Build procedure: [mickraus@gandalf elf]\$ nasm -f elf64 tiny.asm [mickraus@gandalf elf]\$ gcc -s -Wall -nostdlib tiny.o [mickraus@gandalf elf]\$ ./a.out; echo $? 42 What is my error here? Kind regards, Michael Krauss

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