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[arch-general] Suggesting new PKGBUILD*.proto
by Geoffroy Carrier 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi! I made "cosmetic" changes on PKGBUILD*.proto Please see https://github.com/gcarrier/gkarch/tree/master/misc/usr_share_pacman For you information, and to ease discussion around it, here's the README: Changes I made affect both "pacman" and "abs" packages. Assumptions: - $startdir should be used as $srcdir and $pkgdir parent, as it could be useful, for example, to have $pkgdir in a tmpfs => Removed any reference to "$startdir/pkg" or "$startdir/src" => Relative paths to switch between $srcdir and $pkgdir should be avoided. E.g.: cd $srcdir/A patch [...] < ../../pkg/ is non-sense - $pkgdir and $srcdir could contain namespaces, etc. and we shouldn't try to guess about $IFS => "$srcdir/A" instead of $srcdir/A (use of "") - Still, lightweight means smater => Don't use "$_svntrunk" ${something} instead of $_svntrunk $something - "folder" is prefered to "folder/" in our scripts, but we should not suppose a makefile doesn't use something like "${DESTDIR}usr/bin" => DESTDIR="$pkgdir/", "$pkgdir" otherwise Best regards, -- Geoffroy Carrier

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[arch-general] Xorg fails to start: no screens found
by Чинарев Василий 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hello everyone :-) I installed Arch on VirtualBox and now am trying to make xorg work. What I did: pacman -S xorg pacman -S nvidia nvidia-xconfig startx But xorg fails with (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 169.12 Thu Feb 14 17:55:38 PST 2008 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found Help! :-) # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" # Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation. It is not supported in any way. Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/. Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release. Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository. See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions. X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-ARCH i686 Current Operating System: Linux vasa 2.6.24-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 30 11:40:06 CEST 2008 i686 Build Date: 23 March 2008 11:53:09AM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May 16 20:58:06 2008 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" (==) ServerLayout "Layout0" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0" (**) | |-->Device "Device0" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0" (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (==) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/Type1 (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (**) Extension "Composite" is enabled (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel (II) Loader magic: 0x81d77c0 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3 X.Org Video Driver: 2.0 X.Org XInput driver : 2.0 X.Org Server Extension : 0.3 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libpcidata.so (II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0 (--) using VT number 7 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,1237 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,7000 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:01:1: chip 8086,7111 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 80ee,beef card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 1022,2000 card 1022,2000 rev 40 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:04:0: chip 80ee,cafe card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 08,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:05:0: chip 8086,2415 card 8086,0000 rev 01 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,7113 card 0000,0000 rev 08 class 06,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,0), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (--) PCI:*(0:2:0) unknown vendor (0x80ee) unknown chipset (0xbeef) rev 0, Mem @ 0xe0000000/23 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xf0400000 - 0xf07fffff (0x400000) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xf0080000 - 0xf00fffff (0x80000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf0000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe07fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0x0000c200 - 0x0000c23f (0x40) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000c100 - 0x0000c1ff (0x100) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x0000c040 - 0x0000c05f (0x20) IX[B] [7] -1 0 0x0000c020 - 0x0000c03f (0x20) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c00f (0x10) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xf0400000 - 0xf07fffff (0x400000) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xf0080000 - 0xf00fffff (0x80000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf0000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe07fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0x0000c200 - 0x0000c23f (0x40) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000c100 - 0x0000c1ff (0x100) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x0000c040 - 0x0000c05f (0x20) IX[B] [7] -1 0 0x0000c020 - 0x0000c03f (0x20) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c00f (0x10) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xf0400000 - 0xf07fffff (0x400000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xf0080000 - 0xf00fffff (0x80000) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf0000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe07fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [10] -1 0 0x0000c200 - 0x0000c23f (0x40) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x0000c100 - 0x0000c1ff (0x100) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x0000c040 - 0x0000c05f (0x20) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000c020 - 0x0000c03f (0x20) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000c000 - 0x0000c00f (0x10) IX[B] (II) "extmod" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "dbe" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "freetype" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) "record" will be loaded by default. (II) "dri" will be loaded by default. (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libfreetype.so (II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project" compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 2.1.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 169.12 Thu Feb 14 18:45:56 PST 2008 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "record" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//librecord.so (II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.13.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3 (II) Loading extension RECORD (II) LoadModule: "dri" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Video Driver (II) LoadModule: "kbd" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0, module version = 1.2.2 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0 (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.4.0, module version = 1.2.3 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0 (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 169.12 Thu Feb 14 17:55:38 PST 2008 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0 (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found

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[arch-general] cups depend on ghostscript? WAS: troubles with Brother HL-2040
by Ryan Sims 16 May '08

16 May '08

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Thayer Williams <thayer(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 5/15/08, Ryan Sims <rwsims(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been running >> another distro and chugging along happily. It's got a Brother HL2040 >> attached to it via USB, and I use cups to share it around the network. >> >> Well, I got the server is up and running so I followed the instruction >> in the wiki[1] for installing the printer. Everything seems to have >> gone ok, the printer was detected and installed correctly, hooray. >> However, it doesn't print the test page (or anything else). When I >> ask it to print, the printer wakes up and starts spinning, thinks for >> a couple seconds, and then goes back to sleep. > > Are you trying to print directly from the server, or from a remote PC > on the network? Get it working locally first before worrying about > anything else. > > Are you running a GUI on the server? If so, what does > http://localhost:631/printers show for printer status? > > Interesting, I found the problem: I had neglected to install ghostscript. It seems to me like that should be an explicit dependency for cups; is there a scenario where you could print from cups without ghostscript? I also think its interesting that cups didn't say anything about "gs" failing to run except in the "debug" log level, and the failure certainly wasn't considered fatal, even though it really was. -- Ryan W Sims

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[arch-general] Problem installing webcam
by Mordechai Peller 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hi, I'm trying to install a sn9c201 webcam, but I can't find any drivers. On the wiki, the sn9c102 driver is listed, but not the 201. dmesg only listed the following: usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 42 usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice The device only came with (Linux) drivers for Fedora Core 4. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Linuxtag 2008 Berlin
by Didi 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hey Is anyone going to the Linuxtag in Berlin http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html Would be cool to meet up, as fellow archers, and have a beer or something. Cheers Didi ---- www.cern.ch/ribalba / www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba(a)gmail.com Phone (Work) : +41 22 7679376 Skype : ribalba Address : CERN / IT-FIO-FS / GENEVE 23/ SCHWEIZ

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[arch-general] Postgres failure after system upgrade
by richard terry 15 May '08

15 May '08

Yesterday upgraded my system which happened to include I think from memory as well as postgres 8.3 , php. Not a technical person unfortunately, but my postgres has died with the message below. I wonder if some kind soul could give me some help in tracking down the problem. I've tried looking at the below mentioned files and can't see anything wrong . Perhaps something got overwritten? An help appreciated. Richard The server doesn't accept connections: the connection library reports could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? If you encounter this message, please check if the server you're trying to contact is actually running PostgreSQL on the given port. Test if you have network connectivity from your client to the server host using ping or equivalent tools. Is your network / VPN / SSH tunnel / firewall configured correctly? For security reasons, PostgreSQL does not listen on all available IP addresses on the server machine initially. In order to access the server over the network, you need to enable listening on the address first. For PostgreSQL servers starting with version 8.0, this is controlled using the "listen_addresses" parameter in the postgresql.conf file. Here, you can enter a list of IP addresses the server should listen on, or simply use '*' to listen on all available IP addresses. For earlier servers (Version 7.3 or 7.4), you'll need to set the "tcpip_socket" parameter to 'true'. You can use the postgresql.conf editor that is built into pgAdmin III to edit the postgresql.conf configuration file. After changing this file, you need to restart the server process to make the setting effective. If you double-checked your configuration but still get this error message, it's still unlikely that you encounter a fatal PostgreSQL misbehaviour. You probably have some low level network connectivity problems (e.g. firewall configuration). Please check this thoroughly before reporting a bug to the PostgreSQL community.

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[arch-general] digikam beta4 and gcc 4.3.0
by waldek 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hi, first of all I'm out of my depth here so be gentle, I was trying to compile digicam beta4 and the compilation process hangs. I found this thread that describes it: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/7917 the answer in digikam forum was: "I have reported this problem to CImg author (David Tschumperlé). After investiguations, he said than all come from an uncompatibilty with gcc 4.3.0 and CImg code. Note than using Gcc 4.2.3 digiKam compile fine." so I asked on CImg forums: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2036591&forum_id=423277 and the reply was: "Anyway, this is not a bug related to CImg or GREYCstoration, since it compiles fine if you don't set the optimizations with g++ 4.3.0. Also it compiles fine with older versions of g++ (4.2.3 for instance). I suspect some bugs in the compiler optimization procedure which causes the process to hang. I admit this is very annoying, but I can't do anything to solve it, since it is clearly a problem related to the compiler." could somebody take a look at it? What do you think? Cheers waldek

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[arch-general] filelists for packages
by Abhishek Dasgupta 14 May '08

14 May '08

Thanks to Pierre, we have filelists for all packages at http://dev.archlinux.org/~pierre/test-repo/ [1] I made a small script which downloads the *gz from his repo and allows one to find out which package has a particular file: #!/bin/bash store="$HOME/.local/share/pac-file" # default location repos=(core extra community) a=$(uname -m) url="http://dev.archlinux.org/~pierre/test-repo" if [ -f $HOME/.config/pac-file.conf ];then . $HOME/.config/pac-file.conf fi case $1 in sync) echo "synchronising file cache" cd $store for i in ${repos[@]} do rm files.db.tar.gz rm -rf $i; mkdir $i wget $url/$i/os/$a/files.db.tar.gz tar zxf files.db.tar.gz -C ./$i done echo "sync complete." ;; search) cd $store grep -R $2 . | sed "s/\.\/$.*$\/files:/\1 /g" ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {sync|search}" esac exit 0 Thanks Pierre! [1]: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-May/006124.html -- Abhishek Dasgupta

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] policy on desktop files?
by Grigorios Bouzakis 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hi, i wanted to note that there is http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Project maintained by bardo a TU, which mentions absolutely nothing about upstream. Instead it says "I (bardo) will write/modify the necessary files and notify the corresponding maintainers so they can be added to the packages." Additionally there are links to the bug tracker. I have no idea if bardo submitts them upstream as well but i doubt it. Greg

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[arch-general] keyboard indicator lights not working
by Scott Weisman 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hello, At some point, the keyboard indicator lights stopped working. I know they aren't broken (and I've even used three separate keyboards). They used to work, but stopped at some point, but I don't remember when. Does anyone have any suggestion for this? Thanks, Scott

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