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[arch-general] 2008.03 TEST ISOs released
by Tobias Powalowski 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Hi i just placed the new "Core Dump" TEST ISO to the mirrors eg: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/rc-iso/2008.03/ some days testing should be enough, I tested them in kvm-qemu and didn't find an issue. ATTENTION: This ISO contains packages that are in testing repository. So don't be suprised by getting package is newer then repository on first pacman -Syu. Those errors will be gone when we moved in the packages, which will happen soon. Changelog: GENERAL: - kernel 2.6.24.3 usage - pacman 3.1.3 usage - RAM usage has been revisited, these are the new recommendations: * FTP ISO, CORE ISO: arch boot image 160 MB RAM x86_64/i686 (all packages selected, with swap partition) * CORE ISO: lowmem boot image 64 MB RAM x86_64/i686 (all packages selected, with swap partition) FIXES: - fixed intel wireless automatic module loading (arch boot image) - fixed auto prepare of harddisk (lowmem boot image) - added more checks and improvements to autoprepare of harddisk - added missing netfilter modules and some wireless addon modules - added dmraid and linux-atm to install environment - added gpt support to grub - added tiacx module and firmware files to install environment - added parted to install environment - updated ftp mirrors to latest status references to bug reports: - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4762 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5825 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7975 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8422 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8431 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8435 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8561 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8616 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8638 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8699 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8835 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8852 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8886 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8898 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8952 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9374 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9436 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9452 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9494 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9560 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9697 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9734 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9864 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9865 As usual check md5sum before using the images and also be aware of the new RAM recommendations the images have. Have fun greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] AUR 1.5.1 Released
by Simo Leone 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

That's right folks, the "quick" release that wasn't so quick after all. Terribly sorry about the delay, school is like having one of those cartooney iron balls chained to your leg. Nothing too special to see, miscellaneous updates and some bug fixes. Some speed improvements on the search page, and the JSON interface should work now *poke poke* json client authors. Oneliner log follows. Enjoy. -- Simo Leone Archlinux Developer 7d7ef9b... Version bump to 1.5.1 99e65b2... Revamped pkg_search_page() da3b397... Updated Polish translation 2462777... Small fix to Italian translation b1fe84d... Fixed bug where search resets when browsing orphans e64307d... Generate valid dummy data entries 3577326... Make all references to AUR database consistent e0582fd... Fix weird title setting on search page 172dbf6... Fixed broken search results fca6767... One more json fix 0e32c86... Changed valid_passwd() to check for non-empty password instead of good_passwd() a5a8895... Put login into its own function. 541ea8a... Fixed a couple more lingering JSON bugs 9a4ca4e... Changed to non-fancy logo 9254804... Fixed operator precendence in aurjson 196543a... Make JSON interface work a2fe04f... Added missing message to Italian translation 90ceaca... Another small fix for Italian translation 380b1b6... Updated German translation 1200ce9... Updated French translation 865ffb9... More small updates to Italian translation e7bb7a2... Turn more and less buttons into links

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[arch-general] [signoff] madwifi/madwifi-utils 0.9.4.3382
by Tobias Powalowski 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi bump of madwifi drivers, back to trunk version please signoff both arches also users can signoff, no respond from any dev bump at least anyone? greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.0.6-1
by Gerhard Brauer 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:31:22AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > New version with some bugs fixed. Please sign off (tested by me on x86_64). I have tested it on my luks encrypted laptop and on some loop device container which are also luks encrypted. I could boot my laptop ;-) and tested adding/deleting passphase keys. If this is enough i could give a user signoff for i686. (Sorry for crossposting but i thought i couldn't post directly on arch-devel). Gerhard -- Ein Registry-Cleaner ist fuer Win-User der Bulldozer des kleinen Mannes.

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[arch-general] Grub and GPT partition labels
by Gerhard Brauer 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hello, are there any plans to prepare our grub with support for GPT partition labels? The grub version from current install ISO could not be installed on such a prepared harddisk: Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xee Good old lilo on the other side works like a charm ;-) There must be patches for grub to provide this (???) My question result from a discussion where someone would like to install on an >7TB Array and says: it doesn't work, but on Debian, SuSe. And he doesn't provide further infos... ;-) But i've done some tests in an VM and don't see problems in kernel or tools. Only the grub problem. The discussion is only in german: https://forum.archlinux.de/?page=Postings;id=20;thread=8205 Regards Gerhard -- www.archlinux.de

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[arch-general] xorg-server without hal
by Varun Acharya 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Though the xorg-server with hal support ruined many keybindings for me, I realised that its the only way to get my apple wireless bluetooth keyboard to work properly with X. Initial pairing is fine, but if I let the computer idle for a while, the keyboard falls asleep, and X does not recognize it when it wakes up in the xorg-server without hal support. In xorg-server with hal support, the keyboard works no matter how long I let my box idle. So I have to reconnect the keyboard and restart X for things to work again in xorg-server without hal. Anyone aware of any workaround for this? I tried running "hidd --connect XXXXX --server" , but the "--server" part didn't help. On a side note, the tilt wheel on my mouse is behaving crazy. If I tilt left or right, X is restarted. If I restart into Vista and then back into Linux, then tilt works fine, but scroll wheel is way too fast. Is this related to any recent xorg-server updates? Thanks, Varun

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Re: [arch-general] HAL mounts CDs, doesn't mount DVDs
by Ravi Desai 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

I thought that the cd/dvd/floppy sections of fstab are commented out when using HAL (So says the HAL wikipage). So this should not make any difference. Vinay S Shastry wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Renan Birck <renan.dream(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > > >> > > What filesystem is on those DVDs that can be mounted (OpenSUSE) and >> > > those that cannot be mounted? >> > > > > The DVDs that mount seem to be ISO9660, while the ones that don't mount > > seem to be UDF. > Have you tried using filesystem type "auto" in fstab for the relevant device? > > > -- Vinay S Shastry http://thenub.one09.net

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Processor Generation++
by RedShift 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Montag, 17. März 2008 10:11:15 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >> My opinion on this, why to desupport something which might be still used, >> also we all know that x86_64 is the future and therefore i don't think the >> benefit is worth the trouble. > > In addition to this MMX would not really boost anything. SSE would be much > superior. And further more: You would only notice such improvements on heavy > multimedia encoding stuff and such things you would not do on an 10 years old > computer. > You could say the same thing between using march=i386 vs. march=i686. I'm for this idea, and I would even suggest bumping from i686 to pentium3. But not any further than that, because I'm still using an ArchLinux install on my Pentium 3 500 Mhz testbox... Glenn

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[arch-general] HAL mounts CDs, doesn't mount DVDs
by Renan Birck 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Hello, I have Arch Linux with all updates. Having a problem with HAL: it auto-mounts CDs but not data DVDs (however, some DVDs, like the OpenSUSE 10.3 install, mount automatically). My DVD-RW drive is an LG GSA-H44N. If that matters, my desktop environment is KDEmod. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Renan Birck ~ Canoas, RS, Brasil "Quando tudo que você tem é um martelo, todos os seus problemas se parecem com os seus dedões."

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 41, Issue 23
by Leandro Chescotta 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

no, i dont have plan9 installed, and the file is wmiirc, i have just realized that my ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file has not the proper permissions, i chmod +x it, but now i have wmii to not load properly, and in VT1 it says there's in line 63 near unespected esac... the portion of ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc that gives the error: # Event processing # Processed later by `wmiiloop' and evaled. # Duplicate the eval line and replace 'eval' with 'echo' for details. eventstuff() { cat <<'!' # Events Event Start case "$1" in wmiirc) exit; esac # <---- error in vt1

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