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[arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput
by Johannes Held 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Hello, I have a second Arch running in a virtual machine. Recently I noticed that I can't write some characters like @, {, ~ .. and the like. It seem's that AltGr is somewhat broken. I know that I had this problem with my normal PC. But the solution is 30kilometers away and buried somewhere unter ~/tmp.. (hopefully) As far as I know - it was something simple with kbdfont or something like that... -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

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[arch-general] initscripts-splash
by dongiovanni＠archlinux.de 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hallo, Currently I'm maintaining splashy and fbsplash. Some time ago there was a discussion of integration of the splash hooks in the initscripts in [core]. Is there something planed? It would reduce problems for some less experienced users. If this isn't possible, can someone update initscripts-splash when the new initscripts go to [core]? I only could upload a third initscripts package, that I can maintain myself, but that would only make a mess... I don't know if dtw is still active. The last time a dev updated the initscripts-splash package. Since I'm not a TU I depend on someone who updates it in order to support the new udev in a correct way. Thanks for now, dongiovanni

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[arch-general] Apple keyboard broken in [testing]
by bardo 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hi all. I'm experiencing a strange problem with my Apple aluminium keyboard: a few days ago the F1-F4 keys stopped working, and the ` and < keys were swapped (meaning: pressing one of the keys gives the output of the other). If I changed my layout the same two keys were swapped, even though they now mapped other carachters, so it should be a scancode problem. This happens in both X and in console, the keyboard was working fine before and it works fine if plugged to any other machine. Hard to say which package broke the whole thing, since it happened after a 600MB upgrade, but I suspect the usual udev... Trying to fix the problem I plugged another usb keyboard to the same port, but everything was ok, so I began playing with showkey and xev. Result: the Apple keyboard returns different scancodes and keycodes from the other one. The same kayboard is broken on the two Arch machines I own, which both run testing, and I was able to find a user on IRC with the very same keyboard working outside of testing. Downgrading xorg-server did not work (as I expected, since the console is broken, too) and I'm starting to run out of ideas. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Corrado

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[arch-general] [signoff] pcmciautils
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi fixed udev rules file to use load-modules.sh instead of plain modprobe. signoff for both arches, please greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] madwifi/madwifi-utils 0.9.4.3382
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

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

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[arch-general] udev-118-5 udev.rules.pacsave
by Neil Darlow 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi, Is it safe to delete /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules.pacsave following the update? Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] [signoff] madwifi/madwifi-utils 0.9.4
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

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

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[arch-general] Dangerous dbus update for testing
by Jan de Groot 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

There's a dangerous dbus update coming up for the testing repository. The package itself isn't so special, as it works fine, but the fact that every dbus-daemon process on your system will crash during the upgrade can lead to unpleasant surprises. Testing users: please be aware of this and run your upcoming upgrades from a plain text console instead of from X. One of the unpleasant surprises is that xorg-server in testing goes down with dbus while it's upgrading, leading to loss of important work or an interrupted package upgrade process.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ISO 2008.03 release status update
by Grigorios Bouzakis 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:10:22PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hey guys keep cool, > following packages i would like to see in core: > > pending signoffs and move to base: > pmciautils, just a small udev.rules fix waiting for signoff. > cryptsetup -->waiting on response > > klibc > klibc-extras > klibc-module-init-tools > --> seems to be solid and movable, would you move in Thomas? > > vi > --> seems to be signed off, could Eric or Tobias this move in or should i move > it? > > klibc-udev? > the one from testing works fine, we can use this 116-3 > instead of 118 which is not buildable here. > --> move in klibc-udev-116-3, would you move in Thomas? > > initscripts? > bump to 2008.03 with the last changes from git > aaron and roman will add the final changes and then release a new version. > > mkinitcpio? > do we need a new version to get init= syntax back? > if yes we could fix this bug also: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9433 > --> Aaron said doesn't seem to be an issue > problem because of missing /dev/mem? > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9813 > Thomas is this a showstopper? > > pending signoffs and move to support: > rp-pppoe --> waiting for response > tiacx --> will go to core now > tiacx-firmware --> will go to core now > > wpasupplicant? > Thomas movable? > > fuse? > Thomas is there an issue atm? > movable? > > kbd? > Roman wanted to add some changes and additions to it, > this is not critical we could live with the old version too. > Roman just tell me, if we should wait for your work or not. > > madwifi/madwifi-utils? > I don't have the hardware and cannot test it at all. > I am so undecided, Andy has issues with both the one in core and the one from > testing. > Varun reported this bug on his macbook: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9802 > Others have no issues and gave signoff on general ml. > We could move in the so called stable version or leave it with the snapshot we > already have in core.(I hate buggy modules:( ) > > delayed package moves due to rebuilds and issues: > gcc > build-toolchain > libtool > perl > > any other comments? > > greetings > tpowa May i add xorg-server to the above packages too? I know its not part of core, let alone base, but its a very important package in extra. Current xorg-server in testing comes with HAL enabled. Reference: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9563 Is that gonna be the default now? Users probably havent reported back on this, but many had problems with it. On the other hand others didnt. Its already a month in testing, but no decision has been made up yet. Should this be reviewed later? What do devs think about this change? Greg

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[arch-general] [OT] i'm giving away textbooks
by Petar Bogdanovic 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

Hi, I'm aware of this being off-topic but since no profit is going to be made, I dare to post the [1]offer here. The books are in excellent condition and shape. You only have to accept the shipping [2]costs. Thanks, Petar [1] http://smokva.net/lib/ [2] The books are in Switzerland, Europe.

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