February 2010 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS
by Pierre Chapuis 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

I saw on arch-announce that xf86-video-intel now only supports KMS, and I wanted to ask: is there still a way to specify the resolution of virtual consoles, like we used to do with vga=XXX in kernel options? -- catwell

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[arch-general] pacman message: "too much happens::" ...
by clemens fischer 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hi, I'm updating the pacman database about once a day. For the last few days I always get this message: "too much happens:: Synchronizing package databases..." but everything works fine. I checked usr/bin/pacman, /usr/lib/libalpm.so.4 and usr/sbin/fcron using strings(1) for the text "much", but no hits. What's happening here? clemens

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[arch-general] VIM history
by Nilesh Govindarajan 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hi, while I was on Fedora, whenever I opened a file using vim, the next time I open it, it used to open at the same line where I closed it. What is the setting to enable this feature ? Its a big pain in the a$$ to scroll through the file every time I want to find the line. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] [Fwd: [LAU] A sound decision]
by Ng Oon-Ee 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Forwarding the below, for those interested. fons, you'd maybe like this? -------- Forwarded Message -------- > To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > Subject: [LAU] A sound decision > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:26:36 -0200 > > http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/36698-from-windows-to… > > From Windows to Linux: a sound decision > > Some excerpts: > > Five years ago, when Geoff Beasley decided to move his sound studio > business from a Windows-based one to a Linux-based setup, he had one > simple bit of logic driving him: things could not be worse under > Linux. > ... > "There's a great difference between working with commercial software > and Linux," says Beasley. "One is the speed at which things get fixed > - it is simply amazing. Another thing is that though I am always > running software which is in a constant state of development, it is > incredibly stable. It is not possible to get fixes at this speed from > commercial vendors - the guys I work with are driven by the sheer > elegance of their software and its flexibility. And I am constantly > amazed at what I can do with my limited knowledge." > ... > Beasley's set-up: > > SYSTEM SOFTWARE > > All 5 of the production machines have the following subsystem: > > Arch Linux system custom 2.6.31,6-rt19 kernel with RT preemption > (essential for Xrun avoidance - click and pops) Desktop consisting of > openbox, Adeskbar and pypanel. Display manager is Slim > AUDIO > jack2-svn (contains netone; which is netjack1 within jack2) > Qjackctl-svn > Rtirq (RT pci priorities for sound cards; also essential for Xrun avoidance) > > LinAS > LinAS is the audio master machine. It hosts 4 Hoontech C-Ports > (ice1712-based chipset) in an Alsa multi-array providing 40 channels > of audio to the other machines via 'netone'. jack is running with 2 > periods @ 48kH and 64 frames giving a 'round-trip' latency (in and > out) of 2.66 ms . Can be run @ 32 frames (half the latency) but the > samplers struggle at this low a frame rate. > > Uses Gjacktransport to control the jack transport here and therefore > the netone slaves via jack transport. > > LinDAW > The Digital Audio Workstation hosts 'Ardour' as the main DAW software > and also Mhwaveedit and Audacity for audio editing, Qjadeo for > synchronous video playback with Ardour, K3b & GDC Master for CD > mastering. > > LinSeq > The midi sequencer machine. Runs MusE 1.01-svn and Linuxsampler with > the Fantasia (java) frontend. Magic. Mscore is the Linux music scoring > program, started by the creator of MusE, Werner Schweer. > > LinSampler > Uses the program fst (free software studio) by Torben Hohn to run > vsti's (virtual studio technology instruments) under wine. The two I > run are Kontakt 2 and Sampletank 2. Both work 100 percent maybe better > than under Wine. > > LinVS > This is the 'Video Server" This one specialises in distributing video > throughout the complex via webcams using 'Cheese' to mount them. > Kdenlive and capture cards are used to take interviews of Composers > and Performers for web-based content enhancement. Qjadeo is used to > playback vision also piped throughout. > > LinFX > Essentially hosts the Jc_Gui front end for Fons Adriaensen's > Jconvolver. Using open source Impulse Responses. Gives reverbs to the > mixing desk. >

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[arch-general] [Device Auto-mounting] HAL, KDE4.4 and tight default permissions
by Gaurish Sharma 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hello, I have a small problem with default permissions of Automounted Removable Devices. Whenever I mount it via KDE4.4's Auto-mounter. it sets all files to be owned by root. $ ls -la /media/Backup/ total 24 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 10 16:07 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 10 17:30 .. drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 10 16:07 lost+found I know KDE does not mount anything, it asks HAL. nothing is in /etc/fstab but in /etc/mtab and in /proc/mount I got $ cat /etc/mtab /dev/sdb1 /media/Backup ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0 $ cat /etc/proc /dev/sdb1 /media/Backup ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0 This means I can't write/modify anything as a normal user. mounting manually every-time I need to transfer few files is annoying.HAL mounts drives by default only for root user. [1] hal 0.5.14-1 [2] qt 4.6.1-1 [3] kernel26 2.6.32.8-1 I was wondering how to change this behavior and so by default normal users could read-write into auto-mounted partitions. Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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[arch-general] resume from suspend no longer works after new mkinitcpio 0.6
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

At boot, it no longer does the check for the resume image or data and directly boots from new.

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[arch-general] encrypt hook
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Why does /lib/initcpio/hooks/encrypt say /sbin/cryptsetup but the actual installed file is /sbin/cryptsetup.static?

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[arch-general] mail client
by andrew james 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause it to work quicker? alternatively, what is your favoured mail news client for POP3, IMAP, Syndicates, news groups NNTP, all in one? I want a better program. andrew

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[arch-general] new mkinitcpio / harmless error message at boot
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

After doing a pacman -Syu and installed the mkinitcpio 0.6 , I'm getting an error insmoding padlock-sha just after I enter the root device luks encryption passphrase. I'm assuming there is an easy solution to this. Any idea?

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[arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6-1 and friends
by Thomas Bächler 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Please sign off these packages: mkinitcpio 0.6-1 - Remove klibc dependency - Rewrite many hooks to be better, have less bugs and work with busybox - Random other fixes mkinitcpio-busybox 1.15.3-5 - Core component of mkinitcpio 0.6: Busybox build especially configured for mkinitcpio mkinitcpio-nfs-utils 0.1-1 - nfsmount and ipconfig utilities ported from klibc for NFS root support (Could someone please test this, AFAIK nobody ever verified that it works) cryptsetup 1.1.0-2 device-mapper 2.02.60-3 dmraid 1.0.0.rc16-2 lvm2 2.02.60-3 mdadm 3.1.1-2 v86d 0.1.9-10 - Hooks adjusted to work with the new busybox shell and tools - Static or klibc binaries replaced by dynamic glibc binaries

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