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Re: [arch-general] Strange sound behavior in some games
by Northwoods 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Adding user to audio group do not solve this issue. These are my groups: lp wheel games audio optical storage power users Laurent Carlier <lordheavym(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm getting strange sound issues in games, well in fact it is one issue, I have no sound in Dungeons of Dredmor and Wesnoth, but when I run the game under sudo "gamename" the sound appears miraculously. Can somebody explain me this? Thank you >> >> > >Perhaps you should try: > >usermod -a -G audio YourUser > >ps: man usermod >

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[arch-general] LibreOffice Base errors
by F. Gr. 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hi, I'm trying to create a new database by the Libreoffice Database Wizard. I'm getting three errors: 1. The connection to the data source "database" could not be established. 2. Error code: 1000 The driver class 'org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver' could not be loaded.The additional driver class path is 'file:///usr/share/java/hsqldb.jar vnd.sun.star.expand:$OOO_BASE_DIR/program/classes/sdbc_hsqldb.jar'. 3. Error code: -1 org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.5-2, jre7-openjdk 7.b147_2.0-6.

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[arch-general] Strange sound behavior in some games
by Mountpeaks 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

I'm getting strange sound issues in games, well in fact it is one issue, I have no sound in Dungeons of Dredmor and Wesnoth, but when I run the game under sudo "gamename" the sound appears miraculously. Can somebody explain me this? Thank you -- Mountpeaks <mountpeaks(a)lavabit.com>

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[arch-general] Possible hard drive failure, DMA errors.
by Jordan Windsor 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hello, I was downloading 3 movies via sabnzbd (~5GB each), after awhile I noticed the system wasn't responding as much, RhythmBox wasn't playing anymore, sabnzbd wasn't making progress and my broswer also was slowing down a bit. I then decided to restart thinking it would solve what ever problems sabnzbd brought along, when I did that it didn't reboot it just logged me out, I couldn't log back in, it would accept my password and username but after that nothing would happen, I then hard powered it off, on start-up it wouldn't get past the "mounting local filesystems" part of the boot process, it would just print DMA errors and more. I'm running PassMark's DiskCheckup on both my disks, on the first the quick self check completes quickly without error, but the second drive doesn't get past 10% (starts on 10%) and shows "The last self-test routine completed with a failure of the read element." I was wondering is my disk 100% gone? or is the some chance of getting my RAID0 data off? although 90% is easily replaceable (movies). Thanks. (I'll reply later with the details of the error messages displayed during boot.)

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[arch-general] update to cups 1.5.2 - test print OK, but nothing else prints - jobs just sit in que until canceled
by David C. Rankin 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Guys, Cups 1.5.2 update caused all user submitted jobs to stick in que and not print. However, if I use the web interface and print a test page or print a test page from kde print manager - everything works. I have been through the cupsd.conf page a cups.org and though my config and I can't find any reason jobs would just stop printing. Is anyone else having problems submitting jobs to a network cups server. With LogLevel set to debug, I get the following in error_log: D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 17 from 192.168.6.102:631 (IPv4) D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 17 GET /printers/LaserJet.ppd HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 17 WAITING Closing on EOF D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 17 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:14 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST /printers/LaserJet HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Job-Attributes 1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Get-Job-Attributes ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Job-Attributes (ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet) from 192.168.6.102 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST /printers/LaserJet HTTP/1.1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients and printing jobs", busy="Printing jobs" D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Printer-Attributes 1 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Printer-Attributes (ipp://192.168.6.17:631/printers/LaserJet) from 192.168.6.102 D [10/Feb/2012:13:58:15 -0600] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs", busy="Active clients and printing jobs" Does this indicate an error to anyone familiar with cups output? Something changed, but what? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] DPMS
by P Nikolic 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Morning folk Back to this one again i need to find a working position for "xset -dpms" i am getting sick and tired of every time i reboot i get the darn screens turning off i hate that with vengance if i wqnt them off i turn them off simples So where can i put the xset command for it to work correctly every time Thanks Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] Alps touchpad problems
by mike cloaked 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

I am trying to get a laptop touchpad working properly with arch fully up to date as of today. The machine is a recent Dell Vostro and has an Alps touchpad. I can't get vertical scrolling to work in KDE, and the mouse cursor occasionally moves erratically. I have seen previous posts some time back recommending installing the psmouse-alps package from AUR, and indeed it would appear that the 3.3 kernel may have a working psmouse module. However for the moment with kernel 3.2.5 the touchpad is detected as P/S 2 Generic - instead of the correct detection. I have tried installing psmouse-alps and rebooting but it made no difference so I uninstalled it again. the Xorg log has: [ 16.850] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/inpu t/event8) [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchal l" [ 16.850] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' [ 16.850] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: always reports core events [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event8" [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found relative axes [ 16.850] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found x and y relative axes [ 16.850] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Configuring as mouse [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 [ 16.850] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8/event8" [ 16.850] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE, id 12) [ 16.850] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: initialized for relative axes. [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 [ 16.850] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0 [ 16.851] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [ 16.851] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [ 16.851] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0) [ 16.851] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [ 16.851] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. Does anyone have current experience with this issue and know the best way to work around the problem until the 3.3 kernel is released? Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] thinkpad_acpi out of date?
by Genes MailLists 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Hi: (1) Fully updated with test repos. Thinkpad W520. I have kernel 3.2.5-1. I see this in logs: lap3 kernel: [282571.053156] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard event received lap3 kernel: [282571.053160] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040 lap3 kernel: [282571.053161] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this event happened to ibm-acpi-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net (2) lsmod shows thinkpad_acpi is running. I found in /lib/modules was kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko.gz and possibly kernel/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.ko.gz The first one seems to be version 0.24 but I cannot tell if its the 0.24-20110604 version or earlier - at least by poking at the .ko. (3) http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibm-acpi/files/thinkpad-acpi/0.24-20110604/ Suggests this is/may be fixed in this version - could our version of thinkpad_acpi be out of date? Thanks gene

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[arch-general] Where are the i686 community-testing updates?
by Karol Blazewicz 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/3/?repo=Community-Testing&sort=-last_upda… Is it a bug or are they coming out later?

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[arch-general] Ad hoc
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

The PPPoE connection works after running '# ifconfig eth0 up && netcfg pppoe' as usual. After preparing ad hoc [1] I loaded the module by '# modprobe rtl8192se'. Then I tried to run 'newlan -n', but it doesn't work [2]. 1. How can I run 'newlan'? 2. Do I need to reboot to load the firmware? 3. Do I have to change the lines modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_pci autocreate=adhoc to something like modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_usb autocreate=adhoc when using an USB device? [root@archlinux src]# modprobe -r ath_pci FATAL: Module ath_pci not found. [root@archlinux src]# modprobe ath_usb autocreate=adhoc FATAL: Module ath_usb not found. [root@archlinux src]# modprobe ath_pci FATAL: Module ath_pci not found. Rebooting now without a starting the adhoc script or loading the module at startup ... Regards, Ralf ********** [1] **************************************** [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ cd /usr/src [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33927923/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.t… [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ su [root@archlinux src]# tar -xzOf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009.tar.gz \ > rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1012.2009/firmware/RTL8192SE/rtl8192sfw.bin > \ > /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin [root@archlinux src]# ls /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin -hAl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75K Feb 9 10:19 /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin [root@archlinux src]# exit [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ne/newlan/newlan.tar.gz [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ tar xzf newlan.tar.gz [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ cd newlan [spinymouse@archlinux newlan]$ makepkg -si [spinymouse@archlinux newlan]$ cd .. [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ leafpad adhoc [spinymouse@archlinux src]$ cat adhoc #!/bin/bash ####### this part should change or simply be removed depending on the network card #recreates the ath0 interface in ad hoc mode modprobe -r ath_pci modprobe ath_pci autocreate=adhoc wlanconfig ath0 destroy wlanconfig ath create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode adhoc ####### #starts the ad hoc server ifconfig ath0 down iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc iwconfig ath0 channel 4 iwconfig ath0 essid 'mine' ifconfig ath0 10.0.0.1 up #forwards the ad hoc network to the router iptables -A FORWARD -i ath0 -o eth0 -s 10.0.0.0/24 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" ********** [2] **************************************** [root@archlinux src]# sudo newlan -n mynewprofile This application was designed for ArchLinux, to run anyway add --force. [root@archlinux src]# sudo newlan --force -n mynewprofile WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --help This application was designed for ArchLinux, to run anyway add --force. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --force --help WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information. [root@archlinux src]# newlan --force -n mynewprofile WARNING: Application execution forced, use at own risk. ArchLinux netcfg Easy Wireless LAN 1.0.0.8 Invalid argument, try 'newlan --help' for more information.

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