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[arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues
by Don deJuan 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

First off I just would like to start off by saying please do not tell me to use nouveau. They do not work and have not worked for me on multiple distros for well over a year now. I also need cuda support on my laptop. I am currently running the xorg-nv driver. I am at a complete loss as far as what is going wrong or what I am missing when trying to install the Nvidia proprietary driver. I have a Nvidia GeForce GTS 360m card. I am fully updated, just updated xorg to 1.14-1. I have been trying since installing which started me at xorg 1.11. What is going wrong is that everything installs fine, but any time I try and shutdown/reboot it goes to a red screen and locks up there, no blinking indicators on the keyboard, so does not appear to be a Kernel panic but an xorg issue. If I do not get the red screen, what happens it the screen goes black and sits there with a blinking cursor. There is no way to change terminals either. I have tried the nvidia nvidia-beta drivers and both have the same issue. Is this due to the nvidia and xorg 1.11 issues I keep reading about? What are my options to try and get this working properly? I have followed the wiki, postings on the bbs. I have tried basically everything I could find minus actually downgrading to xorg 1.10. Which from what I read is the only way to get the proprietary to work, but on arch forums and on here I read of many people with no issue with current X and nvidia closed source drivers, so I would think it must be me who is causing the issue. Thanks for any help, info and most of all your time

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[arch-general] What hapenned to netcfg ?
by Alfredo Palhares 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hello, I was just talking about this on #archlinux-offtopic. No one is acepting patches[1] to the netcfg[2] project. I aplied as mainteiner when help was asked[3] (as masterkorp) . No replies. Can i apply again ? Is anyone taking care of it? I have a a local repo with the patches and bugfixes applied. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=netcfg&project=1&search_name=&t… [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/ [3] http://www.archlinux.org/news/contributors-wanted/ -- With the best regards, Alfredo Palhares

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[arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes
by Norbert Zeh 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi folks, just a heads up (and maybe request for feedback whether anybody has seen similar issues with this kernel upgrade). The recent upgrade from kernel 3.1.9 to 3.2.1 produced two graphics-related issues: On my dual-Opteron Asus board with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, the X server fails to start and says that it cannot initialize the device at PCI 4:0:0 (i.e., my NVIDIA card). Downgrading to 3.1.9 fixes this issue. On my Core i7 Dell Latitude 6510 laptop using the on-chip graphics chip and the 1920x1080 laptop screen, everything is fine until I suspend the machine to RAM. When resuming, I get a black screen and not even rebooting brings the screen back to life. I have to turn the machine off and then back on. In contrast, my Core i7 desktop at home with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 works just fine with the 3.2.1 kernel. I'm in the process of bisecting these issues (currently working on the laptop issue). I remember that back in the kernel 2.6.3x days, it took a long time for the Dell 6510 with 1920x1080 display and Intel graphics to boot without a black screen at all, and I seem to recall that this was because the patch that made it work apparently didn't do what it was supposed to do "right". Maybe they now found a way to do it right, only it doesn't work, at least after a suspend. Note that, even though I get a black screen after suspending, the machine is otherwise alive, as I can blindly switch to a TTY and reboot the machine cleanly from there. Bisecting is proving a bit painful because quite a few intermediate versions I'm testing result in a straight kernel panic after suspend. Cheers, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.2 string freeze
by Dan McGee 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

More info: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html Transifex page: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/4-0-2/ Thanks! -Dan

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[arch-general] Makepkg Traps non Zero Exit Codes
by Bastien Dejean 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi, There's a problem with all the mercurial based PKGBUILD, the following command: hg pull Returns with a non zero exit code if there's nothing to pull. In that case, makepkg fails with since it traps all non zero exit codes. I've found traces of this mercurial behavior dating from 2006, hence I presume that makepkg must have become picky lately? Greetings, -- b.d (| |) ^ ^

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[arch-general] ntp settings
by P Nikolic 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi . I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run . I have tried using System Settings in KDE but for some reason it does not accept the password . If i enter the password (root password) it reply's failed to Authenticate and greys everyting out for a few seconds i have sudo installed as that was suggeted as the problem on the previous install that crashed and burned what else is missing ntp is installed as well .. Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] "Unable to contact the timeserver"
by P Nikolic 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi .. Thanks to the helper on the previos thread nw another one when i select an ntp server enter the password (users password) i get the Unable to contact the timeserver error i can ping the server from a terminal no problem Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] jackdbus
by Ralf Mardorf 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi :) I'll test if it will be possible to replace jack2 by jackdbus for my needs, e.g. if it's easy to change my session scripts for older audio productions to use it. I started it by $ jackdbus auto, now I've got $ pidof jackdbus 7201 and I'm unable to kill it. *google* $ jack_control --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/jack_control", line 12, in <module> import dbus ImportError: No module named dbus I tried QjackCtl, an app I won't use, if I don't need it, but if it would help, no prob, I'll launch it. Enabling DBus interface doesn't take effect. How do I set up jackdbus? $ ls .config/jack -hAl total 0 Any Wiki? http://www.google.de/#hl=de&cp=7&gs_id=17&xhr=t&q=jackdbus&pf=p&sclient=psy… I'm serious. I'll test it, but it's really not easy. Of course I just try it since 10 minutes or less. Cheers, Ralf

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[arch-general] FS#22732 - [kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde] KCModule error with Python 3 - SOLVED
by Marek Otahal 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Hi, I reopened the mentioned bug in bugzilla as I had exactly same problem.. Just found solution now - that happens when cups is not running. So sudo /etc/rc.d/cupsd restart solves the issue. Please ignore my reopen request and maybe add this solution to the bug just FTR. Bye -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] KDE crash after latest updates
by Genes MailLists 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Using testing repos - I just got 3.2.4 kernel and latest glibc (2.15-5 ) After rebooting to pick up new kernel - after I login via kdm to KDE desktop I get a crash from 'kdeinit4': Application: KDE Daemon (kdeinit4), signal: Aborted Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f2e9499d780 (LWP 1271))] Thread 3 (Thread 0x7f2e7ad2a700 (LWP 1274)): #0 0x00007f2e91f9a643 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6 ... Thread 2 (Thread 0x7f2e7a529700 (LWP 1279)): #0 0x00007f2e8f178e62 in clock_gettime () from /lib/librt.so.1 #1 0x00007f2e93519204 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 hread 1 (Thread 0x7f2e9499d780 (LWP 1271)): [KCrash Handler] #6 0x00007f2e91ef4975 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #7 0x00007f2e91ef5deb in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #8 0x00007f2e91eed9ce in __assert_fail_base () from /lib/libc.so.6 #9 0x00007f2e91eeda72 in __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6 #10 0x00007f2e68c4854b in snd_hctl_handle_events () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 #11 0x00007f2e68c539a9 in snd_mixer_handle_events () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 #12 0x00007f2e68f1584d in ?? () from /usr/lib/kde4/kded_kmixd.so #13 0x00007f2e68f0e0aa in ?? () from /usr/lib/kde4/kded_kmixd.so #14 0x00007f2e935d90d6 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 gene/

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