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Re: [arch-general] audio realtime, was: /usr/bin/X: No such file
by Ralf Madorf 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Thank you Bernardo. Thank you Ray. Ray, a note to your comment about HPET/hrtimer, for jackd IMO it's unusable, since at least my machine doesnt have enough timers. I'm using it for the ALSA sequencer timer only. Some apps freeze the system, when it's enabled. Fortunately non of those I'm using. Regarding to MIDI jitter with hardware interfaces it can improve a little bit. Cheers! Ralf

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[arch-general] Top level node not shown in Texinfo viewer
by Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Using the Texinfo standalone viewer, I found out that the top level node is not shown with the command `info' as it should. In Ubuntu seems to work fine with Texinfo 4.13, but here in Arch I don't know if it is really a bug or what :-/ Anyone can see this top level node just executing `info'? Thanks in advance. -- Ricardo (http://r.untroubled.be/)

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[arch-general] audio realtime, was: /usr/bin/X: No such file
by Ralf Mardorf 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

Sorry some additional Arch Linux newbie questions ;) -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: arch-general-bounces(a)archlinux.org im Auftrag von Ionut Biru Gesendet: So 12/11/2011 16:19 > AUR is your friend. > > nvidia-lts for kernel26-lts is in extra. > nvidia-rt from aur > nvidia-$yourcrappykerly from aur http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12132 Dependencies: linux-rt>=3.0.0 linux-rt<3.2.0 nvidia-utils=285.05.09 So if I build a kernel myself, not by using pacman or PKGBUILD I need to add some kind of dummy package? I'll test one of those kernels from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pro_Audio#Realtime_Kernel but usually I'm using my self build kernels only. Btw. I can't agree with "Tickless, CONFIG_NO_HZ, i.e "dynticks", or "dynamic ticks", is said to interfere with realtime (though the extent may not be noticeable)." it reduces audible MIDI jitter on my machine. Dunno how PKGBUILD works (I'll find out soon), but reading https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/li/linux-rt/PKGBUILD I can e.g. use make oldconfig, but "# remove the sublevel from Makefile # this ensures our kernel version is always 3.X-ARCH # this way, minor kernel updates will not break external modules" What if I need e.g. 3.0.12-rt30-test1 and 3.0.12-rt30-test2 with different configs? Is there something equivalent to Debian's equivs? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html E.g. to remove pulseaudio, which was installed as dependency of xfce4, or to install a self build, selected version of jack2 and to keep dependencies. I couldn't find Jack2 64-bit (searching the Internet from a Suse install, didn't run packman)?! Anyway, 32-bit seems to be 1.9.7 and I need 1.9.8, because I need the -Xalsarawmidi option. Using this option in combination with a2jmidi_bridge I don't have any audible MIDI jitter. > grep audio /media/archlinux/etc/security/limits.conf @audio - rtprio 65 @audio - nice -10 @audio - memlock 40000 If I edit this to different values, e.g. http://jackaudio.org/linux_rt_config , could it be overwritten by a package upgrade? Cheers! Ralf

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[arch-general] /usr/bin/X: No such file
by Ralf Mardorf 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

Hi :) when I try to start xfce (as root, since I didn't add a user until now) I get "/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line1: /usr/bin/X: No such file or directory" I missed something when reading the Wiki. I'll read it again. Any hints are welcome. Cheers! Ralf PS: ----------------------------------------------------------------- > cat /media/archlinux/etc/gdm/custom.conf [snip] [security] AllowRoot=true [snip] ----------------------------------------------------------------- > grep DAEMONS= /media/archlinux/etc/rc.conf DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond acpid dbus) ----------------------------------------------------------------- # cat /media/archlinux/root/.bash_profile # # ~/.bash_profile # [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc if [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then startxfce4 fi ----------------------------------------------------------------- # grep exec /media/archlinux/root/.xinitrc # exec gnome-session # exec startkde # exec startxfce4 exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startxfce4 ----------------------------------------------------------------- # cat /media/archlinux/root/.xsession #!/bin/sh # # ~/.xsession # # Executed by xdm/gdm/kdm at login # /bin/bash --login -i ~/.xinitrc ----------------------------------------------------------------- # cat /media/archlinux/root/.xprofile # [snip, it's empty] # Executed by gdm at login # ----------------------------------------------------------------- # ls /media/archlinux/root -hAl total 32K -rw------- 1 root root 2.7K 2011-12-11 10:45 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 2011-12-11 06:17 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111 2011-12-11 06:25 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141 2011-12-11 06:18 .bashrc drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K 2011-12-11 10:10 .w3m -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379 2011-12-11 06:29 .xinitrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 2011-12-11 06:45 .xprofile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 2011-12-11 06:19 .xsession ----------------------------------------------------------------- # ls /media/archlinux/var/log -hAl total 4.2M -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 480 2011-12-11 10:46 acpid.log -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 6.3K 2011-12-11 10:44 auth.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34K 2011-12-11 10:46 boot -rw------- 1 root root 0 2011-12-07 19:59 btmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2011-12-10 19:58 ConsoleKit -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 7.0K 2011-12-11 10:46 crond.log -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 47K 2011-12-11 10:46 daemon.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53K 2011-12-11 10:46 dmesg.log -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 56K 2011-12-11 10:46 errors.log -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 1.4M 2011-12-11 10:46 everything.log -rw------- 1 root root 4.5K 2011-12-11 10:44 faillog drwxrwx--T 2 root 120 4.0K 2011-12-11 10:46 gdm -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 1.4M 2011-12-11 10:46 kernel.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126K 2011-12-11 10:44 lastlog -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 880K 2011-12-11 10:46 messages.log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2011-10-10 01:25 old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41K 2011-12-11 10:39 pacman.log -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 3.6K 2011-12-11 10:46 syslog.log -rw-r----- 1 root floppy 1.3K 2011-12-11 10:46 user.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 222K 2011-12-11 10:46 wtmp -----------------------------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] Install Arch in stages?
by Grant McDuling 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

Hi, I am new to Arch, being a Mint user until now. I have the iso on CD now and ready to install. Can I do this is stages or is it best to do the complete basic install in one sitting? Grant McDuling Writer http://www.amazon.com/Grant-McDuling/e/B004UTH35M

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[arch-general] .bashrc not executed on login
by G. Schlisio 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hello all, if i execute 'sudo su -' roots .bashrc is obviously not executed, so my aliases are not loaded. file properties are 751 root:root did i miss something important? thanks

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[arch-general] Pacman 4.0.x on core ? When ? :)
by fredbezies 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hello. I'm using pacman 4.0.x since its release on testing and it is really a great version. Any tips or infos for a date of its release on core repository ? Thanks :) -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] KDE Debugging
by Nicolás Adamo 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Does anybody know how to make a good bug repport using the inbuilt KDE Bug Tool? It launches whenever a bug occurs, but if I try to complete the bug fill (or report) it says the information is useless... Arch doesn't have a package specific for KDE Debugging, so I wanted to know if anybody makes bug reports and how. BTW, I'm sure the bug is related to KMix, the tray icon for the mixer/sound control. It launches at boot, but for some reason it closes. Then it restarts fine, but the "kdedaemon closed unexpectedly" message window was already launched, waiting for me to fill the bug report (which I can not because of the lack of enough debugging tools) Thanks, Nicolás

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[arch-general] Arch forum and wiki down
by Karol Blazewicz 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

I've e-mailed Pierre, Ioni and Florian. Hopefully things will get fixed soon.

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[arch-general] getaddrinfo
by Myra Nelson 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

I've been working on this for several days and can't seem to figure out what's wrong. When I try to compile perl-5.14.2 or install any perl module that runs a test requiring getaddrinfo, the test fails. I've searched high and low between the bug list, the wiki, google, man pages etc and have found zero answers. I've found example c code that fails also. All the return values are negative and should be 0 or greater than zero. One of the errors related to perl is # Failed test '$err == 0 for host= cpan.perl.org/service=ftp/socktype=STREAM' # at t/getaddrinfo.t line 79. # got: -8 # expected: 0 I have a static ip address set up in rc.conf and my internet connections work, ftp clients work, ip addrlabel produces prefix ::1/128 label 0 prefix ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96 label 4 prefix ::/96 label 3 prefix 2001::/32 label 7 prefix 2002::/16 label 2 prefix fec0::/10 label 5 prefix fc00::/7 label 6 prefix ::/0 label 1 and rpcbind, ypbind, ypserv, and vsftpd are running. Building python3 also fails with the same error. It's probably something misconfigured on my box with all the changes in network tools, but quite frankly I'm lost. This problem is recent. I built the previous versions of perl and python3. Python2 builds and I diffed the test files that contain the gettaddrinfo tests and they are different. Pointers to getaddrinfo code that works, suggestions on my network configuration, rtfm might work if you've got a man page I've missed, and/or any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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