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[arch-general] Problems with alsamixer after system update
by Daniel Hilst Selli 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

I have made a system update today with pacman -Syu.. After that I'm facing problems with alsamixer. It works o tty but not on xterm or gnome-terminal Here is the error: [geckos@archlinux ~]$ alsamixer alsamixer: hcontrol.c:574: snd_hctl_load: Assertion `list_empty(&hctl->elems)' failed. Aborted Any idea? Thanks, []'s

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[arch-general] LinuxCon Brazil
by Albino Biasutti Neto 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi people. Among some day it will be the second LinuxCon Brazil in São Paulo - SP. Someone will attend the Arch Linux project? PS.: I will not be this year. Last year I attended the event. Sorry my english. Cheers, -- Albino Biasutti Neto www.tux-es.org www.binoinformatica.com <http://blog.binoinformatica.com/> "A mente que se abre a uma nova idéia jamais volta ao seu tamanho original". Albert Einstein Chave GPG: 1A867107

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[arch-general] Wiki
by Albino Biasutti Neto 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hello. The problem in Wiki ? No acess. wiki.archlinux.org Cheers, -- Albino Biasutti Neto www.tux-es.org www.binoinformatica.com <http://blog.binoinformatica.com/> "A mente que se abre a uma nova idéia jamais volta ao seu tamanho original". Albert Einstein Chave GPG: 1A867107

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[arch-general] how to give Date&Time root priviledge
by adrian sun 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hi all, I use kde4.7. As the time zone does not set correctly, I tried to change the timezone as "America/Toronto" in rc.conf. it did work but the time still not right. So I used date&time --KDE control module to adjust time, it said 'System policies prevent you from saving the date/time setting', and asked me input the password for root. The authentication failed, I am quite sure the password was correct. I guess I didn't add time in user group. Any solution about this? Thanks a lot. Adrian

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[arch-general] Where has my /etc/networks gone?
by Magnus Therning 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

I'm playing around with schroot and when creating a chroot with "type=directory" I at first failed to start it. The reason seems to be the lack of the file "/etc/networks". I created an empty one, and that was accepted by schroot. However, the man page (networks(5)) is rather cryptic, so what is this file for? Would it not be better to always have one (albeit empty) by default? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] aur xfce4-dev
by Xavier D. 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Hello, Due to a lack of time, I'll orphan all the xfce4-dev aur packages this evening. If someone is interested in adopting them. Tcho

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[arch-general] Evolution Missing from Testing
by Steve Holmes 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

When I do a 'pacman -Syu', I'm getting an error that evolution-3.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz cannot be found though the testing list file shows that file. It sounds to me that the repo is not in sync or something.

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[arch-general] Gnome Shell freezes
by Max 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Dear arch users and developers, I have posted this issue also in the archlinux forum [1]. I didn't get much feedback there. So I'm hoping some people here might have an idea of how to resolve the problem. Problem: gnome shell freezes from time to time (actually daily). Freezing: "Freezing" means, the screen becomes unresponsive but everything seems to continue working (sound and videos continue playing; even the mouse pointer can still be moved). Most of the time I'm able to switch to a virtual console although sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds after CTRL+ALT+F1 to show up. Then, however, everything is running smoothly. It's not possible to restart X since it will freeze again at the gdm login screen, or even without using gdm when loading the desktop. What triggers the problem: Usually it happens while scrolling on websites or pdfs. I feel like it happens more often if there are large images. Hardware: IBM T60 ATI X1400 I think it's an issue with the open source radeon drivers. However, this problem doesn't occur using other desktop environments. I tried to look into some log files but I couldn't find noticeable error messages. Looking forward to your suggestions, Max [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129481

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[arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.1 release
by Dan McGee 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

I'd like to release 4.0.1 later this week. String changes are very minimal if you were up to date before; 3 new ones in pacman scripts and 2 capitalization changes in pacman. https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/4-0-1/ Languages below could use some love if anyone is interested- please sign up as a team member through Transifex to get started: * Chinese (Taiwan) * Swedish * Danish * Russian * Kazakh * Slovak These are close but not quite up to date as of 4.0.0: * Polish * Turkish * Finnish * Portuguese Thanks! -Dan

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[arch-general] Time delay problem with latest [core] kernel
by XeCycle 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

Hi, I'm using the latest kernel from [core] (linux 3.1-4), and experienced a terrible delay of software MIDI synthesizers. I'm using fluidsynth, using ALSA as the output driver (I simply can't get jack working), and VMPK as a keyboard MIDI event generator. The delay used to be fine, but with the latest kernel, it's longer than 0.5 secs --- that's unusable. I believe this should be kernel-related, could you please suggest some solutions or workarounds? -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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