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[arch-general] Unable to use tape drive
by Vitor Garcia 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Good morning. I have been trying to my Dell LTO-120 SCSI Tape Drive on Arch without success. I have tried to run $ modprobe st, but still, I have no /dev/st0 and neither /dev/nst0. dmesg | grep -i tape shows nothing too. Is there anything I'm missing here? Dell's user manual says that the drive should work out of the box on linux. Best regards, Vitor

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Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 Always in Fallback Mode
by Max Xie 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Sorry, but I can't understand what's 'top posting'... Is that to say I shouldn't post the mail before? Well, I've installed mesa-demos, and gnome says my Graphics is 'Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe'. 1) Umm, I've attached them in attachments. I don't know how to find what's wrong by reading the log... 2) I log into my user in text mode and type 'startx' to start gnome I used the latest core img for installation, I think the KMS should be enabled as default.. I'll try to follow the wiki to enable it during bootstrapping... ---- Mail by Max Xie

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[arch-general] replacement for clyde
by Gour-Gadadhara Dasa 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hello! Some months ago I switched my desktop from Arch to FreeBSD to experiment a bit. Soon I may buy a new netbook and I believe that with ATI graphic, Arch is better choice, but looking at forums yesterday I saw that both bauerbill & clyde are gone. :-( Considering that decent package manager is very vital part of OS's ecosystem, I wonder what would be decent replacment having e.g. clyde-like features? Before clyde I used yaourt (which now has C-back end, afaik), tried paktahn (which has some quirks) and now I see pacaur (with cower). What can you recommend so I can read more about it? Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810

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[arch-general] Gnome 3 Always in Fallback Mode
by Max Xie 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi, Sorry for my bad English. I've just bought a new computer about 1 month ago and I tried to install archlinux as second OS on it yesterday. But when I got everything done and started the Gnome, it took a minute and, started in Fallback Mode with a dialog box telling me maybe I have not got proper driver for the graphic card. It appeared just the first time I start Gnome, nerver I got that dialog box further, still in fallback mode. My graphic card is Intel HD 2000 integrated in CPU. I'm using xf86-video-intel as the driver. I can't check what's wrong. Thanks, ---- Mail by Max Xie

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1
by jwbirdsong 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

On 08/22/2011 01:41 AM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:13:45PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> lvm2/device-mapper 2.02.88-1 are in testing for upstream >>> update. Please test and signoff. >>> >>> Eric >> >> I can still boot. Signoff x86_64. >> >> dave >> > > Bump. Anyone for i686? > Signoff i686 since no one else will. :D

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[arch-general] Canon MP280 turboprint
by R7h0re4 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

I have a canon MP280 printer and am unable to print using turboprint, as well as a regular cups using gutenprint drivers or Turboprint drivers or the .ppd files downloaded from Canon's site. When I check the aur most of the packaged drivers are outdated and when I check the bug reports it seems that I am not alone in this respect. A few of the bug reports list something about 64 bit issues, I am also unable to compile some of the files from the Canon tar balls you can get from Canons site. When I check the cups error log file it gives me back end failures and list a few files, when I link the file nothing prints. This also applies to Turbo-print but does not give error messages in that program. Just wanted to know what other options I may need to pursue, the printer works with Debian 32 bit on a net-book, and of course Windows but it would be nice to get it working under Arch. R7h0re4

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[arch-general] Issues with Firefox 6 not starting after update
by Samuel Baldwin 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

The topic says it all. I recently pacman -Syu'd and firefox has refused to start after this. I've tried rolling back to firefox 4 (and xulrunner 2) but I just get an error about XPCOM not loading. Trying to start firefox 6 just yields hanging. I've tried running firefox with LD_DEBUG=all and I've uploaded it here: http://lusitania.logik.li/files/firefox.log . Any help would be appreciated. Pointers about how successfully rollback to firefox 4 are also an acceptable substitute. Thanks, -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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Re: [arch-general] new TalkingArch ISOs available!
by Kyle 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

Getting it now. Thanks for the great work you put into this. ~Kyle Sent from my Wishdroid! :)

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[arch-general] new TalkingArch ISOs available!
by Christopher Brannon 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

Hi all, I'm proud to announce the latest edition of my TalkingArch project. TalkingArch consists of modified Arch Linux ISO images, customized for the blind. Both Speakup and Brltty are provided. Assuming that there are no issues with your sound card, your machine should start speaking as soon as TalkingArch finishes booting. While it is typically used to install Arch Linux, it also makes a handy rescue CD. You may obtain TalkingArch from my website: <http://the-brannons.com/tarch/>. TalkingArch is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Arch Linux. I created it for my own personal use, although I sincerely hope that others will enjoy it. TalkingArch comes with absolutely no warranty. If it breaks, I'm sorry about your bad luck! -- Chris

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio: WARNING: deprecated 'install' function. This should be renamed 'build' for custom hook
by Marek Otahal 21 Aug '11

21 Aug '11

Hi, I have a custom hook [1] (opencrypt to setup encrypted partitions for me) and last days (well, a couple of months maybe:P) I'm getting this on every mkinitcpio generation: -> Parsing hook: [opencrypt] ==> WARNING: Hook 'opencrypt' uses a deprecated 'install' function. This should be renamed 'build' -> Parsing hook: [resume] Fortunately, the system still works ok, I am just curious what's the complaint about? I checked the official hooks in /lib/initcpio/hooks and none uses build(), they do all run_hook(). Thanks, Mark =================== [1] custom hook opencrypt # vim: set ft=sh: # marek for encryption run_hook () { echo "opencrypt hook" # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 preDevice ## handled by cryptdevice=/dev/sda6:preDevice boot cmd line # sda7 now, +1 shift mkdir -p /mnt/pre mount -n -t ext4 /dev/mapper/preDevice /mnt/pre echo "swapDevice: " cryptsetup -d /mnt/pre/swap.key luksOpen /dev/sda8 swapDevice echo "homeDevice: " cryptsetup -d /mnt/pre/home.key luksOpen /dev/sda10 homeDevice echo "storeDevice: " cryptsetup -d /mnt/pre/store.key luksOpen /dev/sda6 storeDevice umount /mnt/pre cryptsetup luksClose preDevice echo "[ok]" } -- Marek Otahal :o)

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