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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] At last, clean multilib support
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

On 22.08.2010 11:25, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 22.08.2010 10:39, schrieb Thomas Bächler: >> Jan Steffens and me spent the this weekend putting together a multilib >> toolchain and a clean lib32-glibc package. I wanted to do this for at >> least two years, and we finally managed to do it on FrOSCon now. This is >> the plan of attack on this: >> >> * Maintain the PKGBUILDs in svn-community/${pkgname}/trunk/ >> * Create a separate repo 'multilib', >> (svn-community/${pkgname}/repos/multilib-x86_64) >> * Remove ALL multilib packages from community. Do NOT mix pure 64 bit >> with multilib. All multilib must go into the new multilib repository. >> * Rebuild all multilib packages with the multilib compiler to solve the >> numerous problems encountered by the hackish "copy our 32 bit packages >> into another path" approach. >> * Find TUs and Devs willing to work on multilib (please add your name to >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib_Project) >> >> Any comments are welcome. We will upload the multilib packages and >> PKGBUILDs into a small test repository in a minute for review. > A temporary repository is up: http://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/multilib/ > This looks like it could break Arch Linux as a whole. I'm in!

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[arch-general] ALSA volume control
by Nilesh Govindarajan 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

My sound card has two sockets each for mic & output. One set in the front & another in the rear. I connect headphone to the front one and the rear one is connected to a power amplifier. I can see headphone control in alsamixer, kmix, but I can't adjust its volume separately, only mute/unmute it. What tweaks are needed to get this feature? -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps

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[arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong
by Jude DaShiell 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

In order for that to be correct it needs to also have :/usr/local/bin inside of the quote marks. The /usr/local/bin directory on Linux systems like slackware and debian is where stuff gets put that anyone can execute that's on the system. I put a simple shell script I wrote there then tried to use it and it wouldn't work until I keyed in the /usr/local/bin/myd command. That small script makes the date and time more readable for me. Since that file was copied from suse, people in that other distribution probably also ought to be notified.

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[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
by Mathias Huber 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias

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[arch-general] "Configuring System Clock" event FAIL at start-up
by Martín Cigorraga 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

This a strange one: I left my system running for about 8 hours today (had a brainstorm session for upcoming Software Freedom Day) and when I came back I noticed some weird behaviour with the mouse pointer, so I decided reboot. Now I have a red FAIL notice when "Configuring System Clock". I already check BIOS and there seems to no problem there, ¿what can be happen? (already tried serching the forum but haven't found any related issue) Greetings. -Martín

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] make-3.82-1
by Florian Pritz 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

On 15.08.2010 00:20, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Sonntag 15 August 2010 schrieb Allan McRae: >> On 15/08/10 04:37, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> > Am Donnerstag 12 August 2010 schrieb Allan McRae: >> >> Upstream release announcement: >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.announce/browse_thread/thread/d6a3f56 >> >> 91a b08a0a# >> > >> > kernel breaks with this make version. >> > Don't think we should move it. >> >> Any chance of slightly more details than "breaks"? >> >> Allan > Stops while trying to copy firmware, cannot create $pkgdir/lib/firmware/./ I haven't tested that much, but on my box the MAKEFLAGS are sort of ignored. Though it's a bit complicated: in the PKGBUILD: MAKEFLAGS="-j12" make bzImage modules -> 1 thread make -j12 bzImage modules -> 12 threads on the shell: both -> 12 threads Downgrading to 3.81-5 fixes the 1 thread problem. Maybe this has to do something with the env? -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] K3b
by Baho Utot 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I am having some issues with K3b Under KDE4 ( yes I hate it) When I start K3b it detects a blank dvd in the dvd writer but when selecting the burn image tool from the menu it does not reconize the blank dvd. I looked into the frums and the wiki but didn't find anything that was helpful

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[arch-general] 2.6.35-ARCH panic in VirtualBox 3.2.8-1
by Martín Cigorraga 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Tonight I did a clean install of Arch in a VirtualBox VM and after updating the system I can't boot anymore because there's a kernel panic, see attached screenshot for the output error log [0] Ok, I was a dumb because I didn't make any snapshot before upgrading -was working well with ISO shipped kernel- nor made a backup of kernel files in /boot before blindly upgrade, but I think this a good time for ask you seriously consider implementing an automatic backup for kernel before upgrading to a new one (I know this had been treated no so much time ago in the list and that there's an active wiki about this topic). By the way, thanks a lot for fixing K3b so fast. Best, -Martín [0] <goog_933442720> http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/5/7/2852027/My%20Documents/Screenshots/ar…

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?
by Magnus Therning 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Lately my PKGBUILDs result in a warning when building: ==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir It's a bit confusing, since PKGBUILD(5) has the following to say about $srcdir: srcdir This points to the directory where makepkg extracts or copies all source files. What should I do to get rid of the warning? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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