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[arch-general] getting fed up with gnome's fast-user-switching experience
by Matthew Monaco 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Maybe some of you have had similar problems, maybe some have fixed them, seen them vanish with updates, or are still dealing with them. On pretty much every computer I interact with that uses Gnome (Arch, et al.) there is always one problem or another trying to log out, switch users, or resume from suspend. The symptom is usually a blank screen (with or without the backlight), or a blank screen with just the mouse. I'm not sure which combination of programs is to blame. But I've suspected (in no particular order): gdm gnome-session pm-utils gnome-screensaver kernel/xorg drivers for nvidia/ati/intel When encountered with a blank screen, sometimes the solution is as simple as ctrl+alt+f# to find the right tty. Sometimes ctrl+alt+backspace will work if DontZap is disabled. Sometimes I can ssh from another computer and do an (tel)init 3; (tel)init 5. And many unfortunate times I either can't log in remotely or the init trick doesn't work - I'm forced to do a hard reboot. The worst part is, it is really beginning to feel completely random. Or difficult to pinpoint, like special combinations of users that are logged and the user that is initiating the logout/suspend/etc (corrupted gconf?) *sigh* Do any of you have a multi-user gnome system with no problems at all here?

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[arch-general] pacgraph
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hello, blah blah, yada yada... didn't see any real use case for it, so didn't finish (rewrite/polish) it, sorry. (and i just wanted to see how it would look like;) nice looking package: pacgraph tkabber | dot -Tsvg > test.svg color shows which repo... disclaimer, i'm no "real" coder, and this was my first script in perl! cheers .andre ps. in reality i just got bored to code more complicated things, looping through all repos was annoying enough ;)

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[arch-general] Google-Chrome
by Madhurya Kakati 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi. I want the latest version of Google-chrome. Saw it on AUR but some on #archlinux told that i need gcc 4.4 to compile it successfully for 64 bit arch. Just wanted to know if anyone ran into any problems while compiling it. Thanks

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[arch-general] Anybody attending LinuxTag 2010?
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 31 May '10

31 May '10

I was wondering whether anybody else was going to attend LinuxTag 2010? It seems that this event hasn't even been discussed in arch-events and Arch Linux sadly doesn't hold a booth there this year. If anybody wants to do greet and meet, I'll be at the Linux-Gaming booth. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[arch-general] Compiling Firefox
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi, In order to improve firefox's reponse time, I'm thinking of compiling firefox with gcc's -O3 and -march settings from the ABS. Any tips on that matter, about updates, etc. ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] PulseAudio Equalizer not persistent
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Guys I have a problem with the pulseaudio equalizer. I have checked EQ Enabled & Keep Settings. But I have to click apply settings everytime mplayer (cli) changes track. How do I solve this ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Equalizer
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi, I am looking for a global sound equalizer. It seems there is one for pulseaudio, but does it work fine if anybody is using it on this list ? Also, any other alternatives because I am using ALSA. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Running Mozilla Prism?
by Magnus Therning 31 May '10

31 May '10

Has anyone managed to get Mozilla Prism to run properly? The behaviour I see is that a .desktop file and a file in ~/.webapps are created. Both look all right to my untrained eye. The behaviour when double-clicking the .desktop file is as expected though. I never end up where I intended, but always at the default startpage (http://www.google.com/firefox). You can find a screenshot of what I got after creating a webapp for youtube (URL http://www.youtube.com/) and ran it for the first time here[1]. Has anyone had any success with it? /M [1]: http://therning.org/magnus_files/prism.png -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] Games for Linux !
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi all, It seems there are lot of games for Linux we're not aware of because most of the times we stick to our distribution's repository. I remembered mario that I used to play on console about 8 years ago, so a Google search revealed megamario. All who wish to play games for entertainment check this - http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMENT/ This should suffice for normal gamers. For hard core gamers, it won't. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Corrupted low memory error
by Gaurish Sharma 30 May '10

30 May '10

Hi, I am getting the following error while resuming from suspend2ram. Its a fully updated x86_64 machine. I tried the default ARCH + ck kernel, occurs on both. Is it a hardware or software problem? any fixes for this? Corrupted low memory at ffff88000000d278 (d278 phys) = 400000000000 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/check.c:134 check_for_bios_corruption+0xe5/0xf0() Hardware name: G31M-ES2L Memory corruption detected in low memory Modules linked in: rfcomm sco bridge stp llc bnep l2cap usbhid hid btusb bluetooth rfkill cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand snd_hda_codec_realtek acpi_cpufreq freq_table snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec vboxnetflt snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer ppdev uhci_hcd parport_pc snd soundcore snd_page_alloc processor thermal button sg vboxdrv led_class ehci_hcd nvidia(P) evdev usbcore iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support intel_agp r8169 mii pcspkr fuse lp parport i2c_i801 i2c_core rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sd_mod sr_mod cdrom ata_generic pata_acpi ata_piix libata scsi_mod Pid: 7, comm: events/0 Tainted: P 2.6.33-ck #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81048126>] warn_slowpath_common+0x76/0xb0 [<ffffffff810481bc>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x3c/0x40 [<ffffffff8102dbd5>] check_for_bios_corruption+0xe5/0xf0 [<ffffffff8102dbe0>] ? check_corruption+0x0/0x30 [<ffffffff8102dbe9>] check_corruption+0x9/0x30 [<ffffffff81063873>] worker_thread+0x173/0x320 [<ffffffff81068a10>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff81063700>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x320 [<ffffffff8106849e>] kthread+0x8e/0xa0 [<ffffffff8100ad24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff81068410>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 [<ffffffff8100ad20>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 ---[ end trace bfe1355d41729abc ]--- Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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