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[arch-general] Kudos - kernel handling of radeon driver getting much better
by David C. Rankin 30 May '10

30 May '10

Guys, Here is one worth noting. The radeon driver has come a long way in the past couple of kernels or Xorg packages. I know the driver itself hasn't changed since 11/2009 (ver. 1.3.0-1), but my desktop is working much better than the last time I updated. I have switched all 12 or so of my boxes to Arch (work and home included). The only two that are still suse are my laptops due to the fglrx driver. I have 2 spare drives for each laptop and on one drive for each laptop I did a complete wipe and then installed Arch. I did this about 14 months ago and I update the spare drives every month or two. The only reason I haven't moved my laptops to Arch is solely the gpu kernel module issue. ( to complicate matters, both laptops use the 'legacy' driver as a result of ATI screwing its customer base and dropping all support for linux for all pre-2400 series chipsets) This hit laptops hard. The last laptop I bought was 2008 and it is now a 'legacy' box The benefits that the fglrx driver provide over either the radeon or radeonhd drivers are primarily 2-fold, speed (obvious) and most important gpu clock powerdown (idling unneeded parts of the gpu) while running with massively reduces the gpu heat load. (and fan noise, etc..) On update tonight. I stared the box, fired up gnome, started compiz and Wow! It was working fine. I was actually 'smooth'. Much improved over the old jerky behavior that existed when I last updated at the end of Feb. It's not as fast as the fglrx driver, but it is no longer a sticking point on moving the box to arch. Cooling is also improved. The heat is still an issue as heat drives fan noise. However, I have been able to work in Arch for the past several hours and my palm-rest is not on fire! And when I'm idling the box, the fan noise is down to a soft hum -- workable. Much improved over the XB-70 sound with all 6 afterburners lit ;-) So to whoever the kudos go -- job well done! I never thought I would see an open-source radeon driver work as well... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.66 and cryptsetup 1.1.1
by Thomas Bächler 29 May '10

29 May '10

I put updated device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.66 and cryptsetup 1.1.1 packages to testing. These packages enable udev synchronization to finally get rid of all race conditions related to udev rules. I also cleaned up the PKGBUILDs massively and removed all static binaries and libraries from the packages. Dynamic lvm and cryptsetup now run entirely from /{bin,lib}, without the need for /usr. Please sign off.

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[arch-general] Checkgmail doesn't work with perl 5.12 from testing
by Guillaume Brunerie 29 May '10

29 May '10

Hi, Since the update of perl 5.10 to 5.12 yesterday, checkgmail (from community) doesn’t work anymore, it fails with this error : /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Glib/Glib.so: undefined symbol: Perl_sv_utf8_upgrade_flags Downgrading to perl 5.10 make it work, and updating checkgmail (with checkgmail --update) doesn’t solve the problem. I didn’t found anything about this problem in Flyspray or in the forums. Thank you, Guillaume Brunerie

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[arch-general] test
by papul 29 May '10

29 May '10

Sorry for this useless message. testing some service.

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[arch-general] Converting to 64
by Nilesh Govindarajan 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hi, I recently found that my processor is capable of running 64bit OS (it has the lm flag in /proc/cpuinfo) and I am using 32bit Arch which is turn off I think. How do I convert to 64bit without the format-and-reinstall ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] glibc-2.12 toolchain build
by Allan McRae 28 May '10

28 May '10

On 28/05/10 00:55, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 20:45 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Glibc-2.12 toolchain rebuild. Fedora has been running something like >> the glibc-2.12 release for the last few weeks so as always it should be >> nice and safe. >> >> linux-api-headers-2.6.34-1 >> - update >> - fix license >> >> glibc-2.12-1 >> - update >> - clean up old stuff from install file >> >> binutils-2.20.1-3 >> - new cvs snapshot >> >> gcc-4.5.0-3 >> - just a rebuild >> >> valgrind >> - rebuild for glibc-2.12 >> - patched for glibc-2.12 and future 2.12.x versions >> - build fix patch >> >> Signoff both, >> Allan > > Signoff both. Didn't test valgrind, but building a full xorg-server > stack on top of testing with this new toolchain should give proof that > this toolchain works fine. > Does gdb still work with this version of glibc btw, or does it need a > rebuild just like valgrind? > I think gdb is fine... but I have not used it extensively. I'd appreciate reports from anyone who has extensively used gdb and valgrind with the new glibc. Allan

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[arch-general] Google Chrome
by Madhurya Kakati 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hi, Now that Google Chrome is not beta any more and chromium hasn't been updated in the repos yet i think i should install Google-Chrome from AUR. However Chrome for linux is very much behind Chrome for windows so I want to ask to those users who have tried it or are using it that whether i should install the google-chrome package or the google-chrome-beta or google-chrome-dev. Thanks

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[arch-general] [signoff] nfs-utils 1.2.2-3
by Andreas Radke 28 May '10

28 May '10

While I was changing my nfs server from NFSv3 to NFSv4 I've found our user mapping broken. Before idmapd gets started we need to make sure nfsd module is loaded. If the module is not loaded all files are mapped to nobody the guest account. We load it in the nfs-common init script now. This is also done the same way by Debian, Fedora and Gentoo. see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490181 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/235930 http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/nfs-utils/F-13/nfs.init?revision=1… Now it's working on my server. Please signoff. -Andy

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[arch-general] how to test kde
by papul 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hi, How can i test KDE beta in arch? Do i have to compile everything or is there a beta software repo available for testing? Thanks, Papul

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-LTS 2.6.32.14-1
by Andreas Radke 28 May '10

28 May '10

We want to replace the LTS kernel series .27 soon with the .32 series. The .32 series has been in testing now for a while. Please test if anything is broken for you apart from broken modules you have built your own. Maybe we provide module packages in the future. One issue is known in .32 series: OpenOffice has problems with NFSv3 locking mechanism. This can be solved by using NFSv4. Please test and give signoffs. -Andy

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