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[arch-general] dualboot?
by David Lowe 28 May '10

28 May '10

I'm new to Arch Linux & Linux in general, so please excuse any newbie questions... Can the Arch Linux install do a dualboot installation? I've read some documentation and it seems to be iffy on this point. Also, why are most Linux users and programmers so obsessed with Python? I'd much rather download Euphoria. http://www.rapideuphoria.com If it's a requirement that a Python runtime be on the system, then I'd rather not install at all.

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Re: [arch-general] Strange suspend behaviour
by Stefan Afradi 27 May '10

27 May '10

> >> I've set up my system so that when I close the laptop lid the computer goes into suspend mode. However, when I wake it up by pressing the power button the system > >> starts, and after 3-5 sec it goes into suspend mode again. If I then press the power button again, it starts and stays on. Suggestions? > >> > >> > > Explain what DE you are running and how and what did you "set up". > > > > > > > Sounds like he's running KDE. The problem that he described is with > powerdevil and has already been fixed upstream (but I don't think the > current release contains it yet). > > -- Sven-Hendrik I'm using OpenBox on i686. /etc/acpi/handler.sh is set to react on laptop lid close like so: button/lid) #echo "LID switched!">/dev/tty5 /usr/sbin/pm-suspend ;; *) logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2" ;; esac # End of /etc/acpi/handler.sh I'm also having an issue where the fan sometimes goes all guns blazing and runs at 100% (for no reason at all) after awakening from suspend.

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[arch-general] perl-list-moreutils 0.22-2
by Caleb Cushing 27 May '10

27 May '10

saw this updated this morning and got curious as to why. I looked at it and it seems little more than a PKGBUILD improvement... nothing that would affect current users. why bump the pkgrel? also this version isn't on abs I don't know what affects that though. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pkg-config-0.24-1
by Ray Kohler 27 May '10

27 May '10

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Upstream update. Renamved from pkgconfig to pkg-config as has been done > upstream for some time now. This looks funny to me: $ pacman -Qi pkg-config | grep '^Provides' Provides : pkgconfig=${pkgver} Isn't it supposed to be expanded?

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Re: [arch-general] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 27 May '10

27 May '10

Dear Christopher, I have sent countless emails to many governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in the world with the subject "Plea for Medical Help/Assistance". But surprisingly I get very few replies. Maybe the replies have been deleted or the emails I sent have been deleted. EDIT: I overheard my neighbours claiming to have passwords/access to my email accounts. --- Mr. Teo En Ming Hanyu Pinyin Name: Zhang Enming Facebook: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Photo (1): http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7534/enmingteodscf2511.jpg Photo (2): http://i.imgur.com/CLifZ.jpg Mobile Phone (Starhub Pre-paid): +65-8369-2618 Singapore Citizen On 05/27/2010 01:59 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> Do you also know how I can contact all the justices of the Judicial >> Committee of the UK Privy Council and all the Lords of the UK House of >> Lords? According to the UK Parliament website, it says that many Peers >> do not have public email addresses. >> >> In Lucid you will find them in /etc/email/PrivyCouncil.txt and /etc/email/HouseOfLords.txt >> > Or he could just ask the Lord of Privies. In fact, I reckon he'd even be > invited for tea too. > >

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[arch-general] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow
by Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi, First, I would like to apologize for the out-of-topic post. I will keep this as short as I possibly could. Does anybody know Dr. Francis T. Seow, the former Solicitor-General from the Republic of Singapore? I want to contact him but can't seem to find his email address or telephone number on the internet. Could you help me? Do you also know how I can contact all the justices of the Judicial Committee of the UK Privy Council and all the Lords of the UK House of Lords? According to the UK Parliament website, it says that many Peers do not have public email addresses. I would like to apologize again for using this platform to get my message across as my email accounts may have been compromised. Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming Hanyu Pinyin Name: Zhang Enming Facebook: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Photo (1): http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7534/enmingteodscf2511.jpg Photo (2): http://i.imgur.com/CLifZ.jpg Mobile Phone (Starhub Pre-paid): +65-8369-2618 Singapore Citizen

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[arch-general] regression in nouveau ?
by fons＠kokkinizita.net 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hello all, over the past few months I have installed Arch on a number of systems, all of them used for quite intensive audio work (think of systems with > 1000 jack ports). All of them have worked flawlessly, no latency problems even with the standard kernel. Today I installed one more, on exactly the same HW as the previous one which was something like 6 weeks ago. Main difference is probably kernel 2.6.33 instead of 32. This system is completely unusable: almost anything 'graphical' - opening or closing windows, changing workspaces, etc. will generate showers of xruns. Using nouveau's 'no_accel' option solves the xruns, audio is as stable as it has ever been. But the system is again useless - just scrolling an xterm up one line takes a second or so. Nor has using this option been necessary before (all of the previous installs use nouveau). So has anything changed in nouveau that can explain this ? Any solutions ? TIA, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

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[arch-general] Problems suspending since 2.6.33
by Michael Schaefer 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hello guys, since I upgraded for 2.6.33 several weeks ago, I encounter problems when suspending (or more precisely waking up) my machine. Since everything worked fine for month/years I first thought about a bug which might get fixed soon but while 2.6.33 is pretty settled and I couldn't find something in bug track I think the problem is somehow specific to my machine. As mentioned everything worked fine. I simply used 's2ram -f -p -m' to suspend my machine (need the parameter due to my ATI graphics card). No it seems suspending works fine but waking up crashes. When waking the computer up the screens stay black. In addition the HDD LED turns on for ~8sec and subsequent turns off. That's it. It seems dead. Also "blind" commands have no effect... I tried several parameter combination as well as pm-utils (which error-free logs confirm my assumption that at least suspending works fine). Also Xorg seems not to be the problem, since even suspending from a blank tty (without xserver running at all) does not make the computer wake up afterward. Any ideas on this? My machine: Intel P35 Chipset Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 ATI Radeon HD 3600 regards and thank you Michael

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[arch-general] extra/tomcat is out of date
by Guillaume ALAUX 26 May '10

26 May '10

Hi everyone, A new version of Tomcat 5 was released nearly a month ago and our package in [extra] is still out of date (5.5.28 -> 5.5.29). Changing the version number and the related MD5Sum works like a charm for me (i686). I still need to test it on my x64 at home but in just in case, attached is the up-to-date PKGBUILD. Cheers, Guillaume ALAUX

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[arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?
by Vincent Schut 26 May '10

26 May '10

Hi, I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the configuration I have... Could I just put my old harddisk (which is relatively new and still OK, I have SMART enabled) in the new pc and reboot? Both are amd 64 bit cpu's, the old one one of the first athlon 64's, the new one a Phenom II X6 1035T (and my current arch linux install is 64bit) Of course stuff like chipset, network chip, video etc. are all different. For video that would be no problem, I could install other (current = nvidia, new pc = ati) drivers from the text console. However, I'd like basic stuff and network to work :-) Could anyone give me an idea about the chance of luck for such an operation? Tips, hints? Or would you just advise a clean install and install and reconfigure all software again? Regards, Vincent Schut.

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