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[arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys
by Andre Ramaciotti 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hi all, I have a Microsoft keyboard (*hides*) and some of its multimedia keys don't work (most of them do, though), as in "they don't show any keycode on 'xev' or 'showkey'". I don't really think I'll get them to work, but I'll ask anyway: is there any hack to make them work? It's a Digital Media 3000 if it makes any difference. TIA

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] boost-1.42.0 rebuild
by Ng Oon-Ee 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:05 +0100, Giovanni Scafora wrote: > 2010/2/24, Ionut Biru <biru.ionut(a)gmail.com>: > > all done. i had to patch it. i don't use it so please report back if is > > working well > > Thanks Ionut. > We needs testers for the new schroot. > Let us know. Just tested it, skype loads up properly, as does E-sword. A note though, when I first ran `schroot -p` I get this error: I: 20nssdatabases: nssdatabases file '/etc/schroot/nssdatabases-defaults' does not exist E: Arch32-c77d80ac-3ded-4b06-b7d5-1fce667418d5: Chroot setup failed: stage=setup-start Modifying /etc/schroot/scripts-arch32 from NSSDATABASES="/etc/schroot/nssdatabases-defaults" to NSSDATABASES="/etc/schroot/default/nssdatabases" fixes it. Got that value from /etc/schroot/default/config. It appears /etc/schroot/scripts-arch32 belongs to schroot (according to pkgfile -i), so probably needs to be modified? Otherwise works okay, as mentioned.

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[arch-general] How to obtain development headers for package
by Michishige Kaito 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hey, Maybe I'm just not understanding how Arch works, so please forgive my ignorance. I come from ubuntu, and there you get development headers for most packages by following the naming convention, which is package-dev. A quick apt-cache search package | grep dev would yield the right package. Now, I'm trying to obtain these on my fresh arch, but can't seem to find anything through pacman search or google. Anyone could hint me in the right direction? If it's useful, I need the dev headers for sqlite3.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] boost-1.42.0 rebuild
by Ng Oon-Ee 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 13:08 +0100, Giovanni Scafora wrote: > 2010/2/23, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org>: > > That looks a fairly small rebuild. Put boost in [testing] and I will start > > building. > > Thanks Allan. > I'm building boost 1.42.0, and I put it in testing soon. > Hi, just ran -Syu and got boost 1.42.0 but schroot in [community] is not yet updated and throws a libboost error. Just a heads-up in case it didn't turn up on the mentioned (off-ML) list.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.9-1
by Tobias Powalowski 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi guys, bump to latest bugfix version. Please signoff 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] Some flowers & request for advice
by fons＠kokkinizita.net 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello all, Over the past 3 months I've installed Arch on five different machines: an IBM R51, a Fujitsu-Siemens W360, my home machine which has no pedigree, an EEE-1000H and an today an EEE-904HA. Apart from one major panic related to the libpng14 update there have not been any significant problems, and the ones that emerged have been solved by prompt feedback on this list or by the information provided on the Wiki. Five more W360 are to follow soon. All this merits a big thanks to the developers and maintainers of Arch, and to all those who have kindly provided help. I don't think I could have had the same results (in all cases a setup *very* close to what was required) as easily from any other distro. One of my next projects will require touchscreens for a 'kiosk' type of application, and I'm still trying to find the right hardware. Any suggestions will be much appreciated (if they work with Arch of course). Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

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[arch-general] vboxnetflt, adp won't insert
by Nilesh Govindarajan 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi, After a recent upgrade (the mkinitcpio replacements), I am unable to insmod vboxnetflt & vboxnetadp (though vboxdrv does). [root@Linux ~]# modprobe vboxnetflt FATAL: Error inserting vboxnetflt (/lib/modules/2.6.32-ARCH/misc/vboxnetflt.ko): Invalid module format [root@Linux ~]# modprobe vboxnetadp FATAL: Error inserting vboxnetadp (/lib/modules/2.6.32-ARCH/misc/vboxnetadp.ko): Invalid module format [root@Linux ~]# What's the solution ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.56-1
by Tobias Powalowski 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi bump to latest version. Please signoff 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] xdm mysteries
by fons＠kokkinizita.net 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello all, Trying to translate some of the entries in /etc/X11/xdm/archlinux/Xresources to Italian I get strange results. Xlogin*greeting:Benvenuti to Salome works OK. But Xlogin*namePrompt:Nome d'utente\040: Xlogin*passwdPrompt:Parola d'ordine\040: just give me the defaults. I tried replacing all spaces with \040, same result. I also tried enclosing the text in double quotes, but then the quotes are printed as well. So what is the correct syntax ? Another strange thing is that on this system a failed login does not display the 'Incorrect' message but restarts xdm immediately. On another system (same version, installed or upgraded the same day) this works... Any help will be appreciated ! Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

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[arch-general] powertop vs archlinux vs ubuntu
by Stefano Z. 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

hi i've bought a new notebook (hp pavilion dm1-1150sl) and installed archlinux. i have see a strange thing with powertop, i'm running the vanilla arch kernel26, and i have see this behaviour: Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies) C0 (cpu occupata) (31,6%) C0 0,0ms ( 0,0%) C1 mwait 0,1ms ( 0,7%) C4 mwait 0,0ms (67,8%) Wakeups-from-idle per second : 31483,5 interval: 10,0s --- as you can see, i have a LOT of wakeups per seconds very low c1 states lot of c0 and c4 states, a wattmeter tell me that archlinux consume about 25/26watt Then i have boot a live ubuntu distro and see this: Cn permanenza media P-state (frequenze) C0 (cpu occupata) ( 0,6%) polling 0,0 ms ( 0,0%) C1 mwait 26,7 ms (68,6%) C4 mwait 1,2 ms (30,8%) Wakeup-da-idle al secondo: 281,3 intervallo: 15,0s --- as you can see the wakeups are a LOT lower than on arch and we have lot of c1 and c4 state, power consumption is about 20W, the same that i have with win7 (about 18/20w). For meaning about cX state see here: http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/powertop.php thanks!

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