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Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent?? [solved - sort of]
by Smith Dhumbumroong 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi, I also have the problem same you described on Openbox + Xcompmgr. I "solved" it by disable guest's 3D acceleration. Another solution is to disable the composite. I'm using radeon driver so I guess this problem might have more to do with VirtualBox or KDE's widget/theme engine than the driver it self (I might be wrong, though). Regards, Smith Dhumbumroong

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[arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 15 May '09

15 May '09

Listmates, When I need to run apps a root for configuration purposes like kate, or konqueror "File Management", I either put the command in the Alt+F2 run dialog or create a menu entry and then check [ ] run as different users and put 'root' in the different user text box. Even though I have configured sudo I am inevitably prompte for a password. With suse we "patched" this by using kwriteconfig as your regular user: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo This wasn't the "recommended" way, but it was the way most chose to get around a mess with kdesu. When I try and access the apps I want to run as root, not only do I get the initial password prompt, but I get a second prompt after the app is closed. That has left me scratching my head. The other option is just to create the menu entries as "sudo command" which doesn't complain wheen opening whatever I need. What says the braintrust? Is this an arch issue or is it a kdemod issue? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. -- 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] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 14 May '09

14 May '09

Listmates, I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at f8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel The Intel modules loaded are: snd 65928 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_hda_codec 68112 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hda_intel 29256 1 snd_page_alloc 9760 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_pcm 80920 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine. However, if I log out and then back it, most times the sound is gone -- dead. The sound will not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any ideas on what to check or what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas on how to bring the sound back once it dies without having to reboot? Thanks for any help you can provide. I always hated chasing sound problems. -- 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] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?
by Sergey Manucharian 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi folks, It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't work anymore, or I'm missing something? ----------------------8<---------------------- Section "InputDevice" ..... Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru,am" Option "XkbVariant" ",phonetic,phonetic" ..... EndSection ----------------------8<---------------------- The only way I can set up the kbd layout is the using "setxkbmap" with the same settings in my "~/.xinitrc". Is it a bug of a "feature" of the new X? Cheers, Sergey

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[arch-general] Gnome update failed
by Manolo 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman -Syu, this error message showed up: usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null When I rebooted, I couldn't enter into Gnome again. The only thing I could see was a gray screen, but with the compiz effects activated (cube). I tried to downgrade and to force the installation of the package gnome, xorg-server and so on, but nothing happened. Now, I'm usin LXDE (a nice DE, by the way), but the update of gnome package keeps failing. Anyone with this trouble, any ideas about solving this issue? Thanks, Manolo.

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[arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates: Needing to spruce up the cube caps on cube rotation in compiz (the old opensuse artwork just wouldn't do), I started messing around with some of the archlinux-artwork. I found one that I like and then added some finishing touches in gimp. A screenshot of the resulting cubecaps and desktop is here: [69k] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-cyl.jpg The actual cubecap file is found here: [450k due to transparency] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-compizcaps.p… Use it at will. If you have no interest, just hit [del]. -- 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] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update, my kdm3 is crashing with each user logout. Basically, on logout you are dumped back to tty1 and must then login and issue kdm3 restart to restore the display manager. I am using the radeonhd driver. Before the latest update this didn't occur. What can I check to get information to help solve this puzzle? I've checked /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log, but nothing is out of the ordinary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- 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] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update to kernel26 2.6.29.3-1, opera is segfaulting for some reason. Opera doesn't event splash anything on the screen, it just dies. Here is what I get from the cli: 23:28 alchemy:~> opera -debugxerror opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0 I have no idea what a BadAtom is or if that is the problem. I haven't run across anything else in the past hour since the update. What should I check? -- 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] new Ruby on Rails page on the wiki
by Sébastien Duquette 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I created a Ruby on Rails page on the wiki. It's not really long but the basis is there to quickly set up a rails application. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RubyOnRails As always, please feel free to comment and edit the wiki. Sébastien Duquette

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Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Aaron Schaefer 12 May '09

12 May '09

Since I can't reply to the dev mailing list thread: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias(a)justdreams.de> wrote: >> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: >> That means all plugins need to be rebuild and some users that set fixed >> pathes in .vimrc will have to adjust. > > Looks like we have a new rebuild list then: > > $ pacman -Sqs vim- ... This will mean that all plugin packages will have to be rebuilt for each minor Vim release? Is that how other distro's handle it? Seems a bit odd... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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