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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest major version - atl2 moved into mainline kernel - wlan-ng26 moved into staging directory of kernel development - for the cool stuff please refer to: http://kernelnewbies.org please signoff for both arches all binary modules have been rebuilt too, please test if they work properly. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE
by Charly Ghislain 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Except that its not using a percentage scale but a dynamic one with absolute values. That means you should look a it to know your transfert speed.

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[arch-general] [aur-general] the future of empathy, libtelepathy..
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Hello, there has been a thread on aur-general in October 2008 about this issue, but the situation is not satisfying IMHO: We have a package of empathe in AUR _and_ in [testing].Both are or were orphaned, and the package in AUR was taken by a user and upgraded to version 2.25. I was chatting with him, and we reverted the change and uploaded a release 2.25 as empathy-devel. I think this should not happen again. What is the decision? Will empathe go to [extra] soon? If it is desired to keep the version in AUR, I suggest a developer should take it and keep it until it reaches [extra]. Or it should be removed. Thoughts? Regards Stefan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] libnl 1.1-1, iw 0.9.7-1, crda 0.9.5-1
by Grigorios Bouzakis 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > With 2.6.28, the new wirless regulatory infrastructure is there. The above > packages are in extra (libnl) or testing (iw, crda). If we want proper > wireless support, we need these packages in core. It works like this: > > - Install crda > - Uncomment the right country code in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom > - Add wireless-regdom to your rc.conf DAEMONS and run > /etc/rc.d/wireless-regdom start > > The kernel will now know on which frequencies you are allowed to send. > Without this, you should only be able to access a small number of channels. > > The cfg80211_regdom kernel module option will be removed in 2.6.29 and > should not be used anymore. > > Theres packages for crda and libnl in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14856 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21855 & iw in [community]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19012 Theres also http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21854 whose only reason of existance seemed to be crda. Greg

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[arch-general] vnc on display:0
by sagar n 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Hi, I want to connect to display:0 of a headless box remotely. I looked at x11vnc but it seems to be considerably slow compared to a normal vnc session or even XDMCP. Is there a way to run vncserver so that it connects to :0. I looked at xf4vnc-xvnc package, but the module libvnc.so fails to load with the new Xserver. (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so: undefined symbol: NumCurrentSelections (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libvnc.so (II) UnloadModule: "vnc" (EE) Failed to load module "vnc" (loader failed, 7) Is it a known bug? In any case, is there an alternative way to connect to display:0 remotely? -- Sagar N. ( evilsense ) Dont look at my finger, look at the moon.

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[arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE
by Leonid Grinberg 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of a good KDE applet for monitoring system activty, similar to the GNOME one. I'd really like to be able to see CPU load, memory usage and network activity. I am running vanilla KDE 4.1.3 (not kdemod). -- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg

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[arch-general] ftpd problem on ftp.archlinux.org?
by Gerhard Brauer 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hi, today i have several failed connections to ftp.archlinux.org ----------- [gerhard@tux1 ~]$ LANG=C wget ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz --2008-12-29 21:18:15-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz => `core.db.tar.gz.7' Resolving ftp.archlinux.org... 209.85.41.145, 209.85.41.144 Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.145|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying. --2008-12-29 21:18:16-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz (try: 2) => `core.db.tar.gz.7' Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.145|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying. --2008-12-29 21:18:18-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz (try: 3) => `core.db.tar.gz.7' Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.145|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying. --2008-12-29 21:18:22-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz (try: 4) => `core.db.tar.gz.7' Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.145|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying. ^C -------------------------- Sometimes it goes fine after several tries. Seems onyl that 209.85.41.145 has the problem. Gerhard

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[arch-general] Slow startup of mc
by Abdul Halim 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hi. I just found out that mc (midnight commander) in extra repository is buggy in a sense that it will take around 7 secs or more to start. This happens to me on several machines. Other distro are reporting this issues too: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24038 To resolve this issue, I have downloaded mc-mp from community which is more stable. I am suggesting that mc to be removed from the extra repo since it is an unstable version of mc. Regards. archlinuxsagi

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[arch-general] KDE 4.2 and AUR Upgrading
by Leonid Grinberg 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hello, I am currently running a vanilla KDE 4.1.3. There are a number of problems that I am having, all of which, I am told, are fixed in 4.2 None of the problems are incredibly serious, but they are annoying enough that I am considering upgrading to 4.2. I thus have a few questions: 1) Once 4.2 is released, how soon is it reasonable to expect that it will be in the repositories (not AUR). 2) If one installs a package from AUR, and then it is moved to the main repositories, does Pacman know that the two packages are the same? I am interested in this with regards both to this question and to others -- e.g. the main repositories currently have Amarok 1.4 while AUR has 2.0. I am wary of installing it from AUR because when it is moved to the main repositories, I don't know if Pacman will know how to handle the upgrade. Thanks in advance! Leonid Grinberg

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[arch-general] [signoff] grub-097-15
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Please signoff for both arches - added ext4 support patch greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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