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[arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?
by Markus Heuser 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hey guys, Today i wanted to rip one of my dvds with h264enc from AUR [1]. I updated to the latest available version (8.6.6) but couldn't get it working together with the mencoder from the repos. I'm not asking for support for an AUR package, but here is what I found out and I guess this could be important for other ripping/x264 encoding software as well: The extra/x264 is severely outdated, in fact it lacks support for some -x264encopts that can be used by mencoder and therefore breaks encoding. This seems not to be very common by now but sooner or later encoding tools will use these options and we should provide compatible packages :) So, if one rebuilds x264 either with the $pkgver bumped to the latest available snapshot [2] or uses the AUR x264-git Package [3], MPlayer needs a rebuild too. Using the official MPlayer PKGBUILD results in a build error with a possible solution posted on the forums [4]. I know that the OP is using an SVN version of mplayer but I couldn't get the new x264 working together with the mplayer PKGBUILD from the repos (another build error complaining about libavcodec), so upgrading to the latest & greatest (tm) version seems to be the next logical step to me. I see that this "solution" involves using ffmpeg and mplayer svn versions which is obviously not suitable for the repos. But I'd be very thankful to see a rebuild of x264 and mplayer/ffmpeg as soon as the changes in ffmpeg and mplayer are in the stable branches and you guys can afford the time to do so :) Greetings, Markus [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12121 [2] ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264- snapshot-20081228-2245.tar.bz2 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15774 [4] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61858

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub with ext4 support
by Gerhard Brauer 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Am Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:30:33 +0100 schrieb "Ronald van Haren" <pressh(a)gmail.com>: > I will check into the grub2 issue in that case. I've played around last days with grub2 (Version from extra and svn) for putting it as the ISO bootloader and with ext4 FS. - I could made a test ISO (archiso based, 2.6.28) with grub2. This boots fine in virtual machines (like virtualbox or qemu). But on real machines the cdrom (biosdisk module) wasn't found. I never see cd0 on real hardware, only the harddisks (looked with ls when ls-module is aktivated). I tried question on #grub in IRC, but no answer. (With the ata module the cdrom could be handselected with low speed, but this is not practicable...) - grub2 and ext4. Grub2 boots fine on ext4 partitions (i have a ext4 /boot partition on VM). But i have problems to (re)install grub2 when the partition **is** ext4. I tested: /boot is ext3, install grub2, boot is fine. Also re-installing grub2 works. Convert /boot to ext4 (with extent), grub2 boots fine. If trying to reinstall grub2 then (grub-install --debug /dev/sda) it rewrites the core.img file in /boot/grub. And then the core.img file could not be parsed: error cannot read core.img correctly. Maybe a result of using ext4 extends. During grub-install much files from /usr/lib/grub(?) get copied to /boot/grub again, and the core.img file is there also build correctly (thats part of grub-setup). But then i could not be read (maybe grub2 does this "reading/parsing" in a unusual way which leads to problems on ext4... This i get both with the version from extra and from svn. If this problem is not only based on my mistake or on my enviroment, then we would have a problem during install to install grub2 on a ext4 prepared partition - and later if grub2 must be reinstalled. From my experience with grub/grub2 and ext4 i would assume (also as part of the installer): If one would use ext4 for Root-Partition then /boot should be still ext2/3. Ok, this is one FS module more if ext4 is preferred, but it's save. > > Ronald Gerhard

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Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE
by Bram Schoenmakers 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

On Sunday 28 December 2008 16:57:26 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Hi, > I think the system monitor is coming back in 4.2. but I don't have a handy > link for that. Yes, it will be included [1]. But as indicated somewhere else, a memory plot is still missing. [1] http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/system- monitor/ Kind regards, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855)

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[arch-general] gnome group missing depency
by Vitor Pereira 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

Greetings Installing gnome in a new machine I found that packages in the gnome group, the install scripts call for some missing bins. (I did not create a bug track because there were several packages) These bin are: /usr/bin/gconftool-2 /usr/sbin/gconfpkg gtk-update-cache Also, shouldn't xorg be dependency of gnome? raca

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio - Possible patch for ext4 autodetection
by Gerhard Brauer 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

Hi, i modified the auto-detection function for file-system modules to auto-detect a ext4 partition. The advantage of using blkid instead of klibc-package/bin/fstype is that blkid detects ext4 filesystems. I tried to rebuild klibc with kernel 2.6.28, but this failed. But maybe this could be a alternative method, and maybe better cause klibc is often older than the kernel. --------- --- /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect.org 2008-11-23 07:48:21.000000000 +0100 +++ /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect 2008-12-27 18:21:22.310364104 +0100 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ findfs () { for blkdev in $(find /dev -type b | grep -v -e loop -e ram -e fd); do - eval $(/usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype 2>/dev/null < ${blkdev}) + FSTYPE=$(blkid -o value -s TYPE ${blkdev}) if [ -n "${FSTYPE}" -a "${FSTYPE}" != "swap" -a "${FSTYPE}" != "unknown" -a "${FSTYPE}" != "luks" -a "${FSTYPE}" != "lvm2" ]; then echo ${FSTYPE} fi @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ grep "^${modname}$" "${MODULE_FILE}" >/dev/null 2>&1 && continue case "${m}" in #*/ieee1394/*) echo -e "sbp2\nsd_mod\nsr_mod" >> "${MODULE_FILE}";; + *ext4*) echo -e "jbd2\nmbcache\ncrc16" >> "${MODULE_FILE}" ;; *ext3*) echo "jbd" >> "${MODULE_FILE}" ;; *afs*) echo "rxrpc" >> "${MODULE_FILE}" ;; *cramfs*) echo "zlib_inflate" >> "${MODULE_FILE}" ;; --------------- With this patch mkinitcpio -M detects the ext4 (and releated) modules, and i could build a proper initrd image for booting from ext4 (with grub2 as bootloader) I don't want to file a bug/feature request while not tested enough. Regards Gerhard

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[arch-general] Arch ISO Download Links Down?
by kludge 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

tried to download the core (and later, ftp) iso torrents this morning and got empty files. second time i clicked the links, it took me to empty ftp directories. ??? -kludge

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[arch-general] vnc
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Hello, I yesterday compiled the release 4.1.3 of vnc on x86_64. It needs some gcc-4.3-related patching to build. I attach the PKGBUILD and the patch here. Regards Stefan

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[arch-general] Colin Pitrat is out of the office.
by Colin Pitrat 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

I will be out of the office starting 24/12/2008 and will not return until 04/01/2009. I will respond to your message when I return.

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[arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes
by Baho Utot 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux. Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted. Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then proceeded to install alsa which when fine. Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor. The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the <Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to gain control of the system. I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine with KDEMOD. Has any one experienced this? Any one with some pointers/Help?

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[arch-general] Does anyone receive two copies of same message on the arch-announce list?
by pyther 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hello. Every time there is an announcement on the the main I'll get an email (as I am on the arch-announce list). However, about 5-8 hours I'll get another copy of the email. For example I got the [arch-announce] Pacman update and mirrorlist email Sunday at 23:00 and then today at 05:02. This has been happening for a few months now. I've checked the mail headers and each email is being delivered to the same address. Does anyone else have this problem or am I just lucky? ~pyther

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