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[arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2
by Leonid Grinberg 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi everyone, I have recently upgraded to KDE 4.2 (vanilla, not kdemod) and have noticed an odd glitch. Every once in a while, with no pattern I can discern, the font in the title bar of a window will have garbled text in it [1]. When I took that screenshot and was about to save it, I noticed that the file chooser dialogue also had the glitch, as did the text in the dialogue [2]. The fonts are Sans Serif 10 bold. Does anyone know why this would happen? -- Leonid [1] http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/998/garbledzr9.png [2] http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2577/garbled2sw8.png

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[arch-general] kernel oops after recent upgrade
by Ryan Sims 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Just upgraded to kernel26 2.6.28.2-1, and now I get an oops when trying to mount my ntfs drive at boot. After boot, I could manually mount everything else, but "mount /mnt/ntfs" hangs unkillable. Since /mnt/ntfs was first in fstab, nothing else mounted; I have since commented out that line and everything's fine. Attached relevant kernel dmesg...can anyone shed any light on this, or should I open a bug? -- Ryan W Sims

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Re: [arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2
by Robert Howard 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Have you tried playing with the GlyphCache settings to the driver? This used to be a solution to some similar troubles in the past. -----Original Message----- From: Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg(a)gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:20 PM To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2 > This seems to be a bug with the nvidia drivers. You might want to try 180.25. Hmm, it seems to only be in AUR? Do you know when the nvidia package in the repos will be updated? -- Leonid

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[arch-general] phonon: gstreamer support will be dropped
by Alberto Gonzalez 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi, [ This is in response to the thread in arch-devel here: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-January/009971.html ] Regarding gstreamer support in phonon I'd like to add my 2 cents: When you install KDE, you get the xine-phonon backend (and only the xine-phonon backend) by default. If someone wants to use gstreamer he must explicitly install it and then go to KDE control center and choose gstreamer. So it's not so much that you're dropping support for it (it is not supported by default anyway), it's rather the ability for anyone who wants to use it to be able to do it what you're removing. What's the advantage of that? Some people like xine better, some don't. If you use a laptop and care about battery life you have to dislike xine for sure. In KDE3 I had to disable the sound system. In KDE4 I had to switch to gstreamer backend. At least in KDE 4.2 they have fixed this to certain extent (i.e., no more 100's of CPU wakeups per seconds on an idle desktop). However, I encourage you to simply open Dragon player and leave it there idle while looking at powertop (and compare the same while using gstreamer backend). You can also play an mp3 in a phonon-based player and see the difference between xine and gstreamer. By the end of the day, discussing the strengths of each backend is not so interesting. Xine is the default and that's good. But why remove the freedom to change it to gstreamer for those who want it? As far as I know, allowing to use gstreamer doesn't affect in any way to those using xine, does it? Gstreamer has its problems, but it's used by all the gnome people (most Ubuntu/Fedora users and more) so it's can't be that bad. Not as to not allow users to use it if they want to. Thanks, Alberto.

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[arch-general] kernel26 x86_64 without virtio?
by Ingo Becker 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi, i have noticed that the virtio-* kernel modules for kvm paravirtualization in the kernel26 x86_64 package are missing. They are included in the i686 package but not in the x86_64 version. Whats the reason for that? greets Ingo

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[arch-general] kdebindings 4.2 missing from extra
by Atanas Zhelev 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hi, it seems kdebindings 4.2 wasn't moved to extra. When upgrading pacman picks kdebindings-4.1.3-1 and that leads to conflicts. (36/36) checking for file conflicts [##################################################################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) /usr/share/apps/plasma_scriptengine_ruby/applet.rb exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings' /usr/share/apps/plasma_scriptengine_ruby/data_engine.rb exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings' /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-scriptengine-ruby-applet.desktop exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings' /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-scriptengine-ruby-dataengine.desktop exists in both 'kdebase-workspace' and 'kdebindings' Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. -- Atanas

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[arch-general] KDE 4.2.0 in [testing]
by Pierre Schmitz 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi everybody, today I uploaded the so called "first try" of 4.2 into [testing]. Those packages are not the final one yet, but damn close. There are only two known upstream showstoppers; which will be fixed by new packages soon. See http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=kde-4.2.0-blocker. On our site only mysql is blocking a release to [extra]: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12798 In addition to this kde-l10n-et seems broken. So please take the chance and check those packages. An update from 4.1 should be quite smooth. And even if you hated KDE 4.1, give 4.2 a try; it really rocks. :-) If you notice any regression, showstopper or problems during the update, please report them. Packages for x86_64 should be available on your favourite mirror soon; Andrea will build i66 packages tomorrow. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[arch-general] thunar-thumbnailer
by Marco Antonio Gomez 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Using Openbox + Thunar + Thunar thumbnailer in Arch (completely updated), I noticed that thunar-thumbnailer, since last week, does not generate video thumbnails anymore. AFAIK, the problem is related to a new version of ffmpeg... My system messages show me that ffmpegthumbnailer looks out for a libavcodec.so.51 (lib that used to be provided by ffmpeg package, that was recently replaced by libavcodec.so.52.10.0). But the newer version of ffmpegthumbnailer in community, still looks for libavcodec.so.51. Then... obviously "error while loading shared libraries - no such file of direcrory". I've already tried to create a symbolic link named libavcodec.so.51 pointing to libavcodec.so.52.10.0, and when I try to do that, the ffmpegthumbnailer returns "Error: Could not find video stream" I've also tried to recompile ffmpeg and also ffmped-thumbnailer and all of it's dependencys from the newer versions of each one in AUR, but it was a frustrated attempt. Anybody else reports the same issues? If positive, any workaround to make it work? Regards, Marco Antonio Gomez.

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[arch-general] Staic libraries
by Damjan Georgievski 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Since bugs on http://bugs.archlinux.org/ are too eagerly closed I'll have to ask here. I'm trying to build the latest "tuxonice-userui" since it's required by tuxonice-rc8. The compile of tuxoniceui_fbsplash fails with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreetype" The last command (the one that fails) is: cc -static userui_core.o fbsplash/userui_fbsplash.o -o tuxoniceui_fbsplash -lmng -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lfreetype -llcms -lm Now, there are /usr/lib/libmng.a /usr/lib/libpng.a /usr/lib/libjpeg.a /usr/lib/libz.a /usr/lib/liblcms.a /usr/lib/libm.a files on my ArchLinux but there's no /usr/lib/libfreetype.a static library. In http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11016 JGC claims: "Static libraries aren't needed to build static binaries. The makefiles contain hardcoded references to the .a files, which is wrong." Now, it's not true that the userui Makefile has a hardcoded reference to the .a file. And I don't see how to build a static binary either? Hints? -- damjan

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[arch-general] consistency in iso naming
by Dieter Plaetinck 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi, I suggest we use the following names: 2009.01-alpha 2009.01-beta 2009.01-1 (official release) (2009.01-2, 2009.01-3 etc subsequent official releases, if required) I think our isos/img's should have such versions in there filenames, instead of using 2009.01 for alpha + beta + official releases. This is useful for: 1) avoiding confusion with iso's. Users are not aware which versions the isos are hosted on dev spaces such as http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/archiso/. Hell, even for relengs/devs it can be confusing 2) 1:1 to mapping to version numbers on flyspray. I added some versions on flyspray (2009.01-{alpha,beta,1} etc). imo we need to update iso names as such, so bugs can be reported on the correct versions etc, otherwise it will be mess. This implies a change in archiso. is that okay? PS: i also made a version 2009.04-alpha where we can attach some non-critical tickets to. Dieter

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