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[arch-general] weird thing with X and nvidia driver
by Eric Wong 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, I run Arch linux with KDE 4.2 on a machine with a Geforce 6200 LE card. But recently I have been experiencing some weird things. At the begining I was running KDE 4.2.0 with a nvidia-180.22 driver and the X process consumes lots of memory graduately, even to 200+ MB some times. Then I updated to KDE4.2.1 and the problem disappeared. But today, after I update the video driver to nvidia-180.29 it is here again. I have no idea which component cause it. KDE, nvidia dirver or xorg? Another weird thing is with the nvidia driver. Before updating to 188.29, glxgear had about 1060 FPS. After update and I restarted the KDE. Then glxgear told me the nvidia api dismatch, that is, the kernel module is still 180.22 but other parts of the driver is 180.29, and it has 1300+ FPS, then I remove the old module and modprobe the new one so it runs 180.29 now, but it is 1060FPS again. There's no improvement over 180.22! What's the problem?

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[arch-general] smtp daemon
by Baho Utot 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

I need a small smtp daemon for use as an MTA to move mail from a desktop to a mail server I could use sendmail or something like it but I am looking for something smaller. Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] Problems with Acer Aspire One and Arch installer
by Henri Häkkinen 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello I'm having some troubles with installing Arch on my Acer Aspire One (this is the version with Linpus Linux). I have downloaded the installer FTP-USB image from the web site and copied the image to my 256 MB USB stick as usual with dd. However, when I try to boot my AA1 machine from it, it halts to the place where it gives "GRUB loading, please wait..." and nothing shows up. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Henri Häkkinen

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Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up
by Jan de Groot 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:21 +0100, Dan Vratil wrote: > Hi, > this happens to me sometimes too. I found out, that I just have to > switch > to console, restart HAL daemon and it works again, so I'd say it could > be > problem in Xserver, but I'm really not sure about it. > > Dan Could be a problem with the evdev driver that freaks out on your keyboard. Restarting hal generates a load of new hotplug events for Xorg, so your keyboard gets removed from Xorg and hotplugged again, after which it is reinitialized. Is the keyboard you use PS2 or USB?

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[arch-general] xf86-video-nouveau/nouveau-drm in testing
by Andreas Radke 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

I've added xf86-video-nouveau + nouveau-drm to testing. Together with Xorg 7.5 this is a nice replacement for the binary crap when you don't need 3D stuff. 2D works well accelerated. 3D will follow later with gallium 3d. For more read: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ I run a DualHead setup on my desktop. This is my full xorg.conf for example: # the right one Section "Monitor" Identifier "NEC" Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00" EndSection # the left one Section "Monitor" Identifier "FUS" Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00" Option "LeftOf" "NEC" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nvidia card" BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] rev 161" Driver "nouveau" Option "Monitor-DVI-I-0" "NEC" Option "Monitor-DVI-I-1" "FUS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 2560 1024 EndSubSection Device "nvidia card" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" Screen "screen1" # will be replaced by gallium 3D Option "AIGLX" "false" EndSection Have fun getting rid off nvidia binary blobs. -Andy

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mailman hiccup
by RedShift 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Geoffroy Carrier wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:10, RedShift <redshift(a)pandora.be> wrote: >> I've been working on my own mailing list manager, it's completely written in >> PHP and uses SQL as a backend, but at this point a bit specific to our >> setup. Because our company is all about open source I intend on releasing it >> as such. It's in need of an overhaul anyway, I'll get hacking at it again >> ASAP. > > I'd love to be an early adopter :) > > Plus I'd be happy to contribute... > > Ok so here's what I've got so far: When I was designing my anti-SPAM filter, I noticed you're just running a series of code after each other. To keep everything nice and tidy I split up the various routines into small pieces of code designed to do one thing and then pass on to the next filter. My project has the codename "redsky". Yes, it's cliché but I couldn't think of anything else. By itself, redsky is pretty useless. It's only capable of running a series of filters after each other. The real power is in the filters itself. The 3 filters that come shipped with redsky are designed to interface with another piece of software called proxsmtpd (but can be used in other ways as well, they just use STDIN and STDOUT), but there's no reasons you could write your own input/output filters and make redsky a mini-SMTP server. Here are the packages that are of interest: * phpemailtoolbox (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22237) This is a small set of email related functions and classes. It is required by redsky. * redsky (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22261) This is the main redsky code. It contains three filters: * redsky_read: this reads the email in question from STDIN. It is designed for interfacing with proxsmtpd, but can be used in a generic manner as well. * redsky_discard: when the discard flag is set on an email, this filter will log this event. * redsky_out: this outputs the email to STDOUT, again designed to interface with proxsmtpd but is suitable for general purpose as well. In the mailinglist * redsky-filters (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24393) This is a set of complementary filters for redsky, it has for example SMTP blacklist checking, whitelisting, autoreplies, etc... They are mainly designed to use in a postfix content scanner context. Only the redsky_sqlconn filter is required for mailinglist manager. * mlm-filters (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24399) This is the most interesting set of filters. Mlm stands for Mailing List Manager. There's a queueing part and a sending part. For the queueing part: * mlm_getinfo: Fetch information for a certain list using SQL * mlm_loopdetect: Check if a message is looping or not * mlm_bouncehandler: If the message received was sent to a bounce address, store it in an SQL table * mlm_getsubscribers: Get the subscribers from SQL for the current list * mlm_access: Determine if a sender has access to the list. It currently supports 4 methods: use an ACL, only allow subscribers, require a passphrase or no limitations * mlm_subjecttag: Tag the subject if the mailinglist is configured for that * mlm_addfooter: Add a footer to the emails if the mailinglist is configured for that * mlm_queuer: Write a spoolfile and put all the recipients into an SQL table For the sending part: * mlm_singleinstance: Only allow a single instance of redsky to be run * mlm_queuebuilder: Build a queue of messages to be sent and their respective recipients * mlm_queuerunner: Process the earlier built queue using sendmail to send messages redsky is written to support multiple configurations. In the MLM case, you would have two configuration files (examples are shipped with mlm-filters), one for the queuer and one for the sender. The queuer would be called by the MTA while to sender could be executing with a cronjob. Use -c to supply an alternate config, for example: redsky -c /etc/redsky.queuerunner.config.php You will notice that the redsky-filters and mlm-filters come shipped with example configuration files. You will find them in /usr/share/php/redsky/. Some filters depend on each other, so it is important in which order they are executed. For example, the mlm_access cannot determine if the sender is a subscriber when mlm_getsubscribers hasn't run first, because it uses the information from mlm_getsubscribers for this. Now maybe the hardest part, integration with an email server. I'll only handle postfix. Our entire infrastructure is based on MySQL, however all redsky code is written to use PDO, so it should be compatible with any databaseserver that PDO supports. You can get our database schema from http://projects.webmind.be/redsky/mail.sql In postfix terms, you would add entries to your alias table to send certain addresses to the "mlm". The examples below are made to work with the database schema above, but all queries can be modified in the configuration files. virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/lists.cf lists.cf: user = USER password = PASSWORD hosts = HOST dbname = MAILDB query = SELECT 'mlm' AS goto FROM lists LEFT JOIN domains ON domains.domain_id = lists.domain_id WHERE (lists.list_post_address = '%u' OR lists.list_bounce_address = '%u') AND domains.domain_name = '%d' AND domains.domain_type = 'virtual' AND domains.domain_enable_email = 'yes' The above will send all mail sent to a mailing list address to 'mlm'. Now postfix knows it needs to send any list emails to mlm. Now we need to tell postfix that all email sent to the local 'mlm' address to be piped to our mlm program. For this we create a transport table, that has 'mlm(a)localhost.localdomain' transported to the 'mlm' destination. Now we have to define what the mlm destination is. Open up master.cf and add: mlm unix - n n - - pipe user=nobody flags=O argv=/usr/bin/redsky -c /etc/redsky.queuer.config.php Note the O flag, this will add an X-Original-To header, which is required to identify wich original address the message was sent to. To allow the messages to be distributed, just call /usr/bin/redsky -c /etc/redsky.runner.config.php Ok, all this information was probably hard to swallow. I will try to answer any questions you have regarding the implementation. If you want to ask me a direct question you can find me on IRC, freenode with the nick RedShift. I am in #archlinux. It's also easier if you start by testing it out directly from the shell instead of immediatly integrating it into your MTA. Best regards, Glenn

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[arch-general] netcfg testing and git packages
by James Rayner 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi The release beta cycle wasn't working well for netcfg. Small changes, bugs and many FR's got held up far too long while other work happened. To try and help get netcfg development going smoothly again I've uploaded some netcfg git PKGBUILDs to the AUR to use instead of -beta releases. This way I can make those small changes, push it to git, and it can be tested immediately, while larger things can be safely done in another branch locally. When it's ready, rc's will be released. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23953 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23954 There's some fairly substantial changes in this release. - Moving from net-tools to iproute - iproute is the way forward. net-tools is long unmaintained, nor as capable. - Moving from wireless_tools to pure wpa_supplicant - More reliable, less quirks required. Hopefully more stable. - As part of this, wireless moves into netcfg-wireless (dependency issues) Both of these require config changes. Once they're both stabilised I can release 2.2.x to give people time to migrate, and eventually 2.5 which will use them by default. There are example configs included. More details on the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles_development The wpa_supplicant move needs a significant amount of testing. I havn't tested WEP (testing hardware is gone), and net-auto may not work presently. WPA and custom WPA configs work in my testing. If there's any criticisms or comments about the way this is going, the code, netcfg, etc, please let me know. I'd like to make 2.2 a good release and I think these changes are important. I'm hoping they'll make netcfg simpler and more reliable. Cheers, James

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[arch-general] icedtea6
by Juan Diego 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello everyone Am I the only one who cannot execute any java applet from firefox since last openjdk update (openjdk6 1.4.1-1)? Thanks for your help Bye

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Re: [arch-general] Scim and arphic fonts update in [testing]
by Smith Dhumbumroong 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Thank you for taking your time and updating the scim packages, Eric. :) Any news on when it will hit 64bit? I'm currently using scim on my x86_64 Arch and would like to test the new packages out.

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[arch-general] Problems with netcfg
by Cristopher Thomas 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

I decided to start using netcfg to manage my wireless connection instead of NetworkManager, but I can't seem to get it to connect reliably. There seems to be no pattern to when it will or won't connect, and I'm not having any connectivity problems in windows. Range isn't an issue either. I'm practically sitting right next to the router most of the time! If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm using version 2.1.2 from the Core repository. Here's the error I get from netcfg: [~]$ sudo netcfg home :: home up [BUSY] wlan0: timed out - DHCP IP lease attempt failed [FAIL] Here's the profile I'm using: CONNECTION="wireless" DESCRIPTION="A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection" INTERFACE=wlan0 SCAN="yes" SECURITY="wap" ESSID="The Thomas' Net" KEY="xxxxxxxxxx" IP="dhcp" Output from lsmod: [~]$ lsmod Module Size Used by i915 67208 2 drm 108768 3 i915 fuse 59584 2 joydev 14208 0 pcmcia 39192 0 sdhci_pci 10624 0 sdhci 19588 1 sdhci_pci uvcvideo 62344 0 compat_ioctl32 11520 1 uvcvideo mmc_core 54624 1 sdhci psmouse 57116 0 videodev 37888 2 uvcvideo,compat_ioctl32 v4l1_compat 17284 2 uvcvideo,videodev snd_pcsp 13052 1 yenta_socket 28812 1 rsrc_nonstatic 13312 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 39204 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic sg 31840 0 i2c_i801 12444 0 i2c_core 26144 1 i2c_i801 serio_raw 8196 0 iTCO_wdt 15184 0 iTCO_vendor_support 5636 1 iTCO_wdt video 22420 0 output 5248 1 video intel_agp 33136 1 acer_wmi 18664 0 wmi 8896 1 acer_wmi evdev 13984 6 thermal 20896 0 fan 7304 0 button 9504 0 battery 14600 0 ac 7176 0 usblp 16000 0 snd_seq_oss 35584 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9344 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 58336 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 9364 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_hda_intel 531252 2 snd_hwdep 10632 1 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss 45440 0 snd_pcm 82952 3 snd_pcsp,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 24720 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11792 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss snd 65096 16 snd_pcsp,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss soundcore 9632 1 snd tg3 133124 0 libphy 22656 1 tg3 arc4 4096 2 ecb 5248 2 ath9k 257968 0 mac80211 193840 1 ath9k cfg80211 45488 1 mac80211 rfkill 13776 4 acer_wmi,ath9k led_class 6280 2 acer_wmi,ath9k cpufreq_powersave 3840 0 cpufreq_ondemand 10512 0 acpi_cpufreq 10896 0 freq_table 6272 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq processor 46648 4 thermal,acpi_cpufreq rtc_cmos 14040 0 rtc_core 21060 1 rtc_cmos rtc_lib 4992 1 rtc_core ext3 141328 2 jbd 57000 1 ext3 mbcache 10244 1 ext3 sr_mod 18884 0 cdrom 39080 1 sr_mod sd_mod 29096 5 uhci_hcd 27552 0 ehci_hcd 41356 0 usbcore 160432 5 uvcvideo,usblp,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd ahci 36876 4 libata 176224 1 ahci scsi_mod 119256 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata iwconfig (when connected, obviously): [~]$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. wmaster0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"The Thomas' Net" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:10:9B:74 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Power Management:off Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-71 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 eth0 no wireless extensions. And, I'm seeing this from dmesg: [~]$ dmesg | grep wlan0 wlan0: direct probe to AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800ba5ba04a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated wlan0: deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3) wlan0: direct probe to AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800ba65c04a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated wlan0: direct probe to AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800ba76c04a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated wlan0: direct probe to AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 try 1 wlan0 direct probe responded wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800b9d6404a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated wlan0: authenticate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP ffff8800ba3a7aa0 wlan0: RX AssocResp from ffff8800b9c3604a (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=5) wlan0: invalid aid value 5; bits 15:14 not set wlan0: associated -- ****BGCB***** GCC/O$ d--(+) s+:- a- C++ L++>+++ W++ K- w O? 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