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[arch-general] Archive xorg-server 1.4 on Arch Server
by pyther 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Hello. I have updated to Xorg-server 1.5 from testing. However I get extremely low fps (60fps) when running glx-gears. The error I get in the terminal is "Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic." After googling I came across this bug report on gentoo tracker: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237468 >From my research it appears that many people who have Intel cards have this issue. I have the Intel 82945G/GZ using the xf86-video-intel driver. From the bug report it seems as if no work is going into supporting TTM, instead all the work with the driver is going into GEM support. I am not sure what TTM and GEM are, which makes my understand weak with the issue at hand. >From what I do understand it has something to do with dri (a backend?) I have updated libdrm to 2.4.1 and xf86-video-intel to 2.5.1 and continue to receive the error as many others do. I am currently in the process of compiling a new kernel that has GEM support. Following the directions from comment 41 of the bug report. >From reading though the bug report is seems as if this GEM technology is unstable and not ready for any type of release. If xorg-server 1.5 is moved from testing to extra, can we have an archive of xorg-server 1.4 and all related packages? This migration is going to affect a lot of archers with Intel cards. Many archers require much higher frames per second. By providing an archive of these packages it will allow new installations and people who upgrade a chance to downgrade to regain performance. Hopefully I was clear in my explanation if not feel free to ask me any questions. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Thank you, ~pyther

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] device-mapper 1.02.29-1 & lvm2 2.02.43-1
by Dieter Plaetinck 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Eric Bélanger wrote: > > Hi, > > device-mapper 1.02.29-1 and lvm2 2.02.43-1 are now in testing for both > arches. It's a minor upstream update. The most important change is: > "Starting with LVM2 release 2.02.43, the device-mapper files are now > included with the LVM2 releases (in ../lvm2)." > I've modified the PKGBUILD accordingly. > > Please test and signoff. I would like 2 signoff for i686 because I > don't use lvm2 on my i686 system so I could only do minor testing. As > I believe few devs use this, signoffs from users are welcomed. > > Eric > I'm a user, not a dev, running on i686. I couldn't find a definition of a 'signoff', but I updated abs, built the 2 new packages, they compiled fine, i installed them, rebooted my system and everything came up fine (dm_crypt+lvm based system). I also tested the basic commands (pvdisplay,lvdisplay) and even did an lvextend and resize2fs on a volume. everything still works fine. (didn't try making new/deleting LV/PV's etc though) Does this count as a "signoff" ? PS: Users cannot send to arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org, so fwiw I cc'd arch-general. Dieter

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[arch-general] packages feed and duplicates
by Attila 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Hi, i read the packages rss feed (http://www.archlinux.org/feeds/packages) and recognized that every entry is double in the list. Has anyone the same problem? I ask only if this is a known problem or if i should search where is my error. See you, Attila

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[arch-general] Fwd: arch-dev-public Digest, Vol 21, Issue 26
by Abdul Halim 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Hi. Sorry for the late reply. Me was wondering on how to comment on the bluez status till Dieter Plaetinck mail to arch-general. Bluez in testing will cause a dependency issue for gnokii. Please refer to the following URL: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55108 Maybe gnokii can't compile against the new bluez libraries. Hopefully my info is not old news. I am just helping out cause I use bluez frequently... :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <arch-dev-public-request(a)archlinux.org> Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM Subject: arch-dev-public Digest, Vol 21, Issue 26 To: arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:01:36 -0600 From: "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] bluez status? To: "Public mailing list for ArchLinux development" <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> Message-ID: <d64a48980811130901l594798a6s660f73adcc167895(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Jud <jud(a)judfilm.net> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:56:02 +0300 > "Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2008/10/16 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin(a)gmail.com>: >> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Thayer Williams >> > <thayer(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Hugo Doria <hugodoria(a)gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Allan McRae >> >>> <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> >>>> Is anyone going to attempt this rebuild? This is holding up >> >>>> gnome which is holding up python which means I can't slack of at >> >>>> work doing rebuilds... I will do these if necessary but I have >> >>>> no way of testing any of these packages so it would be better if >> >>>> someone else did this. >> >>> >> >>> Same here. I do not have a way to test it. >> >>> >> >>> -- Hugo >> >>> >> >> >> >> I have no experience with the bluez stuff, but I do have bluetooth >> >> capability on my notebook and WinMo phone. I would be happy to test >> >> out any packages if we have a criteria to test against. >> > >> > Oh hey! My phone supports bluetooth too. I wonder what it'd take to >> > have it talk to my laptop... >> > >> >> Same here. >> I've setup myself to deal with bugs first though, >> but if noone will update it in a couple of days - I'll take a look at >> it and related gnome packages. >> >> -- >> Roman Kyrylych (????? ???????) > > Hi Devs, > > It's been sometime without any replies, would it possible for someone > to have ago at the Bluez packages please? > > If not, may I suggest that an open announcement be made for a new Dev > to take-over the Bluez packages and/or the Bluez packages be dropped to > the AUR for someone else to pickup the slack. Do we have anyone that regularly uses bluetooth and can test this?

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[arch-general] New udev rules
by Peter Lewis 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi folks, I'm new to posting here, but figured that it might be the place to ask about this kind of thing :-) I just bought a new printer/scanner - a Brother DCP-305C - and noticed that it's not included in the udev rules for sane (/etc/udev/rules.d/53-sane.rules), though quite a lot of similar models are. Basically the scanner wouldn't work until I added: # Brother DCP-350C ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="01d0", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" So... how does one go about getting this included in the default ruleset? Is it an Arch thing or done upstream? Thanks in advance, Pete.

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[arch-general] Fifa: Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux
by Dieter Plaetinck 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi all, at first I wanted to make an automated installer for Arch Linux (with scripts that specify all the specific aspects of the system). When starting to build this, I looked at the archboot scripts (/arch/setup and /arch/quickinst on the install cd) and noticed that I could re-use lots of code if it would have been split up more (eg I can't just source the useful functions in /arch/setup, I have to source the whole thing and hence, start the installer). So I started writing "Fifa: the Flexible Installer Framework for Arch linux" : http://github.com/Dieterbe/fifa It's designed to be a general, flexible framework for installations. It uses the concepts of 'phases' and 'workers'. There are 4 phases (preparation, basics, system, finish), which can each invoke workers (to get a package list, install packages, install boot loader etc etc). The workers and phases can be overridden by creating profiles. So the whole idea is you can create whatever installation procedure you like (prescripted, autodetection, interactive,...) and you can combine functionality from different profiles and you can reuse lots of code. Keep it mind it's still very, very early in development. It doesn't work yet, but if you look at the code you'll see the basic ideas (and the code is maybe simpler then the explanation). Right now I'm still working on better understanding the archboot scripts, refactoring that code to make it reusable and building an automated, prescripted installer for myself. ( Once the basics are working, it should actually be very simple to port the current archboot scripts to this system. )

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[arch-general] Weird upgrade problem ??
by Niels Rasmussen 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi all I've just installed Arch linux again after 9 month with Ubuntu and several other distros (yeah, they all come back! :-)) I've followed "The Beginners Guide" and did everything as described. Anyway, I've got the system up and running, and now writing in X (openbox) from opera Mail. I've tried to install the nvidia-71xx driver because I know it supports my VideoCard Geforce 6600GT. But apparently it doesn't work, so I uninstalled it, reinstalled libgl, did a depmod -a and rebooted. Now in X I can install programs just fine with pacman but pacman -Syu results in some strange errors I havn't seen before. Here goes: bash-3.2# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra 412,9K 1535,6K/s 00:00:00 [########################################################] 100% community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (59): bash-3.2.039-3 texinfo-4.13a-1 m4-1.4.12-1 autoconf-2.63-1 binutils-2.18-9 bzip2-1.0.5-3 openssl-0.9.8i-1 run-parts-2.30-1 ca-certificates-20080809-4 cracklib-2.8.13-1 e2fsprogs-1.41.3-2 popt-1.14-1 cryptsetup-1.0.6-2 dhcpcd-4.0.3-1 dialog-1.1_20080819-1 ed-1.1-2 filesystem-2008.07-1 fakeroot-1.10.1-1 file-4.26-1 flex-2.5.35-1 gmp-4.2.4-1.1 mpfr-2.3.2-2 gcc-4.3.2-1 gettext-0.17-2 grub-0.97-13 hdparm-8.9-1 hwdetect-0.9.1-2 util-linux-ng-2.14-1 udev-130-1 initscripts-2008.09-2 iputils-20071127-2 jfsutils-1.1.13-1 klibc-1.5.14-1 klibc-extras-2.5-1 klibc-kbd-1.15.20080312-7 klibc-module-init-tools-3.4-2 klibc-udev-130-1 libtool-2.2.6a-1 logrotate-3.7.7-3 man-pages-3.11-1 mdadm-2.6.7-1 mlocate-0.21-1 module-init-tools-3.4-1 nano-2.0.9-1 pam-1.0.2-2 pciutils-3.0.2-1 pcmciautils-015-2 perl-5.10.0-4 procinfo-19-3 procps-3.2.7-5 psmisc-22.6-2 rp-pppoe-3.10-1 sdparm-1.03-1 shadow-4.1.2.1-2 tzdata-2008h-1 vi-7.2.25-1 wget-1.11.4-1 which-2.20-1 xfsprogs-2.10.1-1 Total Download Size: 0,00 MB Total Installed Size: 250,03 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (59/59) checking for file conflicts [########################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/Kbuild exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/a.out.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/acpi.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/agp.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative-asm.h exists in filesystem klibc: /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm/alternative.h exists in filesystem === SNIP === Anyone knows what this is about ?? It is the first time I have experienced problems in Arch Linux. -- /Niels Registered Linux User #133791 Get counted at http://counter.li.org

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[arch-general] Arch USB Drive
by Aaron Griffin 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Got this in the mail today, so I thought I'd share a blurry picture with you all 8) http://flickr.com/photos/phrakture/3029993921/

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[arch-general] 22 fan site
by Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

http://ruger22.com/newpages/newindex.htm

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Re: [arch-general] 22 fan site
by timetrap＠gmail.com 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

I thought that mailing lists and personal productivity were mutually exclusive. ------Original Message------ From: RedShift Sender: arch-general-bounces(a)archlinux.org To: General Discusson about Arch Linux ReplyTo: General Discusson about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] 22 fan site Sent: Nov 14, 2008 05:52 Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote: > http://ruger22.com/newpages/newindex.htm You cost me 5 minutes of my productivity, I'm invoicing you for that! ;-) Glenn

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