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[arch-general] Anyone using fprint for authentication ?
by Alper KANAT 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hey There, I want to use my fingerprint scanner to login through GDM and GNOME Screensaver... I can do this right now partially... It always asks for my password which is maybe secure but annoying at the same time.. I want to use fingerprint login first and if it fails then I want to use password login.. Any ideas for how to do this ? I'm trying this in GNOME Screensaver but it asks for the password whenever I slide my finger on the scanner.. -- Alper KANAT http://raptiye.org

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[arch-general] where is kde 3.5.9 ?
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

hi kde 3.5.9 is out since the 19th february i was used to have the latest kde release the day before the offical release on arch ! now we are almost 10 days after the official release and nothing. what's happening ? even if arch switch to kde 4 (too soon for me) i prefer to wait Kde 4.1 will we have a kde 3.5.9 release in arch ?

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[arch-general] Missing man pages
by Mordechai Peller 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

I notice that some of the man pages are missing, including: find, cat, ls, uniq, tee, and tail. They were in man-pages-2.74-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz, but not man-pages-2.77-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz or man-pages-2.78-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz. Was there any reason they where removed? Thanks

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[arch-general] Help!Can anyone be so nice to share the Purevoice Linux SDK?
by yueyu lin 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi, all If you're the voice codec developers, you may know Qualcomm closed the Purevoice SDK downloads since Dec 31,2007. As I don't save a copy of that and cannot see any signs Qualcomm will re-open it soon, can anyone who has the SDK to share with me? I don't think it will violate any laws cause Qualcomm used to open downloads and even Qualcomm's brew SDK is free. Thanks in advance. Any help will be highly appreciated! -- -- Yueyu Lin

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[arch-general] Tk707. Problems getting sounds out of it (Don't Panic)
by Nigel Henry 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Looking for available audio apps, I installed tk707. There were some problems when starting it from the CLI (couldn't find shared libraries) as below. [djmons@myhost ~]$ tk707 /usr/bin/tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtk8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [djmons@myhost ~]$ tk707bin tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtk8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [djmons@myhost ~]$ su Password: \[root@myhost djmons]# ln -s /usr/lib/libtk8.5.so /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so [root@myhost djmons]# exit exit [djmons@myhost ~]$ tk707 /usr/bin/tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [djmons@myhost ~]$ su Password: [root@myhost djmons]# ldconfig [root@myhost djmons]# tk707 /usr/bin/tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtcl8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [root@myhost djmons]# ln -s /usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so [root@myhost djmons]# exit As you can see, I created a couple of symlinks, and then starting tk707 again, opened the ports selection window. So far so good. I've got an Audigy2 soundblaster on this machine, and need to load a soundfont to use the hardware synth. I looked for the awesfx package, and jacman shows version 0.5.0d-2 available from the community repo, but installing it with jacman failed (couldn't find the package). I also tried pacman -S awesfx, but again the package couldn't be found. The community repo is uncommented in /etc/pacman.conf, and pacman -Sy shows it on the list of updated databases. Any suggestions as to how I can get the awesfx package? I could use TiMidity to get sounds out of tk707, or Qsynth (If it's available), but being able to load the soundfont for my card is preferable. Thanks for any help, suggestions. Nigel.

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[arch-general] Concurrent java environments
by Ondřej Kučera 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hello, I was wondering - why jre/jdk packages conflict with java-gcj-compat? Unless I missed something there are no file conflicts (since jre and jdk are in /opt) and I think the rest (switching between the environments when necessary) could be done be (re)setting of environment variables (such as $PATH and $JAVA_HOME). Or am I overlooking something? Being a java developer (at least from time to time) I am in need of Sun implementation (actually even of version 6), on the other hand on x86_64 the webplugin from gcc-gcj in combination with java-gcj-compat is the only way to run some applets (e. g. those that need security certificates; for other applets only gcc-gcj might be enough). Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] Packages without license field in official repos
by Xavi Soler 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

My intention is to know the number of non-free packages installed on my system. In Debian I can use 'vrms' [1]. I think Arch has nothing similar, but I can start programming an application like 'vrms' (maybe using libalpm or calling pacman directly). My first test has been typing: $ pacman -Q | pacman -Qi | less and reading carefully the license fields: most (BSDs and MITs specially) say 'custom'. The big problem I've found is that, quite often, I read the word 'none' there, but I can't understant how can it happen in packages stored in official repos. There are a lot of packages without license field. I could do a heavy research to know which packages include a license field and which don't, and then warn their mantainers. But it would be a waste of time. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrms -- Blog: http://interrupciones.net

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev 118-2
by Michal Soltys 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

Aaron Griffin wrote: > > Idea #2: > $ mv /etc/udev/rules.d/00-load-blacklist.rules > /etc/udev/rules.d/00-load-blacklist.rules.disabled > in /etc/rc.sysinit, add ". /lib/udev/mod-blacklist.sh" and "export > BLACKLSIT MOD_AUTOLOAD" right before the udevd --daemon call > comment out the echo lines in the mod-blacklist script if you care > > Hopefully the environment vars that udev sees are also seen by scripts > that it executes... > Sorry for crossposting, but I couldn't not add some remarks :) Following discussion on dev mailing list regarding new udev and initscripts, I have one question - why rely on separate blacklist defined in rc.conf ? modprobe supports blacklisting itself in modprobe.conf (to be precise - it blacklists all aliases for specified modules, which is exactly what's needed here). You can use raw modprobe and probably speed up things nicely, without any extra scripts. That mod-blacklist.sh will be called on every uevent once - environment is not preserved between uevents (even with line proposed by Aaron), and must be fresh on every uevent. Btw - you can monitor environment with udevmonitor --env Other remarks: Is there particular reason, why you use monolithic single udev.rules file ? Defaults in etc/udev/rules.d and etc/udev/packages are pretty clean and logical (standard rules from udev-118). Also they are split into xy-something.rules files so any specifics you need overridden in Archlinux, can be easily done so, with i.e. last_rule option and separate files. Easier for you to maintain, also easier for users to adjust for their particular needs Compatiblity rules for loading scsi devices are no longer needed, as far as i know. Few others can be skipped as well (check 80-drivers.rules for current state, also gentoo 30-kernel-compat.rules for interesting reference). Cheers

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[arch-general] problem with fakeroot
by Karolina Lindqvist 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

When building kdelibs, I always get the following error: ../../kdoctools/meinproc --srcdir=../../kdoctools --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. The make appears not to be able to be done with fakeroot, but as far as I understand, makepkg always does that. The solution is to build as root. Is there any other way to avoid this?

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[arch-general] Mirror out of sync?
by David Rosenstrauch 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Anyone know what's up with the ftp://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686 mirror? It appears to be out of sync on at least one key package: the kernel! The devs released 2.6.24.1 on 2/10, but the mirror still has 2.6.23.14. Anyone know what's going on with it? (And/or who to contact over there to get it updated?) TIA, DR

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