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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Processor Generation++
by RedShift 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Montag, 17. März 2008 10:11:15 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >> My opinion on this, why to desupport something which might be still used, >> also we all know that x86_64 is the future and therefore i don't think the >> benefit is worth the trouble. > > In addition to this MMX would not really boost anything. SSE would be much > superior. And further more: You would only notice such improvements on heavy > multimedia encoding stuff and such things you would not do on an 10 years old > computer. > You could say the same thing between using march=i386 vs. march=i686. I'm for this idea, and I would even suggest bumping from i686 to pentium3. But not any further than that, because I'm still using an ArchLinux install on my Pentium 3 500 Mhz testbox... Glenn

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[arch-general] HAL mounts CDs, doesn't mount DVDs
by Renan Birck 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Hello, I have Arch Linux with all updates. Having a problem with HAL: it auto-mounts CDs but not data DVDs (however, some DVDs, like the OpenSUSE 10.3 install, mount automatically). My DVD-RW drive is an LG GSA-H44N. If that matters, my desktop environment is KDEmod. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Renan Birck ~ Canoas, RS, Brasil "Quando tudo que você tem é um martelo, todos os seus problemas se parecem com os seus dedões."

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 41, Issue 23
by Leandro Chescotta 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

no, i dont have plan9 installed, and the file is wmiirc, i have just realized that my ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file has not the proper permissions, i chmod +x it, but now i have wmii to not load properly, and in VT1 it says there's in line 63 near unespected esac... the portion of ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc that gives the error: # Event processing # Processed later by `wmiiloop' and evaled. # Duplicate the eval line and replace 'eval' with 'echo' for details. eventstuff() { cat <<'!' # Events Event Start case "$1" in wmiirc) exit; esac # <---- error in vt1

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[arch-general] [signoff] e2fsprogs 1.40.8
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

Hi bump to new version: E2fsprogs 1.40.8 (March 13, 2008) ================================= Fixed e2image -I so it works on image files which are larger than 2GB. Fixed e2fsck's handling of directory inodes with a corrupt size field. If the size is larger than the number of blocks found in the inode, don't try to allocate extra empty blocks at the end of the directory to make up the difference; there's no point to doing that. In addition, if the size is not a multiple of a blocksize, always fix it. E2fsck handled a pass 2 "should never happen error" by not giving enough information and then core dumping. Unfortunately, it was all too easy to trigger the "should never happen" situation if a directory's inode size was not correct. This has been fixed, but e2fsck has also been taught how to handle this situation more gracefully, by simply removing the inode hash tree information, so that it can be rebuilt again after e2fsck's pass 3. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #129395) Resize2fs had a bug resizing large inodes with extended attributes that was fixed in 1.40.6; unfortunately, it turned out it wasn't fixed completely on big-endian systems such as PowerPC. The bug should be completely fixed now. Yay for regression test suites. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #434893) Updated German, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese translations. Many thanks to Philipp Thomas from Novell for stepping up to become the new German translation maintainer! (Addresses Debian Bugs: #302512, #370247, #401092, #412882). When e2fsck is clearing a corrupt inode's HTREE directory information, make it clear that it is just clearing the HTREE information, not the entire inode. Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. please signoff greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] wmii dont read ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file
by Leandro Chescotta 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

Hi! im new to wmii (just start using it yesterday) but it seems that my ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file is not being read... i quit and reload x to reload my config, but with no change... my ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file (copied from /etc/wmii-3.5/wmiirc file and changed a bit): #!/bin/sh -f # Configure wmii # Configuration Variables MODKEY=Mod1 UP=k DOWN=j LEFT=h RIGHT=l # Colors tuples: "<text> <background> <border>" ### Set 1 Colors :: (Gloom Theme) ### #WMII_FOCUSCOLORS=('#ffffff' '#282828' '#cccccc') #WMII_BACKGROUND='#333333' #WMII_NORMCOLORS=('#e0e0e0' '#0a0a0a' '#606060') ### End Set 1 Colors ### ### Set 2 Colors ### WMII_NORMCOLORS='#888888 #000000 #000000' WMII_FOCUSCOLORS='#ffffff #222222 #333333' WMII_BACKGROUND='#000000' ### End Set 2 Colors ### WMII_FONT='-*-arial-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' ### Default Font ### #-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-* set -- $(echo $WMII_NORMCOLORS $WMII_FOCUSCOLORS) WMII_MENU="dmenu -b -fn '$WMII_FONT' -nf '$1' -nb '$2' -sf '$4' -sb '$5'" WMII_9MENU="wmii9menu -font '$WMII_FONT' -nf '$1' -nb '$2' -sf '$4' -sb '$5' -br '$6'" WMII_TERM="urxvt -sh 50" # Column Rules wmiir write /colrules <<! /.*/ -> 58+42 ! # Tagging Rules wmiir write /tagrules <<! /XMMS.*/ -> ~ /MPlayer.*/ -> ~ /.*/ -> sel /.*/ -> 1 ! # Status Bar Info status() { echo -n $(uptime | awk '{ print "Uptime: "$3" days "$1" "} '|' PCM: $(get_volume) '|' $(date +'%R %d/%m/%Y')' } # Event processing # Processed later by `wmiiloop' and evaled. # Duplicate the eval line and replace 'eval' with 'echo' for details. eventstuff() { cat <<'!' # Events Event Start case "$1" in wmiirc) exit; esac Event Key fn=$(echo "$@" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z_0-9]/_/g') Key_$fn "$@" Event CreateTag echo "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" "$@" | wmiir create "/lbar/$@" Event DestroyTag wmiir remove "/lbar/$@" Event FocusTag wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "$WMII_FOCUSCOLORS" "$@" Event UnfocusTag wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" "$@" Event UrgentTag shift wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "*$@" Event NotUrgentTag shift wmiir xwrite "/lbar/$@" "$@" Event LeftBarClick shift wmiir xwrite /ctl view "$@" # Actions Action quit wmiir xwrite /ctl quit Action exec wmiir xwrite /ctl exec "$@" Action rehash proglist $PATH >$progsfile Action status set +xv if wmiir remove /rbar/status 2>/dev/null; then sleep 2 fi echo "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" | wmiir create /rbar/status while status | wmiir write /rbar/status; do sleep 1 done Event ClientMouseDown client=$1; button=$2 case "$button" in 3) do=$(eval $WMII_9MENU -initial "${menulast:-SomeRandomName}" Nop Delete Fullscreen) case "$do" in Delete) wmiir xwrite /client/$client/ctl kill;; Fullscreen) wmiir xwrite /client/$client/ctl Fullscreen on;; esac menulast=${do:-"$menulast"} esac # Key Bindings Key $MODKEY-Control-t case $(wmiir read /keys | wc -l | tr -d ' \t\n') in 0|1) echo -n $Keys | tr ' ' '\012' | wmiir write /keys wmiir xwrite /ctl grabmod $MODKEY;; *) wmiir xwrite /keys $MODKEY-Control-t wmiir xwrite /ctl grabmod Mod3;; esac Key $MODKEY-space wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select toggle Key $MODKEY-d wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel default Key $MODKEY-s wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel stack Key $MODKEY-m wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel max Key $MODKEY-a Action $(actionlist | eval $WMII_MENU) & Key $MODKEY-p sh -c "$(eval $WMII_MENU <$progsfile)" & Key $MODKEY-t wmiir xwrite /ctl "view $(tagsmenu)" & Key $MODKEY-Return eval $WMII_TERM & Key $MODKEY-Shift-space wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel toggle Key $MODKEY-f wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Fullscreen toggle Key $MODKEY-Shift-c wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl kill Key $MODKEY-Shift-t wmiir xwrite "/client/$(wmiir read /client/sel/ctl)/tags" "$(tagsmenu)" & Key $MODKEY-$LEFT wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select left Key $MODKEY-$RIGHT wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select right Key $MODKEY-$DOWN wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select down Key $MODKEY-$UP wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select up Key $MODKEY-Shift-$LEFT wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel left Key $MODKEY-Shift-$RIGHT wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel right Key $MODKEY-Shift-$DOWN wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel down Key $MODKEY-Shift-$UP wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel up Key $MODKEY-Mouse4 sh -c "$(amixer -q set PCM 20+)" & Key $MODKEY-Mouse5 sh -c "$(amixer -q set PCM 20-)" & ! for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do cat <<! Key $MODKEY-$i wmiir xwrite /ctl view "$i" Key $MODKEY-Shift-$i wmiir xwrite /client/sel/tags "$i" ! done } # WM Configuration wmiir write /ctl << EOF font $WMII_FONT focuscolors $WMII_FOCUSCOLORS normcolors $WMII_NORMCOLORS grabmod $MODKEY border 1 EOF export WMII_MENU WMII_9MENU WMII_FONT WMII_TERM export WMII_FOCUSCOLORS WMII_SELCOLORS WMII_NORMCOLORS # Feed events to `wmiiloop' for processing eval "$(eventstuff | sed 's/^[ ]//' | { . wmiiloop; })" echo "$Keys" | tr ' ' '\n' | wmiir write /keys # Functions Action() { action=$1; shift if [ -n "$action" ]; then Action_$action "$@" \ || conf_which $action "$@" fi } proglist() { paths=$(echo "$@" | sed 'y/:/ /') ls -lL $paths 2>/dev/null \ | awk '$1 ~ /^[^d].*x/ && NF > 2 { print $NF }' \ | sort | uniq } # Misc progsfile="$WMII_NS_DIR/.proglist" Action status & proglist $PATH >$progsfile & xsetroot -solid "$WMII_BACKGROUND" & # Setup Tag Bar seltag="$(wmiir read /tag/sel/ctl 2>/dev/null)" wmiir ls /lbar | while read bar; do wmiir remove "/lbar/$bar" done wmiir ls /tag | sed -e 's|/||; /^sel$/d' | while read tag; do if [ "X$tag" = "X$seltag" ]; then echo "$WMII_FOCUSCOLORS" "$tag" | wmiir create "/lbar/$tag" else echo "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" "$tag" | wmiir create "/lbar/$tag" fi done # More functions tagsmenu() { wmiir ls /tag | sed 's|/||; /^sel$/d' | eval $WMII_MENU } actionlist() { { proglist $WMII_CONFPATH echo -n $Actions | tr ' ' '\012' } | sort | uniq } conf_which() { which=$(which which) prog=$(PATH="$WMII_CONFPATH" $which $1); shift [ -n "$prog" ] && $prog "$@" } # Stop any running instances of wmiirc echo Start wmiirc | wmiir write /event || exit 1 wmiir read /event | while read event; do set -- $event event=$1; shift Event_$event $@ done 2>/dev/null -- ----------------------------------------------- http://aleyscha.spaces.live.com/ "Conócete a ti mismo, y así conocerás el Universo y sus dioses"

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[arch-general] Problems with keyboardinput
by Johannes Held 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Hello, I have a second Arch running in a virtual machine. Recently I noticed that I can't write some characters like @, {, ~ .. and the like. It seem's that AltGr is somewhat broken. I know that I had this problem with my normal PC. But the solution is 30kilometers away and buried somewhere unter ~/tmp.. (hopefully) As far as I know - it was something simple with kbdfont or something like that... -- Gruß, Johannes Täglich http://blog.hehejo.de und du fühlst dich gut. http://cryptocd.eduforge.org/online_version

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[arch-general] initscripts-splash
by dongiovanni＠archlinux.de 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hallo, Currently I'm maintaining splashy and fbsplash. Some time ago there was a discussion of integration of the splash hooks in the initscripts in [core]. Is there something planed? It would reduce problems for some less experienced users. If this isn't possible, can someone update initscripts-splash when the new initscripts go to [core]? I only could upload a third initscripts package, that I can maintain myself, but that would only make a mess... I don't know if dtw is still active. The last time a dev updated the initscripts-splash package. Since I'm not a TU I depend on someone who updates it in order to support the new udev in a correct way. Thanks for now, dongiovanni

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[arch-general] Apple keyboard broken in [testing]
by bardo 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hi all. I'm experiencing a strange problem with my Apple aluminium keyboard: a few days ago the F1-F4 keys stopped working, and the ` and < keys were swapped (meaning: pressing one of the keys gives the output of the other). If I changed my layout the same two keys were swapped, even though they now mapped other carachters, so it should be a scancode problem. This happens in both X and in console, the keyboard was working fine before and it works fine if plugged to any other machine. Hard to say which package broke the whole thing, since it happened after a 600MB upgrade, but I suspect the usual udev... Trying to fix the problem I plugged another usb keyboard to the same port, but everything was ok, so I began playing with showkey and xev. Result: the Apple keyboard returns different scancodes and keycodes from the other one. The same kayboard is broken on the two Arch machines I own, which both run testing, and I was able to find a user on IRC with the very same keyboard working outside of testing. Downgrading xorg-server did not work (as I expected, since the console is broken, too) and I'm starting to run out of ideas. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Corrado

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[arch-general] [signoff] pcmciautils
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi fixed udev rules file to use load-modules.sh instead of plain modprobe. signoff for both arches, please greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] madwifi/madwifi-utils 0.9.4.3382
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi bump of madwifi drivers, back to trunk version please signoff both arches also users can signoff, no respond from any dev greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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