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[arch-general] Problem with compositing and openGL.
by Verner Jänes 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Hello everyone. Well I have problem with my 64 bit system. I have Nvidia 8400GS card with driver installed and enabled (it means that I get glxinfo and glxgears output), but compositing or any 3D games don't work (some openGL error). But at the same time I gan run simple 3D applications like glxgears. Also Nvidia driver starts correctly on startup (logo comes up) and compositing is enabled in xorg.conf. So any ideas on my problem? Might it be a 64 bit system issue? Just to add, under Ubuntu compiz and games worked just fine. Thanks, Verner.

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[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs 2.9.7
by Tobias Powalowski 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Hi version bump please signoff both arches also users can signoff, no dev seems to use xfs. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] next problem - where'd all the screensavers go?
by David Rosenstrauch 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

After the upgrade to screensaver, a whole bunch of screensavers (e.g., BSOD) don't seem to be visible from within the KDE control panel screen saver module. Didn't see anything about it in either the forums or the bug tracker. Ideas anyone? TIA, DR

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[arch-general] Qsynth crashes when clicking on buttons (Don't Panic)
by Nigel Henry 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Hi Folks. When I open Qsynth, I can rotate the various controls, but clicking on any of the buttons causes it to crash. For example I click on the "Options" button, the options window opens momentarily, but is blank, then Qsynth goes out to lunch. When Qsynth is opened without messing with the buttons, Qjackctl shows fluidsynth available as an input port, so that bit is working ok. Starting Qsynth on the CLI gives me this output, see below. [djmons@myhost ~]$ qsynth Warning: no locale found: /usr/share/locale/qsynth_en_US.qm Segmentation fault [djmons@myhost ~]$ I'm totally clueless about locales, but could this be the problem? Looking in /usr/share/locale there is no en_US locale. There are a bunch of en locales though (en, en@boldquot, en@quot, en_CA, en_GB) Looking at when I started Qsynth on the CLI as above, it shows a segfault, but the GUI for Qsynth is still showing. It's only when I click on a button that it crashes. Can anyone confirm that they have Qsynth working as expected? I don't want to post a bug report if this problem has something to do with locales on my install. Thanks for any help on this problem. Nigel.

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[arch-general] Does anyone find Compiz Fuscion eat up all Alt keys?
by yueyu lin 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Hi, all I found the CF in my machine ate up all alt keys besides the CF binding short cuts including Alt, such as Alt+F1,Alt+Tab,Alt+F2,etc. The scenario is when I enable compiz fuscion in my laptop T61p with nvidia newest driver, everything works fine and smoothly except no more application short cuts containing Alt. That means firefox doesn't have "Alt+F", "Alt+E", Emacs doesn't have "Alt+X". Especially for Emacs's "Alt+X", it's my most important things to use Emacs even use my laptop. So I have to disable compiz when I wanna use Emacs. I really have no idea what happened even after searching internet. I found when I use xmodmap to add Alt_L to the mod4 even the Alt_L and Alt_R is already set to mod1, the application short cuts work but the compiz short cuts retire... which means "Alt+Tab" doesn't work. The following is the output of my "xmodmap", I wish it would be helpful to identify the problem. Thanks. [yueyulin@t61p ~]$ xmodmap xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e) -- -- Yueyu Lin

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[arch-general] same packages with different letter case in names?
by Sergej Pupykin 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hello, All! What difference between x86_64/koffice-l10n-en_GB-1.6.3-2.pkg.tar.gz x86_64/koffice-l10n-en_gb-1.6.3-2.pkg.tar.gz x86_64/koffice-l10n-pt_BR-1.6.3-2.pkg.tar.gz x86_64/koffice-l10n-pt_br-1.6.3-2.pkg.tar.gz in [extra]?

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[arch-general] [x-post] Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.24.3-2
by bardo 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de> wrote: > > Sure, but that doesn't answer my question- can a real time clock still > > be used for sound? It appears not. Are we sure we don't need one of > > the two options available (RTC or RTC_GEN)? > > > > -Dan > Hi > This is a good question, i don't have any idea how to test this. > Or for what it should be good for. The RTC is used, for example, with midi. My midi setup is broken for me with the latest [testing] kernel if I don't blacklist snd-rtctimer: playing a midi file results in just the first note going on forever. Funny thing is there's no such thing as snd-rtctimer.ko, but lsmod showed it, and removing it made midi working again. Corrado

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[arch-general] BitTorrents not seeding
by Ravi Desai 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hey, I've downloaded the torrents of Archlinux-i686-2007.08-2.{core,ftp}.iso, but am unable to re-seed them through bit-torrent. Deluge (the BT client that I am using) says this: "Tracker status: Alert: (HTTP code = 200, times in a row = 7)". I'm not really sure what that means. Is this a problem with my client, or is the tracker simply not working? Thanks, Ravster

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[arch-general] kde-18n-fr-3.5.9 - Broken tar archive
by marc[î1] 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hello, kde-i18n-fr-3.5.9 is broken ! Erreur: erreur lors de la lecture du paquet /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kde-i18n-fr-3.5.9-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz: Damaged tar archive: Argument invalide Someone can help french user ? -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + (o< -! marc[i1] #363392 + + //\ http://archlinux.fr + + \\/_ Linux for Free Generation + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +

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[arch-general] Kernel ext2 driver
by Peter Feuerer 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Hi list, just wanted to ask, why ext2 isn't built directly into the kernel anymore? Is there any special reason? I would prefer to have ext2 built in again, because I'm dealing a lot with special configurations of archlinux, like thinclient installations where the whole image is running in an ext2 formated ramdisk and so on. Currently I'm building the complete kernel everytime I need to do an upgrade. But I think the ext2 driver isn't such a big ballast for standard systems, so you might want to do me a favour and set it as a built in driver of the standard kernel again. Would save me a lot of compile time. kind regards, --peter

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