[arch-general] Bit of a snag in starting kde3 - No devices detected - driver prob?

[Andrei Thorp]

Also, forgot to mention: look at pacman-color for, well. Yeah.

Anyway, yep. I've seen a lot of posts from you here already. You ask
some questions that perhaps could have been avoided by reading more on
the wiki, but you're kind and positive so I think people don't mind.
Makes us feel good answering questions anyway ;)

Cheers,

-AT

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:17 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> Andrei Thorp wrote:
>>
>> There are a couple GUI pacman frontends[1], but honestly, I can't
>> really see the value. The CLI for pacman is excellent.
>> I also like pkg tools, which has useful stuff like pkgfile. pkgfile is
>> an add-on that lets you find "which package provides this file". For
>> example, if I didn't know what package provides "kate", I could do
>> "pkgfile bin/kate" and it would tell me that it's from extra/kdesdk.
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_GUI_Frontends
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -AT
>>
>
>        Thanks Andrei! I see your point about pacman. On openSuSE, I did all package
> management from the CLI with zypper, so no need for a gui with pacman. The only
> thing I ever used yast for concerning package management, would be for massive
> "downgrades" of packages where for example dropping from Xorg 7.3 back to 7.2
> was easier with yast's search and then up/downgrade options.
>
>        So far, Arch is killer. I am up and running. Have all the passwordless ssh
> access done, samba up and configured, mysql up and secured. Now all I have to
> do is generate the ca-certs and get apache2 configured with mod_ssl,
> mod_deflate, and mod_rewrite and I'll have a replacement server build on arch.
>
>        Then I can dive into hylafax with Avantfax front-end, configure ppp for a
> dial-in server (so I can use the Arch box as a dial in ISP to access the cable
> internet connection when I'm stuck at the lake w/o internet).
>
>        After that, I'll be done...(tongue-in-cheek, we all know your are never really
> done;-)
>
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